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Top Links

• New Offers for Visual Studio 2010 (Somasegar)
• Call for Speakers for Philly.NET Code Camp 2010.1 (Nick Berardi)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 : Performance tuning (Paul Harrington)
• Location sensor for Windows 7 – It’s about time! (Arian T. Kulp)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Rhino DivanDB – A full coding sample – Embedded (Oren Eini)
• Release Candidate of Database Projects available and GDR Power Tools update (Barclay Hill)
• NServiceBus 2.0 RTM (Udi Dahan)
• Making VS2010 and/or your WPF applications happy in Remote Desktop/RDP Land (Greg Duncan)
• Marshal.ReleaseComObject Considered Dangerous (Paul Harrington)
• Import and Export DataTips — vstipDebug0013 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Consuming WCF 3.5 REST Service in Windows Mobile 6 Emulator and Windows Mobile Device (Mahesh Sabnis)

Web Development

• Difference between ASP.NET Sessions, Application variables and Cache objects. (Al Pascual)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning Rails: Live Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDRAS (O’Reilly Media)
• Building a Star Rating System with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Mike Ceranski)
• Sharing ObjectDataSource From Codebehind (Dave M. Bush)
• Discover which Control Raised a PostBack (Gil Fink)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Evaluating enhancements (Simon Brown)
• User Stories and TFS2010 – Like Carmel and apples and Visual Studio 2010 makes Testing/QA professionals officially happy (it’s true!) – Test Professional and Test Case WorkItem Type (Greg Duncan)
• Getting Results the Agile Way – The Book on Getting Results (J.D. Meier)
• The Problems With Acceptance Testing (James Shore)
• Thought experiment: The Curry Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Agile lets people be people (Patrick Kua)
• An Evolution of Test-Specification Styles – My Journey to MSpec (Richard Cirerol)
• Intro To Git (Jesse Freeman)
• New Site for Agile Managers and Team Leaders (Jurgen Appelo)
• A reminder about context switching (Mark Needham)
• MSpec Live Templates (Hadi Hariri)
• Book Review – Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (Russell Ball)

Silverlight / WPF

• LocBaml for .NET 4.0 (Michael Sync)
• Using the RawImage in a WPF application. (Luis Cabrera)
• WPF : A Fun Little Boids Type Thing (Sacha Barber)
• Running CSLA .NET 3.8.2 under .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Live Geometry (Kirill Osenkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Oren Eini on Creating DSLs in Boo (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Connected Show Podcast – Is That A Phone In Your Pocket?! (Brian Johnson)
• The Engadget Show – 006: Avner Ronen, the first Windows Phone 7 Series device, Dell Mini 5, and more! (Chad Mumm)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #165: Introduction to Nhibernate.Burrow (Derik Whittaker)
• Destination Adapter Comparison : SSIS Video Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 50: Multi-Point Server, IE6 Funeral, 3 Designs for Windows Phone (Laura Foy)
• Silverlight TV 11: Dynamically Loading XAPs with MEF (John Papa)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Iron with Jimmy Schementi (Jeff Brand)
• Pluralcast #10 : Reading Code with Alan Stevens (David Starr)
• The Verification Corner – Specifications in Action with Spec# (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• SMX West 2010, Steve Ballmer Edition (Aya Zook)
• Silverlight Design Day Registration Open for Boston (Adam Kinney)
• Events This Week – March 1st, 2010 and Post-MSDN Roadshow Geek Dinner in Richmond This Wednesday! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Headspring Agile Boot Camp, March 24-26 – sign up now – Austin, TX (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Microsoft Shows off Mobile Surface at TechFest 2010 (Hammad)
• March Community Calendar (Joel Cochran)
• Announcing New England GiveCamp (Jim O’Neil)
• The 1st of March: Did you know Stir Trek: Iron Man Edition is on May 7, 2010? (Jeff Blankenburg)

Database

• How Do You Drive Your DBA Mad? (Andy Warren)
• Powershell for Batch Operations (Grant Fritchey)
• Have you backed up your keys lately? (Buck Woody)
• Ten years of SQL Server (Jamie Thomson)
• Getting SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express installed on Windows 7 (Matt Milner)
• Execute Package Task Packages fail for no apparent reason (Simon Sabin)
• Why do you need a primary and a secondary access key for Windows Azure storage? (Jennifer Marsman)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Site Definition Upgrade Discussion with Microsoft’s Sean Livingston (Joel Oleson)
• Walkthrough of enabling CRUD for SharePoint 2010 external lists using Visual Studio 2010 (SharePoint Team)
• Lightning Conductor Calendar View (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Google welcomes Picnik (Brian Axe)
• WHS Add-in WHS Mobile version 1.5.4.0 available (Ben Palmer)
• Bing Autosuggest – History Repeats Itself – and That is a Good Thing (Robert Williams & Todd Schwartz)
• Attracting Talent (Eric Lippert)
• Introducing Robots API v2: The Rise of Active Robots (Dan Peterson)
• Play Guitar By Flexing Alone: Microsoft Research’s Muscle-Computer Interface (Wilson Rothman)
• Zune (phone) news (Kip Kniskern)
• My MacGyver Moment (Jeremiah Peschka)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.02.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #550 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #109 (David Vidmar)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

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Top Links

• Visual Studio First Launch Sequence (Sasha Siddhartha)
• Cause and Effect and Developer Productivity and Denying Productivity and How the Mainstream Lost Software Development Productivity (Scott Bellware)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Detecting User Inactivity (Richard Carr)
• Say hello to Uber Prof (Oren Eini)
• Writing object to object mapper: first implementations (Gunnar Peipman)
• WCF Data Services and EF POCOs that are in their own Assembly (Julie Lerman)
• Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 (Kirill Osenkov)
• Generating Structured Text with StringTemplate (Mike Ceranski)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 10. Configuration with type converters (Mike Hadlow)
• Built-in Charting Controls (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series) (Scott Guthrie)

Web Development

• More amazing JavaScript demos (Michael Kimsal)
• Adding variable output behavior to your FubuMVC actions (Joshua Flanagan)
• Behind the Curtain (Jesse Liberty)
• AutoScroll an ASP.NET Multiline TextBox using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Understanding The Significance Of Weak Ties In Your Professional Life. (Rajiv Popat)
• BDD with SpecFlow and MSpec Boo DSL (Andrew Stopford)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight for Developers (Part I) and (Part II) and (Part III) (Arian T. Kulp)
• Data Binding, Currency and the WPF TreeView (Chris Sells)
• Background Stars (Dave Brown)
• BBQ Shack ? Ocean v2 for Visual Studio 2008 (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 101- PowerScripting Podcast – Matthew Giles from Connect-SMART (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

•  Headed To Austin and Speaking at the .NET User’s Group (Phil Haack)
• A TED responsibility (Robert Scoble)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Find the Size of Database File – Find the Size of Log File (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Use a Zune Remote Control with Windows Media Center (Henry Juliao)
• Mapping Out the Microsoft Application Platform at a Glance (J.D. Meier)
• The 8th of Diduary: Did you know how many things the Windows key can do? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: R in a Nutshell – Only $9.99! Use discount code DDRNT (O’Reilly Media)
• Innovators Use Bing (Steve Clayton)
• Generating Getters and Setters in Eclipse (Rhonda Tipton)

More Link Collections

•  The Morning Brew #534 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #107 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #91 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #23 – The Code Project (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/8/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 131 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (2/7/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

The Geek Shelf

Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 3 (Expert’s Voice in Silverlight)