Top Links

• Performing Back Navigation w/out adding a page to the Back Stack in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Magellan 2.0 is here! (Paul Stovell)
• Windows Phone 7: The Revolution… is coming(??) (Kip Kniskern)
• iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Diving Deeper (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7: Almost There! How To Get Ready (Bob Caswell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The XOR Swap Algorithm and LINQ Partitioning (Richard Carr)
• Parallel Programming in F# (I.): Introducing the samples and Parallel Programming in F# (II.): Using PLINQ and Tasks and Parallel Programming in F# (III.): Aggregating data and Parallel Programming in F# (IV.): Financial dashboard example (Tomas Petricek)
• Use “Obsolete” attributes to indicate Obsolete Methods (Abhijit Jana)
• Use of Expression Trees in .NET for Lambda Decomposition and Notion of System.Nullable – A Look (Abhishek Sur)
• The Tier Interaction Profiler ( TIP ) (Cameron Skinner)
• Coming in Autofac 2.3 – OnRelease() (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• IronRuby, Nu project and Launchy at your service (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Using Ruby Classes In C# With IronRuby (Davy Brion)
• Get logging in Windows Azure with Enterprise Library (Tom Hollander)
• Keep Track of your Tasks With the Task List (Deborah Kurata)
• Visual Studio Extension: Save UML diagram as image (Gunnar Peipman)
• Revisiting Few C# Concepts – Delegates, Anon Methods, Lambdas, Expression Trees (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• The Object Browser: Creating a Keyboard Shortcut for Add to References and The Object Browser: Type-Ahead Selection and The Object Browser: Exporting Your Settings and Mark Methods and Types as Hidden from IntelliSense and the Object Browser (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual C++ 2010: What’s new for MFC library? (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• CSS 3.0 Maker helps you visually create next-gen CSS (Erez Zukerman)
• Rotate Ads using jQuery and ASP.NET AdRotator Control (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Add-ons, Installation Experiences, and User Consent (Herman Ng)
• Same Markup: Using <canvas>, <audio>, and <video> (Tony Ross)
• Connecting to Sql Server from WebMatrix using LINQ and Entity Framework Version 4 (Wally McClure)
• A different (for me) way to page (Karl Seguin)
• Coming in YUI 3.2.0: SimpleYUI (Eric Miraglia & Adam Moore)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Lokad.CQRS – Keeping It Simple and Focused (Rinat Abdullin)
• It’s hard work to KISS (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• The Third Object (Paul Stovell)
• 10 Strategies for Improving Results and The Results Frame (J.D. Meier)
• Use gitk to understand git and Use gitk to understand git – merge and rebase (Joshua Flanagan)
• One Build to Rule Them All (John Sonmez)
• Unit Testing in C++ is harder than.. (Roy Osherove)
• The Law of Conservation of Tradeoffs and Security Models: On Behalf Of (Oren Eini)
• Getting Predictable (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Leadership Tip: Too Many Drivers Will Not Take Your Car Anywhere. (Rajiv Popat)
• Billy sez: Design, Don’t Decorate (Ward Bell)
• Launching beta, or “How to decide when and where to cut corners” (Kyle Baley)
• Design Simplicity: Partially updating an object and Flow in software teams (Mark Needham)
• Team and pair games for building collaboration (Michael Sahota)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Tutorials: Isolated Storage and User Controls (Nigel Sampson)
• Learn Silverlight to get access to the developer demand (Al Pascual)
• Silverlight and Security Documentation (Cheryl Simmons)
• Silverlight Futures… (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Phone 7 App Demos (Mike Ormond)
• WPF Photo Print updated (Chris Cavanagh)
• Who’s the Boss (Rudi Grobler)
• Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators – WP7 and Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators – Android (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide Drop 2 is now out! and Writing a Twitter Application for Windows Phone 7 with oAuth and Flickr Uploader for Windows Phone 7 at Sam Judson’s Blog (Don Burnett)
• Frogger game on Windows Phone 7 using XNA (Dimitris-Ilias Gkanatsios)
• How can we improve Silverlight Spy? (Koen Zwikstra)
• Ninject.Extensions.Conventions ported to work w/ WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• WPF Auto-Complete Control (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Easy way to generate sample data for your Silverlight 4 Applications and Book Review: Silverlight 4 in Action by Pete Brown (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7 Clears The Last Big Milestone (Andy Lees)
• Adding shapes to your Windows Phone using some simple XAML and C# code (Sam)
• Silverlight book: Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook (Vibor Cipan)
• DevForce Meets Mvvm Light and Is Mvvm Light Right For You? and DevForce and RIA Services Compared Part 1: Getting Started (Ward Bell)
• Simple Silverlight Configurator/Pivot (View Model/MVVM) (Michael Washington)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• PAX Prime 2010 LIVE Show and PAX Prime: Xbox LIVE Enforcement: Tales from the Din Part 3: The Conclusioning (Larry Hyrb)
• Let’s Play TDD #6: Capital Gains Tax–Almost and Let’s Play TDD #7: Tax Rage (James Shore)
• TWC9: WP7 RTMs, Future of Silverlight, Excel Importer, Robot Gun Turrets (Brian Keller)
• SharePoint 2010 Search Discussion-Episode 49 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Windows Phone 7 Videos (Sunshine)
• WinExtra on Windows Ep. 17: tripping down memory lane (Steven Hodson)
• Engadget Podcast 211 – 09.04.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 27 – Mahesh Krishnan at TechEd (Richard Banks)
• Cloud Cover Episode 24 – Routing in Windows Azure (Ryan Dunn)
• Behind The Curtain – Episode #4 (Michael Lehman)
• Windows Weekly 172: Board Up The Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone 7 ad promises ‘the revolution is coming’ (video) (Vlad Savov)
• Contributing to Open Source Projects On GitHub For .NET Developers Part 1 and Contributing to Open Source Projects On GitHub For .NET Developers Part 2 and Connected Show Podcast – Steve Marx on Azure (Bobby Johnson)
• Inside Windows Phone #02: The Beta Release and the Roadmap to RTM and Inside Windows Phone #03: Optimizing Windows Phone Silverlight Applications (Jaime Rodriguez)
• A New Podcast for Developers – This Developer’s Life (Scott Hanselman)
• The Rematch – Webcast of my 101 VS tips in 55 mins via O’Reilly is now available (Sara Ford)

Community / Events

• MVP Mark Dunn Highlights the MVP Award Program (Lonnie Webb)
• SPSBmore SharePoint 2010 Hands-On Lab Resources (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Moving on from Microsoft (Andre Vrignaud)
• SilverlightShow Interview with Webinar Presenter Chris Anderson and Win a Free Ebook in SilverlightShow Webinar on Running Silverlight OOB and with Elevated Trust (Svetla Stoycheva)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch Events (Wes Yanaga)
• Nothin But .Net – London(November,2010) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• A Community Divided (Joe Webb)
• Free SQL Server Training for the Week of September 6, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Few Notes on Fast Track Data Warehouse and SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Limitation of the View 3 (Pinal Dave)
• Parallelism in SSIS – Multiple Lookups (Todd McDermid)
• Normalization is from the devil (Oren Eini)
• Why You Still Count as a Person if You Have Used Microsoft Access—(or How Old Are You, Julie? (or the overuse of parenthesis in early 21st century Bloggery)) (Julie Smith)
• Building a Data Warehouse Part V: Application Development Options (Stephen Forte)
• “select *, %%bmk%% from tablename” while rebuilding the index (Pradeep Adiga)
• Make a T-SQL Query Sleep for a certain amount of time (Suprotim Agarwal)
• New book: Microsoft Access 2010 Inside Out (Devon Musgrave)

SharePoint

• Guide to Migrating from WSS 3.0 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows SBS 2008 (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Writing A Simple DSL (Davy Brion)
• Project Sector 5 – Work In Progress – Teaser (Kevin Griffin)
• Halo Reach A Big Hit With Some Big Hitters (Microsoft Blog Admin)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Hacking: The Next Generation – Only $9.99. Use code DDHKG (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Home Server Vail Preview Part 1 (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft counting down the days until Kinect launches (Steven Hodson)
• MS Research Releases Kodu Language and Grammar Specification (Bruce Kyle)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 4, 2010 and Interesting Finds: September 5, 2010 and Interesting Finds: September 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 040 for 9/6/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 4, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 09/03/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 66 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2010 — #940 and Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2010 — #941 (Dave Campbell)
• Things I Read This Week – 2010.08.03 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Articles Archive (Silverlight): March 2010 to August 2010 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Morning Brew #679 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Silverlight Blogs (John Papa)
• Links of the week #128 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework, Second Edition (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Steven Sanderson

Top Links

• A high performance ProgressBar for Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• Announcing: Microsoft Ribbon for WPF RTW (Pete Brown)
• New Title! More Chapters! (Charles Petzold)
• How to load a huge file into a FILESTREAM column quickly (Jacob Sebastian)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Setting Performance Counters (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft.Data, because the 90s were so good, we want to do them again (Oren Eini)
• F# Templates Now On Visual Studio Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
• WCF RIA Services Part 4 – Integrating with the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern (Brian Noyes)
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Additional Mapping Schemes (Zain Naboulsi)
• The CodeRush Options Screen (Rory Becker)

Web Development

• Dynamic Methods in View Data (Phil Haack)
• Restrict ASP.NET MVC Action’s Using The ActionMethodSelectorAttribute (Malcolm Sheridan)
• MvcSiteMapProvider 2.1.0 released! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Error Handling Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• My Journey with the StackExchange API (Dave Swersky)
• Publishing Adaptive Streaming Video from Expression Encoder to Windows Azure Blobs (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Structure and guidelines, consistency and clarity (Simon Brown)
• Explaining Software Design Patterns to a non-developer… (Greg Duncan)
• How do You Stress Test Your Web Application? (Mike Hadlow)
• Case Study: CryptoLicensing + CryptoObfuscator in the real world and Case Study: SmartInspect in the real world (Roy Osherove)
• CSI: Microsoft (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Projects vs. products (Daniel Crenna)
• Slides for The Rule of 3, Hot Spots, and Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, Friday Reflection (J.D. Meier)
• Software Programming as Craft (Dave West)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Quick look inside a List Application for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Some Infrastructure Bits (Davy Brion)
• Free ebook: Petzold’s Programming Windows Phone 7 (Special Excerpt 2) (Devon Musgrave)
• Couple of Expression Encoder updates (James Clarke)
• How Advertising is Different on Windows Phone 7 and A Deep Zoom Container for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Action Pack and Microsoft Tellme Speech Recognition Services (Don Burnett)
• Book Review – 3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3: Beginner’s Guide (Rene Schulte)
• Ensuring your WPF applications are Accessible (Rob Relyea)
• Async Data Validation (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kent Alstad is All About Performance (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Phone 7 Development with Mike Harsh (Robert Hess)
• Episode 58: Building Facebook Applications with Windows Azure with Jim Zimmerman (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• endpoint.tv – CancellationScope Activity (Ron Jacobs)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 23 – Code Contracts with William Tulloch (Richard Banks)
• Ping 68: Streetside, Hohm, Student Partners, Kinect & Farmaritaville (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Learning in Public – what I learned from being heckled at the Dallas Tech Fest (Caleb Jenkins)
• London “Guathon” Event with Me on August 13th (Scott Guthrie)
• Time to give back: GeekGive at the MVP Summit (Stephen Forte)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Performance (Pinal Dave)
• RSScripter and Permissions (William Vaughn)
• SSMS Feature Request – Filter By Datetime, Not Just Date (Shaun Stuart)
• Quickly Script Out Replication Redux (Chad Miller)
• A Small Collection of DBCC Commands (Glenn Berry)

SharePoint

• Chapters 1-4 of our upcoming Inside SharePoint 2010 development book on MSDN (Andrew Connell)
• Wish you had free end user training incorporated into your SharePoint environment? (Joel Oleson)
• Feature upgrade (part 4) – advanced scenarios (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Assembla’s Top 10 Used Tools (Anastasia Voskresenskaya)
• Why Microsoft *can* compete with the Apple iPad and what the Apple pundits are clueless about… (Don Burnett)
• Make your own Fable III Villager (Larry Hyrb)
• Pluralsight Website Update, 7/31/2010 (Keith Brown)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Being Geek – Only $9.99. Use code DDGEK (O’Reilly Media)
• Wolves Theme for Windows 7 (Richard Hay)
• Kinect: the backstory (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #656 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Phone 7 Resource List Refreshed (Mike Ormond)

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects by Jared Richardson

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Top Links

• Teaching Kids to Code – FREE classes in Jan 2010 (Vijaye)
• Scanning images in WPF via WIA (Pete Brown)
• TekPub’s Mastering LINQ Challenge (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• UML Profiles and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate: Part One (Cameron Skinner)
• Validate a Windows Username and Password against Active Directory (Tom Hearn)
• How to get out of the GAC all the registered assemblies (Daniel Cazzulino)

Web Development

• "Hello, World" in FubuMVC (Jeremy D. Miller)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 2 – YSlow (Karl Seguin)
• A Popup Insert control for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Open and publish a live website in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NHibernate, polymorphic associations and ghost objects (Oren Eini)
• Some preliminary thoughts on end-to-end testing in Growing Object-Oriented Software (Brian Marick)
• Avoiding The Typical Software Development World Stereotypes – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Promoting reuse using Behaviors: RotateRefreshBehavior (Bob Bartholomay)
• Fluent Silverlight – static reflection and Fluent Silverlight – Table of content (Gabriel N. Schenker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How to Live to be 100: A Mindmap and Video (Chance Brown)
• Video ambient lighting effects (Coding4Fun)
• geekSpeak Recording – The Dynamic Language Runtime in .NET 4 and geekSpeak Recording – Windows Workflow Services and the .NET Framework 4 and geekSpeak Recording – Generics and Collections and geekSpeak Recording – Refactoring Tips and Tricks with Llewellyn Falco and geekSpeak Recording – Rich Internet Applications with Windows Azure (Emily Gibson)
• A Deeper Look at Speech NUI (Larry Larsen)
• This Week in Testing Episode 10 – Do Not Ship It, Part 2 (Dror Helper)

Community / Events

• Vote for the UberProf case study in Mix 2010 (Oren Eini)
• Boston Geek Dinner – January 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Things I’d Like To Present (Christopher Bennage)
• Codemash 2.0.1.0 – Speaking, MCing and Podcasting (Keith Elder)

Database

• How to Read the Results of SELECT @@VERSION in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Reporting Services Reading linebreak in textbox (Steve Simon)
• Turning off the ghost cleanup task for a performance gain (Paul S. Randal)
• SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 2 – Using the New SharePoint Lists (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Set your hotkeys in PowerGUI Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• The ultimate ‘God Mode’ list: 39 secret Windows 7 shortcuts (Ed Bott)
• Creative Commons Data Dump Jan 10 (Jeff Atwood)
• Three post-CES goals for Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
• January’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Windows 8 Server: The First Version of Server to Contain System Restore? (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft at CES: Finally, what to expect from Windows Mobile 7 and Windows Phone (Tim Conneally)
• Bing deconstructed! (Microsoft JobsBlog)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for January 08, 2010 — #772 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Jan-2009 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Ironpython in Action

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Top Links

Need test/sample/demo data that’s safe for public (and/or client) consumption? Then GenerateData.com! (Greg Duncan) – Great find…

C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 13 of 13 (Charles Torre) – A great series of videos comes to an end. If you haven’t watched any of them, and you’re interested in functional programming, go back and start at chapter 1.

.NET / Visual Studio

Thoughts on EF vs NHibernate (Rob Conery)

What can EF 4.0 do that NHibernate can’t? and Responding to how EF is better NH commentary… (Oren Eini)

More LINQ with System.Interactive – Getting Started and Reader Challenge – Fault Handlers in C# (Bart de Smet)

If (Successful) { throw new Exception(); } (Brian Lagunas)

Heard from someone about the just released VS2010 B2 VM’s? Would like to get them but hate downloading them via the web site? Brian Keller has a download solution for you (and 7 Hands-on Labs too!) (Greg Duncan)

LINQ to SQL and missing Many to Many EntityRefs (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

corMVC initial release and qooxdoo reaches 1.0 (Michael Kimsal)

Trace.Writing in your web applications (Coding4Fun)

A Popup Insert control for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

jQuery hoverImage plugin (Wesley Bakker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Tenet #5 – Motivated Individuals (Julie Stickler)

Customer Connected Engineering at patterns & practices (JD Meier)

Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: My first attempt (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Information for Silverlight HVP Developers… (Jesse Liberty)

Custom Content Loaders in Silverlight 4.0 (David Hill)

Day #24: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 2 of 3) (Jeff Blankenburg)

Novell and Microsoft cut out the GPL cancer from open-source Silverlight (Sebastian Anthony)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield: Silverlight Rock Star! (Carl Franklin)

Holiday Special – The office, Typemock-style (Gil Zilberfeld)

Community / Events

What is Community? (Steve Andrews)

Database

SQL SERVER – CDC and TRUNCATE – Cannot truncate table because it is published for replication or enabled for Change Data Capture (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Being a writer, and having an editor. A Short Rant. (Jesse Liberty)

Cygwin 1.7 Adds Windows 7 Support and Many Improvements (Kevin Purdy)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for December 24, 2009 — #762 and Silverlight Cream for December 25, 2009 — #763 (Dave Campbell)

MVVM Links\Info (Lester Lobo)

WWD’s Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2009 (Simon Mackie)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action

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Top Links

• Cool Things to Do with Dynamics in dotNET 4 (Kevin Jones) – Kevin examines the new dynamic keyword coming in .NET 4.0 with some tips on when/how to use it.
• Magellan with Windows Forms (Paul Stovell) – Just because you have to develop with WinForms doesn’t mean you can’t take advantage of MVC.
• Render Silverlight in WPF – WPF SilverlightViewport (Jeremiah Morrill) – Hosting Silverlight in a WPF app… there’s an API for that.

.NET / Visual Studio

• 6 Of My Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts (Hatim Rih)
• Blogging code samples stays easy [Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code for Visual Studio 2010!] (David Anson)
• Visual Studio 2008 Server Explorer Missing… (Doug Holland)
• High CPU in .NET app using a static Generic.Dictionary (Tess Ferrandez)
• Receiving notifications when garbage collections occur (Jeffrey Richter)
• Discovering Dallas: Part 3 (Jim O’Neil)
• How to Get a Stack Trace from C# without throwing Exception (Peter Kellner)
• Entity Framework troubleshooting and performance (Simon Sabin)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Textual attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

Web Development

• e-Commerce using ASP.NET MVC Framework (Ramani Sandeep)
• Using jQuery To Hijack ASP.NET MVC Form Posts (Malcolm Sheridan)
• JS Methods, static and instance (Kris Gray)
• Making Sense of ASP.NET Paths (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Effectus: Isolated features (Oren Eini)
• 8 Ways to Be Heroic (Noah Blumenthal)
• Essential Habits Of An Effective Professional Freelancer (Rob Smith)
• Testing tips (That is testability, not TDD part 2) (Wes McClure)
• Why GUI Test Automation is Popular and Tempting? Part I – Business context (Shrini Kulkarni)
• One change at a time (Mark Needham)
• Managers Are Not Game Designers! (Jurgen Appelo)
• That Rotting Design (Kirk Knoernschild)

Silverlight / WPF

• Falling Snow in Silverlight (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Day #21: Rapid Silverlight Prototyping In SketchFlow (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Magellan View Engines (Paul Stovell)
• WPF Manipulation Basics (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• [Video] Spark View Engine Part 1 (Mike Ormond)
• .NET Rocks! – Eric Lawrence on Fiddler (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: .Net Rocks Part 1 and Channel 9 Live at PDC09: .Net Rocks Part 2 (Nic Fillingham)
• Episode 95- PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Jones from the CS Techcast on SQL (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast #4: Developing for the Cloud (David Starr)
• SharePoint 2010 Branding-Episode 40 (Rob, Nick & Brett)

Community / Events

• Chris’ Year in Review 2009 (Chris Missal)
• 3 years of Encosia, the best of 2009, and my gratitude (Dave Ward)
• Getting started at Microsoft (Jon Galloway)
• Spoke at Girl Geek Dinner – World Still Intact (Sara J. Chipps)
• Windows Azure for Microsoft Partners (Steve Clayton)

Database

• Geek City: Exploring the Transaction Log Structure (Kalen Delaney)
• SQL Azure Data Sync tool (Stephen Forte)
• SQL SERVER – Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Design Patterns: Entry 2.5 (Charles Chen)
• Here’s a couple of helpful observations on VSeWSS 1.3 and Here’s a walkthrough building an Event Receiver in VSeWSS (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on his way out the door in 2010? (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Hacking PowerGUI (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• 10 things Microsoft did right in 2009 (Joe Wilcox)
• The meaning of open (Jonathan Rosenberg)
• Windows 8: LinkedIn’s Latest (Stephen Chapman)
• The 10 Tech Commandments for Employment After Age 40 (Shlomi Ben-haim)
• Latest Must Have Software (Tim Boland)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #502 and The Morning Brew #503 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 21, 2009 — #759 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/21/2009 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 124 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/21/2009 (Rick Minerich)

The Geek Shelf

The Ultimate HTML Reference

Web Development

• RESTful ASP.NET MVC (Garry Shutler)
• Extending SubText to report Future Posts (Oren Eini)
• Introducing Fizzler (Colin Ramsay)
• Session State Not Working? Check Your Web Garden! (Scott Mitchell)
• More Fun With LINQ – Perform Common Tasks in ASP.NET (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Check Out the New IE8 Developer Tools Tutorials (Duc (Cash) Vo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MVC vs. MVP vs. MVVM (Niraj Bhatt)
• Composed Regex (Martin Fowler)
• NHibernate and NDepend – skimming the surface (Oren Eini)
• 10 Rules for writing Good SDKs (Christopher Diggins)
• Zen: Does This Project Management Tool Live Up to its Name? (Darrell Etherington)
• Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (Gunnar Peipman)
• Wrapping collections: Inheritance vs Composition (Mark Needham) – Link of the Day
• Iterator Blocks, Part Five: Push vs Pull (Eric Lippert)
• Behavior and Data Centricity (Jonathan Oliver)
• TestApi v0.3 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• How I’m using the Event Aggregator Pattern in StoryTeller (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Who’s payin’ the bills?, or “How to drive a stake in the ground” (Kyle Baley)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Book Review: The Art of Unit Testing (Tim Barcz)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using a Border for a Glow Effect in Silverlight 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Changing Brush Brightness in WPF/Silverlight (ailon)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 10: LinqToSql (Brad Abrams)
• Using the Matrix3DProjection Class in Silverlight 3 and Animated “3D” Text in Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• XAML Playground: A XAML Designer Built In Silverlight For Gestalt (Karsten Januszewski)
• .NET RIA Services Twitter Pitch (Nikhil Kothari)
• Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RTW (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing Data from a DataTable to Excel and Linq: Sorting a DataTable (Deborah Kurata)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Generating SQL script from model (Gunnar Peipman)
• Microsoft Tag API Released (Jim O’Neil)
• Building Declarative WCF Services in .NET 4.0 (Thiru Thangarathinam)
• The anatomy of the Historical Debugger Navigation Bar (Navbar) (Habib Heydarian)
• Code Providers 101 — Implementing Unimplemented Properties (Mark Miller)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: Windows 7 RTM Sign-Off (Roger)
• Tips and Advice – Continuous Integration (Bob Payne)
• Code Cast 28 – Jim Wierich (Chris Brandsma)
• The History of Microsoft – 1998 (Tina)

Community / Events

• Announcing the Microsoft PowerShell User Group of Upstate New York (Joel Bennett)
• Windows 7 Incubation Week in Reston, VA (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Keep up with DevelopMentor on Twitter (Michael Kennedy)

SharePoint

• SharePoint: Creating HttpHandler for user profile images (Gunnar Peipman)

Database

• Maximizing View of SQL Server Management Studio – Full Screen – New Screen (Pinal Dave)
• Speeding up SQL Server Management Studio Startup (Martin Bell)

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell 2.0 RTM (Osama Sajid)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Office Partner Releases Free Word 2007 Sample Design Templates and Microsoft Releases Virtual Hard Disk Getting Started Guide for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Google Helps You Understand Recursion (Alex Chitu)
• Watching Trends = Job Security (Dave M. Bush)
• The Ultimate Windows 7 Upgrade FAQ (Ed Bott)
• Windows 7 RTMs: Where’s Windows Live? (Kip Kniskern)
• Put Your Microsoft Office Data Into the Cloud Now (Will Kelly)
• Scripting WMI Namespace Security (part 2 of 3) (Steve Lee)
• A Developer’s Look at Xobni (Ryan Farley)
• How to pass technical interview in Better Place (Tamir Khason)
• More questions on Professional Development Reading Habits (Joe Stagner)
• Why Fundamentals are Important to Microsoft’s Bottom-line (Peter Ritchie)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #397 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 23, 2009 — #653 (Dave Campbell)
• Rants and Raves #5 (Joel Cochran)
• CloudNews for 23rd July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (7/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are garbage collectors slow? (Granville Barnett) – Link of the Day
• Doing Agile in a Team of One – Day 2 and the End of Sprint 1 (Andrew Woodward)
• Agile Self-Organization versus Lean Leadership (Brad Appleton)
• Best Practices in Gathering Requirements for SharePoint Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint and TDD (Sahil Malik)
• Inconvenient Accessibility Makes Self-Documenting Code (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Seams: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• A small web design rant: beware of the RADical designer (Peter Van Ooijen)
• What’s in a controller? That which we call an action… (Javier G. Lozano)
• Agile Behavior: Nurture Knowledge Database (Patrick Smacchia)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Box Selections and Multi-Edit in Visual Studio 2010 (Coding4Fun)
• .Net Framework 4.0: Using memory mapped files (Gunnar Peipman)
• Assigning MSBuild Properties to SQLCMD Variables (Gert Drapers)
• Fantastic on-going Entity Framework Tips Series from EF’s Alex James and Visual Studio’s Database Publishing Wizard and the new 1-Click Web Deployment and EF4: Model-Defined Functions Level 1 & 2 (Julie Lerman)
• TFS 2010 – WorkItems Linking and Automation Workflow implementation for Closing Linked Workitems (Subodh Sohoni)

Web Development

• Recent Member Activity now in Sueetie User Profiles and Three Wolves Howling at the JSON Date Moon (Dave Burke)
• Using claims for driving web sites… without writing any code (Vittorio Bertocci)
• 50 Fresh JavaScript Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow (Smashing Magazine)
• Finally found what I have been looking for: JavaScriptMVC (Peter Eysermans)

Silverlight / WPF

• Control-Oriented Vs. Data-Oriented Programming in Silverlight (Dan Wahlin)
• Microsoft Expression 1..2..3 (Mike Ormond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 24: Monitoring Workflow Services (Ron Jacobs)
• Toolshed Tooltip #9 – VSTS DB Pro from Episode 2 and Toolshed Tooltip #10 – SQL Reporting Services from Episode 2 (Russell Fustino)
• Major Nelson Show #323: E3 2009 and Iraq (Larry Hryb)
• Windows 7 Application Compatibility (Matthijs Hoekstra)

Community / Events

Announcing "Agile Database Techniques" Workshop (Shawn Wildermuth)

SharePoint

• My checklist for optimizing SharePoint sites (Chris O’Brien)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server – Scoping Tool v1.1 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• A Man Who Goes Against His Instincts… (Max Pool)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 21, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #373 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 06.15 ~ 06.21 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #58 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2009 — #619 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 99 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Discoveries This Week 06/21/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

• The Influence of MVC on My WPF (Christopher Bennage) – Link of the Day
• More on Moonlight 2.0 Preview 1 (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight – Navigating Data (Dave M. Bush)
• Recreating Frogger in Silverlight – Part 2 and Part 3 (Michael Ceranski)
• The New York Times Silverlight Kit (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Creating a MVVM “Hello World” Application in 30 seconds (Rudi Grobler)
• Document Toolkit: Customizing the document viewer (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft to turn .Net Micro Framework code, support over to the community (Mary Jo Foley)
• LINQ To SQL Very Slow Performance Without Compile (CompileQuery) (Peter Kellner)
• Pay attention to the difference between Expression.Lt & Expression.LtProperty (Derik Whittaker)
• Introduction to MapReduce for .NET Developers (Eran Kampf)
• A Developer’s Guide to Preparing for Windows 7 (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

• Google’s Latitude Apps Give a Glimpse of New Latitude API (Andres Ferrate)
• Tweetpoll – My first Windows Azure application is live (Jamie Thomson)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements (Mike Ormond)
• Querying SharePoint List Items using jQuery (Jan Tielens)
• GridView Plugin For JQuery (Justin)
• Dynamic Data Preview 4 Released (Scott Hunter)
• Smooth Cascading Effect with ASP.NET Panels using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Dynamic Data in Regular Websites/Web Applications (David Fowler)
• Cleaner, Faster Ajax in ASP.NET (Gil Shabat)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing “Where’s The Dollar?” and Understanding the Problem (Chris Missal)
• Yet another reason to love TestDriven.net (Sebastien Lambla)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 4 (Rajiv Popat)
• Who’s In Charge Of The Time? (Davy Brion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ted Neward on Oracle buying Sun (Carl Franklin)
• 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing (Brian Keller)
• E-VAN Videos Reminder (Colin Jack)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #52 (Jeff Atwood)
• Cannon PI Title Sequence (Frank La Vigne)
• Podcast: Meg Edwards – My Journey with GTD Lists (Meg Edwards)
• Andy Lester: Land the Tech Job you Love (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Incorporating Your Beta Feedback into RC and Windows 7 Taskbar: Advanced Features (Yochay Kiriaty)

Community / Events

• .NET’s Most Influential People in 2009 (Jay Kimble)
• See and Be Seen Among the Stars at the INETA Booth at Tech·Ed and 9Q w/ Kathleen Sanders (Chris G. Williams)
• Announcing Silverlight FireStarter DC: June 6 (Frank La Vigne)
• Announcing the Formation of the Lean Software & Systems Consortium (Karl Scotland)

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Step by Step: What’s new for 2008? (Ken Jones)

PowerShell

• Fun with Alerts (“‘a”) (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Tools and Programs I use in my everyday work (Agnes Molnar)
• It’s Not About the Tools, It’s About the Strategy (Celine Roque)
• 8 Essential Applications (Corey Schuman)
• Are You an Information Junkie? (Dawn Foster)
• 4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks (Samuel Dean)
• Interesting and Ignored Tags Now Support Wildcards (Jeff Atwood)
• Clearing The Confusion On Security And Clouds (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Recipe for Spark build/dev machine on Virtual PC (Louis DeJardin)
• Guess Who Owns Kindledx.com? Amazon. Guess Who Forgot To Set It Up? Amazon. (MG Siegler)
• Live Search PR push in anticipation of “Kumo” (Kip Kniskern)
• Marketing Ideas to Help Sell Your Ideas (Sam’s Club Cup Pt. 2) (Max Pool)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #342 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2009 — #588 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for May 6th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours): Rob Eisenberg, Christopher Bennage: Books ISBN: 0672329859 ISBN-13: 9780672329852

.NET / Visual Studio

• Lanuage Envy – String Interpolation (Sergio Pereira)
• Why Oslo Is Important (Dan Vanderboom) – Link of the Day
• Building WCF Services with F#, Part 1 (Ted Neward)
• I Don’t Really See the Problem with NHibernate’s XML Mapping Files (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• DevEvents – LINQ to SQL Model Binding in .NET MVC (Steve Andrews)
• Hyper-Video Videos Posted and The Header Content Control (Jesse Liberty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Estimating and Planning (Jeff McWherter)
• How to Unit Test This Code? (Scott Dorman)
• Significant Advances in Unit Testing Windows Workflow (Michael Kennedy)
• Design Principles (Laila Bougria)

Database

• SQL Server – Difference Between Index Scan and Index Seek and CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors (Pinal Dave)
• Converting Dates in SQL Server (Rhonda Tipton)
• Too Many Indexes! (Kalen Delaney)

Miscellaneous

• Hyper-V and Windows 2008 Workstation and Hyper-V – Enable Sleep / Hibernate and Hyper-V and Wireless Networks and Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar and Hyper-V and Sound and Hyper-V and Virtualization Support for SharePoint Products and Technologies (Mark Harrison)
• Technical Books to Read in 2009 (Grant Palin)
• PowerShell P/Invoke Walkthrough (Lee Holmes)

More Link Collections

• Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #14 – January 18, 2009 (Bob McIlree)
• Interesting Finds: January 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (1/18/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Links of the Week #68 (David Vidmar)

Book of the Day