• Windows Phone Native Series – ExitApplication, PlaySystemSound, GetSystemInformation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Recognition Compensation (Phil Haack)
• SocialViewer gets Windows Phone Mango treatment (Nick Randolph)
• Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency (Steven Sinofsky)
• Metro WebView Source and HTML workarounds (Brent Schooley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Refactoring Code using Visual Studio Extract Method (Abhishek Sur)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The DateTime TryParse() and ParseExact() Methods (James Michael Hare)
• LINQPad helps you learn LINQ (Jason Short)
• TFS 2010 Report Results are not up to date after installing Service Pack 1 (Sebastian Dau)
• GHI (non-beta) .NET Gadgeteer SDK released! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• List View Data Binding in Windows 8 JavaScript Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections (Simon Cooper)
• SolutionScripts – little scripts for the Nuget console (Matt Hinze)
• StyleCop 4.7 (CodePlex)
• New Refactorings in JustCode Q3 2011 (JustCode Team)
• Rx – Sample (Bnaya Eshet)
• Using the Kinect to build a NUI E-Book and F#, Kinect and a little LegoNXT (Greg Duncan)
• Global reach (Antoine Leblond)
• Parsing HTML in C# (Marlon Grech)

Web Development

• Comment and Uncomment for CSS Editor in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• JavaScript for C# developers: converting arguments into an array (Julian M.  Bucknall)
• CSS Lint v0.9.2 now available (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Adventures In The Third Dimension: CSS 3D Transforms (Peter Gasston)
• Things Still Missing From CSS (Trent Walton)
• Using ProudMonkey Controls with ASP.NET AJAX Update Panel (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• PHP Performance: Bitwise Division (Stoimen)
• Update: Deploying Ruby Applications to Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
• When APIs Play Spoilsport? (Romin Irani)
• Easy steps to a mobile-friendly responsive design with an embedded YouTube video and a fluid resize (Scott Hanselman)
• Our AJAX Conventions – The AjaxContinuation and Our Ajax Conventions–Clientside Continuations (Josh Arnold)
• Using the Cloud to Enable the Next Generation of Mobile Enterprise Applications (Chris Love)
• The digits of MUSIC.js (Dave Mahon)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Connecting to Windows Azure Storage from Hadoop Cluster and Using Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv://) for input data and storing results in Hadoop Map/Reduce Job on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Getting comfy with PhpStorm – one of the best IDEs so far! (Hasin Hayder)
• Understanding JavaScript OOP (Quildreen Motta)
• Photo Mosaics Part 9: Caching Analysis (Jim O’Neil)
• Programming Office 365 Jump Start 1 (Tanzim Saqib)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Contextualising just enough up front design (Simon Brown)
• No Class is an Island (John Sonmez)
• Announcing Lokad.CQRS vLean – SampleProject and Tools (Rinat Abdullin)
• 5 Do’s and Don’ts for Managing Distributed Teams – A Tech Lead Speaks (Adam Feber)
• test on real mobile devices without breaking the bank (Brad Frost)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Q3 2011 SP1 RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 now adds support for bindable Data Descriptor collections (Deyan Ginev)
• Free SilverlightShow Ebook: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Silverlight Show)
• The Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
• Framework Exceptions in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Let me out – Facebook Logout in a Windows Phone App and SLARToolkit Samples Updated (Rene Schulte)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone – Capitalization (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #467 – Use a UniformGrid for Evenly Spaced Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
• New Markets for Windows Phone Developers (Todd Brix)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Recording of yesterday’s webinar ‘Leveraging Azure for Windows Phone Devs’ now available (Silverlight Show)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #128: Predictions 2012 (Bob Walsh)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Harald Horgen Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Gillmor Gang Live 01.05.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• On Microsoft MVP Program (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Do community because you like it, not because of the incentives (Simone Chiaretta)
• A very few thoughts on the MVP program (Jeremy Miller)
• MVP Program, Award and my view on things (Dennis Vroegop)
• Windows 8 – First Apps Contest and Are you a Developer or Designer in the NY/NJ/PA area using Microsoft Software? (Dave Isbitski)
• Your Blog is The Engine of Community (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS in a PDF (Jason Strate)
• Reader Review: SQL Server 2008 Internals (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – Locking and Blocking – Important Aspect of Database and Effect on Performance – Quiz – Puzzle – 5 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• The Art of the Execution Plan (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell

• StudioShell 1.2 Released (Jim Christopher)

Miscellaneous

• Hot Topics: A Contest Formula that Works (Lauren Gundrum)
• Things We Wish Clients Would Say (Louis Lazaris)
• Programmers are born not made (Swizec Teller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #790 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/5/2012 and Daily News Digest 01/06/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 04-Jan-2012 and 05-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News 5 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #1016 (Chris Alcock)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– December 2011 (Beth Massi)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 01/05/2012 (Bob Rhubart)
• Distributed Weekly 136 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• Great Free Video Training on ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC (Scott Guthrie)
• Eduasync part 4: Filling in AsyncTaskMethodBuilder (Jon Skeet)
• Using DataContracts with WCF Web API (Glenn Block)
• WindowsPhoneMvp Quickstart (Brendan Kowitz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using Advantage data providers to read DBF-files (Gunnar Peipman)
• TFS API Part 36 – Create Build Definitions (Shai Raiten)
• Using guid id in nhibernate, index fragmentation (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Aligning Numbers on the Decimal Separator (Ron Petrusha)
• Manning Deal of the Day: “Natural User Interfaces in .NET” MEAP and Paper Book for $25 (Joey deVilla)
• Using Lazy to Solve Deadlocks in Resource Caches (Rick Brewster)

Web Development

• Step by step instructions to deploy ASP.NET MVC 3 to Windows Azure (Bart Czernicki)
• What are jQuery Class Selectors and ID selectors Explain them? (Hima)
• Playing with dapper Micro ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3.0 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• ASP.NET MVC and Multiple Submit Buttons (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Timepicker–nice extension to jQuery UI Datepicker (Gunnar Peipman)
• WCF REST Service with JSON Data (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A Not Very Short Introduction To Node.js (Anders Janmyr)
• HowTo: migrate an established WebApp to Azure (Code Inside Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting up to BAT: Building a True DSL (John Sonmez)
• Richardson’s Maturity Model as a tool for understanding not measurement (Glenn Block)
• What is Domain Driven Design? (Jak Charlton)
• Time Management Checklist and How To Set Goals and Achieve Them (JD Meier)
• Effective Tests: Test Doubles (Derek Greer)
• Do What You Say You Are Going to Do (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Dependency Injection (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Upcoming Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone “Mango” and Advanced Silverlight Trainings in Redmond (Dave Campbell)
• “That’s a HUGE List!” – WP7 Jump List (Erik Klimczak)
• (YANCWP7AM) Yet Another No Code Windows Phone 7 App Maker – FollowMyFeed (Greg Duncan)
• What is Line Stacking Strategy in Silverlight TextBlock control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Display PDFs in your Windows Phone 7 application (Nick Randolph)
• Release an App for Windows Phone 7 in 7 Days for a Chance to Win a New HTC 7 Trophy Phone (Nigel Parker)
• Windows Phone Launchers (Paul Sheriff)
• Consider this when downloading large files on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 156: Jon Galloway and Jesse Liberty on Remote Pairing (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 398: We discuss our Brink experience, Gatling Gears and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 208: Fake Hustle (Paul Thurrott)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 16 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 016 – “More Mango Madness” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The GeekDads Episode #91: That Pause Was Air Quotes (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

• SQL SERVER – Attending MVP Open Day – May 2011 (Pinal Dave)
• The Microsoft week ahead: What’s on for TechEd 2011? (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

• SQL SERVER – SQL Server Compression Estimator – Codeplex (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 15 – SQL Server Agent – Job ownership (Ted Krueger)
• SQL CLR Stored Procedure using Visual Studio 2010 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 05.10 ~ 05.16 (yuanjian)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 069 for 5/15/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #852 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 08-May-2011 to 14-May-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2011 — #1089 (Dave Campbell)
• Android development resource links (Mendelt Siebenga)

The Geek Shelf

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Jez Humble

Top Links

• Prism 4 Gems: Rendering Heterogeneous Collections with DataTemplateSelector (Brian Noyes)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 – Extensibility Labs and Fluent Validation 2.0 (CodePlex)
• A Look At Fluent APIs (Sacha Barber)
• TWC9: WebMatrix, MVC, Orchard, NuGet Gallery (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing SL#: C# to GLSL Translator (Zor)
• Uber Prof New Features: A better query plan (Oren Eini)
• Google Shortener API For .NET Written In C# (Deepak Kapoor)
• Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 1 (Shai Raiten)
• Tape: Dependency management for .NET (Paul Stovell)
• CLR Version issues with CorBindRuntimeEx (Rick Strahl)
• A tip for using InstallShield and TeamBuild 2010 while living in a x86/x64 world and Writing a MMC Plugin, with MVP and Unity (Greg Duncan)
• Bundle identifier on iOS with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)
• New book: Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, Second Edition (Kim Spilker)
• DXCore Services – TextExpansions and IDE tools terminology/key concepts (Alex Skorkin)
• Help NHibernate to better understand what U want (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Customize the Debugging Windows : Change Debugging Window View as per your requirements (Abhijit Jana)
• Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ (Ade Miller)

Web Development

• Programmatically Changing Session State Behavior in ASP.NET 4.0 and How to pass external values with GridView HyperLinkField which are not part of your Gridview DataSource member ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Semantic HTML5 Page Layout (Modesty Zhang)
• A Comparison of Three jQuery Modal Dialogs for ASP.NET MVC (Rob Regan)
• Sueetie Version 3.0 Now Available (Dave Burke)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Debugging with node-inspector (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Google Releases the High Replication Datastore for App Engine (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Windows Identity Foundation + OATH = Win for Users (Don Burnett)
• The Facebook Windows Azure Cloud Toolkit (Don Burnett)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Two Dimensions of Agile Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• [Updated] Top Agile Tools (Peter Saddington)
• On craftsmanship (Dan North)
• Are you Mocking Me? (Gregory Long)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Sterling Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Database Triggers and Auto-Identity (Jeremy Likness)
• MVVM Project Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Jonathan Cardy)
• Windows Push Notification Server Side Helper Library (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part 1 and Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part 2 (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 Unleashed Session I–Hands on Labs and WP7 Saving to Media Library (Daniel Egan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 101: Kelly Sommers on Mobile Development and User Interface design (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Windows Weekly 191: Angry Ballmer (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 3 – Storage Access (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone 7 Videos (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone Radio 13 is Live! (Brian Seitz)
• YUI Theater — Luke Smith: “YUI 3: Below the Surface” (48 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Let’s Play TDD #77: Buy Versus Build (James Shore)

Community / Events

• CES 2011: Using a browser to demonstrate the power of hardware (Scott Armstrong)
• CodeMash: Day 1: Mostly .NET (for me) (Bill Wagner)
• Silverlight LOB Firestarters NEXT WEEK (NYC 1/18 & NJ 1/19) (Stephen Forte)
• CSLA .NET training in Feb 2011 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Silverlight is hiring – Do you love data controls & LOB? (Steve Lasker)
• Do you want to be an ALM Consultant? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• One Million Developers, Designers on Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)
• 2011 SharePoint Solutions Roadshow–US (Wes Yanaga)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Every Which Way Outputs (15/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL Server Schema Comparison Tool in Visual Studio 2010 (Karthik Anbarasan)
• SQLAuthority News – Best Practices for Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• The PowerShell Survival Guide (Brought to you by the Microsoft TechNet wiki) (Greg Duncan)
• Driver user experience (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Pinworthy: Uncovering the best of Marketplace (Michael Stroh)
• How would you change Windows Phone 7? (Darren Murph)
• When does Windows Phone 7 get its grand opening? (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• This Week’s Link List (January 14, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Link Rollup: New Documentation and Tutorials from Web Platform and Tools (Scott Hanselman)
• January 14th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• Week Retrospective 15 – Ty Pennington and the Agile Methodology Hater (Peter Saddington)
• Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2011 — #1027 and Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2011 — #1028 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s "Hard Code" (Best Practices) by Eric Brechner

Top Links

• Installing, Configuring and Using Windows Server AppFabric and the "Velocity" Memory Cache in 10 minutes (Scott Hanselman)
• WeakReference Event Handlers (Paul Stovell)
• Decoupling the Presentation Layer & the Joy of Interfaces (Simon Gladman)
• Using LINQ Distinct: With an Example on ASP.NET MVC SelectListItem (Joe Mayo)
• Walkthrough: Extending VS 2010 to Support Additional Programming Languages (Weston Hutchins)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# int |> bigint (Mark Pearl)
• IntelliTrace – what and how? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Customize the Output Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• Deleting Windows Azure Queue Messages: Handling Exceptions (Steve Marx)

Web Development

• News Roundup: Boomerang, IE9, Bespin Updates (Michael Kimsal)
• MVC Turbine Resources (Javier G. Lozano)
• Internet Explorer Develop Tools: CSS (Pete LePage)
• Canvas Baby Steps: An Introduction to the HTML 5 Canvas Element (Rey Bango)
• Mapping Your Data with Bing Maps and SQL Server 2008 (Jonas Stawski)
• ActionFilter Overkill (K. Scott Allen)
• IE9 Includes Hardware Accelerated Canvas (Paul Cutsinger & Jatinder Mann)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "The Planning Game" Now Online (James Shore)
• Software Craftsmanship and Giving Back (Andrew)
• Delegating (Andy Warren)
• Automated UI Testing with Guia (Guia Project)
• Azure Canonical Application Architecture (J.D. Meier)
• Abstraction levels and dependencies (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Test-Driven-Development with SharePoint 2010 By Andreas Rudolf Aschauer, BSc (Tal Druyan)
• CI, Testing, and Build Management in the Cloud (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Share more puzzles on www.pexforfun.com (Nikolai Tillman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Config-free IHttpModule Registration (Nikhil Kothari)
• Uploading multiple files with Silverlight 4.0 (Andrea Boschin)
• Customer IApplicationService for Silverlight Applications (Jeremy Likness)
• Word to XAML Converter Updated (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Lazy loading children in CSLA 4 and Silverlight (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Connected Show Podcast: CoApp: Do EPIC Schtuff! (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Yuri Gurevich – Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity, 1 of n (Charles Torre)
• Video: The Unique Development Processes of Relevance (Eric Hagan)
• Using Relative URLs with the ServerInfo Class in InfoPath 2010 (Laura Harrington)
• Interview with Victor Gaudioso on Silverlight (Silverlight Show)
• Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Listen to MVP Joe Shurman on KPRC Radio this Saturday Morning (Joseph Mirabella)
• Agile Atlanta in July… Dennis Stevens and Kanban! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• July 2010 Silverlight MVP Awards (Tim Heuer)

Database

• SSAS Cache Warming with an SSIS package (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Parallelism – Row per Processor – Row per Thread (Pinal Dave)
• Mythbusting – How many instances can you install on your server? (Simon Sabin)
• MySQL 5 Performance Tuning Toolkit (Ryan Svihla)
• My Performance Tuning Methodology (Buck Woody)
• Indexes are best utilized in WHERE, not JOIN (Ben Vegiard)
• XQuery Lab 62 – Revisiting simple TSQL SELECT operations using XQuery (Jacob Sebastian)
• Using Indexed Views to Replace Triggers (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Renaming Web Parts for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010: Not a safe control? (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Commands quick reference (Greg Galipeau)
• What’s Next in SharePoint Land and Project Server 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Coexistence (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• TweetStation: Elevating the Discourse (Miguel de Icaza)
• Kodu PC Build 1.0.64.0 is now live! and Kodu Tutorial Videos (Stephen Coy)
• ClearContext Evolves, Adds Project Management Tools to Outlook (Simon Mackie)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft Access 2010 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #634 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 1, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 55 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for July 01, 2010 — #894 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC by Jonathan McCracken

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Top Links

• How to keep yourself interested as a developer. (Al Pascual)
• Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet (PDF) (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Silverlight Test Driven Development – Part II (Jesse Liberty)
• 24 Hour 50% off Deal on my Upcoming Manning Book: Silverlight in Action, Revised Edition (Pete Brown)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Art of Concurrency — Only $9.99! Use code DDACF (O’Reilly Media)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Entity Designer Database Generation Power Pack (Chris Sells)
• Iron Python In Action (Tom Brander)
• Impact The Planning For EF/Astoria vNext (Jonathan Carter)
• Looking Ahead to 2010 (David Starr)
• Using the Beta 2 EF POCO Template with VS2010 RC (Julie Lerman)
• IntelliSense Crash in VS 2010 RC when using UI Automation (Brittany Behrens)
• Visual Studio 2010 RC Feedback Channel for Web Tools (Mike)
• “Nested Containers” in StructureMap 2.6.1 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Insert Documents to the Right of Existing Tabs — vstipEnv0001 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Help Viewer in Visual Studio 2010 RC (and beyond) (Kimberly Wolk)
• The 10th of Diduary: Did you know your application could use more than one mouse? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 11. Type forwarding (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Serializing Chart Data (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET: Styling a GridView and ASP.NET: UpdatePanel and Master Pages (Deborah Kurata)
• Sparse Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Controllers (Dino Esposito)
• How to extend target file to include registry settings for web project package (Xinyang Qiu)
• Javascript: File encoding when using string.replace (Mark Needham)
• Stack Overflow API Coming Soon: What Do You Want it to Do? and Google Wastes No Time in Launching Google Buzz API (Matthew Casperson)
• gwt-presenter, or “How to get excited about MVP” (Kyle Baley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• We don’t give 5’s… and other antiquated management techniques. (Caleb Jenkins)
• When I want your opinion, I’ll ask for it (Seth Godin)
• It had to happen (Patrick Kua)
• How does usage data improve the Office User Experience? (Tim Briggs)
• Book smarts vs. Street smarts (Scott Berkun)
• Code coverage reports with NCover and MSBuild (Sergio Pereira)
• CQRS – Scalability and CQRS – Event Versioning (Mark Nijhof)
• 10 Ways to Go from Good to Great (JD Meier)
• Collaboration – Writing is a Team Sport (Julie Stickler)

Silverlight / WPF

• Planetary Body Shader Part 2 and HDR Effects (Dave Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #3 with guest Dan Rigsby (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• C9 Conversations: Yuri Gurevich On Logic, Imperative, Abstraction and Algorithms (Charles Torre)
• CodeCast Episode 66: SOLID with Claudio Lassala (Zain Naboulsi)
• Major Nelson Podcast – e and stepto record a show (Larry Hyrb)
• PhizzPop Develop & Design Challenge (Laura Foy)
• Managing Browser History Using Client Script Without ScriptManager (Marc Schweigert)

Community / Events

• Nestor Portillo on the 2010 Summit: The importance of this event cannot be understated (Joe Mirabella)
• Have You Thanked Your Favorite Bloggers Today? (Amber Singleton Riviere)
• SharePoint 2010 Training, with Beta Pricing on both US coasts (Andrew Connell)
• Why former employees say Microsoft can’t innovate (Joe Wilcox)
• NYC Code Camp: Registration is now open! (Stephen Forte)
• Courses and Training (Udi Dahan)
• If you could go to one SharePoint Conference this year what would it be? (Joel Oleson)
• Party with Palermo: MVP Summit 2010 – Red Robin, Bellevue, Feb 15, 7pm (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Code Retreat Tour #1 – Seattle, WA (Corey Haines)

Database

• Help for SQL Server (Buck Woody)
• Using ROW_NUMBER in a where clause (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – Converting a Delimited String of Values into Columns (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 eclipses Vista on Steam, 64-bit dominating 32-bit (Emil Protalinski)
• Introducing Google Buzz (Todd Jackson)
• Google Buzz (Alex Chitu)
• Google Buzz in Gmail (Edward Ho)
• Hide/Remove Google Buzz Updates from Your Gmail Inbox (Adam Pash)
• iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 2 busts loose (Chris Ziegler)
• The Windows 7 battery life issue: What’s making notebook batteries die? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• The Weekly Source Code 49 – SmallBasic is Fun, Simple, Powerful Programming for Kids and Adults (Scott Hanselman)
• If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present (MG Siegler)
• The dreaded compensation question (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Creating a Weather Gadget for Windows 7 (Shoban Kumar)
• Microsoft ditches Unix in the search market (Simon Sabin)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #536 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

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Top Links

• Visual Studio 2010 Launch is 12th April… (Mike Ormond)
• jQuery 1.4 Released! (John Resig)
• Deep Discounts for MIX 10 End Jan 15th (John Papa) – Today!
• ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation (Scott Guthrie)
• The Internet Isn’t Being Held Hostage (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Making NCloak fool Reflector (an implementation) (Paul Mason)
• DevExpress and a Stumper (Andy Warren)
• .Net Remoting Made Easy (Dave Verschleiser)
• Why Can’t I Access A Protected Member From A Derived Class? Part Six (Eric Lippert)
• Debugging Native memory leaks with Debug Diag 1.1 (Tess Ferrandez)
• Repeated menu options in Visual Studio for Data Dude (Simon Sabin)
• Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 3 – Sieve Me One (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Missing LINQ – Beware of Generated Code and Spread The Word – Install .NETFx 4 Beta 2 via Windows Update (Mike Ceranski)
• 2010 Survey Results: What .NET Framework features do you use? (Scott Hanselman)
• Some Common Operations using List – Part I (Suprotim Agarwal)
• F#: Refactoring to sequence/for expressions (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• How you can force the Ajax Script Loader to use jQuery 1.4 (Dave Ward)
• jQuery Snippets & jQuery 1.4: What’s your opinion? (John Sheehan)
• T4MVC in MSDN Magazine (K. Scott Allen)
• What Would a Stack Overflow API Look Like? (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Reducing Code Coupling – Inversion of Control (Grant Palin)
• The future of UI will be boring (Scott Berkun)
• More on Context… Establishing Personas (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Higher Order Software Development (Vishwas Lele)
• The difference between continuous Integration tools and automated build tools (Roy Osherove)
• Knowing and not Knowing (Jeremiah Peschka)

Silverlight / WPF

• AutoMagically Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged (Justin Angel)
• Converting Hexadecimals to Colors in code for Silverlight and Flash to Silverlight Guide – Graphics, Images and Display List (Adam Kinney)
• WPF WebBrowser and JavaScript interaction (Oren Eini)
• Silverlight: SketchFlow (Deborah Kurata)
• Quick tip: Finding Silverlight 4 documentation fast (Laurent Bugnion)
• A Field Guide to WPF Presentation Patterns and Introducing MicroModels (Paul Stovell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Flash Podcast 019 – Windows Mobile Widgets (Eric Nelson)
• The Agile PMP on InfoQ (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Herding Code 68: New Year Shenanigans (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• Mix10 And Molecular Biology DNA Visualizer (Justin Angel)
• First Quarter 2010 Speaking Schedule (Chris Love)
• PDC09 Trip Report Kit available for download. Taking out the drudgery so you can focus on the fun. (Dave Isbitski)
• Software Craftsman Cooperative Membership (David Starr)
• Creators Club Communiqué 37 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Get Ready for the ‘MSDN Get Ready’ training events (Katrien De Graeve)
• Looking for a change? Come work with us! (Larry Hyrb)
• Platz on Pausch, Pikachu and pursuing your passions (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• 2010 TechEd PreCon: Multiparadigmatic C# (Ted Neward)
• The Sparkling Client Goes to Mix 2010! (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• NYC Microsoft BizSpark Camp for Windows Azure! (Stephen Forte)

Database

• The Database Design Process (Buck Woody)
• SQLAuthority News – Vote for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 – Vote for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and SQL SERVER – Initializing a Merge Subscription Without a Snapshot (Pinal Dave)
• Quickest way to get the row count of a table and User defined function performance is awful, Micorosft please sort this out (Simon Sabin)
• Find Out If You Are Using Deprecated Features In SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)
• Fluidity with "Quadrant’s" Unique User Interface (Kraig Brockschmidt)

SharePoint

• Adding jQuery to SharePoint (Tom Hearn)
• Free Developer Training for SharePoint (Bruce Kyle)
• How SharePoint Can Deliver Project Transparency (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Approve all items button in a SharePoint View (Greg Galipeau)
• Creating Comparison and Wildcard Filters for BCS in SharePoint Designer 2010 (Phill Duffy)
• BCS Creator and Updater methods for Dot Net Assembly (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• You should know Linux (Karl Seguin)
• Iconizer Catalogs Icons for Customization (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Windows 7 Step by Step — Only $9.99! Use discount code W7SS9 (O’Reilly Media)
• You are responsible for your education (Mark Nijhof)
• Developing Windows PowerShell Best Practices book (Ed Wilson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #518 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2010 — #778 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for January 14, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (1/14/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

The Geek Shelf

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

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Top Links

• The TekPub LINQ Challenge Part 2 – Faster Algorithms (Justin Etheredge)
• ASP.NET MVC 2: Strongly Typed Html Helpers (Scott Guthrie)
• Patterns in Practice: A Retrospective (Jeremy D. Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• First Look at Workflow in .NET 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• List of extensibility points in visual studio 2010 (Roy Osherove)
• C# Object Initializer: More thoughts (Mark Needham)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – Introduction and 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 1. Registering Delegates (Mike Hadlow)
• .NET Projects: Generating Documentation with Sandcastle (Grant Palin)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 (Scott Guthrie)
• Ordering fields in ASP.NET MVC 2 templated helpers (Maarten Balliauw)
• Serialize only Selected Elements of a Form and Submit it using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Virtual Method Performance Penalty (Davy Brion)
• Learning in the Open: I – Starting with ActiveRecord (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• A philosophical discussion about Inversion of Control frameworks (Marcus Bratton)
• Gesturcons: an icon language to describe natural user interface gestures (Ron George)

Silverlight / WPF

• How SilverUnit can help you be famous (Roy Osherove)
• Silverlight : MVVM Library and File Upload (Sacha Barber)
• Using the Model View Presenter pattern in WPF (Paul Stovell)
• Migrating from Silverlight Streaming to Windows Azure (Mike Ormond)
• Synchronous Invocation of Delegates with the Silverlight Dispatcher (Daniel Vaughan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Screencast: How to Effectively Utilize Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• This Week in Testing Episode 10 – Do Not Ship It, Part 3 (Dror Helper)
• Episode 97- PowerScripting Podcast – Clint Huffman and His PAL Project (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Fun with Physics for Toddlers with eBeam and Crayon Deluxe (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• This Week In User Group Land 1/11/2010 – 1/17/2010 (Chris G. Williams)
• 2010 – A Personal Change: putting my “Head In The Cloud” (Bart de Smet)
• Lessons Learned in 2009 (JD Meier)

Database

• Calculate the Number of Business Days in a Range (Richard Carr)
• DZone Daily Dose – W3C Drafts Indexed Database API Standard (Mitch Pronschinske)

Miscellaneous

• Predictions for 2010 Part IV: Google v Apple (Stephen Forte)
• Today’s kindergartners, tomorrow’s workforce (Anthony Salcito)
• Stupid Windows 7 Trick: Keyboard Shortcut for Windows XP’s Task Switcher (Blake Handler)
• Windows Mobile 7 – New Details Emerge (Taimur Asad)
• Tortoise SVN tip: Repair move (Simone Chiaretta)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for January 10, 2010 — #774 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #514 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #105 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Post… 1/4/2010 through 1/10/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Weekly Links #87 (Grant Palin)
• Links (1/10/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 127 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/11/2010 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

Dependency Injection

Big congrats to all the new and renewed Microsoft MVPs for October!

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing TFS Basic! (Jason Zander) – Link of the Day
• MSXML4 SP3, now with a CAB (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Great Windows Azure projects on CodePlex (Murray Gordon)
• Generically Constraining F# – Part III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Parsing Capital Letters (Chris Love)
• Create Breakpoints With Hit Count In Visual Studio 2008 (Deepak Kapoor)
• Why does char convert implicitly to ushort but not vice versa? (Eric Lippert)
• C# Singleton Pattern Code Snippet (Peter Bahaa)
• SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)

Web Development

• Special Folders You Won’t See in ASP.NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• New AJAX Control Toolkit Release (Stephen Walther)
• Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype (Robert Scoble)
• Dynamically Generate META tags in ASP.NET Pages with LINQ to SQL (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Creating Smart Stubs with a Mock Framework (Roy Osherove)
• Hey you, developer! Learn a bit of business speak! (Oren Eini)
• Writing meaningful, self-documenting, behavior-oriented tests (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Hire’s remorse (Eric Brechner)
• How to Excel as a Programmer (or anything else) (Dave M. Bush)
• On Crimes Against Duct-Tape, Mental Masturbation, and Pretty Boy Disclaimers (Russell Ball)
• Learning from Feedback as a Public Speaker (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Automatically stop the build for a solution when a project has failed to build (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

Silverlight / WPF

• Trigonometric Animations (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• DelayBinding: a custom WPF Binding and Editable Collection Adapter for WPF (Paul Stovell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Connected Show Podcast: Jon Skeet on C# 4.0 (Brian Johnson)
• Hanselminutes #200 – The History and Future of Web Standards with Molly Holzschlag from molly.com (Scott Hanselman)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals, Chapter 1 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #145: Getting started with Lucene.Net Search Library (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight Screencast – How to create a Resource Dictionary (Murray Gordon)
• Great Screencast on Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight (Frank La Vigne)

Community / Events

• MVP No More (Jon Skeet) – BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-GLE
• One Year Later – What I’ve Learned About Blogging (Lee Dumond)
• Congratulations to Q3 NEW Silverlight MVPs (Tim Heuer)

Database

• Deleting All Records In a Table EXCEPT For the N Most Recently Added Records (Scott Mitchell)
• PowerShell 101 for the DBA: Creating PowerShell Scripts (Josh Jones)

SharePoint

• Reduce development costs by platforming on SharePoint (Murray Gordon)

Miscellaneous

• Coming Soon – Final Release of Windows XP Mode (Brandon LeBlanc)
• MSDN Blogger Releases "IE Zone Compare" for Viewing and Comparing IE Security Zone Settings (Blake Handler)
• Staying Healthy With MSN and Bing (Kristin Meldahl) – An MSN view of your HealthVault data.
• Using Windows 7 for Music Production (David Battino)
• Introducing Visio 2010 (Office Team) – I like the new Shapes Windows collapsed view… looks kinda like the toolbox in Expression Blend.
• Sample of the Week – SOko (Vijaye) – A cool Small Basic sample app.
• Get Quick Access to Windows 7′s Jump Lists From the Keyboard (The How-To Geek)
• Session 0 Isolation (Yochay Kiriaty) – App compat, services, Windows 7, and you.

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 1, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #446 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 01, 2009 — #702 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #553 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 1st October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Wow! I hope that email in my inbox is not some kind of elaborate April Fool’s Day hoax. 

It’s an amazing honor to receive this award. I would like to thank Dani, Lindsay, my new MVP Lead Miha Kralj, and everyone who considers my blog a valuable resource. I will do my best to live up to the MVP status by becoming more involved in the .NET community. To start, I will be doing a talk on S#arp Architecture at Philly.NET Code Camp 2009.1 on April 18th. Be sure to come on out if you can! There is a great lineup of speakers and sessions.

I hope to see many of you at the next MVP Summit!

The MSDN Developer Conference series has been making its way around the country over the last several weeks. The conference takes the best of PDC08 and boils it down to a one day event at a reasonable price – $99. On Friday, Washington, DC area developers got their opportunity to experience the event in Reston, VA. Since there is no Philadelphia event, I decided to drive south to Reston rather than north to New York City.

There was a Developer Dinner the evening before the conference featuring a Silverlight line-of-business presentation by Marc Schweigert and Pete Brown. Marc showed some tricks for data retrieval with the current feature set available in Silverlight, and then Pete took over and showed how future improvements in Silverlight are going to streamline the code necessary to perform data access. Pete and Marc did a great job, and the pizza wasn’t bad either. 

I was really looking forward to the conference, and I must say it did not disappoint. My biggest problem was deciding which sessions to sit in on. There were interesting topics and engaging speakers throughout the day. Ultimately, I decided on a language futures session with Kevin Hazzard, a Windows Azure session with G. Andrew Duthie, a VSTS 2010 session with Steve Andrews and an ASP.NET 4.0 session with Rachel Appel.

After lunch, I sat down and chatted with Kevin Hazzard about how he approached his talk, which was a meld of three PDC sessions on the .NET languages. I agree with his observation that when watching Anders Hejlsberg’s session on The Future of C#, you could feel his passion for the language. Kevin wanted to harness that energy in his talk, and I think he did a very good job of it. I also learned that he is working on a book about scripting languages & .NET due out later this year. Stay tuned for more details…

I was able to finally meet some other bloggers & tweeters like Jeff Fritz, Justin Etheredge and Christopher Steen. It’s nice to associate an actual face with the tiny icons in the interwebs.

I want to give special thanks to Lindsay Rutter, Dani Diaz, G. Andrew Duthie, Pete Brown, Kevin Hazzard, Bob Familiar, Rob Keiser, John McClelland (founder of Partner Huddle on Facebook), and many others for all their efforts. They all had their hands full with this event and also took some time during the day to chat with me a bit. I had a great time on Friday and picked up a few tips and tricks along the way.