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.NET / Visual Studio

• Depends vs Call, Do you know and understand the difference in NAnt? (Derik Whittaker)
• IntelliTrace: A graphical comparison (Habib Heydarian)
• Introducing: The Agatha Project (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft Surface SDK opens doors to all (Vladislav Savov)
• Integrating Traditional .NET MSMQ Application with Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 using MsmqIntegrationBinding (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 1- Model and POCO Classes (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation (Phil Haack)
• Visualize your Twitter Timeline with jQuery and SIMILE (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A better Model Binder addendum (Jimmy Bogard)
• There’s Lazy Loading, And Then There’s Lazy Coding (Davy Brion)
• Always write a spec, part one (Eric Lippert)
• Buy Bad Code Offsets Today! (Jeff Atwood)
• MSpec latest build download now available (Aaron Jensen)
• The Danger of Single Responsibility in Programming Continued (David Cooksey)
• Programmer Tip: A ‘Large’ Project Means Nothing. (Rajiv Popat)
• Take 2: Why we use SOLID in static languages and how we get the same functionality for cheap in dynamic languages (Ryan Svihla)
• NDepend — a belated "kicking the tyres" review (Steve Gilham)
• Design Patterns Are Not Outdated (Steve Rowe)

Silverlight / WPF

• Application Library Caching – November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit and BusyIndicator: David Poll’s ActivityControl is now in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Release and Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser … plus a tutorial (Jeff Wilcox)
• MVVM and Prism Demo for PDC09 Silverlight Session (John Papa)
• WCF RIA Services and DTO with association (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight 4 WebCam – at a glance (Corey Schuman) – Link of the Day
• Sharing Blend Workspace Settings (Andy Beaulieu)
• Wrox Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference Book Review (Joel Cochran)
• Fishbowl for Facebook Using the Windows 7 Taskbar for Extra Spice (Yochay Kiriaty)
• RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 3 & 4 Library Sharing with .NET 4.0 Library or WPF (Karl Shifflett)
• XAML 2009 Features: Generics Support (Lester Lobo)
• The big Silverlight 4 Question (Peter Bromberg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Connected Show Podcast: Who’s Exception is it? (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 8 of 13 and Wes Dyer and Stephen Toub: Rx and Px – Working Together and Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 – Out of Browser Evolves (Charles Torre)
• Video of my Prism and MVVM at PDC (John Papa)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09 Mike Anguilo (Nic Fillingham)
• ThirstyDeveloper Podcast – John Bristowe on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• Stackoverflow Overflow (Bob Nadler)
• PDC 2009 Day 3: Lighting Up Windows Server 2008 R2 Using the ConcRT on UMS and PDC 2009 Day 3: Developing Applications for Scale-Up Servers Running Windows Server 2008 R2 and PDC 2009 Day 3: DirectCompute: Capturing the Teraflop and PDC 2009 Day 3: Power Tools for Debugging and PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie (Sasha Goldshtein)
• XAML UI (WPF + Silverlight) Momentum shown at PDC09! (Rob Relyea)

Database

• Get 25% Off SQL Server E-Learning from Microsoft (Brad M. McGehee)
• Where is the next Access? (Ian Cooper)
• Collation conflicts with temp tables and table variables. (George Mastros)
• Geek City: Intent to Update (Kalen Delaney)
• RoundhousE: Version Your Database (Rob Reynolds)
• To BUILTIN\Admin or not to BUILTIN\Admin (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Expert SQL Server 2008 Encryption by Michael Coles (Pinal Dave)
• Code Name Houston: New SQL Azure Developer Tool (Stephen Forte)
• GUIDs: Not Necessarily Unique (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – It finally has an official name! (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Releasing the Chromium OS open source project (Caesar Sengupta)
• Hello, open source developers. Would you like to help build an operating system for web users? (Ian Fette)
• No Telecommuting Allowed! (Jim Lynch)
• Windows PowerShell and the Windows Management Framework (Lee Holmes)
• Open XML: One Year In (Shawn Villaron)
• My Google Wave Wish List: The Document Collaboration Edition (Will Kelly)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #481 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 — #735 and Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 – 2 — #736 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 19-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (11/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Self-Contained Entity Framework Models and ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Julie Lerman)
• Multi-Threaded K-Means Clustering in .NET 4.0 (Justin Etheredge)
• Fun with Linq Aggregate (Mike Hadlow)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part IV (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Asynchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
• Enabling Recomposition in MEF (Preview (Derik Whittaker)
• Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for the Entity Framework (EF Team)
• Partitioning Data Using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Windsor lazy loading (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Passionate Programmer Book Review (Louis Salin)
• A Gentle Nudge: Too Much Inspiration Is Highly Overrated. (Rajiv Popat)
• The Open/Closed Principle – A real world example (Joel Abrahamsson)
• "Mark my words, if you want to stay relevant and competitive in the coming years — I…" (Sebastian Hermida)
• Revisiting NAnt for Builds (Grant Palin)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF graph that detects circular dependencies (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 130: Trapped, Like Carrots (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com (Bob Familiar)
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio Beta 2, Part II (Charlie Calvert)
• Major Nelson Show #339: Getting Ready for Holiday 2009 (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• SketchFlow and Blend at PDC ‘09 (Christian Schormann)
• NotAtPDC is back! (Steve Andrews) – Link of the Day
• SQLAuthority News – Notes of Excellent Experience at SQL PASS 2009 Summit, Seattle (Pinal Dave)
• Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 Atlanta (Karl Scotland)

Database

• SQL Server Random Number Generation (Richard Carr)
• RoundhousE: Configuration (Rob Reynolds)

Miscellaneous

• I Can Do That With 1 Line of PowerShell: Installed Software (Jeffrey Snover)
• Signing PowerShell Scripts – Automatically (Joel Bennett)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/16 (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #477 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 15, 2009 — #732 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #97 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 11.09 ~ 11.16 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #79 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Finds: November 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (11/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 119 (Rhonda Tipton)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Tip/Trick: Increase your VS screen real estate by disabling HTML Navigation Bar (Scott Guthrie)
• F# under the covers IV — FxCop noise (Steve Gilham)

Web Development

• Dynamically Setting a Style at Run-Time in ASP.NET (Chris Love)
• Forms Authentication – Creating Users (Dave M. Bush)
• Updated: See how I used Firebug to learn jQuery (Dave Ward)
• Using StructureMap with ASP.NET MVC & MVC Contrib and Unit Testing with jQuery using FireUnit & QUnit (Elijah Manor)
• Tip #95: Did you know… That Web Application Projects and Class libraries are now available in Express edition? (Reshmi Mangalore)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Universal NAnt Script for Gallio (Rob Reynolds)
• Reporting Progress though a Circle Diagram (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Relative hyperlinks with Silverlight navigation (David Eitan Poll)
• Fluent API for .NET RIA Services Metadata (Nikhil Kothari) – Link of the Day
• Announcing Next Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight (Bart Czernicki)
• How can I port the WPF labeled pie chart to Silverlight? (Bea Stollnitz)
• XAML Power Toys v5 Published (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 123: There Might Be Shrimp (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Podcast 163 – 09.20.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Episode 84 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell with Hal and Jonathan (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• A Feed You Should Read #4 – This Week on Channel 9 (Greg Duncan)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Service Broker and Sample Script (Pinal Dave)
• Could not connect to computer ‘.’ – Debugging requires you to connect by name on windows 7 (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Best Practices For Developing on SharePoint Shared (Bruce Kyle)
• Setting Back Connection Host Names for SharePoint 2007 Using STSADM (Gary Lapointe)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft lets shareholders vote on executive salaries (Ben)
• A close-up look at the new Office Web Apps (Ed Bott)
• What’s Up With Command Prefixes? (Jeffrey Snover)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #437 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 20, 2009 — #695 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #71 (Grant Palin)
• Double Shot #544 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly Link Post 111 (Rhonda Tipton)

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