Top Links

• SharePointShout launched (Greg Galipeau)
• Introducing programmers.stackexchange.com (Jeff Atwood)
• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 7 – All About Conventions (Rob Eisenberg)
• A Silverlight MVVM Feed Reader from Scratch in 30 Minutes (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Challenge: Your own ThreadLocal (Oren Eini)
• Marking Tasks and Bugs as “Done” During a Check-in (Aaron Bjork)
• NDepend tool – Why every developer working with Visual Studio.NET must try it! (Hajan Selmani)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders – Cross Calling Constructors (James Michael Hare)
• Understanding Check Accessibility (Zain Naboulsi)
• Updates to PowerCommands for Reflector Project (Jason Haley)
• NCover 3.4.16 (Alan Johnson)
• New and Updated Windows and Xbox 360 Developer Education on App Hub! (Team XNA)
• DXCore DecoupledStorage object for storing data and DXCore DecoupledStorage structure and settings file format and How to use DXCore DecoupledStorage to persist plug-in data (Alex Skorkin)
• Now Available: Updated Windows Azure Platform Training Kit Covering All the Latest Features and Enhancements (Windows Azure Team)
• Multitouch Part 5: User Experience with Multitouch (Jennifer Marsman)
• Using Var + As, a Neat Little Trick (John Sonmez)
• EF4 CPT5 Code First Remove Cascading Deletes (Dane Morgridge)

Web Development

• Top 8 Reasons Why jQuery is so Popular (Dr. Doris Chen)
• JavaScript for C# developers: writing a library (part2) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• jQuery Templates – XHTML Validation (Hajan Selmani)
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Implicit and Explicit code nuggets with Razor (Scott Guthrie)
• New book: JavaScript Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• OAuth Google API for Unregistered Applications (Lorna Mitchell)
• Video Web Helper in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC 2 – Add Videos to your Web Pages (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Review of Building Android apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Scott Koon)
• Using 51Degrees.Mobi Foundation for accurate mobile browser detection on ASP.NET MVC 3 (Steve Sanderson)
• Using Razor, CSHTML, ASP.NET Web Pages, WebMatrix as a web service (Wally McClure)
• Galleries Galore with Gallery Server Pro 2.4.4 now at Sueetie.com (Dave Burke)
• YUI 2.9.0 Release Update (Jenny Han Donnelly)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Verifying Generated HTML With HAML, Cucumber, Capybara and RSpec (Derick Bailey)
• What is the #1 Benefit of TDD? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Agile/Scrum Retrospectives–Tips and Tricks (Mark Levison)
• A Failed Agile Program – A Story (Peter Saddington)
• Learn to Work Across Time Zones (Andy Singleton)
• Virtual Method Performance Penalty, Revisited (Davy Brion)
• Information Architecture for me (Daniela Panfili)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Sneak Peek at Bringcast.. my Podcatcher for Windows Phone 7 (James Clarke)
• Expression Blend 5-Day On-Ramp Course: A Directory of Material (Christian Schormann)
• Windows Phone–Debugging your Apps (Arian T. Kulp)
• WPF – adding thumbnail buttons to Windows 7 Task Bar (Brian Lagunas)
• Some hidden features in the Windows Phone 7 emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Apress’ “Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development” [Updated] (Joey deVilla)
• Puff the Magic POCO Binding and INotifyPropertyChanged in WPF (Pete Brown)
• Code Coverage for Silverlight and Windows Phone (Marc Schweigert)
• Windows Phone 7 Connector For Mac Beta Released and Things You Can Pin on Windows Phone 7 Start Screen (Richard Hay)
• Forward Navigation on the Windows Phone and Playing sound effects on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight with Facebook – a practical guide to integration (András Velvárt)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #5 and What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #6 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• “Fuel Tracker” Guidance Application – Drop 3 (Karl Erickson)
• Animation Texture Creator (Mister Goodcat)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #70: Reflections on Incremental Design (James Shore)
• SilverlightShow for 06-12 Dec 2010 (Dave Campbell)
• Pirates Love Daisies (Larry Larsen)
• jQuery Podcast 40 – Wijmo (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Silverlight TV 55: 1000 Silverlight Cream Posts and Counting! (John Papa)
• Windows Phone Radio 12 and Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst Are Live (Brian Seitz)
• endpoint.tv – Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• CouchDB for .NET Developers – A Free Live Webcast – Dec 21 @ 10am PT (O’Reilly Media)
• Free SQL Server Training for the Week of December 20, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)
• Happy One Year Anniversary, #SQLHelp! (Brent Ozar)
• Archiving SQLHelp tweets (Jamie Thomson)
• Unleash Your Coding Genius with Web Camps! (Chris Koenig)
• Join the O’Reilly Blogger Review Program – Nothing But Honest Reviews (O’Reilly Media)
• Announcing: DrinksWithDevs (The Belgian Chapter) (Davy Brion)

Database

• How to move datafiles to a new drive in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Critical Analysis of an Algorithm: Sproc, Embedded SQL, and ORM (Ken Downs)
• All I Want is a Normal(ized) Life (Brad Schulz)
• Impact of the number of idle connections in MySQL (Yves Trudeau)
• Storing TSQL Queries in a table without losing the formatting (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL Service Pack installation through Automatic Updates (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Top Stories of 2010 (MS PressPass)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Java in a Nutshell, 5th Ed. – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDJVN (O’Reilly Media)
• A Year of Excitement (Somasegar)
• Buy Windows Phone, Get a Free Xbox Game (Brian Seitz)
• Creating a Video For Your Team (Rob Conery)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2010 — #1011 (Dave Campbell)
• Distributed Weekly 81 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 16 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• December 16th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• The Morning Brew #753 (Chris Alcock)
• Best of Sources of Insight 2010 (J.D. Meier)

The Geek Shelf

Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences from 22 MVPs by Reza Alirezaei

Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide Drop 2 is now out! (Don Burnett)
• Keep a low profile [LowProfileImageLoader helps the Windows Phone 7 UI thread stay responsive by loading images in the background] (David Anson)
• First Experiences with Netduino and the .NET Micro Framework (Pete Brown)
• EF Feature CTP4: DbContext & Databases (Rowan Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Grouped Joins (Richard Carr)
• Turn on WCF Tracing for WCF Troubleshooting (Chris Love)
• Visual Studio Extension: Save UML diagram as image (Gunnar Peipman)
• Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators – WP7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Getting Started with NDepend – A Visual Studio AddIn (Part–1) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Can we get a little service here? (Simon Jackson)
• New WCF RIA Services QuickStart (Sam Landstrom)
• File Transfer with WCF: Part III (Stefano Ricciardi)
• The Object Browser: Creating a Keyboard Shortcut for Add to References (Zain Naboulsi)
• What Did My Manifest Do: A Referral Was Returned from the Server (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Getting Drive Info Part 3, CLR (Norman Kelm)
• Visual C++ 2010: What’s new for MFC library? (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• How to Easily Inject jQuery into any Web Page (Rey Bango)
• Tags Everywhere! Sueetie Wiki Page Tagging Now Online (Dave Burke)
• Exploring IE9′s Enhanced DOM Capabilities (Travis Leithead)
• Azure@home Part 6: Synchronous Table Storage Pagination (Jim O’Neil)
• Talking about REST (Scott Seely)
• Wave open source next steps: "Wave in a Box" (Alex North)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Let’s Play TDD #3: Cleaning Up My Mess and Agile Friday: "Coding Standards" Now Online (James Shore)
• Black Jack Using Scrum – Winner Winner Chicken Dinner (Shai Raiten)
• The Law of Conservation of Tradeoffs (Oren Eini)
• Team and pair games for building collaboration (Michael Sahota)
• Ask Satyam: Writing Clean, Debuggable Code (Daniel Barreiro)
• Re-estimate Completed User Stories for a More Accurate Velocity? (Dan Puckett)
• Creative Analogs (Dave Laribee)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 4 Service Release 4.0.50826.0 and Extended WPF Toolkit – Release 1.1.0 (Brian Lagunas)
• [WP7] Do you need to cache data ? (Nicolas Humann)
• Best Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games in Development (Aside from Mine, of course) (Frank La Vigne)
• What’s new for Performance in Silverlight 4 GDR1 (Silverlight Performance Team)
• Windows Phone 7 Released to Manufacturing (OEM) (Zhiming Xue)
• Catching the Back Button action on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Encoding MP4 Problem in Expression Encoder 4 Pro (Michael Sync)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Inside Windows Phone #01: Introducing the show (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Silverlight TV 43: Applying Animations and States to Your Application (John Papa)
• Windows Phone 7 Videos (Sunshine)
• Connected Show Podcast – Steve Marx on Azure (Brian Johnson)
• Tailspin Spyworks videos 13 and 14 are now live and ASP.NET – WebMatrix chapters 4-6 videos are now live (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• Richmond Code Camp Call for Speakers Closes Soon! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Leaders in Silverlight (John Papa)
• Interview with Ken Schwaber, Part 2 (Dan Mezick)
• MSDN Flash Poll #7 – Visual Studio Add-Ins (Mike Ormond)
• Closer to Launch: Healthcare IT Q&A (Bob Nadler)
• Interview with the Intrepid Buck Woody (Brad M. McGehee)
• Don’t miss Devscovery 2010 (Laila Lotfi)
• Charlotte Presentation: Creating M-V-VM Applications that are Tool-able (Karl Shifflett)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Soft Delete – IsDelete Column – Your Opinion (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Types – Numeric vs Int (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: SQL Cookbook – Only $9.99. Use code DDSCB (O’Reilly Media)
• Building a Data Warehouse Part V: Application Development Options (Stephen Forte)
• Dealing with Microsoft.Ace and OPENROWSET Errors (Remou)
• Reporting Services – Team Development (William Vaughn)

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

• Skype Releases Skype 5.0 Beta 2 – Now Suports 10 People! (Blake Handler)
• Launchpad–Good Idea (Daniel Fisher)
• Skywriter: The Project Formerly Known as Bespin and Daily Dose – Android Doesn’t Count Upgrades as Activations Either (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Gov 2.0 = Open Source? Not really, IMO… (Dan Kasun)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 02, 2010 — #939 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #678 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Parallel Programming with C#: Master Parallel Extensions with .NET 4 by Gaston Hillar

Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 (MS Downloads)
• Explaining Refactoring to Management (Mark Levison)
• Frame rate counters in Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• Windows Phone 7 – The First Fart Application (Shai Raiten)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Game of Clue (C#2010) (Christ Kennedy)
• The Future of .NET Open Source Software Delivery (Rob Reynolds)
• The DXCore Visualize Toolbar (Rory Becker)
• Profiling an application with Visual Studio – Memory allocation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Graph Colouring, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• Introduction to Project Hilo (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools Walkthrough (Pete Brown)
• F# asyncronous programming (Wiston Gubantes)
• Reset Toolbars (Zain Naboulsi)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release v5.1.14810.002 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• YUI 3.2.0 Preview Release 1: Touch Event Support, Gestures, Transitions, CSS Grids, ScrollView, Uploader, and More (Eric Miraglia)
• Fluent Validation – Release: v1.3 (CodePlex)
• YouTube’s shiny new HTML5 embed code is now live (Jay Hathaway)
• ASP.NET MVC Routing Basics (Dane Morgridge)
• LINQ to JS (Arun Mahendrakar)
• IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality (Mike Swanson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do architects define the software development process? (Simon Brown)
• How To Build Custom Rake Tasks; The Right Way (Derick Bailey)
• A Pattern for Using Scrum and Kanban (Karl Scotland)
• Mono & OpenStack on GitHub (Kyle Neath)
• The State of Enterprise Architecture (Mike Walker)
• NCover 3.4.12: Memory Improvements and Bugfixes (Alan Johnson)
• Article:Skills for Scrum Agile Teams (Prasad Prabhakaran)
• RavenDB Authorization Bundle Design (Oren Eini)
• Code Contracts and Automated Testing are pretty much the same thing (Patrick Smacchia)
• Is That How You Talk To People? (Davy Brion)
• YouTrack for OSS Projects (Hadi Hariri)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 User Interface Guide Includes Templates, Behaviors (Bruce Kyle)
• Work-around for VS 2010 & Silverlight Add Reference Hint Path Bug (Andy Schwam)
• Connected Experiences: Out of Brower- Article Viewer in Silverlight Part 1: and Connected Experiences: Silverlight to Win Phone 7 and Connected Experiences: Silverlight to Windows Phone 7 Part Two (Don Burnett)
• Silverlight UI Automation Testing using Prism 4.0 (Jeremy Likness)
• Beginners Guide to Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control (Part–I) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Expression Encoder Screen Capture codec now available (Jamie Lang)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 119 – PowerScripting Podcast – Adam Driscoll on the PowerGUI Visual Studio Extensions (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Visual Studio 2010 – Database Projects (MSpl)
• Ping 67: Visual Studio Power Tools, Facebook on Its Way to a Billion, Kinect, and More (Laura Foy)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 22 – Troy Hunt on Developers and Security (Richard Banks)
• UML with VS 2010 Part 1: Brainstorming a Project and Part 2: Organizing Features Into Use Cases and Part 3: Modeling the Business Domain (Clint Edmonson)
• This Week In Silverlight 7.23.2010 – Early Windows Phone 7 Reviews (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – July 26th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Agile: Developer attendance at showcases (Mark Needham)
• Blend-O-Rama Redux (Joel Cochran)
• Employee Developer Program (Brandon Watson)
• MSDN Flash Poll #4 – Job Profiling (Mike Ormond)
• Turkish MVPs Help Translate Visual Studio 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Computed Column – Perisisted and Storage (Pinal Dave)
• Defensive Db Programming Chapter 03 (Jason Brimhall)

SharePoint

• Feature upgrade (part 3) – introducing SPFeatureUpgrade kit (Chris O’Brien)
• Social Squared July Release (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Steering Cutting Edge Research, the Microsoft Way (Jose Hector)
• Microsoft Releases "Word 2010: Interactive Menu to Ribbon Guide" (Blake Handler)
• Rubik’s Cube iPhone app (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Street-Fighting Math: down and dirty guide to approximation and problem-solving (Cory Doctorow)
• PureText lets you copy formatted text and paste it back as plain text and What the Zuk: an ode to Total Commander (Erez Zukerman)
• How is opportunity like lightning? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Loose lips sink ships (Kip Kniskern)
• 5 Key Events in the history of Cloud Computing (Kaushik Raghupathi)
• Windows 7 SP1 beta download goes public (Lee Matthews)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Links (7/26/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #651 (Chris Alcock)
• Listiki Releases Crowdsourcing Widget, 3 Weeks Left to Switch to OAuth and Lemmings on Windows Phone 7 (Sara Allison)

The Geek Shelf

User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn

Top Links

• Announcing: Silverlight Reporting on CodePlex (Pete Brown)
• A Train of Thought: Innovation and .Net Edition (Jeremy D. Miller)
• What Executives at Microsoft Taught Me (J.D. Meier)
• Are daily stand-ups necessary? (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Windows Services in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Fixing RIA Services’s “An EntityKey value cannot be null” with a CodeProcessor (Ingo Rammer)
• MDA: Callback On Garbage Collected Delegate (Sasha Goldshtein)
• SOLID By [C#] Example Or “Stop talking about SOLID and show me the code…” (Greg Duncan)
• Show the Full File Path in the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tech Ed New Orleans– The Goods (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Model First in ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 (Wriju Ghosh)
• NHProfiler Integration (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Cache Layer (Gil Fink)
• .NET Framework Reference Enhancements Preview (Kimberly Wolk)
• Don’t repeat yourself; consts are already static (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)
• Same Markup: Explaining "@_jscript_version" and Styling New HTML5 Elements (Tony Ross)
• Creating a custom View Engine for ASP.NET MVC leveraging Text Template (T4) engine for rendering the view (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Browser Speed: It’s Not All About JavaScript and 20 Tips and Tricks For Writing Fast Web Applications (Pete LePage)
• Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring (John Dundon)
• jQuery Globalization Plugin from Microsoft (Scott Guthrie)
• Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework (Steve Sanderson)
• Using an iPhone with the Visual Studio development server (Dave Ward)
• Bing Health Map Shows Promise of Open Government Data (Adam DuVander)
• When can I use … is a great resource for browser compatibility advice (Erez Zukerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Energized Work" Now Online (James Shore)
• NCover 3.4.8: NUnit and IIS Improvements (Alan Johnson)
• Beyond Unit Testing => Specification of Intent (Bobby Johnson)
• You Need a Static Organizational Model (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Eric Evans: Domain driven design redefined and Udi Dahan: the biggest mistakes teams make when applying DDD and Evolution of DDD: CQRS and Event Sourcing (Gojko Adzic)
• Mockups 1.8: Editable Groups and much more (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Lokad.CQRS – Getting Started (Rinat Abdullin)
• Eric Evans: Folding Design into an Agile Process (Vladimir Gitlevich)
• Performance and Security (Pieter de Bruin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.12 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #30 – Sending Email from Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Microsoft releases Alpha version of IIS streaming for Silverlight and Apple devices (Steven Bink)
• Hosting cross-domain Silverlight applications (XAP) (Tim Heuer)
• IIS Media Services 4.0 – 32-bit and IIS Media Services 4.0 – 64-bit (MS Downloads)
• Tips and Tricks for INotifyPropertyChanged (Jeremy Likness)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using TFS for Source Control with InfoPath 2010 (Laura Har)
• Creating Rich Interactions Using Blend 4: Transition Effects, Fluid Layout, and Layout States (Silverlight TV #32) (John Papa)
• WebDev Radio Episode 78: Bob Silverberg on ColdFusion, ORM, testing and more (Michael Kimsal)
• Boagworld 214. When to hire a web designer (Paul Boag)
• New Videos in the Tailspin Spyworks series live. (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• Telerik Wins Best of TechEd! (Stephen Forte)
• Employee of the year…#Typemock (Tal Druyan)
• Wrox Wins 2010 Code Project Members Choice Award (Jim Minatel)

Database

• Log Shipping for cheap DR (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2 (Pinal Dave)
• What are events SQL profiler eventclass numbers 65527,65528,65533,65534 (Simon Sabin)
• Stored Procedure vs Parameterized Query (Joel Cochran)
• Determine Permission for all Users at Object Level (Suprotim Agarwal)
• PowerShell I Heart You (Jorge Segarra)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Three Free Outlook 2010 PST File Management Tools (Blake Handler)
• Aviary Launches Online Music Creation Tool (Barb Dybwad)
• Seeing Microsoft in the big picture (Cal Evans)
• Small Basic V0.9 is here! (Vijaye Raji)
• Multiple Default Printers in Windows 7 (Chris Koenig)
• Windows Live Sync beta blends the best of Sync and Mesh (David Treadwell)
• PowerGUI 2.1 is available (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Adobe releases AIR 2, standalone SDK download coming soon (Jay Hathaway)
• Apple and Microsoft will face off for June 24 retail showdown (Joe Wilcox)
• Box.net finally gets a desktop sync client (Lee Mathews)
• Daily Dose – iPad Owners Exposed to Spam and Hacks (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Hackers: 25th Anniversary Ed. Only $9.99 Use code DDHAC (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Small Basic is an ideal programming language and environment for small people and beginners (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #619 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 10, 2010 — #879 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Learning WCF by Michele Leroux Bustamante

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Top Links

• Old DRM’d Wrox ebooks are "upgradable" to DRM-free (Jim Minatel)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit – February Release is LIVE! (Zain Naboulsi)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Don Syme – Introduction to F#, 2 of 3 (Charles Torre)
• More “Windows Phone 7″ Confirmation (Stephen Chapman)
• Sqlite on the iPhone – Retrieving the last inserted row id with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The F# PowerPack Released on CodePlex (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Writing Efficient String Functions in C# (Armando)
• Registration Error while Hosting WCF Services in a Windows Server (Derik Whittaker)
• Writing object to object mapper: my mapper vs AutoMapper (Gunnar Peipman)
• CLR via C#, 3rd Edition Available Today (Doug Holland)
• WCF RIA Services Preview and the Visual Studio 2010 RC (Harish Ranganathan)
• Intellisense Crashing fix for VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Chaining simple assignments is not so simple (Eric Lippert)
• Open Government Data and .NET (Dan Kasun)
• Announcing touch.codeplex.com (Marc Schweigert)
• Craig Sutherland: Considering XAML for Config for CruiseControl.NET (Rob Relyea)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem – Design – Solution (Me)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Culture of Heroism (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Know Your Rules to Be Successful (J.D. Meier)
• FsUnit – Test Fsharp with Fsharp (David Cooksey)
• Challenge: Efficient querying (Oren Eini)
• Removing Generated code from NCover Reports (Derik Whittaker)
• Case Studies on Benefits of TDD (Jim Holmes)
• Rationalizing Assembly Reference (Patrick Smacchia)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Fixed the “jump” bug, Improved Performance, Fancy Duplicate, 2 New Control Types (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Discipline * Skill = Craftsmanship (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF

• FFT and oscilloscopes in Silverlight (Coding4Fun)
• This one time, at band camp… [A banded StackPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
• Getting Started with WPF : Hello World in Multiple Flavors (Pete Brown)
• Design and XAML on Different Document Tabs — vstipTool0009 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Addressing the Pre-Loader Issue (John Stockton)
• VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly (Andy Beaulieu)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure Miniseries #1: Migration (Brian Hitney)
• Connected Show Podcast: Addicted to Spring.NET (Brian Johnson)
• geekSpeak Recording – Persistence Ignorance and Entity Framework 4 with Dane Morgridge (Emily Gibson)
• Countdown to MIX10: Let’s do it Live (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 85: Open Source at Microsoft with Hank Janssen (Dave Bost)
• New Expression Blend screencast series (András Velvárt)
• This Week in Silverlight – February 11th 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• Growing the Pool of SQL Server Speakers (Andy Warren)
• Join MSDEV Fan Page on Facebook (Bruce Kyle)
• 2010 Summit: More MVPs to take on presenting roles than ever before (Joseph Mirabella)
• 10 Things you need to know from X10 (Larry Hyrb)
• Creators Club Communiqué 41 (Kathleen Sanders)

Database

• The SQL Server Health Check (Buck Woody)
• A Simple Refactoring (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Do you do backups? Do you test them? (Simon Sabin)
• Running sp_helpdb against a snapshot shows wrong files on SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
• How to connect SharePoint Business Data Catalog to PostgreSQL (Dmitry Kaloshin)

Miscellaneous

CodeProject Releases Wiimote Hardware Driver for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)

• PowerGUI Pro vs PowerGUI and A PowerShell present for Valentine’s Day (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Adobe Flash Now Supports InPrivate Browsing (Andy Zeigler)
• Teach, Learn and Play with Small Basic from Microsoft DevLabs (Joe Stagner)
• Fix for Message Size Issue in Outlook 2010 Beta (Office Team)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments – Only $9.99! Use code DDGHC (O’Reilly Media)
• My Extension Wish: Workflow in Wave (Pamela Fox)
• The 12th of Diduary: Did you know you can drag Windows Explorer to the command line? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Millions of Buzz users, and improvements based on your feedback (Todd Jackson)
• Workaround to Catch Exceptions from Import-CliXml (Francisco Gomez Gamino)
• Getting Started in Objective-C with XCode (Brett Schuchert)
• I don’t like MSDN (Karl Seguin)
• Mighty Box, an App Launcher for Windows (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #538 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 11, 2010 — #796 (Dave Campbell)
• Comprehensive list of Visual Studio 2010 RC links (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Interesting Finds: February 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem – Design – Solution (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating an MD5 String Extension method in C# (Tom Hearn)
• My latest whitepaper on WCF 4.0 (Aaron Skonnard)
• LINQ to SQL cheat sheet (Damien Guard)
• Create your own Code Analysis rule set using Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
• Invoking Python Functions from C# (Without Dynamic) (Harry Pierson)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Tabbed Thumbnails and Previews in Native Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Nhibernate Unit of Work & multiple reuqests Set Status / Close (Oren Eini)

Web Development

• Introducing Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC (Kazi Manzur Rashid)
• A simple map function for plain JavaScript arrays (Scott Koon)
• Six Microsoft web development tools you might not be aware of (Keith)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Container Configuration (Ariel Raunstien)
• Big Visible Charts,Continuous Integration and Distributed Teams (Ade Miller)
• Facilitation Antipattern: Chicken Little and Facilitation Antipattern: Helpless (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Unused Constructor Dependencies (Eric Anderson)
• Command Query Separation? (Greg Young)
• Refactoring Day 12 : Break Dependencies (Sean Chambers)
• NCover v3.2 Released! (Stephen Ward)
• Leading Agile… the Book? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XIII: Mix in this, mix in that (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• A Response to 5 Right Reasons to Apply Kanban (Derick Bailey) – Link of the Day
• What I’m up to: P&P guidance for federated identity (Keith Brown)
• Challenging projects and the five stages of grief (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• New networking stack in Silverlight 3 (Cheryl Simmons)
• An out-of-browser install pattern for Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3 and RIA Services – Part I (Malcolm Sheridan)
• From DB to DataGrid – So Many Choices! (Jesse Liberty)
• Cinch (My MVVM framework) Part 6 is out (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Video

• .NET Rocks! – Steve Evans on IT for Developers (Carl Franklin)
• 10-4 Episode 30: Database Schema Extensibility (Brian Keller)
• Code Cast 29 – Open Source at Microsoft (David Starr)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #65 (Jeff Atwood)
• Water Cooler Interview with Shane Young (Kirk Evans)
• SharePoint Pod Show – SharePoint and Code Access Security-Episode 28 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Netcast 19 – Drunk Monkeys (Todd O. Klindt)

Community / Events

• A Silverlight 3 FireStarter event narrative (Adam Kinney)
• Upcoming Silverlight events (Tim Heuer)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP Open to All (Bruce Kyle)
• SQL SERVER – Reason for SQL Server Agent Starting Before SQL Server Engine Service (Pinal Dave)
• Mobile DB Performance Testing (Chris Brandsma)
• A Case of Shifting Identity (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Spreading some SharePoint Love to EditorPart (Bil Simser)
• Visual Studio T4 template for SharePoint Solution (DDF) (Waldek Mastykarz)

Miscellaneous

• Paint.NET v3.5 Enhanced for Windows 7 with DirectWrite (Blake Handler)
• New Pluralsight On-Demand! Feature: Downloadable Slides (Aaron Skonnard)
• Why Open Source Rules And Commercial Drools (Alan Skorkin)
• I scream, you scream, we all scream for iGoogle social! (Marissa Mayer)
• Windows 7 RTM Training Kit Updates (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The New Dashboard, PAX 2009, and Xbox LIVE Indie Games! (Kathleen Sanders)
• IE6 no more (Simone Chiaretta)
• My Opinion of Windows 7 Thus Far (Stephen Chapman)
• ScaleOut Unveils Management Pack for Parallel Backup (Justin Sargent)
• Enhancements to Remote Presentations in Zoho Show (Raju Vegesna)
• Get-SystemUptime and Working with the WMI Date Format (James Brundage)
• Wondering what skills are needed in the market? (Kim Spilker)
• Windows 7 Ferrari prototype theme available for download (Lee Mathews)
• Greg Shields on Microsoft’s new certifications (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #411 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for 12th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Non-Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# BootCamp – Questions and Answers – part I – Introduction (Steffen Forkmann)
• Using Reflection in C# to Figure Out if an Integer List Has Values (Peter Kellner)
• NHibernate Mapping – <list/> (Oren Eini)
• DDD and the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Evgeny Salamatov)
• LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0 (Damien Guard)
• Create a Generic List at Run Time and Quickly Find All "TODO’s" in Your .NET Project (Srinath M.)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – TeamCity Integration Coming (Rob Reynolds)
• Review: CryptoLicensing for .NET (Roy Osherove)
• NCover v3.1.2 released! (Stephen Ward)
• Analyze and explore the evolution of .NET Framework by yourself (Patrick Smacchia)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: 1.8.0.2 Beta (CodePlex)

Web Development

• JSMag June 2009 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Creating Rails Like Flash Feature in .NET The Flash Control (Mohammad Azam)
• Control TextBox’s AutoComplete Action (Chris Love)
• Sueetie Content Parts and List View Controls, Oh My (Dave Burke)
• Free ASP.NET 4.0 beta hosting available (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML Editor FieldTemplate for Dynamic Data Using AJAX Control Toolkit Editor (Stephen Naughton)
• How to Use Microsoft.Web.Administration : Using Scripts to Automate Management : Managing and Maintaining IIS 7.0 : The Official Microsoft IIS Site (Stuart Manning)
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Scott Guthrie)
• GridView Selection and Postback using jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• clientscript as the view controller (Jay Kimble)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BOOK: Agile Testing and Sensing and Sense-making in the Agility Cycle (Brad Appleton)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Utils Class (Chris Missal)
• Bricks and Mortar: Building a Castle (James Kovacs)
• Simple Nested Closure (Matt Hinze)
• What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
• Yes, I’m going to finish "Build Your Own CAB" (sorta) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Refactoring guard clauses, or “How to ask politely” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Telerik Releases RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta (Ina Tontcheva)
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• XAML: Using Generic Types in XAML 2009 and Empty string in XAML (Rob Relyea)
• Ocean for Silverlight – Enables Sharing Business Objects With WPF (Karl Shifflett) – Link of the Day
• Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework (Jeff Wilcox)
• Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 1: Animation to Catch the Eye (Jennifer Marsman)
• Sync Multi Select Listbox with ViewModel (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht : CLR 4 – Inside the Thread Pool (Charles Torre)
• Windows 7 RC2 Build 7224 Videos (Stephen Chapman)
• Netcast #11 – The Two Silos (Todd O. Klindt)
• Ping 14: Bing, VPlay, Zune HD, Celebrifeed, Mediaroom (Laura Foy)
• Show: Episode 2 It’s All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Microsoft’s Project Natal demo video has us jumping with anticipation (Nilay Patel)

Community / Events

• 2009 E3 Xbox.com Press Kit (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Shane Young! (Amanda Murphy)
• SharePoint Conference Washington DC (Bob Mixon)
• Foundation Series, Session 4, Wed June 10th (Brian Donahue)
• 2009 E3 Xbox Media Briefing (Larry Hryb)
• SQLAuthority News – Summary of TechEd India 2009 – A Grand Event (Pinal Dave)
• God Bless Xbox: Microsoft’s E3 News Roundup [Roundup] (Matt Buchanan)
• Breaking News: Atlassian Acquires GreenHopper (Max Pool)
• LosTechies welcomes Sharon Cichelli "Girl Writes Code" (Joe Ocampo)
• Free Virtual Expo on SharePoint – June 10 (Joel Oleson)

SharePoint

• Reading Digital Signatures from InfoPath Forms in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Workflow (Tom Hearn)
• SharePoint: Some users doesn’t receive alerts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Tip: Don’t use "&" in instance.xml when creating a WSP (S.S. Ahmed)

Database

• How to execute multiple SQL scripts (Martin Bell)
• Log Shipping for DR and failing back in case of disaster. The cheap way! (Ted Krueger)
• Microsoft Reporting Services (Sub Reports, Charts, Parameters, Expression Editor, etc) (Jorge Paulino)

Miscellaneous

• New details emerge about Microsoft Exchange & Outlook Mobile (PhoneArena Team)
• Google to sell eBooks by year’s end and Rumor: Google bringing the BBC iPlayer to the US? and Microsoft’s Bing 411 offers phone numbers, directions over the phone (Brad Linder)
• Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate? and Bing Search Bars are now everywhere! (damaster)
• Microsoft "Project Natal" invents a better Wii (Joel Johnson)
• Web v.Next (John Stockton)
• Bing Goes Live—Here’s What You Can Do With It (Kevin Purdy)
• Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads (Kevin Purdy)
• Oh dear, there IS a Club Bing (Kip Kniskern)
• The Rotting Stink of Corporate IT (Sara J. Chipps)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 1 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Project Natal is going to change the games forever! (Taimur Asad)
• Gmail Notifier Plus Adds Email Alerts to the Windows 7 Taskbar (The How-To Geek)
• Acer launching world’s first Android-based netbook in Q3 (Thomas Ricker)
• Make Bing your default search provider in IE (Paul Thurrott)
• The Ultimate USB *Key* Drive » Lacie iamaKey 8GB (Matt Walker)
• Adobe releases trio of Labs goodies for designers, developers (Lee Mathews)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 8: Deliver with Confidence and Style (Justin Etheredge)
• Google Docs gets x’ier with .docx and .xlsx support (Josh Lowensohn)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #359 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2009 — #605 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 325 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 1st (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 1st June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating a Custom Observable Collection in WPF (Pedro Sampaio)
• ViewModel + .NET RIA Services Part 2: Testability, Server Mocking and Dependencies (Nikhil Kothari)
• .NET RIA Services Simplifies Web Development Efforts (Bruce Kyle)
• Transforming Bounds (WPF3D Team)
• New York Times Silverlight Kit Now Open Source (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Have you seen Microsoft Interactive Canvas (MIC) in action? See why it won the Design Week award (Silverlight Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 expected as soon as next week (Mary Jo Foley)
• FluentNHibernate Contrib (FNH.Contrib) Is Alive! (Derick Bailey) – Link of the Day
• string.Repeat() – smaller and faster version (Gunnar Peipman)
• EF4: What is and is not supported (Julie Lerman)
• Talking Points: Building Applications Using the .NET Service Bus (Part I) (Joel Reyes)

Web Development

• Essential tools for web developers (Jimmy Bogard)
• Twitter from ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• What ASP.NET developers should know about jQuery (Dave Ward)
• Selenium: Waiting for jQuery AJAX calls (Mark Needham)
• Retaining Pager Size in Dynamic Data GridViewPager (Steve Naughton)
• New release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Stripper Pattern (Oren Eini)
• Customizing container behavior part 2 of N – Defaults (Glenn Block)
• Commercial Suicide – Integration at the Database Level (Jak Charlton)
• NCover v3.1 unveiled! Bad code flees! (Joe Feser)
• Anxiety or Boredom Driven Process Improvement? (Karl Scotland)
• The fallacy of the always-valid entity (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Using code analysis again… (Marc Schneider)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 6 (Rajiv Popat)
• 10 ways to make automation difficult or ineffective (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Quicker Frameworks (Vladimir Gitlevich)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• AgileToolkit – Moving into the role of Scrum Master (Jill Tubaugh)
• Luca Bolognese: C# and VB.NET Co-Evolution – The Twain Shall Meet (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #53 (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code 47: Joe Brinkman on Webforms vs ASP.NET MVC (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• TechEd 2009 SharePoint Developer Panel (Eric Shupps)
• Microsoft MVP Award Program Recognizes Top-Tier Technology Influencers! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• TeamCity.CodeBetter Project List (Kyle Baley)
• Upcoming Testing Conferences (2nd half of 2009) (Josh Poley)
• 100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter (Ken Denmead)
• SQLAuthority News – TechEd India 2009 – Day 1 – Authors Tech Session – SQL Server Cheat Sheet – Meeting Great People (Pinal Dave)
• TechEd 2009 – Day 2 (Todd O. Klindt)
• TechEd Day 2 (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• Requirements for SharePoint 2010 (Stephen Cummins)

Database

• Filtered Indexes v Indexed Views (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• Start Today Testing Compatibility with Windows Logo Toolkit RTM (Bruce Kyle)
• Why Do Computers Suck at Math? (Jeff Atwood)
• Strengths and weaknesses revisited (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• GBridge gets better with Google Apps support in v2.0 (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #347 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #118 (Darren Stokes)
• LINKBLOG for May 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2009 — #592 (Dave Campbell)
• Technology Related Links for May 13th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 13th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Editing in jqGrid with asp.net mvc (Eric Schoneveld)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip: Turn on compile-time View Checking (Adrian Grigore)
• Community Server and JavaScript (Agnes Molnar)
• GitHub’s New API Lets You Mashup Git Repositories (Andres Ferrate)
• JQuery Ajax with Class Arrays (Chris Brandsma)
• Creating jQuery plug-ins from MicrosoftAjax components (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Sorting ASP.NET DropDownList Using LINQ (Malcolm Sheridan)
• My article on client-side data binding in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 is now live (Fritz Onion)
• Adding Default Assemblies, Namespaces and Control Prefixes in Web.Config (Rick Strahl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Castle Windsor 2.0 RTM Released (Oren Eini)
• I need some peer review on this (Chad Myers)
• Debugging NHibernate Exceptions (Derik Whittaker)
• The Stack Is An Implementation Detail, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Getting a Recursive FTP File List in .Net (Michael C. Neel)
• Unit testing WCF data contract serialization. (Peter Ritchie)
• Thoughts on M/Oslo DSL/metadata requirements (Rockford Lhotka)
• Programming Twittering with Visual Basic (Rod Paddock)

Silverlight / WPF

• 4 Great Tips for Custom WPF Controls Developers (Amit Raz)
• “View Model” – the movie, cast your vote. (Glenn Block)
• Measuring the x,y distance between two elements in Silverlight (Josh Twist)
• Moonlight 2.0 Preview Released (Silverlight Team)
• Did you know? – Silverlight Class Library can’t be named with “.Resources” (Michael Sync)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video segment 4 (N-tier) online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Notifying the UI when Entity References Change in Lookup Comboboxes (Beth Massi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making the Business Case for Agility (Lee Cunningham)
• The buddy classes are drowning DRY (Oren Eini)
• Adding humour to Tester/Developer collaboration (Mark Needham)
• A Touch Of Polish for yUML (Tobin Harris)
• Implementing TeamCity for .NET Projects: Evolving Your Build Automation Solution and Implementing TeamCity for .NET projects, Part 1: Just Build It! (A Simple Build Configuration) (Richard Cirerol)
• On Measuring Agility, Craftsmanship, and Everything Else (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• PTOM – Brownfield development – Making your dependencies explicit (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• NDepend – Code Metrics at Your Fingertips (Michael Ceranski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kate Gregory Still Programs in C++! (Carl Franklin)
• Executive Strategies for Agile Transition – Charlie Kennedy and Tom Paider (Bob Payne)
• Philip Wadler and Erik Meijer: On Programming Language Theory and Practice (Charles Torre)
• MS Virtual Labs: Microsoft Open XML and LINQ to XML (Joel Reyes)
• The Thirsty Developer 61: I got nothing! (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

Community / Events

• Foundation Series, Session 3, Wed May 13th (Brian Donahue)
• NINE Questions with Steve Andrews (Chris Williams)
• I’m now a Silverlight MVP! (Dave Campbell) – Congrats, Dave!
• Events This Week – May 4th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 11 TechEd Sessions next week-hope to see you there (Stephen Forte)
• SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – TechEd India 2009 – Hyderabad (Pinal Dave)
• .NET Fireside Chats – Bill Evjen on Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (Me)

SharePoint

• MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 2) and MOSS2007 – Using the Search API (Part 3) (Liam Cleary)
• Introducing ComponentOne SharePoint Web Parts (Joe Stagner)

PowerShell

• PowerShellToys – WOW! (Jeffrey Snover)
• Top 10 Windows 7 Features #9: Native PowerShell 2.0 (Scott M. Fulton, III)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 RC users get new IE 8 ‘tab responsiveness’ feature (Mary Jo Foley)
• Top 10 Open Source Projects for .NET Developers (Me)
• I Just Logged In As You (Jeff Atwood)
• 2009 – A Year of Learning (so far) (Karl Seguin)
• IE8 in Windows 7 RC: Reliability and Telemetry (IE Team)
• NewCloudApp() Azure Developer Contest: Win $5000 (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows PHP Virtual Labs and Designing Generation 4.0 Data Centers (Hanu Kommalapati)
• How to story your TFS password – #027 (Sara Ford)
• 8 Disastrous Product Names (Ransom Riggs)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #340 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2009 — #585 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 92 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for May 4th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Exporting Visual Studio Solutions with SolutionFactory (Ben Scheirman)
• NHibernate Mapping – <set/> (Oren Eini)
• Introducing Fluent Ado.Net (Chris Brandsma)
• LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #2 (Damien Guard)
• F#: A day of writing a little twitter application (Mark Needham)
• NHibernate’s Future Queries And Their Fallback Behavior (Davy Brion)
• How to use wcftestclient as svc file debugger for VS2008 SP1 (Xinyang Qiu)
• CUMUY PRESENTS: XNA GS (Pedro D. Güida)
• T4 Editor by Tangible Engineering (Oleg Sych)

Web Development

• Striped GridView the Easy Way w/ jQuery (Dave M. Bush)
• Handling MouseEnter and MouseLeave Events in jQuery (Dan Wahlin)
• How to choose between ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Language Envy – Juicy, a simple webserver (Sergio Pereira)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #50 – Create View Models (Stephen Walther)
• A Closable jQuery Plug-in (Rick Strahl)
• Creating A Tabbed Menu Control For ASP.NET MVC (Justin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• X Tests are not X Tests (Michael Feathers)
• Agile practices are not just about management. (Mike Hadlow) – Link of the Day
• "I don’t have time to test!" (jlockwood)
• DDDD: Event Storage (Jonathan Oliver)
• Death to the Space Infidels! (Jeff Atwood)
• NCover v3 rocks! (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Layout Manager for Prism v2 (Ron Gramann)
• WPF : More Mediator Goodness (Sacha Barber)
• Building Polished UIs with Expression Blend—Part 1 (Markus Egger)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Value of Web Forms and Design Constraints (Pixel8 Podcast)
• Tips and Advice – Team Rooms (Bob Payne)
• The Thirsty Developer 58: Applying SOA (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• deCast – Building an Azure App Part II: Azure Table Storage (Rob Bagby)
• Episode 66 – PowerScripting Podcast – Scott Herold talks VESI and Vizioncore (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 13th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming April geekSpeaks (Glen Gordon)
• 5 Blogs ASP.NET MVC Developers Should Be Following (Justin Etheredge)
• 300 Posts (Davy Brion)
• Logo Contest Winner for serverfault.com (Jeff Atwood)
• Tips and Tricks for creating User Group communication channels with your members. (Eric Hexter)
• ASP.NET MVC – CMAP HOL Group Meeting – Thursday, April 16th at 6:30pm (Christopher Steen)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Updates Reporting Services, Office Integration, Data Mining, and More (Bruce Kyle)
• Tip: Using Full Text Search With a Table-Valued Function (Rob Conery)
• SQL SERVER – Check if Current Login is Part of Server Roll Member (Pinal Dave)
• ExecuteSQLExecutingQuery : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• Copy SQL Server Database (Ted Krueger)

PowerShell

• Using Script Functions in the PowerShell Pipeline ( Take Two ) (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Ten Quirky Issues with Cross-Platform Version Control (Eric Sink)
• The Apple Tax (Steve Clayton)
• LiveLessons Python Fundamentals Review (Mike Riley)
• Free Book Download: Collaboration in the Cloud – How cross-boundary collaboration is transforming business (Clemens Reijnen)
• How to view revisions for entire wiki – #014 and How not to apply wiki formatting in your CodePlex wiki page – #015 (Sara Ford)
• On Learning Boo (Ian Cooper)
• From Imperative to Functional – Transposing Maps (Matthew Podwysocki)
• “Microsoft Virtualization” Learning Snack & free e-book (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Link Round up on .NET RIA Services (March 13th) (Brad Abrams)
• The Morning Brew #326 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #111 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2009 — #569 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 13th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day