Top Links

• On Her Majesty’s Secret Source Code: .NET Reflector 7 Early Access Builds Now Available (Bart Read)
• Identifying AppFabric Access Control Service users uniquely (Gunnar Peipman)
• HowTo: apply StyleCop Settings on several projects (Code Inside Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Insert Blank Lines (Richard Carr)
• Wrong Answer #2: Your own ThreadLocal and Wrong Answer #3: Your own Thread Local (Oren Eini)
• Simple HTTP Server in C# (David Jeske)
• Reporting in .NET Part II (Deborah Kurata)
• WCF by Example – Chapter XIII – Business Domain – Parent & Child Relationships (Enrique Albert)
• Team Foundation Server Administration tool v2.1 Released (Think “TFS2010 version”) and Retargeting VS2010 Unit Tests to .Net 3.5 (with VS2010 SP1) (Greg Duncan)
• Understanding Tag Specific Options and HTML Editor Tag Navigation (Zain Naboulsi)
• ADO.NET – Some Internals Uncovered (Abhishek Sur)
• Big delay while calling EnvelopedCms constructor (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• VSDB Common Pitfalls 1 (Gert Drapers)
• NDepend – Code Query Language (CQL) (Hajan Selmani)
• Fun with XNA and 2.5D (Michael C. Neel)
• .Config File Transformation (Oleg Sych)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# developers: writing a library (part 3) (Julian m. Bucknall)
• HTML5: The Geolocation API is scary (good) (Jef Claes)
• ASP.NET: Including JavaScript libraries conditionally from CDN and ASP.NET MVC 3: Using AppFabric Access Control Service to authenticate users (Gunnar Peipman)
• Bing Maps Ajax 7: Add a Simple Mini Map (Chris Pietschmann)
• My view of the future for Web-Enabled Applications (Bill Wagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Distributed Agile: Bringing onshore people offshore (Mark Needham)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Suite (Giorgio Sironi)
• How to Deal with Unknown Unknowns (Jurgen Appelo)
• Understanding Software Development Disasters – Part2 and Understanding Software Development Disasters – Part3 (Rajiv Popat)
• Find out where is the method that was called unexpectedly using fake objects (Dror Helper)
• Highly Recommended Book: The Passionate Programmer (Davy Brion)
• Should We Move a Failed Story Back? (Dan Puckett)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: Beating Expectations (Chris Sells)
• Header Editable Tab Control in Wpf (Amit Kumar Dutta)
• A Matter of Controls Part 3 (Dave)
• Windows Phone 7 Database Rapid Repository V2.0 Released (Sean McAlinden)
• Getting friendly with presets, Part II (Elliot Meacham)
• Using the Multi-Touch Behavior in a Windows Phone 7 Multi-Page application (Davide Zordan)
• Silverlight FAQ – 13 Questions for Beginners (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Bad Image Quality In .NET 4.0 WPF Project (Sacha Barber)
• WPF TaskDialog Wrapper and Emulator (Sean A. Hanley)
• Review of Windows Phone 7 OS: 2 months of real usage (Dennis Delimarsky)
• First thoughts from our WP7 competition winner and Top 7 Christmas Windows Phone 7 apps (Andy Robb)
• Treeview Anti-Pattern (Greg Gum)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 381: Call of Duty: Black Ops new downloadable content announced, Fallout New Vegas Dead Money and BF BC2 heads to Vietnam (Larry Hyrb)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 40 – Udi Dahan on SOA and NServiceBus (Richard Banks)
• Windows Weekly 187: Fez Edition (Paul Thurrott)
• Technology & Friends Episode 130: Martin Schray on Technical Evangelism (David Giard)
• Hanselminutes: Transitions – Exploring issues moving from small companies to large corporations (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Stack Overflow: Subscribe to Tags via Email (Jeff Atwood)
• Calling all Windows Phone 7 experts! Update your SME profile now! (Lisa Denbeste)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Securing TRUNCATE Permissions in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Stackoverflow amongst evil nofollow web abuse sites (Brian Bondy)
• Microsoft to add finger and hand rotation tracking to Kinect (Byron Hinson)
• A week with Google’s Chrome OS laptop, Day 5: My life in the cloud (Joe Wilcox)
• Searching for the Perfect Developer’s Laptop. (Michael Crump)
• Reading The Windows Event Log (Rhonda Tipton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 19, 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2010 — #1012 and Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2010 – 2 — #1013 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #754 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook by Dentler Jason

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 Developer Tools October 2010 Update (MS Downloads)
• We’re Renaming NuPack (Phil Haack)
• Amazon Introduces New ‘Free Usage Tier’ For AWS (Jason Kincaid)
• New Components and Contributors for IronPython and IronRuby (Jason Zander)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F#: Choice .NET Language For Multi-Core Programming? (Matt Davey)
• A Basic IoC Container (Richard Carr)
• NDepend v3.2.0 available: Visual Studio Integration and Contextual-Sensitive help (Davide Zordan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: ToDictionary() and ToList() (James Michael Hare)
• Break All Processes When One Process Breaks (Zain Naboulsi)
• Exception Handling with the Task Parallel Library (Ade Miller)
• Get into Physics with your XNA games (Rob Miles)

Web Development

• Dolphin Deploy: Deploying ASP.net applications using IronRuby (Ben Hall)
• Hosting Your Own Local and Remote NuPack Feeds (Phil Haack)
• Using Web Helpers in Razor – ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta (Malcolm Sheridan)
• NServiceBus: ASP.NET Permissions for MSMQ (Jonathan Oliver)
• Introducing HTML5 Web Sockets – taking bidirectional communication on the web to the next level (Robert Nyman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Version Control" Now Online (James Shore)
• Big Changes at Scrum Alliance (Dan Mezick)
• Coming Around to Kanban-ilism (Rob Williams)
• Top 10 Reasons to do CQRS (in a PDF) (Rinat Abdullin)
• Urban Turtle 3.5 (Aaron Bjork)
• Is storyteller a job title? it is now (Steve Clayton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Small Business Mobility Kit (MS Downloads)
• Using the host keyboard with the Windows Phone 7 Emulator (Andreas Hammar)
• Physics Helper 4 Released (Andy Beaulieu)
• Worldwide Excitement for Windows Phone (Brian Seitz)
• Programmatic Silverlight Tree View Control Node Expansion using View Model (MVVM) (Michael Washington)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #22: Apps vs. Games (Jeff Blankenburg)
• WPF internals part 3 : how Z-Index works ? (Jeremy Alles)
• Test Run of 5 of Your Windows Phone 7 Apps (John Papa)
• Windows Phone 7 Review: Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have Ourselves a Race (MSFT, GOOG, AAPL) (Matt Buchanan)
• Debugging design time data with MefedMVVM (Naeem Khedarun)
• Are we human, or are we Windows Phone 7 Timedancers…? (Sara Allison)
• Checking Your WP7 Application Capabilities (Derek Lakin)
• WP7 Deactivated != Tombstone (James Ashley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Deeper into the Netduino with Chris Walker from Secret Labs (Scott Hanselman)
• Silverlight TV 50: The State of Silverlight with Scott Guthrie (John Papa)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #180: Handling System Errors in MVC (Derik Whittaker)
• RECAP: Let’s Play TDD, Episodes 31-40 (James Shore)
• Xbox Kinect ads break cover (Steve Clayton)

Community / Events

• Join me at the official Kinect Launch in NYC (Larry Hyrb)
• Microsoft PDC 2010 (Christian Nagel)
• Starting a Unique Craftsman Journey (Bobby Johnson)
• Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners – November 10, 2010 (Zhiming Xue)

Database

• Execute SQL Server Agent Job Task runs asynchronously (Jeremy Carter)
• Calculate Running Total and Row Total in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How Often Do You Run CHECKDB Against Your Databases? (Brad M. McGehee)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Brings Games on Demand to the Web With New PC Game Store (MS PressPass)
• A look back at the year since Windows 7 released (Dharmesh Mehta)
• Formatted PowerShell everywhere (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• 40 Hour Work Week at Microsoft (J.D. Meier)
• Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today (MG Siegler)
• Getting the best RDP Experience from a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Guest (Michael Cummings)
• Who’s Next in Tech (Steve Clayton)
• Finding Related WMI Classes (and Drive Letters) (Tobias Weltner)
• Suggestion to Microsoft regarding Office for Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Links (10/21/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 21, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #713 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 21, 2010 — #974 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert C. Martin

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

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Top Links

• Learning to Write (Software) (Caleb Jenkins)
• How do I expose configuration information through MEF? (Glenn Block)
• .NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentBag (Justin Etheredge)
• NDepend v3 is now 100% integrated in Visual Studio. (Patrick Smacchia)
• Opinion & Review: Apple’s iPad (Blake Handler)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Simple Query Results Caching with EF4 (Dan Simmons)
• Making an Ocean with XNA (Louis Ingenthron)
• C# in Depth, 2nd Edition (Ferdinando Santacroce)
• Delegates and Lambda Expressions (John Oriente)
• MonoTouch on iPad (MonoTouch Team)
• Passing around an ObjectContext: by value or reference? (Julie Lerman)
• Transparently releasing components in Windsor (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Configuring SmtpClient to drop emails in a folder on disk (Mike Hadlow)
• Searching Breakpoints — vstipDebug0002 (Zain Naboulsi)
• NHibernate new feature: No proxy associations (Oren Eini)

Web Development

• Drupal Goes Hosted With Private Beta Launch of “Gardens” (Invites) (Robin Wauters)
• Extensible Output Caching with ASP.NET 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Dynamic Select Lists with MVC and jQuery (Mike Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An op for Microsoft to nail the low hanging fruit: Cloudify every app’s settings/config (Andrew Connell)
• The tension between software architects and their employers (Simon Brown)
• Moving To A Distributed Version Control System (Ade Miller)
• Securing Your Agatha Service Layer (Davy Brion)
• Agile Tenet #11 – Self Organizing Teams (Julie Stickler)
• 3 Pillars of Architecture (Kirk Knoernschild)

Silverlight / WPF

• Fluent Silverlight – Binding control events to actions (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• XAML: writing down all values of an object? (Rob Relyea)
• Announcing the First User Interface (UI) Components for Silverlight 4 (Silverlight Team)
• Chapter Excerpt in CODE magazine (Pavan Podila)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Catching up with Juval Löwy (Carl Franklin)
• Connected Show Podcast – Agile: Putting the “Soft” in Software (Brian Johnson)
• MSDN Tiki Hut Roadshow, Silverlight Edition (Emily Gibson)
• 157 Power Point Templates (Tina Wood)
• This Week in Testing Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 4) (Dror Helper)

Community / Events

• Registration Open For SharePoint Saturday – Feb. 27th. (Jim O’Neil)
• The Code Retreat Tour 2010 (Corey Haines)
• I’ll be speaking at Philly ALT.NET on Domain Driven Design (Stephen Bohlen)

Database

• SQL Server Temporary Tables (Richard Carr)
• SQL Search 1.0 Beta Available (Brad M. McGehee)
• Cleaning up sys.dm_exec_cached_plans (Dave Ballantyne)
• Backup and copy warm-standby (log shipped) databases in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 2: optimizing log block IO size and how log IO works) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• A Shoemaker’s Advice on SharePoint Training: It’s Not Just About the Tools (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Creating Limit Filters in SharePoint Designer 2010 (Phill Duffy)

Miscellaneous

• Apple iPad: A Comprehensive Guide (Ben Parr)
• The disappointments of Apple iPad (Imran Hussain)
• Bye Bye Arrow Keys (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Apple’s Solution For The iPad’s Missing SD Card Slot And USB port: Adapters (Matt Burns)
• Microsoft & Internet Freedom (Steve Ballmer)
• Daily Dose – Is the iPad Everything We Thought it Would Be? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Office 2012: Estimated RTM Dates Surface on an MSDN Blog and Engineering 8: Microsoft’s Windows 8 Blog to be Determined… (Stephen Chapman)
• Apple Drops an iDud (Paul Thurrott)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: The Social Media Marketing Book — Only $9.99! Use discount code SMMB9 (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LX (Charlie Calvert)
• Tech Tweets for 27-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #527 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 27, 2010 — #788 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great

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Top Links

• I Still Have Low Expectations For Visual Studio 2010 and NDepend 3 Preview (Davy Brion)
• About Technical Debates (and ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC debates in particular) (Scott Guthrie)
• Enterprise Library 5 and Unity 2 Expected April 14 – Patterns and Practices (David Hayden)
• Being an Evil Genius with F# and .NET (Chris Smith)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQPad updated to support .NET 4.0b2! (Chris Sells)
• The Pain of deploying Primary Interop Assemblies (Sam Ng)
• Using the new Guide Diamond — vstipTool0008 (Zain Naboulsi)
• A Kick in the Monads – Creating Extended Builders Part III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Extension Methods on Types You Own? (Keith Dahlby)

Web Development

• 5 Productive To-Do List Apps With APIs (Adam DuVander)
• IIS vs. ASP.NET Rewriting (Alexandr Sergeevich Ilyin)
• ASP.NET: GridView and Business Objects (Deborah Kurata)
• The New Hotness: Using CSS3 Visual Effects (ZURB)
• How To Convert From Request With Parameter to No Parameter in ASP.NET (Server.Transfer) (Peter Kellner)
• Keeping Your ASP.NET Session Alive Using jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• FubuMVC Diagnostics (Chad Myers)
• Url Resolution in FubuMVC (Jeremy D. Miller)
• jQuery 1.4 Opacity and IE Filters (Rick Strahl)
• Conditional UIHint for Dynamic Data v2 and .Net 4.0 (Steve Naughton)
• Measuring the Performance of Asynchronous Controllers (Steve Sanderson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Career Growth (J.D. Meier)
• Sharpening The Saw (Rob Conery)
• The paradox of choice: best of breed or cheapest of the bunch (Oren Eini)
• Encapsulation is the enemy of the user interface (Oren Eini)
• A parable about mocking frameworks (Brian Marick)
• Being provoked by your uncle (Mark Nijhof)
• The Relationship Zoo (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Support multiple models (Patrick Kua)
• Understanding A Simple Fact Of Life – Basic Traits Of People Usually Do Not Change Easily. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• An Excel file Viewer in Silverlight 4 (Walter Ferrari)
• Working with the WPF VSM in an MVVM friendly manner (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – An Overview of MVC4WPF – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Familiar)
• Kate Gregory: Extending Visual Studio (Dan Fernandez)
• Herding Code 70: Sean Chambers on Migrations in .NET (Jon Galloway)
• Major Nelson Show 348: Mass Effect 2 and an 80′s history lesson (Larry Hyrb)
• This Week in Testing Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 3) (Dror Helper)

Community / Events

• ThoughtWorks India helping to put on the first RubyConf India 20-21 March (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• As A Movement, ALT.NET Has Been Dead For A While (Davy Brion)
• Dear Son, Don’t Forget…Give Credit Where Credit Is Due (Jonathan Carter)

Database

• Concatenating Strings to NULL values (Bru Medishetty)
• Microsoft – Follow best practices – Part 2 (Dave Ballantyne)
• Working with ADO.Net variables in SSIS scripts (Josef Richberg)
• SQL SERVER – Find Statistics Update Date – Update Statistics (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 SocialFest (Steve Clayton)

Miscellaneous

• A Train of Thought: January 2010 Edition (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: The New How — Only $9.99! Use discount code TNHDD (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Office is obsolete, or soon will be (Joe Wilcox)
• Select-Object with Subproperties (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• My collection of Windows Mobile 7 rumors (Sergejus Barinovas)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 24, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #524 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 24, 2010 — #786 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (1/24/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Everyman Links for January 24, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Link Post 129 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/25/2010 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

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Top Links

• Resharper is amazing, take N (Oren Eini) – Oren illustrates ReSharper 5.0’s integration with MS Symbol Server & Source Server. This enables easy debugging into the .NET Framework.
• More On The Death of If-Else (K. Scott Allen) – Inspired by a recent post by Aaron Feng, Scott checks out some alternatives to the If-Else pattern in C#.
• Lessons in Software from Eric Brechner (J.D. Meier) – “I.M. Wright” discusses important traits of good software developers.
• FitNesse book now free online (Gojko Adzic) – Get the 2nd edition of the eBook on FitNesse, a .NET software acceptance testing tool.
• The Monthly Code Quality Report (Mike Hadlow) – Mike shares the metrics he tracks (and his CQL query) with NDepend.
• Continuous education, Hanselminutes show #187 (Peter Eysermans) – Peter shares his thoughts about software tester James Bach’s recent appearance on Hanselminutes.
• Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 – some notes on the "why" (Chris O’Brien) – The second part of Chris’ look at Managed Metadata and Enterprise Content Management enhancements in SharePoint 2010.

Tips & Tricks

• How to get access to WPF’s internal Direct3D guts (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Are you ready to learn F#? Concepts to be familiar with before learning the F# language (Bart Czernicki)
• Serialization Generics (Steve Andrews)
• Asynchronous messages in F# and AutoCAD (Kean Walmsley)
• Authenticated web services calls with Asp.Net MVC (Chris Brandsma)
• Resetting Focus After Selecting a Date with the JQuery UI DateSelector (Chris Love)
• Adding a Twitter Profile Widget in BlogEngine.NET and One-Click Page Creation with ScrewTurn Wiki (Dave Burke)
• Easy HTML Templating with JQuery (Sara J. Chipps)
• Create an ASP.NET TextBox Watermark Effect using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Blend 3 Tip: Filter resources by selected element (Rudi Grobler)
• Exporting a SQL Server table as CSV (Jeremy Jarrell)

New Releases

• Introducing the new Bing Maps beta (Greg Schechter)
• Document Toolkit 1.1.0.4 (Koen Zwikstra)

Code to Read

• D3: Rides Again – Now on VS2010 Beta 2 (Dan Simmons)
• BugCamSmash Dissected part 2 – Make the Bugs Crawl and BugCamSmash Dissected part 3 – Give the Bugs Brains (Adam Kinney)

Software Craftsmanship

• nunit to mstest for CSLA .NET 4 (Rockford Lhotka)
• What is the Definition of Elegant Code? (Christopher Diggins)
• Unit Testing An NHibernate Application and Testing CRUD Operations With NHibernate (Davy Brion)
• Our obsession with efficiency – Dan North (Mark Needham)
• Do you Encode your interface ? (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Leadership Tip: Start Noticing And Appreciating Your Silent Heroes. (Rajiv Popat)
• Bug Triage (Daniel Moth)

Podcasts, Videos & Events

• Windows Weekly 133: A Fish Called Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, on Cloud Architecture Patterns (Bob Familiar)
• Major Nelson Show 342: Video Game Awards, Dark Void and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 94 – PowerScripting Podcast – Carter Shanklin from VMware on PowerCLI and Onyx (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast #3: Silverlight is Real (David Starr)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Dr Jeff Norris, NASA (Nic Fillingham)
• My Presentations in Europe (December 2009) (Scott Guthrie)
• Pluralsight On-Demand (Mark Nijhof)

Microsoft Software

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Startup Failures (Rick Strahl)
• F# on the Xbox 360 (Joh)
• SQL SERVER – White Papers – Consolidation Guidance for SQL Server – Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server – White Paper – An Introduction to Fast Track Data Warehouse Architectures by Erik Veerman (Pinal Dave)
• Add javascript files once to a page – SharePoint Sandbox Solutions (Nick Swan)
• Windows Azure – Scaling Out vs. Scaling Up (Jason Haley)
• Reader Challenge – Fault Handlers in C# (Bart de Smet)
• Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Event-based and Error-Handling INavigationContentLoaders (David Poll)

Other Platforms

• Don’t Make Me Think – A User Centric Perspective on Google Apps (Ben Kepes)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/7 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Distributed Programming with Ruby Book Review (Mike Riley)

Gadgets, Tools & Games

• Flickr Drive Integrates Flickr into Windows Explorer (Sarah Perez)
• Google Officially Launching Chrome Extensions Next Week (MG Siegler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 6, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 05, 2009 — #749 and Silverlight Cream for December 06, 2009 — #750 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for December 6, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #492 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #100 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.12.01 ~ 12.07 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #82 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/7/2009 (Pete Brown)
• A Feed You Should Read #14 – WynAspe, Silverlight Cream (Greg Duncan)
• Interesting Post… 11/30/2009 through 12/6/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links (12/6/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 122 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/06/2009 (Rick Minerich)

The Geek Shelf

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Agile EF 4 Repositories Part 4: Compiled LINQ Queries (Julie Lerman)
• .Net 4.0 – Start Reading Between the Lines – Learn Silverlight and Entity Framework (Keith Elder) – Link of the Day
• What’s the difference between covariance and assignment compatibility? (Eric Lippert)
• DefaultDataPath (Gert Drapers)
• Plug into MEF in 10 minutes or less (Greg Duncan)
• Adding a console to your IronRuby application (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• The Halting Problem and the Church-Turing Thesis (Chris Smith)

Web Development

• Displaying Google Analytics Data in ASP.NET (Mike Brind)
• Flash to jQuery and JQuery, CuFon, and Dynamic Content (Dave M. Bush)
• jQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 (John Sheehan)
• Discovering "Dallas" (Jim O’Neil)
• MSXML XHTML DTDs – making the web better (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Building Twitter Search using the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta – Part 1 (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Don’t panic (Eric Brechner)
• Applied Modularity – Part 4 (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Establishing an Architecture Review Board (Mike Walker)
• The Joy of MSpec (Mike Hadlow)
• NDepending Resharper (Patrick Smacchia)
• The Open Data Protocol (OData) (Stephen Forte)
• The promise of Natural User Interface – NUI (Steve Clayton)
• How to influence others (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating a Pinball Game in Silverlight: Using the Physics Helper Library + Farseer Physics and There’s an App for THAT?! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Microsoft® Expression® Encoder 3 QFE Released (Allan P.)
• Two birds, squared! [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 3 and a DataVisualizationDemos update] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 4 – MVVM with Commanding and WCF RIA Services and WCF RIA Services – StructureMap – DomainServiceFactory (Fredrik Normén)
• Using Azure as a Silverlight Streaming replacement (Tim Heuer)
• Convert, Encode And Decode Silverlight WriteableBitmap Data (Rene Schulte)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 3 for WPF4/SL4 (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows PowerShell and Microsoft Management Console (MS Podcasts)
• Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures (Charles Torre)
• Official Publication of Creating Windows Azure Applications with Visual Studio Videos (Charlie Calvert)
• Debugging Silverlight 4 Out Of Browser applications in Visual Studio 2010 (Fredrik Normén)
• Episode 150: Software Craftsmanship with Bob Martin (SE-Radio Team)
• Ping 39: Chrome is here, Dancing in MS Stores, Iphone & Bing (Laura Foy)
• TechNet WebCast: SQL Server Locking & Blocking (Joe Webb)
• Water Cooler Interview With SharePoint MVP (Jas Dhaliwal)
• A Feed You Should Read – The Blogcast Repository (Greg Duncan)
• The Changelog (Chris Wanstrath)

Community / Events

• My time at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) 2009 (Dave Isbitski)
• Events This Week – November 30th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Experts Conference 2010 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Call for Papers – The Architecture Journal (Peter Provost)
• GitHub Meetup Philadelphia (Tom Preston-Werner)
• SQLAuthority News – A Daily Doze of Technology – Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew (Pinal Dave) – Thanks for the endorsement!

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 PowerPivot for Microsoft® Excel – NOV CTP (MS Downloads)
• Converting GraffitiCMS from VistaDB to SQL Server on GoDaddy (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Aren’t DBA’s Just System Admins for Databases? (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

• BCS External Content Type Associations in SPD (Nick Swan)
• Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 preserve use of Relational Databases (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft updates its enterprise roadmaps (Mary-Jo Foley)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/1 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• My first useful powershell script – capturing performance counters (Dave Ballantyne)
• And we’re live with O’Reilly Media (Devon Musgrave)
• Confirmed: Office 2010 to ship in June (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• The Ultimate List of Google Wave Robots (Sebastian Anthony)
• Windows 8 Jobs Abound, More Details Emerge (Stephen Chapman)
• She Sells PowerShell on The Sea Shore (James Howard)
• Photosynth: New release and new UI (Sunshine)
• More About Background Removal in Office 2010 (Tucker Hatfield)
• An Update for Google Chrome’s Developer Tools (Ian Fette)
• Insight: Hiring Programmers (Eran Kampf)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/30/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #488 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #99 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 30, 2009 — #745 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 30-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight 4 Links (Karen Corby)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/30/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating GUIDs in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Pasting code from VS into WLW, part 2 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• C# Snooker (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• C++ vs C# vs F# vs Haskell (Phillip Trelford)
• Working on F# with NDepend (Steve Gilham)

Web Development

• Microsoft AJAX CDN – Now with SSL Support (Scott Guthrie)
• T4MVC 2.6: MVC 2 Areas support (David Ebbo) – Link of the Day
• Get Your App in the Cloud with Front Runner for Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Script# Update – v0.5.5.0 (Nikhil Kothari)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Shotokan Development (Steve Andrews)
• CQRS – Trying to make it re-usable and Convention over Configuration (Mark Nijhof)
• Architecture Review Boards (Mike Walker)
• Review: The Passionate Programmer (Sean Timm)
• Programmer Tip: Get Rid Of Those Systems First. (Rajiv Popat)
• Wrapping up the StructureMap Automocking Container (Richard Cirerol)
• Integrating Your IOC Container With Agatha and Agatha 1.0 Beta 2 Is Out (Davy Brion)
• Can a Fish Use a Bicycle? (Rod Paddock)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF : Some Good Cinch News (Sacha Barber)
• WCF RIA Services and a guide to use DTO/”Presentation Model” and WCF RIA Services Unity DomainServiceFactory (Fredrik Normen)
• MEF has landed in Silverlight 4. We come in the name of extensibility. and Building the Hello MEF dashboard in Silverlight 4 – Part I (Glenn Block)
• Silverlight 4: Sum is Greater than the Parts (John Papa)
• Adding Images on Silverlight 4 using drag and drop and the web camera. (Al Pascual)
• Document Toolkit Roadmap (Koen Zwikstra)
• Data Driven Application Development using WCF and Silverlight 3.0 User Controls (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Text Deformation Based on Bézier Splines (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight Game: Froggy Math (Andy Beaulieu)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 132: Google Bing (Paul Thurrott)
• Major Nelson Show 341: The one with e & Stepto discussing how they got into the industry (Larry Hyrb)
• ARCast.TV – Albert Pascual on how he built GeoTwitter (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: XAML tools, Silverlight for Live Writer, Surface SDK, (Dan Fernandez)
• Core CSLA .NET 3.8 Video Series pre-release sale! (Rockford Lhotka)

Community / Events

• UX Fail (Steve Andrews)
• Free Silverlight 4 Event in Tampa – Monday Dec 7th @ 6:15pm (John Papa)
• The Experts Conference 2010 (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Azure Start Guide – Step by Step Installation Guide and SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table for Each Index – Solution (Pinal Dave)
• StreamInsight WILL be in SKUs other than Data Centre Edition and Debunking Kimball Effective Dates (Jamie Thomson)
• "Quadrant": Three Features in Two Minutes (Chris Sells)

SharePoint

• Create your own SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine – The Complete Guide (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 Offers More for Developers (Mitch Pronschinske)

Miscellaneous

• Top Bing Searches in 2009 (Danielle Tiedt)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Ignore Everybody (Dave Burke)
• Office 2010 scheduled for June release (Steven Bink)
• I Just Cloned, Why Did Git Change My Files? (Tim Barcz)
• Counting in Hexadecimal (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/30 (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 29, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 29, 2009 — #744 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 29, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 11.23 ~ 11.30 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #81 (Grant Palin)
• Links (11/29/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 121 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #487 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Code Metrics: An Introduction to Visual NDepend (Jose R. Guay Paz)
• Embracing Change – quotable quotes on change and uncertainty and Technical Debt – Definition and Resources (Brad Appleton)
• Protecting Your Application From Remote Problems (Davy Brion)
• Lessons in Software from James Waletzky (J.D. Meier)
• Join the CLUB (Coding Like Uncle Bob) (Jurgen Appelo) – Link of the Day
• Sometimes Hardware is Cheaper than Programmers (Michael Janke)
• Form over function often fails (Nick Berardi)
• Where do developers care for Software Quality? (Patrick Smacchia)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A Simple .NET Profanity Filter (James Newton-King)
• MSpec – Take 2 (Chris Bilson)
• Looking Inside Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• What is a build script? Writing MsBuild Scripts – Part I (Tuna Toksoz)
• WSDL/Schema First – WSCF.blue for WCF goes Beta 1 (Sam Gentile)
• Day #6: Silverlight and the Twitter "Hello, World" (Jeff Blankenburg)

Web Development

• HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF) (Smashing Magazine)
• jLinq 2.2.0 Released! (webdev_hb)
• miniurl – ASP.NET MVC URL Redirection Sample Application (Javier G. Lozano)
• CSS Tips and Tricks (Michael Ceranski)
• AutoMapper in NerdDinner (Matt Hinze)
• Five Questions with Eric Hexter and Jeffrey Palermo (Jonathan Allen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 114: Rob Greenlee (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• SQL Server Subqueries (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Languages for BI – MDX, DMX, XMLA (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Building WCM Sites on SharePoint? – Get the Adventureworks demo modules and site installer (Chandima Kulathilake)

Community / Events

• July 7th – Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Nerd Dinner (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• Players Become Gamers with Kodu (Bruce Kyle)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 5, 2009 and LINKBLOG for July 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #383 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 05, 2009 — #629 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #83 – “Not much to bookmark” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #60 (Grant Palin)
• Links (7/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Discoveries This Week 07/05/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day