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Top Links

• Expression Blend: Designer Tool or Tool for Design (John Stockton)
• TechNet 2.0 – Episode 6 – Wiki (Keith Combs)
• Live Mesh: It’s Alive! (Paul Thurrott)
• Can the Reporting Services BI Tools be More Like Report Builder 2.0? (William Vaughn)
• Timeline integrates Photoshop with Subversion (SVN) for full version control (Sebastian Anthony)
• Put Missing Kids on your 404 Page – Entirely Client-Side Solution with YQL, jQuery, and MSAjax (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Is CAS dead in .NET 4? (Shawn Farkas)
• Robocode – robot warfare (Coding4Fun)
• Excerpt #3 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Jeffrey Richter)
• Visual Studio 2010 background flickering and customization (visualstudioblog)
• Code Definition Window — vstipTool0012 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Small LINQ Trick for Converting List to String Text List (Peter Kellner)
• MEF is not An IoC container; but MEF uses IoC (Peter Ritchie)
• C#: Overcomplicating with LINQ (Mark Needham)
• Introduction into ADO .NET Data Services/RIA Services (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• Creating Multiple Choice Exam Application Using ASP.NET MVC Framework (Mohammad Azam)
• Unique Keys versus IDs in Web Applications (Chris Missal)
• Documenting Standards in IE (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Client Side Validation with jQuery (Mike Ceranski)
• Daily Dose – Zend Server 5.0 GA Boasts Code Tracing (Mitch Pronschinske)
• jQuery 1.4 breaks ASP.Net MVC actions with array parameters (Kevin Miller)
• Introducing RealDolmenBlogs.com (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is the big picture? (Simon Brown)
• Mercurial Tutorial (Joel Spolsky)
• Did Your Boss Thank You For Coding Yourself to Death? (Alan Skorkin)
• Repository Shootout: distributed vs centralized, hosted vs installed … You be the judge – Take our 2 Minute Survey. (Alex Coisman)
• Code Kata (Julian M. Bucknall)
• On the Utility of TestPropertyAttribute (Craig Andera)
• Branching Strategies: When To Branch And Merge and Branching Strategies: The Cost Of Branching And Merging (Derick Bailey)
• Agile Tenet #12 – Reflect on Improvement (Julie Stickler)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Snapshots ! (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Pair Programming: In interviews (Mark Needham)
• How to Get Started With Agile? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Announcing the February 2010 Release of Microsoft Health CUI (MS Health CUI Team)
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 1) – Controls for Silverlight Developers (Me)
• Article Published: Context Sensitive History. Part 1 of 2 (Daniel Vaughan)
• XAML Attributes on Separate Lines (Christopher Bennage)
• Moonlight Feels Right for Mono 2.6 (Tapas Pal)
• MEF, Silverlight and the DeploymentCatalog (Mike Taulty)
• SLARToolkit – Silverlight Augmented Reality Toolkit (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Steven Cloherty: Microsoft Online Services Risk Management (Charles Torre)
• Community Megaphone Show #4 with guest JP Toto (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Looping over SQL scripts and executing them : SSIS video nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• BCS Discussion with Brad Stevenson-Episode 42 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 11 – WCF and TCP (Mike Taulty)
• Using the Code Analysis Tool (CAT.NET 2.0) to Identify Security Vulnerabilities (Jossie Tirado)
• VISUG Recording: F# Introduction (Katrien De Graeve)

Community / Events

• Are you interested in a virtual PowerShell brown-bag event? (Joel Bennett)
• Learn how to customize SP2010 sites with SharePoint Designer 2010 by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• Like jQuery? Live in the DC Area? Have I got a Group for you! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Take a look at MVPs on MS News Center (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• Rhino Divan DB reboot idea (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server Proper Case Function (George Mastros)
• The fast, yet as complete as, possible SQL Azure Start to Finish Guide – aka What is a “DB as a SQL Azure/web service” demo without Northwind? (Greg Duncan)
• Rounding to the Nearest X Minutes, the Lazy Way (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Accessing system views in global stored procedures (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Designer’s new workflow editor: introduction (SharePoint Designer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Eclipsys and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance to Make Enterprise Health IT More Open and Powerful (MS News Center)
• Looking for Reviewers for PowerShell Cookbook v2 (Lee Holmes)
• Macmillan’s DynamicBooks offers editable digital textbooks (Jay Hathaway)
• More Wrox Books in Mobi and ePub Formats (Jim Minatel)
• Microsoft launches Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 (Ray Comvalius)
• U.S. Surgeon General Announces Connection with Microsoft HealthVault (David Cerino)
• Cracking Down on Botnets (Tim Cranton)
• Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone development: integrate, prioritize, focus (Kip Kniskern)
• The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook Review (Mike Riley)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning Perl, Fifth Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDPER (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 24, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #547 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 24-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• XAML UI News – 2010/02/24 (Rob Relyea)

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Programming F#: A comprehensive guide for writing simple code to solve complex problems (Animal Guide)

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Top Links

• Good beats innovative nearly every time (Scott Berkun)
• Sharpy – an ASP.NET MVC view engine based on Smarty (Maarten Balliauw)
• An Overview Of System.Collections.Generic (Justin Etheredge)
• Bing – It Does Way More Than You Think (Keith Elder)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Hey, NHibernate give me back my milliseconds (Derik Whittaker)
• Some e-books and .NET 4.0 beta exams (Gunnar Peipman)
• Roll Your Own Project or Item with the Export Template Wizard — vstipProj0004 and Undo and Redo Global Actions — vstipEdit0020 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Setting a Char Value and Setting a Char Value to a Symbol and Converting from String to Char or Visa Versa and Working with Char in a RichTextBox and Building a Set of Alphabetic Letters (Deborah Kurata)
• Telerik OpenAccess Data Services Wizard Beta 2-Now with Visual Studio 2010 Support (Stephen Forte)
• Announcing the YouTube SDK for .NET (Frank Mantek)
• Getting Started with LINQ to XML (Mike Ceranski)
• Book Review: the CLR via C# (Russell Ball)
• Careful with that axe, part one: Should I specify a timeout? (Eric Lippert)
• Visual Studio 2010 Tip: Scroll to Zoom (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Profiler Speculative Feature: Query plans (Oren Eini)
• Daily Dose – .NET Reflector Launches Commercial Upgrade (Mitch Pronschinske)

Web Development

• How to Make Sense of a User’s Geolocation (Adam DuVander)
• The 23rd of Diduary: Did you know that you can use SuperPreview to compare browser renderings? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Setting the Page Editor Options in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Part III – CSS tab) (Minal Agarwal)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observables (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Postback Text Processing with the AJAX Modal Dialog (Joe Stagner)
• “Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises” – The best of both, cloud and on-premise, worlds? [Coming later this year, free] (Greg Duncan)
• Manipulating Action Method Parameters (Phil Haack)
• New Web Application Toolkits (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Waking the dragon (Louis DeJardin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Non-Programming Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Designing enhancements (Simon Brown)
• "Debug It!" (Jason Bock)
• The One Skill You Need To Master To Succeed And Grow As A Developer (Alan Skorkin)
• Slaying relational dragons (Oren Eini)
• Man and the machine …. (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Gesturecons – icons for prototyping Multi-touch applications (Adam Kinney)
• Agile Security Engineering and Three D’s for Motivation – Direction, Decision, and Dedication (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight for Developers (Part II) (Arian Kulp)
• Getting started with XAML (Umair Saeed)
• The State of Data Access in Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight YouTube Jukebox (Daniel Vaughan)
• This is what happens when two Toolkits fall in love… [The February 2010 release of the WPF Toolkit is now available!] (David Anson)
• WPF Shell Integration Library for .NET 3.5 (jwalk)
• 5 Simple Steps to Commanding in Silverlight (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure Miniseries #3: ServiceConfig vs web.config (Brian Hitney)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #164: Learning how to use Manual Mocks for Testing (Derik Whittaker)
• The Thirsty Developer 86: Talking SharePoint with Kirk Evans (Dave Bost)
• This Week in Silverlight – February 21 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 9 – UDP Multicasting (Mike Taulty)
• Ping 49: Live Labs Pivot, Win7 testers, Facebook wins, Search Assault (Laura Foy)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Android (Jeff Brand)
• ConnectedShow Podcast – Is That A Phone In Your Pocket?! (Dmitry Lyalin)

Community / Events

• Microsoft MVP Summit – 2010 (Caleb Jenkins)
• Post 2010 MVP Summit — Thanks! (Dave Campbell)
• Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-How To Architect Killer Apps with Windows 7 and Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-Visual Studio Tools For Architects (Bob Familiar)
• IEEE Student Members Get Microsoft Developer Tools (Bruce Kyle)
• How to get Microsoft to speak at your event (Buck Woody)
• A weekend with Ken Schwaber (Anthony Borton)
• Interested in Working on CodePlex? (Matt Hawley)
• MIX – Microsoft, W3C and SVG (Patrick Dengler)
• Events This Week – February 22nd, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL Server Triggers (Richard Carr)
• SQLAuthority News – Links to Book On Line – Data Mining Algorithms (Analysis Services – Data Mining) (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Connect to BdcService and GetEntities – BCS Object Model (Hrayr Diloyan)
• New SharePoint whitepaper published (Jon Fancey)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 1.0 SP1 Release Candidate Available for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft and Amazon.com Sign Patent Agreement (MS News Center)
• Small Basic: Sample of this week: Snake Bite (Vijaye)
• The 22nd of Diduary: Did you know what a Zune can really do? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Office 2010 and AppV 4.6 (Reed Shaffner)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The New Community Rules – Only $9.99! Use code DDNCR (O’Reilly Media)
• Deployment Process of an iPhone Application (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Coding: Effect sketches and the Mikado method (Mark Needham)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 22, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #544 and The Morning Brew #545 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 22, 2010 — #801 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (2/21/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

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Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers)

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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)

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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great

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Top Links

• The Weekly Source Code 48 – DynamicQueryable makes custom LINQ expressions easier (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing the Managed Assembly TekPub Giveaway (John Sheehan)
• Context and Best Practices (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate new feature: Lazy Properties (Oren Eini)
• I just installed Visual Studio 2010, now how do I get Code Contracts? (Melitta Andersen)
• Relating CSLA .NET experience (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to detect the text encoding of a file (Sergio Pereira)
• Microsoft-Compatible APIs in Mono 2.4 (Tapas Pal)
• Automapper: Don’t forget Mapper.Reset() at the start (Mark Needham)
• Agatha Vs NServiceBus? (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• URL Routing in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
• Simple (?) AJAX Upload For ASP.NET (Charles Chen)
• Populate an ASP.NET ListBox from JSON results using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ASP.NET: ListBox Scrollbar (Deborah Kurata)
• CSS Basics: The Box Model (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• MVC or WebForms: It’s more about client side vs server side (Ian Cooper)
• Pumping ‘Iron’ for JavaScript (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Gracefully Failing (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Coding: The Collecting Parameter Pattern (Mark Needham)
• Giving feedback to defensive people (Patrick Kua)
• Career Growth and Finding Your Way Forward (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft Releases a Cross-Platform Silverlight Client for Facebook (Me)
• Binding UI Events from View to commands in ViewModel in Silverlight 4 (Slobodan Pavkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – oData (Carl Franklin)

• Community Megaphone Show #2 with guest Joel Cochran (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #160: A deeper look into AutoMapper: Projection and Flattening Objects (Derik Whittaker)
• Show Us Your Tech: Juan Goni Edition (Larry Larsen)
• The Visual Studio Documentary Mardi Brekke-Hutchings and Dee Dee Walsh full length interview (Tina Wood)
• I. M. Wright podcast: "Spontaneous Combustion of Rancid Management" (Devon Musgrave)

Community / Events

• How to Participate in the SQL Community – Draft #1 (Andy Warren)
• O’Reilly Webcast tomorrow, Jan 27, Top 10 Treats in EF4 (Julie Lerman)
• If you build it, they will come… (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• The Code Retreat Tour 2010 (Corey Haines)
• The Center for the Advancement of Enterprise Architecture as a Profession (CAEAP) (Bob McIlree)

Database

• Attaching a Database (Buck Woody)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 R2 – Release Date in May 2010 (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Time-out occurs While Waiting for Buffer Latch (Viswa)

SharePoint

• SPWeb.AssociatedGroups.Contains Lies (Keith Dahlby)

Miscellaneous

• Ebookpie.com launches with Wrox Chapters and ebooks (Jim Minatel)
• Unlock thumbnail previews for Firefox 3.6 on Windows 7 (Ed Bott)
• New in PowerGUI 2.0: Snapshots (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Daily Dose – SourceForge Blocks the "Axis of Evil" and Then Some (Mitch Pronschinske)
• SmartDraw 2010: An Easy-to-use Diagramming Tool (Will Kelly)
• The Astoria Team Is hiring !!! (Phani Raj)
• The PowerScripting Centennial (Lee Holmes)
• Ballmer’s tablet bumble (Robert Scoble)
• Office 2010 Technology in Action at the Winter Games in Vancouver (Office Team)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Using Drupal — Only $9.99! Use discount code UD999 (O’Reilly Media)
• Documentary Featuring Bill Gates Scores at Sundance (Sarah Perez)
• The Tablet Could Spur A Media Revolution, But It Will Be Out Of Apple’s Hands (Jason Kincaid)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #526 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 26, 2010 — #787 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers)

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Top Links

• Why are unused using directives not a warning? (Eric Lippert)
• .NET 4.0 and System.Threading.Tasks (Justin Etheredge)
• Silverlight Client for Facebook available (Tim Heuer)
• Software Development Do’s and Dont’s (Mike Ceranski)
• KISS Your ASP.NET MVC Routes (K. Scott Allen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Best Practice to Minimize your Windows Azure Compute Hours! (Gunther Lenz)
• Announcing the Entity Framework POCO Template update for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Diego Vega)
• Missile Launchers with F# (Coding4Fun)
• Duplicated columns in generated sql from NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)
• Profiler New Feature: Side by Side diff (Oren Eini)
• Don’t Use Try/Catch (Karl Seguin)
• XNA 3D Primer Published – Get a free copy! (Michael C. Neel)
• Do You Have A Great Windows Azure Idea? (Windows Azure Team)
• Adding labels to Breakpoints — vstipDebug0001 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Calls to ReportExecutionService.Render() Hang (Tony Rasa)

Web Development

• ASP.NET: Displaying a Second Window with JavaScript and ASP.NET: Selecting a Row in a GridView (Deborah Kurata)
• The Twitter API: The Schrodinger’s Cat of Web Service APIs (Karsten Januszewski)
• Translating routes (ASP.NET MVC and Webforms) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Setting Up IoC in ASP.NET MVC using Castle Windsor (Ali Bastani)
• jQuery 1.4 Opacity and IE Filters (Rick Strahl)
• Tip#101: Did you know… How to scope Theme (Anh Phan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Delivering value (Brian Marick)
• Highly Recommended Book: Debug It! (Davy Brion)
• Designing applications for cloud deployment (Gojko Adzic)
• Architecting for Desktop Virtualization – Part 3: Treat Your Desktop Client Like a Web Client (Jeremy Jarrell)
• TDD: Simplifying a test with a hand rolled stub and TDD: Rewriting/refactoring tests (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Flattery will get you everywhere [Html5Canvas source code now available on CodePlex!] (David Anson)
• More Silverlight Performance Goodness (Frank La Vigne)
• Incorporating Video into a Silverlight 4 Application (Scott Seely)
• Be one of the first to get the Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook! (Silverlight Team)
• XamlPadSample Step 1e-App.xaml and Assemblies (Rob Relyea)
• Simple 3D WPF Charting Wins Overall Best Article Dec 2009 (Sacha Barber)
• Magellan is on CodePlex (Paul Stovell)
• Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With VS 2010 Tooling (Article 2 of 7) and Adding a Navigation Page to a Silverlight Business Application Template (Article 4 of 7) and Adding Speakers Page Template With Converters In Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Article 5 of 7) and Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7) and Authentication and Authorization Using RIA Services (Article 7 of 7) (Peter Kellner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight TV Episode 4: 3 Steps to MEF – Export, Import, Compose (John Papa)
• Daniel Jeberaj on .NET Component Development (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Ping 45: Helping Haiti, Xbox taking over, Bing & Purge (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 82: Team Foundation Server 2010 Setup with Ed Holloway (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – January 25th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• If He Walks Like A Ruby Developer, But He Talks Like A PHP Developer, Then What Exactly Is He? (Jonathan Carter)
• Code Mastery – FREE EVENT – Boston (Rockford Lhotka)
• SharePoint 2010 SocialFest (Steve Clayton)

Database

• Tracking SQL Server Time (Buck Woody)
• DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP bug fixed in 2008 SP1 CU6 (Paul S. Randal)
• SQLAuthority News – Download White Paper – Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Understanding Feature and Code Depreciation for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
• Adding ribbon items into existing tabs/groups (ribbon customization part 2) (Chris O’Brien)
• I added a Web Part to my site home page which causes an exception (Paul Andrew)
• Integrating Microsoft Silverlight with Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 (Robert Hess)

Miscellaneous

• Google Reader Gets Smart, Tracks Updates on Feedless Web Sites (Adam Pash)
• A Feed You Should Read #21 – All About Microsoft by Mary-Jo Foley (Greg Duncan)
• More Resources for Developers (Ian Fette)
• Wrox PDF Ebooks DRM-free (Jim Minatel)
• Use The Right Version of PowerShell. (Jeffrey Snover)
• 2010 Tech Trends; Microsoft CIO Shares Some Thoughts (Dominic Carr)
• Search Fundamentals – Basic Indexing (Alan Skorkin)
• Dose – Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK Released… Wait, No! I Take it Back! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Accessing Office Documents Using Your Phone (Office Team)
• Cheat sheet: Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 01/26/2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #525 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #106 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: January 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)

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Essential LINQ

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Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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

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Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

The Ultimate HTML Reference

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Top Links

• TWC9: 2009 – The Year in Review (Dan Fernandez) – The Channel 9 crew wraps up the series for 2009.
• Azure Blob Storage plugin for Windows Live Writer now available (James Clarke) – A cool new plugin for WLW.
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK v1.0 Released (Service Bus and Access Control) (Greg Duncan) – Greg spots the v1.0 SDK release on MS Downloads.
• ASP.NET MVC 2 and Visual Studio 2010 (Phil Haack) – Phil gives an update on MVC v2 following the announcement of the delay of VS2010 and its upcoming RC release.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Dminor (MS Research)
• An RSS Dashboard in F#, part two (IObservables) (Brian McNamara)
• Visual Studio 2008 Server Explorer Missing… (Doug Holland)
• WCF RIA Service – How to configure the WCF Service maximum items returned by the Query (Fredrik Normén)
• OR-ing criteria with NHibernate, or “How to include it all” (Kyle Baley)
• Securing WCF REST Service using Windows Authentication (Mahesh Sabnis)
• When using LINQ don’t forget about deferred execution (Mark Meyerovich)
• What’s A PkgDef? And Why? (Bill Weinberger)
• F#: The use keyword and using function and F#: Word Count – A Somewhat Failed Attempt and F#: Word Count using a Dictionary (Mark Needham)
• Another Cool Resharper Refactoring (Peter Kellner)
• The Sieve of Eratosthenes and F# (Scott Seely)
• Visual Studio Code Formatting (Steve Andrews)
• Enabling Logging In Your Agatha Service Layer and Agatha 1.0 (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Adding a bit of Spark to Nerd Dinner and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine Pt2 [Extending ASP.NET MVC - Replacing the View Engine Pt2] and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine Part 1 [Extending ASP.NET MVC - Replacing the View Engine Part 1] (Mike Ormond)
• want brevity in .net mvc code? switch to f#. (Alex Pedenko)
• JavaScript Part 5 – The Client Side (Leon Gersing)
• .closest(Array) in jQuery 1.4 (John Resig)
• Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part I (Harish Ranganathan)
• Google Sites Data API Prototype (Kris Gray)
• Extreme Web UI Scalability – Part 2 (Jonathan Oliver)
• Passing anonymous objects to MVC views and accessing them using dynamic (David Ebbo)
• Tip#100: Did you know… How to view ASP.NET trace information? (Anh Phan)
• SmtpClient and Locked File Attachments (Rick Strahl)
• What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS (Tim Wright)
• Using conventions with Passive View (Mark Nijhof)
• OData gunning for ubiquity across Microsoft products (Jamie Thomson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practices of an Agile Developer (Chris Missal)
• Effectus: Building UI based on conventions and Effectus: Fatten your infrastructure (Oren Eini)
• Open Source Licensing, Copyright Notices, Contributions: What To Do? (Davy Brion)
• Agile Tenet #2 – Welcome Changing Requirements (Julie Stickler)
• Pex 0.20.v0.20.41218.2: Beavers, new Event View and bugs fixes (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 12 & 13 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• If Value is the Problem, What Can I Do About It? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Leadership Tip: The Best Management Is Management You Cannot See. and Career Tip: Focus On Being A Happy Hedgehog Over The Long Term. (Rajiv Popat)
• The Polyglot Tester (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Advanced Unity: Connecting Implementations to Open Generic Types (Jarod Ferguson)
• Coding: An outside in observation (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• HVP – Core Scaffolding and Updated News (Jesse Liberty)
• The Completion of the 31 Days of Silverlight and Day #20: Adding Audio to Silverlight Events (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Architecting SL4 Applications with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM – Part 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• View-the-box (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 135: Sleeping With Scissors (Paul Thurrott)
• Entity Framework Unit Testing with TypeMock Isolator (Muhammad Mosa)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 017 – Behavior Driven Development (Eric Nelson)
• Wes Dyer: Controlling Concurrency in Rx (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Silverlight 4 tutorial : adding avatar support to the business template (David Rousset)
• Major Nelson Show 344: VGA’s, GH Van Halen, Borderlands and Splinter Cell Conviction (Larry Hyrb)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Coding 4 Fun (Nic Fillingham)
• Codecast interviews about the Editor and Extensibility (Quan To)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Migrating to SQL Server from Other Database Products and SQLAuthority News – Migrating DTS Packages to Integration Services (Pinal Dave)
• AdventureWorks Community Sample Databases available for SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)
• XBoxGames Databases for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 (Shawn Wildermuth)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: SharePoint Administrator’s and Developer’s Guide to Code Access Security (Andrew Connell)
• My First SharePoint 2010 feature! Adding jQuery… (Wesley Bakker)
• Visualizing Data using XSLT: Following up on SPC 2009’s session on Building SharePoint Mashups With SPD, Bing Maps and REST Services (Doreen Grieb)

Miscellaneous

• Diagram of Geek Culture (Ibrahim Evsan)
• Looking for that perfect icon? Search a repository of 125,723 or easily browsing 331 icon sets at Icon Finder (Greg Duncan)
• Trying MonoDevelop On OS X, Part Two (Davy Brion)
• Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 GM Versions (PSN Editorial Staff)
• Readable Regular Expressions Revisited (Joshua Flanagan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 18, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 19, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 17, 2009 — #758 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for December 19, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links #84 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.15 ~ 12.20 (yuanjian)
• Interesting Post… 12/13/2009 through 12/20/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links (12/20/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• So you want to write a Storage Engine… (Paul S. Randal)
• Holiday Reading: Free eBooks and Good Blogs (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Not another NDepend review, link roundup (Peter Eysermans)

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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

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Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 2 RC Released (Phil Haack) – Phil announces what looks to be the last release of v2 before it ships with VS2010.
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Update (Scott Guthrie) – VS2010 to be delayed a few weeks so MS can release an RC build in February to address performance concerns.
• World# – Real Time 3D Augmented Reality with Silverlight (Rene Schulte) – Rene is doing some really amazing 3D stuff with Silverlight, A must-read!
• Moonlight 2 is now available (Silverlight Team) – V2 offers SL2 features and some bits of SL3.
• The Law of Unintended Consequences (Justin Etheredge) – Nice post from Justin that reminds us to be conscious of possible side-effects when we make decisions in software development.

.NET / Visual Studio

• VS2010 Modeling; Create Lifeline from Component (Clemens Reijnen)
• Developing an installer for your Surface application (Eric St. John)
• F#: Word Count – A somewhat failed attempt (Mark Needham)
• Lessons In Building An Email Parser (Rob Reynolds)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta period extended (Somasegar)
• Changed and rewritten items: Effective C# 2nd edition (Bill Wagner)
• Using LINQPad with NHibernate (Alan Northam)
• Astoria Data Services V2 Support in Telerik Data Services Wizard (Stephen Forte)

Web Development

• A Bit About Spark and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine and Adding a bit of Spark to Nerd Dinner (Mike Ormond)
• Understanding Partial Views in ASP.NET MVC Application (Mohammad Azam)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta – Strongly Typed UI Helpers (Malcolm Sheridan)
• The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 4 – Integrating Siege.ServiceLocation with ASP.NET MVC and The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation Part 5 – A guide to getting started with Siege.ServiceLocation (Marcus Bratton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Balsamiq Mid-Week Release: finishing up Zoom (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• How to write MEF in 2 hours or less (Oren Eini)
• Advanced StructureMap: connecting implementations to open generic types (Jimmy Bogard)
• Leadership Tip: Leaders Who Are Always Busy Often Make Really Bad Leaders. (Rajiv Popat)
• What Is The Difference Between an IoC Container and MEF? (Jak Charlton)

Silverlight / WPF

• Flash to Silverlight Guide – MovieClip to UserControl (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight 4: Drag&drop with EventToCommand (Laurent Bugnion)
• Extending the SMF for the HVP (Jesse Liberty)
• Open-Source WPF Reporting Engine (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 12 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 70: Brian Hitney of Microsoft (Michael Kimsal)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #155: Exploring .Net 4 Features – Tuples (Derik Whittaker)
• New PowerGUI Overview Video (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Pete at PDC09: Jon Galloway on Witty Twitter and Pete at PDC09: The Sobees Social Client, WPF, Silverlight and Yahoo! (Pete Brown)
• The Thirsty Developer 80: Meeting the New Guy, Clark Sell (Dave Bost)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Erik Meijer and Thomas Lewis (Nic Fillingham)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 016 – Real Time Web and Silverlight (Eric Nelson)

Community / Events

• Looking for last-minute gift idea? Buy The Art of Community book by Jono Bacon (Sara Ford)
• CodePaste is the bee’s knees, my new favorite way to share code. (Glenn Block)

Database

• The Top 20 Questions in Database Design (Buck Woody)
• Reporting Services Licensing (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Differences in Vulnerability between Oracle and SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Transaction Log Fragmentation??? (Lawrence Overbey)

Miscellaneous

• Tools of the Tech Tweet Trade (Elijah Manor)
• C# 4, ASP.NET 4, WPF 4, and VB 2010 Sample Preview Chapters (Jim Minatel)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/18 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Building a PC, Part VI: Rebuilding (Jeff Atwood)
• Palm unveils "Project Ares" webOS developer tool (Nik Fletcher)
• Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 GM Versions (PSN Editorial Staff)
• Open Source As A SaaS Endgame – Digging A Bit More (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Using PowerShell to clean and zip a Solution folder (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #501 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 17, 2009 — #758 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Top 5 Essays You Should Read (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Links (12/17/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Creators Club Communiqué 35 (Kathleen Sanders)

The Geek Shelf

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Source Code for Programming F# (Chris Smith)
• Windows 7 Ribbon for WinForms – Yes you can… (Greg Duncan)
• Surface SDK 1.0 SP1 supports XNA Game Studio 3.0 and later (Eric St. John)
• Sample: Get Calendar Data Using Exchange Web Services (C#) (Jason Zander)
• What’s new for editor extenders in Beta 2? (Noah Richards)
• Hello World With Agatha (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Deploying A Web Application with Git and FTP (Rob Conery)
• LinkedIn API Platform Goes Live: Your Resume and Business Network Now Have an API (Adam DuVander)
• Developers Get a Sneak Peek at Internet Explorer 9 (Bruce Kyle)
• JQuery Validator plus Element IDs, and Names (Chris Brandsma)
• ASP.NET 4.0 ScriptManager Improvements (Dave Reed)
• Visual WebGui: Cloud Optimization and the Application Layer (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Accelerate PHP Applications on Windows with the new Cache Extension (Lawrence Moroney)
• Renaming jQuery UI Tabs (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Serialize Any .NET Object to a JSON String (Deepak Choudhari)
• Where does this go? Applying SoC to dynamic data – Part 1 (Peter Blum)
• Enabling the ASP.NET Ajax script loader for your own scripts (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Offsetting Your Bad Code Footprint (Billy McCafferty)
• Always write a spec, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Book Review: Debug It! (Paul Butcher, Pragmatic Bookshelf) (Ted Neward)
• Pros don’t make do (Scott Koon)
• TestAPI 0.4 Released (Lester Lobo)
• Connecting Your Tests to an Implementation and Static vs. Instance-Based Models (Nico Kicillof)
• Mindscape LightSpeed an O/R Mapper Done Right (Rob Bazinet)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Beta – Accessing a users webcam and microphone and Silverlight 4 Beta – Text Trimming and Silverlight 4 Beta – Using Silverlight as Drop Target (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight (Corrina Barber)
• What’s New in Silverlight 4 (John Papa) – Link of the Day
• Sharing isn’t easy for anyone [Tricks for sharing the same XAML files across Silverlight and WPF] (David Anson)
• Using the WebBrowser control and debug a Silverlight Out-of-browser (OOB) application in VS 2010 (Fredrik Normén)
• Free Embeddable Fonts for your WPF Applications (Learn WPF)
• New WPF Features: DatePicker\Calendar\VSM\Datagrid (Lester Lobo)
• Running FxCop rules against Silverlight or WPF XAML and XAML Toolkit CTP – November 2009 is now live! (Michael Shim)
• Microsoft’s Bob Muglia and Ray Ozzie on Silverlight vs. standards (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Taking a WebCam Photo with Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• EdgeCam Shots – Saving Silverlight 4 Webcam Snapshots to JPEG (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010 (Beth Massi)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 40: Silverlight 4 and Behind the Scenes at PDC 2009 with Scott Guthrie (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Øredev chit-chat: Dag König and Scott Hanselman and Øredev chit-chat: Dag König and Julia Lerman and Øredev chit-chat: Johan Lindfors and Alan Smith and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Shawn Wildermuth and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Scott Bellware and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Ayende Rahien (Dag König)
• 10-4 Episode 36: Windows Server AppFabric and Workflow Services Lab (Ron Jacobs)
• Silverlight Podcast: Expression Encoder 3 (Silverlight Team)
• Videos of C# Authors at PDC (Charlie Calvert)

Community / Events

• PDC2009, Coding4Fun, and Mind Blaster (Brian Peek)
• SharePoint 2010 Experience: Dec 2nd and 3rd (Jim O’Neil)
• Oredev Keynote – Information Overload and Managing the Flow: Effectiveness and Efficiency (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• Hitting the upper limit of foreign key constraints (Jimmy Bogard)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Hex Dumper in PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft’s TechNet Releases "Explore as Administrator" PowerToy for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/24 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Collaboration Without Compromise (Ayca)
• I Don’t Get The Hype – Google Wave is Discussion Forums Web 2.0 (Keith Elder)
• Windows Azure vs. Windows 8 Server? (Stephen Chapman)
• Orchard team looking for a new developer (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Extensions: One Step Closer to the Finish Line (Ian Fette)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/23/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2009 — #741 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #483 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 393 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day