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Top Links

• NHibernate donation campaign (Oren Eini)
• "Art of Agile Development" Going Online (James Shore)
• Chapter 1 of “SQL Server DMVs in Action” is now available for FREE (Ian Stirk)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observers (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Ninject 2 Dependency Injection Reaches GA (Mitch Pronschinske)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Virtual Space (Richard Carr)
• WDK 7.1.0 (MS Downloads)
• My Visual Studio 2008 is broken after uninstalling .NET Framework 4.0 (VS Team)
• Download code from the MonoTouch ebook (Wally McClure)
• DataTip Value from the Last Debug Session — vstipDebug0012 and Understanding Word Wrap — vstipEdit0022 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Issues Compiling VS2010 solutions (with web projects) from Nant (Derik Whittaker)
• WCF RIA Services and Audit – Historical changes (Fredrik Normen)
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 & .Net 4 – The Official MSDN Source (Greg Duncan)
• Behaviors with MSpec (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Column guides for Visual Studio 2010: An extension (Jeff Wilcox)
• No Intellisense with VS 2010 RC (and how to fix it) (Scott Guthrie)
• Setting up a continuous integration server for a CodePlex project using TeamCity and Mercurial (Bertrand Le Roy)

Web Development

• View/ViewModel Association – Convention and Configuration-based Approaches (Nikhil Kothari)
• Lucene.net Is Powering Subtext 2.5 Search (Simone Chiaretta)
• Profilers and ASP.NET (Tom)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Project code organization (Patrick Smacchia)
• Balsamiq – Help us design the “Components” feature (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Learning From Austin Powers: Your Product Does Not Need More Features. (Rajiv Popat)
• Code Kata (Julian M. Bucknall)
• The usefulness of interaction tests, or “How to question the method” (Kyle Baley)
• Initiate and Embrace change (Mark Nijhof)
• Get started with Microsoft Test Manager (Murray Gordon)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4, Experiment with Pluggable Navigation and a WCF Data Service (Mike Taulty)
• When Is It OK To Hack? (Jesse Liberty)
• Setting focus in XAML with no code (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure Miniseries #4: Monitoring Applications (Brian Hitney)
• Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 1 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 2 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 3 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 4 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 5 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 6 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 7 (Dag König)
• Fez’ing with the .Net Micro-framework (Coding4Fun)
• TWC9: MIX10, Tweevo, Silverlight Augmented Reality, testing (Dan Fernandez)
• jQuery Podcast 13 – David Walsh (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Cloud Cover – Episode 2 (Ryan Dunn)

Database

•  SQL SERVER – INSERT TOP (N) INTO Table – Using Top with INSERT (Pinal Dave)
• Using SQL Server Management tools and Integrated Security/Windows Authentication from a non-domain joined machine (Greg Duncan)
• Outputting data to an XML file : SSIS video nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• Turning on execution plans affects performance (Simon Sabin)
• Readonly Databases (Martin Bell)
• Using schemas to maintain order as a DBA (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Mobile Rendering (And Device Emulator Fun!) (Charles Chen)
• SharePoint Designer’s new workflow editor: keyboard shortcuts (SharePoint Designer Team)
• SharePoint Dialog Auto-Sizing and Master Page Customization (Zach Nation)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Hotkey to Pause Pandora (Lee Holmes)
• How I use Social Media: Part 4–LinkedIn (Amy Blankenship)
• Windows 7 memory usage: What’s the best way to measure? (Ed Bott)
• Lynda.com video tutorial site now has iPhone app (Erez Zukerman)
• Confirmed: Windows Mobile 6.5 to become Windows Phone Starter Edition (Nilay Patel)
• The 27th of Diduary: Did you know you can get 7 free songs every week? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Daily Dose – Vote for the New Eclipse Logo! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Entelligence: Windows Phone 7 Series (Michael Gartenberg)
• NUI, Lolcats and other trending topics at Microsoft (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• PowerShell – Speak Number of Lines of Code (Keith Elder)
• Developers, save us from the Microsoft undead (Joe Wilcox)
• iPhone OS Coming to More Devices? (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 26, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – FEB ‘10 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 27, 2010 — #804 (Dave Campbell)
• Friday Potpourri: Azure, Bing Maps, Oomph, and more (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Azure Resources for Decision Makers (Murray Gordon)

The Geek Shelf

Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Introducing PowerBuilder 12 .NET (Yakov Werde)
• Debugging .NET apps for .NET 4.0 (Tom)
• Rhino Divan DB – Consideration (Oren Eini)
• Global Exception Handler (WinForms) and Nullable Data Types (Deborah Kurata)
• Dev Tip Build Your Solutions from the Context Menu (Jimmy Bosse)
• Thoughts on C# 4.0’ optional parameters (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• CodeRush Test Runner In-source UI Preview (Mark Miller)
• F# First Class Events – Async Workflows + Events Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer (MS Downloads)
• Lucene.net: The Main Concepts (Simone Chiaretta)
• Simple Example of Twilio and Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Kanban Board Is A Production Leveling Task Board (Derick Bailey)
• Is Agile a mystery? (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Answer: The lazy loaded inheritance many to one association OR/M conundrum (Oren Eini)
• DDD: Repository Implementation Patterns (Jimmy Bogard)
• Your code via NDepend (Brendan Kowitz) – Link of the Day
• Modularity Pattern – Manage Relationships (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Coding: Reduce fields, delay calculations (Mark Needham)
• The Conversation Conversation and Noodling on Kanban… Part One (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Why Declarative UIs Are Important (Shawn Wildermuth)
• brownfield development – other ideas? (Howard Dierking)

Silverlight / WPF

• U.S. Army using Silverlight for Resourcing Troops (Adam Kinney)
• Compiling pixel shaders for Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• More Silverlight MVVM fun (Rockford Lhotka)
• Service Locator in MVVM (Marlon Grech)
• Expression Blend 3.0 TFS Source Control (Doug Holland)
• UI without code or XAML: PropertyGrid, DataForm, etc. (Kirill Osenkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen on the Legal Side of Software! (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV: The Cloud Part 1, What it Means to the User and ARCast.TV: The Cloud Part 2, What is Microsoft Doing (MS Podcasts)
• Creating DSLs in Oslo (Amanda Laucher)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #66 (Jeff Atwood)

Community / Events

• Western European ReMix Tour 2009 (Brad Abrams)
• Webinars Next Week (William Vaughn)
• I’m A Lucky Programmer Too! (Chris Missal)
• Windows 7 Compatibility Labs and Seminars in Washington DC region (Ashish Jaiman)
• MVP Releases Windows Azure Community Site (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Random Thoughts on Day 2 of the Nothing But .NET Course (Russell Ball)
• Thanks and A Software Development School Idea (Corey Haines)
• Get Windows 7 Ultimate for free… by throwing a party (Nilay Patel)
• Please, please, please post StructureMap questions to the list (Jeremy D. Miller)

Database

• Microsoft Downplays SQL Server Database Vulnerability (Brian Prince)
• Handling Temp tables in reporting services (Simon Sabin)
• Using Oslo to Speed Up Database Development (Stephen Forte)
• SQL SERVER – What is Data Mining – A Simple Introductory Note (Pinal Dave)
• Using a Calendar for a Date Hierarchy Parameter with SSAS 2008 and SSRS 2008 (riverguy)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Governance and best practices, some thoughts (Joris Poelmans)

Miscellaneous

• WorldWide Telescope’s New Frontier (Rob Knies)
• 3 Ways to Track Your Rank on Twitter (Adam DuVander)
• Using Ruby Blocks And Rolling Your Own Iterators (Alan Skorkin)
• Zoho Projects : Add Task Notes, Log Time from My Timesheet, View Unread Chat Topics (Celina B.)
• WL Movie Maker PM Mike Torres Part 2: a LiveSide interview (Kip Kniskern)
• “Weekly” Release: FogBugz Wiki integration and more! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• New Feature in Zoho Share : Add to Favorites (Rajasekaran Gopalan)
• The Ultimate Windows Console Replacement (Michael Ceranski)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #425 (Chris Alcock)
• Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Web Slice, Accelerator, Search Provider resources (Hanu Kommalapati)
• CloudNews for 2nd September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) and Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Agent and Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) and F# May 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Scalar and Void Functions (Dan Rigsby)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet (Dan Fernandez)
• IronPython 2.6 CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 and IronPython 2.6 Beta 1 (Harry Pierson)
• General Download of VS2010 / .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 (Jason Zander)
• Surface Development Part 3: ScatterView (Jennifer Marsman)
• WinFormsMVC (Steve Andrews) – Link of the Day
• IronRuby CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 and IronRuby 0.5 Released (Jimmy Schementi)
• Entity Framework 4 Persistence-Ignorance First Look (Muhammad Mosa)
• Parallel Stacks – another new VS2010 debugger window and VS2010 Fix for "not all anonymous methods are the same" (Daniel Moth)
• First few VS 2010 extensions are now available (Quan To)
• C# 4 and the dynamic keyword – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 and Back to Basics: Using Fusion Log Viewer to Debug Obscure Loader Errors (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Start Page Customization (Adrian)
• VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 Released (Michael Ceranski)
• .NET Framework 4.0: Using System.Lazy (Gunnar Peipman)
• Parameter Count Mismatch Error (Shahar Yair)
• T4 Toolbox: LINQ to SQL schema generator (Oleg Sych)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Can you justify your actions with regards to this pattern? (Oren Eini)
• An Agile CM Manifesto: Lame Oxymoron or Long Overdue? (Brad Appleton)
• Reducing Code Coupling – Introduction and Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit 2nd Ed. (Grant Palin)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 1 (Rajiv Popat)
• Art Of Unit Testing (The Samurai Book)– Get it now, it’s done. (Roy Osherove)
• Caricature Ready for Beta (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• To CI or not to CI, did not realize it was still even a question? (Derik Whittaker)
• Throttling the Agile Enterprise (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• 3 essentials to quickly learning Blend (Corey Schuman)
• Silverlight Visual Studio helper files (Tim Heuer)
• NET RIA Services: Building Data-Driven Business Applications with Microsoft Silverlight3 and Microsoft ASP.NET (Jeff Barnes)

Web Development

• jQuery Progressbar (Dave M. Bush)
• Book review: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Simone Chiaretta)
• CSS Tabeless Design Basics – Positioning Content with Floats instead of Tables (Dave Schinkel)
• Automatically minify and combine JavaScript in Visual Studio (Dave Ward)
• Password FieldTemplates for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Consume an ASP.NET WebService returning List<> with Dates using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ECMAScript 5 Objects and Properties (John Resig)
• ASP.NET MVC Domain Routing (Maarten Balliauw)
• FireAtlas – FireBug for ASP.NET Ajax (Joe Stagner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ten Things that Annoy Miguel Castro (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – David Makogon on Architecting Interface to Improve Testability (Bob Familiar)
• 10-4 Episode 20: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Brian Keller)
• MetraTech: Polymorphic Iterators, Concurrency, CRM and MetraFlow and Luke Hoban: Latest version of F# Released – What’s the story? What’s next? and Microsoft Manufacturing Toolkit (Charles Torre)
• New Screencast: Custom Sprocs in Entity Framework (Dan Rigsby)
• Geneva Server, Windows CardSpace Geneva, Information Cards and PHP Interoperability (Donovan Follette)
• Catching up with Paul Culmsee-Episode 24 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)
• History of User Experience (Pixel8 Podcast)

Community / Events

• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow – Summer 2009 (Zhiming Xue)
• The state of Open Source in the .NET ecosystem: A five year summary (Oren Eini)
• Twitter contest: what can you code in 130 characters? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• CMAP Hands On Labs Group Meeting – Silverlight – Thursday, May 21st at 6:30pm (Christopher Steen)

Database

• SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: ) (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS and SSRS Usergroup Available Online (Simon Sabin)
• IDENTITY vs. ROWGUID (Rob Teixeira)

PowerShell

• V2 Quick Tips: Finding Extra Outputs From Your Script (James Brundage)

SharePoint

• SharePoint on SharePoint: Launch of new website (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Blogging about Pex, let us know! (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Mozilla’s Jetpack to bring next generation add-ons (Josh Lowensohn)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 3 – Detailed Notes (Justin Etheredge)
• CardSpace v2 moving into a new role? (Keith Brown)
• Kumo, Bing, or ???: Are secrets extinct? (Kip Kniskern)
• Ray Ozzie Asserts Microsoft’s Position In The Cloud (Leena Rao)
• A first glimpse of virtualization in Windows 7 (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Learn iPhone Development for Free (Rob Bazinet)
• How to receive email notifications for work items – #033 (Sara Ford)
• Microsoft’s Beginner’s Guide To Cloud Computing (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for May 20, 2009 — #597 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 20th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 19th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• CloudNews for May 20th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for May 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day