• Microsoft Codename “Data Explorer” Walkthrough (Data Explorer Team)
• Marketplace comes to China & India; also improves search and 7.0 & 7.5 app update options (Todd Brix)
• Designing search for the Start screen (Steven Sinofsky)
• How We Talk about EF and its Future Versions (EF Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding Clone Codes in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Thoughts on JustDecompile compared to Reflector (Dennis Delimarsky)
• All-In-One Code Framework Sample Browser v4 (aka Metro version) now Visual Studio Extension’d (Don’t leave your Visual Studio without it…) (Greg Duncan)
• Exploring Visual Studio 11 IDE – Solution Explorer New Features Part 1 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• APress Deal of the Day – 19/Oct/2011 – Introducing .NET 4.0 With Visual Studio 2010 (Tatworth)
• Microsoft Biology Foundation Evolves into New Tool Kit: .NET Bio (Simon Mercer)
• Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat SDK (MS Downloads)
• Visual C++ and WinRT/Metro – Databinding Basics (Nishant Sivakumar)
• Template for generating POCO classes with Notify in Entity Framework 4.1 (David Sherwood)
• The Quick and Dirty EF 4.1 Code Generator (Colin Blair)
• "You are now up to date." [IfModifiedSinceWebClient makes it easy to keep a local file in sync with online content - and do so asynchronously] (David Anson)
• Capture, Transfer, and Rethrow Exceptions with ExceptionDispatchInfo [.NET 4.5] (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Naked Objects Release 4.0.110.0 (CodePlex)
• Things I love about .Net (Dru Sellers)

Web Development

• Facebook: Introducing HTML5 Resource Center (Matt Kelly)
• New! HTML 5 and CSS: Six Complete Lessons (Randy Guthrie)
• Optimize ASP.NET presentation (Mads Kristensen)
• A Web Standard for Notifications using JavaScript and HTML5 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Nested Conditionals with Guard Clauses (Giorgio Sironi)
• A JavaScript class pattern that starts with a function (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Drop Shadows in CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Handling PHP Sessions in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Site Pinning: Rotating Overlay Icons for Multiple Service Notifications (Rey Bango)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Respect is a Reflection and Personal Development Books Revisited (JD Meier)
• Which Program Team Are You Managing? (Johanna Rothman)
• How To Build An Agile UX Team: The Culture (Jeff Gothelf)
• Wrapping Up on the Feng Shui for Establishing a Culture of Innovation (Peter Saddington)
• Universal unit testing (browser, Node.js) with Jasmine (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Your ctor says that your code is headache inducing: Introduction (Oren Eini)
• Mocking Property Expectations with Moq (Richard Carr)
• Xbox Kinect Hub Remake – An Introduction To New User Interfaces (Doug Rathbone)
• Agile is for your WHOLE Business (Joel Semeniuk)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Implicit styles in Windows Phone 7 (Andreas Hammar)
• IoC for Windows Phone: Ninject (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• A New Library for Building HTML5 Widgets for Windows Phone (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Expression Blend: Designing for usability (Pam Keesey)
• 2000 WPF Things #411 – Use HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment to Position Child Elements within a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• Facebook Graph API and Silverlight (Lazar Nikolov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 022: The Fishbone Documentary (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Startup Success Podcast Show #123: Hal Ostrow, mistartuplawyer.com (Bob Walsh)
• Video on How to solve cross domain problem in Silverlight? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Engadget HD Podcast 270 – 10.18.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Shortcuts, Multimonitor setup, USB Wifi Extender (Larry Larsen)
• The GeekDads Episode #102: Causation Does Not Imply Causality (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• The Microsoft Cookbook: Good food, good stories, good cause (Zoe Goldring)
• Sold out Windows Phone camps help students and professional developers publish their own apps (Dave Isbitski)
• PASS Summit 2011: A Picture Book (Jes Schultz Borland)
• MVPs Take Top Honors in Kinect for Windows Application (MVP Award Program)

Database

• SQL Server Denali CTP3 Demo VHD (MS Downloads)
• Upcoming SQL Server Training Webcasts (Brent Ozar)
• Monitoring SSRS report performance: Part 1 (John Pertell)
• SQL SERVER – A Simple Quiz – T-SQL Brain Trick (Pinal Dave)
• What does a SQL Server DBA need to check for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly? (Denis Gobo)
• Using sys.dm_exec_requests to find a blocking chain (William Assaf)
• Creating Views in Another Database (Bob Pusateri)
• Dropping a database – such a simple thing! (Martin Catherall)
• Extended properties of database objects (J. Verheul)

SharePoint

• What “The Far Side” can teach us about SharePoint (Mark Rackley)

Miscellaneous

• New Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions (Dominic Mazzoni)
• Getting Inherited Config Settings (Howard Dierking)
• What is SkyDrive waiting for? (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft closes in on delivering its own Hadoop competitor (Mary Jo Foley)
• Ominous Post (Matt Warren)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Codermetrics – $16.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #962 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 19 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 18, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #732 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 18/10/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 10/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 17-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/18/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2011 — #1159 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Entity Framework 4 in Action by Stefano Mostarda

Top Links

• I don’t want your stinkin’ code comments (Robert Greyling)
• Silverlight Open File Dialog Behavior (MVVM) (Michael Washington)
• Extended WPF Toolkit – New ColorPicker Control (Brian Lagunas)
• ReSharper Zencoding (David Ridgway)
• Customizing WP7 Push Notification Tiles (Chris Koenig)

.NET / Visual Studio

• On Fluent NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• 3 Free Useful Visual Studio 2010 Add-Ins (Ben March)
• Checking for Empty Strings (Deborah Kurata)
• Contracts (Sacha Barber)
• Using .Net WCF Syndication API to Read a Comments Feed (Gil Fink)
• Advanced Code Diff from within Visual Studio (Patrick Smacchia)
• Project Euler Problem 6 and 7 in F# (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Search in Class View and Synchronize Your Class View (Zain Naboulsi)
• MongoDb NoRM MonoDevelop on Ubuntu Linux (Peter Bromberg)
• ThinkGearNET 1.1 (Brian Peek)
• How method length Affects performance in .net (Russell Ball)
• 13 books for a .NET Summer reading list (Simone Chiaretta)

Web Development

• Social Media Html Helpers (Nigel Sampson)
• Performance tuning tricks for ASP.NET and IIS 7 – part 2 (Mads Kristensen)
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Using HttpNotFoundResult in controller tests and ASP.NET MVC meets HTML5 (Gunnar Peipman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Should Unit Testing Frameworks Handle Unhandled Exceptions? (Jason Bock)
• Day 15 – Achieve a Peaceful Calm State of Mind (J.D. Meier)
• Unit Testing Secure Controller Actions with Moq (Mike Ceranski)
• How to fake C++ objects with Isolator++ (Beta) (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Don’t let your code make-work for others (Maggie Longshore)
• Pushing, Pulling, and Lean-ing (Steven ‘Doc’ List)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Tutorial : Concept Binding (Abhishek Sur)
• WP7 Splash Screen Tips & Tricks (Rudi Grobler)
• Validating Data in Silverlight 4 Applications – IDataErrorInfo (Dan Wahlin)
• THIS is How You Do It: The USGA Golf Score App for Windows Phone 7 (Joey deVilla)
• Problem Resolution: Installing Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta (John Papa)
• Building a Search Text Box Control with WPF (Le Duc Anh)
• 7 things to consider when developing for Windows Phone 7 (at this point) and Operating with image files in a Windows Phone 7 application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 Beta: Go Back…. No I mean the other Back (Nick Randolph)
• Understanding Windows Phone Orientation in XNA (Rob Miles)
• Cinch + Latest Enhancements = I Am Finally Done (Sacha Barber)
• What I learned about Windows Phone 7 from Android (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Querying Netflix OData Service using Silverlight 4 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• XamlQuery – The Write Less, Do More, Silverlight Library – Release: v1.0 Documentation (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 365: Lara Croft, NPD’s etc. (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 122 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones With A Script Editor Shoot-Out And Much More (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Cloud Cover Episode 22 – Identity in Windows Azure (Ryan Dunn)
• Understanding MetroUI (Steven Hodson)
• Creativity – John Cleese (Mark Needham)
• Technology & Friends Episode 110: Jeremy Likness on MEF (David Giard)
• Behind The Curtain – Episode #1 (Michael Lehman)

Community / Events

• Open Source & .NET OpenCamp 2010 (Caleb Jenkins)
• More votes required for Visual Studio ALM on Area51 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Stack Exchange API Contest Winners (Jeff Atwood)
• Startup – Week 1 Recap (Justin Etheredge)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 and R2 Diagnostic Information Queries (Glenn Berry)
• SQLAuthority News – Bookmark Link for Sync Framework for SQL Azure and SQL SERVER – Finding the Occurrence of Character in String (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Highly Recommended Book: The Ruby Programming Language (Davy Brion)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Beautiful Security – Only $9.99. Use code DDBSY (O’Reilly Media)
• Around the World in Windows 7 Themes (Richard Hay)
• Detecting the STA Thread from GetToSTA (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Internet Explorer Turns 15 (Stan Schroeder)
• How to Get CineXPlayer for iPad on Your iPhone and iPod touch Right Now! , to Play Xvid AVI Videos (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 037 for 8/16/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #665 (Chris Alcock)
• Flagged Links #79 (Jason Bock)
• A Feed You Should Read #33 – The Silverlight Show (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight Cream for August 15, 2010 — #926 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB by Bill Evjen

Top Links

• Overlapping Display Elements in Silverlight (Rob Miles)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 Source Code (CodePlex)
• Details, screenshots of the Windows Phone 7 app marketplace on Zune (Brody McKee)
• Handling the SelectionChanged event in WP7 using MVVM Light (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Data access is contextual, a generic approach will fail (Oren Eini)
• NHibernate Linq Eager Fetching (Mike Hadlow)
• Testing a Command (Zain Naboulsi)
• Microsoft.Data: Why It’s Not All Bad (Dane Morgridge)
• Four chapters that didn’t make the “"Visual Basic 2010 Unleashed” book are being given to you free… (Greg Duncan)
• SystemMenu does not show correctly when Ribbon application is run against .Net 4.0. (Varsha Mahadevan)
• Custom Configuration Sections FTW (Mike Ceranski)
• ReSharper PowerToys for ReSharper 5.1 and OData Helper – Release: v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Developing multi-threaded workflows (Rory Primrose)

Web Development

• Creating Copies of Attributes (Phil Haack)
• Tips and Tricks for Error Handling in ASP.NET Web Applications (Jacob Sebastian)
• Book Review: A Book Apart’s HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith (Rey Bango)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming the Mobile Web – Only $9.99. Use code DDPMW (O’Reilly Media)
• Getting (partial) color on Razor pages (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Announcing the OData Helper for WebMatrix (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Stories" Now Online (James Shore)
• Day 5 – Hot Spots – Map Out What’s Important (J.D. Meier)
• Patterns in Parallel Programming (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Guerilla TDD (Matt Stine)
• Balsamiq Mid-Summer Release: Colors, Notifiers and Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• 5 Organizational Tools I Can’t Work Without (Amber Singleton Riviere)
• Tips for creative success from Pixar (Garr Reynolds)
• Organizing and Sharing Knowledge (Marc Grabanski)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to use the DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode method to populate controls with design time data in WPF using Expression Blend and How to use the DesignerProperties.IsInDesignTool property to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight using Expression Blend (Jag Reehal)
• Extended WPF Toolkit – New MessageBox Control (Brian Lagunas)
• Get Early User Feedback for Your Windows Phone Application (Bruce Kyle)
• Building a RSS reader for Windows Phone 7 – Developing the functionality (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Implementing The Details UserControl (Davy Brion)
• Unit Testing XAML Data-Bindings in Silverlight (Jeremy Likness)
• Tired of Typing in a Search Box??? Get Human! (Don Burnett)
• Game Music and Sound Effects – Lesson 7 and Just worth shouting about! (Simon Jackson)
• ZoomableApplication1: Scale and Offset (Kael Rowan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• endpoint.tv – Making of The Lab – Intro to WF4 (Ron Jacobs)
• Advanced Silverlight Navigation Scenarios – Part 2 (Silverlight TV #39) (John Papa)
• Jonathan Edwards: Programming Futures and Declarative Objects (Charles Torre)
• Introducing the New Features of the August Labs Release of the Access Control Service (Vittorio Bertocci)
• Adam Kinney and Karl Shifflett talk about developer/designer workflow in Portland! (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• ACS Labs Walkthrough (Justin J. Smith)

Community / Events

• Open Source Support Is Not Just Code (Javier G. Lozano)
• Chat Now In Public Beta (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft extends employee pricing to PDC 2010 attendees (Lee Mathews)

Database

• New PHP Drivers for SQL Server Support Improved BI, Connection to SQL Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Testing Native Backup Compression in Combination with SQL Server 2008 R2 Data Compression (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server – Server-side paging with Row_number() function (Jacob Sebastian)
• Different ways to get Identity of New Inserted Rows in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Parallelism Query in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Object-Oriented Programming Concepts For DBAs (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Azure@home Part 3: Azure Storage (Jim O’Neil)
• Baseline, Performance Reporting and being a proactive DBA (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• ShowMe for SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• 10 Things Microsoft did right during fiscal 2010 (Joe Wilcox)
• My customized quick access bar (John Guin)
• Mozilla Labs’ Contacts add-on for Thunderbird is a social networking superstar (Lee Mathews)
• A behind-the-scenes look at designing the new Hotmail: part two (Michael Kopcsak)
• Objective C: Back to being a novice (Mark Needham)
• When terminology affects satisfaction (Michael S. Kaplan)
• Microsoft’s Live Labs launches zoom.it (Steve Clayton)
• Try Windows Azure for One Month for FREE! (Azure Team)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #659 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Distributed Weekly 62 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Application Architecture Guide (Patterns & Practices) by Microsoft Patterns & Practices Team

Top Links

• A high performance ProgressBar for Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• Announcing: Microsoft Ribbon for WPF RTW (Pete Brown)
• New Title! More Chapters! (Charles Petzold)
• How to load a huge file into a FILESTREAM column quickly (Jacob Sebastian)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Setting Performance Counters (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft.Data, because the 90s were so good, we want to do them again (Oren Eini)
• F# Templates Now On Visual Studio Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
• WCF RIA Services Part 4 – Integrating with the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern (Brian Noyes)
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Additional Mapping Schemes (Zain Naboulsi)
• The CodeRush Options Screen (Rory Becker)

Web Development

• Dynamic Methods in View Data (Phil Haack)
• Restrict ASP.NET MVC Action’s Using The ActionMethodSelectorAttribute (Malcolm Sheridan)
• MvcSiteMapProvider 2.1.0 released! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Error Handling Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• My Journey with the StackExchange API (Dave Swersky)
• Publishing Adaptive Streaming Video from Expression Encoder to Windows Azure Blobs (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Structure and guidelines, consistency and clarity (Simon Brown)
• Explaining Software Design Patterns to a non-developer… (Greg Duncan)
• How do You Stress Test Your Web Application? (Mike Hadlow)
• Case Study: CryptoLicensing + CryptoObfuscator in the real world and Case Study: SmartInspect in the real world (Roy Osherove)
• CSI: Microsoft (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Projects vs. products (Daniel Crenna)
• Slides for The Rule of 3, Hot Spots, and Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, Friday Reflection (J.D. Meier)
• Software Programming as Craft (Dave West)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Quick look inside a List Application for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Some Infrastructure Bits (Davy Brion)
• Free ebook: Petzold’s Programming Windows Phone 7 (Special Excerpt 2) (Devon Musgrave)
• Couple of Expression Encoder updates (James Clarke)
• How Advertising is Different on Windows Phone 7 and A Deep Zoom Container for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Action Pack and Microsoft Tellme Speech Recognition Services (Don Burnett)
• Book Review – 3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3: Beginner’s Guide (Rene Schulte)
• Ensuring your WPF applications are Accessible (Rob Relyea)
• Async Data Validation (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kent Alstad is All About Performance (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Phone 7 Development with Mike Harsh (Robert Hess)
• Episode 58: Building Facebook Applications with Windows Azure with Jim Zimmerman (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• endpoint.tv – CancellationScope Activity (Ron Jacobs)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 23 – Code Contracts with William Tulloch (Richard Banks)
• Ping 68: Streetside, Hohm, Student Partners, Kinect & Farmaritaville (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Learning in Public – what I learned from being heckled at the Dallas Tech Fest (Caleb Jenkins)
• London “Guathon” Event with Me on August 13th (Scott Guthrie)
• Time to give back: GeekGive at the MVP Summit (Stephen Forte)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Performance (Pinal Dave)
• RSScripter and Permissions (William Vaughn)
• SSMS Feature Request – Filter By Datetime, Not Just Date (Shaun Stuart)
• Quickly Script Out Replication Redux (Chad Miller)
• A Small Collection of DBCC Commands (Glenn Berry)

SharePoint

• Chapters 1-4 of our upcoming Inside SharePoint 2010 development book on MSDN (Andrew Connell)
• Wish you had free end user training incorporated into your SharePoint environment? (Joel Oleson)
• Feature upgrade (part 4) – advanced scenarios (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Assembla’s Top 10 Used Tools (Anastasia Voskresenskaya)
• Why Microsoft *can* compete with the Apple iPad and what the Apple pundits are clueless about… (Don Burnett)
• Make your own Fable III Villager (Larry Hyrb)
• Pluralsight Website Update, 7/31/2010 (Keith Brown)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Being Geek – Only $9.99. Use code DDGEK (O’Reilly Media)
• Wolves Theme for Windows 7 (Richard Hay)
• Kinect: the backstory (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #656 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Phone 7 Resource List Refreshed (Mike Ormond)

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects by Jared Richardson

.NET / Visual Studio

• Extracting the Icon for a File (Richard Carr)

Web Development

• Using AntiForgeryToken with other verbs than POST (and ActionLinks) (Tomasz Pęczek)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Validation is overrated (Seth Godin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 84: Ex-Microsoft Developer Panel with Mike Moore, Jeff Cohen, and Scott Bellware and Herding Code 85: Clint Nelsen on Startup Weekend and Herding Code 86: Saqib Shaikh on Accessibility and Developing with Limited Sight (Jon Galloway)
• Recording and samples from my Reactive F# talk (Tomas Petricek)

Community / Events

• Live on .NET Rocks Today 6:00 EST (Keith Elder)

Database

• Remove and Replace Special Characters in a SQL Server Column (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL 101 : Without “ORDER BY”, order is not guaranteed. (Dave Ballantyne)

Miscellaneous

• OneNote Text Importer Powertoy Updated for Microsoft Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Is Microsoft the IBM of the 2010’s? (Mike Hadlow)
• Adobe Interview (part 6) (Joe Smith)
• 5 Awesome Arcade Games for the iPhone (Amy-Mae Elliott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 26, 2010 — #891 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Asking Why Not, Sucky Content Club, a Manifesto, Worth Paying For (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #111 (Grant Palin)

The Geek Shelf

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell

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Top Links

• BCL CodePlex Site Launch (BCL Team)
• Cassandra Jump Start For The Windows Developer (Nick Berardi)
• Theming in Windows Phone (Jaime Rodriguez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing the Preview release of “Feature Builder” (Cameron Skinner)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Afterward: Effective Events (Chris Burrows)
• Generating Random Letters (Deborah Kurata)
• Closing Just the Selected Files You Want (Zain Naboulsi)
• Setting up WCF Server/Client configuration for Anonymous Access (Derik Whittaker)
• Data Annotations in the Entity Framework and Code First (Jeff Derstadt)
• Multi-targeting and the C# and VB compilers (Ed Maurer)
• Dynamic Casting with .NET (Mike Ceranski)
• Sorting OData feeds by their title (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• New book: Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Step by Step (Rosemary Caperton)
• Azure: A Glance at Apps Without Infrastructure (Rachel Appel)

Web Development

• Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Refreshing An UpdatePanel With JavaScript (Scott Mitchell)
• Store images on Flickr using Flickrnet.dll and ASP.NET MVC (Bill Sternberger)
• Your JavaScript goes WHERE? (Chris Brandsma)
• Cleaner HTML Markup with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms – Client IDs (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Using jQuery and OData to Insert a Database Record (Stephen Walther)
• 7 Ways to Make Your API More Successful (Daniel Jacobson)
• Stack Overflow API Private Beta Starts (Jeff Atwood)
• HP Opens Snapfish Photo API, Gives Developers Access to 85 Million Members (Matthew Casperson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Strengthening your domain: The double dispatch pattern (Jimmy Bogard)
• Quick example: why coding standards must be in place (Gunnar Peipman)
• Warming up Sites Before Running Selenium Tests with NUnit’s SetUpFixture (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF

• F# and Silverlight (Brian McNamara)
• Creating a Small Overlay Window (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Create Silverlight Apps Using Plug-in Components (Bruce Kyle)
• Using VertexPositionTexture on Windows Phone (Charles Petzold)
• Sometimes you just gotta do the best you can [Tip: Read-only custom DependencyProperties don't exist in Silverlight, but can be closely approximated] (David Anson)
• A RoleManager to apply roles declaratively to user interface (Andrea Boschin)
• What tools are the minimum to get started in Silverlight? (Tim Heuer)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 6 : Automated UI Testing (Phil Price)
• Fast and Easy Navigation in WPF or Silverlight Applications in Visual Studio 2010 (Karl Shifflett)
• Mix Session Viewer for Windows Phone 7 (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Roman Rubin and Venkatesh Ramakrishnan Push the Limits of Silverlight. (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Some Rough Draft TDD Demonstration Videos (Brett Schuchert)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 50: Behind the Scenes of the .NET Languages with Luca Bolognese (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #168: Exploring how to use Layer Diagrams in VS2010 (Derik Whittaker)
• Jim Somers (Antenna Software) chats with Gunther Lenz (Microsoft) (Gunther Lenz)
• FXG Import for Expression Blend- Mix 10 Video Segment Courtesy of Adam Kinney (Don Burnett)
• MSDN Radio: What you need to know about Silverlight (Emily Gibson)
• Cloud Faster: Microsoft Research at TechFest 2010 and Bill Buxton & Student Insiders (Laura Foy)
• The Feature Builder Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 and Feature Builder 101 – Creating the "Code" and Feature Builder 101 – Creating the "Map" (Michael Lehman)
• Channel 9 Live at MIX10: Bill Buxton & Erik Meijer – Perspectives on Design (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• Free SQL Server Training in April (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Nothin But .Net Remote Pilot – Reviews (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Scottish Visual Studio 2010 Launch event with Jason Zander (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Get Cloud Ready: Attend FREE Windows Azure Firestarter Event April 6, 2010 (Windows Azure Team)
• OpenSource on .net at Microsoft TechDays (Sebastien Lambla)
• Demo Apps from MIX10 on Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)

Database

• Backup Meta-Data (Buck Woody)
• Finding meaningful error details to report execution failures (Ted Krueger)
• FizzBuzz Revisited (Jason Brimhall)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Cheat Sheet from MidnightDBA (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Official SharePoint 2010 Certifications and Microsoft Official Curriculum Training Courses (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Find And Replace With Regular Expressions In Vim / ViEmu (Derick Bailey)
• Very Thorough Dissection of Windows Phone 7 Series on AnandTech (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Becoming a Windows Search Ninja – “Mastering Windows Search using Advanced Query Syntax” and The Microsoft Desktop Player [Beta] – Your IT/Development Video/Cast/Whitepaper/Link/News Console (Greg Duncan)
• The dreaded “HR Interview” Part 1: The Phone Screen (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Windows Phone 7 Series Theme Now in Beta (Sarah Perez)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: slide:ology – Only $9.99! Use code DDSDG (O’Reilly Media)
• Note to Microsoft: I love the new phone, but… (Stephen Forte)
• 10 Tips to Keep yourself Sane while Working from Home (or alone) (Pete Brown)
• Visual Web Developer Team is Hiring (Bradley Bartz)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 31, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #571 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Phone examples (Coding4Fun)
• Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2010 — #825 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.29 ~ 03.31 (yuanjian)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – MAR ‘10 (Rhonda Tipton)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

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Top Links

• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Drag and Drop (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Code Comments, What Are They Good For? (Russell Ball)
• EntLib 5 and Unity 2 Beta 2 Downloads (David Hayden)
• S#arp Architecture 1.5 Beta 1 released (Alec Whittington)
• Silverlight 4 PathListBox for Motion Path Animation (Andy Beaulieu)
• Compiled or Bust? (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• GAT/GAX Dev10 RC Available (Bob Brumfield)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part III: Breaking Changes (Chris Burrows)
• MSDTC Woes With NServiceBus And NHibernate (Davy Brion)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• Image Insertion – Extension #2 (Sara Ford)
• Cleaning Up a Folder Structure From Visual Studio Artifacts From the Shell (Simone Chiaretta)
• C++, Java and .NET: Lessons Learned from the Internet Age (Matt Raible)
• Functional C#: Continuation Passing Style (Mark Needham)
• Encoding fun with XmlWriter and StreamWriter (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Do you know the minimum builds to create on any branch? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows 7 Taskbar Features in .NET 4 (Jason De Lorme)

Web Development

• On Building a Data-Driven E-Commerce Site (Chris Sells)
• Got SQL Azure? Then you’ve got OData (OData.org)
• An even better way to run T4MVC: a VS AddIn (David Ebbo)
• The New JavaScript Engine in Internet Explorer 9 (Shanku Niyogi)
• SVG in IE9 Roadmap (Jennifer Yu)
• I spy a Live Framework portal (Jamie Thomson)
• NHibernate, HttpModules, ASP.NET JSON Web Services and Database Transactions (Jason Grundy)
• Getting started with node.js on Windows (Scott Koon)
• An easy way to set up an OData feed from your SQL Azure database (Stephen Forte)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 8: Planning and Agile Friday: "Slack" Now Online (James Shore)
• Essential and accidental complexity (Mark Needham)
• Getting Things Done (Ben Yoder)
• Rhino Mocks Examples, with a fix (Sharon J. Cichelli)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part II and Blend 4: About Path Layout, Sidebar – More About ListBox Than You Ever Wanted To Know (Christian Schormann)
• Synchronous Web Service Calls in Silverlight using JavaScript (Daniel Vaughan)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight (Scott Guthrie)
• 10 Favorite Open Source Fonts You Can Embed in WPF or Silverlight (Robby Ingebretsen)
• GetObject vs StartObject in System.Xaml (Michael Shim)
• Developing a Windows Phone 7 Application that consumes OData (Phani Raj)
• Silverlight 4 RC API listing in one big text file (Nick Kramer)
• Silverlight 4 RC RichTextBox changes (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mix10 Session – 6 Things Every jQuery Developer Must Know (Elijah Manor)
• SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell-Episode 44 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Techfest: NUI Movement (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Author news: An interview with Jeffrey Richter (Devon Musgrave)
• MIX 10 Wrapup (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows Azure Firestarter Event: April 6th, 2010 (Steve Marx)
• Upcoming Webcast: LINQPad: Version 2 and Beyond – Live Event March 23, 2010 (O’Reilly Media)
• Get Ready to Party – SharePoint 2010 Community Launch Party! (Joel Oleson)

Database

• PowerShell: Read Excel to Create Inserts (Buck Woody)
• Kill your temp tables using keyboard shortcuts : SSMS and SSIS Lookup component tuning tips (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions & Answers Needs Your Help (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Stay Interview Instead of Exit Interview (Andy Warren)
• Microsoft Releases Updated Free Panoramic "Image Composite Editor" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Windows XP Mode to no longer require hardware virtualization [Updated: Now with links to the 32/64 update/patch] (Greg Duncan)
• Can Microsoft out Microsoft Apple? (Stephen Forte)
• How to Launch the Recycle Bin from the Start Menu Search Box (The How-To Geek)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #563 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 46 (Kathleen Sanders)

The Geek Shelf

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition)

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Top Links

• The paradox of choice: best of breed or cheapest of the bunch (Oren Eini)
• Inversion Of Control Containers And Factories Aren’t Mutually Exclusive (Davy Brion)
• Mocking Mocking and Testing Outcomes. (Uncle Bob Martin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Entity Framework Inheritance Types (Gil Fink)
• Drag and drop code onto the Toolbox — vstipTool0007 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Quick Tip: Parse String to Nullable Value (Keith Dahlby)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API: Introduction to Working with Location in .NET 4 Beta 2 (Pete Brown)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• D.C. and the Wrapper Factory (Dennis Dietric)
• Coding: The collecting parameter pattern and TDD: Removing the clutter (Mark Needham)
• Being provoked by your uncle (Mark Nijhof)
• Understanding And Avoiding The Serious Perils Of F-You-Code. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• XamlPadSample-Step 1d-Window (Rob Relyea)
• Pants on the Ground: The Silverlight Application (Charles Petzold)
• Configuration & Decoupled Modules (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 140: It’s Finger Friendly (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9 – Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Talks and WebCast (Cameron Skinner)
• Why we all need celebrity programmers (Roy Osherove)
• As A Movement, ALT.NET Has Been Dead For A While (Davy Brion)

Database

• SQL Server Cursors (Richard Carr)
• Time is no use for recording Time (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Sample Databases for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (December 2009) Samples Refresh 4 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Theme Builder" Beta for Office 2007 (Blake Handler)
• Windows 3.11 in-a-browser is retrocomputing awesome (Lee Mathews)
• It’s an awesome time to be a Developer (Pete Brown)
• Steam shows massive adoption of Windows 7 by gamers (Sebastian Anthony)
• Dynamic Blog Posts DynaPosts (Jesse Liberty)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 23, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 – 2 — #785 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link #89 (Grant Palin)

The Geek Shelf

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

Got the year right in today’s title. Thanks to Jason for the nudge… 

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Top Links

How to meet other craftsmen (Sebastian Hermida)

The source code IS (still) the executable [Updated CSI, a C# interpreter (with source and tests) for .NET 4] (David Anson)

Silverlight XAML Viewer with info callouts and links to MSDN docs (Bob Bartholomay)

.NET / Visual Studio

More LINQ with System.Interactive – Functional fun and taming side-effects (Bart de Smet)

Much Ado About Monads – Reader Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

Building A Color Picker Using ASP.NET MVC And jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

2009 highlights and plans for 2010 – part 3 (Simon Brown)

Agile Tenet #8 – Sustainable Pace (Julie Stickler)

Review of "Agile Coaching" by PragProg press (Jason Meridth)

Writing Internal DSL’s in MSDN (Jeremy D. Miller)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4.0 (Carl Franklin)

Community / Events

Announcing PowerShellGroup.org – A home for PowerShell User Groups (Joel Bennett)

Microsoft CES 2010 Keynote and CES 2010 Xbox news (Larry Hyrb)

Miscellaneous

wmic vs WMI Powershell cmdlets (Kapil Mathur)

Television of the future isn’t just on your TV (Ted Malone)

Create a System Restore Point in 1-click with Quick Restore Maker (The Windows Club)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #512 (Chris Alcock)

Silverlight Cream for January 06, 2010 — #770 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Coaching

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Top Links

• An IoC-Agnostic Prism Bootstrapper (Ward Bell)
• Hello from 2020 (Rob Conery)
• Powershell and SQL Authentication (Martin Bell)
• Leveraging Windows 7 Boot to VHD to Test Visual Studio 2010 (Chris Patterson)
• DZone 2009: How many links promoted, buried, etc? (Rick Ross) – DZone has been hard at work keeping spam and other irrelevant content out of your way.

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Essence of LINQ – MinLINQ (Bart de Smet)
• CciSharp, a post-compiler for .NET based on CCI (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Review: C# in Depth (Grant Palin)
• Language Envy – C# needs Ranges (Sergio Pereira)
• Sprache C# (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Show CodeRush Xpress 9.3 Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Two Major Milestones for RoundhousE and UppercuT (Rob Reynolds)
• With the new year we get a loved series sequel, Visual Studio Tips and Tricks v2 – Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks (Greg Duncan)
• It’s Easy to Forget (Christopher Bennage)

Web Development

• Death to confirmation dialogs with jquery.undoable (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC – Do I Really Need It? (Peter Bromberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Dunbar’s Number, Monkeyspheres and how to design for social (Ron George)
• Brown, Green, Refactor and RTM ready tests (Roy Osherove)
• Micro optimization decision process and Patterns for reducing memory usage (Oren Eini)
• One to one and many to many (Eric Brechner)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber, Cuke4Nuke and TeamCity (Gojko Adzic)
• Recovering from the depths of developer burn out – Some tips from the field (Greg Duncan)
• How To Change a Habit and Make It Stick (JD Meier)
• The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch and OOP: Behavioural and Structural Constraints (Mark Needham)
• Lazing Around with Autofac2 and Declarative Context Adapters in Autofac 2 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Entrepreneurship Tip: Shipping Mediocre Products Is Not An Option. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Magellan Diagnostics and Magellan Shared Layouts and Extending the WPF XML namespaces (Paul Stovell)
• Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Authentication/Authorization in an INavigationContentLoader (David Poll)
• Day #31: Geocoding and More Fun In Bing Maps for Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Polling Video – A Viable sub-second alternative? (Jesse Liberty)
• Saving Snapshots to PNG in Silverlight 4 and the WebCam (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Huey and Wegner Migrate Us to SQL Azure (Carl Franklin)
• E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 1 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 71: Frank Zammetti on webOS (Michael Kimsal)
• This Week in Testing – New Year Resolutions (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Nikolaj Bjørner and Leonardo de Moura: The Z3 Constraint Solver (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• Agile 2010, Nashville August 9-13 (Ade Miller)
• The Morning Brew – Review of the Year 2009 (Chris Alcock)
• Looking Ahead to 2010 – New Year’s Resolutions (Andrew Connell)
• Trends for 2010 (J.D. Meier)
• Goals for 2010 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Yet Another 2009 Year In Review (John Sheehan)
• It’s time to look ahead to 2010 (Bill Wagner)
• 2009 Blogged – Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
• 2009 Year in Review (Rob Bazinet)
• 2010 and Forevah (Rob Reynolds)
• Where Do You Want to Be In a Year? (Tim Barcz)
• Looking back at 2009, and forward to 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Click The Button – The Contest (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Best of "The Moth" 2009 (Daniel Moth)

Database

• SQL Server IF Conditions (Richard Carr)
• “SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide” – 486 pages of SQL Server 2008 upgrade guidance (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Find Location of Data File Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Using Variables in SSIS: Purpose review and functional examples (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Debugging Silverlight Client OM Apps in SharePoint and SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Trouble finding the CAML reference in the 2010 SDKs? (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Read and Recommended: Confessions of a Public Speaker (Brian Noyes)
• New Subversion Reference Site (Alex Coisman)
• IE8 64-bit Windows 7 and the Mobile Code Bug (Part 2) (William Stanek)
• Install OS X Snow Leopard in VMware Windows 7 (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft Talked About Windows Mobile 7 And We All Missed It (Paul Thurrott)
• Fairness is Highly Overrated (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Dec 31, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #508 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 1, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2009 — #767 and Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2009 – 2 — #768 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.21 ~ 12.31, bye 2009 (yuanjian)
• Everyman Links for January 1, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 31-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library (Expert’s Voice in .Net)