.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

Web Development

• Cropping image using jQuery, Jcrop and ASP.NET (Miron Abramson)
• Dynamically Generating and Caching Images in ASP.NET with the GeneratedImage Control (Scott Mitchell)
• jQuery Auto-Complete Text Box with ASP.NET MVC (Ben Scheirman)
• Lazy Loading jQuery Tabs with ASP.NET (Mike)
• The two ways one writes JavaScript code.. (Jay Kimble)
• UrlRewrite – Virtual Directories and the Tilde (Dave M. Bush)
• A blog on Microsoft Ajax client templates and data (Bertrand Le Roy)
• ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Smart web controls in ASP.NET MVC (without HtmlHelper), 7 smart WC implemented in the Catharsis framework (Radim Köhler)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR R2 and MSDN Community Distribution CD (January 2009) (MS Downloads)
• Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts (Amit Raz)
• NHibernate Mapping – <many-to-any/> (Oren Eini)
• .Net String Pool – Not Just For The Compiler (Dave M. Bush)
• Creating a nested ‘Or’ statement with NHibernate using the Criteria convention (Derik Whittaker)
• C# – Console App Tips and Tricks (Michael Ceranski)
• MCsla – compiling DSL source into M (Rockford Lhotka)
• Why Oslo Matters To Me (Shawn Wildermuth)
• __clrtype__ Metaclasses: IronPython Classes Under the Hood (Harry Pierson)

Silverlight / WPF

• Should you invest in WPF and Silverlight? (András Velvárt)
• Silverlight 3 – Running Out Of Browser Apps on the Macintosh (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Stick your con call up your estimate! 6 things you can skip to save time in a software project (Andy Singleton)
• Testing in the Application Lifecycle with Visual Studio 2010 Test Edition (Clemens Reijnen) – Link of the Day
• TestDriven.Net 2.20: Improved NCover Integration (Jamie Cansdale)
• Becoming a Manager: Learning to Rely on Data (Steve Rowe)
• Pex v0.11.40421.0 : Delegates As Parameters, Exception Tree View, Better Stubs. (Jonathan de Halleux)
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Pex 0.11 Released: Delegates, Exception Trees, and Stubs (Nikolai Tillman)
• ‘Vice’ Testing (Sean Chambers)
• Tutorial about mocking with Rhino Mocks and Moq (Gabriel N. Schenker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jonas Follesø on UI Framework Choices (Carl Franklin)
• Behaviors in Blend 3 (Erik Mork)
• Tips and Advice – Beyond The Team – Sanjiv Augustine (Bob Payne)
• Social Networking for Developers – Conference Talk Video (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Scott Guthrie, Jaime Rodriguez and Glenn Block Speaking in Phoenix on May 26th, 2009 (Dan Wahlin)
• Boston Geek Dinner, April 30th, 2009 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Upcoming Silverlight Events – Online, MD/DC/VA/PA (Pete Brown)
• Developer Dinner for Partners: What’s New in Microsoft Silverlight 3 – Reston, VA April 29, 2009 (Nandita)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Difference Between SQL Server Compact Edition (CE) and SQL Server Express Edition (Pinal Dave)
• Split string in SQL Server 2005+ CLR vs. T-SQL (Ted Kreuger)

SharePoint

• Creating a dynamic SharePoint settings DropDown using a ToolPart (Tom Hearn)
• Sending InfoPath Forms to the Records Center in MOSS 2007 (Scot Hillier)

PowerShell

• V2 Quick Tip: Monitoring Performance Counters with PowerShell (James Brundage)

Miscellaneous

• Book drawing contest winner (Michael Kimsal)
• Microsoft Releases Final Version of Microsoft Network Monitor 3.3 for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft already working on Windows 8 and Spb release Mobile Shell 3.0 for Windows Mobile (Brad Linder)
• Arcade: Lode Runner (Larry Hyrb)
• You can search a project’s wiki – #020 (Sara Ford)
• Grab Your Free Ebooks from Microsoft Press! (Jas Dhaliwal) – Ends today!
• PhotoZoom Becomes DeepZoomPix (Sarah Perez)
• Sifting through Trademark applications: Kumo, or Sift, or who knows what? (Kip Kniskern)
• A Modest Proposal for the Copy and Paste School of Code Reuse (Jeff Atwood)
• Skills for the future (Meghan)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 21, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #332 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #112 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for April 21, 2009 — #576 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 04.16~04.22 (yuanjian)
• Creators Club Communiqué 25 (Kathleen Sanders)
• CloudNews for April 21st, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day