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.NET / Visual Studio

• Released: Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Karin Meier)
• NH Prof New Feature: Diffing Sessions (Oren Eini)
• VB.NET Processing Before WinForm Display (Dave M. Bush)
• Introducing LazyLinq: Overview (Keith Dahlby)
• Fun With the ?? Operator in C#: if { } or ?? – Which is Faster? (Keith Elder)
• Author news: Jeffrey Richter updating CLR via C# (Devon Musgrave)
• Not everything derives from object (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Overview of Visual Studio Team System 2010 for Developers (Part 2) (Subodh Sohoni)
• TabStudio add-in for Visual Studio (Tim Heuer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Easing Functions in Blend (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Expression Studio Resources – now including myself, Adam Kinney (Adam Kinney)
• A Rotating *Solid* Cube in Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 20: NHibernate (Brad Abrams)
• Creating Breadcrumb Design for Silverlight 3 in Expression Blend (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Buying Expression Studio 3 (Joel Cochran)
• WriteableBitmap Extension Methods (Rene Schulte)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Tooling is a Third Order Effect (Ade Miller)
• How People Can Get You To Do What They Want (Alan Skorkin)
• Travel Restrictions and Offshore Development (Steve McConnell)
• Multi-site teams: travel and the half life of trust (Bernie Thompson)
• Article: Avoiding 5 Common Pitfalls in Unit Testing (Michael Kennedy)
• Don’t be lazy about lazy sequences. and As the tests get more specific, the code gets more generic. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Moving to Kanban, Did Scrum Fail? (Tim Barcz)
• Refactoring Day 6 : Push Down Field (Sean Chambers)

Web Development

• I Hate Global.asax (Harry Pierson)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Finally Available (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• MVC Membership Starter Kit Released (Troy Goode)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutiae-six with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)
• Arun Kishan: Inside Windows 7 – Farewell to the Windows Kernel Dispatcher Lock (Charles Torre)
• A Look Behind the Backgrounds of Windows 7 (Larry Larsen)
• MEF and Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• The Complete Guide to Windows Easy Transfer (Nic Fillingham)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #133: Learning how to Read & Write to the windows registry (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Animation – Advanced Topics (Yochay Kiriaty)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Releases PowerPoint Presentations from the Game Developrs Conference 2009 (Blake Handler)
• .NET Fireside Chats – Microsoft’s Chris Swenson on Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 (Me)
• Introducing the new home for Windows on Channel 9 (Charles Torre)
• Real World Azure with Microsoft IT – Coming to a City Near You! (Jennifer Marsman)
• Silverlight at Microsoft PDC09 – we will be there! (Tim Heuer)
• Live Feedback Mashup: Tinychat + PollDaddy + Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

Database

• Removing time from SQL datetime (Kevin Jones)
• The effects UNION in a SQL query (Joe Webb)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 101 (Part 5) (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Keep your SharePoint site definitions minimal, really I mean it. (Joris Poelmans)
• SharePoint Database Tips (Vishwas Lele)

Windows 7

• Microsoft Releases "Windows 7 Training Kit For Developers" (Blake Handler)
• Windows® AIK for Windows® 7 (MS Downloads)
• Windows7 was just released for MSDN and TechNet Subscribers. Oh happy fresh, Windows install day! (Dave Isbitski)
• Windows 7 RTM Training Kit For Developers is here! (Habib Heydarian)
• Windows 7 RTM downloads now available via TechNet and MSDN (Lee Mathews)
• Vista Users – Uninstall Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 before upgrading to Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM – some follow up (MSDN Subscriptions Team)

Miscellaneous

• Chromium Memory Usage (Ian Fette)
• Crux – Announcement 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Windows 8 Server: Due ~2012 (Stephen Chapman)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #407 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 06, 2009 — #664 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (8/6/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 6th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Self-Initializing Fake (Martin Fowler)
• OR/M suitability and Watermarking and Security and NH Prof New Feature: Detect Cross Thread Session Usage (Oren Eini)
• Are You The Best Developer In The World? (Alan Skorkin)
• Analyzing AutoMapper performance (Jimmy Bogard)
• Agile Living (Christopher Bennage)
• Think a little, code a little (Mark Needham)
• Scenario Tables for FitNesse (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Daycare As A Kanban System (Derick Bailey) – Link of the Day
• Documenting source code (Gunnar Peipman)
• Project Turing – Data Entry (a mini-tutorial) (Jesse Liberty)
• Own the Feedback (Steve Rowe)
• Testing Random code (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 8. (Rajiv Popat)

.NET / Visual Studio

• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Grouping and Joining Data (Scott Mitchell)
• Dictionary look-up or create made simpler (Damien Guard)
• How to debug an exception with the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger (Habib Heydarian)
• Edit Project Files Directly in Visual Studio (Srinath MS)
• Unflattening a list, or "How to ask ‘how to’" (Kyle Baley)
• Creating a Simple Procedural Workflow using VS 2010 and Windows Workflow WF 4.0 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• New WF 4 whitepaper has been published (Matt Milner)
• Show CodeRush Xpress Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Spec# and Boogie Released on CodePlex (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Simplistic Object Copying in .NET (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• Twitter Developer Tips From the Guy Who Wrote the Book (Adam DuVander)
• Hiding a DropDownList Behind a JQuery UI Dialog (Chris Love)
• A Non-Compressed BlogEngine.NET 1.5 Developer Tip (Dave Burke)
• Reducing the Bounce Rate of Tech Blogs with Subtext and Lucene.net (Simone Chiaretta)
• jQuery tip – beware anonymous functions in your event handlers (Scott Koon)
• ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX Enhancements (Mike Ormond)

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 18: Custom Linq Provider (Brad Abrams)
• Bing Maps Silverlight: Plot/Edit Pushpin data via a ChildWindow (Chris Pietschmann)
• Tracking Dangling Object References In Silverlight and Refactor Safe Implementation Of INotifyPropertyChanged (Davy Brion)
• Scrolling so smooth like the butter on a muffin [How to: Animate the Horizontal/VerticalOffset properties of a ScrollViewer] (David Anson)
• Creating A Form – Level 100 (Jesse Liberty)
• Is The Blend 3 Trial Worth The Download? (Joel Cochran)
• Cross Domain Silverlight XAP Access in Silverlight (Karsten Januszewski)
• Applications Using WPF (Mike Taulty)
• Streamlining Csla.Silverlight.InvokeMethod (Rockford Lhotka)
• RIA Services, Silverlight and MVVM (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Kim Hamilton and Wes Dyer: Inside .NET Rx and IObservable/IObserver in the BCL (VS 2010) (Charles Torre)
• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Singleton – Overview and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Singleton – Refactoring and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Singleton – AuthChecker Class and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Singleton – Testability (Howard Dierking)
• Silverlight 3 UK Launch: Chat with Ian Ellison-Taylor (Mike Taulty)

Community / Events

• Patterns of Parallel Programming at PDC 2009 (Ade Miller)
• SharePint – Best Practices DC 2009 Edition (Andrew Woodward)
• Great New Blogger – Skorks.com (Max Pool)
• PDC 2009: Developing Quality Software using Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
• Cloud Security Survey (J.D. Meier)
• Events this Week – August 4th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Richmond Code Camp 2009.2 is coming up! (Justin Etheredge)
• AltNetBeers #13 – StackOverflow edition (Sebastien Lambla)
• New Microsoft Careers Site: Now with your input! (Lisa Olson)

Windows 7

• Microsoft’s Releases "Windows XP Mode" & "Windows Virtual PC" for Windows 7 RC (Blake Handler)
• How to Move Your Windows XP Application to Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• User Account Control Data Redirection (Yochay Kiriaty)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: Real World Branding with SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)

Database

• Teaser: Left Join..the SQL ego crusher (Denis Gobo)
• Editing Configuration files : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• Tips for the Accidental DBA (Michael Ceranski)
• SQL SERVER – Get a List of Fixed Hard Drive and Free Space on Server (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• Adding PowerShell to StExBar (Rob Reynolds)

Miscellaneous

• Introducing the Zoho Calendar Plugin for Microsoft Outlook (Arvind Natarajan)
• Microsoft trademark reveals Microsoft Store logo (Sumeeth Evans)
• New in Labs: Hide labels, see subject lines on netbooks (Christopher Semturs)
• On C# in Depth and the State of Old School Technical Publishing (Russell Ball)
• What recent computer science graduate should know. (Paul Zubkov)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #405 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 350 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

• Sueetie Blog Support. Engage! (Dave Burke)
• DotNetNuke Moves to CodePlex (Joe Brinkman)
• WebTests Expose Silly Security Vulnerability (Josh Twist)
• Secure ASP.NET MVC Applications (Shiju Varghese)
• Happy DotNetNuke 5.0 New Year and DNN Wrox Blox (Jim Minatel)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Hands On Labs – Validation Application Block (4.1) – December 2008 (MS Downloads)
• NHibernate Profiler Review (Davy Brion)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Context Driven Testing Gets a Boost – to Grow Stronger (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Hardware Is Expensive, Programmers Are Cheap (Michael Janke)
• Using NDepend on Large Project, a Success Story (Patrick Smacchia)
• Declarative Context Adapters (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Silverlight / WPF

• Generic Support in XAML (Sacha Barber)
• IoC on Silverlight (Nicholas Blumhardt)

PowerShell

• Solving Brain Ticklers with PowerShell (Adam Barr) – Link of the Day
• Diagnosing Here-Strings with PowerShell_ISE and Extending and/or Modifying Commands with Proxies (Jeffrey Snover)
• PowerShell Analyzer Like Execution Hotkeys for PS CTP3 ISE (Karl Prosser)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 – Change Color of Status Bar of SSMS Query Editor (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Phishing Attacks Know No Boundaries… or Limits (Ted Neward)
• 10 Things I’ve Learned in 10 Years at Microsoft (Omar Shahine)
• Defining Real-Time Aggregations with BizTalk Server 2009 / Excel 2007 (Brian Loesgen)
• Hands-On with the Windows 7 Beta: Surprise! It’s Actually Not Terrible (Aric Annear)
• Measuring Up Windows 7′s New “Super” Taskbar (Long Zheng)

More Link Collections

• Check Out Tip #24 to Tip #40 on Our Tips and Tricks Blog (Deepak Verma)
• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for January 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)

Book of the Day

Dependency Injection (Paperback): Dhanji Prasanna: Books