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Top Links

• Moonlight 3.0 Preview 1 (Miguel di Icaza)
• To Control and Observe – Productive Software Development and Mistaking Efficiency for Productivity and Controlled Productivity (Scott Bellware)
• Read from your mirror in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• Real World S#arp Architecture (Billy McCafferty)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Playing WAV Files (Richard Carr)
• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #2 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• .NET Reflector Pro in Final Stages (Mitch Pronschinske)
• What happens behind the scenes: NHibernate, Linq to SQL, Entity Framework scenario analysis (Oren Eini)
• Telerik LINQ to M Refresh (Stephen Forte)
• Race Condition When Modifying the HttpRequestMessageProperty in an Outgoing WCF Message (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Announcement: Unpublishing Extensions from Beta 2 to RC (Weston Hutchins)
• Using Sensors in You Application – Managed Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 8. Dependency graph visualization (Mike Hadlow)
• Create a floating DataTip — vstipDebug0006 and Adding comments to a DataTip — vstipDebug0007 (Zain Naboulsi)
• The Surface Monster Returns! Nom Nom Nom (Eric Havir)
• VS 2010 Quick Hit: Multi-Targeting (Dariusz Parys)
• Functional C#: Writing a ‘Partition’ Function (Mark Needham)

 

Web Development

• US Government Launches Business.gov API – Gives Free Access to Small Business Resources (Andres Ferrate)
• Debugging ASP.NET generated code (David Ebbo)
• Using FullCalendar jQuery component with ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• Putting Files at the Root of Blog Storage in Windows Azure (Karsten Januszewski)
• Making Your JavaScript Unobtrusive (Mike Ceranski)
• Love jQuery = Love ASP.NET Ajax Library (Marc Schweigert)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Small Things Matter (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Branch-Per-Feature: How I Manage Subversion With Git Branches and Can PDCA Help Us Improve Our Test-First Development Efforts? (Derick Bailey)
• The Difference between an Anti-Pattern and a Code Smell (Peter Ritchie)
• Solving Complexity with Message Based Architectures (Jak Charlton)
• Strengthening your domain: a primer (Jimmy Bogard)
• Business Primitives (2/2) (Dru Sellers)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows 7 Sensor Trigger for WPF Applications (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Rules of MVVM?? (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight Splash Page (John Stockton)
• Taming the WPF Expander Control (Karl Shifflett)
• Loading Projects in Visual Studio not Located on Local Machine (Karl Shifflett)
• WPF : How To Create Your Own Threaded DataSourceProvider (Sacha Barber)
• Adventures with Silverlight and WCF – The remote server returned an error: NotFound (Doug Holland)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Walling and Taber on Micropreneur Academy. (Carl Franklin)
• UX + AGILE + BLEND +.NET= Efficient Design Practices (Don Burnett)
• The GeekDads Episode #60: iPadCast (Ken Denmead)
• Binding Silverlight Controls to a Data Service in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight Object Binding in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Kathleen McGrath)
• Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK 1.5 Exposed (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Simplifying how to share content on Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez)
• CES reflections (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Announcing the “20 days to OpenRasta” project (Sebastien Lambla)
• At Balsamiq, Everyone Blogs. Join Us. (Peldi Guilizzoni)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Get the List of Object Dependencies – sp_depends and information_schema.routines and sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft, OData and RDF and Visio stencils for SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• ROWCOUNT when setting variables (Martin Bell)
• Report Builder <Next> Wish List – V1.0 (William Vaughn)

 

SharePoint

• The Great Virtualization Debate: What to do? SharePoint 2010 for Laptops (Joel Oleson)
• Lightning Storm Forums for SharePoint – Feb 2010 release (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• Can You Really Measure Customer Satisfaction? (Phil Haack)
• Will your new Windows 7 PC support XP Mode? (Ed Bott)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Search Patterns. Only $9.99! Use code SPDFD (O’Reilly Media)
• Kodu Tutorial #4 Main Menu->Options (Stephen Coy)
• How Does Microsoft Do IT? (Buck Woody)

 

More Link Collections

• Community Convergence LXI and New Articles on MSDN: ClickOnce, Office 2007 Business Applications (Charlie Calvert)
• Interesting Finds: February 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #532 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 03, 2010 — #791 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 400 (Sam Gentile)

 

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NHibernate in Action

 

 

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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

• Comparing NHibernate and EF4 (Chris Sells)
• Add a Flickr widget to any web site with jQuery (Dan Hounshell)
• WPF for the Web guy…a story of pain, despair and learning (Scott Galloway)
• Passing NULL into Overloaded Methods in unit tests… (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight TV Episode 3: Multi-Touch 101 with Silverlight (John Papa)
• Bill Gates launches new site, offering peek inside his mind (Todd Bishop)
• Windows Phone teaser for Mix10 (Kip Kniskern)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing a Parallelized Octree in F# (Ade Miller)
• The Project Location Is Not Trusted (Dave M. Bush)
• Looks the same – with half the overhead! [Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code gives more compact output; Can you do better?] (David Anson)
• A new feature request for C# I would like is fall through exceptions (Derik Whittaker)
• Controlling Application Lifetime In Topshelf and Configuring Topshelf Using A StructureMap Container (Kevin Miller)
• Functional collectional parameters: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Using Generate from Usage — vstipEdit0011 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Much Ado About Monads – Creating Extended Builders Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• UML Modeling and Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Provost)

Web Development

• My Favorite Helpers For ASP.NET MVC (Rob Conery)
• IIS Tools – truck load of them at www.iis.net (Harish Ranganathan)
• Build an AJAX-Enabled Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Part 3 (Bogdan Zamfir)
• Large or asynchronous file uploads in ASP.NET MVC (Daniel Crenna)
• ASP.NET Support in ReSharper 5 (Hadi Hariri)
• Implementing a jQuery Modal Window in ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Click and Retrieve the Value of a GridView Cell using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Using Custom Security Attributes in ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ceranski)
• Performance Optimizations Made By Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo JavaScript Minimizers (Nick Berardi)
• HttpContext.Items and Server.Transfer/Execute (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Collaboration Patterns – Part 1 and Collaboration Patterns – Part 2 (Andy Warren)
• When the design violates the principle of least surprise, you don’t close it as By Design (Oren Eini)
• If It’s Not Working, Change Your Approach (JD Meier)
• Pollyanna Pixton on Agile Leadership (Christophe Louvion)
• Good Managers Sometimes Have to Play Assholes (Jurgen Appelo)
• Scrum Anti-Pattern: NOT Prioritising Stories Within Sprints (Karl Scotland)
• Using Glance to visualize Code Metrics (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: Themes (Deborah Kurata)
• Creating torn images (Coding4Fun)
• My Silverlight 4 Book Now Available for Pre-Order (Frank La Vigne)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.8 (Koen Zwikstra)
• XamlPadSample – Step 1 (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 39: CLR 4 Security and Sandboxing (Jason Olson)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #80 (Jeff Atwood)
• Craig Mundie shows off the future of NUI (Laura Foy)
• MVC 2 – Template Helpers and MVC 2 – Areas and MVC 2 – DataAnnotations and Parallel Computing (Martin Esmann)
• This Week in Testing Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 2) (Dror Helper)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Follow up, 6 months later, On Managing People with Chris Sells (Scott Hanselman)
• Authoring and Running Manual Tests in Visual Studio 2010 using Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16 & 18, 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Asking the Mountain To Come To You (Rob Conery)
• What do I have in store and hope for 2010 (Chris Woodruff)
• Life With My Geek: The Cave Phenomenon (Elle Starr)
• Zoho Reaches Out To Open Source Community (Krishnan Subramanian)
• My CodeMash 2010 experience (Bill Wagner)
• ALT.NET: Looks Like its Introspection Time Again! (Steve Bohlen)
• What can you get with 10KB of Ruby or Python code? (Jimmy Schementi)

Database

• Performance Tuning Methodology Preferences (Buck Woody)
• XML Validation in SQL Server Intergration Services (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Step by step (aka Dummies or Busy Dev Guy) guide to installing SharePoint 2010 in a virtual machine free eBook (Reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• How to Remove Corrupted SharePoint Sites – Preparing for SharePoint 2010 Upgrade (Joel Oleson)
• BCS Secure Store Services (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Google Chrome OS the Easy Way (Chris Leeds)
• Introducing the Windows Experience Pack (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Intuit and Microsoft Sign Deal to Serve SMBs (Ben Kepes)
• Free ebook: First Look Microsoft Office 2010 (Devon Musgrave)
• “What’s New for Developers in Outlook 2010” (Greg Duncan)
• Perform asynchronous asset management using Windows Powershell cmdlets for WMI (Kapil Mathur)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: The Sustainable Network — Only $9.99! Use discount code TSNE9 (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Research Works on “Mental Tagging” of Images (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Jan 20, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: January 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #522 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 20, 2010 — #783 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

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