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Top Links

• Simplify your Visual Studio 2010 Toolbar and Free Your Mind (Scott Hanselman)
• Async Samples 3 (Bill Wagner)
• My First Reflector 7 Addin– Silverlight Opener (Jason Haley)
• Autofac 2.4.5 Release (Nicholas Blumhardt)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• A LINQ Style Median Operator (Richard Carr)
• NHibernate Profiler update: Client Profile & NHibernate 3.x updates (Oren Eini)
• Manipulating LINQ To SQL command text (Chris Cavanagh)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Maor David-Pur)
• Using CSLA 4: Data Access draft available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Android Emulator – Increasing Performance Suggestions for MonoDroid and The Android Emulator Keyboard (Wally McClure)
• New NServiceBus Feature: 32-bit (x86) Host Process (Jonathan Oliver)
• EFProf First Look: profiling a DevForce SL app (Ward Bell)
• BusinessFailureScope activity with deep nested support (Rory Primrose)
• Internals to .NET (Abhishek Sur)
• Find your DataContext (Bob Bartholomay)
• Saving your API key with nuget.exe (David Ebbo)

 

Web Development

• Referencing HTML Elements via JavaScript (Kirupa)
• Change TextBox Style when DropdownList value Change in ASP.NET using jQuery and TextBox and Textarea Style Change on Focus using jQuery (Abhijit Jana)
• My FubuMVC, StructureMap, and StoryTeller Plans (Jeremy Miller)
• ASP.NET Accordions with jQueryUI (Joe Stagner)
• Using jQuery with ASP.NET Master Page (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Sueetie Celebrates Turning 3.1 (Dave Burke)
• How to find your location inside Internet Explorer 9 (Don Burnett)
• Keeping WebSockets alive (Jef Claes)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Automation Is Also For Developers (Shai Raiten)
• NUnit Testing Framework (Richard Carr)
• Programmers make Excellent Testers – Arguments and Counter Arguments (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Random Thoughts on Good Programmers and Good Code (Jay Fields)
• Using AppHarbor for Continuous Integration (Chris Missal)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Lazy Load XAML content from External File and Vice Versa (Abhijit Jana)
• Creating a Silverlight Out-of-Browser Splash Screen (Michael Wolf)
• Deal with Performance in WPF applications (Abhishek Sur)
• Windows Azure for Developers Task 7: Creating Service Account in new Silverlight based Azure Portal and Binding XML File to Data Grid in Silverlight (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF LiveLessons code demos (Jason Rainwater)
• Application Library Caching in Silverlight 4 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Building a CoverFlow visualization using Quartz Composer (Pavan Podila)
• Jounce Part 13: Navigation Parameters (Jeremy Likness)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 390: Pax East – Xbox LIVE Enforcement: Tales from the Din Part 3: The Conclusioning and Show 391: The PAX East Show (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Phone Radio 21 (Brian Seitz)
• GDC 2011 – a quick overview! (Tina Wood)
• Monad tutorial, part 3 (Brian Marick)
• TWC9: Recap of VS 2010 SP1, IE9 RTW set for Mar 14, Hack your house & cockroaches (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Weekly 199: I Feel Funny In My Pants (Paul Thurrott)

 

Community / Events

• Webinar – Neudesic’s Application Lifecycle Management for SharePoint (Senthil Kumar)
• Free Parallel Programming Workshops Coming to DC (Frank La Vigne)
• SVG Open 2011: Where SVG meets the Web (Patrick Dengler)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Download – Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 and SQL SERVER – Pending IO request in SQL Server – DMV (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Auto Converts True or False to a bit (Andy Lohn)
• A Small Collection of SQL Azure Queries (Glenn Berry)
• Ever had poor performance saving files in SSMS over slow network? (Paul S. Randal)

 

Miscellaneous

• Coding envy? Pex4fun on your WP7 phone (Jonathan de Halleux)
• ETL and Building Intelligence Behind Semantic Search (Lynda Moulton)
• More Deep Dive Info, Including Abstracts from the PowerShell Team (Travis Jones)
• Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Hits 10,000 Apps (Richard Hay)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 12, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 416 (Sam Gentile)
• This Week’s Link List (March 11, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Distributed Weekly 93 (Scott Banwart)
• 14 Useful .NET Debugging Tips & Tricks in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 11, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Week Retrospective 23 – Agile Hippies and The Death of the Iteration (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 11th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 03/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 10-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #143 (David Vidmar)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention (Best Practices) by Marc McDonald

 

 

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Top Links

• Windows Phone From Scratch #9 – Visual State (Jesse Liberty)
• Fluent Builders, Part 1 (Peter Ritchie)
• Algorithmia Source Code released on CodePlex (Frans Bouma)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide – Code Samples (MS Downloads)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• NH Prof New Feature: Alert on bad ‘like’ query (Oren Eini)
• A few LINQ Queries (Christian Nagel)
• Pinning Watch Variables While Debugging Visual Studio 2010, Awesome Feature (Peter Kellner)
• Telerik Data Services Wizard Updates (Stephen Forte)
• Gtk# designer on OSX (Miguel de Icaza)
• How to create lightweight reusable source code with NuGet (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Does IntelliTrace support all the .NET Frameworks ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Fronting long-running WF Services with MSMQ, the right way (Emil Velinov)
• EF Feature CTP5: Raw SQL Query/Command Support (Gil Fink)
• Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack is now in Beta (Shai Raiten)

 

Web Development

• Replace Those Images with CSS: Rounded Corners (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Animating HTML5 Canvas Element (Leon Braginski)
• Efficient Paging with WebGrid Web Helper – ASP.NET MVC 3 RC (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Display HTML/CSS Warnings as Errors (Zain Naboulsi)
• How one decision can turn web services to hell (Gunnar Peipman)
• Retrieving Data from Google Analytics API using PHP (Lorna Mitchell)
• Building a Sample WebMatrix Application (Joe Stagner)
• ASP User Notification Update (John V. Petersen)
• Easy Setup for PHP On Azure Development (Josh Holmes)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Web Development Stack In OSX (Derick Bailey)
• Lost in Translation – An Agile Game (Michael Norton)
• Agile is Always a Team-Involving Activity and Increase Your Velocity By Adding More People? (ScoutMaster)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of Lean Software Dev. – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDLEN (O’Reilly Media)
• Cleaning /removing attachments from Test Cases in TFS. (Charles Sterling)
• But, It Just Had to Get Done… Didn’t It!? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Are Better Business Architecture Abstractions the Key to Enterprise Architecture? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RadControls for Windows Phone vs. Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone (Rudi Grobler)
• Windows Phone 7 Charts (Luke Lowrey)
• Dynamically Generating Controls in WPF and Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Announcing V2.5 of the Metro Web Browser: Save Pics, Reorder Faves, Perf & Bug Fixes (Adam Nathan)
• Resizing Images in Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
• Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 3) (Mike Taulty)
• Animating the Color of an Object (Mike Snow)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #20 at Philly and Richmond Code Camps Take II (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Research Part 1 – The Anechoic Chamber (Larry Larsen & Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)

 

Community / Events

• Talkative and Precognitive Badges (Jeff Atwood)
• Spotlight: Jes Borland (Jen McCown)
• Windows Azure Q&A Discussion with Microsoft Azure Architect (Lonnie Webb)

 

Database

• SQL Server Compact 4.0 CTP2 for Windows Desktop (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Codename Atlanta Attempts to Help Out DBAs By Providing Basic Assistance (Brad M. McGehee)
• Introducing SSIS Reporting Pack for SQL Server code-named Denali (Jamie Thomson)
• SSRS: How to monitor report subscriptions (Paul Theriault)
• Dealing with The row value(s) updated or deleted either do not make the row unique or they alter multiple rows errors (Denis Gobo)
• HEAPs o’ Trouble With Multi-Column JOINs (Brad Schulz)
• Can You Dig It? – The Plan Cache (Jason Strate)

 

SharePoint

• Enhanced SharePoint 2010 Ribbon with JQuery (Greg Galipeau)

 

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Verve – A Type-Safe Operating System (James Vastbinder)
• Microsoft’s WP7 Platform Guy Won’t Talk Sales Numbers Either (Le Web) (Robin Wauters)
• Microsoft’s Project Emporia–mining the web so you don’t have to and Microsoft’s Montage goes in public beta (Steve Clayton)
• BizTalk–The Road Ahead (Bill Zack)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 8 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 12/08/2010 and Daily News Digest 12/09/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #747 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 08, 2010 — #1005 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis

 

 

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Top Links

• Engadget Gets the Goods on XBOX LIVE for WP7 (Don Burnett)
• Microsoft delivers on-premises private-cloud building block (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Big day for Microsoft games: Microsoft Flight, Age of Empires Online; Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7 titles revealed (Kip Kniskern)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Edition – Only $9.99 use code DDVCS (O’Reilly Media)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to publish a printer in Active Directory (C#) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• New to C#, Visual Studio, and SQL Server (Jonathan McCracken)
• Proposed New Visual Studio ALM Stack Exchange Site (Ed Blankenship)
• WCF RIA Services Part 5 – Metadata and Shared Classes (Brian Noyes)
• Roll Your Own Item Template with the Export Template Wizard (Zain Naboulsi)
• NHibernate 3.0 QueryOver Syntax is the Bee’s Knees (Bobby Johnson)
• Quick and Dirty way to backup a SQL Azure database to a local copy using EF and Dynamic Query (James Clarke)
• Why I Love NServiceBus (Jonathan Oliver)
• Coding Standards and Best Practices : Dealing with strings Part (1) and Implementing Multithreaded Singleton Class (Peter Bahaa)

 

Web Development

• Exposing Java Implemented Logic – JSP or ASP.NET ? (Joe Stagner)
• Resig Introduces jQuery Mobile (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A Boolean Date Time Field Template for Dynamic Data 4 (Steve Naughton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Quickly setting up Autospec and Growl for TDD goodness in Ruby!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Optimistic Offline Lock (Giorgio Sironi)
• Can We Adopt Agile? Not Yes. (Peter Schuh)
• Monday Morning Productivity Jump Start (Amber Singleton Riviere)
• I&I over P&T (Steve ‘Doc’ List)
• Estimating is Overestimated (Sergio Romano)
• Write testable code even if you don’t write tests (Karl Seguin)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight – Property Value Synchronization between Two View Models (Kiran Kumar G)
• Creating a small downloader tool for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Creating Application using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Commanding and ADO.NET Entity Framework (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Xbox LIVE Games for Windows Phone 7 Unleashed at Gamescom (Michael Klucher)
• WPF Application Framework (WAF) 1.0.0.400 (CodePlex)
• Picking the right resolution for RibbonWindow’s Icon and Images in Ribbon Sample (Varsha Mahadevan)
• Virtualizing Data in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications (Peter Torr)
• Windows Phone Applications – Gestures (Ricky Tan)
• Windows Phone 7 gets all musical on your keystrokes (Steven Hodson)
• Debugging Silverlight with Visual Studio and Firefox and Storing and playing media on Windows Phone 7 (Tim Heuer)
• Windows 7 Phone: Details Matter (Sarah Perez)
• One for the ladies (your mkop editor)
• Two more WP7 tutorials (Nigel Sampson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone 7 app: Halo Waypoint just announced (Tina Wood)
• YUI Theater — Dennis Lembree: “Making JavaScript Accessible (26 min.)” (Allen Rabinovich)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 25 – Entity Framework with Matthew Wills (Richard Banks)
• Sparkling Client Show 103: Windows Phone 7 Development Hardware with Walt Ritscher (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Countdown to PDC10: There’s one pass left! Is your name on it? (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 70: ZoomIt, PC & Mac Ads, Media Room, Gaming on Windows Phones (Laura Foy)
• Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration (Silverlight Show)

 

Community / Events

• How to Insult a Writer (Charles Petzold)
• Growing Faith in Open Source, But Few Give Back (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

Database

• Migrate MySQL, Access Databases to the Cloud with SQL Server Migration Assistant (Bruce Kyle)
• Count the Number of Occurrence of Characters in a String – SQL Server Challenge (Suprotim Agarwal)
• What I learned today – CHECKDB and database snapshots (John Pertell)
• Integration Services vNext Coming Soon? (Todd McDermid)
• Termination options for ALTER DATABASE (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Cookbook V2 Now Available (Lee Holmes)
• Xbox 360 Limited Edition Halo Reach console sounds (Larry Hyrb)
• Add-ons, and Opting out of Google Analytics Without Them (Eric Lawrence)
• Windows Home Server Vail August Preview Available for Testers – Brings Client Connector for Mac with Time Machine Support (Imran Hussain)
• Ruby Programming and Education: A Match Made in Heaven (Satish Talim)
• Mathematics Add-in for OneNote 2010 is available (John Guin)
• Microsoft Releases VMMSSP (Krishnan Subramanian)
• A Quick guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell Part-1. (Md. Marufuzzaman)
• Microsoft Heads Back to School (Anthony Salcito)
• Daily Dose – Vim Increases Vigor (Mitch Pronschinske)
• RTM’d Today: Programming Windows Identity Foundation (Rosemary Caperton)
• Now You Can Get 4 TV Tuners on 1 Card (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft’s 3 Screens and a Cloud – in a single image and Vote on your favorite wishlist items for Windows 8 (Steven Hodson)
• Use the "Spike" Feature in Microsoft Word to Copy and Paste Text (The How-To Geek)
• Small Basic Tutorials (Vijaye)
• Profiler Usage Analysis (Oren Eini)

 

More Link Collections

• Weekly Links #118 (Grant Palin)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/15/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 157 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #666 (Chris Alcock)
• Blogs to follow – WPF Disciples (Rudi Grobler)

 

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server MVP Deep Dives by Paul Nielsen