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Top Links

• Introducing a new type of help for developers (Frank Rice)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Extending jQuery AJAX (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 5 (Rob Eisenberg)
• DevForce Extensibility With MEF InheritedExport (Ward Bell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Zero-Argument Overload of Any (Craig Andera)
• Open A Visual Studio Solution From A Command Prompt Or Batch File (Derick Bailey)
• MSBuild Property Functions (Dan)
• Sqlite & Entity Framework 4 (Dane Morgridge)
• DataSet does not validate XML Schema (XSD) (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• CSLA 4 data portal changes (Rockford Lhotka)
• Understanding the File Tab Channel Drop Down Button (Zain Naboulsi)
• Testing NHibernate mappings (Mike Hadlow)
• Working with WCF: Part Three – Connecting To Your Service With A Client pt. 1 (James Bender)

Web Development

• SharpZipLib and ASP.NET (Charles Chen)
• How to Serialize/Deserialize Complex XML in ASP.Net / C# (Impact Works)
• Pro JavaScript Techniques (Chris Love)
• Setting the Page Editor Options in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Part IV) (Minal Agarwal)
• Ban HTML comments from your pages and views (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Your Certification is Meaningless (James Shore)
• Book Review: Where Have All The Leaders Gone (Andy Warren)
• Working with Legacy code and Working with Legacy code #1 : Draw up a plan. (Andrew Stopford)
• 10 Secrets to Being a Successful Corporate Web Worker (Dawn Foster)
• The Better Adapted You Are, the Less Adaptable You Tend To Be (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows Phone: Frame/Page navigation and transitions using the TransitioningContentControl (Avi Pilosof)
• "I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating" [Tip: For a truly read-only custom DependencyProperty in Silverlight, use a read-only CLR property instead] (David Anson)
• Property change notifications for multithreaded Silverlight applications (Jeff Wilcox)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Bill Buxton on Natural UI and Bill Buxton Explains ‘METRO’ and the whole NATURAL UI CONCEPT.. (Don Burnett)
• MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Introduction to LINQ and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Intro to WCF Data Services and OData and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Getting Started with ADO.NET Entity Framework and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Deeper Look at ADO.NET Entity Framework and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Azure Data Storage Options (Emily Gibson)
• jQuery Podcast 18 – Jeffery Way (Nettuts) (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Cloud Cover Episode 7 – Dallas (Ryan Dunn)
• Spaghetti Code Recaps the MIX Conference (Jeff Brand)
• SSIS Prehistory video (Jamie Thomson)

Community / Events

• The GitHub East Coast Tour (Chris Wanstrath)
• OpenRasta needs an msdn license (Sebastien Lambla)
• Announcing the Tips and Tricks SWAG Fest Beginning April 12th (Zain Naboulsi)
• Headspring’s MVC Boot Camp now covers MVC 2 – April 21, 22, 23 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Free ASP.NET, Ajax, and IIS Web Camps (John Papa)
• Attend Windows Summit 2010: May 25–27 (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• Microsoft pushes back delivery date for its SQL Server data warehouse release (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Writing Tests for a Stored Proc Sure Feels Weird (Bobby Johnson)
• A DMV a Day – Day 3 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (2/30) DBCC CHECKDB causes blocking and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (3/30) instant file initialization can be controlled from within SQL Server (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between GRANT and WITH GRANT (Pinal Dave)
• Getting the physical device name and backup time for a SQL Server database (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Measuring ASP.NET and SharePoint output cache (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Office 2010 File Formats & Protocol Documentation (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Renames their Mobile OS to Just “Windows Phone 7″ (Uzair)
• New Tweetmeme Plugins for Windows Live Writer (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft Office on iPad? Don’t Hold Your Breath (Lauren Indvik)
• Kodu Tutorial #5 Programming UI (Stephen Coy)
• Wolfram Alpha iPhone app drops from $50 to $1.99, gets iPad version (Jay Hathaway)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 02, 2010 — #828 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman on iPad as CD-ROM, Successful Web App Traits, Freemium Flexibility (Dave Burke)

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The Art of SQL

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Top Links

• The jQuery Templating Plugin and Why You Should Be Excited! (Chris Love)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 1 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Beta Version of SCSF for VS2010 available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Knights, Knaves, Protected and Internal (Eric Lippert)
• Unit Test the Behavior, Not the Implementation (Karl Seguin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding a set of Nodes in an XML String and XML Literals: Handling Empty Elements (Deborah Kurata)
• Automatically generating states with VS2010 UML tools and T4 (Manuel Naujoks)
• Visual Studio Tip of the Day Start Page – Extension #3 (Sara Ford)
• FluentPath now on CodePlex (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Tips and Tricks: Apply (or Don’t Apply) Cut or Copy commands to blank lines (Brittany Behrens)
• Hide or Show the Solution File in Solution Explorer (Zain Naboulsi)
• Interview question (Kirill Osenkov)

Web Development

• “Demystifying The Cloud – An Introduction to Cloud Computing” free ebook which includes the three popular services, Amazon, Google and Azure (Greg Duncan)
• Tip#102: Did you know… How to specify tag specific formatting (Deepak Verma)
• Google APIs Get Faster Thanks to Smart Optimizations (Matthew Casperson)
• Presenting IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 (Lawrence Moroney)
• Building A Custom ActionResult in MVC 2 To Download Excel Files (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET AJAX Modal Popup on Mouse Over (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 9: Developing and Agile Friday: "Test-Driven Development" Now Online (James Shore)
• Law Of Demeter: Extension Methods Don’t Count and Red/Green/Refactor, For The Right Reasons (Derick Bailey)
• In TDD Red is not ‘does not compile’ (Ian Cooper)
• Filing a Great Bug (Matt Gradwohl)
• Ninja Level Productivity Tip: Evading an Unwanted Meeting in 3 Easy Steps (Russell Ball)
• Pipes and Filters Pattern in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Two Week Tetris Applying Otazo’s Truths to Managing Development (Tucker Croft)
• Finding the assumptions in stories (Mark Needham)
• Klocwork Beefs Up Security in Agile Source Analysis (Mitch Pronschinske)

Silverlight / WPF

• RIA Services and Validation (Nikhil Kothari)
• Windows Phone 7 + Silverlight Performance (Andy Beaulieu)
• Prism Template Pack for Visual Studio 2010 (David Hill)
• The platform giveth power, don’t taketh it away [Tip: Do not assign DependencyProperty values in a constructor; it prevents users from overriding them] (David Anson)
• Data binding user settings in Windows Phone applications (Jeff Wilcox)
• Installing Silverlight applications without the browser involved (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TypeMock Video: The Goals of Unit Testing (TypeMock)
• Research Perspectives on JavaScript with Erik Meijer, Ben Livshits and Ben Zorn (Charles Torre)
• XAML, Expression Blend and the Future of Multi-Touch Technology (Eric Hagan)
• The Thirsty Developer 89: McNuggets Go Tribal (Dave Bost)
• This Week In Silverlight 3.25.2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Silverlight TV 18: WCF RIA Services Validation (John Papa)
• Windows Phone 7 Series Shazam App: MIX 2010 Keynote (Laura Foy)
• Package and Re-use a SharePoint List (Laura Harring)

Community / Events

• Goodbye Intel, Joining Microsoft as an Architect Evangelist (Doug Holland)
• Project Natal ‘experience’ to premiere at E3 on June 13th (Paul Miller)
• Daily Dose – De Icaza Interview About .Net Taken Down (Mitch Pronschinske)
• There’s Still Time to Participate in This Year’s Imagine Cup (Anthony Salcito)
• Be a Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” (John Wiese)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Improves Developer, User Experience (Bruce Kyle)
• SQL SERVER – Generate Report for Index Physical Statistics – SSMS (Pinal Dave)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 5: network optimization again) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Exam 70-541 – TS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Labs "Canvas for OneNote" Updated for Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Review: The Nomadic Developer (Me)
• New Stuff Coming From Bing This Spring (Todd Schwartz)
• Process Explorer (yes, that Process Explorer) v12 Released and Development/Test Environments, Windows Activation and You (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 7 Series theme coming soon to Windows 7 thanks to Rainmeter (Imran Hussain)
• What Makes A Great Cover Letter, According To Companies? (Kat Neville)
• Microsoft Semantic Search (Trevor Dwyer)
• Windows 8: The SKUs are Here to Stay (Stephen Chapman)
• Sharing 2.0 (Piero Sierra)
• Windows Live™ ID Support, Download Page Ads, and Other Changes (Matt Hawley)
• David Pogue’s Windows 7: The Missing Manual Is Here! – Ingenious Tips and Tricks, Disarming Humor (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 25-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: March 25, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #568 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2010 — #820 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 47 (Kathleen Sanders)

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Programming WPF

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Top Links

• Introducing Typemock Test Lint (Roy Osherove)
• Developer Certification WTF? (Uncle Bob Martin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Go To a Line Number (Zain Naboulsi)
• DataTemplate in Generic.xaml – it should be the next ToString()! (Rob Relyea)
• Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes) (Scott Guthrie)
• Comparing LINQ to SQL vs the classic SqlCommand (Al Pascual)
• Building Hello MEF – Part IV – DeploymentCatalog and Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel (Glenn Block)
• Windows Azure Tools from 3rd parties (Hanu Kommalapati)

Web Development

• Goodbye Http Handler, Hello FileResult (Mike Ceranski)
• Preview Tools in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: JavaScript: The Good Parts – Only $9.99! Use code DDJSG (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Your Developers Don’t Want To Swap Pairs – Practical Agility (Alan Skorkin)
• Less is More, Slower is Better (J.D. Meier)
• Ubiquitous and unambiguous ? (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Leadership Tip: Stop Cloning Teams. Encourage Diversity In The Approaches Taken. (Rajiv Popat)
• A movement called weekend testing – What it can do you and your testing career? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Role Specific Interfaces: DIP And ISP In Action (Derick Bailey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Thirsty Developer 87: Ironing It All Out with Jimmy Schementi (Dave Bost)
• Major Nelson Show 352: Xbox LIVE Profile Policy change, SXSW community event and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 104- PowerScripting Podcast – MDT 2010 with Keith Garner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• A Great SlideShare from the always outspoken and beloved Scott Barnes of Readify.Net (Don Burnett)
• My "What’s New in Silvelright 3" Video from 0reDev Last Fall (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Lessons learned from building the NHibernate Profiler (Oren Eini)

Community / Events

• MIX10, Coding4Fun Show, and You! (Brian Peek)
• Ready to test those Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series apps? (Jeff Wilcox)
• My First Week as a Developer Evangelist (Sara Ford)
• Introducing the MVC Melee!!! (Sara J. Chipps)
• A few announcements for those in the UK (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• Geek City: More About Nonclustered Index Keys (Kalen Delaney)
• 03-08-2010 – SetFocus BI/SQL Master’s Program Tip: Sending an email inside of SSIS to a Gmail account (Kevin Goff)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL SERVER 2008 R2 Pricing (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft set to destroy Apple in every games market (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #554 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #110 (David Vidmar)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/8/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Links #95 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #25 – MSMVPs.com (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 135 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 406 (Sam Gentile)

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Ironpython in Action

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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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.NET / Visual Studio

• Simulating a Swarm Algorithm in C# (Mike Gold)
• Gotchas: Adding Attributes to Properties on Interfaces in F# (Ade Miller)
• XNA Game Studio 3.1 Zune Extensions Released – Get your Zune HD Dev On (Greg Duncan)
• XNA Game Studio 3.1 Zune Extensions (XNA Team)
• Using the Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard with Multiple Versions of OpenAccess (Stephen Forte)
• F# under the covers III (Steve Gilham)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (Joe Stagner)
• Generically Constraining F# – Part I (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 4 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Reflection with dynamic (Kirill Osenkov)
• PSA: NHibernate Session.Save() do you know what it returns? (Derik Whittaker)
• Using LINQ to query object hierarchies (Gunnar Peipman)
• What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part- II – Developing Routing Service (Mahesh Sabnis)

Web Development

• Accessing Images On Flickr From An ASP.NET Website Using The Flickr.Net Library (Scott Mitchell)
• Take Two: A jQuery WCF/ASMX ServiceProxy Client (Rick Strahl)
• Announcing the Microsoft AJAX CDN (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Supporting Web Standards Development with SuperPreview (Steve Guttman)
• Making JavaScript APIs Easier to Use (John Teague)
• There’s a Javascript Magazine, and its really good! (Kris Gray)
• Output DOCTYPE In XSLT (Deepak Kapoor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Club: SOLID Principles (Uncle Bob Martin) (Mark Needham)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 8. (Rajiv Popat)
• The Downside of Transparency (Chris Sells)

Silverlight / WPF

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Martin Woodward on Team System (Carl Franklin)
• RADAR: Windows Automatic Memory Leak Detection (Charles Torre)
• Radio TFS 26: Random Beta 1 Stuff (Martin Woodward)

Community / Events

• Critical Path Training to give away $15,000+ of free SharePoint 2010 training and Amazon Kindles at the SharePoint Conference! (Andrew Connell)
• Administering setup in Visual Studio 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• PDC09 – See you there! (Greg Duncan)
• More on Codeplex.org (Scott Koon)
• Top 10 reasons for coming to SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Last day to enter the raffle for a ticket to Roy Osherove’s TDD workshop (Sebastien Lambla)

Database

• The Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Introduction (Wesley Brown)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight CTP2 (Pinal Dave)
• Blobs and Filestreams (Andy Warren)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Tip: Providers (James Kovacs)
• The Windows 7 upgrade survival guide (Ed Bott)
• Zune HD gaming and app downloads confirmed: Twitter, Facebook, and 3D games on the way (updated) (Thomas Ricker)
• Windows PowerShell : Variables, Types, and Operators (Phil Pennington)
• Use the tools Microsoft didn’t use to create Zune HD apps (Paul Thurrott)
• Announcing Pocket Tabs for iPhone (Ben Scheirman)
• Google Gets Real-time Search (Darrell Etherington)
• What do YOU want to see in Windows 8? (Stephen Chapman)
• IE8 Download Notification in Windows 7 (Keith Elder)
• Windows 7 For Architects & Developers – Updates (Jeff Barnes)
• Challenge: NH Prof Exporting Reports (Oren Eini)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Sep 15, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: September 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #434 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 15, 2009 — #692 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 15th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Double Shot #541 (Mike Gunderloy)
• 9 Articles from Joel On software for Tech Leads (Roy Osherove)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Designing a system with DSLs (Oren Eini)
• Adding Workdays to a Date (Chad Juliano)
• Using Exception.Data to Append Data to Error Stack (Dave Schinkel)
• What’s the difference between conditional compilation and the conditional attribute? (Eric Lippert)
• C# – A Simple Way to Process Command Line Arguments (Michael Ceranski)

Web Development

• ASP.NET AJAX Preview 5 (Chris G. Williams)
• On the Road to iTextFileResult: Getting the Results from System.Web.MVC.WebFormViewEngine (Jay Kimble)
• Lucene.net vs. Indexing Services, or “How to conquer your fear of index management” (Kyle Baley)
• Box goes mobile with new OpenBox API (Josh Lowensohn)
• Simplifying Cross Browser Compatibility Testing (Mike Ormond)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CodeRush TestRunner (Andrew Stopford)
• NHibernate Profiler v1.0 Released (Oren Eini)
• Pressure, Expressed in Initial Development Time (Jay Fields)
• Wither the Repository (Jimmy Bogard)
• Improving Testability of GUI Code, an Example (Brett Schuchert)
• Agile is never ‘no process’ (Ian Cooper)
• Git local pre-commit hook and "git commit -a" and "git add" (Jason Meridth)
• Using the Specification Pattern for Querying (Chris Missal)
• Why do I develop with passion!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• What is your basic navigation structure for WPF/WinForms/Silverlight/Swing/Cocoa applications? and Graceful Shutdown Braindump (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
• The three stages of learning team leadership and Immediate and delayed satisfaction in software development (Roy Osherove)
• Bloggers compare Git notes (Ryan Menezes)
• Who decides what is a bug and what should be fixed? (Shrini Kulkarni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Caliburn RC3 (Rob Eisenberg)
• TreeView Selector (Rudi Grobler)
• Using Large Message Requests in Silverlight with WCF (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stack Overflow Podcast #67 (Jeff Atwood)
• Podcast: Are You Doing What It Takes to Succeed at Implementing SharePoint? (Dux Raymond Sy)
• What are .NET Services? (Nigel Watling)
• InfoPath 2010 Overview Video and Building forms with InfoPath 2010 (S.S. Ahmed)

Community / Events

• CodePlex Foundation (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft creates the CodePlex foundation (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• PDC09 $500 discount ends September 15 (Devon Musgrave)
• PDC 2009 – Patterns of Parallel Programming (Doug Holland)
• Evolving the PDC09 Event Site (Mike Swanson)
• Congratulations to the TeamCity.Codebetter.Com team! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• SQLAuthority News – Why I am Going to Attend PASS Summit Unite 2009- Seattle (Pinal Dave)
• Simone Chiaretta turns 35 and gives away a Mindscape Mega Pack professional subscription (Simone Chiaretta)
• How to contribute to open source without writing a single line of code (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Database

• Using Mirroring to Reduce DB Migration Downtime (Part 1) and (Part 2) (Ted Krueger)
• SQL 2008 Express Download – Getting the exe and Does debugging in SQL 2008 require sysadmin privileges (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Azure Does Stored Procedures (Stephen Forte)
• Be Careful When Uninstalling SQL 2008 R2 CTP (Ken Simmons)

PowerShell

• What’s new in PowerShell 2? (Joel Bennett)
• XP and W2K3 Release Candidate Versions of PowerShell are Now Available for Download (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Deployment Services benefits even small shops/individuals (Andrew Connell)
• Data Visualization and Infographics Resources (Cameron Chapman)
• New Windows 7 advert (Steve Clayton)
• Collision Physics With Small Basic (Vijaye)
• Friday Fun: Survival Kit For Microsoft Employees Owning iPhone (Krishnan Subramanian)
• September’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Microsoft’s Bing 2.0: Coming this fall (maybe even next week) (Sumeeth Evans)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #431 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman Links for September 10, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Cream for September 10, 2009 — #689 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #538 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 369 and New and Notable 370 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 10th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (9/10/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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Web Development

• Spark View Engine – Release: Spark v1.0 (CodePlex via Chris Alcock) – Link of the Day
• The Perfect Web Framework (Chad Myers)
• Making a Sharp Dressed Web Form – Thin ASP.NET 8 (Chris Love)
• Make Web Requests Programmatically in .NET (Deepak Choudhari)
• MVC – Using Custom Routes (Michael Ceranski)
• Ben Livshits and Emre Kiciman – AjaxView, Performance Profiling of AJAX web sites (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied among .NET developers (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When DDD Should Be Considered (Jérémie Chassaing)
• NH Prof: Architectural Overview (Oren Eini)
• Patterns and Practices of Lean Software Development (J.D. Meier)
• We Are Not Doing DDD – Part Two – CQS (Jak Charlton)
• Reducing Resistence to Dependency Injection (Patrick Kua)
• NCover v3.1.4 released! (Joe Feser)
• A Kanban Sidebar – Take 2 (Karl Scotland)
• Seams: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Developing Windows Services with .NET (Henning Krause)
• NHibernate – <natural-id/> (Oren Eini)
• How to Get Started Testing, Publicizing Your Applications on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
• Announcing: Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 (Carl Perry)
• Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for Entity Framework (Diego Vega)
• Feature CTP Walkthrough: POCO Templates for Entity Framework and Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework (Alex James)
• Why Doesn’t C# Implement "Top Level" Methods? (Eric Lippert)
• (VS2010 Beta1) Native Parallel Programming: ConcRT example — Debugging TwentyFour (Feng Yuan)
• “The” IronRuby Tutorial (Jimmy Schementi)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Using Windows Search in your applications (Josh Twist)
• The Rest of EF4 – Feature CTP1 Released today (Julie Lerman)
• F#: Continuation Passing Style and Visual Studio/Resharper: Changing the order of arguments (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML node loop example: finding all named object instances (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Sahil Malik’s Sharepoint Checklist (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Dynamic IT, Trends in IT Operations (Bob Familiar)
• Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight and Skins for WPF and Silverlight (Jared Bienz)
• Principles of Design Series: Learn about Emphasis using Expression Design (Arturo Toledo)
• Toolshed Tooltip #11 – DotNetNuke and Web Installer from Episode 2 and #12 – Virtual PC from Episode 2 (Russell Fustino)
• Ping 17: Microsoft sues over ClickFraud, Soapbox scales down, Project Natal & Bing on Fallon (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Yet There is an Iran (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Met Eric Evans at ParisJug (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Girl Developer the News (Sara J. Chipps)
• Free Webinar: 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation (Steve McConnell)

Database

• Get Performance Tips Directly from SQL Server (Ian Stirk)
• NH Prof: NHibernate Profiler vs. Sql Profiler (Oren Eini)
• Exporting XML data from SSIS – nugget (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – 2005 – 2008 – Delete Duplicate Rows (Pinal Dave)
• Replace Your Case When Then Else Syntax With the Sign Function In SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Sample MOSS 2007 WCM site now available – Adventure Works Travel (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7 (Greg Hitchcock)
• The Upcoming Smashing Book (Smashing Magazine)
• Tethering iPhone 3G on Windows 7 (Keith Elder)
• Services from Zoho, Software from Microsoft: Announcing Zoho Office for SharePoint (Rodrigo Vaca)
• Flash 10 for smartphone beta coming this October (Ross Miller)
• Windows 7 RTM: Scheduled for July 13, 2009! and Microsoft’s Windows 7 Entertainment Center: Part 2 (Stephen Chapman)
• Small Basic API Reference (Vijaye)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #374 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for June 22nd, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 21st June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (6/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• New Visual Studio Gallery is Live (Anthony Cangialosi)
• Visual Studio Tips and Tricks – II (Prabir Shrestha)
• DynamicDataTable, Part 1 (Curt Hagenlocher)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NH Prof: Why you should use it (Oren Eini)
• Book Review – SOA Patterns (First 5 Chapters) (Colin Jack)
• TDD: Making the test green quickly (Mark Needham) – Link of the Day
• Technology We Don’t Understand (Michael Janke)
• Continuous Integration On A Real, Big Project (Davy Brion)
• Pull Harder to Find Problems with Flow, and Improve From There (Scott Bellware)

Web Development

• Setting the Default Input Focus and Default Button with JQuery: Thin ASP.NET 5 (Chris Love)

Silverlight / WPF

• Clearing some air in Silverlight, Blend and Visual Studio Beta land (Tim Heuer)
• WPF oddity of the day: attached/dependency properties and breakpoints (Joe White)

SharePoint

• Configure disaster recovery across SharePoint farms by using SQL Server log shipping (Spence Harbar)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Business Intelligence – Important Terms and Definitions (Pinal Dave)

Community / Events

• Community Radio Narration Contest (Steve Andrews)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Windows Live Writer" for Windows Mobile Devices (Blake Handler)
• New features in Office 2010 (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows 7 Enterprise Upgrade to Cost $77 via Microsoft Software Assurance (Stephen Chapman)
• Real World Functional Programming: Book Review (Mark Needham)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 23, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 24, 2009 — #600 (Dave Campbell)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Mutable Linq Expressions and NH Prof: Release Candidate is out (Oren Eini)
• Why Are Mutable Value Types Even Possible? (Davy Brion)
• LINQ to SQL and alternate Providers (Rick Strahl)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Available for the MSDN Subscribers today (Jimmy) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• Guiding User Input with the JQuery Masked Edit Plugin :Thin ASP.NET Part 4 (Chris Love)
• Sueetie Profile Updates: Following and Friends and Sueetie Profile Updates: Member Bios (Dave Burke)
• Developing SharePoint WebParts using User Controls and Web Applications (Greg Galipeau)
• Creating a Jump menu in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Summary of Agile (Dave Schinkel)
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Book Review (Mark Needham)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• JSConf audio podcasts (Michael Kimsal)
• Major Nelson Show #319 :Gel, Gamerscore Reset and Fight Night Round 4 (Larry Hryb)
• Just A Video Update (Sara Chipps)
• NZsynth Building a Clickable Mosaic with DeepZoom and Silverlight 2 (Nigel Parker)

Community / Events

• Lehigh Valley .NET May 18 – Intro to Silverlight 2 and 3 and May 19 – Pittsburgh .NET – Lap around Silverlight 3 and C64 Emulator (Pete Brown)
• Tech·Ed Visual Studio Tips with Sara Ford and Volunteering at Tech·Ed 2010 in New Orleans (Steve Andrews)

SQL Server

• SSIS Import all text files. Use RegEx parse out strings and Stop mirroring for server reboot (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Subversion Key Points Condensed (Dave Schinkel)
• Social Media Blogs Top 200 (Jurgen Appelo)
• Server Fault Public Beta Nears (Jeff Atwood)
• Twitter Services That Are Useful To Me (Rhonda Tipton)
• Book Review: Code Leader by Patrick Cauldwell (+ a digression on contracts) (Patrick Smacchia)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #349 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 05.11 ~ 05.17 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #53 (Grant Palin)
• Links (5/17/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 94 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Discoveries This Week 05/17/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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Web Development

• JavaScript for C# developers: date basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• To MVC or to WebForms? (Chad Myers)
• CMS vs Code It Yourself (Dave M. Bush)
• How I handle JSON dates returned by ASP.NET AJAX (Dave Ward)
• Tip#57: Did you know… How to manage web site configuration through a web interface (Deepak Verma)
• ASP.NET MVC brings FUN back inside web development, on .NET (Simone Chiaretta)
• The strange case of the disappearing Feature: AdapterGroup (Scott Galloway)
• Creating Visual Studio Templates from your Web Projects (Rick Strahl)
• PHPPowerPoint 0.1.0 (CTP1) released! and Book review: Learning Ext JS (Maarten Balliauw)
• Move Over ASP.NET WebForms and MVC! (Jonathan Oliver)
• ASP.NET 400 Bad Request with restricted characters (Joshua Flanagan)
• How to Create A JQuery Plugin (Justin)
• IRouteHandler in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Cross browsing experience with Expression Web and IE8 (Giorgio Sardo)
• Windows Live Web Toolbar – How to integrate into your site (Hackersoft)
• Develop Provider-Based Features for Your Applications (Miguel A. Castro)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tally Rows in a DataSet that Match a Condition (Beth Massi)
• Why I love ReSharper, Part X of N (Oren Eini)
• Introducing Dovetail DataMap (Kevin Miller)
• What’s Been Happening in Fluent NHibernate Land? (James Gregory)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NHibernate Unit Testing (Oren Eini)
• Why Messaging #1 – Intro (Dru Sellers)
• Don’t Worship at the Altar of Accuracy (Steve Rowe)
• Weak/Strong APIs (Mark Needham)
• All Your Repositories Are Belong To Us (Jonathan Oliver)
• Why agile transitions initiatives might fail (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Validation – Part 2 – Client-Side and The 7 Phases of Unit Testing (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft Previews Great WPF and Silverlight Apps with Facebook OpenStreams API (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 3 – Simple Control for Online/Offline and Silverlight 3 – Simple “Flip Control” built on PlaneProjection (Mike Taulty)
• TestAPI v0.2 Released (Lester Lobo)
• Round Gel-like button template for WPF (LearnWPF)
• Databinding the videogame, part 6: logical coordinates (Joe White)
• Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Local Data Store (Ashish Shetty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #105: Getting your Func along with your Action on (Derik Whittaker)
• The Future of SQL Data Services with Nigel Ellis (Zach Skyles Owens)
• The Thirsty Developer 60: SQL Server 2008 for developers (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Taking PeepCode for a spin (Sergio Pereira)

Community / Events

• Distributed Development at Agile 2009 (Ade Miller)
• Top 10 .NET Twitterers (Me)
• NINE Questions with Shawn Weisfeld (Chris Williams)
• My upcoming speaking/teaching schedule (Derik Whittaker)
• Events This Week – April 27th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL2005 and SQL2008 should not be installed side by side (Simon Sabin)
• Quick Data Model creation off SSAS Data Source in SSRS (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server Encryption and Symmetric Key Encryption Tutorial with Script (Pinal Dave) – Link of the Day

SharePoint

• sharepoint guidance v2 – drop 8 (Erwin Van Der Valk)

Miscellaneous

• Call for JavaScript authors (Michael Kimsal)
• More Office 2010 screenshots surface and Microsoft said to reveal "Kumo" in June (Ben)
• NH Prof feedback (Oren Eini)
• Windows Live Profile (April) update is here! (damaster)
• At This Point, I’d Prefer Java Developers Over .NET Developers (Davy Brion)
• Countdown to Kumo? Neowin reader spots 40 day clock (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Vine to alert you in the time of crisis (Taimur Asad)
• Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 Available for Download (Kevin Purdy)
• 40% off IronPython In Action Book (Michael Ceranski)
• Five Windows 7 chapters free to all (Devon Musgrave)
• Improvements to AutoPlay (Arik Cohen)
• Is Google trying to out-Digg Digg? (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #336 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #114 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for April 27, 2009 — #581 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 91 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 315 (Sam Gentile)

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