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Top Links

• NHibernate donation campaign (Oren Eini)
• "Art of Agile Development" Going Online (James Shore)
• Chapter 1 of “SQL Server DMVs in Action” is now available for FREE (Ian Stirk)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observers (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Ninject 2 Dependency Injection Reaches GA (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Virtual Space (Richard Carr)
• WDK 7.1.0 (MS Downloads)
• My Visual Studio 2008 is broken after uninstalling .NET Framework 4.0 (VS Team)
• Download code from the MonoTouch ebook (Wally McClure)
• DataTip Value from the Last Debug Session — vstipDebug0012 and Understanding Word Wrap — vstipEdit0022 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Issues Compiling VS2010 solutions (with web projects) from Nant (Derik Whittaker)
• WCF RIA Services and Audit – Historical changes (Fredrik Normen)
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 & .Net 4 – The Official MSDN Source (Greg Duncan)
• Behaviors with MSpec (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Column guides for Visual Studio 2010: An extension (Jeff Wilcox)
• No Intellisense with VS 2010 RC (and how to fix it) (Scott Guthrie)
• Setting up a continuous integration server for a CodePlex project using TeamCity and Mercurial (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Web Development

• View/ViewModel Association – Convention and Configuration-based Approaches (Nikhil Kothari)
• Lucene.net Is Powering Subtext 2.5 Search (Simone Chiaretta)
• Profilers and ASP.NET (Tom)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Project code organization (Patrick Smacchia)
• Balsamiq – Help us design the “Components” feature (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Learning From Austin Powers: Your Product Does Not Need More Features. (Rajiv Popat)
• Code Kata (Julian M. Bucknall)
• The usefulness of interaction tests, or “How to question the method” (Kyle Baley)
• Initiate and Embrace change (Mark Nijhof)
• Get started with Microsoft Test Manager (Murray Gordon)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4, Experiment with Pluggable Navigation and a WCF Data Service (Mike Taulty)
• When Is It OK To Hack? (Jesse Liberty)
• Setting focus in XAML with no code (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure Miniseries #4: Monitoring Applications (Brian Hitney)
• Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 1 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 2 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 3 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 4 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 5 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 6 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 7 (Dag König)
• Fez’ing with the .Net Micro-framework (Coding4Fun)
• TWC9: MIX10, Tweevo, Silverlight Augmented Reality, testing (Dan Fernandez)
• jQuery Podcast 13 – David Walsh (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Cloud Cover – Episode 2 (Ryan Dunn)

Database

•  SQL SERVER – INSERT TOP (N) INTO Table – Using Top with INSERT (Pinal Dave)
• Using SQL Server Management tools and Integrated Security/Windows Authentication from a non-domain joined machine (Greg Duncan)
• Outputting data to an XML file : SSIS video nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• Turning on execution plans affects performance (Simon Sabin)
• Readonly Databases (Martin Bell)
• Using schemas to maintain order as a DBA (Ted Krueger)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Mobile Rendering (And Device Emulator Fun!) (Charles Chen)
• SharePoint Designer’s new workflow editor: keyboard shortcuts (SharePoint Designer Team)
• SharePoint Dialog Auto-Sizing and Master Page Customization (Zach Nation)

 

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Hotkey to Pause Pandora (Lee Holmes)
• How I use Social Media: Part 4–LinkedIn (Amy Blankenship)
• Windows 7 memory usage: What’s the best way to measure? (Ed Bott)
• Lynda.com video tutorial site now has iPhone app (Erez Zukerman)
• Confirmed: Windows Mobile 6.5 to become Windows Phone Starter Edition (Nilay Patel)
• The 27th of Diduary: Did you know you can get 7 free songs every week? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Daily Dose – Vote for the New Eclipse Logo! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Entelligence: Windows Phone 7 Series (Michael Gartenberg)
• NUI, Lolcats and other trending topics at Microsoft (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• PowerShell – Speak Number of Lines of Code (Keith Elder)
• Developers, save us from the Microsoft undead (Joe Wilcox)
• iPhone OS Coming to More Devices? (Taimur Asad)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 26, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – FEB ‘10 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 27, 2010 — #804 (Dave Campbell)
• Friday Potpourri: Azure, Bing Maps, Oomph, and more (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Azure Resources for Decision Makers (Murray Gordon)

 

The Geek Shelf

Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity

 

 

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- EDIT – Link #2 below is from Corey Miller, not Corey Schuman (thx Corey S.!)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Prism With EntLib and Unity (Ade Miller)
• Silverlight 2 Custom Control Gotchas (Corey Miller)
• State of the DLR for Silverlight (Jimmy Schementi)
• Why Should You Always Locate Your Convertors In App.Xaml (Amit Raz)

Web Development

• 3 Quick Steps for a Painless Upgrade to jQuery 1.3 (Karl Swedberg)
• Kobe – A Web 2.0 Service Development Resource Kit built using ASP.NET MVC and the Microsoft Web Platform (ASP.NET News)
• Evolutility Open Source ASP.NET Framework (Joe Stagner)
• Adding An 800 Pound Gorilla To Your Site (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Select Multiple List Items in SharePoint Feature (Wesley Bakker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Application Lifecycle Management Workshops Help ISVs Realize Full Potential of Team Foundation Server (Bruce Kyle)
• Eager loading a One-to-Many collection w/ NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)
• Self-Modifying DSL from Savas (Chris Sells)
• C# 4, Dynamic Overloads (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Azure: Settings Are Settings Are Settings..? Maybe Not! (David)
• NInject Contextual Binding, or “How to defy Mick Jagger and always get what you want” (Kyle Baley)

Design/ Methodology / Testing

• The cost of Test Driven Development (Andrew Woodward)
• Transactions and the check-in dance (Jimmy Bogard)
• Application structure: Concepts & Features (Ayende Rahien)
• Test-driven development with code generation (Laila Bougria)
• Smarten Up Instead Of Generating Dumb Tests (Davy Brion)
• Improving Software Process – A Letter to Upper Management (Tim Barcz) – Link of the Day
• Moq 3.0 RTM!!! (Daniel Cazzulino)

Community / Events

• I’m a PC and I’m a MVP — 2009 MVP Summit WrapUp and Thanks! (Dave Campbell)

Database

• Create XML Files Out Of SQL Server With SSIS And FOR XML Syntax (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers (Denis Gobo)
• 5 Games that Won’t Die! (Joel Durham Jr.)
• The ALT.NET Programming Contest (Aaron Jensen)
• BOOK REVIEW: Code Leader, by Patrick Cauldwell (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Death March (Gunnar Peipman)
• Troubleshooting Windows MSI Installers (Phil Haack)
• HealthVault Connection Center 2.0 SP2 released (HealthVault Team)
• The Days of Arcade are coming (Larry Hyrb)
• Podcast of my Talk about Turing at the University of Toronto (Charles Petzold)
• Rebooting My Development Environment (David Starr)
• Why people do not see how smart your idea is at first (Ian Cooper)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2009 — #533 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #301 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Twitterings #18 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman Links for March 5, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• New and Notable 300 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for March 5th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: March 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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Silverlight / WPF

• Twilight 1.5: Multiple Views with MVVM (Bryant Likes)
• Silverlight-based Gaming is about to explode (Adam Kinney)
• Building a WPF Application: Part 5 (Christopher Bennage)
• Learn Prism (Blaine Wastell)
• ElementRecycler for Silverlight and WPF (Chris Cavanagh)
• Creating Master Pages in Windows Presentation Foundation (Azam)
• Title less Windows in WPF (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight Tip of Day #97 – How to get an Image’s Source File Name (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight Adoption – A Few Numbers (Mike Ormond)
• Creating Layout Tables in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• Hypervideo put to work (Jesse Liberty)
• Live Search from Silverlight (John Papa)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Refactoring: extract interface (Gunnar Peipman)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #8: Related items (Eric Gunnerson)
• Ninject 2 hits beta status (Simone Chiaretta)
• My Foray into Linq to Sql and the Entity Framework (Part 1 of 2) (Greg Galipeau)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Introduction and Writing an IronPython Debugger: MDbg 101 and Writing an IronPython Debugger: Hello, Debugger! and CodeHTMLer Language Definition for Python (Harry Pierson) – Links of the Day
• Code Cast #24 – Matt Podwysocki on Functional Programming (David Starr)
• Friday Books – LINQ in Action (Dave M. Bush)
• Visual Studio Challenge: Learn a New Menu Command (Julie Lerman)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Refactoring legacy code (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Paying Down Your Technical Debt (Jeff Atwood)
• QuickGraph on Code Contracts (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Design Guidelines: Serialization Technology (Rob Relyea)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 151 – Fit and Fitness with Ward Cunningham and James Shore (Scott Hanselman)
• Why You Want To Be A Craftsman Instead Of A Cowboy (Justin)
• Coding: Implicit vs Explicit modeling (Mark Needham)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: prototypes and privacy (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Chapter 5 — Understanding Models and ASP.NET MVC Sample Application at www.ASP.net/MVC (Stephen Walther)
• "Variable is assigned but its Value is never used" Warning (Rick Strahl)
• xVal 0.8 (Beta) Now Released (Steve Sanderson)

 

SharePoint

• MOSS 2007 and .NET framework 3.5 SP1 – Second part (Agnes Molnar)

 

Database

• It is SQL (Structured Query Language) NOT SBQL (Structured Business Query Language) (Derik Whittaker)

 

Community / Events

• The ALT.NET Conference: loving it (Simone Chiaretta)
• ALT.NET Seattle Day One (Phil Haack)
• Twitter – A Real Challenge for Blogging (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Miscellaneous

• Whiners that Fail (Uncle Bob)
• Thoughts on "Whiners that Fail" (Anne Epstein)
• Project subdomain URLs and separate RSS feed for reviews (Sara Ford)
• The new Windows Live FrameIt is here! SDK now available for download (damaster)
• Mozilla Bespin: Cloud code editing via browser (Dave Rosenberg)
• Windows 7 Friday: New Security Features and Options (Denny Boynton)
• Introducing Canvas for OneNote (Nathan Fish)
• Spore opens its API (David Pescovitz)
• Microsoft 2019 (Steve Clayton)
• 5 ways to enhance your Wikipedia experience (Jay Hathaway)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – February 26, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight Cream for February 27, 2009 — #530 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-02-28 (Gunnar Peipman)
• New and Notable 296 (Sam Gentile)
• Let’s Wax Functional 02/27/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for February 27th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: February 27, 2009 and Interesting Finds: February 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• 5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week (Simon Mackie)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 13 (Denis Gobo)

 

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Silverlight / WPF

• Graphical Paths with Gradient Colors (Charles Petzold)
• Where Does Silverlight and WPF Belong? (Chris Love)
• Why Silverlight Is the Future and Silverlight Online Goodies (Rocky Lhotka)
• New Tutorial: DataGrid Binding via Data Entities & WCF (Jesse Liberty)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• VSTS Has a New Web Site (Cameron Skinner)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.1 Released (for Windows and Silverlight) (Rocky Lhotka)
• A Story of TFS WTFery (Ben Scheirman)
• Model Driven Template/Scaffolding AddIn for Visual Studio (Eric Hexter)
• Developing with Microsoft Business Rules Engine (Mohamad Halabi)

 

Web Development

• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Streaming Video, but Were Afraid to Ask, and Then Some… (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Why to Use a CSS Framework? and More About CSS Frameworks (Daniela Panfili)
• Html and Uri String Encoding without System.Web (Rick Strahl)
• Chapter 1 – An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC (Stephen Walther) – Link of the Day
• Trying to Extend the ASP.NET MVC (T4) Item Templates to Create Multiple Files (Eric Hexter)
• Building AgiliTrain: Part 3 – Data Validation (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Friday Books – CSS: The Missing Manual (Dave M. Bush)
• REST Fundamentals (Kalyan Bandarupalli)
• Slide Elements in Different Directions (Karl Swedberg)
• Minifying HTML and JavaScript Using Microsoft Expression Web (Jason N. Gaylord)
• How to Use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile: Why Do We Integrate Early? (Mark Needham)
• The Essence of Great UI – An Overview (Mark Miller)
• S.O.L.I.D. By Example: Open Closed Principle (Bobby Johnson)
• Bounded Context, Extension Methods, and Fluent API’s (JP Hamilton)
• UX Patterns (and not UI Architecture Patterns) (Christopher Bennage)
• Why ‘Should Attach View to Presenter’ Is an Invalid Unit Test / Observation (Derick Bailey)
• Software Development "Lessons Learned" (Jarod Ferguson)
• The Next Level of Code Analysis Using ‘NDepend’: An Interview with Patrick Smacchia (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

.NET Community / Events

• Introducing .NET Shout Out (Joe Stagner)
• MSDN Webcast: ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 3.5 Overview (Lindsay Rutter)
• MVPs Headline at TechEd 2009! (Jas Dhaliwal)

 

Database

• Managing Files with SQL Server 2008’s FILESTREAM Feature (Thiru Thangarathinam)
• Some Simple Code to Show the Difference Between Newid and Newsequentialid (Denis Gobo)

 

Miscellaneous

• Performance Is Important – Why Jeff Atwood (CodingHorror.com) Is Wrong and Right About Performance (Wallace B. McClure)
• New in Labs: Multiple Inboxes (Octavian "Vivi" Costache)
• Mobile Manager for Netflix (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Learning and Understanding (Gabriel Schenker)
• Suggested Sites & Privacy (Jane Kim)
• UAC Feedback and Follow-Up (Jon DeVaan & Steven Sinofsky)
• The History of Microsoft – 1975 (Tina @ Channel9)
• Pulling the Sword from the Stone: Amazon’s Kindle Books to Be Available on Mobile Phones (Chris Webb)

 

More Link Collections

• CloudNews for February 5th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• jQuery Week? (Thomas S. Williams)
• Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2009 — #508 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for February 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (2/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #281 (Chris Alcock)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 10 (Denis Gobo)
• Interesting Finds: February 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)

 

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