Design / Methodology / Testing

• Aspects Of Domain Driven Design (Vinay)
• Mockup design (Daniela Panfili)
• Getting serious about your meeting problem (Seth Godin)
• Scrum Gathering Agile Architecture Talk (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Isolate the data not just the endpoint (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 and SEO (Brad Abrams)
• Virtual Earth Silverlight: Using MouseClick Event To Add “Pushpins” (Chris Pietschmann)
• XAML in .NET 4 Update (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight and Pluggable Codecs (Steve)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – Poor Man’s Visualbrush Behavior (Velvárt András)
• RIA The Death of Server Page Development (Scott Nichols)
• Silverlight ComboBox control and data binding (Rockford Lhotka)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #101 – Bypassing the Image Cache (Mike Snow)

.NET / Visual Studio

• GDC: XNA relevant tidbits (Chris G. Williams)
• Loading an Image from Resources in an Unreferenced Assembly (Bobby Johnson)
• Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition GDR v2 RC1 available (Previously called QFE) (Barclay Hill)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Getting Local Variables (Harry Pierson)
• Introduction to NHibernate, pt. 6 (Ian Cooper)
• Implementing A Value Object With NHibernate (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day
• DBPROJ vs. DBP (Gert Drapers)
• More things that I have learned with Azure (Wally McClure)
• Cascading Filters – for Dynamic Data v1.0 (Steve)
• Windows Azure (Steve Clayton)
• RichTextBox Text property where are you hiding? (Marlon Grech)
• Running Tarantino With MSBuild (Rob Reynolds)

Web Development

• ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking by Andrew Siemer (Book Review) (Peter Kellner)
• $(document).ready() and pageLoad() are not the same! (Dave Ward)
• Are you a Control Freak? (Ryan Lanciaux)
• Web platforms installed in one click…seriously. (Tim Heuer)
• 6 Tools To Be An Effective Web Developer (Justin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Agile Conference 2009 – Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, James Grenning (Agile Toolkit)
• .NET Rocks! – Catching up with Russ Fustino (Carl Franklin)
• 10-4 Episode 13: No More Late Surprises (Brian Keller)
• 1st place – MIX09 Show Off Contest – Physics Helper using Silverlight (Dan Fernandez)
• 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – MVP Interviews – Part 3 and 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – MVP Interviews – Part 4 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #47 (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code Episode 39: Scott C. Reynolds on Mac and iPhone Development (Jon Galloway)
• Radio TFS 18: Adopting Team System with Steven Borg (Radio TFS)

Community / Events

• Microsoft ArcReady Coming to a City Near You! and Microsoft MSDN Events Unleashed (Angela Binkowski)
• NINE Questions with Jessica M. Moss (Chris G. Williams)
• Mix 09′ Was Amazing! (Corrina Barber)
• live webinar next week (James Whittaker)
• Saturday’s New England Code Camp (Number Eleven!) Carpooling from VT? (Julie Lerman)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V (Alex Mueller)

Database

• HowTo: Rename SQL Tables in Visual Studio (Robert Muehsig)
• SQL Server Quiz, Can You Answer All These? (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Google, at your service (Rajat Mukherjee)
• Review: Don’t Make Me Think! (Grant Palin)
• Responsible Advertising: Feed a Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Win7 Logo Program – an update for ISVs (John Pelak)
• Zune coming to Windows Mobile, but not until WM7: report (Kip Kniskern)
• Google Docs adds vector-based diagramming with new drawing tool (Lee Mathews)
• Introducing CodePlex Tips and How to modify your project summary (or description)? – #001 and How to write a great project summary so your project is discoverable? – #002 (Sara Ford)
• Office 14: New details surface and Finally Outlook 2007 performance update! (Steven Bink)
• Touching Windows 7 (Reed Townsend, Dave Matthews & Ian LeGrow)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #315 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2009 — #551 and Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2009 – 2 — #552 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-03-25 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Interesting Finds: March 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 03.23~03.26 (yuanjian)
• New and Notable 308 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for March 25th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Tidy Up Your Xaml And Code Behind, Use UserControls Inside Templates (Amit Raz)
• Styling ListBox And Animating ListBoxItem In Silverlight 2 (Faisal Khan)
• two very promising WPF application frameworks on codeplex (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #97 – Creating Sprites from 3D Models – EnvyGames (Mike Snow)
• how to build an outlook style application (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Hosting Silverlight outside the browser (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio (2005, 2008, 2010) Tips and Tricks (Angela Binkowski)
• The Twitter Search API made easy with Linq to XML (Jan Tielens)
• C# moved to #1 for Programming Book Sales According to O’Reilly’s Radar (Gunther Lenz)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Setting a Breakpoint (Harry Pierson)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 beta release (Rockford Lhotka)
• Introducing Maestro – A DSL for Actor Based Concurrency and Exploring MapReduce with F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• What’s the point of Value types? (Mike Hadlow)
• Things I liked most out of TFS2008 (Laila Bougria)
• ADO.NET EF v LINQ to SQL (Take 4) (Chad Moran)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: object inheritance (part 1) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• jQuery, the who, what, where, why and how (Coding4Fun)
• 40 Useful JavaScript Libraries (Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• Must use !important on your CSS class for Text color to work on ASP.NET Validation Controls (Dave Schinkel)
• OAuth MVC.net Revisited (Owen Evans)
• CRUD with ASP.NET MVC (screencast) (Maarten Balliauw)
• 43,439 reasons to use append() correctly (Josh Powell)
• 50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials for Designers and Developers (Paul Andrew)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why aren’t software architects held accountable? (Simon Brown)
• Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Dependency Properties (Brad Abrams)
• DDD: The Specification Pattern and DDD: The Post That Should Have Preceded The Last (Casey Charlton)
• Next Generation Project Planning Tool: LiquidPlanner 2.0 (Steve McConnell)
• A story about ‘getting it done’ (Corey Haines)
• Manage Your Projects, Not Just Your Schedule (Part 4) (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Agile Architecture Method Revisited (J.D. Meier)

Community / Events

• Microsoft’s own private Macworld (Todd Bishop)
• MIX ’09 Plans (Nikhil Kothari)
• CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, March 3rd, 6:30pm – DotNetNuke, CMS for the Masses (Christopher Steen)
• Events This Week – March 2nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• ALT.NET Seattle 2009, some impressions (Ian Cooper)
• Alt.Net Seattle Review (Eric Hexter)
• MVPs Deliver Smart Business Solutions (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 2 – Most Contributing MVP of Year (Pinal Dave)
• Construx Offers Free Training for Laid-Off Software Workers (Pam McIlroy) – Link of the Day

PowerShell

• A guide to Advanced Functions (Joel Bennett)
• Powershell “CmdLet” and SharePoint (Liam Cleary)

SharePoint

• Guide to SharePoint Performance Optimization (Marwan Tarek)

Database

• SQL Server Upgrade Technical Reference Guide (Joe Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Two New Windows 7 Guides for IT Professionals (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Opens Office 14 Kimono, Slightly (J. Nicholas Hoover)
• Microsoft to start testing ‘Kumo’ search service and First screenshot of Microsoft’s Kumo (Ina Fried)
• Xbox Friends Watch Gamercard now on Channel 9 profile page (Adam Kinney)
• My Phone Team Is Listening: Tighter Integration With Windows Live Services In Future (Sunshine)
• Facebook comes to Windows Live FrameIt, PowerToy now available for download (damaster)
• Introducing NLP (Mo Khan)
• Why am I seeing this dialog? (IE8) (Frank Olivier)
• Ed Bott: The end justifies the means (Paul Thurrott)
• OhGizmo Preview: Pixar’s Up (Evan Ackerman)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #298 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #109 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for March 02, 2009 — #532 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 03.01~03.03 (gOODiDEA)
• Weekly Links #42 (Grant)
• CloudNews for March 2nd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 297 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• In Search of Wild Repository (Mike Hadlow)
• Unit Testing in VB.NET – with TypeMock Isolator (Roy Osherove)
• Hardcoding Considered Harmful – or Is It? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Improving Our Industry: It’s Time to Educate Outward, to Improve Inward (Derick Bailey)
• TDD Using Dependency Injection – Step 1. Refactoring (Andrew Woodward)
• Pex – Automated Whiteboard Testing for .NET (v0.9.40105.0) (MS Research)
• SOA Is Dead? It’s About Time! (Kurt Cagle)
• Getting Started with Automated White Box Testing (and Pex) (Jonathan de Halleux & Nikolai Tillmann)
• Agile in 6 Words (Brian Button)
• Leadership 101: Calm in a Storm (Jim Holmes)
• Bad Apple Behaviors (David Starr)
• The Story of the Lazy-Loading Lunchbox (Dylan Beattie) – Co-Link of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• How Would the CLR Be Different? (Matthew Podwysocki) – Co-Link of the Day
• Microsoft "Oslo" MGraph – the Next XML? (Lars Corneliussen)
• Fluent NHibernate: Mapping Private and Protected Entities (James Gregory)
• Installing Team Explorer 2008 on Windows 7 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• NHibernate + XML Columns (Joey Beninghove)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Validation Framework – xVal – jQuery Validation Support (David Hayden)
• Writing an Archive Calendar, Part 2 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Managing Static Files & Browser Caching (Joel Ross)
• jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation (John Resig)
• SSL Certificates and WWW. Prefix on Domain Names (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Resizable WYMEditor with jQuery UI Resizable (Marc Grabanski)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #81 – How to Scale Your Silverlight Control (Mike Snow)

.NET Community / Events

• Are YOU Going to the Microsoft Developer Conference? (James Bender)
• Presenting Keynote at MDC in Washington, DC (Stephen Walther) – I’ll be there. DM me on Twitter to track me down.
• Top 20+ jQuery Tweeple to Follow (Elijah Manor)
• Developer Faceoff: Sergio Pereira vs. Angelo Anolin (Max Pool)
• Where in the World Do Stack Overflow Users Come From? (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code Episode 31: Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC (K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon, Jon Galloway)
• .NET Fireside Chats – Joe Duffy on ‘Concurrent Programming on Windows’ (Me) – Q&A with Joe and a free chapter excerpt download from his book!

PowerShell

• DateTime Casts Are Language Primitives (Lee Holmes)
• Switching Website Root with PowerShell (Jim Holmes)

Database

• Transact SQL e-Learning Collection Now Available (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• Free Themes, Gadgets, Wallpaper for Windows 7 Beta (Lee Matthews)
• Office 14 Revealed: Part 2 – Security and Part 3 – A More Far-Reaching Fluent UI and Part 4 – Improving Desktop TCO (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft (Finally) Updates Live Mesh for Windows 7 Compatibility and Windows 7 Beta Users: Run, Don’t Walk, to Download the MP3 Patch (Paul Thurrott)
• My Favorite Feature in Windows 7 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Select Testers Get Office 14 Alpha Release (Mary Jo Foley)
• How to Telecommute (as If You’re Right in the Office) (Joel Durham Jr.)
• DSLs: Ready for Prime-Time? (Ted Neward)
• Exchange 14 Video (KC Lemson)
• Refcardz — Free Cheat Sheets for Developers (DotNetShoutout)

More Link Collections

• Creators Club Communiqué 13 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 — #484 and Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 – 2 — #485 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for January 13th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for January 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.01.13~2009.01.14 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #264 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for January 14, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Link Listing – January 13, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• DevEvents: More .NET MVC HtmlHelpers (Steve Andrews)
• Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 6) – The View (Nick Berardi)
• Delegated Authentication, Part II: Managing Tokens (Kevin Ledley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F#: Partial Function Application with the Function Composition Operator (Mark Needham)
• Filtering List Items: The Old, The New and The Slick (Amit Raz)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #0: Background (Eric Gunnerson)
• Framework Configuration: A Different Approach (Davy Brion)
• Beginning F#: Card Tricks (Seth Livingston)
• Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain – Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Fluent NHibernate’s AutoPersistenceModel (Chris Missal)
• Open Generic Types in StructureMap (Jeremy D. Miller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TestAPI Library Usage (Lester)
• Application Architecture Guide 2.0 (Rocky Lhotka)
• Good Design Is Easily Learned (Scott Bellware) – Link of the Day
• Should My Repository Expose IQueryable? (Mike Hadlow)
• The Pathfinder: Reaching Your Organization’s Goal (Derick Bailey)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Extension Methods (Brad Abrams)
• Scrum Daily Standup Meetings: A Manager’s Field Guide (Ade Miller)
• Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes (Jeff Atwood)

Silverlight / WPF

• Showing a Splash Screen Whilst Initializing a WPF Prism Application (Josh Twist)
• InitParams in Silverlight Live Streaming Services (Tim Heuer)
• Video: Silverlight 2 – Drag and Drop Part 2 of 2 (Corey Miller)
• Flash vs. Silverlight (Corey Schuman)
• Silverlight 3 – What We Know So Far & What We Can Predict (Part 3 of 4) (Bart Czernicki)
• Building a WPF Application: Part 6 (Christopher Bennage)
• COLOURLovers Offers Palettes in Expression Design, WPF and Silverlight Format (Adam Kinney)
• XAML Guidelines Released! (Rudi Grobler)
• Manipulating Service References in Silverlight 2 (John Papa)
• Drag and Drop with Managed Code (Jesse Liberty)

.NET Community / Events

• MSDN Developer Conference Is THIS WEEK! and Events This Week – January 12th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Developer Dinner Registration Issues (Marc Schweigert)
• Team System User Group – Virtual Edition: January Meetings (Anthony Borton)

Database

• SQL Server – sp_msforeachdb and sp_msforeachtable (Michael Ceranski)
• More OODB Crazy Talk (Rob Conery)

PowerShell

• How to Copy Colorized Script from PowerShell ISE and Interactive Remoting in CTP3 (Vladimir Averkin)

Miscellaneous

• Motivation Techniques (J.D. Meier)
• The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets (Tim Sneath)
• Office 14 Revealed: Part 1 – Integration of Volume Activation 2.0 (Stephen Chapman)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Notes: January 12, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for January 12th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2009 — #483 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – January 11, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• LINKBLOG for January 12, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #263 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman Links for January 12, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight News for January 13, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Visual Studio Links #99 (Darren Stokes)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Separating Configuration from Data Lowers Total Cost of Ownership (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Injecting Fakes/Stubs into StructureMap When Using Profiles (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Integrating Fluent NHibernate and Windsor NHibernate Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Oslo Tool: SQL Schema –> MSchema (Chris Sells)
• Working with IDs in the Entity Framework (Josh Twist)
• Asynchronous Fire and Forget with Lambdas (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• The Problems with NHibernate (Buddy Lindsey)
• Microsoft Windows 7 SDK: Beta and Microsoft .NET Services White Paper (Dec 2008 CTP) (MS Downloads)

Web Development

• JavaScript Tools (Mike Hadlow)
• An Argument for Moving ASP.NET MVC Controllers to a Separate Assembly (Billy McCafferty)
• The Internet Explorer 8 User-Agent String (Updated Edition) (Eric Lawrence)
• Enumeration-Based Dropdowns in .NET MVC (Steve Andrews)
• xVal – A Validation Framework for ASP.NET MVC (Steve Sanderson)

Silverlight / WPF

• The WPF Mindset (Ryan Cromwell)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #80 – How to Crop an Object (Mike Snow)
• Creating a Silverlight Control That Stays Square and Dazzling Silverlight Toolkit Pie Charts with Overlays (Pete Brown)
• Using Encoder 2 Templates for Existing Media (Tim Heuer)
• Fun with List Bindings in Silverlight 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)

PowerShell

• Managing Remote Desktop Services (aka Terminal Services) Using Windows PowerShell (Shanmugam Kulandaivel)
• Should I Refinance? PowerShell the Financial Advisor (Lee Holmes)
• Get-USB – Using WMI Association Classes in PowerShell (James Brundage)
• Develop a Complete WMI Inventory Tool in Windows PowerShell (Don Jones)

.NET Community / Events

• MDC Giveaways (Frank La Vigne)
• James Whittaker Netcast (Steve Rowe)
• ALT.NET Podcast Episode 14: Object Databases (Mike Moore)

Miscellaneous

• The Office 14 Wave: What to Expect and Office 14 and Windows Mobil 7: Another Day, Another Roadmap… and First Office 14 Screenshot? (Stephen Chapman)
• SOA Still Alive and Well–Sell It to the Business (David A. Chappell)
• Visualization – The Browser Wars (Max Pool)
• A Year in the Life of Caffeinated Coder: Part Deux (Russell Ball)
• Google’s New Favicon (Marissa Mayer)
• Getting Windows 7 Up and Running in VPC 2007 (Kirstin Juhl)
• Building a Hackintosh (Ben Scheirman)
• Windows 7 in 2010? Ha! Try July 2009 (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Discoveries This Week 01/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for January 9th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Silverlight Cream for January 09, 2009 — #480 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight News for January 10, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Link Listing – January 10, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: January 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Fluent NHibernate and nvarchar(max) (Sebastien Lambla)
• IronRuby DBI: Connecting to ADO.NET DataSources (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• NHibernate Profiler: Minute 15 (Kyle Baley) – Link of the Day
• CodeSmith 5.0.5 Released (Russ)
• Free Entity Framework eBook (Guy Barrette)
• Introduction to NHibernate, Part 3 (Ian Cooper)

Web Development

• Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 4) – Your First ASP.NET MVC Project (Nick Berardi)
• MVC Framework and jQuery = Ajax Heaven (Mike Hadlow)
• Accessing Html Document Content in Other Frames (Rick Strahl)
• Oxite – Release: 2009.1.5 (CodePlex) - “This release contains bug fixes, skinning support and some code clean up in response to community feedback.” – That’s putting it mildly. 
• Using Custom Behaviors with the BizTalk WCF Adapters, Part 2 (MS Downloads)
• Super Simple Ajax with jQuery and ASP.NET MVC (Buddy Lindsey)
• Handling Formats Based on URL Extension (Phil Haack)
• Creating a Dynamic Page Template with Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• Your Rockin’ YetAnotherForum.NET Is Ready for Action (Dave Burke)
• Windows Azure and Web Services (David L.)
• jQuery for Absolute Beginners: The Complete Series (Jeffrey Way via Gary Sherman)
• Live Framework/Mesh – Screencasts (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• C# Design Patterns – Abstract Factory Pattern (Justin)
• It’s Been Years Since I’ve Gone on an Anti-Singleton Rant (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Zune Issue (James Whittaker)
• Dates and Times – Software’s Bane (K. Scott Allen)
• Validation Guidance for FDA Regulated Companies (MS Downloads)
• Creating a Culture of Responsibility (Scott C. Reynolds)
• The Ultimate ExceptionAssert.Throws() Method (Dennis Dietrich)
• Test Driven Development (TDD) or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) (Jay Kimble)

Silverlight / WPF

• Restyling WPF ListView Header (Sacha Barber)
• Screencast of Silverlight Installation on Linux (Tim Heuer)
• More on Silverlight Developer Installation (Dave M. Bush)

.NET Community / Events

• Announcing the Lean Kanban Conference (Dave Laribee)
• Developer Dinner: Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond (Marc) – Dinner in Reston, VA the evening before the MDC event.
• Events This Week – January 6th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Silverlight 2 + SharePoint 2007 Presentations – Jan/Feb/March and MSDN Webcast: SharePoint 2007: Site Customization with Silverlight 2 (Sahil Malik)

Database

• SQL Server – Find Currently Running Query – T-SQL (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• Manage winrm Settings with wsman Provider (Wei Wu)

Miscellaneous

• Outliers: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft (Blake Handler)
• Education Breakdown? (Ryan Kelley)
• Caffeine as Fuel for Web Workers (Dawn Foster)
• Is SOA Dead? (Hanu Kommalapati)
• A Tool I Just Couldn’t Dream of Living Without… (Granville Barnett)
• Why Did Microsoft Skip Office 13? and Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000: Feature Complete? and Office 14 = Microsoft Office System 2009? and Windows Online UI Prototype (Stephen Chapman)
• Google & Microsoft (Steve Clayton)
• The Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade Program (Thom Holwerda)
• New Asus Netbooks Will Feature Windows 7 (Jacqueline Emigh)
• C’mon, Don’t Be "That Guy" (Sara Chipps)
• A Year in the Life of CaffeinatedCoder: Part 1 (Russell Ball)
• 2009: The Year Ahead – Mobile (Kip Kniskern)
• IE8 Blocker Toolkit Available Today! (Jane Maliouta)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Link Listing – January 6, 2009 and Link Listing – January 7, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Creators Club Communiqué 12 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for January 06, 2009 — #477 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for January 6th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.01.01~2009.01.07 (yuanjian)
• LINKBLOG for January 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• WMOC#30 – Microsoft Security Threat Modeling Tool and WSDAC#30 – Open Source Business Model and WSOAC#42 – SAML vs OpenID (Dilip Krishnan)
• The Morning Brew #259 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for January 07, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• Wednesdya Treasures for the Week Ending 1/9/09 (Dana Coffey)

Book of the Day

Congrats to all the new (and renewed) MVPs!

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Productivity: It Comes From Software Design Rather Than Software Tools and Negative Feedback Is a Privilege (Scott Bellware)
• Don’t Sell Out on the Context, Dude (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Reflections on Coding Style (Kirill Osenkov)
• Grady Booch on the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2.0 (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
• NHibernate Fluent => hbm => SQL Schema (Peter Bromberg)
• patterns & practices: App Arch Guide 2.0 Knowledge Base – Release: Application Architecture v2.0 Visio Diagrams (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSchema: An Example – Part 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Turning Data Into Code with Expressions (Tony Rasa)
• Windows Azure Storage – Queues [0]! and Windows Azure Logs! (David L.)

Web Development

• Some Notes About ASP.NET MVC RC & the MVC Design Gallery (Robert Muehsig)
• Live Framework SDK – More Steps (Mike Taulty)
• Where’s MVC Storefront? (Rob Conery)
• Tip #40: Did You Know… How to Scope Master Pages? (Deepak Verma)
• Drag-and-Drop Sorting for Our ASP.NET MVC List Editor (in One Line of Code) (Steve Sanderson)
• Google Reader API (Niall Kennedy)

Silverlight / WPF

• How Can I Expand Items in a TreeView? – Part III (Beatriz Stollnitz)
• Tour Around Silverlight Contrib (Justin Angel)
• Model-View-ViewModel and Animation (Josh Twist)
• Building a WPF Application: Part 0 (Christopher Bennage)

PowerShell

• My Powershell_ISE Profile Part 2 and PowerShell_ISE Scripting: ConvertTo-Comment (Jeffrey Snover)

Database

• How to Use a Multi-Result Set Stored Procedure in SSIS (Bob P.)

Miscellaneous

• Office 14: TAP and Beta Specifics Emerge (Stephen Chapman)
• At Home with HomeGroup in Windows 7 (Jerry Koh)
• Things I Want in Windows 7 (Spencer Harbar)
• 7 Steps to Landing Your Dream Job in the New Year (Brian Reindel)
• Are Programmers Spoiled? (Justin Etheredge)
• Ten Things to Retire in 2009 (Jimmy Bogard)
• New Poll: What Do You Want to Read Here in 2009? (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft – The Talent Killer (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Lessons Learned Getting a Game on Xbox Live Community Games (Bill Reiss)
• Playing with Ruby 1.9 – Named Parameters (Sort of) (Sergio Pereira)

2008 Wrap-Ups

• Not Your Typical Top Ten of 2008 Post (Phil Haack)
• Best of 2008: 5 Most Popular Posts (Simone Chiaretta)
• Top Blog Posts in 2008 (Maarten Balliauw)
• The Morning Brew #255 – 2008 in Review (Chris Alcock)
• Obligatory 2008 Recap (Ben Scheirman)
• A Year’s Worth of Popular Posts (Eran Kampf)
• My Best Blog Posts in 2008 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• A Year in Review, The 31 Best Blog Posts on SQLBlog for 2008 (Denis Gobo)
• Best of "The Moth" 2008 (Daniel Moth)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: 2008.12.31 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for December 30, 2008 – 2 — #472 and Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2008 — #473 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for December 30, 2008 and LINKBLOG for December 31, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #254 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: December 31, 2008 and Interesting Finds: January 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #94 (Darren Stokes)
• Blog Carnival #12 (Eyal Lantzman)
• Triple Shot Links #14 (Russell Ball)

Book of the Day