Top Links

• Constructor Injection with StructureMap (Dane Morgridge)
• Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and Choosers, and Few More Things That Are on the Way – Part 2 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Bring Back Page Transitions to the Windows Phone List Application Template (Shawn Wildermuth)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Love Windows Live Writer? Wish it did more? Then write a plugin… and here’s some tips for doing just that… (with even some VB in there for flavor and How about a generic API that hooks your Web app to different social networks? How about the “Web Application Toolkit for Social Network APIs”! (C# and VB) (Greg Duncan)
• Creating proxies with RealProxy (Rory Primrose)
• Windows Server AppFabric: Better, Faster, Cheaper (Somasegar)
• What I’m loving about the newest iteration of EF Code First in CTP4 (Julie Lerman)
• How To – Gems And .NET – Dependencies (References) (Rob Reynolds)
• Optimistic and Pessimistic Concurrency – A Simple Explanation (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• NullableDictionary (Chris Cavanagh)
• Using The Dynamic Keyword To Avoid Difficulties With Generics (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• MVC IsAuthorized and AuthorizedActionLink revisited (Chris Cavanagh)
• Autocomplete Filter from the old Futures project working in Dynamic Data 4 (Steve Naughton)
• Uploading a File (Or Files) With ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• How IE9 Platform Preview Feedback Changed the JavaScript Standard (Allen Wirfs-Brock)
• Quick Perf Tip: Always Add A Trailing Slash (Pete LePage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• More layers = more complexity (Simon Brown)
• Too Much Abstractions? Follow up (Gil Fink)
• Scrum In Schools (Dan Mezick)
• Enterprise Architecture, Semantic Deficiencies, and Thou (Bob McIlree)
• Book Review: Rework (Andy Warren)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• The Disasters of Visual Designer Tools (Charles Petzold)
• Custom Silverlight TextBox control that immediately updates DataBound Text property in TwoWay binding (Slobodan Pavkov)
• Streamed Silverlight file downloads using WCF (Yavor Georgiev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Coding QA Podcast Episode 43 Black and White Box Testing (Matthew Osborn & Federico Armas)
• ThisWeekC9 – PDC10, Azure in a box, Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta, and Kings Quest (Dan Fernandez)
• Madan Musuvathi and Sebastian Burckhardt – Concurrency Fuzzing with Cuzz (Jonathan de Halleux)
• geekSpeak Recording – Local Messaging and Silverlight with Brian Lagunas (Emily Gibson)
• Cloud Cover Episode 19 – Silverlight and Blob Storage (Ryan Dunn)
• Introduction to developing World Ready Applications (Aldo Donetti)
• Video: Building Automated Testing Infrastructure (Eric Hagan)

Community / Events

• Steve Jones to Run for PASS Board (Grant Fritchey)
• Rob and Andy talk Windows Phone 7 (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows Phone 7 – stop dreaming, start building (Dave Isbitski)

Database

• Extending SQL Server Data to the Cloud using SQL Azure Data Sync and Using SQL Azure Data Sync Service to provide Geo-Replication of SQL Azure databases (Liam Cavanagh)
• Make a SQL Server Database Read Only (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SSRS – Applying a filter to a data set for a parameter (Simon Sabin)
• SubQuery Performance (Steve Jones)
• SQL Response v2 Early Access Program Open to Everyone (Brad M. McGehee)
• Some thoughts on PivotViewer and SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• New Microsoft Certification for Students: Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) available today (Bob Familiar)
• New book: Microsoft Outlook 2010 Step by Step (Carol Vu)
• What’s New in AD cmdlets 1.4 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Independent Azure – Now That’s More Like It (Jon Davis)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Tools Availability (Office Team)
• Want to Work at Microsoft’s Xbox Division? (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone 7 will not feature Windows Live Sync at launch (Michael Gillett)
• Think Notepad only opens files? Nope! File/Open a HTTP URL (and get the HTML response) in Notepad… (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 59 (Scott Banwart)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 7/17/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 16, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 16-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 07/16/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2010 — #905 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

The Productive Programmer (Theory in Practice (O’Reilly)) by Neal Ford

Top Links

• My 7 jQuery Articles on Script Junkie (Elijah Manor)
• Preview of MSDN Library Changes (Scott Guthrie)
• Prism 4.0 Plan & Drop Available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Visual Studio 2010, Enhance your Jedi Skillz (Peter Ritchie)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use FsLex and FsYacc to make a parser in F# (Jomo Fisher)
• Creating Secure Strings (Richard Carr)
• OData Deep Dive with Chris Woodruff (Angela Binkowski)
• Serializing and deserializing objects to XML in C# and Introduction to linked lists in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Working with WCF: Part Five – Message Contracts (James Bender)
• How I understood monads, part 1/2: sleepless and self-loathing in Seattle (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Events do not a community make (Sergio Pereira)
• Using Quick Replace (Zain Naboulsi)
• Fluent NHibernate: Seeing the mapping files generated and Fluent NHibernate and the 2nd level cache (Mark Needham)
• Consuming the TechEd OData Feed (Stephen Forte)
• Microsoft Surface Bluetooth Connect Code Sample Now Available for Download (Eric Havir)

Web Development

• Extending ASP.NET Output Caching (Scott Mitchell)
• Strongly Typed Helpers in ASP.NET MVC 2 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Error Handling in MVC with ELMAH (Mike Ceranski)
• Book Review: JQuery & ASP.NET Controls – 51 Tips, Tricks and Recipes (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Building HTML Emails With SQL Server and XML (Robert L Davis)
• How Orchard works (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Reading a WebResponse into a byte[] (Scott Seely)
• Internet Explorer Developer Tools and Web Site Performance Resources (Pete LePage)
• What Would You Select? (Chris Love)
• ASP.NET MVC – MvcSiteMapProvider 2.0 is out! (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Anatomy of a good acceptance test (Gojko Adzic)
• BDD, Feature Injection (and the Whirlpool) (Ian Cooper)
• Lessons Learned from John Wooden (J.D. Meier)
• Interview:Udi Dahan on CQRS, DDD and NServiceBus (Udi Dahan)
• The Decision to Refactor (Vikas Hazrati)
• Design Better And Faster With Rapid Prototyping (Lyndon Cerejo)
• Testability & Entity Framework 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• Migrating to Git (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• the LightCore IoC container (Anthony Steele)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RIA Services and Authorization (Nikhil Kothari)
• Coding4Fun: Shuffleboard Game for WP7 (Andy Beaulieu)
• WPF and Silverlight Designer, Hey I’m Over Here! (Karl Shifflett)
• Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Updated for Silverlight 4 (Michael S. Scherotter)
• VideoWall: Added vectorwall example (Rob Relyea)
• SUX: Silverlight Edition (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks – Jon von Gillern Analyzes Code with Nitriq (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ch9Live at Tech.Ed NA 2010 – Talking WP7 with Brandon Watson & Peter Torr (Nic Fillingham)
• Technology & Friends Episode 94: Joe Wirtley on E-Commerce Challenges (David Giard)
• New Video: Master/Detail in WinPhone 7 with oData (Jesse Liberty)
• Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session from Cairo Code Camp – Part 1 (Muhammad Mosa)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #177: Data Validation w/ MVC2 (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• TechEd Europe 2010 (Mike Ormond)
• Help The First Persian IT and Computer Q&A Website (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Virtual Event: Creating an Entry for the BALL Watch Silverlight Contest (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Free Blend Event: Blend-O-Rama! (Joel Cochran)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Find Largest Supported DML Operation – Question to You (Pinal Dave)
• FILESTREAM directory structure – where do the GUIDs come from? (Jacob Sebastian)

SharePoint

• Lightning conductor web part 2010 – User profile service (Brett Lonsdale)
• Social Squared June Release (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Better error messages for PowerShell ValidatePattern (Joel Bennett)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Office 2010 Plain & Simple (Carol Vu)
• Hotmail and SkyDrive help make Office 2010 great (Jason Moore)
• I was wrong about Apple iPad (Joe Wilcox)
• Kodu Source Sharing Begins… (Matthew MacLaurin)
• Kudos to NetApp for Data ONTAP PowerShell ToolKit (Jeffrey Snover)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #622 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 15, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 15-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for June 15, 2010 — #882 and Silverlight Cream for June 15, 2010 – 2 — #883 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Phone 7 Resources (Mike Taulty)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 06.08 ~ 06.15 (yuanjian)
• Links (6/15/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 06.15.2010 (Bob Familiar)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 4 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Scott Mitchell

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Top Links

• Code Contracts LiveTemplates for ReSharper (Kevin Hazzard)
• Code Analysis and Code Contracts Integration (Jason Bock)
• Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions (Scott Guthrie)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Detecting Processes that are not Responding (Richard Carr)
• Checking For Empty Enumerations (Oren Eini)
• Review: NHibernate in Action (Grant Palin)
• Introducing Project HILO (Aseem Datar)
• Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack and Power Tools (Chris Koenig)
• Managed Extensibility Framework for Line of Business Applications in .NET 4.0 (Jeremy Likness)
• Updated Prism Template Pack for Visual Studio 2010 RTM (David Hill)
• Developer’s Guide to Enterprise Library – Release Candidate (Gregori Melnik)
• Add Live ID support to your managed, desktop/rich/full client app with the Windows Live ID Client v1.0 SDK (Greg Duncan)
• Using LINQ to XML to query XML data (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Build Customization using Visual Studio 2010 (TFS 2010) – Creating Custom Activity (Gouri Sohoni)
• MEF, IServiceProvider and Testing Visual Studio Extensions and How to install Visual Studio 2010 Search References and Pro Power Tools side by side and Add References with Search (Daniel Cazzulino)
• The Best Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools, Power Commands and Extensions (Scott Hanselman)
• Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoad Ignores Assembly Binding Redirects (Sasha Goldshtein)
• How Fluent Cassandra Handles Runtime Types (Nick Berardi)
• Checking For Empty Enumerations (Phil Haack)
• Disable the Prompt for Deleting Items from the Task List and Create Custom Tokens for the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)
• VSIX Best Practices (Gary Horen)
• Document Well 2010 Plus (Radames Cruz Moreno)
• Transactional File Manager Is Now On CodePlex (Chinh Do)
• Use Extension Methods to find first and last day of the month (Tim Hibbard)

Web Development

• Preventing Users From Copying Text From and Pasting It Into TextBoxes (Scott Mitchell)
• Keeping Configurations Consistent with web.config Transformations (Rachel Appel)
• Six great resources for budding JavaScript coders (Erez Zukerman)
• Experiments in Wackiness: Allowing percents, angle-brackets, and other naughty things in the ASP.NET/IIS Request URL (Scott Hanselman)
• RSS Feed Generation From a Custom RssResult (Mike Brind)
• Subtext 2.5 is released! and What’s new in Subtext 2.5: full-text search, related posts and more (Simone Chiaretta)
• PHP on Windows (Dmitry Lyalin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Interview:David Anderson Talks Kanban, Agile and the Lean Software and Systems Consortium (David Anderson)
• Retrospectives: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Git: D’oh! I Meant To Create A New Branch First! and Git: Oops. I Forgot To Add Those New Files Before Committing (Derick Bailey)
• patterns & practices Performance Guidance Roundup (J.D. Meier)
• Scaling Agile Past the Team – Agile Dev Practices Edition (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Handling Team Changes (Vikas Hazrati)
• Adding custom interfaces to your mock instance. (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Capturing Rhino Mocks arguments in C# 4.0 (Jimmy Bogard)
• TestDriven.Net 3.0 – All Systems Go (Jamie Cansdale)
• Embrace Your Inner Stupid! (Jared Richardson)
• Don’t Snub the Code Review (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 5 reasons why Silverlight sucks in LOB (compared to WPF) (Nikola Malovic)
• Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud (Charlie Kindel)
• ToC for the Book Club RIA Services Application (Nikhil Kothari)
• Expression Blend 4 SDK for Silverlight and Expression Blend 4 SDK for .NET 4 (MS Downloads)
• SketchFlow: Firing Actions when a Storyboard is Complete (Christian Schormann)
• Windows Phone 7 Devices (Brandon Watson)
• The source code IS the executable, RTM edition [Updated CSI, a C# interpreter (with source and tests) for .NET 4 RTM] (David Anson)
• Tales from the Trenches – Building a Real-World Silverlight Line of Business Application (Dan Wahlin)
• Why Developers Should, Must, Do Care About The New Expression Blend (Jesse Liberty)
• Obfuscating Silverlight with SmartAssembly (Khawar Yunus)
• Document Toolkit 1.1 update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Two small issues with Windows Phone 7 ApplicationBar buttons (and workaround) (Laurent Bugnion)
• MVVM Instantiation Approaches (Paul Stovell)
• New Forums on Silverlight.net (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight MergedDictionaries – using styles and resources from Class Libraries (Slobodan Pavkov)
• Basic XAML Framework on CodePlex (Rockford Lhotka)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #29 – Configuring Service Reference to Back to LocalHost (Mike Snow)
• Microsoft talks up Phone 7 smartphone apps at Internet Week (Jacqueline Emigh)
• Prism Prevents One Incomplete Feature from Derailing an Entire Release (Jonathan Allen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• VBA, Programmability, and Open File Format for Office 2010 with Brian Jones (Tina Wood)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 142 – iPhone Development with MonoTouch & .NET/C# – audio (Wally McClure)
• StartUp Podcast Show #70 Steve Rubel on the evolution of Social Media (Bob Walsh)
• Wizards of Smart – Episode 7 Performance (Jonathan Birkholz)
• First Drop: Prism v4 – First Drop is Available (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Talking about Windows deployments with System Center and Orinoko (Video) (Matt McSpirit)
• Video: GeekGive Habitat for Humanity Project New Orleans TechEd 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)
• Sketchables for Sketchflow- Video Demos (Don Burnett)
• Technology & Friends Episode 92: Drinking from the Firehose (David Giard)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – June 9th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• TechEd 2010 Day Two – No SQL Server in Sight (Buck Woody)
• TechEd 2010 – Tuesday Morning and TechEd 2010 – Interview With Herain Oberoi and TechEd 2010 – Afternoon (Andy Warren)
• Underbelly Thinking Digital Wall of Fame (Sara Allison)
• TechEd Day 1: Keynote (Matt McSpirit)
• Microsoft’s Visual Studio Product Group Joins Twitter (Blake Handler)
• Save the Date – SharePoint Conference 2011 (SharePoint Team)
• Getting to SVG 2.0: A report from the SVG Working Group Face-to-Face (May 24th – June 1st 2010) and Microsoft Attending SVG Open 2010 Conference (ieblog)

Database

• Need just some parts and pieces of the SQL Server 2008 R2? Like SMO, the Native Client, Report Builder v3, the SQL CLR Types, JDBC/PHP/DB2 Driver, etc, etc? Then you need the “Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Feature Pack” (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Fastest Way to Restore the Database and SQL SERVER – Difference Between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB – Initial Thoughts (John V. Petersen)

Miscellaneous

• RTM’d today: Microsoft Project 2010 Step by Step (Carol vu)
• 25 Safari Extensions You Can Install Now (Chris Ryan)
• Google Chrome Frame – Now in Beta (Amit Joshi)
• Our book SOA with .NET and Windows Azure is now available! (Hanu Kommalapati)
• IE9 Responds To Safari 5 With A Side-By-Side Hardware Acceleration Video (MG Siegler)
• Free Book Sampler: Hackers – Heroes of the Computer Revolution – 25th Anniversary Edition (O’Reilly Media)
• QuicklyCode: A Collection of Useful Free Cheat Sheets (Simon Mackie)
• Office 15 Details Revealed: Possible New UI, Office Mobile 15, Release Date Implication, and More (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft Office is now on the web (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6 (Steven Bink)
• Making it easier to video chat, voice chat, and group chat in Gmail (Josh Teague)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0-related blogs (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 8, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 9, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for June 08, 2010 — #877 and Silverlight Cream for June 09, 2010 — #878 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #617 and The Morning Brew #618 (Chris Alcock)

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Top Links

• Sticky Seesmic Desktop Plugin (John Papa)
• MEF has shipped!!! and MEF day in SF, “The Way of MEF, the Path to Enlightenment” (Glenn Block)
• Your First Fluent Cassandra Application (Nick Berardi)
• That No SQL Thing: Video (Oren Eini)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Set based operations with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• My Inbox: How to save changes coming from disconnected POCOs (Julie Lerman)
• Closures in C# can be evil (Marlon Grech)
• Time Machines Should Support LINQ (Rinat Abdullin)
• Snippet Designer v1.3 for Visual Studio 2008/2010 released (Think the “Cool, HTML/ASP.NET, JavaScript and SQL” support!” release) (Greg Duncan)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ Implementation Part I: Automatic Styles (Stephen Forte)
• Using the Navigation Bar (Zain Naboulsi)
• Solution: Add Service Reference does not always work properly in WF4 scenarios (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• Quick Lap Around MEF at the Raleigh VS 2010 Road Show (Derik Whittaker)
• Coding4Fun: Changing time zones (Arien T. Kulp)
• Working with Sets of Self-Tracking Entities (Jeff Derstadt)

Web Development

• jQuery Slides & Demo from my Remix Australia Talk (James Senior)
• Types vs. Strings to identify controllers and simplify Areas in ASP.NET MVC 2 (Keith Brown)
• Looking into PHP on Windows… (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Bing Search Library for PHP (Sarah Perez)
• Signs of a poorly written jQuery plugin (Remy Sharp)
• Running on Windows Azure – ChronoRace – Autoscaling (Maarten Balliauw)
• Basic JSON data manipulation – not a Silverlight-only solution (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Yahoo Opens First Ever Fantasy Sports API and 400 Twitter Mashups (Adam DuVander)
• BlogEngine.NET Extension for Graffiti CMS (Al Pascual)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The design process doesn’t have to be complicated (Simon Brown)
• Translating my Git workflow with local branches to Mercurial (Jimmy Bogard)
• Continuous Delivery Book (Martin Fowler)
• Things to do to improve code quality (Allan Kelly)
• Who needs an architect anyway? (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Get GIT – The “Getting Started with Git” DZone Refcardz (Greg Duncan)
• Dynamically emitting types for unit tests (Keith Brown)
• Balsamiq: Our Short and Mid-Term Feature Roadmap (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Poor C++ developer’s performance profiler (Dror Helper)
• Finger on nose: how to make fast decisions (Scott Berkun)
• Castle Windsor and Child containers reloaded (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Merge In… Merge Out… (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF vs. Silverlight: Choosing the Right Technology for a Project (Abel Avram)
• Community Article: Programming the Task Bar in Windows 7 with WPF 4, Part One – Thumbnail Buttons (Beth Massi)
• Please rate your dining experience [How to: Show text labels on a numeric axis with Silverlight/WPF Toolkit Charting] (David Anson)
• The start of a Windows Phone 7 Journey (Mike Ormond)
• What the Heck is “MEF” for, and what Silverlight designers need to know about it? (Don Burnett)
• A prototype WPF/Silverlight layout designer (Kirill Osenkov)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day#27 – Displaying Special Characters in XAML (Mike Snow)
• Prism 2.2 is out! And Prism 4 is in the works! (Brian Noyes)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week in Silverlight: Redmond Exodus? (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• CSLA 4 and MVVM video series (Rockford Lhotka)
• MSDN Simulcast: All Data Dive into .NET Data Access, A Closer Look at LINQ to SQL (Emily Gibson)
• How Do I: Using Generate From Usage in Visual Studio 2010 and How Do I: Test Impact Analysis in Visual Studio 2010 (Chris Koenig)
• endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric – Server Farm Setup (Ron Jacobs)
• The Thirsty Developer 94: Windows Azure AppFabric with Wade Wegner (Dave Bost)
• Toby Richards and Nestor Portillo Discuss Fiscal Year 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)
• @RIARadio Lost Episode: Michael Plank, Jesse Freeman, and FDT (Garth Braithwaite)
• geekSpeak Recording – Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (Emily Gibson)
• Startup Podcast Show #69 Gina Trapani of ThinkTank and Smarterware.org (Bob Walsh)
• Bill Gates on Apple’s Success (Frank La Vigne)

Community / Events

• Silverlightpalooza! WP7 and Silverlight DevCamp (Chris Koenig)
• Virtualising SharePoint 2010? You may just find this useful! (Matt McSpirit)
• Have you tried the Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever? (Brendan Enrick)
• A Guide to Parallel Programming – TechEd Events (Ade Miller)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Supports Less Memory (Brent Ozar)
• Back up a single table in SQL Server (Buck Woody)
• Find the Next Identity Value of Each Table of your SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Table Variables (Steve Jones)

SharePoint

• Upgrading sandboxed solutions (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Giving a Presentation? Codeplex has an App for that! and Microsoft Releases Updated "Time Zone Data Update Tool" for Outlook 2010 (Blake Handler)
• BizTalk ESB Toolkit Architecture Interactive Poster (MS Downloads)
• When A ‘Mount Fuji’ Question Is Not Really A ‘Mount Fuji’ Question (Are You As Smart As You Think You Are) (Alan Skorkin)
• Windows Live Essentials announced (Kip Kniskern)
• The role of IT in the era of cloud computing (Patrick O’Rourke)
• Book Review: Hacking Vim (Victor Noagbodji)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #613 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition)

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Top Links

• 4 .NET 4.0 Libraries You *Should* Know Better – MEF, Reactive, Tasks and Dynamic (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Expression Studio 4 Launch on Jun 7th in NYC! (Adam Kinney)
• MEFedMVVM: Testability (Marlon Grech)
• “Controllerless” MVC with the MVCommand (Erik Peterson)
• SilverShader – Introduction to Silverlight and WPF Pixel Shaders (René Schulte)

.NET / Visual Studio

• VS 2010 productivity improvements – Part I (Somasegar)
• Video discussion about Visualization and Modeling in VS2010 Ultimate (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 Code Generation With Intellisense (Deepak Kapoor)
• On the use of frameworks. Good or bad? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Mapping Help in the EDM Designer (Julie Lerman)
• Visual Studio Managed Multi-Targeting: Part 2: Multi-Targeting in Action (Binu N. Chacko)
• EF4 Sample Provider for SQL Server now available (Faisal Mohamood)
• Programmatically adding/removing/querying VC++ Build Customizations (Pavan Adharapurapu)
• Is It Just Me Or Is .NET 4 Just Not That Special? (Davy Brion)
• VS2008 No Item Templates (Gil Fink)
• Using Binary Serialization and ViewState with Self-Tracking Entities (Jeff Derstadt)
• Managed Extensions for Internet Explorer (Jonathan Allen)
• SparkSense: Getting started – where’s a plumber when you need one? (Robert Greyling)

Web Development

• Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API (Part 2) (Scott Mitchell)
• Testing assumptions with preconditions (Jimmy Bogard)
• New Plugin Enables WordPress To Use Windows Azure Storage Services (Windows Azure Team)
• SquishIt – The Friendly ASP.NET JavaScript and CSS Squisher (Justin Etheredge)
• Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW – Available Now (Visual Web Developer Team)
• Privacy, Add-ons, and Cookie-less HTTP Requests (Eric Lawrence)
• How to use Google Data API in ASP.NET MVC. Part 2 – YouTube (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API (Scott Mitchell)
• TextBox AutoComplete with ASP.NET and jQuery UI (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Part 1 – A Cascading Hierarchical Field Template & Filter for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Walkthrough– Publishing a Custom Web Control (Part 1 of 2) (Martin Tracy)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: StoreController and Porting the MVC Music Store to Raven: ShoppingCart (Oren Eini)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simplify Your Unit Tests With Automocking: Part 2 – Establishing Context and The Dangers Of AutoMocking Containers (Derick Bailey)
• Effective root cause analysis techniques (Gojko Adzic)
• Why We Make Bad Decisions – Errors in Odds and Errors in Value and Lessons Learned from John Maxwell (J.D. Meier)
• Design Patterns In C# – Prototype Design Pattern and Design Patterns In C# – Factory Design Pattern (Richard McCutchen)
• Expected exceptions in unit tests (Dennis Delimarsky)
• JustMock and Moles – A short overview for TDD alpha geeks (Roy Osherove)
• Presentation: Bad Code, Craftsmanship, Engineering, and Certification (Robert C. Martin)
• Stephen Anderson on emotional design (Paul Boag)
• MSF-A+SDL Process Template for VS 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Typeface Selection Flowchart (Andre Vrignaud)
• Deals Well With Ambiguity (Phil Haack)
• The Psychology of Programmers (Asif Shahzad)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements (MS Downloads)
• Shuffleboard: A Windows Phone 7 Sample Game (Andy Beaulieu)
• Sample: Windows Phone 7 Example Application with Landscape Layout (Jason Zander)
• Out-Of-Browser Authentication for RIA Services (Jeff Barnes)
• Silverlight Out of Browser Dynamic Modules in Offline Mode (Jeremy Likness)
• WPFPerf Performance Profiling Tools for WPF 4 is now available! and Snoop for WPF 4 and WPF Visualizer in Visual Studio 2010 (Jossef Goldberg)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Hub event confirmed speakers (31 May) (Katrien De Graeve)
• An Extension Method to Dump Control Templates of WPF Controls (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #24 – Resolving Unknown Objects in VS (Mike Snow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 81: Simplicity, balance, and focus in teaching software development (Jon Galloway)
• The Making of Office 2010: Alex Simmons, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft One Note (Tina Wood)
• Video: ColdFusion & SharePoint Taste Great Together (Eric Hagan)
• Agile Tips and Advice – Index Cards – Wave of the Past, Present and Future (Bob Payne)
• Connected Show Podcast – You Don’t Find Skeet, Skeet Finds YOU! (Brian Johnson)
• E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 3 of n (Charles Torre)
• Community Megaphone Show #10 at CMAP Code Camp (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Conversations with David Chappell about Windows Azure and Cloud Computing (David Gristwood)
• Technology & Friends Episode 90: John McClelland on BizSpark and WebSiteSpark (David Giard)
• My VS 2010 and ASP.NET 4 Talks Online (Scott Guthrie)

Community / Events

• TechEd Israel 2010 may only accept speakers from sponsors (Roy Osherove)
• Git Training in DC – July (Scott Chacon)
• Site Collection administrators – permission management webinar (Brett Lonsdale)
• The Israeli software craftsmanship group is on its way (Dror Helper)

Database

• Intellisense does not work in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Transaction Log expanding on restore after shrink (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – DATE and TIME in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• Reporting Services – Building the first report (Steve Jones)
• NoSQL Basics for Database Administrators (Brent Ozar)
• How Much Space Am I Taking Up? (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• 5 Reasons Why SharePoint 2010 Will Revolutionize Your Organization (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint 2010 Books for Developers, Administrators, Designers, Project Managers and End Users (Joel Oleson)
• Social Squared 1.0.0.2 release (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• The Power of Regex in PowerShell (Joe Webb)
• Phase One, a Digital Photography Leader, Acquires Microsoft’s Expression Media Product (MS PressPass)
• F.A.Q.: How do I Install a PowerShell Module (Joel Bennett)
• A Roundup of New Features in Android 2.2 (Abel Avram)
• Looking in someone else’s Medicine Cabinet… err… I mean… their Development and Utility Toolbox… (Greg Duncan)
• Project Natal To Cost $149 By Itself, $299 With 360 Arcade, According To Latest Rumors (Isaac Steinberg)
• Gitosis and Gitweb – Part 3 – Gitweb (Jason Meridth)
• Your Refcardz WishList: What Cards Would You Like To Appear in the Series? (James Sugrue)
• Review and deliver dynamic presentations with PowerPoint Mobile 2010 (Office Team)
• Renaming Tabs in the PowerShell ISE (Refaat Issa)
• The results are in: Google’s Pac-Man homage cost the world $120,483,800 in just one day (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 25, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 26, 2010 and Interesting Finds: May 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 25, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – May 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 25-May-2010 and Tech Tweets for 26-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2010 — #869 and Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2010 – 2 — #870 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #608 and The Morning Brew #609 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight 4

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Top Links

• Deq: Extend your favorite Mock framework with Moles (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Windows Phone 7 – Emulator Automation (Justin Angel)
• Getting Lazy with System.Lazy (Derik Whittaker)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Setting up the application (Oren Eini)
• Expression Blend 4 Sketch Mockups Library (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Got Workloads? Git-R-Done faster with the new Parallel Processing capabilities in NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 (Jeff Barnes)
• C# 4.0 – Beginners look into parallel programming (Richard McCutchen)
• Format the Current Document or Selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to live forever (if you’re a CLR object) (Kirill Osenkov)
• LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.11 and patterns & practices – GAX Extensions Library for gax2010 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API (Part 1) (Scott Mitchell)
• Opinionated ASP.NET MVC 2 Template Helpers (Elijah Manor)
• Exception Handling Best Practices in ASP.NET Web Applications (Janko Jovanovic)
• Caveats of C# 4.0 optional parameters (Jimmy Bogard)
• 5 Tools For Integrating HTML5 Video in Your Website (Christina Warren)
• MVC Turbine v2.1 RTM (Javier G. Lozano)
• Can not Load Type – Starting the ASP.NET Web Site Admin Tool (Joe Stagner)
• HTML5 And Flash: Why It’s Not A War, And Why Flash Won’t Die (Luke Reimer)
• Most Common ASP.NET Support issues – Reporting from deep inside Microsoft Developer Support (Scott Hanselman)
• Web Hosting That Makes a Difference (Microsoft Web Platform Team)
• jPageFlipper – Release v0.9 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Finally an authoritative source on the Kanban method and Agile in a Start-up Games Development Studio (Gojko Adzic)
• NCover 3.4.4: Updates and Improvements (Stephen Ward)
• On Shifting Perspectives and Changing Responsibilities Part 3 (Tom Barker)
• Leadership and the mature team (Roy Osherove)
• patterns & practices – Windows Azure Guidance – Part 1 (RC) and StyleCop+ – Release v0.7 (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Making the ScrollViewer Talk in Silverlight 4 (Jeremy Likness)
• TreeView Drag Drop in Silverlight (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Customizing the ProgressBar control in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 80: RxJS with Jeffrey van Gogh and Matt Podwysocki (Jon Galloway)
• Office Casual: How to work from home with confidence (Tina Wood)
• Bart De Smet: Observations on IQbservable – The Dual of IQueryable (Charles Torre)
• MSDN Radio: A Dive into Windows 7 with Mark Russinovich (Emily Gibson)

Community / Events

• Embracing Community (Chris Williams)
• Windows Server and Azure AppFabric virtual launch May 20th (Scott Hanselman)
• Silverlight 4 Business Application Development for Beginners at NWA TechFest (Eve Turzillo)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 8 Released and SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 1 (Build 1702) Released (Glenn Berry)
• How to use T-SQL to get the command line startup parameters that were used to start SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Report Builder 3.0 – Using Report Parts (Patrick LeBlanc)
• RavenDB goes live! (Oren Eini)
• List of Database Engine Error Messages (Suprotim Agarwal)
• RavenDB – How stale do you want it? (Rob Ashton)
• Why Use Schemas? (Brent Ozar)
• ReportViewer Projects Don’t Transmogrify (William Vaughn)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Search – Experiences with SearchBeta – Hardware (Dan Blood)

Miscellaneous

• 7 Windows 7 Registry Hacks (Matthew Murray)
• More Google Chrome OS Screenshots (Alex Chitu)
• There’s a Reason It’s Free – Get Over It… (Ben Kepes)
• It’s official: Microsoft is out of the Vista doghouse (Ed Bott)
• WIX and Custom Actions (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Mapping a SkyDrive Folder in Windows Explorer II (an even easier way than before) (Greg Duncan)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: Be More Productive with Office and Project 2010 (Bill Raymond)
• Microsoft Reinvents Hotmail with Tons of Features to Seriously Take on Gmail (Uzair Ghani)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 18, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 18-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 05.18.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for May 18, 2010 — #864 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #603 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Kanban

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Top Links

• Getting a Jump-Start on Windows Phone 7 App Development (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Why TDD is good for testers (Dror Helper)
• Starting and using Git successfully (Jimmy Bogard)
• Comments on the MVC Music Store (Oren Eini)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010: How to maintain control of your code using Layer Diagrams, custom MSBuild tasks, and work item integration (Jennifer Marsman)
• Fun Visual Studio 2010 Wallpapers (Scott Guthrie)
• View the Error List Window and Navigate Errors in the Error List (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to Retrieve Stored Procedure Output Parameters in Entity Framework (Gil Fink)
• .Net 4 Client Profile/Full silent install/repair/uninstall command line options (Greg Duncan)
• Creating Professional Installers with Wix# and Getting Your Installer to Register a Service with Wix# (Bobby Johnson)

Web Development

• jQuery Tutorial: Validation with the jQuery UI Tabs Widget (Chris Love)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Custom Schedulers (Matthew Podwysocki)
• “Introduction to ASP.NET MVC by Coding a Cool App” (aka the MVC Music Store Application and Tutorial) (Greg Duncan)
• Localization, FubuMVC Style Part 2 of 2 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Localize the jQuery DatePicker Control in an ASP.NET Page (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Google Moderator Gets API and Example Apps (Adam DuVander)
• Google Wave – New features for Robots: Bundled Annotations, Inline Blips, Read-Only Roles (Pamela Fox)
• Bundler Is Now SquishIt (Justin Etheredge)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Principles Of Minimalist Web Design, With Examples (Cameron Chapman)
• Being Business Focused: Flexibility (Dru Sellers)
• Debug It! (Chris Missal)
• Who Deserves The Credit For Software Craftsmanship and Great Design? (Alan Skorkin)
• Balsamiq Quick Release: Text Orientation, Colors Back to Normal (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Evolving a design: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• The Secret of Results (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to create an Offline installer (no browser) to deploy your Silverlight applications directly (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #19 – Using Bing Maps in Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• What is a ContentPresenter? (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Thirsty Developer 91: “Squirrel!” (Dave Bost)
• Interview with Roy Osherove about Test Lint (Typemock)
• Continuous Deployment & meeting David Anderson @Typemock (Typemock)
• Startup Podcast Show #67 StoragePipe Solutions and SocialGrow.com (Bob Walsh)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #174: Understanding Navigation on Windows Phone 7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Agile Toolkit – Tips and Advice – The three basic things – Simple but not easy (Bob Payne)
• Behind Windows Phone Tools for Developers – The Emulator (Yochay Kiriaty)
• The GeekDads Episode #67: Can We Do That in LEGO? (Ken Denmead)
• New Video – John Wiese talks with Jon Hardenbrook of API Healthcare about Powershell (John Wiese)
• A sneak peek at the Chromium Native Client SDK (David Springer)
• Azure Miniseries #5: Scaling Down (Brian Hitney)

Community / Events

• Upcoming SQL Server Training Events (Brent Ozar)
• permission management for Site Collection Administrators in SharePoint 2007 using deliverpoint webinar (Brett Lonsdale)
• Introduction to Mock objects session coming up (Dror Helper)
• PowerPivot Developer’s Career Is Full of Twists and Turns (MS PressPass)
• A Very Special Episode of the WAN Party (Sara J. Chipps)
• NYC .NET User Group-> Meeting next week (Stephen Forte)
• Our Brick in the Computer History Museum Wall (Jeff Atwood)
• Enterprise Library talks around the world (Grigori Melnik)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Review (Brent Ozar)
• What 5 things should SQL Server get rid of? (Buck Woody)
• Select the Latest Record based on a Condition in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Why Raven DB? (Oren Eini)
• SQL SERVER – Four Posts on Removing the Bookmark Lookup – Key Lookup (Pinal Dave)
• How to get the processid that SQL Server is using if you have multiple instances of SQL Server running (Denis Gobo)
• FOR XML Workshop – FOR XML EXPLICIT and CDATA, XML and XMLTEXT attributes (Jacob Sebastian)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** Create your own SharePoint Server 2010 RTM Virtual Machine – The Complete Guide (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 Developer Virtual Labs Online and Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 Development (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Mobile 6.5 may suck, but Microsoft is hoping free Office Mobile will stop users from switching phones before Windows Phone 7 is ready (Tim Conneally)
• Office Mobile 2010 released, free upgrade for WinMo 6.5 users (update) (Chris Ziegler)
• Superquick poll: What do you use when preparing for a Microsoft certification? (Devon Musgrave)
• Why Co-Working Makes Sense for Small Businesses (Joe Raby)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: 10 Visio 2010 Tips and Tricks (Dave J. Parker)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: iPhone 3D Programming – Only $9.99 use code DDP3D (O’Reilly Media)
• PowerShell Resource Page at Windows IT Pro (Jeffrey Snover)
• Windows 7 SP1 Build 7601.16556 Leaks in the Wild (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Academic TDD links (Greg Young)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 12, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 12-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2010 — #860 (Dave Campbell)
• In the Wild for May 12, 2010 (Eric Miraglia)
• The Morning Brew #599 (Chris Alcock)
• Microsoft Innovations You Can Use (Hong Choing)

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Dependency Injection

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Top Links

• Microsoft StyleCop : StyleCop 4.4 (Jason Allor)
• Using Push Notification from Your Windows Phone Application (Yochay Kiriaty)
• MonoTouch 3.0.4 – iPhone OS 4, beta 3 (MonoTouch Team)
• CQRS isn’t the answer – it’s just one of the questions (Udi Dahan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ADO.NET Data Services Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (MS Downloads)
• LINQ: Mean, Median, and Mode (Deborah Kurata)
• Saving lines – the usage of ternary and null-coalescing operators (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Every Program There Is, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• CodeRush Xpress for C# and Visual Basic for Visual Studio 2010 (aka v2010 1.1 and/or 10.1.1) released and still very free (registration not even required) (Greg Duncan)
• Another Error Creating Control in the Design View with Object Reference Not Set in Visual Studio 2010 (Anh Phan)
• Querying a WebService using LINQ – LINQ to CountryInfo (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Parallelizing Windows Applications in .NET 4.0 (Tanzim Saqib)
• The story of a wicked bug (András Velvárt)
• Code Kata: Compressing Lists (Ted Neward)
• Announcing the Growl for Windows Target for NLog (and another reason to love Growl) (Ryan Farley)
• Assembly Private Bin Path Pitfall (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Visual Studio CSLA Extension for ADO.NET Entity Framework – Beta 1 (CodePlex)
• Some Performance Notes on Enumerable LINQ Operators (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• F#: My current coding approach (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• Modern CSS Layouts, Part 2: The Essential Techniques (Zoe Mickley Gillenwater)
• Localization, FubuMVC Style Part 1 of 2 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Archiving your contact form data. (Joe Stagner)
• Tip #106 Did you know … How to create the aspnetdb.mdf file? (Xinyang Qiu)
• OData and Messenger across the web (Alex James)
• jQuery Templates and Data Linking (and Microsoft contributing to jQuery) (Scott Guthrie)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Retrospectives" Now Online (James Shore)
• Windows IA (Information Architecture) (J.D. Meier)
• A Fool with a Tool is still a Fool (Mike Walker)
• Do Architects Need to Code? (Rockford Lhotka)
• Agile Techniques For Risk Management (Jared Richardson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Changing the watermark text in a DatePicker control (Cheryl Simmons)
• Expression Blend Samples – PathListBoxUtils for Expression Blend 4 RC and StackOverflow Desktop Client in C# and WPF – Release v0.4 (CodePlex)
• Silverlight 4 And ReSharper 5 = Pain (Davy Brion)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #14 – Dynamically Loading a Control from a DLL on a Server and #15 – Setting Default Browse in Visual Studio (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight security overview paper has been officially published (Nick Kramer)
• Navigating the Windows Phone 7 Documentation (Charles Petzold)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mark Miller and Karen Mangiacotti Live in Richmond, VA (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 54: Keeping Track of Community Events with Andrew Duthie (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Video of a webinar I did – Group Wisdom, Group Genius, and Leading Agile Teams (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Mario Cardinal on Layered Architectures (Eric Hagan)
• Silverlight TV 24: eBay’s Silverlight 4 Simple Lister Application (John Papa)
• Office Casual – The Quick Access Toolbar (Tina Wood)
• DryadLINQ (TechFest)
• Enterprise Content Management Features of SharePoint 2010-Episode 46 (Rob, Nick & Brett)

Community / Events

• Do You Want be on Silverlight TV? (John Papa)
• At Last – Test-Driven Academy (Vagif Abilov)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Jump-Start Events (John O’Donnell)
• We’re taking OData on the Road! (Chris Sells)

Database

• That No SQL Thing: Scaling Graph Databases (Oren Eini)
• SET clause in SQL Server (2008/2005) (Dukagjin Maloku)
• SQLAuthority News – List of Master Data Services White Paper (Pinal Dave)
• FOR XML Workshop – Understanding FOR XML EXPLICIT (Jacob Sebastian)
• Is SQL Azure a newbies springboard? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Database Size Limit increased from 4GB to10 GB (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• Plan Your Server Farm with Capacity Management Resource Center for SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Office 2010 Filter Packs" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• On Working Remotely (Jeff Atwood)
• The Microsoft Research Team + Bing = Endless Possibilities (Kristin Meldahl)
• Excerpt from upcoming title: Microsoft Access 2010 Plain & Simple (Devon Musgrave)
• Use MSDN/TechNet Product Keys for Office Professional Plus 2010 or Visio Professional 2010 from before May 1st? Then your likely missing some features… (i.e. You may be using an ‘intended to enable Terminal Services capability.’ key) (Greg Duncan)
• SmartArt Diagram Improvements (Office Team)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Fashioning Technology – Only $9.99 use code DDFTK (O’Reilly Media)
• Select-String -Context (Jeffrey Snover)
• Photoshop CS5 Imaging Tip: content-aware spot healing and fill tools (Sebastian Anthony)
• Application Analytics and Browsing Forks (Matt Hawley)
• Social Networking – it’s not just virtual (Kenji Yamaguchi)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #595 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 6, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2010 — #857 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 6-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 53 (Kathleen Sanders)
• OData Roundup #3 (Alex James)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Expert’s Voice in .Net)

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Top Links

• S#arp Architecture 1.5 released (Alec Whittington)
• Use Office 2010 to map a local drive letter to your free 25GB Live SkyDrive (Lee Mathews)
• An introduction to MEFedMVVM – PART 1 and Leveraging MEFedMVVM ExportViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 2 and IContextAware services to bridge the gap between the View and the ViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 3 (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Reference Highlighting (Richard Carr)
• How to get REALLY fast benchmarks (Oren Eini)
• Set or Remove a Breakpoint (Zain Naboulsi)
• Updated Blue and Dark Visual Studio 2010 Themes (John Papa)
• Iron Ruby: ‘unitialized constant…NameError’ (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• How to use Personal Web Packages in Microsoft Expression Web (.NET Curry)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Will Vanilla Scrum Work for You? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming (Pete Brown)
• When Implementing ICommand don’t forget to Hookup RequerySuggested (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 153: You’re Made of Corn (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9: Silverlight 4, SQL Server R2 & Ent Library 5.0 all RTM, Why code comments aren’t bad (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Feeling @Home with Windows Azure, at Home (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 25 (Glenn Berry)
• Using Table Value Constructors aka Row Constructors in SQL Server 2008 to insert multiple rows using a single statement (Suprotim Agarwal)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (24/30) twenty six restore myths and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (25/30) fill factor (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Milestone 3 screenshots leaked (damaster)
• Windows Phone 7 theme for iPhone released! (Imran Hussain)
• Attn: Google – Amount due: USD$307.50 (FOURTH AND FINAL NOTICE) (Michael S. Kaplan)
• How to Install Android on iPhone – Step by Step Guide [Video] (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 24, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 24, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 04.19 ~ 04.25 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #102 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2010 — #846 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

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Top Links

• Providing Metadata to you MEF exports (Derik Whittaker)
• The Biggest Driver For Domain Modeling Decisions (Michael Nichols)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Neat Sample: F# and Bing API (Jomo Fisher)
• Better error messages – Part 1 (Arian T. Kulp)
• Turn on Line Numbers (Zain Naboulsi)
• Rule "Previous releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008" failed (Sergio Pereira)

Web Development

• It’s Official. IP Banning is the First New Feature of Gummy Bear 1.3 (Dave Burke)
• GetRouteUrl in ASP.NET 4 Web Forms Routing (David Hayden)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, Repositories and Separation of Concerns (Billy McCafferty)
• Who is code wanderer? (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Power of Blue Books for Platform Impact (J.D. Meier)
• Tip For Triggering Genuine Conversations: Letting The Lurkers Hang Around. (Rajiv Popat)
• On Small Applications (Udi Dahan)

Silverlight / WPF

• Text-To-Speech in Silverlight Using WCF (Brian Lagunas)
• WPF: Now with Less Fuzz (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WebDevRadio Episode 73: Podcast Child… Slight Return (Michael Kimsal)

Database

• Rhino Divan DB – Performance (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Announces May 12th Launch Date of Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• The Most Common Things You Do To A Large Data File With Bash (Alan Skorkin)
• SQLAuthority News – Office 2010 Readiness Check – Are you ready for Office 2010? (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft shows off single game running on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox (Paul Miller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for March 06, 2010 — #808 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.01 ~ 03.07 (yuanjian)

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Programming WCF Services: Develop Cloud Applications with WCF for .NET 4.0