• SQL Server 2012 RC0 is here! (Ted Krueger)
• jQuery 1.7.1 RC1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• A Few of My Favorite HTML5 and CSS3 Online Tools (Dan Wahlin)
• Visual Studio 11 IDE Advances (Somasegar)
• Working with Subversion Part 2 (or Subversion for the Less Subversive) (Peter Ritchie)
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.0 (Todd Parker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Updates to the August 2011 F# 2.0 Compiler Code Drop (Don Syme)
• Dynamic LINQ to NHibernate (Felice Pollano)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The EventHandler and EventHandler<TEventArgs> delegates (James Michael Hare)
• CSS speed typing for Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
• ExportFactory in MEF 2 (Alok)
• Analyzing Memory Leaks from Dump Files with SciTech .NET Memory Profiler (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Storing Complex Types, Binary Resources, and Other Tricky Things (Glen Gailey)
• Updated libraries and projects for Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 (Greg Duncan)
• Why can’t I install this DLL via Regsvr32 /i? (Raymond Chen)
• Compare .NET Objects – Version 1.3.0.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Generating Mandelbrot fractals using HTML5 (Chris)
• Convert Ruby Regexp to JavaScript RegExp (Brian Cardarella)
• Learning HTML5 – Best of RSS (Steve Albers)
• Introduction To Composite JavaScript Apps (Derick Bailey)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.437 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Box debuts /bin platform with $2M app developer fund (Colleen Taylor)
• Execute code each time the Node.js REPL starts (Axel Rauschmayer)
• REST API Design: Put the “Type” in “Content-Type” (Mark Massé)
• Building A More App-y Web (Pete LePage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: SpecificationByExample (Martin Fowler)
• 15 Tenets For The Software Engineer (Rob Diana)
• How I view OneNote automation (John Guin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight: Bugs in the multicast client (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Delete data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Disable Javascript errors in WPF Web Browser Control take2 (Gian Maria Ricci)
• New! Windows Phone Starter Kit for Podcasts (Chris Koenig)
• Suppressing Zoom and Scroll interactions in the Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• Simulating GPS position changes using Reactive Extensions in Windows Phone environment (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) – Socket Sample (Michael Sync)
• 2000 WPF Things #433 – Preservation of Margins While Editing Grid in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #18: Using Sample Data (Jeff Blankenburg)
• How-to: Apps for creating custom ringtones (Andy Colley)
• Custom ringtones: A visual guide (Drew Williams)
• MultiBinding in Silverlight 5 (Henrik Jonsson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SPLASH 2011: David Ungar – Self, ManyCore, and Embracing Non-Determinism (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 043 – “Ben the Phone Charity Guy” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: JetBrains ReSharper (Robert Green)
• High Performance Computing with Wenming Ye (Larry Larsen)
• Five Kindle Fire Unboxing and Review YouTube Videos (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• A Coder Interview With Michael Sync (The Code Project)
• Juicy Bits (Mike Swanson)
• Explore open source with the Google Code-in contest (Stephanie Taylor)
• FREE ALM Webcast Series in November/December (Angela Binkowski)
• UGIALT.net conf 7: proposals, dates and voting (Simone Chiaretta)
• Infragistics speaking at New York City Windows Phone User Group (Tobias Komischke)
• SQL Azure MVP Herve Roggero on the Value of Being an MVP (MVP Award Program)
• Northwest Harvest at MVP Summit 2012 (MVP Summit Events)

Database

• Great tool for SQL Server Compact Databases (Arian Kulp)
• SQL Server 2012 RC0 is now available. Here’s a download link round-up. (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to PERCENT_RANK() – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Location of files for new database in SQL Server and Showing sysjobhistory run_duration in HHMMSS format (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – When will my backup finish? (Vishal)
• Compatibility Matrix 1.2 (Mark Broadbent)
• The Data Explorer Formula Language (Data Explorer Team)
• Table Space revised Again (Jason Brimhall)
• Excel worksheets from variable – revisited (John Pertell)

SharePoint

• Deploying WSPs as part of an automated build (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Five Absolutely Essential Utilities that make Windows better (Scott Hanselman)
• Book Samplers From O’Reilly (Tatworth)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #755 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/17/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #984 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/17/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2011 — #1168 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans

The Morning Dew may some some more downtime this week while I enjoy some time off with my family.

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Top Links

• Another source for LINQ extensions (Jimmy Bogard)
• Take NuGet to the next level with sample packages (David Ebbo)
• Visual Studio 2010 enhancements (Somasegar)
• Windows Phone 7: Tombstone Frustration (Nick Randolph)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Track Changes and Advance Scroll Mode in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Duplicate queries in tfs between iterations (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Available March 8th for MSDN Subscribers, general availability March 10th (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Sharing port between WCF Services in netTcpBinding (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Extending TFS’s Extensible Source Control Explorer – TFSSCExplorerExtension (Team Foundation Server Source Control Explorer VS 2010 Extension) (Greg Duncan)
• No More 250 Users Limitation In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (Shai Raiten)
• Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and More (Zain Naboulsi)
• NOW AVAILABLE: February 2011 Update of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (Windows Azure Team)
• Parsing Tokens with Extension Methods and Programmatically Resizing an Image (Jonathan Wood)
• When is Code First not code first? (Arthur Vickers)
• References and Pointers, Part One (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 (Devon Musgrave)
• HTML5 Cheat Sheet (Frank La Vigne)
• ASP.NET WebForms Dynamically Selecting MasterPages (Joe Stagner)
• Pro ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010, Third Edition (Tom Jensen)
• Internet Explorer 9 Security Part 1: Enhanced Memory Protections (Eric Lawrence)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD/BDD and the lean startup (Ian Cooper)
• Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part I: How I started to use Scrum (Stephen Forte)
• The [Iteration] is Dead (Peter Saddington)
• A few tips for being a more effective solo developer (Rachel Appel)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM For Silverlight/WP7- the Refcard… and Building Custom Gauges for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Apps at Warp Speed (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight Unit Test For Phone (Jesse Liberty)
• Charles Petzold on Programming Windows Phone 7 (Julie Lerman)
• Accessing SharePoint UserProfileService from Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight Team)
• Drawing in WP7: #1 Getting Started and Line Shape and Drawing in WP7: #2 Drawing shapes with finger (Windows Phone Geek)
• Taking a look at the Mindscape Phone Elements for WP7. (Michael Crump)
• IE on Windows Phone 7 – some supported URI schemes (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Handling WP7 orientation changes via Visual States (András Velvárt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mark Miller and Seth Juarez Go Mad with Kinect! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Pluralcast 37 : HTML 5 with Craig Shoemaker (David Starr)
• Ping 93: Kinect plays with Windows Phone, Gamertags revived, Live Mesh, HTML5 Contest (Laura Foy)
• Countdown to MIX11: Open Source Fest-a-Palooza (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Forms Training Videos (114) and Windows Client VS 2008 & .NET 3.5 Training Videos (23) and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Roles & Membership (Joe Stagner)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 5: CQRS EventStore – Best Framework/Library Ever! (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)

Community / Events

• GDC 2011 (Miguel de Icaza)
• Events This Week – March 7th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 30 Projects and Counting Will be at Open Source Fest at MIX11 (John Papa)
• New England GiveCamp 2011 (Jim O’Neil)
• Thoughts (on Windows Phone 7) from the MVP Summit (Chris Williams)
• JetBrains night at Bristol .NET User Group (Hadi Hariri)

Database

• SSRS – Creating and Using Shared Schedules Part 4 (Brian K. McDonald)
• Migrate a SQL Server Compact database to SQL Server using Web Deploy (MSdeploy) (Erik EJ)
• The Three C’s Of Interviewing (Joe Webb)
• Column-based Storage in SQL Server 2011 (Jonathan Allen)
• Repair SQL Server Database marked as Suspect or Corrupted (Madhivanan)
• SSRS: My Filter is not Working!!! (Patrick LeBlanc)
• SQL SERVER – Difference between COUNT(DISTINCT) vs COUNT(ALL) (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tuesday #016 Grouping Market Data With T-SQL (Denis Gobo)
• Leading Wildcards Aren’t A Good Default (Andy Warren)
• T-SQL Tuesday #016 – Summarizing data using GROUPING SETS() (Jacob Sebastian)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Aggregates (Jason Strate)
• T-SQL Tuesday #016 – COUNT and DELETE duplicates (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• MVPs for Office 365: Organize Your Information Better in SharePoint Online Office 365 with Managed Metadata (Lonnie Webb)
• Social Squared Ideas–Installation Guide and Social Squared Ideas–Getting Started (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• MSDN Library Home Adds Quick Links (JD Meier)
• A treeview control for OneNote 2007 (John Guin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 184 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 062 for 3/7/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for March 07, 2011 — #1055 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 7th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #807 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 03/08/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Entity Framework: Building Data Centric Apps with the ADO.NET Entity Framework by Julia Lerman

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Top Links

• Web Tracking Protection: An Emerging Internet Standard that Helps Protect Consumers from Tracking (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 Application with UltraLight.mvvm (Jeremy Likness)
• C# Compiler as a Service Update (Miguel de Icaza)
• Tests are your airbag (Krzysztof Koźmic)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Code Snippets with Replacements (Richard Carr)
• Programmatically finding Binding Elements in WCF Binding and Cross machine communication between .Net Application using WCF (Dhananjay Kumar)
• "Quick Find" a better way using Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools and Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Converting Numbers to Ordinal Strings and Approximate String Comparisons Using Levenshtein Distance (Jonathan Wood)
• New Book: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-511): Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
• Windows Azure Storage Client Library Reference Documentation Updated with New Sample Code and Remarks (Windows Azure Team)
• Why we need better garbage collection on the Xbox (Joh.)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Rounded Corners with jQuery and ASP.NET DropShadow with jQuery. and Wanna deploy WordPress on Microsoft Azure ? (Joe Stagner)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1 is now available as a DRM-free PDF ebook (Simone Chiaretta)
• IE9′s ‘Do Not Track’ features could become Web standards (Tim Conneally)
• Microsoft Guidance for Silky Smooth Web Sites (Chris Love)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Problem with Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Kidzban – Kanban for Your Classroom (Peter Saddington)
• Scrat–Copy Quality Center Test Plan Structure To Microsoft Test Manager (Shai Raiten)
• Dependency Injection & IOC (Abhishek Sur)
• 10 of 10 – Aesthetics and alignment matter (Alfred Astort)
• Continuous Delivery (Anders Janmyr)
• The Benefits of a Flush Search Box (Anthony)
• Are you refining or rotting? (Paul Boag)
• Reuse is overrated, then came package management (Matt Hinze)
• Book Review – Driving Technical Change: Why People on Your Team Don’t Act on Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• The Ascendancy of Testers (Elizabeth Keogh)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Binding Events to Methods in the Silverlight MVVM View Models (Song Li)
• WPF Realtime Textbox Change Binding (Arian Kulp)
• All about ResourceDictionary in WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ASP.NET, MVC, jQuery, SharePoint, Silverlight and .NET Articles in February 2011 and Author of the Month (Suprotim Agarwal)
• MVVM + Broker + Castle Interceptor = FUN (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Silverlight: Wish List II (Deborah Kurata)
• Illustrator FXG and XAML export usage in Blend 4 (Bob Bartholomay)
• Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 7) (Gill Cleeren)
• Select Many: Reactive Extensions’ Mother Of All Operators [Chaining] (Jesse Liberty)
• Writing about Windows Phone 7 Development (Mike Ormond)
• Save the Date–Windows Phone 7 Tech.Days Online Conference (Mike Ormond)
• Introducing Phoney’s FadingMessage Class (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies for Windows Phone 7 arrive April 6 (Vlad Bobleanta)
• Who ate all the pies!! (Rich)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: The Opinionated Cloud – Learning about AppHarbor (Scott Hanselman)
• Building on Azure: Softronic (Charles Torre)
• What is a SharePoint Analyst? Episode 57 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Gillmor Gang 2.26.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• ASP.NET MVC Data Access Videos & Tutorials (17) and ASP.NET MVC App Building Videos (61) (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 63: Exploring National Instruments’ App Using Data and Business Features (John Papa)
• Windows Phone Radio 19 now available (Brian Seitz)
• The Full Stack, Part 8: Adding Search to the Windows Phone Client (Jon Galloway & Jesse Liberty)
• TWC9: Kinect SDK is coming, New VS Power Tools, & Profanities by programming language (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• 2011 MVP Summit Preview (Thomas LaRock)
• TechDays 2011 – Developer track sessions update (Katrien de Graeve)
• A Message to MVPs from Nestor Portillo (Lonnie Webb)
• Tech.Days Online Conference – Create.Design.Deliver | Windows Phone 7 (Andy Wigley)
• The Microsoft MVP Summit (Brent Ozar)

Database

• Access SQL Server Compact 4 with ASP Classic and VbScript (Erik EJ)
• Some Suggested SQL Server 2008 R2 Instance Configuration Settings (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server: Count Rows in Tables and its Size (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2011 – Wait Type – Day 25 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Glenn Berry – Wait Type – Day 26 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Best Reference – Wait Type – Day 27 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Agile: Creating an SSRS Burndown Chart Part 2 (Steve Novoselac)
• Come One, Come All to T-SQL Tuesday #016 : Aggregate Functions (grrlgeek)

SharePoint

• My Favourite SharePoint 2010 Scalability Articles (Paul Andrew)
• New Technical Article on SharePoint Architecture (Ricky Kirkham)

Miscellaneous

• Document: What a Microsoft employment contract looks like (Todd Bishop)
• Microsoft unveils redesigned WindowsEmbedded.com (Brad Sams)
• Chrome Developer Tools: Back to Basics (Christos)
• Landing Your Dream Job in a Networked World (Dawn Foster)
• Get add-ons right in Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• What if we made Wikipedia into game… Wait, there’s Wikipedia Maze! (Greg Duncan)
• Opening a OneNote page each day at the same time (John Guin)
• Windows Live Mesh Beta Ends 31 March 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Learning programming online – still possible (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 24, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 25, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 91 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 24th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News Feb 25th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for February 26, 2011 — #1052 (Dave Campbell)
• This Week’s Link List (February 25, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #800 (Chris Alcock)
• Week Retrospective 21 – PMI Certification and Pecha-Kuchas (Peter Saddington)
• Weekly Links– 2010_08 (Joe Stagner)
• Daily News Digest 02/24/2011 and Daily News Digest 02/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• 24-Feb-2011 and 25-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Nick Randolph

Top Links

• .Net Reflector 7 Beta released, with added Jason Haley Power Commands goodness right in the box! (Greg Duncan)
• Unit Test Naming Convention (Steve Smith)
• Exploring Ribbon Control for Silverlight (Part – 1) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Server and Tools chief Muglia to leave Microsoft in summer 2011 (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# agents with timeouts (Gordon Hogenson)
• Cannot obtain Metadata from https using WCF (Derik Whittaker)
• Video on Default EndPoint in WCF 4.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using F# 2.0 Powerpack ArgParser from C# (Steve Gilham)
• Allowing Access to HttpContext in WCF REST Services (Rick Strahl)
• Accessing the Menu Bar (Zain Naboulsi)
• Programmatically Reading Work Item Comments (Aaron Bjork)
• EF Feature CTP5: Pluggable Conventions (Rowan Miller)
• TFS API Part 33– Get Build Definitions and Build Details (Shai Raiten)

Web Development

• Namespacing in JavaScript (Angus Croll)
• Find odd and even rows using $.inArray() function when using jQuery Templates (Hajan)
• FubuMVC, Routing, and the Front Controller Pattern and FubuMVC’s Configuration Strategy (Jeremy Miller)
• HTML5 & CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Joey deVilla)
• Sueetie .NET 4.0 Upgrade Pack Available. Sueetie v3.0 Coming Soon. (Dave Burke)
• Bogus Windows Phone 7 User Agent String (Nick Randolph)
• goo.gl gets an official API (You hear that rapid typing? That’s a ton of dev’s already pounding out the code to use it…) (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Azure and the PaaS Context (Adron Hall)
• Adding Your Application To The Graph (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 12 Keys to Success with Agile and Blending Scrum and Kanban to Create an End-to-End Agile Enterprise and Tools for Disciplined Thinking (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Why use Test Driven Development (Amy Blankenship)
• How Discipline Can Save You! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Stardate 2011.10.1: Revenge of the Commons (Kyle Szklenski)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 comes to Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” and Media Center set-top boxes (damaster)
• Windows Phone 7 Design Tips: Navigation, Tombstoning, and Data Loading (Karl Erickson)
• Integrating IE9 Pinning with Microsoft Silverlight (Leon Braginski)
• Embedding a Sound File in Windows Phone 7 app (Silverlight) (Matthias Shapiro)
• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 0 – Why should I care? (Peter Kuhn)
• WP7: Background execution – really? (Håkan Reis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Boris Scheiman Waves His Hands at nKinect! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Office 2010 & Windows Phone at CES 2011 (Laura Foy)
• CES 2011: Kinect and Live Mesh (Tina)
• The Engadget Podcast Show 005: CES 2011 Part 5 – 01.10.2011 (video) (Trent Wolbe)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #185: WP7: Learning how to handle Tombstoning (Derik Whittaker)
• Pluralcast 33 : Catching up with Ken Schwaber (David Starr)
• A Look at Microsoft’s Surface Computer V.2 (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Register Now for a Free Day of Silverlight from the Experts! (John Papa)
• DevTeach/SQLTeach Montreal 2011 Registration is Now Open (Brad M. McGehee)
• Microsoft is Launching WebMatrix, Thursday, January 13th, 2011 (Public Sector DPE Team)
• WebMatrix will Release Thursday, Jan 13th (Doris Chen)

Database

• Reducing SQL Server Sync I/O Contention :: Tip 3 (Rob Tiffany)
• Fun with Extended Properties in SQL Server 2008 (Glenn Berry)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Pivot Transformation (10/31) (Jason Strate)
• Rollback Transaction in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Performance Tuning Resolution (Pinal Dave)
• SSAS – Hiding Unknown Member (Devin Knight)
• How to Identify Bad Queries in MySQL (Baron Schwartz)

Miscellaneous

• 12 MORE Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers (Jesse Liberty)
• Powertoys from the OneNote Test Team for 2010 (John Guin)
• Microsoft releases Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 (Microsoft Blog Admin)
• Is Avatar Kinect the Star Trek Holodeck in beta? (Steve Clayton)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Jan-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #767 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #136 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Link Post 177 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 01/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

IronPython in Action by Michael J. Foord

Top Links

• Mo controls, mo controls, mo controls… [Announcing the second release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit!] (David Anson)
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start–Reloaded! (Andy Wigley)
• Microsoft Press ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7 (MS Downloads)
• Lucene.Net needs your help (or it will die) (Simone Chiaretta)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Asynchronous C# and F# (II.): How do they differ? (Tom)
• Using Tuples (Richard Carr)
• Working with Tuple in C# 4.0 (Abhishek Sur)
• Extending Visual Studio 2010 web test–Custom loop (Al Kampfer)
• Asynchrony in C# 5, Part Three: Composition (Eric Lippert)
• ILMerging assemblies with Psake / Powershell (Naeem Khedarun)
• Microsoft Test Manager Hotfix available: VS10-KB2387011 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 Beta is available for download! (Shai Raiten)
• Team Foundation Server and Azure (Pieter de Bruin)
• Microsoft Help Viewer – Updates Planned for Visual Studio SP1 (Kathleen McGrath)
• WCF 4.0 – A More Pleasant Experience for Devs (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Orchestration vs WF 4.0 (Jon Fancey)
• NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook EBook on Sale This Week (David Hayden)
• ILMerge – How to Merge Assemblies After A Build (Keith Elder)
• Touched ( Part 3 )–Manipulation and Gesture Support (Mike Taulty)
• Why, oh why is pooling turned off in Entity Framework 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010 (Wally McClure)
• Show Advanced Build Configurations and Edit and Continue (Zain Naboulsi)
• Create an Entity Data Model From a Database – Entity Framework 4.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Getting the most out of user events and Windows Server AppFabric Monitoring (Emil Velinov)

Web Development

• Examining ASP.NET 2.0′s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 18 (Scott Mitchell)
• XHTML in IE9 (Tony Ross)
• PROs and CONs of Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• 5 features of PHP that seem hacks, but save your life (Giorgio Sironi)
• Simple Semantics With Microformats, Part 3 (Emily Lewis)
• Microsoft Folks Submit Grid model for HTML/CSS to the W3C. (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET: Converting X-Forwarded-For To REMOTE_HOST (Jon Davis)
• Introducing MVC Development w/the Razor View Engine for Visual Studio Developers (Rachel Appel)
• How to Scroll Video using JQuery in 9 steps (Martin Beeby)
• Lucene.NET could use the community’s support (Ian Cooper)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• SOLID Motivational Calendar (Derick Bailey)
• Seven key ideas of real quality assurance (Gojko Adzic)
• The State of Agile – Lisa Crispin (Lisa Crispin)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Automation Framework (Giorgio Sironi)
• Lean Principles #4 – Defer Commitment (Kelly Waters)
• Agile Manifesto 2.0 – Updates to Come? and 10 Years of Agile – Are We Better Yet? and Tool Review – TinyPM – Nothing Small About It (Peter Saddington)
• Motivating the Unmotivated (Michael Norton)
• Who Wants This User Story? (Dan Puckett)
• Developer Guidance Maps Roundup for ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Azure and Windows Phone (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Caliburn.Micro Contest (Rob Eisenberg)
• Silverlight Framework – All Historical Tool Releases and What is New (Bart Czernicki)
• Windows Phone Partners With PreEmptive Solutions For Analytics (Brandon Watson)
• New OData Tools Feed Windows Phone 7 App from Windows Azure Platform (Bruce Kyle)
• New Version of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit (Cheryl Simmons)
• Custom image cropping in Windows Phone 7 – Part 1 of 2 and Input box? On Windows Phone 7? Indeed. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Invoking the Keyboard in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator (Chris Love)
• Sync Framework 4.0 CTP now supports clients like iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight (Hanu Kommalapati)
• F# with WPF : Fun with async {} or Asynchronous Workflow – bouncing ellipse (Imran Khatri)
• Running a Windows Phone Application under the lock screen and Hail to the swiss army knife of Silverlight Windows Phone Apps LongListSelector (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Jounce Part 5: Navigation Framework and Silverlight and HTML5: Microsoft’s Official Stance (Jeremy Likness)
• Committed to Silverlight (John Papa)
• Silverlight : Stop Blaming Microsoft For Your Stupidity (Karl Seguin)
• Creating a Tile using theme’s color as background (Windows Phone 7) (Katrien de Graeve)
• Document Toolkit maintenance release (Koen Zwikstra)
• Dotfuscator for Windows Phone Released (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Microsoft Shifts Silverlight Focus (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Tracking Sales Statistics with the Silverlight Analytics Framework for Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
• Styling A ContextMenu In Expression Blend (Sacha Barber)
• WP7 Code: Using the Accelerometer API (Dragos Manolescu)
• Silverlight is dead. Long live Silverlight! (Tim Heuer)
• Detecting Whether the Dark or Light Theme is in Use and Making Your Images Change Color Based on the Theme (Adam Nathan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ted Neward and Dierk Konig Compare .NET and JVM Evolution (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #44: Dis Approvals and Let’s Play TDD #45: Looking for Keys in All the Wrong Places (James Shore)
• Herding Code 96: Eric Sink on Veracity and DVCS (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 130 – PowerScripting Podcast – Core Show with Hal and Jon (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Full Stack, Part 2: Setting up the UI for our Windows Phone client (Jon Galloway & Jesse Liberty)
• Video & Podcast: Designing and Deploying SharePoint 2010 for a Global Audience (Joel Oleson)
• Dream.in.Code Podcast Episode #9 – Charlie Kindel (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Coding QA Episode 50 End of an Era (Matthew Osborn & Federico Silva)
• Inside Windows Phone#11:Obfuscation And Analytics (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Ping 81: PDC is here, Pixar uses Azure, IE9 Preview, Zunes & Phones and Behind the Scenes at PDC 2010 (Laura Foy)
• Sparkling Client Show 110: Silverlight is Dead. Long Live Silverlight. (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Tsitsi Gora on User Experience Design for Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• ARCast.TV – Creating Windows Phone 7 Apps Using a Configuration Tool and ARCast.TV – Designing and Deploying SharePoint 2010 for a Global Audience (Zhiming Xue)
• Medical “gaming” and simulation—new on Microsoft Health Tech Today (Bill Crounse)

Community / Events

• Hello, Microsoft (Steve Sanderson)
• MVPs Discuss the MVP Award and PDC (Lonnie Webb)
• Virtual Brown Bag Sessions with Claudio Lassala (Zain Naboulsi)
• PDC and Silverlight (Bob Muglia)
• My take from PDC 2010 (Christian Nagel)
• Silverlight and Windows Phone sessions at Øredev next week (Jeff Wilcox)
• Busy November in the Works, Several Speaking Engagements (Chris Love)
• Microsoft Webcast: Overview of Windows Azure & Visual Studio 2010 (Public Sector DPE Team)
• MSDN Flash Poll #11: What would you like to be doing? (Mike Ormond)

Database

• Format Phone Numbers in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Are you a Database Administrator or a Database Developer? and SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: MS Jet OLEDB 4.0 cannot be used for distributed queries because the provider is used to run in apartment mode. (Pinal Dave)
• When to use SQL Mirroring Timeout (Ryan Adams)
• Disaster Recovery for AppFabric Caching V1.0 (SQL Mirroring) (Jaime Alva Bravo)
• Mixed ASC/DESC sorting in MySQL (Quassnoi)
• Combining Validation of Transactional and Persisted Data (James Allderidge)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 customErrors mode (Greg Galipeau)
• How to pass InitParams to Silverlight Application which is hosted as SharePoint 2010 web parts? (Abhijit Jana)

Miscellaneous

• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Status Bar Changes in Outlook 2010 (Lonnie Webb)
• Xbox 360 Dashboard update is now available (Larry Hyrb)
• Microsoft + open source = loving relationship? (Andy Robb)
• Incorporating 3rd Party Libraries in iPhone apps (Ben Scheirman)
• Book review: DSLs in Action (Dror Helper)
• Automate your PowerShell demos (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Using Author Names to track which machine I used to edit OneNote pages (John Guin)
• #Ebook Deal/Day – Beautiful Security – $14.99 (Save 53%) Code DDBSC (O’Reilly Media)
• Free Microsoft Tools for Educators and Teachers and Halo Reach Noble Map Pack Release is This Month (Richard Hay)
• Drupal Founder on Why Open Source is Good for Business [INTERVIEW] (Sarah Kessler)
• Becoming An Independent Consultant (Derick Bailey)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #720 and The Morning Brew #721 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 1, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for November 02, 2010 — #984 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 048 for 11/1/2010 (Pete Brown)

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DSLs in Action by Debasish Ghosh

Top Links

• IE9 will tell just how agile Microsoft really is (Ed Bott)
• First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–I) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Design Day Recordings (Jaime Rodriguez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading F# Projects, Part III: The F# math providers. (Yin Zhu)
• Are you the Chuck Norris of C#? Code Contest – win a Gyroscope Powerball! (Jonathan Cogley)
• Create Folders in Class View (Zain Naboulsi)
• Customizing process guidance for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• ReaderWriterLockSlim: Conquering Mismatched Enter and Exit Calls (Daniel Vaughan)

Web Development

• Unobtrusive JavaScript with Prototype.js (Boyan Kostadinov)
• Hate To Break It To You, But The Browser Is A Tier (Jon Davis)
• An HTML5 Remote Desktop – Part II (Gustavo Ricardi)
• Named Routes with ASP.NET MVC (Dane Morgridge)
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Global action filters and ASP.NET MVC 3: Introducing Razor view engine (Gunnar Peipman)
• Json.NET 3.5 Release 8 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• New Scrum Process Template for Team Foundation Server Online Presentation (Charles Sterling)
• Day 14 – Carve Out Time for What’s Important (J.D. Meier)
• Working from Home (Without Looking Like It) (Steve Adams)
• Powers of Why (Patrick Kua)
• Two different ways to create bad logic in unit tests (Roy Osherove)
• API Anti-Patterns: How to Avoid Common REST Mistakes (Tomas Vitvar)
• Coding Without A Net (Jesse Liberty)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Debugging Silverlight in Firefox (Corey Miller)
• “Fade in” Screen in Silverlight 4 (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight RIA Helpers for MVVM (Alpha Version 1) and WPF resizable grid (CodePlex)
• Windows Phone 7 Beta: How do I save an image to the Pictures Hub (Nick Randolph)
• Windows Phone Applications: Timing using DispatcherTimer (Ricky Tan)
• Working with files in a Windows Phone 7 application (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 208 – 08.13.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• TWC9: Windows Phone samples and controls, SQL Cop, WCF for large data (Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Weekly 169: Riding The Bear (Paul Thurrott)
• endpoint.tv – Meet SO-Aware (Part 2) (Ron Jacobs)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: The Yoda of Windows Phone (Nic Fillingham)
• jQuery Podcast 31 – Filament Group (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Security in Provisioning and Billing Solutions for Windows Azure Platform (Emily Gibson)
• Pano versus Pivot: Windows Phone Design Days content available (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight TV Upcoming Schedule for August+ 2010 (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Q&A: Microsoft’s Lisa Feigenbaum Talks About C# and VS 2010 Presentation: A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010 for C# & VB Developers (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Microsoft BizSpark Does Not Care About Startups (Chris Pietschmann)
• Philly XAML Meeting – Windows Phone 7 (Lindsay Lindstrom)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Why SQL Server is better than any other RDBMS Applications? (Pinal Dave)
• Transferring Logins to a Database Mirror (Robert L Davis)
• Who is accessing my backup file ? (Pradeep Adiga)
• Allowing Table Re-Creation in SQL Server 2008 (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Mathematics Add-In for Word 2010 & OneNote 2010 (Blake Handler)
• The Entire Star Wars Saga Is Finally Coming To Blu-ray in 2011 [Starwars] (Casey Chan)
• Manage Email addresses without Exchange cmdlets (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Calder Search for Mac,PC, Web and Facebook (Don Burnett)
• Objective C: Expected ‘(‘ before ‘Project’ (Mark Needham)
• How to "break in" to gaming & entertainment (Jason Pankow)
• [WinDbg Script] Displaying Parameters for Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing (Roberto Farah)
• Mexico Windows 7 Theme (Richard Hay)
• Major Update for Fav Media Center Plugin, TunerFreeMCE (Sarah Perez)
• Screencast and Podcast Recording Gear (Steve Smith)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Death by Facebook, Pissed at the Wrong Guy, Limits are Good (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Cream for August 13, 2010 — #924 (Dave Campbell)

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WPF 4 Unleashed by Adam Nathan

Top Links

• Introducing IIS Express (Scott Guthrie)
• Caliburn v1.1 Released! (Rob Eisenberg)
• Entity Framework Repository & Unit Of Work T4 Template on CodePlex (Dane Morgridge)
• Windows 8 Plans Leaked: Numerous Details Revealed (Stephen Chapman)
• Introducing the PivotViewer Control for Silverlight (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Understanding C#: Using BackgroundWorker to make your UI responsive (Andrew Stellman)
• Organize Using (C# Only) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Working with Zip Files in .NET (Richard Lee)
• Generating MD5 and SHA1 checksums for a file (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WCF by Example – Introduction (Enrique Albert)
• How to host WCF services in IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 (Merrick Chaffer)
• Elegant infoof operators in C# (read Info Of) (Patrick Smacchia)
• How I understood monads, part 2/2: have we met before? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• COM Apartments (Marius Bancila)
• Ghost team foundation build controllers (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The Archivist Is Live! (Karsten Januszewski)
• NHibernate 2nd level cache: Doing it wrong? (Mark Needham)
• Do We Need If Blocks? (John Sonmez)
• OData and Workflow Foundation (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• One of the reasons the section color addin was easy to write (John Guin)
• Performance Impact of Server-side Generated GUIDs in EF (Lei Li)
• Developing with Messenger Connect: Recognizable & intuitive and Social Distribution and Realtime Shared Experiences with Messenger Connect and Identity (authentication, profile & relationships) and Windows Live Messenger Connect is now available (Angus Logan)

Web Development

• JavaScript tests now available on the IE Testing Center (Alex Chi)
• HTML5Rocks.com (RJ Owen)
• Mobile Web Toolkits (Brendan Kowitz)
• Action Filter versus Controller Base Class (K. Scott Allen)
• An overview of Open Data Protocol (OData) (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)
• 50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers (Vitaly Friedman)
• Measuring Web Page Performance (Anderson Quach)
• Filling Address Fields using HTML5 Geolocation and jQuery (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Which TFS2010 “Agile” Project Template one is right for you? One side-by-side of MS Agile v5, MS Scrum v1[Beta] and Scrum For TFS(SfTS) v3 (Greg Duncan)
• NCover 3.4.10: NCover Explorer Fixes (Alan Johnson)
• Business Driven Test Management with Microsoft Test Manager (Clemens Reijnen)
• Don’t do it alone (Paul Boag)
• Principles of Programming Architecture (Dave M. Bush)
• Intuition and ‘quit thinking and look’ (Mark Needham)
• Visualize First. Build Later. (Dave West)
• Isolator 6.0.4 is out! (Doron Peretz)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Enhanced ListView Operations using MVVM (Izhar Lotem)
• Using WrapPanel and DockPanel in Windows Phone 7 With Blend (Matthias Shapiro)
• A Convention based Approach for wiring your Views to ViewModels in MVVM – AutoViewModelLocator (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Silverlight Bing Maps: Draw Circle Around a Latitude/Longitude Location (Chris Pietschmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio 2010/2008 and Microsoft Test Manager Screen Casts – [HE] (Shai Raiten)
• Roger Peter’s great video on using the Facebook Developer Toolkit with Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• Windows Weekly 162: Geeks Who Love Too Much (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Live Messenger Connect SDK (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 63: Sweet deal from MS, Burger King & Xbox, IE 9 and Zune (Laura Foy)
• Consistent UX, Composite Apps and Windows 7 with Jack Henry (Jared Bienz)
• Technology & Friends Episode 97: Brian Jackett on Powershell (David Giard)
• geekSpeak Recording – Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (Emily Gibson)
• The Archivist: Your friendly neighborhood tweet archiver (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• Join the OData Mailing List (Mike Flasko)
• What I learned at FOO Camp ‘10 (Scott Berkun)
• SQL Saturday 42 Musings (Jeremiah Peschka)
• One of the great things about TechEd … (Ed Wilson)

Database

• SQL Server Instance Checklist (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQLAuthority News – Exam 70-433 – MCTS – Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Database Development and SQL SERVER – Outer Join Not Allowed in Indexed Views (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• 3 Ways to Accelerate Your SharePoint Career (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Get FULL Access to SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Book Online (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Chrome Extension Development (Sergio Pereira)
• TechSmith Lights Up Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft leaks plans for a Windows 8 app store (Jay Hathaway)
• The OneNote Test Team is Hiring! (John Guin)
• Microsoft’s Support Sets Us Apart (Barbara Gordon)
• Cloud computing in healthcare – private, public, or somewhere in between (Steve Aylward)
• Xbox 360 is hiring for Kinect (Jason Pankow)
• What I would do if I was in charge of Windows 8 (Miguel de Icaza)
• Co-Authoring Using Office 2010 (Sarah Perez)
• C++ killed my grandpappy – Is C++ hard and where are the C++ coders hiding? (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft removing your 3D glasses (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft details early Windows 8 improvements to OEMs (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 29, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #631 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 28, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Venkat Subramaniam

.NET / Visual Studio

• Extracting the Icon for a File (Richard Carr)

Web Development

• Using AntiForgeryToken with other verbs than POST (and ActionLinks) (Tomasz Pęczek)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Validation is overrated (Seth Godin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 84: Ex-Microsoft Developer Panel with Mike Moore, Jeff Cohen, and Scott Bellware and Herding Code 85: Clint Nelsen on Startup Weekend and Herding Code 86: Saqib Shaikh on Accessibility and Developing with Limited Sight (Jon Galloway)
• Recording and samples from my Reactive F# talk (Tomas Petricek)

Community / Events

• Live on .NET Rocks Today 6:00 EST (Keith Elder)

Database

• Remove and Replace Special Characters in a SQL Server Column (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL 101 : Without “ORDER BY”, order is not guaranteed. (Dave Ballantyne)

Miscellaneous

• OneNote Text Importer Powertoy Updated for Microsoft Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Is Microsoft the IBM of the 2010’s? (Mike Hadlow)
• Adobe Interview (part 6) (Joe Smith)
• 5 Awesome Arcade Games for the iPhone (Amy-Mae Elliott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 26, 2010 — #891 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Asking Why Not, Sucky Content Club, a Manifesto, Worth Paying For (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #111 (Grant Palin)

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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell

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Top Links

• MVVM Coding by Convention (Convention over Configuration) (Jeremy Likness)
• Can I Do Perfect Scrum and Still Fail? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Integrating Twitter Into An ASP.NET Website Using OAuth (Scott Mitchell)
• Code contracts and inheritance (Gunnar Peipman)
• Visual Studio 2010: How to understand your code using Dependency Graphs, Sequence Diagrams, and the Architecture Explorer (Jennifer Marsman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Updated C# all-in-one file (Kirill Osenkov)
• Service Operations for Any and All (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Think .Net Cache = System.Web.Caching? .Net 4 has a present for you, System.Runtime.Caching. and Extra .Net 4 Parallel Extension goodness in the Parallel Extension Samples, with RTM updates and a few new Projects (Greg Duncan)
• Book Review – Essential C# 4.0 (Brandon Cannaday)
• Assembly Resolution in MSBuild and Visual Studio Series Introduction (Chris Mann)
• Break Multiple Processes (Zain Naboulsi)
• Entity Framework 4.0 POCO Classes and Data Services (Chris Sells)
• ADO.NET Survey Results (Luiz Fernando Santos)

Web Development

• F# in ASP.NET, mathematics and testing (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using the Sueetie Cross-Application Footer Menu Control (Dave Burke)
• Building a Data Grid in ASP.NET MVC (Ali Bastani)
• Becoming a Great Web Developer (Marc Grabanski)
• New book: Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• DOM Range and HTML5 Selection (Jon Seitel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Information is the Most Transient Form of Power and ASP.NET Security Scenarios on Azure and Application Scenarios and Solutions (J.D. Meier)
• Agile: Chasing a points total (Mark Needham)
• Responsibility And Disaster (Michael Nichols)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Updated Bing App for Windows Phone (Justin Jed)
• IIS Media Services 4 – Changing the Game (Nigel Parker)
• Event-based property changes in pure XAML (Dennis Delimarsky)
• We’ve secretly changed this control’s DataContext – let’s see if it notices! [Workaround for a Silverlight data binding bug affecting various scenarios - including DataGrid+ContextMenu] (David Anson)
• Embedding the Silverlight version of the Open Media Player (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #18 – Elastic Scrolling (Mike Snow)
• IIS Media Services to Include a Version of PlayReady DRM for HTTP Streaming (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Corrinne Yu – Principal Engine Architect, Halo Team Microsoft: Part One and Office Casual: OneNote – An all too brief introduction (Tina Wood)
• Webcast: NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB (Michael Kennedy)
• Video Interviews Part 2 – Nicholas Zakas, Principal Front-end Engineer at Yahoo! on jQuery Performance and Menno van Slooten on his Automated UI Testing Framework for jQuery (Rey Bango)
• Silverlight TV 25: No More Boxes! Exploring the PathListBox (John Papa)
• MSDN Radio: SharePoint 2010 for Developers (Emily Gibson)
• JP Boodhoo’s Introduction to Machine.Specifications (Bobby Johnson)
• Executive Thoughts on SharePoint 2010 (Eric Swift)
• Silverlight Week – How to Choose a Mobile Platform (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Kelly Cassidy: Effective Prototyping with SketchFlow (Eric Hagan)

Community / Events

• “Unplugged” Chat with Me this Thursday (Scott Guthrie)
• It’s time to Party like is SharePoint 2010 Launch Day! (Joel Oleson)
• Women In Web Design: Group Interview (Smashing Editorial)
• Microsoft’s greatest strength: people (Eugenia Sawa)
• Deep dive on Silverlight unit testing at Tech Ed next month (Jeff Wilcox)

Database

• SQL Azure vs. SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 (MS Downloads)
• 5 Things SQL Server Should Truncate (Brent Ozar)
• Five things SSIS should drop (Jamie Thomson)
• Trusting Database Engine Tuning Advisor for Query Tuning and Five things wouldn’t miss in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Understanding ALTER INDEX ALL REBUILD with Disabled Clustered Index (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Meme: Tagged: 5 things SQL Server should drop (Denis Gobo)
• Why LOB data makes shrink run slooooowly (T-SQL Tuesday #006) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Using Filters in BCS Meta Man (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) 2.0 Released – New Cmdlets, PowerShell 2 and XCopy, oh my and “If you want users to RTFM, write a better FM” (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft and LG partner to release Xbox 360 3D gaming (Matt Blowes)
• Firefox 3.7 will become 4.0 — Firefox 4, with updated Gecko, confirmed for later this year (Sebastian Anthony)
• Snagit 10 Released With New Capture Tools (Simon Mackie)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 11-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #598 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 415 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2010 — #859 (Dave Campbell)

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Programming C# 4.0: Building Windows, Web, and RIA Applications for the .NET 4.0 Framework (Animal Guide)

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Top Links

• Blogging With OneNote 2010 Beta (Will Kelly) – Looks like OneNote is borrowing from Windows Live Writer. I’ll have to take a peek.
• Silverlight 4 HTML Puzzle: How Does It Work? (John Papa) – John takes a closer look at one of the Silverlight 4 apps demoed by ScottGu at PDC09.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Article: 10 Features in .NET 4.0 that made Me Smile (Michael Kennedy)
• Greatest Prime Factor in F# (Scott Seely)
• Astoria V.Next Ships for .NET 3.5 SP1 -> Versioning Issue (Stephen Forte)
• Reading an Xml File in T4 Templates (Gil Fink)
• C# Continuation Monad (Edmondo Pentangelo)
• Developing iPhone Apps in .NET (Eve Turzillo)

Web Development

• Mastering jQuery now available at TekPub (Dave Ward)
• ASP.NET: Setting Focus in Modal Dialogs (Deborah Kurata)
• JavaScript Part 1 – hello JavaScript! and JavaScript Part 2 – The Free Stuff and JavaScript Part 3 – Prototype Based Language and JavaScript Part 4 – the "this" operator (Leon Gersing)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing Strategy: Hiding Out In the Open (Tim Barcz)
• Coding: Naming (Mark Needham)
• Agile Tenet #1 – Satisfy the Customer (Julie Stickler)
• Unit Tests And Silverlight (Davy Brion)
• Postulating Extreme Web UI Scalability (Jonathan Oliver)
• Why is Agile so Hard to Sell? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The big picture of software development (Jimmy Nilsson)
• Explicit Structural Typing (Duck Typing) (Christopher Diggins)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 demos from my PDC Keynote now available (Scott Guthrie)
• Silverlight-powered Virtual DVD now available from Tesco (Silverlight Team)
• Expression Blend 3 and SketchFlow! Wow! (David Lemphers)
• Rotate your text in the WPF DataGrid Column Headers (Margaret Parsons)
• ViewModel Pattern and Speech as UI. Help me Obi Wan, where’s the View? (Pete Brown)
• Using the Silverlight Toolkit LayoutTransformer Control for Angled Column Header Text (Cheryl Simmons)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Corey Haines on Software Craftsmanship (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• This Week in Test: Episode 7 – Survivors (Gil Zilberfeld & Dror Helper)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #77 (Jeff Atwood)
• A Look Behind Mouse 2.0 (Larry Larsen)
• IronRuby sketch up (Coding4Fun)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Dave Campbell (Nic Fillingham)
• Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin: Introducing Incarnate (Charles Torre)
• Reactive Extensions API in depth: Retry (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• New gameplay video with D&D on Surface (Eric Havir)

Community / Events

• A Tribute to the Road Warriors – Top 20 Most Travelled SharePoint People in 2009* (Joel Oleson)
• What ASP.NET (MVC) Developers can learn from Rails – 4th Feb 2010 (Chris Canal)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Hub-And-Spoke: Building an EDW with SQL Server and Strategies of Implementation (Pinal Dave)
• Script Task vs Flat File Connection Management (Ted Krueger)
• SQL Server CASE Expressions (Richard Carr)

SharePoint

• How to Prioritize Business Needs Before Implementing SharePoint (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Office 2010 File Validation (David B. Heise)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/17 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Releases MFCopy for Copying Windows 7 Multimedia Files (Blake Handler)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 16-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #500 (Chris Alcock) – Congrats to Chris and the ‘Brew!
• Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2009 — #757 (Dave Campbell)

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