• Updated Win 8 Dev Platform diagram (Rockford Lhotka)
• SemVer, NuGet, and Nightly Builds (Phil Haack)
• Nokia’s First Two Windows Phones Are Here. And They’re Awesome. (Ben Rudolph)
• Windows Phone Tombstoning with PhoneGap and Knockout.js (Colin Eberhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to Build VB6 Apps with TFS Team Build 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• Using the ToggleSwitch in WinRT/Metro (for C#) (Derik Whittaker)
• Searching the Global Address List – C# Edition (Henning Krause)
• Building Visual Studio Extensions with Roslyn (Jonathan Allen)
• Kinect Speech Recognition – Introduction (Shai Raiten)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 – now available on Microsoft Update (Visual Studio Blog)
• Microsoft Speech Platform – Software Development Kit (SDK) (Version 11) (MS Downloads)
• Install Application as Service on Windows Server 2008 (Steve Smith)
• Code Documentation Generation with SandCastle (Stacy Vicknair)
• Packaging an Executable as a Windows Azure Application From the Command Line (Steve Marx)
• Query Methods in Roslyn Syntax API (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New refactorings in JustCode (Just* Team)
• FSharpChart minor release available (version 0.56) (Carl Nolan)

Web Development

• Connecting your WinPhone 7 app to an ASP.Net Razor page with a little REST and JSON (Greg Duncan)
• Building the Internet of Things: HTML5 for Microcontrollers (John Esposito)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Null Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Empty Charsets in IE 9 Causing JSON Parsing Errors (Rob Conery)
• Reuse in action: Bing Maps REST API and Community Megaphone (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Telerik AJAX Q3 2011 Beta – New Org Chart and Social Share controls, Metro skin and more (Stefan Rahnev)
• Windows Azure Use Case: Social Media (Buck Woody)
• Rebuilding My Backbone.js Plugins With Modules, SRP and More (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Questions when Measuring Agile Adoption (Craig Smith)
• Now Available: Getting Results the Agile Way on Kindle (JD Meier)
• Scrum with dev11 – Creating a new Team Project (Martin Hinshelwood)
• My Ideal Development Shop (Bobby Johnson)
• The broken window theory in the real world (Peter Gfader)
• Scrum Task Board Card Creator v2.5.0.0 (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Tip for Using HyperlinkButton or Hyperlink in Silverlight for Windows Phone (Cheryl Simmons)
• Expression Blend Step By Step Review (Don Burnett)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 3: securing your service calls. (Kevin Dockx)
• Visual Studio XAML Designer: New Grid Features (Erik Arthur & Jeffrey Ferman)
• Property change notifications when using SQL CE on Windows Phone 7.1 (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #416 – Setting Grid Rows and Columns to Autosize (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget HD Podcast 271 – 10.25.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Disable Show Desktop, Hide User Accounts, Accurate Energy Usage (Larry Larsen)
• The Engadget Show – 026: A visit from Intel, a trip to New York Comic Con, haunted houses and costume contests (Brian Heater)
• Video on Creating and Uploading Certificate for Windows Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

• HTML5 Game Camps Coming Soon (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – Book Signing Event – SQLPASS 2011 Event Log (Pinal Dave)
• Reflections on GiveCamp (Reed Copsey)
• Win 3 Free Licenses for InVision Prototyping Tool (Scott Hutcheson)

Database

• Verify a connection before using it [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• Wanna Get Good at SQL Server? (Thomas LaRock)
• CLR Sprocs Deployment (Ken Spencer)
• Multiple query plans for the same query? (Geniiius)
• Import MS Best Practice Policies (Ryan Adams)
• Inside the Oracle Database Cloud Service (Oracle TechBlog)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 5: Install Language Packs for SharePoint 2010 and SharePointFive: Move Site Collections Using PowerShell (Martin W. Angler)

Miscellaneous

• A Quick Introduction to Rack (Satish Talim)
• Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Become To The Video Industry What The iPod Was To The Music Industry (Dan Rayburn)
• Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Nokia Music and Nokia Pulse for Windows Phone announced (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 25, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #967 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #738 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily WP7 Development News 25 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 10/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 24-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher

• Designing the Start screen (Steven Sinofsky)
• Brain, Bytes, Back, Buns – The Programmer’s Priorities (Scott Hanselman)
• Prevent Forms Authentication Login Page Redirect When You Don’t Want It (Phil Haack)
• So what’s new in Orchard 1.3? (Bertrand Le Roy)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Waiting for Parallel Tasks to Complete (Richard Carr)
• TFSSCExplorerExtension for VS10 and 11 – Think "TFS Source Control Explorer Window Features++" or "zomg drag and drop in TFS Source Control Explorer Window!" (Greg Duncan)
• Macros Have Been Dropped from Visual Studio 11 (Jonathan Allen)
• Execute<T> With IronRuby (K. Scott Allen)
• That Tricky StackTrace (Mehdi Khalili)
• CSLA 4 version 4.2 beta 1 release (Rockford Lhotka)
• SignedXml.CheckSignature() can’t find the certificate for verification (Lars Wilhelmsen)

Web Development

• Use Visual Studio 2010 to Profile your ASP.NET Application which is hosted on IIS (Abhijit Jana)
• Is Node.cs a cure for cancer? (Oren Eini)
• A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript (Christian Heilmann)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.44 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Nancy takes another step forward (Andreas Håkansson)
• Support for Worker Roles in the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)
• Come Node With Me – Houston, We Have a Problem (Drew Peterson)
• Getting a Web Resource Url in non WebForms Applications (Rick Strahl)
• Lightbox Gallery Module for DotNetNuke 1.09.900 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Git: Getting the history of a deleted file (Mark Needham)
• Future mocking revisited (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• DataContract serialization on Windows Phone (Arian Kulp)
• Data Binding the Windows Phone Toolkit AutoCompleteBox and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Database Queries with LINQ (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7: Link in text with RichTextBox on mango (Håkan Reis)
• 2000 WPF Things #401 – DockPanel Element (Sean Sexton)
• Upgrading Windows Phone Projects To SDK 7.1 (Tim Murphy)
• Dynamic binding for your Silverlight applications (Vladimir Enchev)
• Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 7: Building control extensions with the extensibility toolkit (Gill Cleeren)
• patterns & practices – Case Study: TailSpin Windows Phone 7 Survey Application – Mango Refresh Drop 1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C&B 2011: C++11 Panel – Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu and Scott Meyers and GoingNative Live at BUILD 1 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• Engadget HD Podcast 268 – 10.04.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Ping 119: Bing Deals, Windows Phone 8 and you, Windows 8 syncs, Killing a botnet and Hot Apps: Burn The Rope, Puzzle Quest 2, Talking Alarm Clock, De-BUGS, Monkey Mini Golf (Laura Foy)
• The GeekDads Episode #101: Han Shot First, Fahgettaboudit! (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• 7 Reasons to go to Øredev 2011 (Anders Janmyr)
• PASS Summit Tips and Tricks (Brent Ozar)
• Series of webcasts about ASP.NET MVC 3 (in Italian) (Simone Chiaretta)
• More BUILD reflections: The touch language of Windows 8 (Steve Clayton)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Connector for Apache Hadoop RTW (Greg Duncan)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Wait Stats Book – Available as Kindle eBook – October Special (Pinal Dave)
• Oracle Joins the NoSQL Club (Abel Avram)
• Tip for Using SQLServer To Count By Alpha Names in a list (Peter Kellner)

SharePoint

• Guidance about Hybrid SharePoint Environments (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Enterprise iOS Applications – $7.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• How to give a perfect demo (Scott Berkun)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 5 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 4, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2011 — #1156 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #723 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #952 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 10/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework by Steven Sanderson

Top Links

• How to Interface LightSwitch to a Windows Workflow Part 1 (Dan Moyer)
• Nokia will be allowed to customize every part of Windows Phone 7 (Sebastian Anthony)
• Oracle’s Entity Framework Beta Released Today (Julie Lerman)
• Acting on Feedback: IE9 Release Candidate Available for Download (Dean Hachamovitch)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Concurrent Collections (1 of 3) (James Michael Hare)
• IronRuby – Release v1.1.2 and ReSharper Settings Manager – Release v4.o (for R# 5.1) and WCF Data Services Toolkit Beta (CodePlex)
• Building a database installer with WiX, datadude and Visual Studio 2010 (Jamie Thomson)
• How Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server enable Compliance (Martin Hinshelwood)
• TEE 2010 SP1 (MS Downloads) – TFS Eclipse plugin updated
• Trivia Friday (Jimmy Bogard)
• Reach out and… Windows 7 Touch Development Guidance in a 26 page XPS form (Greg Duncan)
• NOW Available: Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February Release (Windows Azure Team)
• Creating a Color Picker with an Owner Draw ComboBox (Jonathan Wood)
• Elevate added to the NuGet gallery (Bill Wagner)

Web Development

• A JavaScript tip that’s jarring: remove falsy elements from array (Julian M. Bucknall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Manifesto 10 Year Reunion (Chris Matts)
• What Is Agile Management? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Cool Printable Kanban Card (Peter Saddington)
• The Important User Experience (UX) You Can’t See (Rob Tiffany)
• Web Testing with Selenium Sushi: A Practical Guide and Toolset (Michael Sorens)
• Balsamiq Release: Select on Layers, Linux 32bit installer and bug fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Cucumber tests on iPhone/iPad (Davor Crnomat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Implementing Windows Phone 7 DataTemplateSelector and CustomDataTemplateSelector (Windows Phone Geek)
• [TUTORIAL + VIDEO] Creating an RSS reader for Windows Phone 7 in 5 minutes (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
• Not able to bind to Uid or Name property in XAML (Merrick Chaffer)
• Windows Phone 7 Navigation Memory Usage and Windows Phone 7 Navigation Memory Usage Just Got Scary and Windows Phone 7: Translator Sample, an example in what not to do! (Nick Randolph)
• Some curious facts about the Windows Phone 7 OS – from the emulator console (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ClickOnce, TaskDialogs, Common Controls and WPF Applications and Blend Bits 22–Being Stylish and Blend Bits 23–Templating Part 1 (Mike Taulty)
• Multiple View Models implies multiple DataContexts (Bill Wagner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Organizing your own Virtual Technical Conference – MVCConf Post-Mortem (Scott Hanselman)
• ARCast.TV: SharePoint Deployment to Microsoft BPOS Cloud (MS Podcasts)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 1 of n (Charles Torre)
• VIDEO – WebMatrix – Charts and the Chart Helper and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Data Visualization with the Chart Helper (Joe Stagner)
• First look at 5 features of IE9 RC and A look at three performance demos for IE 9 Release Candidate (Larry Larsen)
• Silverlight TV 61: Expert Chat on Deep Zoom, Touch, and Windows Phone (John Papa)
• New Video: Interview with Windows Phone 7 Developer–Ash Morgan (Wes Yanaga)

Community / Events

• Last Chance to Save on MIX11 – Register by Feb 11 (Kim Spilker)
• London SharePoint Best Practices Conference – April 11-13, 2011 (Andrew Connell)
• PAX East 2011 Tweet-up (Larry Hyrb)
• Congratulations to MIX11 Open Call Winners (Silverlight Show)
• Web Camp Coming to Mid Atlantic (Dani Diaz)
• Best Practices Europe Conference Sessions Announced! (Joel Oleson)

Database

• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) – Part 1: Basics of SSIS and Creating Packages (Karthik Anbarasan)
• SQL Server MVP Daily Paper and 31 Days of SSIS Conclusion (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION – Wait Type – Day 11 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Do Relational Database Vendors Care About Developers? (Karl Seguin)

SharePoint

• ­A step by step guide in designing BCS entities by using a SQL stored procedure (Jyoti Saikia)

Miscellaneous

• Pull Request Changes, Multi-Selection in Advanced View, and Advertisement Changes (Matt Hawley)
• Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate Product Guide and Internet Explorer Administration Kit 9 Release Candidate (MS Downloads)
• IE9 Release Candidate review: will Microsoft’s big browser bet pay off? and IE9 FAQ: how to install, uninstall, and tweak the IE9 RC (Ed Bott)
• ADIAD (Rod Paddock)
• Open Letter from CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft (Stephen Elop & Steve Ballmer)
• Starting and Stopping Services on Remote Servers using PowerShell (Steve Smith)
• Bing: Making search yours (Aidan Crook & Sanaz Ahari)
• Here’s a look at the Microsoft Log Parser from a different point of view, from the Computer Forensics’ side of the house OR Check out a ‘Query Analyzer/SSMS’ for Log Parser called Log Parser Lizard (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 89 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily News Digest 02/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 9-Feb-2011 and 10-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links– 2010_06 (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 10th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for Jan 31- Feb 06, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #790 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

iPhone for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul J. Deitel

Just an FYI for readers, the Dew Drop posts are going to be interrupted for a day or two sometime in the next couple of weeks. We’re expecting our third girl on July 8th, but it could be as soon as today.

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Domain Driven Design Quickly (Ade Miller)
• Self-Organization and Complexity (Brad Appleton)
• The “collaboration” piller (version 1) (Brian Marick)
• Hungarian Notation – Use What Works Spit Out The Bones (Dave M. Bush)
• D3: Building Great Software is a Battle, Don’t Leave Any Assets on the Sidelines (Dan Simmons)
• UX Team of One (Frank La Vigne)
• Are You in a Claustrophobic Team? (Max Pool)
• Lessons in Software from Alok Srivastava (J.D. Meier)
• New DDDD Content (Jonathan Oliver)
• Threat Analysis & Modeling Tool – TAM 3.0 (Jossie Tirado)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MGraph Visualizer Plug-in for Intellipad! (Chris Sells)
• The void is invariant (Eric Lippert)
• Sticky DataTips: A new way to view variables in the Visual Studio 2010 debugger (Habib Heydarian)
• Explore C# 4′s New Dynamic Types and Named/Optional Parameters (Joydip Kanjilal)
• New CodePlex project: a simple Undo/Redo framework (Kirill Osenkov)
• How to execute a special build on TFS using Team Foundation Object Model (TFS APIs) – Part 1 (Subodh Sohoni)

Web Development

• AJAX Features in ASP.NET MVC (Dino Esposito)
• How we do MVC – View models (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET WebForms vs. MVC (Michael Ceranski)
• Displaying SQL Server Messages using ASP.NET and ADO.NET (Malcolm Sheridan)

Silverlight / WPF

• Fun With Speech Recognition in WPF (Frank La Vigne)
• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-4 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• WPF Toolkit: Charting release (Jeff Wilcox)
• WPF3D Lighting and Shading (Jordan)
• Game Programming with Silverlight. (Mike Snow)
• Principles of Design Series: Learning about Points, Lines, and Form using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Prism Eventing (Eric Mork)
• Google I/O 2009 – AJAX APIs to Navigate User-Generated Content (Me)
• ARCast.TV – Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell (Bob Familiar)
• New Screencast: Working with Property Grids (Dan Rigsby)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #122: Creating Custom Functions w/ NAnt (Derik Whittaker)
• Tales from the Toolshed (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Demo of SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Features – Configure DW Storage and Demo of SQL Server 2008 DW features: Configuring tempdb for Data Warehouse (Joe Longtin)
• The History of Microsoft – 1995 (Tina)
• Netcast #14 – Not Dead Yet (Todd O. Klindt)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 139: Fearless Change with Linda Rising (SE-Radio Team)
• Toolshed Tooltip #15 – Intro from Episode 3, meet MVP’s Stan Schultes, Don Demsak and Jessica Moss. and Toolshed Tooltip #16 – Expression Blend 2 Video, Animation and VS Integration Intro (Russell Fustino)
• Prism’s Event Aggregator (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Yochay Kiriaty – Windows 7 Developer Training Kit (Robert Hess)
• Ping 18: Ballmer apologizes, Paul Allens latest move, Surface fun, Security Beta (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• July Community Events (Eric Shupps)
• Events This Week – June 29th, 2009 and Microsoft Local Impact (G. Andrew Duthie)

SharePoint

• Want A Job? Learn SharePoint, Says Gary Blatt – 100% of the Federal Government has licenses, but they can’t find developers to implement their sites. (James Turner)
• Visio design templates for SharePoint 2007 (Joris Poelmans)

Database

• Approaches to "UPSERT" (Ken Downs)
• After disabling TDE you still requires the certificate to restore the database (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Policy-Based Management – Create, Evaluate and Fix Policies (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium? (Ed Bott)
• Musings About Project Natal (Frank La Vigne)
• AutoSave Adds Reassurance to Notepad++ Editing (Kevin Purdy)
• Get Firefox’s Ctrl+K Shortcut in Internet Explorer (The How-To Geek)
• The "Risk" of Open Source Software Support (Tim Barcz)
• Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You (Scott Hanselman)
• Oracle Woos Microsoft OracleClient users (Julie Lerman)
• How to Contribute to Open Source (When You’re Not Exactly Scott Hanselman) (Sara Chipps)
• How to stop that annoying beep on your server (Simon Sabin)
• Survey of Surveys on IT Spend for 2009 (Mike Walker)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 29, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LI (Charlie Calvert)
• The Morning Brew #379 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 29, 2009 — #624 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 29th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• SharePoint: Recommended links June 2009 (Tobias Zimmergren)
• Daily Find #122 (Tim Boland)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft’s Silverlight-based Local Impact Map (Adam Kinney)
• Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode (Corey Schuman)
• Creating Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 3 – Introduction (Boyan Mihaylov)
• "Follow the Cursor" Animation – lets do it with behaviors (Jose Fajardo)
• Debugging XMAL Parser Exceptions (Kirstin Juhl)
• Enhance Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Reporting with Silverlight (Sandeep Chanda)
• Understanding Performance in your WPF Application (Margaret Parsons)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Repository is Dead: Long Live Repository (Greg Young)
• Night of the living Repositories and Find the bug (Oren Eini)
• IT Architecture is not Enterprise Architecture (Mike Walker)

Web Development

• How we do MVC (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET Survey Questions for the Community (Sam Gentile)
• ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!) (Scott Hanselman)
• Friday Books: RESTful .NET (Dave M. Bush)
• I Spose I’ll Just Say It: Still Waiting for a GOOD Reason to Learn MVC (Joe Brinkman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 2nd Level Cache (Oren Eini)
• Fluent Ado.Net and API design (Chris Brandsma)
• Idiomatic F# – Functional vs. Imperative (Chris Smith)
• Using Obscure Windows COM APIs in .NET (Jeff Moser)
• EF4 EF4 EF4 (Julie Lerman)
• Jon Skeet: Planning C# In Depth 2 (Kirill Osenkov)
• __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Adding CLR Fields (Harry Pierson)
• Consuming the Contents of Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• .NET Trick – Persisting Data Without Using a Database (Michael Ceranski)
• HowTo: Create RSS Feeds with Linq to XML / XLinq (Robert Muehsig)
• Part 3 of My DSL for Developers Article is Live! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What about DataLoadOptions for Entity Framework ObjectContext? (Muhammad Mosa)
• Pro Tip: Don’t co-opt .net conventions for your own purposes (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Cloud Computing and Windows Azure (Mike Ormond)
• CLR 4 ThreadPool Enhancements (Daniel Moth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #104: Navigate your codebase like a pro with ReSharper 4.5 (Ray Houston) – Link of the Day
• Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Cloud Computing Timescales and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Preparing for "The Cloud" and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Current Shiny Toys (Mike Taulty)
• Herding Code 44: Microbusiness (Jon Galloway)
• The History of Microsoft – 1986 (Tina)
• Manuel Fähndrich and Peli de Halleux – The Synergy of Code Contracts and Pex (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• The Painting of IndyHall 2.0: THIS WEEKEND! (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
• Dates Updated for Windows 7 Application Compatibility Labs (Bruce Kyle)
• CodeStock 2009 (Chris G. Williams)
• Those who can do, those who can’t blog? (Sara Chipps)
• MVPs Shine Silverlight Together at MVP Global Summit! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference (Zhiming Xue)
• MSDN session on ASP.NET MVC (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

• The Case for Multiple DBs in Multi Tenancy situations (Anne Epstein)
• Normaliser Component v2 : SSIS and Installation order for Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Team Explorer and SQL Server 2008 (Jamie Thomson)
• New book: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying (K. Jones)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler and SQL SERVER – Leading Zero to Number (Pinal Dave)
• The real headquarters of Oracle (Simone Chiaretta)
• Please Mr. DBA, Change default passwords and use strong passwords (Ted Kreuger)

Miscellaneous

• Delicious Tech Tweets (Elijah Manor)
• MSDN Mag 6/2009 Editor’s Note Sneak Peak – On Aggregates (Howard Dierking)
• Recent Changes to IE Content on MSDN (Lance Leonard)
• Why we should attack our own systems? (Gunnar Peipman)
• What is this blog? (Silverlight Team)
• TeamCity 4.5 is live! (Richard Cirerol)
• Windows Mobile 6.5: Standard and Professional and Windows 8 and Windows 9: Various Tidbits (Stephen Chapman)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate out in the wild! (Taimur Asad)
• A Multitouch Pad for Windows (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 3009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #334 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2009 — #577 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 23rd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (4/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing PostSharp 1.5 CTP 3 (Gael Fraiteur)
• StyleCop for R# goes RC (Andrew Stopford)
• LINQ Explained– Part 2 (Kashif Ahmad)
• A New Look for Visual Studio 2010 (Jason Zander) – Link of the Day
• Making the move to Microsoft Azure (CTP) (Dan Carroll)
• Oracle support announced for Visual Studio Team System 2010 Development (Barclay Hill)
• Parallel and Concurrency Futures for Microsoft Developers (Rocky Lhotka)
• An Intro to Barrier, cont.d (Jason Olson)
• MVP TV – Gaze into the Crystal Ball: Reporting in Team System Made Easy! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Web Development

• Using Expression Builders in ASP.NET (Scott Mitchell)
• Web Packaging: Creating web packages using MSBuild (Vishal R. Joshi)
• VSDoc for jQuery 1.3.2 Now Available (Jeff King)
• Showing Syntax Colored Source Code in ASP.NET Content (Rick Strahl)
• Oxite: what’s new and how to stay up to date with it (Simone Chiaretta)
• JavaScript, inner functions and private members (Sergio Pereira)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Creating an API testing framework 101 (Dennis Dietrich)
• Polymorphism in Expression trees (Jimmy Bogard)
• What Are The “Never Events” for Software Quality? (K. Scott Allen)
• re: Software Craftsmanship, Dogma and Pragmatism (Corey Haines)
• The Pewter Scale, or “How to Maintain Your Balance” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Auto trace in Expression Design (Corey Schuman)
• Introducing SilverUnit (Roy Osherove)
• We shipped WPF Flow Diagrams (JD Trask)
• The Microsoft Expression Gallery (Joe Stagner)

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell and WatiN (PowerWatin?) (Joel Bennett)

Database

• Some clues as to SDS’s future (Jamie Thomson)

Community / Events

• CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, March 3rd, 6:30pm – DotNetNuke, CMS for the masses (Christopher Steen)
• Starting a User Group, Entry #3 (Jason Haley)
• I’m Speaking at Mix09! (John Stockton)
• MSDN Webcast: ADO.NET Data Services (Lindsay Rutter)

Miscellaneous

• Feedback and Engineering Windows 7 (Steven Sinofsky)
• IE8 Reliability Update for Windows 7 Beta Now Available (Herman Ng)
• Microsoft Viveri: search and social networking (Steve Clayton)
• Office Live Workspace: New Features (Sunshine)
• No SharePoint 14 for you this year (Todd O. Klindt)
• XML Notepad 2007 is a Simple, Smart Editor for Web Code (Kevin Purdy)
• Hype Check: Safari 4 can’t beat Google Chrome (Lee Mathews)
• Nine ways recruiters find you (Anne Cheng)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 24, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #294 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – February 23, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Links 2009-02-24 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Silverlight Cream for February 24, 2009 — #527 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: February 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Creators Club Communiqué 19 (Kathleen Sanders)
• CloudNews for February 24th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day