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Top Links

• Visual Studio 2010 Launch is 12th April… (Mike Ormond)
• jQuery 1.4 Released! (John Resig)
• Deep Discounts for MIX 10 End Jan 15th (John Papa) – Today!
• ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation (Scott Guthrie)
• The Internet Isn’t Being Held Hostage (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Making NCloak fool Reflector (an implementation) (Paul Mason)
• DevExpress and a Stumper (Andy Warren)
• .Net Remoting Made Easy (Dave Verschleiser)
• Why Can’t I Access A Protected Member From A Derived Class? Part Six (Eric Lippert)
• Debugging Native memory leaks with Debug Diag 1.1 (Tess Ferrandez)
• Repeated menu options in Visual Studio for Data Dude (Simon Sabin)
• Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 3 – Sieve Me One (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Missing LINQ – Beware of Generated Code and Spread The Word – Install .NETFx 4 Beta 2 via Windows Update (Mike Ceranski)
• 2010 Survey Results: What .NET Framework features do you use? (Scott Hanselman)
• Some Common Operations using List – Part I (Suprotim Agarwal)
• F#: Refactoring to sequence/for expressions (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• How you can force the Ajax Script Loader to use jQuery 1.4 (Dave Ward)
• jQuery Snippets & jQuery 1.4: What’s your opinion? (John Sheehan)
• T4MVC in MSDN Magazine (K. Scott Allen)
• What Would a Stack Overflow API Look Like? (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Reducing Code Coupling – Inversion of Control (Grant Palin)
• The future of UI will be boring (Scott Berkun)
• More on Context… Establishing Personas (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Higher Order Software Development (Vishwas Lele)
• The difference between continuous Integration tools and automated build tools (Roy Osherove)
• Knowing and not Knowing (Jeremiah Peschka)

Silverlight / WPF

• AutoMagically Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged (Justin Angel)
• Converting Hexadecimals to Colors in code for Silverlight and Flash to Silverlight Guide – Graphics, Images and Display List (Adam Kinney)
• WPF WebBrowser and JavaScript interaction (Oren Eini)
• Silverlight: SketchFlow (Deborah Kurata)
• Quick tip: Finding Silverlight 4 documentation fast (Laurent Bugnion)
• A Field Guide to WPF Presentation Patterns and Introducing MicroModels (Paul Stovell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Flash Podcast 019 – Windows Mobile Widgets (Eric Nelson)
• The Agile PMP on InfoQ (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Herding Code 68: New Year Shenanigans (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• Mix10 And Molecular Biology DNA Visualizer (Justin Angel)
• First Quarter 2010 Speaking Schedule (Chris Love)
• PDC09 Trip Report Kit available for download. Taking out the drudgery so you can focus on the fun. (Dave Isbitski)
• Software Craftsman Cooperative Membership (David Starr)
• Creators Club Communiqué 37 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Get Ready for the ‘MSDN Get Ready’ training events (Katrien De Graeve)
• Looking for a change? Come work with us! (Larry Hyrb)
• Platz on Pausch, Pikachu and pursuing your passions (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• 2010 TechEd PreCon: Multiparadigmatic C# (Ted Neward)
• The Sparkling Client Goes to Mix 2010! (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• NYC Microsoft BizSpark Camp for Windows Azure! (Stephen Forte)

Database

• The Database Design Process (Buck Woody)
• SQLAuthority News – Vote for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 – Vote for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and SQL SERVER – Initializing a Merge Subscription Without a Snapshot (Pinal Dave)
• Quickest way to get the row count of a table and User defined function performance is awful, Micorosft please sort this out (Simon Sabin)
• Find Out If You Are Using Deprecated Features In SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)
• Fluidity with "Quadrant’s" Unique User Interface (Kraig Brockschmidt)

SharePoint

• Adding jQuery to SharePoint (Tom Hearn)
• Free Developer Training for SharePoint (Bruce Kyle)
• How SharePoint Can Deliver Project Transparency (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Approve all items button in a SharePoint View (Greg Galipeau)
• Creating Comparison and Wildcard Filters for BCS in SharePoint Designer 2010 (Phill Duffy)
• BCS Creator and Updater methods for Dot Net Assembly (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• You should know Linux (Karl Seguin)
• Iconizer Catalogs Icons for Customization (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Windows 7 Step by Step — Only $9.99! Use discount code W7SS9 (O’Reilly Media)
• You are responsible for your education (Mark Nijhof)
• Developing Windows PowerShell Best Practices book (Ed Wilson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #518 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2010 — #778 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for January 14, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (1/14/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

The Geek Shelf

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit and Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1 Samples (codename "Dublin" and codename "Velocity") (MS Downloads)
• Vs2010 IntelliTrace and Entity Framework Database Interaction (Julie Lerman)
• Tailspin Travel (Jonathan Carter)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/18 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Dublin Becomes Windows AppFabric! (Sam Gentile)
• Building Applications for Windows Azure (Somasegar)
• Windows Identity Foundation Ships! (Vittorio Bertocci)
• Programming Windows 7 Using Visual Studio 2010 (Yochay Kiriaty) – Link of the Day
• Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) released on DevLabs (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Awesome .NET 4: Named and Optional Parameters for Classes and Methods (Tom Hearn)
• Visual Studio 2010 – Visual Basic New Feature – NonSerialized Events (Karl Shifflett)
• Breaking up with the ternary operator (Matt Hinze)
• Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Adding Statistical Formulas (Scott Mitchell)
• Twitter Word Cloud Visualization with Google API (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released (Phil Haack)
• Windows Azure now supports various OS image types (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Cascading DropDownLists With ASP.NET and jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer (John Resig)
• Pass Number 1: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET (Rob Conery)
• The AJAX UpdatePanel Is it your worst enemy? (Kevin Jones)
• What Dynamic Data REALLY Is and Is building apps with Dynamic Data faster? (Peter Blum)
• ASP.NET Google SPDY Tweaks (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Start with the big picture (Simon Brown)
• Reducing friction as a standard operating method (Oren Eini)
• Semi-literate Programming and 8 Pieces of Architectural Advice for CMS (Michael Krakovskiy)
• The SOA Manifesto (Josh Twist)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 9 (Michael Feathers) and The ‘should’ word (Mark Needham)
• How We Do Things – The Team Room (Scott C. Reynolds)

Silverlight / WPF

• The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight™/WPF™ version 1.1 is now available. (Al Pascual)
• Using the FluidMove Behavior (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs (Deborah Kurata)
• WPF : A True WPF Browser Control That Can Bend It Like Beckham (Sacha Barber)
• TOP 10 LIST: Silverlight for Games (Andy Beaulieu)
• New WPF Features: PixelShader3 Support (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Lev Novik on the Microsoft Sync Framework (Carl Franklin)
• Introducing "Dallas" and Building on Azure: KBB.com and Building on Azure: Siemens and Buidling on Azure: OriginDigital and Erik Meijer: Rx in 15 Minutes – Rx is Here!!!!! and Getting Started with Rx Extensions for .NET and Manuvir Das: Windows Azure One Year Later (Charles Torre)
• Code Cast 34 – David Starr Sells Out to the Man (David Starr)
• Writing your first Rx Application and Reactive Extensions API in depth: intro (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• 30 “Quick Hit” Videos for folks that couldn’t join us at PDC (Joe Stagner)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #152: Introduction to MEF, Getting rolling with basic usage (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• PDC09 – A Call to Dream (Nikhil Kothari)
• A Quick Rundown of PDC 2009 Day 1 Announcements (Me)
• Internet Explorer 9 to be Announced at PDC (Muhammad Ali)
• Coding4Fun at PDC! (Coding4Fun)
• Microsoft PDC 09: Day 1 (Dan Rigsby)
• PDC 2009 – Day 1, Keynote (Dave Bost)
• Are you a poet? Compose a Haiku and Win! (Kim Spilker)
• Talking at #notatpdc about Blend 3 and SketchFlow (Laurent Bugnion)
• Gabriel Schenker introduction to NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate Part 2 (Zachariah Young)
• PDC 2009 Day 1: Keynote, Roy Ozzie and PDC 2009 Day 1: Keynote, Bob Muglia and PDC 2009 Day 1: Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic and PDC 2009 Day 1: Concurrency Fuzzing & Data Races and PDC 2009 Day 1: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Changes and PDC 2009 Day 1: Data-Intensive Computing on Windows HPC Server with the DryadLINQ Framework and PDC 2009 Day 1: Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests (Sasha Goldshtein)
• PDC 2009 Day 1, post-keynote: What are we learning so far? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Live from LA: Day One with the Surface Team at PDC (Kyle R. Warnick)
• PDC09 Keynote: Open Source, Open Platforms and the Democratization of Data (Rick Minerich)
• PDC 2009: Recap Day 1, what’s on the menu for Day 2? (Sunshine)

Database

• SQL Server Substring Functions (Richard Carr)
• Don’t use text datatype for SQL 2005 and up (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table – A Puzzle to Find Index Size for Each Index on Table (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Managing Permissions in SharePoint 2007 (Lightning Tools)
• New SharePoint 2010 Architecture Models (Mike Walker)
• Introducing SharePoint 2010 (Beta) (Zhiming Xue)

Miscellaneous

• Advantages & Disadvantages of Microsoft Office 2010 64-Bit Version (Blake Handler)
• Office Mobile 2010 to come with WM 6.5 devices exclusively (Phone Arena Team)
• How to Work From Home During Chaotic Repairs (Celine Roque)
• Explore images with Google Image Swirl, now in Labs (Aparna Chennapragada)
• Your Office in the Clouds: The Best Online Virtual Desktops (Doriano "Paisano" Carta)
• Upcoming Free Xbox LIVE Weekends (Larry Hyrb)
• Ray Ozzie is wrong about smartphone apps (Robert Scoble)
• Windows 8: More Roadmaps (Stephen Chapman)
• We need a language for programmers (Scott Koon)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #479 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2009 — #734 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Microsoft PDC09 keynote highlights (Maarten Balliauw)
• New and Notable 391 (Sam Gentile)
• Links from the PDC09 (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Interesting Finds: November 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Linq to Sql Profiler is now on public beta (Oren Eini)
• Useful Query Editor Query – 1 (Jason Haley)
• "M" For Language Definition in November 2009 CTP (Chris Sells)
• Loading Enterprise Library validation rules from external file (Gunnar Peipman)
• Enum conversion. Why Oh Why? (Jason Jarrett)
• An Improved Entity Framework Tip for EF4 thanks to Zeeshan (Julie Lerman)
• Microsoft Surface SDK WE now available to MSDN Subscribers (Eric Havir)
• MPI Cluster Debugger launch integration in VS2010 (Daniel Moth)
• ADO.NET Data Services : Efficient Error Handling across Application Tiers (Phani Raj)
• November 2009 Release of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK (Sam Gentile)
• DevExpress 2009.3 Tools Released: CR_ClassCleaner, Refactor_UpdateNamespace, DX_SourceOutliner and More! and TDD Support Refactorings for CodeRush/Refactor!Pro: Refactor_MoveTypeToFileInProject (and more!) (Steve Bohlen)
• More Data Binding (David Fowler)

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4.0 – and semantic markup and ASP.NET 4.0 – New Project Templates (Mike Ormond)
• ASP.NET MVC: Validating objects using Enterprise Library validation application block (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using the jQuery UI Datepicker with ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates (Jason Grundy)
• Capturing and Transforming ASP.NET Output with Response.Filter (Rick Strahl)
• It’s Time for This: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET MVC (Rob Conery)
• Consuming a Portable Area with a Web Forms application (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Rotate ASP.NET Hyperlink Controls in the Same Position using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Anchor (Steven ‘Doc’ List) – Link of the Day
• DTO’s, DDD & The Anemic Domain Model (Jarod Ferguson)
• How to annoy your teammates (Jimmy Bogard)
• Code Coverage: What Is It Good For? (Dave Laribee)
• KiGG Design And Architecture – Part 1 The high level design (Muhammad Mosa)
• TDD: Combining the when and then steps and A reminder to talk to the rubber duck (Mark Needham)
• How We Do Things – Specification (Using the right tools) (Scott C Reynolds)
• Surviving Without Random Lies In The World Software Development. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Developer, developer, developer… (Dax Pandhi)
• MVVM – This might hurt a little… (Avi Pilosof)
• Prototype of OpenStreetMap Silverlight Control using DeepEarth and Bing Maps SDK (Chris Pietschmann)
• SketchFlow in the Real World (Frank La Vigne)
• A MVVM framework “…three hour tour…” (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight: Images (Deborah Kurata)
• The Silverlight HVP Spec (Jesse Liberty)
• Bug correction in Messenger and new feature in EventToCommand (MVVM Light Toolkit V3 alpha) (Laurent Bugnion)
• XAML 2009 Features: Named Object References (Lester Lobo)
• Magellan Installer (Paul Stovell)
• MVVM Study Part 4: Naked WPF (Rob Eisenberg)
• Silverlight: Avoid Caching When Using WebClient Class (Steve Pietrek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Erik Meijer and Patrick Dussud – Inside Garbage Collection and E2E: Erik Meijer and Dave Campbell: Data, Databases and the Cloud (Charles Torre)
• Videos: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 with Jim Nakashima (Charlie Calvert)
• TWC9: C9 Live at PDC, Teamprise, SDKs galore, (Dan Fernandez)
• Interviews at TechEd Europe 2009 – MVP Laurent Bugnion (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Using Web Service APIs in Your Apps (Twin Cities .NET User Group Talk Video) (John Sheehan)
• Engadget Podcast 171 – 11.13.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Announcing Channel 9 Live at PDC09 (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• Silverlight Developers Guide to PDC09 (Adam Kinney)
• IndyHall 201: How IndyHall Communicates with it’s Community (Alex Hillman)
• Small Milestone (Davy Brion) – Congrats, Davy!
• Author news: Steve McConnell speaking in Bellevue, WA (Devon Musgrave)
• Going to PDC09? Want to Meet the WPF Team? The WPF team will be at PDC ready to chat with you! (Jay)
• Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day Four (Jimmy Bosse)
• Skills Matter Lean and Kanban Exchange (Karl Scotland)
• PDC09: Pre-Conference Workshop on Silverlight 3 (Mike Taulty)
• PDC 2009 Preview: The move to Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 (Scott M. Fulton, III)

Database

• Geek City: UPDATE Locks (Kalen Delaney)
• Undetectable Distributed Deadlocks (Emtucifor)
• Identify procedures that call SQL Server undocumented procedures (George Mastros)
• SQL Server 2008 Enterprise feature coming to SQL Server Standard 2008 R2 – Backup Compression (Greg Duncan)
• SQLAuthority News – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server and SQL SERVER – Whitepaper Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• Beginning stages of a DR plan for SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• RoundhousE DB Migration: Action Shots (Rob Reynolds)

SharePoint

• Removing a Dead SharePoint Web Part (Charles Chen)

Miscellaneous

• My excuses for not blogging about the Microsoft/Teamprise deal (Eric Sink)
• Sign-up & Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Software & Services (Blake Handler)
• Signing PowerShell Scripts – Automatically (Joel Bennett)
• This week in search 11/13/09 (Johanna Wright)
• ASP.NET Interview Questions For New College Graduates (Dave M. Bush)
• Small Basic Programs in 25 lines (Vijaye)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 13, 2009 — #731 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman Links for November 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Application Settings (Richard Carr)
• .NET 4.0 is so Lazy (Fredrik Normén)
• Lists in F# (Kathleen McGrath)
• Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2010 (Daniel Moth)
• Gabriel Schenker introduction to NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate. (Zachariah Young)

Web Development

• Upload a File via WebRequest Using CSharp (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC is MUCH better than MS seems to think (Dino Esposito) – Link of the Day
• Fluent-API to add ActionFilters to Controllers – ASP.NET MVC Part 3 (Fredrik Normén)
• Unrecognized attribute ‘targetFramework’ – Asp.Net 4.0 (Jarod Ferguson)
• Configuring the PasswordRecovery To Send Email to an SSL-Enabled SMTP Client (Scott Mitchell)
• Free ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 Beta Hosting to help you get up to FOUR ! (Joe Stagner)
• Combining JavaScript and CSS to Make Pages Load Faster (Peter Kellner)
• Calling the Google Closure Javascript Compiler – Code (Kim Major)
• Optimize your web site for search engines using the SEO Toolkit [UPDATED] (Lawrence Moroney)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework (MS Downloads)
• Easy Mockups with Balsamiq (Grant Palin)
• In response to "The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming" (Doug Rohrer)
• Interface Inheritance Esoterica (Phil Haack)
• Coding: Pushing the logic back (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and RIA: Ignoring a Property in Your Business Object and Silverlight and RIA: Sharing Your Business Object Files and Silverlight and RIA: Enum Properties (Deborah Kurata)
• Embedding IronPython in Silverlight – Importing (Jimmy Schementi)
• New WPF Features: Cached Composition (Lester Lobo)
• Announcing the Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Silverlight Team)
• Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released (Sunshine)
• Design feedback for Silverlight needed and Two Silverlight SDKs released – Bing and Facebook (Tim Heuer)
• Creating Custom Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
• Magellan and Composite WPF and Magellan and the Microsoft MVVM Toolkit (Paul Stovell)
• Paper 2010 First Preview + New Releases Imminent (Dax Pandhi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Videos on Channel9 (Andrew Connell)
• C9 Conversations: Yousef Khalidi on Cloud Computing (Charles Torre)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 39: Building Composite WPF Applications with Claudio Lassala (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Anders Hejlsberg full length interview (Tina Wood)
• This Week in Testing: Episode 3 – Magic Numbers (Roy Osherove & Gil Zilberfeld)
• PDC09: John Durant on newly announced SharePoint features (Robert Hess)
• How to Cancel Work using .NET4 CancellationToken (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Get Your BI Project Started with Free Developer Training on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
• Asp.Net Mvc 2 (Chris Canal) – Upcoming ScotALT.NET Meeting
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 11/24/2009 “Stop Talking, Start Teaching” with Jeff Casimir (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Travelogue: Oredev 2009 Wrap-Up (Stephen Bohlen)
• Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day One (Jimmy Bosse)
• My Twitter Notes from Scott Guthrie Keynote at DevConnections (Julie Lerman)

Database

• Using Transactions with SqlBulkCopy (Scott Mitchell)
• From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling (Chris Sells)
• Do not use spaces or other invalid characters in your column names (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Sharepoint Resource Available for SQL Server (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates "SyncToy" File Synchronization Program for Windows 7 and Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Virtual Router" Wifi Hotspot for Windows 7 and Microsoft’s Research Labs Releases "Social Web Experience Toolbar" for Internet Explorer (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft buys Teamprise: so what? (Joel Bennett)
• Google unveils the ‘Go’ programming language (Cristian)
• Microsoft to Release Vista Ultimate Extras on Windows 7 (Muhammad Ali)
• PowerPack Creation Manual (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Ditch these 6 words (Anne Cheng) – Resume tips.
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/11 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Wanted: Microsoft seeks Midori OS UI Architect (Stephen Chapman)
• Rejoice, surfers! Bing it up with free WiFi access across the US (Sebastian Anthony)
• A Discussion on Imperative vs. Declarative Programming (Bill Wagner)
• PowerShell your PDC (Greg Duncan)
• A Move Into The Cloud Is Inevitable (Justin Etheredge)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #474 (the real 474) (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 10, 2009 — #728 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 389 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• F# Language Details (Gotchas) (Chris Smith)
• Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework (MS Downloads)
• Query Editor: Writing Queries, Part 1 (Jason Haley)
• Über Prof goes live (Oren Eini)
• Using Windows Touch Gestures with .NET (Part 1: Configuration) (Jason Ipock)
• The Wisdom of Crowds: Implementing a Smart Ranking Algorithm (Lee Dumond)
• Populating a TreeView Control from a List (Deborah Kurata)
• Teamprise: Enabling TFS collaboration across heterogeneous platforms (Somasegar)
• Telerik “M” Compare and “Repository” Migration Tool November CTP (Stephen Forte)
• Announcing the new Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform (Silverlight Team)
• Three Umpires (Eric Lippert)
• JNBridgePro 5.0 Bridges Java and .NET (Mitch Pronschinske)
• On being Culture Aware (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• Preventing Security Development Errors: Lessons Learned at Windows Live by Using ASP.NET MVC (MS Downloads)
• zen-coding: turn those CSS selectors upside down (Leon Bambrick)
• ASP.NET Authentication – Multiple Domains w/ Same Application (Dave M. Bush)
• Server Side Validation With ASP.NET MVC And Data Annotations (Malcolm Sheridan)
• $.fadeTo/fadeOut() operations on Table Rows in IE fail (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft sees a silver lining in the cloud (Steve Clayton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Security Considerations for Client and Cloud Applications (MS Downloads)
• Dependency Injection 101 (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Fields and virtual members (Jimmy Bogard)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Processing Requests (Davy Brion)
• Electronic Kanban Tools and WIP Limits: LeanKitKanban and AgileZen Get It! (Derick Bailey)
• You say Tomato, I say Pomodoro (Joel Cochran)
• The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming and The Bridge Pattern – When a single class hierarchy is not enough (David Cooksey)
• Trying Out Personal Kanban (Or At Least My Interpretation Of It) (Joel Ross)
• Getting started with BDD (Behavior Driven Development) in .NET (Tom Janssens)
• Legacy Code: Sensing (Mark Needham)
• Reuse Creates Bottlenecks (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Can Agile Be Combined with Offshore? 12 Lessons Learned. (Peter DeYoe)
• 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design (Whitney Hess)

Silverlight / WPF

• .NET RIA Services + Silverlight Behaviors Resources (Andy Beaulieu)
• XAML 2009 Features: Node Loop flexibility (Lester Lobo)
• Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released (Sunshine)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Live from DevReach, Sofia, Bulgaria (Carl Franklin)
• Pluralsight Training Videos on .Net Reflector (Jason Haley)
• Ping 37: SQL Server, Windows 7, Bing, Google, Bill Gates Birthday (Laura Foy)
• ASP.NET 4 / VS 2010 “Quick Hit” Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Talk: Stop Programming JavaScript by Luck (Sergio Pereira)
• SharePoint PodShow – A Conversation with Foxit Software Episode 37 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Thread Blocking Analysis in the VS2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – November 9th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Countdown to Microsoft PDC 2009 – part 2 (Lars Wilhemlsen)
• Party with Palermo: PDC ‘09 edition – 6 days and counting (Jeffrey Palermo)
• SQL Authority News – Training MS SQL Server 2005/2008 Query Optimization And Performance Tuning (Pinal Dave)
• Next "Oslo" CTP to be released in conjunction with PDC (Sam Gentile)
• PDC and Python (in that order) (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• Does the S in SQL stand for Scary? (Coding4Fun)
• Fuzzy Logic and Regex come to T-SQL in SQL Server 2008 R2 – available now! (Jamie Thomson)
• Always include precision and scale with decimal and numeric (George Mastros)
• SQL Azure & SQL Server playing together (Steve Clayton)

SharePoint

• Determining if MOSS is Standard or Enterprise (Tom Hearn)
• StructureMap and SharePoint (Tony Rasa)

Miscellaneous

• What I Use and Kindle for PC Now Available (Paul Thurrott)
• A Good URL Regular Expression? (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Mark Russinovich on Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Devon Musgrave)
• PowerPack Creation Manual (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Tortoise more than just version control (Jimmy Bosse)
• Recent UI updates to GitHub (Kyle Neath)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Rocks! (Jeffrey Snover)
• Verizon – Google Droid Review (Tim Boland)
• Happy 5th Birthday, Firefox! (Simon Mackie)
• Download Podcasts with Powershell (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft’s Top 3 advances in Exchange Server 2010 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/10 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• 7 Taskbar Tweaker Lets You Change Windows 7 Taskbar Functionality (Sarah Perez)
• Today in O’Reilly Answers – The Droid, Tip-of-the-Tongue Effect, Technology for Political Candidates, and more (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #474 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 09, 2009 — #727 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/9/2009 (Bill Zack)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Links and Azure Links and Workflow Links and New and Notable 388 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Telerik Offers Free Developer Team Management Tools (Justin Sargent)
• First step in troubleshooting complex issues: Define and scope your issue properly (Tess Ferrandez)
• Sorry, but I just don’t get Oslo (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Big Huge Objects and WCF (Kirstin Juhl)
• ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 Feature: Projections (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part- I (Mahesh Sabnis)

Web Development

• Embeddable Google Document Viewer (Alex Chitu)
• Build an AJAX Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Adding Menu Components (Bogdan Zamfir)
• NetFlix API (Dave Cook)
• The Future of the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Map Control (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Matching links with regular expression in HTML (David Vidmar)
• Building a RESTful application with SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)
• XML, XPath, and Namespaces (Robert L. Bogue)
• How Subtext’s Lucene.net index is structured (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• SOA may be failing, but the approaches will live on (Simon Brown)
• Exceptional and Substitutable (Dave Laribee)
• Recommended Books: Ship It! (Davy Brion)
• Your unit test may smell if…….! (Derik Whittaker)
• There are Two Types of Developers (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How do you use Pex in Visual Studio? Your Input Is Needed! (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Is face to face pairing better? and Spend at least 50% of your time with your team (Roy Osherove)
• Impersonators: Using them in showcases (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 Navigation: Even more on Dynamically Loaded Pages (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight 4 to do for PCs what HD DVD couldn’t (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Using the ADO.NET Data Services Silverlight client library in x-domain and out of browser scenarios – II (Forms Authentication) (Phani Raj)
• New articles about the MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.1 (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Expression Blend Sketchflow (CodeFest)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 36: What Happens In The Speaker’s Lounge is Supposed to Stay In the Speaker’s Lounge (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff) – Link of the Day
• 10-4 Episode 32: MEF Preview 7 (Jason Olson)
• Video Killed the Radio Star (Jennifer Marsman)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #139: Learning the Specification Pattern (Tim Barcz)
• Screencast: Project Planning 101 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• ThirstyDeveloper #72 – A Lot of Something (Dave Bost)
• Ade Miller and Patterns of Parallel Programming (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

• Author Interview: Simone Chiaretta & Keyvan Nayyeri on ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Me)
• Interview on DZone About ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• TechEd Australia – 25 Visual Studio 2008 IDE Tips (Sara Ford)
• Death of a user group, or “How to give up” (Kyle Baley)

Database

• Updating Existing Data with SSIS (Tim Mitchell)
• RESTful Northwind on SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Extracting Data (again) (George Mastros)
• Spools in Execution Plans (Grant Fritchey)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server Desktop Screen Background (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• How to: Add a folder to a SharePoint list using C# (Eugene Rosenfeld)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft: The Apple Best Buy Slides Are Legit, Too (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• US Government Opens-Up to OpenID and Information Cards (Andres Ferrate)
• ImageResizer PowerToy Updated for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)
• How would Apple Market their OS without Windows? (Stephen Chapman)
• WorkScore: A Social Resume (Thursday Bram)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 9, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #430 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2009 — #687 and Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2009 – 2 — #688 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 9th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Double Shot #537 (Mike Gunderloy)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Capture Right, Middle and "X" Button Clicks (Richard Carr)
• Zoom in/out with Visual Studio 2010 editor (Brian Keller)
• Using Code Snippets and Understanding Object Binding and Using Object Binding (Deborah Kurata)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 3 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• 02: Management, preserving and organization of manual test cases within VSTS 2010. (Clemens Reijnen)
• What Exactly Does One Do With “Oslo”? (Kraig Brockschmidt) – Link of the Day
• VS 2010 – Multi-Monitor Support (Michael Ceranski)
• Surface Developer Tip: The Core Interaction Framework (Robert Levy)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #4- ATOMPub (Stephen Forte)

Web Development

• When framework designers outsmart themselves [How to: Perform streaming HTTP uploads with .NET] (David Anson)
• Using the PHP Toolkit with ADO.NET Data Services (Phani Raj)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• behaviour-driven development (BDD) poll. (Andrew Stopford)
• SOA Patterns – Reservation (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Querying a Multi-Tenant Data Architecture (Scott Mitchell)
• Rules Of Standup – You Don’t Need To Justify Your Own Existence and Types Of Agile Projects And The Value Of Velocity (Alan Skorkin)
• Eliminate Architecture (Kirk Knoernschild)
• .NET Naming Conventions (Josh Twist)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
• How to find hidden problems in your project before it’s too late and Step #4 – Start doing code reviews – Seriously (Roy Osherove)
• Should We Change the Way We Name Interfaces in .NET? (Russell Ball)
• Return False on the Happy Path and The Secret Sauce (Dave Laribee)
• Why Messaging #6: Why not … (Dru Sellers)
• It’s Generic, not Multipurpose (Sergio Pereira)
• No weekly release this week, but we’ve been busy! (Peldi Guilizzoni) – An update on Balsamiq Mockups.

Silverlight / WPF

• YouCube 3.0 (Chromium WebBrowser) – Source Code (Chris Cavanagh)
• .NET RIA Services Part 4: Calling methods on the Server from Silverlight. (Al Pascual)
• 5 Minute Overview of MVVM in Silverlight (John Papa)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – 5 minutes of RIA Services (András Velvárt)
• Silverlight feature suggestions (Tim Heuer)
• Dispelling a Common WPF/SL Myth (Rob Eisenberg)
• Silverlight XAML Developer Experience Issues? (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight Delivers Next Gen. Home Video Experience – Without the Disk! (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Hall and McWherter Test ASP.NET! (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – David Hill gives us an introduction to the Application Architecture Guide (Bob Familiar)
• George Moore: Windows Azure Business Model for Developers – An Introduction (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 59: Web Standards with Milan Negovan (Jon Galloway)
• First videos of the structured editor prototype (Kirill Osenkov)
• New DevNugget: Silverlight Navigation Applications (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Netcast #23 – Special Holiday Show (Todd O. Klindt)
• Sod This 7 – Dynamic Again (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
• Tool Shed Tooltip #24 – Expression Encoder 3 – Part 2 (of 2) – Editing, Presets, Silverlight 3 players (Russell Fustino)

Community / Events

• PDC 2009: Workshop – “Getting the Most out of Silverlight 3” with “the Griffs” (Mike Taulty)
• How I got started with SQL Server (Ted Krueger)

Database

• Deriving a list of tables in dependency order (Jamie Thomson)
• Tired of changing collations! (Martin Bell)
• A Tool For Querying Multiple Databases (Scott Mitchell)
• SQL Express Surveys (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Difference between SQL Server Express and MySQL (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Announcing the release of patterns and practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Doloto: Making Ajax page downloads faster (Mary Jo Foley)
• Out of Beta: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• The Incredible Shrinking iPod Prices Undercut The Zune HD (MG Siegler)
• Has ‘beta’ lost its meaning? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Demystify Windows 7 Migration and Upgrade Options (Zhiming Xue)
• Sale – Microsoft certification exams – 15 to 25% off! (Keith)
• Help Us Improve Microsoft Windows Management Framework (Xin Li)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Sep 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #429 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for 8th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Free Microsoft SQL Azure training and a cool Migration Wizard utility (Greg Duncan)
• New and Notable 368 (Sam Gentile)
• Double Shot #536 (Mike Gunderloy)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Introducing PowerBuilder 12 .NET (Yakov Werde)
• Debugging .NET apps for .NET 4.0 (Tom)
• Rhino Divan DB – Consideration (Oren Eini)
• Global Exception Handler (WinForms) and Nullable Data Types (Deborah Kurata)
• Dev Tip Build Your Solutions from the Context Menu (Jimmy Bosse)
• Thoughts on C# 4.0’ optional parameters (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• CodeRush Test Runner In-source UI Preview (Mark Miller)
• F# First Class Events – Async Workflows + Events Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer (MS Downloads)
• Lucene.net: The Main Concepts (Simone Chiaretta)
• Simple Example of Twilio and Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Kanban Board Is A Production Leveling Task Board (Derick Bailey)
• Is Agile a mystery? (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Answer: The lazy loaded inheritance many to one association OR/M conundrum (Oren Eini)
• DDD: Repository Implementation Patterns (Jimmy Bogard)
• Your code via NDepend (Brendan Kowitz) – Link of the Day
• Modularity Pattern – Manage Relationships (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Coding: Reduce fields, delay calculations (Mark Needham)
• The Conversation Conversation and Noodling on Kanban… Part One (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Why Declarative UIs Are Important (Shawn Wildermuth)
• brownfield development – other ideas? (Howard Dierking)

Silverlight / WPF

• U.S. Army using Silverlight for Resourcing Troops (Adam Kinney)
• Compiling pixel shaders for Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• More Silverlight MVVM fun (Rockford Lhotka)
• Service Locator in MVVM (Marlon Grech)
• Expression Blend 3.0 TFS Source Control (Doug Holland)
• UI without code or XAML: PropertyGrid, DataForm, etc. (Kirill Osenkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen on the Legal Side of Software! (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV: The Cloud Part 1, What it Means to the User and ARCast.TV: The Cloud Part 2, What is Microsoft Doing (MS Podcasts)
• Creating DSLs in Oslo (Amanda Laucher)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #66 (Jeff Atwood)

Community / Events

• Western European ReMix Tour 2009 (Brad Abrams)
• Webinars Next Week (William Vaughn)
• I’m A Lucky Programmer Too! (Chris Missal)
• Windows 7 Compatibility Labs and Seminars in Washington DC region (Ashish Jaiman)
• MVP Releases Windows Azure Community Site (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Random Thoughts on Day 2 of the Nothing But .NET Course (Russell Ball)
• Thanks and A Software Development School Idea (Corey Haines)
• Get Windows 7 Ultimate for free… by throwing a party (Nilay Patel)
• Please, please, please post StructureMap questions to the list (Jeremy D. Miller)

Database

• Microsoft Downplays SQL Server Database Vulnerability (Brian Prince)
• Handling Temp tables in reporting services (Simon Sabin)
• Using Oslo to Speed Up Database Development (Stephen Forte)
• SQL SERVER – What is Data Mining – A Simple Introductory Note (Pinal Dave)
• Using a Calendar for a Date Hierarchy Parameter with SSAS 2008 and SSRS 2008 (riverguy)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Governance and best practices, some thoughts (Joris Poelmans)

Miscellaneous

• WorldWide Telescope’s New Frontier (Rob Knies)
• 3 Ways to Track Your Rank on Twitter (Adam DuVander)
• Using Ruby Blocks And Rolling Your Own Iterators (Alan Skorkin)
• Zoho Projects : Add Task Notes, Log Time from My Timesheet, View Unread Chat Topics (Celina B.)
• WL Movie Maker PM Mike Torres Part 2: a LiveSide interview (Kip Kniskern)
• “Weekly” Release: FogBugz Wiki integration and more! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• New Feature in Zoho Share : Add to Favorites (Rajasekaran Gopalan)
• The Ultimate Windows Console Replacement (Michael Ceranski)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #425 (Chris Alcock)
• Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Web Slice, Accelerator, Search Provider resources (Hanu Kommalapati)
• CloudNews for 2nd September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• On "Oslo" (Douglas Purdy) – Link of the Day
• Windows Communication Foundation extensibility to the max and WCF Extensibility part 1: background on game server protocols (Alex Thissen)
• LINQ to Ducks – Bringing Back The Duck-Typed foreach Statement To LINQ (Bart de Smet)
• Book Review: Essential LINQ (Jason Haley)
• How to hinder reflection-based scenarios (Jimmy Bogard)
• C#: Using IProgressDialog to show a “native” Progress Dialog from .NET in Windows (Chris Pietschmann)
• Favorite improvement of Visual Studio 2010 so far… (David Kean)
• Counting Words in a String Using Anonymous Types and Defining Lists of Anonymous Types (Deborah Kurata)
• Using your own code is its own kind of encouragement [How to: Automatically update the widths of ListView columns - updated!] (David Anson)
• Arrays of arrays (Eric Lippert)
• 11 books for a .NET Summer reading list (Simone Chiaretta)
• A total n00b’s guide to migrating from a custom data layer to Nhibernate: getting started (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Automating .NET development (and NHibernate) with IronRuby + Rake (Tobin Harris)
• Updating the Command Line Parser (Martin Hinshelwood)
• F# First Class Events – Creating Events (Matthew Podwysocki)
• GC Helper for Obtaining Live Instances of a Type, or How I Implemented GC.GetAliveInstancesOf() (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Introducing LazyLinq: Internals (Keith Dahlby)
• MSMQ Studio: Show number of messages in a queue (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC in Action in Stores in September (Ben Scheirman)
• Test Sending Email without a Server in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Rest For ASP.NET MVC SDK and Sample (Phil Haack)
• A few facts about the DinnerNow.net 3.1 sample application (Habib Heydarian)
• Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – August Update Released (Jeff Barnes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When Tools Take Over Your Team Room (Ade Miller)
• Virtually everything and Code Ownership also mean Code Responsibility (Oren Eini)
• Macros Facilitate Expressive Code (Jay Fields)
• “We want it fixed, but don’t spend too much time on it” (Dave Schinkel)
• Zen And The Art Of Software Development (Derick Bailey)
• Acceptance Test “Lifecycle” (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Architecting for Desktop Virtualization – Part 2: Store Your Local Settings in the Database – Not the Client (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Unit Testing Has Changed How I Write Software (Joel Ross)
• The Sculptors (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Back to the Future (Vadim Polner)
• Law of Demeter: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Refactoring Day 17 : Extract Superclass (Sean Chambers)

Silverlight / WPF

• Physics Helper 3: Now with WPF Support! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 3 – Pros and Cons (Dan Wahlin)
• Prism And .Net RIA Services (David Hill)
• Moonlight 2.0 beta tries to show off Silverlight 2.0 compatibility (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Adventures in Silverlight 3 Multi-touch, Part I (Jeff Paries)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Ward Bell on Building Modular Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight and WPF (Bob Familiar)
• Doug Hauger: Inside the Windows Azure Platform Business Model (Charles Torre)
• Video: Smart & Lean Organizations (Max Pool)

Community / Events

• Sharing with Google Groups (Jeffrey Chang)
• Don’t Miss FREE 1-Day SharePoint Conference in NYC (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Events This Week – August 17th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Super User Now Public (Jeff Atwood)
• MSDN Roadshows in August 2009 (Zhiming Xue)
• Slides of My Presentation on ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

• SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 CTP (MS Downloads)
• SQL Performance Tuning Basics (Michael Ceranski)

SharePoint

• Windows 2008 R2 goodness – adding sharepoint folders to a library (Ishai Sagi)
• Playing around with Powershell and SharePoint user profiles (Joris Poelmans)
• MOSS for Developers – Part 4: Workflows for Developers (Doug Turnure)

Miscellaneous

• Author news: Do you have an idea for a book? (Devon Musgrave)
• Pulling from github on Windows (Mark Needham)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #414 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 08.11 ~ 08.18 (yuanjian)
• New and Notable 358 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 17th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 Released (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Biggest Suprises in Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 3 and CSLA .NET 3.7 (Rockford Lhotka)
• SketchFlow Map: A Mini Tutorial, Part I and Creating a Minimal Workspace for SketchFlow (Christian Schormann)
• Physics Helper 3: Coming Soon! and Silverlight 3 Released! (Andy Beaulieu)
• UI Virtualization (Bea Stollnitz)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 1: Navigation Basics (Brad Abrams)
• What’s new in Expression Encoder 3 (James Clarke)
• Editing a ToolTip Style in Blend 3 and SketchFlow Controls (Corey Schuman)
• Silverlight Charting gets an update – and a TreeMap! [Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 release now available!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 3 Released – Exciting Stuff Here! (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 (RC) Released! (Jeff Barnes)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Wiki Released (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 3 Released! What is new/changed? (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3 + .NET RIA Services July Preview (Nikhil Kothari)
• Welcoming Silverlight 3 RTW and What Happened to the asp:Silverlight Control? (Pete Brown)
• See the Light: Silverlight 3 & Expression 3 Launch and Get Silverlight 3 and Microsoft Expression 3 Now (Silverlight Team)
• Simplify Your XAML with Resources and Control Templates (Srinath MS)
• One way to avoid messy PropertyChanged event handling (Josh Smith)
• Silverlight 3, Blend 3 and the MVVM Light Toolkit (Laurent Bugnion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft MSDN Blogger Recommends ".NET Version Detector 2009" (Blake Handler)
• Combining Assemblies Using ILMerge (Richard Carr)
• Bart’s Control Library – Not What You Think It Is – Part 0 (Bart de Smet)
• DAL: DataTable Visualizer and Populating a Business Object from a DataTable and Enum: Binding to the Description Attribute (Deborah Kurata)
• Entity Framework 4.0: How to use POCOs (Gunnar Peipman)
• Views into CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Typed Datasets: A First Step to .NET Flexibility (Susan Sales Harkins)
• Monotouch – Mono (.NET) for the iPhone/iTouch (Wally McClure)
• Visual Studio Database Professional GDR R2 – Support for SQL 2008 (Simon Sabin)
• F#: Downloading a file from behind a proxy (Mark Needham)
• WCF Proxy Generator – Significant Updates (Michele Leroux Bustamante)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Modeling Inheritance in "M" (Chris Sells)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 4. (Rajiv Popat)

Web Development

• RSS Feeds and Google Sitemaps for ASP.NET MVC with LINQ To XML (Mike Brind)
• Say Hello to Sueetie Marketplace! (Dave Burke)
• Tip #88: Did you know… To not stress your server, limit the number of concurrent requests (Carlos Aguilar Mares)
• A (less) simple include for ASP.NET (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Getting the element that has the focus via JavaScript (Peter Eysermans)
• Cheesy ASP.NET MVC Project Upgrader for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Keeping ELMAH’s Error Log Size In Check (Scott Mitchell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Scott Guthrie: Silverlight 3 is here! and Scott Guthrie and Christian Schormann: Web Programming, Design Tools and Silverlight 3 (Charles Torre)
• This Week C9: Scott Hanselman, Silverlight, Expression Studio 3, C#/CLI (Dan Fernandez)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – The .NET Micro Framework with Colin Miller (Scott Hanselman)
• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: SoC – Overview and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: SoC – The Big Picture and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: SoC – Principles to Practice (Howard Dierking)
• Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Launch Video – well sort of. (Tina)

PowerShell

• PowerBoots makes me want to use PowerShell! (Chris Sells)

Database

• Best practices on setting NOCOUNT and NOCOUNT and linked servers (Martin Bell)
• String concatenation with max types stops plan caching (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Standby Servers and Types of Standby Servers (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Office 2007 Ribbon & Toolbar Learning Resources (Blake Handler)
• Google accounts on Twitter (Karen Wickre)
• Converting data from Passwords Plus to SplashID (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Know What Questions to Ask During a Job Interview [Job Search] (Azadeh Ensha)
• How to add Hulu Desktop icon to Windows Media Center and Windows 7 RC users will be able to install Windows 7 Upgrade discs (Brad Linder)
• Test Your Skills With ‘Toughest Developer Puzzle’ (Bruce Kyle)
• Windows 7 Hardware Requirements (Debra Shinder)
• Microsoft’s "Gazelle" browser detailed — it’s more of a research project (Nilay Patel)
• Thoughts on the Chrome OS announcement (Ted Neward)
• Brizzly: A Twitter Reader From The People Who Brought You Google Reader (MG Siegler)
• Gmail New Mail Notifications for Windows 7 (Michael Kennedy)
• Rants and Raves #3 (Joel Cochran)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 10, 2009 — #634 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 10th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• SQL Server Resources – 7/11/09 (Rhonda Tipton)