Top Links

• Coding4Fun: PicFx – Windows Phone Picture Effects Application – Part 1 (René Schulte)
• Recording Audio in Windows Phone 7 and Third Party HTML 5 Intellisense and Support in VS2010 (Don Burnett)
• Announcing the Windows Phone 7 Firestarters: free, in-depth training in your own backyard! (Dave Isbitski)
• The Need for Source Control (Gil Fink)
• Death to Best Practices (Ted Neward)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Moving to a deploy system based on Tfs Build (Al Kampfer)
• Boot Camp Extravaganza – Learn Windows Phone 7 Development (Angela Binkowski)
• .NET Debugging and C++ Debugging Resources (Sasha Goldshtein)
• If I run Dev Div… (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio: Hide Selection and Enum.TryParse (Deborah Kurata)
• IronRuby and the Reactive Extensions Together Again – Taming User Input (Matthew Podwysocki)
• How to verify a method call on a dependency (Gil Zilberfeld)

Web Development

• Google and Yahoo Add to Calendar Html Helpers for Asp.net MVC (Luke Lowrey)
• Upgrading from Oxite to Orchard (Rudi Grobler)
• Using Agatha’s Client-Side Caching (Davy Brion)
• Digg API Version 2 Coming Soon (Adam DuVander)
• DevForce in the Cloud: Prism Explorer (Ward Bell)
• An example of packaging web application containing database upgrade SQL file (Xinyang Qiu)
• Ask Satyam: Using YQL and YUI with YQLDataSource (Daniel Barreiro)
• SparkSense gets its first outing (Robert Greyling)
• Update to Azure’s AppFabric Access Control Service Supports Multi-Vendor Single Sign On (Bruce Kyle)
• Build a Blog Site in 15 Minutes with WebMatrix (Laurence Moroney)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• IoC patterns – partitioning registration (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Diversity in Agile – Women in Agile interviews available (Shane Hastie)
• Yoda and different kinds of trying (Scott Berkun)
• Learning and Situated cognition (Mark Needham)
• Teamly: Collaboration With Priorities (Thursday Bram)
• The 7 Hats of a Successful Remote Team Member (Avdi Grimm)
• Rules for Software Architects (Rockford Lhotka)
• How Should a Product Owner Participate in a Planning Poker Session? (Dan Puckett)
• Software, “It’s not what we do”. (David Starr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• JelloPhone for Windows Phone 7 (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight : Simple PopUp Behavior for VM, MVVM (Michael Washington & Hisowa)
• Getting the Silverlight Toolkit Controls to work on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight Tutorials Chapter 4: Introduction to Controls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• First batch of Windows Phone 7 applications may include Yelp and YouTube (Sean Hollister)
• Using OData with Windows Phone 7 SDK Beta (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Preview: WPF 4 Unleashed – Why WPF, and What About Silverlight (Ted Hu)
• Tombstoning with Windows Phone 7 (your mkop editor)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio: Exploring SharePoint and Silverlight with Paul Stubbs (Emily Gibson)
• Ping 69: Windows Phone 7 adds Voice, Mobile App Match, Bing Taxi, Halo 2600 (Laura Foy)
• Sparkling Client Show 102: Windows Phone 7 Development Heats Up (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Connected Show Podcast – Apache Stonehenge M2 (Brian Johnson)
• endpoint.tv – Workflow Services Security Pack (Ron Jacobs)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 24 – The Developer Experience Index (Richard Banks)
• New Internet Explorer 9 Videos (Joey deVilla)
• Countdown to PDC: It’s time to par-tay! (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – August 9th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Phone 7 developers – free training and app building workshops! (Glen Gordon)
• Win 3 ebooks at SilverlightShow Data Binding Webinar (Svetla Stoycheva)
• indieconf for freelance web professionals (Michael Kimsal)
• FREE SharePoint Events You Must Attend #in Aug 2010 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Nothing has changed, and nobody’s happy (Daniel Crenna)
• Typemock Summer Sale (Gil Zilberfeld)

Database

• Working with Different Time Zones in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Best Practices for DBA Before Taking Vacation (Pinal Dave)
• Creating a baseline for SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• MongoDB – Now With Sharding (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Upgrading a SharePoint 2007 WCM site to SharePoint 2010 WCM (Andrew Connell)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Companion (Carol Vu)
• SharePoint and Office 2010 PowerPoint Files – Not a good mix (William Vaughn)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Research shows off a prototype ‘Menlo’ mobile phone (Mary-Jo Foley)
• How I work: Workstations for the Data Professional (Buck Woody)
• Updates on DSLs In Action – Into Copy Editing (Debasish Ghosh)
• With Each Step Forward, Microsoft Takes Two Back (Nick Berardi)
• Microsoft Office 2010 File Compatibility (Office Team)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: VMware Cookbook – Only $9.99. Use code DDVMC (O’Reilly Media)
• Promoting Properties Inside an Orchestration (Scott Banwart)
• How to Post Code To Your Blog and other Religious Arguments (Scott Hanselman)
• Should You Be Looking for Trends in Microsoft Stories? (Shawn Wildermuth)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #661 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 9, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for August 09, 2010 — #922 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 036 for 8/9/2010 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook by Gill Cleeren

Web Development

• Creating RSS Feeds Using ASP.NET 3.5 (Kevin Miller)
• Learning jQuery (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Spiff Up Your ASP.NET MVC Forms with jQuery (Justin Etheredge)
• Ask SM [CSS/JS]: Divs of Equal Height, Dealing with IE 6 (Chris Coyier)
• Default Control Focus with ASP.NET Master Pages and LINQ (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Oxite Updated (Sarah Perez)
• The CSS Corner: Using Filters In IE8 (Sylvain Galineau)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Does LINQ StinQ? Not with PLINQO! (Kevin Lawry)
• In-depth: How .NET managed services interact with the ServiceControlManager (SCM) (Kim Hamilton)
• DBProj.com (Gert Drapers)
• Use IOperationBehavior to Customize Operation Behavior in WCF (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Axiom 0.7.5.0 Beta 1 (Michael Cummings)
• Making c# lambda expressions more readable (Sean Biefeld)
• If you are still wondering how fast is ADO.NET vs ADODB (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using Enums in List Controls (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Training Kit (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Custom Expressions and the DLR – Part 1 (Chris Cavanagh)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release: RC Refresh (0.0.14293.004) (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: The Repository Pattern (Casey Charlton)
• BDD Question: Low Level Behavior And Wrapper Methods? (Derick Bailey)
• The valley of continuous learning (Louis Salin)
• Great UI and the Presentation Layer – Clarity and Shape (Mark Miller)
• A Little Chat About Code Sensible Code Generation (Sacha Barber)
• Challenge: Do You Truly Understand This Code? (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Testing Bindings In WPF (Christopher Bennage)
• Silverlight 2 gets minor update (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #95 – Working with Strokes in Shapes (Mike Snow)
• Carousel Video Posted – Parts 1 and 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Setting up a basic n-tier CSLA .NET for Silverlight project (Rockford Lhotka)

SharePoint

• Are SharePoint Developers Better Architects than Architects? (Adam Buenz)
• Please help – Visual Studio SharePoint development environment is very slow (Gunnar Peipman)
• Starting with JQuery and SharePoint – that did not work (Ton Stegeman)

Community / Events

• I’ll be at TechEd North America 2009 – Will you? (Andrew Connell)
• Network Instruments to Host Event in Philly (David Solivan)
• CodeStock 2009 “Call for Speakers” is Open (Michael C. Neel)
• Silverlight 2 Firestarter Event this Weekend – Malvern, PA (Pete Brown)
• User Group Meeting: Microsoft’s Cloud Services and Combining WCF and Business Activity Monitoring (Zhiming Xue)
• Tech Ed Connect (Jesse Liberty)
• Fun with Twitter for Mix09 (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s ‘Social Desktop’ prototype bridges PC and Web (Todd Bishop)
• Free app downloads any Google Book Search item as PDF and Theme GMail your way with a custom color scheme (Lee Mathews)
• The Bad Apple: Group Poison (Jeff Atwood)
• Top 10 Disney LEGO Sets We’d Like to See (Matt Blum)
• 25 random things about Microsoft (Meghan)
• Autoruns for Windows Updated for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)
• Auto Twitterise Your Blog Posts (Steve Clayton)
• Much Ado About Monads – List Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #291 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 19, 2009 — #522 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-02-19 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Interesting Finds: February 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (2/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for February 19th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF

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

.NET Community / Events

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

Database

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

PowerShell

• Manage winrm Settings with wsman Provider (Wei Wu)

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban in Software Development. Part 3: Andon and Jidoka – Handling Bugs and Emergency Fixes in Kanban (Derick Bailey)
• Oxite – An Example of How Not to Write MVC Applications (Casey Charlton)
• Benefits of Root Cause Analysis (Raymond Lewallen)
• Adding MSTest Results (.trx) Files to Your TeamCity Build Results (Derik Whittaker)
• Acceptance Tests and Lazy Loading Considered Harmful (Scott Bellware)
• The Anti-Architect (Bil Simser) – Link of the Day
• When Best Practices Aren’t Best Practices (Adam Buenz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• I Couldn’t Think Up a Language of My Own (Jon Flanders)
• Cleaning Up the VS Environment When Things Go Wrong (Darren Stokes)
• Microsoft Blueprints – Release: November CTP Refresh 2.1.2 (CodePlex)
• Moving Up From CodeRush Xpress to CodeRush (Mark Miller)
• Book Review: Entity Framework Tutorial (Muhammad Mosa)

Web Development

• A Little Holiday Love from the ASP.NET MVC Team (Phil Haack)
• Adobe Acrobat Connect .NET SDK – Release (CodePlex)
• Migrating a Versionable ASMX Web Services to WCF (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Screencast: Configuring Services with Behaviors (Aaron Skonnard)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 2 DataGrid December 2008 Release (MS Downloads)
• patterns & practices: Composite WPF and Silverlight – Release: Prism v2 – Drop 8 (CodePlex)
• Fluent Animations in Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 2 DataGrid December 2008 Release (Brad Abrams)
• Updated Silverlight 2 DataGrid Available (John Papa)

.NET Community

• .NET Fireside Chats – Chris Anderson on ‘Essential Windows Presentation Foundation’ (Me)
• CodePlex Goes Less Green for the Holidays with a New Look (Sara Ford)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #22: The Future of .NET Dotfuscator with Gabriel Torok (Keith Elder)

PowerShell

• Step Up Your FOREACH Game (Jeffrey Snover)

Database

• SQL Server – Change Collation of Database Column – T-SQL Script (Pinal Dave)
• Windows Azure Storage – Exploring Blobs (David Lemphers)

Miscellaneous

• 5 Ways to Keep Your Competitive Edge (Celine Roque)
• Windows 7 Beta Imminent? and Microsoft Job Listings Reveal Zune Expansion Plans (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Answers Launches Beta (Sarah Perez)
• How Does the Windows Azure DataCenter Work? (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Discoveries This Week 12/19/08 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Cream for December 19, 2008 — #461 and Silverlight Cream for December 20, 2008 — #462 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: December 19, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio Links #90 (Darren Stokes)
• Triple Shot Links #11 (Russell Ball)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 3 (Denis Gobo)
• CloudNews for December 19th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for December 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight News for December 20, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• Management Improvement Carnival #50 (Corey Ladas)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• White Paper on ORM (Stephen Forte)
• How I’m Currently Writing My BDD Style Tests – Part 1 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Updated Version of the Free Data Structures and Algorithms Book Available! (Granville Barnett)
• Getting Value Out of Your Unit Tests (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Death of System.DateTime? and MSBuild Script to Compress All JavaScript Files in a Project (Omer van Kloeten)
• (Very) Tentative Steps with the Live Framework SDK (Mike Taulty)
• Cloud Messaging Made Easy with Linxter (Brian Noyes)
• Why We Need Named Parameters (Jimmy Bogard)
• Dynamic Data: Associated Types and the Models They Love (Jonathan Carter)
• Did You Know That Today’s Tip on msinfo32.exe Ends the Series? – #382 (Sara Ford)
• String Extraction (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery and Upcoming View Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate (Scott Guthrie)
• An Investigation into Routes (Kyle Baley)
• MVC Controllers and Forms Authentication (Nikhil Kothari)
• Sueetie – The Future in .NET Open Source Online Community Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 5 – Deploying in the Cloud (Maarten Balliauw)
• On Oxite (Glenn Block)
• Hot New Features Coming with ASP.NET MVC RC in January 09 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Creating a REST WCF Service From an Existing XSD Schema (Keith Elder)
• This Could Be Big. Sueetie Is Online! (Dave Burke) – Link of the Day
• Friday Books – jQuery Reference Guide (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• Patient Journey Demonstrator December 2008 Released (Martin Grayson)
• Making the WPF Slider Control Behave (Karsten Januszewski)
• Now Available: Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2! (John Papa)
• WPF Application Quality Guide (jytylr)
• WPF DataGrid Sample: Locking Input to the Row Being Edited (Vincent Sibal)
• Bubbles – 1 Chart – Three Axes (Jesse Liberty)

.NET Community / Events

• 2009 Goals (Pete Brown)
• Webcast Schedule for January 2009 (Nandita)
• Congratulations Sara Ford! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ALT.NET Is the Opposition Party (Nate Kohari)

Miscellaneous

• Your Developer Horoscope (K. Scott Allen)
• Top 10 Most Annoying & Overplayed Phrases or Actions in the Workplace (Dave Schinkel)
• The Perfect Time to Release Source Code? (Robert Muehsig)
• 8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• Microsoft Digs Into PHP (Matt Asay)
• Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 18, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2008 — #459 and Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2008 – 2 — #460 (Dave Campbell)
• Visual Studio Links #89 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.12.12~2008.12.18 (yuanjian)
• Links (12/18/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #248 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 19, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Advanced C# – Unsafe Mode (Dave M. Bush)
• Learn a New Language Every Year? (Julie Lerman)
• Debugging UI (Aaron Lerch)
• Launched My Personal CodePlex Project: http://www.codeplex.com/mostlylucid (Scott Galloway)
• Windsor WCF Integration (Mike Hadlow)
• Using Classifications in MGrammar’s Intellipad and ADO.NET Data Services for Multiple Databases? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Dynamic Data: Annotating Your Data-Driven World (Jonathan Carter)
• SonicFileFinder 2.1 Released (Jens Schaller via Roland Weigelt)
• Query Data with Parallel LINQ (Charlie Calvert)

Web Development

• Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) – The Model-View-Controller Pattern (Nick Berardi)
• Create an Amazon Books Widget with jQuery and XML (Brian Reindel)
• Redirect Routes and Other Fun with Routing and Lambdas (Phil Haack)
• New ASP.NET MVC Sample – Oxite – Needs Some TLC (Scott Koon)
• IE8 Readiness and IETester (Sergio Pereira)
• Removing the .SVC Extension from WCF REST URLs (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET Development: MVC vs. Web Forms (Rachel Appel)
• XSS Follow Up: Search Suck (Rob Conery)
• Oxite – Oh Dear Lord Why?! (Karl Seguin)
• Oxite (Javier G. Lozano)
• CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 2 – Cloud-Enabling CarTrackr (Maarten Balliauw)
• A Tale of WebTests, IIS Application Pools and Assembly Load Exceptions (Josh Twist)
• My Quick Take on Oxite (Chad Myers)
• MVC/jQuery Meets Xmas Music Project (Josh Schwartzberg)
• jQuery – Calling Your Own Functions (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban in Software Development. Part 2.5: A Variation on Queues – Pipelines for WIP and Done (Derick Bailey)
• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 3 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Business Readable DSL (Martin Fowler)
• How My Team Does Agile (Tom Hollander)
• UML Request for Information (Cameron Skinner)
• Framework Design Guidelines: An Appeal for Consistency (Brad Abrams)
• Introduction to TestAPI – Part 1: Input Injection APIs (Ivo Manolov)
• Domain Models in Presentation Frameworks (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• Model Driven Development with “Oslo” (Gunther Lenz)
• SOA Anti-Pattern: The Knot (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Silverlight / WPF

• Unity for Silverlight from patterns & practices (Ade Miller)
• Flexible and Powerful Data Binding with WPF (Walt Ritscher)
• What Can You Make with 10k of Silverlight or WPF? (Adam Kinney)
• My WPF Bookshelf (Roland Weigelt)
• Silverlight SEO (Boyan Mihaylov)

Database

• Generating XML Schema Documents Using SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server 2005 SP3 (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server – Find Collation of Database and Table Column Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 Has Been Released (Denis Gobo)
• Database Normalization (Richard Carr)

SharePoint

• SQL Server Reporting Services Add-In for SharePoint Technologies (MS Downloads)
• Announcing the WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint (Ryan Duguid)
• Microsoft Releases a WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint and SharePoint Workflow Forms Development with ASP.NET 2.0 Pages… Without the Pain! (Andrew Connell)

Events / Community

• Video NINE Questions with Jennifer Marsman (Chris G. Williams)
• Events This Week – December 15th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 2008: A Developer’s Retrospective (Meera Subbarao)

Miscellaneous

• Second Birthday for CodeClimber and Windows Live Writer 2009 RC Released (Simone Chiaretta)
• Photosynth Experimental Silverlight Viewer, View Synths on Any Computer and Windows Live Essentials Beta Released (Sunshine)
• Zapproved Opens Doors to Help You with Approvals (Aliza Sherman)
• Two Resources for Web Workers: Finding Jobs and Professional Development (Darrell Etherington)
• Mooncake Brings DeepZoom to Flickr and SmugMug (Sarah Perez)
• Why Isn’t a Good Team Player Good for a Team? (Andy Singleton)
• Windows 7: Continuing Our Discussion on Performance (Michael Fortin & Steven Sinofsky)
• Easy, Efficient Hi-Def Video Playback (Jeff Atwood)
• Is Programming Really Appropriate for a Seven Year Old? (Brian Reindel)
• Info: What I’m Running (Eric Charran)
• Live Mesh: The Killer App for Netbooks (Steve Clayton)
• Gingerbread Architecture for All (Aidan Chopra)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 15, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 16, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 15, 2008 — #456 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for December 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• CloudNews for December 15th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links of the Week #64 (David Vidmar)
• New and Notable 281 (Sam Gentile)
• The Morning Brew #245 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 16, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

Book of the Day

Microsoft® .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (PRO-Developer): Dino Esposito, Andrea Saltarello: Books ISBN: 073562609X ISBN-13: 9780735626096