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.NET / Visual Studio

Massive Search & Replace Among Files Checked-in to TFS (Jason Jarrett)
Query Editor: Making Queries Available on Menus (Jason Haley)
What is Windows Identity Framework (WIF)? (Sam Gentile) – Link of the Day

Web Development

Asp.Net MVC JavaScriptView (Chris Brandsma)
ASP.NET 4.0 Dynamic Data and Many to Many Entity Framework Entities and MSDN Guidance on ASP.NET MVC vs WebForms and its Impact on my EF + ASP.NET Work (Julie Lerman)
Fluent-API to add ActionFilters to Controllers – ASP.NET MVC Part 2 (Fredrik Normén)
ClientIDMode in ASP.NET 4.0 (Rick Strahl)
Facebook Developer Toolkit – Release: Version 3.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

With Blame Goes Guilt (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
Knowing when to persevere and when to change approach and Coding: The agent noun class (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Community / Events

Database

SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure are Compiled on First Run – SP taking Longer to Run First Time (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Twitter in your console prompt: using PS Jobs for background work (Joel Bennett)
Zune HD 4.3 Firmware Brings Support for Apps and 3D Games (Muhammad Ali)
Herding Cats: Organize your Desktop Icons with Stardock Fences for Windows (Scott Hanselman)
A good url regular expression? (repost) (Ivan Porto Carrero)
Paint.NET 3.5 (Final) now available (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2009 — #726 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: 2009 11.01 ~ 11.08 (yuanjian)
Interesting Post… 11/1/2009 through 11/8/009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
Windows Identity Framework (WIF) Announcements (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life) (9781934356340): Chad Fowler, David Heinemeier Hansson: Books

ISBN: 1934356344
ISBN-13: 9781934356340

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.NET / Visual Studio

Reading from Text Files with StreamReader (Richard Carr)
Chocolate Salty Bools (Lee Dumond) – Title of the day. Well done, Lee…
How to keep you fingers on the keyboard within VSTS 2010 Architecture Edition (Clemens Reijnen) – Link of the Day
When an object-relational mapper is too much, DataReader too little (Damien Guard)
Must Everything Be Virtual With NHibernate, Part II (Davy Brion)
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 – Code Coverage Settings Window Closes Unexpectedly (Doug Holland)
Debugging a COM object (Runtime Callable Wrapper) with Visual Studio 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
.NET Access Control Service takes a REST (Keith Brown)
BizTalk Project Creation Fails – or, Why did BizTalk in VS 2008 break? (Matt Milner)

Web Development

Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Sorting and Filtering Chart Data (Scott Mitchell)
DotNetNuke – Retrieving Host Access (Dave M. Bush)
Working with Events, Part 3: More Event Delegation with jQuery (Louis-Rémi Babé)

Design / Methodology / Testing

TDD: Copying and pasting tests (Mark Needham)
Agile Architecture, Lean Principles (Kirk Knoernschild)
Do you plan your work? (Louis Salin)
A Mess is not a Technical Debt. (Uncle Bob Martin)
Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 17. (Rajiv Popat)
UppercuT – Automated Builds – Change is Good (Rob Reynolds)
Best Time-Tracking Application: Klok (Jason Fitzpatrick)
MultiBrowser or CrossBrowser Testing and deconstructing Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview (Scott Hanselman)

Silverlight / WPF

A new way to get the full version of Expression Encoder 3 (James Clarke)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Kent Tegels on SQL Server Integration Services (Carl Franklin)
C# 4.0 Dynamic with Chris Burrows and Sam Ng (Charlie Calvert)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #142: Isolation Frameworks: Learning to use Partial Mocks (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

Working from home & commuting via float plane (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
Steal My Book (Roy Osherove) – I’ve almost finished ‘The Art of Unit Testing’ and it’s worth every penny. Do yourself a favor and go buy a copy.
Chance to win a free HD Zune and free VSTS 2010 Training in a Northwest City near you! (Charles Sterling)
Events this week – September 22nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Goodbye MSDN Magazine (Howard Dierking) – Good luck, Howard. Thanks for everything you have done for msdnmag!
MVP Profile of the Week….. (Robert Pearl) – Greg Larsen, SQL MVP, is featured this week.

Database

Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight CTP2 (Sumeeth Evans)
SQL SERVER – Insert Values of Stored Procedure in Table – Use Table Valued Function (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Google Wave in Internet Explorer (Lars Rasmussen)
Introducing Google Chrome Frame (Ian Fette)
XPS Essentials Pack Version 1.1 (MS Downloads)
Setting up TortoiseSVN to use WinMerge (Derik Whittaker)
Getting More Performance out of Windows Live Meeting (William Vaughn)
Create Your Own Forum With Zoho Discussions (Stan Schroeder)
Windows 8 Special: Features and Considerations (Stephen Chapman)
Office Web Apps (Steve Clayton)
Microsoft Courier Multitouch Tablet Unveiled (Taimur Asad)
Helping You Recover Your Work in Office 2010 (Nitie)
Paint.NET 3.5 Beta 1 released – now with added shiny (Paul O’Brien)
U need some .Net training and/or course materials? Then .Net U is for you… (Greg Duncan)
Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 1: The Bing Translator (Runar Olsen)
Back-to-School With 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials (Melissa Scroggins)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #439 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for September 22, 2009 — #697 (Dave Campbell)
Everyman Links for September 22, 2009 (Dave Burke)
Tech Tweets for 22-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
New and Notable 373 (Sam Gentile)
CloudNews for 22nd September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
Double Shot #546 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

The Art of Unit Testing: with Examples in .NET (9781933988276): Roy Osherove: Books

ISBN: 1933988274
ISBN-13: 9781933988276

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