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Top Links

• Four types of developers you might be doing pair programming with (Dror Helper)
• Microsoft Surface: Announcing Online Design and Development Training (Pete Brown)
• Sufficient Design means Damned Good Design. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Download and Share Visual Studio Color Schemes (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft interview study guide: Part I of II (Joe Smith)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# Objects – Integrating with the other .Net Languages – Part 1 (Mark Pearl)
• Unbounded concurrency (Oren Eini)
• Constructors and Value Types (Ron Petrusha)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 on XP: additional test pass, no issues (Grigori Melnik)
• Breakpoint Hit Count and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Pin a project to the Recent Projects list (Zain Naboulsi)
• Fix SQL Server Express User Instance Connection Error in Visual Studio Projects (Zhiming Xue)
• Using the new TaskDialog via WinAPI (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 debugging content (Tess Ferrandez)
• Layering XML readers (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Framework 4.0: StructuralComparisons Type (Sam Gentile)
• Pure Virtual Function Call (Destructor Madness) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• DevForce Or RIA Services? (Ward Bell)

 

Web Development

• Microsoft Web N-gram Services Now in Public Beta Worldwide (Evelyne Viegas)
• Duplicating Custom Page Styling in ScrewTurn Wiki Namespaces (Dave Burke)
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Contextual controller injection (Jimmy Bogard)
• Tips using Firebug Lite and Full Screen with jsFiddle (Elijah Manor)
• Web Platform Installer 2.0 and Visual Studio Web Developer 2010 Express (Scott Hanselman)
• Design View Performance Improvements (Dan Chartier)
• First Experiences with WS-Discovery (Scott Seely)
• CSS3 Solutions for Internet Explorer (Louis Lazaris)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Specification-Context (Dave Laribee)
• DRY Violations May Indicate A Missed Modeling Opportunity (Derick Bailey)
• Combining Scrum, TFS2010 and Email to keep everyone in the loop (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Acceptance tests are not a by-product of development (Gojko Adzic)
• Better Code on a Budget and Training for Free (Jared Richardson)
• Developers, UX is not UI, learn that and stop trivializing! (Vibor Cipan)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• WTF Step by Step guide to installing Silverlight Tools (Adam Kinney)
• If found, please return to… [Using XAML to create a custom wallpaper image for your mobile device] (David Anson)
• Leveraging MEFedMVVM ExportViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 2 (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight Book Sample Chapter (Joel Cochran)
• Consuming WCF 4.0 REST Service in Windows Phone 7 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Silverlight and Dynamic Languages (Scott Wiltamuth)
• Instructions for profiling Silverlight (Desktop) with VS2010 RTM (Seema Ramchandani)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #7 – Localized Resources (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight 4 Getting Started (Corey Miller)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Michelle Leroux Bustamante Live in Dallas (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Listen Up! I’m on the Virtumania Podcast (Brent Ozar)
• Connected Show Podcast – All Mixed Up (Brian Johnson)
• Beth Massi on Visual Studio 2010; New Features in VB, C# (Eric Hagan)
• The Zen of Scrum (video) (Jurgen Appelo)
• The GeekDads Episode #66: It’s a Trap! (Ken Denmead)

Database

• SQL Server for the Oracle DBA Links (Buck Woody)
• A DMV a Day – Day 29 (Glenn Berry)
• How to Tell When SQL Server Started? (Joe Webb)
• Using SqlServer 2008 and TSQL Subtract 1 Hour From All Values In a DateTime Column (Peter Kellner)
• SQL SERVER – Disable Clustered Index and Data Insert (Pinal Dave)
• Count Rows in all the Tables of a SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (28/30) BULK_LOGGED recovery model (Paul S. Randal)

 

SharePoint

• Lightning Storm Forum Alerts (Nick Swan)
• Announcing Launch – May 12, 2010 (SharePoint Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Building your own game controller! (Coding4Fun)
• Over 325 DRM-free Microsoft Press ebooks now available (Devon Musgrave)
• PowerGUI Pro Technical Brief (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Windows Live Writer Facebook “Like” Plug-in (Greg Duncan)
• Product Feedback Systems (Jason Upton)
• Microsoft Signs Joomla Contributor Agreement (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Microsoft releases 3 new apps for the Zune HD (Uzair Ghani)
• A handy workflow image for newbie mercurial users (Leon Bambrick)
• No, Microsoft did not say Android steps on its IP (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Major LLVM Release! and Kohsuke Kawaguchi Talks Hudson and Daily Dose – HP to Buy Palm (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 29, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #590 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 28, 2010 — #850 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 28, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)

 

The Geek Shelf

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Top Links

• Pair Management (Michael Feathers)
• “Suggested Resources” Visual Studio Plug-In (Tom Hollander)
• SQL SERVER – Attach mdf file without ldf file in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Slim Xbox 360 and Natal bundle to debut at E3? (Vladislav Savov)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Enable or Disable a Breakpoint and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using Hide Selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 Multi-Monitor Support (Richard Carr)
• Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh (MS Downloads)
• Writing basic information to Excel files from a .NET application (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Web Development

• Server Driven Paging With WCF Data Services (Phani Raj)
• WCF, REST and URL Rewriting with Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• Twitter’s Many Geo APIs (Adam DuVander)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Small Step Refactoring: Overload Constructor (Mark Needham)
• RavenDB Performance Tweaks (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned from Seth Godin (J.D. Meier)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Events Deserialization (Jérémie Chassaing)
• If Self-Documenting Code is the What, Unit Tests are the Why (John Sonmez)
• Vanilla Scrum and Multi-Team Value Streams (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Elastic Collisions (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• A ?refreshing? Authentication/Authorization experience with Silverlight 4 (David Poll)
• Expression Blend 4 SDK for Windows Phone Streamlines Development (Bruce Kyle)
• Unit Testing Modal Dialogs in MVVM and Silverlight 4 (Slobodan Pavkov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 110 – PowerScripting Podcast – Andrew Mason from Microsoft on Server Core (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 10 – James Crisp live at the ALM Conference (Richard Banks)
• WSDAPI – Ralf Beckers about Web Services on Devices for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 (Jan Schenk)
• Major Nelson Show 358: Left4Dead’s The Passing, BioShock 2 MP DLC and Split/Second (Larry Hyrb)

 

Community / Events

• Road Trip with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell (Al Pascual)
• Coders Go the (Long) Distance for Imagine Cup (Lukas Velush)
• Great Indian Developer Summit Wrap-Up (Stephen Forte)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Books OnLine – available now… (Dukagjin Maloku)
• A DMV a Day – Day 26 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (25/30) fill factor (Paul S. Randal)
• Debugging 64 bit SSIS packages (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Forums in SharePoint 2010 (Lightning Tools)
• SharePoint PowerShell Forum (Dmitry Sotnikov)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Plug Computer (Mike Ceranski)
• Daily Dose – Android Market Reaches 50k Apps; Development Accelerates (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Word 2010 Navigation Pane and more and Outlook 2010 – My Top 9 features (Daniel Moth)
• Human Computer Interaction, A Portal to the Future (Hui MA)
• Job Hoppers Redux: An Employee’s Perspective (Mark Suster)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/26/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Finds: April 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #587 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 25, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2010 — #847 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 142 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Everyman on Putting Facebook Last, Next Killer Mobile App, Worker or Entrepreneur (Dave Burke)

 

The Geek Shelf

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Reflecting reality (Jimmy Bogard)
• TDDing an Interface – a Twitter influenced discussion (Brett Schuchert)
• The Impact of Staffing Practices on Software Quality and Productivity (Derick Bailey)
• Multiple roles (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Git For Windows Developers – Git Series – Part 3 (Jason Meridth)
• When Do I Use Interfaces? (K. Scott Allen)
• Pair Programming: So you don’t want to do it… (Mark Needham) – Link of the Day
• You’re Only as Busy as You Want Yourself to Be (Jurgen Appelo)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Algorithms in C#: shortest path around a polygon (polyline routing) (Kirill Osenkov)
• Stripping the Decimal From a Value in .NET (Rhonda Tipton)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• HTTP debugging for Silverlight developers (Mac OS X edition) (Dennis Dietric)

 

Web Development

• Managed Fusion URL Rewriter & Reverse Proxy – Release 3.0 (Nick Berardi)
• 50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design (Smashing Editorial)
• Javascript: Using ‘replace’ to make a link clickable (Mark Needham)
• Microsoft Releases Bing API – With No Usage Quotas (Michael Manoochehri)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows 7 Multi-touch proof of concept with Yell UK (Mike Taulty)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #363 (Chris Alcock)
• Links (6/7/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 97 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 05.24 ~ 05.31 (yuanjian)

 

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Windows 7 and the joy of good design (Dwight Silverman)
• Waiting, it isn’t as simple as twiddling your thumbs (Oren Eini)
• Subverting TDD as a design tool (Jimmy Bogard)
• Strict Mocks and Characterization Tests (Brett Schuchert)
• Testing that an event was raised (Roy Osherove)
• A Metaphor for Flow and Flaccid Kanban (Scott Bellware)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 2 (Rajiv Popat)
• yUML Direction Control and Scaling (Tobin Harris)
• Coding: Setters reduce trust and Pair Programming: It’s not about equal keyboard time (Mark Needham)
• Always Valid (Greg Young)
• Books I Recommend Often… (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Zentity v1.0 (MS Research)
• Model First in Entity Framework 4 (Gil Fink)
• Sandboxing in .NET 4.0 (Shawn Farkas)
• Getting to know ClickOnce Deployment (Karl Shifflett)
• Relaxing on the Couch(DB) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Can you make money on OSS tooling in the .NET world? (Oren Eini)
• What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 1 (Justin Van Patten)
• How We Do It: Building the Visual Studio Product Line (Beth Massi)
• Why doesn’t IEqualityComparer use Equals() in LINQ’s Intersect? (with a stroll down the lane of GetHashCode and the Birthday Paradox) (Billy McCafferty)
• Performance of Fibonacci numbers algorithms and .Net Framework 4.0: Introducing BigInteger and Visual Studio 2010: How to crash Windows 7 (Gunnar Peipman)
• MassTransit Saga Enhancements for Event Processing (Chris Patterson)
• Surface Development Part 5: Futures and Resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• Tangible T4 Editor for VS 2010 Beta 1 (VSX Team)
• M Language Changes Coming in Next CTP and Entity Framework Samples now in Visual Basic (Shawn Wildermuth)
• 5 Reasons to learn about extending VS 2010 (Quan To)
• Upgrading EF projects to EF4? Don’t forget to target .NET 4.0 and A Look at Lazy Loading in EF4 (Julie Lerman)

 

Web Development

• Cropping with ASP.Net (Coding4Fun)
• Friday Books – Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC Opinionated Software (Tony Rasa)
• Sueetie Profile Updates: Member Favorites (Dave Burke)
• Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009 (Simone Chiaretta)
• 9 New APIs: Google, Yahoo, Wolfram, plus Tweets, Jobs and Music (John Musser)
• Generate an image from a Photoshop file (.psd) in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 with Ria Authentication service (Thanigainathan Siranjeevi)
• WF\WPF sample using System.Xaml (Lester Lobo)
• SilverUnit Project Template and new version (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day
• Which came first, the View or the Model? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• 2 years ago I gave up on Silverlight (Karl Seguin)
• I’m committed to Two Tool Development (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Modularity in Prism (Erik Mork)
• Taskbar and Libraries .NET Library for Windows 7 and Multi-touch .NET Library for Windows 7 (Adam Kinney)
• This Week on C9: VS 2010 Beta 1, Windows API Code Pack, & a WPF Jukebox (Dan Fernandez)
• Jason Zander: Perspectives on Visual Studio 2008 and the Future of VS (Charles Torre)

 

Community / Events

• Architect Factory Coming to Microsoft NERD in Cambridge June 2nd (Bob Familiar)
• IASA New York IT Architect Regional Conference 2009 (Bill Zack)
• Windows Live Messenger Hackathon: May 27th (Sarah Perez)
• CANCELLED: Developer Dinner in Reston, Va (Marc Schweigert)
• Win a Free Seat to the Silverlight Tour at the Silverlight FireStarter DC! (Frank La Vigne)
• Publishers Offering Support for User Groups (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

Database

• DELETE TOP x rows avoiding a table scan and UPDATE and DELETE TOP and ORDER BY : Part 2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 – Register for the CTP (Simon Sabin)
• Here Is Yet Another Reason For Upgrading To SQL Server 2008 From SQL Server 2000 (Denis Gobo)
• Use guid.comb in your database if you need guid keys but don’t want to take a big performance hit (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Multi-Value Parameters in SSRS (Emtucifor)
• Table-valued parameters in SQL Server 2008 (Part 3) (Martin Bell)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint: SPList.Clear() extension method (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "MapLook" Outlook 2007 Add-In for Google Maps & Microsoft Virtual Earth (Blake Handler)
• US Government Launches Data.gov (Andres Ferrate)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 5: Presentation Settings for Visual Studio (Justin Etheredge)
• True Success (Sara J. Chipps)
• How to Motivate Programmers (Jeff Atwood)
• Wolfram Alpha searching for its niche (Tom Krazit)
• How to customize your CodePlex Work Item template, in a way – #035 and Filter by work items that you’re tracking (Sara Ford)
• Windows 7 – Seamless Apps in Windows Virtual PC (Virtual XP) and Application Compatibility (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Mobile 7: Still on Schedule (Stephen Chapman)
• A Visual History of the Internet (Steve Clayton)
• Do you have Truth Tables in your programming toolbox? (Jonathan Cogley)
• Thinking Big – Search Scale and Performance on a Budget (Nathan Treloar)
• Exclusive: Microsoft to remove 3 app limit from Windows 7 Starter (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Computing with a Silver Lining (Michael Sparks)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 22, 2009 and LINKBLOG for May 23, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: May 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2009 — #599 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 22nd (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 22nd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 05.18 ~ 05.24 (yuanjian)

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• 5 Minute Tutorial on Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) (Dan Morphis)
• Azure Services Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Using Method.Invoke to avoid a lengthy Case Statement in C# (Using Reflection) (Peter Kellner)
• NHibernate Mapping – Inheritance (Oren Eini)
• ReSharper 4.5 – Yup, now I’m a fan (Roland Weigelt)
• Rake and .NET: The Story Continues (Tobin Harris)
• Conditional Using (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• 101 LINQ Samples (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 6 keys to succeeding with distributed agile development (Andy Singleton)
• What is UX (User Experience)? (Jay Kimble)
• Pair Programming: The Code Fairy (Mark Needham)
• Simple Retrospectives (cbilson)
• Death by Architecture (Mike Walker) – Link of the Day

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Custom Bar Charts with the Silverlight Toolkit (Pete Brown)
• Scott Barnes’ Take on Silverlight 3 (John Papa)
• Silverlight 3 and Navigation Applications (Mike Taulty)
• VideoWiki Design Step 1 (Jesse Liberty)

 

Web Development

• Excerpt from ASP.NET MVC in Action Chapter 6 (Ben Scheirman)
• One Man’s Sueetie Development Environment Configuration (Dave Burke)
• jQuery Tabs and Friday Books – CSS The Definitive Guide (Dave M. Bush)
• Localization with ASP.NET MVC Using Routing (Alexander Böhm)
• Using jQuery with the ASP.NET CustomValidator Control (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Guaranteeing Disposal Of UserControls In ASP.NET (Davy Brion)
• Refactoring logic from an ASP.NET page – Part 2 (Jonathan Cogley)
• DataAnnotations and ASP.NET MVC (Brad Wilson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutae-five with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)
• RichText Editior in Silverlight and more from DevExpress (Adam Kinney)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #100: Learning the Template Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• The History of Microsoft – 1984 (Tina)

 

Community / Events

• Our new digs are official: IndyHall moves to a larger office on May 1st, 2009 (Alex Hillman)
• IASA NE Chapter Meeting April 2009 – Inside SaaS (Bob Familiar)
• Planning for VS Live in Vegas! (Brad Abrams)
• Dimecasts.net releases its 100th episode today….W00t (Derik Whittaker)
• Tales from the Coding Dojo (JP Hamilton)
• Help Support Open Source Software – I Mean You! (Eric Hexter)
• Elegant Code Welcomes Brian Lagunas and Corey Schuman (Jarod Ferguson)
• What’s your social media story? (Kenji Yamaguchi)

 

SharePoint

• Calling the SharePoint Web Services with jQuery (Jan Tielens)

 

Database

• From the I did not know this would work department (Denis Gobo)

 

PowerShell

• Configuring PowerShell for Remoting – Part 2 (Fan-In) (Krishna Vutukuri)

 

Miscellaneous

• Virtual Earth 3D (Beta) (MS Downloads)
• Twittering Cat Door Finally Makes Twitter a Viable Business (Adam Frucci)
• NHibernate in Action 2nd Edition – Your Opinion (Tobin Harris)
• CodePlex Tips Gadget and Email Notifications for Work Item Changes (Sara Ford)
• Visualizing Last.fm with Seadragon (Sarah Perez)
• Team System Website Overhaul – What do you Think? (Stephanie Saad)
• Tweetmeme Plugin for Windows Live Writer (Steve Clayton)
• New in Gmail Labs: Inserting images (Kent Tamura)
• Sex, Lies, and Software Development (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #325 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #110 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for April 09, 2009 — #567 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (4/9/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 312 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for April 9th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

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