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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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