Top Links

• Task Parallel Library for Silverlight 2.0 (and WP7) (Robert McLaws & Jrmie "Garuma" Laval)
• Premature cries of Silverlight / WPF skill loss. Windows 8 supports all programming models (David Burela)
• Should You Upgrade Your WP7 App to Mango? (Shawn Wildermuth)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Walking the Stack Without Symbols and With FPO (Frame Pointer Omission) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Book review: Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook (Maarten Balliauw)

Web Development

• Creating Basic RSS Reader in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Reference to Value (Giorgio Sironi)
• Studio for Wijmo MVC Review (Steve Michelotti)
• Photo Mosaics Part 5: Queues (Jim O’Neil)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone: Adding Mango features to a 7.0 WinPhone App (Morten Nielsen)
• Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 3: Going visual with screens (Gill Cleeren)
• Ensure Your Apps are Published in All Markets (Mike Ormond)
• 2000 WPF Things #369 – Binding a Label’s Content to the Current Date and Time (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 170: Todd Anglin on HTML5 (David Giard)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 62 – Team Structure (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)

Database

• SQL Server: Limit Millisecond Part in DateTime2 Datatype (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Query Techniques For Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Book Available for SQL Server Certification and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – All about SQL Constraints – Day 22 of 35 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Skype acquires Microsoft BizSpark partner GroupMe (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup 079 for 8/22/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #921 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2011 – 2 — #1134 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery: Novice to Ninja by Earle Castledine

• MonoDevelop on Lion (Miguel de Icaza)
• Machine.Specifications for ReSharper 6 now available (Hadi Hariri)
• Build Your Next Game with the Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games (Windows Azure Team)
• The Current State of Parallel Computing (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows Phone Developers Get New App Hub Features: Mango app submission just one month away (Todd Brix)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating a simple bootstrapper – Project template (Rory Primrose)
• C# Conditional Preprocessor Directives (Richard Carr)
• Rx, TPL, Async CTP–Oh My (Mike Taulty)
• Revisiting ‘There be Dragons’, with reader suggestions (Bill Wagner)
• Manual Stack Walking (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Kinecting the Dots: Adding Buttons to your Kinect Application (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• The Good Parts, Patterns, and a Cookbook of Javascript (Adron Hall)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Class and Phantom JS: an alternative to Selenium (Giorgio Sironi)
• Tankster, a Social Game Built for Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• Building a tree diagram in D3.js (Pavan Podila)
• How to highlight current page’s top/main navigation link (Svetoslav Marinov)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• tSQLt Unit Testing (George Mastros)
• Stop Blaming Waterfall (David J. Bland)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part X–Architecture for the Space Age (Oren Eini)
• Mockups 2.1 is coming soon: a new font, a new era! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Fake a member without worrying about passing the dependency (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7 App Price Changes with new App Hub and MVVM in real life Windows Phone applications Part1 (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPF Application Framework (WAF) – Release: v2.0.0.390 (CodePlex)
• NotSupportedException w/ Sql CE on WP7 Mango (Derik Whittaker)
• WPF Toolkit ported to .Net 4.0 and VS 2010 (John Rayner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 117: Llewellyn Falcon on Approval Tests (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• The GeekDads Episode #96: A Gushing Flow of Plot Points (Ken Denmead)
• Defrag: SSD Questions, Tagging Files, Mirroring Drives, Hardware Hacks (Larry Larsen)
• SE Podcast #12 (Alex Miller)
• BTC: Henry Sanders – More than an Engineer (Charles Torre & Robert Hess)
• Interview: IASA CEO Paul Preiss – Part 2 of 2 (Bob Rhubart)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 2 (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Microsoft talks more about Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango” (damaster)

Community / Events

• MADExpo Keynote Videos (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming Agile Coach Camps (David Bulkin)

Database

• SQL Server “Denali”: New Certifications (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Data Warehouseing Concepts – Day 21 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – String Formatting using FORMAT() (Vishal)

SharePoint

• Introduction to the Sharepoint Integration with Azure (chilakapati)
• The question of Sharepoint and the Microsoft BI Strategy (Chris Webb)
• Deleting SharePoint Orphans – Missing in SiteMap (Joel Oleson)
• Project Crecent demo (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

Miscellaneous

• Music Subscription Faceoff: How Does Spotify Measure Up? [INFOGRAPHIC] (Brenna Ehrlich)
• Developers – Learn how to bring data from Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive to your mobile apps (Dare Obasanjo)
• InfoPath Upgrade: How do I export an Admin InfoPath Form? (Joel Oleson)
• Photo Mosaics Part 1: Application Workflow (Jim O’Neil)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide – Only $5.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDXNG (O’Reilly Media)
• 36 Resources To Help You Teach Kids Programming (Rob Diana)
• Display Plus Sign in Excel if Value is Positive (Steve Smith)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – July 20 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 202 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Daily WP7 Development News 20 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2011 — #1119 (Dave Campbell)
• Today’s Links (7/20/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #899 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 07/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Twets 19-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn

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Top Links

• Kinect for Xbox 360 review (Ross Miller)
• ListPicker? I hardly even know ‘er! [A detailed overview of the Windows Phone Toolkit's ListPicker control] (David Anson)
• Using the Task Parallel Library with ASP.NET MVC for scalable web applications (Mike Hadlow)
• Deep Dive on Closure Pitfalls (Peter Ritchie)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Mixed WCF endpoint bindings for hosted workflow services (Rory Primrose)
• Get Rid of the Splash Screen (Zain Naboulsi)
• Enterprise Library roadmap (Grigori Melnik)
• XBLIG: 4.0 Submission Opens on App Hub This Friday (Team XNA)
• How to create a quick installer to deploy your apps using Null Soft Scriptable Installer System (NSIS) – It is Small, Free and flexible (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• AppFabric Cache – Deploying cache servers and cache clients on different Active Directory Domains (Rama Ramani)
• Getting Good at Parallel (with NxtGenUG) and Getting good at Parallel: 1 – Cancellation (Josh Twist)
• Rate your calls: Type Constraint Or Type Evaluation (Abhishek Sur)
• XmlPoking vsixmanifests with Psake / Powershell (Naeem Khedarun)
• StreamInsight Query Pattern: Find the top category (using Order By, Take and ApplyWithUnion) (Mark Simms)

Web Development

• ASP.NET & ADO.NET Code Samples Collections (Joe Stagner)
• Fetching Namespaced XML Elements With SimpleXML (Lorna Jane)
• ASP.NET: Converting X-Forwarded-For To REMOTE_HOST (Jon Davis)
• #Ebook Deal/Day – Learning Python, 4th Ed. $18.99 (Save 53%) Code DDRP4 (O’Reilly Media)
• How to scroll the browser using JQuery (Martin Beeby)
• One Official Boat-load of Web-Dev Cheat Sheets (Greg Duncan)
• Sub-pixel Fonts in IE9 (Ted Johnson)
• 10K Apart (Nishant Kothary & Joshua Allen)
• How to use IIS Manager to get Worker Processes (w3wp.exe) details information ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Subtext 2.5.2: now works 100% in Medium Trust (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• State of Agile (David Hicks)
• A Response To “What Is An Interface” By John Sonmez (Derick Bailey)
• Seven key ideas of real quality assurance (Gojko Adzic)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Minimal Fixture (Giorgio Sironi)
• CQRS Architecture and Definitions (Rinat Abdullin)
• NServiceBus Updates (Udi Dahan)
• Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples (MS Downloads)
• Ndepend to the resque (Al Kampfer)
• Software Development Methodologies (Andrew Phillips)
• Dynamic Prototyping (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Understanding Project Management Maturity: People, Process, and Tools (Dux Raymond Sy)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Design Team joining the conversation (Albert Shum)
• XNA Back Buffers and the Status Bar (Charles Petzold)
• Extra Extra Silverlight is Dead, What? (Dani Diaz)
• Place your bets! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• More on Silverlight for Windows Embedded and Andy Wigley on Silverlight Embedded with .NET (Don Burnett)
• Walking Robot Series In WPF — Part 1: Triangles, Rectangles, And Cubes (Gary Miller)
• Tips for debugging WP7 media apps with WPConnect (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Ria Services – Entity Default Values (Greg Gum)
• Introducing ThemeMatic–WPF Theme Generation Tool (LearnWPF)
• Building the new PDC Trivia Application (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Designers and Developers at DevReach! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• This Developer’s Life 1.0.7 Audacity (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Clemens Vasters and Maggie Myslinska: Service Bus Enhancements (Wade Wegner)

Community / Events

• Building Software: Ayende’s way (Oren Eini)
• Come debate the future of Silverlight! (Stephen Forte)
• Toronto Area SharePoint Saturday: Saturday November 13th at Microsoft Canada HQ (Joey deVilla)
• All NHibernate Day materials and videos are online (Simone Chiaretta)
• patterns & practices Symposium – Redmond 2010 (materials) (MS Downloads)

Database

• Search all Stored Procedures where a Table is referenced – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• PARTITION BY clause works incorrectly when in nested select over large volumes of data (aedna)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Last Backup Time for All Database (Pinal Dave)
• Proof that CPU Power Matters (Brent Ozar)
• Expression Based Interactive Sorting using Reporting Services 2008 – Part 2 Dynamic Sort By (Brian K. McDonald)
• Service Broker – SQL Server Connections (Steve Jones)
• In defense of transactional replication as an HA technology (Paul S. Randal)
• 10 things in MySQL (that won’t work as expected) (Quassnoi)

SharePoint

• Upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Planning (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Slowly Euthanizes Xbox Indie Games (Michael C. Neel)
• Searching Stack Overflow The Easy Way (Another Reason To Use Google Chrome) (Nick Berardi)
• The State of Learning in the Workplace Today (Sumeet Moghe)
• Why Open Source is Better for Your Business than Microsoft (Rob Bazinet)
• Today is a good day to be in Redmond (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft lets slip that we can expect Windows 7 SP 1 by March 2011 (Steven Hodson)
• Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special Extended to March 31, 2011 (Windows Azure Team)
• Red Gate Labs on a shoestring (Richard Mitchell)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 3, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 3 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #722 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/04/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators by Niklas Goude

Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 5 – IResult and Coroutines (Rob Eisenberg)
• The ThreadPool is dead (Josh Twist)
• Developing for the Windows Phone 7 – Part 4: Tombstoning (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Philly Code Camp 2010.2 – Sponsors and Philly Code Camp 2010.2 – ASP.NET Track (Nick Berardi)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Database Guide (Pieter de Bruin)
• Re: How to change the default browser in Visual Studio programmatically and NGem (Daniel Fisher)
• LINQ Joins (Richard Carr)
• Syncing Visual Studio settings (David Vidmar)
• Creating a RESTful WCF service and Sending parameters to a RESTful WCF service (Dennis Delimarsky)
• CodePlex ClickOnce publishing from directly within Visual Studio (Greg Duncan)
• Modified Description of Adding Inheritance into T4 Template from Chapter 18 and Chapter List for Programming Entity Framework, 2nd Edition and Designing Repositories – Now I don’t feel so bad (Julie Lerman)
• Visual T4 for Visual Studio 2010 and Hello World of VS (Daniel Cazzulino)
• WF 4 Persistence, Tracking, and Bookmarks: Practical Approach (Mohamad Halabi)
• Developing A ‘touchy’ Twitter browser – Using Visual Studio 2010 + Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch devices beta (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• How to change the default browser in Visual Studio programmatically with PowerShell and possibly poke yourself in the eye (Scott Hanselman)
• Show Previous Versions and Open With and Using Custom File Extension Associations and Understanding Find Symbol (Zain Naboulsi)
• Hidden Toolbox Search feature in VS 2010 (Brian Noyes)
• Introducing Code Contracts (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Castle Windsor (incl. Core with DynamicProxy and Dictionary Adapter) v2.5 final is out (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Removing Event Handlers using Reflection (Hedley Muscroft)
• Extension method: DateTime.IsInFuture() and Extension method: IEnumerable<DateTime?>.AreChronological() (Jef Claes)
• Coroutines for Asynchronous Sequential Workflows using Reactive Extensions (Rx) (Jeremy Likness)
• Reading Barcodes from an Image – II (James Fitch)

Web Development

• Article:Book Excerpt and Interview: Pro HTML5 Programming (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 – Razor View Engine (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Creating a sitemap module for Orchard (Rudi Grobler)
• How to Get Started with the Windows Azure CDN (Windows Azure Team)
• The Web is Not Platform Independent (John Sonmez)
• The Web is all about Composition (Mark Nijhof)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Setting up database unit testing as part of a Continuous Integration build process [VS2010 DB Tools - Datadude] (Jamie Thomson)
• Day 20 – Ask Better Questions, Get Better Results and Day 22 – Design Your Day with Skill (J.D. Meier)
• Distributed Agile: Initial observations and Ultimate configurability (Mark Needham)
• A Design Is Only As Deep As It Is Usable (Louis Lazaris)
• Book Review: Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Some thoughts on Application Architecture (Rockford Lhotka)
• Note on the Productivity and Managing Tasks and Rx works nicely with DDD and Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
• How Big Is Your Bucket? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The Power of Simplicity (Eric Daugherty)
• Waste #1: Partially Done Work (Michael Stine)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 + Windows Azure = Cool Game Platform (Bob Familiar)
• Sending toast notifications on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• BindingNavigator for WPF (Part 2 – Using) (Christian Nagel)
• Silverlight UI testing with Selenium and Ruby (Louis Salin)
• Effective Data Representation in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) using Data Triggers (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.12 Review (Michael Crump)
• Passing Data Between Pages (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Windows Phone 7 and Image Overlays (Nick Randolph)
• MediaElement, MediaPlayerLauncher and ApplicationBar in Windows Phone (Ricky Tan)
• BindingFinder-Utility (and sample code) to find all Bindings in a XAML UI project (Rob Relyea)
• My favorite of the leaked Windows Phone 7 handset images (Steven Hodson)
• A Pluggable Architecture for Building Silverlight Applications with MVVM (Weidong Shen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 366: Shank, Summer of Arcade ends and more (Larry Hyrb)
• TWC9: Windows Phone videos, MVC for HTML 5, CoApp, Lab Management RTM (Dan Fernandez)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 228 – Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Engadget Podcast 209 – 08.20.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• ARCast.TV – Rocky Lhotka on Patterns, Architecture and MVVM (Bob Familiar)
• Windows Weekly 170: The Little Dicky Mouse (Paul Thurrott)
• WinExtra on Windows Ep. 15: Adapting for the future (Steven Hodson)
• CodeTV: What is Windows Azure (Tanzim Saqib)
• Montage of Windows Phone 7 Ads and Partner Messaging (Don Burnett)
• Technology & Friends Episode 112: Phil Winstanley on Exception Driven Development (David Giard)
• Start-Up Podcast Show #80 Josh Clark, Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps (Bob Walsh)
• Implementing Parallel Patterns using .NET 4 (Stephen Toub)
• Screen cast – Developing A ‘touchy’ Twitter browser using Surface toolkit for Windows Touch devices beta (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Behind The Curtain – Episode #2 (Michael Lehman)
• King of Bing Maps: Winners Announced! (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Followup on the Latest Microsoft Connect SUX Post and The Tech Events Initiatives (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• I’ll be presenting at the New York City SharePoint User Group, September 1 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows Phone Jump Start Still Jumping (Rob Miles)
• Develop With Passion® is teaming up with Skills Matter (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Speaking at Tech.Ed Next Week (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Free SilverlightShow Webinar: Running Silverlight Outside the Browser and with Elevated Trust (Svetla Stoycheva)
• Introduction to MongoDB – A Free Live Webcast – August 24 @ 10am PT (O’Reilly Media)
• DBA Tracy Hamlin Wins the 2010 Exceptional DBA of the Year Award (Brad M. McGehee)
• Social Media – The Way of Becoming Antisocial (James R. Eggers)
• Happy News on The jQuery Course (Marc Grabanski)
• MSDN Event: Parallelism in Visual Studio 2010 – Redux (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Windows phone developers join me at Teched EMEA (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Microsoft Intern Tony Menard on video game testing and white water rafting (Ariel Meadow Stallings)

Database

• Convert VarChar to Currency in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Storage – Part 2 and SQL SERVER – Computed Columns – Index and Performance and SQL SERVER – ORDER BY Does Not Work – Limitation of the Views Part 1 (Pinal Dave)
• Difference between @@IDENTITY, SCOPE_IDENTITY, IDENT_CURRENT (Samrat Banerjee)
• The Lazy DBA Series: SQL Trace / Profiler and The Lazy DBA Series: Monitoring (Ted Krueger)
• Where did the SQL Server Profiler Template disappear? and SQL Server Profiler and the C drive space issue (Pradeep Adiga)
• Don’t, don’t, don’t change the server name if you are using replication (Simon Sabin)
• Application databases and external integration points and Database assisted denormalization (Oren Eini)
• Using SORT_IN_TEMPDB to improve Index Performance (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Differential backup of master database? (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• Become The Next Photoshop Evangelist (Ben Forta)
• Office 15: What’s Microsoft’s new mystery application? (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Microsoft: Kinect on PC ‘a possibility’ (Tim Ingham)
• Microsoft Office 15 details and screenshots leak (Andrew Lyle)
• Beginner Developer Learning Center – Find your path to success! and How Bing is out-innovating Google (Bob Familiar)
• Microsoft’s Phoenix takes flight (maybe) (Ed Bott)
• A Quick guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell Part-4. (Md. Marufuzzaman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Algorithms in a Nutshell – Only $9.99. Use code DDAN9 (O’Reilly Media)
• A Recipe to Promote your Site (Robert Cartaino)
• Guest tools for Hyper-V – Change your DVD from within the guest (Simon Sabin)
• Using C#-style Events In Ruby (Davy Brion)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 20, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 21, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2010 — #928 and Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2010 – 2 — #929 and Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2010 — #930 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 20, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 21, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Transmedia and the Distributed Story, Where Freemium Begins, The Wiki Requirement (Dave Burke)
• Distributed Weekly 64 (Scott Banwart)
• Weekly Link Post 158 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #670 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Expert WCF 4: Maximizing Windows Communication Foundation by Shy Cohen

Top Links

• Silverlight in Action Book Excerpt: Creating a Custom Panel (Pete Brown)
• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 2 – Customizing The Bootstrapper (Rob Eisenberg)
• A Quick Introduction to Dependency Injection using StructureMap (Dane Morgridge)
• Looking for work? Wanting to contribute? (Arian T. Kulp)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Removing the Ceremony from C# (Jim Burger)
• Dynamic in F#: Reading data from SQL database (Tomas Petricek)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First C#, 2nd Ed – Only $9.99. Use code DDHF2 (O’Reilly Media)
• Productivity Improvements for the Entity Framework (Rowan Miller)
• Debugging MSBuild script with Visual Studio (2) (Dan Moseley)
• Navigate Among Control Groups in the Toolbox (Zain Naboulsi)
• Generic Method Dispatch (Sasha Goldshtein)
• CSLA 4 release candidate available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Nice OData shout-out (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Fun with VS2010 Ultimate: Comparing SQL Data (Zubair Ahmed)

Web Development

• How WebMatrix, Razor, ASP.NET Web Pages and MVC fit together (David Ebbo)
• The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 23: Baby Got Postbacks, a Preamble (Evan Nagle)
• Building HTML in jQuery and JavaScript (Marc Grabanski)
• WebMatrix Beta in pictures (Gunnar Peipman)
• Friday Algorithms: JavaScript Bubble Sort (Stoimen Popov)
• Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 2 Adding Database Support (Chris Love)
• Subtext vNext: which features would you like and on which framework? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Will WebMatrix win over the LAMP crowd? (Stephen Forte)
• Apache Cayenne 3.0 faster and easier, Microsoft launches WebMatrix, a free dev suite and Ruby 1.9.2 is on its way (Sara Allison)
• Cloud Security Threats and Countermeasures at a Glance (J.D. Meier)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Incremental Requirements (James Shore)
• "Refactoring" Notes (Keith Dahlby)
• Mercurial workflows: local development work (Jimmy Bogard)
• The Math of Mediocrity (Charles Chen)
• Do Story Points Relate to Complexity or Time? Response (Rob Reynolds)
• Parallel Programming with Microsoft® .NET (Ade Miller)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Meet the Windows Phone 7 Rockstar team – Beastware (Anand Iyer)
• Slingbox Maker Sling Media Describes Cross-Platform Commitment to Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)
• XAML Compliance Suite v1 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• Silverlight Media Framework 2 released–integrate with Live Writer (Tim Heuer)
• Deep Zoom in Action (Sara Allison)
• Faking It… (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 87: Jeff Atwood on Area 51 and Stack Overflow (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon, Kevin Dente & K. Scott Allen)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 42 Introducing WebMatrix (Matthew Osborn & Federico Silva)
• Ch9Live at Tech.Ed NA 2010 – Ask Mark Russinovich Anything… LIVE! (Nic Fillingham)
• Scott Hanselman on ASP.NET MVC 2 Basics (Frank La Vigne)
• jQuery Essentials Slideshow, Version 2 (Marc Grabanski)

Community / Events

• @ElijahManor is Looking for a jQuery &| ASP.NET MVC Job (Elijah Manor)
• We’ll be at PASS in November – will you? (Paul S. Randal)
• Oh…. ‘I do like to be beside the C# Side’ – Win tickets to FEST10 (Rory Becker)
• Signup for MvcConf – Virtual ASP.Net MVC Conference (Eric Hexter)
• Are you a developer or designer in the NYC/NJ/PA/VA/MD area currently working on a Windows Phone 7 application? Let me know about it! (Dave Isbitski)
• SQLAuthority News – I am a MVP and I Love SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• 5 Organizations Helping Women Get Ahead in Tech (Emily Goligoski)

Database

• Check If Stored Procedure Exists, Else Drop It and Recreate – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Free SSRS Training – SQL Lunch #23 (SSRS R2 – Shared Datasets & Report Parts) (Patrick LeBlanc)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: MySQL High Availability – Only $9.99 Use code DDMHA (O’Reilly Media)
• Creating Models from Databases with Billions of Tables (Julie Lerman)

Miscellaneous

• Windows to Mac transition – Not for me (Brian Noyes)
• More Windows 8 hints, this time on the virtualization front (Mary-Jo Foley)
• OneNote Calendar Planner Add-in Upgraded for OneNote 2010 (Blake Handler)
• AROS Gets Media Center (Don Burnett)
• Why I love Ruby (John V. Petersen)
• Multithreaded Robocopy (K. Scott Allen)
• Rumor: Beta of "Vail" and "Aurora" to be available next week (Owen Williams)
• Xbox Live Formula Working for Microsoft (Richard Hay)
• Nearly 50% of Windows 7 PCs run 64-bit versions (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #639 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 8, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Resources (Frank La Vigne)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• July 9th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, WPF, VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)

The Geek Shelf

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans

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Top Links

• Deq: Extend your favorite Mock framework with Moles (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Windows Phone 7 – Emulator Automation (Justin Angel)
• Getting Lazy with System.Lazy (Derik Whittaker)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Setting up the application (Oren Eini)
• Expression Blend 4 Sketch Mockups Library (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Got Workloads? Git-R-Done faster with the new Parallel Processing capabilities in NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 (Jeff Barnes)
• C# 4.0 – Beginners look into parallel programming (Richard McCutchen)
• Format the Current Document or Selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to live forever (if you’re a CLR object) (Kirill Osenkov)
• LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.11 and patterns & practices – GAX Extensions Library for gax2010 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API (Part 1) (Scott Mitchell)
• Opinionated ASP.NET MVC 2 Template Helpers (Elijah Manor)
• Exception Handling Best Practices in ASP.NET Web Applications (Janko Jovanovic)
• Caveats of C# 4.0 optional parameters (Jimmy Bogard)
• 5 Tools For Integrating HTML5 Video in Your Website (Christina Warren)
• MVC Turbine v2.1 RTM (Javier G. Lozano)
• Can not Load Type – Starting the ASP.NET Web Site Admin Tool (Joe Stagner)
• HTML5 And Flash: Why It’s Not A War, And Why Flash Won’t Die (Luke Reimer)
• Most Common ASP.NET Support issues – Reporting from deep inside Microsoft Developer Support (Scott Hanselman)
• Web Hosting That Makes a Difference (Microsoft Web Platform Team)
• jPageFlipper – Release v0.9 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Finally an authoritative source on the Kanban method and Agile in a Start-up Games Development Studio (Gojko Adzic)
• NCover 3.4.4: Updates and Improvements (Stephen Ward)
• On Shifting Perspectives and Changing Responsibilities Part 3 (Tom Barker)
• Leadership and the mature team (Roy Osherove)
• patterns & practices – Windows Azure Guidance – Part 1 (RC) and StyleCop+ – Release v0.7 (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Making the ScrollViewer Talk in Silverlight 4 (Jeremy Likness)
• TreeView Drag Drop in Silverlight (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Customizing the ProgressBar control in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 80: RxJS with Jeffrey van Gogh and Matt Podwysocki (Jon Galloway)
• Office Casual: How to work from home with confidence (Tina Wood)
• Bart De Smet: Observations on IQbservable – The Dual of IQueryable (Charles Torre)
• MSDN Radio: A Dive into Windows 7 with Mark Russinovich (Emily Gibson)

Community / Events

• Embracing Community (Chris Williams)
• Windows Server and Azure AppFabric virtual launch May 20th (Scott Hanselman)
• Silverlight 4 Business Application Development for Beginners at NWA TechFest (Eve Turzillo)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 8 Released and SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 1 (Build 1702) Released (Glenn Berry)
• How to use T-SQL to get the command line startup parameters that were used to start SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Report Builder 3.0 – Using Report Parts (Patrick LeBlanc)
• RavenDB goes live! (Oren Eini)
• List of Database Engine Error Messages (Suprotim Agarwal)
• RavenDB – How stale do you want it? (Rob Ashton)
• Why Use Schemas? (Brent Ozar)
• ReportViewer Projects Don’t Transmogrify (William Vaughn)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Search – Experiences with SearchBeta – Hardware (Dan Blood)

Miscellaneous

• 7 Windows 7 Registry Hacks (Matthew Murray)
• More Google Chrome OS Screenshots (Alex Chitu)
• There’s a Reason It’s Free – Get Over It… (Ben Kepes)
• It’s official: Microsoft is out of the Vista doghouse (Ed Bott)
• WIX and Custom Actions (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Mapping a SkyDrive Folder in Windows Explorer II (an even easier way than before) (Greg Duncan)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: Be More Productive with Office and Project 2010 (Bill Raymond)
• Microsoft Reinvents Hotmail with Tons of Features to Seriously Take on Gmail (Uzair Ghani)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 18, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 18-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 05.18.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for May 18, 2010 — #864 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #603 (Chris Alcock)

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Kanban

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Top Links

• Back to (Parallel) Basics: Do you really want to do that? or Why doesn’t the new Parallel.For support BigInteger? (Scott Hanselman)
• The Three Pillars of Xbox LIVE on Windows Phone (Andre Vrignaud)
• Dell Lightning Specs and Launch Date (Windows Phone 7) (Taimur Asad)
• The Best Way to Keep Your Product Moving Forward (Jared Richardson)
• A Guide to Parallel Programming – Drafts of Preface and Chapters 1 (Ade Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Declarative Security and Reflection (Shawn Farkas)
• Test View Issue: An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame (Charles Sterling)
• Start Extending Visual Studio 2010! (Richa Prasad)
• Using Code Snippets and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Pin a DataTip to source (Zain Naboulsi)
• Network List Manager API wrapped for .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New Release: Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (J.D. Meier)
• ReSharper 5.0’s LINQ Refactoring Continues to be Amazing! (Peter Kellner)
• Actions, Step and Rules (Rob DuWors)
• VS 2010 Debugger Improvements (BreakPoints, DataTips, Import/Export) (Scott Guthrie)
• Try Mono.Cecil if you need System.Reflection.Emit in Windows Phone 7 (Michael Sync)
• Immutable instances and deferred references (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Capturing Filtered Windows Events with Windows Azure Diagnostics and Call DiagnosticMonitor.Start() Only Once (Steve Marx)
• UppercuT and Mercurial (hg) (Rob Reynolds)

Web Development

• Facebook Makes Huge API Changes – Open Graph Protocol and Much More (Andres Ferrate)
• Applying CSS Styling via Metadata (Stephen Naughton)
• Meet the Lovely Lucene at Sueetie.com (Dave Burke)
• Inside The CSS Working Group (Sylvain Galineau)
• Asynchrony in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Resource Usage: IoC Containers And Large Object Graphs and Expressive Code: Good Variable Names Instead Of Magic Values And Calculations (Derick Bailey)
• The Elephant and the Rider (J.D. Meier)
• Sogeti TMAP process template certified and ready (Clemens Reijnen)
• Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 (Kirill Osenkov)
• Lured in by the complexity (Mark Needham)
• Interview: Patrick Kua : Agile Coach (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF

• International Radio Operators Alphabet in F# & Silverlight – Part 1 (Mark Pearl)
• Avatar Mosaic -Experimenting with the Artefact Animator (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #1 – Using Static Resources in Class Libraries (Mike Snow)
• Get a Silverlight XAP signing certificate for cheap thanks to GoDaddy (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dan Fernandez Live in Los Angeles (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Welcome to Docs – Video Tutorial and Getting Started for Docs – Video Tutorial (Amy Sorokas)
• Introducing Docs for Facebook: Making Your Documents Social (Charles Torre)
• Brian Noyes on MVVM, Prism, and Silverlight 4 (Eric Hagan)
• Tech-Ed is About the "Stuff" You Can Use Today and Concurrency Visualizer High Speed Tour (Larry Larsen)
• endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric in action monitoring and troubleshooting and endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric – Configuring Monitoring Data (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Lover, Interested to attend TEC2010 from Apr 25-28, 2010 in LAX for FREE? (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Join Microsoft Technical Fellow for a Roundtable Discussion About Launching Windows 7 in an Enterprise Organization (Joseph Mirabella)
• Need Unit Testing Academy then join TypeMock Academy (Muhammad Mosa)
• Your Story: Interviewing at Microsoft by new hire Thom Mitchell – Part I (Thom Mitchell)
• Awkward: The Other Microsoft Interview Story (Pete Brown)

Database

• List of Undocumented Stored Procedures in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 (MS Downloads)
• That No SQL Thing: Document Database Migrations (Oren Eini)
• #SQLR2 Launch Goofs (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 Supports PDO (PHP Data Objects) (Bruce Kyle)
• Which Edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 should you use? (Buck Woody)
• A DMV a Day – Day 22 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Create Primary Key with Specific Name when Creating Table (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS code smell – Unused columns in the dataflow (Jamie Thomson)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (21/30) corruption can be fixed by restarting SQL Server (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Server 2008 R2: Helping Customers Get More Value Out of Their Data (Ted Kummert)
• Do you use disable index or drop index when running your ETL processes in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Announcing the CMIS Connector for SharePoint (Ryan Duguid)

Miscellaneous

• Getting Mediaencoder working with Windows 7 and Windows Vista –and Video capture with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (Charles Sterling)
• Coding4Fun Cannon – Building the Robot (Clint Rutkas)
• Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 is now available for everyone to download – not just OEMs (Imran Hussain)
• More Amazon S3 cmdlets and PowerPack (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Apple seeking to acquire ARM? (Sadat Karim)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming the iPhone User Experience – Only $9.99 use code DDPTP (O’Reilly Media)
• Introducing Docs for Facebook (Dominic Carr)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 21, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #585 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 21, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 21, 2010 — #843 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders

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Top Links

• An Address on the Craft (David Starr)
• Querying the Future With Reactive Extensions (Phil Haack)
• Foursquare Shows Why You Should Be Excited About Windows Phone 7 Apps (Matt Buchanan)
• Comments on the SDTimes article (Ted Neward)
• MEF CompositionInitializer for WPF (Reed Copsey)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# async on the client side (Brian McNamara)
• Using Solution Folders (Zain Naboulsi)
• Free ebook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (DRAFT Preview) (Devon Musgrave)
• Parallelism in .NET – Part 16, Creating Tasks via a TaskFactory (Reed Copsey)
• Self Validation in Validation Application Block (Gil Fink)
• Thoughts on versioning data services (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Raise of Hands: Do you use the Surface Simulator? Do you use the Surface Simulator APIs? (Luis Cabrera)
• NBody.net Code Available (Ade Miller)

Web Development

• Using jQuery to Insert a New Database Record (Stephen Walther)
• Do Initialization in OnStart() (Steve Marx)
• Google Analytics and jQuery, happy together (Wesley Bakker)
• DOM Level 3 Events support in IE9 (Travis Leithead)
• Standards Documentation for IE7 and IE8 (Adrian Bateman)
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook! (Gunther Lenz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Architecture Journal Topics Model, Processes (Bruce Kyle)
• Programmer Tip: Being The Best Purple Cow You Can Become. (Rajiv Popat)
• Don’t Give Up on the State Pattern Just Yet – Revisited (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Test Manager 2010 Test Plans (Clemens Reijnen)
• How to write custom static code analysis rules and integrate them into Visual Studio 2010 (Duke Kamstra)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Authentication and Personalization (Brad Abrams)
• Book Excerpt: The Silverlight Layout System (Pete Brown)
• Discover How to Move from Flash to Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)
• When you have two good options, go with the easier one [Tip: Set DependencyProperty default values in a class's default style if it's more convenient] (David Anson)
• Exploring Design-Time Data in Blend 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• OpenFileDialog sample (Margaret Parsons)
• iPhone SDK vs. Windows Phone 7 Series SDK Challenge, Part 2: MoveMe (Shawn Burke)
• Windows Phone 7 in 7 – Learning how to develop for Windows Phone 7, in 7 minute blocks… [Coming soon, starting April 5th] and Application Bar Icons for your Windows Phone 7 development (Greg Duncan)
• A JOURNEY INTO SILVERLIGHT ON WINDOWS PHONE -VIA Learning Windows Phone Programming (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Displaying 2D QR barcodes in Windows Phone applications (Jeff Wilcox)
• Windows Phone 7 development: first impressions (Gunnar Peipman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 49: Getting the Right Message about NServiceBus with Udi Dahan (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: MIX Wrapup, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Phone 7 Tutorials (Dan Fernandez & Clint Rutkas)
• Windows Weekly 149: Ask The Beavers (Paul Thurrott)
• Channel 9 Live at MIX10: Javascript Panel with Douglas Crockford, John Resig & Erik Meijer (Nic Fillingham)
• Pete at MIX10: Umbraco Core Team Interview (Pete Brown)
• jQuery Podcast 17 – jQuery UI 1.8 (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Cloud Cover Episode 6 – Service Bus Tracing (Ryan Dunn)
• MIX 10k Winners and Judges Take the Stage at MIX10 (Laura Foy)
• New Video – MIX10 Day One Windows Phone 7 Series Recap with the Windows Phone Champs and New Video – MIX10 Day Two Windows Phone 7 Series Recap with the Windows Phone Champs and New Video – MIX10 Event Summary with Larry Gregory and Warren Wilbee (John O’Donnell)
• MSDN Radio: There’s a Feed for That, After MIX with Pablo Castro and geekSpeak Recording – Inside SQL Server Integration Services with Andy Leonard (Emily Gibson)

Community / Events

• PAX Day 1 (Eric Havir)
• ISV Software Architecture Workshop May 20th 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• That No SQL Thing (Oren Eini)
• Enabling super single user mode with SQL Server (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : 4214 BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Introducing the SharePoint Site Collection Keep Alive Job (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard for Debugging Code (Paul Andrew)
• Lightning Conductor Web part – striking new features (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases 2 New Add-ons for "NetMon" Network Monitoring Tool (Blake Handler)
• How To Answer A Programming Interview Question And Look Good Doing It (Alan Skorkin)
• Miro updates Internet TV app to version 3, launches Video Converter (Jay Hathaway)
• Shocker: HTC plans Windows Phone 7 Series device by year’s end (Sean Hollister)
• USB Memory Support for the Xbox 360 coming April 6th (Larry Hyrb)
• DotNetKicks – Going Back to the Good Days (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Azure: How to activate the MSDN Premium Special Account (David Makogon)

More Link Collections

• OData weekly roundup #1 (Alex James)
• Interesting Finds: March 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for March 26, 2010 — #821 and Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2010 — #822 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 03/26/2010 (Rick Minerich)

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Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB

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Top Links

• Win7 Library Tool (Zorn Software)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Creating objects of correct type when using lazy loading (Gunnar Peipman)
• How can I sort a hierarchy? (Bea Stollnitz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• VS2010 RC, TFS2010 RC Virtual Machines are here… (Greg Duncan)
• Tips and Tricks: Quickly Closing Documents (Weston Hutchins)
• Cut, Copy, and Paste Collapsed Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)
• Approaching Parallelism (Bruce Kyle)
• Entity Framework POCO Template for .NET 3.5 (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• IIS 7 URL Rewriter for SEO Friendly URL’s (David Hayden)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Blaming your tools (Corey Haines)

Silverlight / WPF

• What’s new in Silverlight 4 (Al Pascual)
• Silverlight 4 RC – Socket Security Changes (Mike Taulty)
• Be vewy vewy quiet I’m writing WPF with MVVM (Scott Galloway)
• Building Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications on a .NET 3.5 build machine (Jeff Wilcox)
• Response to Ward Bell’s Review of Advanced MVVM (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 148: He’s Got A Gun! (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : 3117 : The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to rollforward (Pinal Dave)
• How to Backup a SQL Express Database (Mike Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Wave 4: Mobile Experience to support themes (damaster)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Art of Community — Only $9.99! Use code DDTAC (O’Reilly Media)
• Everybody Wins In The Certification Game (Davy Brion)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for March 20, 2010 — #815 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.15 ~ 03.21 (yuanjian)
• Interesting jQuery Bookmarks (Marc Grabanski)

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Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed

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Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 2 (Release Candidate 2) Now Available (Scott Guthrie)
• How Agile Works – My Program Manager Cheat Sheet (Sara Ford)
• Unit Testing Simple ASP.NET MVC Controllers (Chris Missal)
• Conversational Stories (Martin Fowler)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using a Wiimote as a Sensor Driver on Windows 7 (Greg Duncan)
• Dotfuscator 4.6.1200 Released (Joe Kuemerle)
• .NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentQueue (Justin Etheredge)
• The 5th of Diduary: Did you know you can hide Intellisense without retyping? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 9. Configuring fluently registered components with XML (Mike Hadlow)
• Race Condition When Modifying the HttpRequestMessageProperty in an Outgoing WCF Message (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Back to Basics – Keep it Simple and Develop Your Sense of Smell – From Linq To CSV (Scott Hanselman)
• Euler Problem 14: Learn to Memoize (Bill Wagner)
• Setting a Breakpoint in the Call Stack Window — vstipDebug0008 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0 (Steve Stefanovich)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Unit Testing by Roy Osherove (Me)
• If you are way off in the deep end, there is only so much that tooling can do for you (Oren Eini)
• Update From NCover Central Command (or someplace close) (Daniel Waldschmidt)
• Pair Programming with Screen (Jason Meridth)
• StructureMap 2.6 (and 2.5.4) is Released! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Benefits of Pair Programming (Katie McCroskey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Hack: Use Native/Desktop CLR Without COM Registration (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.9 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Getting Started with WPF 4: Button Controls Part 1 – The Button is a Content Control and Upcoming Deal on my Silverlight 4 Book for Blog Subscribers (Pete Brown)
• Installing and Setting Up and Encoding for IIS 7 Smooth Streaming and Silverlight (Scott Hanselman)
• Developing the world’s first interactive Silverlight banner: Metia’s perspective (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight DataGrid quick styling tip: keep selected row focus state (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – How Craigslist Works – with Jeremy Zawodny (Scott Hanselman)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Don Syme – Introduction to F#, 1 of 3 (Charles Torre)
• Silverlight TV Episode 6: Creating Custom Pre-Loaders (John Papa)
• How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build a WCF REST Collection Endpoint (Stephen Forte)
• This Week in Testing Episode 12 – 3 Guys, a Girl and a Bunny (Part 1) (Dror Helper)

Community / Events

• Feb 10 – Silverlight 4 talk, Rockville, MD (David Makogon)
• pluralsight & devweek march 15-19 london (Meagon Marshall)
• Agilepalooza Atlanta! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Corporate Retreat Round-up (Corey Haines)
• Upcoming Appearances (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Reporting In NoSQL (Rob Conery)
• Introducing: Azure Table Query Project (Jason Haley)
• Multi-Monitor Support in SQl Server Management Studio 2008 (Buck Woody)
• Detecting and Troubleshooting Non-Yielding Worker Threads in SQL Server 2005/2008 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Stream Aggregate Showplan Operator – Reason of Compute Scalar before Stream Aggregate (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Free Microsoft Software for Students, Startups, and Small Hosting Businesses (Jennifer Marsman)
• How Many Passes? (Eric Lippert)
• Xbox LIVE being discontinued for Original Xbox consoles and games (Larry Hyrb)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Making Things Talk – Only $9.99! Use code DDMTT (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Small Basic 0.8 (Steven Bink)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #533 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: February 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for February 04, 2010 — #792 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (2/4/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Creators Club Communiqué 40 (Kathleen Sanders)

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Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Edition: In C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)