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Top Links

• Defect culture, or “How to broach quality” (Kyle Baley)
• Windows API Code Pack – Past, Present, and Future (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Read all of ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action now while you wait for the printed book (Jeffrey Palermo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Adds Optional and Named Arguments (Scott Mitchell)
• Visual Studio 2010 Pinned DataTips (Richard Carr)
• Dynamic typing in C# 4.0 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Jinx! (Beta) Visual Studio Plug-to to help debug your multithreaded nightmare (err… um… multithreaded code…) and Start your NGen… A four part NGen walk through (Greg Duncan)
• Using Rx with the data portal (Rockford Lhotka)
• Neuron ESB 2.5 Available for Download (Sam Gentile)
• Pure Virtual Function Call (Destructor Madness) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Visual Studio goes international (Somasegar)
• Debugging a classic ReaderWriterLock deadlock with SOSex.dll (Tess Ferrandez)
• Currying vs Partial Function Application (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• PHP on Windows Training Kit updated (March 2010) (Katrien De Graeve)
• 40 Useful jQuery Techniques and Plugins (Vitaly Friedman)
• The API v2 Robots Have Risen: Check them out! (Pamela Fox)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Most Annoying Habit Of A Software Manager (Alan Skorkin)
• Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer – Book Review (Gunnar Peipman)
• Usability Do’s And Don’ts For Interactive Design (Ben MacGowan)
• Software should adapt and improve when UI paradigms change – rethink, don’t just port (Rob Relyea)
• Listening to your tests: An example (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Finding the "real" templates and generic.xaml in Silverlight core or library assemblies, by using .NET Reflector (Wolf Schmidt)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #6 – Toast Notifications (Mike Snow)
• Have you taken the Prism 4.0 Survey? (Blaine Wastell)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.11 (Koen Zwikstra)
• WPFMetaEffects – write effects using C# instead of HLSL (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Listen Up! I’m on the Virtumania Podcast (Brent Ozar)
• MSDN Radio Special 28 April – Agile Security (Dag König)
• The GeekDads Episode #66: It’s a Trap! (Ken Denmead)
• Ch9Live at VS2010 Launch – Bob Muglia (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• Typemock Academy Thoughts and Ruminations (TypeMock Team)
• Party with Palermo, Tech Ed 2010 save the date! (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

A DMV a Day – Day 27 (Glenn Berry)

• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (27/30) use BACKUP WITH CHECKSUM to replace DBCC CHECKDB and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (28/30) BULK_LOGGED recovery model (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – GUID vs INT – Your Opinion (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – Issues with generating XML using string operations (Jacob Sebastian)

SharePoint

• The ‘Fantastic 40’ SharePoint Jokes (Paul J. Swider)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Delivers Windows 7 Technologies to Device Manufacturers With Release of Windows Embedded Standard 7 (MS PressPass)
• Correcting Grammar for Microsoft Products and Technology (Dan Fernandez)
• GitExtension, Putty, Alternate Port (Dave M. Bush)
• Don’t give up your security policies just yet (Scott Havens)
• Microsoft releases 3 new apps for the Zune HD (Uzair Ghani)
• Thoughts on Microsoft Certification (Joel Cochran)
• Certification: Don’t Waste Your Time! (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Share Photosynths on Facebook (Sunshine)
• Picking up some Python (Rob Bazinet)
• Code Resumé (JP Hamilton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 04.27.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 27, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #589 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 27, 2010 — #849 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (4/27/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

The Geek Shelf

Brownfield Application Development in .Net

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Managing Agile (Diana Larsen)
• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 5 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Reading: Designing for the Social Web (Nikhil Kothari)
• DI/IOCs (Sacha Barber)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NH Prof Is in Public Beta (Oren Eini)
• Writing a Simple Windows Live Writer Plugin (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Creating T-SQL Static Code Analysis Rules (Gert Drapers)
• Building Domain Specific Languages in C# (Neal Ford)
• Baby Steps in Microsoft Robotics Studio (Leon Bambrick)
• .NET Technical Forecast 2009 (Brian Noyes)
• LINQ Query Syntax C# vs. VB vs. SQL (Paul Litwin via Frank La Vigne)
• 10-4 on Channel9 (Joel Reyes) – Episode 3 is up!

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4.0 WebForms Podcast Is Now Up (Scott Galloway)
• Sueetie Wiki Now Ready for Pickup: Some Assembly Required (Dave Burke)
• An Introduction to jQuery, Part 1 (Rick Strahl)
• SYTYAWD #2 Are You Scared of JavaScript (Jeff McWherter)
• Live Framework SDK – Having a Single MeshObject (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight

• Silverlight 2 – Drag and Drop Part 1 of 2 (Corey Miller)
• Hosting Silverlight Content on a CDN (Tim Heuer)

.NET Community / Events

• ALT.NET Seattle 2009 Is Happening (Glenn Block)
• Party with Palermo: Alt.Net/MVP Summit Edition (Save the Date) (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• SQL Server 2008-2005 – Find Longest Running Query – T-SQL (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Lessons Learned in 2008 (J.D. Meier)
• Hello, 2009 (John Lam)
• Windows 7 Beta 1 Performance – How Does the OS Compare to Vista and XP? (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
• Wetware Refactorings (Jeff Moser) – Link of the Day
• 2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited (Ted Neward)
• Ballmer’s CES Keynote Promises to Be a Snoozer (Non-Announcements Revealed!) (Erick Schonfeld)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #256 (Chris Alcock)
• Discoveries This Week 01/02/2008 (Rick Minerich)
• LINKBLOG for January 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Week Episode 5 (Denis Gobo)
• CloudNews for January 2nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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