Top Links

• Announcing the Web Standards Update – HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor (Scott Hanselman)
• Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Web Standards Update – behind the scenes (Mads Kristensen)
• Microsoft Kinect gets more awesome = Win SDK (xpert360)
• Composite Services Guidance–Release Candidate and Composite Services Guidance: External Routing Configuration sample (Francis Cheung)
• Introducing The MVC Wijmo CTP (Kevin Griffin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using __arglist to send parameters to a Method and Help yourself in Debugging by using Call Stack and Immediate Window (Abhijit Jana)
• Portable Library Tools Now RTM – VS2010 RTM SP1 (Don Burnett)
• Entity Framework 4.1: Code First and WCF Data Services (Glen Gailey)
• LINQ Intersect() 2.7x faster with HashSet (Patrick Smacchia)
• Debugger Canvas and Code Bubbles (Zain Naboulsi)
• Safer asynchronous workflows for GUI programming (Tomáš Petříček)
• New Book: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-516): Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
• Microsoft Platform Ready Website Updated to Include Office 365 (Wes Yanaga)
• Help yourself in Debugging by using Call Stack and Immediate Window (Pranay Rana)
• Portable Library Tools RTW (think "One library binary, many platforms") (Greg Duncan)
• C++ AMP Provides Massive Parallelism (Abel Avram)

Web Development

• jQuery Plugin: FunkyFocus v1.1 (Deran Schilling)
• jQuery versus the Ajax Control Toolkit–Why should I use jQuery Instead ? and Replacing the ACT PagingBulletedList with the jQuery ListNav Plugin. (Joe Stagner)
• Using HTML App Host Tasks from the ECMA Script Context (David Kelley)
• Equality in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Book Review: Drupal Web Services (Michael J. Ross)
• The Rise Of The API, The Future Of The Web (Rob Diana)
• Network capture with Internet Explorer (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Official boat-load, as in supertanker, sized OpenXML content list (Insert "One OpenXML content list to rule them all" here) (Greg Duncan)
• Binding A Backbone View To A Model, To Enable and Disable A Button and Solving Backbone’s “this.model.view” Problem With Underscore.js (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Clean Coder – sharpen your professional skills (Gojko Adzic)
• The Challenge of Personal Change (J.D. Meier)
• Free Version of YouTRACK Issue and Bug Tracker from JetBrains (David Hayden)
• Agile and Architecture Conflict (Vikas Hazrati)
• Automated code reviews for PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
• Unit Testing Raised Events (Richard Carr)
• Collective note taking – More value from your test notes? (Sigurdur Birgisson)
• Why the New YouTrack Matters (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Should we get this tool? (Jef Claes)
• Why Your Form Checkboxes Should Always Use Label Tags (Anthony)
• Testing Chromium: AddressSanitizer, a fast memory error detector. (Kostya Serebryany)
• Caching, the funny way (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Drag and Drop for Business Applications (Michael Varey)
• In-app purchase coming to Windows Phone "Mango" and Windows Phone "Mango" developer handsets for serious developers only, available next week (damaster)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 13 – What is Tombstoning? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Displaying PDF Files in Windows Phone 7 Mango (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer Game using Sockets in XNA (Ricky Tan)
• Silverlight 5 and HTML 5 (Surf4Fun)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Aspect Oriented Programming at NDC (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ICSE 2011: John Rushby – Formal Methods, Verification and Some Computing History (Charles Torre)
• Hot Apps: Doodle Jump, Lo-Mob, NBA GameTime 2011, PotatoGrid, Alchemy (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #115: Wrapping Up the Icon Spike (James Shore)
• The Thirsty Developer 102: These are Exciting Times (Dave Bost)
• AppFabric.tv – How To Build Workflow Services with a Database Respository (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Looking Forward to Next Week’s SQL Server JumpIn! Camp (Brian Swan)
• Join Us Tomorrow For A Special Channel 9 Live Kinect Event (Nic Fillingham) – That’s today.

Database

• New Microsoft SSIS transform (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Free Online Training on .net and SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Dark color theme for SQL Server Management Studio (Raghav Khunger)
• SSIS: The Ninth Circle of Merge Hell (Russell Ball)
• Help us select the new RavenDB logo (Oren Eini)
• Things That Should Be In TSQL (Don Halloran)

SharePoint

• Recapping my webinar w/Idera: Understanding SharePoint Server 2010 Managed Metadata (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Office 2010 is One Year Old Today (Paul Thurrott)
• You probably won’t buy Google Chromebook, but should reconsider and When do you want Windows 8? (Joe Wilcox)
• TidyFS: Microsoft’s simpler distributed file system (Mary Jo Foley)
• Announcing Zoho Docs – Google Chromebook integration (Naveen Venkat)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Getting Started with the Internet of Things – Only $9.99 w/code DDGST (O’Reilly Media)
• What I look for in Peer Review Feedback at Microsoft (Pete Brown)
• Daily Dose: Microsoft Adding More Support for C++ (Ross Jernigan)
• Developer Week in Review: Are .NET programmers going extinct? – Microsoft embraces HTML5, selling a startup at 15, and a new version of Java looms. (James Turner)
• Selling More Shopify Apps, Part 1: The Decision-Making Process (Joey deVilla)

More Link Collections

• Link dump for June 15th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 06/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 15-Jun-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #874 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4: Building Modular MVVM Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight (Patterns & Practices) by Bob Brumfield et al

Top Links

• Developing a Windows Phone 7 Jump List Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• Using HTML5 Web Storage for Interprocess Communication (Jeff Prosise)
• Using NuGet without committing packages (David Ebbo)
• .NET Reflector 7 Released (Paulo Morgado) – Winners in my Reflector contest have been selected and will be notified shortly.

.NET / Visual Studio

• YACE (Yet Another Comment Extension) for VS2010 – Small, big, bigger and Red! SharpComments and "Bart Simpson’s Guide to Windows Azure" [How can I beat that title?] (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Tuples and Tuple Factory Methods and ANTS Memory Profiler 7.0 (James Michael Hare)
• Installing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Uplevel NuGet (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• patterns & practices : Composite Services Guidance – CTP2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Introducing formlets for jQueryUI (Joel Bjornson)
• Revisiting Some (Old) Tags in HTML 5 (Kirupa)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes) (Abhishek Sur)
• I’m developing my own Foursquare client for the Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• Prism 4 Region Navigation with Silverlight Frame Navigation and Unity (Karl Shifflett)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – intro to Isolated Storage and All about Splash Screens in WP7 – Creating animated Splash Screen (Windows Phone Geek)
• Creating gradients using colors from other objects in Expression Design (Elliot Meacham)
• Phone updates: process and timing (Eric Hautala)
• Testing Network Availability (Jesse Liberty)
• Not your regular photo and video camera on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Talkin’ C++ with Kate Gregory (Charles Torre)
• Silverlight Essentials Video Training (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 65: 3D Graphics (John Papa)
• Developers: a new kind of IDE arrives in Cloud9 (First look!) (Robert Scoble)
• Saving energy with the .NET Micro Framework (Fabien Royer)

Community / Events

• More FREE Windows Phone 7 training events (Rudi Grobler)
• Do You Dig Design? Announcing the New UX Lightning Series at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Steve Ballmer + Imagine Cup + Governor of PA = BEST DAY EVER! (Lindsay Lindstrom)
• A Great Week with MVPs (Lonnie Webb)
• What we wish we could show you about Microsoft TechFest (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Free Training: Multicore Programming on the .NET Platform, 4/20/2011 and Join us in Washington DC: Free One-Day Course on Parallelism, 3/25/2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• WCF RIA Services Validation Webinar (Brian Noyes)
• GitHub on LinkedIn (Chris Wanstrath)
• Interview with SQL Server MVP Joe Webb (Brad M. McGehee)

Database

• SQL Server: SSMS 2008 Intellisense Stops Working after Installing VS 2010 SP1 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Latch Statistics (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint: Create Dashboards with KPI, Scorecard and Report using Excel Services (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Dynamics CRM 2011 and SharePoint 2010 (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

• CodePlex: Pull Request Conversations, Inline Diff Enhancements (Matt Hawley)
• Retro gaming on Windows Phone 7 (Luke)
• Safer and Faster Downloads in IE9 (Ritika Virmani,)
• The problem with calling legacy/native apps from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #810 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 10th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2011 — #1058 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

C# 4.0 Unleashed by Bart De Smet

Top Links

• Get patterns & practices Books Cheap! (Ade Miller)
• Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie To Step Down As Chief Software Architect (Leena Rao)
• Jounce Part 2: Getting Started (Tagging and Binding) (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Compound From with C# and Visual Basic (Christian Nagel)
• Visual Studio 2010 UML doesn’t support State models. This extension does (add State Models to Visual Studio that is)… and An unusual code generation scheme… via the Bing API and MSDN. (Greg Duncan)
• TMap® mit Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010 – Scrum 1.0-Prozess-Template (Clemens Reijnen)
• LINQ Query Syntax Tutorial (Jon Preece)
• Configuration support for custom IErrorHandler in WCF (Rory Primrose)
• Toggle Designer (Zain Naboulsi)
• Code Contracts (Part II): In Action (Oleg Smirnov)
• Enhancing OData support for streams (Alex James)
• Using the command help subsystem in OpenWrap (Sebastien Lambla)
• A Refactoring I Should Have Been Doing for Years but Forgot, AppSettings (Peter Kellner)
• On Dynamic Objects and DynamicObject (Chris Burrows)

Web Development

• Using The jQuery Template Plugin tmplItem Feature (Chris Love)
• HTML5 Recipes: Strokes and Fills (Romin Irani)
• In the YUI 3 Gallery: Extensions for SVG, Created for SVG Wow! (Vincent Hardy)
• Support for Http PATCH (Alex James)
• Google Maps API: Now Serving 350,000 Websites (Adam DuVander)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Razor views support comments now (Gunnar Peipman)
• Getting Started w/Helpers for the Razor View Engine & WebMatrix (Rachel Appel)
• Azure@home Part 9: Worker Role Run method (Jim O’Neil)
• Intro to jQTouch: Creating Your First Application in jQTouch (B.M. Harwani)
• Campaign Finance API, Version 3: This Time It’s Congressional (Curtis C. Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Service Locator Design Pattern (Richard Carr)
• Unit Testing Is Spooky! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Model Driven Development with StatePatternModeler (Halllo Welt)
• Why We Should Care About Software Craftsmanship, Part 1 (Gael Fraiteur)
• Architecting UI plug-ins for PRISM applications (Marcin Kaluza)
• Duck : Delete Update Create Killer (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Coding: Context independent code (Mark Needham)
• I’ll be that guy – future directions and so on and so forth (Adam Kinney)
• Mock, Service Locator and Automocking Container to the rescue (Al Kampfer)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Choosing existing & taking new pictures on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Paging WCF Ria Services entities in MVVM applications (Andrea Boschin)
• Enabling your WP7 application to be installed in Trial Mode (Derik Whittaker)
• Conditional Logic During Start Up of a Windows Phone App (Karsten Januszewski)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #19: Push Notifications (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Applying data templates dynamically by type in WP7 (Badea Florin)
• Announcing Pictures Lab for Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
• Windows Phone 7 marketplace is fillin’ up (Steve Clayton)
• Phone 7 madness (Pieter De Bruin)
• New WP7 Games Educational Content on App Hub: Performance! (Team XNA)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The Future of Web Apps from Tech Ed New Zealand (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #38: Torturing Rob (with Rob Myers) (James Shore)
• Ping 79: Facebook & Bing, Windows Phone 7 ads, Geek Fashion, Boats for Kinect (Laura Foy)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 31 – Steve Nagy and the Cloud (Richard Banks)
• Bill Buxton on NUI: What’s in a Name? (Frank La Vigne)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – October 18th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Announcing OpenSpaceBeers, the open-space for all developers, whatever the platform (Sebastien Lambla)
• New Job, WPF Training Books and more (Jason Rainwater)
• Debreefing the NHDay (Simone Chiaretta)
• We’re Looking for Canadian Windows Phone 7 Apps (Joey deVilla)
• Goodbye Microsoft! (Sara Ford)
• More Free “State of .NET” Events Announced (Markus Egger)
• Annoucing the Malvern PDC10 Viewing Party (Dave Isbitski)

Database

• Database Mirroring Connection Strings – Automatic Failover (Steve Jones)
• Analyze and validate T-SQL code using SQL Enlight (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• Book Review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration (Steve Pietrek)

Miscellaneous

• Phone and Tablet Apps as the Next Platform (Bill Evjen)
• Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing (Grant Fritchey)
• Ten Tips for Process Explorer Triumphant Tweaking (Greg Duncan)
• It’s a shame about Ray Ozzie (Joe Wilcox)
• Zoho Tasks Integrates Tasks from Zoho Projects (Raju Vegesna)
• Shortcut Your Way to Prizes in the bit.ly API Contest (Romin Irani)
• Ray Ozzie, Microsoft and change (Scott Berkun)
• Microsoft opening Bellevue store on November 18 (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #710 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 18, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 10/18/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 166 (Rhonda Tipton)
• A List of Resources to help jumpstart your ASP.NET WebMatirx Development. and A quick list of resources Developers using IIS (Joe Stagner)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 18 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2010 — #971 (Dave Campbell)
• Recent NUI videos and links (Josh Blake)

The Geek Shelf

Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Enterprise Library, C# Edition (Patterns & Practices) by Alex Homer

Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 buzz heats up: US launch Nov. 8? (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Developer Guidance Maps (J.D. Meier)
• MEF in the Wild: A Retrospective (Jeremy Likness)
• Don’t be lazy. Avoid the type "Tuple" (Peter Gfader)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Polymorphic Extension Visitor with C# (Andreas Gieriet)
• Profiler new features: Data binding alerts (Oren Eini)
• F#, Caliburn.Micro, and a New WP7 Template (Daniel Mohl)
• Improving the Visual Studio 2010 UI Menu System – Part 2 (Mike Fourie)
• Dynamic Filtering and Querying in Your .NET applications – Using Mono’s C# Compiler As Service (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• F# Computation Expressions, a Simple Bind/Return Mnemonic and F# Computation Expression Bind/Return Mechanics Continued. (Neil)
• The Immediate Window: Simple Printing and Changing Values (Zain Naboulsi)
• Book review: DSLs in Boo: Domain-Specific Languages in .NET (Dror Helper)
• How To Host Mono’s CSharp Compiler as a Service in .NET – For Runtime Code Evaluation/REPL (Anoop Madhusudanan)

Web Development

• Creating a simple jQuery plugin (Dnana)
• UrlScan Broke My Blog (And How I Fixed It) (Phil Haack)
• HowTo: Time-controlled & recurrent functions in .NET & ASP.NET (Oliver Guhr)
• ##Ebook Deal of the Day: Build Android Apps with HTML, CSS, & JavaScript – Only $9.99. Use code DDBAJ (O’Reilly Media)
• Don’t you tell me where to put my damn views – I’ll tell you! (Robert Greyling)
• ASP.NET Programming Tips – Tip #1: Google Cannot Solve your Coding Problems (Anthony Grace)
• Know when to delegate to a web service (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Why not to use HttpResponse.Close and HttpResponse.End (Hajan Selmani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When To Use Task-Oriented vs. Relationship-Oriented Leadership Styles and Code Sample Types (J.D. Meier)
• PHPUnit 3.5: easier asserting and mocking (Giorgio Sironi)
• DZone’s Top 10 Agile and Lean Development Books (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Theory of CQRS Command Handlers: Sagas, ARs and Event Subscriptions (Rinat Abdullin)
• Article:What Agile Developers Can Learn from Cavemen (Steve Newman)
• Understanding Genuine Geeks And Nerds – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Tutorial : Styles, Triggers and Animations : 7 (Abhishek Sur)
• Windows Phone 7 has put the .NET Language Coevolution Promise in Doubt (Jonathan Allen)
• Porting WPF apps to Silverlight (Lester Lobo)
• Another great example of how WP7 helps Silverlight/WPF (Rob Relyea)
• Creating a Custom Application Bar Icon (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• WP7 Stock Quote Demo Part 4 : Push Server side (John McFetridge)
• After C# , now its Visual Basic’s turn for Windows Phone 7 (Senthil Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 372: DeathSpank ToV, NBA 2K11 and Dead Rising 2 (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 126 – PowerScripting Podcast – Just Hal and Jon (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 167: The History of JUnit and the Future of Testing with Kent Beck (SE-Radio Team)
• This Developer’s Life – 1.0.4 Being Mean (Rob Conery)
• Technology & Friends Episode 117: John Petersen on Software and the Law (David Giard)
• An Introduction to F# with Don Syme (#1 of 4) and An F# Tutorial with Don Syme (#2 of 4) and F# and Windows Azure with Don Syme (#3 of 4) (David Gristwood)
• Let’s Play TDD #24: Finishing Up StockMarketTableModel (James Shore)

Community / Events

• How to become an MVP. (Joe Stagner)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Keywords View Definition Must Not Contain for Indexed View – Limitation of the View 10 (Pinal Dave)
• Index Black Ops Part 4 – Index Overhead and Maintenance (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

• Lightning conductor 2010 web part improvements (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• The one tweak you should never use on Windows 7 (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Weekly Link Post 163 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 043 for 9/27/2010 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #694 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #130 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for September 26, 2010 — #955 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Mark Collins

Top Links

• Great News for MonoTouch Users (Miguel de Icaza)
• What is Functional Programming? Part 2, Currying (Christopher Bennage)
• Seeing Code Contracts in Intellisense NOW! (Jonathan de Halleux)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Concatenation (Richard Carr)
• Script# Contrib – Getting started with ScriptSharp Sample (CodePlex)
• Experiment: List<T> internals and performance when adding new elements (Gunnar Peipman)
• A TFS 2010 Power Tools “Must Get” Update – September 2010 Release (Think the “zomg TFS server backup/restore help and more” release) (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Five Final Little Wonders That Make Code Better (3 of 3) (James Michael Hare)
• Easily Backup TFS and change the Retention Days (Mike Fourie)
• TFS Build fails for no indicated reason with code contracts in test assemblies (Rory Primrose)
• How to deal with a stuck or infinitely queued build (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Find in Files: Result Options (Zain Naboulsi)
• Book review: Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 (Maarten Balliauw)
• VS File Explorer – Extension #9 (Sara Ford)
• Entity Framework Supports Your Way to Develop Your Data Tier (Bruce Kyle)
• Old school tree display (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Microsoft to embrace and extend HTML 5? (Tim Anderson)
• Introducing jQuery API Search (Karl Swedberg)
• Bing, Long Zheng, and Google Instant: An HTML5 response? (Kip Kniskern)
• Register Global Namespaces in ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and ASP.NET WebForms (Malcolm Sheridan)
• CSS3 Media Queries and creating adaptive layouts (Rob Nyman)
• JavaScript filtering with JSON and filter management (strofo)
• New Resources for HTML and CSS Authors on Character Encodings (W3C Staff)
• Automatically Upload Images with PHP Directly from the URI (Stoimen Popov)
• USA Today to Throw Open its Data This Month (Romin Irani)
• Open Source And Cloud Computing: Amazon Micro Instances Can Be Boon To SMBs (Krishnan Subramanian)
• BookedIN.net (Kyle Baley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Continuous Integration" Now Online (James Shore)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Gateway (Giorgio Sironi)
• The Best Way to Learn CQRS, DDD and Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
• Adventures in Repetitive Code (Mike Hadlow)
• A healthy transition (Jimmy Bogard)
• What Is The Worst Design or Programming Mistake You’ve Ever Made? (Robert Bowen)
• How to Create a Kick Ass Team (Abby Fichtner)
• Principles 4: End-to-End Development Process (Ivo Manolov)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Simplified TextBox focus in WPF 4 and xmlns confusion (Rudi Grobler)
• Browser app with bit.ly shortening for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• What’s the Point of a Windows Phone 7 Cannon if It Doesn’t Look Great? (Coding4Fun)
• Maximizing Productivity with the Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight Designer (Dan Wahlin)
• iPhone to Windows Phone 7: Lists and Details (Jesse Liberty)
• Get “Silverlight 4 in Action” for Half Price! (Joey deVilla)
• MVVM so easy a n00b can do it (Silverlight4) (Michael Crump)
• Populating an Existing Object Using Xaml2009 (Mike Strobel)
• Introducing JetPack–a new Silverlight 4 application theme and Writing plugins for Seesmic Desktop (Tim Heuer)
• XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – Saving Pictures (Mike Ormond)
• Blend Bits 7: Be Resourceful (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint Performance Tuning-Episode 50 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Silverlight TV 44: Top Four Questions from the WCF RIA Services Forum (John Papa)
• The “Windows Sysinternals Primer: Process Explorer, Process Monitor, and More” from TechEd 2010 North America (Greg Duncan)
• YUI Theater — Ryan Grove: “Achieving Performance Zen with YUI 3″ (40 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Using TeamCity to Maintain a Stack of OSS Tools (Bobby Johnson)

Community / Events

• SilverlightShow Gives 2 Free Passes for DevReach Conference (Svetla Stoycheva)
• 10/12 MSDN Simulcast: Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch (Emily Gibson)
• A Look Ahead: 2011 MVP Global Summit (Lonnie Webb)
• Upcoming Web Design and Development Conferences in 2010 (Louis Lazaris)
• Register Now for YUIConf 2010! (Jenny Han Donnelly)
• Developer and Designer Q&A : Rick Barraza, Cynergy (James Pratt)

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 PowerPivot for Microsoft® Excel – RTM (MS Downloads)
• SSIS Dynamic Connections (David Dye)
• Newly closed Connect items auger well for SSIS in Denali (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Find Automatically Created Statistics – T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• More On Overlapping Statistics (Kendal Van Dyke)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Forum Attachments – Social Squared (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft KIN manager moves to Yahoo (PhoneArena Team)
• Microsoft Releases Free Cyber-Security E-book (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Apple relaxing SDK license agreement: MonoTouch (and Flash?) officially allowed (Simone Chiaretta)
• Cloning Virtual Box Images in Windows 7 (Steve Jones)
• Preparing the ground for iPhone development (SunFish7)
• 5 tips for using Priority Inbox (Kristen Lemons)
• Apple officially changes their Developer SDK License – MonoTouch officially makes it – And then go buy a beer on me. (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2010 — #944 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 9, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for Patterns and Practices for the Data Professional (Buck Woody)
• The Morning Brew #683 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Unleashed by Mike Snell

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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

• Windows programming: The "it works on my machine" syndroma (Patrick Smacchia)
• Visualizing the Windows Phone Accelerometer (on a Zune HD) (Charles Petzold)
• Beta Version of WCSF for VS2010 Available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Coding4Fun – Paint With Light (Randall Maas)
• A Checklist for OData Feed publishers (Phani Raj)
• Download Your Free Copy of DZone’s Latest Refcard on Lean Software Development! (Lyndsey Clevesy)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Convert Text to Morse Code (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 Professional Whitepaper (MS Downloads)
• SonicFileFinder 2.2 Released (Roland Weigelt)
• Delete to the Beginning or End of a Word (Zain Naboulsi)
• CSLA 4 business rules subsystem and CSLA 4 business rule chaining (Rockford Lhotka)
• Editor Guidelines UI – Extension #4 (Sara Ford)
• Automatic Properties, Collection Initializers, and Implicit Line Continuation support with VB 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Creating a Time UUID (GUID) in .NET (Nick Berardi)
• RIA Services and Entity Framework POCOs (Julie Lerman)
• Add an attribute to an MSXML node (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Dotfuscator 4.6.5000 ships, includes VS 2010 RTM support and offline Runtime Intelligence (Joe Kuemerle)

Web Development

• Expression Web 3 SP2 (MS Downloads)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Render Template to String (Joey Bratton)
• jsTree and Nested XML Data Stores (Charles Chen)
• A Custom ASP.NET MVC Model Binder for Repositories (Mike Hadlow)
• Open Data Protocol AKA OData (Mike Ceranski)
• Adding Google Charts to your ASP MVC Applications (John V. Petersen)
• ASP.NET MVC and CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 8 Tips for Performance Metrics (Jurgen Appelo)
• Defining the Last Responsible Moment (Karl Scotland)
• Turning a bug into a feature (Eric Lippert)
• Mind your boomerangs and Twist 2.0: acceptance testing – the productive way (Gojko Adzic)
• Scrum Flow at a Glance (J.D. Meier)
• Refactor This: Answers and Refactor This: Results (Oren Eini)
• The performance implications of IEnumerable vs. IQueryable (Chris Sells)
• Red For The Right Reason: Fail By Assertion, Not By Anything Else (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 6 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Managing service references and endpoint configurations for Silverlight applications (Tim Heuer)
• Creating a Silverlight Client for @shanselman ’s Nerd Dinner, using oData and Bing Maps (Anoop Madhusudanan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Software Engineering Radio Episode 159: C++0X with Scott Meyers (SE-Radio Team)
• Pete at MIX10: Richard Costall – Silverlight Manic Miner for Windows Phone 7 (Pete Brown)
• Episode 108 – PowerScripting Podcast – SharePoint 2010 with Gary LaPointe (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• This Week in Silverlight 4.1.2010 and Silverlight Consulting Life – MSDN Bytes Interview (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Improving perceived WPF app startup performance with MEF and a Splash Screen (Marc Schweigert)
• Ping 54: Windows Phone 7 Training Kit, 64GB Zune, Microsoft helps electric cars (Laura Foy)
• Herding Code 77: Eric Hexter on MvcConf, C4MVC, and MvcContrib (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Games Studio Writer John Sutherland – from Pong to Natal (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Visual Studio 2010 : /* Life Runs on Code */ (Rachel Appel)
• DevExpress Training Dates Available (Oliver Sturm)
• Behind the Scenes of the Developer Launch (Eddie Amos)
• 24 Hours of PASS: Celebrating SQL Server 2008 R2 (Glenn Berry)
• ReMIX Atlanta and .NET Rocks Roadshow – sign up today! (Glen Gordon)

Database

• Avoid SQL Injection with Parameters and Understanding SARGability (to make your queries run faster) (Simon Sabin)
• MongoDB vs. SQL Server – INSERT comparison part deux (Denis Gobo)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (5/30) AWE must be enabled on 64-bit servers (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Retrieve and Explore Database Backup without Restoring Database – Idera virtual database (Pinal Dave)
• Comparing Red Gate SQL Prompt to SQL Server IntelliSense (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A DMV a Day – Day 6 (Glenn Berry)
• Delay Validation with SSIS Tasks (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• Maximizing SharePoint 2010 on a Mac + iPhone or iPod + iPad (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Integrating the Git bash into Console (Jimmy Bogard)
• HP takes aim at iPad (Steve Clayton)
• New Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria (CEC) program website live (Steven Bink)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning iPhone Programming – Only $9.99 Use code DDLPP (O’Reilly Media)
• Developing with the Google Wave APIs – For a grade! (Pamela Fox)
• Daily Dose – iPhone OS 4.0 To Be Revealed Thursday (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Update on upcoming books: Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, and ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 05, 2010 — #831 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #573 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #114 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: April 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Resources to help you create an Azure App Today! (Jeff Barnes)

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Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010

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Top Links

• New drop of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) available (Bart de Smet)
• Better Application Services and CQS using S#arp Architecture 1.0 Q3 2009 (Billy McCafferty)
• TWC9: 100th Episode! WPF, VS2010 RC tips, Bonus Footage (Brian Keller)
• NUnit vs. MsTest: NUnit wins for Unit Testing. (Roy Osherove)
• Pex and Moles become Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools (Nikolai Tillman)
• Microsoft shows off single game running on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox (Paul Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Functional I/O (or at least “O”) (Ashley Nathan Feniello)
• Visual Studio Test Professional (VSTS) 2010: Organization of artifacts (Subodh Sohoni)
• MSBuild 4 Detailed Build Summary (Cliff Hudson)
• Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls” (Mayuri Diwan & Nichole Baker)
• Use F6 to Jump Between Split Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Functional C#: Using Join and GroupJoin (Mark Needham)
• Updated Data Model Designer Extension Starter Kit (Julia Kornich)
• XTrace.cs – C# trace with printf formatting (Hans Dietrich)
• Working with WCF: Part One: Introduction and Your First Service (James Bender)
• Why is CruiseControl.Net Hiding My Test Results? (Chris Missal)
• My Visual Studio Color Settings (Keith Elder)

Web Development

• When Session Objects Get Created With No Session Variables (Dave M. Bush)
• Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from ORCS Web (Ben Byrd)
• Use ASP.NET 4 Browser Definitions with ASP.NET 3.5 (Stephen Walther)
• Microsoft is “All In” the Cloud (Bill Zack)
• BSON Serialization (Karl Seguin)
• Passivity, or “How to help your views leave the nest” (Kyle Baley)
• Javascript: The ‘new’ keyword (Mark Needham)
• I am moving… to the cloud! (Rudi Grobler)
• Detecting Ajax Events on the Server (Doug Neiner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 22 minute meeting (Scott Berkun)
• The case against Rock Star developers (Stephen Forte)
• How Ruby Taught Me To DRY Up My Code With Lambda Blocks and Don’t Expose IList Just So You Can Assert Against Its Contents (Derick Bailey)
• Getting code ready for production (Oren Eini)
• A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, CQS, Repositories and Separation of Concerns (Billy McCafferty)

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows Phone 7 Series for Designers and Developers (Christian Schormann)
• Excited about Windows Phone Development! and WPF: Now with Less Fuzz (Pete Brown)
• Turn your head and check out this post [How to: Easily rotate the axis labels of a Silverlight/WPF Toolkit chart] (David Anson)
• MVVM for Dummies (Martin Hinshelwood)
• WPF4 RC has better text clarity. RTM will be even better. (Rob Relyea)
• Request for Feedback (WPF VNext) (Lester Lobo)
• Another review of Advanced MVVM (Josh Smith)
• Creating a Custom Silverlight Pre-Loader (Brian Lagunas)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 146: Google Fatigue (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Announces the Windows Home Server YouTube Channel (Blake Handler)
• Video Trip Report: If this is Tuesday, this must be Cairo (Scott Hanselman)
• Cloud Cover Episode 3 – Worker Role Endpoints (Ryan Dunn)
• Microsoft Research: Tools to Help Resolve Concurrency Problems (Robert Hess)
• jQuery Podcast 14 – Phil Haack (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• A Conversation with Bill Buxton and Albert Shum; Microsoft’s UX Gurus (Nic Fillingham)
• Herding Code 75: Barry Dorrans on Developer Security (Jon Galloway)
• Your Rx.NET Prescription Has Been Refilled (Jeffrey van Gogh)

Community / Events

• Join us at MIX, March 15-17th 2010! (Zhiming Xue)
• SharePoint and Office 2010 Keynotes (Mike Walker)
• Going to Vegas with my Phone… (Seema Ramchandani)
• PyCon 2010: Python in the browser (Jimmy Schementi)
• Headspring continues to hire: we will train contract-to-hire positions (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• Default value for OLE DB Destination FastLoadMaxInsertCommitSize in SQL Server 2008 (Jamie Thomson)
• How to archive data from a table to a local or remote database in SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

 patterns & practices – SharePoint Guidance: Drop 6 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• PsyMUD: a MUD for Linux (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft Announces May 12th Launch Date of Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• LEAKED: More Juicy Microsoft Courier Details and Pics (Barb Dybwad)
• Windows Phone 7 Series Themes for 6.5 Devices (Sarah Perez)
• Outlook Folder Macros for Getting Things Done (Jonathan Cogley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2010 — #807 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Gone With The Week (Mar 1 – 5, 2010) (MSDN Magazine)

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Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0

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Top Links

• SOLID: Software That Works (Caleb Jenkins)
• Windows 8 to be “Completely Different” and “Mind-Blowing” (Stephen Chapman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, Second Edition — Only $9.99! Use code DDMAA (O’Reilly Media)
• Installing ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 on Visual Studio 2010 RC (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling SDK RC (Cameron Skinner)
• F# and the Dynamic Lookup Operator ala C# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Iron Python 2.6.1 RC Now Available and IronRuby 1.0 Release Candidate 2 (Charlie Calvert)
• The WCF RIA Services Issue I am trying to solve currently: Entity Framework 4 with Composite Associations (Chris Woodruff)
• VS2010 RC: Much Faster than Beta 2 (Bill Wagner)
• Insert Documents to the Right of Existing Tabs — vstipEnv0001 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 RC Ready for General Download (Jason Zander)
• F#: Inline functions and statically resolved type parameters (Mark Needham)
• New beta exams for developers announced (Martijn Brant)
• Autofac 2.1 goes RC (the “me too!” release) (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Add References in VS 2010 (Oliver Sturm)
• Impact The Planning For EF/Astoria vNext (Jonathan Carter)
• Beware Self-Tracking Entities Conflict with Entity Framework CTP & VS2010 RC (Julie Lerman)
• Doc-To-Help 2010 Released (Eve Turzillo)
• Writing object to object mapper: moving to generics (Gunnar Peipman)

Web Development

• Trapping Intentional Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Attempts in ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Bundler Part 2 – ASP.NET Integration (Justin Etheredge)
• Compressing JavaScript and CSS on The Fly(Mike Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Working on a new product (Roy Osherove)
• Productive by Design (Scott Bellware)
• Book smarts vs. Street smarts (Scott Berkun)
• Testing in Production – It’s a living ecosystem, not a patient on a gurney (Ken Johnston)
• Agile: The New Era (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Introducing status.github.com (Kyle Neath)
• CodeBetter CI Server update, or “How to plead your case” (Kyle Baley)
• Professional Scrum Master Certification Disappears from Scrum.org (Patrick Kua)
• Cloud – what it means, and why it is important for software operations (Andy Singleton)
• “Survival Skills for Developers” (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Model of Cloud Computing and 10,000 Times the Productivity (J.D. Meier)
• Silverlight Test Driven Development – Part II (Jesse Liberty)
• Better User Experience With Storytelling, Part 2 (Francisco Inchauste)

Silverlight / WPF

• The Book of WPF (Pete Brown)
• Using Silverlight Media Framework for simple playback (Tim Heuer)
• Helpful Silverlight Snippets (Jeff Wilcox)
• What’s Wrong With This Code #24 (K. Scott Allen)
• The Ugly Duckling and Transforming an Ugly Duckling to a Graceful Swan with Expression Blend and Silverlight – Part I (András Velvárt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Bret Piatt and Josh Odom RackSpace Clouds (Carl Franklin)
• geekSpeak: BizTalk Server with SOA Architect and MVP Brian Loesgen (MS Podcasts)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 44: Soft Skills Every Developer Needs with Brian Prince (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #162: Learning how to use a Web Cam with Silverlight (Derik Whittaker)
• Agile 2009 – Aslak Hellesoy – Cucumber test framework (Bob Payne)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #83 (Jeff Atwood)
• 10-4 Episode 40: The New WCF Routing Service (Ron Jacobs)
• Anatomy of an Agile .NET project (Rune Grothaug)
• Pete at Reykjavik: Silverlight, Azure, RIA Services Event Site in 8 days (Pete Brown)
• Introducing the "Ignite Your Coding!" Podcast (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Misfit Geek Podcast on Zune Social (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 7: When and Where to use MEF (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Social Media Memes: The Benefits of Participation (Darrell Etherington)
• LIDNUG Online Chat with Me on Thursday Feb 11th (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft at TED2010 (Steve Clayton)
• Series of 8 SharePoint 2010 Developer Web Casts (Paul Andrew)
• 1,300+ Microsoft MVPs Make Their Mark at the 2010 MVP Global Summit in Bellevue and Redmond (Toby Richards)
• Lightning Tools Partner Program (Richard Young)

Database

• Start a SQL Server Agent Job using the SQL Server PowerShell Provider (Buck Woody)
• Using ROW_NUMBER in a where clause and Do you do backups? Do you test them? (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – ALTER DATABASE dbname SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Create Association Method for BCS Dot Net Assembly (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• Apple iPad Preview, Part 2: First Impressions (Paul Thurrott)
• TechNet 2.0 – Episode 3 – TechNet Search (Keith Combs)
• The 11th of Diduary: Did you know Windows 7 is network aware? (Jeff Blankenburg)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LXII (Charlie Calvert)
• New and Notable 402 (Sam Gentile)
• The Morning Brew #537 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 10, 2010 — #795 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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Writing Secure Code: Practical Strategies and Proven Techniques for Building Secure Applications in a Networked World

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Top Links

• How Fanboys See .NET ORMs (Kevin Pang)
• Kodu Tutorial #1 Basic Navigation (Stephen Coy)
• jQuery Podcast: 7 – jQuery 1.4 (John Resig) (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Eagerly loading entity associations efficiently with NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• UML Profiles and Visual Studio 2010: Part Two (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Requirements Management Guidance (Clemens Reijnen)
• Managed code isn’t always the best solution (Kevin Jones)
• Free your Document windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – December Update (Pinal Dave)
• C#: A functional solutional to a modeling problem and Nant: Populating templates (Mark Needham)
• Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 4 – More on Sieves and IsBadXxxPtr Is Really Harmful – Please Don’t Use These Functions (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• Deploying your Server Roles: Using MSDeploy for Enterprise Deployments. (Eric Hexter)
• Web Client Guidance Drop #6 Available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Choosing web hosting (Rachel Andrew)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Amazon Clouding it – “Architecting for the Cloud: Best Practices” Whitepaper (Greg Duncan)
• Agile Tenet #10 – Simplicity is Essential (Julie Stickler)
• Pex 0.21.50115.2: Bugs fixes and Stubs renamed to Moles (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Developer, You Have a Voice (Kirk Knoernschild)
• TDD: Hand written stubs vs. Framework generated stubs and TDD: Thoughts on using a clock in tests (Mark Needham)
• Pair Programming session (Mark Nijhof)
• Sometimes, Agile Alone Isn’t Enough (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Programmer Tip: Start Re-Investing In Yourself Consistently. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: Centering a RadioButton (Deborah Kurata)
• Silverlight Isolated Storage Paths on Windows and MacOS (Frank La Vigne)
• Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 1 of X and Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 2 of X – MEF and EF 4 code-only (Fredrik Normén)
• Prism 4.0 (Blaine Wastell)
• Silverlight, MVVM and Validation Part III (Josh Twist)
• IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit Beta 2 released (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 3 API listing in one big text file and Silverlight 4 beta API listing in one big text file (Nick Kramer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Open Source, Microsoft and The WiX Project with Rob Mensching (Scott Hanselman)
• Premier of Silverlight TV and Silverlight TV Episode 1: The Joys of Trusted Out-of-Browser Applications (John Papa)
• ARCast.TV Special – An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3 (Jeff Barnes)

Community / Events

• Pluralsight ASP.NET MVC + AJAX Course in Waltham (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• A Little XML Can Go a Long Way (Alex Ullrich)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates Live Meeting Console & Outlook Conference Add-In for Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Give The Power of Speech and Sound to Your PowerShell Scripts (Chinh Do)
• Xbox Engineering Blog (Larry Hyrb)
• Some Fun Blogs I Subscribe to (Pete Brown)
• Newbie Win32 Development Using Python (Ryan Svihla)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2010 — #779 and Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2010 – 2 — #780 (Dave Campbell)

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ASP.Net MVC in Action