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Top Links

•  use Less to reduce CSS clutter! (Coding4Fun) – Info on .Less, a .NET port of a Ruby Gem.
• Mary Poppendieck on “The Tyranny of The Plan” (Christophe Louvion) – A video from the 2009 UK Lean Conference
• ASP.beer Seattle (Javier G. Lozano) – A meetup during the MVP Summit in February. I’ll be there!
• So Long Tehran and Thanks for All the Fish (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Keyvan has made his way to the U.S. to continue his studies. Join me in welcoming him!
• Confessions of a First Time Manager (Tim Barcz) – Some lessons learned from Tim.
• Creating Team Trust (Johanna Rothman) – Some team leadership tips from Johanna on Roy Osherove’s “Five Whys” blog.
• ViewModel Pattern for Silverlight – Options for Hooking a View to its Model (Nikhil Kothari) – Nikhil looks at some MVVM options with Silverlight.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Passing JavaScript Objects to the CLR World (Mohammad Azam)
• Two reasons that Assembla is the best way to deliver or get code (Andy Singleton)
• Garbage Collection in .NET – How it really works (Techie Mate)
• Compiling F# code for the XBox 360 (Don Syme)
• Visual Studio Project Sample Loading Error: Assembly could not be loaded and will be ignored. Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80131515) (Brad Abrams)
• Remote Command Service for Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• Agatha Feature Suggestion: Caching and Agatha’s Caching Layer Implementation: First Draft and Using NHibernate In Your Service Layer (Davy Brion)
• Killer Feature for VNext – Language Embedded DSL (Kathleen Dollard)
• Programmatically Increase, Decrease and Mute the Volume (Suprotim Agarwal)

Web Development

• Code for My Blog is On Github (Rob Conery)
• Using Fiddler to Capture RIA Services (Andy Beaulieu)
• Roll your own AJAX Extender for JQuery Calendar (Brendan Kowitz)
• ASP.NET: Gradients and ASP.NET: Buttons (Deborah Kurata)
• Enabling IoC in ASP.NET ActionResults (or, a better ActionResult) (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC ControllerFactory for Unity and the reasoning behind it (Simone Chiaretta)
• Generating Dynamic HTML Tables with jQuery From an In-Memory DataTable (Michael Ceranski)
• A free standing ASP.NET Pager Web Control (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile is Not Scrum, Part 2 (David Starr)
• 5 Simple Steps to Execute Unit Testing Using NUnit (Shivprasad Koirala)
• Name that refactoring: 1 and Name that refactoring: 2 (Brett Schuchert)
• NDepend And Lack Of Cohesion Of Methods… Not to be trusted (Davy Brion)
• Keeping Close to Users – Everyone Should be Tech Support for Someone (Julie Stickler)
• The Art of Subliminal Productivity (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Understanding Perceived Performance and More on Perceived Performance (Howard Dierking)
• TDD: Only mock types you own (Mark Needham)
• Book Review: Enterprise Integration Patterns (Mike Hadlow)
• Entity Framework Profiler is now in public beta and ÜberProf new feature: Programmatic Integration (Oren Eini)
• Picking Between Your Official Designation And Your Secret Titles. and Programmer Tip: Look Out For The Best Alpha Geeks And Learn From Them. (Rajiv Popat)
• Four Kinds of Trust (4): Trust Yourself! (Jurgen Appelo)
• The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 3 – Extending the container with custom use cases (Marcus Bratton)
• The Art of Color (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: Wish List (Deborah Kurata)
• Magellan Transitions and Magellan Action Results and Magellan Exceptions (Paul Stovell)
• Wrap music [A more flexible balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
• My XAP file is 5 Mb size, is that bad? (Braulio Diez)
• Make Your WPF Applications Adapt to the Host Machine (Srinath MS)
• Using a different mscorlib for F# in Visual Studio (Silverlight and probably XNA too) (Steve Gilham)
• 12 Days of RIA – Day 5 – Read Only Data (John Pelak)
• Working with Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Buttons with WPF 4 and Overlaying Icons on the Windows 7 Taskbar with WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
• Exchanging Data between Silverlight 3.0 User Controls using Dependency Properties and Events (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – The Spark View Engine for ASP.NET MVC with Louis DeJardin (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Weekly 134: Prestige Mode (Paul Thurrott)
• Hidden Gem from PDC Videos (Jason Haley)
• ARCast.TV – Rocky Lhotka on Development Frameworks (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: Silverlight Web cam apps, VS extensibility, Explorer shell extensions (Dan Fernandez)
• Enterprise Library 5 Video from PnPSummit (David Hayden)
• Rx API in depth: Concat, Catch and OnErrorResumeNext (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Herding Code 65: Scott Hanselman on His Secret Ninja Squad and Jon’s new job (bonus: netbook operating system install clinic!) (Jon Galloway)
• Peer to Peer Series Part 7: PeerChannel Basics (Jeff Brand)
• Technical Preview for CAT.NET 2.0 (Jossie Tirado)

Community / Events

• IronRuby @ RubyConf – Part 3: Sneaking Ruby to the top (Jimmy Schementi)
• French MVP Launches Windows 7 Tutorials Site! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

• SQL Server Query Plan cache – what is it and why should you care? (Damien Guard)
• Introducing SQL Server to Oracle and Dynamic SQL Server connections in Reporting Services (Ted Krueger)
• SQL Query Commenting/Uncommenting Quick Tip (Erik)
• SQL SERVER – White Paper – Partitioned Table and Index Strategies Using SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: Designing and Developing High-Performance SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 vs. MindTouch the Battle of the Platforms (Mark Fidelman)
• BCS Webinar Slides (Nick Swan)
• Video Blogging with Javascript and the Media Web Part (Mihai Coman)

Miscellaneous

• Mark Anderson to Microsoft: Your consumer business is dead (Todd Bishop)
• Google Apps highlights – 12/11/2009 (Jeremy Milo)
• P80 Windows Home Server add-in update (Ben Palmer)
• Stack Overflow Rack Glamour Shots (Jeff Atwood)
• Jive Software vs. MindTouch – a Guide for Decision Makers (Mark Fidelman)
• WordPress Makes Blogging On The Fly Easier, Integrates With Twitter API (Leena Rao)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 12, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #497 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 12, 2009 — #755 (Dave Campbell)
• AppFabric a.ka. "Dublin" Links (Sam Gentile)
• Links of the week #101 (David Vidmar)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.08 ~ 12.14 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #83 (Grant Palin)
• Links (12/13/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 123 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/14/2009 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Using a worker AppDomain to register a COM assembly (Joe White)
• N-Tier Methods in Entity Framework 4 – Use with Care (Julie Lerman)
• Productivity Improvements in Mono 2.4: Components and Architecture (Tapas Pal)
• Effective C#, 2nd Edition: What Content got dropped, and why? (Bill Wagner)
• More on Timers in .NET (Rhonda Tipton)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Startup Failures (Rick Strahl)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy 2.2 beta in the wild! (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Most Amazing ReFactor Using ReSharper EAP 5.0 I’ve Seen! (Peter Kellner)

Web Development

• Using Windows Azure BLOB storage with PHP (Gunnar Peipman)
• Microsoft Releases Bing API Software Development Kit (SDK) (Blake Handler)
• Hiding Foreign Key or Children Columns Globally in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• More on medium trust: what permission are you missing? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Validating CheckBoxLists when using ClientIDMode=Predictable (Pete Blum)
• jQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Doc Reviews – The Documentation Sprint (Julie Stickler)
• Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway (Jeff Atwood)
• You don’t need a UML tool (Simon Brown)
• the Importance of Observers (Brett Schuchert)
• One-Way (Or Fire And Forget) Requests With Agatha (Davy Brion)
• Bing Outage exposes Testing in Production (TiP) Hazards (Ken Johnston)
• Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• If Agile Isn’t the Point, What Is? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Saying "NO". (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Hiring Kick-Ass Programmers Who Interview Your Organization. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: ComboBox SelectedItem (Deborah Kurata)
• Building Hello MEF – Part II – Metadata and why being Lazy is a good thing. (Glenn Block) – Link of the Day
• BugCamSmash Dissected part 1 – Smash a Bug (Adam Kinney)
• Cinch : Major change alert (Sacha Barber)
• Inserting Silverlight DeepZoom images into your Web page (Silverlight Team)
• MVVM Light V3/alpha3 for Blend 3 and Blend Preview 4 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Extensibility Series – Loading Metadata for Microsoft Controls (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – The State of Powershell with Lee Holmes and Jason Shirk (Scott Hanselman)
• Pixel8 Podcast – ASP.NET Simplicity and Performance with Scott Hunter (Craig Shoemaker)
• Connected Show Podcast: PDC 2009 Pizza Party (Brian Johnson)
• Coding4Fun at PDC 2009 – Video Montage (Brian Peek)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 41: Developing Better User Experiences with Internet Explorer 8 with Jon Box (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: Scott Hanselman, Jon Galloway, Bing, parallel unit tests, more (Dan Fernandez)
• Introducing the Pluralcast (David Starr)
• Progression of the Iconic Background (Larry Larsen)
• Video on Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Mike Cottmeyer… DZone Interview at Agile 2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Scott Guthrie (Nic Fillingham)
• Life at Microsoft: Episode 3 (Tina Wood)

Database

• SQL Server DateTime Manipulation Functions (Richard Carr)

SharePoint

• BCS Model in Visual Studio 2010 – SpecificFinder and IdEnumerator (Nick Swan)
• Permissions Reporting in SP2010 (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server Free Trial now with Power Pack 3 (Nicole Berett)
• Ignoring Namespaces in XPath (Joel Bennett)
• Google Officially Launching Chrome Extensions Next Week (MG Siegler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/5 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Flickr Drive Integrates Flickr into Windows Explorer (Sarah Perez)
• New-Object PSObject –Property [HashTable] (Jeffrey Snover)
• Entrepreneurship Tip: Every Client Is Not Meant To Be Your Client. (Rajiv Popat)
• Freelance work what it should be vs what it is. (Paul Zubkov)
• User Account Control and WMI (Kapil Mathur)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 04, 2009 — #748 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for the Week of 2009.12.04 (Jeremiah Peschka)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Source Code for Programming F# (Chris Smith)
• Windows 7 Ribbon for WinForms – Yes you can… (Greg Duncan)
• Surface SDK 1.0 SP1 supports XNA Game Studio 3.0 and later (Eric St. John)
• Sample: Get Calendar Data Using Exchange Web Services (C#) (Jason Zander)
• What’s new for editor extenders in Beta 2? (Noah Richards)
• Hello World With Agatha (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Deploying A Web Application with Git and FTP (Rob Conery)
• LinkedIn API Platform Goes Live: Your Resume and Business Network Now Have an API (Adam DuVander)
• Developers Get a Sneak Peek at Internet Explorer 9 (Bruce Kyle)
• JQuery Validator plus Element IDs, and Names (Chris Brandsma)
• ASP.NET 4.0 ScriptManager Improvements (Dave Reed)
• Visual WebGui: Cloud Optimization and the Application Layer (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Accelerate PHP Applications on Windows with the new Cache Extension (Lawrence Moroney)
• Renaming jQuery UI Tabs (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Serialize Any .NET Object to a JSON String (Deepak Choudhari)
• Where does this go? Applying SoC to dynamic data – Part 1 (Peter Blum)
• Enabling the ASP.NET Ajax script loader for your own scripts (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Offsetting Your Bad Code Footprint (Billy McCafferty)
• Always write a spec, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Book Review: Debug It! (Paul Butcher, Pragmatic Bookshelf) (Ted Neward)
• Pros don’t make do (Scott Koon)
• TestAPI 0.4 Released (Lester Lobo)
• Connecting Your Tests to an Implementation and Static vs. Instance-Based Models (Nico Kicillof)
• Mindscape LightSpeed an O/R Mapper Done Right (Rob Bazinet)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Beta – Accessing a users webcam and microphone and Silverlight 4 Beta – Text Trimming and Silverlight 4 Beta – Using Silverlight as Drop Target (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight (Corrina Barber)
• What’s New in Silverlight 4 (John Papa) – Link of the Day
• Sharing isn’t easy for anyone [Tricks for sharing the same XAML files across Silverlight and WPF] (David Anson)
• Using the WebBrowser control and debug a Silverlight Out-of-browser (OOB) application in VS 2010 (Fredrik Normén)
• Free Embeddable Fonts for your WPF Applications (Learn WPF)
• New WPF Features: DatePicker\Calendar\VSM\Datagrid (Lester Lobo)
• Running FxCop rules against Silverlight or WPF XAML and XAML Toolkit CTP – November 2009 is now live! (Michael Shim)
• Microsoft’s Bob Muglia and Ray Ozzie on Silverlight vs. standards (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Taking a WebCam Photo with Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• EdgeCam Shots – Saving Silverlight 4 Webcam Snapshots to JPEG (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010 (Beth Massi)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 40: Silverlight 4 and Behind the Scenes at PDC 2009 with Scott Guthrie (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Øredev chit-chat: Dag König and Scott Hanselman and Øredev chit-chat: Dag König and Julia Lerman and Øredev chit-chat: Johan Lindfors and Alan Smith and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Shawn Wildermuth and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Scott Bellware and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Ayende Rahien (Dag König)
• 10-4 Episode 36: Windows Server AppFabric and Workflow Services Lab (Ron Jacobs)
• Silverlight Podcast: Expression Encoder 3 (Silverlight Team)
• Videos of C# Authors at PDC (Charlie Calvert)

Community / Events

• PDC2009, Coding4Fun, and Mind Blaster (Brian Peek)
• SharePoint 2010 Experience: Dec 2nd and 3rd (Jim O’Neil)
• Oredev Keynote – Information Overload and Managing the Flow: Effectiveness and Efficiency (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• Hitting the upper limit of foreign key constraints (Jimmy Bogard)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Hex Dumper in PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft’s TechNet Releases "Explore as Administrator" PowerToy for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/24 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Collaboration Without Compromise (Ayca)
• I Don’t Get The Hype – Google Wave is Discussion Forums Web 2.0 (Keith Elder)
• Windows Azure vs. Windows 8 Server? (Stephen Chapman)
• Orchard team looking for a new developer (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Extensions: One Step Closer to the Finish Line (Ian Fette)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/23/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2009 — #741 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #483 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 393 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate and Composite Keys (Anne Epstein)
• PDC09 Downloader Source Code (Frank La Vigne)
• Visual Studio 2010: Generating sequence diagrams on the fly (Gunnar Peipman)
• IntelliTrace: A graphical comparison (Habib Heydarian)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 2- The Repository (Julie Lerman)
• NHibernate Event Listener Registration With Fluent NHibernate (Rob Reynolds)
• Microsoft Surface SDK opens doors to all (Vladislav Savov)

Web Development

• T4MVC 2.5.01: added support for Html.RenderAction and Html.Action (David Ebbo)
• ASP.NET MVC: Creating reports using Chart control (Gunnar Peipman)
• Lot’s of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP this week (Bill Staples)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kitchen Agile (Leon Bambrick)
• CQRS – The Domain Events (Mark Nijhof)
• Managing to the Constraint (Mike Cottmeyer)
• User Interface Design Is Not About Lorem Ipsum And Pretty Boxes. (Rajiv Popat)
• Take 3: Python, ISP, IoC, and OCP need a fundamental rethink. (Ryan Svihla)
• What’s all this nonsense about Katas? (Uncle Bob Martin) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• SketchFlow: Including Multiple Tab Content In Word Export (Christian Schormann)
• WCF RIA Services – What you need to know when creating DTO/Presentation Model (Fredrik Normén)
• Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight 4 Fluid UI (Jesse Liberty)
• Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I (Karl Shifflett)
• XAML 2009 Features: FactoryMethod\Arguments (Lester Lobo)
• Debugging Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Applications (Mike Taulty)
• The big Silverlight 4 Question (Peter Bromberg)
• EdgeCam – Silverlight 4 Webcam & Edge Detection Shader (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA) (Jossie Tirado)
• Life at Microsoft: The truth revealed…again! (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 – Out of Browser Evolves (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• PDC09 Session Downloader (Frank La Vigne)
• PDC09 RSS feed file for your podcast catcher of choice (i.e. Grab all the PDC sessions for your Zune, Reader, FeedDemon, etc) (Greg Duncan)
• PDC ‘09: Three Screens and a Cloud, Pt. 1 – Azure (David Makogon)
• Why I like Steven Sinofsky (Stephen Forte)
• Shut Up and Build Something (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• SQL Server String Index Functions (Richard Carr)
• Procedures with cursors and Missing foreign key constraints (George Mastros)
• First sighting of SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) (Jamie Thomson)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 for Oracle DBA (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• The Search Developer Story in SharePoint 2010 – Query Interfaces (Arnt Schøning)
• BCS Meta Man Alpha Release (BCS Meta Man Team)

Miscellaneous

• Testing for PowerShell Remoting: Test-PsRemoting (Lee Holmes)
• Fixing Search Results: PowerShell 2.0 is RTM (Joel Bennett)
• Azure and Hardware (Bill Evjen)
• Systems Management with NetPoint and PowerGUI (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Why Chrome OS Will Succeed (in a limited market) (Eric Anderson)
• MVPs Release Windows 7 Resource Kit (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Twitter in a Dead End (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Why Google Chrome OS has already won (Robert Scoble)
• Foobar2000 v1.0 Beta — holy crap, it’s finally here! (Sebastian Anthony)
• BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Announced (Sam Gentile)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 20, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2009 — #737 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for the Week 2009.11.20 (Jeremiah Peschka)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Depends vs Call, Do you know and understand the difference in NAnt? (Derik Whittaker)
• IntelliTrace: A graphical comparison (Habib Heydarian)
• Introducing: The Agatha Project (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft Surface SDK opens doors to all (Vladislav Savov)
• Integrating Traditional .NET MSMQ Application with Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 using MsmqIntegrationBinding (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 1- Model and POCO Classes (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation (Phil Haack)
• Visualize your Twitter Timeline with jQuery and SIMILE (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A better Model Binder addendum (Jimmy Bogard)
• There’s Lazy Loading, And Then There’s Lazy Coding (Davy Brion)
• Always write a spec, part one (Eric Lippert)
• Buy Bad Code Offsets Today! (Jeff Atwood)
• MSpec latest build download now available (Aaron Jensen)
• The Danger of Single Responsibility in Programming Continued (David Cooksey)
• Programmer Tip: A ‘Large’ Project Means Nothing. (Rajiv Popat)
• Take 2: Why we use SOLID in static languages and how we get the same functionality for cheap in dynamic languages (Ryan Svihla)
• NDepend — a belated "kicking the tyres" review (Steve Gilham)
• Design Patterns Are Not Outdated (Steve Rowe)

Silverlight / WPF

• Application Library Caching – November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit and BusyIndicator: David Poll’s ActivityControl is now in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Release and Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser … plus a tutorial (Jeff Wilcox)
• MVVM and Prism Demo for PDC09 Silverlight Session (John Papa)
• WCF RIA Services and DTO with association (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight 4 WebCam – at a glance (Corey Schuman) – Link of the Day
• Sharing Blend Workspace Settings (Andy Beaulieu)
• Wrox Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference Book Review (Joel Cochran)
• Fishbowl for Facebook Using the Windows 7 Taskbar for Extra Spice (Yochay Kiriaty)
• RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 3 & 4 Library Sharing with .NET 4.0 Library or WPF (Karl Shifflett)
• XAML 2009 Features: Generics Support (Lester Lobo)
• The big Silverlight 4 Question (Peter Bromberg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Connected Show Podcast: Who’s Exception is it? (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 8 of 13 and Wes Dyer and Stephen Toub: Rx and Px – Working Together and Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 – Out of Browser Evolves (Charles Torre)
• Video of my Prism and MVVM at PDC (John Papa)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09 Mike Anguilo (Nic Fillingham)
• ThirstyDeveloper Podcast – John Bristowe on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• Stackoverflow Overflow (Bob Nadler)
• PDC 2009 Day 3: Lighting Up Windows Server 2008 R2 Using the ConcRT on UMS and PDC 2009 Day 3: Developing Applications for Scale-Up Servers Running Windows Server 2008 R2 and PDC 2009 Day 3: DirectCompute: Capturing the Teraflop and PDC 2009 Day 3: Power Tools for Debugging and PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie (Sasha Goldshtein)
• XAML UI (WPF + Silverlight) Momentum shown at PDC09! (Rob Relyea)

Database

• Get 25% Off SQL Server E-Learning from Microsoft (Brad M. McGehee)
• Where is the next Access? (Ian Cooper)
• Collation conflicts with temp tables and table variables. (George Mastros)
• Geek City: Intent to Update (Kalen Delaney)
• RoundhousE: Version Your Database (Rob Reynolds)
• To BUILTIN\Admin or not to BUILTIN\Admin (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Expert SQL Server 2008 Encryption by Michael Coles (Pinal Dave)
• Code Name Houston: New SQL Azure Developer Tool (Stephen Forte)
• GUIDs: Not Necessarily Unique (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – It finally has an official name! (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Releasing the Chromium OS open source project (Caesar Sengupta)
• Hello, open source developers. Would you like to help build an operating system for web users? (Ian Fette)
• No Telecommuting Allowed! (Jim Lynch)
• Windows PowerShell and the Windows Management Framework (Lee Holmes)
• Open XML: One Year In (Shawn Villaron)
• My Google Wave Wish List: The Document Collaboration Edition (Will Kelly)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #481 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 — #735 and Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 – 2 — #736 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 19-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (11/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Projects: Packaging Your Build (Grant Palin)
• Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) (Somasegar)
• Data Dude moving into lower priced VS Editions in VS 2010 – excellent! (Kimberly Tripp)
• Diagnosing Toolbox Filtering Errors (Josh)
• Give us more control of Intellisense (Peter Blum)
• MPI Cluster debugger plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 (Joe Hummel)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Programming (Ferdinando Santacroce)
• Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit and Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1 Samples (codename "Dublin" and codename "Velocity") (MS Downloads)
• Feature Request For Visual Studio 2010: Local Revision History (Tuna Toksoz)
• New Windows API Code Pack Version (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part V (Matthew Podwysocki)
• NHibernate Event Listener Registration With Fluent NHibernate (Rob Reynolds)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Adding Statistical Formulas (Scott Mitchell)
• Html.RenderAction and Html.Action (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET 4.0: Writing custom output cache providers (Gunnar Peipman)
• An Early Look At IE9 for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Azure to Feature App Marketplace (Mitch Pronschinske)
• HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer (Mikhail Arkhipov)
• Translating your content title using Google Translate API to use in a URL (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Is Windows Azure the Right Technology for the Future? (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• There’s Lazy Loading, And Then There’s Lazy Coding (Davy Brion)
• Two controllers, type conformance and the Liskov Substitution Principle (Mark Needham)
• Call for help with MSpec and MSpec v0.3 (Aaron Jensen)
• Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Class Design and Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Projecting Projections (Howard Dierking)
• The Demise of the Test Lab – An Ode to when Testers worked in test labs (Ken Johnston)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Trusted Applications and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Camera and Microphone Support and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: HTML Hosting in the WebBrowser Control and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: RichTextArea and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Clipboard Access and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Silverlight as a Drop Target and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Managed Extensibility Framework (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight 4 Debuts with Killer Demos at PDC09 and RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development (Nikhil Kothari)
• I Think Silverlight just ate WPF from the inside (Bill Wagner)
• Rundown of Silverlight 4 Beta Features and 6 Hands on Labs (Adam Kinney) – Link of the Day
• Silverlight 4 all about Media, Business Applications and calling your COM objects as trusted application! (Al Pascual)
• WPF: Still Alive and Kicking (Frank La Vigne)
• New WPF Features: SynchronizedInputPattern (Lester Lobo)
• Is WCF RIA Services ready for the Enterprise? and Silverlight 4 Commanding enables ViewModels (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.5 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight 4 Gets Top Requested Features (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Fishbowl – THE Windows FaceBook client? (Greg Duncan)
• Data Binding Changes in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 4 Beta Announced! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 4 Beta, RIA Services… and Beer! and Silverlight 4 Beta: Implicit Styles (Andy Beaulieu)
• Welcome to WCF RIA Services Beta! (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight 4 Beta is out – and the Toolkit has it covered! [Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 release now available for Silverlight 3 and 4!] (David Anson)
• Enabling Validation in Silverlight 4 with IDataErrorInfo (John Papa)
• WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4 Beta (Tomasz Janczuk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta with Phil Haack (Scott Hanselman)
• IE 9: First look at the new JS Engine and IE 9: Standards and Interoperability and IE 9: Surfing on the GPU with D2D and GalaxyZoo: Citizen Science for Classifying Galaxies (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #74 (Jeff Atwood)
• Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Silverlight 4 Podcast Pack with Tim Heuer (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• This Week in Test Episode 4 – Animals that Talk Back (Dror Helper & Gil Zilberfeld)
• Introducing the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta (James Senior)
• Internet Explorer 9 Screenshots and Video Demo (Taimur Asad)

Community / Events

• MSDN Radio 18 Nov – PDC09, samtal runt tunnan (Dag König)
• PDC 2009 – Day 2, Keynote (Dave Bost)
• PDC09 Keynote Day 2 – Silverlight 4.0 and Free Laptops?! (Rick Minerich)
• PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Steven Sinofsky and PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie and PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Kurt DellBene and PDC 2009 Day 2: Microsoft Perspectives on the Future of Programming and PDC 2009 Day 2: Future of Garbage Collection and PDC 2009 Day 2: The State of Parallel Programming and PDC 2009 Day 2: Developing with the Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework and PDC 2009 Day 1: Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Silverlight Tour Now Includes Silverlight 4! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• My Introduction to Castle Winsor for IoC Session Scheduled for NotAtPDC (Steve Bohlen)
• Shut up and build something (Sara J. Chipps)
• Silverlight 4 beta released at #PDC09 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Microsoft PDC09 day 2 keynote highlights (Maarten Balliauw)
• PDC 2009: Recap Day 1, what’s on the menu for Day 2? (Sunshine)
• PDC Day One, working the halls (Kip Kniskern)
• Live from LA: Day One with the Surface Team at PDC (Kyle R. Warnick)
• Pablo’s Fiesta Open Space Conference (Chad Myers)
• December Headspring workshop: Decoupling Layers using Inversion of Control (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Understanding Table Hints with Examples (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server collation conflicts (George Mastros)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Public Beta is now available for download and Path to User Profile Synchronization success in SharePoint 2010 Beta (SharePoint Team)
• FYI – Interesting Little Bug in VS 2010 Beta 2 when working with the SharePoint 2010 Silverlight Client Object Model (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates Office Filter Packs for Windows 7 & Office 2010 Beta and Advantages & Disadvantages of Microsoft Office 2010 64-Bit Version (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/19 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Pivot: The latest technology from Live Labs (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Enters Beta (Will Kelly)
• Office Mobile 7 UI Prototype Image on Microsoft.com (Stephen Chapman)
• Office Mobile 2010 – BETA (Steven Bink)
• Is IIS 7 Console Based on PowerShell? (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Careers Employer Beta Underway (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 18, 2009, Part 2 and Interesting Finds: November 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for Nov 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #480 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets from 18-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 392 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2009 — #734 (Dave Campbell)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit and Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1 Samples (codename "Dublin" and codename "Velocity") (MS Downloads)
• Vs2010 IntelliTrace and Entity Framework Database Interaction (Julie Lerman)
• Tailspin Travel (Jonathan Carter)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/18 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Dublin Becomes Windows AppFabric! (Sam Gentile)
• Building Applications for Windows Azure (Somasegar)
• Windows Identity Foundation Ships! (Vittorio Bertocci)
• Programming Windows 7 Using Visual Studio 2010 (Yochay Kiriaty) – Link of the Day
• Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) released on DevLabs (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Awesome .NET 4: Named and Optional Parameters for Classes and Methods (Tom Hearn)
• Visual Studio 2010 – Visual Basic New Feature – NonSerialized Events (Karl Shifflett)
• Breaking up with the ternary operator (Matt Hinze)
• Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Adding Statistical Formulas (Scott Mitchell)
• Twitter Word Cloud Visualization with Google API (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released (Phil Haack)
• Windows Azure now supports various OS image types (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Cascading DropDownLists With ASP.NET and jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer (John Resig)
• Pass Number 1: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET (Rob Conery)
• The AJAX UpdatePanel Is it your worst enemy? (Kevin Jones)
• What Dynamic Data REALLY Is and Is building apps with Dynamic Data faster? (Peter Blum)
• ASP.NET Google SPDY Tweaks (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Start with the big picture (Simon Brown)
• Reducing friction as a standard operating method (Oren Eini)
• Semi-literate Programming and 8 Pieces of Architectural Advice for CMS (Michael Krakovskiy)
• The SOA Manifesto (Josh Twist)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 9 (Michael Feathers) and The ‘should’ word (Mark Needham)
• How We Do Things – The Team Room (Scott C. Reynolds)

Silverlight / WPF

• The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight™/WPF™ version 1.1 is now available. (Al Pascual)
• Using the FluidMove Behavior (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs (Deborah Kurata)
• WPF : A True WPF Browser Control That Can Bend It Like Beckham (Sacha Barber)
• TOP 10 LIST: Silverlight for Games (Andy Beaulieu)
• New WPF Features: PixelShader3 Support (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Lev Novik on the Microsoft Sync Framework (Carl Franklin)
• Introducing "Dallas" and Building on Azure: KBB.com and Building on Azure: Siemens and Buidling on Azure: OriginDigital and Erik Meijer: Rx in 15 Minutes – Rx is Here!!!!! and Getting Started with Rx Extensions for .NET and Manuvir Das: Windows Azure One Year Later (Charles Torre)
• Code Cast 34 – David Starr Sells Out to the Man (David Starr)
• Writing your first Rx Application and Reactive Extensions API in depth: intro (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• 30 “Quick Hit” Videos for folks that couldn’t join us at PDC (Joe Stagner)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #152: Introduction to MEF, Getting rolling with basic usage (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• PDC09 – A Call to Dream (Nikhil Kothari)
• A Quick Rundown of PDC 2009 Day 1 Announcements (Me)
• Internet Explorer 9 to be Announced at PDC (Muhammad Ali)
• Coding4Fun at PDC! (Coding4Fun)
• Microsoft PDC 09: Day 1 (Dan Rigsby)
• PDC 2009 – Day 1, Keynote (Dave Bost)
• Are you a poet? Compose a Haiku and Win! (Kim Spilker)
• Talking at #notatpdc about Blend 3 and SketchFlow (Laurent Bugnion)
• Gabriel Schenker introduction to NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate Part 2 (Zachariah Young)
• PDC 2009 Day 1: Keynote, Roy Ozzie and PDC 2009 Day 1: Keynote, Bob Muglia and PDC 2009 Day 1: Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic and PDC 2009 Day 1: Concurrency Fuzzing & Data Races and PDC 2009 Day 1: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Changes and PDC 2009 Day 1: Data-Intensive Computing on Windows HPC Server with the DryadLINQ Framework and PDC 2009 Day 1: Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests (Sasha Goldshtein)
• PDC 2009 Day 1, post-keynote: What are we learning so far? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Live from LA: Day One with the Surface Team at PDC (Kyle R. Warnick)
• PDC09 Keynote: Open Source, Open Platforms and the Democratization of Data (Rick Minerich)
• PDC 2009: Recap Day 1, what’s on the menu for Day 2? (Sunshine)

Database

• SQL Server Substring Functions (Richard Carr)
• Don’t use text datatype for SQL 2005 and up (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table – A Puzzle to Find Index Size for Each Index on Table (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Managing Permissions in SharePoint 2007 (Lightning Tools)
• New SharePoint 2010 Architecture Models (Mike Walker)
• Introducing SharePoint 2010 (Beta) (Zhiming Xue)

Miscellaneous

• Advantages & Disadvantages of Microsoft Office 2010 64-Bit Version (Blake Handler)
• Office Mobile 2010 to come with WM 6.5 devices exclusively (Phone Arena Team)
• How to Work From Home During Chaotic Repairs (Celine Roque)
• Explore images with Google Image Swirl, now in Labs (Aparna Chennapragada)
• Your Office in the Clouds: The Best Online Virtual Desktops (Doriano "Paisano" Carta)
• Upcoming Free Xbox LIVE Weekends (Larry Hyrb)
• Ray Ozzie is wrong about smartphone apps (Robert Scoble)
• Windows 8: More Roadmaps (Stephen Chapman)
• We need a language for programmers (Scott Koon)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #479 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2009 — #734 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Microsoft PDC09 keynote highlights (Maarten Balliauw)
• New and Notable 391 (Sam Gentile)
• Links from the PDC09 (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Interesting Finds: November 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Text Sharp – Visual Studio 2010 text clarity tuner (Sergey Vlasov)
• Code Name Dublin Tutorials (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft donates .NET Micro Framework to open source (Gavin Clarke)
• Linq to Sql profiler – transactions (Oren Eini)
• Pluralsight On-Demand! v2.0 released today (Aaron Skonnard)
• XNA Role Playing Game (RPG) Starter Kit (Coding4Fun)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Testing Asynchronous Client-Side Usage and Request/Response Service Layer: Conclusions (Davy Brion)
• Creating something from nothing – and knowing it [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET refined!] (David Anson)
• Closing over the loop variable, part two (Eric Lippert)
• NHunspell – 0.9.2 released and two cool C# & VB.Net Code Projects too (Greg Duncan)
• Fun with LINQ Aggregate (Mike Hadlow)
• Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Azure Summary (Tony Rasa)
• Creating Windows 7 Multitouch Applications (Zhiming Xue)
• Why Future should be in your future (Jason Grundy)

Web Development

• Making ASP.NET MVC Actions be Transactional By Default (Scott Kirkland)
• T4MVC 2.5.00 update: multiple output files and minified javascript support (David Ebbo)
• Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Remove dependencies inside one iteration (Andy Singleton)
• Usability and Touch (Jason Ipock)
• Teach an Old Dog New Tricks: How to Break Bad Work Habits (Karen Leland)
• Applied Modularity – Part 1 (Kirk Knoernschild)
• The Extensible Test Runner You’ve Been Waiting For (Mark Miller)
• UX Design Tools & Techniques (Jeffrey Dunn)
• Back to Basics: Usage of Static (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• How to deal with bad decisions made by the team and How to start agile development in your team (Roy Osherove)
• I recant my IoC! IoC containers in dynamic languages are silly. (Ryan Svihla)

Silverlight / WPF

• Learning Prism (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) MVVM Fundamentals (Damian Schenkelman)
• Reproducing a WPF memory leak (Oren Eini)
• Silverlight’s CollectionViewSource (Bea Stollnitz)
• Updates made to WPF graphing application (Josh Smith)
• How to create a Module based Silverlight application (Part 1) (Fredrik Normén)
• New WPF Features: UIA Virtualization (Lester Lobo)
• Double event firing in VB/XAML. How common? (Rob Relyea)
• A ChildWindow management service for MVVM applications (Andrea Boschin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: Web Application Security with Keith Brown (MS Podcasts)
• Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Part III (Charlie Calvert)
• Ping 38: Facebook SDK, MSN Video, Bing, Bill Gates, IE8 (Laura Foy)
• Silverlight Podcast: IIS7 Media Services 3.0 (Silverlight Team)
• Episode 92 – PowerScripting Podcast – The BSonPosh module with MVP Brandon Shell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Developers Meet at "Geek Heaven" in Los Angeles (MS PressPass)
• GiveCamp – Code for non-profits in your community (Andy Singleton)
• Developers, Architects Meet at PDC (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft PDC 2009 – Patterns of Parallel Programming Workshop (Doug Holland)
• Building extensible RIAs at PDC (Glenn Block)
• Not at PDC? You can still take part – Party Underground @ PDC, See the keynotes and more… (Greg Duncan)
• Make: Philly meeting November 22nd (Matt Mets)
• PDC week! Panel on OSS + ASP.NET (Bertrand Le Roy)
• PDC 2009 Day 0: Vista is through and PDC 2009: Scuttling huge chunks of Vista architecture for a faster Windows 7 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• PDC 2009: Day 0 (Paul Thurrott)
• Reporting Live from the Windows 7 Seminar: Boot Camp (Yochay Kiriaty)

Database

• Do not use the float data type (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – 2005 2008 – Backup, Integrity Check and Index Optimization By Ola Hallengren (Pinal Dave)
• Article of the Week – Kimberly L. Tripp (Partitioned Tables and Indexes) (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Free e-book: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Devon Musgrave)

SharePoint

• External Content Type in SharePoint Designer – SQL Server (Nick Swan)
• Automate Activation/Deactivation of SharePoint Features (Jim Holmes)
• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 1 – Introduction to the new List View (Greg Chan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft makes available new high performance Windows Server test build (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google Chrome Feed Preview (Alex Chitu)
• The High Cost of Losing a Developer (Dave Laribee)
• Social Software 2.0: Enterprise Process Ubiquity (Hutch Carpenter)
• Don Dodge Dumps Microsoft After it Dumps Him (Zoli Erdos)
• Office 2010 Beta Available for Download via MSDN and TechNet (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LVII (Charlie Calvert)
• The Morning Brew #478 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 16, 2009 — #733 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 16, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 16-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/16/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• New and Notable 390 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Self-Contained Entity Framework Models and ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Julie Lerman)
• Multi-Threaded K-Means Clustering in .NET 4.0 (Justin Etheredge)
• Fun with Linq Aggregate (Mike Hadlow)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part IV (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Asynchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
• Enabling Recomposition in MEF (Preview (Derik Whittaker)
• Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for the Entity Framework (EF Team)
• Partitioning Data Using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Windsor lazy loading (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Passionate Programmer Book Review (Louis Salin)
• A Gentle Nudge: Too Much Inspiration Is Highly Overrated. (Rajiv Popat)
• The Open/Closed Principle – A real world example (Joel Abrahamsson)
• "Mark my words, if you want to stay relevant and competitive in the coming years — I…" (Sebastian Hermida)
• Revisiting NAnt for Builds (Grant Palin)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF graph that detects circular dependencies (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 130: Trapped, Like Carrots (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com (Bob Familiar)
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio Beta 2, Part II (Charlie Calvert)
• Major Nelson Show #339: Getting Ready for Holiday 2009 (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• SketchFlow and Blend at PDC ‘09 (Christian Schormann)
• NotAtPDC is back! (Steve Andrews) – Link of the Day
• SQLAuthority News – Notes of Excellent Experience at SQL PASS 2009 Summit, Seattle (Pinal Dave)
• Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 Atlanta (Karl Scotland)

Database

• SQL Server Random Number Generation (Richard Carr)
• RoundhousE: Configuration (Rob Reynolds)

Miscellaneous

• I Can Do That With 1 Line of PowerShell: Installed Software (Jeffrey Snover)
• Signing PowerShell Scripts – Automatically (Joel Bennett)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/16 (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #477 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 15, 2009 — #732 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #97 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 11.09 ~ 11.16 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #79 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Finds: November 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (11/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 119 (Rhonda Tipton)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Linq to Sql Profiler is now on public beta (Oren Eini)
• Useful Query Editor Query – 1 (Jason Haley)
• "M" For Language Definition in November 2009 CTP (Chris Sells)
• Loading Enterprise Library validation rules from external file (Gunnar Peipman)
• Enum conversion. Why Oh Why? (Jason Jarrett)
• An Improved Entity Framework Tip for EF4 thanks to Zeeshan (Julie Lerman)
• Microsoft Surface SDK WE now available to MSDN Subscribers (Eric Havir)
• MPI Cluster Debugger launch integration in VS2010 (Daniel Moth)
• ADO.NET Data Services : Efficient Error Handling across Application Tiers (Phani Raj)
• November 2009 Release of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK (Sam Gentile)
• DevExpress 2009.3 Tools Released: CR_ClassCleaner, Refactor_UpdateNamespace, DX_SourceOutliner and More! and TDD Support Refactorings for CodeRush/Refactor!Pro: Refactor_MoveTypeToFileInProject (and more!) (Steve Bohlen)
• More Data Binding (David Fowler)

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4.0 – and semantic markup and ASP.NET 4.0 – New Project Templates (Mike Ormond)
• ASP.NET MVC: Validating objects using Enterprise Library validation application block (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using the jQuery UI Datepicker with ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates (Jason Grundy)
• Capturing and Transforming ASP.NET Output with Response.Filter (Rick Strahl)
• It’s Time for This: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET MVC (Rob Conery)
• Consuming a Portable Area with a Web Forms application (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Rotate ASP.NET Hyperlink Controls in the Same Position using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Anchor (Steven ‘Doc’ List) – Link of the Day
• DTO’s, DDD & The Anemic Domain Model (Jarod Ferguson)
• How to annoy your teammates (Jimmy Bogard)
• Code Coverage: What Is It Good For? (Dave Laribee)
• KiGG Design And Architecture – Part 1 The high level design (Muhammad Mosa)
• TDD: Combining the when and then steps and A reminder to talk to the rubber duck (Mark Needham)
• How We Do Things – Specification (Using the right tools) (Scott C Reynolds)
• Surviving Without Random Lies In The World Software Development. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Developer, developer, developer… (Dax Pandhi)
• MVVM – This might hurt a little… (Avi Pilosof)
• Prototype of OpenStreetMap Silverlight Control using DeepEarth and Bing Maps SDK (Chris Pietschmann)
• SketchFlow in the Real World (Frank La Vigne)
• A MVVM framework “…three hour tour…” (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight: Images (Deborah Kurata)
• The Silverlight HVP Spec (Jesse Liberty)
• Bug correction in Messenger and new feature in EventToCommand (MVVM Light Toolkit V3 alpha) (Laurent Bugnion)
• XAML 2009 Features: Named Object References (Lester Lobo)
• Magellan Installer (Paul Stovell)
• MVVM Study Part 4: Naked WPF (Rob Eisenberg)
• Silverlight: Avoid Caching When Using WebClient Class (Steve Pietrek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Erik Meijer and Patrick Dussud – Inside Garbage Collection and E2E: Erik Meijer and Dave Campbell: Data, Databases and the Cloud (Charles Torre)
• Videos: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 with Jim Nakashima (Charlie Calvert)
• TWC9: C9 Live at PDC, Teamprise, SDKs galore, (Dan Fernandez)
• Interviews at TechEd Europe 2009 – MVP Laurent Bugnion (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Using Web Service APIs in Your Apps (Twin Cities .NET User Group Talk Video) (John Sheehan)
• Engadget Podcast 171 – 11.13.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Announcing Channel 9 Live at PDC09 (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• Silverlight Developers Guide to PDC09 (Adam Kinney)
• IndyHall 201: How IndyHall Communicates with it’s Community (Alex Hillman)
• Small Milestone (Davy Brion) – Congrats, Davy!
• Author news: Steve McConnell speaking in Bellevue, WA (Devon Musgrave)
• Going to PDC09? Want to Meet the WPF Team? The WPF team will be at PDC ready to chat with you! (Jay)
• Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day Four (Jimmy Bosse)
• Skills Matter Lean and Kanban Exchange (Karl Scotland)
• PDC09: Pre-Conference Workshop on Silverlight 3 (Mike Taulty)
• PDC 2009 Preview: The move to Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 (Scott M. Fulton, III)

Database

• Geek City: UPDATE Locks (Kalen Delaney)
• Undetectable Distributed Deadlocks (Emtucifor)
• Identify procedures that call SQL Server undocumented procedures (George Mastros)
• SQL Server 2008 Enterprise feature coming to SQL Server Standard 2008 R2 – Backup Compression (Greg Duncan)
• SQLAuthority News – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server and SQL SERVER – Whitepaper Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• Beginning stages of a DR plan for SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• RoundhousE DB Migration: Action Shots (Rob Reynolds)

SharePoint

• Removing a Dead SharePoint Web Part (Charles Chen)

Miscellaneous

• My excuses for not blogging about the Microsoft/Teamprise deal (Eric Sink)
• Sign-up & Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Software & Services (Blake Handler)
• Signing PowerShell Scripts – Automatically (Joel Bennett)
• This week in search 11/13/09 (Johanna Wright)
• ASP.NET Interview Questions For New College Graduates (Dave M. Bush)
• Small Basic Programs in 25 lines (Vijaye)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 13, 2009 — #731 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman Links for November 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)

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