Top Links

• Writing LINQ providers easily and elegantly (LinqExtender 3.0) (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Quick introduction to Pex (Gunnar Peipman)
• Re-examining WP7 Launchers and Choosers (James Ashley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• XNA GS 4.0 + F# 2.0 + Xbox 360 = love ! (Joh)
• Document Outline: Web Projects (Zain Naboulsi)
• Building Linq Expressions Dynamically (zergIII)
• [Pre-Book Review] Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Common add function in JavaScript (Raghav Khunger)
• Sueetie Now Supercharged with YetAnotherForum.NET 1.9.5 (Dave Burke)
• Introducing Nancy, a lightweight web framework inspired by Sinatra and If it kinds looks like a duck, why not just get a duck (Andreas Håkansson)
• How to dock/pin IE9 developer tools (Jef Claes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to: Invoke events inside your production code using Typemock Isolator (Dror Helper)
• Plays Well With Others – Eight Behaviors of Excellent Leaders (Kevin Kline)
• Leadership Tip: The Art Of Not Making Your Decisions Over Meetings. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How Microsoft Can Fix Windows Phone in 2011 (Paul Thurrott)
• Simple WPF 2D Graphics: DrawingVisual (Danny Simmons)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #8–Styles (Jesse Liberty)
• Phonealytics – Google Analytics App for Windows Phone 7 (Luke Lowrey)
• MahTweetsWP7 – Nightly Build 69 and XamlQuery/WPF – The Write Less, Do More, WPF Library – Release: v1.2 (Runtime, Source) (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WinExtra on Windows – All meat, no stuffing (Steven Hodson)

Community / Events

• Add certifications to your LinkedIn profile (Jef Claes)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Challenge – Puzzle – Why does RIGHT JOIN Exists (Pinal Dave)
• Revisiting Normalization and Denormalization (Ken Downs)
• I/O is frozen on database, No user action is required (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 and Windows Live Wave 5 to offer cloud-based identity and roaming settings? (damaster)
• Just started blogging? A seasoned pro? Just thinking about it? Here’s some lessons and tips that might help on your road to fame and fortune… (i.e. Learn from the mistakes of others…) (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 27, 2010 and Interesting Finds: November 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the week #135 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Expression Web 4 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) by Chris Leeds

Top Links

• Installing, Configuring and Using Windows Server AppFabric and the "Velocity" Memory Cache in 10 minutes (Scott Hanselman)
• WeakReference Event Handlers (Paul Stovell)
• Decoupling the Presentation Layer & the Joy of Interfaces (Simon Gladman)
• Using LINQ Distinct: With an Example on ASP.NET MVC SelectListItem (Joe Mayo)
• Walkthrough: Extending VS 2010 to Support Additional Programming Languages (Weston Hutchins)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# int |> bigint (Mark Pearl)
• IntelliTrace – what and how? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Customize the Output Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• Deleting Windows Azure Queue Messages: Handling Exceptions (Steve Marx)

Web Development

• News Roundup: Boomerang, IE9, Bespin Updates (Michael Kimsal)
• MVC Turbine Resources (Javier G. Lozano)
• Internet Explorer Develop Tools: CSS (Pete LePage)
• Canvas Baby Steps: An Introduction to the HTML 5 Canvas Element (Rey Bango)
• Mapping Your Data with Bing Maps and SQL Server 2008 (Jonas Stawski)
• ActionFilter Overkill (K. Scott Allen)
• IE9 Includes Hardware Accelerated Canvas (Paul Cutsinger & Jatinder Mann)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "The Planning Game" Now Online (James Shore)
• Software Craftsmanship and Giving Back (Andrew)
• Delegating (Andy Warren)
• Automated UI Testing with Guia (Guia Project)
• Azure Canonical Application Architecture (J.D. Meier)
• Abstraction levels and dependencies (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Test-Driven-Development with SharePoint 2010 By Andreas Rudolf Aschauer, BSc (Tal Druyan)
• CI, Testing, and Build Management in the Cloud (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Share more puzzles on www.pexforfun.com (Nikolai Tillman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Config-free IHttpModule Registration (Nikhil Kothari)
• Uploading multiple files with Silverlight 4.0 (Andrea Boschin)
• Customer IApplicationService for Silverlight Applications (Jeremy Likness)
• Word to XAML Converter Updated (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Lazy loading children in CSLA 4 and Silverlight (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Connected Show Podcast: CoApp: Do EPIC Schtuff! (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Yuri Gurevich – Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity, 1 of n (Charles Torre)
• Video: The Unique Development Processes of Relevance (Eric Hagan)
• Using Relative URLs with the ServerInfo Class in InfoPath 2010 (Laura Harrington)
• Interview with Victor Gaudioso on Silverlight (Silverlight Show)
• Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Listen to MVP Joe Shurman on KPRC Radio this Saturday Morning (Joseph Mirabella)
• Agile Atlanta in July… Dennis Stevens and Kanban! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• July 2010 Silverlight MVP Awards (Tim Heuer)

Database

• SSAS Cache Warming with an SSIS package (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Parallelism – Row per Processor – Row per Thread (Pinal Dave)
• Mythbusting – How many instances can you install on your server? (Simon Sabin)
• MySQL 5 Performance Tuning Toolkit (Ryan Svihla)
• My Performance Tuning Methodology (Buck Woody)
• Indexes are best utilized in WHERE, not JOIN (Ben Vegiard)
• XQuery Lab 62 – Revisiting simple TSQL SELECT operations using XQuery (Jacob Sebastian)
• Using Indexed Views to Replace Triggers (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Renaming Web Parts for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010: Not a safe control? (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Commands quick reference (Greg Galipeau)
• What’s Next in SharePoint Land and Project Server 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Coexistence (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• TweetStation: Elevating the Discourse (Miguel de Icaza)
• Kodu PC Build 1.0.64.0 is now live! and Kodu Tutorial Videos (Stephen Coy)
• ClearContext Evolves, Adds Project Management Tools to Outlook (Simon Mackie)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft Access 2010 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #634 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 1, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 55 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for July 01, 2010 — #894 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC by Jonathan McCracken

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Top Links

.NET / Visual Studio

Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack is now Available! and Documentation Refresh (Cameron Skinner)

Writing to an XML File With Attributes (Deborah Kurata)

VS 2010 and Expression Tree Visualization (Patrick Smacchia)

Mono and .NET – some things you should be aware of (Dennis Delimarsky)

Sqlite-Csharp and NHibernate (Rob Ashton)

Announcing: VS2010 Productivity Power Tools and Modeling Feature Packs (Jason Zander)

Debugging .NET 2.0 Assembly from unmanaged Code in VS2010? (Rick Strahl)

readonly keyword (Arun)

Create Code Shortcuts in the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)

DirectX SDK – (June 2010) (MS Downloads)

Peering into the cloud with IntelliTrace (Somasegar)

Web Development

Encrypted Hidden Inputs in ASP.NET MVC (Ashic Mahtab)

A jQuery UI Combobox: Under the hood (Jörn Zaefferer)

Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010 (Kirill Osenkov)

June 2010 release of Windows Azure Tools & SDK (Rinat Abdullin)

IE Diagnostics (Swathi Ganapathi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples (MS Downloads)

No Domain-Driven Design in Rails? (Scott Bellware)

New Pex release 0.92: Rex and Silverlight (Jonathan de Halleux)

Exercise, Good Choices, and DDT (Jared Richardson)

Simple Branching Strategy Part 2: Implementation (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

RIA Services Samples Project on CodePlex (Nikhil Kothari)

New Utility, Links and Tutorials for Path-Based Layout (Christian Schormann)

And the Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” is… (Anand Iyer)

New Policies for Next Gen Windows Phone Marketplace (Brandon Watson)

Windows phone developers please hold on Blend 4 (Jaime Rodriguez)

Install problem with the Developer Tools CTP Refresh (Charlie Kindel)

F# Now Supports Silverlight (Jonathan Allen)

Enter to Win a Ball Watch by Creating One in Silverlight (Michael S. Scherotter)

Quick Tip: Applying Text Options throughout your WPF 4 Application (Pete Brown)

Expression Studio 4 launch–Blend, Web, Encoder, Design (Tim Heuer)

My favorite Expression 4 features (Somasegar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Ball Watch Tutorial 1: Creating a Watch Application and Tutorial 2: Tracing Visual Elements and Tutorial 3: Animating the Second Hand and Tutorial 4: Using an Dash Pattern for Second Marks and Tutorial 5: Creating Concentric Circles and Tutorial 6: Animating Day and Night and Tutorial 7: Binding the Date Indicator and Tutorial 8: Preparing the Watch for Submission (Michael S. Scherotter)

Talking about Windows deployments with System Center and Orinoko (Matt McSpirit)

Major Bing Maps Announcements and SDK Release (Laura Foy)

Skinning with DotNetNuke 5 Super Stylesheets Layouts – 12 Videos (Andrew Stephenson)

Community / Events

NYC .NET Developer User Group Next Meeting: Next Thursday June 17th (Stephen Forte)

Introduction to SQL Server and Reporting (William Vaughn)

TechEd 2010 – Sunday and Teched 2010 – Sunday Part 2 and TechEd 2010 – Monday Morning (Andy Warren)

WWDC: Everything You Need to Know About iPhone 4 (Kevin C. Tofel)

Impressions of My First Day at TechEd 2010 (Brad M. McGehee)

Google Chrome Developer Update – Google I/O recap, new APIs (Ian Fette)

My Philly GiveCamp Experience (Brian Donahue)

Database

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Feature Pack (MS Downloads)

The SQL Server backup – foundation of any Disaster / Recovery and T-SQL Tuesday – Give me my cores SSIS 2008! (Ted Krueger)

SQL SERVER – Merge Operations – Insert, Update, Delete in Single Execution (Pinal Dave)

CouchDB as the Personal Database (Michael Hunger)

Data Sync Service for SQL Azure (Bill Zack)

SharePoint

Oracle Installation guide for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

Adobe Interview (part 2) (Joe Smith)

If You Can’t Say Something Bad About It, You Don’t Know It Well Enough (Davy Brion)

Office is now live on SkyDrive! (Jason Moore)

Making it Big in Software: Get the Job. Work the Org. Become Great. (Jonathan Giles)

Wave 4 Web services go live! (Kip Kniskern)

Is the iPhone 4 Magical? You Decide. (Mitch Pronschinske)

Why Office? “Our business runs on Excel.” (Jennifer Kensok)

#Ebook Deal of the Day: The Ruby Programming Language – Only $9.99 use code DDTRP (O’Reilly Media)

Review: Getting Things Done (Grant Palin)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: June 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)

The Morning Brew #616 (Chris Alcock)

Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 7, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

Cheatsheet: 2010 06.01 ~ 06.07 (yuanjian)

Weekly Link Post 148 (Rhonda Tipton)

Links to New Platform Bits (Jason Zander)

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle: SDL: A Process for Developing Demonstrably More Secure Software

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Top Links

• Rex integrates Pex (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Three Hidden Extensibility Gems in ASP.NET 4 (Phil Haack)
• WP7 Part 3: Navigation (Chris Koenig)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Generic Methods (Richard Carr)
• Analyzing the MVC Music Store: Data Access (Oren Eini)
• Three New Managed Package Framework features for Visual Studio 2010 (Paul Harrington)
• Hide or Show Error List When the Build Finishes with Errors and Using the IDE Navigator (Zain Naboulsi)
• TimeUUID only makes sense with version 1 UUIDs (Nick Berardi)
• Window Hooks – Summary (Shai Raiten)

Web Development

• Golf Tracker MVC App Overview (kahanu)
• Using jQuery to Open External Links in a New Window – Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• Testing MVC 2.0 Controllers with Moq & NUnit (Deran Schilling)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning JavaScript, 2nd Ed – Only $9.99 use code DDJSS (O’Reilly Media)
• jQuery.validate, and Html.ValidationSummary playing nice together (Simon Ince)
• NPR API Goes Read-Write (Michael Manoochehri)
• How to Build a Custom View Engine with Theme Support (Mike Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Lessons Learned from Mike Kropp (J.D. Meier)
• Subordinating the Scrum Team (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Resurrecting User Interface Prototypes (Without Creating Zombies) (Thomas Immich)
• The Bus Factor – Why your ‘best’ developer is your biggest problem (Roy Osherove)
• Programmer Tip: Measuring Your Organization’s Ability To Get Things Done (Rajiv Popat)
• Guidance: How to layout your files for an Ideal Solution (Martin Hinshelwood)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 3D Calculator (Source Code) for Windows Phone 7 (Blake Handler)
• Windows Phone 7 gets it right! (Arian T. Kulp)
• Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Programmers (Jesse Liberty)
• F# operator overloads for WPF dependency properties (Phillip Trelford)
• The WPF Storyboard – what it is and how to use it? (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ramp Up Web Development with ASP.NET: Programming Web Forms VB.NET (MS Podcasts)
• Episode 112 – PowerScripting Podcast – Scripting Games Roundup with Ed Wilson and Joel Bennett (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 13 – Optimizing Search with Craig Bailey (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• I’m giving away 10 free months of TekPub this week (Dave Ward)
• Hard Core EF4 Full-Day Workshop, June 23rd, Stockholm (Julie Lerman)

Database

• Group and Count Records in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL Server Reporting Services R2 – Publishing Report Parts (Patrick LeBlanc)
• SQLAuthority News – Bookmark – Deprecated Database Engine Features in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• 10 Days for Office 2010: Save Time and Create Incredible Content with Word 2010 (Stephanie Kreiger)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 05.11 ~ 05.17 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Link Post 145 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #601 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/17/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Post… 5/10/2010 through 5/16/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links of the week #119 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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Top Links

• Microsoft StyleCop going open! (Greg Duncan)
• Pex 0.91 is out! (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Using Vim search/replace commands (Louis Salin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating your First Crystal Report for Use in a .NET Application (Jeff McWherter)
• Using Vim As Your C# Code Editor From Visual Studio (Derick Bailey)
• Don’t overlook Enterprise Library 5.0 Migration Guide (Grigori Melnik)
• It’s TFS Tool Time! TFS 2010 RTM compatibility Power Tools, MSSCCI and new Build Extension releases (Greg Duncan)
• Working with WCF: Part Three – Connecting To Your Service With A Client pt. 2 (James Bender)
• 6 Cool #VS2010 Quick Tips you should know when working with Visual Studio 2010 (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• How Do I Use Xbox LIVE APIs on Windows Phone? (Andre Vrignaud)
• CSLA 4 Authorization Rules (Rockford Lhotka)
• Sign a .NET Assembly with a Strong Name Without Recompiling (Ryan Farley)
• Moving from Visual Studio 2010 RC to RTM (Mike Ormond)
• Show CodeRush Xpress 10.1 Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Debugging with the Right Tools (Maoni Stephens)
• DataServiceProviderMethods – the least implemented class you’ll ever see (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Create New Code Snippets from Existing Ones (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• RTM’d today: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)
• Accessible Showing and Hiding (Filament Group)
• Tip #103 revisited (Jimmy Lewis)
• Meet WOFF, The Standard Web Font Format (Sylvain Galineau)
• First 3 ASP.NET MVC for the Rest of Us Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Going Parallel with ForkJoin (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Is Apple Doing a Favor to HTML5? (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Version 3.4 in a little more than 48 hours (Daniel Waldschmidt)
• How to Stay Productive in Tough Situations as a Remote Employee (Dawn Foster)
• The Agile Visitor (Derek Greer)
• Raven performance testing (Oren Eini)
• NDepend 3.0 – Completely Integrated with Visual Studio (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Visualize IoC Container and Domain Dependencies – Part 2 (Rinat Abdullin)
• Think: Free Mind Maps for Newbies (Simon Mackie)

Silverlight / WPF

• Game programming in F# (with Silverlight and WPF) (Brian McNamara)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #3 – Mouse Right Clicks (Mike Snow)
• Prism Source Updated for Unity 2.0 and Silverlight 4 (Bob Brumfield)
• Yet Another MVVM Locator Pattern (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight 4 enables Authorization header modification (Tim Heuer)
• Custom Attached Properties in Silverlight (Umair Saeed)
• WPF : Using PRISM Regions Outside Of PRISM (Sacha Barber)
• The SpiderWebControl for Silverlight (Pavan Podila)
• Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Erik Meijer and Cormac Herley – Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users (Charles Torre)
• Updated Windows Phone 7 videos show Office doing awesome things (Chris Ziegler)
• Screencast – Git Part 2 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Which is your favorite Nick Swan? (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• jQuery Podcast 21 – Rey Bomb 2 (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)

Community / Events

• Win a free pass to the Web Optimization Summit! (Michael Kimsal)
• I’ll be presenting [virtually] at the Philly SharePoint Saturday, May 8, 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• TEC SharePoint Conference Agenda for Speakers and Attendees (Joel Oleson)
• Cavalcade of Camps: Launch and Learn – May 15th (Jim O’Neil)
• Nothin But .Net – San Diego,CA (July 26-30, 2010) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• First Typemock Academy – 4 days from now (Roy Osherove)
• SharePoint MVP Chats Coming Soon (Paul Andrew)
• MMS Partner Presentation: Windows Management Framework (Jeffrey Snover)
• Your Story: Interviewing at Microsoft by new hire Thom Mitchell – Part II (Thom Mitchell)

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 24 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script to Take Database Offline – Take Database Online (Pinal Dave)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (23/30) lock escalation (Paul S. Randal)
• Using Table Value Constructors aka Row Constructors in SQL Server 2008 to insert multiple rows using a single statement (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Visio Stencils! and Creating Custom Error Pages in SharePoint 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• What’s New in SharePoint 2010 Capacity Planning (Joel Oleson)
• SharePoint 2010 RTM and BCS Permissions (Jon Flanders)
• Temporarily disabling List View Threshold on a large list (Dina Ayoub)

Miscellaneous

• Office Hub on Windows Phone 7 Emulator (Uzair Ghani)
• Thoughts on Microsoft History and OSS (Udi Dahan)
• Microsoft Surface Week in Review (Eric Havir)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2010 — #845 (Dave Campbell)
• Distributed Weekly 47 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

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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)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0

I’m going uncategorized this week while I’m at the MVP Global Summit.

Top Links

• Learning about MEF in SL4 from Mike Taulty (Glenn Block)
• Microsoft "Finally" Announces Windows Phone 7 Series (^_^) (Blake Handler)
• The Vision of an Educational iPhone Application (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Pex 0.23.50215.2: Visual Studio 2010 RC support (Jonathan de Halleux)

The Rest of ‘Em

Windows Azure Platform at a Glance (J.D. Meier)

Diagnostic Trace Display Using WPF (Don Kackman)

ARCast.TV – Using Architectural Skills to Increase Solution Adoption Success Rates (Bob Familiar)

Pluralsight at the MVP Summit 2010 and MVPs receive free Standard subscription to Pluralsight On-Demand! (Aaron Skonnard)

Windows Phone 7 Series: An Exciting Journey (Christian Schormann)

Tech Twitter Roundup!! (Angela Binkowski)

Interesting Finds: February 15, 2010 and Independent Consultant Notes: February 15, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)

Innovation Showcase Headlines – 02.16.2010 (Bob Familiar)

The Morning Brew #539 and The Morning Brew #540 (Chris Alcock)

Windows Phone Series 7 Link Roundup (Chris Sells)

Silverlight Cream for February 14, 2010 — #798 (Dave Campbell)

Links of the week #108 (David Vidmar)

Weekly Links #92 (Grant Palin)

When It Comes To IOC Containers, We Seem To Be Pretty Loyal (Davy Brion)

New book: CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)

Back to Basics – Using MasterType Directive (Gil Fink)

Event Storage and Persistence Ignorance (Greg Young)

Mind that collation : SSAS (Jamie Thomson)

PowerShell – background task that speaks to me (Jason Jarrett)

Our “Extension Properties” Story (Jeremy D. Miller)

Silverlight TV 8: Inside Look at the Code for the Silverlight for Facebook App (John Papa)

Advanced MVVM is now available in paperback (Josh Smith)

Entity Framework ObjectContext and Reporting (Julie Lerman)

Defining Constraints in an EF4 model that don’t exist in the database (Julie Lerman)

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate WPF & Silverlight Designer Known Issues (Karl Shifflett)

Windows Phone 7 Series: Bold move for Microsoft (Kip Kniskern)

New Castle Windsor feature – typed arguments (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Security in GWT, or “How to lay the foundation” (Kyle Baley)

Ping 48: Windows Phone 7, Bill Gates, Hayden Planeterium, Norwegian Google Prank (Laura Foy)

Flickr API Tips From an Expert (Matthew Casperson)

Digg’s Read-Write API (Matthew Casperson)

Introduction to the Reactive Extensions to JavaScript (Matthew Podwysocki)

Book Review: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Michele Mauro)

Introducing Windows Phone 7 Series (Deb Sommer)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 1 – WebClient and XML (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 2 – RSS,ATOM,JSON (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 3 – HTTP POST (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 4 – Cross Domain HTTP (Mike Taulty)

Setting the Page Editor Options in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Part II – Code Formatting) (Minal Agarwal)

Daily Dose – Hibernate 3.5 CR1 JPA 2 Compliant (Mitch Pronschinske)

Daily Dose – Will a Unified App Store Work This Time? (Mitch Pronschinske)

The 16th of Diduary: Did you know Intellisense has different modes? (Jeff Blankenburg)

#Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First Data Analysis – Only $9.99! Use code DDHFD (O’Reilly Media)

Weekly Release: Flash Player 10 and more (Peldi Guilizzoni)

WPF Tip: Identifying WPF Applications (Pete Brown)

SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure Optimization Tips – Best Practices (Pinal Dave)

Episode 102- PowerScripting Podcast – James Brundage from Microsoft (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Announcing Spec Explorer 2010, Release 3.1! (Robert DuWors)

Weekly Link Post 132 (Rhonda Tipton)

AutoMapper question…any ideas… (Scott Galloway)

Patch for VS 2010 RC Intellisense Crash Issue Now Available (Scott Guthrie)

Pluralcast #9 : Pex from Microsoft Research (David Starr)

Why do teams succeed? (Stephen Forte)

Windows Phone 7 Series Video Walkthrough (Taimur Asad)

Behind the scenes at Xbox LIVE (Ariel Meadow Stallings)

CodeBlog: Writing a Blogging Extension for Visual Studio 2010 (Weston Hutchins)

Visual Studio 2010 IDE Settings Tips and Tricks (Wriju  Ghosh)

HTML Code Snippets — vstipEdit0018 (Zain Naboulsi)

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Top Links

• TWC9: 2009 – The Year in Review (Dan Fernandez) – The Channel 9 crew wraps up the series for 2009.
• Azure Blob Storage plugin for Windows Live Writer now available (James Clarke) – A cool new plugin for WLW.
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK v1.0 Released (Service Bus and Access Control) (Greg Duncan) – Greg spots the v1.0 SDK release on MS Downloads.
• ASP.NET MVC 2 and Visual Studio 2010 (Phil Haack) – Phil gives an update on MVC v2 following the announcement of the delay of VS2010 and its upcoming RC release.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Dminor (MS Research)
• An RSS Dashboard in F#, part two (IObservables) (Brian McNamara)
• Visual Studio 2008 Server Explorer Missing… (Doug Holland)
• WCF RIA Service – How to configure the WCF Service maximum items returned by the Query (Fredrik Normén)
• OR-ing criteria with NHibernate, or “How to include it all” (Kyle Baley)
• Securing WCF REST Service using Windows Authentication (Mahesh Sabnis)
• When using LINQ don’t forget about deferred execution (Mark Meyerovich)
• What’s A PkgDef? And Why? (Bill Weinberger)
• F#: The use keyword and using function and F#: Word Count – A Somewhat Failed Attempt and F#: Word Count using a Dictionary (Mark Needham)
• Another Cool Resharper Refactoring (Peter Kellner)
• The Sieve of Eratosthenes and F# (Scott Seely)
• Visual Studio Code Formatting (Steve Andrews)
• Enabling Logging In Your Agatha Service Layer and Agatha 1.0 (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Adding a bit of Spark to Nerd Dinner and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine Pt2 [Extending ASP.NET MVC - Replacing the View Engine Pt2] and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine Part 1 [Extending ASP.NET MVC - Replacing the View Engine Part 1] (Mike Ormond)
• want brevity in .net mvc code? switch to f#. (Alex Pedenko)
• JavaScript Part 5 – The Client Side (Leon Gersing)
• .closest(Array) in jQuery 1.4 (John Resig)
• Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part I (Harish Ranganathan)
• Google Sites Data API Prototype (Kris Gray)
• Extreme Web UI Scalability – Part 2 (Jonathan Oliver)
• Passing anonymous objects to MVC views and accessing them using dynamic (David Ebbo)
• Tip#100: Did you know… How to view ASP.NET trace information? (Anh Phan)
• SmtpClient and Locked File Attachments (Rick Strahl)
• What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS (Tim Wright)
• Using conventions with Passive View (Mark Nijhof)
• OData gunning for ubiquity across Microsoft products (Jamie Thomson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practices of an Agile Developer (Chris Missal)
• Effectus: Building UI based on conventions and Effectus: Fatten your infrastructure (Oren Eini)
• Open Source Licensing, Copyright Notices, Contributions: What To Do? (Davy Brion)
• Agile Tenet #2 – Welcome Changing Requirements (Julie Stickler)
• Pex 0.20.v0.20.41218.2: Beavers, new Event View and bugs fixes (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 12 & 13 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• If Value is the Problem, What Can I Do About It? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Leadership Tip: The Best Management Is Management You Cannot See. and Career Tip: Focus On Being A Happy Hedgehog Over The Long Term. (Rajiv Popat)
• The Polyglot Tester (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Advanced Unity: Connecting Implementations to Open Generic Types (Jarod Ferguson)
• Coding: An outside in observation (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• HVP – Core Scaffolding and Updated News (Jesse Liberty)
• The Completion of the 31 Days of Silverlight and Day #20: Adding Audio to Silverlight Events (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Architecting SL4 Applications with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM – Part 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• View-the-box (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 135: Sleeping With Scissors (Paul Thurrott)
• Entity Framework Unit Testing with TypeMock Isolator (Muhammad Mosa)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 017 – Behavior Driven Development (Eric Nelson)
• Wes Dyer: Controlling Concurrency in Rx (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Silverlight 4 tutorial : adding avatar support to the business template (David Rousset)
• Major Nelson Show 344: VGA’s, GH Van Halen, Borderlands and Splinter Cell Conviction (Larry Hyrb)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Coding 4 Fun (Nic Fillingham)
• Codecast interviews about the Editor and Extensibility (Quan To)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Migrating to SQL Server from Other Database Products and SQLAuthority News – Migrating DTS Packages to Integration Services (Pinal Dave)
• AdventureWorks Community Sample Databases available for SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)
• XBoxGames Databases for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 (Shawn Wildermuth)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: SharePoint Administrator’s and Developer’s Guide to Code Access Security (Andrew Connell)
• My First SharePoint 2010 feature! Adding jQuery… (Wesley Bakker)
• Visualizing Data using XSLT: Following up on SPC 2009’s session on Building SharePoint Mashups With SPD, Bing Maps and REST Services (Doreen Grieb)

Miscellaneous

• Diagram of Geek Culture (Ibrahim Evsan)
• Looking for that perfect icon? Search a repository of 125,723 or easily browsing 331 icon sets at Icon Finder (Greg Duncan)
• Trying MonoDevelop On OS X, Part Two (Davy Brion)
• Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 GM Versions (PSN Editorial Staff)
• Readable Regular Expressions Revisited (Joshua Flanagan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 18, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 19, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 17, 2009 — #758 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for December 19, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links #84 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.15 ~ 12.20 (yuanjian)
• Interesting Post… 12/13/2009 through 12/20/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links (12/20/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• So you want to write a Storage Engine… (Paul S. Randal)
• Holiday Reading: Free eBooks and Good Blogs (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Not another NDepend review, link roundup (Peter Eysermans)

The Geek Shelf

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Changing log4net connection string at runtime (Ben Scheirman)
• New Book: Developing for Microsoft Surface (Eric Havir)
• Exact rules for variance validity (Eric Lippert)
• One-Way (Or Fire And Forget) Requests With Agatha (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Resolving ASP.NET Web.Config Inheritance (Tom Hearn)
• jQuery, Each() and Async Gets (Dave M. Bush)
• Configuring a Sueetie Blog to Support Microsoft LiveWriter (Dave Burke)
• Google Wave API Articles: Extensions Debugging & Robot-to-Gadget Communication (Pamela Fox)
• What’s New in Expression Web 3.0 Service Pack 1.0 (Minal Agarwal)
• How important is medium trust to you? (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• More WebSequenceDiagrams.com Awesomeness (Charles Chen)
• So Now You’re an Agilist, What’s Next? (Video) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Applied Modularity – Retrospectives (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Setting Architecture Review Board Member Expectations (Mike Walker)
• How To Use Windsor to Change a Deployed Application’s Behavior Without Touching a Single Line of Existing Code (Rob Reynolds)
• Stop the assembly line! Fix that software deployment! (Andy Singleton)
• ÜberProf and Continuous Integration (Oren Eini)
• Persistence model and domain anemia (Jimmy Bogard)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 11 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• First QuickNet Release Is Out (Davy Brion)
• What’s a better game than Devshop? (Leon Bambrick)

Silverlight / WPF

• BugCamSmash – Motion Detection with Silverlight 4 Beta (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight 4 Augmented Reality Proof Of Concept (Rene Schulte)
• Caliburn Silverlight Navigation Walkthrough: Introduction (Rob Eisenberg)
• Hacking Kaxaml to work on .NET 4.0 (Mike Taulty)
• RIA – Should a service return the IQueryable<T>? (Fredrik Normén)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• PDC09 Backstage during the keynote (Ben Riga)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 10 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #76 (Jeff Atwood)
• This Week in Testing Episode 6 – Analyze This! (Gil Zilberfeld & Dror Helper)
• VSX212: Adding a Language Service into Visual Studio 2010 and VSX106: Introduction to DSL (Sherry Toly)
• Fabrikam Jets – Integrating Codename "Dallas" with AppFabric Access Control (Jack Greenfield)
• Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast? (Min Li Chan)

Community / Events

• Testing with Pex and QuickCheck – 7th January 2010 @ Microsoft’s offices, Edinburgh (Mike Perrin)
• You Can Benefit From Open Sourcing Your Code (Davy Brion)

Database

• SQL Server Best Practices: Protect CmdExec (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 Star Join Query Optimization (Pinal Dave)
• TwitterCache now hosted on SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Fantastic blog series on SharePoint 2007 Content Deployment (Andrew Connell)
• Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 – a key ECM enhancement (Chris O’Brien)
• Walkthrough of creating a SharePoint 2010 external list using Visual Studio 2010 Beta (SharePoint Team)
• BCS Meta Man – upscale SPD External Content Type (Lightning Tools Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Targets Programming Newbies with New Vedea Visualization Language (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Microsoft’s Updated List of FREE Windows Holiday Software (Blake Handler)
• Introducing Google Public DNS (Prem Ramaswami) – Link of the Day
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/4 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Motorola Droid 2.0 Details Leaked (Taimur Asad)
• Get those pixels working for you (Scott Hanselman)
• Sometimes you just need to CodingHorror it! (Nick Berardi)
• Minimizing the Ribbon: Exposed (Jon Gordner)
• Techniques for Being Ready-to-Publish at Any Time (Julie Stickler)
• PowerGUI 1.9.6 Released (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Normal booting is old school [Windows 7 tricks detailed: USB key install, VHD creation, and native VHD boot/dual-boot!] (David Anson)
• Microsoft’s Bing Bar takes the clutter and complexity out of browser toolbars (Joe Wilcox)
• OpenCV cvLoadImage IOError (Tony Rasa)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #491 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 03, 2009 — #747 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: December 3, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (12/3/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• More missing LINQ operators (Jimmy Bogard)
• Upcoming F# Talks (Chris Smith)
• So you want to get start with .Net Development but don’t know where to start? (Dani Diaz) – Link of the Day
• Gtk# for .Net Developers, part II (Louis Salin)
• As Timeless As Infinity (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Wolfram Alpha Releases Their API (Andres Ferrate)
• Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP 5.3 – Beta and Windows Cache 1.0 Extension for PHP 5.2 – Beta (MS Downloads)
• T4MVC 2.4.04 update: MVC 2 support, new settings, cleanup, fixes (David Ebbo)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Scripts Available on Microsoft CDN (Phil Haack)
• Single Project Add View in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 (Joe Cartano)
• My ASP.NET MVC Stack and Why I’ve Chosen It (Simone Chiaretta)
• SOLUTION: JSLint.VS Add-In Always Reports "No Errors" Even For Invalid JavaScript Files (Scott Mitchell)
• Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6) and the Microsoft Ajax Minifier (Scott Guthrie)
• Entirely unobtrusive and imperative templates with Microsoft Ajax Library Preview 6 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• jQuery Expand/Collapse Using Head Tags (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• We must ship now and deal with consequences (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Pex 0.18 Released: New Tutorials, Moles work with Visual Studio 2010 (Nikolai Tillman)
• Testing jQuery With QUnit (Malcolm Sheridan)
• The Breadcrumb Navigation Pattern (David Hill)
• Being Business Focused: ROI (Dru Sellers)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Donald Farmer on Gemini (Carl Franklin)
• Connected Show Podcast: Claudio Caldato on PHP & ADO.NET Data Services (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals, Chapter 3 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• Interview with Fujitsu on Document Scanning Systems with SharePoint-Episode 36 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)

Community / Events

• Starting a code study group (Sebastian Hermida)
• SQL MVP Profile of the Week – Michael Coles (Robert Pearl)
• Microsoft: Do The Right Thing And Give Xbox 360 Gamerooms To Four Hospitals (Matt Burns)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Recently Executed T-SQL Query (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Error Logs (Jeremiah Peschka)
• How to Monitor Database Mirroring (Paul Theriault)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 7 and Microsoft Announces Free Customer Service on Twitter and Microsoft’s CodePlex Updates "Terminals" (Tabbed Remote Desktop Client) (Blake Handler)
• Apple May Try to Crash Microsoft’s Windows 7 Launch (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Managing your reputation through search results (Susan Moskwa)
• Clearing the ***Sparks : small & mighty (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft reboots (Steve Clayton)
• 77 Windows 7 Tips on Technet (Steven Bink)
• Microsoft SharedView 1.0 RTM/RTW (Greg Duncan)
• Enabling password rules for Office 2010 (Alan Myrvold)
• Introducing the Windows 7 Resource Kit PowerShell Pack (James Brundage)
• Google Wave Samples Gallery: Best Practices & New Features (Pamela Fox)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #456 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: October 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 15-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #562 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 15th October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (10/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day