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Top Links

• Expression Blend: Designer Tool or Tool for Design (John Stockton)
• TechNet 2.0 – Episode 6 – Wiki (Keith Combs)
• Live Mesh: It’s Alive! (Paul Thurrott)
• Can the Reporting Services BI Tools be More Like Report Builder 2.0? (William Vaughn)
• Timeline integrates Photoshop with Subversion (SVN) for full version control (Sebastian Anthony)
• Put Missing Kids on your 404 Page – Entirely Client-Side Solution with YQL, jQuery, and MSAjax (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Is CAS dead in .NET 4? (Shawn Farkas)
• Robocode – robot warfare (Coding4Fun)
• Excerpt #3 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Jeffrey Richter)
• Visual Studio 2010 background flickering and customization (visualstudioblog)
• Code Definition Window — vstipTool0012 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Small LINQ Trick for Converting List to String Text List (Peter Kellner)
• MEF is not An IoC container; but MEF uses IoC (Peter Ritchie)
• C#: Overcomplicating with LINQ (Mark Needham)
• Introduction into ADO .NET Data Services/RIA Services (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• Creating Multiple Choice Exam Application Using ASP.NET MVC Framework (Mohammad Azam)
• Unique Keys versus IDs in Web Applications (Chris Missal)
• Documenting Standards in IE (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Client Side Validation with jQuery (Mike Ceranski)
• Daily Dose – Zend Server 5.0 GA Boasts Code Tracing (Mitch Pronschinske)
• jQuery 1.4 breaks ASP.Net MVC actions with array parameters (Kevin Miller)
• Introducing RealDolmenBlogs.com (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is the big picture? (Simon Brown)
• Mercurial Tutorial (Joel Spolsky)
• Did Your Boss Thank You For Coding Yourself to Death? (Alan Skorkin)
• Repository Shootout: distributed vs centralized, hosted vs installed … You be the judge – Take our 2 Minute Survey. (Alex Coisman)
• Code Kata (Julian M. Bucknall)
• On the Utility of TestPropertyAttribute (Craig Andera)
• Branching Strategies: When To Branch And Merge and Branching Strategies: The Cost Of Branching And Merging (Derick Bailey)
• Agile Tenet #12 – Reflect on Improvement (Julie Stickler)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Snapshots ! (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Pair Programming: In interviews (Mark Needham)
• How to Get Started With Agile? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Announcing the February 2010 Release of Microsoft Health CUI (MS Health CUI Team)
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 1) – Controls for Silverlight Developers (Me)
• Article Published: Context Sensitive History. Part 1 of 2 (Daniel Vaughan)
• XAML Attributes on Separate Lines (Christopher Bennage)
• Moonlight Feels Right for Mono 2.6 (Tapas Pal)
• MEF, Silverlight and the DeploymentCatalog (Mike Taulty)
• SLARToolkit – Silverlight Augmented Reality Toolkit (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Steven Cloherty: Microsoft Online Services Risk Management (Charles Torre)
• Community Megaphone Show #4 with guest JP Toto (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Looping over SQL scripts and executing them : SSIS video nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• BCS Discussion with Brad Stevenson-Episode 42 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 11 – WCF and TCP (Mike Taulty)
• Using the Code Analysis Tool (CAT.NET 2.0) to Identify Security Vulnerabilities (Jossie Tirado)
• VISUG Recording: F# Introduction (Katrien De Graeve)

Community / Events

• Are you interested in a virtual PowerShell brown-bag event? (Joel Bennett)
• Learn how to customize SP2010 sites with SharePoint Designer 2010 by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• Like jQuery? Live in the DC Area? Have I got a Group for you! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Take a look at MVPs on MS News Center (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• Rhino Divan DB reboot idea (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server Proper Case Function (George Mastros)
• The fast, yet as complete as, possible SQL Azure Start to Finish Guide – aka What is a “DB as a SQL Azure/web service” demo without Northwind? (Greg Duncan)
• Rounding to the Nearest X Minutes, the Lazy Way (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Accessing system views in global stored procedures (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Designer’s new workflow editor: introduction (SharePoint Designer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Eclipsys and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance to Make Enterprise Health IT More Open and Powerful (MS News Center)
• Looking for Reviewers for PowerShell Cookbook v2 (Lee Holmes)
• Macmillan’s DynamicBooks offers editable digital textbooks (Jay Hathaway)
• More Wrox Books in Mobi and ePub Formats (Jim Minatel)
• Microsoft launches Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 (Ray Comvalius)
• U.S. Surgeon General Announces Connection with Microsoft HealthVault (David Cerino)
• Cracking Down on Botnets (Tim Cranton)
• Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone development: integrate, prioritize, focus (Kip Kniskern)
• The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook Review (Mike Riley)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning Perl, Fifth Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDPER (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 24, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #547 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 24-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• XAML UI News – 2010/02/24 (Rob Relyea)

The Geek Shelf

Programming F#: A comprehensive guide for writing simple code to solve complex problems (Animal Guide)