Silverlight / WPF

• Tidy Up Your Xaml And Code Behind, Use UserControls Inside Templates (Amit Raz)
• Styling ListBox And Animating ListBoxItem In Silverlight 2 (Faisal Khan)
• two very promising WPF application frameworks on codeplex (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #97 – Creating Sprites from 3D Models – EnvyGames (Mike Snow)
• how to build an outlook style application (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Hosting Silverlight outside the browser (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio (2005, 2008, 2010) Tips and Tricks (Angela Binkowski)
• The Twitter Search API made easy with Linq to XML (Jan Tielens)
• C# moved to #1 for Programming Book Sales According to O’Reilly’s Radar (Gunther Lenz)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Setting a Breakpoint (Harry Pierson)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.2 beta release (Rockford Lhotka)
• Introducing Maestro – A DSL for Actor Based Concurrency and Exploring MapReduce with F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• What’s the point of Value types? (Mike Hadlow)
• Things I liked most out of TFS2008 (Laila Bougria)
• ADO.NET EF v LINQ to SQL (Take 4) (Chad Moran)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: object inheritance (part 1) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• jQuery, the who, what, where, why and how (Coding4Fun)
• 40 Useful JavaScript Libraries (Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• Must use !important on your CSS class for Text color to work on ASP.NET Validation Controls (Dave Schinkel)
• OAuth MVC.net Revisited (Owen Evans)
• CRUD with ASP.NET MVC (screencast) (Maarten Balliauw)
• 43,439 reasons to use append() correctly (Josh Powell)
• 50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials for Designers and Developers (Paul Andrew)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why aren’t software architects held accountable? (Simon Brown)
• Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Dependency Properties (Brad Abrams)
• DDD: The Specification Pattern and DDD: The Post That Should Have Preceded The Last (Casey Charlton)
• Next Generation Project Planning Tool: LiquidPlanner 2.0 (Steve McConnell)
• A story about ‘getting it done’ (Corey Haines)
• Manage Your Projects, Not Just Your Schedule (Part 4) (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Agile Architecture Method Revisited (J.D. Meier)

Community / Events

• Microsoft’s own private Macworld (Todd Bishop)
• MIX ’09 Plans (Nikhil Kothari)
• CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, March 3rd, 6:30pm – DotNetNuke, CMS for the Masses (Christopher Steen)
• Events This Week – March 2nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• ALT.NET Seattle 2009, some impressions (Ian Cooper)
• Alt.Net Seattle Review (Eric Hexter)
• MVPs Deliver Smart Business Solutions (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 2 – Most Contributing MVP of Year (Pinal Dave)
• Construx Offers Free Training for Laid-Off Software Workers (Pam McIlroy) – Link of the Day

PowerShell

• A guide to Advanced Functions (Joel Bennett)
• Powershell “CmdLet” and SharePoint (Liam Cleary)

SharePoint

• Guide to SharePoint Performance Optimization (Marwan Tarek)

Database

• SQL Server Upgrade Technical Reference Guide (Joe Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Two New Windows 7 Guides for IT Professionals (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Opens Office 14 Kimono, Slightly (J. Nicholas Hoover)
• Microsoft to start testing ‘Kumo’ search service and First screenshot of Microsoft’s Kumo (Ina Fried)
• Xbox Friends Watch Gamercard now on Channel 9 profile page (Adam Kinney)
• My Phone Team Is Listening: Tighter Integration With Windows Live Services In Future (Sunshine)
• Facebook comes to Windows Live FrameIt, PowerToy now available for download (damaster)
• Introducing NLP (Mo Khan)
• Why am I seeing this dialog? (IE8) (Frank Olivier)
• Ed Bott: The end justifies the means (Paul Thurrott)
• OhGizmo Preview: Pixar’s Up (Evan Ackerman)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #298 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #109 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for March 02, 2009 — #532 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 03.01~03.03 (gOODiDEA)
• Weekly Links #42 (Grant)
• CloudNews for March 2nd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 297 (Sam Gentile)

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