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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating a PDF with C# and iTextSharp (Tom Hearn)
• C# Event Accessors (Richard Carr)
• Popfly Parting Present (Ben Anderson) – Link of the Day
• Fun With Method Missing and C# 4 (Phil Haack)
• The TryThis method (John Teague)
• QuickGraph 3.3: Easy interop with Delegate Graphs (Jonathan de Halleux)
• COM Interop Gets Much Better in C# 4.0 (Joydip Kanjilal)
• ADO.NET Data Services Logical Operators (Deepak Kapoor)
• LINQ: Porting jQuery’s Each (Steve Andrews)
• Starter Project Templates (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Plus (+) in .NET Class Names (Ibrahim Abdul Rahim)

Web Development

• Google Releases New Static Maps API (Andres Ferrate)
• Simplovation Web.Maps.VE v3.0 Now With FREE Edition! (Chris Pietschmann)
• Test Swarm Alpha Open (John Resig)
• How to deal with invalid characters in SOAP responses from ASP.NET web services (Stefan Gossner)
• Testing URL Generation on Routes in MVC Framework (Tim Barcz)
• Following up on some of the attention [Live sample posted and a *very* small tweak to the Html5Canvas source code!] (David Anson)
• LINQ and the ASP.NET Repeater control (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET MVC – Is WebForms the VisiCalc of Web Development? (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Before There Was Lean, Agile Or Waterfall There Was Theory X, Y And Z (Alan Skorkin)
• Agile in the Very Large – Sam Guckenheimer (David Starr)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Session Level Cache (Davy Brion)
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: The Session Level Cache (Oren Eini)
• Introduction to TestApi – Part 4: Combinatorial Variation Generation APIs (Ivo Manolov)
• Pop Quiz: .NET Integers, Unit Testing, and Boundary Checking (Steve Andrews)
• Zero Defects In Software, Setting a Higher Bar (Tim Barcz)
• Pair Programming: Observations on anti-patterns and Coupling and Expressiveness (Mark Needham)
• TDD Master Class Day # 3 – “What I learned today” (Roy Osherove)
• Refactoring Day 26 : Remove Double Negative (Sean Chambers)

Silverlight / WPF

• LINQ to Bing, Silverlight and .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)
• Showcase Silverlight Apps for Talks and Demos (Adam Kinney)
• WPF 3D Chromium Browser (Chris Cavanagh)
• Creating a highlighting text block for Silverlight 3, revisited and A Silverlight HighlightingTextBlock implemented in Visual Basic and Custom Control Development: Simple code guidelines (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight and localizing string data (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Panel: Is Software Development Too Complex? (Carl Franklin)
• Code Cast 30 – Story Teller with Jeremy Miller (David Starr)
• Dan Pink: Rethinking the ideology of carrots and sticks (Garr Reynolds)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #2- Astoria (Stephen Forte)
• Validation in Silverlight 3 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Async Messaging and the Barbarian Hordes (Harry Pierson)

Community / Events

• Understanding the MVP Program – Part 1 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Author news: Interview with CodePlex’s Sara Ford (Devon Musgrave)
• Silverlight 3 Firestarter Event Streamed Live (Mike Ormond)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Azure (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx – Part XI (Dave Campbell)
• The Remote Desktop Experience on Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
• What’s in a Word? From Science to Software (Jurgen Appelo)
• Using the XBox360 Preset to Encode HD Content (Eric Juteau)
• RTM’d today: Windows 7 Inside Out (Sandra Haynes)
• Bing Translation Plugin for Windows Live Writer (Sarah Perez)
• Apple’s culture of lies, Part 2: A different way of looking at it (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 26, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #421 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 26, 2009 — #675 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 26th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• New and Notable 363 (Sam Gentile)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Engineering Software For Accessibility eBook (MS Downloads)
• TAM v3.0 beta (MS Downloads)
• Don’t castrate your architecture (Oren Eini) – Co-Link of the Day
• When You Absolutely Need To Use A Real Database In Tests (Davy Brion)
• In the absence of done… there is risk. (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Swarm Theory and Architecture Explorer (Clemens Reijnen)
• Git and command-line fear (James Gregory)
• Is Software Engineering Dead? (Process, not Construction) (Jim Holmes)
• A New Plugin: Mockups for FogBugz! (Peldi Guilizzoni)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 2.1 is out! (Oren Eini)
• Why I Dislike Classic Or Typical WCF Usage (Davy Brion)
• NHibernate 2.1 Changes Overview (Patrick Smacchia)
• July CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released (Windows Azure Team)
• Resharper Test Runner in 64-bit Windows (Sergio Pereira)
• CouchDB in the Cloud – Cheap and Flexible Persistence For .NET (Rinat Abdullin)
• Workflow-Enabled Services with Windows Workflow Foundation (Masoud Kalali)
• Comparing doubles can produce unexpected results (Kirill Osenkov)
• Iterator blocks Part Four: Why no yield in catch? (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design (Cameron Chapman)
• Adding a DotNetKicks Image/Badge via jQuery (Chris Pietschmann)
• Azure SDK July CTP – Multiple web and worker roles (David Makogon)
• jQuery-UI visual studio intellisense (vsdoc) file (Jay Kimble)
• Testing Multiple IE Versions, VPC’s and Super Preview (Pete LePage)

Silverlight / WPF

• F1 for Silverlight in Visual Studio is still targeting the Beta1 content: Here’s a workaround (Wolf Schmidt)
• Blacklight v4 for Silverlight 3 Released (Martin Grayson)
• New book: Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Devon Musgrave)
• Prism’s Plugin Architecture (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3? Easier Easing (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Roman Schindlauer on Complex Events (Carl Franklin)
• Distributed Agile Interview – Dan Mezick chats with Andy Singleton (Andy Singleton)
• ARCast.TV – The Cloud Part 2, What is Microsoft doing (Bob Familiar)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #128: Exploring StructureMap: Learning how to setup Auto Registration (Derik Whittaker)
• Introduction to SketchFlow (Frank La Vigne)
• Silverlight MVP Creates PRISM Videos and Interviews! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SDL-LOB Phase 3: Implementation (Jossie Tirado)
• Ping 21: Gates & Ballmer talk Chrome, MS Office edits Google Docs, MS Retail, Natal is hiring (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Blogher or Bust (Anne Taylor Hartzell)
• patterns and practices wants you to take the Web guidance survey (Blaine Wastell)
• Google Wave: Updates from today’s hackathon (Dan Peterson)
• Northeast Roadshow and More! (Jim O’Neil)
• CodeClimber Q2-09 Report (Simone Chiaretta)
• Microsoft Contributes Code to the Linux Kernel (Nic Fillingham)
• Community Leadership Summit Trip Report (Sara Ford)
• Introducing CodePaste.NET (Rick Strahl) – Co-Link of the Day

Database

• To SQL or not to SQL? (Simon Brown)
• Attaching SQL Server database without log file (Gunnar Peipman)
• Developer Tip Quickly look up table information in SQL Server Management Studio (Jonathan Cogley)

SharePoint

• June Cumulative Update Packages Ready for Download (Jie Li)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Documents "Windows 7 Upgrade Paths" (Blake Handler)
• New Touch Up Suite: 15 Ways To Turn Heads! (Ali Fisher)
• Bing on the Jingles (The Bing Intern)
• Audacity 1.3.8 Beta: Open source audio editor now faster than ever (Brad Linder)
• 45+ Excellent Code Snippet Resources and Repositories (Cameron Chapman)
• Keyboard Krazy with Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
• Just Enough MBA to Be a Programmer (Jeff Moser)
• Flash Text Layout Framework goes Open Source (Steve Tibbett)
• Could Popfly’s pop out be game over for Microsoft? (Joe Wilcox)
• Scripting WMI Namespace Security (part 1 of 3) (Steve Lee)
• Windows 7 Media Center and Windows Home Server PP3 (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #394 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2009 — #647 and Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2009 – 2 — #648 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 20th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: July 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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