Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 8: WCF Based Data Source (Brad Abrams)
• New in Silverlight 3: Perspective Transforms and What’s New In SL3 – Based-on Styles and What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Validation (Jesse Liberty)
• Building Silverlight 2 and 3 applications with Visual Studio 2008 (Tim Heuer)
• Day # 18: Silverlight Effects (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Prism Visual Studio Templates (including MVVM) (Marc Schweigert)
• Lokad Shared Libraries 1.5 and Autofac for Silverlight 3.0 (Rinat Abdullin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Entity Framework 4.0: On the way to Composite Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
• MEF and XAML integration – Self composition (Glenn Block) – Link of the Day
• Creating WCF Services using .NET 4.0 and WF 4.0 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• TFS – How To Remove Source Control Bindings (Michael Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Texas Dependency Injection Massacre (Harry Pierson)
• When Bad is Good (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Book Club: The Dreyfus Model (Stuart and Hubert Dreyfus) (Mark Needham)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 6. (Rajiv Popat)
• Every Paradigm Has its Place (Rick Minerich)

Web Development

• Google Wave Sandbox Update (Pamela Fox)
• Compressing and combining files with JavaScriptMVC (Peter Eysermans)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: V8: Building a High Performance JavaScript Engine (Mads Ager, Lars Bak & Anders Sandholm)
• This Week C9: Office 2010, Azure pricing, ScottGu on MVC, and Silverlight 3 (Dan Fernandez)
• Walkthrough: Debug a WPF window or Windows Form without running your application [Video] (Habib Heydarian)
• Herding Code 54: Rob Conery interviews the Herding Code guys (Jon Galloway)
• ToolShed Tooltip #19 – IE 8 Developer Tools, saves the day (and time) (Russell Fustino)
• Video: WI-INETA JavaScript presentation (Sergio Pereira)

Community / Events

• Intro to iPhone Development at ALT.NET Geek Dinner (Ben Scheirman)
• High Scalability Blog on Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• Hiding Empty Content Areas in SharePoint 2007 [WCM] Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• What I’ve Learned over the Last Five Years (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How to Get (the Right) People to Follow You on Twitter (Mark Suster)
• Xbox Live Dashboard Update Preview (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Breaking: Incoming Xbox Live update detailed in full (Sumeeth Evans)
• Walter Cronkite, 1916 – 2009 (Phil Plait)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 17, 2009 — #644 (Dave Campbell)
• Rants and Raves #4 (Joel Cochran)
• Links for the Week of 2009.07.17 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 17th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 343 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day (Sorta)

Silverlight / WPF

• Physics Behaviors for Silverlight 3! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms (Brad Abrams)
• Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer (Corey Schuman)
• Using Blend with Prism Apps in Silverlight 3 (John Papa)
• MVVM Foundation demo (Josh Smith)
• Creating a Range Slider in WPF (and other cool tips and tricks for UserControls) (Josh Twist)
• MVVM with Type-Safe INotifyPropertyChanged (JP Hamilton)
• Day #16: Silverlight AutoComplete TextBox (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Restricting Access to your WCF Service to a known Silverlight Client and Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Take your ideas from concept to completion with Expression Blend 3 and Watch us on ‘The Visual Kitchen’ to see all-new capabilities of Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 (Silverlight Team)
• A .NET RIA Services Data Load Batch Manager (Scott McCraw)

Web Development

• It is done… S#arp Architecture 1.0 RTM (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Sueetie now running ScrewTurn Wiki 3.0 RC1 (Dave Burke)
• Anti-XSS 3.0 Released (Jossie Tirado)
• Using the ValidationSummary control with ASP.NET MasterPages (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Cloud Computing with Windows Azure (Michael Ceranski)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.3 Is Released (Rob Conery)
• Resource Files and ASP.NET MVC Projects (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Useful C# method for unit testing (Avi Pilosof)
• The Anemic Domain Model Pattern and Unshackle Your Domain (Greg Young)
• Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Introduction and Part 1: Why (Derick Bailey)
• Architecture Astronauts and Over Engineers (Harry Pierson)
• Pex v0.15.40714.1: Better performance, less Bugs… (Jonathan de Halleux)
• The Database Doesn’t Matter or Don’t Pollute Your Domain (Tim Barcz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• What’s New in CodeRush 9.2 (Mark Miller)
• F#: Passing command line arguments to a script (Mark Needham)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Aaron Erickson Identifies the Seven Deadly Firms (Carl Franklin)
• Demo Videos from Blend/SketchFlow Launch Online (Christian Schormann)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #127: Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to validate expectations (Derik Whittaker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #61 (Jeff Atwood)
• 10-4 Episode 27: Server-Driven Paging with ADO.NET Data Services (Jonathan Carter)
• ThirstyDeveloper #68 – Scraping the web (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Tips and Tricks for Improving SharePoint 2007 Performance-Episode 27 (Rob, Nick, and Brett)
• What Is Windows Azure…For Dummies (Steve Clayton)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Laura Rogers! (Amanda Murphy)
• Why Choose the Best Practices Conference? (Bill English)
• Super User Semi-Private Beta Begins (Jeff Atwood)
• Revive your User Group, part III (Joe Webb)
• Code 7 and Say Hello to LA and PDC (Jim O’Neil)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET 7/22/2009 – Naked JavaScript (Matthew Podwysocki)

Database

• Storage Size And Performance Implications Of A GUID PK (Derick Bailey)
• Data Dump to Excel through SSIS and SSRS (Guiseppe Scarfone)
• IsNumeric, IsInt, IsNumber (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Four Different Ways to Find Recovery Model for Database (Pinal Dave)
• Operand type clash: date is incompatible with int error when trying to do +1 on a date data type in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• WCF errors from SharePoint event receiver and Getting paid for your SharePoint software, part 2 (Eugene Rosenfeld)

Miscellaneous

• Google Reader’s Social Evolution (Alex Chitu)
• Try InfoPath 2010 and Win an Xbox! (Amanda Murphy)
• Office 2010 is Surprisingly Coming with Free Web Bits (Tom Milnes)
• Star Gates: Small Basic Sample of the Week (Vijaye)
• Favorite Windows 7 Feature #2: Aero Peek (Scott Lock)

More Link Collections

• 30 Great Posts and Tutorials on Silverlight and Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Interesting Finds: July 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #391 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 — #640 and Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 – 2 — #641 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 15th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 342 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

I’m catching up a bit after the birth of our third daughter, Rubina Mae Ashcraft, on Tuesday afternoon. My sincere thanks to everyone who sent their congratulations on Twitter and Facebook. Apologies to the many great blog posts that have not been included.

Congrats to all the new and renewed Microsoft MVPs this week too!

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Create Reflection Effect on Images Using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask in WPF (Anum Lodhi)
• WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI. (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Coding Contest (Dino Esposito)
• Handling Events within Silverlight Control Templates – AutoCompleteBox Example (Dan Wahlin)
• Choosing Colors to Complement Your User Interface with Expression Design and Experimenting with User Interface Colors with Expression Design and Creating a Sample Icon using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Application – Animal Testing Breaks Hearts (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TweetCraft – A World of Warcraft Twitter client (Dan Fernandez)
• Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper (Eric Hexter)
• "XNAVATARS" – PART 1 (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Meffifying Windows Azure (Glenn Block)
• VSTS 2010 TMap Process Template 1,2 and 3 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 3 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• MCsla on the Olso May CTP (Rockford Lhotka)
• Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems (K. Scott Allen)
• IronRuby 0.6 Released! (Jimmy Schementi)
• Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 Post Beta 1 (Muhammad Mosa)
• Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 4 ) (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner (Jimmy Bogard)
• “Controllerless” MVC: A high-level overview of my attempt (Erik)
• Which Unit Testing Framework? (John Resig)
• Agile Is NOT a Risk Management Strategy (Jurgen Appelo)
• Domain Driven Design: Conformist (Mark Needham)
• Is your Organization out of Alignment? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Web Development

• XHTML 2 Cancelled (Timothy)
• Restricting BlogEngine.NET Comments to Sueetie Registered Users Only (Dave Burke)
• SubSonic 3.0 is Released (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Successful Cross Platform .NET Development – Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover and The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove (Scott Hanselman)
• Whirlwind Around .NET 4 (Eric Mork)
• Scott Ambler on the Agile Process Maturity Model (Carl Franklin)
• This Week C9: Speech Recognition, Army of 1, TweetCraft and more (Dan Fernandez)
• Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo) (Jose Fajardo)
• What’s New in Software Development: NeverFail Software Adopts Hyper-V (Bruce Kyle)
• Downloading Prism and 10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Episode #123: Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Object Invariant Conditions (Derik Whittaker)
• Herding Code 52: The Alan Stevens and G. Andrew Duthie Debate Continues! (Jon Galloway)
• Conversation with Stuart Halloway (Corey Haines)
• Three great screencasts on Silverlight unit testing (Jeff Wilcox)
• Using WPF in Office Add-Ins (John Wiese)

Community / Events

• AgiliTrain and Rachel Appel Announce New Classes (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Automatically create a SQL Server table in a new database. (George Mastros)
• DRY SQL (Jamie Thomson)
• PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room and DELETE Documents from CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• SQL SERVER – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Free Windows 7 Training Resources (Blake Handler)
• Bringing a Bit of Twitter to Bing (Sean Suchter)
• The Blurring Lines of Languages (Justin Etheredge)
• MSDN / Technet Subscribers Get Windows 7 July 13th (Keith Elder)
• An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two (Ken Sipe)
• Who is developing the software profession? (Maggie Longshore)
• Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.2 available as a free download (Jose Barreto)
• The fallacy of the standardized developer machine/image (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Announcing The Social Way To Get Things Done: Zoho Projects 2.0 (Rodrigo Vaca)
• How to display ads on your project from The Lounge – #045 (Sara Ford)
• Kodu Nears Xbox Launch and Want to Compare Search Engines? and Follow @Microsoft on Twitter (…and All the Rest!) (Sarah Perez)
• Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress” (Jason N. Gaylord)
• All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions (Jeff Atwood)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #382 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for July 2nd, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 3rd July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Generic Method for Loading Interfaces in C# (For a Plugin System) (Tom Hearn)
• Combining Arrays (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 will allow mobile development, Microsoft affirms (WindowsForDevices)
• Vista, Visual Studio 2008, SharedView and Azure (Chris)
• MGDisplay: Visualize Parsed "Oslo" Grammars (Chris Sells)
• Reading embedded files at runtime (Gunnar Peipman)
• Entity Framework VB Samples Now Available on CodeGallery! (Elisa Flasko)
• dropkick – an idea for deployments (Dru Sellers)
• Background Garbage Collection in CLR 4.0 (Tess Ferrandez)
• F#: Testing asynchronous calls to MailBoxProcessor (Mark Needham)
• .NET Cheat Sheets (Michael Ceranski)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 2 and Part 3 (Rob Reynolds)
• Running ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 CTP1 on Windows 7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Move Command Link Column to End Column – Dynamic Data (Stephen Naughton)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK Documentation is now available! (VSX Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Heisenbugs (Chris Missal)
• More Persistence Patterns in MSDN (Jeremy D. Miller)
• xUnit.NET: Running tests written in Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Needham)
• What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 4 (Rajiv Popat)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Validation with the Data Annotation Validators (ASP.NET Tutorials)
• Friday Books – Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and jQuery ProgressBar (Dave M. Bush)
• jQuery Resource Collection and ASP.NET CheckBoxList Align When Wrapping (Elijah Manor)
• Writing A Page To A String (Phil Haack)
• Indonesian MVP Releases Open Source IIS Log Analyzer! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Tip#66: Did you know… how to insert quotes values automatically while typing the attrib values? (Deepak Verma)

Silverlight / WPF

• Prism Quick Start Kit (David Hill)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 (Jesse Liberty)
• I have a Silverlight for PHP Developers article in this months PHP Architect Magazine. (Joe Stagner)
• Adventures in MVVM – Commanding with List Boxes (Brian Genisio)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Multi-touch in WPF 4 Beta 1 and A Motion Capture Viewer written in Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Google Wave Video Demo Makes a Little More Sense of Wave (Adam Pash)
• Video: Silverlight 2 Video Reflection (Nigel Parker)
• This Week on C9: Bing, Changes to .NET FX 4.0, & play Apple IIe games on your Xbox (Dan Fernandez)
• 10-4 Episode 21: Web Tooling Improvements (Drew Robbins)
• 10 MorphX tricks in 10 minutes (Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan)
• Mike Ormond interviews me about the MVC Framework (Mike Hadlow)

Community / Events

• Demos for Silverlight 2 Controls and ASP.NET MVC talks at DevDays 2009 (Fritz Onion)
• 1/2 Day Windows 7 AppCompat Lab Engagement at Reston MTC, 6/8-6/12 (Free) (Zhiming Xue)
• Join The Bing Webcast At June 1st @ 10am PT (Sunshine)

Database

• Get local lab and instances going. Replication /.SQL Agent (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between Candidate Keys and Primary Key (Pinal Dave)
• Report Builder 2.0 – Promising, but Supported? (William Vaughn)
• Grouping datetime values in half hour blocks in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• MSDN Mag 7/2009 Editor’s Note Sneak Peek (Howard Dierking)
• LightBox Makes Simple Touch-Ups a Snap (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Is Hulu Coming to Xbox 360? (Mark Wilson)
• Rants and Raves #1 (Joel Cochran)
• Some quick takes on Bing and Our first look at Bing: 5 things that stand out (Kip Kniskern)
• Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine (Laura Foy)
• 7 free Windows 7 tweaking utilities (Lee Mathews)
• First night with Bing (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters (Sridhar Vembu)
• Windows 7 SP1 Build 7138: Redux and EXCLUSIVE: Windows 7 UI Animations – The Early Days (Stephen Chapman)
• How to connect to a CodePlex TFS server using Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 – #040 (Sara Ford)
• Integrate the New Hulu Desktop into Media Center and Microsoft Launches Real-Time Browser: IE8 Bundled with OneRiot (Sarah Perez)
• Adding Custom Search Providers to Windows 7 plus Advanced Search Tricks (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 29, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 29, 2009 — #604 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 29th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 29th, May 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• HealthVault SDK (MS Downloads)
• Web Browser in C# (Kapil Soni)
• Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio ShortcutsAnother List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts (Amit Raz)
• Using Active Record to write less code and Ode to ReSharper and NHibernate Tidbit – using <set/> without referencing Iesi.Collections (Oren Eini)
• VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR R2 is Out (David Starr)
• Show me the memory: Tool for visualizing virtual memory usage and GC heap usage. (Tess Ferrandez)
• ReSharper coolness of the day: generated constructor visibility (Joe White)
• HowTo: Tweet with C# (Robert Muehsig)
• MCsla – Fixing up output from mgx (Rockford Lhotka)
• Functional C# – Composing Through Partial Application (Matthew Podwysocki)
• __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Customizing the Type Name (Harry Pierson)
• Dogfooding Ukadc.Diagnostics (Josh Twist)

Silverlight / WPF

• Intro to Composite App Frameworks with Prism (David Makogon)
• Silverlight out-of-browser apps: Network Awareness (Ashish Shetty)
• Silverlight and DOM events (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Video Drivers, Prison Riots, and Silverlight (Stephen Forte)
• Silverlight 3 – Knowing When Images Are Loaded (Mike Taulty)
• Databinding the videogame, part 2: mapping terrain types to GUI (Joe White)
• Silverlight, Web Services and DataSets (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Agility Cycle – Part 2 (Brad Appleton)
• Simple Management Tip: Tracking 1:1 Conversations (Steve Rowe)
• DDD: Making implicit concepts explicit (Mark Needham)
• Second Order Agile Scaling (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Nice Acceptance Test Framework: Cucumber (Jim Holmes)
• NDepend and the quality of the Cruise Control .NET code base (Patrick Smacchia)
• Source Control Only Team Projects (David Starr)
• Who has been a great leader in your career and what made them a great leader? (Denis Gobo)
• When Surrogate Keys Attack (and validation isn’t there) (Howard Dierking)
• Stubs: Comparison with other mocking frameworks (Jonathan de Halleux)
• UX thoughts – In defense of eye candy, an “A List Apart” article (András  Velvárt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jeff Atwood talks Stack Overflow (Carl Franklin)
• Hervey Wilson on the Geneva Framework (Donovan Follette)
• Code Cast 26 – Prism 2.0 (David Starr)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #50 (Jeff Atwood)

Community / Events

• Linguistics on the job, on the stage … and in space? (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Let Your NoVa Code Camp Geek Flair Fly (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Test Your Application on Windows 7 at TechEd 2009 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Harnessing the Power of Community 2.0 (Dux Raymond Sy)

Web Development

• Any ASP.NET Debugging requests? (Tom)
• Tip # 53: Did you know… How to edit the templates for gridview in VS designer? (Deepak Verma)
• Scripting ASP.NET MVC Views Stored In The Database (Phil Haack)
• I Spose I’ll Just Say It: You Should Learn MVC (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day
• Life and Times of an ASP.NET MVC Controller (K. Scott Allen)
• Stopping the panic: how to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial performances. Don’t run in debug mode (Simone Chiaretta)
• Finally played with ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Julie Lerman)

PowerShell

• V2 Quick Tip: Starting a new elevated process from a PowerShell script (James Brundage)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Zune Lyrics" Plug-in for Zune Software (Blake Handler)
• NH Prof: An important milestone (Oren Eini)
• Super discount on MS Certification Exams (Chris G. Williams)
• Microsoft pubCenter beta goes public (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows 7 RC completed, build 7100 (Steven Bink)
• Office 2010 Revealed: Redux and Windows Mobile 6.5 Miscellaneous Debris (Stephen Chapman)
• How to subscribe to all project updates via RSS – #021 and There are now separate RSS feeds for Reviews and Releases – #022 (Sara Ford)
• Best source code comments (Daniel Moth)
• Ink Input and Tablet PC (Win 7 Team)
• Did You Know? How to tell if a bug has been fixed? (Kalen Delaney)
• Source Code with a Sense of Humor (Michael Ceranski)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 22, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #333 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Twitterings #25 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 314 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for April 22nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Exporting Visual Studio Solutions with SolutionFactory (Ben Scheirman)
• NHibernate Mapping – <set/> (Oren Eini)
• Introducing Fluent Ado.Net (Chris Brandsma)
• LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #2 (Damien Guard)
• F#: A day of writing a little twitter application (Mark Needham)
• NHibernate’s Future Queries And Their Fallback Behavior (Davy Brion)
• How to use wcftestclient as svc file debugger for VS2008 SP1 (Xinyang Qiu)
• CUMUY PRESENTS: XNA GS (Pedro D. Güida)
• T4 Editor by Tangible Engineering (Oleg Sych)

Web Development

• Striped GridView the Easy Way w/ jQuery (Dave M. Bush)
• Handling MouseEnter and MouseLeave Events in jQuery (Dan Wahlin)
• How to choose between ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Language Envy – Juicy, a simple webserver (Sergio Pereira)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #50 – Create View Models (Stephen Walther)
• A Closable jQuery Plug-in (Rick Strahl)
• Creating A Tabbed Menu Control For ASP.NET MVC (Justin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• X Tests are not X Tests (Michael Feathers)
• Agile practices are not just about management. (Mike Hadlow) – Link of the Day
• "I don’t have time to test!" (jlockwood)
• DDDD: Event Storage (Jonathan Oliver)
• Death to the Space Infidels! (Jeff Atwood)
• NCover v3 rocks! (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Layout Manager for Prism v2 (Ron Gramann)
• WPF : More Mediator Goodness (Sacha Barber)
• Building Polished UIs with Expression Blend—Part 1 (Markus Egger)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Value of Web Forms and Design Constraints (Pixel8 Podcast)
• Tips and Advice – Team Rooms (Bob Payne)
• The Thirsty Developer 58: Applying SOA (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• deCast – Building an Azure App Part II: Azure Table Storage (Rob Bagby)
• Episode 66 – PowerScripting Podcast – Scott Herold talks VESI and Vizioncore (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 13th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming April geekSpeaks (Glen Gordon)
• 5 Blogs ASP.NET MVC Developers Should Be Following (Justin Etheredge)
• 300 Posts (Davy Brion)
• Logo Contest Winner for serverfault.com (Jeff Atwood)
• Tips and Tricks for creating User Group communication channels with your members. (Eric Hexter)
• ASP.NET MVC – CMAP HOL Group Meeting – Thursday, April 16th at 6:30pm (Christopher Steen)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Updates Reporting Services, Office Integration, Data Mining, and More (Bruce Kyle)
• Tip: Using Full Text Search With a Table-Valued Function (Rob Conery)
• SQL SERVER – Check if Current Login is Part of Server Roll Member (Pinal Dave)
• ExecuteSQLExecutingQuery : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• Copy SQL Server Database (Ted Krueger)

PowerShell

• Using Script Functions in the PowerShell Pipeline ( Take Two ) (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Ten Quirky Issues with Cross-Platform Version Control (Eric Sink)
• The Apple Tax (Steve Clayton)
• LiveLessons Python Fundamentals Review (Mike Riley)
• Free Book Download: Collaboration in the Cloud – How cross-boundary collaboration is transforming business (Clemens Reijnen)
• How to view revisions for entire wiki – #014 and How not to apply wiki formatting in your CodePlex wiki page – #015 (Sara Ford)
• On Learning Boo (Ian Cooper)
• From Imperative to Functional – Transposing Maps (Matthew Podwysocki)
• “Microsoft Virtualization” Learning Snack & free e-book (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Link Round up on .NET RIA Services (March 13th) (Brad Abrams)
• The Morning Brew #326 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio Links #111 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2009 — #569 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 13th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Removing Warnings from CSharp Compile Cycle (Dave M. Bush)
• Install the Surface SDK on Windows 7 and/or x64 (Brian Peek)
• Getting Started with Oslo Using ‘M’ (Bruce Kyle)
• IronRuby MVC progress (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Dynamic Stack Trace (Harry Pierson)
• SUBMITTING YOUR XNA GAME TO XLCG (Pete)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: Sample Application First Steps (Casey Charlton)
• Security Hot Spots (J.D. Meier)
• C# Design Patterns – The Facade Pattern (Justin)
• Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
• DDD: Repository pattern (Mark Needham)
• Need Help Spotting that Hard to Test Code? (Chris Missal)
• Framework Design Guidelines: LINQ Support (Brad Abrams)
• Extreme Programming workflow simulation (Corey Ladas)
• Your Data Retrieval Code Should Be Readable Too (Davy Brion)
• What Isolation\Mocking and unit testing framework are you using? (Roy Osherove)
• Real Life – Code Reuse (Tim Barcz)
• Refactoring: reduce variable scope (Gunnar Peipman)

Silverlight / WPF

• The Knowledge Chamber: Silverlight 3.0 for Great Business Apps (Brad Abrams) – Link of the Day
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) (Jeff Barnes)
• Silverlight Chord Finder (John Papa)
• MVVM Screencasts (Lester Lobo)
• Silverlight Sneak Peek: Building line-of-business with Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• .Net libraries in Silverlight (Louis Salin)
• And now for something completely crazy: Binding without WPF (Josh Twist)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #98 – Silverlight 3 Game Programming Book (Mike Snow)

Web Development

• How-To add a custom validation method to the jQuery validator plug-in and Java script: access properties of a complex JSON object (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• JavaScript for C# Programmers: the with Statement Considered Harmful (Julian M. Bucknall)
• How does Web Deployment with VS10 and MSDeploy Work? (Vishal R. Joshi)

Community / Events

• .NET Fireside Chats – Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek (Me) – Get a promo code for 30% off the Coding4Fun print or ebook, plus a free chapter to download and a chance to win a copy of the book!
• NINE Questions with Lou Vega and NINE Questions with Suzanna Moran (Chris G. Williams)
• Web Application Testing with Selenium and RSpec Workshop for Developers, Testers, and Teams in Austin, Tuesday, April 28th (Scott Bellware)
• Getting Ready for MIX09 (Mike Swanson)

Database

• Designing a document database: Storage and Designing a document database: Scale and Designing a document database: Concurrency (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server – Index Maintenance (Michael Ceranski)
• Enforcing parent child relationship with Path Hierarchy model (Simon Sabin)
• Enhancing Visualisation of Common Elements Across Groups Using Color in Reporting Services 2005, Part 1 (Thomas Williams)

Miscellaneous

• Verizon Customers – Just Say No! (Lidija Davis)
• Microsoft Big Brains: Mark Russinovich (Mary Jo Foley)
• PortableApps.com suite 1.5 released (Brad Linder)
• Skimming the ‘Cream (Dave Campbell)
• Microsoft would still “like to sit down” with Yahoo! on search deal (Kip Kniskern)
• Help Make Picnik Even More Awesome! (Lisa)
• A sneak peek at the Windows 7 Release Candidate (Ed Bott)
• Change in Toolbar Management (Frank Olivier)
• This title has not yet been released. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Live Mesh Introduces Online Media Viewer and Twitter Rename Plugin for Windows Live Writer (Sarah Perez)
• Did Joel Spolksy nearly drive my coworker insane? (Paul Vick)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for March 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #303 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 09, 2009 — #535 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for March 9th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Prism With EntLib and Unity (Ade Miller)
• Silverlight 2 Custom Control Gotchas (Corey Miller)
• State of the DLR for Silverlight (Jimmy Schementi)
• Why Should You Always Locate Your Convertors In App.Xaml (Amit Raz)

Web Development

• 3 Quick Steps for a Painless Upgrade to jQuery 1.3 (Karl Swedberg)
• Kobe – A Web 2.0 Service Development Resource Kit built using ASP.NET MVC and the Microsoft Web Platform (ASP.NET News)
• Evolutility Open Source ASP.NET Framework (Joe Stagner)
• Adding An 800 Pound Gorilla To Your Site (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Select Multiple List Items in SharePoint Feature (Wesley Bakker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Application Lifecycle Management Workshops Help ISVs Realize Full Potential of Team Foundation Server (Bruce Kyle)
• Eager loading a One-to-Many collection w/ NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)
• Self-Modifying DSL from Savas (Chris Sells)
• C# 4, Dynamic Overloads (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Azure: Settings Are Settings Are Settings..? Maybe Not! (David)
• NInject Contextual Binding, or “How to defy Mick Jagger and always get what you want” (Kyle Baley)

Design/ Methodology / Testing

• The cost of Test Driven Development (Andrew Woodward)
• Transactions and the check-in dance (Jimmy Bogard)
• Application structure: Concepts & Features (Ayende Rahien)
• Test-driven development with code generation (Laila Bougria)
• Smarten Up Instead Of Generating Dumb Tests (Davy Brion)
• Improving Software Process – A Letter to Upper Management (Tim Barcz) – Link of the Day
• Moq 3.0 RTM!!! (Daniel Cazzulino)

Community / Events

• I’m a PC and I’m a MVP — 2009 MVP Summit WrapUp and Thanks! (Dave Campbell)

Database

• Create XML Files Out Of SQL Server With SSIS And FOR XML Syntax (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers (Denis Gobo)
• 5 Games that Won’t Die! (Joel Durham Jr.)
• The ALT.NET Programming Contest (Aaron Jensen)
• BOOK REVIEW: Code Leader, by Patrick Cauldwell (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Death March (Gunnar Peipman)
• Troubleshooting Windows MSI Installers (Phil Haack)
• HealthVault Connection Center 2.0 SP2 released (HealthVault Team)
• The Days of Arcade are coming (Larry Hyrb)
• Podcast of my Talk about Turing at the University of Toronto (Charles Petzold)
• Rebooting My Development Environment (David Starr)
• Why people do not see how smart your idea is at first (Ian Cooper)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2009 — #533 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #301 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Twitterings #18 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman Links for March 5, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• New and Notable 300 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for March 5th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: March 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software (Programmer to Programmer): Patrick Cauldwell, Scott Hanselman: Books ISBN: 0470259248 ISBN-13: 9780470259245

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)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Improve your NHibernating with NHProf (Hiberlog)
• Top 10 Favorite Performance Counters in Load Testing Using VSTS 2008 (Mohammad Ashraful Alam)
• DateTime.MaxValue (Fredrik Eriksson)
• Contextual Sessions with NHibernate – Part 2 (Javier G. Lozano)
• CodeRush/Refactor Pro refactors Javascript too (Jay Kimble)
• C#: Extensions methods != Open classes (Mark Needham)
• Mapping Objects with AutoMapper (K. Scott Allen)

Silverlight / WPF

• Building a WPF Application: Part 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• Prism 2.0 is Live (Blaine Wastell)
• Silverlight LinkLabel Control – Release: v1.1 (CodePlex)
• just released: composite application guidance for wpf and silverlight – February 2008 (Erwin van der Valk)
• MVP TV – Changing Silverlight 2’s Control Appearance and Behaviour. (Jas Dhaliwal)
• New Release: Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) (J.D. Meier)
• WPF Kid Stuff: Extracting a Control Template (Shafqat Ahmed)
• Prism v2 – Guidance and Patterns for WPF and Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 2 GDR1 Now Available… (Tim Sneath)
• Dependency Properties and Silverlight 2 (Corey Miller)
• Deep Zoom Composer – February 2009 Preview Released (Sunshine)
• Tracking Down Memory Leaks in WPF and Silverlight (Vladimir Milev)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: What Kind of Applications Is It Suited To? (Casey Charlton)
• D3: Modeling Part 1 – Real-World Relationships (Danny Simmons)
• "Inappropriate Intimacy" points to the bleeding out of your domain logic (Ian Cooper) – Link of the Day
• Types of testing (Laila Bougria)
• MSTest Digest #1 (Steve Andrews)
• Presenter Logic || Domain Service Logic || Repository Logic? (Sean Biefeld)

Web Development

• Fixing this blog for Internet Explorer 8 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #47 – Using ResolveUrl in an HTML Helper (Stephen Walther)
• Oxite: what’s new and how to stay up to date with it (Simone Chiaretta)

SharePoint

• SharePoint and TDD – The other view (Andrew Woodward)
• Debugging SharePoint solutions using Visual Studio (DigiMortal)
• SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part One (Eric Shupps)

Community / Events

• Mix09: Developing RESTful Services & Clients w/ M (Chris Sells)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 150 – Uncle Bob Martin, this time with feeling (Scott Hanselman)
• Team System on Twitter (Steve Andrews)

SQL Server

• How To Name Default Constraints And How To Drop Default Constraint Without A Name In SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• How to Keep Innovating (Bill Buxton)
• Windows 7 Beta Brings New Functionality to Games Explorer (Brandon LeBlanc)
• The secret driven-development/design acronyms (Damien Guard)
• Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation (Karen Wong)
• Are You An Expert? (Jeff Atwood)
• Google Releases Google Mobile for Windows Mobile and The Best Whitepaper I’ve Read In Years: Cloud Computing from UC Berkeley (Steve Clayton)
• The Hulu Plugins Just Keep Coming! (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #290 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 18, 2009 — #521 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for February 18th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 292 (Sam Gentile)
• Daily Find #118 (Tim Boland)
• Creators Club Communiqué 18 (Kathleen Sanders)

Book of the Day