• CLR Stack Explorer – Preview and Manual Stack Walking (Sasha Goldshtein)
• LINQ Pad vs. Visual Studio for Learning LINQ (Jesse Liberty)
• My Next Book: Silverlight 5 in Action 50% off for a limited time (Pete Brown)
• Strings, immutability and persistence (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating a simple bootstrapper – Project template (Rory Primrose)
• Installing Visual Studio Load Test Agents and Controllers (Steve Smith)
• Opening the Internet Settings Dialog and using Windows Default Network Settings via Code (Rick Strahl)
• Should my database calls be Asynchronous Part II (Rick Anderson)
• Macto: Let’s CREATE an Inmate (Oren Eini)
• How To Use a .NET 4 Based DLL From .NET 2 Based Application? (Arik Poznanski)
• Display Kinect color image containing only players (aka background removal) (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Model Binders (Gil Fink)
• Create An HTML/CSS Mobile Web App Using Sencha Touch (Jen Gordon)
• What new feature in PHP 5.4 is the most important to you? (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Part 2 – Madness or just Insanity? (Scott Hanselman)
• CoffeeScript in Visual Studio 2010 with Web Workbench (David Hayden)
• WordPress.com Provides Pinning to 20 Million Bloggers! (Roger Capriotti)
• Razor Helpers Syntax (Gil Fink)
• Implementing Master and Detail grids in Wijmo (Kevin Griffin)
• First Steps With MongoDB, Mongoose and Jasmine-Node On Node.JS (Davy Brion)
• References, Routing, And The Event Aggregator: Coordinating Views In Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CodeRush Unit Testing Service overview (Alex Skorkin)
• An Agile Approach to Building a Mac Application (Scott Densmore)
• RoR Testing – One Thing To Do (I think) And One Thing Not To Do (I’m Sure) (Karl Seguin)
• Are PMs worth more than game designers? (Scott Berkun)
• Individuals Over People and The High-Level Test Whisperer (Jay Fields)
• Misconceptions about Self-Organizing Teams (Esther Derby)
• Continuous Delivery in Practice (James Betteley)
• What would you give up to keep working remotely? (Jessica Stillman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): [Table] attribute (Windows Phone Geek)
• Using Isolated Storage to save/load files on Windows Phone 7 (David Amador)
• Code sample to access SkyDrive Photos API from WP7 (or any REST/OAuth/JSON enabled device/OS) (Greg Duncan)
• Presentation: Silverlight 5 for Line of Business Applications (Jeremy Likness)
• Windows Phone 7 users sure are satisfied (Joe Wilcox)
• The extent of ringtone integration in Windows Phone SDK 7.1 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• “Hacking” through Prism regions (or when to cross the lines with Prism) (Ariel Ben Horesh)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #124: Constraints (James Shore)
• Video–Ed Jezierski on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
• Ping 109: Microsoft Stores, Halo & Kinect, XP Countdown, Windows 8, Mango (Laura Foy)
• The Office Show: Office 365 – Part Two (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• Team Wins Imagine Cup 2011 in Software Design For Traffic Solution Built on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• RavenDB & NHibernate Training – August 15 – 16, Chattanooga, TN (Oren Eini)
• MADExpo Additional Thanks (G. Andrew Duthie)
• PowerShell Deep Dive Registration Info & Call for Session Proposals (Travis Jones)
• ReMIX South 2011 (Jason Rainwater)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 5 Released (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Denali Installation Change (Devin Knight)
• SQL Server: Distinct Count across Multiple Tables (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 20 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server Denali CTP3 (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – Denali – Management Studio – Restore Database (Vishal)
• Windows Azure Storage – Creating a Hierarchy View (Buck Woody)
• Denali–IIF and CHOOSE (Dave Ballantyne)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Developer Documentation Feed Reader App for the Windows Phone (Jim Crowley)
• Working with the ECMAScript Client Object Model (JSOM) in SharePoint 2010–Part 3 (Nikhil Sachdeva)

Miscellaneous

• New book: Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference (Devon Musgrave)
• Microsoft opens up new Garage offices (John Callaham)
• Random Khan Exercises (John Resig)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Packet Guide to Core Network Protocols – Only $7.49 w/code DDJ5N (O’Reilly Media)
• A Cloudy Future (André Vrignaud)
• Books I’ve Enjoyed and Recommend to You (Pete Brown)
• The Guide to Creating Quality Technical Screencasts (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft talks more about Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango” (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #898 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (7/19/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 19 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 07/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 19/07/2011 (Jax)
• Link dump for July 18th and Link dump for July 19th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Wallace B. McClure

Top Links

• Developers: Why You May Not Want To Listen To Robert Scoble (Brandon Watson)
• Using Mole 2010 to analyze collections (Josh Smith)
• cleancoders.com is live! (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Prism Template Pack 1.4: Now with MEF Support! (David Hill)
• MEF 2 Preview 3 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Inserting the Class Name in a Code Snippet (Richard Carr)
• Multiple Sort For Collection Using LINQ and LINQ and Nullable Values or SQL ISNULL with LINQ and Find duplicate with Linq and How to Sort Generic List Using Lambda Expression For Dynamic Type And Dynamic Property ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Code Issues – Nested code can be flattened (Alex Skorkin)
• Stored Procedure in WCF Data Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: ConcurrentBag and BlockingCollection (James Michael Hare)
• Performance Troubleshooting Article and VS2010 SP1 Change (Jason Zander)
• A simple approach to hydrating the C# MongoDB Driver Objects (John V. Petersen)
• The Case of Switch-Case in C# (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Installing NuGet on VS2010 (first blood) (Peter Kellner)
• "M"osetta Stone (Craig Dunn)
• Danger, Will Robinson! (Eric Lippert)
• Back to Basics – Reading a File into Memory Stream (Gil Fink)
• "Regular Expression Cheat Sheet (.NET)" from RegExLibrary and Netduino Green Squared (Greg Duncan)
• EF 4.1 Is Coming (DbContext API & Code First RTW) (EF Team)
• Book – Professional Team Foundation Server 2010 from Wrox (Ed Blankenship)
• Do you know how to move the Team Foundation Server cache (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Simple reads with Entity Framework (Matt Hinze)
• Custom IfThen activity (Rory Primrose)

Web Development

• A Self-Closing HtmlGenericControl (Jonathan Wood)
• ASP.NET: Building tree picker dialog using jQuery UI and TreeView control (Gunnar Peipman)
• IIS not starting: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process (Rick Strahl)
• Defining Default Content For A Razor Layout Section (Phil Haack)
• jQuery 1.5.1 Supports IE9 (Tony Ross)
• Web PI v3 (MS Downloads)
• Unobtrusive Client Side Validation with Dynamic Contents in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Imran Baloch)
• Basic JavaScript Part 11: Functional Initialization (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• ASP.NET Rounded Coreners AND DropShadow with jQuery. and Who to follow if your staying up to date with ASP.NET ! and Get in the Game–Orchard New Module Content ! and Dynamically Selecting WebMatrix Page Layouts & Styles (Joe Stagner)
• Using the ASP.NET Repeater Control (Mark Kendall)
• Highly Recommended Book: REST In Practice (Davy Brion)
• Using jQuery with CheckBox and ASP.NET GridView (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Use Custom Resize to Make The IE9 Mobile Experience (Chris Love)
• LightSwitch vs HTML 5 ? and HTML (including HTML 5) and LightSwitch at the same time? (Michael Washington)
• IndexedDB – The Store In Your Browser (Parasuraman Narasimhan)
• Effective NHibernate Session management for web apps (Jose Romaniello)
• Hosting The Same Windows Azure Web Project With Two Different Configurations (Peter Kellner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• ALM Practices Part 3: Unit Testing & TDD (Dennis Doomen)
• Simulating your way out of regression testing (Gojko Adzic)
• Book Review: Driving Technical Change (Jim Holmes)
• Want to Be an Quality Assurance Tester? – Learn to Code and Agile Software Development Doesn’t Create Secure Software (Peter Saddington)
• Entities, Transactions, and Broken Boundaries (Udi Dahan)
• WebStresser: A very simple web load testing tool (Mike Hadlow)
• What size icon am I supposed to use my for app/toolbar/menu/dialog/etc? The "Icon Reference Chart" might be just the icon cheatsheet you’ve been looking for… (Greg Duncan)
• Less Is More (JC Teague)
• Learning and games, games and learning (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Stardate 2011.63.1: Design stenches – Rigidity (Kyle Szklenski)
• xUnit.Net – Running the tests (RunAfterTestFailed Custom Attribute) (Maria Marcano)
• Thoughts On Developer Longevity (Davy Brion)
• The Power And Pain of Process–Part 1 (Andy Warren)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF: Advanced Jump Lists using a Single Instance Application (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Charting: Formatting the Axis and Silverlight Charting: Formatting the Tick Marks (Deborah Kurata)
• "Your feedback is important to us; please stay on the line…" [Improving Windows Phone 7 application performance is even easier with these LowProfileImageLoader and DeferredLoadListBox updates] (David Anson)
• What is XAP file in Silverlight? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Silverlight Animations Made Easy with Sv Fx (Greg Gum)
• A Numeric Input Control for Windows Phone 7 (Jeremy Likness)
• Highlights of XNA development on Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Tip Of The Day: Call resources by their absolute path and Windows Phone 7 Tip Of The Day: Know how app navigation works internally (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The Mobile Web and Windows Phone 7 (Joey deVilla)
• Changing the Default Windows Phone 7 Deployment Target In Visual Studio 2010 (Michael Crump)
• Importing Adobe Illustrator files in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)
• Phoney Tools Updated (WP7 Open Source Library) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Lync for Windows Phone 7 (Steven Bink)
• How I let the trees grow (Peter Kuhn)
• Using DockPanel in WP7 and Working with ItemsPanel in WP7 and New FREE XNA Jump Start mini-course by Microsoft and Getting data out of WP7 WMAppManifest is easy with Coding4Fun PhoneHelper (Windows Phone Geek)
• MonoDroid meet MonoTouch & WindowsPhone7 (Craig Dunn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: JavaScript and jQuery: Moving beyond Alert() (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp on HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 2 of n and Visual C++ to (re)support C++/CLI Intellisense (Charles Torre)
• Cloud Cover Episode 38 – VM Role with Corey and Cory (Wade Wegner)
• TWC9: Marketplace limit raised to 100, Automate Azure builds, TFS Power Tools (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone Radio 20 (Brian Seitz)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone [VIDEO]: Quick App for Push Notifications (Uses Windows Azure) (John Mulhausen)
• Silverlight TV 64: Dive into 64bit Support, App Model and Security (John Papa)
• WPF Developer Training Videos (108) and Windows 7 Specific Desktop Applications Videos (9) (Joe Stagner)
• Windows Phone 7 – Episode 5 – Pages (Dennis Delimarsky)
• This Developer’s Life 1.1.4 – Obsession (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Oredev Videos on Responsibility Driven Design and Internal DSL’s with C# (Jeremy Miller)
• Video: Zoom In or Out of the Text Editor (Zain Naboulsi)
• Let’s Play TDD #91: Rendering ValidDollars (James Shore)
• Windows Phone 7 Push Notification QuickApp / Web Service (With Azure Publishing Instructions!) (JoMul)
• Defrag 001: Startup Slow Downs, Can’t Boot, Blue Screens, Homegroup, IE Logins (Larry Larsen)
• The GeekDads Episode #86: Science Isn’t a Matter of Opinion (Ken Denmead)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #25 with guest Chad Green (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Installing Drupal 7 on Windows Azure with the Windows Azure App Companion Tool (Craig Kitterman)

Community / Events

• Philly Nerd Nite No. 4, March 10, 2011 (Nerd Nite)
• Code Project Mobile Virtual Conference with MonoDroid (Wally McClure)
• Bill Gates Talks About Knowledge Revolution at TED [LIVE BLOG] (Sarah Kessler)
• The State of Tekpub, 2011 (Rob Conery)
• Long term value of acceptance testing: Webinar, March 22nd (Gojko Adzic)
• Speaking at Cincinnati Day of Agile on 3/26 (Jim Holmes)
• I Give Up: What IS an MVP? (Jen McCown)
• MIX it up at the Open Source Fest at MIX11 (Greg Duncan)
• INETA NorAm Component Code Challenge (Chris Williams)

Database

• SSRS – Creating and Using Shared Schedules Part 3 (Brian McDonald)
• SQL Server: WAITFOR Statement (Dhananjay Kumar)
• SQL SERVER – Demo Script – Keeping CPU Busy and SQL SERVER – Concurrancy Problems and their Relationship with Isolation Level and SQLAuthority News – Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 Reference Guide (Pinal Dave)
• New Collection of SQL Server Videos on Channel 9 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Configuration connection properties for the External Content Type in BCS MetaMan (Lightning Tools)
• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools Overview Presentation (Mike Morton)
• US West Region MSDN Events Presents: SharePoint (Wes Yanaga)

Miscellaneous

• Intellisense patch for PowerGUI Script Editor 2.4 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Pastebin updated to V3, releases Windows app (Erez Zukerman)
• Ebooks: List of our free books (Kim Spilker)
• What is the best job search tip you’ve received? (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• A Few Deep Dive Abstracts (Travis Jones)
• Paint.NET v3.5.8 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• JetBrains market IDE to iPhone Devs (Tobin Harris)
• Microsoft begins work on IE9 RTM-Escrow build (Tzvi Friedman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 3, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 4, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Distributed Weekly 92 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2011 — #1053 (Dave Campbell)
• Week Retrospective 22 – Writing Better User Stories (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 2th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 3th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 4th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• 2-Mar-2011 and 3-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links– 2010_09 (Joe Stagner)
• This Week’s Link List (March 4, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #804 and The Morning Brew #805 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Eric Carter

Top Links

• ILSpy – decompiler architecture (Daniel Grunwald)
• Registry Editor for Windows Phone 7 Beta (Senthil Kumar)
• Validation Application Block ported to Silverlight (Grigori Melnik)
• WebMatrix refresh released. (Lawrence Moroney)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Generic Predicate Delegate (Richard Carr)
• Extract WCF identity into a WorkflowServiceHost activity (Rory Primrose)
• Code Metrics, Reporting, and XSLT Debugging (Cameron Skinner)
• Lab Management Deploy TFS Build Process Process Template for Physical Environments (Ed Blankenship)
• CodedUI Test Builder – Crosshair highlights UI Control wrong … and Running Automated Tests on Physical Environments, the different flavors… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Massive Update Number 1 and Massive Update Number 2 (Rob Conery)
• Zentity 2.0 Source Code (MS Research)
• Extensibility Hands-on Labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (MS Downloads)
• Changing the Border Color of Windows Form Controls (Abhijit Jana)
• Using Open XML SDK v2.0 on Windows Azure (Sudheer Kovalam)

Web Development

• Loading a Random HTML Page Inline (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Routing Regression With Two Consecutive Optional Url Parameters (Phil Haack)
• Understanding Request Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Imran Baloch)
• Calculate Sum of ASP.NET CheckBox Values using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• The Essential Guide to HTML5 – Using Games to Learn HTML5 and JavaScript Book Review (David Hayden)
• WSDL-world vs CLR-world – some differences (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Really Simple AJAX Calls with Microsoft WebMatrix (Joe Stagner)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Implementing Events (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Handling errors in datajs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Sueetie Theme Changer Now Supports Multiple Blogs (Dave Burke)
• Stack Apps and Scripts (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Use Patterns and Prior Code and Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (K. Brian Kelley)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Automated Teardown (Giorgio Sironi)
• Thinking about the user, or “How to consider the experience” (Kyle Baley)
• Communication: Listening and Pomodoro: Observations from giving it a go (Mark Needham)
• Change is Good (JD Meier)
• What Can Stephen Seagal Teach Us About Building Line of Business Apps? (Frank La Vigne)
• There’s Only One Valid Metric For Developer Productivity And Quality (Davy Brion)
• Inversion of Control : Practical usage of Interface, Delegate or Events (Abhishek Sur)
• AoP with castle part 4–Adding AoP to service oriented App (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Azure Page Blobs vs. Liskov Substitution Principle (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage Explorer and WP7 working with XML: reading, filtering and databinding (Windows Phone Geek)
• Prism for Silverlight/MEF in Easy Samples. Part 3 – Communication between the Modules (Nick Polyak)
• Windows Phone 7 Status Indicator Control (Nigel Sampson)
• Dynamic Forms Redux 2: Windows Phone 7 (Andrej Tozon)
• Windows Phone 7: Working With the Application Bar and Accent Colors (Alex)
• Must Have Windows Phone 7 Toolkits (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight Spy 4 February 2011 update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Reactive Drag and Drop Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• How to use One Note on Windows Phone 7 (Luke)
• Microsoft mulls changing Windows Phone Marketplace terms to add more open-source licenses (Mary Jo Foley)
• Task Parallel Library 2 of n (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight Simple MVVM Printing and Silverlight Charting: Setting Colors and Silverlight Charting: Setting the Tooltip and Silverlight Charting: Displaying Data Above the Column (Deborah Kurata)
• Using the TriggerAction control (Rockford Lhotka)
• Catel – WPF and Silverlight MVVM library – Release v1.2 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 388: Dragon Age 2 & Marvel vs Capcom 3 (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 140 – PowerScripting Podcast – Scripting Guy Ed Wilson on the 2011 Scripting Games (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Cloud Cover Episode 37 – Multiple Websites in a Web Role (Wade Wegner)
• Windows Phone Radio 18 – available now (Brian Seitz)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 172: Feature-Oriented Software Development with Sven Apel – Pt 1 (SE-Radio Team)
• Windows Weekly 196: The Zune Identity (Paul Thurrott)
• ASP.NET & Visual Studio 2010 What’s New Quick Videos (35) and ASP.NET Data Access Tutorials & Videos (114) and ASP.NET AJAX Videos & Tutorials (155) and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Add Search to your Site with Bing (Joe Stagner)
• TWC9: WP7 gets multi-tasking,NuGet 1.1, MJPEG Decoder, Reflector (Dan Fernandez & Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 004–“Game On!” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Engadget Show – 018: GM’s Micky Bly, Watson researcher David Gondek, EN-V demo, Atrix 4G (Chad Mumm)
• Technology & Friends Episode 137: Carl Franklin on Interviewing (David Giard)
• Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber (Neil Versel)
• 2 Videos: SteveB and SteveJ (Mike Taulty)
• ASP.NET Tips and Tricks on dnrTV (Steve Smith)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 46 – Castle Windsor with Krzysztof Kozmic (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• The Experts Conference: SharePoint Keynotes Announced! (Joel Oleson)
• Windows Azure Boot Camp Thoughts (Bill Wagner)
• Lightning tools–exclusive sponsor of Best Practice conference la jolla CA (Brett Lonsdale)
• MIX11 Silverlight Bootcamp Workshop, April 11, Las Vegas (Mike Taulty)
• Win Telerik Premium Collection for .NET – by @telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Codestock and Knoxville, Tennessee: Are You Coming in 2011? (Jeremy Likness)

Database

• The Importance Of Managing Expectations (Joe Webb)
• SQL Server: Highest and Lowest Values in a Row (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – PREEMPTIVE and Non-PREEMPTIVE – Wait Type – Day 19 of 28 and SQL SERVER – MSQL_XP – Wait Type – Day 20 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Guest Posts – Feodor Georgiev – The Context of Our Database Environment – Going Beyond the Internal SQL Server Waits – Wait Type – Day 21 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Renumbering Rows in a Table Variable (or Table/Temp Table) (sognibene)

SharePoint

• Designing Dashboards and Scorecards using SharePoint PerformancePoint Services 2010 and SSAS – Part 3 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Origami Tablet UI and Win 7 Slate PCs (Don Burnett)
• Open Clip Art Library v2.9 (Think "40K open, as in freely used, vector based clip art images") (Greg Duncan)
• More IE mystery! What’s Dev:unplugged? (Kip Kniskern)
• How we connect customers with our latest technology incubations (Anne Cheng)
• Find Your “Worth As a Developer Score” (WDS) – A Self Rating Map for .NET Developers (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Cocoa & Objective-C: Up&Running-$13.99 (Save 50%) Code DDCRN (O’Reilly Media)
• Paint.NET v3.5.7 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• CryoDefense reviewed by WP7 Lab (Tree)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 19, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 18th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• This Week’s Link List (February 18, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #796 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #142 (David Vidmar)
• Week Retrospective 20 – Selling Agile, Scrum Pocket Guide Winners, and #StartupRiot (Peter Saddington)
• WebDev Tweets 18-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily News Digest 02/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices (Best Practices (Microsoft)) by Ed Wilson

Top Links

• Red Gate’s Decision to Commercialize Reflector (Kevin Hazzard)
• Partitioning Your Code Base through .NET Assemblies and Visual Studio projects (Patrick Smacchia)
• Prism for Silverlight/MEF in Easy Samples. Part 1 – Prism Modules (Nick Polyak)
• Introducing Coding4Fun toolkit for Windows Phone 7 – Part 1 and Introducing Coding4Fun toolkit for Windows Phone 7 – Part 2 (Dennis Delimarsky)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Checking for Anagrams with LINQ (Richard Carr)
• Multipurpose Find Combo Box in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Replying to TFS E-Mail Alerts (Ed Blankenship)
• How Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server enable Compliance (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Cecil.Decompiler and F# (Steve Gilham)
• Developing Windows Services in Visual Studio (Peter Ritchie)
• Setting a Breakpoint in the Call Stack Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• New Tekpub Series In The Works: Mastering C# 4.0 With Jon Skeet (Rob Conery)
• Creating a Sparse Matrix in .NET (Jonathan Wood)
• I Did Say I was an OData Newbie (Mike Ormond)
• NBehave v0.5 Released! (Naeem Khedarun)
• MJPEG Decoder (Brian Peek)
• HowTo: deactivate #regions on Interface implementations (Code Inside Team)
• Self-Tracking Entities: Original Values and Update Customization (Jeff Derstadt)
• AlphaFS v1.5 Released (think "The ‘Long Path’ IO support the BCL doesn’t yet have…" or "Don’t ‘W’ [Wide/Unicode API/etc] P/Invoke your Path API’s when AlphaFS has done it already for you…" or "How I learned to love and use Volume Shadow Service paths from .Net") (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Mobl – A New DSL for Creating HTML5 Mobile Applications (Abel Avram)
• Attack of the pseudo-frames (Jimmy Bogard)
• Repost – SP2010 AJAX part 8: Migrating existing apps to jQuery/AJAX (Chris O’Brien)
• Windows Azure for Developers task 2: Adding Cloud Service project to existing ASP.Net Web Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Feature Detect Placeholder to Adjust jQuery Mobile Layout (Elijah Manor)
• Respond to Different Devices With CSS3 Media Queries (Emily Lewis)
• HTML5 Privacy: Transparency in a Complex On-Line World (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Instapaper API Goes Read/Write, But Only For Paying Users (Adam DuVander)
• Summarizing Common Browser Tests (John Hrvatin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban workshop for Leaders/Managers (Dror Helper)
• Agile Beyond Software – Team Development (Peter Saddington)
• My thoughts on Side Scrolling Design (Luke)
• Increase Web Test Reponses Size (Shai Raiten)
• Web Testing with Selenium Sushi: A Practical Guide and Toolset (Michael Sorens)
• Six Steps for Enterprise Architecture as Strategy (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to Disable right click popup menu in a MVVM silverlight 4.0 application. (Vasudevan Kannan)
• What I learned about being a Windows Phone 7 Developer (Dave Isbitski)
• Silverlight Spy – Free Edition (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• MEF Silverlight Control Extensions – at CodePlex (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Enhancing the WPF Screen Capture Program with Window Borders (Pete Brown)
• Introducing FeedTso, a social news reader for Windows Phone 7 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Windows Phone 7 From Around The Web 09.02 (Steven Hodson)
• WP7 CustomInputPrompt control with Cancel button (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 – A DataContractSerializer Bug ? (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• Creating An Application Bar–Don’t Panic (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Joe O’Brien Does Ruby on Windows (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• mvcConf 2011 – Scott Guthrie Keynote (Jon Galloway & Nic Fillingham)
• endpoint.tv – WF4 Workflow Episodes – a Task Based API (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Light up your Silverlight Applications for Windows 7 Firestarter content available for download (Dave Isbitski)
• Visual Studio Live! – Las Vegas (Brian Peek)
• Multiparadigmatic C# (Ted Neward)
• Pinal Dave: Blogger, MVP and now Interviewee (Michael Swart)
• Diversity and Inspiration at Microsoft (Microspotting)
• MVP Summit Taste Test and Venue Tour (Lonnie Webb)
• What developer conferences are you going to this year? (Michael Crump)
• Join us for an Exciting Event! Microsoft SharePoint as a Development Platform in Federal Government (MS PubSec)

Database

• View Object Dependencies in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – IO_COMPLETION – Wait Type – Day 10 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Renaming Physical Database Files (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Appoints Satya Nadella as President of Server and Tools Business (MS PressPass)
• HP webOS 3.0 SDK released to developers (Lee Mathews)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Data Source Handbook – $7.49 (Save 50%) Code DDDHB (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 9 February 2011 – #25 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily News Digest 02/10/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #789 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 9th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Midweek Download: Feb. 9th Edition – Windows Phone 7, Internet Explorer 9 Tries to Break the Sound Barrier, Hotmail and More (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Silverlight Cream for February 09, 2011 — #1044 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Windows® Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition (PRO-Developer) by Mark Russinovich

Top Links

• Prism 4.0 Template Pack Now Available (David Hill)
• New F# ASP.NET MVC 3 Template on Visual Studio Gallery (Daniel Mohl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to Initialize an Entity’s Property in LightSwitch (Dan L. Moyer)
• Entity Framework GetById (Mike Moser)
• Microsoft readying official Kinect SDK for Windows (Sebastian Anthony)

Web Development

• Retrieve the full ASP.NET Form Buffer as a String (Rick Strahl)
• Quick-Start Guide for Google Charts API (Lorna Mitchell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Development and RE-WORK – Look at Test-Driven Development (TDD) (Peter Saddington)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Suite Fixture Setup (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• If I were in a Silverlight focus group, here is ten things I would say. (Michael Crump)
• Adding a New Page to a Multi-Page Silverlight Application (Deborah Kurata)
• Windows Phone 7 Guides for IT Pros (and Developers) (Mike Ormond)
• What makes a WP7 App successful (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 41 – Glenn Block, WCF and HTTP (Richard Banks)

Database

• Tracking Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 31 Days of SSIS – 10 Things About Expressions (16/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – A Funny Cartoon on Index (Pinal Dave)
• SMO doesn’t always raise an error when handling login failures (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

• Powershell Error Handling (Martin Bell)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for January 16, 2011 — #1029 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 01/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #771 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life) by Chad Fowler

Top Links

• Prism 4 Gems: Rendering Heterogeneous Collections with DataTemplateSelector (Brian Noyes)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 – Extensibility Labs and Fluent Validation 2.0 (CodePlex)
• A Look At Fluent APIs (Sacha Barber)
• TWC9: WebMatrix, MVC, Orchard, NuGet Gallery (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing SL#: C# to GLSL Translator (Zor)
• Uber Prof New Features: A better query plan (Oren Eini)
• Google Shortener API For .NET Written In C# (Deepak Kapoor)
• Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 1 (Shai Raiten)
• Tape: Dependency management for .NET (Paul Stovell)
• CLR Version issues with CorBindRuntimeEx (Rick Strahl)
• A tip for using InstallShield and TeamBuild 2010 while living in a x86/x64 world and Writing a MMC Plugin, with MVP and Unity (Greg Duncan)
• Bundle identifier on iOS with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)
• New book: Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, Second Edition (Kim Spilker)
• DXCore Services – TextExpansions and IDE tools terminology/key concepts (Alex Skorkin)
• Help NHibernate to better understand what U want (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Customize the Debugging Windows : Change Debugging Window View as per your requirements (Abhijit Jana)
• Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ (Ade Miller)

Web Development

• Programmatically Changing Session State Behavior in ASP.NET 4.0 and How to pass external values with GridView HyperLinkField which are not part of your Gridview DataSource member ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Semantic HTML5 Page Layout (Modesty Zhang)
• A Comparison of Three jQuery Modal Dialogs for ASP.NET MVC (Rob Regan)
• Sueetie Version 3.0 Now Available (Dave Burke)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Debugging with node-inspector (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Google Releases the High Replication Datastore for App Engine (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Windows Identity Foundation + OATH = Win for Users (Don Burnett)
• The Facebook Windows Azure Cloud Toolkit (Don Burnett)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Two Dimensions of Agile Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• [Updated] Top Agile Tools (Peter Saddington)
• On craftsmanship (Dan North)
• Are you Mocking Me? (Gregory Long)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Sterling Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Database Triggers and Auto-Identity (Jeremy Likness)
• MVVM Project Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Jonathan Cardy)
• Windows Push Notification Server Side Helper Library (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part 1 and Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part 2 (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 Unleashed Session I–Hands on Labs and WP7 Saving to Media Library (Daniel Egan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 101: Kelly Sommers on Mobile Development and User Interface design (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Windows Weekly 191: Angry Ballmer (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 3 – Storage Access (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone 7 Videos (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone Radio 13 is Live! (Brian Seitz)
• YUI Theater — Luke Smith: “YUI 3: Below the Surface” (48 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Let’s Play TDD #77: Buy Versus Build (James Shore)

Community / Events

• CES 2011: Using a browser to demonstrate the power of hardware (Scott Armstrong)
• CodeMash: Day 1: Mostly .NET (for me) (Bill Wagner)
• Silverlight LOB Firestarters NEXT WEEK (NYC 1/18 & NJ 1/19) (Stephen Forte)
• CSLA .NET training in Feb 2011 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Silverlight is hiring – Do you love data controls & LOB? (Steve Lasker)
• Do you want to be an ALM Consultant? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• One Million Developers, Designers on Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)
• 2011 SharePoint Solutions Roadshow–US (Wes Yanaga)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Every Which Way Outputs (15/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL Server Schema Comparison Tool in Visual Studio 2010 (Karthik Anbarasan)
• SQLAuthority News – Best Practices for Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• The PowerShell Survival Guide (Brought to you by the Microsoft TechNet wiki) (Greg Duncan)
• Driver user experience (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Pinworthy: Uncovering the best of Marketplace (Michael Stroh)
• How would you change Windows Phone 7? (Darren Murph)
• When does Windows Phone 7 get its grand opening? (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• This Week’s Link List (January 14, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Link Rollup: New Documentation and Tutorials from Web Platform and Tools (Scott Hanselman)
• January 14th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• Week Retrospective 15 – Ty Pennington and the Agile Methodology Hater (Peter Saddington)
• Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2011 — #1027 and Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2011 — #1028 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s "Hard Code" (Best Practices) by Eric Brechner

Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Improving the In-Memory Database (Rob Tiffany)
• Command Changes in Prism 4 (Brian Noyes)
• Automatic compilation of Linq to SQL queries (Gunnar Liljas)
• Design Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Windows Azure (Bill Zack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Choosing Visual Studio StartUp Projects (Richard Carr)
• Binary Attachments In WCF With MTOM and Visual Studio 2005 2008 2010 Put Curly Braces On Same Line (Deepak Kapoor)
• A Brief Introduction to F# (Mike Ormond)
• Dependency Graph in Visual Studio 2010 – View Assembly Dependencies (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Command / Query service in WCF (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Running Multiple Versions of Visual Studio Side-By-Side and Change the Order of Your Application Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• How The Garbage Collector Can Cause Random Slowness (Edward Elliott)
• How to get domain name from URL (Raghav Khunger)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (XVIII) – Adding Edit Functionality (II) (Rob Ashton)
• ΝUnit Inspired Task Runner (cigwork)
• Simulating projectile motion with the Animation Manager using C++ (Jerry Joyce)
• Creating the Parallax and Scrolling Background (Michael C. Neel)

Web Development

• Writing for the Windows Azure for PHP portal (Maarten Balliauw)
• Short review of "Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework" (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ASP.NET: How to avoid ArgumentNullException in StructureMap controller factory and ASP.NET MVC: Comparing same view on ASP.NET and Razor view engine (Gunnar Peipman)
• jHash: Easily Manage Browser History / window.location.hash (Chris Pietschmann)
• WebSharper 2.0 Beta available (Adam Granicz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Preface" Now Online (James Shore)
• It Starts with Strategy (J.D. Meier)
• [Tool Review] – Project Management with Bacon (ScoutMaster)
• Book Review – The Checklist Manifesto (Steve Jones)
• How to convert Subversion repository to Mercurial (Hg)–it’s easier than you think! (Igal Tabachnik)
• Team Communication: Learning models (Mark Needham)
• Book Review – The Nomadic Developer (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Controlling a Missile Launcher via a Windows Phone 7 device (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
• CHART OF THE DAY: Windows Phone 7 Has The Least Expensive Paid Apps (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG) (Jay Yarow)
• Blend Bits 18–Sample Data (Mike Taulty)
• Capital FM app for Windows Phone 7 (Luke)
• ChevronWP7: an early Christmas present for Windows Phone 7 owners (Steven Hodson)
• Developing Phone 7 apps on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Pieter de Bruin)
• I can see my home screen with Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mark Russinovich: Windows Azure, Cloud Operating Systems and Platform as a Service (Charles Torre)
• YUI Theater — Nate Koechley: “A Taxonomy of Touch” (36 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Demo of Image Optimizer (Mads Kristensen)

Community / Events

• Survey results: Open source developer preferences (Jonathan Wanagel)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU 6 includes small changes to .dtsx files (Jamie Thomson)
• Get the Current Stored Procedure Name in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Challenge – Puzzle – Usage of FAST Hint and SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Challenge – Error While Converting Money to Decimal (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Achitecture – Competitive Differentiation (James Vastbinder)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management Leads the Pack According to Gartner! (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• A first look at Office 365 (damaster)
• How WordPress Saved the Web (Marc Grabanski)
• We Hold These Tweets To Be Self-Evident [COMIC] (Matt Silverman)
• CodePlex supports Windows Live Writer! (Gunnar Peipman)

More Link Collections

• Weekly Link Post 172 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Distributed Weekly 78 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for November 25, 2010 — #999 and Silverlight Cream for November 26, 2010 — #1000 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #738 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting by Aaron Erickson

Top Links

• Exploring resources, a resource programming model, and code-based configuration. (Glenn Block)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices Wiki (Justin Angel)
• A less abrupt progress bar for Windows Phone developers (Jeff Wilcox)
• Jounce Part 7: Validation and Save/Confirm/Cancel Operations (Jeremy Likness)
• Why was I decrying the evils of obfuscation earlier this year? Getting it now ?? Remember I am just a “designer” right ? ? (Don Burnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# in MonoDevelop and cross-platform web sites & screencasts (Tom)
• WCF RIA Services Part 8 – Testing and Debugging (Brian Noyes)
• Windows Phone 7 Apps – Getting from Concept to Customer (Mike Ormond)
• Do you know about the Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework ? (Joe Stagner)
• Top 6 Coding Standards & Guideline Documents For C#/.NET Developers (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• XNA GS 4.0 + F# 2.0 + Xbox 360 = no love (Joh)
• Navigating Property Tabs in the Project Properties (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to fix the Beta bits have expired dialog (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Finalization Uncovered (Maoni Stephens)
• Migrating to FAKE (Mauricio Scheffer)
• Second article published about VSPackage Builder (Gary Horen)
• Connecting to SQL Azure using Entity Framework (EF Team)
• The Annotated Fourth Edition is available (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Adding jQuery Goodness to ASP.NET Web Pages using WebMatrix (Rachel Appel)
• Finding elements using jQuery – Part 1 (Ryan Sukale)
• CSS Quick Tip: Inline Boxes with Bottom Alignment (Thierry Koblentz)
• Facebook: Delivering Read APIs for the New Messages (Dan Hsiao)
• Tailspin Spyworks Ecommerce Application and Tutorial Updated on CodePlex ! (Joe Stagner)
• MapQuest Launches International Bike Routing API on Open Data (Daniel Luxemburg)
• IE9, Vendor Prefixes, and Developers (John Hrvatin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What’s Next for Agile? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Convincer Strategy (J.D. Meier)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Shared Fixture (Giorgio Sironi)
• Retrospectives: My first time facilitating (Mark Needham)
• Some testing lingo (John Guin)
• 13 communication and life tips that children teach us (Garr Reynolds)
• Four Decades of Software Engineering, are Changes Coming? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Interview: Being an Agile Coach (Stefano Ricciardi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Bing Visual Search for Windows Phone Apps (James Clarke)
• Extended WPF Toolkit–Updated ColorPicker control (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows Phone 7 with Expression Blend and Prism 4.0 Released! (Chris Koenig)
• Validation Application Block for Silverlight – open question (Grigori Melnik)
• Windows phones hardware reviews (Jaime Rodriguez)
• WP7 UX Introduction: Part 3 (Jesse Freeman)
• How to make sharing code between .NET and Silverlight (a little) less painful (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Currency Converter For Windows Phone 7 (Sanchal Kunnel)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jon Skeet and Bill Wagner Disagree About C# (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 125: Jeff Blankenburg on Windows Phone 7 Development (David Giard)
• ARCast.TV: Simon Guest on Patterns for Moving to the Cloud (MS Podcasts)
• Rx Update: Async support, IAsyncEnumerable and more with Jeff and Wes (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 97: Jackson Harper on Manos de Mono (Jon Galloway)
• Ping 83: SQL Pass, Kinect Hacked, Windows Phone Updates, Xbox Use (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #48: Transitioning to Production Code (with Roy Osherove) (James Shore)
• DevCamp 2010 Keynote – Rx: Curing your asynchronous programming blues (Bart de Smet)
• The Windows Phone 7 Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) Tech Ed Video (Rob Tiffany)

Community / Events

• Events This Week–November 16th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Silverlight Firestarter Bus – Portland edition (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• See the Future of Silverlight on December 2 (Pete Brown)
• “Unplugged” online talk with me this Friday (Scott Guthrie)
• Oredev – Post conference review (Rob Ashton)
• North Carolina is the first state to adopt Microsoft IT Academy statewide (Siegfried Behrens)
• Open Source and Community-Developed Software (Joel Bennett)

Database

• SQL Server 2011 (SQL11 / Denali) – TSQL Enhancements to the ORDER BY clause (Jacob Sebastian)
• SSIS Denali Resolve References (Knight Devin)
• De-cluttering the SSIS Toolbox (Luke Hayler)
• List all Default Values in a SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – Understanding and Controlling Parallel Query Processing in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on 10 Essential Data-Related Books – 3 Just Released! (O’Reilly Media)
• Managing Report Expressions – A Wish List (William Vaughn)
• Get Drive Space Including Mount Points (David Levy)

SharePoint

• *** NOW AVAILABLE *** Real World SharePoint 2010 {BOOK} (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint Fan Web Part (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Excel and Windows Live Mail (Lonnie Webb)
• Microsoft re-launches Games for Windows Marketplace (Byron Hinson)
• Microsoft Online Services Trial Guide, Part 2. How Partners Can Add Value Using the Managed Trial Guide (Josh Topal)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 170 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Silverlight Cream for November 15, 2010 — #993 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #730 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/16/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life! by Chris Bernard

Top Links

• OData Support for Any and All (Alex James)
• Prism 4.0 – November 2010 (MS Downloads)
• A few quick ASP.NET MVC 3 Installation Notes (Scott Guthrie)
• Verify a List of URLs in C# Asynchronously (Steve Smith)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The F# compiler source release: making it easy to write cool Visual Studio extensions (Brian McNamara)
• A LINQ Style Operator to Combine Sequences (Richard Carr)
• Free EBook Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Bruce Kyle)
• Asynchrony in C# 5 Part Six: Whither async? (Eric Lippert)
• F# Goes Open Source and New Mono Log Profiler (Miguel de Icaza)
• Writing a Compiler in C#: Parsing, Part 3 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Book Review Programming Entity Framework Second Edition (Deepak Kapoor)
• Linked Items in Projects (Zain Naboulsi)
• Moncai – Cloud Computing Platform for .NET (Rinat Abdullin)

Web Development

• Getting ready to move to a jQuery / WCF based AJAX model. (Joe Stagner)
• Using HTML forms to collect user data (Pad Gallagher)
• Javascript prototype property (Ryan Sukale)
• Sueetie Calendar Properties Exposed (Dave Burke)
• Gave up ASP.NET MVC on IIS 5.1/6 (Sam Gentile)
• Web Designers VS. Web Developers: Infographic by Wix.com (Talya Wix)
• Facebook Best Practices Straight From The Source (Romin Irani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Cost vs. Risk In Testing (Derick Bailey)
• Typemock Isolator 6.0.6 is out! (Igal Tabachnik)
• Design Patterns used with Windows Azure App Fabric: The Service Bus (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Article:Book Review: The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management (Shane Hastie)
• Mighty Moose – Smart Continuous Unit Tests for .NET and Mono (Rinat Abdullin)
• Interview with Mary Gorman – Agile Requirements! (ScoutMaster)
• Favor Value Over Quality (Davy Brion)
• Mindjet takes Project Management to Next Level with Project Jetpack (Chance Brown)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Apps That Play Media (Dani Diaz)
• GeoCoordinateWatcher tips part1 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Pet Peeve: How to break the back button experience in Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7: Where to store that application key? NOT in the Application (Nick Randolph)
• WPF DatePicker That Allows KeyBoard Up/Down DatePicking (Sacha Barber)
• 2 of 10 – Make sure your buttons are visible, even when the keyboard is displayed. (Alfred Astort)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Concurrent Programming with Revisions (Charles Torre)
• New DevNugget: Pinned Sites in Internet Explorer 9 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• StartUp Success Podcast Show #88: Jeff Haynie of Appcelerator (Bob Walsh)
• Windows Phone 7 Themed Videos (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Community / Events

• Giveaway: Win Telerik RadControls for Silverlight worth $799 FREE (Kunal Chowdhury)
• John Jackson: from submarines to the Cloud (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Silverlight Firestarter – Future of Silverlight starts now!!! (Michael Sync)

Database

• Generate SQL Server Database From Entity Data Model (Deepak Kapoor)
• Parameters in SSIS in Denali (Jamie Thomson)
• New Uses for NoSQL (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Take a SQL Server Database Offline (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Get All the Information of Database using sys.databases (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• cross web application rollup web part (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Migrating from Communications Server 2007 R2 to Lync Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone 7 supports USB tethering for Samsung Focus/Omnia 7 and LG Optimus 7 (Updated) (damaster)
• How to Get More Plus out of Notepad++ [Coding] (Aaron Martin)
• Check Out PragPub, An Excellent Free Magazine (Davy Brion)
• Snippet manager in PowerGUI Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Adding Value to Ebooks – color figures (Jim Minatel)
• Mr. Ballmer, Please Step Back. Step Away from the Vehicle. (Joel Oleson)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Conversion Optimization $15.99 (Save 43%) Use code DDCVN (O’Reilly Media)
• Kinect Has Now Been Hacked To Run On Mac OS X ! UPDATE: Kinect Can Do Multitouch Too [VIDEO] (Uzair Ghani)
• Firefox 4.0 beta 7 brings faster JavaScript, WebGL, is now feature-complete (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 11/12/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #728 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) by Krzysztof Cwalina

Top Links

• “NASA Be A Martian” application on Windows Phone 7 (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Logical and Physical Architecture (Udi Dahan)
• Windows Phone 7 Gets Unleashed (Agen Schmitz)
• Using RavenDB with ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ceranski)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use Shortcut or Context Menu for “Open Containing Folder” in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Understanding C#: Nullable Types (Andrew Stellman)
• Raven.Munin and Raven MQ – Principles (Oren Eini)
• Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part 3) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Asynchrony in C# 5 Part Five: Too many tasks (Eric Lippert)
• Using PowerShell to tweak PowerShell’s Console using .Net (on which PowerShell is based) (Greg Duncan)
• Image Optimizer (beta) – VS2010 extension (Mads Kristensen)
• Code Contracts (Greg Gum)
• Reorganize the Default Project Templates and Organizing Your Custom Project Templates and Organizing Your Custom Item Templates (Zain Naboulsi)
• Adding Multi-Value properties to untyped providers (Vitek Karas)
• Decoding standard output and standard error when redirecting to a GUI application (Dennis Dietrich)
• Converting DOT graphs to SVG using the rise4fun REST services and Getting QuickGraph using Nuget (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Exploring how the Entity Data Model (EDM) Generates Code and Executes Queries – Entity Framework 4.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Using CSLA 4: CSLA .NET Overview (Rockford Lhotka)
• Hosted workflow service with content correlation and Managing content correlation failures (Rory Primrose)
• New book: Microsoft ADO.NET 4 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

Web Development

• Enable editing of enumerable data in ASP.NET MVC (Daniel Fisher)
• Spark and jQuery Templates learn how to play nice and Don’t just get the Spark View Engine – NuGet it now (Robert Greyling)
• HTML5 Recipes: Circles and Arcs (Romin Irani)
• How to Rotate a video using CSS3 and How to rotate HTML5 Video (Martin Beeby)
• How to solve JavaScript IntelliSense problems in VS2010 (Xinyang Qiu)
• Streaming Live or On-Demand Video from IIS7 to iOS Devices (iPhone/iPad) and Silverlight Clients (Scott Hanselman)
• Configure Secure Socket Layer (SSL) in IIS 7 or IIS 7.5 in Windows 7 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Introduction (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Sammy.js (Mark Nijhof)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• iPhone Development with Unit Testing (Brett Schuchert)
• What Agile Metrics Should We Report? (Dan Puckett)
• Beyond basic TDD (Gojko Adzic)
• The Secret of Confident People (J.D. Meier)
• Distributed Agile: Communication – Reliance on one person (Mark Needham)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Standard Fixture and The Dark Side of Lean (Giorgio Sironi)
• Mockingbird’s Wireframe Tool Now Sings To The Tune Of Real-Time Collaboration (Jason Kincaid)
• Body Language (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• ExpandoObject Explained In Tests (Except For One Mystery) (K. Scott Allen)
• Traditional Estimating and Individual Accountability (Mike Cottmeyer)
• A book Review of Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Stephen Robillard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 “Neurons” App (Justin Angel)
• New Developer Education for WP7 Games Today on App Hub (Team XNA)
• Perst Database for Windows Phone 7: Demo Updated to RTM (Andy Wigley)
• One of many reasons to get your hands on Windows Phone 7 (Bing Team)
• Windows Phone 7 for Flash Developers (Mike Ormond)
• Extended WPF Toolkit–Release 1.2.0 (Brian Lagunas)
• Coding4Fun: Rubik’s Cube for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 using Balder (Einar Ingebrigtsen)
• Going to Market with Windows Phone 7 (Charles Petzold)
• Getting bytes from continuous streams on Windows Phone 7 and Going to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace – getting the app out there and Creating the slider toggle control for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• What is the Extended WPF Toolkit? and Prism 4.0 Drop 10 (Don Burnett)
• Submitting a Windows Phone 7 Application to the Market. (Michael Crump)
• New QuickStart: Silverlight Install and Upgrade Experience (Karl Erickson)
• Promoting your Windows Phone 7 application (Nick Randolph)
• Worm Hole and White Hole Space Effects in Silverlight (Nokola)
• Windows Phone 7: some thoughts and Microsoft Tag arrives on Windows Phone 7 and Your essential Windows Phone 7 apps (Steve Clayton)
• Cache is KING (Rudi Grobler)
• Windows Phone US Availability Brings New Features to Marketplace (Todd Brix)
• "Published to Marketplace." Now What? (Adam Nathan)
• There and Back again “A Tombstoning tale”–The return of the application. (Simon Jackson)
• Disabling the flick gesture on a Pivot Control in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• WP7 Development–Skip the Documentation (Joel Reyes)
• WP7 1st day report: enough phones to go around? (Kip Kniskern)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Jeffrey Palermo on ASP.NET MVC (MS Podcasts)
• .NET Rocks! – Tim Huckaby Live at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Podcast 218 – 11.07.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Office Mobile on Windows Phone 7 (Tina Wood)
• Technology & Friends Episode 124: Jeff Blankenburg on Windows Phone 7 Features (David Giard)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 146 – WebMatrix/Razor Part I – audio (Wally McClure)
• PDC ’10: Student Apps for Windows Phone 7 and Ping 82: Paul’s Secret SQL Project, Kinect Launch, LG Apps, Microsft Atlanta (Laura Foy)
• Windows Weekly 181: Only Kinect (Paul Thurrott)
• Pluralcast 28 : Talking Business and Objectification with Rocky Lhotka (David Starr)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 34 – Oren Eini – Part 1 (Richard Banks)
• Ask the Experts – Evan Lew (Larry Larsen)
• Yet Another Podcast Show #12–Buying My Phone (a 2-minute special) (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – November 8th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Future Of PASS Elections (Joe Webb)
• Create a tech video and win an MSDN Universal subscription (David Giard)
• SQLAuthority News – Why I am Going to Attend PASS Summit Unite 2010 – Seattle (Pinal Dave)
• AgiliTrain announces 1H 2011 Schedule and New Early Bird Pricing! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows Phone 7′s Wonder Woman: KC Lemson (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• A Few Upcoming Windows Phone 7 Related Webcasts (Mike Ormond)

Database

• 11-07-2010 – SetFocus BI/SQL Master’s Program Tip: SSRS 2008/SSRS 2008 R2 OLAP reports and overwriting MDX parameters (Kevin Goff)
• SQL SERVER – Recycle Error Log – Create New Log file without Server Restart (Pinal Dave)
• Upgrading from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 R2 – Fails if default data folder doesn’t exist and SQL Server Denali – Whats new ? and FTP doesn’t work with proxy accounts in SQL Agent – calloc error (Simon Sabin)
• T-SQL INSERT INTO SELECT and SELECT INTO (Richard Carr)
• The CHECK_POLICY and CHECK_EXPIRATION options cannot be turned OFF when MUST_CHANGE is ON (Pradeep Adiga)
• I don’t get the Data and Log File Location Policy. (John Sterrett)
• Converting Deadlock Reports to Graphs (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

• Don’t install SharePoint 2010 October 2010 CU and SharePoint and the MS Cloud Strategy – Are you confused yet? (Joel Oleson)
• SharePoint 2010 October Cumulative Update Issue: Details and Workaround (SharePoint Team)
• Using Silverlight Chart Controls With SharePoint 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Modifying external list forms with infopath 2010 (Brett Lonsdale)
• Writing windows phone apps for SharePoint (Sudheendra Kovalam)

Miscellaneous

• Key Kinect Technology Devised in Cambridge Lab (Ben Rooney)
• Never Underestimate The Power Of A Message (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft opens “App” Store for Microsoft Windows (Don Burnett)
• Interview Questions – Google Style (Greg Duncan)
• “Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials” Think “Windows Home Server Meets the Home Office/Small Business” (Greg Duncan)
• Stack Overflow Homepage Changes (Jeff Atwood)
• My thoughts on certification exams (John V. Petersen)
• The Looming Data Wars (Krishnan Subramanian)
• #Ebook Deal/Day – Cloud Security and Privacy – $14.99 (Save 46%) Code DDCSP (O’Reilly Media)
• Adding a Windows Firewall rule using PowerShell (Tom Hollander)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 7, 2010 and Interesting Finds: November 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #724 and The Morning Brew #725 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 7, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 8, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Involving Software, More Valuable than Facebook, Spreading Your Ideas (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Link Post 169 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2010 — #987 and Silverlight Cream for November 08, 2010 — #988 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Phone 7 U.S. Release Day Review (Richard Hay) – A nice roundup of all the WP7 release day coverage.

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