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Top Links

• Pair Management (Michael Feathers)
• “Suggested Resources” Visual Studio Plug-In (Tom Hollander)
• SQL SERVER – Attach mdf file without ldf file in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Slim Xbox 360 and Natal bundle to debut at E3? (Vladislav Savov)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Enable or Disable a Breakpoint and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using Hide Selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 Multi-Monitor Support (Richard Carr)
• Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh (MS Downloads)
• Writing basic information to Excel files from a .NET application (Dennis Delimarsky)

Web Development

• Server Driven Paging With WCF Data Services (Phani Raj)
• WCF, REST and URL Rewriting with Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• Twitter’s Many Geo APIs (Adam DuVander)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Small Step Refactoring: Overload Constructor (Mark Needham)
• RavenDB Performance Tweaks (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned from Seth Godin (J.D. Meier)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Events Deserialization (Jérémie Chassaing)
• If Self-Documenting Code is the What, Unit Tests are the Why (John Sonmez)
• Vanilla Scrum and Multi-Team Value Streams (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Elastic Collisions (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• A ?refreshing? Authentication/Authorization experience with Silverlight 4 (David Poll)
• Expression Blend 4 SDK for Windows Phone Streamlines Development (Bruce Kyle)
• Unit Testing Modal Dialogs in MVVM and Silverlight 4 (Slobodan Pavkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 110 – PowerScripting Podcast – Andrew Mason from Microsoft on Server Core (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 10 – James Crisp live at the ALM Conference (Richard Banks)
• WSDAPI – Ralf Beckers about Web Services on Devices for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 (Jan Schenk)
• Major Nelson Show 358: Left4Dead’s The Passing, BioShock 2 MP DLC and Split/Second (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• Road Trip with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell (Al Pascual)
• Coders Go the (Long) Distance for Imagine Cup (Lukas Velush)
• Great Indian Developer Summit Wrap-Up (Stephen Forte)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Books OnLine – available now… (Dukagjin Maloku)
• A DMV a Day – Day 26 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (25/30) fill factor (Paul S. Randal)
• Debugging 64 bit SSIS packages (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Forums in SharePoint 2010 (Lightning Tools)
• SharePoint PowerShell Forum (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Miscellaneous

• The Plug Computer (Mike Ceranski)
• Daily Dose – Android Market Reaches 50k Apps; Development Accelerates (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Word 2010 Navigation Pane and more and Outlook 2010 – My Top 9 features (Daniel Moth)
• Human Computer Interaction, A Portal to the Future (Hui MA)
• Job Hoppers Redux: An Employee’s Perspective (Mark Suster)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/26/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Finds: April 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #587 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 25, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2010 — #847 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 142 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Everyman on Putting Facebook Last, Next Killer Mobile App, Worker or Entrepreneur (Dave Burke)

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IronRuby in Action

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Top Links

• Creating an OData API for StackOverflow including XML and JSON in 30 minutes (Scott Hanselman)
• NoSQL is not about object databases (Bertrand Le Roy)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# async on the server side (Brian McNamara)
• Testing the lock-free stack and Testing the lock-free queue (Julian M. Bucknall)
• 4 Steps to Enable Instrumentation in WCF (Shivprasad Koirala & Anup Hosur)
• No mapping specified for the following EntitySet/AssociationSet (Chris Love)
• Dynamic Casting with .NET (Mike Ceranski)
• Creating Temporary Projects and Track Active Item in Solution Explorer (Zain Naboulsi)
• FavIcons, Internet Zones and Projects from a Trustworthy Source (Scott Hanselman)
• SPUR: A Trace-Based JIT Compiler for CIL (Nikolai Tillman)
• Time Flies Like An Arrow in F# and the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Open Source ERP for .NET (Rinat Abdullin)

Web Development

• Consuming an RSS Feed with ASP.NET MVC (Hattan)
• Reading Code: underscore.js (Mark Needham)
• Javascript Tetris part III – an update (Mendelt Siebenga)
• Html Encoded Code Expressions in ASP.NET 4 (David Hayden)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual, Second Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDCWS (O’Reilly Media)
• Building a Rails Server (Rod Paddock)
• .NET 4 Web Application Startup Time (Scott Hanselman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Solving The Towers Of Hanoi Mathematically And Programmatically – The Value Of Recursion (Alan Skorkin)
• How to Build a Large Agile Organization (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Test Manager 2010 Test Plans (Clemens Reijnen)
• Programmer Tip: Wearing What Make Your Comfortable And Happy. (Rajiv Popat)
• Functional Dependency Injection == Currying (Mike Hadlow)
• Windows Azure Design Patterns (Bill Zack)

Silverlight / WPF

• Exploring Design-Time Data in Blend 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• Windows Phone 7 Series development: reading RSS feeds (Gunnar Peipman)
• Silverlight 4, Blend 4, MVVM, Binding, DependencyObject (Mike Taulty)
• My First WP7 Application (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Weather Application for Windows Phone 7 (Shoban Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• PAX East Panel: Enforcement on Xbox LIVE: Tales from the Din Part 2 (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 189 – 03.27.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows 7 How-To Videos: Introduction to the Windows 7 Taskbar and Windows 7 How-To Videos: Windows 7 Taskbar (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 7 – Rob Farley on SQL 2008 R2 and more (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Come and join me for an Rx talk at VISUG on April 6th in Zaventem, Belgium (Bart de Smet)
• Try Azure, Win a Laptop (Thru Wednesday) (Jim O’Neil)
• Free Open Space Conferences (Steven ‘Doc’ List)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Extended Events – Finding Long Running Queries (Pinal Dave)
• That No SQL Thing – Key/Value stores (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• 5 Key Steps to Managing SharePoint Users (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Some new concepts in Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 (damaster)
• posh-git Release v0.1 (Keith Dahlby)
• To Get Certified or Not Get Certified (Glenn Berry)
• My Top Ten Lessons In Life (Ali Hale)
• Wave 4 Essentials to require Vista or Windows 7 (no XP) (Kip Kniskern)
• Yoga Natal game appears on GAME retailer’s Xbox 360 release schedule (update: Amazon UK too!) (Vladislav Savov)
• How I use Twitter in my Job at Microsoft (Pete Brown)

More Link Collections

• Windows Phone: Silverlight for Casual Games (Andy Beaulieu)
• Interesting Finds: March 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #569 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #113 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2010 — #823 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.22 ~ 03.28 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #98 (Grant Palin)
• Links (3/28/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 138 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/29/2010 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition (2nd Edition) (Effective Software Development Series)

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Top Links

• The jQuery Templating Plugin and Why You Should Be Excited! (Chris Love)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 1 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Beta Version of SCSF for VS2010 available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Knights, Knaves, Protected and Internal (Eric Lippert)
• Unit Test the Behavior, Not the Implementation (Karl Seguin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding a set of Nodes in an XML String and XML Literals: Handling Empty Elements (Deborah Kurata)
• Automatically generating states with VS2010 UML tools and T4 (Manuel Naujoks)
• Visual Studio Tip of the Day Start Page – Extension #3 (Sara Ford)
• FluentPath now on CodePlex (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Tips and Tricks: Apply (or Don’t Apply) Cut or Copy commands to blank lines (Brittany Behrens)
• Hide or Show the Solution File in Solution Explorer (Zain Naboulsi)
• Interview question (Kirill Osenkov)

Web Development

• “Demystifying The Cloud – An Introduction to Cloud Computing” free ebook which includes the three popular services, Amazon, Google and Azure (Greg Duncan)
• Tip#102: Did you know… How to specify tag specific formatting (Deepak Verma)
• Google APIs Get Faster Thanks to Smart Optimizations (Matthew Casperson)
• Presenting IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 (Lawrence Moroney)
• Building A Custom ActionResult in MVC 2 To Download Excel Files (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET AJAX Modal Popup on Mouse Over (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 9: Developing and Agile Friday: "Test-Driven Development" Now Online (James Shore)
• Law Of Demeter: Extension Methods Don’t Count and Red/Green/Refactor, For The Right Reasons (Derick Bailey)
• In TDD Red is not ‘does not compile’ (Ian Cooper)
• Filing a Great Bug (Matt Gradwohl)
• Ninja Level Productivity Tip: Evading an Unwanted Meeting in 3 Easy Steps (Russell Ball)
• Pipes and Filters Pattern in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Two Week Tetris Applying Otazo’s Truths to Managing Development (Tucker Croft)
• Finding the assumptions in stories (Mark Needham)
• Klocwork Beefs Up Security in Agile Source Analysis (Mitch Pronschinske)

Silverlight / WPF

• RIA Services and Validation (Nikhil Kothari)
• Windows Phone 7 + Silverlight Performance (Andy Beaulieu)
• Prism Template Pack for Visual Studio 2010 (David Hill)
• The platform giveth power, don’t taketh it away [Tip: Do not assign DependencyProperty values in a constructor; it prevents users from overriding them] (David Anson)
• Data binding user settings in Windows Phone applications (Jeff Wilcox)
• Installing Silverlight applications without the browser involved (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TypeMock Video: The Goals of Unit Testing (TypeMock)
• Research Perspectives on JavaScript with Erik Meijer, Ben Livshits and Ben Zorn (Charles Torre)
• XAML, Expression Blend and the Future of Multi-Touch Technology (Eric Hagan)
• The Thirsty Developer 89: McNuggets Go Tribal (Dave Bost)
• This Week In Silverlight 3.25.2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Silverlight TV 18: WCF RIA Services Validation (John Papa)
• Windows Phone 7 Series Shazam App: MIX 2010 Keynote (Laura Foy)
• Package and Re-use a SharePoint List (Laura Harring)

Community / Events

• Goodbye Intel, Joining Microsoft as an Architect Evangelist (Doug Holland)
• Project Natal ‘experience’ to premiere at E3 on June 13th (Paul Miller)
• Daily Dose – De Icaza Interview About .Net Taken Down (Mitch Pronschinske)
• There’s Still Time to Participate in This Year’s Imagine Cup (Anthony Salcito)
• Be a Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” (John Wiese)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Improves Developer, User Experience (Bruce Kyle)
• SQL SERVER – Generate Report for Index Physical Statistics – SSMS (Pinal Dave)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 5: network optimization again) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Exam 70-541 – TS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Labs "Canvas for OneNote" Updated for Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Review: The Nomadic Developer (Me)
• New Stuff Coming From Bing This Spring (Todd Schwartz)
• Process Explorer (yes, that Process Explorer) v12 Released and Development/Test Environments, Windows Activation and You (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 7 Series theme coming soon to Windows 7 thanks to Rainmeter (Imran Hussain)
• What Makes A Great Cover Letter, According To Companies? (Kat Neville)
• Microsoft Semantic Search (Trevor Dwyer)
• Windows 8: The SKUs are Here to Stay (Stephen Chapman)
• Sharing 2.0 (Piero Sierra)
• Windows Live™ ID Support, Download Page Ads, and Other Changes (Matt Hawley)
• David Pogue’s Windows 7: The Missing Manual Is Here! – Ingenious Tips and Tricks, Disarming Humor (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 25-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: March 25, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #568 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2010 — #820 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 47 (Kathleen Sanders)

The Geek Shelf

Programming WPF

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Top Links

• Favor – Help Us Test .NET 4 Beta 2 on Windows Update (WU) (Scott Hanselman)
• The Illusion of Performance (John Stockton)
• Introducing the Portable Extensible Metadata (Irinel Crivat)
• Visual Studio 2010 Ranger News (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit updated (Pieter de Bruin)
• Creating Ribbon Applications on Windows 7 (Zhiming Xue)
• Visual Studio Myth Buster (Innovation Showcase)
• The Project Location is not Trusted (Dave M. Bush)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 3. How to resolve arrays (Mike Hadlow)
• Searching and Navigating Code in Visual Studio 2010 (Brittany Behrens)
• The RDLc Disconnect – they’ve done it again (William Vaughn)
• Pasting a single selection into a box selection and Zero-length box selection (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• IE8 Accelerator Creation Guide (Innovation Showcase)
• SEO Tips for Developers : Page Speed (Chris Missal)
• Of Web Browsers and Humanity (K. Scott Allen)
• Awesomium v1.5 (Chris Cavanagh)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 5 – Nginx (Karl Seguin)
• Search Engine Optimization got a lot easier (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mocks, the removal of test detail, and dynamically-typed languages (Brian Marick)
• Know Your Product Specifications (Buck Woody)
• Designing the Entity Framework 2nd level cache (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned from Tony Robbins and 10 Ways to Improve How You Manage Information (JD Meier)
• Separating Passion & Common Sense from Bad Decisions (Dave Schinkel)
• I. M. Wright: “One to one and many to many” (Eric Brechner)
• All about the “M” (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to create great work environments (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 – How to Capture Audio and Video from a Web Cam (Innovation Showcase)
• Free Developer Training for WPF 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• Silverlight, Bing Maps, Vectors and “Did I blog this or did I just dream it?” (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight: Tooltip for each ListBox item (Steve Pietrek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ivar Jacobson on the Unified Process (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Community Megaphone Podcast – Show #1 with guest Kevin Griffin (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• SilverlightShow Eco Contest – win a trip to MIX10 (Adam Kinney)
• The Software Craftsman Cooperative (David Starr)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 1/27/2010 – Clojure (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Announcing the Microsoft Azure Application Development contest for U.S. state and local government partners! (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Looking back at 2009, and looking forward at 2010 (Simone Chiaretta)

Database

• Find Out What Percent Of The Log Is Being Used For Each Database In SQL Server 2005 and 2008 and Interview with Brent Ozar about the book Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Find Busiest Database (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• How To Install SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (Standalone) on VMWare (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint 2010 List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 published (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• How to not suck at a techincal interview (Brad Cunningham)
• Where is Rename-Computer? (Lee Holmes)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Apprenticeship Patterns — Only $9.99! Use discount code AP999 (O’Reilly Media)
• Intellisense in MobileShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• ZScreen is now a more kick-ass screenshot tool, especially on Windows 7 (Lee Mathews)
• The science behind Project Natal (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #517 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2010 — #777 (Dave Campbell)
• F# Discoveries This Week 01/13/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• What You Wanted to Know: Top “How to” Posts of 2009 (Silverlight Team)

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

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Top Links

• Microsoft Confirms Xbox Natal To Ship "Holiday 2010" (Kat Hannaford)
• NBDN Remote Pilot/Beta – February 8-12 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• TDD: 4 questions that will help you create the simplest thing that could possibly work (Roy Osherove)
• Silverlight HVP Proof Of Concept Released! (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

• jQuery and ASP.NET UpdatePanel (Dave M. Bush)
• Bob Dylan Meets HTML5 (Molly E. Holzschlag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to effectively define a sufficient set of BDD scenarios/Acceptance tests? (Gojko Adzic)
• Event Driven Architecture: Publishing Events using an IOC container (Jarod Ferguson)
• 3 Ways to Know Something (JD Meier)
• How Dovetail uses StructureMap with NHibernate (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Architecture Journal 22: Taking BI Beyond the Business Analyst (Mike Walker)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms (Fredrik Normen)
• Silverlight and styles (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Silverlight 4 OOB: Please remove the My-Folders restriction. It doesn’t work anyways. (Ingo Rammer)
• The ultimate hack for Silverlight in Blend (Josh Smith)
• Fonts and Silverlight (Koen Zwikstra)
• iMeta Agility & Silverlight (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SQL Azure Lessons Learned: Telerik (Ben Riga)
• Mike Ziock: Microsoft Online Services Operations (Charles Torre)
• ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Framework Fundamentals and Practices and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: ASP.NET MVC and AJAX and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Rendering Markup and Working with Data and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Routing and Controllers (Emily Gibson)
• The Access Show: Access Developer contest – win an Xbox 360, Zune, or Windows 7 (Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• 2009 highlights and plans for 2010 – part 2 (Simon Brown)
• Blend and design-focused MIX10 Open Call Entries (Adam Kinney)

Database

• MERGE and OUTPUT – the swiss army knife of T-SQL (Jamie Thomson)
• How to obtain RecordCount (or Number of cases) from a DMX query (Steve Simon)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Content Type Publishing Setup (Charles Chen)
• Sharepoint and MbUnit (Andrew Stopford)
• SharePoint Visual Studio 2010 extensions on CodePlex SPVSX (Paul Andrew)
• Editing .cmp files to fix lookup field issues (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Leveraging WMI to Monitor Your Enterprise (Mike Ceranski)
• Video Review: Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Card for Digital Cameras and Your Life’s Workflow (Scott Hanselman)
• Why do big companies suck? (Scott Berkun)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #511 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 6-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing Interfaces with xUnit Theories (Ade Miller)
• The Seven Pillars of an Agile Team: Introduction and One pillar of an Agile team: product sense (version 1) (Brian Marick)
• Hope is Not a Risk Management Strategy (Cory Foy – via Scott Koon)
• Should you learn frameworks or principles (Ian Cooper)
• Remember to delete your MSTest TestResults on your build server (Derik Whittaker)
• Design Patterns and Dependency Injection (Elijah Manor)
• Coding: Keep method/variable names positive (Mark Needham)
• Simplest versus first thing that could possibly work (Jimmy Bogard)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 7 (Rajiv Popat)
• Nine Women, One Month (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Integrating a custom test runner with TeamCity (Joshua Flanagan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate – query only properties (Oren Eini)
• Where’s the 64-bit version of Visual Studio 2010? (Brian Keller)
• Very simple IronRuby MVC sample application (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Dotfuscator in Visual Studio 2010 (Charlie Calvert)
• POCO in the Entity Framework : Part 3 – Change Tracking with POCO (Faisal Mohamood)
• D3: Release 0.0010 (Dan Simmons)
• The Most Powerful Development Tool Ever Made (Justin Etheredge)
• Code Only (Alex James)
• How to view the return value of a C# or VB method in the VS Debugger and An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part III) (Habib Heydarian)
• NHibernate : Some Naked Thoughts (Karl Seguin) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• Getting Started with Heroku on Windows (Ben Scheirman)
• Sending an XML document object to PHP with jQuery (Brian Reindel)
• Opinionated Input Builders for ASP.Net MVC – Part 3 the source code. and Part 4 the Partial View Inputs and Part 5 the Required input (Eric Hexter)
• SubSonic 3.0: The SimpleRepository and SubSonic 3.0: ActiveRecord (Rob Conery)
• The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (Jeff Moser)
• Afternoon of ASP.NET MVC [16 June] (free Headspring event) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Building JavaScript / HTML based Applications using Adobe Air for FREE (Chris Pietschmann)
• Programming SEO – RSS (Dave M. Bush)
• IIS SEO Toolkit: Sitemaps overview (illustrated) (Gunnar Peipman)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight toolkit with ADO.NET Data services , Drill-down Charts using Astoria (Phani Raj)
• Launching views using Jump Lists (Rudi Grobler)
• Blend and Visual Studio – Why Two Tools? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• WPF Sample Series – ListBox Grouping, Sorting, Subtotals and Collapsible Regions (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Attached Properties: Binding.UpdateSourceTrigger.PropertyChanged (Michael Sync)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Framework++: Moving Forward and Staying Compatible with the Past and Jimmy Schementi: Inside IronRuby (Charles Torre)
• MVP dnrTV Episode 140 features me… (William Vaughn)
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video series is complete (Rockford Lhotka)
• Podcast #57 (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code 49: Search with Bing and Wolfram Alpha (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• The MSDN Northeast Roadshow: It’s What’s For Dinner (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Firestarter Deck and Links (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Results – Community Radio Narration Contest (Steve Andrews)
• Introducing NETOOP (The .NET Object Oriented Portal) (Joe Stagner)

Database

• System Objects in TEMPDB (Gert Drapers)
• Local Data Cache – Client Must Reinitialize Database (William Vaughn)
• Avoid Conversions In Execution Plans By Using sp_executesql Instead of Exec (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Elegant WSS Site collection backup script (Sean Wallbridge)

Miscellaneous

• Bing and your browser (Debapriya Ray, Beatrice Oltean, Alessandro Catorcini & Bill Pardi)
• Aviary launches Firefox plugin for image editing, audio editor coming soon (Brad Linder)
• Project Natal in Use (Frank La Vigne)
• New Google Toolbar wants to be your next ‘Start’ button (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Preparing your online profile for employers (Meghan Peters)
• An Overview of Wrox Series (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Microsoft will soon unveil free virus software (Paul Thurrott)
• Weekly Release: WebORB Integration and More (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• How To Maintain Your Technical Skills (Michael Ceranski)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 10, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #366 (Chris Alcock)
• Links (6/10/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 330 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 10th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 10th June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# BootCamp – Questions and Answers – part I – Introduction (Steffen Forkmann)
• Using Reflection in C# to Figure Out if an Integer List Has Values (Peter Kellner)
• NHibernate Mapping – <list/> (Oren Eini)
• DDD and the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Evgeny Salamatov)
• LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0 (Damien Guard)
• Create a Generic List at Run Time and Quickly Find All "TODO’s" in Your .NET Project (Srinath M.)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – TeamCity Integration Coming (Rob Reynolds)
• Review: CryptoLicensing for .NET (Roy Osherove)
• NCover v3.1.2 released! (Stephen Ward)
• Analyze and explore the evolution of .NET Framework by yourself (Patrick Smacchia)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: 1.8.0.2 Beta (CodePlex)

Web Development

• JSMag June 2009 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Creating Rails Like Flash Feature in .NET The Flash Control (Mohammad Azam)
• Control TextBox’s AutoComplete Action (Chris Love)
• Sueetie Content Parts and List View Controls, Oh My (Dave Burke)
• Free ASP.NET 4.0 beta hosting available (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML Editor FieldTemplate for Dynamic Data Using AJAX Control Toolkit Editor (Stephen Naughton)
• How to Use Microsoft.Web.Administration : Using Scripts to Automate Management : Managing and Maintaining IIS 7.0 : The Official Microsoft IIS Site (Stuart Manning)
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Scott Guthrie)
• GridView Selection and Postback using jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• clientscript as the view controller (Jay Kimble)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BOOK: Agile Testing and Sensing and Sense-making in the Agility Cycle (Brad Appleton)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Utils Class (Chris Missal)
• Bricks and Mortar: Building a Castle (James Kovacs)
• Simple Nested Closure (Matt Hinze)
• What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
• Yes, I’m going to finish "Build Your Own CAB" (sorta) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Refactoring guard clauses, or “How to ask politely” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Telerik Releases RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta (Ina Tontcheva)
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• XAML: Using Generic Types in XAML 2009 and Empty string in XAML (Rob Relyea)
• Ocean for Silverlight – Enables Sharing Business Objects With WPF (Karl Shifflett) – Link of the Day
• Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework (Jeff Wilcox)
• Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 1: Animation to Catch the Eye (Jennifer Marsman)
• Sync Multi Select Listbox with ViewModel (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht : CLR 4 – Inside the Thread Pool (Charles Torre)
• Windows 7 RC2 Build 7224 Videos (Stephen Chapman)
• Netcast #11 – The Two Silos (Todd O. Klindt)
• Ping 14: Bing, VPlay, Zune HD, Celebrifeed, Mediaroom (Laura Foy)
• Show: Episode 2 It’s All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Microsoft’s Project Natal demo video has us jumping with anticipation (Nilay Patel)

Community / Events

• 2009 E3 Xbox.com Press Kit (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Shane Young! (Amanda Murphy)
• SharePoint Conference Washington DC (Bob Mixon)
• Foundation Series, Session 4, Wed June 10th (Brian Donahue)
• 2009 E3 Xbox Media Briefing (Larry Hryb)
• SQLAuthority News – Summary of TechEd India 2009 – A Grand Event (Pinal Dave)
• God Bless Xbox: Microsoft’s E3 News Roundup [Roundup] (Matt Buchanan)
• Breaking News: Atlassian Acquires GreenHopper (Max Pool)
• LosTechies welcomes Sharon Cichelli "Girl Writes Code" (Joe Ocampo)
• Free Virtual Expo on SharePoint – June 10 (Joel Oleson)

SharePoint

• Reading Digital Signatures from InfoPath Forms in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Workflow (Tom Hearn)
• SharePoint: Some users doesn’t receive alerts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Tip: Don’t use "&" in instance.xml when creating a WSP (S.S. Ahmed)

Database

• How to execute multiple SQL scripts (Martin Bell)
• Log Shipping for DR and failing back in case of disaster. The cheap way! (Ted Krueger)
• Microsoft Reporting Services (Sub Reports, Charts, Parameters, Expression Editor, etc) (Jorge Paulino)

Miscellaneous

• New details emerge about Microsoft Exchange & Outlook Mobile (PhoneArena Team)
• Google to sell eBooks by year’s end and Rumor: Google bringing the BBC iPlayer to the US? and Microsoft’s Bing 411 offers phone numbers, directions over the phone (Brad Linder)
• Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate? and Bing Search Bars are now everywhere! (damaster)
• Microsoft "Project Natal" invents a better Wii (Joel Johnson)
• Web v.Next (John Stockton)
• Bing Goes Live—Here’s What You Can Do With It (Kevin Purdy)
• Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads (Kevin Purdy)
• Oh dear, there IS a Club Bing (Kip Kniskern)
• The Rotting Stink of Corporate IT (Sara J. Chipps)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 1 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Project Natal is going to change the games forever! (Taimur Asad)
• Gmail Notifier Plus Adds Email Alerts to the Windows 7 Taskbar (The How-To Geek)
• Acer launching world’s first Android-based netbook in Q3 (Thomas Ricker)
• Make Bing your default search provider in IE (Paul Thurrott)
• The Ultimate USB *Key* Drive » Lacie iamaKey 8GB (Matt Walker)
• Adobe releases trio of Labs goodies for designers, developers (Lee Mathews)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 8: Deliver with Confidence and Style (Justin Etheredge)
• Google Docs gets x’ier with .docx and .xlsx support (Josh Lowensohn)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #359 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2009 — #605 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 325 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 1st (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 1st June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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