Top Links

• Using rake under IronRuby (Joshua Flanagan)
• Take Control of Logging and Tracing in Windows Azure (Mike Kelly)
• Best Practices (Peter Ritchie)
• WP7 Back Button in Games (Andy Beaulieu)
• Visual Studio Language & IDE Resources from TechEd North America 2010 (C#, VB, F#, IronPython, IronRuby) (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Microsoft E3 Xbox 360 Press Conference Details (Richard Hay)

.NET / Visual Studio

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step – Only $9.99 use code MDMVB (O’Reilly Media)
• MongoDB and C# (Craig G. Wilson)
• Querying namespace-based XML data in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The Managed Menu Extension (MME) makes adding right click menus to VS2010 simple and easy (via MEF) (Greg Duncan)
• Why you need to tag your build servers in TFS and Ghost team foundation build controllers (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Road to MonoDevelop 2.4: Navigation (Miguel de Icaza)
• Manipulate Docx with C# without Microsoft Word installed with Open XML SDK (Ric Rodrigues)
• MDA: Callback On Garbage Collected Delegate (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using Conditional Mapping in Entity Framework (Gil Fink)
• Project Euler Problem 1 and 2 in F# (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Using Quick Find (Zain Naboulsi)
• XmlDictionary and Binary Serialization (Scott Seely)
• Hide and seek (Eric Lippert)
• Team Build Service Is Ready But Not Working (Shai Raiten)

Web Development

• Creating Add-Ins for Expression Web 4 (Jonathan Allen)
• Visual Studio 2010 JavaScript Intellisense Behavior (K. Scott Allen)
• Four Twitter Mashups Available as One API (Adam DuVander)
• Custom web faults with System.ServiceModel.Web 3.x (Matt Milner)
• Drupal Cheat Sheet Desktop Wallpaper (Smashing Magazine)
• Rely on Declarative Security Features in the Browser (David Ross)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: TeamRoom (Martin Fowler)
• Work In Process (WIP) Limits, Policies, Etc. (Derick Bailey)
• TDD: Driving from the assertion up (Mark Needham)
• Release Management, Features or Time (John Sonmez)
• From KFC Development to PVC Systems (Karl Scotland)
• Code Like Kudzu! (Jared Richardson)
• Asymmetry and emptiness: lessons from the tearoom (Garr Reynolds)
• Free Stand Up report – the Simplest and Easiest way to manage a distributed team (Andy Singleton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Master-Detail UI in Blend (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Memory Leak Hotfixes for WPF 3.5 SP1 (Jossef Goldberg)
• How to Enable Using the Binding Builder in WPF and Silverlight Applications and Using WPF and Silverlight UserControls (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Tip: Using LINQ to Select the Largest Available Webcam Resolution (Pete Brown)
• Printing Tip – Handling User Initiated Dialogs Exceptions (John Papa)
• CinchV2 is out there (Sacha Barber)
• Display Google Maps Imagery using Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Chris Pietschmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 2010 E3 Xbox 360 Media Briefing (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 115 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Sizemore on TechEd 2010 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Designing in Microsoft Office 2010 (Tina Wood)
• This Week in Silverlight – Teched and Quizes (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Visual Studio Test Professional 2010: The Tool for the Modern Tester (Brian Keller)
• Ping 61: Azure Apps, Windows Live Essentials, E3, Colbert & Bing (Laura Foy)
• Security Talk Series: Using the SDL in Office 2010 (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – June 14th, 2010 and Do You Attend User Groups? Run a User Group? We’d Like to Hear From You! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft Kinect, Xbox 360 “Slim” and More: Early Highlights from E3 (Barb Dybwad)
• Kinect Introduced at E3 (Owen Linderholm)
• New Hires in New York (Joel Spolsky)
• MVPs Todd Klindt, Kyle Rosenthal, and Stuart Celarier discuss TechEd 2010 New Orleans (Joseph Mirabella)
• The Top 10 Developer Mistakes That Won’t Scale (Brent Ozar)

Database

• Introduction to SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Server Management (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Shrinking NDF and MDF Files – Readers’ Opinion (Pinal Dave)
• Maps in Reports! (Grant Fritchey)

Miscellaneous

• Kinect for Xbox 360 Sets the Future in Motion – No Controller Required (MS PressPass)
• Xbox Kinect—beyond playing games (Bill Crounse)
• Kinect and Windows Live Messenger: soon to be bff? (Kip Kniskern)
• Daily Dose – The Winds of Change Blow for the OSI (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Connecting Windows Live Messenger and Xbox Live (Piero Sierra)
• Windows Live Sync Beta Transition Guide (Richard Hay)
• New Xbox 360 Slim Unveiled ! Shipping Today for $299 (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• T-SQL Tuesday #007 – Roundup (Jorge Segarra)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 06/14/2010 – TechEd Edition (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 149 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #621 (Chris Alcock)
• Code Generation 2010, new Xbox 360 launched and Umbraco 4.1 is out (Sara Allison)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed by Chad Carter

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Visual Basic Power Packs 10.0 (MS Downloads)
• Impersonation, WCF, and making updates to a database (Tom)
• Reading IPhone Text Messages using C# and SQLite (Tom Hearn)
• Call PowerShell Cmdlets from C# (Cody Batt)
• Bringing The Heat With Dynamic (Justin Etheredge)
• Open XML Format SDK 2.0 Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2008 – 52 C#/VB Code Snippets to help ease your Open XML coding (Greg Duncan)
• Understanding LINQ and LINQ to SQL (and EF) (Jason Young)

Web Development

• Designating Content Type (Chris Love)
• Google praises Microsoft’s HTML 5 thoughts (Tom Krazit)
• xVal v1.0 Now Available (Steve Sanderson)
• Create a SQL Azure CRUD Application with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• Integrating OpenID in an ASP.NET MVC Application using DotNetOpenAuth (Rick Strahl)
• How to create a three state menu using Photoshop and Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• ASP.NET AJAX Add-ons (FireAtlas & FireCookie) for Firefox’s Firebug (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Who Owns Quality (Alan Page)
• SDL ‘Merged’ Process Template White Paper. (Clemens Reijnen)
• NCover and NUnit Can Play Nicely on x64 (Justin Etheredge)
• TDD: Testing with generic abstract classes (Mark Needham)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 9. (Rajiv Popat)
• Growing developers: Ask for solutions instead of giving them (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day
• The case for two-way mapping in AutoMapper (Jimmy Bogard)
• How A .NET Developer Hacked Out A Rake Task and An Alternate Way To Handle Task Dependencies In Custom Rake Tasks and A Failed Opportunity To Coach, Teach, And Help Others Improve (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Data Binding with WPF: Binding to XML (Me)
• XAML Power Toys v5 Will Be Available Sunday at 7:00pm PST (Karl Shifflett)
• Tell the Debugger to Ignore Silverlight Validation Exceptions (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Mario Cardinal on Layer Module Injection (MS Podcasts)
• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Butler Lampson – Abstraction, Security and Embodiment (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #141: Learning Nant: Creating Token Driving Configuration Files (Derik Whittaker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #68 (Jeff Atwood)
• Pumping Iron: Dynamic Languages on .NET (Martin Esmann)
• Video of the Continuous Integration workshop (Eric Hexter)

Community / Events

• Take the ASP.NET Website Survey (ASP.NET News)
• Author news: Mark Russinovich virtual roundtable on September 24 (Devon Musgrave)
• The CodePlex Foundation: Cautiously Optimistic (Bill Wagner)
• To Take or Not To Take the Nothin’ But .Net Training…That is the Question (Russell Ball)

Database

• PowerShell 101 for the DBA: Querying Your Servers with PowerShell (Josh Jones)
• Interacticely sorting columns in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Joe Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Office Web Applications Tech Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Zune dreams: Microsoft’s refusal to say die (Carmi Levy)
• A Closer Look at Office Web Apps in Windows Live (damaster)
• DreamScreen: HP Beats Apple to the Punch With Sleek Tablet (Ben Parr)
• Batch Converting a Directory Tree of Videos Recursively with Handbrake for Streaming to an Xbox360 (Scott Hanselman) – No need to convert anything if you’re using PlayOn, TVersity or Nero MediaHome.
• Office Web Apps to be offered free to all Windows Live users (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• How To Access And Try Microsoft Office Web Apps Tech Preview (Sunshine)
• Reasons Why .NET Developers Love Their MacBook Pros (Elijah Manor)
• Microsoft’s AD cmdlets available for Win 2003 and later (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Office Web Applications First Look (David Tesar)
• Microsoft delivers a partial preview of its Office Web Apps (Ed Bott)
• These aren’t your father’s regexes (Morgan Kleene)
• Web Sandbox from Live Labs (Jim O’Neil)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #436 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: September 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 17, 2009 — #694 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (9/17/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 17th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)

Book of the Day