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Top Links

• Your Suggestions Wanted: Silverlight, WPF, WCF RIA Services, ASP.NET Planning (Pete Brown)
• Redefining the Code Editor (Arian T. Kulp)
• ReSharper PowerToys gone OSS (Hadi Hariri)
• Getting Started with Parallel Programming in .NET 4 (David Lemphers)
• MVC Turbine – Release v2.1 for MVC2 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Suppressing C# Compiler Warnings (Richard Carr)
• Rx Contrib – Release v1.4 (CodePlex)
• Not So Hidden Gems of NHibernate – Formula Discriminators (Tuna Toksoz)
• A guide to .vcxproj and .props file structure (Pavan Adharapurapu)
• Raven and client linq indexes, or: We hate strings, too (Oren Eini)
• Tell me what you don’t like about TFS 2010 (David Starr)
• Feature Builder Power Tool Preview updated for VS2010 RTM – Think “Extension to help build Extensions,” or “Power Tool for Power Tools…” (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio 2010: How to extend the architecture tools (Jennifer Marsman)
• Public courses listed for WCF and WF in .NET 4 (Matt Milner)
• Help Viewer Power Tool Provides Index and Standalone Window (Carole Snyder)
• Just How Fast Is That Code? and Mutating Expressions (Jason Bock)
• Using Visual Studio 2010’s Debugger PIN Feature (Peter Kellner)
• Make the Visual Studio 2010 IDE colors look like Visual Studio 2008 (Scott Hanselman)
• Using a GUID as an EntityKey in Entity Framework 4 (Lee Dumond)
• Musings on the 9-cell grid and its uses in software (Pete Brown)
• How To Change Default Language In Visual Studio (Shai Raiten)
• Ordering and Multi-Column Sorting in the Error List Window and Hide or Show Error List When the Build Finishes with Errors (Zain Naboulsi)
• Consuming An Agatha Service From A Non-Agatha-Aware Client (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Forrester: HTML5 Not Viable For RIAs Yet (Ben Forta)
• Returning JsonResult From ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Controller and Unit Testing (Peter Kellner)
• ASP.NET Page Curls using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• The Aspnet Compiler Build Task in Visual Studio 2010 ASP.Net MVC 2 Projects (Joe Cartano)
• Serving Your Website From a Windows Azure Drive (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Managing Bug Fixes Across Multiple Releases With Git Cherry-Pick (Derick Bailey)
• My Thoughts on Pex (James R. Eggers)
• Component Oriented Design and why it be retired (Oren Eini)
• REST with ACS (J.D. Meier)
• Slides of My Austin Code Camp 2010 Session on Aspect-Oriented Programming in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Deciding On Features For Open Source (Rob Reynolds)
• The Intranet Value (Daniela Panfili)
• Code Contracts Primer – Part 6 Interface Contracts (Derik Whittaker)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Self-Tracking Entities in Silverlight (Jeff Derstadt)
• Silverlight Profiling PowerShell helper. (Jason Jarrett)
• Using Silverlight 4 features to create a Zune-like context menu (Jeff Wilcox)
• WebClient and DeploymentCatalog gotchas in Silverlight OOB (Jeremy Likness)
• Devexpress – WPF Project Wizard (Rob Relyea)
• My Thoughts on the Windows Phone 7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• More on Image Resizing in .NET 4 vs .NET 3.5sp1: Bilinear vs Fant (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ramp Up Web Development with ASP.NET: Programming Web Forms VB.NET (MS Podcasts)
• Skillsmatter Progressive .NET Tutorials May 12-14th 2010 (Mike Hadlow)
• TWC9: Office & SharePoint 2010, Runtime Intelligence, and Windows Phone controls (Dan Fernandez)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 55: What Windows Server AppFabric Means For Developers (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Engadget Podcast 196 – 05.14.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 156: Phoenix Lights (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Cover Episode 11 – Drives and IIS Hostable Worker Core (Ryan Dunn)
• Boagworld 211. Give your users a nudge (Paul Boag)
• Security Talk: Simplified SDL with David Ladd (Larry Larsen)
• Talking Architects with Kim Cameron (Matt Deacon)

Community / Events

• Worldwide Web Camps (Scott Guthrie)
• Nerd Dinner was a hit! (Brad Cunningham)
• Eric Evans’ DDD Immersion Course (Brian Donahue)
• ISV Software Architecture Workshop on 5/20 at Reston (Zhiming Xue)
• A Feed You Should Read #30 – Shai Raiten (Greg Duncan)
• Compiling Tales of Open Space (Steven ‘Doc’ List)

Database

• Inequality joins, Asynchronous transformations and Lookups : SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• Taking BackUp of SQL Server Database on a USB Drive and Group and Count Records in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – List All the DMV and DMF on Server and SQLAuthority News – Storage and SQL Server Capacity Planning and configuration – SharePoint Server 2010 (Pinal Dave)
• MSSQL: Copying data from one database to another (Gunnar Peipman)
• Chris Date on "SQL and Relational Theory – How to Write Accurate SQL Code" (Martin Bell)
• How to get information about all databases without a loop (Naomi)

Miscellaneous

• Office Maven’s Windows Home Server Software Add-in Now Supports Outlook 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Teaching development to kids (Arian T. Kulp)
• Old-school Collaboration Tools That Rock (Dawn Foster)
• Author news: Ed Bott’s deep dive into Office 2010 (Devon Musgrave)
• [Proof of Concept] Windows 7 ThemePack Builder (with three test/sample themepacks for you) (Greg Duncan)
• New Page Tab Powertoy for OneNote 2010 (Jeff Cardon)
• PowerShell V2 IS Available (Jeffrey Snover)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2010 and Interesting Finds: May 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 14-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• alt.msdn – What Media Says on MS Development (MSDN Magazine)
• Weekly Links #105 (Grant Palin)
• Distributed Weekly 50 (Scott Banwart)
• F# Discoveries This Week 05/14/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2010 — #862 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Post… 5/10/2010 through 5/16/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

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SQL Server MVP Deep Dives

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Top Links

• Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager (and the new VS 2010 PowerCommands Extension) (Scott Guthrie)
• Windows Phone Application Life Cycle and Understanding How Microsoft Push Notification Works – Part 2 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Using runtime checking of code contracts in Visual Studio 2010 and Code Contracts: Hiding ContractException (Gunnar Peipman)
• Visual Studio 2010 – Help Viewer Power Tool BETA – Help Index and Standalone Help (Scott Hanselman)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Refactoring a Game (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Gallio and VS2010 code coverage (Andrew Stopford)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A First Look at Unity 2.0 (Dino Esposito)
• Grouping and Summing with Lambda Expressions and Lambda Expressions: Zip and Multi-dimensional Arrays and IEnumerable (Deborah Kurata)
• Setting MaxItemsInObjectGraph for WCF, there has to be a better way (Derik Whittaker)
• Framework 4.0: System.Tuple (Sam Gentile)
• Move to WCF 4.0 for Less Configuration/Code (Scott Seely)
• Set a Complex Breakpoint Condition and Run to Cursor (Zain Naboulsi)
• Microsoft .Net Libraries Not Acting "Open Source" (Keith Dawson)
• Migrating Work Items from one TFS Project to another (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• Query Projections in WCF Data Services (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• An introduction to lambda expressions in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)

Web Development

• Upcoming Script# Release and LIDNUG presentation (Nikhil Kothari)
• Dissecting ASP.NET Routing (Scott Mitchell)
• Storing ASP.NET MVC Controllers & Views in separate assemblies (Dustin Davis)
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Action Results (Jimmy Bogard)
• Create a SlideShow with ASP.NET Panels using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Now you see me… show/hide performance (Josh Powell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 UX Resources for Developers (Chris Love)
• Rhino Mocks: Recursion And Multiple Return Values From Stubs (Derick Bailey)
• Three ways to do pair programming (Dror Helper)
• The perfect agile test management tool (Gojko Adzic)
• The Tendency to Overdesign (Robby Ingebretsen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7PushTweets: Push Tweets to a Windows Phone 7 Device via Push Notifications (Blake Handler)
• The one that got away [Simple workarounds for a visual problem when toggling a ContextMenu MenuItem's IsEnabled property directly] (David Anson)
• Introduction to Sample Data and Smoothly Scrolling a ListBox (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Design-time Resources in Expression Blend 4 RC (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #12 – Getting an Images Source File Name (Mike Snow)
• Calling a Stored Procedure from your WPF app (Margaret Parsons)
• Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (1 – Overview) (Mike Taulty)
• Sample: Windows Phone 7 Panoramic Navigation in Blend (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Cinch news (Sacha Barber)
• Telerik’s new LINQ implementation and MySQL Part II: OData Service and Silverlight App in 30 seconds (Stephen Forte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• STL: Some Underlying Algorithms, Data Structures, and More with Stephan T. Lavavej (Charles Torre)
• Silverlight TV 23: MVP Q&A with Wildermuth, Wahlin, and Bell (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – May 4th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• Document Databases are not Relational (Oren Eini)
• Win a copy of ‘SQL Server MVP Deep Dives’ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Planning your hardware for SQL Server Mirroring (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Get Latest SQL Query for Sessions – DMV (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• BCS Meta Man – Getting Started (Lightning Tools)
• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade and Migration Vendor Selection (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Candidate Generosity (Joseph Smith)
• 8 Types Of Software Consulting Firms – Which One Do You Work For? (Alan Skorkin)
• Introducing Spindex – the Latest Exploration From Microsoft’s Labs (Lili Cheng)
• Microsoft Transitioning from Newsgroups to Forums (Paul Thurrott)
• An Overview of Objective-C – Part 3 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Outlook Connector v. 14.0 released (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

• Train Reading – F#, CCR, etc (Matt Davey)
• Interesting Finds: May 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 05.04.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #593 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman on the Disembodiment of Content, Conversation Economy, Value Proposition Forward (Dave Burke)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 4, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 04, 2010 — #855 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #103 (Grant Palin)

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User Stories Applied

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Top Links

• C# Language Specification 4.0 (MS Downloads)
• An Overview of Objective-C – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Team Hanselman and Diabetes Walk 2010 (Scott Hanselman)
• Thoughts on “Thoughts on TDD”… (Eric Gunnerson)
• patterns & practices Catalog at a Glance (J.D. Meier)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Navigate To (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 Vertical Line Guides (Ben March)
• Requiem to the VS 2003/2005/2008 Database Project (Deborah Kurata)
• Code Contracts fails to find CodeContracts.targets after install and Validating Collections with Code Contracts (Derik Whittaker)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• Spec Explorer 2010, Release 3.2 Now Available! (Robert DuWors)
• Upgrade or Uninstall of Office 2007 might cause VS 2008 Web designer to hang (Alison Lu)
• Parallelism in .NET – Part 17, Think Continuations, not Callbacks (Reed Copsey)
• My Visual Studio 2010 Dark Theme (John Papa)
• Immutable instances with circular references (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Solution Guidance Packager for Visual Studio – Feature Builder Power Tool (Mike Walker)
• Functional C#: An imperative to declarative example (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – New Release and Joins (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Authorize.Net, Silent Posts, and URL Rewriting Don’t Mix (Scott Mitchell)
• Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension (Scott Guthrie)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mantis is an agile, simple bugtracker (Erez Zukerman)
• Code Review Tools and Techniques (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Is It Time For You to Telecommute? (Karen Leland)
• Asserting with JustMock (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Interview: James Bach – The role of the tester (Roy Osherove)
• Lightweight Adaptation – Coming Soon (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Silverlight / WPF

• Everything you need to know about Silverlight 4 (Al Pascual)
• Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 7 Minutes Each (Bruce Kyle)
• Transitions, Animations, and Effects with Blend – Part One (Corrina Barber)
• Developer test case, customer win! [Using ContextMenu to implement SplitButton and MenuButton for Silverlight (or WPF)] (David Anson)
• Tip of the Day #110 – Using Static Resources in Class Libraries (Mike Snow)
• Understanding WPF popups (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Recapping Sunday Night Football powered by Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight and Xml Binding (Mike Taulty)
• XamlPadSample Step 1g-Silverlight support (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• RES Software Lights Up Personal Desktops on Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• Sketchflow in 90 seconds (Laura Foy)
• Jon Takes Five with Louis DeJardin on Spark View Engine (Jon Galloway)
• Anders Hejlsberg Trends and Future Directions in Programming Languages (DevDays 2010 Keynote) and ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninja Black Belt Tips by Scott Hanselman (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• endpoint.tv – Developing Web Services with IIS/AppFabric (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Cavalcade of Camps: New Hampshire Code Camp, June 5th (Jim O’Neil)
• Want to Learn about Windows Azure? Attend an Azure Boot Camp in a City Near You – DC (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Party with a Purpose – MongoDB WAN Party (Sara J. Chipps)
• Monospace: .NET Open Source Social at the Norwegian Developers Conference (Scott Bellware)

Database

• That No SQL Thing: Document Databases – usages and That No SQL Thing: The relational modeling anti pattern in document databases (Oren Eini)
• Powershell Script for Verifying Space (Grant Fritchey)
• A DMV a Day – Day 19 and A DMV a Day – Day 20 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (19/30) TRUNCATE TABLE is non-logged (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Find Max Worker Count using DMV – 32 Bit and 64 Bit (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with SQL Azure Data Sync (Bruce Kyle)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "XP-More" Windows 7 Virtual PC Managment Tool (Blake Handler)
• New Windows Phone 7 details; Live ID integration and OEM restrictions (Benjamin Rubenstein)
• Microsoft launches free Fix it Center (Joseph Mirabella)
• Cloning A VMWare Base VMDK As Pre-Allocated (Michael Nichols)
• Google Cloud Print: The Future of Printing? (Matthew Casperson)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Windows 7: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDW7M (O’Reilly Media)
• Daily Dose – iPhone 4G: Leaked on Purpose? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows PowerShell in Bing Visual Search (June Blender)
• MonoTouch and iPhone OS 4 Update (MonoTouch Team)
• Palm’s browser-based webOS development tool leaves beta (Tim Conneally)
• Sorting Visualization in Small Basic (Vijaye)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #583 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 19, 2010 — #841 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #101 (Grant Palin)

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by Roy Osherove (Author)The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

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Top Links

• Effective exercises for teaching TDD (Gojko Adzic)
• Twitter Goes Anywhere With New API (Adam DuVander)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some introductory Rx samples (Bart de Smet)
• SqlClient Default Protocol Order (Luiz Fernando Santos)
• Design Time Code Generation and Runtime Model-Driven Generation (Rockford Lhotka)
• Close the Current Document Window and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Adding labels to Breakpoints (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Advice for Aspiring ASP.NET Web Developers (Mike Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD & Functional Testing: from collections to scalars (Brian Marick)
• Double Dispatch is a Code Smell (Derek Greer)
• Getting Results the Agile Way: A Word from the Author (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Getting Started with Expression Blend (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Printing Support in Silverlight 4 (Suprotim Agarwal)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 357: We say good bye to Original Xbox support for LIVE and more (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• SharePoint 2010 Summit @ AIIM Expo (SharePoint Team)

Database

• SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Books Online (MS Downloads)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (18/30) FILESTREAM storage, garbage collection, and more (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Find Most Active Database in SQL Server – DMV dm_io_virtual_file_stats (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Sharepoint Planning Guide and SharePoint Foundation Operations (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Import file to change group membership (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Daily Dose – Apple, Google, Intel, IBM Hiring Practices Under Investigation (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Network Warrior – Only $9.99 use code DDNWE (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 19, 2010 – AM Edition (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #582 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 18, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/19/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for April 18, 2010 — #840 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 141 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links of the week #116 (David Vidmar)

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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

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Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Anders Hejlsberg blows our minds! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• And Now We Know……… (Wally McClure)
• JSON Hijacking in ASP.NET MVC 2 (Matt Hinze)
• Video: Expression Encoder 4 sneak peek (James Clarke)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Basic Language Specification 10.0 (MS Downloads)
• My Favorite New Features in Visual Studio 2010 (Scott Mitchell)
• F#: Putting the ‘Fun’ into ‘Functional’ (Rob Knies)
• Free VS2010 Training (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 MSDN Subscriptions installs the trial version? (directions on Activating Visual Studio 2010 Trial) (Charles Sterling)
• Compact Framework: Global Hotkeys (Derick Bailey)
• Thumbnail toolbars in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Caveats about DeploymentCatalog (Glenn Block)
• Help ‘Generate from usage’ help you (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• CodeRush Xpress & CodeRush Ready for Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Miller)
• Track Changes in the Editor and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: How to use Reference Highlighting and Congratulations to Catto for winning today’s $100 ThinkGeek gift certificate! (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio Face-to-Face battle (Tamir Khason)
• C# Permutations (using Rx System.Interactive) (Edmondo Pentangelo)
• Implementing IObservable and extending Observable (Phil Trelford)
• Anonymous Types in C# Are a Crippled Hack (Derick Bailey)

Web Development

• RTM’d today: Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• Azure: Staging and Compute-Hour Metering (David Makogon)
• OData weekly roundup #2 (Alex James)
• Visual Studio 2010 MVC 2 Upgrade Wizard (Joe Cartano)
• Explaining the difference between OData & RDF by way of analogy (Jamie Thomson)
• Daily Dose – Will Google’s VP8 Video Codec Solve HTML5 Video Dilemma? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Google’s Page Speed and invalid HTML (Mads Kristensen)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Aggregation Part 1 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Building an RSS Feed in ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ceranski)
• Running today’s different markup (Marc Silbey)
• Checklist: Discussing an Azure Migration (Simon Ince)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Build processes as architectural health indicators (Simon Brown)
• Why support more? The story of MSTest… (Dror Helper)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Art of Agile Development – Only $9.99 Use code DDAAD (O’Reilly Media)
• Parallel programming Patterns & Practices in C++ (MS Downloads)
• Gallio and VS2010 (Andrew Stopford)
• April 14 Repo Blitz: Free unlimited SVN and GIT, and much more (Andy Singleton)
• Overview of Some Readings on Events (Dru Sellers)
• Doing your first mock with JustMock (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Measuring an Interesting Fact (Patrick Smacchia)
• Quick Thoughts on Eventual Consistency (Greg Young)
• CQRS – Validation and Business Rules (Rinat Abdullin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft Silverlight 4 set to be released April 15 (Brad Sams)
• Facebook Developer Toolkit and Windows Phone 7? Yep, with just dash of code hacking… (Greg Duncan)
• Tip: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” Error in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 (Michael Sync)
• Pivot from Microsoft for Silverlight (Mitch Ruebush)
• Uploading Windows Azure Blobs from Silverlight – Part 3: Handling Big Files by Using the Block APIs (Steve Marx)
• Poll, Don’t Wait for you Silverlight Applications, part II (Louis Salin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio 2010: Undercover Series (Part 1) (jarsenau13)
• Agile 2009 – Olav Massen – Real options (Bob Payne)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #170: Moles: Mocking the Un-Mockable (Derik Whittaker)
• TechDays 2010: XNAsteroids: How to develop the asteroids game in 30 minutes with the XNA framework and TechDays 2010: ORM with ADO.NET Entity Framework in .NET 4.0 (kreekman)
• TechDays 2010 : A day in the life of a Silverlight/WPF Integrator (Liese Jespers)
• Pete at MIX10: Cory Plotts on Snoop for WPF (Pete Brown)
• jQuery for the ASP.NET Developer by Scott Allen (Matthijs Hoekstra)

Community / Events

• First jQuery DC Meetup – What’s New in jQuery UI 1.8 – 4/28/10 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• NBDN Remote Course – Now $2000 Per Attendee (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip (Kevin Hazzard)
• Learn How to Design an Internet Business Solution with SharePoint 2010: Free 2-Day Training for SharePoint Partners (SharePoint Team)

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 14 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – What is Spatial Database? – Developing with SQL Server Spatial and Deep Dive into Spatial Indexing (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tuesday #5: My First Cube (Kalen Delaney)
• A DBA myth a day: (13/30) you cannot run DMVs when in the 80 compat mode (T-SQL Tuesday #005) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Making Your SharePoint 2010 Customizations Visual Upgrade Aware (Jonathan Kern)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Office 2010 Menu to Ribbon Reference Workbooks" (Blake Handler)
• Communicator 2010 Attendee (Beta) (MS Downloads)
• NASA, the Spitzer Space Telescope and your Windows 7 desktop. Like chocolate chocolate chip cookies! (Greg Duncan)
• The iPad isn’t a computer, it’s a distribution channel (Jim Stogdill)
• Apple’s New iPhone SDK Licensing Changes are a Potential Win for Microsoft. (Peter Ritchie)
• Hear In Your Language in Office 2010 (Kate Kelly)
• Why Apple Fears Mono, Java, and Flash (Michael C. Neel)
• Interviewing with code (JP Hamilton)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #579 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• A Few Good Posts on WPF 4 (Ivo Manolov)
• New and Notable 412 (Sam Gentile)

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Pro Entity Framework 4.0

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Top Links

• Dear Apple, Why Do You Continue to Give Me the Big Middle Finger? (Wally McClure)
• Windows Phone 7 UX, Part 1: Usability (Mike Strobel)
• MonoTouch and iPhone OS 4 (MonoTouch Team)
• What key [binding] does what again? The “Visual Studio 2010 Keybinding Cards” for C++, C#, F# and VB (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# April 2010 CTP (MS Downloads)
• CSLA 4 highlights (Rockford Lhotka)
• Finding the location of vsixInstaller.exe programmatically (Roy Osherove)
• XAML IntelliSense – Extension #5 (Sara Ford)
• How To Develop for the Cloud in Visual Studio 2010 (Windows Azure Team)
• Make Selection Uppercase or Lowercase (Zain Naboulsi)
• Binding the DXGrid to an XPO datasource (Oliver Sturm)
• Fix Uninstall Issues with Visual Studio Versions (Peter Bromberg)
• Upgrading Visual Studio Solutions with PowerShell (Matt Milner)

Web Development

• Benefits of GPU-powered HTML5 (Frank Olivier)
• Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Building a TMNT Game with jQuery (Marc Grabanski)
• Using Windows Azure Drive in PHP (or Ruby) (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Platform Developer Creativity (Peter Ritchie)
• Domain-Driven Design Review (Giorgio Sironi)
• The Perils Of Finding Harry Potters Of The Software Development World. (Rajiv Popat)
• Architectural changes, or “How to decide if and when to start over” (Kyle Baley)
• Where we are with acceptance testing and our BDD journey today (Ian Cooper)
• Maybe vs Null Object Patterns (Mark Needham)
• Do you have an Action Plan to Tackle your Technical Debt? (Derik Whittaker)

Silverlight / WPF

• Demos not to miss next week at NAB: 3D video in Silverlight! 1080p H.264 running on a Netbook! (Silverlight Team)
• Uploading Windows Azure Blobs From Silverlight – Part 1: Shared Access Signatures (Steve Marx)
• Using XNA libraries in your Silverlight Windows Phone 7 applications (Tim Heuer)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 8 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Building Facebook Applications (not clients, but hosted in Facebook apps) with Silverlight (Greg Duncan)
• Using commands with ApplicationBarMenuItem and ApplicationBarButton in Windows Phone 7 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlytics: Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework + Windows Azure + Live Labs Pivot (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Tip: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” Error in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 (Michael Sync)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – ASP.NET MVC Contrib with Jeffrey Palermo (Scott Hanselman)
• James Senior: Introducing Web Camps (Charles Torre)
• TWC9 – VB 2010, Collect app usage for free, donut caching, painting with light (Dan Fernandez)
• Introduction to Windows 7 Libraries and Integrating with Shell Libraries, Part 2 and Federated Search (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Cloud Cover Episode 8 – Shared Access Signatures (Ryan Dunn)
• endpoint.tv – AppFabric Dashboard Overview (Ron Jacobs)
• jQuery Podcast 19 – jQuery in Action, 2nd Ed. (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Building Windows Phone 7 Applications with Silverlight and C# 4.0 and beyond by Anders Hejlsberg (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Microsoft Shows Off Finger/Stylus Combo Multitouch Magic (Kyle VanHemert)

Community / Events

• Watch Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4, Silverlight 4 Launch Online (Bruce Kyle)
• Philly .NET Code Camp and Windows Azure (Charles Chen)
• Visual Studio 2010 Launch Details (Don Burnett)
• VS2010 Launch is Monday April 12! (Jason Zander)
• Cameron Skinner Tour: Modeling and architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Making the Most of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Zachariah Young)
• Spring Speaking Rollup 2010: Recent Talks and Upcoming Talks at Microsoft WebCamps (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio Extensibility – Code Camp 2010.1 Presentation (Nick Berardi)
• More Microsoft Women Worth Watching: Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• What Does Elegant Code Mean to Me? (John Sonmez)
• Free training on Microsoft Web Platform in Web Camps (Lawrence Moroney)

Database

• MongoDB experts model the move from a relational database to MongoDB (Andy Oram)
• re: NoSQL, meh (Oren Eini)
• A DMV a Day – Day 10 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (9/30) data file shrink does not affect performance and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (10/30) database mirroring detects failures immediately (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Working with the SharePoint Theming Engine (Kolby Hoover)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Has ‘Ripple’ Effect on Washington State Economy (MS PressPass)
• It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor (Matt McGee/Search Engine Land) (Matt McGee)
• The Digital Video Recorder (DVR) is old news, the IP TV is the new generation. (Al Pascual)
• 20 Ways to Fail Miserably as a Corporate Web Worker (Dawn Foster)
• Mobile Development is like Console Development (Steve Tibbett)
• JavaRa Updates and Removes Old and Redundant Java Versions (The How-To Geek)
• Things to install on a new machine – revisited (Roy Osherove)
• Daily Dose – Intel’s Mind Reader (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Apple Becoming the New Microsoft? (Rob Bazinet)
• Weekend Reading: Microsoft’s Women Worth Watching, Glo, Moodle and Of Course Baseball (Dominic Carr)
• Mercurial: Early thoughts (Mark Needham)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 9, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 09, 2010 — #835 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Getting started with Visual Studio 2010 ALM Features (Charles Sterling)
• New and Notable 411 (Sam Gentile)
• F# Discoveries This Week 04/09/2010 (Rick Minerich)

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ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action

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Top Links

• “Dynamic Prototyping…”: SketchFlow Book Now Available (Christian Schormann)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 7 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Ten Reasons to use the Managed Extensibility Framework (Jeremy Likness)
• Creating Awesome Applications when you’re Clueless (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.10 (CodePlex)
• MSHC Migrate Utility (Robert Chandler)
• VS 2010: Enhanced IntelliSense Matching (Deborah Kurata)
• Use the Cassia .NET Library to Detect Users Connected to Windows Server (Deepak Choudhari)
• How do you know if your users are using a given application and/or feature? Or how often they are using it? Check out the free, included with VS2010, “Dotfuscator Software Services – Community Edition” (Greg Duncan)
• Changing the connection string for typed DataSets (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• OData Visualizer Extension (Gil Fink)
• Using LINQ to represent XML data as an Object containing Master-Detail records (Suprotim Agarwal)

Web Development

• How Twitter’s 1 API Gave Birth to 43 New APIs (Adam DuVander)
• Infinite Scroll WebSites via AutoPagerize – Hacky, but the beginning of something cool (Scott Hanselman)
• NServiceBus and Windows Azure Challenges (Rinat Abdullin)
• New <%: %> Syntax for HTML Encoding Output in ASP.NET 4 (and ASP.NET MVC 2) (Scott Guthrie)
• Ajaxafy your .Net application with JQuery (Greg Galipeau)
• How to Use Windows Azure Drive (Bruce Kyle)
• Multi-Step Processing in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Azure: New Guest OS 1.2 (David Makogon)
• annoy.smarx.com: Letting the Internet Choose My Wallpaper (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• You can learn a lot from a child (redux) (Garr Reynolds)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Beautiful Architecture – Only $9.99 Use code DDBAD (O’Reilly Media)
• There really is computer science (Rockford Lhotka)
• Extreme Programming (XP) at a Glance (J.D. Meier)
• Branching Strategies: Handling Dependencies Between Branches (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• d:DesignInstance in Blend 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 7 : Wrap up (Paul Harrington)
• Your First Silverlight Application (Dave Campbell)
• Step by Step Tutorial : Installing Multi-Touch Simulator for Silverlight Phone 7 (Michael Sync)
• Two New WPF Video Additions (Jay Esguerra)
• New XAML Features That’ll Make Designers Happy (Frank La Vigne)
• Assembly-level initialization at design time (Josh Smith)
• Great SketchFlow Book Available (Jared Bienz)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight and SharePoint 2010: Picture gallery sample using the client object model (Anthony de Bruyn)
• How to Embed PowerShell Within a C# Application (Bruce Kyle)
• MSDN Radio: From Visual Studio to CodePlex (Emily Gibson)
• Typemock’s Birthday Video (Gil Zilberfeld & Friends)
• Samuel McAravey: Using Rx in the Real World (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Jon Takes Five with Javier Lozano on MVC Turbine (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• Live from Philly! Mike "The Samurai" Gannotti & Dux @ ShareFEST on Apr 8, Thu, 7pm – 8pm EDT (Dux Raymond Sy)
• VS2010 Launch Events!! Sign Up Today! (Zain Naboulsi)
• SQLAuthority News – Milestone of 1300th Post and A Few Updates (Pinal Dave)

Database

• That No SQL Thing – Key / Value stores – Operations (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance – Release: SPG2010 Drop 8 (CodePlex)
• Excerpt from upcoming title: Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Devon Musgrave)
• Customizing Ribbon Positioning in SharePoint 2010 Master Pages (Jonathan Kern)

Miscellaneous

• Sync Remember the Milk With Outlook (Simon Mackie)
• What I Do to Prep a Technical Presentation (K. Brian Kelley)
• Partition Wizard Manages and Fixes Your Hard Drive for Free (Kevin Purdy)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 04.05.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for April 06, 2010 — #832 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #574 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 6, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 6-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 04.01 ~ 04.07 (yuanjian)

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Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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Top Links

• Introducing a new type of help for developers (Frank Rice)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Extending jQuery AJAX (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 5 (Rob Eisenberg)
• DevForce Extensibility With MEF InheritedExport (Ward Bell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Zero-Argument Overload of Any (Craig Andera)
• Open A Visual Studio Solution From A Command Prompt Or Batch File (Derick Bailey)
• MSBuild Property Functions (Dan)
• Sqlite & Entity Framework 4 (Dane Morgridge)
• DataSet does not validate XML Schema (XSD) (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• CSLA 4 data portal changes (Rockford Lhotka)
• Understanding the File Tab Channel Drop Down Button (Zain Naboulsi)
• Testing NHibernate mappings (Mike Hadlow)
• Working with WCF: Part Three – Connecting To Your Service With A Client pt. 1 (James Bender)

Web Development

• SharpZipLib and ASP.NET (Charles Chen)
• How to Serialize/Deserialize Complex XML in ASP.Net / C# (Impact Works)
• Pro JavaScript Techniques (Chris Love)
• Setting the Page Editor Options in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Part IV) (Minal Agarwal)
• Ban HTML comments from your pages and views (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Your Certification is Meaningless (James Shore)
• Book Review: Where Have All The Leaders Gone (Andy Warren)
• Working with Legacy code and Working with Legacy code #1 : Draw up a plan. (Andrew Stopford)
• 10 Secrets to Being a Successful Corporate Web Worker (Dawn Foster)
• The Better Adapted You Are, the Less Adaptable You Tend To Be (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows Phone: Frame/Page navigation and transitions using the TransitioningContentControl (Avi Pilosof)
• "I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating" [Tip: For a truly read-only custom DependencyProperty in Silverlight, use a read-only CLR property instead] (David Anson)
• Property change notifications for multithreaded Silverlight applications (Jeff Wilcox)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Bill Buxton on Natural UI and Bill Buxton Explains ‘METRO’ and the whole NATURAL UI CONCEPT.. (Don Burnett)
• MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Introduction to LINQ and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Intro to WCF Data Services and OData and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Getting Started with ADO.NET Entity Framework and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Deeper Look at ADO.NET Entity Framework and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Azure Data Storage Options (Emily Gibson)
• jQuery Podcast 18 – Jeffery Way (Nettuts) (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Cloud Cover Episode 7 – Dallas (Ryan Dunn)
• Spaghetti Code Recaps the MIX Conference (Jeff Brand)
• SSIS Prehistory video (Jamie Thomson)

Community / Events

• The GitHub East Coast Tour (Chris Wanstrath)
• OpenRasta needs an msdn license (Sebastien Lambla)
• Announcing the Tips and Tricks SWAG Fest Beginning April 12th (Zain Naboulsi)
• Headspring’s MVC Boot Camp now covers MVC 2 – April 21, 22, 23 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Free ASP.NET, Ajax, and IIS Web Camps (John Papa)
• Attend Windows Summit 2010: May 25–27 (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• Microsoft pushes back delivery date for its SQL Server data warehouse release (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Writing Tests for a Stored Proc Sure Feels Weird (Bobby Johnson)
• A DMV a Day – Day 3 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (2/30) DBCC CHECKDB causes blocking and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (3/30) instant file initialization can be controlled from within SQL Server (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between GRANT and WITH GRANT (Pinal Dave)
• Getting the physical device name and backup time for a SQL Server database (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Measuring ASP.NET and SharePoint output cache (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Office 2010 File Formats & Protocol Documentation (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Renames their Mobile OS to Just “Windows Phone 7″ (Uzair)
• New Tweetmeme Plugins for Windows Live Writer (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft Office on iPad? Don’t Hold Your Breath (Lauren Indvik)
• Kodu Tutorial #5 Programming UI (Stephen Coy)
• Wolfram Alpha iPhone app drops from $50 to $1.99, gets iPad version (Jay Hathaway)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 02, 2010 — #828 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman on iPad as CD-ROM, Successful Web App Traits, Freemium Flexibility (Dave Burke)

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The Art of SQL

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Top Links

• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Drag and Drop (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Code Comments, What Are They Good For? (Russell Ball)
• EntLib 5 and Unity 2 Beta 2 Downloads (David Hayden)
• S#arp Architecture 1.5 Beta 1 released (Alec Whittington)
• Silverlight 4 PathListBox for Motion Path Animation (Andy Beaulieu)
• Compiled or Bust? (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• GAT/GAX Dev10 RC Available (Bob Brumfield)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part III: Breaking Changes (Chris Burrows)
• MSDTC Woes With NServiceBus And NHibernate (Davy Brion)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• Image Insertion – Extension #2 (Sara Ford)
• Cleaning Up a Folder Structure From Visual Studio Artifacts From the Shell (Simone Chiaretta)
• C++, Java and .NET: Lessons Learned from the Internet Age (Matt Raible)
• Functional C#: Continuation Passing Style (Mark Needham)
• Encoding fun with XmlWriter and StreamWriter (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Do you know the minimum builds to create on any branch? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows 7 Taskbar Features in .NET 4 (Jason De Lorme)

Web Development

• On Building a Data-Driven E-Commerce Site (Chris Sells)
• Got SQL Azure? Then you’ve got OData (OData.org)
• An even better way to run T4MVC: a VS AddIn (David Ebbo)
• The New JavaScript Engine in Internet Explorer 9 (Shanku Niyogi)
• SVG in IE9 Roadmap (Jennifer Yu)
• I spy a Live Framework portal (Jamie Thomson)
• NHibernate, HttpModules, ASP.NET JSON Web Services and Database Transactions (Jason Grundy)
• Getting started with node.js on Windows (Scott Koon)
• An easy way to set up an OData feed from your SQL Azure database (Stephen Forte)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 8: Planning and Agile Friday: "Slack" Now Online (James Shore)
• Essential and accidental complexity (Mark Needham)
• Getting Things Done (Ben Yoder)
• Rhino Mocks Examples, with a fix (Sharon J. Cichelli)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part II and Blend 4: About Path Layout, Sidebar – More About ListBox Than You Ever Wanted To Know (Christian Schormann)
• Synchronous Web Service Calls in Silverlight using JavaScript (Daniel Vaughan)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight (Scott Guthrie)
• 10 Favorite Open Source Fonts You Can Embed in WPF or Silverlight (Robby Ingebretsen)
• GetObject vs StartObject in System.Xaml (Michael Shim)
• Developing a Windows Phone 7 Application that consumes OData (Phani Raj)
• Silverlight 4 RC API listing in one big text file (Nick Kramer)
• Silverlight 4 RC RichTextBox changes (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mix10 Session – 6 Things Every jQuery Developer Must Know (Elijah Manor)
• SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell-Episode 44 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Techfest: NUI Movement (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Author news: An interview with Jeffrey Richter (Devon Musgrave)
• MIX 10 Wrapup (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows Azure Firestarter Event: April 6th, 2010 (Steve Marx)
• Upcoming Webcast: LINQPad: Version 2 and Beyond – Live Event March 23, 2010 (O’Reilly Media)
• Get Ready to Party – SharePoint 2010 Community Launch Party! (Joel Oleson)

Database

• PowerShell: Read Excel to Create Inserts (Buck Woody)
• Kill your temp tables using keyboard shortcuts : SSMS and SSIS Lookup component tuning tips (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions & Answers Needs Your Help (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Stay Interview Instead of Exit Interview (Andy Warren)
• Microsoft Releases Updated Free Panoramic "Image Composite Editor" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Windows XP Mode to no longer require hardware virtualization [Updated: Now with links to the 32/64 update/patch] (Greg Duncan)
• Can Microsoft out Microsoft Apple? (Stephen Forte)
• How to Launch the Recycle Bin from the Start Menu Search Box (The How-To Geek)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #563 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 46 (Kathleen Sanders)

The Geek Shelf

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

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Top Links

• Popfly Game Engine updated to run on Windows Phone 7 Series (Ben Anderson)
• The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript Released (Matthew Podwysocki)
• 36 Best Business Books that Influenced Microsoft Leaders (J.D. Meier)
• Writing a StarCraft Bot in F# (Chris Smith)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Collapse to Definitions with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)
• Working with WCF: Part Two – Your First Host and A Bit About Configuration (James Bender)
• Implementations of Slideshow in C# and Clojure (Craig Andera)
• Architecture Analysis Practices with VS2010 Direct Graphs and Layer Diagrams (Clemens Reijnen)
• Visualizing large code bases with VS2010 (Cameron Skinner)
• New Controls Added to the Community Control Gallery (Jay Esguerra)

Web Development

• Announcing the Border Radius Support plugin (Scott Koon)
• Session and Cache are By Reference (Peter Bromberg)
• Bundler Now Supports Css And .less (Justin Etheredge)
• XmlWriter, encodings and BOM (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Filtering RSS Feed using LINQ and Binding to an ASP.NET GridView (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Remove page flicker in IE8 (Wesley Bakker)
• Now Available: Command-line Tool for PHP to Deploy Applications on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• ASP.NET Forms Authentication to Azure Table Storage (J.D. Meier)
• DisplayAttribute “Prompt” or Watermark in Dynamic Data 4 (Visual Studio 2010 & .Net 4.0) (Steve Naughton)
• Web Client Guidance Nears Completion (Blaine Wastell)
• Update on the open source .NET Data Services Client (OData Team)
• More Standards Documentation Available (John Hrvatin)
• Test drive 104 new Professional-grade tests for web standards (Jason Upton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Anti Patterns Catalog (Leon Gersing)
• Challenge: Learn One New Thing Today (Buck Woody)
• Scrum Gathering Musings (Karl Scotland)
• Working With Assertions Made on Arguments in Rhino Mocks (Chris Missal)
• Application Events: Modeling Selection vs De-Selection as Separate Events? (Derick Bailey)
• Do you know that every user story should have an owner? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Serializing models for RouteValueDictionary and later model binding (Matt Hinze)
• How UX can get anything they want (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part II (Christian Schormann)
• Physics Games in Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight for Symbian Beta available now (Sunshine)
• Let it ring – WriteableBitmapEx for Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
• The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Released at Mix (Michael S. Scherotter)
• WPF : Re-usable MVVM Ready Breadcrumb control (Sacha Barber)
• Confessions of a ListBox groupie [Using IValueConverter to create a grouped list of items simply and flexibly] (David Anson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Agile 2009 – Bob Martin – The software craftsmanship movement (Bob Payne)
• .NET Rocks! – Instrumenting Applications with Runtime Intelligence (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Rhino ETL Video (Oren Eini)
• Ken Schwaber and and Sam Guckenheimer: Professional Scrum Development and Introducing RxJS – Reactive Extensions for JavaScript and Erik Porter and Nathan Heskew: Introducing Orchard (Charles Torre)
• Managing SharePoint Designer 2010 Video (SharePoint Designer Team)
• Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight (John Papa)
• Unit Testing Silverlight & Windows Phone Applications – talk now online (Jeff Wilcox)
• Covariance and Contravariance in .NET 4.0 (Martin Esmann)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #167: Setting Up Basic Mappings w/ Fluent NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• The MIX10 Photo Montage (Me)
• MIX10 Favorites (Joel Cochran)
• MSDN Flash Editorial for March 15th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Designing practical workshops (Gojko Adzic)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Mirroring Configured Without Domain – The server network address TCP://SQLServerName:5023 can not be reached or does not exist (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• MozyHome to branch out and cover Windows Home Server (Ben Palmer)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99! Use code DDQB2 (O’Reilly Media)
• Cloud Computing is a bad metaphor (Scott Berkun)
• WorldWide Telescope Map App released and Windows Live Wave 4 leaked! (Sunshine)
• iPhone 3.2 SDK Beta 5 Now Available for iPad (Taimur Asad)
• Testing the Internet Explorer Platform Preview (IE9) – reviewing the good, the bad and the main letdown (Robert Nyman)
• Microsoft’s preview release plans for IE9 are a good start, but I want more! (Lee Mathews)
• Early Peek at Internet Explorer 9 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Phone 7 Gets Its First Twitter App: Twikini (Greg Kumparak)
• IE9: Microsoft’s new browser gets no respect at all (Ed Bott)
• Your Best Foot Forward: Writing An Effective Technical Cover Letter (Eric Anderson)
• Windows Phone 7 Series’ cutting room floor is an extravaganza of bright colors and chunky fonts (Chris Ziegler)

More Link Collections

• Linkblogging: 2009 Q4 (Pete Seale)
• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #562 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for March 17, 2010 — #814 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition