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Top Links

• Simple ViewModel Locator for MVVM: The Patients Have Left the Asylum (John Papa)
• 5 Steps Toward jQuery Mastery (Dave Ward)
• DZone Refcardz: Getting Started with Silverlight and Expression Blend (Lyndsey Clevesy)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The black arts of custom Type conversion in c# (Doug Rathbone)
• Nasty ABA problem in array-based lock-free stack and Testing the Lock-Free Stack (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Developing Usable (.NET) Components (Jeremy McPeak)
• New debugger extension for .NET, Psscor2, released (Tom)
• Putting a base in the middle (Eric Lippert)
• Using the Miscellaneous Files Project (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 Launches in Less than 2 Weeks (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Implementing Transport Message Security with WCF 4.0 and VS 2010 RC (Mahesh Sabnis)
• ESB Differences Between Java and .NET (Udi Dahan)
• Tips and Tricks: Visual Studio 2010 Image Library (Weston Hutchins)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET/HTML Spell Checker 2.3 is available for Visual Studio 2010 (Mikhail Arkhipov)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why I Write Automated Tests For My Code (Derick Bailey)
• Book Review – Clean Code (Russell Ball)
• Who broke the build? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Using HtmlUnit on .NET for Headless Browser Automation (Steve Sanderson)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Great Blog Post from Singapore: Panoramic Navigation on Windows Phone 7 with No Code! (Christian Schormann)
• A Collection of Resources to Kick-Start Your Expression Blend Design & Development (Me)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Exposing WCF (SOAP\WSDL) Services (Brad Abrams)
• d:DesignInstance in Blend 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• That’s why it’s called the default *value* instead of default *values* [Tip: The default value of a DependencyProperty is shared by all instances of the class that registers it] (David Anson)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 2 (Rob Eisenberg)
• More Weak Help (Sacha Barber)
• Looking for a little help moving from WinForms to WPF? How about a “toolbox-centric” Quick Reference Guide? (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight 4: New parser implementation. New parser features. (Jeff Wilcox)
• New York Times Silverlight Kit Updated for Windows Phone 7 Series and PreEmptive Solutions Runtime Intelligence for the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework (Michael S. Scherotter)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 3, Third Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDMS3 (O’Reilly Media)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• endpoint.tv – Pro Windows Server AppFabric (Ron Jacobs)
• Typemock TV – Sony’s turn (Doron Peretz & Dror Helper)
• Pete at MIX10: Robert Kihm on Aptify RAD (Pete Brown)
• MSDN Interview (Stephen Forte)
• The Verification Corner – Loop Termination (Jonathan de Halleux)
• FXG Import into Expression Blend 4 (Don Burnett)

 

Community / Events

• Geek Dinner with Glenn Block! (Ben Scheirman)
• My trip to Microsoft’s MIX10 Conference (Dave Isbitski)
• Toby Richards talks about MVPS and online community support (Deborah Sorenson)
• Events This Week – March 29th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• NINE Questions with Michelle Juett (Chris G. Williams)
• Scott Guthrie in Glasgow (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The why of writing, or “How to acknowledge your betters” (Kyle Baley)

 

Database

• Open the SQL Server Error Log with PowerShell (Buck Woody)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• NoSQL For The Rest Of Us (Karl Seguin)
• NoSQL is not about object databases (Bertrand Le Roy)
• SQL SERVER – World Shapefile Download and Upload to Database – Spatial Database (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• How to Synchronize Excel 2010 + SharePoint 2010 List with Excel 2007 Add-In (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Business Connectivity Services Search Results Title (Hrayr Diloyan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Wave 4 Essentials to require Vista or Windows 7 (no XP) (Kip Kniskern)
• Small Basic: Optical Illusions (Vijaye)
• The Ultimate Guide To Cloning In Photoshop (Tommy Saylor)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 29, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 30, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.30.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #570 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #98 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for March 29, 2010 — #824 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

 

The Geek Shelf

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

 

 

 

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• In Search of Wild Repository (Mike Hadlow)
• Unit Testing in VB.NET – with TypeMock Isolator (Roy Osherove)
• Hardcoding Considered Harmful – or Is It? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Improving Our Industry: It’s Time to Educate Outward, to Improve Inward (Derick Bailey)
• TDD Using Dependency Injection – Step 1. Refactoring (Andrew Woodward)
• Pex – Automated Whiteboard Testing for .NET (v0.9.40105.0) (MS Research)
• SOA Is Dead? It’s About Time! (Kurt Cagle)
• Getting Started with Automated White Box Testing (and Pex) (Jonathan de Halleux & Nikolai Tillmann)
• Agile in 6 Words (Brian Button)
• Leadership 101: Calm in a Storm (Jim Holmes)
• Bad Apple Behaviors (David Starr)
• The Story of the Lazy-Loading Lunchbox (Dylan Beattie) – Co-Link of the Day

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• How Would the CLR Be Different? (Matthew Podwysocki) – Co-Link of the Day
• Microsoft "Oslo" MGraph – the Next XML? (Lars Corneliussen)
• Fluent NHibernate: Mapping Private and Protected Entities (James Gregory)
• Installing Team Explorer 2008 on Windows 7 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• NHibernate + XML Columns (Joey Beninghove)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Validation Framework – xVal – jQuery Validation Support (David Hayden)
• Writing an Archive Calendar, Part 2 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Managing Static Files & Browser Caching (Joel Ross)
• jQuery 1.3 and the jQuery Foundation (John Resig)
• SSL Certificates and WWW. Prefix on Domain Names (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Resizable WYMEditor with jQuery UI Resizable (Marc Grabanski)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #81 – How to Scale Your Silverlight Control (Mike Snow)

 

.NET Community / Events

• Are YOU Going to the Microsoft Developer Conference? (James Bender)
• Presenting Keynote at MDC in Washington, DC (Stephen Walther) – I’ll be there. DM me on Twitter to track me down.
• Top 20+ jQuery Tweeple to Follow (Elijah Manor)
• Developer Faceoff: Sergio Pereira vs. Angelo Anolin (Max Pool)
• Where in the World Do Stack Overflow Users Come From? (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code Episode 31: Chad Myers and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC (K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon, Jon Galloway)
• .NET Fireside Chats – Joe Duffy on ‘Concurrent Programming on Windows’ (Me) – Q&A with Joe and a free chapter excerpt download from his book!

 

PowerShell

• DateTime Casts Are Language Primitives (Lee Holmes)
• Switching Website Root with PowerShell (Jim Holmes)

 

Database

• Transact SQL e-Learning Collection Now Available (Simon Sabin)

 

Miscellaneous

• Free Themes, Gadgets, Wallpaper for Windows 7 Beta (Lee Matthews)
• Office 14 Revealed: Part 2 – Security and Part 3 – A More Far-Reaching Fluent UI and Part 4 – Improving Desktop TCO (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft (Finally) Updates Live Mesh for Windows 7 Compatibility and Windows 7 Beta Users: Run, Don’t Walk, to Download the MP3 Patch (Paul Thurrott)
• My Favorite Feature in Windows 7 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Select Testers Get Office 14 Alpha Release (Mary Jo Foley)
• How to Telecommute (as If You’re Right in the Office) (Joel Durham Jr.)
• DSLs: Ready for Prime-Time? (Ted Neward)
• Exchange 14 Video (KC Lemson)
• Refcardz — Free Cheat Sheets for Developers (DotNetShoutout)

 

More Link Collections

• Creators Club Communiqué 13 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 — #484 and Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2009 – 2 — #485 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for January 13th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for January 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.01.13~2009.01.14 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #264 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for January 14, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Link Listing – January 13, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)

 

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