Top Links

• Mole 2010 Released (Karl Shifflett)
• Productivity Power Tools introduces Find, Organize Imports for VB, Enhanced Scrollbar, Middle-Click Scrolling and more! (Sean Laberee)
• Flatten your architecture: Simplicity as a core value (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone Shake Gestures Library (Yochay Kiriaty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Open XML 2.0 Code Snippets for VS2010 (and VS2008 too) (Greg Duncan)
• IronPython 2.7 Release Candidate 1 (CodePlex)
• Attach to Process – Macro for Visual Studio 2010 (Ingo Rammer)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 RTM Virtual Machines (Zain Naboulsi)
• Different approaches to Casting and Use “Shift+Enter” to add “;” automatically at end of the line (Abhijit Jana)
• Five Windows 7 taskbar features available to developers (Brian Bondy)
• How could I work without resharper (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Windows 7 Taskbar Integration for MFC Applications (John Bristowe)
• Oracle Releases Beta of Entity Framework Provider (EF Team)
• FileSystemHelper Update and Release (Jason Strate)
• Free Alternatives to Reflector (Kevin Hazzard)

Web Development

• Using ASP.NET, Membership, and jQuery to Determine Username Availability (Scott Mitchell)
• How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development (Christina Warren)
• Recommended Book: HTML5 And CSS3: Develop With Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Davy Brion)
• ASP.NET Security Videos & Tutorials (29) (Joe Stagner)
• HTML5 and JavaScript tools: What could (and should) Microsoft do? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Custom Data Annotation Validator Part II: Client Code (K. Scott Allen)
• A jQuery Plug-in to monitor Html Element CSS Changes (Rick Strahl)
• Styling ASP.NET GridView using jQuery Theme Switcher Widget (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How much traffic does your website create with each request? Use IISExpress 7.5 to find out. (John V. Petersen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: In-Line Teardown (Giorgio Sironi)
• Versioning strategies for the sane (Jimmy Bogard)
• Espoused theory, theory in action & hypocrisy and Pair Programming: “What are you trying to learn?” (Mark Needham)
• How You Should Align Your Form Buttons (Anthony)
• Windows Azure Use Case: Hybrid Applications (Buck Woody)
• The Impact of Accidental Complexity on Estimates (Jay Fields)
• In Pursuit of Quality, let’s Call Quality as something else (Shrini Kulkarni)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Index was outside the bounds of the array when Obfuscating a LARGE WP7 application and How to Obfuscate your WP7 application via nant and build scripts (Derik Whittaker)
• Enhancing the general Zune experience on Windows Phone 7 with Zune web API (Dennis Delimarsky)
• OpenXLive – A social network (SNS) platform for Windows Phone 7 games (or "Don’t write your own Leaderboard, Achievements, Online Gaming, Social Networking, and Cloud Store if you don’t have too") and Windows Phone 7 Development QuickStarts (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight Sans Xaml? and Asynchronous Callbacks with Rx and When Isolated Storage Isn’t Enough (Jesse Liberty)
• HTML5 versus Silverlight–Is Silverlight Dead? (Joe Stagner)
• Mole 2010 has shipped (Josh Smith)
• New Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.2 officially released and How to define and reuse resources in WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 65: What does Open Source have to do with Windows Azure? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Herding Code 106: Mark Rendle on Simple.Data (Jon Galloway)
• Hot Apps: iBlast Moki, Life Lights, OK!, MonsterUp, Classic Valentine (Laura Foy)
• The Garage Science Fair (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• Technology & Friends Episode 138: Chris Eargle on Fluent Interfaces (David Giard)
• ASP.NET mvcConf Videos Available (Scott Guthrie)
• Let’s Play TDD #88: Cascading Failures (James Shore)
• Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 3 and Razor (Dan Wahlin)

Community / Events

• What lots of students miss when they start software development and ImagineCup @ Facebook – now with team pages (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Free TDD Class Seat in March – Here’s How (Roy Osherove)
• Come to MIX & show off your .NET Open Source App (Joe Stagner)
• Mobile Connections Event – early bird pricing ends February 25th (Wally McClure)
• From Zero To Deployed Contest – Prizes Announced (Rob Reynolds)
• Event: MIX11 Open Call Speakers & Sessions Announced (Kim Spilker)
• A Conference I want to go to (Dru Sellers)
• Hug an Engineer – It’s National Engineers Week (Doug Cornelius)

Database

• SQL SERVER – OLEDB – Link Server – Wait Type – Day 23 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Is SQL Server Express Enough for the Job? (William Vaughn)
• Survey: how is your tempdb configured? (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• New book: Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Kim Spilker)
• Calling a WCF Service using jQuery in SharePoint (Anweshi Deverasetty)

Miscellaneous

• Explore Zoho Reports Series: Part I – Formula Column (Arvind Natarajan)
• Extending the Omnibox (Christos)
• Craig Mundie’s TechForum: A Look Ahead (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Android 3.0 SDK Now Available to All Developers (Stan Schroeder)
• Could we see a Zune powered tablet from Microsoft? (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 02/23/2011 and SilverlightCream top picks for Feb 14 – 20, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 22-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #798 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 22th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for February 22, 2011 — #1050 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET by Rebecca M. Riordan

Red Gate has heard the concerns of the community and contacted me about running a promotion to help promote some goodwill. Over the next two weeks, you will have two chances to enter a contest sponsored by Red Gate. There will be 50 winners, each receiving a license for .NET Reflector Professional. There are two ways to enter:

1. Leave a comment on this blog post. At the end of the contest I will choose, at random, 25 winners.
2. Follow me on Twitter and tweet this message. I will choose 25 random winners from the list of tweets.

Hey @alvinashcraft. I want a copy of Reflector 7 from @redgate. #dewdrop

Here are a few rules/disclaimers/disclosures:

• You can only win one license. If the same person is chosen in both the comments and tweets, another random name will be drawn.
• The contest begins today, February 21, 2011 and ends on Friday, March 4, 2011.
• Winners will be contacted no later than Tuesday, March 8, 2011.
• As a Microsoft MVP and Friend of Red Gate, I have free NFR licenses for Reflector and ANTS Profiler for personal use. I have not been compensated by Red Gate in any other way.
• Gifts, bribes, complements, etc. will have NO influence on the outcome of this contest.

Good luck and thanks for reading The Dew!

Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

• On Reflector (Miguel de Icaza)
• Windows Azure Software Development Kit (SDK) Refresh Released (Windows Azure Team)
• Physical Wall Boards are King for Agile – Keep it Simple (Peter Saddington)
• If Writing An Object That Is IDisposable, Don’t Fail During Construction (Steve Smith)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Few Tips on Customizing Debugging Window View in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Changing the Desktop Wallpaper (Richard Carr)
• Conway’s Game of Life with F# and SDL.NET (Scott Philip Brown)
• How to Intercept a WCF Message to track message size (Derik Whittaker)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Useful But Overlooked Sets (James Michael Hare)
• Getting the "windows azure web role entry point has stopped working" when using Visual Studio 2010 and the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio (Jon Flanders)
• Do you know about the Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Guidance? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• AsmSpy: A little tool to help fix assembly version conflicts (Mike Hadlow)
• Middleware in the WCF Web APIs (Ryan Riley)
• How to view the XAML Code on the Intellisense popup in Visual Studio 2010 ? (Senthil Kumar)
• Helpful DateTime extension methods for dealing with Time Zones (Joshua Flanagan)
• Coding Helpers – Move to Region (Alex Skorkin)
• Creating Console apps that use the Server Profile (David Ebbo)
• System.Object : a look on mother of all managed classes (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• How to get list of all active HttpModules in ASP.NET? (Abhijit Jana)
• Curiosities in Microsoft.Web.Helpers: Video.Flash and Analytics.GetGoogleHtml and JSON Deserialization Made Simple With System.Web.Helpers and List (Karsten Januszewski)
• MVC Tip – An easy way to deal with those NotFound Errors (Mike Ceranski)
• An Open Letter To jQuery Plugin Authors (Richard Freedman)
• MvcSiteMapProvider 3.0.0 released (Maarten Balliauw)
• WebSharper 2.1 Beta 5 available (Adam Granicz)
• New York City Touts Its API on Subway Advertisements (Adam DuVander)
• JSON Toolkit – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 9: Optimistic Concurrency Patterns (Arthur Vickers)
• ‘Why’ often unhelpful (Mark Needham)
• Frustrating automation investigations (John Guin)
• Hex values for Crayola colors (Cory Doctorow)
• Things That Work: Download to Paper (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Animations — Alternatives, Performance (Jan Slodicka)
• A Pivot-Style Data Grid without the DataGrid (Jeremy Likness)
• Google Maps for Windows Phone 7 using Bing Map Control (Naveed Tejani)
• Animated WPF Panels (Fredrik Bornander)
• Blend Bits 21–Importing from Photoshop & Illustrator… (Mike Taulty)
• New book: Microsoft Silverlight Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 and New book: Microsoft XNA Framework Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 (Devon Musgrave)
• Silverlight Spy 4 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Some Useful WP7 Content for your Toolbag (Mike Ormond)
• Changing the border for a DatePicker control on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ListPicker FullScreen mode Background problem: workaround (Windows Phone Geek)
• Microsoft will release new WP7 developer tools, including CDMA updates (Phone Arena)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• John Platt: Introduction to Sho – A Playground for Data (Charles Torre)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Phil Haack, Ted Neward, Two Friends and Qdoba (Scott Hanselman)
• Let’s Play TDD #83: Parsing and Formatting (James Shore)
• Silverlight TV 60: Checking Out the Zero Gravity Game, Now on Windows Phone 7 (John Papa)
• WCF RIA Services Webinar – Querying and Updating Data (Brian Noyes)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #23 with guest Eric Kepes (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• Nerd Nite, February 10, 2011 (Philly Nerd Nite)
• Kathleen Dollard in Vermont and New Hampshire (Jim O’Neil)
• Join Us for WebCamps – Free Web Developer Training – Around the World (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• What is SQL Server Crescent? (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks and sys.dm_exec_requests – Wait Type – Day 4 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Prompts for Reporting Services (Chris Webb)

SharePoint

• Working with SharePoint 2010 Themes (Anweshi Deverasetty)

Miscellaneous

• How to Write Without Writing (Jeff Atwood)
• If Reflector needed money so badly, why didn’t they ask? (Joe White)
• Red Gate should have said… (Keith Dahlby)
• Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ Release Candidate (minus Drive Extender) goes to testers and What does it mean to be a Microsoft beta tester any more? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Ultimate PC, 5 months in (Pete Brown)
• Is Microsoft going to sell their own tablet? [VIDEO] (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 3th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 3 February 2011 – #19 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Morning Brew #785 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 02/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 3-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Distributed Weekly 88 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft XNA Framework Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold

Top Links

• Setting the record straight (Yusuf Mehdi)
• Reflections on recent news (Hadi Hariri)
• Microsoft adds H.264 support to Google Chrome (Ed Bott)
• Pairing is Conversation (Michael ‘Doc’ Norton)

.NET / Visual Studio

• First CodeGuru Reference Card now available, the C# 4.0 Cheat Sheet (Registration required) (Greg Duncan)
• Moving or Selecting Between Matching Braces vstipEdit0075 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tip : Override ToString() in Objects (Steve Smith)
• CodeSmith Generator 5.3.4 with NHibernate 1.2.1 Released (T. DuPont)
• Fun with Noun Pluralization libraries and the .NET Framework (Scott Hanselman)
• CLR Profiler for .NET Framework 4 is now available (Jossef Goldberg)
• Red Gate to Monetize .NET Reflector (Ed Blankenship)
• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 8: Working with Proxies (Arthur Vickers)
• Clipboard Tools – Smart Cut and Smart Copy (Alex Skorkin)
• How to determine event subscriptions at runtime (Merrick Chaffer)
• A Simulator for Knuth’s MIX Computer (George Tryfonas)

Web Development

• jQuery 1.5′s AJAX rewrite and ASP.NET services: All is well (Dave Ward)
• Dynamically Adding Drop down using JQuery (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Redirecting Routes To Maintain Persistent URLs (Phil Haack)
• RenderPage And Data in ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Pages (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Should Cloud APIs Focus on Client Libraries More Than Endpoints? (Phil Leggetter)
• MSDN Magazine Pivot Viewer Source Code (Howard Dierking)
• The MVC 3.0 IDependencyResolver interface is broken. Don’t use it with Windsor. (Mike Hadlow)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• PragPub Celebrates Agile’s 10th Anniversary (Joey deVilla)
• Apple, Google, or Microsoft? – Which Does Agile Better? (Peter Saddington)
• Lean Principle #6 – Respect People (Kelly Waters)
• Stardate 2011.31.1: Why Me(ssage Brokers)? (Kyle Szklenski)
• The Waterfall Comfort Blanket (Julian Holmes)
• Service location is (not) always evil (Rob Ashton)
• Test Driven Source Control–Safe Points and What are you going to do about it? (Roy Osherove)
• What is Code Metrics (Shai Raiten)
• If Software Was Like The Super Bowl (K. Scott Allen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Build Your First Silverlight Application for Windows Phone 7 (Justin Whitney)
• Windows Phone 7 Development for Android Dev’s Series (Greg Duncan)
• WCF – Silverlight debugging tips (Hima Bindu Vejella)
• Windows Phone Design Guidelines and Life Cycle: Page State Management (Jesse Liberty)
• Tombstoning Pivot Controls in Silverlight for Windows Phone and Tombstoning Panorama Controls in Silverlight for Windows Phone and Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #3 (Jeff Prosise)
• Windows Phone Training Kit – Update (Yochay Kiriaty)
• WP7 Toolkit LongListSelector fix in the latest build: 60973 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Blend Bits 21 – Importing… (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stephen Toub: Inside TPL Dataflow (Charles Torre)
• Video: Good C# Habits Can Encourage Bad JavaScript Habits (Elijah Manor)
• Unit Testing in C++ (Avi Kaye)
• WebMatrix Launch–CodeMash 2011 Recordings Available on Channel 9 (wesy)
• Jeremy on innovation at Microsoft (Kelly Fife)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Archives (Clint Rutkas, Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
• AuthorsCast: Julie Lerman on Programming Entity Framework, Second Edition (Part 1 of 2) and Part 2 of 2 (Lee Dumond)

Community / Events

• Presenting at the Expression Blend online group in February (Adam Kinney)
• Australian SharePoint Conference lures global gurus (Paul J. Swider)
• Tech-Ed Israel: MVPs Raise the Bar (Lonnie Webb)
• Microsoft Virtual Tech Days – 9th to 11th Feb 2011 (Abhijit Jana)
• The Nineys are Here! (John Papa)

Database

• Importing and Exporting SSIS Packages Using PowerShell (Chad Miller)
• What SQL Server Service Pack Do I Have Installed? (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_wait_stats Explanation – Wait Type – Day 3 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Restirct access to Local System Administrators on SQL Server (Pradeep Adiga)
• Implementing end-to-end ordered delivery using Microsoft BizTalk Server and SQL Server Service Broker – New whitepaper on TechNet Wiki (Tim Wieman)

Miscellaneous

• Variadic Powershell Functions With Optional Named Params (Harry Pierson)
• Windows Phone 7 Update To Be Released On February 7th? (Dr. Usman)
• Search wars: Microsoft outdoes Google’s copying claim by alleging fraud (Joe Wilcox)
• 4 New PowerShell cmdlets (Josh Topal)
• Gimp Paint Studio expands GIMP with new brushes, presets (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Feb 2nd Links: Visual Studio, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, JQuery, Windows Phone (Scott Guthrie)
• The Morning Brew #784 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 2 February 2011 – #18 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Recipes – Helping the Community (Joel Reyes)
• Silverlight Cream for February 02, 2011 — #1039 (Dave Campbell)
• WebDev Tweets 2-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 2th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks by Rachel Andrew

Top Links

• SharePointShout launched (Greg Galipeau)
• Introducing programmers.stackexchange.com (Jeff Atwood)
• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 7 – All About Conventions (Rob Eisenberg)
• A Silverlight MVVM Feed Reader from Scratch in 30 Minutes (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Challenge: Your own ThreadLocal (Oren Eini)
• Marking Tasks and Bugs as “Done” During a Check-in (Aaron Bjork)
• NDepend tool – Why every developer working with Visual Studio.NET must try it! (Hajan Selmani)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders – Cross Calling Constructors (James Michael Hare)
• Understanding Check Accessibility (Zain Naboulsi)
• Updates to PowerCommands for Reflector Project (Jason Haley)
• NCover 3.4.16 (Alan Johnson)
• New and Updated Windows and Xbox 360 Developer Education on App Hub! (Team XNA)
• DXCore DecoupledStorage object for storing data and DXCore DecoupledStorage structure and settings file format and How to use DXCore DecoupledStorage to persist plug-in data (Alex Skorkin)
• Now Available: Updated Windows Azure Platform Training Kit Covering All the Latest Features and Enhancements (Windows Azure Team)
• Multitouch Part 5: User Experience with Multitouch (Jennifer Marsman)
• Using Var + As, a Neat Little Trick (John Sonmez)
• EF4 CPT5 Code First Remove Cascading Deletes (Dane Morgridge)

Web Development

• Top 8 Reasons Why jQuery is so Popular (Dr. Doris Chen)
• JavaScript for C# developers: writing a library (part2) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• jQuery Templates – XHTML Validation (Hajan Selmani)
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Implicit and Explicit code nuggets with Razor (Scott Guthrie)
• New book: JavaScript Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• OAuth Google API for Unregistered Applications (Lorna Mitchell)
• Video Web Helper in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC 2 – Add Videos to your Web Pages (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Review of Building Android apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Scott Koon)
• Using 51Degrees.Mobi Foundation for accurate mobile browser detection on ASP.NET MVC 3 (Steve Sanderson)
• Using Razor, CSHTML, ASP.NET Web Pages, WebMatrix as a web service (Wally McClure)
• Galleries Galore with Gallery Server Pro 2.4.4 now at Sueetie.com (Dave Burke)
• YUI 2.9.0 Release Update (Jenny Han Donnelly)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Verifying Generated HTML With HAML, Cucumber, Capybara and RSpec (Derick Bailey)
• What is the #1 Benefit of TDD? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Agile/Scrum Retrospectives–Tips and Tricks (Mark Levison)
• A Failed Agile Program – A Story (Peter Saddington)
• Learn to Work Across Time Zones (Andy Singleton)
• Virtual Method Performance Penalty, Revisited (Davy Brion)
• Information Architecture for me (Daniela Panfili)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Sneak Peek at Bringcast.. my Podcatcher for Windows Phone 7 (James Clarke)
• Expression Blend 5-Day On-Ramp Course: A Directory of Material (Christian Schormann)
• Windows Phone–Debugging your Apps (Arian T. Kulp)
• WPF – adding thumbnail buttons to Windows 7 Task Bar (Brian Lagunas)
• Some hidden features in the Windows Phone 7 emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Apress’ “Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development” [Updated] (Joey deVilla)
• Puff the Magic POCO Binding and INotifyPropertyChanged in WPF (Pete Brown)
• Code Coverage for Silverlight and Windows Phone (Marc Schweigert)
• Windows Phone 7 Connector For Mac Beta Released and Things You Can Pin on Windows Phone 7 Start Screen (Richard Hay)
• Forward Navigation on the Windows Phone and Playing sound effects on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight with Facebook – a practical guide to integration (András Velvárt)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #5 and What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #6 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• “Fuel Tracker” Guidance Application – Drop 3 (Karl Erickson)
• Animation Texture Creator (Mister Goodcat)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #70: Reflections on Incremental Design (James Shore)
• SilverlightShow for 06-12 Dec 2010 (Dave Campbell)
• Pirates Love Daisies (Larry Larsen)
• jQuery Podcast 40 – Wijmo (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Silverlight TV 55: 1000 Silverlight Cream Posts and Counting! (John Papa)
• Windows Phone Radio 12 and Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst Are Live (Brian Seitz)
• endpoint.tv – Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• CouchDB for .NET Developers – A Free Live Webcast – Dec 21 @ 10am PT (O’Reilly Media)
• Free SQL Server Training for the Week of December 20, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)
• Happy One Year Anniversary, #SQLHelp! (Brent Ozar)
• Archiving SQLHelp tweets (Jamie Thomson)
• Unleash Your Coding Genius with Web Camps! (Chris Koenig)
• Join the O’Reilly Blogger Review Program – Nothing But Honest Reviews (O’Reilly Media)
• Announcing: DrinksWithDevs (The Belgian Chapter) (Davy Brion)

Database

• How to move datafiles to a new drive in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Critical Analysis of an Algorithm: Sproc, Embedded SQL, and ORM (Ken Downs)
• All I Want is a Normal(ized) Life (Brad Schulz)
• Impact of the number of idle connections in MySQL (Yves Trudeau)
• Storing TSQL Queries in a table without losing the formatting (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL Service Pack installation through Automatic Updates (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Top Stories of 2010 (MS PressPass)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Java in a Nutshell, 5th Ed. – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDJVN (O’Reilly Media)
• A Year of Excitement (Somasegar)
• Buy Windows Phone, Get a Free Xbox Game (Brian Seitz)
• Creating a Video For Your Team (Rob Conery)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2010 — #1011 (Dave Campbell)
• Distributed Weekly 81 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 16 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• December 16th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• The Morning Brew #753 (Chris Alcock)
• Best of Sources of Insight 2010 (J.D. Meier)

The Geek Shelf

Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences from 22 MVPs by Reza Alirezaei

Bloated Dew Drop today since I was unable to get one out on Friday. Tomorrow morning should be a light one.

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Top Links

• The MVVM Twilight Zone (Josh Smith)
• Code Contracts Part 2 – Preconditions (Kevin Hazzard)
• Stack Exchange API Public Beta Starts (Jeff Atwood)
• Essential Tools for the WPF Novice (Michael Sorens)
• How about a Zune-style ChildWindow? (Jeff Wilcox)
• MEFedMVVM v1.0 Explained (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Binary Serialization (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1 (MS Downloads)
• Presentation:The State of the Art on .NET (Amanda Laucher & Josh Graham)
• Updated PowerCommands for Reflector (Jason Haley)
• Convert a Generic List to a Datatable (Abhijeet Singhai)
• C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series:Dynamic Primitive Type Part 2 and C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series:SortedSet in Framework 4 (Sam Gentile)
• Include for LINQ to SQL (and maybe other providers) (Damien Guard)
• Creating an F# Solution Template for Visual Studio 2010 (Daniel Mohl)
• NHibernate Workbench (Felice Pollano)
• Using Sandcastle to build code contracts documentation and Code Contracts: How they look after compiling? (Gunnar Peipman)
• Windows Azure Most Wanted – MSMQ Azure and MSMQ Azure vs. Scalable Queue with Concurrency Locks (Rinat Abdullin)
• Building a Simple Logging Http Module with Logging Application Block (Gil Fink)
• VSGesture v2 for VS 2010 – Adding mouse gesture support to VS 2010 (No, not those “hand gestures” I see you doing at your screen… (Greg Duncan)
• Interview:Don Syme Talks About F# 2.0, a First Class Citizen in Visual Studio 2010 (Don Syme)
• C# 4.0 AccessPrivateWrapper – Instantiate and Access Private/Internal Classes and Members via dynamic + reflection (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Drowning one’s sorrows in the ThreadPool (Michael S. Kaplan)
• Transaction Flows Across Reentrant AppDomain Calls and Transactional Workflows: Suspend-Enqueue-Unload-Resume Done Correctly on Second-Phase Commit (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Talking Reactive Extensions (Matthew Podwysocki)
• C# & SqlDependency – Monitoring your database for data changes (Richard McCutchen)
• How To Enable Visual Studio 2010 Log (Shai Raiten)
• Dynamic Type to do away with Reflection (Rick Strahl)
• Querying a Hierarchical Parent-Child Structure in LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• cleartextonfoo and Visual Studio SWAG!! and Hide the Status Bar and Hide the Vertical and/or Horizontal Scroll Bars (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 2 Wrox Blox available for purchase (Simone Chiaretta)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using jQuery context menu with tables (Gunnar Peipman)
• How to programmatically change the physical directory for a web app in IIS 7.x (Keith Brown)
• Using the Power of the Sueetie API for Good (Fighting Blog Spam) (Dave Burke)
• Create a Twitter API proxy for your own! (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Porting the HomeController, the map/reduce way and Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Porting the HomeController, the Right Way and Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Migrations (Oren Eini)
• EmailTheInternet.com: Sending and Receiving Email in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Sean Nolan, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and New Plugin Enables WordPress To Use Windows Azure Storage Services (Windows Azure Team)
• Google + Pac Man = Statement? (Frank La Vigne)
• 4 Steps to Consume Web Services Using Ajax (includes video tutorial) (Shivprasad Koirala)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Collective Code Ownership" Now Online (James Shore)
• Code Kata Setup (Louis Salin)
• Trustworthiness… Then Trust (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Ninject.RhinoMocks: Auto Mocking Container For .NET 3.5 and Compact Framework 3.5 and Albacore: Should We Continue To Support Ruby v1.8.6? (Derick Bailey)
• Whole Agile (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Presentation:Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams (Roy Osherove)
• NCover 3.4.6: Bug Fixes (Stephen Ward)
• Is your test method self-validating ? (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Programmer Tip: True Alpha Geeks Breed Alpha Geeks. (Rajiv Popat)
• PowerShell for acceptance testing (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• "Intuitive" in one language may (at best) be "understandable" in another. Please plan accordingly…. (Michael S. Kaplan)
• The Unit Testing Lounge (Tal Townsend)
• Review: Designing with Web Standards (Grant Palin)
• Project Greenfield: Implementing Source Version Control (Joel Cochran)
• SketchFlow with a splash of balsamic (Rudi Grobler)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• F# PowerPack May 2010 – now for Silverlight (Dmitry Lomov)
• Using Windows 7 taskbar features in WPF [pure XAML] (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Navigating Microsoft content on Silverlight and Expression Blend (Adam Kinney)
• SpinPaint for Windows Phone 7 (with a Rant about Touch) (Charles Petzold)
• While should I need to waste so many resources and 1-3 minutes to get started? (Fredrik Normen)
• Using DynamicObject to intercept and marshal property changes (Josh Smith)
• Silverlight – DataBind to an Anonymous type (Who knew?) (Jason Jarrett)
• Windows Phone 7 April CTP and TransitioningContentControl (Jeff Brand)
• Windows Phone? Sounds exciting! (Jeff Wilcox)
• You Already Are A Windows Phone 7 Programmer (Jesse Liberty)
• WPFPerf Performance Profiling Tools for WPF 4 is now available! (Jossef Goldberg)
• Dotfuscator 4.7.1000 with WPF obfuscation support (Joe Kuemerle)
• Create Silverlight Master – Detail UI Using Data Sources Window Object DataSource (Karl Shifflett)
• Document Toolkit 2 Beta 1 available (Koen Zwikstra)
• Seesmic Releases Microsoft Silverlight Based Desktop 2 Preview (Richard Hay)
• Evolution of input and "255 depth levels ought to be enough for anybody." – Bill Gates, 2010 (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #23 – Working with Strokes and Shapes (Mike Snow)
• Right Click a TextBox and Display a ContextMenu using Silverlight 4 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services – Part 3 (Weidong Shen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 04 of 18): Hello World (MS Podcasts)
• TWC9: Silverlight Tools for VS, Azure Guidance, Rx, and Home Server (Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Home Server Vail (Larry Larsen)
• The Thirsty Developer 93: Talking Visual Studio with Jay Schmelzer (Dave Bost)
• Video discussion about Visualization and Modeling Tools in VS2010 (Cameron Skinner)
• Cloud Cover Episode 12 – Hosting WCF and Inter-Role Communication (Ryan Dunn)
• Windows Weekly 157: Next of KIN (Paul Thurrott)
• Boagworld 212. More skills to learn (Paul Boag)
• Toby Richards and Mike Hickman Discuss MVP Engagement with Office 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)
• StartUp Podcast Show #68 David Schenberg and BusyEvent.com (Bob Walsh)

Community / Events

• Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint (Melissa Travers)
• A Week in the Life of a Community PM at Microsoft (Pete Brown)
• SQL Immersion Event in Bellevue, WA in August! (Paul S. Randal)
• Microsoft voted best workplace in Europe (Anne Cheng)
• New England GiveCamp – Come Code for Charity (Jim O’Neil)
• 10 Ways to Maximize Your Conference Experience (Dan Wilson)
• Shame on you for stealing (Buck Woody)

Database

• Auto Generate AlphaNumeric ID’s in a SQL Server Table (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Snapshot Isolation – Reduce the Blocking Transactions and SQLAuthority News – Downloads Available for Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 (Pinal Dave)
• Virtual Lab: Creating the Basic SQL 2008 R2 Virtual Machine (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
• Delete all data in database (when you have FKs) (Niikola)
• Geek City: Clearing Plans for a Single Database (Kalen Delaney)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 – Top 10 Resources to get you started… (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• A Book Review of Tribes by Seth Godin (Joe Webb)
• Android 2.2: Froyo Is a Major Update (Alex Chitu)
• 13,000+ Free Icons for Web and Desktop Development (David Vidmar)
• J Allard leaving Microsoft over Courier axing? (Donald Melanson)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: Reviewing the Dow Jones Industrial with Excel 2010 (Nate Oliver)
• 24 things to do, and 100 things *not* to do (yet) for building a MicroISV (Leon Bambrick)
• Accelerating change – we can’t do it alone (Pamela Passman)
• 6 Git Commands To Get You Started (Nick Berardi)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 21, 2010 and Interesting Finds: May 22, 2010 and Interesting Finds: May 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 20, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – May 21, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – May 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 21, 2010 — #866 and Silverlight Cream for May 22, 2010 — #867 (Dave Campbell)
• Distributed Weekly 51 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #605 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #106 (Grant Palin)
• Links of the Week #120 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Beautiful Code

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Massive Search & Replace Among Files Checked-in to TFS (Jason Jarrett)
• Query Editor: Making Queries Available on Menus (Jason Haley)
• What is Windows Identity Framework (WIF)? (Sam Gentile) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• Asp.Net MVC JavaScriptView (Chris Brandsma)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Dynamic Data and Many to Many Entity Framework Entities and MSDN Guidance on ASP.NET MVC vs WebForms and its Impact on my EF + ASP.NET Work (Julie Lerman)
• Fluent-API to add ActionFilters to Controllers – ASP.NET MVC Part 2 (Fredrik Normén)
• ClientIDMode in ASP.NET 4.0 (Rick Strahl)
• Facebook Developer Toolkit – Release: Version 3.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• With Blame Goes Guilt (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Knowing when to persevere and when to change approach and Coding: The agent noun class (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ is Live! (Brad Abrams)
• Several WPF Localization questions (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 129: Hypirony And Ironicracy (Paul Thurrott)
• HDI Video: Generate from Usage in Visual Studio 2010 with Karen Liu (Charlie Calvert)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #73 (Jeff Atwood)

Community / Events

• Subscribe to 62 Silverlight Twitter’ers. (Jesse Liberty)
• .NET Framework Contest & Campaign: Win $12,00, a 12-day Galapagos Islands Adventure, or a new Smart Car! (Sam Gentile)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure are Compiled on First Run – SP taking Longer to Run First Time (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Twitter in your console prompt: using PS Jobs for background work (Joel Bennett)
• Zune HD 4.3 Firmware Brings Support for Apps and 3D Games (Muhammad Ali)
• Herding Cats: Organize your Desktop Icons with Stardock Fences for Windows (Scott Hanselman)
• A good url regular expression? (repost) (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Paint.NET 3.5 (Final) now available (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2009 — #726 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 11.01 ~ 11.08 (yuanjian)
• Interesting Post… 11/1/2009 through 11/8/009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Windows Identity Framework (WIF) Announcements (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Using a Genetic Algorithm to Do Consultant Scheduling in C# (Mike Gold)
• So, What Is This Boo language Anyway? and NHibernate tips & tricks: Efficiently selecting a tree (Oren Eini)
• Assembly List Import/Export Reflector Addin (Jason Haley)
• Build Notification, Visual Studio, & Snarl (Christopher Bennage)
• Multi-Targeting Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Running T4 Templates with MSBuild (Steve Andrews)
• How to trick Visual Studio to not show line numbers for blank lines? (Sara Ford)
• F# First Class Events – Changes on Creating Events (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Dynamic Part Instantiation in MEF (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Hidden gems in the gaming starter kit (Marc Schweigert)

Web Development

• How To Get Started With Selenium Core And ASP.NET MVC (Derick Bailey)
• Why is HTML Suddenly Interesting? (Simon St. Laurent)
• jQuery: $.post, ‘jsonp’ and cross-domain requests (Mark Needham)
• Walking the tight rope (Bertrand Le Roy)
• DYK: You can remove the ASP.NET MVC version from the Response Header (Jason N. Gaylord)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Windows UX Guidelines (MS Downloads)
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Lazy loading (Oren Eini)
• You are your Institutional Knowledge (Anne Epstein)
• In Response To DNR 476 (Jesse Liberty)
• Have You Met Your Dog, Patches? (Jeff Atwood)
• The Singleton: Be Careful How You Use It (Ben Yoder)
• Agile Testing with VSTS 2010 and TMap: Part 00 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Lazy Loading (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day
• What’s the Difference? Part Three: fixed vs. fixed (Eric Lippert)
• Testing Private & Protected Members of a Class (John Teague)
• StructureMap and MassTransit Together (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Building Remarkable Work and Play Environments – Part 13. (Rajiv Popat)
• Refactoring Day 27 : Remove God Classes (Sean Chambers)
• Reflection-Based Performance Analysis (Steve Andrews)

Silverlight / WPF

• BouncingPlane Behavior for Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 3 Jumpstart Book (Brad Abrams)
• Implicit Styles, Templates, Controls and FrameworkElements (Carole Snyder)
• Silverlight Spy 3 updated (Koen Zwikstra)
• Using Silverlight DeepZoom for a Document Viewer (Charles Petzold)
• Creating RIA Services With Silverlight 3 Part-2 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Pie Chart Easy AS…. (Jesse Liberty)
• Your 2 cents: Silverlight Community Samples and Swivel Behavior now posted in Expression Gallery (John Papa)
• Playing with Shaders: Creating a water effect (Marlon Grech)
• Cleaning Up the Disabled State of a Silverlight Control using Expression Blend (Dan Wahlin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Radio TFS 25: Team Test with Anthony Borton (Radio-TFS)
• 3 New Podcasts on Silverlight 3 (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• SharePoint 2010 Partner Training for SharePoint 2007 Partners! (Arpan Shah)
• Top 5 reasons to run for the PASS Board of Directors (Joe Webb)
• Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York City (Sumeeth Evans)
• Agile2009 Drawing to a Close (Steven ‘Doc’ List)

Database

• How Many Spindles Do You Need? (Michael Ceranski)
• SQL SERVER – Best Practices – Implementation of Database Object Schemas (Pinal Dave)
• Did You Know: What’s a SQL Server Education Worth? (Kalen Delaney)

SharePoint

• Design Patterns For SharePoint : Entry 1 (Charles Chen)
• Announcing the Fourth Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Dan Winter)
• SharePoint as a development platform – 7 reasons why I like it … (Joris Poelmans)

Miscellaneous

• Fixing Virtual PC 2007 To Run On Windows 7 (Tom Hearn)
• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases Bing SDK for iPhone & Mac (Blake Handler)
• GIMP 2.7 beta released (Brad Linder)
• The Ultimate Collection Of Maya 3D Tutorials (Vailancio Rodrigues)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Disables DCOM modifications (Bob Fox)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Aug 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #422 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2009 — #676 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for August 27, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links (8/27/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – AUG ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for 27th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• How We Did It: Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (Dave Pae)
• Upgrading ASP.NET MVC to RC? Don’t Forget the Futures… (Shawn Wildermuth)
• jQuery Delete Link with Downlevel Support and ASP.NET MVC RC Refresh (Phil Haack)
• The ASP.NET Diet Part 1 – Making a Thin Contact Form (Chris Love)
• T4 Templates: A Quick-Start Guide for ASP.NET MVC Developers (Abhishek Mishra)
• Have You Tried Microformats? (Larry Clarkin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tip #44: Did You Know… How to View the Project File While Still in Visual Studio? (Nichole Baker)
• Reflector.Snippy Addin Updated (v0.9.3.0) (Jason Haley)
• Refactoring the Refactored Switch Statement (Sean Timm)
• Improvements and Changes to Oslo SDK and Repository in January CTP (Alex Thissen)
• Some Thoughts on Structuring Modeling Projects in Visual Studio Team Architect and Alternate Image in Diagrams (Clemens Reijnen)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #5 – Do I Weigh Too Much? (Eric Gunnerson)
• Confessions of a .NET Programmer (Stephen Forte)

Silverlight / WPF

• patterns & practices: Composite WPF and Silverlight – Release: Prism V2 – Drop 10 and WPF Toolkit – January 2009 Release (CodePlex)
• Silverlight 3 and 4 to ‘Open Up New Areas’ (Gavin Clarke)
• Using the WPF Web Browser Control in a ToolTip (Marlon Grech)
• Prism v2 – Drop 10 (Composite Application Guidance) (Erwin van der Valk)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Dependency Inversion Principle (Gabriel Schenker)
• Domain Modeling (Bill Gibson)
• We Don’t Have Requirements Yet, But How Long Will This Take You? (Bob McIlree) – Link of the Day
• "Quality Doesn’t Matter That Much" — Jeff and Joel (Uncle Bob Martin)

.NET Community / Events

• MIX09: Objectified Screening, Scott Guthrie Interview, and More (Mike Swanson)
• New Local Philadelphia Area Cloud Computing User Group – Come Learn About Azure (Dave Isbitski)
• Silverlight 3 at MIX 09 (G. Andrew Duthie)

PowerShell

• Updated Twitter PowerShell Script (Mike Ormond)
• Managing Windows Update with PowerShell (James O’Neill)

Miscellaneous

• IE8 – User Experience Changes Since Beta 2 (Paul Cutsinger & Jess Holbrook)
• Overview of Platform Improvements in IE8 RC1 (Marc Silbey)
• Windows 7 – Our Next Engineering Milestone (Steven Sinofski)
• Free 3-Way Diff / Merge Tool (David Vidmar)
• Benefits of Twitter (Rhonda Tipton)
• Oops: Google Marked Every Site as "Harmful" This Morning (Kevin Purdy)
• Ruby 1.9.1 Arrives (Nick Plante)

More Link Collections

• Visual Studio Links #105 (Darren Stokes)
• CloudNews for January 30th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for January 30, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for Januar 30, 2009 — #502 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 286 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Further Reading on IoC Containers (Mike Hadlow)
• Discoveries This Week 01/30/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day