• New ASP.NET website launched (Scott Hanselman)
• 31 Days of Mango | Now In eBook Format! (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Microsoft to provide details on Windows 8 app store on Dec 6 (Brad Sams)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure (MS Downloads)
• Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript (Rick Waldron)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Custom XML Serialization (Gian Maria Ricci)
• CSLA 4 version 4.2 released (Rockford Lhotka)
• Managing the unmanaged… as in 5 tips toward understanding .Net Managed/Unmanaged Interop (Greg Duncan)
• Setting up TeamCity as a native NuGet Server (Hadi Hariri)
• New book: Developer’s Guide to Collections in Microsoft .NET (Kim Spilker)
• Eager-loading RFC (Mark Rendle)
• .NET access to the GPU for compute purposes (Daniel Moth)
• log4net object renders (Dru Sellers)
• Agent Ralph Plug-In for ReSharper (Josh Buedel) – Find and eliminate duplicate code.

Web Development

• 5 Minute Intro to HTML5 Canvas (John Papa)
• Cascading jQuery Combo Boxes in ASP.NET MVC (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Building an ASP.NET MVC 4 Solution with F# and C# (Daniel Mohl)
• ASP.NET website redesign: Now with less Beta, more Live (Jon Galloway)
• Using MVCContrib 3 Test Helpers with ASP.Net MVC 4 (beta) (Kevin LaBranche)
• How to lint your JavaScript with JSLint in real time (Maxim Mossienko)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First HTML5 Programming – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress (Sameer Borate)
• Custom request methods in Nancy (Andreas Håkansson)
• Working with Binary Data using Typed Arrays (Luke Hoban)
• Kendo UI from Telerik (Jake Rutherford)
• Windows Azure Cloud Services: How you can choose what is needed and how much it will cost? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.6.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The TeamCity Database Migration Documenation Could Use Some Work (Peter Ritchie)
• Future mocking with #IgnoreInstance (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Sharing Code Between Platforms (Peter Kuhn)
• ListBox ContextMenu with MVVM in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to navigate to other page from a user control in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF Asynchronous Wait Cursor using Task Parralel Library (Jacob L. Adams)
• Unifying Hardware Access across Windows Phone, Android, and iOS (Jonathan Allen)
• 2000 WPF Things #442 – WrapPanel Child Elements Can Be Clipped (Sean Sexton)
• Reflector: How to Add a WP7 Assembly List (Jason Haley)
• Async tests in Silverlight (Oren Eini)
• Infragistics Motion Framework 101 (Akshay Luther)
• Windows Phone geocoding with Rx (Muhammad Afzal)
• Beginning LightSwitch: Getting Started (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cool Projects at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Boagworld: Treat stats as indicators not as the end goal (Paul Boag)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Telerik JustCode (Robert Green)
• Let’s Play TDD #147: Finding the Dialog (James Shore)
• A Dev’s Game Dev castroll… (Or Chris shares the Game Dev podcasts he listens too) (Greg Duncan)
• GitHub has a Vimeo Channel! (Matt Ganucheau)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Rocks The Canadian Technology Community (Miguel Carrasco)
• .net awards rundown (Paul Boag)
• A Coder Interview with Kenny Kerr (The Code Project)
• Three years at IdentityMine–and more to come! (Laurent Bugnion)

Database

• I love SQL Server and cultures… NOT ! (Jérémie Chassaing)
• SSMS Tools Pack 2.1.0 is out. Added support for SQL Server 2012 RC0. (Mladen Prajdić)
• SQL SERVER – Effect of SET NO COUNT on @@ROWCOUNT (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 2: system tables and catalog views (Denis Gobo)
• Database Mirroring In A Windows Workgroup (Kendal Van Dyke)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 public beta reportedly due in February (Andy Weir)
• Our code needs to run on multiple platforms with different rules, so we follow none of them! (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft Confirms No Carrier IQ on Windows Phone 7 Handsets (Richard Hay)
• A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (Eric Ries)
• Working Hard? Or HardlyWork.In? (Peter Saddington)
• 10 Books to Gift the Geeky Creative in Your Life (Jocelyn K. Glei)

PowerShell

• Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 3) (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week November 21-27, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 2 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #994 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #765 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/01/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily Links 01/12/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 12/1/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 30-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Distributed Weekly 131 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

31 Days of Mango by Jeff Blankenburg

• SQL Server 2012 RC0 is here! (Ted Krueger)
• jQuery 1.7.1 RC1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• A Few of My Favorite HTML5 and CSS3 Online Tools (Dan Wahlin)
• Visual Studio 11 IDE Advances (Somasegar)
• Working with Subversion Part 2 (or Subversion for the Less Subversive) (Peter Ritchie)
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.0 (Todd Parker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Updates to the August 2011 F# 2.0 Compiler Code Drop (Don Syme)
• Dynamic LINQ to NHibernate (Felice Pollano)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The EventHandler and EventHandler<TEventArgs> delegates (James Michael Hare)
• CSS speed typing for Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
• ExportFactory in MEF 2 (Alok)
• Analyzing Memory Leaks from Dump Files with SciTech .NET Memory Profiler (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Storing Complex Types, Binary Resources, and Other Tricky Things (Glen Gailey)
• Updated libraries and projects for Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 (Greg Duncan)
• Why can’t I install this DLL via Regsvr32 /i? (Raymond Chen)
• Compare .NET Objects – Version 1.3.0.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Generating Mandelbrot fractals using HTML5 (Chris)
• Convert Ruby Regexp to JavaScript RegExp (Brian Cardarella)
• Learning HTML5 – Best of RSS (Steve Albers)
• Introduction To Composite JavaScript Apps (Derick Bailey)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.437 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Box debuts /bin platform with $2M app developer fund (Colleen Taylor)
• Execute code each time the Node.js REPL starts (Axel Rauschmayer)
• REST API Design: Put the “Type” in “Content-Type” (Mark Massé)
• Building A More App-y Web (Pete LePage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: SpecificationByExample (Martin Fowler)
• 15 Tenets For The Software Engineer (Rob Diana)
• How I view OneNote automation (John Guin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight: Bugs in the multicast client (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Delete data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Disable Javascript errors in WPF Web Browser Control take2 (Gian Maria Ricci)
• New! Windows Phone Starter Kit for Podcasts (Chris Koenig)
• Suppressing Zoom and Scroll interactions in the Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• Simulating GPS position changes using Reactive Extensions in Windows Phone environment (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) – Socket Sample (Michael Sync)
• 2000 WPF Things #433 – Preservation of Margins While Editing Grid in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #18: Using Sample Data (Jeff Blankenburg)
• How-to: Apps for creating custom ringtones (Andy Colley)
• Custom ringtones: A visual guide (Drew Williams)
• MultiBinding in Silverlight 5 (Henrik Jonsson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SPLASH 2011: David Ungar – Self, ManyCore, and Embracing Non-Determinism (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 043 – “Ben the Phone Charity Guy” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: JetBrains ReSharper (Robert Green)
• High Performance Computing with Wenming Ye (Larry Larsen)
• Five Kindle Fire Unboxing and Review YouTube Videos (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• A Coder Interview With Michael Sync (The Code Project)
• Juicy Bits (Mike Swanson)
• Explore open source with the Google Code-in contest (Stephanie Taylor)
• FREE ALM Webcast Series in November/December (Angela Binkowski)
• UGIALT.net conf 7: proposals, dates and voting (Simone Chiaretta)
• Infragistics speaking at New York City Windows Phone User Group (Tobias Komischke)
• SQL Azure MVP Herve Roggero on the Value of Being an MVP (MVP Award Program)
• Northwest Harvest at MVP Summit 2012 (MVP Summit Events)

Database

• Great tool for SQL Server Compact Databases (Arian Kulp)
• SQL Server 2012 RC0 is now available. Here’s a download link round-up. (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to PERCENT_RANK() – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Location of files for new database in SQL Server and Showing sysjobhistory run_duration in HHMMSS format (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – When will my backup finish? (Vishal)
• Compatibility Matrix 1.2 (Mark Broadbent)
• The Data Explorer Formula Language (Data Explorer Team)
• Table Space revised Again (Jason Brimhall)
• Excel worksheets from variable – revisited (John Pertell)

SharePoint

• Deploying WSPs as part of an automated build (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Five Absolutely Essential Utilities that make Windows better (Scott Hanselman)
• Book Samplers From O’Reilly (Tatworth)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #755 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/17/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #984 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/17/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2011 — #1168 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans

Top Links

• NuGet JustMock (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Happy Holidays! (and Free Book Chapter) (Jurgen Appelo)
• A Simplified Grid Markup for Silverlight and WPF (Colin Eberhardt)
• Sorting a Grid of Data in ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Detailed Answer: Your own ThreadLocal (Oren Eini)
• Replace sp_msforeachtable With the CLR C# (David Dye)
• C++ High-Resolution Timer (Jonathan Wood)
• Search As You Type in C# (Tim Corey)
• Format HTML on Paste (Zain Naboulsi)
• Incorrect solution build ordering when using MSBuild.exe (Dan Moseley)
• RavenDB – Document design with collections (Rob Ashton)
• Code Generation Using Custom Item Template, Custom Template Wizard and T4 Engine, VS 2010 (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• CodeRush Clipboard History (Alex Skorkin)

Web Development

• HTML5, Site-Ready and Experimental (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Basic JavaScript Part 4: Enforcing New on Constructor Functions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• HTML5 Recipes: Browser Capabilities Tools (Romin Irani)
• HTML5 Labs (Wes Yanaga)
• Security: The Window Sticker is Your First Line of Defense (Karl Seguin)
• “Programming Windows Azure” By Sriram Krishnan / O’Reilly Book Review (Peter Kellner)
• Amazon Web Services Go Mobile with New SDKs (Romin Irani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Discovery (Giorgio Sironi)
• Article:Doing Kanban Wrong (Tim Wingfield)
• The last Mockups release of 2010 (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Sharing Risk With The Team (Mike Cottmeyer)
• A Working Definition of Business Logic, with Implications for CRUD Code (Ken Downs)
• Windows Azure Learning Plan – Architecture (Buck Woody)
• The Second Commandment: Thy entity shalt not participate in dependency resolution (Mike Hadlow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM and focus ListView element with complex template (Al Kampfer)
• WPF – dynamically compile and run event handlers within loose XAML using CodeDom (Brian Lagunas)
• Microsoft on Windows Phone 7: "We’re in it for the long run" (Ed Bott)
• Road to 100 Windows Phone 7 Applications Built by New Zealand Developers (Nigel Parker)
• If Windows Phone 7 numbers are silly then Android and iPhone numbers are crap (Steven Hodson)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #8 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• CodePlex: United Nations News WP7 V1.0 (Justin Angel)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WP7 Minute Show Episode 3: Camera Integration (Richard Hay)
• Hot Apps: Morfo, News 360, Hangover Helper, CardMobili, Glow Artisan (Laura Foy)
• Interview:Laurie Williams: Getting to Comparative Agility (Laurie Williams)

Community / Events

• 4 years of Encosia, and the best of 2010 (Dave Ward)
• Stack Overflow Annual Survey (Alison)
• See Me in Brazil and Argentina in March (Phil Haack)
• French Community Day 2010 – Experts share passion! (Lonnie Webb)

Database

• Visibility Settings in SSRS: Drill Down to Show/Hide Report Data (Melissa Coates)
• Filtered Index in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL Server Storage Internals Part 4 – How to read a Heap page (Ramkumar)

SharePoint

• *** NOW AVAILABLE *** Team-Based Development in SharePoint 2010 and *** NOW AVAILABLE *** Debugging and Logging Capabilities in SharePoint 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 Microblogging (Lightning Tools)
• Creating Connectable Web Parts (Mary Lee)

Miscellaneous

• Where’s my Pink Windows Phone 7? (Nick Randolph)
• Clean Code: Do Not Anger Uncle Bob (Bobby Johnson)
• Microsoft is “All In” for the Cloud, but What About Dynamics? (Hunter Richards)
• SQL SERVER – Public Training and Private Training – Differences and Similarities – Public Training vs Private Training (Pinal Dave)
• RiSE4fun and Rex goes mobile (Jonathan de Halleux)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Ed – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDGN3 (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 21, 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #756 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/22/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)) by Jurgen Appelo

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Top Links

• TWC9: 2009 – The Year in Review (Dan Fernandez) – The Channel 9 crew wraps up the series for 2009.
• Azure Blob Storage plugin for Windows Live Writer now available (James Clarke) – A cool new plugin for WLW.
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK v1.0 Released (Service Bus and Access Control) (Greg Duncan) – Greg spots the v1.0 SDK release on MS Downloads.
• ASP.NET MVC 2 and Visual Studio 2010 (Phil Haack) – Phil gives an update on MVC v2 following the announcement of the delay of VS2010 and its upcoming RC release.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Dminor (MS Research)
• An RSS Dashboard in F#, part two (IObservables) (Brian McNamara)
• Visual Studio 2008 Server Explorer Missing… (Doug Holland)
• WCF RIA Service – How to configure the WCF Service maximum items returned by the Query (Fredrik Normén)
• OR-ing criteria with NHibernate, or “How to include it all” (Kyle Baley)
• Securing WCF REST Service using Windows Authentication (Mahesh Sabnis)
• When using LINQ don’t forget about deferred execution (Mark Meyerovich)
• What’s A PkgDef? And Why? (Bill Weinberger)
• F#: The use keyword and using function and F#: Word Count – A Somewhat Failed Attempt and F#: Word Count using a Dictionary (Mark Needham)
• Another Cool Resharper Refactoring (Peter Kellner)
• The Sieve of Eratosthenes and F# (Scott Seely)
• Visual Studio Code Formatting (Steve Andrews)
• Enabling Logging In Your Agatha Service Layer and Agatha 1.0 (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Adding a bit of Spark to Nerd Dinner and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine Pt2 [Extending ASP.NET MVC - Replacing the View Engine Pt2] and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine Part 1 [Extending ASP.NET MVC - Replacing the View Engine Part 1] (Mike Ormond)
• want brevity in .net mvc code? switch to f#. (Alex Pedenko)
• JavaScript Part 5 – The Client Side (Leon Gersing)
• .closest(Array) in jQuery 1.4 (John Resig)
• Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part I (Harish Ranganathan)
• Google Sites Data API Prototype (Kris Gray)
• Extreme Web UI Scalability – Part 2 (Jonathan Oliver)
• Passing anonymous objects to MVC views and accessing them using dynamic (David Ebbo)
• Tip#100: Did you know… How to view ASP.NET trace information? (Anh Phan)
• SmtpClient and Locked File Attachments (Rick Strahl)
• What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS (Tim Wright)
• Using conventions with Passive View (Mark Nijhof)
• OData gunning for ubiquity across Microsoft products (Jamie Thomson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practices of an Agile Developer (Chris Missal)
• Effectus: Building UI based on conventions and Effectus: Fatten your infrastructure (Oren Eini)
• Open Source Licensing, Copyright Notices, Contributions: What To Do? (Davy Brion)
• Agile Tenet #2 – Welcome Changing Requirements (Julie Stickler)
• Pex 0.20.v0.20.41218.2: Beavers, new Event View and bugs fixes (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 12 & 13 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• If Value is the Problem, What Can I Do About It? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Leadership Tip: The Best Management Is Management You Cannot See. and Career Tip: Focus On Being A Happy Hedgehog Over The Long Term. (Rajiv Popat)
• The Polyglot Tester (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Advanced Unity: Connecting Implementations to Open Generic Types (Jarod Ferguson)
• Coding: An outside in observation (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• HVP – Core Scaffolding and Updated News (Jesse Liberty)
• The Completion of the 31 Days of Silverlight and Day #20: Adding Audio to Silverlight Events (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Architecting SL4 Applications with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM – Part 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• View-the-box (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 135: Sleeping With Scissors (Paul Thurrott)
• Entity Framework Unit Testing with TypeMock Isolator (Muhammad Mosa)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 017 – Behavior Driven Development (Eric Nelson)
• Wes Dyer: Controlling Concurrency in Rx (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Silverlight 4 tutorial : adding avatar support to the business template (David Rousset)
• Major Nelson Show 344: VGA’s, GH Van Halen, Borderlands and Splinter Cell Conviction (Larry Hyrb)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Coding 4 Fun (Nic Fillingham)
• Codecast interviews about the Editor and Extensibility (Quan To)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Migrating to SQL Server from Other Database Products and SQLAuthority News – Migrating DTS Packages to Integration Services (Pinal Dave)
• AdventureWorks Community Sample Databases available for SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)
• XBoxGames Databases for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 (Shawn Wildermuth)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: SharePoint Administrator’s and Developer’s Guide to Code Access Security (Andrew Connell)
• My First SharePoint 2010 feature! Adding jQuery… (Wesley Bakker)
• Visualizing Data using XSLT: Following up on SPC 2009’s session on Building SharePoint Mashups With SPD, Bing Maps and REST Services (Doreen Grieb)

Miscellaneous

• Diagram of Geek Culture (Ibrahim Evsan)
• Looking for that perfect icon? Search a repository of 125,723 or easily browsing 331 icon sets at Icon Finder (Greg Duncan)
• Trying MonoDevelop On OS X, Part Two (Davy Brion)
• Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 GM Versions (PSN Editorial Staff)
• Readable Regular Expressions Revisited (Joshua Flanagan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 18, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 19, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 17, 2009 — #758 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for December 19, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links #84 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.15 ~ 12.20 (yuanjian)
• Interesting Post… 12/13/2009 through 12/20/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links (12/20/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• So you want to write a Storage Engine… (Paul S. Randal)
• Holiday Reading: Free eBooks and Good Blogs (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Not another NDepend review, link roundup (Peter Eysermans)

The Geek Shelf

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

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.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Just say No! to C# Regions and I still say Regions are not useful… but… (Saul Mora)
• Adding the fuel gauge (Simon Brown)
• Educate Developers Instead Of Protecting Them (Davy Brion)
• Refactoring Project Structure is just as important as Refactoring Code (Derik Whittaker)
• Piggyback on Derik Whittaker’s Post on Refactoring Project Structure (Dave Schinkel)
• The Big Agile Practices Survey (Jurgen Appelo)
• Survey Time! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Lessons from the Coding Dojo: Simple is Hard (JP Hamilton)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate mapping – <database-object/> (Oren Eini)
• “Is XML” Regex / Extension Method (Chris Cavanagh)
• Speeding up a local build (Jimmy Bogard)
• MEF: Dependencies are Queries? (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Free eBooks: ADO.NET Entity Framework, Powershell & C# (Robert Muehsig)
• Your Very First NHibernate Application – Part 2 (Gabriel N. Schenker)

Web Development

• A new flag to optimize ASP.NET compilation behavior (David Ebbo)
• JSON Compatibility Across Browsers (Saul Mora)
• Custom Route Constraint in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
• Introducing new Sueetie Column: Feature Rich and Feature Rich: Gallery Server Pro – How to Create Secure Albums and Feature Rich: YetAnotherForum.NET – How to Create a Private Forum (Dave Burke)
• 10 Exceptional WordPress Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• Clean blend of javascript and csharp (Louis DeJardin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight with F#: Handling Keyboard Input (John Liao)
• GeoPlaces: WCF\WPF app (Lester Lobo)
• Poll, Don’t Wait for your Silverlight Applications (Louis Salin)
• Mediator v2 for MVVM WPF and Silverlight applications (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• p&p SharePoint Development Guidance v2 – What’s in Drop 7? (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
• ARCast.TV – Enabling Accelerators on Your Web Site (Bob Familiar)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #102: Taking a look at how to modify the T4 templates used by Sharp Architecture (Kyle Baley)
• Episode 132: Top 10 Architecture Mistakes with Eoin Woods (SE-Radio Team)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #49 (Jeff Atwood)
• Herman Venter – The Common Compiler Infrastruture goes Open Source (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• Microsoft MSDN Events Unleashed – IE 8 and Windows 7 Development (Angela Binkowski)
• I’m an ASP Insider (Simone Chiaretta) – Congrats, Simo!
• Comments: Now with Flags and Votes (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• It’s official: SharePoint Server 2010 (Arpan Shah)
• Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 due to ship April 28th (Jie Li)

Database

• Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 White Paper Released (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Atlona’s Wireless USB to HDMI Video Adapter. FTW! (Everything USB)
• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Desktop Time Tracker" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• My MSDN Flash Editorial for April 13, 2009 (Dave Bost)
• Comma Quibbling (Eric Lippert)
• Where is the Xbox 360 Lite? (Steve Tibbett)
• Microsoft uncovers details on Office 2010 (Taimur Asad)
• Does Windows Azure Support Java? and Programming Language Interoperability in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Zune HD Specs, What We Do & Don’t Know (Ryan Rea)
• SkyDrive Adds New Silverlight-Enabled Features and Qik for Windows Mobile Updated (Sarah Perez)
• Mockups 1.6 Release: Linking Mockups, and More! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Office 2010 announced (Mark Harrison)
• Installing Visual SVN Server (Kevin Miller)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 15, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #328 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 15, 2009 — #571 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 15th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 6 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Trains and Interoperability (Larry Clarkin)
• Introduction to the Stubs Framework (Jonathan de Halleux) – Link of the Day
• Refactoring a Switch Statement (Chris Brandsma)
• Lessons Learned from the NUnit Code Base (Patrick Smacchia)

.NET / Visual Studio

• More Curry? (Mike Hadlow)
• SYTYAWD Are You Using Regular Expressions (Jeff McWherter)
• Call Hierarchy Navigation in Visual Studio 2010 (Kirill Osenkov)
• XML Comments: filterpriority and Reading All Bytes from a Stream (Scott Dorman)
• Reading an XML File Using LINQ and A Quick Way to Find C++ Method Signatures for C# Interop (Tom Hearn)
• Introducing tweet#, the Complete Fluent C# Library for Twitter (Daniel Crenna)

Silverlight

• Pie Chart and Column Chart Videos Post (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

• Working with Web Pages in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)

PowerShell

• Capture Console Screen (PowerShell Team)
• Test-PSCmdlet (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• IE8 in Windows 7 Beta (Paul Cutsinger)
• How-To: Getting Started with .VHD Files in Windows 7 (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)

More Link Collections

• Triple Shot Links #15 (Russell Ball)
• Silverlight Cream for January 10, 2009 – #481 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day