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Top Links

• CodePlex now supporting native Mercurial and Using Mercurial on CodePlex and First Mercurial project on CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• The WebForms Rant (Karl Seguin)
• Making DevExpress & ReSharper Play Nicely (Jim Holmes)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK (MS Downloads)
• DSLs in Boo is out! (Oren Eini)
• Develop Web Apps in F# with WebSharper (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Some Astoria tips I learnt today (Marlon Grech)
• A basic proxy for intercepting method calls (Part –2) (Mehfuz Hussain)
• Selecting Static Results with Dynamic LINQ (Keith Dahlby)
• Telerik Data Services Wizard New Feature:DataServiceKey (Stephen Forte)
• IntelliSense Suggestion Mode — vstipEdit0012 and How to customize what files to search with Find in Files — vstipFind0005 (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

• Using CDN Hosted jQuery with a Local Fall-back Copy (Jon Galloway)
• IIS Application Warm-Up Module (Gunnar Peipman)
• Daily Dose – YouTube and Vimeo Foster HTML5 Escalation (Mitch Pronschinske)
• When will WebForm vs MVC become like ListView vs Repeater? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Explore CSS Properties Panel in Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MbUnit AssertEx (Andrew Stopford)
• Don Reinertsen on Second Generation Lean Product Development (Christophe Louvion)
• Controls Do Not Make You More Productive (Justin Etheredge)
• Management By Intimidation Is Downright Stupid And Risky. (Rajiv Popat)
• Automapper: First thoughts (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• How can I sort data virtualized items in WPF? (Bea Stollnitz)
• Aspen – part 6 of X – Reusing ObjectContex among Repositories during a DomainSerivce operation. (Fredrik Normen)
• Known Issue – Controls Deriving From A Generic Base Class Must Be In Separate Assembly (Karl Shifflett)
• Scrubbing with Thumbnails with the SMF Player (Michael S. Scherotter)
• XamlPadSample Step 1c-Project (Rob Relyea)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV Special – Designing Multi-tenant Applications on Windows Azure (Bob Familiar)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “Spontaneous combustion of rancid management” (Devon Musgrave)
• jQuery Podcast 8 – api.jquery.com (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Herding Code 69: Scott Bellware on HTML Specialists (Jon Galloway)
• Erik Meijer and Team: Cloud Data Programmability – Connecting the Distributed Dots (Charles Torre)
• MSBuild Interview on CodeCast (Chuck England)

 

Community / Events

• Advanced Agile: Beyond the Low-Hanging Fruit – webinar by Mary Poppendieck 3 February 2010 (Christophe Louvion)
• An Introduction to Silverlight – Thursday 4th March 2010 at Microsoft, Edinburgh (Mike Perrin)
• Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-Visual Studio Tools For Architects (Jeff Barnes)
• Available for Microsoft Solutions Architecture (Sam Gentile)

 

Database

• “Excel found unreadable content” when exporting a Reporting Services report (Jamie Thomson)
• Use sys.dm_os_performance_counters to get your Buffer cache hit ratio and Page life expectancy counters (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• Free SharePoint Reports with No Server Install (Joel Oleson)
• How ComponentOne Web Parts Improve the SharePoint Experience (Eve Turzillo)
• Operating System Requirements of SharePoint 2010 (Umesh Unnikrishnan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Write better knols with object embedding and PicApp (Cedric Dupont)
• O’Reilly drops ebook DRM, sees 104% increase in sales (Cory Doctorow)
• Running MobileShell on Windows 7 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Microsoft, don’t give up on Steve Ballmer just yet (Joe Wilcox)
• Office 2010 System Requirements (Alex Dubec)
• ShellMenuNew Cleans Up the Windows Explorer "New" Menu (The How-To Geek)
• Is the Zune Phone Enough? (Stephen Forte)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 — #784 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 – 2 — #785 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Azure Resources (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Help Me Get Started Using Visual Studio (Charlie Calvert)
• New and Notable 396 (Sam Gentile)

 

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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

 

 

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Top Links

• Comparing NHibernate and EF4 (Chris Sells)
• Add a Flickr widget to any web site with jQuery (Dan Hounshell)
• WPF for the Web guy…a story of pain, despair and learning (Scott Galloway)
• Passing NULL into Overloaded Methods in unit tests… (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight TV Episode 3: Multi-Touch 101 with Silverlight (John Papa)
• Bill Gates launches new site, offering peek inside his mind (Todd Bishop)
• Windows Phone teaser for Mix10 (Kip Kniskern)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing a Parallelized Octree in F# (Ade Miller)
• The Project Location Is Not Trusted (Dave M. Bush)
• Looks the same – with half the overhead! [Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code gives more compact output; Can you do better?] (David Anson)
• A new feature request for C# I would like is fall through exceptions (Derik Whittaker)
• Controlling Application Lifetime In Topshelf and Configuring Topshelf Using A StructureMap Container (Kevin Miller)
• Functional collectional parameters: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Using Generate from Usage — vstipEdit0011 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Much Ado About Monads – Creating Extended Builders Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• UML Modeling and Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Provost)

Web Development

• My Favorite Helpers For ASP.NET MVC (Rob Conery)
• IIS Tools – truck load of them at www.iis.net (Harish Ranganathan)
• Build an AJAX-Enabled Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Part 3 (Bogdan Zamfir)
• Large or asynchronous file uploads in ASP.NET MVC (Daniel Crenna)
• ASP.NET Support in ReSharper 5 (Hadi Hariri)
• Implementing a jQuery Modal Window in ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Click and Retrieve the Value of a GridView Cell using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Using Custom Security Attributes in ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ceranski)
• Performance Optimizations Made By Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo JavaScript Minimizers (Nick Berardi)
• HttpContext.Items and Server.Transfer/Execute (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Collaboration Patterns – Part 1 and Collaboration Patterns – Part 2 (Andy Warren)
• When the design violates the principle of least surprise, you don’t close it as By Design (Oren Eini)
• If It’s Not Working, Change Your Approach (JD Meier)
• Pollyanna Pixton on Agile Leadership (Christophe Louvion)
• Good Managers Sometimes Have to Play Assholes (Jurgen Appelo)
• Scrum Anti-Pattern: NOT Prioritising Stories Within Sprints (Karl Scotland)
• Using Glance to visualize Code Metrics (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: Themes (Deborah Kurata)
• Creating torn images (Coding4Fun)
• My Silverlight 4 Book Now Available for Pre-Order (Frank La Vigne)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.8 (Koen Zwikstra)
• XamlPadSample – Step 1 (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 39: CLR 4 Security and Sandboxing (Jason Olson)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #80 (Jeff Atwood)
• Craig Mundie shows off the future of NUI (Laura Foy)
• MVC 2 – Template Helpers and MVC 2 – Areas and MVC 2 – DataAnnotations and Parallel Computing (Martin Esmann)
• This Week in Testing Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 2) (Dror Helper)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Follow up, 6 months later, On Managing People with Chris Sells (Scott Hanselman)
• Authoring and Running Manual Tests in Visual Studio 2010 using Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16 & 18, 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Asking the Mountain To Come To You (Rob Conery)
• What do I have in store and hope for 2010 (Chris Woodruff)
• Life With My Geek: The Cave Phenomenon (Elle Starr)
• Zoho Reaches Out To Open Source Community (Krishnan Subramanian)
• My CodeMash 2010 experience (Bill Wagner)
• ALT.NET: Looks Like its Introspection Time Again! (Steve Bohlen)
• What can you get with 10KB of Ruby or Python code? (Jimmy Schementi)

Database

• Performance Tuning Methodology Preferences (Buck Woody)
• XML Validation in SQL Server Intergration Services (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Step by step (aka Dummies or Busy Dev Guy) guide to installing SharePoint 2010 in a virtual machine free eBook (Reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• How to Remove Corrupted SharePoint Sites – Preparing for SharePoint 2010 Upgrade (Joel Oleson)
• BCS Secure Store Services (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Google Chrome OS the Easy Way (Chris Leeds)
• Introducing the Windows Experience Pack (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Intuit and Microsoft Sign Deal to Serve SMBs (Ben Kepes)
• Free ebook: First Look Microsoft Office 2010 (Devon Musgrave)
• “What’s New for Developers in Outlook 2010” (Greg Duncan)
• Perform asynchronous asset management using Windows Powershell cmdlets for WMI (Kapil Mathur)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: The Sustainable Network — Only $9.99! Use discount code TSNE9 (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Research Works on “Mental Tagging” of Images (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Jan 20, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: January 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #522 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 20, 2010 — #783 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

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Top Links

• Welcome to the new DotNetKicks (James Avery)
• Visual Studio 2010 Tip of the Day Returns!! (Sara Ford)
• Mirroring SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 (Part 1) (Ted Krueger)
• Visions of Software Development or Can’t We Just All Get Along? (Christopher Bennage)
• Easily Explore Existing Architecture (Patrick Smacchia)
• Picture-in-Picture for Whiteboard movies with eBeam (Jonathan de Halleux)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Bookmarking with Visual Studio and ReSharper 5.0 (Vadim Kreynin)
• LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #3 (Damien Guard)
• Checking Whether A Method Is Overridden (Davy Brion)
• NHiberante and Join types in your mappings Select vs Join (Derik Whittaker)
• Receiving notifications when garbage collections occur (Jeffrey Richter)
• Continuing to an outer loop (Eric Lippert)
• Replacing text with a box selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 1 – Introduction (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Entity Framework in .NET 4 (Somasegar)
• PyBinding now hosted on CodePlex (Pavan Podila)
• F#: Refactoring to pattern matching (Mark Needham)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 2. Auto Registration (Mike Hadlow)

 

Web Development

• A More Scalable ScrewTurn Wiki Membership Model (Dave Burke)
• Adding Multiple Nested Data in ASP.NET MVC Application (Mohammad Azam)
• MVC Turbine Redux (Javier G. Lozano)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 3 – Cache Busting (Karl Seguin)
• Required Field Highlighting in Dynamic Data Field Templates (Steve Naughton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Tenet #9 – Attention to Excellence (Julie Stickler)
• What Do You Want to Accomplish Today? (JD Meier)
• StatLight (Rockford Lhotka)
• Poll: Do you use NUnit’s fluent API? (Roy Osherove)
• I Am Not a Master but a Solutionist (Rob Bazinet)
• When visualizations go wrong, part 2 (Scott Berkun)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part II (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.7 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight 4 Beta & MEF – Experimenting with an alternative Programming Model and Silverlight 4 – Displaying a Bunch of Files from a Zip File (Mike Taulty)
• Digging into Data (from a XAML perspective) (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight Top 10 of 2009 (Silverlight Team)
• Severely Decoupled Configuration (Jesse Liberty)
• Minimizing your designer footprint (Alex Knight)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stephen Walther On ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – An Overview of MVC4WPF – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Familiar)
• Countdown to MIX10: We’re baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! and Ping 43: CES, God Mode in Win 7, New Years Resolutions, MIX10 (Laura Foy)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #158: Exploring Operator Overloading in C# (Derik Whittaker)
• The Thirsty Developer 81: nPlus1 (Dave Bost)

 

Community / Events

• Silverlight Design Days – Free Blend Training on Tour (Adam Kinney)
• Magenic Code Mastery Event for Developers – February 11, 2010 and Calling All Enterprise Architects – Register Today for the Microsoft Business Integration Roadshow (Bob Familiar)
• Events This Week – January 11th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The best of the best and the worst of the worst of 2010 CES (Robert Scoble)
• Subversion seems to be losing favor among version control users (Jeffrey Palermo)
• A Call for Help – Vote for my Codeplex Issues (Eric Hexter)
• The NIH dance (Oren Eini)

 

Database

• Finding Invalid SQL Logins (Chad Miller)
• T-SQL Tuesday #002: Non-aggregated columns in a GROUP BY query (Kalen Delaney)
• SSIS – Lesson learnt, Case is very very important (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Fragmentation – Detect Fragmentation and Eliminate Fragmentation (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Visual Studio 2010 (Beta) upgrade tool for VSeWSS (MS Downloads)
• Try System Center Operations Manager Management Packs for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta and SharePoint Foundation 2010 beta (SharePoint Team)
• 10 Key Questions Determining SharePoint SQL Server Count (Joel Oleson)
• Business Connectivity Services Authentication (Brett Lonsdale)

 

Miscellaneous

• Kodu Game-Creation Tool for Kids Adapted for the PC (MS PressPass)
• MobileShell – PowerShell Prompt in a Browser (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Resume wording matters (Ryan Graves)
• Popular Languages of 2009 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows Mobile 7 – New Details Emerge (Taimur Asad)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: iPhone: The Missing Manual, Third Edition — Only $9.99! Use discount code PTMM9 (O’Reilly Media)
• Starting a new language is like spiking (Patrick Kua)
• Ballmer Picks Natural User Interface As Next Big Trend (Bruce Kyle)

 

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 01/12/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #515 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 11, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 11, 2010 — #775 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Entity Framework Resources (Julia Kornich)

 

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Domain-Driven Design

 

 

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Top Links

• ReSharper 5.0 has awesome ASP.NET MVC support (Jeffrey Palermo) – R# FTW again.
• Why MVC Turbine? (Javier G. Lozano) – Javier explains Turbine’s raison d’être.
• Ye Olde Kamera – Silverlight 4 Webcam & Old Movie Shader (Rene Schulte) – Another very cool SL4 post from Rene.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Much Ado About Monads – State Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

Web Development

• Looking Ahead to ASP.NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• Dynamic types and ASP.NET MVC (Hadi Hariri)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Personal Retrospectives (Diana Larsen)
• 10 Ways to Know Thyself (JD Meier)
• Memory obesity and the curse of the string (Oren Eini)
• “MEF in 2 hours or less”, I am all for it. and Autofac 2 is on the way, now in Beta! (Glenn Block)
• Rich Assertion Messages using CCI (and without expression trees) (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Welcome to the OCGM Generation! Part 2 (Ron George)
• The legend of free tools (Roy Osherove)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Polling Video – A Viable sub-second alternative? (Jesse Liberty)
• WCF RIA Services – Dynamically create a criteria on the client-side (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight 4 – WebCams.OnceMoreWithAudio() (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight tutorial: HOW TO build CommandLink Control in Silverlight with Expression Blend 3 and Behaviors (Vibor Cipan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Huey Wegner Migrate Us to SQL Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• MEF & Silverlight 4 Beta – Part 1, Introduction and Part 2, Imports & Exports and Part 3, Catalogs and Part 4, Recomposition and Part 5, the PackageCatalog and Part 6, Locating Defaults & ExportProviders (Mike Taulty)
• ASP.NET MVC FireStarter (Part 1 of 5): Intro to ASP.NET MVC & the MVC Design Pattern (Emily Gibson)
• Major Nelson Show 345: Last show of 2009 (Larry Hyrb)

 

Community / Events

• Retrospective of 2009, Planning for 2010 (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• AltNetConf email list is back! (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Running a Small User Group – The Tools (K. Brian Kelley)
• Looking back at 2009, and forward to 2010 (Pete Brown)
• SQLAuthority News – 1200th Post – An Important Milestone (Pinal Dave)

 

Database

• Measure Statement Performance with PowerShell (Buck Woody)
• Dimension cubes (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• How to Start Freelancing (Without Quitting Your Job) (Gina Trapani)
• The (Near) Final Word on Multi-Monitor Taskbars for Windows 7 – Ultramon vs. DisplayFusion (Scott Hanselman)
• 2000-2009: Microsoft’s decade of shattered dreams and Ten resolutions Microsoft should make for 2010 (Joe Wilcox)
• 24 Years of Windows Box Art (Larry Larsen)

 

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• The Morning Brew #508 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2009 — #766 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.21 ~ 12.31, bye 2009 (yuanjian)
• Tech Tweets for 30-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

 

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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

 

 

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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)

 

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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

 

 

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