Top Links

• VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools Update (with some cool new features) (Scott Guthrie)
• Photos, Photos, Photos – How To Save, Load And Iterate Pictures With Windows Phone 7 (Rene Schulte)
• Windows Phone 7 Emulator tips and tricks (András Velvárt)
• Summer of “Iron”: LINQ, Visual Studio tooling, and the Apache License (Jimmy Schementi)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Results Ordering (Richard Carr)
• Events and Delegates Under The Hood – Q&A (Jesse Liberty)
• Entity Framework CTP 4 Walkthroughs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Parallelism in .NET – Part 18, Task Continuations with Multiple Tasks (Reed Copsey, Jr.)
• Switching with non-constant cases in C# (Jef Claes)
• Using Nested Lambda Functions to Implement Numerical Algorithms (Julian Robinson)
• Code Protection and Obfuscation of .Net Software Using Crypto Obfuscator (G. Himangi)
• WCF DataServices & the Processing Pipeline? (Mike Taulty)
• Gems For .NET – Community Response (Rob Reynolds)
• Command Prompt History (Zain Naboulsi)
• Absolute Beginners Guide to Entity Framework (Michael Yaroshefsky)
• Veracity Technology Overview (Eric Sink)

Web Development

• All New Sueetie Content Part Control (Dave Burke)
• Turning JSON into a ExpandoObject (Nick Berardi)
• How We Used Data in GiveAQuiz.com (Shawn Wildermuth)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Announcing Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 (Aaron Bjork)
• Article:The Limits of Agile (Alan Kelly)
• Working with Legacy code #7 : The boy scout rule. and Technical Debt (Andy Stopford)
• Lokad CQRS – Advanced Task Scheduling with Calendars in the Cloud (Rinat Abdullin)
• On the use and misuse of patterns (Rockford Lhotka)
• Configuration Come To Jesus (Dave Laribee)
• Groundhog Day, or, the Problem with A/B Testing (Jeff Atwood)
• Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 Now Available (Windows Azure Team)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Where’s the roadmap for Windows Phone 7? (Ed Bott)
• The World’s Simplest Silverlight/RIA/POCO Example and SL/RIA/POCO: Update Data and SL/RIA/POCO: Field Ordering (Deborah Kurata)
• Document Toolkit 2 is released (Koen Zwikstra)
• Debugging a “Silverlight Business Application” Out Of Browser (Mike Taulty)
• How to use new Rupee Symbol of India in Silverlight? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The duplex story: looking at duplex communication in Silverlight 4 – Part 2: Using Sockets (Gill Cleeren)
• Build a WPF Interactive Animation Application (logicchild)
• Microsoft ships Windows Phone 7 devices to developers (Tim Conneally)
• Optimizing the On-Screen Keyboard (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Catching up with Roy Osherove at NDC (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• TechCrunch TV: Inside Windows Phone 7 (Evelyn Rusli)
• Mix 10 Discussion of High Performance 3D on Windows Phone 7 and Why the User Experience is so different on Windows Phone 7 from the iPhone, with Bill Buxton and Albert Shum.. (Don Burnett)
• endpoint.tv – Workflow and Custom Activities – Best Practices (Part 3) (Ron Jacobs)
• Talking Shop Down Under on Frankly Speaking and Talking Shop Down Under Episode 21 – Anthony Borton at DDD Sydney (Richard Banks)
• Ping 66: Kinect, WPC, Bing, Next of Kin, Free MSDN Universal Subscription (Paul M.)
• The Weather Channel on Microsoft Surface (Eric Havir)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – July 19th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Azure Boot Camp (Kevin E. Kline)
• Failure to Launch: Healthcare IT Q&A (Bob Nadler)
• Presenting at LIDNUG this Thursday (Gil Zilberfeld)
• SQLBits – What, Where, and Why (Brent Ozar)
• Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp Schedule (Jeff Blankenburg)

Database

• Free SQL Server DMV Starter Pack (Brad M. McGehee)
• Recover Backed-up query files in SQL Server Management Studio (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – SELECT * FROM dual – Dual Equivalent (Pinal Dave)
• Best way to send multiple values in one parameter to database (Peter Bahaa)
• SQL Trace Events Reference (Jen McCown)

SharePoint

• Application master page files in SharePoint 2010 (Greg Galipeau)
• Business Connectivity Services Model using Stored Procedures – BCS Meta Man and BCS Stored Procedures – Specific Finder and IdEnumerator (Phill Duffy)

Miscellaneous

• Freelancing: The Basics of Survival (Anna Debenham)
• A free tool from Microsoft Learning: LCDS v2.5 (Devon Musgrave)
• A small app to show the OCR data on a OneNote page (John Guin)
• What are the best code comments you have ever heard? “Fix Me Lior Ugly” @Typemock (Tal Druyan)
• Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Your Tasks (Richard Hay)
• The end of performance reviews? (Scott Berkun)

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• Interesting Finds: July 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 19-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• 48 Best Free Software Downloads from Microsoft (Mike Taulty)
• The Morning Brew #646 (Chris Alcock)

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Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook by Gill Cleeren

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Top Links

• DevsForWendy (Steve Bohlen)
• New Embedded Database Support with ASP.NET (Scott Guthrie)
• The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 22: Mistakes Make Me Human. Fixing Mistakes Makes Me Brad Wilson. (Evan Nagle)
• Import Art from Photoshop and Make into Silverlight Controls (Adam Kinney)
• How’d they build that? Using Snoop and WPF Inspector to peek inside WPF Apps (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• “Hello World” for XNA Game Studio 4.0 (Don Burnett)
• FREEWARE Version of Toad Extension for Visual Studio now available (Barclay Hill)
• Visual Studio: Pinning Projects on Start Page and Solution Files: Change Project Directory Location and Type-Ahead in Solution Explorer and Visual Studio: Accessing any Window from the Keyboard (Deborah Kurata)
• Parsing Columns Like A Ninja (John Sonmez)
• Automatic music categorization with .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Fun With Expressions and Math.Pow (Jason Bock)
• .NET on a bicycle (Coding4Fun)
• Visual Expression Builder for Dynamic Linq (Moshe Plotkin)
• Project Euler Problem 3 in F# (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Using Telerik’s New LINQ Implementation with SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)
• Navigate Among Errors in the Output Window (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC: Your Option and Your Peril (Dino Esposito)
• Making ASP.NET Buttons Match the default WebSite Template. (Joe Stagner)
• Policing ActionResults (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Culture clash (Eric Brechner)
• API Design Rule: First, Don’t Lie (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Clean Code’s Robert Martin on Comments (Frank La Vigne)
• Anatomy of a good bug report (Damien Guard)
• Visual Studio Architecture Guidance – Use UML Models for Testing (Clemens Reijnen)
• Clear code and less comments (Dennis Delimarsky)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Codeplex Releases "Windows Phone 7 Action Pack" for Developers (Blake Handler)
• Morgan on MVVM in WPF (Mike Taulty)
• RIA Services and Authentication – Part 2 (Using Roles) (Nikhil Kothari)
• Custom Busyindicator style in Silverlight 4 (bbbnova)
• Uploading and geo-tagging photos on Flickr using Silverlight 4′s HttpWebRequest (Marcel du Preez)
• Code Samples for Windows Phone (Frank La Vigne)
• Debugging Data Bindings in a WPF or Silverlight Application and Tips and Tricks for working with the WPF and Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio 2010 (Karl Shifflett)
• Text Trimming in Silverlight 4 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Open Source Databases for WP7 (Chris Koenig)
• Find the WPF sample you want with this "map" (Margaret Parsons)
• Top issues for Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• Perst database for WP7 cost breakdown (Dave Campbell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Polymorphic Podcast 2010.06.30 MVC Turbine with Javier Lozano (Craig Shoemaker)
• jQuery jqGrid Plugin: Add, Edit, Delete with ASP.NET MVC (Elijah Manor)

Community / Events

• Can I fulfill my creative passions with a career at Microsoft? (Marie Watkins)
• For Wendy Friedlander (Charles Petzold)

Database

• Understanding SQL Server DateTime Column – 4 Part Series (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Best Practices Analyzer – Quick Tutorial (Pinal Dave)
• Check Script (Buck Woody)
• NoSQL and Data Warehousing (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Stream Accessor BCS Method (Phill Duffy)
• Lightning conductor 2007 web part V2 (Lightning Tools)
• Business Data Catalog SQL Account (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• The First Computer Programmer: Ada Lovelace (Chris Higgins)
• PowerShell in Practice (Chris Njeri)
• Kinect detailed in newly precise tech specs (Paul Miller)
• STA Objects and the Finalizer Thread: Tale of a Deadlock (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #633 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 30, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 30-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

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• RESTing from MEF (or The MEF dealer is at REST) (Glenn Block)
• Check Out QuickGenerate (Davy Brion)
• Querying WCF RIA Services and handling async results (Brian Noyes)
• Looking for an MVC Grid Control? Try MVC Contrib! (Mike Ceranski)
• Unit Testing Dynamic XAP Files (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Building Distributed Apps with NHibernate and Rhino Service Bus (Oren Eini)
• Anonymous Types in C# or VB .NET (Hima)
• Accelerated C# 2010 (Ferdinando Santacroce)
• Ad-hoc mapping with NHibernate (Jimmy Bogard)
• TFS API Part 26 – Add/Remove Test Plans (Shai Raiten)
• Using Fluent NHibernate With Legacy Databases (Rod Paddock)
• AutoRecover (Zain Naboulsi)
• Collection, disposal and finalization (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• WCF RIA Applications with Telerik OpenAccess ORM Part II: CRUD Operations and Validation (Pencho Popadiyn)

Web Development

• Search Engine Optimization Enhancements in ASP.NET 4 (Scott Mitchell)
• Using Dynamic Views In ASP.NET MVC 2 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Enforcing a Base Controller (K. Scott Allen)
• jQuery: Dynamically updating a drop down list (Mark Needham)
• HTML5 geolocation – What If the User Doesn’t Share His Position? (Stoimen Popov)
• Persisting CheckBox State While Paging in GridView Control (Mohammad Azam)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Battle of the frameworks: The SharePoint arena (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Motivation Is In You. Find Out How to Unlock It. (Nicholas Cardot)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Quality, Performance and Looks! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Introducing Organizations (Kyle Neath)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Codeplex Releases "Windows Phone 7 Action Pack" for Developers (Blake Handler)
• Silverlight PivotViewer Now Available (Scott Guthrie)
• Enhanced ListView Operations using MVVM (Izhar Lotem)
• Silverlight PivotViewer Now Available (Larry Larsen)
• Morgan on MVVM in WPF (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight 4 VisualStateManager Valid issue (Rockford Lhotka)
• Silverlight PivotViewer Control is Here! (Silverlight Team)
• How can we make WCF support in Silverlight better? (Yavor Georgiev)
• Pivot, OData, and Windows Azure: Visual Netflix Browsing (Steve Marx)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 98: Paul Kimmel on Visual Studio 2010 (David Giard)
• C9 Lectures: Introduction to the STL with Stephan T. Lavavej, Lecture 1 (Charles Torre)
• 5 More Tailspin Spyworks Videos Now Live (Joe Stagner)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Evolutionary Programming with Jason Bock (Jeff Brand)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast: ADP West 2010 – Payson Hall – Risk, Reward and Public Sector Contracts (Bob Payne)
• What’s New: SharePoint 2010 Screencast Series (Episode 7) (John Wiese)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – June 29th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Community Event Website Tips (Steve Andrews)
• Devs For Wendy and GiveCamps (Chris Williams)
• I’m Joining SQLskills.com (Brent Ozar)
• CodeStock Trip Report (Rachel Appel)

Database

• SQL Azure: Troubleshoot and Optimize Queries using DMV’s – Free Whitepaper (Suprotim Agarwal)
• XQuery Lab 61 – Writing a Recursive CTE to process an XML document (Jacob Sebastian)

Miscellaneous

• Hulu Plus coming to Xbox 360 (Larry Hyrb)
• Book review: Real-World Functional Programming (Dror Helper)
• Start-Transcript and Stop-Transcript (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Hardware Acceleration and IE9: Dell Says Bring it on! (James Pratt)
• Diablo II Is Also Ten Years Old (Jim Rossignol)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDPCM (O’Reilly Media)
• Announcing: The Redesigned MSDN Home Page and Hub Pages (Pete Brown)
• GameStop Pulls Xbox 360 Slim Trade In Deal (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft removing your 3D glasses (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 30, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 29, 2010 — #893 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 29, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 06.23 ~ 06.30 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #632 (Chris Alcock)
• Flagged Links #76 (Jason Bock)
• SQLAuthority News – A Monthly Round Up of SQLAuthority Blog Posts (Pinal Dave)

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Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software (Programmer to Programmer) by Patrick Cauldwell

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Top Links

• Way of MEF slides and Code (Glenn Block)
• Introducing Stack Exchange Data Explorer (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Language-Integrated Query (Richard Carr)
• How to Install Bing Maps App SDK with Visual Studio 2010 (Derek Chan)
• Using a Simple Quick Find (Zain Naboulsi)
• Conditional Attribute (Miguel de Icaza)
• How To Reference A Property By Name Without Using String Constants (Jon Davis)
• Cache Retrieval Pattern (Gil Fink)

Web Development

• How to Execute SSIS Packages in C# ASP.NET Part II (Vuyiswa Maseko)
• jQuery: Storing and retrieving data related to elements (Rebecca Murphey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Kanban just Waterfall with Small Batches? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Refactoring: Convert static into instance (Patrick Kua)
• Scrum vs. Kanban attitudes (Roy Osherove)
• The Funq IoC Container (Anthony Steele)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WCF RIA Services Part 1 published (Brian Noyes)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 83: Ayende Rahien on RavenDB (Jon Galloway)
• The Thirsty Developer 95: DBPro with Barclay Hill (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• Web Directions @media 2010 (Rachel Andrew)

Database

• Calculate Average Time Interval in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL Server and the Auto Close Setting (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – What is Denali? (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Two Incredible, Indispensable, Free Utilities (Jesse Liberty)
• Live Sync: life after Live Mesh (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone 7 to add Flash 10.1 support? (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 12, 2010 — #880 (Dave Campbell)

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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler

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Top Links

• RavenDB & CouchDB – Basic Queries (Rob Ashton)
• Basic Manipulation Event Handling in Windows Phone 7 (Charles Petzold)
• New Protocol Attempts to Standardize Sharing (Jolie O’Dell)
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Final Look (Jimmy Bogard)
• WPF – I’m Not Dead Yet! (Brian Noyes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Albacore Feature Preview: Building C# Code With CSC.exe (Derick Bailey)
• Conventions for Code First (Rowan Miller)
• Team Explorer Everywhere – A Plug-in to access TFS from Eclipse (Subodh Sohoni)
• VS 2010 productivity improvements, Part II (Somasegar)
• Prototype Tip for the New Book and Go To a Line Without Using the Go To Line Dialog (Zain Naboulsi)
• New book: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• EAV and the .NET Framework (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Tips & Tricks – Working with Event Handler (Kunal Chowdhury)

Web Development

• Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API (Part 3) (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Using Multiple Actions (Brian Mains)
• Why ASP.NET Changes Don’t Change Anything (Dave M. Bush)
• FubuMVC Guides and StructureMap 3.0 Plans (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Walkthrough– Publishing an Extensibility Web Control Project Template (Part 2 of 2) (Martin Tracy)
• Google Offers Cloud Storage to Developers (Abel Avram)
• Computing the Total Size of Your Blobs (Steve Marx)
• Zappos to Launch API For Shoes (Adam DuVander)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Final Draft of DSL book on RoughCut (Martin Fowler)
• Working with Legacy code #4 : Remove the hard dependencies and Working with Legacy code #5: The blackhole. (Andy Stopford)
• A few weeks of Kanban (Christophe Louvion)
• Cucumber, A Brief Overview (Joey Beninghove)
• Wireframes or No Wireframes (Vikas Hazrati)
• Rietveld, or “How to revamp your code review process” (Kyle Baley)
• “Why” documentation – in code? in tests? (Brian Marick)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (3 – Client) (Mike Taulty)
• Stream the BP Live Feed via Silverlight (Frank La Vigne)
• WCF RIA Services Speculation: EntityCollectionView (Colin Blair)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #26 – Changing the Startup Class (Mike Snow)
• Filled To The Bursting Point – WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.5.0 (Rene Schulte)
• Microsoft Translator client library for Silverlight and SNEAK PEEK: Another Silverlight theme pack preview (Tim Heuer)
• Working with JSON in .NET – a Silverlight example (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using Behaviors in Blend 4 (Silverlight TV 30) (John Papa)
• Spaghetti Code Talks XNA with Chris Williams and Spaghetti Code Talks Entrepeneurship (Jeff Brand)

Community / Events

• TechEd North America Announcement Speculation (Stephen Forte)
• Upcoming SharePoint Conferences in 2010 (Paul J. Swider)
• OData Workshops in Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Chicago and NYC (Alex James)
• IASA NE June 17th, Cloud Computing Open Fishbowl (Bob Familiar)
• California Launches Mashup Contest: the Data Gold Rush is On (John Musser)
• Tipping against Time – Sara’s Visual Studio Tip Challenge (Sara Ford)
• CodePlex: Multiple Project Downloads, Wiki Enhancements and more (Matt Hawley)
• Is Google getting ready to drop a Chrome OS bomb on WWDC 2010? (Lee Mathews)

Database

• Find Rules and Defaults using the PowerShell for SQL Server 2008 Provider (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure and Transactions (Pinal Dave)
• Table Variables (Steve Jones)
• Clearing a SQL Server Database, Take 2 (Joel Cochran)
• Push Ups and String Concatenation (Jeremiah Peschka)

Miscellaneous

• The Vast and Endless Sea (Jeff Atwood)
• A COM and Registry review staring CLSID, TypeLib, Interface and AppID. (Greg Duncan)
• MetroTwit Launches with Windows 7 Integration (Sarah Perez)
• Google outlaws Windows, but what if Microsoft outlaws Google…? and Steve Jobs speaks candidly about Adobe, Google, the iPhone, iPad and more! (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2010 — #874 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 1, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #612 (Chris Alcock)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines 06.01.2010 (Bob Familiar)

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The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting

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Top Links

• Code Contracts Part 1 – Introduction (Kevin Hazzard)
• BizTalk Server 2010 Beta (MS Downloads)
• Technical Computing (Somasegar)
• Silverlight 4 Tools, WCF RIA Services and Themes Released (Tim Heuer)
• Final Release of Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 (WPF developers you need this also) (Karl Shifflett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Ranger projects (Pieter de Bruin)
• C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: C# 4 Optional Parameters (Sam Gentile)
• Applying XDT magic to App.Config (Vishal Joshi)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: The data model (Oren Eini)
• MSDEV Updates Visual Studio 2010 Developer Training for RTM (Bruce Kyle)
• Visual Studio Window | New Window (Deborah Kurata)
• Code for “Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010” DRAFT ebooks (Devon Musgrave)
• Visual Basic 2010 Samples gets some WCF/WF Sample JuJu – We’re talking 27MB of WF/WCF samples, that’s JuJu! (Greg Duncan)
• Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Ritchie)
• C# Interfaces, what are they and why use them? (Richard McCutchen)
• An interesting bit of F# behaviour (Steve Gilham)
• Jump to the Top or Bottom of the Current View in the Editor (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• How to Manage ObjectContext Per Request in ASP.NET (Gil Fink)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – The Final Countdown Timer and Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Custom Schedulers (Matthew Podwysocki)
• HTML5 And Flash: Why It’s Not A War, And Why Flash Won’t Die (Luke Reimer)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming Windows Azure – Only $9.99 use code DDPWA (O’Reilly Media)
• Dynamically Loading jQuery plugins (Sam Tyson)
• JavaScript local alias pattern (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Windows Azure Guest OS (Brian Hitney)
• Book review: PHP 5 E-commerce Development and Extension methods for PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Expert PHP 5 Tools review (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum for Team System version 3 (TFS 2010), aka (SfTS v3) RTM released (Greg Duncan)
• Lessons Learned from Mike Kropp (J.D. Meier)
• Review: Pragmatic Unit Testing In C# with NUnit (2nd Edition) (Keith Dahlby)
• The 3 maturity stages of a software team and how scrum fails to identify them (Roy Osherove)
• What Is Great Software? (Jared Richardson)
• Why You Shouldn’t Expose Your Entities Through Your Services (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RIA Services – v1 Shipped! (Nikhil Kothari)
• F# for Silverlight 4 available (Brian McNamara)
• Silverlight 4 Application Themes and WCF RIA Services v1.0 and WCF RIA Services Toolkit (MS Downloads)
• SLARToolkit Beginner’s Guide (Rene Schulte)
• Scaling circles – loading animation in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight 4 Tools for VS 2010 and WCF RIA Services Released (Scott Guthrie)
• UxMagic.Com gets the Silverlight 4 “Metro-Style” Makeover (Don Burnett)
• WCF RIA Services v1.0 and Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2010 are Here! (John Papa)
• Workaround for accessing some ASMX services from Silverlight 4 (Yavor Georgiev)
• Custom Attached Properties in Silverlight (Umair Saeed)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ping 58: Gates & Cloud Computing, Bing for Mobile, Microsoft concept Phone (Laura Foy)
• Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Launch: New Designer Capabilities (Silverlight TV 27) and WCF RIA Services v1.0 Launch! (Silverlight TV 28) (John Papa)
• The Thirsty Developer 92: ASP.NET to Silverlight, A Case Study (Dave Bost)
• Boxcar Case Macro in Visual Studio 2010 – Video (David Starr)
• endpoint.tv – Activities and Designers with Matt Winkler (Part 1) (Ron Jacobs)
• Covariance and Contravariance in .NET 4.0 (Marcus Wendt)
• jQuery Podcast 23 – Nicholas Zakas (Ralph Whitbeck)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – May 17th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The First European NHibernate Day is next fall in Italy: announcement and call for speakers (Simone Chiaretta)
• Typemock Sponsored The VS 2010 Community Launches Poland tour (Maciej Grabek)
• Richmond Code Camp 2010.1 Is This Weekend (Justin Etheredge)
• Resigning from the .NET Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Girls in Tech Chicago-land Chapter Meets May 27th in Downers Grove! (Angela Binkowski)

Database

• The SQL Server Setup Portal (Buck Woody)
• 5 Features SQL Server Doesn’t Need (Jack Corbett)
• SQLAuthority Book Review – DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Star DBA (Pinal Dave)
• Why Raven DB? (Oren Eini)
• MSSQL: Copying data from one database to another (Gunnar Peipman)

SharePoint

• Open BCS Model Created in SharePoint Designer 2010 in Visual Studio 2010 (Hrayr Diloyan)
• Move Forum Topics – Lightning Storm Forums (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases PowerPivot for Excel 2010 Business Intelligence Samples (Blake Handler)
• 2010 Best Tech to Work For (Joe Smith)
• Re-inventing Windows Live Hotmail – the next generation of personal email (Dick Craddock)
• Copying Files Over Remote Desktop (Phil Haack)
• Every Program There Is, Part Seven (Eric Lippert)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: A Typical Day with Microsoft Office (Chester Coronel)
• Modeling the World (Bill Hilf)
• Small Basic Sample of this Week: Simon (Vijaye)
• MSDN Widget Generator (MSDN)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman on Micro Magazines, Cornerstone Pages, Predictive Horizons (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 17-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #602 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 17, 2010 — #863 (Dave Campbell)
• links worth clicking… (Chris Williams)

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Professional C# 4.0 and .NET 4 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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SQL Server MVP Deep Dives

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• Vim+Grep: Find All Occurrences Of Text In Your Project (Derick Bailey)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Async Method Chaining (Matthew Podwysocki)
• StackOverflow Desktop Client in C# and WPF – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• A Brief, Incomplete and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (James Iry)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to get info from client certificates issued by a CA (C#) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: BigInteger and C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: Complex numeric type (Sam Gentile)
• How Do I: Using IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2010 (Chris Koenig)
• New IDE Features in Visual Studio 2010 for C# Developers (Kirill Osenkov)
• Protecting your .NET applications (Suprotim Agarwal)
• WCF Data Service Projections – null handling and expansion (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Shake – C# Make – Release v0.1.11 (CodePlex)
• F#: Tacit programming (Mark Needham)
• Pinning Projects and Solutions with Visual Studio 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Build Tools Roundup For .NET Systems (Derick Bailey)
• Every Program There Is, Part Five (Eric Lippert)
• If you are seeing intermittent crashes with VS 2010 (Gary Horen)

Web Development

• Globalizing ASP.NET MVC Client Validation (Phil Haack)
• Use ScriptSrc.net to Copy and Paste the Script tag for Your Favorite JavaScript Library (Rey Bango)
• Resolve a URL from a Partial View (ASP.NET MVC) (Scott Mitchell)
• JavaScript Coding Standards (Simon Ince)
• jQuery and Windows Azure (Stephen Walther)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• "Art of Agile" Training Courses This October (James Shore)
• Project Greenfield (Joel Cochran)
• What Do I Mean by a Complex Product? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The devil is in the detail (Paul Boag)
• The True Cost of Quality (John Sonmez)
• How the SDL helped improve Security in Office 2010 (Didier Vandenbroeck)
• Software As A Destination vs Software As A Journey (Alan Skorkin)
• Poka-Yoke in UI design (Janko Jovanovic)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: Near-Final Screenshots (Paul Thurrott)
• Control templates in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Building a Simple Windows Phone App (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Droppy Pop: A Windows Phone 7 Game (Andy Beaulieu)
• Why you should check out Expression Blend Behaviors when using Silverlight (Dave Isbitski)
• Integrating HTML into Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight HVP – Next Steps and Community Involvement (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7 Panorama & Pivot controls – Release v0.7 (samples included) (CodePlex)
• Binding to Silverlight ComboBox and Using SelectedValue, SelectedValuePath and DisplayMemberPath (John Papa)
• WPF Shell Integration Library (Lester Lobo)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #17 – Double Click (Mike Snow)
• Fiddler inspector for WCF Silverlight Polling Duplex and WCF RIA (Joe Zhou)
• Common Navigation UI and Authorization-driven Sitemaps (David Poll)
• Quick and easy scalable rounded bevels (Phil Middlemiss)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• New Video by Jon Harris: Blend 4 for Windows Phone in 90 Seconds (Christian Schormann)
• Ping 57: IE9, Alan Wake, Silverlight, Spindex, MMS (Laura Foy)
• Pluralcast 15 : SQL Server Under the Covers (David Starr)
• QuarkPromote Lights Up Windows 7 with RIA Web Application on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 12 – WebForms MVP with Tatham Oddie (Richard Banks)
• endpoint.tv – Configuring Windows Server AppFabric Persistence (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Events this Week – May 10th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Special Silverlight Designer Events THIS WEEK at NERD (Jim O’Neil)
• Open Data Event Rallies Developers (Adam DuVander)
• Two Cool Typemock Contests (Roy Osherove)
• OData Blowout in June… 8 OData Workshops in Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Chicago and NYC (Chris Woodruff)
• “10 Days for Office 2010” Starting May 12 (Joseph Mirabella)
• API Forum Grand Opening (Rick Olson)
• Hate Software Bugs?! Fan page snapshot (Tal Townsend)

Database

• SQL Server PowerShell Provider And PowerShell Version 2 Get-Command Issue (Buck Woody)
• Create Date Ranges for Consecutive dates in a SQL Server Table (Suprotim Agarwal)
• What 5 things should SQL Server get rid of? (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Spatial Database Queries – What About BLOB – T-SQL Tuesday #006 (Pinal Dave)
• Moving Data from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 (Zhiming Xue)
• DBA Survivor by Tom LaRock – Book Review (Brent Ozar)

Miscellaneous

• DocTranslator: Google Translation Mashup Service for Microsoft Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Making Sense of the SenseCam (Rob Knies)
• Microsoft Access 2010 Source Code Control (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft and LG partner to release Xbox 360 3D gaming (Matt Blowes)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Mathematica Cookbook – Only $9.99 use code DDMTC (O’Reilly Media)
• Benchmarking: Introducing SSDs (Part 1b: not overloaded log file array) (Paul S. Randal)
• Firefox 3.7 will become 4.0 — Firefox 4, with updated Gecko, confirmed for later this year (Sebastian Anthony)
• Analyze Your Git Log With Ruby (Tobin Harris)
• Announcing the Clinical Documentation Solution Accelerator (CDSA) (MS CUI Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #597 (Chris Alcock)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 05.01 ~ 05.10 (yuanjian)

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Hacking Vim 7.2

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• Cheat Sheet – Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection Pattern (J.D. Meier)
• Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension (Karl Shifflett)
• Dynamically extending applications using MEF and the new F# CodeDom (Matt Moloney)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using Hide Selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• Validating Application Architecture with Visual Studio 2010 – Layer Diagrams (Derik Whittaker)

Web Development

• Editable MVC Routes (Apache Style) (Nick Berardi)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML – Only $9.99! Use code DDHFH (O’Reilly Media)
• node.js: A little application with Twitter & CouchDB (Mark Needham)
• Twitter to Introduce Versioning to Their API (Matthew Casperson)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – jQuery Live Event Integration (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Javascript Tetris part II – some tests (Mendelt Siebenga)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.4 Released (Rob Conery)
• Bundler Now Supports Named Bundles (Justin Etheredge)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using NBuilder to Mock Up a Data Driven UI – Part 2 (Andrew Siemer)
• Microsoft Competencies for Skilled Effectiveness (J.D. Meier)
• Validate your conventions. (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Sucking Less: Checking In More Often (Jerry Andrews)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using the Bing Maps Silverlight control on the Windows Phone 7 (Bart Czernicki)
• Silverlight Toolkit and the Windows Phone: WrapPanel, and a few others (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.10 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Building SL3 applications using OData client Library with Vs 2010 RC (Phani Raj)
• Commands as XAML Resources (Ward Bell)
• Consuming Binary Encoded WCF 4.0 Service in Silverlight 3.0 Applications (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Issues building the OData Explorer sources (Phani Raj)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 354: SXSW, MIX, PAX East, Game Room and more (Larry Hyrb)
• WebDev Radio Episode 74: IE9, visitor recording, conferences and more (Michael Kimsal)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 6 – XNA with Luke Drumm (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Recapping SharePoint 2010 Pro Summit in Las Vegas, NV (Andrew Connell)
• Silverlight and Blend events tour this week in England and Ireland (Adam Kinney)
• MIX10 recap (Jens Schaller)
• 15 New SharePoint 2010 Launch Community Parties To Be Announced (Joel Oleson)
• MIX10 Recap (Pete Brown)
• Looking Back at MIX10 (Roland Weigelt)

Database

• SQL Injection License Plate Hopes to Foil Euro Traffic Cameras [Imagecache] (Joel Johnson)
• Script: Transaction Log Backup (Gethyn Ellis)
• SQL SERVER – Enumerations in Relational Database – Best Practice (Marko Parkkola)

SharePoint

• A great new SharePoint Publication: SharePoint Pro Magazine (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Start Button "Orb" Changer 2.0 (Blake Handler)
• Pow! Biff! Wham! Splat! (James Kovacs)
• Use TortoiseHg (Mercurial) with SVN repository (Rinat Abdullin)
• ICE now uploads to Photosynth (Sunshine)
• Synaptics driver enables multitouch gestures on older trackpads (Donald Melanson)
• Diffing tool feature request (Jason Jarrett)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #564 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 21, 2010 — #816 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #112 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #97 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #26 – GeeksWithBlogs.net (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 137 (Rhonda Tipton)
• March 21st Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, Visual Studio, Silverlight (Scott Guthrie)
• Links (3/21/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/22/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting jQuery Bookmarks (Marc Grabanski)

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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

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• Mix10 Session Downloader (Frank La Vigne)
• HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Microsoft, jQuery, and Templating (Stephen Walther)
• Prism 4.0 Plans (Blaine Wastell)
• Microsoft’s Bill Buxton Tells UI Developers to ‘Do It Naturally’ (Joe Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Review of RedGate .NET Reflector Pro (Scott Seely)
• Cleaning up a folder structure from Visual Studio artifacts from the shell (Simone Chiaretta)
• Collapsing or Expanding All Your Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)
• Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 (Kirill Osenkov)
• Working with WCF: Part Two – Your First Host and A Bit About Configuration (James Bender)
• TMap for VS2010 Process Template Explained… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Protecting PowerShell Scripts with Team Foundation Server (TFS) (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Coding4Fun Cannon – Project Overview (Clint Rutkas)
• XNA Tutorial Gets Game Developers Ready for Windows phone 7 (Bruce Kyle)

Web Development

• Take Control Of Web Control ClientID Values in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Building Social Web Applications – Only $9.99! Use code DDBSW (O’Reilly Media)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing deeper (Matthew Podwysocki)
• IE9 Finally Ready to Join the HTML5 Party (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Translator v2 widget and APIs (Kip Kniskern)
• Announcing the OData Explorer (Phani Raj)
• OData.org updated, gives clues about future SQL Azure enhancements (Jamie Thomson)
• Windows Phone 7 user agent (Mads Kristensen)
• OData rocking at MIX10 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Microsoft <3 jQuery (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microsoft’s Bill Buxton on Design (Ina Fried)
• Take a look at the Windows Phone 7 Series “Metro” book (Devon Musgrave)
• Parallel Pair Programming (Mark Needham)
• Measuring Technical Debt (Mitch Ruebush)
• The Complexity Hammer (Steve Rowe)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part I (Christian Schormann)
• Silverlight 4: GPU Accelerated PlaneProjection (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 is NOT the same full Silverlight 3 RTM (Bart Czernicki)
• Testing a WPF UI using Ruby, Cucumber and WiPFlash.dll (Ben Hall)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services and Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight for Symbian Beta available now (Sunshine)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 4 : Direct Hosting of WPF content (Paul Harrington)
• Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application (Pete Brown)
• Control input focus from ViewModel objects (Josh Smith)
• MVVM Light V3 released at #MIX10 and What’s new in MVVM Light V3 and Sample code for my #mix10 talk online (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight 4 RC News (Don Burnett)
• Some steps for moving WCF RIA Services Preview to the RC version. (Fredrik Normen)
• Windows Phone 7 Series will have themes… sort of (Nilay Patel)
• WPF : Re-usable MVVM Ready Breadcrumb control (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• In your hands: IE 9 – Surfing on Metal with GPU Powered HTML5 and In your hands: IE9 and SVG – Past, Present and Future of Vector Graphics for the Web and In your hands: IE 9 Performance – From JS to COM to DOM to HTML5 on GPU and In your hands: Introducing the IE9 Developer Platform Preview (Charles Torre)
• “Build Your Own MVVM Framework” is Online (Rob Eisenberg)
• J.B. Rainsberger – Value Objects (Corey Haines)
• Covariance and Contravariance in .NET 4.0 (Martin Esmann)
• Silverlight TV 16: Top Features in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight (John Papa)

Community / Events

• MIX10 Day 2 Keynote – IE9, OData and Azure (Me)
• MIX10 – Day 1 and MIX10 – Day 2 – First IE9 Platform Preview, OData SDKs, “Dallas” CTP2 (Sunshine)
• Getting Started With nServiceBus on VAN Mar 31 (Zachariah Young)
• Philly.Net Code Camp 2010.1 is Coming… (Mitch Ruebush)
• IE9 Platform Preview Feedback (Justin Saint Clair)
• Side Projects, Community Involvement, Etc. (Derick Bailey)
• What’s Up at Mix: IE9, JQuery and Open Data (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• Using linked servers, OPENROWSET and OPENQUERY (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and WITH NO_WAIT during ALTER DATABASE (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Chat Web Part for SP 2010 – Sandbox Solution (Lightning Tools)
• Advanced donut caching: using dynamically loaded controls (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Zune 4.2 (MS Downloads)
• An Interview Question That Prints Out It’s Own Source Code (In Ruby) (Alan Skorkin)
• Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office Released – Automate Office documents without Office (Greg Duncan)
• Daily Dose – IBM Stops Disclosing Number of U.S. Employees (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Office 2010 Assessment & Planning (Brian Shiers)
• About the Platform Preview (Justin Saint Clair)
• Microsoft Bing: Behind the Scenes of the Decision Engine (Stefan Weitz)

More Link Collections

• Great Blog Posts on Expression Blend 4 for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #561 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 408 (Sam Gentile)
• Mix 10 Rollup Post (Scott Hanselman)

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Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB

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