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Top Links

• Ten things thou shalt not tweet (Xeni Jardin)
• UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil (Michael Feathers)
• Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: v1.8.0.3 (CodePlex)
• Extending NHibernate data with one-to-optional relationships (Louis DeJardin)
• F#: Expressing intent and the forward/application operators (Mark Needham)
• Comparing Bytes (Sean Timm)
• A basic proxy for intercepting method calls (Part –1) (Mehfuz Hussain)

Web Development

• Do you know how to maintain your Google ranking while moving to a new site structure? (Martin Hinshelwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Business Applications Could (Or Should) Look Like (Davy Brion)
• Handling Concurrency: It’s a Matter of Trust (Dan Simmons)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber part 2: Making scenarios easier to read with tables (Gojko Adzic)
• Unity/Moq – AutoMocker or AutoMockingContainer (Jason Jarrett)
• Test Soon Development: a case study (Ward Bell)
• Programmer Tip: Do Not Waste Your Professional Trump Card On Funny Things. (Rajiv Popat)
• Balsamiq Roadmap for 2010 (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Autofac as an IoC Container in Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight 4 – Make Commanding use lesser code (Fredrik Normén)
• Fluent Silverlight – Fluent API and inheritance (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• MEF and Prism exploration, MEF module loading (Glenn Block)
• Configuration Files for Silvelright HVP (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Dynamic Data Services in a WPF Application (Brady Kelly)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 2 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• F# Parallel Programming Video (Talbott Crowell)
• ARCast.TV – Real World Software + Services Architecture: The Winchester Ballistics Calculator (Bob Familiar)

Community / Events

• Byebye 2009, welcome 2010! (Maarten Balliauw)
• 2009 in Retrospective: Mike Cottmeyer Edition (Mike Cottmeyer)
• PowerShell, Virtually (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• SQL Server WHILE Loops (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Unique Nonclustered Index Creation with IGNORE_DUP_KEY = ON (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Intel Forced to Remove "Cripple AMD" Function from Compiler? (Thom Holwerda)
• Enable the secret ‘GodMode’ in Windows 7 (Imran Hussain)
• New, Lower Careers Pricing (Jeff Atwood)
• Why Windows Media Center is dead (Daniel Cazzulino)

More Link Collections

• Top 9 Posts from 2009 (Bart de Smet)
• Interesting Finds: January 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #509 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #104 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #86 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/4/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Links (1/3/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 126 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Best of Sources of Insight 2009 (JD Meier)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

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.NET / Visual Studio

• F# BootCamp – Questions and Answers – part I – Introduction (Steffen Forkmann)
• Using Reflection in C# to Figure Out if an Integer List Has Values (Peter Kellner)
• NHibernate Mapping – <list/> (Oren Eini)
• DDD and the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Evgeny Salamatov)
• LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0 (Damien Guard)
• Create a Generic List at Run Time and Quickly Find All "TODO’s" in Your .NET Project (Srinath M.)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – TeamCity Integration Coming (Rob Reynolds)
• Review: CryptoLicensing for .NET (Roy Osherove)
• NCover v3.1.2 released! (Stephen Ward)
• Analyze and explore the evolution of .NET Framework by yourself (Patrick Smacchia)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: 1.8.0.2 Beta (CodePlex)

Web Development

• JSMag June 2009 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Creating Rails Like Flash Feature in .NET The Flash Control (Mohammad Azam)
• Control TextBox’s AutoComplete Action (Chris Love)
• Sueetie Content Parts and List View Controls, Oh My (Dave Burke)
• Free ASP.NET 4.0 beta hosting available (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML Editor FieldTemplate for Dynamic Data Using AJAX Control Toolkit Editor (Stephen Naughton)
• How to Use Microsoft.Web.Administration : Using Scripts to Automate Management : Managing and Maintaining IIS 7.0 : The Official Microsoft IIS Site (Stuart Manning)
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Scott Guthrie)
• GridView Selection and Postback using jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• clientscript as the view controller (Jay Kimble)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BOOK: Agile Testing and Sensing and Sense-making in the Agility Cycle (Brad Appleton)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Utils Class (Chris Missal)
• Bricks and Mortar: Building a Castle (James Kovacs)
• Simple Nested Closure (Matt Hinze)
• What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
• Yes, I’m going to finish "Build Your Own CAB" (sorta) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Refactoring guard clauses, or “How to ask politely” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Telerik Releases RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta (Ina Tontcheva)
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• XAML: Using Generic Types in XAML 2009 and Empty string in XAML (Rob Relyea)
• Ocean for Silverlight – Enables Sharing Business Objects With WPF (Karl Shifflett) – Link of the Day
• Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework (Jeff Wilcox)
• Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 1: Animation to Catch the Eye (Jennifer Marsman)
• Sync Multi Select Listbox with ViewModel (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht : CLR 4 – Inside the Thread Pool (Charles Torre)
• Windows 7 RC2 Build 7224 Videos (Stephen Chapman)
• Netcast #11 – The Two Silos (Todd O. Klindt)
• Ping 14: Bing, VPlay, Zune HD, Celebrifeed, Mediaroom (Laura Foy)
• Show: Episode 2 It’s All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Microsoft’s Project Natal demo video has us jumping with anticipation (Nilay Patel)

Community / Events

• 2009 E3 Xbox.com Press Kit (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Shane Young! (Amanda Murphy)
• SharePoint Conference Washington DC (Bob Mixon)
• Foundation Series, Session 4, Wed June 10th (Brian Donahue)
• 2009 E3 Xbox Media Briefing (Larry Hryb)
• SQLAuthority News – Summary of TechEd India 2009 – A Grand Event (Pinal Dave)
• God Bless Xbox: Microsoft’s E3 News Roundup [Roundup] (Matt Buchanan)
• Breaking News: Atlassian Acquires GreenHopper (Max Pool)
• LosTechies welcomes Sharon Cichelli "Girl Writes Code" (Joe Ocampo)
• Free Virtual Expo on SharePoint – June 10 (Joel Oleson)

SharePoint

• Reading Digital Signatures from InfoPath Forms in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Workflow (Tom Hearn)
• SharePoint: Some users doesn’t receive alerts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Tip: Don’t use "&" in instance.xml when creating a WSP (S.S. Ahmed)

Database

• How to execute multiple SQL scripts (Martin Bell)
• Log Shipping for DR and failing back in case of disaster. The cheap way! (Ted Krueger)
• Microsoft Reporting Services (Sub Reports, Charts, Parameters, Expression Editor, etc) (Jorge Paulino)

Miscellaneous

• New details emerge about Microsoft Exchange & Outlook Mobile (PhoneArena Team)
• Google to sell eBooks by year’s end and Rumor: Google bringing the BBC iPlayer to the US? and Microsoft’s Bing 411 offers phone numbers, directions over the phone (Brad Linder)
• Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate? and Bing Search Bars are now everywhere! (damaster)
• Microsoft "Project Natal" invents a better Wii (Joel Johnson)
• Web v.Next (John Stockton)
• Bing Goes Live—Here’s What You Can Do With It (Kevin Purdy)
• Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads (Kevin Purdy)
• Oh dear, there IS a Club Bing (Kip Kniskern)
• The Rotting Stink of Corporate IT (Sara J. Chipps)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 1 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Project Natal is going to change the games forever! (Taimur Asad)
• Gmail Notifier Plus Adds Email Alerts to the Windows 7 Taskbar (The How-To Geek)
• Acer launching world’s first Android-based netbook in Q3 (Thomas Ricker)
• Make Bing your default search provider in IE (Paul Thurrott)
• The Ultimate USB *Key* Drive » Lacie iamaKey 8GB (Matt Walker)
• Adobe releases trio of Labs goodies for designers, developers (Lee Mathews)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 8: Deliver with Confidence and Style (Justin Etheredge)
• Google Docs gets x’ier with .docx and .xlsx support (Josh Lowensohn)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #359 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2009 — #605 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 325 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 1st (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 1st June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• NH Prof New Feature: Error Detection (Oren Eini)
• Project-wide controller survey through reflection (Jimmy Bogard)
• Code Generation in Visual Studio 2008 (Darrel Carver)
• Odd issues with Nant and and lack of (or addition of) xmlns in your files (Derik Whittaker)
• Sneak Preview: N-Tier development with Entity Framework 4.0 (Diego Vega)
• Sneak Preview: Model Defined Functions (Alex James)
• Online TechTalk about POCO and other EF4 Features (Danny Simmons)
• Stay in Sync with Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Null Is Not Empty (Eric Lippert)
• My HP Mini Runs Visual Studio 2010 (Stephen Walther)
• Created HTML Help Documentation with Sandcastle (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Install the Surface SDK SP1 Workstation Edition on x64 (Brian Peek)
• Axum – Ping Pong with Dataflow Networks (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight / WPF

• Write a Sortable ObservableCollection for WPF (Brian Lagunas)
• WCF Binary Bindings in Silverlight 3 and Tips: Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services (John Papa)
• Alpha Video with Silverlight 3 Pixel Shaders (Michael S. Scherotter)
• More Pixel Shader Effects for Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Who made my text circular? (Coding4Fun)

Web Development

• Twitter from ASP.NET and Twitter from ASP.NET – Simple GUI (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC Subdomain Routing (Juliën Hanssens)
• Emulating the UpdatePanel in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 with AjaxHelper (Dan Wahlin)
• setInterval is (moderately) evil (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Tip #61: Did you know… How to create an ASP.Net Dynamic Data Web Site? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• JavaScript for C# Developers: Functions are Objects (Julian M. Bucknall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• About RIA design (Daniela Panfili)
• Balsamiq And A Sneak Preview Of My ‘Decoupling Workflow’ Presentation (Derick Bailey)
• Why Messaging #4 – So hows it going? (Dru Sellers)
• Who left the PartialMock out in the sun? It stinks! (Jimmy Bosse)
• How Do You Deal With Exceptions? (Justin Etheredge)
• Coding Dojo #14: Rock, Scissors, Paper – TDD as if you meant it (Mark Needham)
• IronRuby just got a mocking framework – kind of (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Why a LeanSSC? Why a Lean Certification? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Kona 3: Learning Behavior Driven Development (BDD) (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #110: Learning the State Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• The History of Microsoft – 1989 (Tina)
• 10-4 episode 19: Service Discovery with WCF (Ron Jacobs)
• 7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0 (Scott Koon)
• Phil Winstanley and Dave Sussman Reflect on WebDD09 (Mike Ormond)
• Data Access Menu – panel discussion video now online (Jeffrey Palermo)

Community / Events

• db40 – A Q&A with Refcard Co-Author Eric Falsken (Kirk Knoernschild)
• IronRuby at RailsConf 2009 (Jimmy Schementi)
• SQLAuthority News – TechEd India 2009 – Day 2 – In-Person Meeting with Industry Leaders – Community Party (Pinal Dave)

Database

• SQLCat white papers a must read for performance and scalability (Simon Sabin)
• Viewing Windows Azure log files using SSIS (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Using MOSS and WSS SharePoint Workflow to Resize Images in an Image Library (Tom Hearn)

Miscellaneous

• Drop.io launches Present.io public beta (Christina Warren)
• Was 1971 the best year to be born a geek? (Cory Doctorow) – YES!!!
• Virtual PC Beta (Mike Ormond)
• Windows 7′s Best Underhyped Features [Screenshot Tour] (The How-To Geek)
• Zune HD (xYz) positioned to take on Apple, Sony, Nintendo and Google? (Thomas Ricker)
• Asteroids v2 (Vijaye)
• Go Retro: Get Windows 98 Themes for Windows 7 and Make Media Center Black (Sarah Perez)
• Office 2010 Updates (Sumeeth Evans)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #348 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 14, 2009 — #593 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (5/14/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Technology Post for May 14th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 14th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 320 (Sam Gentile)

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