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Top Links

• MEFedMVVM changes >> from cool to cooler (Marlon Grech)
• Creating a Simple Report Writer in Silverlight 4 (Pete Brown)
• Understanding T4: <#@ parameter #> directive (Oleg Sych)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Optional Parameters (Richard Carr)
• SharpDevelop 3.2 RTW (Christoph Wille)
• Interface contracts – forcing code contracts through interfaces and Invariant code contracts – using class-wide contracts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Code Kata: RoboStack (Ted Neward)
• C# 4.0/BCL 4: What’s New Series (Sam Gentile)
• Careful with those enumerables (Sergio Pereira)
• Multiple Startup Projects (Zain Naboulsi)
• If you’re still using Xml configuration with StructureMap, I need your help (Jeremy D. Miller)

Web Development

• ASP.NET and F# (I.) – Creating MVC web applications in F# (Tom)
• HTML Agility Pack gets LINQ’able (and more) in the new v1.4 release (Greg Duncan)
• How to Localize an ASP.NET MVC Application (Mike Ceranski)
• Visual Studio 2010 with jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 2 (Nigel Parker)
• Sueetie Now a WebApplication Project and Here’s Why (Dave Burke)
• S#arp Architecture 1.5.2 released (Alec Whittington)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Entrepreneurship Tip: Trying Not To Play Safe Even When It Comes To Pricing. (Rajiv Popat)
• Balsamiq: 7-day demo, larger canvas, transparent PNGs… (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Coding: Paying attention and Learnings from my first project of 2010 (Mark Needham)
• Graph DB Sharding Strategies: Gravity (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Cinch (Again) (Sacha Barber)
• Control styles in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)
• geoGallery, a WinPhone7 sample (Levente Mihály)
• Silverlight SDK for Bing 1.4 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 358.75: Happy (US) Mother’s Day (Larry Hyrb)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 10 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Azure FireStarter Videos Up on Channel 9 (Bruce Kyle)

Community / Events

• So how did the first Typemock Partner Academy go? (Richard Fennell)
• E3 2010 Microsoft Xbox 360 Info and Game List (Isaac Steinberg)

Database

• Create Date Ranges for Consecutive dates in a SQL Server Table (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Mirroring Hands On with Developer Edition (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table for Each Index – Solution 3 – Powershell (Pinal Dave)
• DBA Survivor by Tom LaRock – Book Review (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint

• Good news for site collection administrators (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Office 2010 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• The one Microsoft Demo VM to rule them all? (Think “Win Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, VS2010, SharePoint 2010, Office Web Apps 2010, FAST, Office Com Server, Exchange 2010, Office/Project/Visio 2010…”) [Now with Download URL’s for FDM] (Greg Duncan)
• MSMQ Studio 0.9.4 is released (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
• MSDN Magazine May Issue is Live (nparker)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First Excel – Only $9.99 use code DDHFE (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 9, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Links of the week #118 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #104 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 144 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #596 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/10/2010 (Pete Brown)

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ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action

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Top Links

• S#arp Architecture 1.5 released (Alec Whittington)
• Use Office 2010 to map a local drive letter to your free 25GB Live SkyDrive (Lee Mathews)
• An introduction to MEFedMVVM – PART 1 and Leveraging MEFedMVVM ExportViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 2 and IContextAware services to bridge the gap between the View and the ViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 3 (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Reference Highlighting (Richard Carr)
• How to get REALLY fast benchmarks (Oren Eini)
• Set or Remove a Breakpoint (Zain Naboulsi)
• Updated Blue and Dark Visual Studio 2010 Themes (John Papa)
• Iron Ruby: ‘unitialized constant…NameError’ (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• How to use Personal Web Packages in Microsoft Expression Web (.NET Curry)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Will Vanilla Scrum Work for You? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming (Pete Brown)
• When Implementing ICommand don’t forget to Hookup RequerySuggested (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 153: You’re Made of Corn (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9: Silverlight 4, SQL Server R2 & Ent Library 5.0 all RTM, Why code comments aren’t bad (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Feeling @Home with Windows Azure, at Home (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 25 (Glenn Berry)
• Using Table Value Constructors aka Row Constructors in SQL Server 2008 to insert multiple rows using a single statement (Suprotim Agarwal)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (24/30) twenty six restore myths and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (25/30) fill factor (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Milestone 3 screenshots leaked (damaster)
• Windows Phone 7 theme for iPhone released! (Imran Hussain)
• Attn: Google – Amount due: USD$307.50 (FOURTH AND FINAL NOTICE) (Michael S. Kaplan)
• How to Install Android on iPhone – Step by Step Guide [Video] (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 24, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 24, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 04.19 ~ 04.25 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #102 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2010 — #846 (Dave Campbell)

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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

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Top Links

• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Drag and Drop (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Code Comments, What Are They Good For? (Russell Ball)
• EntLib 5 and Unity 2 Beta 2 Downloads (David Hayden)
• S#arp Architecture 1.5 Beta 1 released (Alec Whittington)
• Silverlight 4 PathListBox for Motion Path Animation (Andy Beaulieu)
• Compiled or Bust? (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• GAT/GAX Dev10 RC Available (Bob Brumfield)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part III: Breaking Changes (Chris Burrows)
• MSDTC Woes With NServiceBus And NHibernate (Davy Brion)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• Image Insertion – Extension #2 (Sara Ford)
• Cleaning Up a Folder Structure From Visual Studio Artifacts From the Shell (Simone Chiaretta)
• C++, Java and .NET: Lessons Learned from the Internet Age (Matt Raible)
• Functional C#: Continuation Passing Style (Mark Needham)
• Encoding fun with XmlWriter and StreamWriter (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Do you know the minimum builds to create on any branch? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows 7 Taskbar Features in .NET 4 (Jason De Lorme)

Web Development

• On Building a Data-Driven E-Commerce Site (Chris Sells)
• Got SQL Azure? Then you’ve got OData (OData.org)
• An even better way to run T4MVC: a VS AddIn (David Ebbo)
• The New JavaScript Engine in Internet Explorer 9 (Shanku Niyogi)
• SVG in IE9 Roadmap (Jennifer Yu)
• I spy a Live Framework portal (Jamie Thomson)
• NHibernate, HttpModules, ASP.NET JSON Web Services and Database Transactions (Jason Grundy)
• Getting started with node.js on Windows (Scott Koon)
• An easy way to set up an OData feed from your SQL Azure database (Stephen Forte)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 8: Planning and Agile Friday: "Slack" Now Online (James Shore)
• Essential and accidental complexity (Mark Needham)
• Getting Things Done (Ben Yoder)
• Rhino Mocks Examples, with a fix (Sharon J. Cichelli)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part II and Blend 4: About Path Layout, Sidebar – More About ListBox Than You Ever Wanted To Know (Christian Schormann)
• Synchronous Web Service Calls in Silverlight using JavaScript (Daniel Vaughan)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight (Scott Guthrie)
• 10 Favorite Open Source Fonts You Can Embed in WPF or Silverlight (Robby Ingebretsen)
• GetObject vs StartObject in System.Xaml (Michael Shim)
• Developing a Windows Phone 7 Application that consumes OData (Phani Raj)
• Silverlight 4 RC API listing in one big text file (Nick Kramer)
• Silverlight 4 RC RichTextBox changes (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mix10 Session – 6 Things Every jQuery Developer Must Know (Elijah Manor)
• SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell-Episode 44 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Techfest: NUI Movement (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Author news: An interview with Jeffrey Richter (Devon Musgrave)
• MIX 10 Wrapup (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows Azure Firestarter Event: April 6th, 2010 (Steve Marx)
• Upcoming Webcast: LINQPad: Version 2 and Beyond – Live Event March 23, 2010 (O’Reilly Media)
• Get Ready to Party – SharePoint 2010 Community Launch Party! (Joel Oleson)

Database

• PowerShell: Read Excel to Create Inserts (Buck Woody)
• Kill your temp tables using keyboard shortcuts : SSMS and SSIS Lookup component tuning tips (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions & Answers Needs Your Help (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Stay Interview Instead of Exit Interview (Andy Warren)
• Microsoft Releases Updated Free Panoramic "Image Composite Editor" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Windows XP Mode to no longer require hardware virtualization [Updated: Now with links to the 32/64 update/patch] (Greg Duncan)
• Can Microsoft out Microsoft Apple? (Stephen Forte)
• How to Launch the Recycle Bin from the Start Menu Search Box (The How-To Geek)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #563 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 46 (Kathleen Sanders)

The Geek Shelf

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition)

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Top Links

• Your First S#arp Project in 15 Minutes (Billy McCafferty)
• AutoMapper 1.0 RTW (Jimmy Bogard)
• MVC Turbine v2.0 for MVC2 (.NET3.5) (Javier G. Lozano)
• .NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentStack (Justin Etheredge)
• Wrapping about Collections (K. Scott Allen)
• Warmup – Getting Started (Rob Reynolds)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Araxis Merge 2010 Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Integration (Doug Holland)
• The customer is always right [Updated free tool and source code to prevent a machine from going to sleep!] (David Anson)
• Tangible T4 for VS2010 – Tangible T4 Editor V1.6 for VS2008 and VS2010 now available (Greg Duncan)
• Hosting MEF within application and libraries. (Glenn Block)
• Functional C#: Writing a ‘partition’ function (Mark Needham)
• A Kick in the Monads – Writer Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Beta Release of Windows Azure Drive (Brad Calder)
• .NET Gem Fun (Tobin Harris)
• Windows Azure Tools and SDK 1.1 Released (Windows Azure Team)
• Using Sensors in Your Application – Native Implementation, Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• CSLA .NET 3.8.2 released (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build an Astoria service (Stephen Forte)
• Windows Azure General Availability (Doug Hauger)
• The 2nd of Diduary: Did you know about "Block Replace" in Visual Studio 2010? (Jeff Blankenburg)

Web Development

• Stupid API Rant: the SalesForce Web Service API (Andrew Connell)
• Zend Framework Supports Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Creating a WCF Service for JSON (Chris Love)
• ASP.NET: Mega Menus (Deborah Kurata)
• Applying CSS Styling via Metadata (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• It is less expensive to do it inefficiently! (Oren Eini)
• Gherkin style specification testing in .NET (Ryan Lanciaux)
• Are We Continuously Improving Or Just Continuously Changing? (Derick Bailey)
• How I Approach a Defect (Chris Missal)
• “Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines” – aka the UX Guide for Windows 7 and Vista free eBook (Greg Duncan)
• Slicing the day (Mark Nijhof)
• Software on the Cheap (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Do you care about performance? – .NET Performance Testing and Optimization (Wally McClure)
• Style follows semantics (Eric Lippert)
• Limitations of the Dreyfus Model (Patrick Kua)

Silverlight / WPF

• ASP.Net server-side image resizing with WPF (Bertrand Le Roy)
• What’s new in Silverlight 4? NYC Silverlight meetup presentation available for download (Dave Isbitski)
• New Silverlight 3 Behavior for Toggling DataGrid Row Detail Visibility (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Quick tip: Commenting out properties in XAML (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight 3 – Open, Edit and Save a Text File to a Location outside the Isolated Storage (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Quick tip about changing SketchFlow’s startup page name (Silverlight) (Pavan Podila)
• Moving a WPF Window with Custom Chrome (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 3 Applications broken with new WCF Data Services release (Phani Raj)
• Silverlight 4 & MEF – Switching on functionality based on application context (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pixel8 Podcast – Silverlight 4 with Jeff Prosise (Craig Shoemaker)
• .NET Rocks! – Kent Brown and Ed Pinto on WCF 4.0 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Code to Live – Sara Ford (Josh Holmes)
• 22 Visual Studio 2010 Testing, ALM, Coded UI, Test Elements, Lab Management and more videos (Greg Duncan)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #81 (Jeff Atwood)
• Ping 46: iPad, Ballmer & Gates, MS Paint, Office & Olympics (Laura Foy)
• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Development Tools Overview (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Don’t Think Chrome OS Will Compete With iPad? Watch This Video. (MG Siegler)

Community / Events

• Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator Election Begins (Jeff Atwood)
• Saying Farewell to CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-How To Architect Killer Apps with Windows 7 (Jeff Barnes)

Database

• Script: open transactions with text and plans (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Watch Seventy-Two Changes at Microsoft (Jia Wu)
• WHS Add-in ‘Codename Umbrella’ beta preview released (Ben Palmer)
• Can Microsoft close the app gap with Apple’s iPad? (Ed Bott)
• Greasemonkey comes to Chrome – get your userscripts ready! (Jay Hathaway)
• GTDInbox Firefox add-on turns Gmail into a todo list (Jason Clarke)
• Windows 7 Running on the Apple iPad via Citrix (Jesus Diaz)
• How Will We Make Decisions in the Future? (Bruno Aziza)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — Only $9.99! Use discount code BPAHJ (O’Reilly Media)
• Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures (Office Team)
• Microsoft and cloud interoperability (Steve Clayton)
• Gmail Chrome extensions (Christos Apartoglou)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #530 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• A Feed You Should Read #22 – TechNet Blogs (Greg Duncan)
• Some Recent Notable Silverlight Posts (Karen Corby)
• New and Notable 398 (Sam Gentile)

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ASP.Net MVC in Action

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.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 3.0 QueryOver (Jason Grundy)
• Using Windows Touch Gestures with .NET (Part 2: Retrieving Gestures) (Jason Ipock)
• InfoPath 2010 Reference: InfoPath 2010 Developer Reference for Managed Code Form Templates and Office 2010: Developer References (MS Downloads)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Testing Synchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
• Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework (EF Team)
• Closing over the loop variable considered harmful (Eric Lippert)
• Databinding 3.0 (David Fowler)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Parallel Debugging (Daniel Moth)
• F# – Designing Functional Interfaces for Pipelining (Rick Minerich)
• Can I host a VSIX on my own server? (Quan To)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC in Action (Dave M. Bush)
• S#arp Architecture 1.0 2009 Q3 with NHibernate 2.1.1 GA Released (Billy McCafferty)
• Test-Driving a new feature for JavaScript (Sergio Pereira)
• A Tale of 2 Web UIs (Mike Taulty)
• Create an attractive loading panel in jQuery (Nick Berardi)
• Web 2.0 – What’s it all about? (Lawrence Moroney)
• Crushed by complexity—me too, and for a long time (Dino Esposito)
• Improving ASP.NET: Finding controls and Part 2 (Peter Blum)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• My pomodoro experience (Sebastian Hermida)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Export to PDF, a fresh coat of paint! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Programmer Tip: Stop Those CYA Emails And Engage In Meaningful Discussions. (Rajiv Popat)
• Test driven design – Willed vs. Forced Designs (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day
• How We Do Things – Evolving our Specification Practice (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Adapting our approach for the context (Mark Needham)
• Pex 0.19.41110.1: Better Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2 Support, Smoother Moles (Jonathan de Halleux)
• CQRS: Reporting Database Access Strategies and The Software Simplist (Jonathan Oliver)
• Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – On BDD and MSpec (Howard Dierking)
• Lazy Loading is… well… lazy and Tips for ORM Data Access (Jarod Ferguson)
• Willed and forced design (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF

• New themes now available (Dax Pandhi)
• Displaying Text at Angles and Text Morphing but with Decomposed Outlines (Charles Petzold)
• Display OpenStreetMap Imagery using Bing Maps Silverlight Control v1 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Mix and Blend: Surfing + Silverlight = Design (Arturo Toledo)
• Magellan and the MVVM Light Toolkit (Paul Stovell)
• New WPF Features: Updated File Dialogs (Lester Lobo)
• On Our Cross Plat Commitment (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 7 of 13 and Windows Embedded: Past, Present and Future and MFC: Integrating your application with the Windows Restart Manager and MFC: Implementing handlers for preview, thumbnail and search filtering (Charles Torre)
• Parallel Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 – MSDN mag companion (Daniel Moth)
• TaskCompletionSource (Phil Pennington)
• The MNR Show without Major Nelson (Larry Hyrb)
• Countdown to PDC09: Steve Marx on Cloud Development (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• IndyHall Member Profiles: Johnny Bilotta (Alex Hillman)
• Sacramento .NET Users Group – Microsoft PDC 2009 (Doug Holland)
• Our little team is growing – Welcome to Jon Galloway and Pete Brown (Scott Hanselman)
• Why conferences must talk about failure (Scott Berkun)
• Back to business for the SQL Server community (Ted Krueger)
• Free Balsamiq Mockups for UX Training (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Course: Leading Software Teams – Essential Practices for team leads (Roy Osherove)

Database

• SQL Server Logarithmic Functions (Richard Carr)
• OUTER JOIN order (Howard)
• Sort transform arbitration [SSIS] and MDS is x64 only (Jamie Thomson)
• SSRS 05 Passing Multi-Value Parameters Between Reports. (thirster42)
• Best Practice: Coding SQL Server triggers for multi-row operations (Denis Gobo)
• From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling (Sam Gentile)
• SQL SERVER – Policy Based Management – Create, Evaluate and Fix Policies (Pinal Dave)
• Automatic Generation of Stored Procedure Return Types (Noam Ben-Ami)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases More Free Visio 2007 Add-ins for I.T. Professionals (Blake Handler)
• “Look kids! Big Ben…House of Parliament…”and Bing in the UK! (Kristin Meldahl)
• RUMOR: Google’s Chrome OS arriving next week (Jay Hathaway)
• Your top Windows 7 questions, answered (Ed Bott)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/13 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A Tentative Content Plan for 2010 (MSDN Magazine)
• Xbox LIVE Update coming Nov. 17th (Larry Hyrb)
• How to avoid typos on your resume (Anne Cheng)
• Windows Azure Platform TCO/ROI Comparison Tool (Bill Zack)
• Discover Bing (Steve Clayton)
• The Most Intriguing Concept In Google’s Go Language (Justin Etheredge)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #476 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (11/12/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• New Article by Bill Wagner on Dynamic Method Bags in C# 4.0 (Charlie Calvert)
• Windows Azure, MSBuild, and Lotsa Files! (David Lemphers)
• Visual Studio 2010: UML modeling projects (Gunnar Peipman)
• VM Workshop – The multifactor, multifaceted, open source, example MVVM app in Silverlight, WPF, WebForms, ASP.NET MVC, Ajax, WinForms flavors (all in both C# & VB too) (Greg Duncan)
• F# under the covers VII (Steve Gilham)
• Com interop in C# 4.0: Indexed Properties (Sam Ng)
• TFS Build Agent and MSBuild Running the VS 2005 version of MSTest when it should be VS 2008 (James Allderidge)
• Workaround for Add-Member on plain .Net objects (Tianjie ‘James’ Wei)

Web Development

• Examining ASP.NET 2.0′s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 17 (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET MVC View Model Patterns (Steve Michelotti)
• Using jQuery validation with ASP.NET WebForms (Dave Ward)
• jQuery Enlightenment eBook Review (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas – Part 3 (Eric Hexter)
• Html Encoding Nuggets With ASP.NET MVC 2 (Phil Haack)
• Tip#99: Did you know… You can now install new Media and Developer Tools products with Web PI v2 RTW? (Katerina Rohonyan)
• Use iframes with XHTML 1.0 Strict (Mads Kristensen)
• Use Keyboard Shortcuts to Create Tooltips for Forms using jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• MVC – Spark, The Alternative View Engine (Michael Ceranski)
• GridView and Updating a Row Manually (Dave M. Bush)
• MVC Application Extensibility with MVC Turbine (Javier G. Lozano) – Link of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Transparency 101: Basic Transparency Rules (Shawn Farkas)
• Turtles and Architecture (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Data Driven Engineering: Tracking Usage to Make Decisions (Peter Koss-Nobel)
• Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control are not rocket surgery (Scott Koon)

Silverlight / WPF

• Integrated Security With Silverlight And WCF (Davy Brion)
• XAML: Gradients (Deborah Kurata)
• WPF Sample: Convert HTML to XAML (and Back) (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The WPF Starter Kit – A simple, barebones, pick it up in an afternoon, MVVM/Navigation/Commanding Framework (Greg Duncan)
• Client App Dev MVP releases the Razre WPF Application Framework (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Introduction to WPF 4 Multitouch (Jaime Rodriguez)
• NBC Winter Olympics on Silverlight (Larry Larsen)
• Quick tip: Snooping WPF application with elevated permissions (Laurent Bugnion)
• New WPF Features: Script Interop in Xbap (Lester Lobo)
• Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – TabbedThumbnail (Part 2) and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Progress (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Erik Meijer and Burton Smith – Concurrency, Parallelism and Programming (Charles Torre)
• This Week in Testing – Episode 2 – Lamest Test (Roy Osherove & Gil Zilberfeld)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 011 – Steve Marx on Windows Azure (Eric Nelson)
• Lazy Optimized Resource Initialization (Phil Pennington)
• BizTalk Server, SOA and the Shift to the Cloud (1/2) (Richard Seroter)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Scott Guthrie Full Length Interview (Tina Wood)
• Channel 9: Dynamic in C# (Sam Ng)
• PDC09 Workshop: Developing Quality Software Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Robert Hess)
• Discriminated Unions in F# (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• Billy McCafferty talking about S#arp Architecture on Nov 4 (Zachariah Young)
• Day Zero of PASS (Pre-conference seminar with Kim Tripp) (Joe Webb)
• Stephen Toub Tour – Parallel Computing Resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• Windows 7 Bootcamp at PDC 09 (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft to show Office Mobile 2010 at TechEd Europe (Sumeeth Evans)
• The $10k Code Challenge (Mitch Pronschinske)
• StackOverflow DevDays in London (Simone Chiaretta)

Database

• SQL Server Trigonometric Functions (Richard Carr)
• PowerShell 101 for the DBA: Managing Server Configuration via PowerShell Part 1 (Josh Jones)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter and SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Editions Announced (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Doing SharePoint 2010 Development – What’s in your rig? and Upgrading a SharePoint 2007 Publishing Site Master Page to SharePoint 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Free SharePoint 2010 1 Day Developer Workshops and SharePoint 2010 Developer Resources (John Wiese)

Miscellaneous

• Exchange Server 2010 Help (MS Downloads)
• Google Chrome Converts User Scripts into Extensions (Alex Chitu)
• MSN and Bing – a Match Made in Redmond (Kristin Meldahl)
• Microsoft’s Aaron Margosis Updates His "LUA Buglight" Tool for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Virtu-Al PowerPack – A must-have tool for VMware (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• What Microsoft won’t tell you about Windows 7 licensing (Ed Bott)
• Note to Self: Learn PowerShell by using it. Do one PS thing a day… (Greg Duncan)
• ThoughtWorks Studios Rolls Out New Version Of Mingle, Integrates With Google Wave (Leena Rao)
• VHD Attach enables right-click mounting and dismounting of VHD files in Windows 7 (Lee Mathews)
• IASA Group releases Certified IT Architect Professional (CITA-P) (Mike Walker)
• Resume, resume…What did I do with that resume? (Lisa Olson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #469 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2009 — #723 and Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2009 – 2 — #724 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 3, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Choosing between Active Record, Fluent NHibernate and NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Stephen Forte)
• VB / C# Language Parity (Chris Williams)
• .NET Voice Recorder (Coding4Fun)
• Understanding the NHibernate Type System (Me)
• NHibernate Caching and Assigned Ids – A Potential Pitfall (Anne Epstein)
• Update on Maybe Monad: Q&As and Caveats (Rinat Abdullin)
• The .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security (Mike Hadlow)
• Hybrid App Debugging – Threading (Harry Pierson)
• What’s the difference between "as" and "cast" operators? (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• A S#arp Project Case Study (Billy McCafferty)
• An AutoMapper success story (Jimmy Bogard)
• jQueryPad (Paul Stovell)
• Who has the Best Cloud? Developers Weigh In (Mitch Pronschinske)
• ASP.NET Profiles in Web Application Projects (Lee Dumond)
• 8 Awesome Mashups Made Possible by APIs (Barb Dybwad)
• Add filepath to ConvertTo-HTML (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Using MvcContrib ScriptInclude, Stylesheet, And T4MVC (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD Triage (Uncle Bob Martin)
• My take on Duct Tape Programming (Wally McClure)
• How NH Prof integrate with a profiled application (Oren Eini)
• Measure twice, cut once (Larry Clarkin)
• Our Biggest Enemy Isn’t Developers Who Refuse To Move Forward, It is Developers Who Pretend To Move Forward (Justin Etheredge)
• The catalogue metaphor and command-query seperation architectures (Ian Cooper)
• Pragmatic Thinking & Learning Reviewed (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Critical Thinking and Dissent is a Requirement (Michael C. Neel)
• [pre-release] Better Image Handling, Assets Folders… (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• 200 Page Manual on Inversion of Control (plus or minus 199) (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Live Smooth Streaming Now Released – IIS Media Services 3.0 (Silverlight Team)
• A basic MVVM framework (Lester Lobo)
• Rant: Silverlight – You Do Not Want “Blue Balls” (Mike Taulty)
• The “magic” of type converters (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals, Chapter 2 of 13 and Introducing Microsoft Office Starter 2010 (Charles Torre)
• Peer to Peer Series Part 5: Direct Connect Peers via WCF (Jeff Brand)

Community / Events

• Windows 7 At PDC09 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Motorcycling racing and Microsoft (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Functional Programming Fundamentals Lectures (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Share Your Expertise as a Microsoft Ambassador (John McClelland)
• Open Hand? Or Closed Fist? (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Queries Waiting for Memory Allocation to Execute (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft planning ‘Starter’ edition of Office 2010 and Microsoft Exchange 2010 goes RTM (Cristian)
• The Zune HD vs. the iPod Touch (Part 2) (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Walt Mossberg: Windows 7 is ‘best version of Windows ever’ (Todd Bishop)
• Exchange 2010 is Code Complete and on its way to General Availability (Sumeeth Evans)
• Barnes and Noble ‘confirms’ color Plastic Logic e-book reader for Spring 2010 (video) (Thomas Ricker)
• Measuring Windows 7 performance (Ed Bott)
• Developers – Must Learn – Booting Windows 7 from a VHD (Karl Shifflett)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 8-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #451 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: October 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for 8th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (10/8/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #558 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 378 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for October 08, 2009 — #707 (Dave Campbell)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Photo Stacks (Coding4Fun)
• Avoiding Memory Leaks with CompositeCommands (Brian Noyes)
• Reading Performance Counters (Richard Carr)
• Fun with Func<T,TResult> Delegates, Events and Async Operations (Rick Strahl)
• Leveraging data annotation attributes in CSLA .NET (Rockford Lhotka)
• Visual Studio 2010 floating windows can be maximized (Daniel Moth)
• Why No Extension Properties? (Eric Lippert)
• Linq to Sql Profiler: Spike results (Oren Eini)

Web Development

• S#arp Architecture Contrib…it’s alive! (Billy McCafferty) – Co-Link of the Day
• Exploring the ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assemby (Maarten Balliauw)
• Using jQuery To Create Stunning Tooltips in your ASP.NET Applications (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Book: Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Yahoo Home Page Now Open to Mashup Developers (Andres Ferrate)
• Forms Authentication – Manual Authentication (Dave M. Bush)
• Multiple View Engines with MVC Turbine (Javier G. Lozano)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Necessary Tester skills …. (Shrini Kulkarni)
• How We Do Things – Evolving our Planning Practice and Attribution and Analogy and How We Do Things – Planning Part 2 (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Coding: Rules of Thumb (Mark Needham)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 1 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Designing With Customers in Mind (Shawn Lipstein)
• A recent conversation about MSpec practices (Aaron Jensen)
• Sumi-e, color, and the art of less (Garr Reynolds)
• Developer Myopia and Good Developers Write Good Code, Instinctively (Jak Charlton)
• Git Submodules like svn:externals (Jonathan Oliver)

Silverlight / WPF

• How can I improve on existing WPF data virtualization solutions? (Bea Stollnitz)
• Using Text Outlines in Silverlight (Charles Petzold)
• Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor) (Daniel Grunwald)
• What Do We Want in Silverlight Validation? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Changing DatePicker in Silverlight to show current date (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dana Groff Yossi Levanoni Talk STM (Carl Franklin)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #146: Advanced Query Options with Lucene.Net (Kyle Baley)
• Emre Kiciman and Ben Livshits – Doloto: Download Time Optimizer for Web 2.0 Apps (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – October 5th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Entity Framework 4.0 Beta 1 Sneak Peak Session at DotNetWork User Group in Cairo, Egypt (Muhammad Mosa)
• Life in Redmond, Washington (Alison)
• SubMain CodeIt.Right Giveaway (Elijah Manor)
• Random Thoughts for Enjoying the PASS Summit (Jeremiah Peschka)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Query Hint – FORCE ORDER (Pinal Dave)
• Ordering Integration Services Packages in Management Studio (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint History (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Install Microsoft Windows 7′s (Hidden) Regional Themes (Blake Handler)
• Licensing a commercial product (Oren Eini)
• Texo – My Power Shell Continuous Integration Server (Oren Eini) – Co-Link of the Day
• Windows 7 in action: do more with the taskbar and Jump Lists (Ed Bott)
• MVP ‘Tweets’ PC On Command (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Charitable Giving: Rob’s technique (Rob Relyea)
• Choosing the Right Version of Windows 7 (Zhiming Xue)
• Marketplace is live on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones (Thomas Ricker)
• Writing a Good Session Abstract (Jim Holmes)
• Firefox 3.7, now with Windows 7 jumplist support (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #448 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (Kirill Osenkov)
• Silverlight Cream for October 05, 2009 — #705 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 3rd October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Double Shot #555 (Mike Gunderloy)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• A Whirlwind Tour through the Managed Extensibility Framework (Bart de Smet)
• Windows 7 Code Pack V. 1.0 Released (Charlie Calvert)
• Creating vCard with image in .Net (Gunnar Peipman)
• Fun With the ?? Operator in C#: if { } or ?? – Which is Faster? (Keith Elder)
• Making Asynchronous WCF calls without SvcUtil (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Next version of EF Code Only Design laid out by MS and Important Entity Framework Query Improvements for .NET 4.0 (Julie Lerman)
• Pygments for Windows Live Writer v1.0.2 (Harry Pierson)

Web Development

• Book Review: Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications (Jason Haley)
• Implementing A Multi-Tenant ASP.NET MVC Application with S#arp Architecture (Bobby Johnson)
• Build an AJAX Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Creating a Framework (Bogdan Zamfir)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 available on Amazon (Ryan Lanciaux)
• 10 Add-ons in 60 Seconds or Less: Mix Webslice (Larry Larsen)
• Part 3: MS Azure and Green Computing (Peter Koen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Oh what a tangled web we weave, a bug story (Oren Eini)
• Book Club: Object Role Stereotypes (Jeremy Miller) and Coding Dojo #21: TDD as if you meant it revisited and Dreyfus Model: More thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Imposing the Edges Later (Michael Feathers)
• The Hard Reality… (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Ensure test coverage when refactoring to mocks (Wendy Friedlander)
• Windsor style convention over configuration in StructureMap and Introducing SpecMaker “Rspec style” BDD in C# (Ryan Svihla)
• Refactoring Day 7 : Rename (method, class, parameter) and Refactoring Day 8 : Replace Inheritance with Delegation and Refactoring Day 9 : Extract Interface (Sean Chambers)
• Agility Makes Up for Bad Preparation? (Steve Marx)
• Coding Contest: Create a Programming Pearl (Tim Barcz)
• TDD and FP (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 9. (Rajiv Popat)
• Implementing Team City for .NET Projects, Part 5: Deployments (Richard Cirerol)
• The Presentation Patterns Wiki is live! (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• Compile => CI => Tests, or "How to compile first, test later" (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Technology To Think About: .NET RIA Services on the Server (Peter Vogel)
• NHibernate & INotifyPropertyChanged and An easier way to manage INotifyPropertyChanged (Oren Eini)
• Another Rotating 3D Figure for Silverlight 3 and Dodecahedron for Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• Finding Memory Leaks In Silverlight With WinDbg (Davy Brion)
• Silverlight DataForm and confirming deleting an item (Tim Heuer)
• PowerPoint converter to Silverlight/WPF XAML and x:Uids…should we have UpdateUid to create fewer of them. (Rob Relyea)
• INotifyPropertyChanged auto wiring or how to get rid of redundant code (Tamir Khason)
• Cinch (My MVVM framework) Part 5 is out (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight 3 Element Binding (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Document Toolkit 1.1 Beta 2 available (Koen Zwikstra)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week C9: Win7 on MSDN, PDC 2009, Drunktender (Brian Keller)
• Herding Code 56: Markus Völter on Model-Driven Development, DSLs and Product Line Engineering (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 79 – PowerScripting Podcast – Listener Interviews (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Announcing: Concept Camp (Camp) (Sara J. Chipps)
• patterns & practices Assets Survey (J.D. Meier)
• Microsoft’s MVP Award Program Honors Outstanding Technology Influencers (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Virtual ARCHITECT COUNCILs | Innovation is the Name of the Game (Jeff Barnes)
• Upcoming Presentations (Jeremiah Peschka)

Database

• TSQL Challenge – counting non zero columns and Where is the intelligence in Business Intelligence? (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server – Multiple CTE in One SELECT Statement Query (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS Tools Pack – Review (Rhonda Tipton)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 101 (Part 6) (Dux Raymond Sy)

PowerShell

• Experimenting with PowerShell Cmdlets, Snap-ins and Modules (Jose Barreto)

Windows 7

• Microsoft Releases "Final" Windows 7 Hardware Drivers for Keyboards & Mice (Blake Handler)
• Available: Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers (Devon Musgrave)
• Latest Google Chrome dev build adds Windows 7 jumplist support (Lee Mathews)
• Upgrade Windows 7 RC to the Final RTM Release (The How-To Geek)
• What’s new in WMI for Windows 7 (K. Mathur)
• Windows 7 Boot from VHD – A Few Gotchas (Howard Dierking)
• What we do with a bug report? (Steven Sinofski)
• Release Documents for Windows 7 (Steven Bink)
• Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• BOOK: Landing the Tech Job You Love (Brad Appleton)
• OpenGL 3.2 Brings Better Performance (Justin Sargent)
• Refactoring Relationships (Christopher Bennage)
• How much will I REALLY save on Cloud Computing? (Dave Isbitski)
• 1st Microsoft Store in the making (Steven Bink)
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23022 (Taimur Asad)
• New Wrox Covers (Jim Minatel)
• Zune HD Getting Glowing Reviews (Sarah Perez)
• A Language for Your Strengths (J.D. Meier)
• A Few Speed Improvements and COBOL: Everywhere and Nowhere (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 7, 2009 and LINKBLOG for August 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 8, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 9, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #408 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2009 — #665 — relinked and Silverlight Cream for August 09, 2009 — #666 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for August 9, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #86 – “Ordinary” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Windows 7: Links for developers (Gunnar Peipman)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 08.04 ~ 08.10 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #65 (Grant Palin)
• Links for the Week – 2009.08.07 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Links (8/9/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Post… 8/2/2009 through 8/9/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Weekly Link Post 105 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for 7th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC and NHibernate Framework Architecture (Quach Nguyen)
• iTextSharp – HTML to PDF – Parsing HTML (Dave M. Bush)
• How to Access JavaScript Variables on Postback in ASP.NET (Deepak Choudhari)
• ASP.NET MVC Calendar component (Gunnar Peipman)
• NerdDinner On Azure – Take 2 (Jim O’Neil)
• Lots of buzz about MvcContrib! (Jeffrey Palermo)
• MS Azure and Green Computing (Peter Koen)
• Programmatically Creating Website Thumbnails (Rob Bazinet)
• ASP.NET Membership Tip: Requiring New Users To Change Their Password When Logging On For The First Time (Scott Mitchell)
• Dynamic Data Custom Field Template – Values List, Take 2 (Steve Naughton)
• Fluent Sharp NHibernate Persistence Configuration, or “How to build credibility through OSS name dropping” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 12: DataSet (Brad Abrams)
• Simple column labels you can create at home! [Re-Templating the Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization ColumnDataPoint to add annotations] (David Anson)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Navigation (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Version Compatibility (Hanu Kommalapati) – Link of the Day
• Bindorama – Binding Craziness now for Silverlight too! (Josh Twist)
• The Silverlight 3 Toolkit ( July 09 ) (Mike Taulty)
• WPF Wonders: 3D Drawing (Rod Stephens)
• Use Try/Catch Block with Analytics Object (Silverlight 3 bug) (snoutholder)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding Controls on Forms (Deborah Kurata)
• Iterator Blocks, Part Six: Why no unsafe code? (Eric Lippert)
• Visual Studio 2010 RIP List (Partial) (Habib Heydarian)
• Method to Release COM Object References (Srinath MS)
• Combining two disparate collections (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Log Elmah errors in Team Foundation Server (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Overview of Visual Studio Team System 2010 for Developers (Part 1) (Subodh Sohoni)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pet Peeve Code Smell: Multiple Calls to a Method in a Block (Bobby Johnson)
• Macto, or How To Build a Prison (Oren Eini)
• Event Aggregator Using the Magnum Pipeline (Chris Patterson)
• Tests are not ‘Tasks’ you put on a backlog… (Derik Whittaker)
• Reading Code: Rhino Mocks (Mark Needham)
• Deadly Poison of Lazy Loading and not following Design Guidelines (Wesley Bakker)
• Architecting for Desktop Virtualization – Part 1: Rethink ClickOnce (Jeremy Jarrell)
• How to Interact with Your Team as a Manager (Steve Rowe)
• Static Typing vs. Dynamic Typing (Michael Feathers)
• Can Managers Lead Agile Teams? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Community / Events

• Intuit Backs a New Open Source Community (Andres Ferrate)
• Call for Nominations – PASS Board of Directors (Andy Warren)
• A Deleted Response to a TFS Blog Post (Ben Scheirman)
• Unethical behavior (Oren Eini)
• Don’t be such a #@%#! Lazy Programmer! (Dave M. Bush)
• Are you a Developer or Designer in the NY/NJ/PA area using Microsoft Software? Let’s chat! and Looking to create a more compelling experience for your users? Silverlight? WPF? Expression? Does it all sound like gibberish? The Mid Atlantic Roadshow is coming to your backyard! (Dave Isbitski)
• Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers (Gunnar Peipman)
• Nobody Has a Duty to Teach (Max Pool)
• All C# Compiler Developer Team blogs (Kirill Osenkov)
• Please sign the official “Bring Sara Ford to TechEd Australia” petition! (Sara Ford)
• Session Submission is now open for SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship (Sam Gentile)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Scott Hanselman on scaling websites with caching (Bob Familiar)
• Some useful WMI webcasts (K. Mathur)
• Ping 22: Microsoft & Linux BFF’s! Xbox handheld coming, Bing Jingle, Win a Surface (Laura Foy)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 101 (Part 2) (Dux Raymond Sy)

Database

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Design Process Decision Flow (Pinal Dave)
• The Case For Renaming Controls In a Reporting Services Report (Thomas Williams)
• Hey Developers! Tune your SQL! (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Bing Could Be Improved with Online Game (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Laplink Releases "PCmover" Utility for Upgrading Windows XP to Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• 10 Ways To Bing It! (Deepak Kapoor)
• Canonical and ShortUrl on Channel9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
• Windows 7: The Best Vista Service Pack Ever (Jeff Atwood)
• Windows 7 Is NOT a "Vista Service Pack" (Sasha Goldshtein) – Sasha rebuts Jeff’s article.
• Microsoft Wave launched (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft entices Windows Mobile developers with chance to win Surface table (Tim Conneally)
• Version Control with Git Book Review (Mike Riley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 27, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #398 and The Morning Brew #399 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2009 — #656 and Silverlight Cream for July 26, 2009 — #655 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 27th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links of the week #85 – “Back from Amsterdam” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Link Post 103 (Rhonda Tipton)

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