• NuGet package for Sharp Architecture (Alec Whittington)
• 7 things Microsoft should do at MIX11 and probably won’t (Joe Wilcox)
• Introducing LLBLGen Pro QuerySpec: a new fluent query API (Frans Bouma)
• How Microsoft IT Does Cloud Computing and Cloud Scenarios Hub on TechNet (JD Meier)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ditto : with regard to AutoMapper (Michael Nichols)
• Historical Debugging (Intellitrace) on Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Part-2 and View Call Hierarchy window in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Improving the Visual Studio 2010 UI Menu System – Part 4 (mikefourie)
• Message Queue Shootout! (Mike Hadlow)
• C# Yield Return Fun (Rob Miles)
• [Book Review] NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook (Alec Whittington)
• OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 and Known Issue with OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 (beta) Dependency Checker (Brian Keller)
• NHibernate Examples (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• HTML Brain Teaser: When Divs and Headings Collide (Rob Conery)
• Getting Constructive On ASP.NET Deployment (Rob Conery)
• A jQuery Combo Box for ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Scott Guthrie on Microsoft WebMatrix (Devon Musgrave)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using NonActionAttribute to restrict access to public methods of controller (Gunnar Peipman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Product Design And Expectations (Rob Diana)
• CodePlex: Pull Request Diff Notes, Adding Changesets, and a Vertical Splitter (Matt Hawley)
• NUnit Comparison Assertions (Richard Carr)
• Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: A broken home (controller) and Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: The case for the view model (Oren Eini)
• Why Sign Up and Sign In Should Never Go Together (Anthony)
• ALM Practices Part 4: Common Code Layout (Dennis Doomen)
• On deprecation (Grigori Melnik)
• It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be (Jef Claes)
• Software Craftsmanship promotes Competence Culture (Michael Sahota)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Nullable WPF ComboBox (seesharper)
• Extended WPF Toolkit Release 1.4.0 (Brian Lagunas)
• Building Caliburn.Micro’s NuGet Package (Rob Eisenberg)
• Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 6: Making a WP7 Application Bar (Chris Love)
• The Making Of An Windows Phone 7 App (Dani Diaz)
• Jounce Part 15: Asynchronous Sequential Workflows (Jeremy Likness)
• Null Reference from Simple Container in Caliburn Micro (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Phone 7, XNA and Farseer Physics. And source… and a game… and… (Greg Duncan)
• Announcing TouchStudio (Nikolai Tillmann)
• So what’s the difference between Custom Control and User Control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Introducing MIX11 Outsider for Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
• Windows Phone 7 Template for Social Reading Applications and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono IV: Content and Resource Files and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono VI: File Access (Nick Randolph)
• Wpf Over Websockets (WoW) – How to Pump WPF windows & animations to browsers over HTML5 Websockets And Canvas (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Hidden tricks of Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Webcam Support in Silverlight 4 to capture Video (Suprotim Agarwal)
• WPF–Show Dialog with backdrop (Tim Hibbard)
• Dependency Properties Made Easy (David Kelley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Get Started With the Azure Service Bus? (MS Podcasts)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 394: Michael Jackson Experince for Kinect and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 235 – 04.08.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 43 – Scalable Counters with Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• Windows Phone Radio 22 (Brian Seitz)
• TWC9: Happy Birthday Ch9, MIX11, The Nineys & Channel 9 Live (Laura Foy & Nic Fillingham)
• Windows Weekly 203: The ROMs Are Out There (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• Viva Las Vegas – Team IE @ MIX11 (Scott Armstrong)
• Stack Overflow World-Wide MeetUps – Success! (Rebecca Chernoff)
• Tech Ed North America 2011 (Cameron Skinner)
• MVPs at Microsoft India TechEd 2011 (Lonnie Webb)
• Mix 2011: Silverlight 5, Windows Phone, IE9, HTML5, and a liveblog! (Kip Kniskern)
• A Geek’s Guide to Camping (Jim O’Neil)
• Imagine Cup US Finals Day 2–Be The Change! (Bob Familiar)
• What Am I Doing on the Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Team (JD Meier)

Database

• SQL Server: Monitor Long SQL Agent Jobs (Madhivanan)
• Bulk loading data into a merge replicated table and Compress Data Partition Snapshots with SSIS – SQL University (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Add New Column With Default Value and SQL SERVER – TempDB in RAM for Performance (Pinal Dave)
• Be careful when passing around parameters, make sure they are the same size and type (Denis Gobo)
• Observing – Optimize for Ad Hoc Workload server option (Kim Tessereau)
• Find Table Heaps Using Policy-Based Management (Jorge Segarra)
• I’m a DBA, what do I need those tools for! Oh, yeah… for that… and that… and that… and… (Greg Duncan)

SharePoint

• Download Guide for SharePoint Online Development (Bruce Kyle)

Miscellaneous

• [Book Review] "Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6" by Augusto Alvarez (Greg Duncan)
• Is Microsoft dead meat without a tablet? (Joe Wilcox)
• Quiz: How well do you know your Microsoft Empire? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Is JetBrains appCode a Solution Looking for a Problem? (Rob Bazinet)
• ChevronWP7 updater pulled, places phones into ‘non-serviceable state’ of mind (Tim Stevens)
• RTM’d Today: Beyond Bullet Points, 3rd Edition: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Valerie Woolley)
• Bing turns on HTML5 UI (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 8, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 04.01 ~ 04.10 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Distributed Weekly 97 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 8th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• WebDev Tweets 7-Apr-2011 and 8-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Week Retrospective 27 – Podcast and Perfect Workshop Crafting (Peter Saddington)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 03-April-2011 to 09-April-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Weekly Links– 2010_14 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Links of the week #148 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2011 — #1072 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference by Joseph Albahari

Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 1 of 12): Introduction and (Session 2 of 12): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 1 and (Session 3 of 12): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2 and (Session 4 of 12): Building Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform and (Session 5 of 12): Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 1 and (Session 6 of 12): Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 2 and (Session 7 of 12): Advanced Application Development, Part 1 and (Session 8 of 12): Advanced Application Development, Part 2 and (Session 9 of 12): Advanced Application Development, Part 3 and (Session 10 of 12): Marketing Your Windows Phone 7 Application and (Session 11 of 12): Working with Media and (Session 12 of 12): Final Silverlight Topics and Wrap-Up (Emily Gibson)
• Exploring List capacities and growth on the Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• Debugging Tips with Visual Studio 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Visual Studio Lab Management (Somasegar)
• Porting Applications from C# to Android and iPhone just got easier.. (Don Burnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting F# Running on a Continuous Integration Server (Ade Miller)
• NH Prof & usage data (Oren Eini)
• Sync Framework 2.1 has Arrived! (Rob Tiffany)
• Book Review: WCF 4.0 multi-tier services development with LINQ-to-Entities (Peter Ritchie)
• Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management has officially released (Brian Keller)
• Setting WinForms Colors to a Named, RGB, or Hex Value (Deborah Kurata)
• How to run IronPython code from C# (Dror Helper)
• The First Hour With Lightswitch –BETA- (Michael Washington)
• DevForce “Blends” (Ward Bell)
• WCF Web Services The Easy Way (Justin Etheredge)
• Optional Parameters in C# 4 and Know Your Debugger (Dane Morgridge)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta1 now available for the MSDN Subscribers (Kunal Chowdhury)
• C# String Extension Methods (Luke Lowrey)
• Reactive Extensions for .NET ( “stuff happens” ) (Mike Taulty)
• StyleCop – Release: v4.4.1 Preview (CodePlex)
• How to send an email via GMail using .NET (Mike Hadlow)
• OpenWrap late changes and release date (Sebastien Lambla)
• endpoint.tv – Troubleshooting WCF – Bad Address on Client (Ron Jacobs)
• Awesome Visual Studio Command Prompt and PowerShell icons with Overlays (Scott Hanselman)
• Understanding the File Open Location and Sharing Snippets with Your Team and Show Previous Versions (Zain Naboulsi)
• Distributed VS Server Based Version Control Systems (Dave M. Bush)
• Highlighting Custom Patterns with ReSharper (Hadi Hariri)
• Getting meaningful exceptions from WF (Rory Primrose)

Web Development

• Implementing the Store Locator Application Using ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) (Scott Mitchell)
• LABjs & RequireJS: Loading JavaScript Resources the Fun Way (Kyle Simpson)
• Don’t let jQuery’s $(document).ready() slow you down (Dave Ward)
• S#arp Architecture 1.6 Released! (Billy McCafferty)
• HttpHandlerWrapper (Karl Seguin)
• The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 26: It’s Codeplex Time! (Evan Nagle)
• RequestValidation Changes in ASP.NET 4.0 (Rick Strahl)
• Using the File API for reading file information & multiple file uploads – another sister specification to HTML5 (Rob Nyman)
• Tip #107 Did you know … How to improve debugging performance for MVC2 application in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate? (Xinyang Qiu)
• Microsoft Introduces WebMatrix (Rick Strahl)
• Buzz API is Buzzing with New Features (Romin Irani)
• Implementing YUI on the Assembla.com Agile Planner (Joachim Larsen)
• Spark Bindings – are you tired of eating “Tag Soup” yet? (Robert Greyling)
• Azure Throughput Analyzer (MS Research)
• Quick Edit mode for YUI 2 DataTable (John Lindal)
• Facebook Location API Launches: Read Only For Now (Adam DuVander)
• Use APIs to Explore Your Town (Alex Stone)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Customer Tests" Now Online (James Shore)
• Day 18 – Add Creative Hours to Your Week and Day 19 – Who are You Doing it For? (J.D. Meier)
• Code Analysis Techniques (Steve Smith)
• Tools for disparate teams: AgileZen Edition (Kyle Baley)
• Coding Standards and Best Practices : Dealing with strings Part (1) (Peter Bahaa)
• Navigating the Five Levels of Conflict – The Agile Way (Lyssa Adkins)
• Top Agile Books (Vikas Hazrati)
• Quick Hack to Make Your Boss (and you) More Productive (Mark Suster)
• Design Through Testability – An Example (Karl Seguin)
• Must Windsor track my components? (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Book Review: Debug It! (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Planning Meetings Are Essential (Jared Richardson)
• The 4-contact points of software development (Brett Schuchert)
• Comments are the Devil (Chris Missal)
• 7 Ways to Humanize the Distributed Team Experience (David J. Bland)
• Once Again: Comments In Code Aren’t Necessarily Bad (Davy Brion)
• Isolator++ Beta News (Gil Zilberfeld)
• "Creative Evolutionary Systems" (Jason Bock)
• Are additional layers of abstraction warranted? (Billy McCafferty)
• 7 Key Principles of Lean Software Development (Kelly Waters)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WAF and Caliburn: 2 WPF Application Frameworks (Abel Avram)
• How to Render Bitmap or to Print a Visual in WPF (Abhishek Sur)
• Ribbon Browser Application without the title row (Varsha Mahadevan)
• Loading Microsoft CDN Hosted OpenStreetMap Imagery in Silverlight Bing Maps Control and Use New Bing Maps Road Imagery In Silverlight Map Control (Unofficially and Unsupported) (Chris Pietschmann)
• Make your Windows Phone 7 application dependent on the network connection type and Windows Phone 7 – Testing applications both on the device and the emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
• BindingNavigator for WPF (Part 1 – Creating) (Christian Nagel)
• Simulating and Mocking Location Data in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator (Mike Ormond)
• Improving a control–Windows Phone 7 Wheel Control (Clint Rutkas)
• Multitasking on Windows Phone 7 (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight Getting Worse When It Comes To Memory Leaks (Davy Brion)
• Fade Into You [Code to easily animate orientation changes for Windows Phone applications now supports fade, too!] (David Anson)
• Microsoft Patterns & Practices – Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide and Check out SilverMotion 3D for Silverlight and XBAPs can talk to your web page after all (Don Burnett)
• Simplifying Silverlight Web Service Calls with Reactive Extensions (Rx) (Jeremy Likness)
• Book Review: .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Data-Driven Applications (Joel Cochran)
• Creating Application using WPF Commanding and ADO.NET Entity Framework – (Part 2) Inserting Data (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Windows Phone 7: Monitoring Application Startup Performance (Nick Randolph)
• EA a notable holdout on Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7, doesn’t have much to say on the subject (Paul Miller)
• Windows Phone Applications – Map, Pivot and Panorama controls and Downloading Images and Indeterminate ProgressBar in Windows Phone and Launchers and Choosers for Windows Phone (Ricky Tan)
• Windows Phone Phone Calls (Rob Miles)
• Debugging Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Microsoft Announces Impressive list of Game Titles for Xbox LIVE on Windows Phone 7 (Tauqeer)
• Early look at the Panorama and Pivot controls for Windows Phone (Cheryl Simmons)
• WP7 Catto Free App – Windows Phone 7 .NET Silverlight Sample App (CodePlex)
• Windows Phone 7 Ready To Change The Game (your mkop editor)
• ZoomableApplication3: When not to ApplyTransform (Kael Rowan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Andrew Stellman’s C# “Inner Circle” Discussion, Game Challenge and C# Video Q&A (Joey deVilla)
• .NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield Advertises Online (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Ralf Lämmel – Advanced Functional Programming – Type Classes and Garrett Serack – Open Source on Windows and the CoApp Project (Charles Torre)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 59: Moving Applications to the Cloud on Windows Azure (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Windows Phone 7 Training now Live (Rob Miles)
• Video on why Scrum and Kanban are both good (Michael Sahota)
• Calling All Phone Developers: Free On Demand Training for Windows Phone 7 (Bob Caswell)
• Herding Code 91: Listener-Powered Lightning Round (Jon Galloway)
• Video: 6 Valuable Lessons You’ll Learn From Dux @ #BPC10 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Silverlight TV 41: Top Tips for WCF RIA Services (John Papa)
• 17 Xbox LIVE Games for Windows Phone in 90 seconds! (Laura Foy)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 166: Living Architectures with John Wiegand (SE-Radio Team)
• Pluralcast 22 : How Pluralsight.com gets built with Keith Brown (David Starr)
• Facebook Chat Now Available in Windows Live Messenger (Nic Fillingham)
• Technology & Friends Episode 111: Mike Wood on Moving to the Cloud (David Giard)
• The GeekDads Episode #74: Sir Doug the Infrequent (Ken Denmead)
• Pivot Tables with Tons of Developer Resources (Gus Class)

Community / Events

• p&p Symposium Keynote Speakers Announced (Ade Miller)
• Speaking at Tech.Ed Next Week (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Summer in Seattle: Just another reason to move here (Kelly Fife)
• MVPs Going Beyond the MVP Award! and MVPs Take Over the Microsoft Store! (Lonnie Webb)
• Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart Training On-Demand and Windows Phone 7 Deployment Labs / Clinics (Mike Ormond)
• Early Bird is Open for the Patterns and Practices Symposium (John Papa)
• Blend-O-Rama Update (Joel Cochran)

Database

• How Do You Defragment Your SQL Server Indexes (Brad M. McGehee)
• Proper Usage of MAXDOP Setting When Compressing Indexes in SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 (Glenn Berry)
• Be wary of using UNC paths in SSIS packages (Jamie Thomson)
• Convert VarChar to Currency in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Download SQL Server 2008 Interview Questions and Answers Complete List and SQL SERVER – Function to Retrieve First Word of Sentence – String Operation (Pinal Dave)
• 10 things you shouldn’t do with SQL Server and Contribute to SQL v.Next (Denali) planning (Simon Sabin)
• Making SSIS Dynamic: Configuration Management (Ted Krueger)
• Application databases and external integration points (Oren Eini)
• Database configuration: Just like any other change (Mark Needham)
• Undocumented Stored Procedures and Hunting down those expensive SPs (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
• Integer List Splitting: A SQL Fable (Brad Schulz)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Decision Tree and Updated Guidance on SharePoint 2010 Upgrade and the FAB 40 application templates (Joel Oleson)
• save money and time with the lightning conductor web part (Brett Lonsdale)
• There are no business data types loaded in the catalog and SharePoint Forums – Anonymous Posting (Lightning Tools)
• Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration (Steve Pietrek)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Essentials 2011 Now Includes "Facebook Chat in Messenger" and Supports German & Russian (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Announces Microsoft Flight – A New Flight Simulator for Windows (Imran Hussain)
• Android Presenter To Activity Using Guice (John Sonmez)
• Hello Android: Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform (James Sugrue)
• Gemsets, Bundler and Versioning (Mark Nijhof)
• MSBuild Hands-On (Mike Fourie)
• OCaml, Where Art Thou? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Google Analytics – Only $9.99. Use code DDGAE (O’Reilly Media)
• What Would You Like to See in Windows 8 (Richard Hay)
• Why Microsoft Connect Really, Really SUX (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Why you fail at writing (Scott Berkun)
• One of the best and classiest Microsoft web pages yet and The first six years of Microsoft compared to Apple and Google (Steven Hodson)
• Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse Has Been Finally Unveiled !! (Uzair Ghani)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 18, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #667 and The Morning Brew #668 and The Morning Brew #669 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 17, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 18, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 08.01 ~ 08.18 (yuanjian)
• Building a Virtual Development Server (Grant Palin)
• Links of the week #127 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for August 18, 2010 — #927 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life! by Chris Bernard

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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)

The Geek Shelf

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)

The Geek Shelf

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)

The Geek Shelf

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)

Book of the Day

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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)

Book of the Day

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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)

Book of the Day