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.NET / Visual Studio

• How to use MongoDB from PowerShell and F# (Doug Finke)
• ReSharper Discount and Free Upgrade to ReSharper 5 (David Ridgway)
• Dense code (Oren Eini)
• Getting Started with IronPython (Charlie Calvert)
• .Net Framework 4.0: System.IO.File supports now IEnumerable (Gunnar Peipman)
• Learning Scala via C# Part 2 – The Basics (Justin Etheredge)
• VS 2010 Intellisense Improvements (Michael Ceranski)
• UppercuT and Mono Migration Analyzer (Rob Reynolds)
• CSLA .NET 3.8 Beta 2 MVVM support and CSLA .NET 3.8.0 Beta 2 available (Rockford Lhotka)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Finally Some Real Improvements For Automated Testing In .NET and Prefixing Instance Fields? (Davy Brion)
• Unit Testing: An Introduction and Unit Testing: Execution and Unit Testing: Code Coverage (Deborah Kurata)
• Injecting an ILogger property with Autofac (Louis DeJardin)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part IV: Apply It Immediately (Patrick Kua)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 17. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2008 v5.0.0.1 Released and XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 and XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer (Karl Shifflett)
• Introducing the WPF 4 Calendar control (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• Fun with CollectionViews (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Audio Player for WordPress (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – CxO Level Discussion about Cloud Computing (Bob Familiar)
• Integration Test Brought to you by Powershell & NUnit – with a Little Specification Syntax for Flavoring (Jason Jarrett)
• Major Nelson Show #336: NPD’s, Borderlands and more Tasty conversation (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 168 – 10.25.2009: The Engadget Show 002 with Steve Ballmer (Trent Wolbe)
• Episode 89 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell V2 Launch Party with Jeffrey Snover (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Weekly 127: Hasta La Vista Baby (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• How to display long text in SSMS (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – Advanced T-SQL with Itzik Ben-Gan – A Dream Coming True (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions (Ed Bott)
• Scala: Converting an input stream to a string (Mark Needham)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/10/26 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Fixing Icon Overlays for Dropbox + TortoiseSVN (Rinat Abdullin)
• Light it Up: List of Applications that use new Windows 7 Features (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Store – engaging with consumers directly (Tim Heuer)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #462 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #95 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #76 (Grant Palin)
• New and Notable 384 (Sam Gentile)
• Weekly Link Post 116 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (10/25/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• A Developer’s Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit (Aaron Skonnard)
• .NET University is Live (Charlie Calvert)
• Splitting Text into Words and Randomly Pick Items From a List and Passing Data Between Forms: Constructor and Write a Memorization Helper Application (Deborah Kurata)
• Why do ref and out parameters not allow type variation? (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Communication With a Background Thread in ASP.NET (Chris Love)
• Google Wave Extension Updates (Dan Peterson)
• DotNetNuke – Retrieving Host Access (Dave M. Bush)
• Developing Guidelines For Cloud Usage, Lessons From Social Media Gaffes (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Simple API for Cloud Application Services (Maarten Balliauw)
• Scale in the browser (Mads Kristensen)
• Expression SuperPreview – No VPCs required !!! (Joe Stagner)
• Download four free sample chapters from Visual Web Developer book (Mikhail Arkhipov)
• Using JqGrid with ASP.NET MVC (Michael Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pulled in Too Many Directions? Get Focused (Amber Riviere)
• Wa: The key to clear, harmonious design (Garr Reynolds)
• Make It Easy To Refactor (Jak Charlton)
• Concurrency Programming is Like Thinking in 5 Dimensions (Rinat Abdullin)
• 10 Reasons You Might Be Writing Coyote Code and Make BDD Your BFF (Rob Conery)
• Be More Efficient And Don’t Read This (Max Pool)
• Leading from the Front (Jim Holmes)
• The Agile Mindset (Patrick Kua)
• Continuous Integration, Plugins and Going Too Far (Leon Bambrick)
• TDD: Tests that give us a false confidence of coverage (Mark Needham)
• Mind Maps: Get Blog Ideas Fast (Meryl Evans)

Silverlight / WPF

• Colorful Explosion (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• I get by with a little help from my friends [PieSeries annotations trilogy complete!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 3 SketchFlow DataBinding (Malcolm Sheridan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kent Tegels on SQL Server Integration Services (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Using LAAAM to Make Good Architectural Decisions, Fast! (Bob Familiar)
• WebDevRadio Episode 69: Curtis Mitchell on Spark with ASP.NET MVC (Michael Kimsal)
• Screencast: Understanding Task Dependencies, Lead and Lag (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Ping 30: Bing Images, Xbox anywhere, Browsers & Battery life (Laura Foy)
• SharePoint Forum Knowledge Base Feature released (Lightning Tools)
• Spring in 2009 with Eberhard Wolff (SE-Radio Team)
• Thirsty Developer 73 – Building a Bridge to PHP (Dave Bost)
• SQL Server Express: Overview (Zach Skyles Owens)

Community / Events

• Innovation Showcase Web Site Launched (Bob Familiar)
• Session Voting Open for SQLBits V (Simon Sabin)

Database

• Free eBook: “Protecting SQL Server Data” (Brad M. McGehee)

Miscellaneous

• Yet Another .NET Interview Questions List (Charles Chen)
• XPS Essentials Pack Version 1.1 (MS Downloads)
• A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (Jeff Moser)
• Output Redirection With Bash (Alan Skorkin)
• "Programming Scala" Is Now Available (Dean Wampler)
• There More Like Guidelines, Not Rules – Some Insight on How I Use Twitter (John Papa)
• That Posh is Delicious… Posh-Delicious that is (Greg Duncan)
• Two Different Ways of Running Virtual Machines on Windows 7 (Zhiming Xue)
• Windows Workstation 2008 R2: An even better OS for a laptop (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Programming for Absolute Beginners (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Create Your Own Forum With Zoho Discussions (Stan Schroeder)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #438 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 21, 2009 — #696 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 09.15 ~ 09.20 (yuanjian)
• New and Notable 372 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 21st September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (9/21/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #545 (Mike Gunderloy)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.6 (Jeff Brown) – Link of the Day
• Event: Version 1.1.0 of DDDSample Application released (Eric, Jimmy, Ying & Vlad)
• AntiPaste, because Pasting Code Is Harmful (Tony Rasa)
• Dramatically leverage your Code Reviews (Patrick Smacchia)
• Pair Programming: From a Lean angle (Mark Needham)
• Game Development going Agile (Michael C. Neel)
• Experimenting With Fluent Interfaces in the Domain (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 3: Triggers, Actions, Behaviors (Christian Schormann)
• Folding animation in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• Interested in Silverlight 3? (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Silverlight for WordPress (Tim Heuer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ExceLINQ – Not Your Typical LINQ Provider (Bart de Smet)
• ADO.NET Data Services Friendly Feeds , Mapping EDM Types – I (Phani Raj)
• Inserting Many to Many Relationships in EF with or without a Join Entity (Julie Lerman)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 Product Backlog Prioritization Survey (J.D. Meier)

Web Development

• What happened to MicrosoftAjaxDataService.js? (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Getting an ASP.NET Application Relative Path from a Logical Path (Rick Strahl)
• Prototype of VEToolkit + ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Component Checked In (Chris Pietschmann)

Community / Events

• Contest to thank all who have played and purchased Dr. Popper on Xbox Live Community Games (Bill Reiss)
• Silverlight team and Twitter (Corey Schuman)

Miscellaneous

• New Crop of Job Hunters (With Microsoft Résumés) (Julie Bick)
• Job Satisfaction, And Making The World A Better Place (Casey Charlton)
• Support Of Commercial Software vs Open Source Software (Davy Brion)
• Win7 and IE8 Beta Issues (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Laziness in Scala (Ted Neward)
• Determining Browser Market Share (John Resig)
• Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Jan Van Ryswyck)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 29, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2009 – 2 — #556 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: March 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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