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.NET / Visual Studio

• F#: Composing Functions (Steve Horsfield)
• Prototyping DSLs in F#: Parsing and Semantic Checking (Adam Granicz)
• Soma Blog on New Features in C# 4.0 (Charlie Calvert)
• Templated E-Mail using .NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Running 64-bit Binary References in Visual Studio (Dave Schinkel)
• Visual Studio Team System for Small Teams (David Starr)
• Using Accessibility Modifiers on Auto Properties (Justin Etheredge)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Iterator Blocks Part Seven: Why no anonymous iterators? (Eric Lippert)
• All for that small Drop Down Box – Part 1 (Vishal Joshi)

Web Development

• Keyboard Enabling a Web Form (Chris Love)
• 404 Error When Running Web Applications in IIS 7 (Dave Schinkel)
• Tip #93: Did you know … PHP and Custom Error Pages configuration? (Kern Handa)
• Tracing Windows Azure Apps to Storage (David Lemphers)
• 50 Useful New jQuery Techniques and Tutorials (Smashing Magazine)
• On the Fly DropDown Editing with jQuery (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Does YAGNI Mean You Ignore The Obvious (Alan Skorkin)
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Reasoning and A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Mapping and A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: CRUD and Concepts & Features in NH Prof: Filtering (Oren Eini)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer Series and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Mapping Classes To Tables and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Out Of The Box CRUD Functionality (Davy Brion)
• Time Management Quotes (J.D. Meier)
• How about a StoryTeller Preview Release! (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• Stars & Craftsmanship (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XIV: Persisting proxies (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• More than just version control (Jimmy Bosse)
• Learning: Thoughts on doing so more effectively and Pair Programming: Keeping both people engaged and Book Club: What I’ve learned about DDD since the book (Eric Evans) and Rock Scissors Paper: TDD as if you meant it (Mark Needham)
• The Correct Process Guides Us (Tracer Architecture Cont.) (Max Pool)
• 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Patrick Kua)
• Writing Great Unit Tests: Best and Worst Practices (Steve Sanderson)
• Identify Code Structure Patterns at a Glance (Patrick Smacchia)
• Refactoring Day 24 : Remove Arrowhead Antipattern (Sean Chambers)
• Review of ANTS Memory Profiler (Scott Seely)

Silverlight / WPF

• Type-On Text for SketchFlow with a Behavior (Christian Schormann)
• How can I add labels to a WPF pie chart? (Bea Stollnitz)
• Updates made to MVVM Foundation (Josh Smith)
• Creating Master Details Application using WPF 3.5 and LINQ to XML (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 24: Stored Procedures (Brad Abrams)
• Roget’s Hierarchical Thesaurus in a Silverlight App (Charles Petzold)
• Test driving a WPF App – Part 2: Adding some data (Brian Button)
• Using one platform to build another [HTML 5's canvas tag implemented using Silverlight!] (David Anson)
• The Application Class and Application Services in Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Read singleton approach in WPF application (Tamir Khason)
• Cinch does ok (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – James Kovacs on Convention over Configuration (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Simon Guest on Patterns for Moving to the Cloud (Bob Familiar)
• WebDev Radio Episode 68: Frank Wierzbicki on Python, Jython, Java and more (Michael Kimsal)
• Enhanced Interaction with Project Natal (Frank La Vigne)
• Rob Greenlee on Zune Podcasting (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Herding Code 58: Presentation Patterns with Jeremy Miller, Ward Bell, Rob Eisenberg and Glenn Block (Part 2) (Jon Galloway)
• Major Nelson Show #329: DiRT2, Arkham Asylum and Shadow Complex (Larry Hyrb)
• Google Wave API Hackathon & Federation Day: Videos Available Now! (Pamela Fox)
• Ping 26: NFL & Silverlight, Movie Maker, Students, Win7 free trial (sorta) (Laura Foy)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #1 (Stephen Forte)
• Episode 143: API Design with Jim de Rivieres (SE Radio Team)
• ToolShed Tooltip #22 – Channel9 and the Tool Shed … A Treasure Chest of Resources (Russell Fustino)
• Episode 81 – PowerScripting Podcast – David Warburton talks about AutoPowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Events this Week – August 24th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The fall line-up and event list – we hope to see you there! (Kimberly Tripp)
• CodeMash is coming (Maggie Longshore)
• LIDNUG: Free Online Virtual Chat with Me Tuesday Morning (Scott Guthrie)
• PASS Board of Directors – Call for Nominations (Steve Jones)
• Benefits of TDD and Pair Programming (Course Day #1) (Roy Osherove)

Database

• Examining database shared locks using sys.dm_tran_locks (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Index Seek vs. Index Scan – Diffefence and Usage – A Simple Note (Pinal Dave)
• Scripting all jobs on SQL Server 2005/2008 into one file (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Search: Improving the Relevancy of Search Results (Bob Mixon)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell REPL, by Example (Pete Seale)
• Free OneNote 2007 PowerToy "THE" for Extracting Highlighted Text from a Page (Blake Handler)
• How A Ruby Case Statement Works And What You Can Do With It (Alan Skorkin)
• Integrate Data with New Microsoft Office 2010 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft OneApp announced (Steve Clayton)
• Nokia to deliver Windows 7-powered netbook with 12 hours of battery life (Paul Thurrott)
• Playing around with Posterous; post on “social media wars” (Robert Scoble)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Aug 23 – 2009 and LINKBLOG for Aug 24 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #418 and The Morning Brew #419 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 23, 2009 — #672 and Silverlight Cream for August 24, 2009 — #673 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #88 – “Oh, look!” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 08.19 ~ 08.25 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #67 (Grant Palin)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/23/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Interesting Post… 8/17/2009 through 8/22/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links (8/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 24th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Weekly Link Post 107 (Rhonda Tipton)

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Web Development

• New jQuery Ribbon release! (Mikael Söderström)
• First Look: Google Wave (Paul Thurrott)
• ASP.NET 4.0: Modifying ClientID of controls (Gunnar Peipman)
• Sample Code for New Windows Azure Blob Features (Steve Marx)
• Using ‘Tracing Images’ feature in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Debuggable Self-Host Windows Service Projects (Brian Noyes)
• NHibernate – Coarse Grained Locks (Oren Eini)
• Pretty Printing Exceptions (Chris Cavanagh)
• Installing the Couch(DB) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio 2010 (Kathleen McGrath)

Silverlight / WPF

• ViewModel with MVC/Navigation in Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
• Cider/Blend/Other tools – Please don’t hardcode knowledge of “WindowsBase.dll” for XAML component model attributes, etc… (Rob Relyea)
• Google Wave: the sky is falling and Flash/Silverlight are dead (Tim Heuer)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Persistence Patterns: Cascading Updates (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• xUnit.NET: Running tests written in Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Needham)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 5 (Build IT!) and Part 6 (Source Control & What NOT to Check In) and Part 7 (TortoiseSVN Global Ignore List) and Part 8 (Next Steps) (Rob Reynolds)
• Git Getting Stronger (Mike Riley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 48: Dustin Campbell on Visual Studio 2010 (Jon Galloway)
• Bing: Test Drive Microsoft’s New Search Engine (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 63: F# with the Nomadic Developer (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

Community / Events

• Why Should I go to a Code Camp? (Dave Schinkel)

PowerShell

• PoshCode Poll: How do you want Search to work? (Joel Bennett)

SharePoint

• Modifying Built-in Content Types in SharePoint (Bob Mixon)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Create Multiple Filegroup For Single Database (Pinal Dave)
• Service Master Key Backup (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

• REVIEW: First Look at Microsoft’s New BING Search Engine (Blake Handler)
• The Stack Overflow Trilogy (Jeff Atwood)
• All electronics should label their energy use (Rob Relyea)

More Link Collections

• May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio (Scott Guthrie)
• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 324 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Comparing XML files in C# Using Microsoft’s Diff and Patch Tool (Tom Hearn)
• Windows Ribbon: Samples (MS Downloads)
• Oslo May 2009 CTP Available Now (Chris Sells)
• How to Download, Install, Walkthrough Visual Studio 2010 Team System, Team Foundation Server Betas (Bruce Kyle)
• My favourite underused keyword in C# is… and My new favourite keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio (Josh Twist)
• What is a VSIX? (Quan To)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.3 beta available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Azure Samples (Steve Clayton)
• New version of Power Threading Library posted today! and Announcing Wintellect’s Power Live Framework Library (Jeffrey Richter)
• Another clever pattern for dealing with EF Change Tracking across processes (Julie Lerman)
• May Oslo SDK Available – Now with Quadrant (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Set Based Operations in Ado.net Data Services Part II (Phani Raj)
• Visual Studio 2010 – How It Should Have Looked (Bart Czernicki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How TDD and Pairing Increase Production (James Shore) – Link of the Day
• NUnit’s Assert.That (Peter Seale)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – You’re Doing it Wrong! (Chris Missal)
• The Zen of Inversion of Control (Jon Stonecash)
• Resume Driven Design (Michael Janke)
• The Role of Sketching in Software Development (Jared Bienz)
• Isn’t Kanban Just a Task-board? (Karl Scotland)
• Utils and Common is Dead! – Part 2 (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
• Pair Programming: Refactoring (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• Live Twitter stream of notable people in the .NET community (John Sheehan)
• Top 5 jQuery Modal Plugins (Elijah Manor)
• Using ASP.NET 3.5′s ListView and DataPager Controls: Deleting Data (Scott Mitchell)
• GridView Confirmation Box Using JQuery BlockUI (Azam)
• ASP.NET Web Design Software (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET 4.0 SEO features: Response.RedirectPermanent() (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit with Visual Studio 10 Beta 1 (WebDevTools Team)

Silverlight / WPF

• Drag and Drop Files in WPF (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• .NET RIA Services: Get your metadata from anywhere! (Brad Abrams)
• WPF NotifyIcon control! (Coding4Fun)
• DataSet and Silverlight (Chris Robinson)
• Silverlight and WPF Controls (Jared Bienz)
• ViewModels and CheckListBoxes (Josh Twist)
• Resharper template for DependencyProperty in silverlight (Roy Osherove)
• WPF 4.0 Data Binding Change (great feature) (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: VPlay from Microsoft Research (MS Research)
• New Web Test Debugging Features in Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Brian Keller)
• Maoni Stephens and Andrew Pardoe: CLR 4 Garbage Collector – Inside Background GC and Esurance: Developing for the Mobile Web and CLR 4: Debugging and Profiling API Enhancements (Charles Torre)
• Episode 136: Past Present and Future of MDA with David Frankel (SE-Radio Team)
• The GeekDads Episode 45: Geek of the Week (Ken Denmead)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #113: Saying Hello to the Spark View Engine (Donn Felker)
• Integrating 3D into Expression Blend with ZAM 3D Tutorial (Adam Kinney)
• Modularity in Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• VPlay: Video Performance in surface computing (Eric Havir)

Community / Events

• NEW Reduced prices for Scott Bellware’s TDD and Web Testing Workshops, June 2nd & 3rd (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
• DC ALT.NET – Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 – Pair Programming with Jonathan Cogley and CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 – Dissecting DevEvents.com: A Look at a Real World .NET MVC Implementation (Christopher Steen)
• Sign up Now for XAMLFest WPF, Silverlight Training Event Online Next Week (Bruce Kyle)
• Core Coding Experience Live Meeting the Visual Studio Team (Charles Sterling)
• Agilepalooza! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• SharePoint Community Comes to Springfield (Dave Bost)
• LIDNUG: Free Online Virtual Chat with Me Today (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• When a decimal isn’t a decimal – beware (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server does support regular expressions in check constraints, triggers are not always needed and Is an index seek always better or faster than an index scan? (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of Logon Trigger On All Servers (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tip – UNION vs. UNION ALL (Michael Ceranski)
• Bulk Insert into SQL Server using SqlBulkCopy (Malcolm Sheridan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Announces New Zune HD and Microsoft’s Expression Blend & Design Team Recommends "Rooler" Free Screen Measurement Tool (Blake Handler)
• Adobe previews Acrobat.com Presentations (Chris)
• How to create a planned release – #037 (Sara Ford)
• Create a Twitter Account for Your Home Server with New Add-in @WHSTweet (Sarah Perez)
• When Word of Mouth Got a Permalink – Companies, Customers and Twitter (Scott Hanselman)
• Safeguarding Windows 7 – Parental Controls (Vladimir Rovinsky)
• Server Fault Public Beta Launches (Jeff Atwood)
• Gates is 2nd Most Creative Person in Business (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft: Zune HD is real (Paul Thurrott)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 6: Tape Thyself (Justin Etheredge)
• Microsoft’s Bing Logo Leaked By Way Of Favicon? (MG Siegler)
• Whatever happened to Live Clipboard? (Jamie Thomson)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 26, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #355 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for 26th May, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• The Technology Post for May 26th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Everyman Links for May 26, 2009 (Dave Burke)

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