Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 ListBox Pagination with MVVMLight & ApplicationBar (Indrajit Chakrabarty)
• Is the Web really dead? No way! (Simone Chiaretta)
• Yestimation (Dave Laribee)
• Windows Phone 7 App Categories Finalized (Chris Williams)
• WP7 Gesture Recognizer and Behavior / Triggers (Kevin Marshall)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Break on Exception (Richard Carr)
• F# Samples for Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET (Ade Miller)
• It really happened, legacy programmers tales (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft Visual Studio developers can now develop Flex 4 applications with Amethys Professional (Marco Casario)
• The Object Browser: Objects Pane (Zain Naboulsi)
• Messenger Connect discontinues .Net Library (Kip Kniskern)
• Catching the iPhone in the .net (Peter Van Ooijen)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 – Razor Syntax (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Simple Dependency Injection using a Custom MVC Controller Factory (Mike Ceranski)
• PHP Manager for IIS 7 – beta release (Sumeeth Evans)
• Planning common membership provider for different authentication providers (Gunnar Peipman)
• Twitter API Adds Retweet Count and More (Curtis C. Chen)
• HTTP Optimization the easy way: Part 1, how do I know? (Scott Galloway)
• Performance: Profiling how different web sites use browser subsystems (Jason Weber)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article:Finding an Agile Employer (Angela Druckman)
• 30 Days of Productivity and Getting Results the Agile Way (J.D. Meier)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Client Session State (Giorgio Sironi)
• Busting 3 Common Productivity Myths (Celine Roque)
• Introducing Deliberate Discovery (Dan North)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Cloud Application Architectures – Only $9.99. Use code DDCAA (O’Reilly Media)
• Effective Road Mapping: Driving Change in Your Team (Jared Richardson)
• Waste #3: Relearning (Matt Stine)
• Automating Runtime Intelligence Code Injection (Joe Kuemerle)
• Consistency: Your best friend or your worst nightmare (Hadi Hariri)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Adding the Mockup Controls to the SketchFlow Asset Tool (Christian Schormann)
• 10 reasons to switch to WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Disable Javascript error in WPF WebBrowser control (Al Kampfer)
• XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – Gestures (Mike Ormond)
• A Silverlight Expense Report Module using View Model (MVVM) (Michael Washington)
• Windows Phone 7 available in Canada same time as US: WMPowerUser.com (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone 7 Development in a Virtual Machine (Dane Morgridge)
• Generally How I describe MVVM in the Presentations or to my Friends (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Thoughts on Windows Phone 7 – Android – iPhone – Blackberry (Wally McClure)
• Making your Content Scrollable (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Building the Windows Experience Index Share Site – WEIshare.net (Coding4Fun)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Sahil Malik is Still Nutty About Sharepoint (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ping 72: Open Source love, Exchange Active Sync, Yahoo! by Bing, Silverlight (Laura Foy)
• Pluralcast 23 : Visual Studio LightSwitch with Jay Schmelzer (David Starr)
• YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “Crockford on JavaScript — Scene 6: Loopage” (52 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Price change for Xbox LIVE Gold subscription (Larry Hyrb)
• Tim Heuer and Tim Huckaby discuss Silverlight 4 and Steve Marx and Rob Bagby discuss Windows Azure Interoperability and Andre Vrignaud and Rob Cameron discuss XNA & Mobile Development and Todd Brix and Rob Cameron discuss Windows Marketplace and Bill Buxton and Tim Huckaby discuss Design, Multi-touch, and Innovation and Richard Campbell and Billy Hollis discuss Visual Studio 2010 (Bytes by MSDN)
• ARCast.TV – Building an Integrated Office Solution Using Word, OpenXML and SharePoint 2010 (Zhiming Xue)
• Countdown to PDC10: A Tour of Building 33 (Larry Larsen)
• MSDN Radio 31 Aug–We are back (Dag König)

Community / Events

• BALL Watch Silverlight Contest Winners Announced (Michael S. Scherotter)
• What does a user group meeting have for me? (Denny Cherry)
• Sign in on pexforfun.com, start earning medals (Nikolai Tillman)

Database

• SQL or MDX query trace in SSRS – trick of imagination or a real thing? (Aedna)
• Drop and re-create System Stored Procedures in SQL Server 2000 (Pradeep Adiga)
• Convert Several Columns in SSIS With Fewer Clicks and Confusion (Todd McDermid)
• Building a Data Warehouse Part I: When to build your data warehouse (Stephen Forte)
• Defensive Db Programming Chapter 06 (Jason Brimhall)
• How Old Are Your Database Statistics? (Glenn Berry)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to build massive Virginia data center (Ina Fried)
• Hotmail now supports push email, calendar, and contacts with Exchange ActiveSync (Dick Craddock)
• Thoughts Inspired By Ruby (John Sheehan)
• Gmail learns to prioritize your inbox — automatically! (Lee Mathews)
• Kodu Language Gammar (Stephen Coy)
• Three Simple Steps to Improve Your Writing (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• iPhone Tip: Achieving Dev Speed in xCode (Tobin Harris)
• BizTalk Application Tracing Made Easy with BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework Controller (Valery Mizonov)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 30-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• SQLAuthority News – A Monthly Round Up of SQLAuthority Blog Posts – August 2010 (Pinal Dave)
• Weekly Links #120 (Grant Palin)
• Create Games for Windows Phone 7 – Weekly Roundup (Kathleen Sanders)
• The Morning Brew #675 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 30, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher

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Top Links

• A sneak peek at IE9 UI: What do you think? (Kip Kniskern)
• Fluent Validation with MEF and PRISM (Jeremy Likness)
• First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–III) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• TWC9: LightSwitch available, Windows Phone, OData, HTML 5 File API (Dan Fernandez)
• Script Junkie (Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Public Application Settings (Richard Carr)
• F# for puzzles (Morse code decoder) (Brian McNamara)
• How to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• The Profiler New Features: Starring & Renaming (Oren Eini)
• MSDN Keeps getting better (Cameron Skinner)
• Managing business object locks on application level (Gunnar Peipman)
• VS2010 Parallel Stacks – Debugging enhancement in VS2010 (Hima)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six-In-One book is close to the finish (András Velvárt)
• Big Enhancements to our documentation: Now with a Version Selector! (Charles Sterling)
• Coding4Fun: Feeling the Earth Move (Arian T. Kulp)
• 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 Minutes (Wes Yanaga)
• Enumerable.Skip vs Seq.skip (Mauricio Scheffer)
• The Misnamed and Misunderstood Object Browser and The Object Browser: Browsing Scope and The Object Browser: Navigation and References (Zain Naboulsi)
• CSLA 4 version 4.0.1 released (Rockford Lhotka)
• Lazy(Of T) class in .Net Framework4.0 (Venu Gopal)
• ANTS Performance Profiler 6 (Ryan O’Neill)
• Microsoft won’t stop .Net on Android (Rodney Gedda)
• PSSCor2: GC Heap Analysis Commands and Demonstrating CLR Side-by-Side Execution (Sasha Goldshtein)
• MSBuild Extension Pack August 2010 Release (Mike Fourie)
• Know Your Debugger Part 2: Ok, I’m Broken. Now What? (Dane Morgridge)
• Must I release everything when using Windsor? (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Strong naming an assembly without having the actual source code (Marlon Grech)
• Windsor 2.0 and Log4Net (Jonathan McCracken)
• Behaviour – Lesson 7 (Simon Jackson)
• Microsoft Surface and Magical Object Interaction (Josh Blake)
• Introducing CountdownEvent (Dror Helper)
• What’s New for Office 2010 Developers white paper is live (Frank Rice)
• Debugging the Undebuggable (Gil Zilberfeld)
• NHibernate – prepare_sql and some considerations on mapping very long string fields (Giorgetti Alessandro)

Web Development

• File uploads and MVC Controllers (Jason Grundy)
• jQuery Plugin Checklist: Should You Use That jQuery Plug-In? (Jon Raasch)
• ASP.NET MVC HTML Helpers (Dane Morgridge)
• A quick primer on .NET web frameworks (Chad Myers)
• Great Twitter Accounts to keep up to date on jQuery news (Matthew David)
• Elegant MVC with Spark – The way views were meant to be (Robert Greyling)
• Enhancing the Store Locator ASP.NET MVC Application to Include Directions (Scott Mitchell)
• New DevNugget: Installing Microsoft WebMatrix (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Chakra: Interoperability Means More Than Just Standards (Allen Wirfs-Brock)
• More on SVG (Jennifer Yu)
• Extending the SiteMap (Rudi Grobler)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Buffering (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Empathy and web design (Janko Jovanovic)
• PHP: What is More Powerful Than list() (Stoimen Popov)
• NetBeans vs. Vim for PHP development (Giorgio Sironi)
• Get File Length over http before you download it (Peter Bromberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 4: Adopting XP (James Shore)
• First Experiences With RSpec/BDD (Davy Brion)
• I am an Exception Extremist (John Sonmez)
• We’re Not Paid To Write Code (Phil Haack)
• The Downside Of Providing An API Through Extension Methods and Compiler|Interpreter Warnings Are Important Learning Opportunities (Davy Brion)
• Day 26 – Solve Problems with Skill and Day 27 – Do Something Great and Day 28 – Find Your One Thing (J.D. Meier)
• Design Patterns by Metaphors – Part I (Creational Patterns) (Kiran Kumar G)
• The Case of the Unit Test and the Native DLL (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Why Hg branches are broken (or at least less useful) (Jimmy Bogard)
• Prototyping NUI on paper (Steve Clayton)
• The Open Source Project Spec: With Reference To Me (Jesse Liberty)
• Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources (Aquil Akhter)
• Programmer Tip: The Meaning Of Mentorship And How You Grow As A Person (Rajiv Popat)
• Introducing Yeti: The YUI Easy Testing Interface (Reid Burke)
• A Case for Feature Branches (Matt Stine)
• Multitouch on Windows book update (Josh Blake)
• posh-git Release v0.2 (Keith Dahlby)
• Coding: Mutating parameters (Mark Needham)
• Test Behavior, Not State (Jared Richardson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Deep Linking Into A SketchFlow Prototype (Christian Schormann)
• DroppyPop for WP7 Update (Andy Beaulieu)
• Think twice before putting another grid inside a WPF window (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WCF RIA Services Part 6 – Validating Data (Brian Noyes)
• WP7 Tip: tombstoning simplified (James Ashley)
• On Socks and Windows Phone 7 and Calling JavaScript Functions in Windows Phone 7 and XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – The Microphone (Mike Ormond)
• Eeny, meeny, miny, moe and TimeslotPanel (Rudi Grobler)
• Creating a Toast Like Notification Popup on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• My favorite feature of the WPF and Silverlight Tools update (Carole Snyder)
• Loading a static XML file to your Windows Phone/Silverlight App (Cheryl Simmons)
• My “Hello World” Windows Phone 7 Application (Chris Koenig)
• Windows Forms and WPF Interop: Sharing WPF Resources (Christian Nagel)
• Your phone can turn into a robot [LayoutTransformer works great on the Windows Phone platform] (David Anson)
• Saving State: Execution Model Best Practices for Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• i2W: An iPhone Developer’s First Windows Phone 7 Application (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF DataGrid Control – Performing Update and Delete Operations (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Flashing Text (using behavior/storyboard) in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 4 Application Template Themes by Microsoft (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7 and Compression using Accept-Encoding Header (Nick Randolph)
• Dual Targeting WPF and Silverlight (and Windows Phone 7) and 10 things Beginning Silverlight and WPF Developers Need to Know (Pete Brown)
• Windows Phone 7 security for developers (Steven Hodson)
• Introducing the concept of “Places” and Redirecting an initial navigation (Peter Torr)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ethan Winer, Very Old School (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Silverlight TV 42: Apply and Customize the New Silverlight Themes (John Papa)
• Steve Anonsen and John Rivard: Inside LightSwitch and Wes Dyer and Jeffrey Van Gogh: Rx Virtual Time (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 92: Dru Sellers and Rob Reynolds on Nu (Jon Galloway)
• geekSpeak Recording – WCF Extensibility with Scott Reed and MSDN Radio: Shazzam and Windows Phone 7 with Walt Ritscher and MSDN Radio: Game Building for Windows Phone 7 using XNA/Game Studio with Dan Waters (Emily Gibson)
• New Show on Channel 9: Web Camps TV (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Phone Design Days Presentations (Don Burnett)
• Web Camps TV #1 – ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and Razor Tips with Phil Haack and New: Windows Azure Storage Helper for WebMatrix (James Senior)
• Bytes by MSDN: Brandon Watson and Tim Huckaby discuss Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Rockford Lhotka and Tim Huckaby discuss Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Tim Huckaby and Mike Benkovich discuss Developing Apps for Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams and Billy Hollis discuss Silverlight 4 and Bytes by MSDN: Richard Campbell and Mike Benkovich and Bytes by MSDN: Bill Lodin and Mickey Williams discuss Windows Azure Resources and Bytes by MSDN: Brian Noyes and Rob Bagby discuss Service Bus and Windows Azure and Bytes by MSDN: Clemens Vasters and Rob Bagby discuss "Project Sydney" and Hybrid Apps (Bytes by MSDN)
• MSDEV Video Series Highlights Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) (Bruce Kyle)
• Video of Windows Phone 7 in action and a true image of the LG E900 surface (Phone Arena)
• Free Webcast: Get to SharePoint 2010 – Strategies for Effective Upgrades and Migrations (Joel Oleson)
• BPC10 Screencast: How to Best Gather Requirements for SharePoint Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Community Megaphone Show #16 with guest John Blumenauer (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• jQuery Podcast 32 – Dave Ward (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Cloud Cover Episode 23 – AppFabric Service Bus (Ryan Dunn)
• Countdown to PDC10: And the winner is . . . (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• The Programmer’s Body (Scott Hanselman)
• Ever thought of being a writer? (Ted Neward)
• The patterns & practices symposium Redmond 2010 (Grigori Melnik)
• 20 MVPs and 4 former MVPs at SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Keep the Fire(starters) Burning: Web Platform Edition! (Jim O’Neil)
• DreamSpark provides Free Windows Marketplace for Mobile (Chris Koenig)
• Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves (Sysadmins) (Jeff Atwood)
• Imagine Cup 2011 to be hosted in New York City (Bob Familiar)
• Typemock Sponsors See# Party 2010 (#ssp2010) (Britt King)
• Interview with Ken Schwaber, Part1 (Dan Mezick)

Database

• Display DDL Triggers in your SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Adding Column is Expensive by Joining Table Outside View – Limitation of the Views Part 2 and SQL SERVER – Plan Cache – Retrieve and Remove – A Simple Script (Pinal Dave)
• Don’t index on dates (Simon Sabin)
• Database indexes are your friend (Jimmy Bogard)
• Generate Insert Query in SQL (Abhijit Desai)
• The Lazy DBA Series: Wizards! (Ted Krueger)
• Ten Things I Hate to See in T-SQL (Michael Swart)

SharePoint

• Tips and Tricks for setting up a SharePoint 2010 development environment (Greg Galipeau)
• SharePoint 2010 and SQL Hotfix Dependencies (Joel Oleson)
• I’m Done with SharePoint (William Vaughn)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server Update Rollup 1 Released (Nigel Wilks)
• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Update to Increase Video Performance and "Sort Sections" OneNote PowerToy Upgraded for Microsoft Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Windows Live Sync to be named Windows Live Mesh (Allison Omahony)
• Microsoft Offers New Certification Exam Discount (Brad M. McGehee)
• Become a Better Mindmapper: Chuck Frey Shows You How (Chance Brown)
• PowerShell, GAC, and build servers (Christopher Bennage)
• Docs.com Update adds tags support, search, sort and filter, and new Social Doc Templates (damaster)
• Auto-Wiring Ruby Events (Davy Brion)
• Page Tab Floatie (Jeff Cardon)
• Programmer Superstitions (Jesse Liberty)
• How to prepare questions for your interview (Angela McLaughlin)
• Installing Ubuntu 10.4 LTS on Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 and Two Must-Have Tools for a More Readable Web (Scott Hanselman)
• Our Product Strategy: How Zoho Services Fit Together (Sridhar Vembu)
• Startup Business Checklist 2010 (Steve Smith)
• Microsoft’s FUSE Labs releases teamcrossword beta (Steve Clayton)
• Call phones from Gmail (The Gmail Team)
• My new Kindle 3 review–comparing against Kindle 2 (Tim Heuer)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 25, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 26, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 27, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #673 and The Morning Brew #674 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Aug-2010 and Tech Tweets for 26-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/27/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 65 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 25, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 26, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 27, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2010 – 2 — #933 and Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2010 — #934 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Archives 14th Aug 2010 – 28th Aug 2010 (Abhijit Jana)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET MVC 2 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jon Galloway

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Top Links

• FubuMVC Conventions in ASP.NET MVC with MVC Turbine (Javier G. Lozano)
• Extending NServiceBus: Per Unit of Work IoC Container and Extending NServiceBus: Thread-Specific Message Modules and NServiceBus Message Modules (IMessageModule) (Jonathan Oliver)
• Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension v2 (Karl Shifflett)
• Integrating with Shell Libraries, Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Video: SketchFlow in 90 seconds, with Jon Harris (Christian Schormann)

.NET / Visual Studio

• "VisioAutomation" Office 2010 .NET Library Tools for Programmers (Blake Handler)
• Entity Framework Profiler is released! (Oren Eini)
• How to Migrate Your .NET 3.5 App to .NET 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• Coding4Fun: XNA Effects – ASCII Art in 3D (Louis Ingenthron)
• Windows Ribbon for WinForms v2.1 – Now with Visual Basic samples and number of new series entries too (Greg Duncan)
• Smart vs. Block vs. None: The Indenting Smackdown and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using Generate from Usage (Zain Naboulsi)
• WCF Tutorial – Serializing and Transmitting Base Types (Charlie Key)
• PowerManager class in Windows API Code Pack (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows 7 Programming Guide – Libraries Update (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Cancelling Tasks in .NET 4.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• D3: 4 Years of DPMud and Still Going Strong (Dan Simmons)
• AsyncEnumerator Survey for Microsoft (Jeffrey Richter)
• Data Flow Analysis Rules in Visual Studio 2010 (Duke Kamstra)
• Yet Another Way to Determine the Sync Object for Which Your Thread Is Waiting (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• JSMag – Call For Authors (Michael Kimsal)
• Downloading Multiple Files as a Zip File Using GridView and SharpZipLib (Mohammad Azam)
• Same Markup: Writing Cross-Browser Code (Tony Ross)
• Printf(“HERE”) in the Cloud (Steve Marx)
• Tip #103: Adding the New Website and Open Website buttons to the VS2010 Start Page (Jimmy Lewis)
• Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta – Available Now (Visual Web Developer Team)
• Run Java with Jetty in Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• How to install Subtext (and Umbraco) using WebPI (Simone Chiaretta)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Aggregation Part 2 (Matthew Podwysocki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do You Need Iteration Zero? A Case Study. (James Shore)
• Help! I’m Terrible At Migrating/Restructuring Code In A Test-First Manner (Derick Bailey)
• Introduction to TestApi – Part 6: Text String Generation API and Part 7: Memory Leak Detection API (Ivo Manolov)
• Agile is Performance, Feedback, Revision (Jak Charlton)
• Do you have a contract between the Product Owner and the Team? and Do you know when to send a done email in Scrum? and Guidance: A Branching strategy for Scrum Teams (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Rally Acquires AgileZen Kanban Tooling (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Sapient Testing: The "Professionalism" meme. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Find Your Strengths Among Your Team (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF : TimeLine Control (Sacha Barber)
• Scanning an Image from Silverlight 4 using WIA Automation (Pete Brown)
• Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Explained (Jeremy Likness)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Daniel Egan talks Windows Phone 7 Live at Launch (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Hypershow Silverlight Enhanced Movie player (James Clarke)
• Visual Studio 2010: Undercover Series (Part 2) (jarsenau13)
• C# TDD Videos – You asked for them (Brett Schuchert)
• Bruce Johnson on Silverlight 4: New Desktop Features, Augmented Reality (Eric Hagan)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Flash (Jeff Brand)
• TechDays 2010: Software Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and TechDays 2010: Visual Studio 2010 IDE Tips (kreekman)
• Watch: MVPs help lauch Visual Studio 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)
• Visual Basic Masterclass by Lucian Wischik and Why REST? by Aaron Skonnard (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Pete at MIX10: Mime Cloud for Umbraco and More (Pete Brown)
• Visual Studio 2010 Code Visualization Tools (Robert Hess)
• Jon Takes Five with Brad Wilson on MVC 2 Templating & Validation (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• 18,230 miles, 8 events, 1 vacation and 25 pictures later… (Adam Kinney)

Database

• Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (Devon Musgrave)
• A DMV a Day – Day 15 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Release Date: May 21 2010 (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint

• Measuring ASP.NET and SharePoint Output Cache (Gunnar Peipman)
• Configuring Read-Only Content Databases (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• WHS Add-in Poca Podcast Catcher (Ben Palmer)
• Quick Status of Your Windows Azure Apps with PowerShell (Steve Marx)
• Daily Dose – Is Adobe Ready to Sue the Ever-Living Crap Out of Apple? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Myths of Innovation – Only $9.99. Use code DDMNV (O’Reilly Media)
• JobsBlog Rewind: Five ways to fail my phone interview (Matt Aberham)
• New Apps and Dev Tools for Windows Media Center (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Flagged Links #73 (Jason Bock)
• Interesting Finds: April 14, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines 04.14.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #580 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on The Holistic Web, Incentive Planning, Marketing as Entertwainment (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 14-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• More VS 2010 Launch Links (Scott Wiltamuth)

The Geek Shelf

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

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Top Links

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Beautiful Code – Only $9.99! Use code DDBCD (O’Reilly Media)
• Effective Model-Based Testing with Spec Explorer Full Class (Nico Kicillof)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 3 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Of Tailors and Tooling (rant) (Ward Bell)
• Effective Prototyping with Expression Blend and Visual Studio 2010 (Eric Hagan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Nine reasons to use F# (Brian McNamara)
• Testing the Lock-Free Queue (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Close All But This on the File Tab Channel (Zain Naboulsi)
• The Problem with Immutability (Kathleen Dollard)
• Your feedback about our Developer Training Kits told us to do this (Devon Musgrave)
• Moving XML nodes from one document to another (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

• PHP on Windows Training Kit Updated (Bruce Kyle)
• Stack Overflow API Private Beta Starts (Jeff Atwood)
• Hosting WCF 4.0 Service on IIS 7.5 with SSL (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Google’s Gmail is Now an App Platform (Matthew Casperson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Usability On The Cheap and Easy (Jeff Atwood)
• Strengthening your domain: Avoiding setters (Jimmy Bogard)
• How Agile is Agile? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: More Bug Fixes and a Company Update (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• TDD with complex infrastructures (Gojko Adzic)
• How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF : Design Time Data (Sacha Barber)
• Designing a Microsoft Silverlight Powered Cannon for Windows Phone 7 Series (Peter VanRysdam)
• Demo Apps from MIX10 on Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Lino Tadros goes Old School on us. (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• DIY Media Centers with Ceton Tuners (Larry Larsen)
• Discussion around Sandbox Solutions and SharePoint 2010-Episode 45 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Bill Buxton & Microsoft Student Insiders at MIX10 (Laura Foy)
• Comment Driven Development – the art of removal (Swedish MSDN Team)
• Bruno Sonnino on DiskPie Pro in WPF (Pete Brown)

Community / Events

• The Channel 9 Live GeekLympics at MIX10 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SharePoint 2010 Launch Community Parties – How do I do one? (Joel Oleson)
• Get ready for the Stack Overflow party (Joel Spolsky)
• USA Imagine Cup 2010: Vote For The Top Student Tech Innovation Now Thru April 23rd! (Hong Choing)
• Scottish Visual Studio 2010 Launch event with Jason Zander (Martin Hinshelwood)

Database

• List SQL Server Instances using the Registry (Buck Woody)
• Internet Facing Reporting Services Instance (thirster42)
• Index DMV usage considerations (Ted Krueger)
• FileNameColumnName property, Flat File Source Adapter : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• OData Query Option top Forces Data To Be Sorted By Primary Key (Peter Kellner)

Miscellaneous

• Ford, Microsoft Team Up to Help Electric Vehicle Owners Recharge More Effectively, Affordably (MS PressPass)
• Designing tools you’ll use (Dick Craddock)
• Re-evaluating Open Source for Sustaining Competitive Advantage for Hosted Applications (Daniel Crenna)
• The default experience for MSDN Library is now Lightweight (Kimberly Wolk)
• That Moment Where the World Stops (J.D. Meier)
• The new guy (Eric Brechner)

More Link Collections

• Flagged Links #72 (Jason Bock)
• Interesting Finds: April 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #572 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2010 — #826 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 31-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4

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Top Links

• pluralsight announces free on-demand! training for all microsoft mvps (Meagon Marshall)
• DZone Tutorial – Microsoft Expression Blend Essentials (7 Part Series) (Nitin Bharti)
• QA Missed Something (Scott Bellware)
• Life outside .NET, or “How to check out your neighbours” (Kyle Baley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use the Visual Studio Data Connection Dialog? Wish you could use it in your app? Maybe even tweak its source a little to better fit your project? The Visual Studio Data team has granted your wish… (Greg Duncan)
• Performance: Using dynamic code to copy property values of two objects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Favorite VS2010 Features: Dependency Graphs and DGML (Jason Zander)
• How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build a WCF Endpoint (Stephen Forte)
• Pin a DataTip to source — vstipDebug0005 (Zain Naboulsi)
• “What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 – More Than You May Realise” (Mike Taulty)
• Using Windows Azure Drive (aka X-Drive) (Maarten Balliauw)

Web Development

• HTML5 Sublime Video Player (Michael Kimsal)
• A Look at the GridView’s New Sorting Styles in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
• Linking jQueryUI DatePicker and FullCalendar (Gunnar Peipman)
• Daily Dose – Facebook Open Sources PHP Innovations (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: CSS Cookbook, Third Edition — Only $9.99! Use discount code CCTE9 (O’Reilly Media)
• FubuMVC Learns to Speak Spark (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The 3rd of Diduary: Did you know you can debug ASP.NET in any browser? (Jeff Blankenburg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture: where do you start? (Simon Brown)
• Learning in the Open: II – first relation and more ActiveRecord (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Balsamiq New Release: a Mockups Viewer and Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Thoughts on an MVVM Rant (K. Scott Allen)
• Coding: Wrapping/not wrapping 3rd party libraries and DSLs (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Getting Started with SketchFlow in Expression Blend 3 (Me)
• Adventures with Silverlight and WCF – The remote server returned an error: NotFound (Doug Holland)
• Silverlight 4 How to Command Control (Joel Neubeck)
• My WPF 5.0 Wishlist (Paul Stovell)
• Silverlight Quick Tip: Controlling the Out-of-Browser Window and Moving a WPF Window with Custom Chrome (Pete Brown)
• Known Issue: Controls and GAC, Toolbox and TCI (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight 4 Shows Value for Business Development (Michael Desmond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 43: Talking OData and SQL Modeling Services with Douglas Purdy (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #161: A deeper look into AutoMapper: Custom Type Resolvers (Derik Whittaker)
• Rocky’s video series on SQL Server Modeling and CSLA (Chris Sells)
• Multi-Core and Parallel Programming Practices (Robert Hess)
• Episode 100- PowerScripting Podcast – MobileShell, PowerGUI Pro and Your Tips (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Shawn Wildermuth – Portland Silverlight User Group (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• PASS Acquires SQLSaturday (Andy Warren)
• Events This Week – February 2nd, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• When is a Lookup not a Lookup? (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• First Version of SharePoint Validator now available on CodePlex (Tom Hearn)
• Test Drive the C1 Web Parts (Eve Turzillo)
• SharePoint 2010 Better Together with SQL 2008 R2 Database Enhancements Top 10 (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• We need cloud apps to use cloud drives (Chris Sells)
• Google discontinuing FTP support for Blogger blogs (Jason Clarke)
• A very nice, and new/non-tech user safe, 48 page Windows 7 Shortcut eBook – “The Complete Windows 7 Shortcuts” (Greg Duncan)
• Free Windows Azure Training! (Hong Choing)
• Getting Those Old Firefox Add-ons to Work (Elijah Manor)
• IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera – what browser does a .Net developer choose? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Kodu for the Xbox (Stephen Coy)
• Microsoft Looking Into Windows 7 Battery Issues (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Random Reading On The Train (Matt Davey)
• The Morning Brew #531 (Chris Alcock)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 02/02/2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Interesting Finds: February 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for February 2, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 399 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Coming soon – PowerCommands for Reflector (Jason Haley)
• Consuming Fluent Interfaces (Matthew Doig)
• Gotchas: MSBuild Conditional Import Ignored by Visual Studio (Ade Miller)
• Building a DSL for Scheduling Tasks (Oren Eini)
• Using The WCF REST Starter Kit and REST Collections with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• What’s the Difference, Part Five: certificate signing vs strong naming (Eric Lippert)
• Image Processing in F#: From Image File to Array (Rick Minerich)
• Magical Dynamic Mystery Tour (Rob Conery)
• Changing Code In A Running Application (Joel Ross)
• Creative Idea for Improving Your ReSharper Skills (Russell Ball)

Web Development

• Make Bing Maps Sing In PHP (Adam DuVander)
• Customizing the SharePoint ECB with Javascript, Part 1 and Part 2 (Jan Tielens)
• JavaScript for the masses (Jay Kimble)
• Accessing the Visual Studio ASP.NET Development Server from iPhone (Jim Wilson)
• ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript Snippet Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET MVC MvcSiteMapProvider 1.0 released (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Feature Branch (Martin Fowler)
• Planning for Rhino Mocks 4.0 (Oren Eini)
• StoryTeller on InfoQ (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Coding Dojo #22: Scala, lamdaj, Project Euler (Mark Needham)
• Noodling on Kanban… Part Two and Part Three (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 15. (Rajiv Popat)
• Git Lost (and Git Submodules) and Microsoft Source Server with Git (Jonathan Oliver)
• Exploring the Service Provider track – Fabrikam Shipping Part II (Solution) (Eugenio Pace)
• Agile Testing with VSTS 2010 and TMap: Part 01-User stories and Enrich VSTA 2010 Use case diagram with SketchFlow Screens (Clemens Reijnen)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 File Transfer Application (Giovanni Montrone)
• writing applications that target both wpf and silverlight with a single codebase (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• How you chose and learned Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• Using Silverlight 3 to Detect Network Changes (Malcolm Sheridan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #196 – Inside a Visual Studio Plugin – CodeRush with Mark Miller (Scott Hanselman)
• Melur Raghuraman: Inside Windows 7 – Diagnostics and Troubleshooting (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #138: Isolation Frameworks: Mocking Out/Ref Arguments (Derik Whittaker)
• Countdown to PDC09: Developers Go 3D! (Larry Larsen)
• geekSpeak Recording – Composite Application Development with David Kelley (Glen Gordon)

Community / Events

• An Eye Opening Apology (Alan Stevens)
• Silverlight Week in Seattle Sept 14 – 17 (Adam Kinney)
• MSDN Social Bookmarks going away (Dave Campbell)
• I [heart] Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood)
• More details about Concept Camp (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Designing SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Cubes for Excel 2007 PivotTables (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Tip: Migrating data (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• How to: Choose between an ASP.Net Web Part and a SharePoint Web Part (Eugene Rosenfeld)
• SPDocGen – SharePoint Documentation Generator – Full Source Code Uploaded (Sezai Komur)

Miscellaneous

• How to Build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, Start to Finish (Adam Pash)
• Google Wave Arrives This Month: Are You Ready? (Ben Parr)
• Share your Search with Bing and Ping (Nicholas Kerr)
• 10 Geeky Movies to Raise Your Kids On – GeekDad Wayback Machine (Chuck Lawton) – Link of the Day
• Browser Speed Tests: Chrome 4.0 and Opera 10 Take On All Challengers (Kevin Purdy)
• New Gmail Themes Include One That They Won’t Call “Nintendo,” But I Will (MG Siegler)
• Zune software update coming September 15th alongside Zune HD launch (Ross Miller)
• Job Market Update and some Job Search Advice….. (Robert Pearl)

More Link Collections

• Links (9/3/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: September 3, 3009 and Interesting Finds: September 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2009 — #682 and Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2009 – 2 — #683 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #426 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 366 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 3rd September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Double Shot #532 and Double Shot #533 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Vici MVC finally released as part of the Vici Project (Philippe Leybaert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NH Prof & Teaching NHibernate and NHibernate Queries – Should I use HQL or Criteria? (Oren Eini)
• .Net Service Bus: How to make training kit examples authenticate without problems (Gunnar Peipman)
• Sorting Filters in Dynamic Data (DD v1.0) (Stephen Naughton)
• The Future of GhostDoc (Roland Weigelt) – Link of the Day
• Git For Windows Developers – Git Series – Part 1 (Jason Meridth)
• SharpCouch: Use anonymous type to create JSON objects and CouchDB/Futon: ‘_all_dbs’ call returns databases with leading ‘c/’ (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• SketchFlow: Rapid prototyping that works (Silverlight Team)
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 1 (Gabriel N. Schenker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Architecture Different Based on Where You Live? and Do Architecture Principles Matter? (Mike Walker)
• Internal DSLs, method chaining and discoverability (Sebastien Lambla)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Browser 1 Released! (Tom Hearn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WebCast on SOA in the E-VAN (Udi Dahan)
• Major Nelson Show #321: Zune HD, CellFactor and Steve Wiebe (Larry Hryb)
• Road Thoughts – History (Corey Haines)

Community / Events

• A eulogy: DevelopMentor, RIP (Ted Neward)
• IE8/Win7 MSDN Roadshow Coming to Reston & Richmond This Week and June is Silverlight Month in DC (Frank La Vigne)
• Pictures from Tech Ed 2009 and Party with Palermo posted and Austin Code Camp was a hit! (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Join the Bing community (Kip Kniskern)

Database

• null IS NOT NULL (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – List All Objects Created on All Filegroups in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Whats the most important thing when performance tuning? (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• REVIEW: First Look at Microsoft’s New BING Search Engine (Blake Handler)
• Gametrak Freedom Xbox 360 motion controller up for pre-order with Squeeballs (Darren Murph)
• Top 10 Reasons Why Employees Leave in IT (Dave Schinkel)
• Top 25 Hitler Rants (Jurgen Appelo)
• Apparently Bing Is Something Of A Hit (Michael Arrington)
• Daily news blogs about .NET and related creatures (Roy Osherove)
• Bosom Buddies: How to make Google Chrome use Microsoft Bing for Search (Scott Hanselman)
• Just Bing It! – Start Bing’ing the Internet! (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #358 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #82 – “Finally on Sunday” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #55 (Grant Palin)
• Easy links to remember for asking sharepoint questions (Ishai Sagi)
• Weekly Link Post 96 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (5/31/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day