• SQL Server 2011 (Denali) CTP3 Released! (Brian McDonald)
• Small Basic 1.0 is here! (Sandra Aldana)
• Announcing the Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK Release (Pete Brown)
• Stacks and queues in JavaScript (Jef Claes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ForEach Method for the collections (Abhijit Jana)
• Tracking Changes in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Parallel for loop in C# 4.0 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Switching Visual Studio Environment Tools with Powershell and SlightlyPosher (Naeem Khedarun)
• Detecting and Changing a File’s Internet Zone in .NET: Alternate Data Streams (Mike Hadlow)
• Refactorings specific to auto-implemented properties (Alex Skorkin)
• Entity Framework 4.1 managing relations (Gian Maria Ricci)
• What curious property does this string have? (Eric Lippert)
• Interactive WinForm Tag Cloud Control (Think “Cool, I can add a Word/Tag Cloud thing to my WinForm app!”) and Kinect Buttons (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• HTML5 – Selectors API Level 1 (Gil Fink)
• When the Overlords Demand WebForms You Can Still Do MVC (J.P. Hamilton)
• A JavaScript Trick You Should Know (Stoimen Popov)
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Windows Azure Team)
• Lockdown Pt 2– Sanitization and Data Security (Tim Kulp)
• Cloud-based Development via Node.js and Cloud9 IDE Integration Coming Soon (Rey Bango)
• Getting Started with the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Nathan Totten)
• SassAndCoffee hits 1.0! (Paul Betts)
• Debugging Web Workers in IE10 (Jonathan Carter & Gaurav Seth)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 3 – More on Functions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Maarten Balliauw)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Move Method (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Patterns of Compositional Architecture: DSLs – Registries and Patterns of Compositional Architecture: DSLs – Conventions (Josh Arnold)
• Documenting Key End-to-End Deployment Scenarios (Vishal Joshi)
• Thinking of Enterprise Architecture as Vectors (Jeevak Kasarkod)
• Why Can’t Software Development Be More Like Sports? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Distributed Version Control is a Disruptive Change (Bill Wagner)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part VIII–CRUD is so 90s (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Soundboard (Rudi Grobler)
• 12 "All about WP7 Isolated Storage" articles (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to Create a Different Circular Loader using XAML? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application : Part 1 of 2 (Understanding OAuth) (Sudheer Kovalam)
• Blog Post: Community Spotlight: Silverlight MVVM Templates (T. DuPont)
• Background Agents – Part 2 of 3 and Background Agents – Part 3 of 3 (Peter Torr)
• Extending a XamRibbon ButtonTool to execute ICommands (Devin Rader)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Efficiently Query a SQL Server Compact Database Using LINQ? (MS Podcasts)
• Boagworld – Helping users find content and take action (Paul Boag)
• Yet Another Podcast #42–Colin Blair and RIA Services (Jesse Liberty)
• Hot Apps: Angry Birds, Hungry Pigs, Mosaic, MTV News, Pirates Assault (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Conference 2011 (Andrew Connell)
• People’s choice award at the Imagine Cup: Vote early! Vote often! (Surf4Fun)
• PowerShell Deep Dive @ The Experts Conference Europe 2011 (Travis Jones)
• Steve Ballmer at WPC: the Zune Confusion (Kip Kniskern)
• Author news: Charles Petzold reading in Seattle on Thursday (Devon Musgrave)
• Top Students Descend on Microsoft Research Cambridge (Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche & Kenji Takeda)

Database

• CTP3 is Here! Five Things to Know About the Next Version of SQL Server (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Migration Assistant 5.1 Supports SQL Server v-Next (Brian Swan)
• Using PowerShell to manage SQL Server Compact database files (Erik EJ)
• SSIS enhancements in Denali CTP3 (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Denali CTP3: Policy Based Management (Jorge Segarra)
• Automating Web App Deployments with SSIS (Jorge Segarra)
• SQL Server Codename “Denali” CTP3 Resources (Jose Chinchilla)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 13 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Query to Find Duplicate Indexes – Script to Find Redundant Indexes (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1–new table hint options for FORCESEEK and FORECSCAN (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server – TSQL – GROUP BY GROUPING SETS() (Vishal)
• SQLDIY: Index Usage Statistics (Wesley Brown)
• How to move the Model Database (Ryan Adams)
• Copying parent-child rows and SQL Dependency Tracker (Jakub Dvorak)

SharePoint

• SharePoint provision default WebParts for MySites (Greg Galipeau)
• Troubleshooting IIS and SharePoint When a Worker Process Goes Haywire (Joel Oleson)
• Chat Web Part for SharePoint 2010 (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• FUSE Labs Releases CompanyCrowd (MS FUSE Labs)
• A New Android Market for Phones (Dirk Dougherty)
• Running Dropbox as a service on Windows Server 2008 (Peter von Lochow)
• Will the Xbox 720 run Windows 8? (Sebastian Anthony)
• Just Announced: Windows Azure Marketplace Expands Application Selling Capabilities In US Markets (Windows Azure Team)
• Check if your WP7 app is a Bing Instant Answer (Adam Kinney)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – July 13 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Today’s Links (7/12/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #893 (Chris Alcock)
• MS Surface: Links to SDK and Resources (Luis Cabrera)
• 70 Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tutorials You Must Read (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Daily News Digest 07/13/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software (Pragmatic Programmers) by Jonathan Rasmusson

Top Links

• Announcing: Silverlight Reporting on CodePlex (Pete Brown)
• A Train of Thought: Innovation and .Net Edition (Jeremy D. Miller)
• What Executives at Microsoft Taught Me (J.D. Meier)
• Are daily stand-ups necessary? (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Windows Services in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Fixing RIA Services’s “An EntityKey value cannot be null” with a CodeProcessor (Ingo Rammer)
• MDA: Callback On Garbage Collected Delegate (Sasha Goldshtein)
• SOLID By [C#] Example Or “Stop talking about SOLID and show me the code…” (Greg Duncan)
• Show the Full File Path in the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tech Ed New Orleans– The Goods (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Model First in ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 (Wriju Ghosh)
• NHProfiler Integration (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Cache Layer (Gil Fink)
• .NET Framework Reference Enhancements Preview (Kimberly Wolk)
• Don’t repeat yourself; consts are already static (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)
• Same Markup: Explaining "@_jscript_version" and Styling New HTML5 Elements (Tony Ross)
• Creating a custom View Engine for ASP.NET MVC leveraging Text Template (T4) engine for rendering the view (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Browser Speed: It’s Not All About JavaScript and 20 Tips and Tricks For Writing Fast Web Applications (Pete LePage)
• Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring (John Dundon)
• jQuery Globalization Plugin from Microsoft (Scott Guthrie)
• Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework (Steve Sanderson)
• Using an iPhone with the Visual Studio development server (Dave Ward)
• Bing Health Map Shows Promise of Open Government Data (Adam DuVander)
• When can I use … is a great resource for browser compatibility advice (Erez Zukerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Energized Work" Now Online (James Shore)
• NCover 3.4.8: NUnit and IIS Improvements (Alan Johnson)
• Beyond Unit Testing => Specification of Intent (Bobby Johnson)
• You Need a Static Organizational Model (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Eric Evans: Domain driven design redefined and Udi Dahan: the biggest mistakes teams make when applying DDD and Evolution of DDD: CQRS and Event Sourcing (Gojko Adzic)
• Mockups 1.8: Editable Groups and much more (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Lokad.CQRS – Getting Started (Rinat Abdullin)
• Eric Evans: Folding Design into an Agile Process (Vladimir Gitlevich)
• Performance and Security (Pieter de Bruin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.12 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #30 – Sending Email from Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Microsoft releases Alpha version of IIS streaming for Silverlight and Apple devices (Steven Bink)
• Hosting cross-domain Silverlight applications (XAP) (Tim Heuer)
• IIS Media Services 4.0 – 32-bit and IIS Media Services 4.0 – 64-bit (MS Downloads)
• Tips and Tricks for INotifyPropertyChanged (Jeremy Likness)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using TFS for Source Control with InfoPath 2010 (Laura Har)
• Creating Rich Interactions Using Blend 4: Transition Effects, Fluid Layout, and Layout States (Silverlight TV #32) (John Papa)
• WebDev Radio Episode 78: Bob Silverberg on ColdFusion, ORM, testing and more (Michael Kimsal)
• Boagworld 214. When to hire a web designer (Paul Boag)
• New Videos in the Tailspin Spyworks series live. (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• Telerik Wins Best of TechEd! (Stephen Forte)
• Employee of the year…#Typemock (Tal Druyan)
• Wrox Wins 2010 Code Project Members Choice Award (Jim Minatel)

Database

• Log Shipping for cheap DR (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2 (Pinal Dave)
• What are events SQL profiler eventclass numbers 65527,65528,65533,65534 (Simon Sabin)
• Stored Procedure vs Parameterized Query (Joel Cochran)
• Determine Permission for all Users at Object Level (Suprotim Agarwal)
• PowerShell I Heart You (Jorge Segarra)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Three Free Outlook 2010 PST File Management Tools (Blake Handler)
• Aviary Launches Online Music Creation Tool (Barb Dybwad)
• Seeing Microsoft in the big picture (Cal Evans)
• Small Basic V0.9 is here! (Vijaye Raji)
• Multiple Default Printers in Windows 7 (Chris Koenig)
• Windows Live Sync beta blends the best of Sync and Mesh (David Treadwell)
• PowerGUI 2.1 is available (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Adobe releases AIR 2, standalone SDK download coming soon (Jay Hathaway)
• Apple and Microsoft will face off for June 24 retail showdown (Joe Wilcox)
• Box.net finally gets a desktop sync client (Lee Mathews)
• Daily Dose – iPad Owners Exposed to Spam and Hacks (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Hackers: 25th Anniversary Ed. Only $9.99 Use code DDHAC (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Small Basic is an ideal programming language and environment for small people and beginners (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #619 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 10, 2010 — #879 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Learning WCF by Michele Leroux Bustamante

.NET / Visual Studio

• Axiom, XNA and RenderToTexture (Michael Cummings)
• VS2010 Beta 2 : Pin to Source for debugging – COOL! But with a caveat (Julie Lerman)
• Long Live the Semicolon and Why I Love it! (Peter Kellner)
• How to Automate a Simple Deploy Using DataDude (Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition) (Peter Kellner)
• Extension Methods Ain’t Trojan Horses – A Tale on a Covariant City Built in and Protected By C# 4.0 (Bart de Smet)
• .Net Framework 4.0: Complex numbers (Gunnar Peipman)
• Machine.Migrations Changes (Aaron Jensen)

Web Development

• ASP.Net MVC in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Joe Cartano)
• Designing a High Performance Windows Azure Service! (David Lemphers)
• Rich Tooltips With jQuery (Scott Mitchell)
• Easily Convert Between HTML and RGB Colors using JavaScript (Chris Pietschmann)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Programmer Tip: Learn Like A Teacher. Teach Like A Learner. (Rajiv Popat)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 5 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• 10 resources to learn Moq (Simone Chiaretta) – Link of the Day
• How far behind are Microsoft developer frameworks in terms of design? (Scott Koon)
• Testing End Points: Integration tests vs Contract tests (Mark Needham)
• Agile for one: The Personal Story ‘Wall’ In Action (Leon Bambrick)
• Spec Explorer 1.0 – A “Visual tool for modeling software behavior and generating test suites from those models” (Greg Duncan)
• Dev Anti Pattern: Unworkable Machine (Roy Osherove)
• TypeMOQ API (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML Tip: DataContext Comment (Josh Smith)
• New Tutorial: Import an Adobe Photoshop File into Expression Blend (Adam Kinney)
• 10 shortcuts worth discovering in Expression Blend 3 (Silverlight Team)
• New WPF Features: Jumplists (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Spolsky, Atwood, Blyth, Hanselman = Crazy-Delicious || Content-Free? (Scott Hanselman)
• ARCast.TV: Ward Bell and John Stame on using Silverlight on the UFC Project and MSDN geekSpeak: Windows Mobile 6 with Jim Wilson (MS Podcasts)
• TWC9: Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 Blowout! (Dan Fernandez)
• Silverlight FireStarter (Part 1 of 9): Event Kick Off and (Part 2 of 9): Keynote and (Part 3 of 9): Key Silverlight Scenarios and (Part 4 of 9): Expression 3 Overview and (Part 5 of 9): Sketch Flow and (Part 6 of 9): Toolkit & Controls and (Part 7 of 9): RIA Services and (Part 8 of 9): Building Silverlight UIs with XAML Power toys and (Part 9 of 9): Q&A Panel (Emily Gibson)
• What’s new in the WPF and Silverlight "Cider" Designer in VS2010 beta2 and Graphics improvements in WPF 4 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Herding Code 63: Victory in Software Development with K Scott Allen (Jon Galloway)
• Screencast – What’s new in the Entity Data Model Designer in VS2010 (Julie Lerman)
• Do Not Fear Confrontation (Roy Osherove)

Community / Events

• Northeast Roadshow: Taskbar Deep-dive (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Link to SQL Server Book Online – BOL (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Organizing Your PowerShell Scripts and Functions (Joel Bennett)
• Happy Birthday Small Basic (Vijaye)
• Wait Chain Traversal Debugging Extension for WinDbg (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Read Between The Pixels – HLSL Kill Pixel Shader (Rene Schulte)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 23, 2009 and Interesting Find: October 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #461 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2009 — #716 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for the Week of 2009.10.23 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 23rd October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Double Shot #568 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 383 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Designing a system with DSLs (Oren Eini)
• Adding Workdays to a Date (Chad Juliano)
• Using Exception.Data to Append Data to Error Stack (Dave Schinkel)
• What’s the difference between conditional compilation and the conditional attribute? (Eric Lippert)
• C# – A Simple Way to Process Command Line Arguments (Michael Ceranski)

Web Development

• ASP.NET AJAX Preview 5 (Chris G. Williams)
• On the Road to iTextFileResult: Getting the Results from System.Web.MVC.WebFormViewEngine (Jay Kimble)
• Lucene.net vs. Indexing Services, or “How to conquer your fear of index management” (Kyle Baley)
• Box goes mobile with new OpenBox API (Josh Lowensohn)
• Simplifying Cross Browser Compatibility Testing (Mike Ormond)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CodeRush TestRunner (Andrew Stopford)
• NHibernate Profiler v1.0 Released (Oren Eini)
• Pressure, Expressed in Initial Development Time (Jay Fields)
• Wither the Repository (Jimmy Bogard)
• Improving Testability of GUI Code, an Example (Brett Schuchert)
• Agile is never ‘no process’ (Ian Cooper)
• Git local pre-commit hook and "git commit -a" and "git add" (Jason Meridth)
• Using the Specification Pattern for Querying (Chris Missal)
• Why do I develop with passion!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• What is your basic navigation structure for WPF/WinForms/Silverlight/Swing/Cocoa applications? and Graceful Shutdown Braindump (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
• The three stages of learning team leadership and Immediate and delayed satisfaction in software development (Roy Osherove)
• Bloggers compare Git notes (Ryan Menezes)
• Who decides what is a bug and what should be fixed? (Shrini Kulkarni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Caliburn RC3 (Rob Eisenberg)
• TreeView Selector (Rudi Grobler)
• Using Large Message Requests in Silverlight with WCF (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stack Overflow Podcast #67 (Jeff Atwood)
• Podcast: Are You Doing What It Takes to Succeed at Implementing SharePoint? (Dux Raymond Sy)
• What are .NET Services? (Nigel Watling)
• InfoPath 2010 Overview Video and Building forms with InfoPath 2010 (S.S. Ahmed)

Community / Events

• CodePlex Foundation (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft creates the CodePlex foundation (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• PDC09 $500 discount ends September 15 (Devon Musgrave)
• PDC 2009 – Patterns of Parallel Programming (Doug Holland)
• Evolving the PDC09 Event Site (Mike Swanson)
• Congratulations to the TeamCity.Codebetter.Com team! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• SQLAuthority News – Why I am Going to Attend PASS Summit Unite 2009- Seattle (Pinal Dave)
• Simone Chiaretta turns 35 and gives away a Mindscape Mega Pack professional subscription (Simone Chiaretta)
• How to contribute to open source without writing a single line of code (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Database

• Using Mirroring to Reduce DB Migration Downtime (Part 1) and (Part 2) (Ted Krueger)
• SQL 2008 Express Download – Getting the exe and Does debugging in SQL 2008 require sysadmin privileges (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Azure Does Stored Procedures (Stephen Forte)
• Be Careful When Uninstalling SQL 2008 R2 CTP (Ken Simmons)

PowerShell

• What’s new in PowerShell 2? (Joel Bennett)
• XP and W2K3 Release Candidate Versions of PowerShell are Now Available for Download (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Deployment Services benefits even small shops/individuals (Andrew Connell)
• Data Visualization and Infographics Resources (Cameron Chapman)
• New Windows 7 advert (Steve Clayton)
• Collision Physics With Small Basic (Vijaye)
• Friday Fun: Survival Kit For Microsoft Employees Owning iPhone (Krishnan Subramanian)
• September’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Microsoft’s Bing 2.0: Coming this fall (maybe even next week) (Sumeeth Evans)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #431 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman Links for September 10, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Cream for September 10, 2009 — #689 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #538 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 369 and New and Notable 370 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 10th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (9/10/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Anonymous Types: An Introduction and Processing Files Using Anonymous Types (Deborah Kurata)
• Bookmarks2LiveWriter: Live Writer plug-in for serious bloggers (Gunnar Peipman)
• T4 Tutorial: Generating Code from DSL Models (Oleg Sych)
• Open-generic support in MEF Contrib (Glenn Block)
• Installing Surface SDK on Win 7 64 bit (Marlon Grech)
• Simpler Transactions (Phil Haack)
• File Format Fundamentals: OPC (Rob Relyea)
• UppercuT – Mark an Application Executable to Use More Than 2GB of Memory (Large Address Aware) (Rob Reynolds)
• Elevate: SRT Solutions first Open Source Project (Bill Wagner)

Web Development

• Autowire IHttpModules with IoC (Javier G. Lozano)
• ASP.NET MVC in Action: two free chapters and all source code online (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Adding Syntactic Sugar to the Spark View Engine (Karl Seguin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introduction to Agile for QA People (James Shore)
• Do You Morph Into A Different Programmer? (Alan Skorkin)
• What to learn TDD? (Andrew Woodward)
• What project phase are you in? (Billy McCafferty)
• CR_ClassCleaner now with Refactor key (Brendan Kowitz)
• Of Course NHibernate Is Slow When You Use It Incorrectly (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day
• A Conversation On Adopting Kanban (Derick Bailey)
• Comparing Simple Lambda Expressions With Moq and Quality Sounds Good…I Think. (Justin Etheredge)
• Testing Protected Methods is Easy (Karl Seguin)
• Refactoring Day 20 : Extract Subclass (Sean Chambers)
• Ruminations on Multi-Tenant Data Architectures (Scott Mitchell)
• Your user acceptance testing is fixed – Is that a problem? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• The first rule of exception handling: do not do exception handling. (Mike Hadlow)
• Application Intrusion Detection (Paul Tyma)
• What’s Your Favorite Thinking Technique? (J.D. Meier)
• TDD: Asserting on test dependency code (Mark Needham)
• Agile Adoption and Scaling Patterns (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• MediaPlayer control included in Silverlight 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight MVP Releases Windows 7 Countdown Timer (Jas Dhaliwal)
• WPF Control Verifier v0.1 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• Using WCF for Silverlight Development with Telerik OpenAccess (Stephen Forte)
• Silverlight & WCF PollingDuplex Channel (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Christian Gross: Death of the Speaker? (Carl Franklin)
• NDC Video – Robert Martin – Craftsmanship and Ethics and NDC Video – Robert Martin – S.O.L.I.D Principles of OO class design and NDC Video Torrents Update – More videos! (please re-seed) (Roy Osherove)
• TechNet webcast on “Getting Started in IT Consulting” (Joe Webb)
• Herding Code 57: Presentation Patterns with Jeremy Miller, Ward Bell, Rob Eisenberg and Glenn Block (Part 1) (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• Have your picture on our cover! (Michael Kimsal)
• Back in Action! (Chris Smith)
• Win a free registration and Hotel for SQLBits V (Simon Sabin)
• Chris Auld – PDC09 Architecting and Developing for Windows Azure (Robert Hess)

Database

• SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : Cannot open database requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE’. (Pinal Dave)
• Death by a thousand tools (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• Web Parts – a developer and architect’s guide (Ishai Sagi)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases New Windows Live Movie Maker for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Thoughts From The Trenches (Giant Brain Dump Incoming!) (Charles Chen)
• Say Hello to My Little Internet (Aaron Lerch)
• PCPlus 271: Binary heaps (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Are We Abusing Science? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Now available: Small Basic v0.6 (Vijaye G.)
• Apostrophes and quotation marks (Garr Reynolds)
• Hands on with Windows Live Movie Maker (Nic Fillingham)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 19, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #416 (Chris Alcock)
• Rants and Raves #6 (Joel Cochran)
• New and Notable 360 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Reflector.Babel Addin (Jason Haley)
• Remote Controlled lunaring with Arduino (Tim Farley)
• Coding 4 Fun – Windows 7 Taskbar (Arian T. Kulp)
• Generic Types and Inheritance (Rick Strahl)
• Unity Configuration from Separate Configuration File (David Hayden)
• MVP Launches Bing Sharp API (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Performance comparison of nHibernate and Entity Framework (Julie Lerman)
• Preventing debugger property evaluation for side-effect laden properties (James Gregory)
• .Net Framework 4.0: C# and optional arguments and named parameters (Gunnar Peipman)
• Determine if a point is contained within a polygon (Jason Young)
• T4 Tutorial: Generating Code from DSL Models (Oleg Sych) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• SketchFlow Prototypes embedded in DotNetNuke (Christian Schormann)
• Facebook + ASP.NET MVC (Robert Schultz)
• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Rendering the Chart (Scott Mitchell)
• Book review: ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development and REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET MVC on the MSDN Library (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• jHtmlArea – Adding Custom Toolbar Buttons (Chris Pietschmann)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Which test runner are you using ? (Jamie Cansdale)
• Refactoring @ Scale (Brad Appleton)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 6. (Rajiv Popat)
• Refactoring Day 18 : Replace exception with conditional (Sean Chambers)
• 10 Tips on how to think like a designer…and tell stories (Steve Clayton)
• Falling into the How Trap (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Book Review: Enterprise Integration Patterns (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Effects in Blend and C# (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Ribbon Controls – Windows 7 or WPF or MFC based (Rob Relyea)
• WPF Wonders: Transformations (and Robots!) (Rod Stephens)
• Silverlight 3 – Dynamically Loading and Merging Resource Dictionary (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Implementing the Model View ViewModel pattern (Erwin Van Der Valk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Doug Hauger: Inside the Windows Azure Platform Business Model (Charles Torre)
• NDC Video: Michael Feathers – Design Sense (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Ted Neward – WCF Patterns (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Michael Feathers – Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Jeremy D. Miller – Convention Over Configuration (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Michael Feathers – Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Robert Martin – Clean Code III – Functions (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Robert Martin – Component Principles (Roy Osherove)
• ToolShed Tooltip #21 – Developer Community Update By MVP Keith Kabza (Russell Fustino)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #136: Exploring NDJango: Forms and Extensions (Alex Pedenko)

Community / Events

• The Agile PMI Community of Practice (Mike Cottmeyer)

Database

• Multiple database support with Entity Framework (Muhammad Mosa)
• Scripting All The Jobs On Your SQL Server Instance Into Separate Files By Using SMO (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Quiz #5: SANs, Sex, and Mirrors (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL Azure CTP 1 (Jim O’Neil)

Miscellaneous

• 26 Free Awesome Windows 7 Themes (Blake Handler)
• Introducing Small Basic (MS Downloads)
• The 3 Pillars Of Job Satisfaction (Alan Skorkin)
• Adobe Shortcut App Makes Finding Hotkeys Easier (The How-To Geek)
• The TechNet Script Center Gallery (Ed Wilson)
• Sky not falling after the latest Firefox 3.5.2 dust-up with .NET plug-in (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Pulling from github on Windows (Mark Needham)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Do You Matter? (Dave Burke)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #415 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 18, 2009 — #668 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 359 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 18th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Resources on Retrospectives and Studies on Effectiveness of TDD? (Brad Appleton)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• NH Prof New Feature: Error Detection (Oren Eini)
• Project-wide controller survey through reflection (Jimmy Bogard)
• Code Generation in Visual Studio 2008 (Darrel Carver)
• Odd issues with Nant and and lack of (or addition of) xmlns in your files (Derik Whittaker)
• Sneak Preview: N-Tier development with Entity Framework 4.0 (Diego Vega)
• Sneak Preview: Model Defined Functions (Alex James)
• Online TechTalk about POCO and other EF4 Features (Danny Simmons)
• Stay in Sync with Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Null Is Not Empty (Eric Lippert)
• My HP Mini Runs Visual Studio 2010 (Stephen Walther)
• Created HTML Help Documentation with Sandcastle (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Install the Surface SDK SP1 Workstation Edition on x64 (Brian Peek)
• Axum – Ping Pong with Dataflow Networks (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight / WPF

• Write a Sortable ObservableCollection for WPF (Brian Lagunas)
• WCF Binary Bindings in Silverlight 3 and Tips: Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services (John Papa)
• Alpha Video with Silverlight 3 Pixel Shaders (Michael S. Scherotter)
• More Pixel Shader Effects for Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Who made my text circular? (Coding4Fun)

Web Development

• Twitter from ASP.NET and Twitter from ASP.NET – Simple GUI (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC Subdomain Routing (Juliën Hanssens)
• Emulating the UpdatePanel in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 with AjaxHelper (Dan Wahlin)
• setInterval is (moderately) evil (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Tip #61: Did you know… How to create an ASP.Net Dynamic Data Web Site? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• JavaScript for C# Developers: Functions are Objects (Julian M. Bucknall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• About RIA design (Daniela Panfili)
• Balsamiq And A Sneak Preview Of My ‘Decoupling Workflow’ Presentation (Derick Bailey)
• Why Messaging #4 – So hows it going? (Dru Sellers)
• Who left the PartialMock out in the sun? It stinks! (Jimmy Bosse)
• How Do You Deal With Exceptions? (Justin Etheredge)
• Coding Dojo #14: Rock, Scissors, Paper – TDD as if you meant it (Mark Needham)
• IronRuby just got a mocking framework – kind of (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Why a LeanSSC? Why a Lean Certification? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Kona 3: Learning Behavior Driven Development (BDD) (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #110: Learning the State Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• The History of Microsoft – 1989 (Tina)
• 10-4 episode 19: Service Discovery with WCF (Ron Jacobs)
• 7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0 (Scott Koon)
• Phil Winstanley and Dave Sussman Reflect on WebDD09 (Mike Ormond)
• Data Access Menu – panel discussion video now online (Jeffrey Palermo)

Community / Events

• db40 – A Q&A with Refcard Co-Author Eric Falsken (Kirk Knoernschild)
• IronRuby at RailsConf 2009 (Jimmy Schementi)
• SQLAuthority News – TechEd India 2009 – Day 2 – In-Person Meeting with Industry Leaders – Community Party (Pinal Dave)

Database

• SQLCat white papers a must read for performance and scalability (Simon Sabin)
• Viewing Windows Azure log files using SSIS (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Using MOSS and WSS SharePoint Workflow to Resize Images in an Image Library (Tom Hearn)

Miscellaneous

• Drop.io launches Present.io public beta (Christina Warren)
• Was 1971 the best year to be born a geek? (Cory Doctorow) – YES!!!
• Virtual PC Beta (Mike Ormond)
• Windows 7′s Best Underhyped Features [Screenshot Tour] (The How-To Geek)
• Zune HD (xYz) positioned to take on Apple, Sony, Nintendo and Google? (Thomas Ricker)
• Asteroids v2 (Vijaye)
• Go Retro: Get Windows 98 Themes for Windows 7 and Make Media Center Black (Sarah Perez)
• Office 2010 Updates (Sumeeth Evans)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #348 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 14, 2009 — #593 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (5/14/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Technology Post for May 14th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 14th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 320 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• 5 More Random Gotchas with the WPF DataGrid (Vincent Sibal)
• Silverlight Simple Animation (Charlie Calvert)
• Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application – Styling Part 7.2 (Chris Anderson)
• Developing a Robust Data Driven UI Using WPF – An Overdue Summary (and full source code) (Eran Kampf)
• Debugging XAML (Brian Lagunas)
• ViKi Version 0.0.01 (Jesse Liberty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Libraries Under the Hood (Yochay Kiriaty)
• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Using the Query Syntax (Scott Mitchell)
• NHibernate Mapping – Concurrency (Oren Eini)
• Exploring the Z3 Theorem Prover (with a bit of LINQ) and C# 4.0 Feature Focus – Part 4 – Co- and Contra-Variance for Generic Delegate and Interface Types (Bart de Smet)
• Creating a Utility Framework (Arian Kulp)
• CCI – the new open-source metadata reader (David Kean)
• NServiceBus 1.9 RTM (Udi Dahan)
• Simplifying TFS: Applying hot fixes without branching (Oleg Sych)

Web Development

• Native JSON in IE8, Firefox 3.5 plus Json.NET (James Newton-King)
• Free Chapter of ASP.NET MVC Book (Frank La Vigne)
• Using jQuery Grid With ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• Tip # 52: Did you know… When deploying your ASP.NET web application, debug=false should be set in web.config (Anh Phan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Communication is Optional (Josh Poley)
• The Big Agile Practices Survey (Jurgen Appelo)
• Lean: Big Picture over Local Optimisations (Mark Needham)
• The Enterprise Architecture Books Being Read By Enterprise Architects (Mike Walker)
• Some Fundamentals of Service Oriented Architecture (Mike Hadlow)
• BDD with RSpec\Cucumber\IronRuby. (Andy Stopford)
• AutoMapper feature: interfaces and dynamic mapping (Jimmy Bogard)
• Know Your Enemy (Gregory Long)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Bob Beauchemin Gets Spatial in SQL Server 2008! (Carl Franklin)
• Expert to Expert: Amitabh Srivastava – Windows Azure and Cloud Computing (Charles Torre)
• New Webcast: Developing Windows Services (Dan Rigsby)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #101: Building a Nant Script — Part 4: Adding fxCop to your build script (Derik Whittaker)
• Building Controls in Silverlight – Lessons from the Silverlight Toolkit Team (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: What’s New in Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Chad Fowler on the Passionate Programmer (The Pragmatic Programmers)

Community / Events

• Congrats to Tim for being voted in as an ASPInsider (Derik Whittaker)
• Lang.NET 2009 (Jimmy Schementi)

Database

• Rebuild master and restore system databases from complete disk failure and Add Report Wizard Layout Style (Standard Company Style) (Ted Krueger)
• Default Dates in SSRS Reports (pmch22)

Miscellaneous

• Your NPR Name (Liana Maeby)
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta (MS Downloads)
• Confirmed: Office 2010 will come in 32-bit, 64-bit flavors (Emil Protalinski)
• Two free e-books available in April (Devon Musgrave)
• Mogulus releases Procaster live streaming app (Jay Hathaway)
• Ad Agencies vie for “Pink” campaign: Zune enabled phones coming soon? (Kip Kniskern)
• Addressing the confusion around Windows 7 ‘build forking’ and Modding the WDTV (Paul Thurrott)
• Why All The Zune Leaks? The Buzz Is Deafening! (Ryan Rea)
• How to hyperlink specific words in your CodePlex wiki? – #016 (Sara Ford)
• If you actually put your laptop on your lap, this is a must have (Scott Lock)
• It’s Office 2010: First technical previews due in Q3 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• v0.4 of Small Basic says "Bonjour" (Vijaye G.)
• There is Only One Feed Reader – Google (Zoli Erdos)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 14, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #327 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 14, 2009 — #570 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for April 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 04.10~04.15 (yuanjian)
• CloudNews for April 14th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Creators Club Communiqué 24 (Kathleen Sanders)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• JavaScript for C# programmers: convert string to integer (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Tip #45: Did you know…How to change the DynamicData folder location? (Deepak Verma)
• Tip #46: Did you know… that Web Deployment “migrate” operation is “sync” operation with all migration rules enabled? (Kateryna Rohonyan)
• Tip #47 Did you know… that front page script remote debugging requires turning off IE’s Enhanced Security Configuration in windows 2003 and windows 2008? (Xinyang Qiu)
• Handling interactions between ViewModel classes (Brian Button)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Code Canvas (Kael Rowan) – Link of the Day
• Help Us Prioritize the Enterprise Library 5.0 Backlog (Ade Miller)
• Cascading Filters – Dynamic Data Futures (Futures on Codeplex) (Steve)
• Using VS.NET 2005 SP1 with SQL Server 2008 connectivity (Ted Krueger)
• Windows Azure – .NET Services and the Service Bus and C# and Optional Parameters (Mike Taulty)
• IronPython 2.6 Alpha 1 (Harry Pierson)
• DBFile project now on CodePlex (Jason Haley)
• Essential LINQ (Jason Zander)
• Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Contrib – Release: 0.4.0.1 and T4 Toolbox – Release: 9.3.21.2 and StyleCop for ReSharper – Release: 1.0.0.000 (compatible with ReSharper 4.1) (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Idealistic vs. Practical (Christopher Bennage)
• Framework Design Guidelines: the System.* namespace (Brad Abrams)
• JavaScript Unit Testing Frameworks (Elijah Manor)
• Always Assume That You’re the Problem (Justin Etheredge)
• F#: Forcing type to unit for Assert.ShouldThrow in XUnit.NET (Mark Needham)
• Underscoring A Point (Rod Paddock)

Silverlight / WPF

• Machine is now available! Reuxables 2.0, WPF Toolkit, and more. (Dax Pandhi)
• Props to Two Cool Silverlight Applications (Corrina Barber)
• Silverlight Localization Gotcha (Davy Brion)
• Toolkit Control – TimePicker (Jesse Liberty)
• DLR Hosting in Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)
• Installing Silverlight 3 – A Step By Step Guide for Upgrading your Development Environment (Harsh Bardhan)
• Expression Blend 3 & Behaviours (Mike Taulty)
• RadControls for Silverlight 3 now available (Valentin Stoychev)
• Why is it called a "DependencyProperty"? (Mike Hillberg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pete Brown, Silverlight Wizard in Action (Adam Kinney)
• This Week on C9: New SDKs, Silverlight 3, Web utilities and cool Show Off Projects (Dan Fernandez)
• Azure videos worth watching (Bill Zack)
• No More Underscrores in Visual Basic 10 (Beth Massi)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Eilon Lipton and the ASP.NET MVC Rumors (Scott Hanselman)
• MIX09: Time Lapse camera, setup and tear down (Duncan Mackenzie)
• Episode 130: Code Visualization with Michele Lanza (SE-Radio Team)
• Kona Screencast 1: It’s Baaaaack! (Rob Conery)
• Some of the Shows I did at or around MIX – Hanselminutes, Continuum (Pete Brown)
• Mike Swanson – XAML Plugin for Adobe Illustrator (Robert Hess)
• 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – MVP Interviews – Part 5 and 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – I’m a PC and I’m and MVP! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Community / Events

• A few favorite photos from MIX09 (Adam Kinney)
• Requesting Contracted .NET OSS Bug Fixes from the Community (Bobby Johnson)
• Contest: Help Us To Find A Motto For Devlicio.us (Tuna Toksoz)

Database

• Spring cleaning your indexes – Part II (Kimberly L. Tripp)
• ExecutionLog Table in SSRS 2008 Gone (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• CCleaner version 2.18.878 software update (Ben) – IE8 support added
• Get hip to Mesh… it rocks! (Andrew Connell)
• Presentation tip: They Remember the Mistakes more than the Polish (Brad Abrams)
• DreamSpark – High School access now and new stuff! and Blu-ray/DVD Comparison Utility (Coding4Fun)
• Windows Mobile 7 screenshots (or mockups, or something) leaked? (Chris Ziegler)
• Small Basic: Sample of the week: Turn ‘em Off (Vijaye)
• Windows 7 Build 7068 leaks in the wild (Taimur Asad)
• Where to Find Windows 7 Logon Screen Backgrounds (Sarah Perez)
• There’s a lot of Software in Our Future (Dino Esposito)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 27, 2009 and LINKBLOG for March 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2009 — #554 and Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2009 — #555 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 309 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for March 27th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: March 27, 2009 and Interesting Finds: March 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day