Web Development

• Microsoft Releases Software Development Kits for Bing Developers (Blake Handler)
• Service Virtualization and the Managed Services Engine (MSE) (Aaron Skonnard)
• Aren’t Web frameworks supposed to make programming easier? (Brian Reindel)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 Released (Phil Haack)
• Oh, Fer Cryin’ Out Loud. Close the Darn Tag! (James Johnson)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 released! (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Released (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing a Custom NHibernate Class Validator (Billy McCafferty)
• Exception Logging with EntLib Made Simple (David Starr)
• Fighting against GhostDoc abusing (Gunnar Peipman)
• What’s the difference, part one: Generics are not templates (Eric Lippert)
• .NET Image Scaling in CSharp (Dave M. Bush)
• “Cannot find one or more components.” error when launching IronPython Studio (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Customizing TFS Process Guidance (Oleg Sych)
• Creating a Data Access layer using Unity (Martin Hinshelwood)
• LINQ To M Refresh (Stephen Forte)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• “TODO: Refactor this…” Twice the Code Smell (Ade Miller)
• Macto, defining Centralized Service, Distributed Service and Localized Component and Macto, Authorization decisions and Reviewing NerdDinner and Reviewing NerdDinner: The Select N+1 pitfall (Oren Eini)
• Just Isolate It Already (Justin Etheredge)
• Bringing Plausible Deniability to Development: the Strategy Pattern (David Cooksey)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)
• Zen Development Practices: Method-level IoC (Rinat Abdullin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 15: ASP.NET MVC and LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation – Demo Posted (Brad Abrams)
• What’s New in the Expression Encoder 3 SDK? (Dean Rowe)
• AgOpenSource Moves Forward and AgOpenSource Project Turing and Video Wiki – Status and Overview (Jesse Liberty)
• Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Fix An Export Related Bug and Seadragon.com – Convert Any Image On The Web Into A Deep Zoom Image! (Sunshine)
• Silverlight 3 Multi-touch: The Basics (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 with Phil Haack and Virtual Scott (Scott Hanselman)
• MEF and Silverlight (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• The History of Microsoft – 1999: The Series Finale! (Tina)

Community / Events

• Windows 7 Incubation Week In Reston, VA (Gunther Lenz)
• Developing Android Applications – A Free Live Online Workshop – Aug 5 @ 10am PT (Tony Hillerson)
• NJ Tech Drinks Take 2 / Camp Camp? (Sara Chipps)

SharePoint

• *** NOW AVAILABLE *** Chapter 4 from our Real World SharePoint 2007 book for free on TechNet (Andrew Connell)
• Building and Packaging SharePoint Solutions (Eli Robillard)

Database

• Zoho Reports : Connectors for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and MS Access Databases (Clarence Fischer)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Cloud Computing (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• Executing all .SQL files in a directory with Powershell (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

• Vault 5.0 has shipped (Eric Sink)
• Microsoft Releases Bing for Windows Mobile 6.x Devices (Blake Handler)
• RTM’d today: Windows 7 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant (Devon Musgrave)
• Coding Horror: Movable Type Since 2004 (Jeff Atwood)
• Are these the first images of Google Chrome OS? (Lee Mathews)
• Adding to the team (Wendy Friedlander)
• 9 Ways to Pump Up You, the Brand (Meryl Evans)
• Hiring for new super-secret project (Bertrand LeRoy)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview: Hands-on Review (Will Kelly)
• August’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 30, 2009 — #659 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #402 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for 30th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (7/30/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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