Top Links

• Project Houston CTP released – try it out with brentotweets (Jamie Thomson)
• 10 Commandments of Usability (Dave Laribee)
• SRP: Single Responsibility Principle (Andy Stopford)
• Free JustCode, JustMock licenses for all Thursday webinar attendees (Zain Naboulsi)

.NET / Visual Studio

• An interesting RavenDB bug (Oren Eini)
• Mono 2.8 Trick: tracing exceptions (Miguel de Icaza)
• Feature Builder v1.0 Released (Remember, this is the tool that helps build tools… The Power Tool for Visual Studio Power Tools) (Greg Duncan)
• Interactive ToolTip using Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Customize the Command Prompt (Zain Naboulsi)
• Working with custom proxies (Rory Primrose)
• Productivity power tools, navigation (Gian Maria Ricci)

Web Development

• An Examination of ClientIDMode in ASP.NET4 (Hima)
• HTML Snippets in Visual Studio 2010 (Dane Morgridge)
• New ASP.net Ribbon Control (Peter Bahaa)
• A simple way to Defend Against Unauthenticated Web Service Access. (Joe Stagner)
• Demand for HTML5 Skills On the Rise, Report Says (Simon Mackie)
• Microsoft Web Farm Framework Version 2 for IIS 7 (x64) (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Driving CRUD screens with BDD (Gojko Adzic)
• Coded UI Test – Tip 3 – Locate Controls Using Win + I (Shai Raiten)
• Clean Coding, The Cheat Sheet. Starts SOLID and gets better from there… (Greg Duncan)
• The prepared mind vs having context when learning new ideas (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft confirms Windows Phone 7 launch partners: HTC, Samsung, LG, Dell and Asus (Florin Troaca)
• Windows Phone 7 and Windows Live Calendar: What you can and can’t do (damaster)
• The MVVM Pattern Is Highly Overrated (Davy Brion)
• More Windows Phone 7 Jump Start sessions, plus forum (Devon Musgrave)
• The new WPF Team Blog – one place to get it all! (Margaret Parsons)
• Fantasia Lite: New Silverlight Painting Tool (Nikola)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The GeekDads Episode #72: The Geek Double Twist (Ken Denmead)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 2 of n (Charles Torre)
• Video: Cloud Delivery and Azure (Eric Hagan)
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Firestarter (Part 1 of 5): Keynote, Intro to SOA & WCF and (Part 2 of 5): Most Common WCF Usage Configurations and (Part 3 of 5): REST Programming with WCF and (Part 4 of 5): WCF Made Easy, Data & RIA Services and (Part 5 of 5): What’s New with WCF 4.0 (Emily Gibson)
• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: The Overview Video (Rob Tiffany)
• Building a Compelling Design with a PivotViewer Collection (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Using OneNote: The Best Way To Get Course Materials (Bob Caswell)
• Beta Review: Forrst is an awesome community for designers and developers (Erez Zukerman)
• .NET speaker Idol, Guess who won? (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Webcast Next Week – Using XML to Query Execution Plans (jstrate)
• Getting Started In Blogging And Technical Speaking – At The 2010 PASS Summit (Kendal Van Dyke)

Database

• Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 9 (Glenn Berry)
• Database Development with Visual Studio 2010: Overview of SQL Server Data-Tier Application (DACPAC) (Gouri Sohoni)
• Calculate Age from Date Of Birth using SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQLAuthority News – SolidQ Journal Released – A Must Read for All (Pinal Dave)
• New book: Microsoft Access 2010 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)
• A strategy for managing security for different environments using the Database Development Tools in Visual Studio 2010 (Jamie Thomson)
• PostgreSQL Tutorial – Creating Your First Database (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• DB2 and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 and BCS Meta Man July 2010 Release (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Testing begins with Yahoo! (Satya Nadella)
• “Work Without Walls” – Free eBook for management/workers thinking about “Working Remote” (reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• Interviewing (A Gently Stolen Idea) (Jeremiah Peschka)
• A frank conversation about the futures of Apple and Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
• Why Aren’t More Developers Building Businesses? (Marc Grabanski)
• Developers Still the Most In-Demand IT Workers (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Smart girls at the party (Phil Plait)
• Bing Webmaster Tools updated, now utilizes Silverlight 4 and Microsoft Employees to get a Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #648 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 21, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 07.09 ~ 07.21 (yuanjian)

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WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities by Mike Liu

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Top Links

• Constructor Injection with StructureMap (Dane Morgridge)
• Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and Choosers, and Few More Things That Are on the Way – Part 2 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Bring Back Page Transitions to the Windows Phone List Application Template (Shawn Wildermuth)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Love Windows Live Writer? Wish it did more? Then write a plugin… and here’s some tips for doing just that… (with even some VB in there for flavor and How about a generic API that hooks your Web app to different social networks? How about the “Web Application Toolkit for Social Network APIs”! (C# and VB) (Greg Duncan)
• Creating proxies with RealProxy (Rory Primrose)
• Windows Server AppFabric: Better, Faster, Cheaper (Somasegar)
• What I’m loving about the newest iteration of EF Code First in CTP4 (Julie Lerman)
• How To – Gems And .NET – Dependencies (References) (Rob Reynolds)
• Optimistic and Pessimistic Concurrency – A Simple Explanation (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• NullableDictionary (Chris Cavanagh)
• Using The Dynamic Keyword To Avoid Difficulties With Generics (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• MVC IsAuthorized and AuthorizedActionLink revisited (Chris Cavanagh)
• Autocomplete Filter from the old Futures project working in Dynamic Data 4 (Steve Naughton)
• Uploading a File (Or Files) With ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• How IE9 Platform Preview Feedback Changed the JavaScript Standard (Allen Wirfs-Brock)
• Quick Perf Tip: Always Add A Trailing Slash (Pete LePage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• More layers = more complexity (Simon Brown)
• Too Much Abstractions? Follow up (Gil Fink)
• Scrum In Schools (Dan Mezick)
• Enterprise Architecture, Semantic Deficiencies, and Thou (Bob McIlree)
• Book Review: Rework (Andy Warren)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• The Disasters of Visual Designer Tools (Charles Petzold)
• Custom Silverlight TextBox control that immediately updates DataBound Text property in TwoWay binding (Slobodan Pavkov)
• Streamed Silverlight file downloads using WCF (Yavor Georgiev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Coding QA Podcast Episode 43 Black and White Box Testing (Matthew Osborn & Federico Armas)
• ThisWeekC9 – PDC10, Azure in a box, Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta, and Kings Quest (Dan Fernandez)
• Madan Musuvathi and Sebastian Burckhardt – Concurrency Fuzzing with Cuzz (Jonathan de Halleux)
• geekSpeak Recording – Local Messaging and Silverlight with Brian Lagunas (Emily Gibson)
• Cloud Cover Episode 19 – Silverlight and Blob Storage (Ryan Dunn)
• Introduction to developing World Ready Applications (Aldo Donetti)
• Video: Building Automated Testing Infrastructure (Eric Hagan)

Community / Events

• Steve Jones to Run for PASS Board (Grant Fritchey)
• Rob and Andy talk Windows Phone 7 (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows Phone 7 – stop dreaming, start building (Dave Isbitski)

Database

• Extending SQL Server Data to the Cloud using SQL Azure Data Sync and Using SQL Azure Data Sync Service to provide Geo-Replication of SQL Azure databases (Liam Cavanagh)
• Make a SQL Server Database Read Only (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SSRS – Applying a filter to a data set for a parameter (Simon Sabin)
• SubQuery Performance (Steve Jones)
• SQL Response v2 Early Access Program Open to Everyone (Brad M. McGehee)
• Some thoughts on PivotViewer and SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• New Microsoft Certification for Students: Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) available today (Bob Familiar)
• New book: Microsoft Outlook 2010 Step by Step (Carol Vu)
• What’s New in AD cmdlets 1.4 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Independent Azure – Now That’s More Like It (Jon Davis)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Tools Availability (Office Team)
• Want to Work at Microsoft’s Xbox Division? (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone 7 will not feature Windows Live Sync at launch (Michael Gillett)
• Think Notepad only opens files? Nope! File/Open a HTTP URL (and get the HTML response) in Notepad… (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 59 (Scott Banwart)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 7/17/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 16, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 16-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 07/16/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2010 — #905 (Dave Campbell)

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The Productive Programmer (Theory in Practice (O’Reilly)) by Neal Ford

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Top Links

• Introducing Knockout, a UI library for JavaScript (Steve Sanderson)
• MVVM Study – Segue – Introducing Caliburn.Micro (Rob Eisenberg)
• Code Contracts Part 8 – An Interview with the Microsoft Code Contracts Team (Kevin Hazzard)
• Layout Designer prototype is now open-source on CodePlex (Kirill Osenkov)
• StoryTeller One Point Oh! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Hands-On Lab: "Building an RSS Newsreader for Windows Phone 7” (Blake Handler)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TFS Project Server integration CTP (Pieter de Bruin)
• LINQ Projection (Richard Carr)
• OData Explorer (Gil Fink)
• Application Settings – make sure you know what to save and where (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Architecture Journal Article: Models and Application Life-Cycle Management (Clemens Reijnen)
• Abusing PrintfFormat in F# (Mauricio Scheffer)
• Whitepapers on the Parallel Computing Developer Centre (Mike Taulty)
• Removing Dead Tracks (Duplicates that don’t exist) from iTunes using C# (Scott Hanselman)
• Read and Recommended: Essential C# 4.0 (Stephen Forte)
• Longest and Shortest Type Name in .NET 4.0 using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Output vs Immediate Window and Setting Bookmarks and Organizing Bookmarks (Zain Naboulsi)
• Enumerator Structs: Optimizing for the Common Case (Sasha Goldshtein)
• ConnectionStringSettings parameter injection in Unity (Rory Primrose)
• Changing the Team Project Collection of the Team Build Controller (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Hobby Programming – Creating your first robotic simulation using Microsoft Robotic Dev Studio and Visual Programming Language (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• What a Difference 8 Years Makes (In Code) and Are Code Generated POCOs Really POCO? (K. Scott Allen)
• Another Nice DevExpress CodeRush Refactoring (Peter Kellner)

Web Development

• Asp.Net MVC: My Personal View Rules (Chris Brandsma)
• Sharpening Your Markup with "Razor" (Jonathan McCracken)
• Paging on a Datalist (Dave M. Bush)
• Expression Web 4 Add-Ins (Minal Agarwal)
• Stepping into ASP.NET MVC source code with Visual Studio debugger (Gunnar Peipman)
• “Razor” the new ASP.NET View Engine (Fredrik Normen)
• Is Razor just a wolf in Spark’s clothing? (Robert Greyling)
• Developers Wanted: Help create an open source Wave-based forum (Pamela Fox)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design-Build-Run (Simon Brown)
• How to do agile when we only have 50 crap developers? (Gojko Adzic)
• SCRUM, SCRUM… SCRUM..! (Clemens Reijnen)
• When the going gets tough – automate it! (Dror Helper)
• How to annoy your customer with usability problems and new Test Lint Beta – with command line runner (Roy Osherove)
• Four Things to Know when Writing Comments (Stoimen Popov)
• What is a PM? and Types of Scenario Tools (J.D. Meier)
• Castle Windsor 2.5… the final countdown – beta 1 released (and Core, DynamicProxy, Dictionary Adapter) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Developing Application-Wide (Patrick Smacchia)
• 3 Aspects of Team Boundaries (Jurgen Appelo)
• Programmer Tip: Don’t Be The Ego Centric Veteran Who Knows It All. (Rajiv Popat)
• TFS API Part 27 – Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases Mapping (Shai Raiten)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WCF RIA Services Part 3 – Updating Data (Brian Noyes)
• Mahhala – WPF NotifyIcon (Rudi Grobler)
• MVVM Light Messaging (Chris Koenig)
• Great Features for MVVM Friendly Objects Part 2 – Change/Dirty Tracking (Damon Payne)
• A Sliver of Silverlight on ActiveTuts (Mike Taulty)
• Fixing Data Binding Problems in WPF/Silverlight (Jonathan Allen)
• Silverlight PivotViewer – The Full Guide and Silverlight PivotViewer – Add Collection To Your Silverlight Application (Shai Raiten)
• How to Convert a SketchFlow Prototype into a Production Application… And why you shouldn’t! (Jag Reehal)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 361: Crackdown 2 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• MultiTouch Behavior for Windows Phone 7: Videos #wp7dev (Laurent Bugnion)
• Pluralcast 19 : OData with Matt Milner (David Starr)
• Windows Weekly 163: The Legacy Problem (Paul Thurrott)
• Video: Embracing Your Failures (CodeStock 2010) (Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: IIS Express & SQL Compact, .NET on a bike, Zip support coming to System.IO (Dan Fernandez)
• Technology & Friends Episode 99: Mike Amundsen on Hypermedia (David Giard)
• DirectCompute Lecture Series 250: Integration with the Graphics Pipeline (Gus Class)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 19 – NoSQL and RavenDB with Rhys Campbell (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• I’m joining Pixel Lab! (Adam Kinney)
• Upcoming Community Events (Chris Koenig)

Database

• SSIS gotcha: Beware of multiple outputs from a synchronous script component and Why a SQL or BI developer should learn .Net (Jamie Thomson)
• Count Occurrences of Characters in a String – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Index Levels, Page Count, Record Count and DMV – sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats and SQL SERVER – PowerShell Version Info (Pinal Dave)
• Log file configuration metrics for 17000 databases (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Azure Partitioning Pattern (J.D. Meier)

SharePoint

• Deleter Methods – Business Connectivity Services (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• Intellectual property and the independent worker (Simon Sabin)
• Workshop Planning Framework – The Six P’s (J.D. Meier)
• Microsoft Presentation for Game Developers to Extend PC Games Lifecycles (Richard Hay)
• Install Consolas Font for Use in Xcode (Rob Bazinet)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 4, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 5, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #635 and The Morning Brew #636 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 3, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 4, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Your Own Race, Tell Me A Story, Content Anticipation, MenuPad (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #112 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 7/5/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for July 03, 2010 — #896 and Silverlight Cream for July 05, 2010 — #897 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #124 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Post… 6/25/2010 through 7/4/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

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Top Links

• Advanced Silverlight Applications using the Managed Extensibility Framework (Jeremy Likness)
• JavaScript: Same Code, and a Standardized Test Suite (Shanku Niyogi)
• Stack Exchange Data Explorer Open Sourced (Jeff Atwood)
• MonoTouch 3.0.8 – iOS 4 Support (MonoTouch Team)
• Discoverable and non-discoverable parts in MEF (Dennis Delimarsky)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Reports in BIDS and Visual Studio 2010 and add them as a Web Part to Project Portal of TFS 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
• Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Architecture Guidance gets “thumbs up” (Clemens Reijnen)
• Windows Live SDK (MS Downloads)
• Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0: And Much, Much More… (Jennifer Marsman)
• A .NET Encryption Library (Song Li)
• Patch Available for Cut or Copy displaying “insufficient memory” error in VS 2010 (Brittany Behrens)
• CSLA 3.8.4 beta release and CSLA 4 beta 3 release (Rockford Lhotka)
• PropertyGrid in WinForms and elsewhere (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Enter a Parallel Universe Using IKVM.NET (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Web Development

• Learning JavaScript – Checking The Declaration of a Variable (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Web Application Extensibility with FubuMVC (Part 2) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• A practical example of using web application deployment package with IIS7 (Xinyang Qiu)
• The Weekly Source Code 53 – "Get’er Done" Edition – XML in the left hand becomes HTTP POSTs in the right hand (Scott Hanselman)
• Azure Storage is a RESTful service (Scott Seely)
• JSON definition for your yUML Diagrams (Tobin Harris)
• Bing Maps Binding XML Data Source (Dinesh Sodani)
• Enhanced Scripting in IE9: ECMAScript 5 Support and More (Allen Wirfs-Brock)
• Netflix OData Service Updates (Jonathan Carter)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What does it mean to be Agile – survey results (Shane Hastie)
• Architecture Guidance now available (Cameron Skinner)
• Chuck Frey on the Iterative Process of Mindmapping (Chance Brown)
• Announcing www.pexforfun.com (Nikolai Tillman)
• An Awesome Article On Passion (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Don’t Chain Failure States in Returns (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Programming the Task Bar in Windows 7 with WPF 4 Article Series (Beth Massi)
• Sungard Light Up Gas-Trading Application with Silverlight 4 (Hong Choing)
• Bing Maps in Silverlight 4 (Nereo Lopez)
• HTTP duplex messaging improvements in Silverlight 4 (The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site)
• Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (4 – RIA Services Libraries) (Mike Taulty)
• BeeEye (Bing Image Viewer) (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 360: E3 2010 and Battlefield Bad Company 2 (Larry Hyrb)
• jQuery Podcast 28 – Remy Sharp pt. 3 (jQuery for Designers) (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• MSDN Radio: Exploring the Visual Studio Designer for WPF and Silverlight with Mark Wilson-Thomas (Emily Gibson)
• TWC9: IE 9 PP3, Windows Live Essentials Beta, God’s Own Machine (Dan Fernandez)
• Video: Building an Ad Network on Mono, MySQL, MongoDB, and RabbitMQ (Eric Hagan)
• MSDN Radio: Coding4Fun with Clint Rutkas (Emily Gibson)

Community / Events

• 06/25/2010 – Upcoming Speaking events on SQL/BI/SharePoint topics (Kevin Goff)
• #DevCon 2010 by K-MUG : Agenda, VS2010 Launch, Location, Speakers, And Places To See (Anoop Madhusudanan)

Database

• Find the Closest Number using SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL 101 : Without “ORDER BY”, order is not guaranteed. (Dave Ballantyne)
• SQL SERVER – Fast Track Data Warehouse for SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure 50GB Databases Now Available (David Makogon)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 External List Paging – Server Side (Lightning Tools)
• Upgrading Custom Field Types and Visual Upgrade Drill Down (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• FourSquare Mashup Lets You Find Popular Places (Adam DuVander)
• Messenger Connect – Making your data more portable while retaining control over its use (Angus Logan)
• Hot on the heels of Essentials, the new dev.live.com goes live (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft by the numbers (Frank X. Shaw)
• An Introduction to Windows Live Sync and How to Migrate from Live Mesh (Nic Fillingham)
• Improving Parameter Set Design (June Blender)
• Small Basic Overhauled, Now Stable and Fast (Sarah Perez)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft Outlook 2010 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2010 — #890 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 25, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 06/25/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 56 (Scott Banwart)

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ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action by Jeffrey Palermo

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.NET / Visual Studio

Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack is now Available! and Documentation Refresh (Cameron Skinner)

Writing to an XML File With Attributes (Deborah Kurata)

VS 2010 and Expression Tree Visualization (Patrick Smacchia)

Mono and .NET – some things you should be aware of (Dennis Delimarsky)

Sqlite-Csharp and NHibernate (Rob Ashton)

Announcing: VS2010 Productivity Power Tools and Modeling Feature Packs (Jason Zander)

Debugging .NET 2.0 Assembly from unmanaged Code in VS2010? (Rick Strahl)

readonly keyword (Arun)

Create Code Shortcuts in the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)

DirectX SDK – (June 2010) (MS Downloads)

Peering into the cloud with IntelliTrace (Somasegar)

Web Development

Encrypted Hidden Inputs in ASP.NET MVC (Ashic Mahtab)

A jQuery UI Combobox: Under the hood (Jörn Zaefferer)

Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010 (Kirill Osenkov)

June 2010 release of Windows Azure Tools & SDK (Rinat Abdullin)

IE Diagnostics (Swathi Ganapathi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples (MS Downloads)

No Domain-Driven Design in Rails? (Scott Bellware)

New Pex release 0.92: Rex and Silverlight (Jonathan de Halleux)

Exercise, Good Choices, and DDT (Jared Richardson)

Simple Branching Strategy Part 2: Implementation (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

RIA Services Samples Project on CodePlex (Nikhil Kothari)

New Utility, Links and Tutorials for Path-Based Layout (Christian Schormann)

And the Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” is… (Anand Iyer)

New Policies for Next Gen Windows Phone Marketplace (Brandon Watson)

Windows phone developers please hold on Blend 4 (Jaime Rodriguez)

Install problem with the Developer Tools CTP Refresh (Charlie Kindel)

F# Now Supports Silverlight (Jonathan Allen)

Enter to Win a Ball Watch by Creating One in Silverlight (Michael S. Scherotter)

Quick Tip: Applying Text Options throughout your WPF 4 Application (Pete Brown)

Expression Studio 4 launch–Blend, Web, Encoder, Design (Tim Heuer)

My favorite Expression 4 features (Somasegar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Ball Watch Tutorial 1: Creating a Watch Application and Tutorial 2: Tracing Visual Elements and Tutorial 3: Animating the Second Hand and Tutorial 4: Using an Dash Pattern for Second Marks and Tutorial 5: Creating Concentric Circles and Tutorial 6: Animating Day and Night and Tutorial 7: Binding the Date Indicator and Tutorial 8: Preparing the Watch for Submission (Michael S. Scherotter)

Talking about Windows deployments with System Center and Orinoko (Matt McSpirit)

Major Bing Maps Announcements and SDK Release (Laura Foy)

Skinning with DotNetNuke 5 Super Stylesheets Layouts – 12 Videos (Andrew Stephenson)

Community / Events

NYC .NET Developer User Group Next Meeting: Next Thursday June 17th (Stephen Forte)

Introduction to SQL Server and Reporting (William Vaughn)

TechEd 2010 – Sunday and Teched 2010 – Sunday Part 2 and TechEd 2010 – Monday Morning (Andy Warren)

WWDC: Everything You Need to Know About iPhone 4 (Kevin C. Tofel)

Impressions of My First Day at TechEd 2010 (Brad M. McGehee)

Google Chrome Developer Update – Google I/O recap, new APIs (Ian Fette)

My Philly GiveCamp Experience (Brian Donahue)

Database

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Feature Pack (MS Downloads)

The SQL Server backup – foundation of any Disaster / Recovery and T-SQL Tuesday – Give me my cores SSIS 2008! (Ted Krueger)

SQL SERVER – Merge Operations – Insert, Update, Delete in Single Execution (Pinal Dave)

CouchDB as the Personal Database (Michael Hunger)

Data Sync Service for SQL Azure (Bill Zack)

SharePoint

Oracle Installation guide for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

Adobe Interview (part 2) (Joe Smith)

If You Can’t Say Something Bad About It, You Don’t Know It Well Enough (Davy Brion)

Office is now live on SkyDrive! (Jason Moore)

Making it Big in Software: Get the Job. Work the Org. Become Great. (Jonathan Giles)

Wave 4 Web services go live! (Kip Kniskern)

Is the iPhone 4 Magical? You Decide. (Mitch Pronschinske)

Why Office? “Our business runs on Excel.” (Jennifer Kensok)

#Ebook Deal of the Day: The Ruby Programming Language – Only $9.99 use code DDTRP (O’Reilly Media)

Review: Getting Things Done (Grant Palin)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: June 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)

The Morning Brew #616 (Chris Alcock)

Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 7, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

Cheatsheet: 2010 06.01 ~ 06.07 (yuanjian)

Weekly Link Post 148 (Rhonda Tipton)

Links to New Platform Bits (Jason Zander)

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The Security Development Lifecycle: SDL: A Process for Developing Demonstrably More Secure Software

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Top Links

• Jobs be damned: Flash on the iPad! (Silverlight, too!) (Dave Myron)
• Architecture Review: Mock-Driven Three-Layer Architecture (James Shore)
• Getting Visual Studio to Get GIT (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Raven & Event Sourcing (Oren Eini)
• Using ExcelPacke to create Excel sheets on server (Gunnar Peipman)
• Programming Entity Framework, 2nd Edition (EF4) Table of Contents (Julie Lerman)
• Jump Back to the Editor from Just About Anywhere — vstipEdit0066 and Move Between the Common Tab and All Tab in Statement Completion (VB Only) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Sometimes an enum is not the best idea (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Dynamic Send Activity in WF4 (Roman Kiss)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Localization Complete Guide (Alex Adamyan)
• Dynamically Structured ViewModels in ASP.NET MVC (Keith Brown)
• Neat Routing Technique for Restricting Access to Tables (Steve Naughton)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: StoreManagerController (Oren Eini)
• JavaScript: Creating timestamps with time zone offsets (Gunnar Peipman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Should an Agile Project Charter Contain? (Shane Hastie)
• Code Kata Setup, part II (Louis Salin)
• Fix: CThru compiled against Typemock Isolator 6.0.2 instead of 6.0.3 (Roy Osherove)
• But what have you shipped? (Seth Godin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Social Networking Site Supports Eco-Friendly Activities on Windows 7, Windows Phone 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• Creating your First WPF Application: Twitter and Windows 7 Taskbar Integration and Creating Dynamic Windows 7 Taskbar Overlay Icons (Pete Brown)
• Draggable Pushpins using Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Chris Pietschmann)
• Windows Phone 7: The Story I Almost Missed (Stephen Chapman)
• INotifyPropertyChanged… I am fed up of handling events just to know when a property changed (Marlon Grech)
• Microsoft Health CUI – Release v8.2.51.000 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 198 – 05.29.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 158: Bringing Sexy Back To Enterprise (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• A Simple example of a Conditional Where Clause in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Guest Post – Performance Counters Gathering using Powershell (Pinal Dave)
• A quick 16 page SQL Azure developing and deploying document for the discerning Dev dude (Greg Duncan)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management Resources (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Wave 4: Windows Live Sync – A First Look and Wave 4: Windows Live Photos to get video playback support, improved slideshow features, and more! (damaster)
• Steve Ballmer IS the right man to turn around Microsoft mobile (Joe Wilcox)
• HOT GUIDS: A hot or not site for guids (Leon Bambrick)

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• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 29, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 29, 2010 — #872 (Dave Campbell)

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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers)

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• Hello MEF in Silverlight 4 and VB! (with an MVVM Light cameo) (Glenn Block)
• 30 Tips for Successful Communication as a Remote Worker (Scott Hanselman)
• Class Definitions: Binding Contracts And Agreements To Get Things Done (Derick Bailey)
• A really simple ViewModel base class with strongly-typed INotifyPropertyChanged (Daniel Cazzulino)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series:Dynamic Primitive Type Part 1 (Sam Gentile)
• Free ebook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (DRAFT Preview II) (Devon Musgrave)
• Entity Framework 4 New Operations (Jason Short)
• How to create a great online project template (or how to make applications that speak) (Michael Leonard)
• Announcing: Collapse Selection in Solution Explorer extension (Richa Prasad)
• Visual Studio 2010: How to understand the domain using UML designers (Jennifer Marsman)
• Show Error Help from Error List Window (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• The CSS Corner: CSS3 Selectors (Sharon Newman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First Rails – Only $9.99 use code DDHFR (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Ubiquitous Language" Now Online (James Shore)
• Principles Of Minimalist Web Design, With Examples (Cameron Chapman)
• WCF Security Scenarios on Azure (J.D. Meier)
• Mocking property sets (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using FluidMoveBehavior to animate grid coordinates in Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Gettin’ blobby with it [Sharing the code for a simple Silverlight 4 REST-based cloud-oriented file management app for Azure and S3] (David Anson)
• Augmented Reality Domino Knock-Down Game (Ohan Oda)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #20 – Using Tooltips in Silverlight (Mike Snow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• An Interview with Robert Bowling on the MW 2 Resurgence Package (Larry Hyrb)
• Visual Studio 2010 Simulcast (Part 1 of 6): Keynote and (Part 2 of 6): ALM and (Part 3 of 6): SharePoint and Office Development and (Part 4 of 6): Windows Development and (Part 5 of 6): Web and Cloud Development and (Part 6 of 6): Windows Phone 7 Development (Emily Gibson)
• Silverlight TV 26: Exposing SOAP, OData, and JSON Endpoints for RIA Services (John Papa)
• Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone in 90 seconds! (Laura Foy)
• Video: Excuse Me While I Pinch the Sky (CNN on MS Research)
• First 3 Videos – Building Tailspin Spyworks (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• Interview with Charles Petzold on WP7 development and more (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Join in Microsoft Web Camps Worldwide (Bruce Kyle)
• What Would You Ask the IE9 Team if you had the Chance? (Rey Bango)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Review (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Find Most Expensive Queries Using DMV (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Injection prevention (Simon Sabin)
• That No SQL Thing: Column (Family) Databases (Oren Eini)
• db4o 8 Looks Great (Mitch Pronschinske)
• SQL Azure and T-SQL (Dukagjin Maloku)

SharePoint

• Tips for building SharePoint 2010 base VM images (Chris O’Brien)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: Visio SharePoint Workflow (Brian Farnell)
• Upgrade Business Data Catalog files for using with Business Connectivity Services (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• WorldWide Telescope Turns 2 (Marius Oiaga)
• Real World Functional Programming – Book Review (Andrzej Grzesik)
• Pluralsight On-Demand Update – The Online .NET Training Resource (Bob Familiar)
• It’s Official: Office Live Workspace is upgrading to Windows Live SkyDrive (damaster)
• Automating Merges w/ TortoiseSVN (Derik Whittaker)
• Every Program There Is, Part Six (Eric Lippert)
• Health IT Future is in the Cloud—Part 2 (Bill Crounse)
• Why the world is a mess: a theory (Scott Berkun)
• Emotional commitment colors everything (Ted Neward)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 14, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #600 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 13-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2010 — #861 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 54 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Links (5/13/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

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Real World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C#

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• C# Language Specification 4.0 (MS Downloads)
• An Overview of Objective-C – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Team Hanselman and Diabetes Walk 2010 (Scott Hanselman)
• Thoughts on “Thoughts on TDD”… (Eric Gunnerson)
• patterns & practices Catalog at a Glance (J.D. Meier)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Navigate To (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 Vertical Line Guides (Ben March)
• Requiem to the VS 2003/2005/2008 Database Project (Deborah Kurata)
• Code Contracts fails to find CodeContracts.targets after install and Validating Collections with Code Contracts (Derik Whittaker)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• Spec Explorer 2010, Release 3.2 Now Available! (Robert DuWors)
• Upgrade or Uninstall of Office 2007 might cause VS 2008 Web designer to hang (Alison Lu)
• Parallelism in .NET – Part 17, Think Continuations, not Callbacks (Reed Copsey)
• My Visual Studio 2010 Dark Theme (John Papa)
• Immutable instances with circular references (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Solution Guidance Packager for Visual Studio – Feature Builder Power Tool (Mike Walker)
• Functional C#: An imperative to declarative example (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – New Release and Joins (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Authorize.Net, Silent Posts, and URL Rewriting Don’t Mix (Scott Mitchell)
• Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension (Scott Guthrie)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mantis is an agile, simple bugtracker (Erez Zukerman)
• Code Review Tools and Techniques (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Is It Time For You to Telecommute? (Karen Leland)
• Asserting with JustMock (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Interview: James Bach – The role of the tester (Roy Osherove)
• Lightweight Adaptation – Coming Soon (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Silverlight / WPF

• Everything you need to know about Silverlight 4 (Al Pascual)
• Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 7 Minutes Each (Bruce Kyle)
• Transitions, Animations, and Effects with Blend – Part One (Corrina Barber)
• Developer test case, customer win! [Using ContextMenu to implement SplitButton and MenuButton for Silverlight (or WPF)] (David Anson)
• Tip of the Day #110 – Using Static Resources in Class Libraries (Mike Snow)
• Understanding WPF popups (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Recapping Sunday Night Football powered by Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight and Xml Binding (Mike Taulty)
• XamlPadSample Step 1g-Silverlight support (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• RES Software Lights Up Personal Desktops on Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• Sketchflow in 90 seconds (Laura Foy)
• Jon Takes Five with Louis DeJardin on Spark View Engine (Jon Galloway)
• Anders Hejlsberg Trends and Future Directions in Programming Languages (DevDays 2010 Keynote) and ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninja Black Belt Tips by Scott Hanselman (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• endpoint.tv – Developing Web Services with IIS/AppFabric (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Cavalcade of Camps: New Hampshire Code Camp, June 5th (Jim O’Neil)
• Want to Learn about Windows Azure? Attend an Azure Boot Camp in a City Near You – DC (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Party with a Purpose – MongoDB WAN Party (Sara J. Chipps)
• Monospace: .NET Open Source Social at the Norwegian Developers Conference (Scott Bellware)

Database

• That No SQL Thing: Document Databases – usages and That No SQL Thing: The relational modeling anti pattern in document databases (Oren Eini)
• Powershell Script for Verifying Space (Grant Fritchey)
• A DMV a Day – Day 19 and A DMV a Day – Day 20 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (19/30) TRUNCATE TABLE is non-logged (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Find Max Worker Count using DMV – 32 Bit and 64 Bit (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with SQL Azure Data Sync (Bruce Kyle)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "XP-More" Windows 7 Virtual PC Managment Tool (Blake Handler)
• New Windows Phone 7 details; Live ID integration and OEM restrictions (Benjamin Rubenstein)
• Microsoft launches free Fix it Center (Joseph Mirabella)
• Cloning A VMWare Base VMDK As Pre-Allocated (Michael Nichols)
• Google Cloud Print: The Future of Printing? (Matthew Casperson)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Windows 7: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDW7M (O’Reilly Media)
• Daily Dose – iPhone 4G: Leaked on Purpose? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows PowerShell in Bing Visual Search (June Blender)
• MonoTouch and iPhone OS 4 Update (MonoTouch Team)
• Palm’s browser-based webOS development tool leaves beta (Tim Conneally)
• Sorting Visualization in Small Basic (Vijaye)

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• Interesting Finds: April 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #583 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 19, 2010 — #841 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #101 (Grant Palin)

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by Roy Osherove (Author)The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

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• Test Lint: A Unit Testing Helper for VS 2010 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing Callbacks (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Practice Software Patterns – Component Patterns (Caleb Jenkins)
• Windows Azure platform AppFabric Labs SDK V1.0 (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft adds XNA Game Studio 4.0 to its Windows Phone 7 arsenal (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tips and Tricks: Clipboard Ring and Toolbox Snippets (Weston Hutchins)
• Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# – Pre Order now (Wally McClure)
• Printing in Different Fonts and Colors (Zain Naboulsi)
• Reducing overloading ceremony with C# 4.0 optional parameters (Russell Ball)
• Controlling the DGML Double-Click (Cameron Skinner)
• VS2010 TMap Testing Template | Initial Work Items #1 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Sharing Code Analysis files between projects in Visual Studio 2010 (Derik Whittaker)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• POCO Template Code Generation Options (Sheetal Gupta)

Web Development

• Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action (Me)
• One Year of Production ASP.NET MVC (Chris Missal)
• We moved your ASP.NET website cheese, in a good way (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC And Convention Based Forms – Part 1 (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Javascript: Function scoping (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• mnmal: designeriphone: “Good design means never having to say… (Leon Gersing)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Designing Social Interfaces – Only $9.99! Use code DDDST (O’Reilly Media)
• Does an organization need to be fully committed to agile/lean/scrum? (Mark Needham)
• Strengthening your domain: Encapsulated collections (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF

• Article: The Essential WPF/Silverlight/XNA Developer and Designer Toolbox and Article: How to Get Started in WPF or Silverlight (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stories from the Dallas GiveCamp (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ARCast.TV: An Overview of MVC4WPF (Part 1 of 3) and ARCast.TV: An Overview of MVC4WPF (Part 2 of 3) (MS Podcasts)
• Brian Beckman: On Analog Computing, Some Beckman History, and Life in the Universe (Charles Torre)
• Video: Microsoft listens to the MVPs (Joseph Mirabella)
• Techfest 2010: Mobile Surface (Larry Larsen)
• Windows 7 Text-to-Speech from .NET 4 and WPF with Pete Brown (Don Burnett)
• TechFest 2010: Microsoft ICE – Image Composite Editor (Laura Foy)
• Don’t be original, just be good (Scott Berkun)

Community / Events

• Boston Geek Dinner – March 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Where to See Me At MIX10 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Chat with the SharePoint MVP Experts (Paul Andrew)
• NorCal Weekly .Net is Up Now! Catch All for the .Net Events in Northern California! (Peter Kellner)
• pluralsight office hours 3/11/2010 with dan sullivan (Meagon Marshall)
• The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework at Mix (Michael S. Scherotter)
• SXSW 2010: The Complete Social Media Guide (Matt Silverman)
• My program at #MIX10 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Spend a Day with Miller in Vegas! (Free CodeRush Training) (Mark Miller)
• Speaking at MIX! (Glenn Block)

Database

• ORMs – A Developer’s Dream, A DBA’s Nightmare? (Mike Ormond)
• SQL SERVER – Force Index Scan on Table – Use No Index to Retrieve the Data – Query Hint (Pinal Dave)
• New e learning course on Business Intelligence and Did you know you can shrink a transaction log even when log shipping? (Simon Sabin)
• How to script all stored procedures in a database (Naomi)
• Asp.Net Membership/Role/etc Provider scripts for SqlAzure (Jason Haley)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2 & RBS: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should (Andrew Connell)
• Lightning Storm Forums release 1.0.0.14 (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Adobe, Microsoft "working closely" on Flash for Win Phone 7 (Electronista Staff)
• New Kodu build! (Stephen Coy)
• Use Windows Live Writer with Posterous (Sarah Perez)
• Making your PowerShell ISE cool with SQL Ice – SQLIse now available as part of the SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) v2.1 release and Using PowerShell to demo PowerShell via PowerShellPoint! (aka “PowerPoint for PowerShell’ers…” or “We don’t need no stink’n PowerPoint to present PowerShell!”) (Greg Duncan)
• PowerShell in the Enterprise (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Insert Tag Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer (that works with Windows 7) (Jeff Wilcox)
• Finding awesome stuff online with Google Reader Play (Garrett Wu)
• Now playing: Apps Script for Google Docs (Evin Levey)
• Create Outlook Appointments from PowerShell (Buck Woody)

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• Interesting Finds: March 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #557 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 — #810 and Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 – 2 — #811 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

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Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Series for Designers and Developers (Christian Schormann)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Details Announced (Frank La Vigne)
• Soft Skills are Actual Skills (David Starr)
• Erik Meijer: Rebel with a Cause (Charles Torre)
• Pex 2010 (aka Pex 0.90.50303.0) now available on MSDN Subscribers Downloads (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• My First Windows C++ Application in Ages: Hello World in Win32 with Visual C++ 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Using Mongo With LINQ (Rob Conery)
• DiffPlex 1.0 Released!! (Matt Manela)
• Creating and Sharing Project & Item Templates (Aaron Marten)
• Is select (System.Uri) broken? (Oren Eini)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part I: Locks (Chris Burrows)
• Combining Higher Order Functions in C# (Mike Hadlow)
• Split Your Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Poll: IoC Containers for .NET (Oliver Sturm)
• Empty Nothings (Dustin Campbell)
• Mercurial Is Getting Better for .NET Projects (Rinat Abdullin)
• Beta of VS Team Explorer with Cross Platform Support (Somasegar)
• Maximum number static fields allowed in mscorlib? (David Kean)
• How to set the startup program for debugging a project for the entire team (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Functional C#: Using Join and GroupJoin (Mark Needham)
• Too much reuse (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• HTML Agility Pack Rocks Your Screen Scraping World (Lee Holmes)
• JavaScript Magazine March 2010 Now Available (Michael Kimsal)
• Introducing oEmbed (Cory Isakson)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – jQuery Integration (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Tab Isolation (Andy Zeigler)
• Using Other Web Servers on Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Using Delegate and Undelegate in jQuery 1.4.2 (Jordan Boesch)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Sit Together" Now Online (James Shore)
• Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria Overview (MS Downloads)
• Refining My TDD Strategy (Russell Ball)
• The 22 minute meeting (Scott Berkun)
• Architecture Lives Here (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Solution: Testing Web Services with MSTest on Team Build (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Getting Started with Agile Results (J.D. Meier)
• Field Vs. Property: Does It Really Matter? and When Do You Specify Expected Parameters In Stub Methods? (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• 1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight (Christopher Bennage)
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 2) – Silverlight/WPF Project Frameworks (Me)
• Favorite Tool and Library Downloads for Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Learning the M-V-VM pattern for XAML development (Tim Heuer)
• Persisting the Configuration (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• endpoint.tv – Announcing Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 (Ron Jacobs)
• This Week in Silverlight – March 4 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• MSDN Live Meeting: SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform (Katrien De Graeve)

Community / Events

• SharePoint MVP Chat brought to you by MSDN (Andrew Connell)
• NYC .NET Developer’s User Group->Next Meeting (Stephen Forte)
• Steve Ballmer on Cloud Computing: We are all in! (Sunshine)
• Schedule for my session at MIX10 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Spring 2010 jQuery Talks (John Resig)

Database

• ROI and the DBA (Buck Woody)
• Exploring SQL Server Modeling through MCsla (Rockford Lhotka)
• More SQL Azure Samples (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009 Release 2) (Chris Sells)
• Something for the weekend – Whats the most complex query? (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Order of Columns in Update Statement Does not Matter (Pinal Dave)
• NoSQL DB, Objectivity/DB 10 Beefs Up Java and Adds C# .NET support (Mitch Pronschinske)

SharePoint

• How to connect SharePoint BDC to Oracle through TNS (Dmitry Kaloshin)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to Spend $9.5 Billion on Research in 2010 (Jeremy Kirk)
• Free ebooks correlated with increased print-book sales (Cory Doctorow)
• A Preview of Windows Phone 7 Series Capabilities (Zhiming Xue)
• Apple Tops Google and Microsoft as the World’s Most Admired Company for 2010 (Skipper)
• Run XP Mode in VirtualBox Instead of Virtual PC (The How-To Geek)
• Did a Microsoft VP really suggest an Internet tax for cybersecurity? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Daily Dose – Facebook Going Public, But Not For a While and Kiln: A DVCS for Fog Bugz (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Offers Free Guides to a 21st-Century Education (Rob Bayuk)
• Tip of the Day: Online Career Events (Anne Cheng)
• Surface and Healthcare at HIMMS (Eric Havir)
• Free Risk (like game) – TurboRisk v2 (Now includes IDE to edit/compile/test your own AI players) (Greg Duncan)

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• The Morning Brew #553 (Chris Alcock)
• Creators Club Communiqué 44 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Links (3/4/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: March 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)

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Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

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