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Top Links

• SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009 Release 3) for Visual Studio 2010 RTM Now Available (Chris Sells)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Released! (Grigori Melnik)
• Project Natal caught in the wild (Tauqeer Ahmed)
• Microsoft SQL Server2008 R2 RTM – Express with Advanced Services (MS Downloads)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Basic 2010 Language Enhancements (Scott Mitchell)
• Conditional UIHint for Dynamic Data 2 and .NET 4 (Stephen Naughton)
• GAX 2010 and GAT 2010 (MS Downloads) – These two were in the MS Downloads ‘unofficial’ RSS feed, but the links are not currently working. I am guessing that they are coming soon, so try again later if they don’t work for you.
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Migration Guide (MS Downloads)
• [Insert Three Hour Tour and/or TPL Report Joke Here] – “A Tour of Various TPL Options” – 28 page free ebook about parallel programming options in .Net via the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and A trip down the .Net 4 System.Xml path, some pitfalls and how you can avoid them (Greg Duncan)
• HashSet, equality and identity (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Inserting Code Snippets and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Searching Breakpoints and Surround with a Code Snippet and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: How to Import and Export Breakpoints (Zain Naboulsi)
• Querying Literals in Entity SQL (Julie Lerman)
• Visual studio color styles (Torkel Ödegaard)
• NHibernate Get vs Load and Sub Types (Mike Hadlow)
• Modify VS 2010 Template to Reference System.Configuration (Peter Ritchie)
• Towards a Smaller .NET 4 – Details on the Client Profile and Downloading .NET (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

• jQuery + MVC = Progressive Enhancement (Simon Ince)
• Introducing Shrinkr The URL Shrinking Service built with ASP.NET MVC 2 (Muhammad Mosa)
• Put Blob Without Overwrite and Build Your Own Web Role: Running Hosted Web Core in Windows Azure and Changing Advanced FastCGI Settings for PHP Applications in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• One-Click Publish – What’s New Since Beta 2 (Yugang Wang)
• Asynchrony in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Handle JSON Exceptions Gracefully in ASP.NET MVC 2 (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How Easy Is Unit Testing Code Analysis Rules? (Jason Bock)
• Jeff Sutherland: How to make your team hyperproductive (Gojko Adzic)
• Partial Book Review: Beautiful Teams. (Derick Bailey)
• The R.E.A.L.I.T.Y. principles of Agile Software Certification. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Best-kept Secret in DDD Community (Vladimir Gitlevich)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Effective UI – Only $9.99 use code DDEUD (O’Reilly Media)
• Focusing on the controller’s responsibility (Matt Hinze)

Silverlight / WPF

• Aero Glass WPF Window (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Phone-y charts [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 4 and Windows Phone 7 Charting sample!] (David Anson)
• WPF: Validation Feedback with ValidationDecorator (Mike Strobel)
• Tip of the Day #111 – How to Configure your Silverlight App to run in Elevated Trust Mode (Mike Snow)
• New WPF Showcase Addition: Alfa Ebooks Manager (Jay Esguerra)
• Free Training – Building Silverlight Business Applications and Get Silverlight 4 – Simplified! (John Papa)
• Silverlight 4, MVVM and Test-Driven Development (Martin Hinshelwood)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Must See – Typemock Balloons Bash (TypeMock Team)
• Agile 2009 – Johanna Rothman – Manage Your Project Portfolio (Bob Payne)
• Herding Code 78: Ruby on Rails, View Engines, Web Security, Section 3.3.1 and Visual Studio 2010 with Rob Conery (Jon Galloway)
• MSDN Simulcast: Techniques in Advanced .NET Debugging with John Robbins (Part 2 of 3) and MSDN Simulcast: Techniques in Advanced .NET Debugging with John Robbins (Part 3 of 3) and MSDN Radio: XNA and Windows Phone 7 Series with Michael Klucher (Emily Gibson)
• Security Talk: MSF Agile + SDL (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• .toolbox events in May – Free Blend training in Chicago, New York, Boston and Austin (Adam Kinney)
• Second SharePoint MVP Chat Brought to you by MSDN (Andrew Connell)
• My Last Day at Microsoft (Brad Abrams)
• More Drupal 7 Details at DrupalCon (Mitch Pronschinske)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 4/27/2010 – What has Mono done for the .NET developer lately? (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Devscovery 2010 <- April 27-29 (Rachel Appel)
• Schedule for the Redmond WPF for LOB & Windows 7 and .NET 4 Event (Karl Shifflett)

Database

• That No SQL Thing: Modeling Documents in a Document Database (Oren Eini)
• New book: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, Second Edition (Karen Szall)
• Ted Kummert to make significant announcement related to SQL Server (Jamie Thomson)
• A DMV a Day – Day 21 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (20/30) restarting a log backup chain requires a full database backup (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – When are Statistics Updated – What triggers Statistics to Update (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• So You’d Like to Send Some Email (Through Code) (Jeff Atwood)
• Handy Categories on NSString (Ben Scheirman)
• iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 2 Now Available for Download (Taimur Asad)
• Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx – Part XI (Dave Campbell)
• Top 10 Benefits of PowerPoint 2010 (Office Team)
• Windows Live completes the Windows Experience (Piero Sierra)
• Thinking More Functionally with PowerShell (Russell Ball)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 04.20.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 20, 2010 — #842 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #584 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Learning Windows Azure platform Resources (Paul Mehner)

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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)

More Link Collections

• 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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