Top Links

• A Pictorial and Prose Filled Guide To Impressing Designers (K. Scott Allen)
• Patch for Cut/Copy “Insufficient Memory” issue with VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Code Contracts Part 7 – Contract Reference Assemblies (Kevin Hazzard)
• The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 21: Controller, Meet Repo. Repo, Meet Controller. (Evan Nagle)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Removing Duplicates From a SQL Server Table (Richard Carr)
• 15 minute blog post: PNG files in Packages (Paul Harrington)
• Composed LINQ queries using the Decorator Pattern (Anas Karkoukli)
• Moving Tool Windows Around with Your Keyboard and Keyboard Access to a Tool Window Toolbar (Zain Naboulsi)
• Making a PropertyGrid ReadOnly (Rajeev)

Web Development

• ViewStateMode in ASP.Net 4.0 (K. G. Sreeju Nair)
• Back from Alaska With A New Release of Subtext (Phil Haack)
• Unity dependency injection for ASP.Net MVC2 (Rory Primrose)
• ReadOnly ASP.NET TextBox at RunTime using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: PHP Cookbook, 2nd Ed. Only $9.99 use code DDPC2 (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Transparency and Software Teams (Stephen Forte)
• Layered Architecture Sample for Azure – July 2010 Release (CodePlex)
• The single exit point law (Anthony Steele)
• First real StoryTeller docs are up (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Working with Branches in Git (Lorna Jane)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RIA Services and Authentication (Nikhil Kothari)
• WPF MVVM Multi-Project Template: A Polyglot Approach (Daniel Mohl)
• RIATasks: A Simple Silverlight CRUD Example (using View Model and Rx Extensions) (Michael Washington)
• Document Toolkit 2 Beta 2 available (Koen Zwikstra)
• A Simple Application using Silverlight Physics Helper Library (Kunal Chowdhury)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 18 – Being Influenced by Other Languages with Miguel Madero (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Area 51: Trusting the Community (Robert Cartaino)

Database

• Remove and Replace Special Characters in a SQL Server Column (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Default Statistics on Column – Automatic Statistics on Column (Pinal Dave)
• SQL For .Net Developers – Entity Framework 4 Second Cycle Slide Deck (Gil Fink)

SharePoint

• Finding content in SharePoint 2010 with Managed metadata (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Ruby Gem Management with RVM and Bundler (Marc Grabanski)
• Microsoft flattens Google, Apple and others with some good ol’ NUMBERS (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 27, 2010 — #892 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 27, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 6/28/2010 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #630 (Chris Alcock)

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.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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.NET / Visual Studio

• F#: Composing Functions (Steve Horsfield)
• Prototyping DSLs in F#: Parsing and Semantic Checking (Adam Granicz)
• Soma Blog on New Features in C# 4.0 (Charlie Calvert)
• Templated E-Mail using .NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Running 64-bit Binary References in Visual Studio (Dave Schinkel)
• Visual Studio Team System for Small Teams (David Starr)
• Using Accessibility Modifiers on Auto Properties (Justin Etheredge)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Iterator Blocks Part Seven: Why no anonymous iterators? (Eric Lippert)
• All for that small Drop Down Box – Part 1 (Vishal Joshi)

Web Development

• Keyboard Enabling a Web Form (Chris Love)
• 404 Error When Running Web Applications in IIS 7 (Dave Schinkel)
• Tip #93: Did you know … PHP and Custom Error Pages configuration? (Kern Handa)
• Tracing Windows Azure Apps to Storage (David Lemphers)
• 50 Useful New jQuery Techniques and Tutorials (Smashing Magazine)
• On the Fly DropDown Editing with jQuery (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Does YAGNI Mean You Ignore The Obvious (Alan Skorkin)
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Reasoning and A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Mapping and A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: CRUD and Concepts & Features in NH Prof: Filtering (Oren Eini)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer Series and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Mapping Classes To Tables and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Out Of The Box CRUD Functionality (Davy Brion)
• Time Management Quotes (J.D. Meier)
• How about a StoryTeller Preview Release! (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• Stars & Craftsmanship (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XIV: Persisting proxies (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• More than just version control (Jimmy Bosse)
• Learning: Thoughts on doing so more effectively and Pair Programming: Keeping both people engaged and Book Club: What I’ve learned about DDD since the book (Eric Evans) and Rock Scissors Paper: TDD as if you meant it (Mark Needham)
• The Correct Process Guides Us (Tracer Architecture Cont.) (Max Pool)
• 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Patrick Kua)
• Writing Great Unit Tests: Best and Worst Practices (Steve Sanderson)
• Identify Code Structure Patterns at a Glance (Patrick Smacchia)
• Refactoring Day 24 : Remove Arrowhead Antipattern (Sean Chambers)
• Review of ANTS Memory Profiler (Scott Seely)

Silverlight / WPF

• Type-On Text for SketchFlow with a Behavior (Christian Schormann)
• How can I add labels to a WPF pie chart? (Bea Stollnitz)
• Updates made to MVVM Foundation (Josh Smith)
• Creating Master Details Application using WPF 3.5 and LINQ to XML (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 24: Stored Procedures (Brad Abrams)
• Roget’s Hierarchical Thesaurus in a Silverlight App (Charles Petzold)
• Test driving a WPF App – Part 2: Adding some data (Brian Button)
• Using one platform to build another [HTML 5's canvas tag implemented using Silverlight!] (David Anson)
• The Application Class and Application Services in Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Read singleton approach in WPF application (Tamir Khason)
• Cinch does ok (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – James Kovacs on Convention over Configuration (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Simon Guest on Patterns for Moving to the Cloud (Bob Familiar)
• WebDev Radio Episode 68: Frank Wierzbicki on Python, Jython, Java and more (Michael Kimsal)
• Enhanced Interaction with Project Natal (Frank La Vigne)
• Rob Greenlee on Zune Podcasting (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Herding Code 58: Presentation Patterns with Jeremy Miller, Ward Bell, Rob Eisenberg and Glenn Block (Part 2) (Jon Galloway)
• Major Nelson Show #329: DiRT2, Arkham Asylum and Shadow Complex (Larry Hyrb)
• Google Wave API Hackathon & Federation Day: Videos Available Now! (Pamela Fox)
• Ping 26: NFL & Silverlight, Movie Maker, Students, Win7 free trial (sorta) (Laura Foy)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #1 (Stephen Forte)
• Episode 143: API Design with Jim de Rivieres (SE Radio Team)
• ToolShed Tooltip #22 – Channel9 and the Tool Shed … A Treasure Chest of Resources (Russell Fustino)
• Episode 81 – PowerScripting Podcast – David Warburton talks about AutoPowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Events this Week – August 24th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The fall line-up and event list – we hope to see you there! (Kimberly Tripp)
• CodeMash is coming (Maggie Longshore)
• LIDNUG: Free Online Virtual Chat with Me Tuesday Morning (Scott Guthrie)
• PASS Board of Directors – Call for Nominations (Steve Jones)
• Benefits of TDD and Pair Programming (Course Day #1) (Roy Osherove)

Database

• Examining database shared locks using sys.dm_tran_locks (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Index Seek vs. Index Scan – Diffefence and Usage – A Simple Note (Pinal Dave)
• Scripting all jobs on SQL Server 2005/2008 into one file (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Search: Improving the Relevancy of Search Results (Bob Mixon)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell REPL, by Example (Pete Seale)
• Free OneNote 2007 PowerToy "THE" for Extracting Highlighted Text from a Page (Blake Handler)
• How A Ruby Case Statement Works And What You Can Do With It (Alan Skorkin)
• Integrate Data with New Microsoft Office 2010 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft OneApp announced (Steve Clayton)
• Nokia to deliver Windows 7-powered netbook with 12 hours of battery life (Paul Thurrott)
• Playing around with Posterous; post on “social media wars” (Robert Scoble)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Aug 23 – 2009 and LINKBLOG for Aug 24 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #418 and The Morning Brew #419 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 23, 2009 — #672 and Silverlight Cream for August 24, 2009 — #673 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #88 – “Oh, look!” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 08.19 ~ 08.25 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #67 (Grant Palin)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/23/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Interesting Post… 8/17/2009 through 8/22/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links (8/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 24th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Weekly Link Post 107 (Rhonda Tipton)

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