Top Links

• Moving containers beyond testability (Jimmy Bogard)
• Unity, Castle Windsor, StructureMap, Ninject – who has best performance? (Gunnar Peipman)
• Javascript Mocking – Damn, That’s Easy. (Karl Seguin)
• patterns & practices Prism v4 – Drop 8 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WPF / Windows Forms Named Colours and LINQ Set Operations (Richard Carr)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox – Extension #12 (Sara Ford)
• OData/WCF Data Services — Composite Keys and $expand URI Option Bug (Chris Woodruff)
• WinForms Checklist (Deborah Kurata)
• Point point one release for Windsor and Castle.Core (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Entity Framework Extensions (Multiple entity updates) – Release: v1.0.0.1 and COSMOS (C# Open Source Managed Operating System) – Release: v66698 (CodePlex)
• Introducing the NBehave text based scenario VS2010 runner (Naeem Khedarun)
• Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio and Navigate Task List Entries with the Keyboard (Zain Naboulsi)
• Analyzing historical data and playing with interactive extensions (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• OData’s DataServiceQuery and removing the .Expand(“MagicStrings”) (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Using the Chart Controls with ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)
• Sueetie Analytics Logging Upgrade: Filter Me Gently (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 – Global and Conditional Filters (Malcolm Sheridan)
• How to Create HTML5 Website and Page Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Rey Bango)
• Real World Monitoring and Tuning ASP.NET Caching Part 2 (Steve Smith)
• Developing Applications for the Cloud (Public Sector DPE Team)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming Google App Engine – Only $9.99. Use code DDPGA (O’Reilly Media)
• Write your own Twitter.com XSS exploit (Eran Kampf)
• Slow Rendering with Large Tables in IE 9 & 8 (Chris Love)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Quick Intro To BDD Style Table Syntax (Brett Schuchert)
• Mood Board (Dave Laribee)
• Key insights that you probably missed on DDD (Cyrille Martraire)
• Why a Pomodoro helps you getting in the zone (Giorgio Sironi)
• Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (Jonathan Oliver)
• Sprint Burndowns – Are We Measuring the Wrong Things? (Mark Levison)
• 4 essentials to writing quality code in the Cloud era (Eugenia Sawa)
• Clean Code, Saves Money or Is Art? (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Mahhala – WPF MediaKit and Try before you buy (Rudi Grobler)
• Windows Phone 7 Tutorials: Maps, GPS and Accelerometer (Nigel Sampson)
• Blend Bits 12: States, Groups, Transitions (Mike Taulty)
• An Introduction to the Windows Phone 7 Development Platform (Colin Melia)
• Panorama in Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight 4: Drag and Drop DataGrids with Access to the Data Being Dropped (Andy Schwam)
• There are lots of ways to ask for a date [Creating custom DatePicker/TimePicker experiences is easy with the Windows Phone Toolkit] (David Anson)
• How fast is the Windows Phone 7 Start up??? (Senthil Kumar)
• Multitouch Game Loop Inertia Processing (Dave)
• Great Silverlight Competency Test Part 4 (Answer) and iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Application LifeCycle and Tombstoning and Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Developers: Life Cycle (Jesse Liberty)
• Choices, choices… Windows Phone 7 and Twitter (Luke)
• Fast, lightweight full-text search engine for objects in WPF and Silverlight controls (Andrew Clancy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Allen Wirfs-Brock and Chris Wilson: EcmaScript, JavaScript and the Web (Charles Torre)
• Mike Barnett and Daryl Zuniga: Code Contracts Editor Extensions (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Let’s Play TDD #20: Getting Started on the UI and Let’s Play TDD Recap: Episodes 1-10 (James Shore)
• OpenTable on Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)

Community / Events

• F# in Education Workshop – Nov 5th, 2010 (Bob Familiar)

Database

• “The SQL Server DMV Start Pack” (eBook and T-SQL) from Red Gate and more Dynamic Management Views (DMV) stuff (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – UNION Not Allowed but OR Allowed in Index View – Limitation of the View 6 (Pinal Dave)
• Software Review: Idera’s Virtual Database (Wesley Brown)
• RavenDB: Replicating to a relational database (Oren Eini)
• Table Variables and Transactions (Steve Jones)
• Three Things to Watch with NoSQL (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Display VIEW definition using T-SQL code (3 different ways) (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Daily Dose – RC1 of MySQL 5.5 Adds InnoDB Default (Mitch Pronschinske)

SharePoint

• SharePoint – How to use the Inbuilt Data View Webpart to Display and Perform CRUD Operations on a List (Ravi Keshwani)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Bing adds Twitter recommendations to search (Todd Bishop)
• Betanews readers offer mixed reactions to IE9 (Joe Wilcox)
• PKI management with PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• OData Client for Objective-C v1.1 (CodePlex)
• The Real HTC HD7 Revealed ! (Awais Imran)
• 10 Things Apple Could Do to Make iPhone Development Perfect (John Blanco)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #691 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 21, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for September 21, 2010 — #953 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 4 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Scott Mitchell

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)

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

• Silverlight in Action Book Excerpt: Creating a Custom Panel (Pete Brown)
• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 2 – Customizing The Bootstrapper (Rob Eisenberg)
• A Quick Introduction to Dependency Injection using StructureMap (Dane Morgridge)
• Looking for work? Wanting to contribute? (Arian T. Kulp)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Removing the Ceremony from C# (Jim Burger)
• Dynamic in F#: Reading data from SQL database (Tomas Petricek)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First C#, 2nd Ed – Only $9.99. Use code DDHF2 (O’Reilly Media)
• Productivity Improvements for the Entity Framework (Rowan Miller)
• Debugging MSBuild script with Visual Studio (2) (Dan Moseley)
• Navigate Among Control Groups in the Toolbox (Zain Naboulsi)
• Generic Method Dispatch (Sasha Goldshtein)
• CSLA 4 release candidate available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Nice OData shout-out (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Fun with VS2010 Ultimate: Comparing SQL Data (Zubair Ahmed)

Web Development

• How WebMatrix, Razor, ASP.NET Web Pages and MVC fit together (David Ebbo)
• The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 23: Baby Got Postbacks, a Preamble (Evan Nagle)
• Building HTML in jQuery and JavaScript (Marc Grabanski)
• WebMatrix Beta in pictures (Gunnar Peipman)
• Friday Algorithms: JavaScript Bubble Sort (Stoimen Popov)
• Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 2 Adding Database Support (Chris Love)
• Subtext vNext: which features would you like and on which framework? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Will WebMatrix win over the LAMP crowd? (Stephen Forte)
• Apache Cayenne 3.0 faster and easier, Microsoft launches WebMatrix, a free dev suite and Ruby 1.9.2 is on its way (Sara Allison)
• Cloud Security Threats and Countermeasures at a Glance (J.D. Meier)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Incremental Requirements (James Shore)
• "Refactoring" Notes (Keith Dahlby)
• Mercurial workflows: local development work (Jimmy Bogard)
• The Math of Mediocrity (Charles Chen)
• Do Story Points Relate to Complexity or Time? Response (Rob Reynolds)
• Parallel Programming with Microsoft® .NET (Ade Miller)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Meet the Windows Phone 7 Rockstar team – Beastware (Anand Iyer)
• Slingbox Maker Sling Media Describes Cross-Platform Commitment to Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)
• XAML Compliance Suite v1 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• Silverlight Media Framework 2 released–integrate with Live Writer (Tim Heuer)
• Deep Zoom in Action (Sara Allison)
• Faking It… (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 87: Jeff Atwood on Area 51 and Stack Overflow (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon, Kevin Dente & K. Scott Allen)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 42 Introducing WebMatrix (Matthew Osborn & Federico Silva)
• Ch9Live at Tech.Ed NA 2010 – Ask Mark Russinovich Anything… LIVE! (Nic Fillingham)
• Scott Hanselman on ASP.NET MVC 2 Basics (Frank La Vigne)
• jQuery Essentials Slideshow, Version 2 (Marc Grabanski)

Community / Events

• @ElijahManor is Looking for a jQuery &| ASP.NET MVC Job (Elijah Manor)
• We’ll be at PASS in November – will you? (Paul S. Randal)
• Oh…. ‘I do like to be beside the C# Side’ – Win tickets to FEST10 (Rory Becker)
• Signup for MvcConf – Virtual ASP.Net MVC Conference (Eric Hexter)
• Are you a developer or designer in the NYC/NJ/PA/VA/MD area currently working on a Windows Phone 7 application? Let me know about it! (Dave Isbitski)
• SQLAuthority News – I am a MVP and I Love SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• 5 Organizations Helping Women Get Ahead in Tech (Emily Goligoski)

Database

• Check If Stored Procedure Exists, Else Drop It and Recreate – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Free SSRS Training – SQL Lunch #23 (SSRS R2 – Shared Datasets & Report Parts) (Patrick LeBlanc)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: MySQL High Availability – Only $9.99 Use code DDMHA (O’Reilly Media)
• Creating Models from Databases with Billions of Tables (Julie Lerman)

Miscellaneous

• Windows to Mac transition – Not for me (Brian Noyes)
• More Windows 8 hints, this time on the virtualization front (Mary-Jo Foley)
• OneNote Calendar Planner Add-in Upgraded for OneNote 2010 (Blake Handler)
• AROS Gets Media Center (Don Burnett)
• Why I love Ruby (John V. Petersen)
• Multithreaded Robocopy (K. Scott Allen)
• Rumor: Beta of "Vail" and "Aurora" to be available next week (Owen Williams)
• Xbox Live Formula Working for Microsoft (Richard Hay)
• Nearly 50% of Windows 7 PCs run 64-bit versions (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #639 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 8, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Resources (Frank La Vigne)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• July 9th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, WPF, VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)

The Geek Shelf

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans

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)

The Geek Shelf

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

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Top Links

• Jeff and team have released more puzzles to occupy your time (Maggie Longshore)
• C#5 and Meta-Programming (Patrick Smacchia)
• Windows User Interface Guidelines (Kirill Osenkov)
• Raven DB – Part 1 – DocumentSession per request with StructureMap (Dan Watson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Extracting a list of committers from Git (Oren Eini)
• Introduction to Event Driven Programming in C# (Richard McClutchen)
• Jump Back to the Editor from Just About Anywhere (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Controlling TemplateDepth in ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates (Keith Brown)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: StoreManagerController, part 2 (Oren Eini)
• ASMX ScriptService mistake – Invalid JSON primitive (Dave Ward)
• Make your waves easier to find with savedSearchHook (Pamela Fox)
• Part 2 – A Cascading Hierarchical Field Template & Filter for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Understanding basic JSON (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Building Websites with DotNetNuke5 (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10 Ways to Hold People Accountable (J.D. Meier)
• A Guide to Parallel Programming – Drafts of Chapters 3 & 4 (Ade Miller)
• Mocking successive calls of similar type via sequential mocking (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Expanding the definition of coding, and the mechanism (Andy Singleton)
• Design Mistakes Made By Web Developers (Pete LePage)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 View Model Style Video Player (Alan Beasley & Michael Washington)
• A DataForm with a little configuration (Or is it convention)? (Rudi Grobler)
• Magellan 2.0 Feature Preview (Paul Stovell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steve Milroy Tracks the Roadtrip with Bing Maps and Silverlight 4 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Continuous Integration with and without team system (Teched 2008) and Video: Hardcore production debugging in .NET – Ingo Rammer (Roy Osherove)
• Technology & Friends Episode 91: Matt Van Horn on Expression Blend (David Giard)
• Typemock Isolator for Brownfield Projects2 (Tal Townsend)
• Ping 60: Allard & Bach, Netflix, Hohm score, Halo Beta (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Want to work at Typemock? We’re Hiring (Roy Osherove)
• Expression Studio 4 Community Launch Event (Koen Zwikstra)
• SharePoint Gulf Coast Roadtrip – New Orleans, BHAM, Memphis, & Ozarks (Joel Oleson)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Precision of SMALLDATETIME – A 1 Minute Precision (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB – What’s the difference? (Rob Ashton)
• On Good Instrumentation (Peter Zaitsev)
• Setup Inexpensive mySQL in the Cloud for Testing (Rinat Abdullin)
• Delimited String Tennis (Again)… The Final Volley? (Brad Schulz)

Miscellaneous

• A closer look at Microsoft’s "lost decade" (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 31, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for May 31, 2010, Holiday Edition (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #611 (Chris Alcock)
• Best Resources to Learn F# (Stefano Ricciardi)

The Geek Shelf

Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life!

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Top Links

• How to keep yourself interested as a developer. (Al Pascual)
• Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet (PDF) (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Silverlight Test Driven Development – Part II (Jesse Liberty)
• 24 Hour 50% off Deal on my Upcoming Manning Book: Silverlight in Action, Revised Edition (Pete Brown)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Art of Concurrency — Only $9.99! Use code DDACF (O’Reilly Media)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Entity Designer Database Generation Power Pack (Chris Sells)
• Iron Python In Action (Tom Brander)
• Impact The Planning For EF/Astoria vNext (Jonathan Carter)
• Looking Ahead to 2010 (David Starr)
• Using the Beta 2 EF POCO Template with VS2010 RC (Julie Lerman)
• IntelliSense Crash in VS 2010 RC when using UI Automation (Brittany Behrens)
• Visual Studio 2010 RC Feedback Channel for Web Tools (Mike)
• “Nested Containers” in StructureMap 2.6.1 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Insert Documents to the Right of Existing Tabs — vstipEnv0001 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Help Viewer in Visual Studio 2010 RC (and beyond) (Kimberly Wolk)
• The 10th of Diduary: Did you know your application could use more than one mouse? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 11. Type forwarding (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Serializing Chart Data (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET: Styling a GridView and ASP.NET: UpdatePanel and Master Pages (Deborah Kurata)
• Sparse Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Controllers (Dino Esposito)
• How to extend target file to include registry settings for web project package (Xinyang Qiu)
• Javascript: File encoding when using string.replace (Mark Needham)
• Stack Overflow API Coming Soon: What Do You Want it to Do? and Google Wastes No Time in Launching Google Buzz API (Matthew Casperson)
• gwt-presenter, or “How to get excited about MVP” (Kyle Baley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• We don’t give 5’s… and other antiquated management techniques. (Caleb Jenkins)
• When I want your opinion, I’ll ask for it (Seth Godin)
• It had to happen (Patrick Kua)
• How does usage data improve the Office User Experience? (Tim Briggs)
• Book smarts vs. Street smarts (Scott Berkun)
• Code coverage reports with NCover and MSBuild (Sergio Pereira)
• CQRS – Scalability and CQRS – Event Versioning (Mark Nijhof)
• 10 Ways to Go from Good to Great (JD Meier)
• Collaboration – Writing is a Team Sport (Julie Stickler)

Silverlight / WPF

• Planetary Body Shader Part 2 and HDR Effects (Dave Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #3 with guest Dan Rigsby (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• C9 Conversations: Yuri Gurevich On Logic, Imperative, Abstraction and Algorithms (Charles Torre)
• CodeCast Episode 66: SOLID with Claudio Lassala (Zain Naboulsi)
• Major Nelson Podcast – e and stepto record a show (Larry Hyrb)
• PhizzPop Develop & Design Challenge (Laura Foy)
• Managing Browser History Using Client Script Without ScriptManager (Marc Schweigert)

Community / Events

• Nestor Portillo on the 2010 Summit: The importance of this event cannot be understated (Joe Mirabella)
• Have You Thanked Your Favorite Bloggers Today? (Amber Singleton Riviere)
• SharePoint 2010 Training, with Beta Pricing on both US coasts (Andrew Connell)
• Why former employees say Microsoft can’t innovate (Joe Wilcox)
• NYC Code Camp: Registration is now open! (Stephen Forte)
• Courses and Training (Udi Dahan)
• If you could go to one SharePoint Conference this year what would it be? (Joel Oleson)
• Party with Palermo: MVP Summit 2010 – Red Robin, Bellevue, Feb 15, 7pm (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Code Retreat Tour #1 – Seattle, WA (Corey Haines)

Database

• Help for SQL Server (Buck Woody)
• Using ROW_NUMBER in a where clause (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – Converting a Delimited String of Values into Columns (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 eclipses Vista on Steam, 64-bit dominating 32-bit (Emil Protalinski)
• Introducing Google Buzz (Todd Jackson)
• Google Buzz (Alex Chitu)
• Google Buzz in Gmail (Edward Ho)
• Hide/Remove Google Buzz Updates from Your Gmail Inbox (Adam Pash)
• iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 2 busts loose (Chris Ziegler)
• The Windows 7 battery life issue: What’s making notebook batteries die? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• The Weekly Source Code 49 – SmallBasic is Fun, Simple, Powerful Programming for Kids and Adults (Scott Hanselman)
• If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present (MG Siegler)
• The dreaded compensation question (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Creating a Weather Gadget for Windows 7 (Shoban Kumar)
• Microsoft ditches Unix in the search market (Simon Sabin)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #536 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

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Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 2 (Release Candidate 2) Now Available (Scott Guthrie)
• How Agile Works – My Program Manager Cheat Sheet (Sara Ford)
• Unit Testing Simple ASP.NET MVC Controllers (Chris Missal)
• Conversational Stories (Martin Fowler)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using a Wiimote as a Sensor Driver on Windows 7 (Greg Duncan)
• Dotfuscator 4.6.1200 Released (Joe Kuemerle)
• .NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentQueue (Justin Etheredge)
• The 5th of Diduary: Did you know you can hide Intellisense without retyping? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 9. Configuring fluently registered components with XML (Mike Hadlow)
• Race Condition When Modifying the HttpRequestMessageProperty in an Outgoing WCF Message (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Back to Basics – Keep it Simple and Develop Your Sense of Smell – From Linq To CSV (Scott Hanselman)
• Euler Problem 14: Learn to Memoize (Bill Wagner)
• Setting a Breakpoint in the Call Stack Window — vstipDebug0008 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0 (Steve Stefanovich)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Unit Testing by Roy Osherove (Me)
• If you are way off in the deep end, there is only so much that tooling can do for you (Oren Eini)
• Update From NCover Central Command (or someplace close) (Daniel Waldschmidt)
• Pair Programming with Screen (Jason Meridth)
• StructureMap 2.6 (and 2.5.4) is Released! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Benefits of Pair Programming (Katie McCroskey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Hack: Use Native/Desktop CLR Without COM Registration (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.9 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Getting Started with WPF 4: Button Controls Part 1 – The Button is a Content Control and Upcoming Deal on my Silverlight 4 Book for Blog Subscribers (Pete Brown)
• Installing and Setting Up and Encoding for IIS 7 Smooth Streaming and Silverlight (Scott Hanselman)
• Developing the world’s first interactive Silverlight banner: Metia’s perspective (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight DataGrid quick styling tip: keep selected row focus state (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – How Craigslist Works – with Jeremy Zawodny (Scott Hanselman)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Don Syme – Introduction to F#, 1 of 3 (Charles Torre)
• Silverlight TV Episode 6: Creating Custom Pre-Loaders (John Papa)
• How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build a WCF REST Collection Endpoint (Stephen Forte)
• This Week in Testing Episode 12 – 3 Guys, a Girl and a Bunny (Part 1) (Dror Helper)

Community / Events

• Feb 10 – Silverlight 4 talk, Rockville, MD (David Makogon)
• pluralsight & devweek march 15-19 london (Meagon Marshall)
• Agilepalooza Atlanta! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Corporate Retreat Round-up (Corey Haines)
• Upcoming Appearances (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Reporting In NoSQL (Rob Conery)
• Introducing: Azure Table Query Project (Jason Haley)
• Multi-Monitor Support in SQl Server Management Studio 2008 (Buck Woody)
• Detecting and Troubleshooting Non-Yielding Worker Threads in SQL Server 2005/2008 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Stream Aggregate Showplan Operator – Reason of Compute Scalar before Stream Aggregate (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Free Microsoft Software for Students, Startups, and Small Hosting Businesses (Jennifer Marsman)
• How Many Passes? (Eric Lippert)
• Xbox LIVE being discontinued for Original Xbox consoles and games (Larry Hyrb)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Making Things Talk – Only $9.99! Use code DDMTT (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Small Basic 0.8 (Steven Bink)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #533 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: February 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for February 04, 2010 — #792 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (2/4/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Creators Club Communiqué 40 (Kathleen Sanders)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Edition: In C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 2 RC Released (Phil Haack) – Phil announces what looks to be the last release of v2 before it ships with VS2010.
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Update (Scott Guthrie) – VS2010 to be delayed a few weeks so MS can release an RC build in February to address performance concerns.
• World# – Real Time 3D Augmented Reality with Silverlight (Rene Schulte) – Rene is doing some really amazing 3D stuff with Silverlight, A must-read!
• Moonlight 2 is now available (Silverlight Team) – V2 offers SL2 features and some bits of SL3.
• The Law of Unintended Consequences (Justin Etheredge) – Nice post from Justin that reminds us to be conscious of possible side-effects when we make decisions in software development.

.NET / Visual Studio

• VS2010 Modeling; Create Lifeline from Component (Clemens Reijnen)
• Developing an installer for your Surface application (Eric St. John)
• F#: Word Count – A somewhat failed attempt (Mark Needham)
• Lessons In Building An Email Parser (Rob Reynolds)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta period extended (Somasegar)
• Changed and rewritten items: Effective C# 2nd edition (Bill Wagner)
• Using LINQPad with NHibernate (Alan Northam)
• Astoria Data Services V2 Support in Telerik Data Services Wizard (Stephen Forte)

Web Development

• A Bit About Spark and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine and Adding a bit of Spark to Nerd Dinner (Mike Ormond)
• Understanding Partial Views in ASP.NET MVC Application (Mohammad Azam)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta – Strongly Typed UI Helpers (Malcolm Sheridan)
• The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 4 – Integrating Siege.ServiceLocation with ASP.NET MVC and The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation Part 5 – A guide to getting started with Siege.ServiceLocation (Marcus Bratton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Balsamiq Mid-Week Release: finishing up Zoom (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• How to write MEF in 2 hours or less (Oren Eini)
• Advanced StructureMap: connecting implementations to open generic types (Jimmy Bogard)
• Leadership Tip: Leaders Who Are Always Busy Often Make Really Bad Leaders. (Rajiv Popat)
• What Is The Difference Between an IoC Container and MEF? (Jak Charlton)

Silverlight / WPF

• Flash to Silverlight Guide – MovieClip to UserControl (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight 4: Drag&drop with EventToCommand (Laurent Bugnion)
• Extending the SMF for the HVP (Jesse Liberty)
• Open-Source WPF Reporting Engine (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 12 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 70: Brian Hitney of Microsoft (Michael Kimsal)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #155: Exploring .Net 4 Features – Tuples (Derik Whittaker)
• New PowerGUI Overview Video (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Pete at PDC09: Jon Galloway on Witty Twitter and Pete at PDC09: The Sobees Social Client, WPF, Silverlight and Yahoo! (Pete Brown)
• The Thirsty Developer 80: Meeting the New Guy, Clark Sell (Dave Bost)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Erik Meijer and Thomas Lewis (Nic Fillingham)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 016 – Real Time Web and Silverlight (Eric Nelson)

Community / Events

• Looking for last-minute gift idea? Buy The Art of Community book by Jono Bacon (Sara Ford)
• CodePaste is the bee’s knees, my new favorite way to share code. (Glenn Block)

Database

• The Top 20 Questions in Database Design (Buck Woody)
• Reporting Services Licensing (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Differences in Vulnerability between Oracle and SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Transaction Log Fragmentation??? (Lawrence Overbey)

Miscellaneous

• Tools of the Tech Tweet Trade (Elijah Manor)
• C# 4, ASP.NET 4, WPF 4, and VB 2010 Sample Preview Chapters (Jim Minatel)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/18 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Building a PC, Part VI: Rebuilding (Jeff Atwood)
• Palm unveils "Project Ares" webOS developer tool (Nik Fletcher)
• Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 GM Versions (PSN Editorial Staff)
• Open Source As A SaaS Endgame – Digging A Bit More (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Using PowerShell to clean and zip a Solution folder (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #501 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 17, 2009 — #758 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Top 5 Essays You Should Read (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Links (12/17/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Creators Club Communiqué 35 (Kathleen Sanders)

The Geek Shelf

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Using a Genetic Algorithm to Do Consultant Scheduling in C# (Mike Gold)
• So, What Is This Boo language Anyway? and NHibernate tips & tricks: Efficiently selecting a tree (Oren Eini)
• Assembly List Import/Export Reflector Addin (Jason Haley)
• Build Notification, Visual Studio, & Snarl (Christopher Bennage)
• Multi-Targeting Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Running T4 Templates with MSBuild (Steve Andrews)
• How to trick Visual Studio to not show line numbers for blank lines? (Sara Ford)
• F# First Class Events – Changes on Creating Events (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Dynamic Part Instantiation in MEF (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Hidden gems in the gaming starter kit (Marc Schweigert)

Web Development

• How To Get Started With Selenium Core And ASP.NET MVC (Derick Bailey)
• Why is HTML Suddenly Interesting? (Simon St. Laurent)
• jQuery: $.post, ‘jsonp’ and cross-domain requests (Mark Needham)
• Walking the tight rope (Bertrand Le Roy)
• DYK: You can remove the ASP.NET MVC version from the Response Header (Jason N. Gaylord)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Windows UX Guidelines (MS Downloads)
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Lazy loading (Oren Eini)
• You are your Institutional Knowledge (Anne Epstein)
• In Response To DNR 476 (Jesse Liberty)
• Have You Met Your Dog, Patches? (Jeff Atwood)
• The Singleton: Be Careful How You Use It (Ben Yoder)
• Agile Testing with VSTS 2010 and TMap: Part 00 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Lazy Loading (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day
• What’s the Difference? Part Three: fixed vs. fixed (Eric Lippert)
• Testing Private & Protected Members of a Class (John Teague)
• StructureMap and MassTransit Together (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Building Remarkable Work and Play Environments – Part 13. (Rajiv Popat)
• Refactoring Day 27 : Remove God Classes (Sean Chambers)
• Reflection-Based Performance Analysis (Steve Andrews)

Silverlight / WPF

• BouncingPlane Behavior for Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 3 Jumpstart Book (Brad Abrams)
• Implicit Styles, Templates, Controls and FrameworkElements (Carole Snyder)
• Silverlight Spy 3 updated (Koen Zwikstra)
• Using Silverlight DeepZoom for a Document Viewer (Charles Petzold)
• Creating RIA Services With Silverlight 3 Part-2 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Pie Chart Easy AS…. (Jesse Liberty)
• Your 2 cents: Silverlight Community Samples and Swivel Behavior now posted in Expression Gallery (John Papa)
• Playing with Shaders: Creating a water effect (Marlon Grech)
• Cleaning Up the Disabled State of a Silverlight Control using Expression Blend (Dan Wahlin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Radio TFS 25: Team Test with Anthony Borton (Radio-TFS)
• 3 New Podcasts on Silverlight 3 (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• SharePoint 2010 Partner Training for SharePoint 2007 Partners! (Arpan Shah)
• Top 5 reasons to run for the PASS Board of Directors (Joe Webb)
• Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York City (Sumeeth Evans)
• Agile2009 Drawing to a Close (Steven ‘Doc’ List)

Database

• How Many Spindles Do You Need? (Michael Ceranski)
• SQL SERVER – Best Practices – Implementation of Database Object Schemas (Pinal Dave)
• Did You Know: What’s a SQL Server Education Worth? (Kalen Delaney)

SharePoint

• Design Patterns For SharePoint : Entry 1 (Charles Chen)
• Announcing the Fourth Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Dan Winter)
• SharePoint as a development platform – 7 reasons why I like it … (Joris Poelmans)

Miscellaneous

• Fixing Virtual PC 2007 To Run On Windows 7 (Tom Hearn)
• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases Bing SDK for iPhone & Mac (Blake Handler)
• GIMP 2.7 beta released (Brad Linder)
• The Ultimate Collection Of Maya 3D Tutorials (Vailancio Rodrigues)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Disables DCOM modifications (Bob Fox)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Aug 26, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #422 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2009 — #676 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for August 27, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links (8/27/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – AUG ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for 27th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Engineering Software For Accessibility eBook (MS Downloads)
• TAM v3.0 beta (MS Downloads)
• Don’t castrate your architecture (Oren Eini) – Co-Link of the Day
• When You Absolutely Need To Use A Real Database In Tests (Davy Brion)
• In the absence of done… there is risk. (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Swarm Theory and Architecture Explorer (Clemens Reijnen)
• Git and command-line fear (James Gregory)
• Is Software Engineering Dead? (Process, not Construction) (Jim Holmes)
• A New Plugin: Mockups for FogBugz! (Peldi Guilizzoni)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 2.1 is out! (Oren Eini)
• Why I Dislike Classic Or Typical WCF Usage (Davy Brion)
• NHibernate 2.1 Changes Overview (Patrick Smacchia)
• July CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released (Windows Azure Team)
• Resharper Test Runner in 64-bit Windows (Sergio Pereira)
• CouchDB in the Cloud – Cheap and Flexible Persistence For .NET (Rinat Abdullin)
• Workflow-Enabled Services with Windows Workflow Foundation (Masoud Kalali)
• Comparing doubles can produce unexpected results (Kirill Osenkov)
• Iterator blocks Part Four: Why no yield in catch? (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design (Cameron Chapman)
• Adding a DotNetKicks Image/Badge via jQuery (Chris Pietschmann)
• Azure SDK July CTP – Multiple web and worker roles (David Makogon)
• jQuery-UI visual studio intellisense (vsdoc) file (Jay Kimble)
• Testing Multiple IE Versions, VPC’s and Super Preview (Pete LePage)

Silverlight / WPF

• F1 for Silverlight in Visual Studio is still targeting the Beta1 content: Here’s a workaround (Wolf Schmidt)
• Blacklight v4 for Silverlight 3 Released (Martin Grayson)
• New book: Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Devon Musgrave)
• Prism’s Plugin Architecture (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3? Easier Easing (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Roman Schindlauer on Complex Events (Carl Franklin)
• Distributed Agile Interview – Dan Mezick chats with Andy Singleton (Andy Singleton)
• ARCast.TV – The Cloud Part 2, What is Microsoft doing (Bob Familiar)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #128: Exploring StructureMap: Learning how to setup Auto Registration (Derik Whittaker)
• Introduction to SketchFlow (Frank La Vigne)
• Silverlight MVP Creates PRISM Videos and Interviews! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SDL-LOB Phase 3: Implementation (Jossie Tirado)
• Ping 21: Gates & Ballmer talk Chrome, MS Office edits Google Docs, MS Retail, Natal is hiring (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Blogher or Bust (Anne Taylor Hartzell)
• patterns and practices wants you to take the Web guidance survey (Blaine Wastell)
• Google Wave: Updates from today’s hackathon (Dan Peterson)
• Northeast Roadshow and More! (Jim O’Neil)
• CodeClimber Q2-09 Report (Simone Chiaretta)
• Microsoft Contributes Code to the Linux Kernel (Nic Fillingham)
• Community Leadership Summit Trip Report (Sara Ford)
• Introducing CodePaste.NET (Rick Strahl) – Co-Link of the Day

Database

• To SQL or not to SQL? (Simon Brown)
• Attaching SQL Server database without log file (Gunnar Peipman)
• Developer Tip Quickly look up table information in SQL Server Management Studio (Jonathan Cogley)

SharePoint

• June Cumulative Update Packages Ready for Download (Jie Li)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Documents "Windows 7 Upgrade Paths" (Blake Handler)
• New Touch Up Suite: 15 Ways To Turn Heads! (Ali Fisher)
• Bing on the Jingles (The Bing Intern)
• Audacity 1.3.8 Beta: Open source audio editor now faster than ever (Brad Linder)
• 45+ Excellent Code Snippet Resources and Repositories (Cameron Chapman)
• Keyboard Krazy with Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
• Just Enough MBA to Be a Programmer (Jeff Moser)
• Flash Text Layout Framework goes Open Source (Steve Tibbett)
• Could Popfly’s pop out be game over for Microsoft? (Joe Wilcox)
• Scripting WMI Namespace Security (part 1 of 3) (Steve Lee)
• Windows 7 Media Center and Windows Home Server PP3 (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #394 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2009 — #647 and Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2009 – 2 — #648 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 20th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: July 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day