Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 (MS Downloads)
• Explaining Refactoring to Management (Mark Levison)
• Frame rate counters in Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• Windows Phone 7 – The First Fart Application (Shai Raiten)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Game of Clue (C#2010) (Christ Kennedy)
• The Future of .NET Open Source Software Delivery (Rob Reynolds)
• The DXCore Visualize Toolbar (Rory Becker)
• Profiling an application with Visual Studio – Memory allocation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Graph Colouring, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• Introduction to Project Hilo (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools Walkthrough (Pete Brown)
• F# asyncronous programming (Wiston Gubantes)
• Reset Toolbars (Zain Naboulsi)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release v5.1.14810.002 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• YUI 3.2.0 Preview Release 1: Touch Event Support, Gestures, Transitions, CSS Grids, ScrollView, Uploader, and More (Eric Miraglia)
• Fluent Validation – Release: v1.3 (CodePlex)
• YouTube’s shiny new HTML5 embed code is now live (Jay Hathaway)
• ASP.NET MVC Routing Basics (Dane Morgridge)
• LINQ to JS (Arun Mahendrakar)
• IE9’s Stunning Text Rendering Quality (Mike Swanson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do architects define the software development process? (Simon Brown)
• How To Build Custom Rake Tasks; The Right Way (Derick Bailey)
• A Pattern for Using Scrum and Kanban (Karl Scotland)
• Mono & OpenStack on GitHub (Kyle Neath)
• The State of Enterprise Architecture (Mike Walker)
• NCover 3.4.12: Memory Improvements and Bugfixes (Alan Johnson)
• Article:Skills for Scrum Agile Teams (Prasad Prabhakaran)
• RavenDB Authorization Bundle Design (Oren Eini)
• Code Contracts and Automated Testing are pretty much the same thing (Patrick Smacchia)
• Is That How You Talk To People? (Davy Brion)
• YouTrack for OSS Projects (Hadi Hariri)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 User Interface Guide Includes Templates, Behaviors (Bruce Kyle)
• Work-around for VS 2010 & Silverlight Add Reference Hint Path Bug (Andy Schwam)
• Connected Experiences: Out of Brower- Article Viewer in Silverlight Part 1: and Connected Experiences: Silverlight to Win Phone 7 and Connected Experiences: Silverlight to Windows Phone 7 Part Two (Don Burnett)
• Silverlight UI Automation Testing using Prism 4.0 (Jeremy Likness)
• Beginners Guide to Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control (Part–I) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Expression Encoder Screen Capture codec now available (Jamie Lang)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 119 – PowerScripting Podcast – Adam Driscoll on the PowerGUI Visual Studio Extensions (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Visual Studio 2010 – Database Projects (MSpl)
• Ping 67: Visual Studio Power Tools, Facebook on Its Way to a Billion, Kinect, and More (Laura Foy)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 22 – Troy Hunt on Developers and Security (Richard Banks)
• UML with VS 2010 Part 1: Brainstorming a Project and Part 2: Organizing Features Into Use Cases and Part 3: Modeling the Business Domain (Clint Edmonson)
• This Week In Silverlight 7.23.2010 – Early Windows Phone 7 Reviews (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – July 26th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Agile: Developer attendance at showcases (Mark Needham)
• Blend-O-Rama Redux (Joel Cochran)
• Employee Developer Program (Brandon Watson)
• MSDN Flash Poll #4 – Job Profiling (Mike Ormond)
• Turkish MVPs Help Translate Visual Studio 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Computed Column – Perisisted and Storage (Pinal Dave)
• Defensive Db Programming Chapter 03 (Jason Brimhall)

SharePoint

• Feature upgrade (part 3) – introducing SPFeatureUpgrade kit (Chris O’Brien)
• Social Squared July Release (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Steering Cutting Edge Research, the Microsoft Way (Jose Hector)
• Microsoft Releases "Word 2010: Interactive Menu to Ribbon Guide" (Blake Handler)
• Rubik’s Cube iPhone app (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Street-Fighting Math: down and dirty guide to approximation and problem-solving (Cory Doctorow)
• PureText lets you copy formatted text and paste it back as plain text and What the Zuk: an ode to Total Commander (Erez Zukerman)
• How is opportunity like lightning? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Loose lips sink ships (Kip Kniskern)
• 5 Key Events in the history of Cloud Computing (Kaushik Raghupathi)
• Windows 7 SP1 beta download goes public (Lee Matthews)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Links (7/26/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #651 (Chris Alcock)
• Listiki Releases Crowdsourcing Widget, 3 Weeks Left to Switch to OAuth and Lemmings on Windows Phone 7 (Sara Allison)

The Geek Shelf

User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn

Top Links

• ReSharper 5.1: Bug Fixes, Performance, XAML 2009 (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Help my friend Scott Hanselman raise $50000 for Diabetes! (Glenn Block)
• Microsoft MS-PL code in Mono (Miguel de Icaza)
• Unit Tests and LINQ Queries (K. Scott Allen)
• How to use the MultiTouch Behavior for Windows Phone 7 (Laurent Bugnion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• IntelliTrace and unfamiliar code (Cameron Skinner)
• Data Services Expressions – Part 8 – Projections (Vitek Karas)
• How To Break The CLR For A Cool Feature (Alois Kraus)
• Visual Studio Toolbox Snippets (Dane Morgridge)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First C#, 2nd Ed – Only $9.99. Use code DDHF2 (O’Reilly Media)
• Expand and Collapse All in the Toolbox (Zain Naboulsi)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release v5.0..14796.004 and Sandcastle Help File Builder – Standalone Components and Tools v1.9.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Unity build failure recovery for DisposableStrategyExtension (Rory Primrose)
• Active Directory Groups not Syncing with Team Foundation Server 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Release of Google Analytics Dot Net (Doug Rathbone)
• Does Azure Debugging Cost Too Much? (Jonathan Allen)
• Finding code in the MSDN Library (Margaret Parsons)
• Floating point numbers and string representations (Eric Gunnerson)

Web Development

• Serializing Request.ServerVariables to JSON: JavaScriptSerializer vs. DataContractJsonSerializer (Karsten Januszewski)
• Code Snippet : Manually Creating a New ASP.NET Membership User in C# (Joe Stagner)
• Using ASP.NET MVC 2 to Query Twitter’s Public API – FIFA 2010 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Welcome to the WebMatrix, and my thoughts about it (Simone Chiaretta)
• Great Ways to Learn jQuery (Marc Grabanski)
• Client-side performance – IIS 6 vs. IIS 7 (Mads Kristensen)
• Stack Exchange API 1.0 Imminent (Jeff Atwood)
• Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 1 (Chris Love)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Review: Scrumban (John Sonmez)
• Nature of Problem(s), we testers (should) investigate (or solve) (Shrini Kulkarni)
• High Level Testing with a High Level Language (Jay Fields)
• Battle of the framework: Testing a Webpart (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Success Pattern for V-Teams (J.D. Meier)
• How we deploy new features (Rick Olson)
• Set Up Build Agents By Project in TeamCity (Steve Smith)
• API Design: how to lie less (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Video/Audio Encoder & Streamer (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Open Source Interactive WPF image cropper control released (Distinction Team)
• Enabling Touch Manipulations on Windows Phone (Mike Ormond)
• Understanding WPF Dependency Property and Attached Property (Frank La Vigne)
• Non-Linear Navigation in Silverlight 4 (Karl Shifflett)
• XAML Compliance Suite V1 (Lester Lobo)
• Making the Most of Silverlight Text Rendering (Robby Ingebretsen)
• Microsoft Silverlight Media Framework 2.0 Release (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks – Catching up with Mary Jo Foley (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Agile Testing and SeleNesse (Eric Hagan)
• The GeekDads Episode #71: Must Have Bacon Beer! (Ken Denmead)
• E2E: Whiteboard Jam Session with Brian Beckman and Greg Meredith – Monads and Coordinate Systems (Charles Torre)
• The Purpose of Leadership (video) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Boagworld – Lou Rosenfeld on Search Analytics (Paul Boag)

Community / Events

• Area 51: First Public Beta (Robert Cartaino)
• XNA Game Development for Windows Phone 7 (Chris Koenig)
• Going to OSCON (Eric Sink)
• Indy Hall Town Hall – Monday, July 12th, 5:30-7pm (Alex Hillman)
• ANN: Developers Needed for Midwest Give Camp, July 9-11 (Dave Bost)
• Chris Hardy MonoTouch iApp Interview from Mix10 (Jim Minatel)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 SP2 CTP Available (Glenn Berry)
• Find Maximum Value in each Row – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – The Self Join – Inner Join and Outer Join (Pinal Dave)
• INSTEAD OF triggers – Using views in SSIS (Piotr Rodak)
• Put Some Images On Those SSRS Reports (Valentino Vranken)
• A SQL Quest (Shaun Stuart)
• WHERE to begin (Ben Vegiard)

SharePoint

• SharePoint "Datasheet View" Errors in Office 2010 x64 Fixed with an Office 2007 Patch! (Blake Handler)
• More SharePoint Forum Goodness (Lightning Tools)
• patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance – Production Release – SharePoint 2010 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Answers “Top 10 Questions on Data” (Abel Avram)
• Adobe Interview (part 7) (Joe Smith)
• New Computer Setup (Caleb Jenkins)
• Automatic alias expansion in Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Zoho Calendar Steps Out of Beta (Raju Vegesna)
• Microsoft Deployment Kit 2010 Update 1 is RTM (Raymond Comvalius)
• Windows Live Mail helps you organize your life (Stephen Hui)
• Apple Section 3.3.1 and MonoTouch (Wally McClure)
• Tabbles: Organize Your Files. Written in F# (Don Syme)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2010 — #898 (Dave Campbell)
• Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Resources (Dave Isbitski)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 7, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 07.01 ~ 07.08 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #638 (Chris Alcock)
• A WebMatrix Roundup (Greg Duncan)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action, Second Edition by Bear Bibeault

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• JavaScript for C# programmers: convert string to integer (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Tip #45: Did you know…How to change the DynamicData folder location? (Deepak Verma)
• Tip #46: Did you know… that Web Deployment “migrate” operation is “sync” operation with all migration rules enabled? (Kateryna Rohonyan)
• Tip #47 Did you know… that front page script remote debugging requires turning off IE’s Enhanced Security Configuration in windows 2003 and windows 2008? (Xinyang Qiu)
• Handling interactions between ViewModel classes (Brian Button)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Code Canvas (Kael Rowan) – Link of the Day
• Help Us Prioritize the Enterprise Library 5.0 Backlog (Ade Miller)
• Cascading Filters – Dynamic Data Futures (Futures on Codeplex) (Steve)
• Using VS.NET 2005 SP1 with SQL Server 2008 connectivity (Ted Krueger)
• Windows Azure – .NET Services and the Service Bus and C# and Optional Parameters (Mike Taulty)
• IronPython 2.6 Alpha 1 (Harry Pierson)
• DBFile project now on CodePlex (Jason Haley)
• Essential LINQ (Jason Zander)
• Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Contrib – Release: 0.4.0.1 and T4 Toolbox – Release: 9.3.21.2 and StyleCop for ReSharper – Release: 1.0.0.000 (compatible with ReSharper 4.1) (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Idealistic vs. Practical (Christopher Bennage)
• Framework Design Guidelines: the System.* namespace (Brad Abrams)
• JavaScript Unit Testing Frameworks (Elijah Manor)
• Always Assume That You’re the Problem (Justin Etheredge)
• F#: Forcing type to unit for Assert.ShouldThrow in XUnit.NET (Mark Needham)
• Underscoring A Point (Rod Paddock)

Silverlight / WPF

• Machine is now available! Reuxables 2.0, WPF Toolkit, and more. (Dax Pandhi)
• Props to Two Cool Silverlight Applications (Corrina Barber)
• Silverlight Localization Gotcha (Davy Brion)
• Toolkit Control – TimePicker (Jesse Liberty)
• DLR Hosting in Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)
• Installing Silverlight 3 – A Step By Step Guide for Upgrading your Development Environment (Harsh Bardhan)
• Expression Blend 3 & Behaviours (Mike Taulty)
• RadControls for Silverlight 3 now available (Valentin Stoychev)
• Why is it called a "DependencyProperty"? (Mike Hillberg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pete Brown, Silverlight Wizard in Action (Adam Kinney)
• This Week on C9: New SDKs, Silverlight 3, Web utilities and cool Show Off Projects (Dan Fernandez)
• Azure videos worth watching (Bill Zack)
• No More Underscrores in Visual Basic 10 (Beth Massi)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Eilon Lipton and the ASP.NET MVC Rumors (Scott Hanselman)
• MIX09: Time Lapse camera, setup and tear down (Duncan Mackenzie)
• Episode 130: Code Visualization with Michele Lanza (SE-Radio Team)
• Kona Screencast 1: It’s Baaaaack! (Rob Conery)
• Some of the Shows I did at or around MIX – Hanselminutes, Continuum (Pete Brown)
• Mike Swanson – XAML Plugin for Adobe Illustrator (Robert Hess)
• 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – MVP Interviews – Part 5 and 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – I’m a PC and I’m and MVP! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Community / Events

• A few favorite photos from MIX09 (Adam Kinney)
• Requesting Contracted .NET OSS Bug Fixes from the Community (Bobby Johnson)
• Contest: Help Us To Find A Motto For Devlicio.us (Tuna Toksoz)

Database

• Spring cleaning your indexes – Part II (Kimberly L. Tripp)
• ExecutionLog Table in SSRS 2008 Gone (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• CCleaner version 2.18.878 software update (Ben) – IE8 support added
• Get hip to Mesh… it rocks! (Andrew Connell)
• Presentation tip: They Remember the Mistakes more than the Polish (Brad Abrams)
• DreamSpark – High School access now and new stuff! and Blu-ray/DVD Comparison Utility (Coding4Fun)
• Windows Mobile 7 screenshots (or mockups, or something) leaked? (Chris Ziegler)
• Small Basic: Sample of the week: Turn ‘em Off (Vijaye)
• Windows 7 Build 7068 leaks in the wild (Taimur Asad)
• Where to Find Windows 7 Logon Screen Backgrounds (Sarah Perez)
• There’s a lot of Software in Our Future (Dino Esposito)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 27, 2009 and LINKBLOG for March 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2009 — #554 and Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2009 — #555 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 309 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for March 27th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: March 27, 2009 and Interesting Finds: March 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 2.1 Alpha 1 Is Out! and Upgrading To NHibernate 2.1 (Davy Brion)
• Ninject knows a new trick (Ivan Porto Carerro)
• Connecting to Live Mesh with the Live ID Client SDK (Sean Timm)
• Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design (Muhammad Mosa)
• Analyzing the code base of CruiseControl.NET (Patrick Smacchia)
• Extract Properties To Style (Rudi Grobler) – Link of the Day
• PowerShell for Visual Studio – Release and StyleCop for ReSharper – Release Candidate – Refresh (0.0.14317.000) (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Future Creep – Your aren’t gonna need it! (Andrew Woodward)
• Product Owner or Product Ownership (Mike Cottmeyer)

Database

• Designing a document database: View syntax (Oren Eini)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of ON Clause on LEFT JOIN – How ON Clause Effects Resultset in LEFT JOIN (Pinal Dave)

Community / Events

• Let’s Talk Silverlight At Mix! (Jesse Liberty)
• Robert and Rocky ride again at Rackspace (Robert Scoble)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Blogger Recommends Free "ClearContext" Personal Organizer Add-in for Outlook 2007 (Blake Handler)
• Interesting first week for JSMag (Michael Kimsal)
• FriendFeed Notifier brings real-time updates to the desktop (Jay Hathaway)
• Can we declare programming in Xml to be dead yet? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How to fix the Windows 7 7057 desktop.ini startup bug (Lee Mathews)
• Quality SharePoint books (Spence Harbar)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2009 — #541 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: March 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 305 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• How I’m learning F# – Writing the First Program (James Eggers)
• Getting Started with Oslo – Introducing “M” and The M Programming Language – Part 0 – Intellipad, MrEPL, VS2008 project support and Excel integration (Bart de Smet)
• Visual Studio Team System 2010 – Episode 3: The Lifecycle (Clemens Reijnen)
• Test if classes are registered in unity (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Using Regular Expressions in C# vs PHP (Keith Elder)
• Book Review: Pro ADO.NET Data Services (John Papa)
• Creating reusable Entity Framework queries thanks to deferred execution (Josh Twist)
• Fun with LINQ – Find the Longest and Shortest Type Name in .NET 3.5 using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release Candidate (0.0.14287.000) and IronPython – Release: 2.0.1 and WLW Insert Links Plugin – Release: LinkBuilder Plugin v0.1.1 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• First attempts with Gallio (Andre Loker)
• DDD: Entities and Value Objects and DDD: Where is the Code? Another Brief Interlude (Casey Charlton)
• Assertion Driven Design (ADD) (David Starr)
• Application Architecture Videos (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
• The open closed principle (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Coding: Assertions in constructors and Encoding user entered data (Mark Needham)
• The Curious Case of Software Quality (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Why We Conduct Bug Bashes (Steve Rowe)

Web Development

• Posting data to a REST service using C# (Derik Whittaker)
• Friday Books – Building a Web 2.0 Portal w/ ASP.NET 3.5 (Dave M. Bush)
• Video explanation of jQuery (Simone Chiaretta)
• Chapter 3 – Understanding Controllers (Stephen Walther)
• AJAX History in a Dynamic Data Website (Stephen Naughton)

Silverlight / WPF

• Avoid having default values in XAML to do less during Load. (Rob Relyea)

Community / Events

• MSDN Live Events Coming to a City Near You! (David Solivan)
• Welcome to MVP TV! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

• A Comprehensive Database Security Model (Ken Downs)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Reading XML File Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Understanding backups and log-related Trace Flags in SQL Server 2000/2005 and 2008 (Kimberly L. Tripp)

Miscellaneous

• Yet another feature in the new SilverlightShow: FAVORITES (Nikolay Raychev)
• A Failure in Microsoft’s Open Source Strategy (Chris Cyvas)
• Microsoft Releases Windows Media Center SDK for Windows 7 Beta (Blake Handler)
• Data Visualization with Physics (Andy Beaulieu)
• Sample of the Week: Bricks (Vijay) – Small Basic sample.
• Being coached on Getting Things Done and My letter to Microsoft as it gets back into retail (Robert Scoble)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: lots of little things (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Fun with Folds (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Real Ultimate Programming Power (Jeff Atwood)
• Advances in typography and text rendering in Windows 7 (Worachai Chaoweeraprasit)
• Windows Mobile 6.5 feature tour sneaks onto YouTube (Paul Miller)
• Introducing Bespin, online collaborative code editor (Simone Chiaretta)
• Microsoft readies Zune service for non-Zune devices, Marketplace appears in WinMo 6.5 screenshot (Thomas Ricker)
• Blogs are the Most Important Innovation of the 21st Century (Scott Mitchell)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 13, 2009 and LINKBLOG for February 14, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – February 12, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight Cream for February 13, 2009 — #516 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: February 13, 2009 and Interesting Finds: February 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• WPF/XAML News – 2009/02/13 (Rob Relyea)
• Discoveries This Week 02/13/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for February 13th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 11 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day