I’m catching up a bit after the birth of our third daughter, Rubina Mae Ashcraft, on Tuesday afternoon. My sincere thanks to everyone who sent their congratulations on Twitter and Facebook. Apologies to the many great blog posts that have not been included.

Congrats to all the new and renewed Microsoft MVPs this week too!

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Create Reflection Effect on Images Using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask in WPF (Anum Lodhi)
• WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI. (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Coding Contest (Dino Esposito)
• Handling Events within Silverlight Control Templates – AutoCompleteBox Example (Dan Wahlin)
• Choosing Colors to Complement Your User Interface with Expression Design and Experimenting with User Interface Colors with Expression Design and Creating a Sample Icon using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Application – Animal Testing Breaks Hearts (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TweetCraft – A World of Warcraft Twitter client (Dan Fernandez)
• Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper (Eric Hexter)
• "XNAVATARS" – PART 1 (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Meffifying Windows Azure (Glenn Block)
• VSTS 2010 TMap Process Template 1,2 and 3 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 3 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• MCsla on the Olso May CTP (Rockford Lhotka)
• Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems (K. Scott Allen)
• IronRuby 0.6 Released! (Jimmy Schementi)
• Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 Post Beta 1 (Muhammad Mosa)
• Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 4 ) (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner (Jimmy Bogard)
• “Controllerless” MVC: A high-level overview of my attempt (Erik)
• Which Unit Testing Framework? (John Resig)
• Agile Is NOT a Risk Management Strategy (Jurgen Appelo)
• Domain Driven Design: Conformist (Mark Needham)
• Is your Organization out of Alignment? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Web Development

• XHTML 2 Cancelled (Timothy)
• Restricting BlogEngine.NET Comments to Sueetie Registered Users Only (Dave Burke)
• SubSonic 3.0 is Released (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Successful Cross Platform .NET Development – Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover and The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove (Scott Hanselman)
• Whirlwind Around .NET 4 (Eric Mork)
• Scott Ambler on the Agile Process Maturity Model (Carl Franklin)
• This Week C9: Speech Recognition, Army of 1, TweetCraft and more (Dan Fernandez)
• Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo) (Jose Fajardo)
• What’s New in Software Development: NeverFail Software Adopts Hyper-V (Bruce Kyle)
• Downloading Prism and 10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Episode #123: Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Object Invariant Conditions (Derik Whittaker)
• Herding Code 52: The Alan Stevens and G. Andrew Duthie Debate Continues! (Jon Galloway)
• Conversation with Stuart Halloway (Corey Haines)
• Three great screencasts on Silverlight unit testing (Jeff Wilcox)
• Using WPF in Office Add-Ins (John Wiese)

Community / Events

• AgiliTrain and Rachel Appel Announce New Classes (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Automatically create a SQL Server table in a new database. (George Mastros)
• DRY SQL (Jamie Thomson)
• PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room and DELETE Documents from CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• SQL SERVER – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Free Windows 7 Training Resources (Blake Handler)
• Bringing a Bit of Twitter to Bing (Sean Suchter)
• The Blurring Lines of Languages (Justin Etheredge)
• MSDN / Technet Subscribers Get Windows 7 July 13th (Keith Elder)
• An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two (Ken Sipe)
• Who is developing the software profession? (Maggie Longshore)
• Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.2 available as a free download (Jose Barreto)
• The fallacy of the standardized developer machine/image (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Announcing The Social Way To Get Things Done: Zoho Projects 2.0 (Rodrigo Vaca)
• How to display ads on your project from The Lounge – #045 (Sara Ford)
• Kodu Nears Xbox Launch and Want to Compare Search Engines? and Follow @Microsoft on Twitter (…and All the Rest!) (Sarah Perez)
• Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress” (Jason N. Gaylord)
• All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions (Jeff Atwood)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #382 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for July 2nd, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 3rd July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• MouseWheel Behavior for Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
• XPath (barely) in Silverlight 2 (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight/WPF: Implementing PropertyChanged with Expression Tree (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight 3 – Navigation & Prettying my URI’s (Mike Taulty)
• Should Silverlight 3′s Out of Browser be Full-Trust? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 3 Book – Tell me what you want (Pete Brown)
• Launching a custom Dialog to edit items in a DataGrid (with MVVM) (Vincent Sibal)
• Silverlight installation experience guidance posted (Tim Heuer)

Web Development

• Virtual Earth Web Services SDK 1.0 (MS Downloads)
• JavaScript for C# developers: functions are objects (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Web Forms vs. ASP.NET MVC (Dino Esposito)
• Sueetie Friends and Favorites in the works (Dave Burke)
• Creating HTML Forms in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)
• SubSonic 2.2 Released (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Virtual Earth SDK 6.2 (MS Downloads)
• Hosting WCF Services on Windows Azure (Aaron Skonnard)
• NHibernate Mapping – <dynamic-component/> (Oren Eini)
• Strongly-typed Telerik reports (Jimmy Bogard)
• Visual Studio Team System: Free Online Workshops (Brian Keller)
• The beginnings of MCsla (Rockford Lhotka)
• Functional Programming and Collective Intelligence – IV (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Simple Code Navigation with ReSharper (Ray Houston)
• Don’t Get Bit By Lazy Evaluation (Justin Etheredge)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• User Experience (Arpan Shah)
• What is Agility? Part 2 – Software Agility (Brad Appleton)
• Tracer Bullet Development (Gunnar Peipman)
• TDD Tests are not Unit Tests (Stephen Walther)
• Pex v0.10.40408.0: NUnit, MbUnit, xUnit.Net, Visual Basic.NET, F# and more… (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Backwards-Compatibility: Why Most Versioning Problems Aren’t (Udi Dahan)
• The Mythical Man Month: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Pex 0.10 Released / ICSE Tutorial on Parameterized Unit Testing (Nikolai Tillmann) – Link of the Day
• Introducing Hiro, the World’s Fastest IOC Container, Part I: Design Diary (Philip Laureano)
• Testing with a Compiled Class that Doesn’t Implement an Interface – Adapter Pattern (Sean Biefeld)
• The Code Fairy – solutions/ideas (Jonathan Cogley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week on C9: Charles Torre on camera, C9 turns 5, and lots of freebies (Dan Fernandez)
• Using jQuery UI in ASP.NET (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Community Radio #1: The After-Party (Steve Andrews)
• ASP.NET With Visual Web Developer Video Series (First 6 On-Line) (Joe Stagner)
• Radio TFS 19: Oracle Support for Visual Studio Team System (Radio TFS)
• deCast – Building an Azure App Part I: Setup and Hello World (Rob Bagby)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Presentations (Cameron Skinner)
• Introducing RoboDojo (David Starr)
• Cloud Computing User Group Meeting, April 23, 2009 at Reston (Zhiming Xue)
• ASP.NET MVC in Action talks this week (Texas, Wisconsin) (Jeffrey Palermo)

SharePoint

• Creating List Items with jQuery and the SharePoint Web Services (Jan Tielens)
• program to interface… in sharepoint (Erwin Van Der Valk)

PowerShell

• Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Trick: Fun With Parameter Binding: The Fake Parameter Set Trick (James Brundage)
• Fun with PowerShell and TFS Work Items (Peter Provost)

Miscellaneous

• Book Review: Outliers (Brad Abrams)
• Fantastic, Friday Fun with "My Brute" (Corey Miller)
• Remote Desktop: /span across multiple monitors (Kirill Osenkov)
• Raising a Red Flag (Jeff Atwood)
• Hire the Best – Maintenance (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Ask The Elder: Recommendations for a Home Media Server Project (Keith Elder)
• New Job Requirement 12.1.a – Must Understand Open Source Licensing (Jeremy Jarrell)
• New Tutorials Series on Hosting (Scott Mitchell)
• How to view revisions for a specific wiki page – #013 (Sara Ford)
• The Zune HD is real! (Ryan Rea)
• Full Text Indexing SQL (Rob Conery)
• What is Software + Services? (David Lemphers)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 10, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 11, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 10, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for April 11, 2009 — #568 (Dave Campbell)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 17 (Denis Gobo)
• CloudNews for April 10th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

• Are Twitter Clients the New Hello World App? (Aaron Lerch)
• This Is Why You Need TeamCity Build Server (Sammy Larbi)
• Observations (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Using YAGNI Responsibly (James Kovacs)
• Saying YAGNI to YAGNI? (Rob Teixeira)
• FiOS Users Speak (John Czwartacki)
• Free Download: Keyboard Jedi (Learn all of your applications’ keyboard shortcuts) (Robert Shelton)
• New Version of the Book Out! (Oren Eini)
• Clearing Up the Mock Confusion (Jimmy Bogard)
• 9 of the Best Rich Text Editors Reviewed (Paul Anthony)

Silverlight/WPF

• There’s Some Darkness in Your Silver Light (Rob Eisenberg)
• DeepZoom in C# – Not Just Possible, but Easy (Laurence Moroney)
• Animation Engine for Silverlight and Animate Silverlight 2 Object From 1 Line of Code (Corey Schuman)
• Skinning a Button – 4 Different Ways and Counting (Jose Fajardo)

.NET

• The Zen of GUI Programming (Mike Gold)
• Complex Searching/Querying with NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• The Weekly Source Code 19 – LINQ and More What, Less How and List of .NET Dependency Injection Containers (IoC) (Scott Hanselman)
• Framework Design Guidelines: LINQ (Brad Abrams)
• DLRScript… Now With Added Ruby! (Jay Kimble) – I still think David Lee Roth every time I see DLR.
• Creating Screenshots With C# (typeof.net)
• Float, Double and Decimal: Do You Know the Differences? (pheaven)
• Convert Generic ICollection<T> (Timm)

Web Development

• I’m Just a Caveman – The Hanselman Corollary to the Clarke/Wheeler Laws (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC: Securing Your Controller Actions and SubSonic: New Project Site Online (Rob Conery)
• HTML Reference (beta) (sitepoint)
• Windows Live Messenger Web Controls – Part 1 (Hackersoft)
• Google Releases Book Search API (gcode) – How long until we see a Google BookSearch .NET library on CodePlex?
• JScript Debugger in IE8 (Deepak Jain)

PowerShell

• Dev Environment for PowerShell (Tomas Restrepo) – Script to config your .NET dev environment.
• PowerShell Plus Is Now Official! (Jeffrey Snover)

Visual Studio

• The Command Window (nillfm)
• How to Get Enterprise Library 3.1 Working in VS 2008 (Scott Densmore)
• VSX Community Letter for March 2008 (Ken Levy)
• Restarting VisualStudioHacks.com (James Avery)

Career

• 5 Ways to Engage Employees (Michael Specht)
• Steve Yegge on Interviewing (John Lam)

Blogging

• Tags vs. Categories (J.D. Meier)
• Post to Your Blog Directly From Google Docs (Jason Harris)
• FriendFeed Is This Year’s Twitter, but Why? (Duncan Riley)
• MyBlogLog Founder to Launch New Startup Gnip With $1 Million in Funding (Michael Arrington)

SharePoint

• Migrate WSS 2.0 Web Sites to WSS 3.0 (Some Tips About SharePoint) (Luis Du Solier G.)

Link Collections

• March 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and .NET (Scott Guthrie)
• Interesting Finds: March 13, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 226 (Sam Gentile)
• Links Today (2008-03-13) (Matt Hinze)
• LINKBLOG for March 13, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Our Daily Link (2008-03-13) (Trevor Green)
• Links (3/13/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #53 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Joe Celko’s Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems): Joe Celko: Books

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