Big week… WWDC for Apple, TechEd NA for Microsoft… will Google crash the party with a public beta of Chrome OS?

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Top Links

• Comparing .Net IoC containers, part seven: MEF (Anthony Steele)
• Subtext 2.5 Released! (Phil Haack)
• Simplified MEF: Dynamically Loading a Silverlight .xap (Michael Washington)
• Code Contracts Part 5 – Abstract Types and Interfaces (Kevin Hazzard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading an XML File and Writing to an XML File (Deborah Kurata)
• Your First Fluent Cassandra Application (part 2) (Nick Berardi)
• TODO Comments in the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Endless GridView Scrolling Using jQuery Plugin (Mohammad Azam)
• Subtext 2.5 Skin Improvements (Phil Haack)
• Bing Maps SOAP Services SDK (PDF) and Bing Maps AJAX Control SDK (PDF) and Bing Spatial Data Services SDK (PDF) and Bing Maps REST Services SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
• There can be only One RoleEntryPoint (Scott Densmore)
• First Look – Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook (Gunther Lenz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning A Software Development Lesson From A Children’s Poem (Alan Skorkin)
• The Best Code You Will Ever Write (John Sonmez)
• When to use the SetUp attribute (Dror Helper)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Simulating Touch Inertia on Windows Phone 7 (Charles Petzold)
• Adding Facebook Connect to your Silverlight Website using Expression Web and Blend (Don Burnett)
• Creating Scrollable Edit Content in WP7 and PSA: Help my binding is not updating my View Model…. Check your Mode (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 82: Cory Foy and Will Green Compare .NET and Ruby Development (Jon Galloway)
• Major Nelson Show 359: Transformers: War for Cybertron and getting ready for E3 2010 (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 114 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ryan Dunn on Azure and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 16 – F# with Joel Pobar (Richard Banks)
• Technology and Friends Episode 91: Matt Van Horn on Expression Blend (David Giard)
• Wizards of Smart Podcast (Rhonda Tipton)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Kicks of TechEd North America 2010 (Richard Hay)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Subquery or Join – Various Options – SQL Server Engine Knows the Best – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB & CouchDB – Map and Reduce (Rob Ashton)

Miscellaneous

• "Writerous" – Windows Live Writer Plug-in for Posterous.com (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta (MS Downloads)
• This week in search 6/6/10 (Marissa Mayer)
• Building an iPhone App for Tekpub – Splash Screen (Ben Scheirman)
• Project “Hilo”, A Complete C++ / Windows 7 Sample Application (Jason Zander)
• Survey Finds Developers Would Rather Do Taxes than Test Software (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDAPT (O’Reilly Media)
• Is Arrogance a Factor in Success? (Phil Haack)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links #108 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for June 7, 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for June 06, 2010 — #876 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #615 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #122 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

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Top Links

• NHibernate donation campaign (Oren Eini)
• "Art of Agile Development" Going Online (James Shore)
• Chapter 1 of “SQL Server DMVs in Action” is now available for FREE (Ian Stirk)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observers (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Ninject 2 Dependency Injection Reaches GA (Mitch Pronschinske)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Virtual Space (Richard Carr)
• WDK 7.1.0 (MS Downloads)
• My Visual Studio 2008 is broken after uninstalling .NET Framework 4.0 (VS Team)
• Download code from the MonoTouch ebook (Wally McClure)
• DataTip Value from the Last Debug Session — vstipDebug0012 and Understanding Word Wrap — vstipEdit0022 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Issues Compiling VS2010 solutions (with web projects) from Nant (Derik Whittaker)
• WCF RIA Services and Audit – Historical changes (Fredrik Normen)
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 & .Net 4 – The Official MSDN Source (Greg Duncan)
• Behaviors with MSpec (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Column guides for Visual Studio 2010: An extension (Jeff Wilcox)
• No Intellisense with VS 2010 RC (and how to fix it) (Scott Guthrie)
• Setting up a continuous integration server for a CodePlex project using TeamCity and Mercurial (Bertrand Le Roy)

Web Development

• View/ViewModel Association – Convention and Configuration-based Approaches (Nikhil Kothari)
• Lucene.net Is Powering Subtext 2.5 Search (Simone Chiaretta)
• Profilers and ASP.NET (Tom)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Project code organization (Patrick Smacchia)
• Balsamiq – Help us design the “Components” feature (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Learning From Austin Powers: Your Product Does Not Need More Features. (Rajiv Popat)
• Code Kata (Julian M. Bucknall)
• The usefulness of interaction tests, or “How to question the method” (Kyle Baley)
• Initiate and Embrace change (Mark Nijhof)
• Get started with Microsoft Test Manager (Murray Gordon)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4, Experiment with Pluggable Navigation and a WCF Data Service (Mike Taulty)
• When Is It OK To Hack? (Jesse Liberty)
• Setting focus in XAML with no code (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure Miniseries #4: Monitoring Applications (Brian Hitney)
• Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 1 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 2 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 3 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 4 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 5 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 6 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 7 (Dag König)
• Fez’ing with the .Net Micro-framework (Coding4Fun)
• TWC9: MIX10, Tweevo, Silverlight Augmented Reality, testing (Dan Fernandez)
• jQuery Podcast 13 – David Walsh (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Cloud Cover – Episode 2 (Ryan Dunn)

Database

•  SQL SERVER – INSERT TOP (N) INTO Table – Using Top with INSERT (Pinal Dave)
• Using SQL Server Management tools and Integrated Security/Windows Authentication from a non-domain joined machine (Greg Duncan)
• Outputting data to an XML file : SSIS video nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• Turning on execution plans affects performance (Simon Sabin)
• Readonly Databases (Martin Bell)
• Using schemas to maintain order as a DBA (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Mobile Rendering (And Device Emulator Fun!) (Charles Chen)
• SharePoint Designer’s new workflow editor: keyboard shortcuts (SharePoint Designer Team)
• SharePoint Dialog Auto-Sizing and Master Page Customization (Zach Nation)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Hotkey to Pause Pandora (Lee Holmes)
• How I use Social Media: Part 4–LinkedIn (Amy Blankenship)
• Windows 7 memory usage: What’s the best way to measure? (Ed Bott)
• Lynda.com video tutorial site now has iPhone app (Erez Zukerman)
• Confirmed: Windows Mobile 6.5 to become Windows Phone Starter Edition (Nilay Patel)
• The 27th of Diduary: Did you know you can get 7 free songs every week? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Daily Dose – Vote for the New Eclipse Logo! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Entelligence: Windows Phone 7 Series (Michael Gartenberg)
• NUI, Lolcats and other trending topics at Microsoft (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• PowerShell – Speak Number of Lines of Code (Keith Elder)
• Developers, save us from the Microsoft undead (Joe Wilcox)
• iPhone OS Coming to More Devices? (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 26, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – FEB ‘10 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 27, 2010 — #804 (Dave Campbell)
• Friday Potpourri: Azure, Bing Maps, Oomph, and more (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Azure Resources for Decision Makers (Murray Gordon)

The Geek Shelf

Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Edition (Alexander Jung)
• The M Programming Language – Part 3 – Primer to MGrammar (Bart de Smet)
• Practical Oslo Examples Starting to Emerge… (Brian Loesgen)
• An IronPython Profiler (Curt Hagenlocher)
• WinForms – Change The Active Tab (Dave M. Bush)
• F#: Forcing type to unit for Assert.ShouldThrow in XUnit.NET (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pitfalls for software architects (Simon Brown)
• Optimize Communication, Throw the Boss Out (Jurgen Appelo)
• Your IoC Container Choice is Not a Feature of Your Application (Tim Barcz)
• DDD: Recognizing relationships between bounded contexts (Mark Needham)
• How To Correctly Sandbag Your Estimates (Max Pool)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 – Where is Silverlight Mobile? (Bart Czernicki)
• Running Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 on the Same Machine (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight 3 Quick Tip : Lambda Expressions for Async Web Service Calls (Pete Brown)
• Using the Navigation Framework in Silverlight 3 (Harsh Bardhan)
• Quick 3-d Update (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

• YSlow: Add expires header to images in IIS 7 (Mads Kristensen)
• Subtext Is On The Move (Phil Haack)
• Subtext goes to Google Code (Simone Chiaretta)

Community / Events

• Coding In Public Slides and Video (Alan Stevens)
• One Week Left Before Silverlight Tour V3! (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Show #314 :MLB 2K9 and Cliff Bleszinski discusses Gears of War 2 Maps (Larry Hryb)
• Episode 64 – PowerScripting Podcast – Fred Baptiste talks PolyMon and PolyMonRT (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

PowerShell

• PingMonitor: interactive WPF UIs from PowerShell (1.0 or 2.0) (Joel Bennett)

SharePoint

• Looking for a good MOSS BDC Book? Check out SP 2007 Dev’s Guide to BDC (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever (Jeff Blankenburg) – Link of the Day
• First screenshots of build 7070 leak, RC-Escrow coming (Emil Protalinski)
• SQLAuthority News – Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009 (Pinal Dave)
• Functional Programming and Collective Intelligence (Matthew Podwysocki)
• This weeks Deal: Alien Hominid HD (Larry Hyrb)
• Wallpapers & Themes Pack from Windows 7 Build 7068 (Taimur Asad)
• The Ugly American Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Live Mesh, my initial thoughts (Kit Kai)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #317 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #46 (Grant Palin)
• Links of the week #77 (David Vidmar)
• Links (3/29/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 87 (Rhonda Tipton)

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