Top Links

• VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools Update (with some cool new features) (Scott Guthrie)
• Photos, Photos, Photos – How To Save, Load And Iterate Pictures With Windows Phone 7 (Rene Schulte)
• Windows Phone 7 Emulator tips and tricks (András Velvárt)
• Summer of “Iron”: LINQ, Visual Studio tooling, and the Apache License (Jimmy Schementi)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Results Ordering (Richard Carr)
• Events and Delegates Under The Hood – Q&A (Jesse Liberty)
• Entity Framework CTP 4 Walkthroughs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Parallelism in .NET – Part 18, Task Continuations with Multiple Tasks (Reed Copsey, Jr.)
• Switching with non-constant cases in C# (Jef Claes)
• Using Nested Lambda Functions to Implement Numerical Algorithms (Julian Robinson)
• Code Protection and Obfuscation of .Net Software Using Crypto Obfuscator (G. Himangi)
• WCF DataServices & the Processing Pipeline? (Mike Taulty)
• Gems For .NET – Community Response (Rob Reynolds)
• Command Prompt History (Zain Naboulsi)
• Absolute Beginners Guide to Entity Framework (Michael Yaroshefsky)
• Veracity Technology Overview (Eric Sink)

Web Development

• All New Sueetie Content Part Control (Dave Burke)
• Turning JSON into a ExpandoObject (Nick Berardi)
• How We Used Data in GiveAQuiz.com (Shawn Wildermuth)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Announcing Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 (Aaron Bjork)
• Article:The Limits of Agile (Alan Kelly)
• Working with Legacy code #7 : The boy scout rule. and Technical Debt (Andy Stopford)
• Lokad CQRS – Advanced Task Scheduling with Calendars in the Cloud (Rinat Abdullin)
• On the use and misuse of patterns (Rockford Lhotka)
• Configuration Come To Jesus (Dave Laribee)
• Groundhog Day, or, the Problem with A/B Testing (Jeff Atwood)
• Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 Now Available (Windows Azure Team)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Where’s the roadmap for Windows Phone 7? (Ed Bott)
• The World’s Simplest Silverlight/RIA/POCO Example and SL/RIA/POCO: Update Data and SL/RIA/POCO: Field Ordering (Deborah Kurata)
• Document Toolkit 2 is released (Koen Zwikstra)
• Debugging a “Silverlight Business Application” Out Of Browser (Mike Taulty)
• How to use new Rupee Symbol of India in Silverlight? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The duplex story: looking at duplex communication in Silverlight 4 – Part 2: Using Sockets (Gill Cleeren)
• Build a WPF Interactive Animation Application (logicchild)
• Microsoft ships Windows Phone 7 devices to developers (Tim Conneally)
• Optimizing the On-Screen Keyboard (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Catching up with Roy Osherove at NDC (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• TechCrunch TV: Inside Windows Phone 7 (Evelyn Rusli)
• Mix 10 Discussion of High Performance 3D on Windows Phone 7 and Why the User Experience is so different on Windows Phone 7 from the iPhone, with Bill Buxton and Albert Shum.. (Don Burnett)
• endpoint.tv – Workflow and Custom Activities – Best Practices (Part 3) (Ron Jacobs)
• Talking Shop Down Under on Frankly Speaking and Talking Shop Down Under Episode 21 – Anthony Borton at DDD Sydney (Richard Banks)
• Ping 66: Kinect, WPC, Bing, Next of Kin, Free MSDN Universal Subscription (Paul M.)
• The Weather Channel on Microsoft Surface (Eric Havir)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – July 19th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Azure Boot Camp (Kevin E. Kline)
• Failure to Launch: Healthcare IT Q&A (Bob Nadler)
• Presenting at LIDNUG this Thursday (Gil Zilberfeld)
• SQLBits – What, Where, and Why (Brent Ozar)
• Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp Schedule (Jeff Blankenburg)

Database

• Free SQL Server DMV Starter Pack (Brad M. McGehee)
• Recover Backed-up query files in SQL Server Management Studio (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – SELECT * FROM dual – Dual Equivalent (Pinal Dave)
• Best way to send multiple values in one parameter to database (Peter Bahaa)
• SQL Trace Events Reference (Jen McCown)

SharePoint

• Application master page files in SharePoint 2010 (Greg Galipeau)
• Business Connectivity Services Model using Stored Procedures – BCS Meta Man and BCS Stored Procedures – Specific Finder and IdEnumerator (Phill Duffy)

Miscellaneous

• Freelancing: The Basics of Survival (Anna Debenham)
• A free tool from Microsoft Learning: LCDS v2.5 (Devon Musgrave)
• A small app to show the OCR data on a OneNote page (John Guin)
• What are the best code comments you have ever heard? “Fix Me Lior Ugly” @Typemock (Tal Druyan)
• Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Your Tasks (Richard Hay)
• The end of performance reviews? (Scott Berkun)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 19-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• 48 Best Free Software Downloads from Microsoft (Mike Taulty)
• The Morning Brew #646 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook by Gill Cleeren

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Top Links

• Providing Metadata to you MEF exports (Derik Whittaker)
• The Biggest Driver For Domain Modeling Decisions (Michael Nichols)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Neat Sample: F# and Bing API (Jomo Fisher)
• Better error messages – Part 1 (Arian T. Kulp)
• Turn on Line Numbers (Zain Naboulsi)
• Rule "Previous releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008" failed (Sergio Pereira)

Web Development

• It’s Official. IP Banning is the First New Feature of Gummy Bear 1.3 (Dave Burke)
• GetRouteUrl in ASP.NET 4 Web Forms Routing (David Hayden)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, Repositories and Separation of Concerns (Billy McCafferty)
• Who is code wanderer? (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Power of Blue Books for Platform Impact (J.D. Meier)
• Tip For Triggering Genuine Conversations: Letting The Lurkers Hang Around. (Rajiv Popat)
• On Small Applications (Udi Dahan)

Silverlight / WPF

• Text-To-Speech in Silverlight Using WCF (Brian Lagunas)
• WPF: Now with Less Fuzz (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WebDevRadio Episode 73: Podcast Child… Slight Return (Michael Kimsal)

Database

• Rhino Divan DB – Performance (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Announces May 12th Launch Date of Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• The Most Common Things You Do To A Large Data File With Bash (Alan Skorkin)
• SQLAuthority News – Office 2010 Readiness Check – Are you ready for Office 2010? (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft shows off single game running on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox (Paul Miller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for March 06, 2010 — #808 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.01 ~ 03.07 (yuanjian)

The Geek Shelf

Programming WCF Services: Develop Cloud Applications with WCF for .NET 4.0

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Top Links

• Dear Microsoft: Please Simplify Your Platform for Developers (Keith Elder)
• Image Blitting in Silverlight with WriteableBitmapEx (Adam Kinney)
• Externalizing Settings for Data-Dependent Unit Tests using Proteus DatabaseUnitTestBase (Steve Bohlen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Beware of Evil Wizards (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• Patterns and Origins: Sueetie SiteSettings and Patterns and Origins: The SueetieApplication Class (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC Mobile Detection & Redirection (matrixmesh)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: An F# attempt (Mark Needham)
• Leadership Tip: Stick To Your Core Values And Pass Them On Across Teams. (Rajiv Popat)
• There’s Nothing Courageous About Being Honest About Mistakes (Davy Brion)
• We Want Our Small Companies Back (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part II (Bob McIlree)

Silverlight / WPF

• Sketching, painting and Figure drawing (Pavan Podila)
• A WPF Behavior for Window Resize Events in .NET 3.5 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight : MVVM Library and File Upload (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms – Part 2 using Silverlight 4 (Fredrik Normen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 138: Live From CES 2010 (Paul Thurrott)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #79 (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code 67: Udi Dahan on Scalability (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• Winners of the TekPub LINQ Challenge (Justin Etheredge)

Database

• Calculate the Number of Business Days in a Range (Richard Carr)
• SQLAuthority News – Download – Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure November CTP (32-bit) (Pinal Dave)
• Turning off the ghost cleanup task for a performance gain (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• How to Configure Legacy Devices to Run on Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Predictions for 2010 Part III- The Cloud (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: 2010 01.01 ~ 01.09 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #87 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for January 09, 2010 — #773 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: January 9, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• What Is Hot In Open Source? (weekly) (Krishnan Subramanian)

The Geek Shelf

Essential LINQ

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.NET / Visual Studio

• 12 Tips To Speed-up Your Windows Forms Applications (Denis Basaric)
• Microsoft Windows 7 SDK (ISO) and Windows Media Center SDK (MS Downloads)
• Instantiating interfaces (Oren Eini)
• (Mis)using C# 4.0 Dynamic – Type-Free Lambda Calculus, Church Numerals, and more (Bart de Smet)
• ExpressionVisitor shipping in .NET 4.0 (David Kean)
• DAL: Save Data Using a Stored Procedure and Using Linq with Microsoft Word and Excel (Deborah Kurata)
• Wow, the hatred for ‘var’ lives on (Derik Whittaker)
• Displaying custom HTML in WebBrowser control and Developing Delicious applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• Observations on the ‘if’ statement (Chris Brandsma)
• A GC API that would be convenient (Patrick Smacchia)
• A Look At Tasks In The System.Threading.Tasks VS2010 Namespace (Sacha Barber)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #13: More more than one person (Eric Gunnerson)
• Fluent NHibernate 1.0RC (James Gregory) – Link of the Day
• TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Faster! and TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Cleaner Stack Traces (Jamie Cansdale)
• LinqToSQL A Detailed Review (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Tabbed Thumbnails and Previews in Native Code (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• NPR Opens 80,000 Transcripts via New Transcript API (Andres Ferrate)
• Windows Azure Sample Application Riviera (Deepak Kapoor)
• Announcing Sueetie Themes (Dave Burke)
• DinnerNow.net 3.1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 released (Habib Heydarian)
• Dysfunctional JavaScript (James Hart)
• ASP.NET MVC – Some Frequently Asked Questions (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Book Review: Web Design for ROI (Tim Barcz)
• Signed Access Signatures and PHP SDK for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Snapshot Panel in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• Prototyping a Drupal Module for Google Wave (Pamela Fox)
• The Design and Development Benefits of CSS (Tom Lerchenfeld & Josh Frankel)
• ASP.NET disk-based caching (Karl Seguin)
• How to use Ninject 2 with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
• Range-Specific Requests in ASP.NET (Scott Mitchell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft Updated (Ade Miller)
• Benchmarks are useless, yes, again and Taking advantage on the Data Transfer Tier (Oren Eini)
• Kanban In Time-Boxes: The Cadence of WIP and Sprints (Derick Bailey)
• Continuous learning and getting left behind (Jimmy Bogard)
• Thoughts on agile design and platforms (Eric Gunnerson)
• the difference between model-view-viewmodel and other separated presentation patterns (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Should I use MEF for my general IoC needs? (Glenn Block)
• My favorite form of a “TODO” in code (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Spearmen, Javelin Throwers, and the State Pattern. Oh My! (Troy Goode)
• Convention over Configuration – The Next Generation? (Udi Dahan)
• Adjusting NHibernate mapping for tests (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Builders hanging off class vs Builders in same namespace and Impersonators: Why do we need them? (Mark Needham)
• Does A Kanban System Eschew Iteration (Karl Scotland)
• Brian Harry on Agile delivery of VSTS (Keith Pleas)
• Refactoring Day 15 : Remove Duplication and Refactoring Day 16 : Encapsulate Conditional (Sean Chambers)
• What a difference a framework can make… (Sebastien Lambla)
• Circular Refactoring (Sergio Pereira)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 5. (Rajiv Popat)
• Why the Re-Think? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• So What’s a Silverlight Value Converter Anyway? (Dan Wahlin)
• SilverX converts Flash video to Silverlight (Jay Hathaway)
• Adding a Rotating Button to the Swivel Behavior Demo and Silverlight 2 Animation – Book Review (John Papa)
• WPF: Dynamic Search UI (JP Hamilton)
• Silverlight triggers (Rockford Lhotka)
• Wpf Drag & Drop behaviour (Martin Hinshelwood)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 118: Microsoft Gets Its Mojo Back (Paul Thurrott)
• Great VSTS 2010, Agile, and Scrum Webcasts Available Soon! (Angela Binkowski)
• This Week C9: Win7 API’s, Spec# and Boogie, Expression 3 Starter Kits (Brian Keller)
• Team System Videos Online! (David Starr)
• Major Nelson Show #328: Xbox 360 System update, BIGS 2 and Trials HD (Larry Hyrb)
• Ping 25: Comedians, SQL server, Photosynth, Facebook, Zune, Bingle (Laura Foy)
• Video: Smart & Lean Organizations (Max Pool)
• Episode 80 – PowerScripting Podcast – Klaus Graefensteiner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• CodePlex Editor Role (Harry Pierson)
• Microsoft Technology Roadmap at PDC in LA (Michele Leroux Bustamante)

Database

• Data Mining – Handling Missing Values the Database (Eran Kampf)
• Scripting Objects with Magic (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Introduction to Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server 2008 and Evaluate the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview (CTP) (Pinal Dave)
• Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 2 (Martin Bell)
• Keeping Your Code in Sync With Your Database (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• Free Copy of Windows 7 and Free Windows 7 Training for I.T. Professionals & Developers from Microsoft (Blake Handler)
• More Growl for Windows from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)
• Rate Your Employer Sites – It’s About Damn Time (Dave Schinkel)
• Windows 8: Next-Generation GUI Confirmed and Windows 8 to Include Data Center Automation (Stephen Chapman)
• Writing PowerShell cmdlets in F# — May CTP (Steve Gilham)
• Wave 2 of Windows 7 Client and Windows Server 2008 R2 – NOW LIVE ON MSDN SUBSCRIBER DOWNLOADS! (MSDN Subscriptions Blog)
• Latest Article About Nerding it Up (Sara J. Chipps)
• Presenting using Windows 7 (Rudi Grobler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 15, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for August 14, 2009 and LINKBLOG for August 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Everyman Links for August 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Community Convergence LIII (Charlie Calvert)
• The Morning Brew #413 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #87 – “Snow Patrol” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #66 (Grant Palin)
• Links (8/16/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Post… 8/10/2009 through 8/16/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Weekly Link Post 106 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/16/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• New and Notable 356 and New and Notable 357 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 14th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Glass Behavior for WPF (Jeremiah Morrill)
• For Now, Don’t Use SynchronizationContext in Silverlight 2 or 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight out-of-browser apps: The Install (Ashish Shetty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• XNA Game Examples (Coding4Fun)
• LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #2 (Damien Guard)
• MEF Preview 5, changes and enhancements (Glenn Block)

Web Development

• Add support for iPhone in ASP.NET (Mads Kristensen)
• Sueetie – BlogEngine.NET Data Co-Existence Model (Dave Burke)
• Selecting Parent Nodes using jQuery (Dan Wahlin)
• Add a new Site to SharePoint Toplevel site using a Webservice (Harsh Bardhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Architects and Standup Meetings (Bob McIlree) – Link of the Day
• Performance Hot Spots (J.D. Meier)
• C# Design Patterns – The Visitor Pattern (Justin)
• TDD: Balancing DRYness and Readability (Mark Needham)
• Profiler Part II: Poor Man’s Code Coverage (Curt Hagenlocher)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 102: Now With Unicorn Tears (Paul Thurrott)
• New ASP.NET Intro Videos Posted (Rhonda Tipton)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Best Practice Conference Roundup (Nick)
• ASP.NET MVC in Action talks this week (Texas, Wisconsin) (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 – Summary of Training Sessions (Jose Barreto)
• Companion content for Chapter 6 (Index Internals) of SQL Server 2008 Internals (Kimberly L. Tripp)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to JOINs – Basic of JOINs (Pinal Dave)
• Data Protection with Azure and SDS (Chris)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Codeplex Releases "AdBlockIE" Ad-Blocker for Internet Explorer 8 (Blake Handler)
• Alpha Version of Windows Logo Testing Kit Ready April 14 (Bruce Kyle)
• What are the tech bloggers missing? Your business! (Robert Scoble)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 12, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2009 — #569 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #78 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #48 (Grant Palin)
• Links (4/12/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 89 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• White Paper on ORM (Stephen Forte)
• How I’m Currently Writing My BDD Style Tests – Part 1 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Updated Version of the Free Data Structures and Algorithms Book Available! (Granville Barnett)
• Getting Value Out of Your Unit Tests (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Death of System.DateTime? and MSBuild Script to Compress All JavaScript Files in a Project (Omer van Kloeten)
• (Very) Tentative Steps with the Live Framework SDK (Mike Taulty)
• Cloud Messaging Made Easy with Linxter (Brian Noyes)
• Why We Need Named Parameters (Jimmy Bogard)
• Dynamic Data: Associated Types and the Models They Love (Jonathan Carter)
• Did You Know That Today’s Tip on msinfo32.exe Ends the Series? – #382 (Sara Ford)
• String Extraction (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery and Upcoming View Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate (Scott Guthrie)
• An Investigation into Routes (Kyle Baley)
• MVC Controllers and Forms Authentication (Nikhil Kothari)
• Sueetie – The Future in .NET Open Source Online Community Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 5 – Deploying in the Cloud (Maarten Balliauw)
• On Oxite (Glenn Block)
• Hot New Features Coming with ASP.NET MVC RC in January 09 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Creating a REST WCF Service From an Existing XSD Schema (Keith Elder)
• This Could Be Big. Sueetie Is Online! (Dave Burke) – Link of the Day
• Friday Books – jQuery Reference Guide (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• Patient Journey Demonstrator December 2008 Released (Martin Grayson)
• Making the WPF Slider Control Behave (Karsten Januszewski)
• Now Available: Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2! (John Papa)
• WPF Application Quality Guide (jytylr)
• WPF DataGrid Sample: Locking Input to the Row Being Edited (Vincent Sibal)
• Bubbles – 1 Chart – Three Axes (Jesse Liberty)

.NET Community / Events

• 2009 Goals (Pete Brown)
• Webcast Schedule for January 2009 (Nandita)
• Congratulations Sara Ford! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ALT.NET Is the Opposition Party (Nate Kohari)

Miscellaneous

• Your Developer Horoscope (K. Scott Allen)
• Top 10 Most Annoying & Overplayed Phrases or Actions in the Workplace (Dave Schinkel)
• The Perfect Time to Release Source Code? (Robert Muehsig)
• 8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• Microsoft Digs Into PHP (Matt Asay)
• Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 18, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2008 — #459 and Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2008 – 2 — #460 (Dave Campbell)
• Visual Studio Links #89 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.12.12~2008.12.18 (yuanjian)
• Links (12/18/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #248 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 19, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

Book of the Day