• SQL Server 2011 (Denali) CTP3 Released! (Brian McDonald)
• Small Basic 1.0 is here! (Sandra Aldana)
• Announcing the Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK Release (Pete Brown)
• Stacks and queues in JavaScript (Jef Claes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ForEach Method for the collections (Abhijit Jana)
• Tracking Changes in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Parallel for loop in C# 4.0 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Switching Visual Studio Environment Tools with Powershell and SlightlyPosher (Naeem Khedarun)
• Detecting and Changing a File’s Internet Zone in .NET: Alternate Data Streams (Mike Hadlow)
• Refactorings specific to auto-implemented properties (Alex Skorkin)
• Entity Framework 4.1 managing relations (Gian Maria Ricci)
• What curious property does this string have? (Eric Lippert)
• Interactive WinForm Tag Cloud Control (Think “Cool, I can add a Word/Tag Cloud thing to my WinForm app!”) and Kinect Buttons (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• HTML5 – Selectors API Level 1 (Gil Fink)
• When the Overlords Demand WebForms You Can Still Do MVC (J.P. Hamilton)
• A JavaScript Trick You Should Know (Stoimen Popov)
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Windows Azure Team)
• Lockdown Pt 2– Sanitization and Data Security (Tim Kulp)
• Cloud-based Development via Node.js and Cloud9 IDE Integration Coming Soon (Rey Bango)
• Getting Started with the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Nathan Totten)
• SassAndCoffee hits 1.0! (Paul Betts)
• Debugging Web Workers in IE10 (Jonathan Carter & Gaurav Seth)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 3 – More on Functions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Maarten Balliauw)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Move Method (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Patterns of Compositional Architecture: DSLs – Registries and Patterns of Compositional Architecture: DSLs – Conventions (Josh Arnold)
• Documenting Key End-to-End Deployment Scenarios (Vishal Joshi)
• Thinking of Enterprise Architecture as Vectors (Jeevak Kasarkod)
• Why Can’t Software Development Be More Like Sports? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Distributed Version Control is a Disruptive Change (Bill Wagner)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part VIII–CRUD is so 90s (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Soundboard (Rudi Grobler)
• 12 "All about WP7 Isolated Storage" articles (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to Create a Different Circular Loader using XAML? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application : Part 1 of 2 (Understanding OAuth) (Sudheer Kovalam)
• Blog Post: Community Spotlight: Silverlight MVVM Templates (T. DuPont)
• Background Agents – Part 2 of 3 and Background Agents – Part 3 of 3 (Peter Torr)
• Extending a XamRibbon ButtonTool to execute ICommands (Devin Rader)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Efficiently Query a SQL Server Compact Database Using LINQ? (MS Podcasts)
• Boagworld – Helping users find content and take action (Paul Boag)
• Yet Another Podcast #42–Colin Blair and RIA Services (Jesse Liberty)
• Hot Apps: Angry Birds, Hungry Pigs, Mosaic, MTV News, Pirates Assault (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Conference 2011 (Andrew Connell)
• People’s choice award at the Imagine Cup: Vote early! Vote often! (Surf4Fun)
• PowerShell Deep Dive @ The Experts Conference Europe 2011 (Travis Jones)
• Steve Ballmer at WPC: the Zune Confusion (Kip Kniskern)
• Author news: Charles Petzold reading in Seattle on Thursday (Devon Musgrave)
• Top Students Descend on Microsoft Research Cambridge (Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche & Kenji Takeda)

Database

• CTP3 is Here! Five Things to Know About the Next Version of SQL Server (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Migration Assistant 5.1 Supports SQL Server v-Next (Brian Swan)
• Using PowerShell to manage SQL Server Compact database files (Erik EJ)
• SSIS enhancements in Denali CTP3 (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Denali CTP3: Policy Based Management (Jorge Segarra)
• Automating Web App Deployments with SSIS (Jorge Segarra)
• SQL Server Codename “Denali” CTP3 Resources (Jose Chinchilla)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 13 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Query to Find Duplicate Indexes – Script to Find Redundant Indexes (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1–new table hint options for FORCESEEK and FORECSCAN (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server – TSQL – GROUP BY GROUPING SETS() (Vishal)
• SQLDIY: Index Usage Statistics (Wesley Brown)
• How to move the Model Database (Ryan Adams)
• Copying parent-child rows and SQL Dependency Tracker (Jakub Dvorak)

SharePoint

• SharePoint provision default WebParts for MySites (Greg Galipeau)
• Troubleshooting IIS and SharePoint When a Worker Process Goes Haywire (Joel Oleson)
• Chat Web Part for SharePoint 2010 (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• FUSE Labs Releases CompanyCrowd (MS FUSE Labs)
• A New Android Market for Phones (Dirk Dougherty)
• Running Dropbox as a service on Windows Server 2008 (Peter von Lochow)
• Will the Xbox 720 run Windows 8? (Sebastian Anthony)
• Just Announced: Windows Azure Marketplace Expands Application Selling Capabilities In US Markets (Windows Azure Team)
• Check if your WP7 app is a Bing Instant Answer (Adam Kinney)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – July 13 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Today’s Links (7/12/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #893 (Chris Alcock)
• MS Surface: Links to SDK and Resources (Luis Cabrera)
• 70 Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tutorials You Must Read (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Daily News Digest 07/13/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software (Pragmatic Programmers) by Jonathan Rasmusson

• appendTo Launches Free Developer Learning Center (appendTo Team)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part II (Luca Bolognese)
• DropKick – a jQuery plugin for beautiful dropdowns (Jamie Lottering)
• The New and Improved Silverlight.net Site (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# Parallel Processing and the Command Pattern (Carl Nolan)
• Object hierarchy of NULL (Abhijit Jana)
• LINQ to HPC (formally DryadLINQ) Ships Beta 2 (Ade Miller)
• Portable Libraries for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Alex Thissen)
• FluentValidation and PostSharp for RESTful WCF parameter validation – Part 3 (Naeem Khedarun)
• Web Test Manager For TFS 2010 (Shai Raiten)
• A first look at Windows Azure AppFabric Applications (Maarten Balliauw)
• Next week: The Microsoft Surface SDK and other Tools and Resources will be available to you! (Luis Cabrera)
• Solution Wide Dependency Management for .NET (Vinayak Palankar)
• Yayyyyy Cloud, iPhone, and Android with Monotouch and Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
• Now Available: Building blocks to help ISVs develop Multi-Tenant SaaS solutions on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)

Web Development

• Building a Star Rating System with Rails and jQuery (Charles Max Wood)
• JavaScript for C# programmers: wrapping an existing function to add extra functionality (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Simple sorting in JavaScript (Jef Claes)
• HTML 5: Hot Stuff! (Surf4Fun)
• Behind the scenes at xbox.com – RSS enabling web marketplace (Damien Guard)
• WebCL Brings Parallelism to the Browser (Abel Avram)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Pair Programming (Peter Saddington)
• Distributed Bug Tracking Avoids Out-of-Sync Bugs and Code (Eric Sink)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part VI–Single responsibility principle is for idiots and morons (Oren Eini)
• StartMenu / Candescent NUI (Greg Duncan)
• The Visual Weight of Primary and Secondary Action Buttons (Anthony)
• Maven Release Plugin and Continuous Delivery (James Betteley)
• Innovation management with Intuit Brainstorm (Terri Griffith)
• Software Craftsmanship: The Art of the Performance (Rachel Hawley)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7 DrawingBoard sample: Drawing (Ink) made easy and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Linq to SQL (Windows Phone Geek)
• Optimizing Infragistics WPF Controls Startup Time (Kiril Matev)
• Using Ninject (with CommonServiceLocator) with Caliburn.Micro on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Creating a global ProgressIndicator experience using the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Beta 2 and Building a detailed About page for your Windows Phone application (Jeff Wilcox)
• How to Categorize Control Properties for XAML View inside Blend and Visual Studio? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Creating a Horizontally Scrolling List in WP7 (Matt Lacey)
• Free: Silverlight Game Specification, Angry Dolphins, learning how to program (Surf4Fun)
• Inside the Info Icons in Expression Encoder (Elliot Meacham)
• New Games Developer Education on App Hub (XNA Game Studio Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Uncle Bob Looks For Clojure at NDC (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ICSE 2011: Conversation with Baris Aktemur (Charles Torre)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 72: Windows Phone 7 Mango and What’s In It For Developers with Nikita Polyakov (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 152 – PowerScripting Podcast – PrimalForms 2011 with David and Alex from Sapien (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Let’s Play TDD #121: Back to the UI Vision (James Shore)
• Coding QA Episode 58 – Improving Test Team Morale (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Lee Murphy Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• Q&A with Jennifer Chayes (Anita Borg Institute)
• Microsoft Research New England Turns 3: Jennifer Chayes Reveals Its First Product—and Collaborations with Bing, Facebook, and Twitter (Gregory T. Huang)
• Bloggers, Klout, Influence, and the power of Networks (Joel Oleson)
• Let ComponentOne Sponsor Your User Group! (Kevin Griffin)

Database

• SQL Server Denali Sequence Object Overview (Greg Duncan)
• Less code with rethrowing “exception” in SQL Server 2011 (Jakub Dvorak)
• Why is there no CROSS JOIN component in SSIS? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server: DateTime vs DateTime2 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to expressor Datascript Modules and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 8 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – TSQL – GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP (Vishal)
• SQLDIY: Index Fragmentation Levels (Wesley Brown)
• The IF Statement in a T-SQL Query (Steve Jones)
• Wife and kids are leaving for holiday (it’s not off-topic) (Jakub Dvorak)

SharePoint

• Multiple DataContext Objects for the Same SharePoint Website (Ricky Kirkham)

Miscellaneous

• Token Replacement in PowerShell (James Kovacs)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Migrating Applications to IPv6 – Only $9.99 w/code DD6JN (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 7 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for June 27 – July 03, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 07/07/2011 and Daily News Digest 07/08/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #890 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 200 (Rhonda Tipton)

The Geek Shelf

Silverlight 4 in Action by Pete Brown

• All Updated Windows Phones Are Not Alike (Brandon Watson)
• Should I use HTML5 or Silverlight? One man’s opinion. (Scott Hanselman)
• Spatial Types in the Entity Framework (Pedro Ardila)
• LightSwitch: 10 Times As Many Silverlight Developers As Today (Michael Washington)

.NET / Visual Studio

• DLR in C# using Scripting Language (Abhishek Sur)
• WCF scales up slowly with bursts of work (Dustin Metzgar)
• EasyNetQ, a simple .NET API for RabbitMQ (Mike Hadlow)
• Blog Post: PLINQO for NHibernate, Beta 1 Released! (T. DuPont)
• Using CSLA 4: Data Portal Configuration draft online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Meet the new Microsoft® Surface® Input Simulator (Luis Cabrera)
• Top Failed Bots (Brian Hitney)
• MEFing up RIA Services Part 2: Kyle’s Turn (Colin Blair)
• Something "sort" of handy… [IListExtensions adds easy sorting to .NET list types - enabling faster search and removal, too!] (David Anson)
• dotCover 1.1, dotTrace 4.5 Performance Beta 2 (Jura Gorohovsky)

Web Development

• Updating JavaScript Benchmarks for Modern Browsers (Mike Belshe)
• CSS3 Gradients in IE10 Platform Preview 1 (Jennifer Yu)
• Built-in GZip/Deflate Compression on IIS 7.x (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET MVC: Implementing CheckBoxList (Gunnar Peipman)
• Continuous Integration In PHP w/Jenkins (Eric Hogue)
• Best Windows Hosting Offers (including plenty of free stuff) (Andy Robb)
• How to get a source code enlistment set-up for Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Anecdotally, datajs delivers quiet success (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10 Tips for Agile Adoption in the Enterprise (Peter Saddington)
• A Mockery review (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using Fakes (Richard Carr)
• A minimal actor framework, part 2 (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Uploading Data back to Azure (Rob Tiffany)
• Working with WP7 ListPicker SelectedItem and New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.4.0 officially released and Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Implementation and Best Practices (Windows Phone Geek)
• 20 useful Expression Blend tips & tricks (Alex Knight)
• Event to Command in WPF MVVM application (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–The Third Dimension (Mike Taulty)
• Step-by-Step Using ImplicitDataTemplate in Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Games: Add Images and use the mouse to move images (Sam)
• Housebuilding with John Papa and Sliverlight 5 at MIX11 (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Conversation with Herb Sutter: Perspectives on Modern C++(0x/11) (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 111: John Papa on the Open Source Fest at MIX11 (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 146 – PowerScripting Podcast – Directors from PowerShellCommunity.org (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SE Podcast #03 (Alex Miller)
• MAUI: Mobile Assistance Using Infrastructure and Microsoft Private Cloud Security Overview (Larry Larsen)
• Web Camps TV #11 – MVC Turbine with Javier Lozano (Drew Robbins)
• Hot Apps: Max & The Magic Marker, Gadget Watch, 4th & Mayor, Shuriken Ninja, Back Track (Laura Foy)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Hardware Model Shop (Clint Rutkas & Nic Fillingham)
• Get Your CodeRush Training Here (Mark Miller)

Community / Events

• Developing SharePoint 2010 Solutions Using External Data and Services – May 25, 2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• Author news: Azure deep dives with Jeffrey Richter (Devon Musgrave)
• SilverlightShow, CodeStock and Devlink lined up for the next couple of month. (Michael Crump)
• What do you ask when interviewing a company? (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• Working with large XML files in Management Studio (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 7 – Server Security and grouping – Schema Control (Ted Krueger)
• How do you create or update stored procedures. (Martin Catherall)
• Policy-Based Management and Local Password Policy (Jorge Segarra)

Miscellaneous

• Bing Maps Control for iOS (MS Downloads)
• Code-Named “Dryad” Ships in Beta! (Ade Miller)
• "Climbing Mt PowerShell" comic now available (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft announces OAuth 2.0 support for Messenger Connect (Kip Kniskern)
• Oracle Plans to Transfer Hudson IP to Eclipse (Mitch Pronschinske)
• ‘Walshied’ Windows Phone 7 that won’t update? There’s a fix for that (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 05/04/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 4-May-2011 and 3-May-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #845 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 04, 2011 — #1084 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 4th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed by Stephen Walther

Top Links

• Spec Explorer 2010 Release 3.4 now available! (Xiang Li)
• More on Microsoft ‘Jupiter’ and what it means for Windows 8 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Navigation in a #WP7 application with MVVM Light (Laurent Bugnion)
• SayIt, don’t spray it! [Free program (and source code) makes it easy to use text-to-speech from your own programs and scripts] (David Anson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to setup multiple startup projects in Visual Studio? and Exception Occurred ? – Get Troubleshooting tips from your favorite blogs (Abhijit Jana)
• The design of RavenDB’s attachments (Oren Eini)
• Complied Queries in LINQ and Remote and Local execution of Query in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET – Finding an Item’s Index in IEnumerable<T> (James Michael Hare)
• LINQ Lycanthropy: Transformations into LINQ (Michael Sorens)
• Managing Connections with SQL Azure and Entity Framework (EF Team)
• MonoDroid Bridges .NET with Android (Abel Avram)
• First NuGet Experience (Davy Brion)
• .NET Extensions – Extension Methods Library for C# and VB.NET – Release: v2011.03 and Json.NET 4.0 Release 1 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• WCF REST Service Activation Errors when AspNetCompatibility is enabled (Rick Strahl)
• Entity Framework with SQL Server Compact 4.0 and ASP.NET – Dynamic Data, OData, deployment (part two) (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• Razor Syntax Quick Reference (Phil Haack)
• Book review: Pro HTML5 Programming (Jef Claes)
• How to Bin Deploy SQL Compact Edition 4.0 and Razor web projects (Anh Phan)
• Customizing ELMAH’s Error Emails (Scott Mitchell)
• Razor Tip #1 (K. Scott Allen)
• I Think I Know What Web 3.0 Is, Its Not Semantic (Chris Love)
• Migrating World Maps To Azure (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Cloud Throw Down: Part 4 – Perspectives on PaaS (Adron Hall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Coming up next in OpenWrap… (Sebastien Lambla)
• Putting mocks in their place (Jimmy Bogard)
• Can You Really Create A Business Logic Layer? (Ken Downs)
• Automated Testing is Like Optimizing (Fredrik Olsson)
• Foundations of Programming 2 – Chapter 3 – IoC 180 (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Blend Bits 20–Group Into (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #18 – MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts 3 and Entity Framework Code-First, oData & Windows Phone Client (Jesse Liberty)
• Video Series: “Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners” (Joey deVilla)
• Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight) – by Colin E. (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Tools for the lazy: Templify and NuGet (Maarten Balliauw)
• WPF & Silverlight Grids – Faster Creation Using CodeRush Templates and a Custom Plug-in (Mark Miller)
• Prevent your Silverlight XAP file from caching in your browser. (Michael Crump)
• My wish list for Windows Phone 7 (Simone Chiaretta)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 14 (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• BenkoTips Live and On Demand: What’s New in ASP.NET Web Forms 4 (MS Podcasts)
• C9 Lectures: Greg Meredith – Monadic Design Patterns for the Web 3 of n (Charles Torre)
• The Engadget Podcast Show 002: CES 2011 Part 2 – 01.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Learning Umbraco from the Master (Martin Beeby)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Dining On Campus (Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
• Microsoft Touch Mouse (Larry Larsen)
• David Molnar and Margus Veanes – BEK – Domain Specific Language for String Manipulation Functions (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Silverlight TV 56: WCF RIA Services and Azure (John Papa)

Community / Events

• NYC Code Camp: Call for Sessions!! (Stephen Forte)
• Congratulations to the new and renewed Client App Dev MVPs! (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft CES 2011 – More on Kinect, Surface 2.0 and the Touch Mouse (Jeff Meisner)
• Microsoft and Samsung Unveil the Next Generation of Surface (Eric Havir)
• Mono at CES: More Games (Miguel de Icaza)
• Party with Palermo: MVP Summit 2011 – save the date (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• SQL Server Index Tuning for Mere Mortals (Glenn Berry)
• “Effective Clustered Indexes” (Think “Clustered Indexes in-depth from a real world, major SQL Server shop, DBA”) (Greg Duncan)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Recursive SSIS Package (6/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_exec_query_optimizer_info – Statistics of Optimizer (Pinal Dave)
• CHECKDB running every minute? Check Database Properties (Pradeep Adiga)
• Three Mistakes I Made With MongoDB (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME (Kendra Little)

SharePoint

• New SharePoint Developer Features in VS2010 SP1 – Unit Testing and IntelliTrace (Saaid Khan)

Miscellaneous

• Mobile Phones + Savings: A Powerful Pair (Bill Gates)
• Introducing Microsoft Surface 2.0—our vision for healthcare (Bill Crounse)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Building Wireless Sensor Networks – $13.99 (Save 50%) Code DDBWN (O’Reilly Media)
• Project Emporia available for Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)
• Evernote app for Windows Phone 7 to launch ‘this winter’ (Vlad Bobleanta)
• WMI Code Creator (Thomas LaRock)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – January 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• My 2010 Posts and Windows Client Developer Roundup 053 for 1/6/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Recent Knowledge Base Articles Posted (Richard Hay)
• Top 10 SilverlightShow Articles for Year 2010 and Daily News Digest 01/07/2011 and Daily News Digest 01/06/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #765 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (2nd Edition) (Effective Software Development Series) by Bill Wagner

Top Links

• Coding4Fun: Autotune.NET (Mark Heath)
• Windows Phone Blue Book Pdf (Rob Miles)
• Integrating ASP.NET MVC 3 into existing upgraded ASP.NET 4 Web Forms applications (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Silverlight Media Framework 2.3 Released (Kunal Chowdhury)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Import and Export Breakpoints in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Second edition of the MSBuild and Team Foundation Build book released (Dan Moseley)
• How to: Invoke PowerShell and use the results from C#? (Joel Bennett)
• Investigating an OutOfMemoryException (Oren Eini)
• MTM Azure Data Diagnostic Adapter a nice ALM for Cloud scenario … (Clemens Reijnen)
• StreamInsight: Creating a LINQPad data context (Mark Simms)
• Attempt was made to load an assembly from a network location (Steve Smith)
• Writing an EF Enabled ADO.NET Provider and Part 2 (Pedro Ardila)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning XNA 4.0 – $15.99 (Save 50%) Code DDXN4 (O’Reilly Media)
• Strong-naming assemblies and OpenWrap (Sebastien Lambla)
• MongoMapper Extract Superclass Refactoring (Tobin Harris)
• Get and Set property accessors are ‘actually’ methods (Arun Mahendrakar)
• 4/2011 is? The end of mainstream/free support for SourceSafe… Use this as a kick-in-the-butt to move to a modern version control solution. and XNA 3.1 to XNA 4.0 Cheatsheet (well cheat page… okay, long cheat page… almost a cheat book… anyway, you get the idea…) (Greg Duncan)
• The Full Stack #5 – Entity Framework Code First (Jesse Liberty)
• Revisiting XML Configurations In Unity (Gil Fink)

Web Development

• jQuery Usage Among Top Sites (Scott Mitchell)
• WebSharper Beta 4 released (Adam Granicz)
• Drupal 7.0 Available Now (Christina Warren)
• Preprocessed Razor Templates (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Sprint – Agile Poster + Unboxing! (Peter Saddington)
• Why Your Form Buttons Should Never Say Submit (Anthony)
• Naming of unit tests – Should we follow a guideline? (Peter Gfader)
• HowTo: MsBuild &NUit (Code Inside Team)
• Guidance Product Model for Domain “X” (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight) (Colin Eberhardt)
• $99 Marketplace Rebate Extension for Windows Phone 7 (Doris Chen)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #17: MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7 update will be released this month (Owen Williams)
• Performance of Windows Phone 7 Applications (Jan Slodicka)
• Flickr Taps into the Power of Windows Azure to Deliver Seamless Photo Sharing on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7 Slates (Windows Azure Team)
• Know If Your WP7 App is Running in the Emulator or Device at Run-Time (Chris Love)
• Refresh a WP7 PhoneApplicationPage (Daniel Vaughan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Rob Conery Talks OpenID and More (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hot Apps: CES 2011 -Xbox LIVE Titles for Windows Phone (Laura Foy)
• Mads Torgersen on the Future of C# and the New Async Keyword (Mark Miller)
• Arc Touch – Meet the Designer (Larry Larsen)
• WP7 Minute Episode V–The Kindle App (Daniel Egan)

Community / Events

• Getting into SharePoint 2010 Development? Two free webinars around data access (Andrew Connell)
• CES 2011: Series of Windows Phone 7 updates coming in the next few months and CES 2011: Microsoft Surface 2.0 revealed, Windows 8 to run on SoC (damaster)
• CES: Microsoft shows off Surface 2.0 and CES: What Microsoft’s Ballmer didn’t say (Mary Jo Foley)
• Event: Be a Presenter at MIX11 (Kim Spilker)
• The most important tablet is missing from CES, and it’s not iPad 2 (Joe Wilcox)

Database

• Reducing SQL Server I/O Contention during Sync :: Tip 1 (Rob Tiffany)
• 40+ hours of free SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) training videos from SQLskills and Microsoft (Greg Duncan)
• 31 Days of SSIS – One Variable to Rule Them All (5/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Beginning SQL Server: One Step at a Time – SQL Server Magazine (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Mastering Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Mark Kendall)
• Company Forum – 5 benefits (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Amazon Launches the Appstore Developer Portal (Abel Avram)
• "Windows 8" will run on ARM natively, Microsoft says (Ed Oswald)
• The Robots Are Taking Over (Justin Etheredge)
• Will ‘Jupiter’ be key to Microsoft’s Windows 8 app store’s future? and Microsoft already seeking developer input for Office 16 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft shows off next generation of Surface, has per-pixel touch detection (Paul Miller)
• Win7 Mobile Phone Comparison Chart (Mike Snow)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #764 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 5 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 01/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Silverlight Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold

I hit 1000 posts last week and didn’t realize it. I guess I should number my Dew Drops instead of just using the date. 

Party time! 

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Top Links

• jQuery Templates, Data Link, and Globalization Accepted as Official jQuery Plugins (Scott Guthrie)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #3: The Back Button Paradigm and 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #4: Device Orientation (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 20, 50, 90, 400 and 2 (James Ashley)
• 5 Easy Tips to Reduce and Refactor Your Code with Resharper and 5 (more) Easy Tips to Reduce and Refactor your Code with Resharper (Tips 6-10) (John Papa)
• Stop Worrying About The Next Big Thing (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• SQL Server Error Handling (Richard Carr)
• Different Version of Integrated Web Server in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Building a CRUD in RESTful Services of WCF (Abhishek Sur)
• Linq queries with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• No backtracking, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• “Getting Started with Visual Studio 2010,” the Six Page DZone Refcard (Greg Duncan)
• Three new Microsoft Surface Code Samples (Luis Cabrera)
• Introducing ‘Vingy’ Add-in for VS2010 – Search StackOverflow, CodeProject, DotNetKick etc easily from with in Visual Studio (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• F# Computation Expressions: Basic Data Retrieval Mechanics (Neil)
• Undock and Dock a Single Tool Window in a Group and The Immediate Window: Implicit Variables and Changing Context in the Locals Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Azure Platform Training Kit and Microsoft Report Viewer 2010 Redistributable Pacckage (MS Downloads)
• WF4 Activities, Callbacks and Event Handlers (Ron Jacobs)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Application (VI) – Entities, Repositories and Commands and Working with RavenDB Documents + Entities – The Debate (Rob Ashton)
• The Case of the Wrong Window Owner (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• Understanding jQuery’s impact on Microsoft and ASP.NET (Dave Ward)
• Extending ASP.NET MVC’s Validation (Mike Ormond)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: JavaScript Patterns – Only $14.99. Use code DDJSP (O’Reilly Media)
• jQuery Cycle Plugin on the Microsoft Ajax CDN (Stephen Walther)
• HTML5: A Specification or a Platform? and Real-World Implementations of Pinned Sites with IE9 (Tim Sneath)
• Dictionary.com Defines Its API (Alex Stone)
• Azure@home Part 7: Asynchronous Table Storage Pagination (Jim O’Neil)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile, the next generation: Three ways to go beyond Scrum (Andy Singleton)
• Bug tracking for agile teams and Rethinking user interface test automation (Gojko Adzic)
• The three step guide to unit testing Entity Framework 4.0 (Greg Duncan)
• Why Agile Results Works for Getting Results and The Sleeper Effect and Getting Started, Solve-a-Problem, and Arch-and-Design and Developer Guidance IA at a Glance (J.D. Meier)
• A Root Cause Analysis of Agile Practices (Karl Scotland)
• The PHP paradigms poll results: OOP wins and Practical PHP Patterns: Money (Giorgio Sironi)
• Start Believing In Yourself and Monkey Patching FTW! (Davy Brion)
• The Advantages and Drawbacks of Agile Software Development and The Nature of Software Development Methodologies – Cowboy, Waterfall and Agile (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• User Stories Belong to Everyone (Scott Bellware)
• Continuous Reflection *Before* Time Management (Jurgen Appelo)
• Release management, or “How to de-version your app” (Kyle Baley)
• Automation for the People (because Everybody Doing It Manually Hurts) (Matt Stine)
• Coding: Write the first one ugly (Mark Needham)
• The Power and Future of LightSpace — It’s Just Natural (Steve Clayton)
• Extending Metro UI into the programs we use (Steven Hodson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 3 – LoginCommand) (Baba)
• Silverlight: Embed IronRuby/DLR Scripting within XAML using IValueConverter and Custom UserControl (Chris Pietschmann)
• Lazy Load XAML content from External File and Vice Versa (Abhishek Sur)
• MVVM: Why I like it and how I learned it (Andrew Connell)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 6 – Blogs and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 7 – Collections (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Fix WP7 Dev Tools Install Issue: Setup cannot be run in Program Compatibility Mode and Silverlight Animation Class Diagram
• A Real WPF 4.0 WebBrowser (Chris Cavanagh)
• Windows Phone 7 Firestarters – feel the excitement! (Dave Isbitski)
• There’s no substitute for customer feedback! [Improving Windows Phone 7 application performance now a bit easier with LowProfileImageLoader and DeferredLoadListBox updates] (David Anson)
• One Application in Both WPF and Silverlight (Khawar Yunus)
• Disable Javascript error in WPF WebBrowser control (Al Kampfer)
• Windows Phone 7 XAML Design Templates (Karsten Januszewski)
• Free online function graphing with Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)
• Display Images from Database in Windows Phone 7 (WP7) using WCF service (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Windows Phone 7 Launches Next Week – More Specs Leaked (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows Phone 7: Beating the Boot-time Blues and Windows Phone 7: Jumping through the Back Stack (Nick Randolph)
• Double-width tiles (Rudi Grobler)
• Simulating Bandwidth (Kirupa)
• ResourceDictionary in WP7 (Thomas Martinsen)
• Looking forward to Windows Phone development… (Sarah D.)
• Top 10 Tips for Submitting your App to Windows Phone 7 Marketplace (Sara Allison)
• Rolling out Windows Phone Marketplace for Launch (Todd Brix)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 176: Complete With Felt Blood (Paul Thurrott)
• Technology & Friends Episode 118: Mike and Cicelie Neel on Geek Relationships (David Giard)
• Sparkling Client Podcast Show 108: The HTML5/Silverlight “Controversy” with Scott Barnes and Windows Phone Unleashed Portland Recap (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Web Camps TV #5 – Microsoft Commits Code to jQuery! (James Senior)
• Agile DC – Washington DC’s regional agile conference (Bob Payne)
• Ping 77: Keeping Windows Phone 7 fast, WordPress, Tweets, SecondLife (Laura Foy & Paul M.)
• Introducing News Framework for Windows Phone 7 (CodeTV)
• Let’s Play TDD #29: More Failing (James Shore)
• Countdown to PDC: Tips for Exploring Seattle and A Look Behind MSR’s Lightspace (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone 7 Promotional Video (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Press Event on October 11th (Brian Seitz)
• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: InfoPath 2010 (Lonnie Webb)
• Are you a good fit for Microsoft? Show us (Part II of III) (Sandeep Sood)
• Author news: Discount on Windows internals training (Devon Musgrave)

Database

• SQL Server Database Maintenance Checklist (Brad M. McGehee)
• Duplicate a Column in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – The Limitations of the Views – Eleven and more… and SQL SERVER – Find Total Number of Transaction on Interval and SQL SERVER – Error : Fix : Msg 5133, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Directory lookup for the file failed with the operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.) (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB (Steve Jones)
• LooksAlive and IsAlive checks by Microsoft Cluster Service (Pradeep Adiga)
• Return of Index Analysis Part 1 (Jason Strate)
• Take your script library with you [T-SQL] and Changing the security context with Dynamic SQL [T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Server Administrator for SharePoint Special Giveaway – Free Today Only (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Interactive Session #11: Units of Measure (2#4u)
• Here comes Google TV (Ambarish Kenghe)
• More Hilo–Sharing Photos with Hilo! (Aseem Datar)
• Netduino, Netduino Plus, Fez Panda, Arduino Deumilanove (Pete Brown)
• Windows Slates coming at Christmas, unveiled on October 11 (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 3, 2010 and Interesting Finds: October 4, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 044 for 10/4/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Cool list of Client Side MSDN Resources for Web Developers (Joe Stagner)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 2, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 3, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 4, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Scarcity, a Faster Website, More than Attention, a Moore’s Law Infographic (Dave Burke)
• F# Discoveries This Week 10/03/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 164 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links of the week #131 (David Vidmar)
• The Morning Brew #699 and The Morning Brew #700 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 03, 2010 — #959 and Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2010 — #960 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Capture Right, Middle and "X" Button Clicks (Richard Carr)
• Zoom in/out with Visual Studio 2010 editor (Brian Keller)
• Using Code Snippets and Understanding Object Binding and Using Object Binding (Deborah Kurata)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 3 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• 02: Management, preserving and organization of manual test cases within VSTS 2010. (Clemens Reijnen)
• What Exactly Does One Do With “Oslo”? (Kraig Brockschmidt) – Link of the Day
• VS 2010 – Multi-Monitor Support (Michael Ceranski)
• Surface Developer Tip: The Core Interaction Framework (Robert Levy)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #4- ATOMPub (Stephen Forte)

Web Development

• When framework designers outsmart themselves [How to: Perform streaming HTTP uploads with .NET] (David Anson)
• Using the PHP Toolkit with ADO.NET Data Services (Phani Raj)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• behaviour-driven development (BDD) poll. (Andrew Stopford)
• SOA Patterns – Reservation (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Querying a Multi-Tenant Data Architecture (Scott Mitchell)
• Rules Of Standup – You Don’t Need To Justify Your Own Existence and Types Of Agile Projects And The Value Of Velocity (Alan Skorkin)
• Eliminate Architecture (Kirk Knoernschild)
• .NET Naming Conventions (Josh Twist)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
• How to find hidden problems in your project before it’s too late and Step #4 – Start doing code reviews – Seriously (Roy Osherove)
• Should We Change the Way We Name Interfaces in .NET? (Russell Ball)
• Return False on the Happy Path and The Secret Sauce (Dave Laribee)
• Why Messaging #6: Why not … (Dru Sellers)
• It’s Generic, not Multipurpose (Sergio Pereira)
• No weekly release this week, but we’ve been busy! (Peldi Guilizzoni) – An update on Balsamiq Mockups.

Silverlight / WPF

• YouCube 3.0 (Chromium WebBrowser) – Source Code (Chris Cavanagh)
• .NET RIA Services Part 4: Calling methods on the Server from Silverlight. (Al Pascual)
• 5 Minute Overview of MVVM in Silverlight (John Papa)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – 5 minutes of RIA Services (András Velvárt)
• Silverlight feature suggestions (Tim Heuer)
• Dispelling a Common WPF/SL Myth (Rob Eisenberg)
• Silverlight XAML Developer Experience Issues? (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight Delivers Next Gen. Home Video Experience – Without the Disk! (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Hall and McWherter Test ASP.NET! (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – David Hill gives us an introduction to the Application Architecture Guide (Bob Familiar)
• George Moore: Windows Azure Business Model for Developers – An Introduction (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 59: Web Standards with Milan Negovan (Jon Galloway)
• First videos of the structured editor prototype (Kirill Osenkov)
• New DevNugget: Silverlight Navigation Applications (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Netcast #23 – Special Holiday Show (Todd O. Klindt)
• Sod This 7 – Dynamic Again (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
• Tool Shed Tooltip #24 – Expression Encoder 3 – Part 2 (of 2) – Editing, Presets, Silverlight 3 players (Russell Fustino)

Community / Events

• PDC 2009: Workshop – “Getting the Most out of Silverlight 3” with “the Griffs” (Mike Taulty)
• How I got started with SQL Server (Ted Krueger)

Database

• Deriving a list of tables in dependency order (Jamie Thomson)
• Tired of changing collations! (Martin Bell)
• A Tool For Querying Multiple Databases (Scott Mitchell)
• SQL Express Surveys (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Difference between SQL Server Express and MySQL (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Announcing the release of patterns and practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Doloto: Making Ajax page downloads faster (Mary Jo Foley)
• Out of Beta: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• The Incredible Shrinking iPod Prices Undercut The Zune HD (MG Siegler)
• Has ‘beta’ lost its meaning? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Demystify Windows 7 Migration and Upgrade Options (Zhiming Xue)
• Sale – Microsoft certification exams – 15 to 25% off! (Keith)
• Help Us Improve Microsoft Windows Management Framework (Xin Li)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Sep 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #429 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for 8th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Free Microsoft SQL Azure training and a cool Migration Wizard utility (Greg Duncan)
• New and Notable 368 (Sam Gentile)
• Double Shot #536 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC and NHibernate Framework Architecture (Quach Nguyen)
• iTextSharp – HTML to PDF – Parsing HTML (Dave M. Bush)
• How to Access JavaScript Variables on Postback in ASP.NET (Deepak Choudhari)
• ASP.NET MVC Calendar component (Gunnar Peipman)
• NerdDinner On Azure – Take 2 (Jim O’Neil)
• Lots of buzz about MvcContrib! (Jeffrey Palermo)
• MS Azure and Green Computing (Peter Koen)
• Programmatically Creating Website Thumbnails (Rob Bazinet)
• ASP.NET Membership Tip: Requiring New Users To Change Their Password When Logging On For The First Time (Scott Mitchell)
• Dynamic Data Custom Field Template – Values List, Take 2 (Steve Naughton)
• Fluent Sharp NHibernate Persistence Configuration, or “How to build credibility through OSS name dropping” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 12: DataSet (Brad Abrams)
• Simple column labels you can create at home! [Re-Templating the Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization ColumnDataPoint to add annotations] (David Anson)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Navigation (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Version Compatibility (Hanu Kommalapati) – Link of the Day
• Bindorama – Binding Craziness now for Silverlight too! (Josh Twist)
• The Silverlight 3 Toolkit ( July 09 ) (Mike Taulty)
• WPF Wonders: 3D Drawing (Rod Stephens)
• Use Try/Catch Block with Analytics Object (Silverlight 3 bug) (snoutholder)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding Controls on Forms (Deborah Kurata)
• Iterator Blocks, Part Six: Why no unsafe code? (Eric Lippert)
• Visual Studio 2010 RIP List (Partial) (Habib Heydarian)
• Method to Release COM Object References (Srinath MS)
• Combining two disparate collections (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Log Elmah errors in Team Foundation Server (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Overview of Visual Studio Team System 2010 for Developers (Part 1) (Subodh Sohoni)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pet Peeve Code Smell: Multiple Calls to a Method in a Block (Bobby Johnson)
• Macto, or How To Build a Prison (Oren Eini)
• Event Aggregator Using the Magnum Pipeline (Chris Patterson)
• Tests are not ‘Tasks’ you put on a backlog… (Derik Whittaker)
• Reading Code: Rhino Mocks (Mark Needham)
• Deadly Poison of Lazy Loading and not following Design Guidelines (Wesley Bakker)
• Architecting for Desktop Virtualization – Part 1: Rethink ClickOnce (Jeremy Jarrell)
• How to Interact with Your Team as a Manager (Steve Rowe)
• Static Typing vs. Dynamic Typing (Michael Feathers)
• Can Managers Lead Agile Teams? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Community / Events

• Intuit Backs a New Open Source Community (Andres Ferrate)
• Call for Nominations – PASS Board of Directors (Andy Warren)
• A Deleted Response to a TFS Blog Post (Ben Scheirman)
• Unethical behavior (Oren Eini)
• Don’t be such a #@%#! Lazy Programmer! (Dave M. Bush)
• Are you a Developer or Designer in the NY/NJ/PA area using Microsoft Software? Let’s chat! and Looking to create a more compelling experience for your users? Silverlight? WPF? Expression? Does it all sound like gibberish? The Mid Atlantic Roadshow is coming to your backyard! (Dave Isbitski)
• Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers (Gunnar Peipman)
• Nobody Has a Duty to Teach (Max Pool)
• All C# Compiler Developer Team blogs (Kirill Osenkov)
• Please sign the official “Bring Sara Ford to TechEd Australia” petition! (Sara Ford)
• Session Submission is now open for SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship (Sam Gentile)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Scott Hanselman on scaling websites with caching (Bob Familiar)
• Some useful WMI webcasts (K. Mathur)
• Ping 22: Microsoft & Linux BFF’s! Xbox handheld coming, Bing Jingle, Win a Surface (Laura Foy)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 101 (Part 2) (Dux Raymond Sy)

Database

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Design Process Decision Flow (Pinal Dave)
• The Case For Renaming Controls In a Reporting Services Report (Thomas Williams)
• Hey Developers! Tune your SQL! (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Bing Could Be Improved with Online Game (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Laplink Releases "PCmover" Utility for Upgrading Windows XP to Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• 10 Ways To Bing It! (Deepak Kapoor)
• Canonical and ShortUrl on Channel9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
• Windows 7: The Best Vista Service Pack Ever (Jeff Atwood)
• Windows 7 Is NOT a "Vista Service Pack" (Sasha Goldshtein) – Sasha rebuts Jeff’s article.
• Microsoft Wave launched (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft entices Windows Mobile developers with chance to win Surface table (Tim Conneally)
• Version Control with Git Book Review (Mike Riley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 27, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #398 and The Morning Brew #399 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2009 — #656 and Silverlight Cream for July 26, 2009 — #655 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 27th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links of the week #85 – “Back from Amsterdam” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Link Post 103 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Code from Persistence.NET NHibernate Workshops and NHibernate Queries – Examples and NHibernate – Mapping a single domain model to multiple physical data models (Oren Eini)
• Incrementing a C# Variable Efficiently (Bashir Nabeel)
• More Extension Methods (Chris Cavanagh)
• Dances with Workflows (One Newbie’s Journey) (Chris Williams)
• A .NET (C#) Developer’s .gitignore File (Derick Bailey)
• Sneak Preview: Entity Framework 4.0 Testability Improvements (Diego Vega)
• “foreach” vs “ForEach” (Eric Lippert)
• Windows 7 Managed Code APIs (Yochay Kiriaty) – Link of the Day
• Id Generation for db4o (Tuna Toksoz)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 on msdn downloads (Wally McClure)
• .NET Framework 4 and VS Beta1 docs are posted (Jim Galasyn)
• Preview of Resharper for Visual Studio 2010 Coming Soon (JetBrains)
• Connecting VS2010 to TFS 2008 and Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Supports UML (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why Isn’t My Encryption.. Encrypting? (Jeff Atwood)
• Half-a-Book Review: IronRuby in Action (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Web Development

• FireFox+Firebug vs IE8 Developer Toolbar (Chris Brandsma)
• New book: Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications (Devon Musgrave)
• ASP.NET MVC For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Phil Haack) – Coming in June.
• Book – ASP.NET MVC QUICKLY from Packt Publishing! (Joe Stagner)
• Dynamically Generate Meta Tags for ASP.NET Pages using LINQ To XML (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Free Typemock licenses – Welcome the ASP.NET Unit Testing Bundle (Roy Osherove)
• Unit Testing JavaScript with FireUnit (Stephen Walther)

Silverlight / WPF

• Realizing a Fisheye Effect in Silverlight (Charles Petzold)
• 3D Hit Testing (Jordan)
• MVVM and The Origins of Caliburn (Rob Eisenberg)
• New York Times WPF Kit (Michael S. Scherotter)
• How to customize holiday appearance in the Silverlight Calendar [Jason Cooke] (Kathy Kam)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• “Code Leader” book – what’s the missing piece? (Roy Osherove)
• Programming magic: Rituals and habits of effective programmers (Amy Bennett)
• The Flat Tire Principle for Source Control (Eric Hexter)
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Role and perception of Enterprise Architects needs to align better with business goals (Mike Walker)
• Unit Testing in EF v1 – the database conundrum and And now…Unit Testing in EF4 (Julie Lerman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Peter DaBetta and Adam Machanic on creating good SQL databases (Carl Franklin)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 31: Being Dynamic about IronPython with Harry Pierson – Part 1 and Episode 32: Being Dynamic about IronPython with Harry Pierson – Part 2 (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Code Cast 27 – Ade Miller (David Starr)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Silverlight 3 with Adam Grocholski (Jeff Brand)
• InfoStrat.VE: Integrating Virtual Earth 3D into WPF and Surface Applications for Mere Mortals (Marc Schweigert)
• Ping 12: Mac vs Microsoft, Ipod vs Zune: The Ad Campaign War (Laura Foy)
• Episode 70 – PowerScripting Podcast – Practical PowerShell: Best Practices from the Field (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• David Giard interviews Jamie Wright on CSLA .NET (Rockford Lhotka)
• Surface Development Part 1: What is the Microsoft Surface? (Jennifer Marsman)

Community / Events

• The dojo is open… www.ITSamuraiSchool.com (Billy McCafferty)
• .NET RIA Services at TechEd 2009 (Brad Abrams)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta1 Forums –Now Live (Charles Sterling)
• Speaking at CodeStock 2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Events This Week – May 18th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Energy Event – Mark Your Calendar – May 20, 2009 (Pinal Dave)
• Dynamic Languages at TechEd 2009 (John Lam)

Database

• SMO Script Index and FK’s on a database (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Increase Your Windows 7′s Portable’s Battery Life with "Power Management Reports" (Blake Handler)
• Flock 2.5 launches with support for Twitter, more services (Rafe Needleman)
• My Phone Beta Opened To All Users! (Sunshine)
• WMI Feature Announcement (Nandan Bhat)
• MAKE magazine projects as free PDFs (Mark Frauenfelder)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 1 – Know Your Audience (Justin Etheredge)
• Microsoft and Open Source (Harry Pierson)
• Eduify Launches Educational Tool for Students on Windows Azure (Sarah Perez)
• Windows 7 Learning Site Launched (Scott Lock)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #350 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for May 18th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Silverlight Cream for May 18, 2009 — #595 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for May 18, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #80 (David Vidmar)
• CloudNews for May 18th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day