Silverlight / WPF

• SketchFlow: A Bit of History (Christian Schormann)
• Expression Blend 3 SDK (MS Downloads)
• Bye Bye Popfly (Ben Anderson)
• SketchFlow Control Explorer (Corey Schuman)
• Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 is available for download (James Clarke)
• Deep Zoom Composer Released! (Sunshine)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Element Binding and What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Multi-Select List Box (Jesse Liberty)
• SilverBullet Part 8 – Accessing local files (Timmy Kokke)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Implementing Plug-Ins with a DI Container (Brian Noyes)
• Bottlenecks (Anne Epstein)
• Feature by feature (Oren Eini)
• Refactoring Challenge Part 3 – Pattern Implementation (Jimmy Bogard)
• Remember to not dive too deep too soon (Derik Whittaker)
• We Remembered Not to Dive Too Deep Too Soon (Chris Missal)
• The Template Pattern A Benevolent Dictator (Ben Yoder)
• DDD, TDD, BDD, and CQS and TDD: Isn’t It About Time? (Jonathan Oliver)
• Convert Mockups to HTML+Image Maps Prototypes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Refactor Your Way To Success (Justin Etheredge) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• Why ASP.NET (webforms) Sucks. (Charles Chen)
• The Ultimate List Of JQuery Plugins And Examples (Deepak Kapoor)
• Tip #90: Did you know … How to rearrange menu items in Visual Web Developer? (Reshmi Mangalore)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A First Look:Visual Studio Team System 2010-Architecture Edition (Angela Binkowski)
• LINQ Language Deep Dive with Visual Studio 2008 (Beth Massi)
• IronPython – Release: 2.0.2 (CodePlex)
• When Cast doesn’t Cast to T (Bill Wagner)
• Windows 7 is final and includes .NET 3.5sp1 (Rob Relyea)
• My Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts and Snippets (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Life without EF or any ORM (Julie Lerman)
• Improve Your Code Golf Game with LINQ and Using IDisposables with LINQ (Keith Dahlby)
• Converting Text to Proper Case (Deborah Kurata)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 28: An Introduction to the Historical Debugger (Brian Keller)
• Michael Fortin: Windows 7 Efficiency (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #62 (Jeff Atwood)
• ThirstyDeveloper #69 – Web Services with Scott Seely (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• ToolShed Tooltip #20 – SSIS Data Profiling saves your eyeballs (Russell Fustino)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #129: How to read from Performance Counters (Derik Whittaker)
• Video: Windows 7 RTM Sign-Off (Roger)

Database

• Partitioning Existing Tables (Martin Bell)
• Restoring multiple transaction log backups (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Write Script to Generate Primary Key and Foreign Key (Pinal Dave)
• Sync is the word (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Using Workflow in SharePoint? (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

Miscellaneous

• Fill a Backpack with Bing cashback (Anne Taylor Hartzell)
• Bing Home Page Photo Contest Finals! GO VOTE!! (Elif Ertem)
• Getting Ready for Windows 7 Part 3: Three Must Do Features For Your Users and Part 4: Gain Strategic Advantage Using Windows 7 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• Is Your Application Ready for Windows 7 RTM? (Yochay Kiriaty)
• My Virtual Lab setup Hyper-V 2008 and Virtual Server 2005 R2 (Wesley Brown)
• Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft Live Services Plug-in for Moodle (Sarah Perez)
• Improving Cold Startup Performance (Prefetch) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Finding Work as a Freelance Software Developer (Rob Bazinet)
• Weird things said in job interviews (Gretchen Ledgard)
• When will Subscribers get Windows 7 RTM? August 6th. (Mike Kinsman)
• Our Next Engineering Milestone: RTM (Win 7 Team)
• 10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• Exciting new downloads (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #396 (Chris Alcock)
• Cloudy Links July 23, 2009 (Deepak Kapoor)
• Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2009 — #651 and Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2009 -2 — #652 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 345 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 22nd July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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