• Removing Regions Using Project Roslyn (Jason Bock)
• SQL Server 2012 launches March 7th… with a free virtual launch event (Greg Duncan)
• Resources for getting started with Backbone.js (Jarod Ferguson)
• Anonymous types unify within an assembly, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• Json.NET 4.0 Release 6 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Call Stack Window and Implementing IComparer (Richard Carr)
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: That CQRS thing (Oren Eini)
• How to Mock a WCF Service (Amit)
• Creating a WYSIWYG font ComboBox using C# (Cyotek)
• What do you want to see in Entity Framework? (Julie Lerman)
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 1, P/Invoke – Managed to Unmanaged (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using Async for File Access (Alan Berman)
• It’s three-for-one QR Code Day and A Kinect & Netduino controlled squirt gun (Greg Duncan)
• dotTrace 5.0 Performance Early Access Program (Hadi Hariri)
• Source code for the OneNote Table Sorter and Table of Contents powertoy (John Guin)
• Executing SQL Stored Procedures with Simple.Data (David Neal)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: PineCone (Jason Jarrett)
• DocX v1.0.0.12 and Cosmos – C# Open Source Managed Operating System: Release 87612 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Creating A Keyboard-Shortcuts Module In A Modular JavaScript Application (Ben Nadel)
• Font.js: A Powerful Font Toolkit for JavaScript (Devon Govett)
• Managing Links and URLs with T4MVC (David J Kelley)
• Agile New Year resolutions (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Fix: the value ‚x‘ is not valid for Foo in ASP.NET MVC (Code Inside Team)
• HTML5 Interactive Maps for Both Mobile and Desktop (Dave Mahon)
• Introducing Dragonfly – another .NET HTTP server (Louis DeJardin)
• Adding rich Selector support for MVC (Matt Hidinger)
• Create A Simple MVC Button Click Listener in SenchaTouch2 (Peter Kellner)
• Ajax requests to other domains with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (Giorgio Sironi)
• Skip Intro – CSS3 is the new Flash (Scott Hanselman)
• .htaccess Files for the Rest of Us (Dan Wellman)
• The Technical Realities of Cloud Computing: MATRIX Whitepaper (John Brothers)
• CoffeeScript Object Comprehensions (Excerpt from CoffeeScript in Action) (Brandon Satrom)
• Let’s make TCP faster (Scott Knaster)
• This Week in Privacy (Adrian Bateman)
• Thinking in boxes (Marlon Grech)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Job Titles and Scrum (David Starr)
• Splitting user stories: the hamburger method (Gojko Adzic)
• Progressive Enhancement – A Better Web Design Philosophy (Pad Gallagher)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• PROTECT YOUR Windows Phone APP AGAINST (casual) PIRACY (Windows Phone Geek)
• Split Generic.xaml in Silverlight Applications (Loek van den Ouweland)
• New book: XAML Developer Reference (Kim Spilker)
• 2000 WPF Things #479 – Using a Layout Transform on Child Elements in a Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• Overwriting the default WebRequest used by WebClient (Morten Nielsen)
• Integrating with the .NET Framework UI Controls (Peter Vogel)
• DataGrid customization with Elements 5: Sparklines, template selectors and more (Callum G.)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 173 – PowerScripting Podcast – Greg Shields (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Gweek 036: Grab bag of comics, book, gadgets, apps, and websites we love (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Ping 129: Windows Phone climbing the ladder, Xbox admits fault, Visual Studio Game! Bing is for Doing (Laura Foy)
• Screencast: Building ASP.NET MVC Forms with Razor (ASP.NET MVC Foundations Series) (Michael Kennedy)
• Yet Another Podcast #57–Kendo UI (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Scrum.org’s New Agile Webcast Series (no trans fats) (David Starr)
• What To Expect At Your First MVP Summit? (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Uruguay SharePoint Community Launch (Joel Oleson)

Database

• Monday Morning Mistakes: Remote Connectivity to SQL Server (Jorge Segarra)
• Sorting a String as a Number with T-SQL and SSIS (MikeDavisSQL)
• SQL SERVER – Database Mirroring and Fine-Prints – Quiz – Puzzle – 23 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Estimating Mean Uptime for Team-based uptime measurements (Ted Krueger)
• Deadlock Monitoring (Grant Fritchey)
• Declaring Length for VARCHAR and NVARCHAR datatypes IS Necessary (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• Configuring a TFS 2010 build agent to compile SharePoint 2010 projects (Rory Primrose)

Miscellaneous

• ‘Diablo III’ getting big skill and rune system changes, losing senior producer (Adi Robertson)
• Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the ‘consumer preview’ (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 23, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 24 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #802 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #3) (Himanshu Singh)
• Daily News Digest 1/23/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #30 (Franky)
• The Morning Brew #1028 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-23 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 23 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action by Jeffrey Palermo

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Top Links

• Announcing availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 (Somasegar)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning XNA 3.0 – Only $9.99 Use code DDLXN (O’Reilly Media)
• Introducing Autofac 2.1 RTW (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Steve Jobs admits iTunes for Windows is a sub-standard app (Jon Johansen)
• Understanding T4: MSBuild Integration (Oleg Sych)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Fluent Email in .NET (Luke Lowrey)
• Generic Types (Richard Carr)
• How to Create, Develop, Deploy Windows Azure App (Bruce Kyle)
• Optional Parameters and Auto-Implemented Properties (Deborah Kurata)
• How to use WMI from a .NET Application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using the Undo and Redo Stack and Change the Tooltip Font Size (Zain Naboulsi)
• Making the Most of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Zachariah Young)
• Ship It!! Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 Now Available (Jason Zander)

Web Development

• XML and XSL Transformation in ASP.NET MVC – XmlActionResult (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Lazy Loading jQuery Collapsible Panel in ASP.Net Using JSON (Satheesh Babu)
• What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 – ClientID Generation for a Cleaner MarkUp (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Automating ASP.NET MVC deployments using Web Deploy (Jeffrey Palermo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Working with Legacy code #3 : Build a safety net. (Andrew Stopford)
• Application Architecture Guide Layer Diagrams – Patterns & Practices (David Hayden)
• Productivity Tip: Reducing Your Talk-Time And Getting Some Real Work Done. (Rajiv Popat)
• What is a Domain Event? (Greg Young)
• Why Agile Results? (J.D. Meier)
• Balsamiq Biweekly Release: version 1.7! (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Event Bubbling and Tunneling (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• SpellChecker in WPF (Abhishek Sur)
• 30 seconds from File|New to a new CRUD Silverlight application with Telerik’s new LINQ Implementation (Stephen Forte)
• Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight – Part Three (Corrina Barber)
• WPF: Binding to Anonymous Types from LINQ (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 151: Paul’s Tent Pole (Paul Thurrott)
• Whirlwind 9: Introducing C# 4 and Whirlwind 10: What’s new in C# 4: Dynamic Lookup and Whirlwind 11: What’s new in C# 4 – Named & Optional Parameters (Bruce Kyle)
• Episode 109 – PowerScripting Podcast – v2 Experts Panel (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast 13 : Women in Technology (David Starr)
• Engadget Podcast 191 – 04.11.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Major Nelson Show 356: PAX East wrap up and Splinter Cell Conviction (Larry Hyrb)
• Introducing AppFabric: Moving .NET to the Cloud by Aaron Skonnard and What’s new in Silverlight 4: Part 2 by Mike Taulty (Matthijs Hoekstra)

Community / Events

• The local Microsoft .Net Community and why you SHOULD attend a CodeCamp (Dave Isbitski)
• SQLAuthority News – Spot the SQLAuthority Baby Contest – SQL Server Cheat Sheet (Pinal Dave)
• Watch the Visual Studio 2010 launch live! (Joseph Mirabella)
• The Worldwide MVP Community Joins Together This Week (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• That No SQL Thing – Document Databases (Oren Eini)
• SQL SERVER – What is MDS? – Master Data Services in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
• A DMV a Day – Day 11 and A DMV a Day – Day 12 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (11/30) database mirroring failover is instantaneous (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• What NOT to Migrate into SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Download Free "Visual Studio Theme" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Awesomium 1.6 Alpha (Chris Cavanagh)
• Making presentations that stick (Garr Reynolds)
• Daily Dose – Yahoo’s CTO Quits (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 11, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #577 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 10, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 11, 2010 — #836 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #115 (David Vidmar)
• Cheetsheet: 2010 04.08 ~ 04.11 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #100 (Grant Palin)
• Everyman on Specializing, Community Interaction, Inventing the Future, Solar Paint (Dave Burke)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/12/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 140 (Rhonda Tipton)
• 10 New Articles; 10 More Ways to Learn the Google Wave APIs (Pamela Fox)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Visual Studio 2010

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Pasting code from Visual Studio into Windows Live Writer (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Albacore: All A-Twitter With A New Logo, Tag Line, And URL (Derick Bailey)
• .NET Best Practice No: 1:- Detecting High Memory consuming functions in .NET code (Shivprasad Koirala)
• T4 Toolbox: Automatic Template Transformation (Oleg Sych)
• Method Overloading (Rhonda Tipton)

Web Development

• Paging Records Sucks – Use jQuery to Scroll Just In Time (Rob Conery)
• Get Your App in the Cloud with Front Runner for Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Synchronize Scrolling of Two Multiline TextBoxes using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Local Variables Are Evil (or Just Irritating) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• KiGG Design And Architecture – Part 2 Project Structure (Muhammad Mosa)
• Four Kinds of Trust (1): Trust Your People (Jurgen Appelo)
• Book Review: Beautiful Testing (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF

• Direct3D 10/11 & Direct2D in WPF (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Windows 7: Taskbar Progress Information (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• How can I filter data virtualized items in WPF? (Bea Stollnitz)
• Silverlight Drag and Drop API (Ning Zhang)
• Silverlight 4′s Printing Support (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Conversations: Brian Beckman on Complexity (Charles Torre)
• MVPs Discuss Multitouch in Silverlight, Windows 7 and IE (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Backup and Recovery Strategies – SharePoint Pod Show Episode 38 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)

Database

• SQL Server Soundex Functions (Richard Carr)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server R2 Resources Downloads, Documentations (Pinal Dave)
• SQLDBAdmin – Open Source Web Based Administrator For SQL Server. (Rajiv Popat)
• What’s in what edition SQL 2008 R2 – Stream insight only in Data Centre Edition (Simon Sabin)
• Database Change Management with Tarantino (Ryan Kelley)

Miscellaneous

• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/28 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Elevator pitch of why keyboard shortcuts rule (Sebastian Hermida) – Link of the Day
• Several Book Reviews (Jim Holmes)
• 30 Days to Better Business Writing (Steve Clayton) – A nice (and free) eBook.
• Microsoft’s YouTube Channel Releases Remaining Family Guy Windows 7 Videos (Blake Handler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – NOV ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Reflector.Babel Addin (Jason Haley)
• Remote Controlled lunaring with Arduino (Tim Farley)
• Coding 4 Fun – Windows 7 Taskbar (Arian T. Kulp)
• Generic Types and Inheritance (Rick Strahl)
• Unity Configuration from Separate Configuration File (David Hayden)
• MVP Launches Bing Sharp API (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Performance comparison of nHibernate and Entity Framework (Julie Lerman)
• Preventing debugger property evaluation for side-effect laden properties (James Gregory)
• .Net Framework 4.0: C# and optional arguments and named parameters (Gunnar Peipman)
• Determine if a point is contained within a polygon (Jason Young)
• T4 Tutorial: Generating Code from DSL Models (Oleg Sych) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• SketchFlow Prototypes embedded in DotNetNuke (Christian Schormann)
• Facebook + ASP.NET MVC (Robert Schultz)
• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Rendering the Chart (Scott Mitchell)
• Book review: ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development and REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET MVC on the MSDN Library (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• jHtmlArea – Adding Custom Toolbar Buttons (Chris Pietschmann)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Which test runner are you using ? (Jamie Cansdale)
• Refactoring @ Scale (Brad Appleton)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 6. (Rajiv Popat)
• Refactoring Day 18 : Replace exception with conditional (Sean Chambers)
• 10 Tips on how to think like a designer…and tell stories (Steve Clayton)
• Falling into the How Trap (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Book Review: Enterprise Integration Patterns (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Effects in Blend and C# (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Ribbon Controls – Windows 7 or WPF or MFC based (Rob Relyea)
• WPF Wonders: Transformations (and Robots!) (Rod Stephens)
• Silverlight 3 – Dynamically Loading and Merging Resource Dictionary (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Implementing the Model View ViewModel pattern (Erwin Van Der Valk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Doug Hauger: Inside the Windows Azure Platform Business Model (Charles Torre)
• NDC Video: Michael Feathers – Design Sense (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Ted Neward – WCF Patterns (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Michael Feathers – Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Jeremy D. Miller – Convention Over Configuration (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Michael Feathers – Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Robert Martin – Clean Code III – Functions (Roy Osherove)
• NDC Video – Robert Martin – Component Principles (Roy Osherove)
• ToolShed Tooltip #21 – Developer Community Update By MVP Keith Kabza (Russell Fustino)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #136: Exploring NDJango: Forms and Extensions (Alex Pedenko)

Community / Events

• The Agile PMI Community of Practice (Mike Cottmeyer)

Database

• Multiple database support with Entity Framework (Muhammad Mosa)
• Scripting All The Jobs On Your SQL Server Instance Into Separate Files By Using SMO (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Quiz #5: SANs, Sex, and Mirrors (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL Azure CTP 1 (Jim O’Neil)

Miscellaneous

• 26 Free Awesome Windows 7 Themes (Blake Handler)
• Introducing Small Basic (MS Downloads)
• The 3 Pillars Of Job Satisfaction (Alan Skorkin)
• Adobe Shortcut App Makes Finding Hotkeys Easier (The How-To Geek)
• The TechNet Script Center Gallery (Ed Wilson)
• Sky not falling after the latest Firefox 3.5.2 dust-up with .NET plug-in (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Pulling from github on Windows (Mark Needham)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Do You Matter? (Dave Burke)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #415 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 18, 2009 — #668 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 359 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 18th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Resources on Retrospectives and Studies on Effectiveness of TDD? (Brad Appleton)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Resharper Tip : To-do Explorer (Brett Veenstra)
• Create NHibernate classes using T4 (Brendan Kowitz)
• WiimoteLib 1.8 Beta 1 Posted (Brian Peek)
• Office 2010 gotcha 2: Visual Studio 2008 Locks (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Introducing LINQ to M (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Design Documents in CouchDB and Validation and NHibernate 2.1 and Collection Event Listeners (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• .NET Binding Redirects – Updating Referenced Assemblies Without Recompiling Code (Rob Reynolds)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• JEDI Programming – Just Enough Design Initially (Brad Appleton)
• Demeter Helps You Fend Off the One True Constant: Change (JC Teague)
• Software Engineering: Dead? (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day
• Introducing the Common Service Factory — IoC and WCF living in harmony (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Will you thrive, or be left behind? (Bill Wagner)
• Do Agilists Understand Lean? (Scott Bellware)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and WCF Deployment Gotcha (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Day #19: Silverlight Pixel Shader Effects (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Silverlight Synthesizer Source Code – MediaStreamSource Raw Sound (Pete Brown)
• My MVVM Framework : AKA Cinch (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design (Cameron Chapman)
• Save Your Word Docs to Windows Azure Blobs! (David Lemphers)
• Tip #89: Did you know…You could customize Toolbars in Visual Web Developer? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• Url.Action() and RouteValue Encoding (Rick Strahl)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Girl Developer the News Episode 2 (Sara Chipps)
• Major Nelson Show #326: Gaming in Germany, Gears of War and ‘Splosion Man (Larry Hryb)
• Episode 77 – PowerScripting Podcast – Edward Haletky (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation (Brad Abrams)
• Save the Date for Professional Developers Conference (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Get Last Running Query Based on SPID (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2" for Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 (Blake Handler)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – July ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 18, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #393 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 18, 2009 — #645 and Silverlight Cream for July 19, 2009 — #646 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for July 19, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• My new home page, enhanced [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!] (David Anson)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 07.13 ~ 07.20 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #62 (Grant Palin)
• Links (7/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Discoveries This Week 07/19/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• New and Notable 344 (Sam Gentile)
• Weekly Link Post 102 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight.FX Updated for Silverlight 3 (Nikhil Kothari)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 6: Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) (Brad Abrams)
• Bringing the Silverlight Toolkit’s TreeMap to WPF [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 0] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 3 unit test framework binaries available (Jeff Wilcox)
• Creating a Range Slider in Silverlight (and some of the binding gotchas in SL3) (Josh Twist)
• Animated page navigation in SL3 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Day #17: Silverlight Layout Options (Jeff Blankenburg)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Two ways to use T4 templates: support code vs. one-time generation (David Ebbo) – Link of the Day
• Manually Adding Event Handlers in VB.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Validation Class (Deborah Kurata)
• Iterator Blocks, Part Three: Why no yield in finally? (Eric Lippert)
• Dryad/DryadLINQ and Project Trident Released (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Adding Persistence to the .NETOOP Edit in Place control. (Joe Stagner)
• System.Data.Linq.Binary is not XmlSerializable (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• PM Skills for Life (J.D. Meier)
• StrictMock vs. DynamicMock: What are You Testing Here Anyway? (Jimmy Bosse)
• Defensive Programming, or Why Exception Handling Is Like Car Insurance (Lee Dumond)
• Book Review: The Nomadic Developer (Jim Holmes)
• Discussion: Mentoring, Knowledge Transfer and Different Styles Of Learning (Ryan Svihla)
• Lean Reading List (Scott Bellware)
• Mocking indexer getters with Moq (Bertrand Le Roy)

Web Development

• Creating Ruby-like "Extensions" in JavaScript (Chris Pietschmann)
• Creating A RESTful API With WCF (Justin)
• Google Wave Sandbox Update (Pamela Fox)
• Setting up Visual Studio Intellisense for jQuery (Ralph Whitbeck)
• HTML5 and The Future of the Web (Tim Wright)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Roger Barga – Introduction to Dryad and DryadLINQ (Charles Torre)

SharePoint

• Fixing 400 RequestLength Issue in SharePoint and IIS (Tom Hearn)

Database

• String Aggregation in T-SQL & PL-SQL (Jamie Thomson)
• File/Folder/Share Permissions for DBAs and Database Developers (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – Two Methods to Retrieve List of Primary Keys and Foreign Keys of Database (Pinal Dave)

Community / Events

• Popfly Shutting Down (John Montgomery)  
• Submit your ideas to change the face of broadband (Richard Whitt)
• Google Reader’s Social Evolution (Alex Chitu)
• Presentation Patterns for Virtual ALT.NET in August: You pick the topics (Jeremy D. Miller)

Miscellaneous

• More Microsoft Research Releases (Jim O’Neil)
• Two reasons (so far) why I would not uninstall Office 14 and return to Office 12… (Kit Kai)
• Companies Don’t Get Killed by Competition, They Commit Suicide (Sridhar Vembu)
• Book Review: Beautiful Security (Jim Holmes)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #392 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2009 — #642 and Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2009 – 2 — #643 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for July 16th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Links (7/16/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 16th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Windows 7 and the joy of good design (Dwight Silverman)
• Waiting, it isn’t as simple as twiddling your thumbs (Oren Eini)
• Subverting TDD as a design tool (Jimmy Bogard)
• Strict Mocks and Characterization Tests (Brett Schuchert)
• Testing that an event was raised (Roy Osherove)
• A Metaphor for Flow and Flaccid Kanban (Scott Bellware)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 2 (Rajiv Popat)
• yUML Direction Control and Scaling (Tobin Harris)
• Coding: Setters reduce trust and Pair Programming: It’s not about equal keyboard time (Mark Needham)
• Always Valid (Greg Young)
• Books I Recommend Often… (Mike Cottmeyer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Zentity v1.0 (MS Research)
• Model First in Entity Framework 4 (Gil Fink)
• Sandboxing in .NET 4.0 (Shawn Farkas)
• Getting to know ClickOnce Deployment (Karl Shifflett)
• Relaxing on the Couch(DB) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Can you make money on OSS tooling in the .NET world? (Oren Eini)
• What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 1 (Justin Van Patten)
• How We Do It: Building the Visual Studio Product Line (Beth Massi)
• Why doesn’t IEqualityComparer use Equals() in LINQ’s Intersect? (with a stroll down the lane of GetHashCode and the Birthday Paradox) (Billy McCafferty)
• Performance of Fibonacci numbers algorithms and .Net Framework 4.0: Introducing BigInteger and Visual Studio 2010: How to crash Windows 7 (Gunnar Peipman)
• MassTransit Saga Enhancements for Event Processing (Chris Patterson)
• Surface Development Part 5: Futures and Resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• Tangible T4 Editor for VS 2010 Beta 1 (VSX Team)
• M Language Changes Coming in Next CTP and Entity Framework Samples now in Visual Basic (Shawn Wildermuth)
• 5 Reasons to learn about extending VS 2010 (Quan To)
• Upgrading EF projects to EF4? Don’t forget to target .NET 4.0 and A Look at Lazy Loading in EF4 (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• Cropping with ASP.Net (Coding4Fun)
• Friday Books – Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC Opinionated Software (Tony Rasa)
• Sueetie Profile Updates: Member Favorites (Dave Burke)
• Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009 (Simone Chiaretta)
• 9 New APIs: Google, Yahoo, Wolfram, plus Tweets, Jobs and Music (John Musser)
• Generate an image from a Photoshop file (.psd) in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 with Ria Authentication service (Thanigainathan Siranjeevi)
• WF\WPF sample using System.Xaml (Lester Lobo)
• SilverUnit Project Template and new version (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day
• Which came first, the View or the Model? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• 2 years ago I gave up on Silverlight (Karl Seguin)
• I’m committed to Two Tool Development (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Modularity in Prism (Erik Mork)
• Taskbar and Libraries .NET Library for Windows 7 and Multi-touch .NET Library for Windows 7 (Adam Kinney)
• This Week on C9: VS 2010 Beta 1, Windows API Code Pack, & a WPF Jukebox (Dan Fernandez)
• Jason Zander: Perspectives on Visual Studio 2008 and the Future of VS (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• Architect Factory Coming to Microsoft NERD in Cambridge June 2nd (Bob Familiar)
• IASA New York IT Architect Regional Conference 2009 (Bill Zack)
• Windows Live Messenger Hackathon: May 27th (Sarah Perez)
• CANCELLED: Developer Dinner in Reston, Va (Marc Schweigert)
• Win a Free Seat to the Silverlight Tour at the Silverlight FireStarter DC! (Frank La Vigne)
• Publishers Offering Support for User Groups (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• DELETE TOP x rows avoiding a table scan and UPDATE and DELETE TOP and ORDER BY : Part 2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 – Register for the CTP (Simon Sabin)
• Here Is Yet Another Reason For Upgrading To SQL Server 2008 From SQL Server 2000 (Denis Gobo)
• Use guid.comb in your database if you need guid keys but don’t want to take a big performance hit (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Multi-Value Parameters in SSRS (Emtucifor)
• Table-valued parameters in SQL Server 2008 (Part 3) (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

• SharePoint: SPList.Clear() extension method (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "MapLook" Outlook 2007 Add-In for Google Maps & Microsoft Virtual Earth (Blake Handler)
• US Government Launches Data.gov (Andres Ferrate)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 5: Presentation Settings for Visual Studio (Justin Etheredge)
• True Success (Sara J. Chipps)
• How to Motivate Programmers (Jeff Atwood)
• Wolfram Alpha searching for its niche (Tom Krazit)
• How to customize your CodePlex Work Item template, in a way – #035 and Filter by work items that you’re tracking (Sara Ford)
• Windows 7 – Seamless Apps in Windows Virtual PC (Virtual XP) and Application Compatibility (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Mobile 7: Still on Schedule (Stephen Chapman)
• A Visual History of the Internet (Steve Clayton)
• Do you have Truth Tables in your programming toolbox? (Jonathan Cogley)
• Thinking Big – Search Scale and Performance on a Budget (Nathan Treloar)
• Exclusive: Microsoft to remove 3 app limit from Windows 7 Starter (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Computing with a Silver Lining (Michael Sparks)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 22, 2009 and LINKBLOG for May 23, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: May 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2009 — #599 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 22nd (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 22nd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 05.18 ~ 05.24 (yuanjian)

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