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Top Links

• From Tombstoning to Fast Application Switching (Rudi Grobler)
• Domain Oriented NLayered .NET 4.0 Architecture Guide (J.P. Hamilton)
• How Technical Recruiters Get It Wrong – Part 1 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• CORRECTED: Microsoft Strongly Denies VB 6 Open Source Rumors, Sources Retract Statement (Kathleen Richards)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Want to help improve Visual Studio Performance? (Bill Wagner)
• Using DebugView to catch debug output of .NET program (Gunnar Peipman)
• FuturePublish with the EasyNetQ RabbitMQ API (Mike Hadlow)
• Blog Post: PLINQO for NHibernate Overview Video (T. DuPont)
• Changing Signatures Refactorings – Convert to Tuple (Alex Skorkin)
• Optional argument corner cases, part four (Eric Lippert)
• Find Existing ODATA providers. (Joe Stagner)
• Shuffling an Array (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• AppFabric Service Bus – Things You Should Know – Part 1 of 3 (Naming Your Endpoints) (Keith Bauer)
• Microsoft readies ‘Austin,’ an Azure-hosted event-processing service (Mary Jo Foley)
• CodeDOM — generating an interface to a type (Steve Gilham)

 

Web Development

• Filter and Display Data with ASP.NET Web Forms (Part 3) (Christian Nagel)
• Using Task in ASP.NET MVC Today (Harry Pierson)
• Edit/Update with dapper ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Contoso Karate – Data Driven User Interface Widgets in an ASP.NET MVC 3 Design (Joe Stagner)
• Interesting jQuery Mobile Tutorials (Jorge Ramon)
• 6 PHP Optimization Tips (David Amador)
• More datajs on Twitter (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• OData Service Validation Tool Updated – JSON Payload Validation and new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• Building TweeterFall and TweeterFall – Notifications (Pete LePage)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Agile Architecture and Hurricanes have in Common (Michael Stal)
• Your very first steps towards becoming a DI IoC Ninja (Johan Silfversparre)
• Working inefficiently in the test team (John Guin)
• Leaders are Made, Not Born (Nicholas Cardot)
• The 7 levels of continuous integration (Dror Helper)
• 6 Task List Hacks to Get More Done (Dawn Foster)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Making your Windows Phone applications power aware (Rudi Grobler)
• Update to Monday’s (5/16/2011) Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 Release, v1.2.1. Think "the Visual Basic and Bug Fix update" (Greg Duncan)
• WP7: What to expect next week at the Mango event (Owen Williams)
• Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 4 and PivotViewer Shorts Part 1: Hide Filter Pane Search Box and PivotViewer Shorts Part 2: Hide View and SortBy Buttons (xpert360)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 5 of n (Charles Torre)
• Bonus Episode – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal talking with Kirk Munro about PowerGui 3.0 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• jQuery Podcast 45 – jQuery UI Keynote (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Silverlight TV 73: What’s New in MVVM Light (John Papa)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Matt Tanase Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Let’s Play TDD #107: The Hidden Listener (James Shore)

 

Community / Events

• Philadelphia To Become Second City to Host GameLoop, Local Game Developers Organize Their Own Unconference (Eric Smith)
• Bring out the sun, bring on the sports (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• HOW TO: Hire (or Be Hired as) a Team of Devs (Jolie O’Dell)
• What Developers Say About API Documentation (Peter Gruenbaum)

 

Database

• Microsoft® SSIS Balanced Data Distributor (MS Downloads)
• Change SQL Servers Authentication Mode with PowerShell (Allen M. White)
• Troubleshoot Deadlocks using SQL Server Profiler 2005/2008 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Report Builder: Change Report Server Connection (Patrick LeBlanc)
• SQL SERVER – Management Studio and Browser in Same Application (Pinal Dave)
• Watch all the Tech·Ed North America 2011 SQL Server videos (Denis Gobo)
• How to extract day/month/year from a DateTime column – TSQL (Vishal)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight Out-Of-Browser with COM Interop – Part IV (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 3 of 5 (Vivek Soni)

 

Miscellaneous

• Build Your Own WDS Discovery Image (Harry Pierson)
• Centers for Disease Control (US CDC) provides Zombie Apocalypse 101 Survival Tips (really…) – And Zombie badges too! and Blender 2.5 Fundamental Tutorials from 3DBuzz or "The Noob Video Guide to Blender" (Greg Duncan)
• My Top 5 Open Source software for May 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• A Bright Idea: Android Open Accessories (Tim Bray)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 19 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #856 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2011 — #1092 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing W/CD by James A. Whittaker

 

 

Top Links

• Announcing Xamarin (Miguel de Icaza)
• Announcing ALM Roadmap in Visual Studio vNext at Teched (Jason Zander)
• Making your own WP7 Angry Birds – Part 6 – Impact! (Jo de Greef)
• FubuMVC Beta (0.9) is Released! (Jeremy Miller)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Linq: Relationship Code Sample (sabindas k s)
• Visual Studio ALM and TFS vNext Announcements at TechEd 2011 (Ed Blankenship)
• Code Metrics – Cyclomatic Complexity (Zain Naboulsi)
• RTM’d Today: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-516): Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
• CodeRush Coding Helpers and Code Providers list (Alex Skorkin)
• Using guid id in nhibernate, index fragmentation (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Workaround for: Cannot assign lambda expression to a range variable (Patrick Smacchia)
• Optional argument corner cases, part three (Eric Lippert)
• Spec Explorer 2010 Version 3.5 Adds Improved Change Detection, Batch Processing (Jenni Ripley)
• The Death and Rebirth of Mono (Jonathan Allen)

 

Web Development

• Tekpub’s ASP.NET MVC 3 – Suggested Outline (Rob Conery)
• Code Templates – ASP.NET MVC development (Alex Skorkin)
• What are jQuery Class Selectors and ID selectors Explain them? (Hima)
• Update to the WebSockets prototype on HTML5 Labs site and Adding a site wide Log In Features to an ASP.NET MVC Web Site. (Joe Stagner)
• Web dev that’s as smooth as Silk… Project Silk (Greg Duncan)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming #HTML5 Applications – Only $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM96 (O’Reilly Media)
• The Browser Touch Events API (Chris Love)
• Don’t Kid Yourself, Size Does Matter…Least when talking about Web Service Messages (Derik Whittaker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Impact of Screen Clutter on the User Experience (Tobias Komischke)
• 5 Benefits of Sponsoring Employee Coworking (Darrell Etherington)
• Focus on the Why, not the How (Jim Holmes)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Mango Rumours (2011/05/17) (Rudi Grobler)
• LINQ Deferred Execution–Oops! (Jesse Liberty)
• Dis-(and re-)assembling the default Windows Phone YouTube library. Official YouTube in a third-party app. and How to trick Windows Phone OS into believing your app is the YouTube app and Integrating Pandora API with MediaLibrary on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New Windows Phone 7 Control – TileSlider (Think “Tile++” or “Tile that has much more text and can ‘slide’ that into view”) and Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2.0 released – Apple Push, Azure Storage Queue, ACS2 and more… (Greg Duncan)
• Load Data on Demand with TabControl and TabItems in WPF (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• Multi Column Text support in Silverlight 5 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Choosers (Paul Sheriff)
• Free and excellent learning courses on how to use Expression and Silverlight (Sam)
• JUST ANNOUNCED: Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2 (Windows Azure Team)
• Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow (Colin Eberhardt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• First Look: New ALM Tools for VC++ Developers (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 156: Jon Galloway and Jesse Liberty on Remote Pairing (David Giard)
• Windows Weekly 208: Fake Hustle (Paul Thurrott)
• Clint Rutkas and "Where’s My Car" on Windows Phone 7 (Robert Hess)
• Ping 101: The Skype deal, Bill Gates & Fashion, Phishing on Facebook, Microsft Research (Laura Foy)
• Yet Another Podcast #35–Silverlight, HTML5 and Developers (Jesse Liberty)

 

Community / Events

• Events This Week – May 16th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming Conference talks in Norway, Germany and the UK (Scott Guthrie)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Offer (Dani Diaz)
• Outercurve Foundation: Partnering with the open source community (Somasegar)

 

Database

• SQL Server DBA Tip 15 – SQL Server Agent – Job ownership (Ted Krueger)
• Exciting Features in CouchDB (Marc Grabanski)
• Scripting image column data for INSERT statements (Erik EJ)
• Usage of “Unknown Member” Rows in a Data Warehouse (Melissa Coates)

 

SharePoint

• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Modifying Ribbon Fonts and Styles for Publishing Page HTML Field Controls (Lonnie Webb)
• SharePoint 2010 Development Platform Stack (SharePoint Developer Team)
• Site Provisioning – Is SSC good enough and Site Provisioning – Should I go Self Service? (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Office Web Apps to officially support Chrome with Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Productivity takes a big step forward in Mango (Paul Bryan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 16th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #853 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Article Digest 05/16/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Unleashed by Mike Snell

 

 

Top Links

• Great Free Video Training on ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC (Scott Guthrie)
• Eduasync part 4: Filling in AsyncTaskMethodBuilder (Jon Skeet)
• Using DataContracts with WCF Web API (Glenn Block)
• WindowsPhoneMvp Quickstart (Brendan Kowitz)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using Advantage data providers to read DBF-files (Gunnar Peipman)
• TFS API Part 36 – Create Build Definitions (Shai Raiten)
• Using guid id in nhibernate, index fragmentation (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Aligning Numbers on the Decimal Separator (Ron Petrusha)
• Manning Deal of the Day: “Natural User Interfaces in .NET” MEAP and Paper Book for $25 (Joey deVilla)
• Using Lazy to Solve Deadlocks in Resource Caches (Rick Brewster)

 

Web Development

• Step by step instructions to deploy ASP.NET MVC 3 to Windows Azure (Bart Czernicki)
• What are jQuery Class Selectors and ID selectors Explain them? (Hima)
• Playing with dapper Micro ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3.0 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• ASP.NET MVC and Multiple Submit Buttons (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Timepicker–nice extension to jQuery UI Datepicker (Gunnar Peipman)
• WCF REST Service with JSON Data (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A Not Very Short Introduction To Node.js (Anders Janmyr)
• HowTo: migrate an established WebApp to Azure (Code Inside Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting up to BAT: Building a True DSL (John Sonmez)
• Richardson’s Maturity Model as a tool for understanding not measurement (Glenn Block)
• What is Domain Driven Design? (Jak Charlton)
• Time Management Checklist and How To Set Goals and Achieve Them (JD Meier)
• Effective Tests: Test Doubles (Derek Greer)
• Do What You Say You Are Going to Do (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Dependency Injection (Giorgio Sironi)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Upcoming Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone “Mango” and Advanced Silverlight Trainings in Redmond (Dave Campbell)
• “That’s a HUGE List!” – WP7 Jump List (Erik Klimczak)
• (YANCWP7AM) Yet Another No Code Windows Phone 7 App Maker – FollowMyFeed (Greg Duncan)
• What is Line Stacking Strategy in Silverlight TextBlock control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Display PDFs in your Windows Phone 7 application (Nick Randolph)
• Release an App for Windows Phone 7 in 7 Days for a Chance to Win a New HTC 7 Trophy Phone (Nigel Parker)
• Windows Phone Launchers (Paul Sheriff)
• Consider this when downloading large files on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 156: Jon Galloway and Jesse Liberty on Remote Pairing (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 398: We discuss our Brink experience, Gatling Gears and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 208: Fake Hustle (Paul Thurrott)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 16 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 016 – “More Mango Madness” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The GeekDads Episode #91: That Pause Was Air Quotes (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

 

Community / Events

• SQL SERVER – Attending MVP Open Day – May 2011 (Pinal Dave)
• The Microsoft week ahead: What’s on for TechEd 2011? (Mary Jo Foley)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – SQL Server Compression Estimator – Codeplex (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 15 – SQL Server Agent – Job ownership (Ted Krueger)
• SQL CLR Stored Procedure using Visual Studio 2010 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 05.10 ~ 05.16 (yuanjian)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 069 for 5/15/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #852 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 08-May-2011 to 14-May-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2011 — #1089 (Dave Campbell)
• Android development resource links (Mendelt Siebenga)

 

The Geek Shelf

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Jez Humble