Top Links

• ASP.NET dynamic language support is open source (Jimmy Schementi)
• MVVM and DialogResult with no code-behind (Joe White)
• Dynamically Changing Resources in a ListBox using Binding and Converters (Derik Whittaker)
• ‘The Way of MEF’ – UK Sessions with Glenn Block (Mike Taulty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A series of posts about NHibernate tooling and Find the bug: Accidental code reviews (Oren Eini)
• Using Hints for Generic MEF Exports (Jeremy Likness)
• The LightCore IoC container 1.4 (Anthony Steele)
• Profiling an application with Visual Studio – Instrumentation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Entity Framework 4 – POCO Code Only (André Passos)
• Programmatically Update a ClickOnce Distributed Office Add-in (Eric Quist)
• VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts for C#, VB, C++, F# Now Available in Letter (8.5x11in) and A4 (210×297mm) Print-Ready Sizes (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Creating New Overloaded Methods in Visual Studio C# is Really Easy with CodeRush (Peter Kellner)
• Rearrange Your Toolbars and Hide or Show Default Buttons on a Toolbar (Zain Naboulsi)
• Loading Strategy for Entity Framework 4.0 (Fredrik Normen)

Web Development

• Prototypal C#: Making C# Look and Work Like JavaScript (Evan Nagle)
• More Ext JS with ASP.NET MVC Goodies: Populating a GridPanel (Jorge Ramon)
• How to make AJAX-requests to ASP.NET MVC application using jQuery (Gunnar Peipman)
• Notes on Templates and Data Annotations in MVC 2 (K. Scott Allen)
• Using ASP.NET MVC’s AntiForgeryToken in HTML Templates (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Review: HTML5 for Web Designers (Grant Palin)
• Cross-domain file for self-hosted TCP services (Carlos Figueira)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Debugging Unit Tests for the iPhone/iPad (Scott Densmore)
• Work In Progress Version Of The Book On Builder At Work – Part 3. and Work In Progress Version Of The Book On Builder At Work – Links To All The Chapters. (Rajiv Popat)
• Scrat – Quality Center To TFS 2010 In Hours Instead Of Months and TFS API Part 28 – Test Suite Hierarchy Builder and Test Scribe – Automatic Document Generating For Test Manager 2010 (Shai Raiten)
• The Value of Diversity (Shane Hastie)
• Bundler: Don’t forget to call ‘source’ and Technical Debt around release time (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 and Windows Live Connectivity and Cool PriceCheck Application for Windows Phone 7 and FourSquare Application for Windows Phone 7 and Showing battery life and status messages in Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• New Directional Rainbow Brush; Smear Effect; EasyPainter Out of Beta and Becomes Fantasia! (Nikola)
• Data Validation And Templating in Silverlight 4 (Jesse Liberty)
• To XAML, with love (an experiment with XAML Serialization in Silverlight) (David Poll)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 104: Panel Discussion: Putting on a great conference (David Giard)
• Presentation: TMap for VS2010, Testing Practices with ALM tools (Clemens Reijnen)
• MSDN Webcast: Fuelling productivity and innovation with integration between SharePoint and Windows HPC Server (Wenming Ye)

Community / Events

• My favourite MGX demo (Steve Clayton)
• Talking about Windows Phone 7 at Atlanta .NET User Group (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Integrate your blog or sites with ForkCan.com (Fredrik Normen)

Database

• Find the Most Time Consuming Code in your SQL Server Database (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – FIX: ERROR: 8170 Insufficient result space to convert uniqueidentifier value to char (Pinal Dave)
• Removing Partitioning on tables (Martin Bell)
• RavenDB Index Management (Oren Eini)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: SQL and Relational Theory – Only $9.99. Use code DDSQR (O’Reilly Media)

Miscellaneous

• Mystery HTC Windows Phone 7 device: in the wild and lacking any Sense (Ross Miller)
• Daily Dose – GitHub Hits 1 Million Projects (Mitch Pronschinske)
• The New Hotmail.com Rollout Continues (Richard Hay)
• Skype SDK Now Available for Windows (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 25, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #650 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 034 for 7/26/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 24, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 25, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Weekly Links #115 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 154 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Silverlight Cream for July 25, 2010 — #910 and Silverlight Cream for July 25, 2010 – 2 — #911 (Dave Campbell)
• A Feed You Should Read #32–Visual Studio ALM User Group (Greg Duncan)

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Top Links

• Creating a Fluent Interface with C# (Deran Schilling)
• OData Basics – At the AZGroups "Day of .NET" with ScottGu (Scott Hanselman)
• Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Released (Grigori Melnik)
• 10%, Take Two (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Simplify Your Unit Tests With Auto Mocking: Part 1 – Helper Methods (Derick Bailey)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Code Contracts Survey (BCL Team)
• Exception Handling in the .NET Framework Data Provider for ODBC, OLE DB, and for SQL Server (ADO.NET Team)
• Fluent NHibernate 1.1 released (John V. Petersen)
• Want to write Managed IE/Shell Extensions, but thought that was “bad”? That was the past… With .Net 4 the world of Managed Extensions is now open to you. (Greg Duncan)
• Template Driven Assembly References (Rory Becker)
• Use the Microsoft Addin Framework, MAF to Create Highly Scalable Classes in Any .Net Application (Jeff)

Web Development

• Book Review: JavaScript – The Good Parts (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• The jQuery Course Prerelease – Learn More (Marc Grabanski)
• Catching clicks with clickCatcher before your JavaScript files have loaded/events been applied (Robert Nyman)
• jQuery.validate and Html.ValidationSummary playing nice together (Simon Ince)
• Sort Items of a BulletedList Control using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Advanced Migrations (Oren Eini)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design Patterns In C# – Singleton Design Pattern (Richard McCutchen)
• Great new intro article on SOA in Plain English (Sam Gentile)
• 7 Tips for Managing a Remote Work Force (Mitchell Harper)
• Docx 2 UnitTest – an interesting tool for VS2010 (Dror Helper)
• Introduction to unit testing in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MSF-A+SDL Process Template for VS 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Project Greenfield: Testing the TDD Waters (Joel Cochran)
• Exclude a team member – and you’re an idiot (Roy Osherove)
• An Overview of Lean Software Practices (Jared Richardson)
• Exploring Selenium 2: Introduction & Lessons Learned in Selenium 1 (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 and Adding Project References (Derik Whittaker)
• Perf Tools for WPF (.NET 4) (Lester Lobo)
• A Distributable (.exe) Silverlight OOB Application (Alnur Ismail)
• 20 Silverlight 4 demos in one zip file (András Velvárt)
• Building OpenPOS: Part 9 – Settings and Notifications (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 81: Simplicity, balance, and focus in teaching software development (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 113 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brandon Shell Talks Citrix and Other PowerShell Goodness (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Making of Office 2010 – Abigail Welborn, Software Development Engineer – Microsoft Access (Tina Wood)
• Video – Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams (Roy Osherove)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 14 – Build Mastery with Jason Stangroome (Richard Banks)
• New open source projects to facilitate interoperability with Outlook .pst data files (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere)
• endpoint.tv – Activities and Designers with Matt Winkler (Part 2) (Ron Jacobs)
• The Engadget Show – 009: Kevin Lynch, editor Q&A, AT&T GNOC tour, Sprint EVO 4G (Chad Mumm)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #176: Going Lazy with System.Lazy (Derik Whittaker)
• Ping 59: Private Cloud strategy, Gadget predictions, Microsoft is the most social company, Free Robotics (Laura Foy)
• My "Git Branching and Workflows" presentation at Austin Code Camp 2010 (Jason Meridth)

Community / Events

• East Coast PASS Event Options (Jack Corbett)
• Google Summer of Code 2010: Let the Coding Begin! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• What’s it like to work for Bing? (Eugenia Sawa)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – SQL Azure vs. SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Dynamically Pass a Table Name to TRUNCATE TABLE (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• New Book: SharePoint 2010: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating (Joel Oleson)
• Check out Social Squared (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Who’s afraid from C++ (Dror Helper)
• Every Program There Is, Part Nine (Eric Lippert)
• PSAM (PowerShell Admin Module) = PowerShell Share Fun (Greg Duncan)
• Gitosis and Gitweb – Part 1 – Setup and Part 2 – Add Projects and Contributors (Jason Meridth)
• Apple’s five stages of Google grieving (Joe Wilcox)
• The Ruby/Rails Life – My Rails 3 Stack – Part 1 (Joey Beninghove)
• 100 DZone Refcardz And Counting… and DZone Refcardz: There Will Be An App For That (James Sugrue)
• The results are in: Google’s Pac-Man homage cost the world $120,483,800 in just one day (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/24/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 24, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 24, 2010 — #868 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 146 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #607 (Chris Alcock)

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Android Application Development: Programming with the Google SDK

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Top Links

• Template/View selection with MEF in Silverlight (Josh Twist)
• Extending NerdDinner: Adding MEF and plugins to ASP.NET MVC (Scott Hanselman)
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Views (Jimmy Bogard)
• 12 ways to break your database server before the first transaction (Ted Krueger)
• Simple Silverlight 4 Example Using oData and RX Extensions (Michael Washington)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TFS2010 WP7 Continuous Integration (Justin Angel)
• Enabling XML-documentation for code contracts (Gunnar Peipman)
• C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: C# 4 Named Parameters (Sam Gentile)
• Incorporating transaction into your C# data applications (Richard McCutchen)
• Visual Studio Managed Multi-Targeting: Part 1: Concepts: Target Framework Moniker, Target Framework (Binu N. Chacko)
• Multiple Views of the Same Document Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• .gitignore Config File For .NET Projects (Nick Berardi)
• Add Service Reference – How to Avoid Generating Already Existing Classes (Gil Fink)

Web Development

• Introduction to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Using Multiple Actions (Brian Mains)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Info Architecture for the WWW, 3rd Ed. – Only $9.99 use code DDAWW (O’Reilly Media)
• JavaScript The Good Parts – Book Review (Chris Love)
• Extending NerdDinner: Exploring Different Database Options (Scott Hanselman)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Data migration (Oren Eini)
• Google Follows MapQuest With Driving Directions Web Service and Google Announces “Places” to Search Businesses and More (Adam DuVander)
• Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory (Mike Marchak)
• Another Follow-up on HTML5 Video in IE9 (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Internet Explorer 9 Will Support the Open Source VP8 Video Codec (Rey Bango)
• The WebM video format – the saviour of open video on the web? (Robert Nyman)
• InfoQ: Architecting TekPub – Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails (Rob Bazinet)
• Adobe hastens release of HTML5 developer tool (Stephen Shankland)
• CSS 101: Block Formatting Contexts (Thierry Koblentz)
• Google Wave platform updates at I/O: See what you can build now! (Pamela Fox)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Test-Driven Javascript (James Shore)
• Code Metrics: Number of IL Instructions (Gunnar Peipman)
• What Does It Take to Run a Virtual Team? (Redux) (Aliza Sherman)
• The Three Manifestos (Jurgen Appelo)
• Data Security Scenarios on Azure (J.D. Meier)
• Technology Adoption and the "No"-gates (Steven Lott)
• Learning the Pomodoro technique (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Drag and Drop Operation in Silverlight ListBox (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WPF Goodies in the Silverlight 4 Tools (Brian Lagunas)
• Introduction to binding in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Handling DataGrid.SelectedItems in an MVVM-friendly manner (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight Enables Choice Today for Third-Party Codecs (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #22 – Data Validation (Mike Snow)
• XAML Resources (Umair Saeed)
• A Matter of Controls (Dave)
• Top 10 WPF Performance Tips (Christian Moser)
• Silverlight Metro Theme Alpha 1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – F# Panel Live from NERD Center, Cambridge, MA (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• A Conversation with Jaron Lanier (Charles Torre)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #175: Code Contracts: Learning to use Interface Contracts (Derik Whittaker)
• Brilliant! The Rise And Fall Of Waterfall (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Introduction into Raven DB (Oren Eini)

Database

• Three different ways of populating variables with configuration values in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Report Builder 3.0 – Using Report Parts (Patrick LeBlanc)
• More Tables or More Databases? (Buck Woody)
• Raven, a Document Database for .NET (Abel Avram)
• TableSpace Update (Jason Brimhall)
• Things SQL needs: determining range cardinality (Quassnoi)

SharePoint

• Using BCS Meta Man and SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Why I Love Reading Other People’s Code And You Should Too (Alan Skorkin)
• More Google Chrome OS Screenshots (Alex Chitu)
• There’s a Reason It’s Free – Get Over It… (Ben Kepes)
• Turn On MSDTC Windows 7 (Deepak Kapoor)
• It’s a new Sysinternals Tool Day! RAMMap v1.0 released (Greg Duncan)
• Software is Like Pornography (Jared Richardson)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: Word 2010 and Accessibility (Karen McCall)
• Jumplist Extender adds Windows 7 jumplists to programs which don’t have ‘em (Lee Mathews)
• Usenet services have been made unnecessary… (Michael Janke)
• Education Technology – Changing the Nature of Education, and Building a Bridge to Tomorrow (Kelly Walsh)
• MonoTouch 3.0.6 – iPhone OS 4, beta 4 (MonoTouch Team)
• Paint.NET Bulk Image Processor v1.0 (CodePlex)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2010 — #865 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #604 (Chris Alcock)

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jQuery Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for jQuery Developers (Animal Guide)

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Top Links

• Your Suggestions Wanted: Silverlight, WPF, WCF RIA Services, ASP.NET Planning (Pete Brown)
• Redefining the Code Editor (Arian T. Kulp)
• ReSharper PowerToys gone OSS (Hadi Hariri)
• Getting Started with Parallel Programming in .NET 4 (David Lemphers)
• MVC Turbine – Release v2.1 for MVC2 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Suppressing C# Compiler Warnings (Richard Carr)
• Rx Contrib – Release v1.4 (CodePlex)
• Not So Hidden Gems of NHibernate – Formula Discriminators (Tuna Toksoz)
• A guide to .vcxproj and .props file structure (Pavan Adharapurapu)
• Raven and client linq indexes, or: We hate strings, too (Oren Eini)
• Tell me what you don’t like about TFS 2010 (David Starr)
• Feature Builder Power Tool Preview updated for VS2010 RTM – Think “Extension to help build Extensions,” or “Power Tool for Power Tools…” (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio 2010: How to extend the architecture tools (Jennifer Marsman)
• Public courses listed for WCF and WF in .NET 4 (Matt Milner)
• Help Viewer Power Tool Provides Index and Standalone Window (Carole Snyder)
• Just How Fast Is That Code? and Mutating Expressions (Jason Bock)
• Using Visual Studio 2010’s Debugger PIN Feature (Peter Kellner)
• Make the Visual Studio 2010 IDE colors look like Visual Studio 2008 (Scott Hanselman)
• Using a GUID as an EntityKey in Entity Framework 4 (Lee Dumond)
• Musings on the 9-cell grid and its uses in software (Pete Brown)
• How To Change Default Language In Visual Studio (Shai Raiten)
• Ordering and Multi-Column Sorting in the Error List Window and Hide or Show Error List When the Build Finishes with Errors (Zain Naboulsi)
• Consuming An Agatha Service From A Non-Agatha-Aware Client (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Forrester: HTML5 Not Viable For RIAs Yet (Ben Forta)
• Returning JsonResult From ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Controller and Unit Testing (Peter Kellner)
• ASP.NET Page Curls using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• The Aspnet Compiler Build Task in Visual Studio 2010 ASP.Net MVC 2 Projects (Joe Cartano)
• Serving Your Website From a Windows Azure Drive (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Managing Bug Fixes Across Multiple Releases With Git Cherry-Pick (Derick Bailey)
• My Thoughts on Pex (James R. Eggers)
• Component Oriented Design and why it be retired (Oren Eini)
• REST with ACS (J.D. Meier)
• Slides of My Austin Code Camp 2010 Session on Aspect-Oriented Programming in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Deciding On Features For Open Source (Rob Reynolds)
• The Intranet Value (Daniela Panfili)
• Code Contracts Primer – Part 6 Interface Contracts (Derik Whittaker)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Self-Tracking Entities in Silverlight (Jeff Derstadt)
• Silverlight Profiling PowerShell helper. (Jason Jarrett)
• Using Silverlight 4 features to create a Zune-like context menu (Jeff Wilcox)
• WebClient and DeploymentCatalog gotchas in Silverlight OOB (Jeremy Likness)
• Devexpress – WPF Project Wizard (Rob Relyea)
• My Thoughts on the Windows Phone 7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• More on Image Resizing in .NET 4 vs .NET 3.5sp1: Bilinear vs Fant (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ramp Up Web Development with ASP.NET: Programming Web Forms VB.NET (MS Podcasts)
• Skillsmatter Progressive .NET Tutorials May 12-14th 2010 (Mike Hadlow)
• TWC9: Office & SharePoint 2010, Runtime Intelligence, and Windows Phone controls (Dan Fernandez)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 55: What Windows Server AppFabric Means For Developers (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Engadget Podcast 196 – 05.14.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 156: Phoenix Lights (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Cover Episode 11 – Drives and IIS Hostable Worker Core (Ryan Dunn)
• Boagworld 211. Give your users a nudge (Paul Boag)
• Security Talk: Simplified SDL with David Ladd (Larry Larsen)
• Talking Architects with Kim Cameron (Matt Deacon)

Community / Events

• Worldwide Web Camps (Scott Guthrie)
• Nerd Dinner was a hit! (Brad Cunningham)
• Eric Evans’ DDD Immersion Course (Brian Donahue)
• ISV Software Architecture Workshop on 5/20 at Reston (Zhiming Xue)
• A Feed You Should Read #30 – Shai Raiten (Greg Duncan)
• Compiling Tales of Open Space (Steven ‘Doc’ List)

Database

• Inequality joins, Asynchronous transformations and Lookups : SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• Taking BackUp of SQL Server Database on a USB Drive and Group and Count Records in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – List All the DMV and DMF on Server and SQLAuthority News – Storage and SQL Server Capacity Planning and configuration – SharePoint Server 2010 (Pinal Dave)
• MSSQL: Copying data from one database to another (Gunnar Peipman)
• Chris Date on "SQL and Relational Theory – How to Write Accurate SQL Code" (Martin Bell)
• How to get information about all databases without a loop (Naomi)

Miscellaneous

• Office Maven’s Windows Home Server Software Add-in Now Supports Outlook 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Teaching development to kids (Arian T. Kulp)
• Old-school Collaboration Tools That Rock (Dawn Foster)
• Author news: Ed Bott’s deep dive into Office 2010 (Devon Musgrave)
• [Proof of Concept] Windows 7 ThemePack Builder (with three test/sample themepacks for you) (Greg Duncan)
• New Page Tab Powertoy for OneNote 2010 (Jeff Cardon)
• PowerShell V2 IS Available (Jeffrey Snover)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2010 and Interesting Finds: May 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 14-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• alt.msdn – What Media Says on MS Development (MSDN Magazine)
• Weekly Links #105 (Grant Palin)
• Distributed Weekly 50 (Scott Banwart)
• F# Discoveries This Week 05/14/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2010 — #862 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Post… 5/10/2010 through 5/16/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

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SQL Server MVP Deep Dives

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• Back to (Parallel) Basics: Do you really want to do that? or Why doesn’t the new Parallel.For support BigInteger? (Scott Hanselman)
• The Three Pillars of Xbox LIVE on Windows Phone (Andre Vrignaud)
• Dell Lightning Specs and Launch Date (Windows Phone 7) (Taimur Asad)
• The Best Way to Keep Your Product Moving Forward (Jared Richardson)
• A Guide to Parallel Programming – Drafts of Preface and Chapters 1 (Ade Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Declarative Security and Reflection (Shawn Farkas)
• Test View Issue: An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame (Charles Sterling)
• Start Extending Visual Studio 2010! (Richa Prasad)
• Using Code Snippets and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Pin a DataTip to source (Zain Naboulsi)
• Network List Manager API wrapped for .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New Release: Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (J.D. Meier)
• ReSharper 5.0’s LINQ Refactoring Continues to be Amazing! (Peter Kellner)
• Actions, Step and Rules (Rob DuWors)
• VS 2010 Debugger Improvements (BreakPoints, DataTips, Import/Export) (Scott Guthrie)
• Try Mono.Cecil if you need System.Reflection.Emit in Windows Phone 7 (Michael Sync)
• Immutable instances and deferred references (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Capturing Filtered Windows Events with Windows Azure Diagnostics and Call DiagnosticMonitor.Start() Only Once (Steve Marx)
• UppercuT and Mercurial (hg) (Rob Reynolds)

Web Development

• Facebook Makes Huge API Changes – Open Graph Protocol and Much More (Andres Ferrate)
• Applying CSS Styling via Metadata (Stephen Naughton)
• Meet the Lovely Lucene at Sueetie.com (Dave Burke)
• Inside The CSS Working Group (Sylvain Galineau)
• Asynchrony in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Resource Usage: IoC Containers And Large Object Graphs and Expressive Code: Good Variable Names Instead Of Magic Values And Calculations (Derick Bailey)
• The Elephant and the Rider (J.D. Meier)
• Sogeti TMAP process template certified and ready (Clemens Reijnen)
• Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 (Kirill Osenkov)
• Lured in by the complexity (Mark Needham)
• Interview: Patrick Kua : Agile Coach (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF

• International Radio Operators Alphabet in F# & Silverlight – Part 1 (Mark Pearl)
• Avatar Mosaic -Experimenting with the Artefact Animator (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #1 – Using Static Resources in Class Libraries (Mike Snow)
• Get a Silverlight XAP signing certificate for cheap thanks to GoDaddy (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dan Fernandez Live in Los Angeles (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Welcome to Docs – Video Tutorial and Getting Started for Docs – Video Tutorial (Amy Sorokas)
• Introducing Docs for Facebook: Making Your Documents Social (Charles Torre)
• Brian Noyes on MVVM, Prism, and Silverlight 4 (Eric Hagan)
• Tech-Ed is About the "Stuff" You Can Use Today and Concurrency Visualizer High Speed Tour (Larry Larsen)
• endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric in action monitoring and troubleshooting and endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric – Configuring Monitoring Data (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Lover, Interested to attend TEC2010 from Apr 25-28, 2010 in LAX for FREE? (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Join Microsoft Technical Fellow for a Roundtable Discussion About Launching Windows 7 in an Enterprise Organization (Joseph Mirabella)
• Need Unit Testing Academy then join TypeMock Academy (Muhammad Mosa)
• Your Story: Interviewing at Microsoft by new hire Thom Mitchell – Part I (Thom Mitchell)
• Awkward: The Other Microsoft Interview Story (Pete Brown)

Database

• List of Undocumented Stored Procedures in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 (MS Downloads)
• That No SQL Thing: Document Database Migrations (Oren Eini)
• #SQLR2 Launch Goofs (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 Supports PDO (PHP Data Objects) (Bruce Kyle)
• Which Edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 should you use? (Buck Woody)
• A DMV a Day – Day 22 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Create Primary Key with Specific Name when Creating Table (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS code smell – Unused columns in the dataflow (Jamie Thomson)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (21/30) corruption can be fixed by restarting SQL Server (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Server 2008 R2: Helping Customers Get More Value Out of Their Data (Ted Kummert)
• Do you use disable index or drop index when running your ETL processes in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Announcing the CMIS Connector for SharePoint (Ryan Duguid)

Miscellaneous

• Getting Mediaencoder working with Windows 7 and Windows Vista –and Video capture with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (Charles Sterling)
• Coding4Fun Cannon – Building the Robot (Clint Rutkas)
• Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 is now available for everyone to download – not just OEMs (Imran Hussain)
• More Amazon S3 cmdlets and PowerPack (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Apple seeking to acquire ARM? (Sadat Karim)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming the iPhone User Experience – Only $9.99 use code DDPTP (O’Reilly Media)
• Introducing Docs for Facebook (Dominic Carr)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 21, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #585 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 21, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 21, 2010 — #843 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders

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• Win7 Library Tool (Zorn Software)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Creating objects of correct type when using lazy loading (Gunnar Peipman)
• How can I sort a hierarchy? (Bea Stollnitz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• VS2010 RC, TFS2010 RC Virtual Machines are here… (Greg Duncan)
• Tips and Tricks: Quickly Closing Documents (Weston Hutchins)
• Cut, Copy, and Paste Collapsed Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)
• Approaching Parallelism (Bruce Kyle)
• Entity Framework POCO Template for .NET 3.5 (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• IIS 7 URL Rewriter for SEO Friendly URL’s (David Hayden)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Blaming your tools (Corey Haines)

Silverlight / WPF

• What’s new in Silverlight 4 (Al Pascual)
• Silverlight 4 RC – Socket Security Changes (Mike Taulty)
• Be vewy vewy quiet I’m writing WPF with MVVM (Scott Galloway)
• Building Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications on a .NET 3.5 build machine (Jeff Wilcox)
• Response to Ward Bell’s Review of Advanced MVVM (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 148: He’s Got A Gun! (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : 3117 : The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to rollforward (Pinal Dave)
• How to Backup a SQL Express Database (Mike Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Wave 4: Mobile Experience to support themes (damaster)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Art of Community — Only $9.99! Use code DDTAC (O’Reilly Media)
• Everybody Wins In The Certification Game (Davy Brion)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for March 20, 2010 — #815 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.15 ~ 03.21 (yuanjian)
• Interesting jQuery Bookmarks (Marc Grabanski)

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Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed

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Top Links

• First Encounters of the MEF Kind (Mike Ceranski)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 5 – Magellan and more with Paul Stovell (Richard Banks)
• Why does Visual Studio 2010 convert my projects? (Richa Prasad)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Layered diagram extensions (Pieter de Bruin)
• Visual Studio Team System 2005 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Installer) (MS Downloads)
• Better error messages – Part 2 (Aeshen) and Better error messages – Part 3 (Aeshen) (Arian T. Kulp)
• Using FTP to access Windows Azure Blob Storage (Maarten Balliauw)
• Bruger Test Automation med Visual Studio 2010 (Martin Esmann)
• NHibernate Tip: Use set for many-to-many associations (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Collapsing Your Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• node.js: First thoughts (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Be Honest And Committed To Shipping – Whether It Is In Or Outside Your Organization. (Rajiv Popat)
• Are You Playing Checker or Chess? – YAGNI Revisited (Tim Barcz)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio Special – Niklas Gustafsson om Axum (Dag König)
• Screencast: Best Practices in SharePoint User Management (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Major Nelson Show 353: Wil Wheaton, MW2 Stimulus Package and Supreme Commander (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 105- PowerScripting Podcast – PSCX 2.0 with Keith Hill and Oisin Grehan (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• New Videos up on Channel 9: WPF with C++ and WCF RIA Services (Pete Brown)

Community / Events

• Mix Session: Windows Phone UI and Design Language (Christian Schormann)
• Watch Microsoft MIX10 Live Keynotes March 15 & 16 (Zhiming Xue)

Database

• SQL SERVER – MAXDOP Settings to Limit Query to Run on Specific CPU (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS – Please get keyboard shortcuts working for schemas (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: CouchDB: The Definitive Guide – Only $9.99! Use code DDCDB (O’Reilly Media)
• Daily Dose – Apple Doesn’t Win Case Against Users of "i" (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #559 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #111 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #96 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 136 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (3/14/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

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Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions

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Top Links

• T4MVC 2.6.13: now officially in MvcContrib, with a few new features (David Ebbo)
• A Vision of the Future for Home and Work Experiences by Microsoft Surface (Arturo Toledo)
• Game Developers Have a Great Opportunity with Windows Phone 7 Series (Ron Pessner)
• pluralsight and InnerWorkings (Meagon Marshall)
• 10 things Microsoft did right in 2010 (so far) (Joe Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Go To a Line Number and Print with Line Numbers / Summary Info Poll and Reuse the Same Editor Window When Opening Files (Zain Naboulsi)
• Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive) (Scott Mitchell)
• Tuning C++ build parallelism in VS2010 (Dan (VS Team))
• ThinkGearNET Library (Brian Peek)
• VB and C# coevolution (Scott Wiltamuth)
• Slicing and Dicing Strings with CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
• When should I use Areas in TFS instead of Team Projects (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Combining Higher Order Functions in C# and How to tell if a type is a delegate (Mike Hadlow)
• The yield statement cannot be used inside an anonymous method or lambda expression and Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in F# (Oliver Sturm)
• IronRuby Unleashed Is Out Now (Justin Etheredge)
• WCF Service Cannot Be Activated Because of ASP.NET Compatibility and WCF Data Service Error – Request Error (Keith Elder)
• .Net, Native, P/Invoke marshaling just like magic… “Marshaling with C# Pocket Reference” (Think “Marshalling Guide for the Busy Dev Guy”) (Greg Duncan)
• XNA Game Studio 4 News (GDC 2010) (Greg Duncan)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• TMap for VS2010 Testing Process Template RC published on Codeplex. and VS2010 TMap Testing Template | Initial Work Items #1 (Clemens Reijnen)
• MindBlaster Article Posted (Brian Peek)
• Save a diagram to Image File (Cameron Skinner)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part II: Semantic Changes and +=/-= (Chris Burrows)
• Michael Klucher on XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
• Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in C# (Chris Sells)
• Using Copy-On-Write In Multithreaded Code To Reduce Locking Overhead (Davy Brion)
• FluentPath: a fluent wrapper around System.IO (Bertrand Le Roy)

Web Development

• Deleporter: Cross-Process Code Injection for ASP.NET (Steve Sanderson)
• Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib (article) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Profiling Apps 1 of N: The MVC ActionLink (Hadi Hariri)
• Working with the HTML5 Community (Adrian Bateman)
• ASMX ScriptService mistakes: Installation and configuration (Dave Ward)
• Displaying Multimedia Content In A Floating Window Using FancyBox (Scott Mitchell)
• Using Lucene – External Indexes (Oren Eini)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• VCS Survey (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Animations – Big Teams (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Git/Branch-Per-Feature – Composable Deployments/Releases? (Joey Beninghove)
• Some Day Kanban Will Fail 75% of the Time (Jurgen Appelo)
• The 8th Phase (Karl Seguin)
• Getting real: Book review and Pair Programming: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Review: The Productive Programmer (Grant Palin)
• CQRS Performance Engineering: Read vs Read/Write Models (Derick Bailey)
• State Pattern Misuse (Greg Young)
• The Dissatisfied Designer (Dave Laribee)
• Cut the abstractions by putting test hooks (Oren Eini)
• Work is a Rubber Ball that Bounces Back (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF / Silverlight Quick Tip: INotifyPropertyChanged for indexer and Binding to a Dictionary in WPF and Silverlight and Tracing WPF in Visual Studio 2010 (Pete Brown)
• WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity (Scott Hanselman)
• Small Basic – Now with SilverLight (Vijaye)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 : Focus and Activation (Paul Harrington)
• Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog ( again ) (Mike Taulty)
• A syntax highlighting TextBlock for Silverlight 3 (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Catastrophic Failure Message (Kathleen Dollard)
• Silverlight Challenge: Creating a DependencyProperty (Christopher Bennage)
• Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel (Glenn Block)
• Pixel Perfect Development (Dave Schinkel)
• Simplified INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation with WeakReference Support and Typed Property Access API (Daniel Cazzulino)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Toad + ,NET = Datadude for Oracle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 157: Hadoop with Philip Zeyliger (SE-Radio Team)
• endpoint.tv – Install/Uninstall AppFabric & Referencing Caching Libraries (Ron Jacobs)
• Video of My Last Iteration Planning Meeting with CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• Episode 104- PowerScripting Podcast – MDT 2010 with Keith Garner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Conversation with Gary Bernhardt (Corey Haines)
• Ping 51: TechFest, Ballmer, Xbox, Android & Tina Wood! and What is the Cloud? (Laura Foy)
• Videos of developer sessions at Oredev (including mine on .net debugging) (Tess Ferrandez)
• David Anderson on kanban – radio interview (Christophe Louvion)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport – Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night – SharePoint 2010 Pro Summit Edition (Andrew Connell)
• I love Codeplex! (Arian T. Kulp)
• Silverlight @ #MIX10 – The Next Web Now (Silverlight Team)
• You Can Sponsor Philly Code Camp (Nick Berardi)
• Microsoft at SXSW 2010 (Dominic Carr)
• Windows Live Wave 4 at Mix? Follow our liveblog and find out (Kip Kniskern)
• Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10 (John Papa)
• 2010 Summit – in a word, “more!” (Joseph Mirabella)
• Speaking on “Ignite your coding” (Glenn Block)
• Getting ready for MIX10 (Ed Bott)
• Events This Week – March 8th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Looking for more SharePoint 2010 Info? Check out these Free Webcasts by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• MIX10, Coding4Fun Show, and You! (Brian Peek)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Improve Performance by Reducing IO – Creating Covered Index and SQLAuthority Book Review – Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Pinal Dave)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 4: network optimization) (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Server Locking & Block Scripts (Joe Webb)
• Why abbreviate schema names? (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Readying SharePoint For Teleworking (Will Kelly)
• Accessibility and SharePoint 2010 (Tim McConnell)
• Configure SharePoint Server 2010 for Mobile Device Access (Office Team)
• Training from Microsoft on SharePoint 2010 (Paul Andrew)
• Beyond F5 deployment – my top 5 benefits of Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Kodu (MS Downloads)
• A Trip Down Memory Lane – Presentations over 10 years old (Scott Hanselman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDNUT (O’Reilly Media)
• Remote File Explorer in PowerGUI and PowerShell in the Enterprise (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Office Web Apps to graduate with Windows Live Wave 4: gives clue to final release date? (damaster)
• The incomplete list of impolite WP7 user feature requests (Chris Sells)
• UITableView Example Code (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/9/2010 – Special Edition (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Finds: March 8, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 9, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #555 and The Morning Brew #556 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2010 — #809 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Mar-2010 and Tech Tweets for 9-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• My new home page, refreshed [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!] (David Anson)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.9.2010 (Bob Familiar)

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Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET

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Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Series for Designers and Developers (Christian Schormann)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Details Announced (Frank La Vigne)
• Soft Skills are Actual Skills (David Starr)
• Erik Meijer: Rebel with a Cause (Charles Torre)
• Pex 2010 (aka Pex 0.90.50303.0) now available on MSDN Subscribers Downloads (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• My First Windows C++ Application in Ages: Hello World in Win32 with Visual C++ 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Using Mongo With LINQ (Rob Conery)
• DiffPlex 1.0 Released!! (Matt Manela)
• Creating and Sharing Project & Item Templates (Aaron Marten)
• Is select (System.Uri) broken? (Oren Eini)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part I: Locks (Chris Burrows)
• Combining Higher Order Functions in C# (Mike Hadlow)
• Split Your Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Poll: IoC Containers for .NET (Oliver Sturm)
• Empty Nothings (Dustin Campbell)
• Mercurial Is Getting Better for .NET Projects (Rinat Abdullin)
• Beta of VS Team Explorer with Cross Platform Support (Somasegar)
• Maximum number static fields allowed in mscorlib? (David Kean)
• How to set the startup program for debugging a project for the entire team (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Functional C#: Using Join and GroupJoin (Mark Needham)
• Too much reuse (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• HTML Agility Pack Rocks Your Screen Scraping World (Lee Holmes)
• JavaScript Magazine March 2010 Now Available (Michael Kimsal)
• Introducing oEmbed (Cory Isakson)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – jQuery Integration (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Tab Isolation (Andy Zeigler)
• Using Other Web Servers on Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Using Delegate and Undelegate in jQuery 1.4.2 (Jordan Boesch)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Sit Together" Now Online (James Shore)
• Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria Overview (MS Downloads)
• Refining My TDD Strategy (Russell Ball)
• The 22 minute meeting (Scott Berkun)
• Architecture Lives Here (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Solution: Testing Web Services with MSTest on Team Build (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Getting Started with Agile Results (J.D. Meier)
• Field Vs. Property: Does It Really Matter? and When Do You Specify Expected Parameters In Stub Methods? (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• 1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight (Christopher Bennage)
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 2) – Silverlight/WPF Project Frameworks (Me)
• Favorite Tool and Library Downloads for Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Learning the M-V-VM pattern for XAML development (Tim Heuer)
• Persisting the Configuration (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• endpoint.tv – Announcing Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 (Ron Jacobs)
• This Week in Silverlight – March 4 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• MSDN Live Meeting: SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform (Katrien De Graeve)

Community / Events

• SharePoint MVP Chat brought to you by MSDN (Andrew Connell)
• NYC .NET Developer’s User Group->Next Meeting (Stephen Forte)
• Steve Ballmer on Cloud Computing: We are all in! (Sunshine)
• Schedule for my session at MIX10 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Spring 2010 jQuery Talks (John Resig)

Database

• ROI and the DBA (Buck Woody)
• Exploring SQL Server Modeling through MCsla (Rockford Lhotka)
• More SQL Azure Samples (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009 Release 2) (Chris Sells)
• Something for the weekend – Whats the most complex query? (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Order of Columns in Update Statement Does not Matter (Pinal Dave)
• NoSQL DB, Objectivity/DB 10 Beefs Up Java and Adds C# .NET support (Mitch Pronschinske)

SharePoint

• How to connect SharePoint BDC to Oracle through TNS (Dmitry Kaloshin)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to Spend $9.5 Billion on Research in 2010 (Jeremy Kirk)
• Free ebooks correlated with increased print-book sales (Cory Doctorow)
• A Preview of Windows Phone 7 Series Capabilities (Zhiming Xue)
• Apple Tops Google and Microsoft as the World’s Most Admired Company for 2010 (Skipper)
• Run XP Mode in VirtualBox Instead of Virtual PC (The How-To Geek)
• Did a Microsoft VP really suggest an Internet tax for cybersecurity? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Daily Dose – Facebook Going Public, But Not For a While and Kiln: A DVCS for Fog Bugz (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Offers Free Guides to a 21st-Century Education (Rob Bayuk)
• Tip of the Day: Online Career Events (Anne Cheng)
• Surface and Healthcare at HIMMS (Eric Havir)
• Free Risk (like game) – TurboRisk v2 (Now includes IDE to edit/compile/test your own AI players) (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #553 (Chris Alcock)
• Creators Club Communiqué 44 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Links (3/4/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: March 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)

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Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

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Top Links

• New Offers for Visual Studio 2010 (Somasegar)
• Call for Speakers for Philly.NET Code Camp 2010.1 (Nick Berardi)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 : Performance tuning (Paul Harrington)
• Location sensor for Windows 7 – It’s about time! (Arian T. Kulp)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Rhino DivanDB – A full coding sample – Embedded (Oren Eini)
• Release Candidate of Database Projects available and GDR Power Tools update (Barclay Hill)
• NServiceBus 2.0 RTM (Udi Dahan)
• Making VS2010 and/or your WPF applications happy in Remote Desktop/RDP Land (Greg Duncan)
• Marshal.ReleaseComObject Considered Dangerous (Paul Harrington)
• Import and Export DataTips — vstipDebug0013 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Consuming WCF 3.5 REST Service in Windows Mobile 6 Emulator and Windows Mobile Device (Mahesh Sabnis)

Web Development

• Difference between ASP.NET Sessions, Application variables and Cache objects. (Al Pascual)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning Rails: Live Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDRAS (O’Reilly Media)
• Building a Star Rating System with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Mike Ceranski)
• Sharing ObjectDataSource From Codebehind (Dave M. Bush)
• Discover which Control Raised a PostBack (Gil Fink)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Evaluating enhancements (Simon Brown)
• User Stories and TFS2010 – Like Carmel and apples and Visual Studio 2010 makes Testing/QA professionals officially happy (it’s true!) – Test Professional and Test Case WorkItem Type (Greg Duncan)
• Getting Results the Agile Way – The Book on Getting Results (J.D. Meier)
• The Problems With Acceptance Testing (James Shore)
• Thought experiment: The Curry Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Agile lets people be people (Patrick Kua)
• An Evolution of Test-Specification Styles – My Journey to MSpec (Richard Cirerol)
• Intro To Git (Jesse Freeman)
• New Site for Agile Managers and Team Leaders (Jurgen Appelo)
• A reminder about context switching (Mark Needham)
• MSpec Live Templates (Hadi Hariri)
• Book Review – Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (Russell Ball)

Silverlight / WPF

• LocBaml for .NET 4.0 (Michael Sync)
• Using the RawImage in a WPF application. (Luis Cabrera)
• WPF : A Fun Little Boids Type Thing (Sacha Barber)
• Running CSLA .NET 3.8.2 under .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Live Geometry (Kirill Osenkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Oren Eini on Creating DSLs in Boo (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Connected Show Podcast – Is That A Phone In Your Pocket?! (Brian Johnson)
• The Engadget Show – 006: Avner Ronen, the first Windows Phone 7 Series device, Dell Mini 5, and more! (Chad Mumm)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #165: Introduction to Nhibernate.Burrow (Derik Whittaker)
• Destination Adapter Comparison : SSIS Video Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 50: Multi-Point Server, IE6 Funeral, 3 Designs for Windows Phone (Laura Foy)
• Silverlight TV 11: Dynamically Loading XAPs with MEF (John Papa)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Iron with Jimmy Schementi (Jeff Brand)
• Pluralcast #10 : Reading Code with Alan Stevens (David Starr)
• The Verification Corner – Specifications in Action with Spec# (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• SMX West 2010, Steve Ballmer Edition (Aya Zook)
• Silverlight Design Day Registration Open for Boston (Adam Kinney)
• Events This Week – March 1st, 2010 and Post-MSDN Roadshow Geek Dinner in Richmond This Wednesday! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Headspring Agile Boot Camp, March 24-26 – sign up now – Austin, TX (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Microsoft Shows off Mobile Surface at TechFest 2010 (Hammad)
• March Community Calendar (Joel Cochran)
• Announcing New England GiveCamp (Jim O’Neil)
• The 1st of March: Did you know Stir Trek: Iron Man Edition is on May 7, 2010? (Jeff Blankenburg)

Database

• How Do You Drive Your DBA Mad? (Andy Warren)
• Powershell for Batch Operations (Grant Fritchey)
• Have you backed up your keys lately? (Buck Woody)
• Ten years of SQL Server (Jamie Thomson)
• Getting SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express installed on Windows 7 (Matt Milner)
• Execute Package Task Packages fail for no apparent reason (Simon Sabin)
• Why do you need a primary and a secondary access key for Windows Azure storage? (Jennifer Marsman)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Site Definition Upgrade Discussion with Microsoft’s Sean Livingston (Joel Oleson)
• Walkthrough of enabling CRUD for SharePoint 2010 external lists using Visual Studio 2010 (SharePoint Team)
• Lightning Conductor Calendar View (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Google welcomes Picnik (Brian Axe)
• WHS Add-in WHS Mobile version 1.5.4.0 available (Ben Palmer)
• Bing Autosuggest – History Repeats Itself – and That is a Good Thing (Robert Williams & Todd Schwartz)
• Attracting Talent (Eric Lippert)
• Introducing Robots API v2: The Rise of Active Robots (Dan Peterson)
• Play Guitar By Flexing Alone: Microsoft Research’s Muscle-Computer Interface (Wilson Rothman)
• Zune (phone) news (Kip Kniskern)
• My MacGyver Moment (Jeremiah Peschka)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.02.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #550 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #109 (David Vidmar)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

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