Red Gate has heard the concerns of the community and contacted me about running a promotion to help promote some goodwill. Over the next two weeks, you will have two chances to enter a contest sponsored by Red Gate. There will be 50 winners, each receiving a license for .NET Reflector Professional. There are two ways to enter:

1. Leave a comment on this blog post. At the end of the contest I will choose, at random, 25 winners.
2. Follow me on Twitter and tweet this message. I will choose 25 random winners from the list of tweets.

Hey @alvinashcraft. I want a copy of Reflector 7 from @redgate. #dewdrop

Here are a few rules/disclaimers/disclosures:

• You can only win one license. If the same person is chosen in both the comments and tweets, another random name will be drawn.
• The contest begins today, February 21, 2011 and ends on Friday, March 4, 2011.
• Winners will be contacted no later than Tuesday, March 8, 2011.
• As a Microsoft MVP and Friend of Red Gate, I have free NFR licenses for Reflector and ANTS Profiler for personal use. I have not been compensated by Red Gate in any other way.
• Gifts, bribes, complements, etc. will have NO influence on the outcome of this contest.

Good luck and thanks for reading The Dew!

Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Improving the In-Memory Database (Rob Tiffany)
• Command Changes in Prism 4 (Brian Noyes)
• Automatic compilation of Linq to SQL queries (Gunnar Liljas)
• Design Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Windows Azure (Bill Zack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Choosing Visual Studio StartUp Projects (Richard Carr)
• Binary Attachments In WCF With MTOM and Visual Studio 2005 2008 2010 Put Curly Braces On Same Line (Deepak Kapoor)
• A Brief Introduction to F# (Mike Ormond)
• Dependency Graph in Visual Studio 2010 – View Assembly Dependencies (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Command / Query service in WCF (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Running Multiple Versions of Visual Studio Side-By-Side and Change the Order of Your Application Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• How The Garbage Collector Can Cause Random Slowness (Edward Elliott)
• How to get domain name from URL (Raghav Khunger)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (XVIII) – Adding Edit Functionality (II) (Rob Ashton)
• ΝUnit Inspired Task Runner (cigwork)
• Simulating projectile motion with the Animation Manager using C++ (Jerry Joyce)
• Creating the Parallax and Scrolling Background (Michael C. Neel)

Web Development

• Writing for the Windows Azure for PHP portal (Maarten Balliauw)
• Short review of "Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework" (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ASP.NET: How to avoid ArgumentNullException in StructureMap controller factory and ASP.NET MVC: Comparing same view on ASP.NET and Razor view engine (Gunnar Peipman)
• jHash: Easily Manage Browser History / window.location.hash (Chris Pietschmann)
• WebSharper 2.0 Beta available (Adam Granicz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Preface" Now Online (James Shore)
• It Starts with Strategy (J.D. Meier)
• [Tool Review] – Project Management with Bacon (ScoutMaster)
• Book Review – The Checklist Manifesto (Steve Jones)
• How to convert Subversion repository to Mercurial (Hg)–it’s easier than you think! (Igal Tabachnik)
• Team Communication: Learning models (Mark Needham)
• Book Review – The Nomadic Developer (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Controlling a Missile Launcher via a Windows Phone 7 device (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
• CHART OF THE DAY: Windows Phone 7 Has The Least Expensive Paid Apps (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG) (Jay Yarow)
• Blend Bits 18–Sample Data (Mike Taulty)
• Capital FM app for Windows Phone 7 (Luke)
• ChevronWP7: an early Christmas present for Windows Phone 7 owners (Steven Hodson)
• Developing Phone 7 apps on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Pieter de Bruin)
• I can see my home screen with Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mark Russinovich: Windows Azure, Cloud Operating Systems and Platform as a Service (Charles Torre)
• YUI Theater — Nate Koechley: “A Taxonomy of Touch” (36 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Demo of Image Optimizer (Mads Kristensen)

Community / Events

• Survey results: Open source developer preferences (Jonathan Wanagel)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU 6 includes small changes to .dtsx files (Jamie Thomson)
• Get the Current Stored Procedure Name in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Challenge – Puzzle – Usage of FAST Hint and SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Challenge – Error While Converting Money to Decimal (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Achitecture – Competitive Differentiation (James Vastbinder)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management Leads the Pack According to Gartner! (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• A first look at Office 365 (damaster)
• How WordPress Saved the Web (Marc Grabanski)
• We Hold These Tweets To Be Self-Evident [COMIC] (Matt Silverman)
• CodePlex supports Windows Live Writer! (Gunnar Peipman)

More Link Collections

• Weekly Link Post 172 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Distributed Weekly 78 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for November 25, 2010 — #999 and Silverlight Cream for November 26, 2010 — #1000 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #738 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting by Aaron Erickson

Top Links

Importing Adobe Photoshop files in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)

Introduction to SSIS Projects in Denali (Jamie Thomson)

Jounce Part 6: Visual States and Multiple Views per ViewModel (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting the IE9 Beta to Play Well with Visual Studio 2010 (Dan Wahlin)
• Visual F# 100 Examples: Example 12 to 13 (Rey Dacoco)
• Visual Studio Logging (Zain Naboulsi)
• What happened to Lucene.Net? It got forked (Simone Chiaretta)
• New White Paper Details the Windows Azure Programming Model (Windows Azure Team)
• Concurrent programming: TCP relay server (Jon Harrop)
• Feature Builder power with drag and drop simplicity – Instant Feature Builder v1 (Think “Drag and Drop Map/Code files/Docs/Guidance in and vsix out”) (Greg Duncan)
• Book Review Programming Entity Framework Second Edition (Deepak Kapoor)
• EF FAQ Relocation and Overhaul (Danny Simmons)
• Raven MQ – Client API Design (Oren Eini)

Web Development

• Composition with jQuery Templates: Why and How (Dave Ward)
• Creating a Carousel with jQuery (Matthew David)
• How to Create an Awesome Scrolling Navigation using jQuery (Martin Beeby)
• ASP.NET Web Application: Publish/Package Tokenizing Parameters (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
• Twitter Goes JSON-Only With One API, More to Come? (Adam DuVander)
• How to take on the cloud – from Umbraco and Windows Azure (Andy Robb)
• Investigate Web Pages Using the IE9 Developer Tools (Rachel Appel)
• Azure@home Part 11: Worker Role Run Method (concluded) (Jim O’Neil)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture introduces control (Simon Brown)
• HBR as a Source of Insight and Customer-Connected Engineering (CCE) (J.D. Meier)
• Code as a Cause of Project Failure (Michael Norton)
• Local Version Control (James Iry)
• The Full Stack–Part 3 Building a Repository with TDD (Jesse Liberty)
• Distributed Agile: Communicating big design decisions (Mark Needham)
• It’s just like putting LEGO bricks together… Or not? (Giorgio Sironi)
• 9 Free Pomodoro Timers (Simon Mackie)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 5 minute Observable.FromAsyncPattern sample for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The taming of the phone [New SetterValueBindingHelper sample demonstrates its usefulness on Windows Phone 7 (and Silverlight 4)] (David Anson)
• Updating Dates with WPF DatePicker (Julie Lerman)
• WP7 UX Introduction: Part 2 (Jesse Freeman)
• Enable background audio for multiple pages in Windows Phone 7 – Take 2 (Håkan Reis)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #6 – Data Binding (Really) (Jesse Liberty)
• Accessing Local Database using Silverlight 4 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Mindscape Silverlight Controls + Free Mega Pack Contest (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight’s Bright Future (Ward Bell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Developers: Rise to the Challenge at RiSE4fun.com (Charles Torre)
• Announcing Project Crescent! (Silverlight Team)
• iPhone and Tdd: The Video Series Begins (Brett Schuchert)
• Yet Another Podcast #13–Corey Schuman (Jesse Liberty)
• endpoint.tv – WCF Contract First with WSCF.blue (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• NoVA Code Camp Call for Speakers is Open! and REMINDER: PDC Re-cap Event in Reston THIS FRIDAY, 11/12 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Speaking at and Announcing the Mississippi Coast .NET User Group November 23rd (Keith Elder)

Database

• SQL Server Denali: HADRON ROCKS. (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server 2011 (Denali) no DTS support (Devin Knight)
• Breaking Change for Windows Azure Drive Beta in Guest OS 1.8 and 2.0 (Azure Storage Team)
• Appending Date to End of Report Name in Reporting Services Subscription (Brian K. McDonald)
• Denali Paging–Is it win/win ? (Dave Ballantyne)
• Project Crescent (David Dye)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Online: SharePoint Online (Beta) Solution Development Overview Poster (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 publish plugin released (Jamie Lang)
• Web services and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Lightning Tools)
• BCS Meta Man November Beta (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Migrating from Communications Server 2007 R2 to Lync Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone 7 supports tethering (for Samsung Focus/Omnia 7 anyway) (damaster)
• WriteMonkey Version 2 Preview 1 is now out, with added pizzazz (Erez Zukerman)
• PowerShell url checker (Check if a list of url’s is valid) (Jason Jarrett)
• Get your app featured on CNET! (Jennifer Marsman)
• 35 Developer Learning Pain Points (Joe Stagner)
• Firefox 4.0 beta 7 brings faster JavaScript, WebGL, is now feature-complete (Lee Mathews)
• Cloud computing talent: What do we look for? (Part 3 of 5) (Sandeep Sood)
• The Inevitable Comparison: iPhone 4 vs Samsung Omnia 7 (Windows Phone 7) – Introduction (Taimur Asad)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Mobile Design and Development $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDDND (O’Reilly Media)
• Pro Android 2 (Pavel Rozenblioum)
• Getting a Windows Phone 7 to Work with a PrePaid AT&T Plan (Frank La Vigne)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 10, 2010 — #990 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Database Testing Links (Buck Woody)
• Denali Links (Richard Douglas)
• The Morning Brew #727 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/11/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Brian Knight

Top Links

• Search and Navigation Tips/Tricks with Visual Studio (Scott Guthrie)
• New XNA Creators Club Educational Material Available! (Andre Vrignaud)
• Vote Now on the FATE OF IRON RUBY DLR language.. (Don Burnett)
• A Developer’s Roadmap to Windows Phone 7 Launch Timing (Brandon Watson)
• And Then, Under the Guise Of Jesusness, A “Fake” Twitter App Arose From the Spammy Ashes (Evan Nagle)
• Windows Phone 7 Web browser comparison versus iPhone and Android (video) (Sebastian Anthony)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio LightSwitch Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Speeding up Visual Studio Build Times and Performance and Installing VS2008 SP1 breaks Team Build Agent (James Allderidge)
• LightSwitch Beta1 Now Available, Building Your First App (Jason Zander)
• Microsoft publish Visual Studio 2010 Database Project Guidance (Jamie Thomson)
• Upcoming Power Tool for Backing up and Restoring your TFS Server (Jeff Ogorek)
• IObserver and IObservable – A New addition to BCL (Abhishek Sur)
• TFS API Part 29 – TFS Impersonation and Update for TFS \ VS \Lab 2010 – All In One (Shai Raiten)
• Integrating WCF RIA Services with WCF Routing (Yavor Georgiev)
• Class View and Object Browser Icons (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to create a ngem package and How to resolve referenced assemblies with NGem (Daniel Fisher)
• Farseer Physics Engine 3.0 Release (CodePlex)

Web Development

• What is the difference in <%: variable%> and <%= variable%> in ASP.NET MVC? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Microsoft Expression Web 4 SuperPreview Rocks! (Markus Egger)
• Extending ASP.NET Dynamic Data: Filtering with Joins (Oleg Sych)
• The wonders of the input tag in HTML 5 (Giorgio Sironi)
• Security Resources Now Available for Windows Azure (Windows Azure)
• WeatherBug Provides Geo Overlays for Map Mashups (Adam DuVander)
• Making Sites Look Their Best in Standards Mode (John Hrvatin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 2010 State of Agile Development Survey (Amr Elssamadisy)
• Day 23 – Design Your Week with Skill and Results, Social, and Process Lens for Organizational Culture (J.D. Meier)
• Read and Recommended: Kanban (Stephen Forte)
• TinyPM, Big Release (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Waste #2: Extra Features (Matt Stine)
• Using CCTray with JetBrains TeamCity (Steve Smith)
• New! Unit Testing Asp.NET Applications with Pex and Moles Tutorial (Jonathan de Halleux)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Performance Suite – Timezone fix (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone 7: See the Sample Apps and engadget – Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview (Bob Familiar)
• Poll: Windows Phone 7 development – would you like to get involved? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Sharing the Light – Silverlight Development with Expression Blend (Chris Koenig)
• Brand-new XNA content for Windows Phone 7! (Cigdem Patlak)
• The Great Silverlight Competency Test – Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7 – Developer Roadmap and a Belgian Contest (Katrien De Graeve)
• Build Your First Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Application (Shai Raiten)
• Create Silverlight applications using Visual Studio LightSwitch! (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 3 MSDN documentation are combined (Sam Landstrom)
• My kind of developer opportunity (your mkop editor)
• WP7 What to do before the tools are released. (Mike Hole)
• XNA WP7 getting started (Coding4Fun)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ted Neward Programs in Everything (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 123 – PowerScripting Podcast – Cezar Ungureanasu and Thomas Lee on Office Communications Server (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Phone 7: News for Developers and Ping 71: Windows Phone 7 & Xbox LIVE, Flight Sim, Facebook, Messenger, MENLO (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – August 23rd, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• How to Fix Public Sector IT (Mike Hadlow)
• Finding, Losing, and Reigniting Your Passion and Why Microsoft + Being a Student = Awesome (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• The new gig with Neudesic (Stuart Celarier)
• People are willing to work for less (Zviki Cohen)
• Being fueled by developer passion (Glenn Block)
• PDC10 is Sold Out! Really? (Mike Swanson)
• Upcoming Windows Phone 7 Events (Brian Hitney)
• It’s not about what we have, it’s about what we share… Part One. (Sara Allison)

Database

• Connect To SQL Server 2008 From NetBeans IDE On A Mac (Deepak Kapoor)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (Pinal Dave)
• Copying large files when running SQL Server (Simon Sabin)
• SSIS: Conditional File Processing in a ForEach Loop (Tim Mitchell)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Using SQLite – Only $9.99. Use code DDSLE (O’Reilly Media)
• N Things Worth Knowing About SELECT (Jen McCown)
• SQLCop update Version 1.1 (George Mastros)

Miscellaneous

• Remote Desktop Services Component Architecture Poster (MS Downloads)
• Cloud.com Offers Support For VMware (Krishnan Subramanian)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 038 for 8/23/2010 (Pete Brown)
• WebMatrix Resources (Rhonda Tipton)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for August 23, 2010 — #931 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #671 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #119 (Grant Palin)

The Geek Shelf

Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide by Michael Coles

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Top Links

• RavenDB & CouchDB – Basic Queries (Rob Ashton)
• Basic Manipulation Event Handling in Windows Phone 7 (Charles Petzold)
• New Protocol Attempts to Standardize Sharing (Jolie O’Dell)
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Final Look (Jimmy Bogard)
• WPF – I’m Not Dead Yet! (Brian Noyes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Albacore Feature Preview: Building C# Code With CSC.exe (Derick Bailey)
• Conventions for Code First (Rowan Miller)
• Team Explorer Everywhere – A Plug-in to access TFS from Eclipse (Subodh Sohoni)
• VS 2010 productivity improvements, Part II (Somasegar)
• Prototype Tip for the New Book and Go To a Line Without Using the Go To Line Dialog (Zain Naboulsi)
• New book: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• EAV and the .NET Framework (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Tips & Tricks – Working with Event Handler (Kunal Chowdhury)

Web Development

• Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API (Part 3) (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Using Multiple Actions (Brian Mains)
• Why ASP.NET Changes Don’t Change Anything (Dave M. Bush)
• FubuMVC Guides and StructureMap 3.0 Plans (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Walkthrough– Publishing an Extensibility Web Control Project Template (Part 2 of 2) (Martin Tracy)
• Google Offers Cloud Storage to Developers (Abel Avram)
• Computing the Total Size of Your Blobs (Steve Marx)
• Zappos to Launch API For Shoes (Adam DuVander)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Final Draft of DSL book on RoughCut (Martin Fowler)
• Working with Legacy code #4 : Remove the hard dependencies and Working with Legacy code #5: The blackhole. (Andy Stopford)
• A few weeks of Kanban (Christophe Louvion)
• Cucumber, A Brief Overview (Joey Beninghove)
• Wireframes or No Wireframes (Vikas Hazrati)
• Rietveld, or “How to revamp your code review process” (Kyle Baley)
• “Why” documentation – in code? in tests? (Brian Marick)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (3 – Client) (Mike Taulty)
• Stream the BP Live Feed via Silverlight (Frank La Vigne)
• WCF RIA Services Speculation: EntityCollectionView (Colin Blair)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #26 – Changing the Startup Class (Mike Snow)
• Filled To The Bursting Point – WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.5.0 (Rene Schulte)
• Microsoft Translator client library for Silverlight and SNEAK PEEK: Another Silverlight theme pack preview (Tim Heuer)
• Working with JSON in .NET – a Silverlight example (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using Behaviors in Blend 4 (Silverlight TV 30) (John Papa)
• Spaghetti Code Talks XNA with Chris Williams and Spaghetti Code Talks Entrepeneurship (Jeff Brand)

Community / Events

• TechEd North America Announcement Speculation (Stephen Forte)
• Upcoming SharePoint Conferences in 2010 (Paul J. Swider)
• OData Workshops in Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Chicago and NYC (Alex James)
• IASA NE June 17th, Cloud Computing Open Fishbowl (Bob Familiar)
• California Launches Mashup Contest: the Data Gold Rush is On (John Musser)
• Tipping against Time – Sara’s Visual Studio Tip Challenge (Sara Ford)
• CodePlex: Multiple Project Downloads, Wiki Enhancements and more (Matt Hawley)
• Is Google getting ready to drop a Chrome OS bomb on WWDC 2010? (Lee Mathews)

Database

• Find Rules and Defaults using the PowerShell for SQL Server 2008 Provider (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure and Transactions (Pinal Dave)
• Table Variables (Steve Jones)
• Clearing a SQL Server Database, Take 2 (Joel Cochran)
• Push Ups and String Concatenation (Jeremiah Peschka)

Miscellaneous

• The Vast and Endless Sea (Jeff Atwood)
• A COM and Registry review staring CLSID, TypeLib, Interface and AppID. (Greg Duncan)
• MetroTwit Launches with Windows 7 Integration (Sarah Perez)
• Google outlaws Windows, but what if Microsoft outlaws Google…? and Steve Jobs speaks candidly about Adobe, Google, the iPhone, iPad and more! (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2010 — #874 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 1, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #612 (Chris Alcock)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines 06.01.2010 (Bob Familiar)

The Geek Shelf

The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting

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Top Links

• Pair Management (Michael Feathers)
• “Suggested Resources” Visual Studio Plug-In (Tom Hollander)
• SQL SERVER – Attach mdf file without ldf file in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Slim Xbox 360 and Natal bundle to debut at E3? (Vladislav Savov)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Enable or Disable a Breakpoint and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using Hide Selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 Multi-Monitor Support (Richard Carr)
• Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh (MS Downloads)
• Writing basic information to Excel files from a .NET application (Dennis Delimarsky)

Web Development

• Server Driven Paging With WCF Data Services (Phani Raj)
• WCF, REST and URL Rewriting with Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• Twitter’s Many Geo APIs (Adam DuVander)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Small Step Refactoring: Overload Constructor (Mark Needham)
• RavenDB Performance Tweaks (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned from Seth Godin (J.D. Meier)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Events Deserialization (Jérémie Chassaing)
• If Self-Documenting Code is the What, Unit Tests are the Why (John Sonmez)
• Vanilla Scrum and Multi-Team Value Streams (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Elastic Collisions (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• A ?refreshing? Authentication/Authorization experience with Silverlight 4 (David Poll)
• Expression Blend 4 SDK for Windows Phone Streamlines Development (Bruce Kyle)
• Unit Testing Modal Dialogs in MVVM and Silverlight 4 (Slobodan Pavkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 110 – PowerScripting Podcast – Andrew Mason from Microsoft on Server Core (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 10 – James Crisp live at the ALM Conference (Richard Banks)
• WSDAPI – Ralf Beckers about Web Services on Devices for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 (Jan Schenk)
• Major Nelson Show 358: Left4Dead’s The Passing, BioShock 2 MP DLC and Split/Second (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• Road Trip with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell (Al Pascual)
• Coders Go the (Long) Distance for Imagine Cup (Lukas Velush)
• Great Indian Developer Summit Wrap-Up (Stephen Forte)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Books OnLine – available now… (Dukagjin Maloku)
• A DMV a Day – Day 26 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (25/30) fill factor (Paul S. Randal)
• Debugging 64 bit SSIS packages (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Forums in SharePoint 2010 (Lightning Tools)
• SharePoint PowerShell Forum (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Miscellaneous

• The Plug Computer (Mike Ceranski)
• Daily Dose – Android Market Reaches 50k Apps; Development Accelerates (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Word 2010 Navigation Pane and more and Outlook 2010 – My Top 9 features (Daniel Moth)
• Human Computer Interaction, A Portal to the Future (Hui MA)
• Job Hoppers Redux: An Employee’s Perspective (Mark Suster)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/26/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Finds: April 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #587 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 25, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2010 — #847 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 142 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Everyman on Putting Facebook Last, Next Killer Mobile App, Worker or Entrepreneur (Dave Burke)

The Geek Shelf

IronRuby in Action

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Top Links

• Effective exercises for teaching TDD (Gojko Adzic)
• Twitter Goes Anywhere With New API (Adam DuVander)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some introductory Rx samples (Bart de Smet)
• SqlClient Default Protocol Order (Luiz Fernando Santos)
• Design Time Code Generation and Runtime Model-Driven Generation (Rockford Lhotka)
• Close the Current Document Window and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Adding labels to Breakpoints (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Advice for Aspiring ASP.NET Web Developers (Mike Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD & Functional Testing: from collections to scalars (Brian Marick)
• Double Dispatch is a Code Smell (Derek Greer)
• Getting Results the Agile Way: A Word from the Author (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Getting Started with Expression Blend (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Printing Support in Silverlight 4 (Suprotim Agarwal)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 357: We say good bye to Original Xbox support for LIVE and more (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• SharePoint 2010 Summit @ AIIM Expo (SharePoint Team)

Database

• SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Books Online (MS Downloads)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (18/30) FILESTREAM storage, garbage collection, and more (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Find Most Active Database in SQL Server – DMV dm_io_virtual_file_stats (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Sharepoint Planning Guide and SharePoint Foundation Operations (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Import file to change group membership (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Daily Dose – Apple, Google, Intel, IBM Hiring Practices Under Investigation (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Network Warrior – Only $9.99 use code DDNWE (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 19, 2010 – AM Edition (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #582 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 18, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/19/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for April 18, 2010 — #840 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 141 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links of the week #116 (David Vidmar)

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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

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Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 2 RC Released (Phil Haack) – Phil announces what looks to be the last release of v2 before it ships with VS2010.
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Update (Scott Guthrie) – VS2010 to be delayed a few weeks so MS can release an RC build in February to address performance concerns.
• World# – Real Time 3D Augmented Reality with Silverlight (Rene Schulte) – Rene is doing some really amazing 3D stuff with Silverlight, A must-read!
• Moonlight 2 is now available (Silverlight Team) – V2 offers SL2 features and some bits of SL3.
• The Law of Unintended Consequences (Justin Etheredge) – Nice post from Justin that reminds us to be conscious of possible side-effects when we make decisions in software development.

.NET / Visual Studio

• VS2010 Modeling; Create Lifeline from Component (Clemens Reijnen)
• Developing an installer for your Surface application (Eric St. John)
• F#: Word Count – A somewhat failed attempt (Mark Needham)
• Lessons In Building An Email Parser (Rob Reynolds)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta period extended (Somasegar)
• Changed and rewritten items: Effective C# 2nd edition (Bill Wagner)
• Using LINQPad with NHibernate (Alan Northam)
• Astoria Data Services V2 Support in Telerik Data Services Wizard (Stephen Forte)

Web Development

• A Bit About Spark and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine and Adding a bit of Spark to Nerd Dinner (Mike Ormond)
• Understanding Partial Views in ASP.NET MVC Application (Mohammad Azam)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta – Strongly Typed UI Helpers (Malcolm Sheridan)
• The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 4 – Integrating Siege.ServiceLocation with ASP.NET MVC and The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation Part 5 – A guide to getting started with Siege.ServiceLocation (Marcus Bratton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Balsamiq Mid-Week Release: finishing up Zoom (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• How to write MEF in 2 hours or less (Oren Eini)
• Advanced StructureMap: connecting implementations to open generic types (Jimmy Bogard)
• Leadership Tip: Leaders Who Are Always Busy Often Make Really Bad Leaders. (Rajiv Popat)
• What Is The Difference Between an IoC Container and MEF? (Jak Charlton)

Silverlight / WPF

• Flash to Silverlight Guide – MovieClip to UserControl (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight 4: Drag&drop with EventToCommand (Laurent Bugnion)
• Extending the SMF for the HVP (Jesse Liberty)
• Open-Source WPF Reporting Engine (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 12 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 70: Brian Hitney of Microsoft (Michael Kimsal)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #155: Exploring .Net 4 Features – Tuples (Derik Whittaker)
• New PowerGUI Overview Video (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Pete at PDC09: Jon Galloway on Witty Twitter and Pete at PDC09: The Sobees Social Client, WPF, Silverlight and Yahoo! (Pete Brown)
• The Thirsty Developer 80: Meeting the New Guy, Clark Sell (Dave Bost)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Erik Meijer and Thomas Lewis (Nic Fillingham)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 016 – Real Time Web and Silverlight (Eric Nelson)

Community / Events

• Looking for last-minute gift idea? Buy The Art of Community book by Jono Bacon (Sara Ford)
• CodePaste is the bee’s knees, my new favorite way to share code. (Glenn Block)

Database

• The Top 20 Questions in Database Design (Buck Woody)
• Reporting Services Licensing (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Differences in Vulnerability between Oracle and SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Transaction Log Fragmentation??? (Lawrence Overbey)

Miscellaneous

• Tools of the Tech Tweet Trade (Elijah Manor)
• C# 4, ASP.NET 4, WPF 4, and VB 2010 Sample Preview Chapters (Jim Minatel)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/18 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Building a PC, Part VI: Rebuilding (Jeff Atwood)
• Palm unveils "Project Ares" webOS developer tool (Nik Fletcher)
• Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 GM Versions (PSN Editorial Staff)
• Open Source As A SaaS Endgame – Digging A Bit More (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Using PowerShell to clean and zip a Solution folder (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #501 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 17, 2009 — #758 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Top 5 Essays You Should Read (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Links (12/17/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Creators Club Communiqué 35 (Kathleen Sanders)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• An RSS Dashboard in F#, part one (Brian McNamara)
• New Article on Detecting Memory Leaks . NET Applications and CSharp “How Do I Videos (Podcasts)” for the Zune Software (Charlie Calvert)
• Questionnaire DSL with Microsoft "Oslo" (Chris Sells)
• Awesome F# – Decision Trees – Part II (Chris Smith)
• IronRuby 0.9.2 (Jim Deville)
• When NHibernate Won’t Do What You Think It Should (Jak Charlton)
• Touch and Gestures (Jason Ipock) – Link of the Day
• T4 Template Goodness (Sacha Barber)
• Result of my survey on the usage of ORM Frameworks in .NET (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• I Love FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies! (Peter Kellner)
• Concurrent Visualization Techniques in the VS2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)
• Prioritizing CSLA .NET work items (Rockford Lhotka)
• Encrypting and Decrypting Data Using X.509 Certificates (Joel Ross)
• Simple names are not so simple (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• November 2009 JavaScript Magazine is now available! (Michael Kimsal)
• Walking through a new Web Application in Visual Studio 2010 (.NET 4.0) (Jef Claes)
• Ambiguous References in DefaultWsdlHelpGenerator.aspx (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas – Part 2 (Eric Hexter)
• Using ASP.NET and Jcrop to crop images online (Gunnar Peipman)
• MvcMaps Preview 1 – A Unified Bing/Google Maps API for ASP.NET MVC (Chris Pietschmann)
• Implementing KeyBoard Shortcuts on an ASP.NET Hyperlink Control using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Access a Control by ID From Within a Databound Control (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The bouncer pattern (Sebastian Hermida)
• Form – Storm – Norm – Perform (Jason Grundy)
• The 7 signs your UI was created by a programmer (Ian Voyce)
• Book Review: “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know” (Will Kelly)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 7 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: a nice basket of low-hanging fruit (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Emergence in Development Teams (Jurgen Appelo)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Let’s use it. (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 8 (Michael Feathers) (Mark H. Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Building a Zune Website with Expression Blend 3 StarterKit (MS Downloads)
• Customers using Prism and Prism release for Silverlight 3.0 (Blaine Wastell)
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and SL 3.0 (Bob Brumfield)
• As the platform evolves, so do the workarounds [Better SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better-er!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight From Zero (Jesse Liberty)
• New WPF Feature: Binding to Dynamic Objects (Lester Lobo)
• LINQ shortcut when using Silverlight and ADO .NET Data Services (Stephen Forte)
• Frame Rates (Kirupa Chinnathambiis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Vittorio Bertocci authenticates us with WIF (Carl Franklin)
• Channel 9 Learning Centers Offer Developers Free Training (Bruce Kyle)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 008 – Gary Short on using XAF to build WebForm and WinForm apps (Eric Nelson)
• First Look: Microsoft “Health Tech Today” (Bill Crounse, MD)
• Ping 36: Zune, Seth MacFarlane, voice recognition, Impatient Optimists (Laura Foy)
• Talking Architects – Neil Ward-Dutton (Matt Deacon)
• endpoint.tv – High Performance WCF .NET Stock Trader with Greg Leake (Ron Jacobs)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #150: Adding IoC Support to your WCF Services (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• Stack Overflow Careers: Amplifying Your Awesome (Jeff Atwood)
• More Twitter List goodies: official list widgets! (Jay Hathaway)
• Events This Week – November 2nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• A week of Monospace and Innotech (Gary Sherman)
• November Conferences (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft December Developer Dinner for Partners – Parallel Computing for Managed Developers (Joel Reyes)
• CodeMash 2010 Registration Open! (Jim Holmes)

Database

• How to get the most out of 96 cores (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation / Resources (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint Designer 2010 New Shell Tour (Kolby Hoover)

Miscellaneous

• The Complete Guide to Google Wave Is a Comprehensive Book on Wave (Adam Pash)
• Clicky is Google Analytics all grown up (Jason Clarke)
• WaveSandbox.com: Federate This (Pamela Fox)
• UI Extensibility in Office 2010 (Mirko Mandic)
• Windows 7 SP1 details begin to surface (Steven Bink)
• Google opens up Wave federation (Tom Krazit)
• 10 Things I am Loving About Windows 7 (Chris Lentz)
• Microsoft, what is the meaning of this? (Rob Eisenberg) – A curious email from MS about Azure.
• Lightweight (Kimberly Wolk) – A new look for MSDN.
• HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists (Josh Catone)
• PowerPack Challenge: The Winning Strategy (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Download ten free Windows 7 chapters (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #468 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: November 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/2/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 02, 2009 — #722 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #96 (David Vidmar)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/02/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Double Shot #575 and Double Shot #574 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 387 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Photo Stacks (Coding4Fun)
• Avoiding Memory Leaks with CompositeCommands (Brian Noyes)
• Reading Performance Counters (Richard Carr)
• Fun with Func<T,TResult> Delegates, Events and Async Operations (Rick Strahl)
• Leveraging data annotation attributes in CSLA .NET (Rockford Lhotka)
• Visual Studio 2010 floating windows can be maximized (Daniel Moth)
• Why No Extension Properties? (Eric Lippert)
• Linq to Sql Profiler: Spike results (Oren Eini)

Web Development

• S#arp Architecture Contrib…it’s alive! (Billy McCafferty) – Co-Link of the Day
• Exploring the ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assemby (Maarten Balliauw)
• Using jQuery To Create Stunning Tooltips in your ASP.NET Applications (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Book: Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Yahoo Home Page Now Open to Mashup Developers (Andres Ferrate)
• Forms Authentication – Manual Authentication (Dave M. Bush)
• Multiple View Engines with MVC Turbine (Javier G. Lozano)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Necessary Tester skills …. (Shrini Kulkarni)
• How We Do Things – Evolving our Planning Practice and Attribution and Analogy and How We Do Things – Planning Part 2 (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Coding: Rules of Thumb (Mark Needham)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 1 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Designing With Customers in Mind (Shawn Lipstein)
• A recent conversation about MSpec practices (Aaron Jensen)
• Sumi-e, color, and the art of less (Garr Reynolds)
• Developer Myopia and Good Developers Write Good Code, Instinctively (Jak Charlton)
• Git Submodules like svn:externals (Jonathan Oliver)

Silverlight / WPF

• How can I improve on existing WPF data virtualization solutions? (Bea Stollnitz)
• Using Text Outlines in Silverlight (Charles Petzold)
• Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor) (Daniel Grunwald)
• What Do We Want in Silverlight Validation? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Changing DatePicker in Silverlight to show current date (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dana Groff Yossi Levanoni Talk STM (Carl Franklin)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #146: Advanced Query Options with Lucene.Net (Kyle Baley)
• Emre Kiciman and Ben Livshits – Doloto: Download Time Optimizer for Web 2.0 Apps (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – October 5th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Entity Framework 4.0 Beta 1 Sneak Peak Session at DotNetWork User Group in Cairo, Egypt (Muhammad Mosa)
• Life in Redmond, Washington (Alison)
• SubMain CodeIt.Right Giveaway (Elijah Manor)
• Random Thoughts for Enjoying the PASS Summit (Jeremiah Peschka)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Query Hint – FORCE ORDER (Pinal Dave)
• Ordering Integration Services Packages in Management Studio (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint History (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Install Microsoft Windows 7′s (Hidden) Regional Themes (Blake Handler)
• Licensing a commercial product (Oren Eini)
• Texo – My Power Shell Continuous Integration Server (Oren Eini) – Co-Link of the Day
• Windows 7 in action: do more with the taskbar and Jump Lists (Ed Bott)
• MVP ‘Tweets’ PC On Command (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Charitable Giving: Rob’s technique (Rob Relyea)
• Choosing the Right Version of Windows 7 (Zhiming Xue)
• Marketplace is live on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones (Thomas Ricker)
• Writing a Good Session Abstract (Jim Holmes)
• Firefox 3.7, now with Windows 7 jumplist support (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #448 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (Kirill Osenkov)
• Silverlight Cream for October 05, 2009 — #705 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 3rd October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Double Shot #555 (Mike Gunderloy)

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