Top Links

• Prism 4 Gems: Rendering Heterogeneous Collections with DataTemplateSelector (Brian Noyes)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 – Extensibility Labs and Fluent Validation 2.0 (CodePlex)
• A Look At Fluent APIs (Sacha Barber)
• TWC9: WebMatrix, MVC, Orchard, NuGet Gallery (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing SL#: C# to GLSL Translator (Zor)
• Uber Prof New Features: A better query plan (Oren Eini)
• Google Shortener API For .NET Written In C# (Deepak Kapoor)
• Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 1 (Shai Raiten)
• Tape: Dependency management for .NET (Paul Stovell)
• CLR Version issues with CorBindRuntimeEx (Rick Strahl)
• A tip for using InstallShield and TeamBuild 2010 while living in a x86/x64 world and Writing a MMC Plugin, with MVP and Unity (Greg Duncan)
• Bundle identifier on iOS with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)
• New book: Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, Second Edition (Kim Spilker)
• DXCore Services – TextExpansions and IDE tools terminology/key concepts (Alex Skorkin)
• Help NHibernate to better understand what U want (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Customize the Debugging Windows : Change Debugging Window View as per your requirements (Abhijit Jana)
• Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ (Ade Miller)

Web Development

• Programmatically Changing Session State Behavior in ASP.NET 4.0 and How to pass external values with GridView HyperLinkField which are not part of your Gridview DataSource member ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Semantic HTML5 Page Layout (Modesty Zhang)
• A Comparison of Three jQuery Modal Dialogs for ASP.NET MVC (Rob Regan)
• Sueetie Version 3.0 Now Available (Dave Burke)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Debugging with node-inspector (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Google Releases the High Replication Datastore for App Engine (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Windows Identity Foundation + OATH = Win for Users (Don Burnett)
• The Facebook Windows Azure Cloud Toolkit (Don Burnett)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Two Dimensions of Agile Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• [Updated] Top Agile Tools (Peter Saddington)
• On craftsmanship (Dan North)
• Are you Mocking Me? (Gregory Long)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Sterling Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Database Triggers and Auto-Identity (Jeremy Likness)
• MVVM Project Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Jonathan Cardy)
• Windows Push Notification Server Side Helper Library (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part 1 and Implementing WP7 ToggleImageControl from the ground up: Part 2 (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 Unleashed Session I–Hands on Labs and WP7 Saving to Media Library (Daniel Egan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 101: Kelly Sommers on Mobile Development and User Interface design (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Windows Weekly 191: Angry Ballmer (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 3 – Storage Access (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone 7 Videos (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone Radio 13 is Live! (Brian Seitz)
• YUI Theater — Luke Smith: “YUI 3: Below the Surface” (48 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Let’s Play TDD #77: Buy Versus Build (James Shore)

Community / Events

• CES 2011: Using a browser to demonstrate the power of hardware (Scott Armstrong)
• CodeMash: Day 1: Mostly .NET (for me) (Bill Wagner)
• Silverlight LOB Firestarters NEXT WEEK (NYC 1/18 & NJ 1/19) (Stephen Forte)
• CSLA .NET training in Feb 2011 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Silverlight is hiring – Do you love data controls & LOB? (Steve Lasker)
• Do you want to be an ALM Consultant? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• One Million Developers, Designers on Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)
• 2011 SharePoint Solutions Roadshow–US (Wes Yanaga)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Every Which Way Outputs (15/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL Server Schema Comparison Tool in Visual Studio 2010 (Karthik Anbarasan)
• SQLAuthority News – Best Practices for Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• The PowerShell Survival Guide (Brought to you by the Microsoft TechNet wiki) (Greg Duncan)
• Driver user experience (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Pinworthy: Uncovering the best of Marketplace (Michael Stroh)
• How would you change Windows Phone 7? (Darren Murph)
• When does Windows Phone 7 get its grand opening? (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• This Week’s Link List (January 14, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Link Rollup: New Documentation and Tutorials from Web Platform and Tools (Scott Hanselman)
• January 14th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• Week Retrospective 15 – Ty Pennington and the Agile Methodology Hater (Peter Saddington)
• Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2011 — #1027 and Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2011 — #1028 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s "Hard Code" (Best Practices) by Eric Brechner

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Top Links

• Free C# Legacy Chapters (Jim Minatel) – Get get free PDF chapters from Wrox’ Professional C#.
• How to mock extension methods (Daniel Cazzulino) – “without paying for a TypeMock Isolator license to do it “
• AutoMapper DSL design post-mortem (Jimmy Bogard) – Jimmy talks about some of the things he’s like to change about AutoMapper’s design.
• Comparing Resource Dictionaries in Unit Tests (Christopher Bennage) – A test Christopher came up with while working on ÜberProf.
• Entity Framework Podcast and Unit Testing Video (Muhammad Mosa) – Really nice video about EF… highly recommend you check it out.
• Limited Time Expression Holiday Promotion in the US (Silverlight Team) – Get 30% off Expression 3 products!

.NET / Visual Studio

• Traceability in VS2010 (Clemens Reijnen)
• POCO Proxies Part 1 (Jeff Derstadt & Diego Vega)
• Resetting Visual Studio Experimental Instance to its super-clean initial state (Daniel Cazzulino)

Web Development

• IE 6, 7, 8 Only CSS (Kris Gray)
• Performance of JavaScript Looping Techniques (Elijah Manor)
• Guided Tour: jQuery – Array wannabes (Sergio Pereira)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Review: Clean Code (Grant Palin)
• Agile Tenet #3 – Deliver Frequently and Agile Tenet #4 – Work Together Daily (Julie Stickler)
• The Static Spider Web Pattern (Justin Etheredge)
• Fidelity – The Lost Dimension of the Iron Triangle (Karl Scotland)
• Duke Nukem Forever & Reworking code (Mark Needham)
• You know what they say about assuming (Joel Cochran)
• How QuickNet Found 2 Bugs That You And I Didn’t (Davy Brion)
• Understanding The Application Controller Through Object Messaging Patterns (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blacklight v4.3(Dec09) released (Martin Grayson)
• Day #22: Using The Farseer Physics Engine in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Working with Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Buttons with WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight exception handling using WCF RIA Services and WCF Services (Fredrik Normen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 for web developers, part 1 of 2 and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 for web developers, part 2 of 2 and ASP.NET MVC, part 1 of 2 and ASP.NET MVC, part 2 of 2 and Silverlight 4.0 (The Swedish Web Team)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 018 – IronPython (Eric Nelson)
• Francesco Logozzo – Static Checking with Code Contracts for .NET (Jonathan de Halleux)
• InfoPath 2010 – Customize a SharePoint List Form (Nick Dallett)
• Jafar Husain: Silverlight Toolkit and Rx, Part 1 (Jeffrey van Gogh)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Research Celebrates 2009 (Rob Knies)
• How our Customer Experience Improvement Program improved Gibraltar 2.1 (Kendall Miller)
• Twitter Killed the jQuery Star (Elijah Manor)

Database

• SQL SERVER – ORDER BY Clause and TOP WITH TIES (Pinal Dave)
• Explore BI Features of SQL Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Design Patterns: Entry 2.5 (Charles Chen)
• BDC Meta Man 4.0.0.7 Released Yesterday (Lightning Tools)
• Santa’s SharePoint Governance Strategy (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• The Top 10 URL Shortening Services (Garin Kirkpatrick)
• Windows PowerShell 2.0 SDK (Hemant Mahawar)
• HOW TO: Boost Your Resume Over the Winter Break (David Spinks)
• Microsoft removes Custom XML features from Office 2007 (Ed Bott)
• …and the rest of the 2009 Most Searched goes to… (Kristin Meldahl)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Secrets of Social Media Marketing (Dave Burke)
• Powershell: Load assembly without locking file. (Jason Jarrett)
• A peek behind the scenes at Hotmail (Arthur de Haan)
• Adding list of users to group (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #504 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #102 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for December 22, 2009 — #760 (Dave Campbell)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)