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Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 2 (Release Candidate 2) Now Available (Scott Guthrie)
• How Agile Works – My Program Manager Cheat Sheet (Sara Ford)
• Unit Testing Simple ASP.NET MVC Controllers (Chris Missal)
• Conversational Stories (Martin Fowler)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using a Wiimote as a Sensor Driver on Windows 7 (Greg Duncan)
• Dotfuscator 4.6.1200 Released (Joe Kuemerle)
• .NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentQueue (Justin Etheredge)
• The 5th of Diduary: Did you know you can hide Intellisense without retyping? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 9. Configuring fluently registered components with XML (Mike Hadlow)
• Race Condition When Modifying the HttpRequestMessageProperty in an Outgoing WCF Message (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Back to Basics – Keep it Simple and Develop Your Sense of Smell – From Linq To CSV (Scott Hanselman)
• Euler Problem 14: Learn to Memoize (Bill Wagner)
• Setting a Breakpoint in the Call Stack Window — vstipDebug0008 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0 (Steve Stefanovich)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Unit Testing by Roy Osherove (Me)
• If you are way off in the deep end, there is only so much that tooling can do for you (Oren Eini)
• Update From NCover Central Command (or someplace close) (Daniel Waldschmidt)
• Pair Programming with Screen (Jason Meridth)
• StructureMap 2.6 (and 2.5.4) is Released! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Benefits of Pair Programming (Katie McCroskey)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Hack: Use Native/Desktop CLR Without COM Registration (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.9 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Getting Started with WPF 4: Button Controls Part 1 – The Button is a Content Control and Upcoming Deal on my Silverlight 4 Book for Blog Subscribers (Pete Brown)
• Installing and Setting Up and Encoding for IIS 7 Smooth Streaming and Silverlight (Scott Hanselman)
• Developing the world’s first interactive Silverlight banner: Metia’s perspective (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight DataGrid quick styling tip: keep selected row focus state (Tim Heuer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – How Craigslist Works – with Jeremy Zawodny (Scott Hanselman)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Don Syme – Introduction to F#, 1 of 3 (Charles Torre)
• Silverlight TV Episode 6: Creating Custom Pre-Loaders (John Papa)
• How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build a WCF REST Collection Endpoint (Stephen Forte)
• This Week in Testing Episode 12 – 3 Guys, a Girl and a Bunny (Part 1) (Dror Helper)

 

Community / Events

• Feb 10 – Silverlight 4 talk, Rockville, MD (David Makogon)
• pluralsight & devweek march 15-19 london (Meagon Marshall)
• Agilepalooza Atlanta! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Corporate Retreat Round-up (Corey Haines)
• Upcoming Appearances (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Database

• Reporting In NoSQL (Rob Conery)
• Introducing: Azure Table Query Project (Jason Haley)
• Multi-Monitor Support in SQl Server Management Studio 2008 (Buck Woody)
• Detecting and Troubleshooting Non-Yielding Worker Threads in SQL Server 2005/2008 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Stream Aggregate Showplan Operator – Reason of Compute Scalar before Stream Aggregate (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Free Microsoft Software for Students, Startups, and Small Hosting Businesses (Jennifer Marsman)
• How Many Passes? (Eric Lippert)
• Xbox LIVE being discontinued for Original Xbox consoles and games (Larry Hyrb)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Making Things Talk – Only $9.99! Use code DDMTT (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Small Basic 0.8 (Steven Bink)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #533 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: February 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for February 04, 2010 — #792 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (2/4/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Creators Club Communiqué 40 (Kathleen Sanders)

 

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Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Edition: In C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

 

 

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Top Links

• The paradox of choice: best of breed or cheapest of the bunch (Oren Eini)
• Inversion Of Control Containers And Factories Aren’t Mutually Exclusive (Davy Brion)
• Mocking Mocking and Testing Outcomes. (Uncle Bob Martin)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Entity Framework Inheritance Types (Gil Fink)
• Drag and drop code onto the Toolbox — vstipTool0007 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Quick Tip: Parse String to Nullable Value (Keith Dahlby)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API: Introduction to Working with Location in .NET 4 Beta 2 (Pete Brown)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• D.C. and the Wrapper Factory (Dennis Dietric)
• Coding: The collecting parameter pattern and TDD: Removing the clutter (Mark Needham)
• Being provoked by your uncle (Mark Nijhof)
• Understanding And Avoiding The Serious Perils Of F-You-Code. (Rajiv Popat)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• XamlPadSample-Step 1d-Window (Rob Relyea)
• Pants on the Ground: The Silverlight Application (Charles Petzold)
• Configuration & Decoupled Modules (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 140: It’s Finger Friendly (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9 – Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more (Dan Fernandez)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Talks and WebCast (Cameron Skinner)
• Why we all need celebrity programmers (Roy Osherove)
• As A Movement, ALT.NET Has Been Dead For A While (Davy Brion)

 

Database

• SQL Server Cursors (Richard Carr)
• Time is no use for recording Time (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Sample Databases for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (December 2009) Samples Refresh 4 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Theme Builder" Beta for Office 2007 (Blake Handler)
• Windows 3.11 in-a-browser is retrocomputing awesome (Lee Mathews)
• It’s an awesome time to be a Developer (Pete Brown)
• Steam shows massive adoption of Windows 7 by gamers (Sebastian Anthony)
• Dynamic Blog Posts DynaPosts (Jesse Liberty)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 23, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 – 2 — #785 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link #89 (Grant Palin)

 

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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

 

 

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Top Links

• Comparing NHibernate and EF4 (Chris Sells)
• Add a Flickr widget to any web site with jQuery (Dan Hounshell)
• WPF for the Web guy…a story of pain, despair and learning (Scott Galloway)
• Passing NULL into Overloaded Methods in unit tests… (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight TV Episode 3: Multi-Touch 101 with Silverlight (John Papa)
• Bill Gates launches new site, offering peek inside his mind (Todd Bishop)
• Windows Phone teaser for Mix10 (Kip Kniskern)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing a Parallelized Octree in F# (Ade Miller)
• The Project Location Is Not Trusted (Dave M. Bush)
• Looks the same – with half the overhead! [Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code gives more compact output; Can you do better?] (David Anson)
• A new feature request for C# I would like is fall through exceptions (Derik Whittaker)
• Controlling Application Lifetime In Topshelf and Configuring Topshelf Using A StructureMap Container (Kevin Miller)
• Functional collectional parameters: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Using Generate from Usage — vstipEdit0011 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Much Ado About Monads – Creating Extended Builders Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• UML Modeling and Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Provost)

Web Development

• My Favorite Helpers For ASP.NET MVC (Rob Conery)
• IIS Tools – truck load of them at www.iis.net (Harish Ranganathan)
• Build an AJAX-Enabled Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Part 3 (Bogdan Zamfir)
• Large or asynchronous file uploads in ASP.NET MVC (Daniel Crenna)
• ASP.NET Support in ReSharper 5 (Hadi Hariri)
• Implementing a jQuery Modal Window in ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Click and Retrieve the Value of a GridView Cell using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Using Custom Security Attributes in ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ceranski)
• Performance Optimizations Made By Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo JavaScript Minimizers (Nick Berardi)
• HttpContext.Items and Server.Transfer/Execute (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Collaboration Patterns – Part 1 and Collaboration Patterns – Part 2 (Andy Warren)
• When the design violates the principle of least surprise, you don’t close it as By Design (Oren Eini)
• If It’s Not Working, Change Your Approach (JD Meier)
• Pollyanna Pixton on Agile Leadership (Christophe Louvion)
• Good Managers Sometimes Have to Play Assholes (Jurgen Appelo)
• Scrum Anti-Pattern: NOT Prioritising Stories Within Sprints (Karl Scotland)
• Using Glance to visualize Code Metrics (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: Themes (Deborah Kurata)
• Creating torn images (Coding4Fun)
• My Silverlight 4 Book Now Available for Pre-Order (Frank La Vigne)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.8 (Koen Zwikstra)
• XamlPadSample – Step 1 (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 39: CLR 4 Security and Sandboxing (Jason Olson)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #80 (Jeff Atwood)
• Craig Mundie shows off the future of NUI (Laura Foy)
• MVC 2 – Template Helpers and MVC 2 – Areas and MVC 2 – DataAnnotations and Parallel Computing (Martin Esmann)
• This Week in Testing Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 2) (Dror Helper)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Follow up, 6 months later, On Managing People with Chris Sells (Scott Hanselman)
• Authoring and Running Manual Tests in Visual Studio 2010 using Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16 & 18, 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Asking the Mountain To Come To You (Rob Conery)
• What do I have in store and hope for 2010 (Chris Woodruff)
• Life With My Geek: The Cave Phenomenon (Elle Starr)
• Zoho Reaches Out To Open Source Community (Krishnan Subramanian)
• My CodeMash 2010 experience (Bill Wagner)
• ALT.NET: Looks Like its Introspection Time Again! (Steve Bohlen)
• What can you get with 10KB of Ruby or Python code? (Jimmy Schementi)

Database

• Performance Tuning Methodology Preferences (Buck Woody)
• XML Validation in SQL Server Intergration Services (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Step by step (aka Dummies or Busy Dev Guy) guide to installing SharePoint 2010 in a virtual machine free eBook (Reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• How to Remove Corrupted SharePoint Sites – Preparing for SharePoint 2010 Upgrade (Joel Oleson)
• BCS Secure Store Services (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Google Chrome OS the Easy Way (Chris Leeds)
• Introducing the Windows Experience Pack (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Intuit and Microsoft Sign Deal to Serve SMBs (Ben Kepes)
• Free ebook: First Look Microsoft Office 2010 (Devon Musgrave)
• “What’s New for Developers in Outlook 2010” (Greg Duncan)
• Perform asynchronous asset management using Windows Powershell cmdlets for WMI (Kapil Mathur)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: The Sustainable Network — Only $9.99! Use discount code TSNE9 (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Research Works on “Mental Tagging” of Images (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Jan 20, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: January 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #522 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 20, 2010 — #783 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

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Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

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Top Links

• Tips for Releasing Sample Code (Steve Andrews) – Some nice tips from Steve.
• My Life is a Project? (Mike Cottmeyer) – Mike responds to Scott Berkund’s Everything Is a Project article.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• What can EF 4.0 do that NHibernate can’t? (Oren Eini)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Scaffolding attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

 

Web Development

• Accelerator Creation Guide (Jon Seitel)
• Supporting OpenId in an asp.net MVC site (Joe Kaiser)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Typed Factory Facility reborn (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Debug It: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Comparing Resource Dictionaries in Unit Tests (Christopher Bennage)
• Comments on Corey Haines’ String Calculator TDD Kata Implementation (Roy Osherove)
• Lessons from Uncle Bob (Leon Gersing)
• Testing Agatha’s Caching Functionality With QuickNet (Davy Brion)
• Added support for Unity, Autofac to Siege.ServiceLocation (Marcus Bratton)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• A Silverlight HVP Update (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 4 – Grabbing Emails from the Outlook Inbox (Mike Taulty)
• Make a Silverlight TextBox update its binding on every character with a Behavior (András  Velvárt)
• Friction Scrolling Now An WPF Attached Behaviour Too and Cinch : More good news (again sorry) (Sacha Barber)
• Case Study – TwittZure Silverlight Twitter Client on Azure (Silverlight Team)
• Day #23: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 1 of 3) and Day #24: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 2 of 3) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Transforming grouped elements in Expression Blend (Adam Kinney)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield: Silverlight Rock Star! (Carl Franklin)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #78 (Jeff Atwood)
• Jafar Husain: Silverlight Toolkit and Rx, Part 2 (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Loic Le Meur and Channel 9 Live at PDC09: This Week on Channel 9 – PDC09 Daily Show Edition Day 1 (Nic Fillingham)

 

Community / Events

• Traveling to Technical Events (Chris Patterson)

 

Database

• 12-23-2009 – SetFocus BI/SQL Master’s Program Tip: Resolving the issue of multiple JOIN statements and multiple aggregations (Kevin Goff)
• Backing up Azure Table Storage (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShellPack Reaches 10,000 Downloads in 3 Months (Jeffrey Snover)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #505 (Chris Alcock)
• 20 Must Read LINQ, WCF, Expression Web, VSTS and Windows Forms articles on DotNetCurry – 2009 (Minal Agarwal)
• Silverlight Cream for December 23, 2009 — #761 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linfest (Scott Berkun)

 

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Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

 

 

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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)

 

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Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

 

 

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