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Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 3 and the @helper syntax within Razor (Scott Guthrie)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 for Silverlight and Unity 2.1 for Silverlight (MS Downloads)
• Why Windows Phone Will Beat Android (Doug Holland)
• Resources for Windows Phone 7 Development (Kim Spilker)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: 5 Easy Ways to Combine Sequences (James Michael Hare)
• CodeRush Resources (Rory Becker)
• New version of the Inmeta Build Folder Extension (Terje Sandstrom)
• Dapper.Net – A Micro ORM that puts you back in control (Mike Ceranski)
• Mono Development 101: Build Linux Desktop Apps with .NET (Jason Gilmore)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 Optional Update 1 and Unity 2.1 (MS Downloads)
• Spatial Types in the Entity Designer (Sarah McDevitt)
• Optional argument corner cases, part two (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Drawing Infragistics’ New Logo with the HTML5 Canvas (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Releasing Single / Multiple Files To Pre Compiled ASP.net Web Site (Abhijit Jana)
• Implementing MarkDown for comments (Julian M. Bucknall)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Canvas Pocket Reference – Only $5.49 (Save 50%) w/code DDCNV #HTML5 (O’Reilly Media)
• How to add Tweets to your blog and debugging basic JavaScript: Why did Twitter.com/JavaScript/Blogger JSONP Widget stop working? (Scott Hanselman)
• How to eliminate tempuri.org from your service WSDL (Ron Jacobs)
• Google Storage Open to All and Free Trial Use (David Hayden)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 10: Pinned Site Resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• More On PHP Deployment To Windows Azure (Karsten Januszewski)
• Windows Azure-Hosted Services: What to expect of latency and response times from services deployed to the Windows Azure platform (Emil Velinov)
• Book Review: Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework (Brian Swan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Productivity Blogs (J.D. Meier)
• Using the Security Development Lifecycle Best Practices at Microsoft (MS Downloads)
• Visualizing the entire flow (Jimmy Bogard)
• Project Management: Dedicated vs. Shared Resources (K. Brian Kelley)
• Solo: Beautiful Project Management for Freelancers (Simon Mackie)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft Project 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• Article:Are You a Whole Team? (Matthew Philip)
• Effective Tests: A Test-First Example – Part 6 (Derek Greer)
• Mocking MsCorlib members (Mehfuz Hossain)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Adding Buy Now Functionality (Windows Phone Geek)
• A Letter to Some Listing to Silverlight Haters… (David Kelley)
• Active Federation using RIA Services and WIF (Yavor Georgiev)
• Adventures with PivotViewer Part 10: Let’s do the Timelapse Warp (xpert360)
• Coming In Mango–Local DB Part 2: Relationships (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight TV 72: Windows Phone Tips for Optimizing Image Quality (John Papa)
• A New NUI – Tobii Eyetracking Hardware (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• XAPfest LA 2011–June 4, 2011 (Wes Yanaga)
• Registration Open for Prism, Unity, WPF, MVVM Boise Training Event (Karl Shifflett)
• Full Day ASP.NET MVC 3 Training Event in Los Angeles on May 21st, 2011 (Scott Mitchell)
• Missed the #LifeatMS Twitter chat? Read the full transcript now (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• NYC .NET Developers User Group-> Next Meeting (Stephen Forte)
• Dev Unplugged Contest Finalists (Carter Rabasa)
• Lindsay Lindstrom Chats About the Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition (Daniel Olivieri)
• From Zero to Silverlight in 1 Day! (Paul Sheriff)
• SQL SERVER – Vote for My Session in SQL PASS (Pinal Dave)

 

Database

• Integration of SSRS and .net using Iframe and URL Command Approach (Santosh Poojari)
• Sharding in SQL Azure (Simon Sabin)
• Stored procedures to retrieve directory listing – Undocumented XPs (Vishal)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Foundation 2010 design samples (MS Downloads)
• Connecting to SharePoint Online Web Services (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows PowerShell 2.0 Core Help – May 2011 Update (MS Downloads)
• DoJ oversight of Microsoft ends (Evan Senter)
• Staying in Control of Your Default Search Provider (Herman Ng)
• Windows Azure Appliances are still in Microsoft’s plans (Mary Jo Foley)
• Office Web Apps on SkyDrive get a Spring update (Omar Shahine)
• Making Let Me Bing That For You Open Source (Phil Haack)
• Inspired by “Code” (Charles Petzold)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 12th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• 11-May-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #851 (Chris Alcock)

 

The Geek Shelf

Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design by Brett D. McLaughlin

 

 

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Top Links

• Moving containers beyond testability (Jimmy Bogard)
• Unity, Castle Windsor, StructureMap, Ninject – who has best performance? (Gunnar Peipman)
• Javascript Mocking – Damn, That’s Easy. (Karl Seguin)
• patterns & practices Prism v4 – Drop 8 (CodePlex)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• WPF / Windows Forms Named Colours and LINQ Set Operations (Richard Carr)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox – Extension #12 (Sara Ford)
• OData/WCF Data Services — Composite Keys and $expand URI Option Bug (Chris Woodruff)
• WinForms Checklist (Deborah Kurata)
• Point point one release for Windsor and Castle.Core (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Entity Framework Extensions (Multiple entity updates) – Release: v1.0.0.1 and COSMOS (C# Open Source Managed Operating System) – Release: v66698 (CodePlex)
• Introducing the NBehave text based scenario VS2010 runner (Naeem Khedarun)
• Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio and Navigate Task List Entries with the Keyboard (Zain Naboulsi)
• Analyzing historical data and playing with interactive extensions (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• OData’s DataServiceQuery and removing the .Expand(“MagicStrings”) (Jason Jarrett)

 

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Using the Chart Controls with ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)
• Sueetie Analytics Logging Upgrade: Filter Me Gently (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 – Global and Conditional Filters (Malcolm Sheridan)
• How to Create HTML5 Website and Page Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Rey Bango)
• Real World Monitoring and Tuning ASP.NET Caching Part 2 (Steve Smith)
• Developing Applications for the Cloud (Public Sector DPE Team)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming Google App Engine – Only $9.99. Use code DDPGA (O’Reilly Media)
• Write your own Twitter.com XSS exploit (Eran Kampf)
• Slow Rendering with Large Tables in IE 9 & 8 (Chris Love)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Quick Intro To BDD Style Table Syntax (Brett Schuchert)
• Mood Board (Dave Laribee)
• Key insights that you probably missed on DDD (Cyrille Martraire)
• Why a Pomodoro helps you getting in the zone (Giorgio Sironi)
• Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (Jonathan Oliver)
• Sprint Burndowns – Are We Measuring the Wrong Things? (Mark Levison)
• 4 essentials to writing quality code in the Cloud era (Eugenia Sawa)
• Clean Code, Saves Money or Is Art? (John Sonmez)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Mahhala – WPF MediaKit and Try before you buy (Rudi Grobler)
• Windows Phone 7 Tutorials: Maps, GPS and Accelerometer (Nigel Sampson)
• Blend Bits 12: States, Groups, Transitions (Mike Taulty)
• An Introduction to the Windows Phone 7 Development Platform (Colin Melia)
• Panorama in Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight 4: Drag and Drop DataGrids with Access to the Data Being Dropped (Andy Schwam)
• There are lots of ways to ask for a date [Creating custom DatePicker/TimePicker experiences is easy with the Windows Phone Toolkit] (David Anson)
• How fast is the Windows Phone 7 Start up??? (Senthil Kumar)
• Multitouch Game Loop Inertia Processing (Dave)
• Great Silverlight Competency Test Part 4 (Answer) and iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Application LifeCycle and Tombstoning and Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Developers: Life Cycle (Jesse Liberty)
• Choices, choices… Windows Phone 7 and Twitter (Luke)
• Fast, lightweight full-text search engine for objects in WPF and Silverlight controls (Andrew Clancy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Allen Wirfs-Brock and Chris Wilson: EcmaScript, JavaScript and the Web (Charles Torre)
• Mike Barnett and Daryl Zuniga: Code Contracts Editor Extensions (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Let’s Play TDD #20: Getting Started on the UI and Let’s Play TDD Recap: Episodes 1-10 (James Shore)
• OpenTable on Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)

 

Community / Events

• F# in Education Workshop – Nov 5th, 2010 (Bob Familiar)

 

Database

• “The SQL Server DMV Start Pack” (eBook and T-SQL) from Red Gate and more Dynamic Management Views (DMV) stuff (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – UNION Not Allowed but OR Allowed in Index View – Limitation of the View 6 (Pinal Dave)
• Software Review: Idera’s Virtual Database (Wesley Brown)
• RavenDB: Replicating to a relational database (Oren Eini)
• Table Variables and Transactions (Steve Jones)
• Three Things to Watch with NoSQL (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Display VIEW definition using T-SQL code (3 different ways) (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Daily Dose – RC1 of MySQL 5.5 Adds InnoDB Default (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint – How to use the Inbuilt Data View Webpart to Display and Perform CRUD Operations on a List (Ravi Keshwani)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Bing adds Twitter recommendations to search (Todd Bishop)
• Betanews readers offer mixed reactions to IE9 (Joe Wilcox)
• PKI management with PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• OData Client for Objective-C v1.1 (CodePlex)
• The Real HTC HD7 Revealed ! (Awais Imran)
• 10 Things Apple Could Do to Make iPhone Development Perfect (John Blanco)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #691 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 21, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for September 21, 2010 — #953 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 4 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Scott Mitchell

 

 

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Top Links

• Introducing Knockout, a UI library for JavaScript (Steve Sanderson)
• MVVM Study – Segue – Introducing Caliburn.Micro (Rob Eisenberg)
• Code Contracts Part 8 – An Interview with the Microsoft Code Contracts Team (Kevin Hazzard)
• Layout Designer prototype is now open-source on CodePlex (Kirill Osenkov)
• StoryTeller One Point Oh! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Hands-On Lab: "Building an RSS Newsreader for Windows Phone 7” (Blake Handler)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• TFS Project Server integration CTP (Pieter de Bruin)
• LINQ Projection (Richard Carr)
• OData Explorer (Gil Fink)
• Application Settings – make sure you know what to save and where (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Architecture Journal Article: Models and Application Life-Cycle Management (Clemens Reijnen)
• Abusing PrintfFormat in F# (Mauricio Scheffer)
• Whitepapers on the Parallel Computing Developer Centre (Mike Taulty)
• Removing Dead Tracks (Duplicates that don’t exist) from iTunes using C# (Scott Hanselman)
• Read and Recommended: Essential C# 4.0 (Stephen Forte)
• Longest and Shortest Type Name in .NET 4.0 using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Output vs Immediate Window and Setting Bookmarks and Organizing Bookmarks (Zain Naboulsi)
• Enumerator Structs: Optimizing for the Common Case (Sasha Goldshtein)
• ConnectionStringSettings parameter injection in Unity (Rory Primrose)
• Changing the Team Project Collection of the Team Build Controller (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Hobby Programming – Creating your first robotic simulation using Microsoft Robotic Dev Studio and Visual Programming Language (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• What a Difference 8 Years Makes (In Code) and Are Code Generated POCOs Really POCO? (K. Scott Allen)
• Another Nice DevExpress CodeRush Refactoring (Peter Kellner)

 

Web Development

• Asp.Net MVC: My Personal View Rules (Chris Brandsma)
• Sharpening Your Markup with "Razor" (Jonathan McCracken)
• Paging on a Datalist (Dave M. Bush)
• Expression Web 4 Add-Ins (Minal Agarwal)
• Stepping into ASP.NET MVC source code with Visual Studio debugger (Gunnar Peipman)
• “Razor” the new ASP.NET View Engine (Fredrik Normen)
• Is Razor just a wolf in Spark’s clothing? (Robert Greyling)
• Developers Wanted: Help create an open source Wave-based forum (Pamela Fox)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design-Build-Run (Simon Brown)
• How to do agile when we only have 50 crap developers? (Gojko Adzic)
• SCRUM, SCRUM… SCRUM..! (Clemens Reijnen)
• When the going gets tough – automate it! (Dror Helper)
• How to annoy your customer with usability problems and new Test Lint Beta – with command line runner (Roy Osherove)
• Four Things to Know when Writing Comments (Stoimen Popov)
• What is a PM? and Types of Scenario Tools (J.D. Meier)
• Castle Windsor 2.5… the final countdown – beta 1 released (and Core, DynamicProxy, Dictionary Adapter) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Developing Application-Wide (Patrick Smacchia)
• 3 Aspects of Team Boundaries (Jurgen Appelo)
• Programmer Tip: Don’t Be The Ego Centric Veteran Who Knows It All. (Rajiv Popat)
• TFS API Part 27 – Test Plans, Test Suites, Test Cases Mapping (Shai Raiten)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WCF RIA Services Part 3 – Updating Data (Brian Noyes)
• Mahhala – WPF NotifyIcon (Rudi Grobler)
• MVVM Light Messaging (Chris Koenig)
• Great Features for MVVM Friendly Objects Part 2 – Change/Dirty Tracking (Damon Payne)
• A Sliver of Silverlight on ActiveTuts (Mike Taulty)
• Fixing Data Binding Problems in WPF/Silverlight (Jonathan Allen)
• Silverlight PivotViewer – The Full Guide and Silverlight PivotViewer – Add Collection To Your Silverlight Application (Shai Raiten)
• How to Convert a SketchFlow Prototype into a Production Application… And why you shouldn’t! (Jag Reehal)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 361: Crackdown 2 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• MultiTouch Behavior for Windows Phone 7: Videos #wp7dev (Laurent Bugnion)
• Pluralcast 19 : OData with Matt Milner (David Starr)
• Windows Weekly 163: The Legacy Problem (Paul Thurrott)
• Video: Embracing Your Failures (CodeStock 2010) (Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: IIS Express & SQL Compact, .NET on a bike, Zip support coming to System.IO (Dan Fernandez)
• Technology & Friends Episode 99: Mike Amundsen on Hypermedia (David Giard)
• DirectCompute Lecture Series 250: Integration with the Graphics Pipeline (Gus Class)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 19 – NoSQL and RavenDB with Rhys Campbell (Richard Banks)

 

Community / Events

• I’m joining Pixel Lab! (Adam Kinney)
• Upcoming Community Events (Chris Koenig)

 

Database

• SSIS gotcha: Beware of multiple outputs from a synchronous script component and Why a SQL or BI developer should learn .Net (Jamie Thomson)
• Count Occurrences of Characters in a String – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Index Levels, Page Count, Record Count and DMV – sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats and SQL SERVER – PowerShell Version Info (Pinal Dave)
• Log file configuration metrics for 17000 databases (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Azure Partitioning Pattern (J.D. Meier)

 

SharePoint

• Deleter Methods – Business Connectivity Services (Hrayr Diloyan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Intellectual property and the independent worker (Simon Sabin)
• Workshop Planning Framework – The Six P’s (J.D. Meier)
• Microsoft Presentation for Game Developers to Extend PC Games Lifecycles (Richard Hay)
• Install Consolas Font for Use in Xcode (Rob Bazinet)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 4, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 5, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #635 and The Morning Brew #636 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 3, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 4, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Your Own Race, Tell Me A Story, Content Anticipation, MenuPad (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #112 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 7/5/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for July 03, 2010 — #896 and Silverlight Cream for July 05, 2010 — #897 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #124 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Post… 6/25/2010 through 7/4/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

The Geek Shelf

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers