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Top Links

• Strengthening your domain: Aggregate Construction (Jimmy Bogard)
• All About MIX10 (Mike Swanson)
• The game is over, people! (Michael S. Kaplan)
• Key Software Development Trends (Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Free Entity Framework v1 eBook – 514 pages of barebones, yet still good foundational, EF’ness (Greg Duncan)
• Working With Messages (Me)
• Profiler new feature: Too many joins detection (Oren Eini)
• New in .NET 4: Don’t Forget to Dispose() your SmtpClient Instances (Lee Dumond)
• Undo and Redo Global Actions — vstipEdit0020 and Insert File As Text — vstipEdit0021 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Daily Dose – Mono Supports MeeGo Apps – Android Support Coming (Mitch Pronschinske)
• RoundhousE – ADO.NET over SMO (Rob Reynolds)
• Solution: Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 extension does not load in vs 2010 RC (Roy Osherove)
• The Case of 64-Bit .NET Upgrade Bug (Russell Ball)

Web Development

• A Testable PayPal IPN with Rails 2.3 (Rob Conery)
• Comparing the Performance of Visual Studio’s Web Reference to a Custom Class (Sam Menard, John Jakovich & Jamie Davis)
• Note to self: Asp.Net MVC Controllers are not Code Behind (Chris Brandsma)
• Internet Explorer gains modicum of HTML5 (Seth Rosenblatt)
• WCF Data Services and jQuery (Shawn Wildermuth)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Would You Do? Management Scenario #1 (Andy Warren)
• Wanna Review My Code? (Davy Brion)
• Links to Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) Pattern Code and Discussions (Mike Glenn)
• MSpec and Auto Mocking (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Lessons Learned from Dr. Seuss (J.D. Meier)
• Refactoring: Small steps to pull out responsibilities (Mark Needham)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Updated Certificate, Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Finding an Object TreeViewItem (Carole Snyder)
• Performing DML Operations using WCF REST Service and Silverlight (Mahesh Sabnis)
• MEF, Silverlight and the DeploymentCatalog (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Joel Semeniuk on using TFS with small teams (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Silverlight TV 10: Jesse Liberty Explains the Hyper Video Project (John Papa)
• Running Reporting Services Reports in Windows Azure (Marc Schweigert)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 10 – WCF and HTTP (Mike Taulty)

Community / Events

• Free Event! Next Generation Testing with Visual Studio 2010 (Angela Binkowski)
• DevTeach Toronto 2010 Ultimate Edition (James Kovacs)
• Nerd Dinner in Portland February 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Preparing for the 2010 Scripting Games (Ed Wilson)
• Virtual Alt.NET – UppercuT Automated Builds (Rob Reynolds)
• Featured Woman in Technology: Lisa S. Jones (Jennifer Marsman)

Database

• Viewing Missing Indexes in Management Studio 2005 (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Rollup Clause (Pinal Dave)
• Script to get indexes and their included columns (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Upgrade SharePoint 2003 to 2010 – Free Tech Preview (Joel Oleson)
• RootFinder Property – BCS Search (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 1.0 SP1 Release Candidate Available for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Google is a dangerous monopoly — more than Microsoft ever was (Joe Wilcox)
• Bing – It Does Way More Than You Think (Keith Elder)
• The 24th of Diduary: Did you know what you can do with a Home Server? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Understanding 64-Bit Office (Ted Way)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First Programming – Only $9.99! Use code DDAGP (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft boosts college grad hires (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• Sam Ramji Joins Mindtouch Board (Krishnan Subramanian)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 02.23.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #546 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2010 — #802 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing W/CD

Web Development

• New jQuery Ribbon release! (Mikael Söderström)
• First Look: Google Wave (Paul Thurrott)
• ASP.NET 4.0: Modifying ClientID of controls (Gunnar Peipman)
• Sample Code for New Windows Azure Blob Features (Steve Marx)
• Using ‘Tracing Images’ feature in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Debuggable Self-Host Windows Service Projects (Brian Noyes)
• NHibernate – Coarse Grained Locks (Oren Eini)
• Pretty Printing Exceptions (Chris Cavanagh)
• Installing the Couch(DB) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio 2010 (Kathleen McGrath)

Silverlight / WPF

• ViewModel with MVC/Navigation in Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
• Cider/Blend/Other tools – Please don’t hardcode knowledge of “WindowsBase.dll” for XAML component model attributes, etc… (Rob Relyea)
• Google Wave: the sky is falling and Flash/Silverlight are dead (Tim Heuer)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Persistence Patterns: Cascading Updates (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• xUnit.NET: Running tests written in Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Needham)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 5 (Build IT!) and Part 6 (Source Control & What NOT to Check In) and Part 7 (TortoiseSVN Global Ignore List) and Part 8 (Next Steps) (Rob Reynolds)
• Git Getting Stronger (Mike Riley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 48: Dustin Campbell on Visual Studio 2010 (Jon Galloway)
• Bing: Test Drive Microsoft’s New Search Engine (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 63: F# with the Nomadic Developer (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

Community / Events

• Why Should I go to a Code Camp? (Dave Schinkel)

PowerShell

• PoshCode Poll: How do you want Search to work? (Joel Bennett)

SharePoint

• Modifying Built-in Content Types in SharePoint (Bob Mixon)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Create Multiple Filegroup For Single Database (Pinal Dave)
• Service Master Key Backup (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

• REVIEW: First Look at Microsoft’s New BING Search Engine (Blake Handler)
• The Stack Overflow Trilogy (Jeff Atwood)
• All electronics should label their energy use (Rob Relyea)

More Link Collections

• May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio (Scott Guthrie)
• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 324 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Generic Method for Loading Interfaces in C# (For a Plugin System) (Tom Hearn)
• Combining Arrays (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 will allow mobile development, Microsoft affirms (WindowsForDevices)
• Vista, Visual Studio 2008, SharedView and Azure (Chris)
• MGDisplay: Visualize Parsed "Oslo" Grammars (Chris Sells)
• Reading embedded files at runtime (Gunnar Peipman)
• Entity Framework VB Samples Now Available on CodeGallery! (Elisa Flasko)
• dropkick – an idea for deployments (Dru Sellers)
• Background Garbage Collection in CLR 4.0 (Tess Ferrandez)
• F#: Testing asynchronous calls to MailBoxProcessor (Mark Needham)
• .NET Cheat Sheets (Michael Ceranski)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 2 and Part 3 (Rob Reynolds)
• Running ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 CTP1 on Windows 7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Move Command Link Column to End Column – Dynamic Data (Stephen Naughton)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK Documentation is now available! (VSX Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Heisenbugs (Chris Missal)
• More Persistence Patterns in MSDN (Jeremy D. Miller)
• xUnit.NET: Running tests written in Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Needham)
• What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 4 (Rajiv Popat)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Validation with the Data Annotation Validators (ASP.NET Tutorials)
• Friday Books – Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and jQuery ProgressBar (Dave M. Bush)
• jQuery Resource Collection and ASP.NET CheckBoxList Align When Wrapping (Elijah Manor)
• Writing A Page To A String (Phil Haack)
• Indonesian MVP Releases Open Source IIS Log Analyzer! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Tip#66: Did you know… how to insert quotes values automatically while typing the attrib values? (Deepak Verma)

Silverlight / WPF

• Prism Quick Start Kit (David Hill)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 (Jesse Liberty)
• I have a Silverlight for PHP Developers article in this months PHP Architect Magazine. (Joe Stagner)
• Adventures in MVVM – Commanding with List Boxes (Brian Genisio)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Multi-touch in WPF 4 Beta 1 and A Motion Capture Viewer written in Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Google Wave Video Demo Makes a Little More Sense of Wave (Adam Pash)
• Video: Silverlight 2 Video Reflection (Nigel Parker)
• This Week on C9: Bing, Changes to .NET FX 4.0, & play Apple IIe games on your Xbox (Dan Fernandez)
• 10-4 Episode 21: Web Tooling Improvements (Drew Robbins)
• 10 MorphX tricks in 10 minutes (Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan)
• Mike Ormond interviews me about the MVC Framework (Mike Hadlow)

Community / Events

• Demos for Silverlight 2 Controls and ASP.NET MVC talks at DevDays 2009 (Fritz Onion)
• 1/2 Day Windows 7 AppCompat Lab Engagement at Reston MTC, 6/8-6/12 (Free) (Zhiming Xue)
• Join The Bing Webcast At June 1st @ 10am PT (Sunshine)

Database

• Get local lab and instances going. Replication /.SQL Agent (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between Candidate Keys and Primary Key (Pinal Dave)
• Report Builder 2.0 – Promising, but Supported? (William Vaughn)
• Grouping datetime values in half hour blocks in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• MSDN Mag 7/2009 Editor’s Note Sneak Peek (Howard Dierking)
• LightBox Makes Simple Touch-Ups a Snap (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Is Hulu Coming to Xbox 360? (Mark Wilson)
• Rants and Raves #1 (Joel Cochran)
• Some quick takes on Bing and Our first look at Bing: 5 things that stand out (Kip Kniskern)
• Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine (Laura Foy)
• 7 free Windows 7 tweaking utilities (Lee Mathews)
• First night with Bing (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters (Sridhar Vembu)
• Windows 7 SP1 Build 7138: Redux and EXCLUSIVE: Windows 7 UI Animations – The Early Days (Stephen Chapman)
• How to connect to a CodePlex TFS server using Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 – #040 (Sara Ford)
• Integrate the New Hulu Desktop into Media Center and Microsoft Launches Real-Time Browser: IE8 Bundled with OneRiot (Sarah Perez)
• Adding Custom Search Providers to Windows 7 plus Advanced Search Tricks (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 29, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for May 29, 2009 — #604 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 29th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 29th, May 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day