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Top Links

• The TekPub LINQ Challenge Part 2 – Faster Algorithms (Justin Etheredge)
• ASP.NET MVC 2: Strongly Typed Html Helpers (Scott Guthrie)
• Patterns in Practice: A Retrospective (Jeremy D. Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• First Look at Workflow in .NET 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• List of extensibility points in visual studio 2010 (Roy Osherove)
• C# Object Initializer: More thoughts (Mark Needham)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – Introduction and 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 1. Registering Delegates (Mike Hadlow)
• .NET Projects: Generating Documentation with Sandcastle (Grant Palin)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 (Scott Guthrie)
• Ordering fields in ASP.NET MVC 2 templated helpers (Maarten Balliauw)
• Serialize only Selected Elements of a Form and Submit it using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Virtual Method Performance Penalty (Davy Brion)
• Learning in the Open: I – Starting with ActiveRecord (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• A philosophical discussion about Inversion of Control frameworks (Marcus Bratton)
• Gesturcons: an icon language to describe natural user interface gestures (Ron George)

Silverlight / WPF

• How SilverUnit can help you be famous (Roy Osherove)
• Silverlight : MVVM Library and File Upload (Sacha Barber)
• Using the Model View Presenter pattern in WPF (Paul Stovell)
• Migrating from Silverlight Streaming to Windows Azure (Mike Ormond)
• Synchronous Invocation of Delegates with the Silverlight Dispatcher (Daniel Vaughan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Screencast: How to Effectively Utilize Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• This Week in Testing Episode 10 – Do Not Ship It, Part 3 (Dror Helper)
• Episode 97- PowerScripting Podcast – Clint Huffman and His PAL Project (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Fun with Physics for Toddlers with eBeam and Crayon Deluxe (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• This Week In User Group Land 1/11/2010 – 1/17/2010 (Chris G. Williams)
• 2010 – A Personal Change: putting my “Head In The Cloud” (Bart de Smet)
• Lessons Learned in 2009 (JD Meier)

Database

• Calculate the Number of Business Days in a Range (Richard Carr)
• DZone Daily Dose – W3C Drafts Indexed Database API Standard (Mitch Pronschinske)

Miscellaneous

• Predictions for 2010 Part IV: Google v Apple (Stephen Forte)
• Today’s kindergartners, tomorrow’s workforce (Anthony Salcito)
• Stupid Windows 7 Trick: Keyboard Shortcut for Windows XP’s Task Switcher (Blake Handler)
• Windows Mobile 7 – New Details Emerge (Taimur Asad)
• Tortoise SVN tip: Repair move (Simone Chiaretta)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for January 10, 2010 — #774 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #514 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #105 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Post… 1/4/2010 through 1/10/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Weekly Links #87 (Grant Palin)
• Links (1/10/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 127 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/11/2010 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

Dependency Injection

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Your domain model isn’t in the Entity Relationship Diagram (Oren Eini) – Link of the Day
• Yo Dawg, I Heard Your Build Failed Because You Refactored Unit Tests… (Bobby Johnson)
• The Daily Scrum Exercise Program (Brett Schuchert)
• Discover dead code in your application using Code Analysis (Habib Heydarian)
• Fluent Domain Methods (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• “Latching” an Event Aggregator Subscriber and What’s hard about activating screens? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Who Activates, Displays, and Closes Screens? (John Papa)
• The spirit of MVVM (ViewModel), it’s not a code counting exercise. (Glenn Block)
• Strong opinions, weakly held (Mark Needham)
• How To Be A Tracer Bullet Architect (Max Pool)
• In Memory SQLite Testing with NHibernate (Tobin Harris)
• 31 Days of Refactoring and Refactoring Day 1 : Encapsulate Collection and Refactoring Day 2 : Move Method (Sean Chambers)
• Structure and composition of agile teams (Scott Koon)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 7. (Rajiv Popat)
• MVVM Study Part 2 – “View of the Model” or “Model of the View” ? (Rob Eisenberg)
• Initial thoughts on MVVM (Rockford Lhotka)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reflector.Babel Addin (alpha) (Jason Haley)
• Stable Composition in MEF Preview 6 (Glenn Block)
• IronRuby 0.9 Released! (Jimmy Schementi)
• A big step for Stored Procedures in EF4 (Julie Lerman)
• WCF Essentials Series (Sam Gentile)
• Getting Ready for .NET 3.5 and LINQ – Exploring C# 3.0 – Part II (Manish Sharma)
• Twitter API with C# example(part 2) (Paul Zubkov)
• Does It Make Sense To Use NHibernate in a Sproc-Only Shop? (Russell Ball)

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service and Silverlight 3 Navigation: Dynamically Loaded Pages… Now MEF Powered! and Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Summary (Brad Abrams)
• Hosting Silverlight Client Apps In A Silverlight Host App (Davy Brion)
• Silverlight, Validation and MVVM – Part II (Josh Twist)
• How to work with PropertyChanged’s smelly name string (Josh Twist)
• Updated – INotifyPropertyChanged – How to remove the Property Name String Code Smell (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Spy 3 update available (Koen Zwikstra)
• Controls Supported in Silverlight 3 RTW (Manish Sharma)
• Adding DataContextChanged in Silverlight (Rockford Lhotka)
• Cinch (My MVVM framework) Part 4 is out (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• Single Project Areas With ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed in Bookstores! (Stephen Walther)
• Part 2: MS Azure and Green Computing (Peter Koen)
• What’s new in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week C9: Microhoo, ATL Security, VS 2010 Cut List (Dan Fernandez)
• Show #327: COD WaW Map Pack 3 and Guitar Hero 5 (Larry Hryb)
• A Peek Behind C9 Revolution UX (Larry Larsen)
• Testing Techniques with JB Rainsberger and Moving Specificity Towards the Tests with JB Rainsberger (Corey Haines)
• Windows Azure Storage Overview and What is Windows Azure? (Ryan Dunn)
• Tool Shed: Episode #4 – It’s All About The Tools (Russell Fustino)

Community / Events

• "Un-Official" List of Microsoft Twitter Feeds (Blake Handler)
• One Year of Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood)
• Revive your User Group, part IV (Joe Webb)
• OSCON 2009: One of the greatest weeks in my Microsoft Career (Sara Ford)

Database

• LINQ To Entities, SQL and performance (Gunnar Peipman)
• Download Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 and Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler (Pinal Dave)
• MapPoint Add-in for SQL Server (Trevor Dwyer)

SharePoint

• Building and Packaging SharePoint Solutions (Eli Robillard)
• Updated Version of SharePoint SP2 is now available which contains a fix for the Trial issue (Stefan Gossner)

PowerShell

• Setting PowerShell Switch Parameters Dynamically (Gary Lapointe)

Miscellaneous

• How to Add Bing Search Box to Your Blog or Website (Blake Handler)
• This Is Why I Don’t Like Microsoft’s Way Of Open Source Development (Davy Brion)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 1, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 2, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #403 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 01, 2009 — #660 and Silverlight Cream for August 02, 2009 — #661 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for July 31, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 07.27 ~ 08.03 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #64 (Grant Palin)
• Links for the Week of 2009.07.31 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Squeezed Links: July 2009 (Max Pool)
• CloudNews for 31st July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Interesting Post… 7/26/2009 through 8/1/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Discoveries This Week 08/02/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Links (8/2/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 347 and New and Notable 348 and New and Notable 349 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Comments on The Myth of Developer Productivity (Brian Noyes)
• Discover Your Why (J.D. Meier)
• Why There’s Nothing Wrong With Dependency Injection in NerdDinner (Tim Barcz)
• Lessons From My First Attempt At Bringing Agile Into A Non-Agile shop. (Ryan Svihla)
• The Myth of Developer Productivity (Scott Bellware) – Link of the Day
• The 3 L’s Towards Loving The Code We Hate (Max Pool)
• nplus1.org – A Crash Course in Failure (Michael Janke)

Silverlight / WPF

• NibblesTutorials: Beautiful New Tutorials On Blend and SketchFlow (Christian Schormann)
• Overview of Sample Data in Blend 3 (Corey Schuman)
• A Simple Electronic-Music Sequencer for Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight 3 Element To Element Binding (Deepak Kapoor)
• Welcoming Silverlight 3 RTW (Pete Brown)
• Simplifying the Process of Calling a WCF Service from Silverlight (or any .NET Application) (Dan Wahlin)
• Animating when Data Changes – Part II (Josh Twist)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Bart’s Control Library – Not What You Think It Is – Part 1 (Bart de Smet)
• The MethodLinq concept (Brendan Kowitz)
• Accessing ActiveMQ on Mac OSX from a Windows VM (Chris Patterson)
• Handy WCF Techniques (David Starr)
• Entity Framework 4.0: POCOs and table-per-type inheritance mapping (Gunnar Peipman)
• How we handle application configuration (Joshua Flanagan)
• F#: Wrapping .NET library calls and F#: A day writing a Feedburner graph creator (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• AspPathGuru: A little T4 love for ASP.NET WebForms (David Ebbo)
• Create and Stylize Horizontal Navigation Menu from CSS lists using Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Part II) (Minal Agarwal)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 115: Windows 7 Secrets (Paul Thurrott)
• Major Nelson Show #325: NCAA, BF:1943, Madden, Babo:Invasion and gdgt.com (Larry Hryb)

Community / Events

• Boston .Net Architecture Study Group – Wed July 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Interested in a Free SharePoint 101 Hands-On Lab on July 25, 2009? (Dux Raymond Sy)

Database

• How parameter datatypes can effect caching (Martin Bell)
• Shrink log in all your user databases (Naomi)
• SQL SERVER – BLOB – Pointer to Image, Image in Database, FILESTREAM Storage (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• PCPlus 270: An introduction to diffs (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Missing from Windows 7, but Not Lost (Brad Jones)
• Download Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 and Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 1 (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft Releasing Technology Too Fast? (Sam Gentile)
• The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010 (Leena Rao)
• Traffic in the Cloud with Azure, Bing Maps, DeepZoom (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 12, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #388 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2009 — #635 and Silverlight Cream for July 12, 2009 — #636 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #84 – “Finally Summer” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 07.06 ~ 07.12 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #61 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 101 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (7/12/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Technical Debt – Definition and Resources (Brad Appleton)
• Lessons Learned from Bruce Lee (J.D. Meier)
• Brownfield Application Development in .NET: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• The Problem with Big Design Up Front is the "Big" not the "Up Front" and Designing the Work (Scott Bellware)
• Where do developers care for Software Quality? (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• UX Thoughts – Learning Phase Tools II (András Velvárt)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC: How to combine scripts and other resources (Gunnar Peipman)
• DinnerNow.net 3.0 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is here! (Habib Heydarian)
• Python Web Framework Series – Pylons Part 7: Refactoring, Deployment And Wrap-Up (Ryan Svihla)
• Improving the AJAX Control Toolkit with the Lightweight Test Automation Framework (LTAF) (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Day #4: Communicating Between Two Silverlight Controls and Day #5: Silverlight Drag and Drop (Jeff Blankenburg)
• “XNAVATARS” – PART 2 – NO SHADOWS? (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Porting DinnerNow.NET to Azure (Vishwas Lele)

Miscellaneous

• Revive your User Group, part II (Joe White)
• Experimenting with PowerShell (Jose Barreto)
• 5 Things You Can Do With Aviary Screen Capture (Thursday Bram)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 03, 2009 — #628 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for July 3, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 07.01 ~ 07.05 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Link Post 100 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing PostSharp 1.5 CTP 3 (Gael Fraiteur)
• StyleCop for R# goes RC (Andrew Stopford)
• LINQ Explained– Part 2 (Kashif Ahmad)
• A New Look for Visual Studio 2010 (Jason Zander) – Link of the Day
• Making the move to Microsoft Azure (CTP) (Dan Carroll)
• Oracle support announced for Visual Studio Team System 2010 Development (Barclay Hill)
• Parallel and Concurrency Futures for Microsoft Developers (Rocky Lhotka)
• An Intro to Barrier, cont.d (Jason Olson)
• MVP TV – Gaze into the Crystal Ball: Reporting in Team System Made Easy! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Web Development

• Using Expression Builders in ASP.NET (Scott Mitchell)
• Web Packaging: Creating web packages using MSBuild (Vishal R. Joshi)
• VSDoc for jQuery 1.3.2 Now Available (Jeff King)
• Showing Syntax Colored Source Code in ASP.NET Content (Rick Strahl)
• Oxite: what’s new and how to stay up to date with it (Simone Chiaretta)
• JavaScript, inner functions and private members (Sergio Pereira)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Creating an API testing framework 101 (Dennis Dietrich)
• Polymorphism in Expression trees (Jimmy Bogard)
• What Are The “Never Events” for Software Quality? (K. Scott Allen)
• re: Software Craftsmanship, Dogma and Pragmatism (Corey Haines)
• The Pewter Scale, or “How to Maintain Your Balance” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Auto trace in Expression Design (Corey Schuman)
• Introducing SilverUnit (Roy Osherove)
• We shipped WPF Flow Diagrams (JD Trask)
• The Microsoft Expression Gallery (Joe Stagner)

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell and WatiN (PowerWatin?) (Joel Bennett)

Database

• Some clues as to SDS’s future (Jamie Thomson)

Community / Events

• CMAP Main Meeting – Tuesday, March 3rd, 6:30pm – DotNetNuke, CMS for the masses (Christopher Steen)
• Starting a User Group, Entry #3 (Jason Haley)
• I’m Speaking at Mix09! (John Stockton)
• MSDN Webcast: ADO.NET Data Services (Lindsay Rutter)

Miscellaneous

• Feedback and Engineering Windows 7 (Steven Sinofsky)
• IE8 Reliability Update for Windows 7 Beta Now Available (Herman Ng)
• Microsoft Viveri: search and social networking (Steve Clayton)
• Office Live Workspace: New Features (Sunshine)
• No SharePoint 14 for you this year (Todd O. Klindt)
• XML Notepad 2007 is a Simple, Smart Editor for Web Code (Kevin Purdy)
• Hype Check: Safari 4 can’t beat Google Chrome (Lee Mathews)
• Nine ways recruiters find you (Anne Cheng)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 24, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #294 (Chris Alcock)
• Link Listing – February 23, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Links 2009-02-24 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Silverlight Cream for February 24, 2009 — #527 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: February 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Creators Club Communiqué 19 (Kathleen Sanders)
• CloudNews for February 24th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day