Top Links

• Prism 4.0 For Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, WPF & Silverlight 4 (Karl Shifflett)
• A WPF behavior to improve grouping in your ListBox (Jeremy Alles)
• Mobile Learning – 7 Interesting Patterns (Sumeet Moghe)
• Architecting WP7 – Part 7 of 10: Data on the Wire(less) (Shawn Wildermuth)

.NET / Visual Studio

• HowTo: build MSBuild Solutions (Code Inside Team)
• Min, Max, Between, Limit (Keith Brown)
• C# 5.0 vNext – New Asynchronous Pattern (Abhishek Sur)

Web Development

• IIS and ASP.NET 404 redirects and GoDaddy (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Using the ViewStart Page in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta (Malcolm Sheridan)
• jQuery: How to make a simple tool tip plugin (Raghav Khunger)
• Adding IE9 Site Pinning Support To Your Web Sites (Dani Diaz)
• How to create a mystery missile trail with HTML5 and jQuery 1.4.4 Released with new fadeToggle feature and Fonts on the web, typekit, and now CSS3 (Martin Beeby)
• Sueetie Miniature v2.0.0.2 Released (Dave Burke)
• jQuery 1.4.4 Released – New .fadeToggle() (David Hayden)
• How to Test Against an External HTTP Dependency (Karl Seguin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Apparently, Agile Is NOT Dead! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Grow Your Craft as a Professional – Agile Reading (ScoutMaster)
• Top Ten Misconceptions About Agile Development (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Layout and Presentation Advice for the UX Designer (Abel Avram)
• NCover 3.4.14: Improvements Galore (Alan Johnson)
• Plays Well With Others – Influence versus Authority (Kevin Kline)
• Could sealing a class be a sign of a good design (Andreas Håkansson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Adding / Removing the Multi-Touch Blend Behavior using C# code-behind (Davide Zordan)
• Scheduling tasks on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• In Honor of Silverlight NOT Dying…. (Dan Wahlin)
• Catel – Part 2 of n: Using WPF controls and themes (Geert van Horrik)
• The Windows Phone platform and Windows Phone devs are both doing great (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners (The parts you care about) (Michael Washington)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Developing Indie Games for Xbox 360 and XNA with George Clingerman (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone 7 development for absolute beginners (Coding4Fun)
• TWC9: Denali, MVC 3 RC, OData programming, Instant Feature Builder (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• New DevNugget: WebMatrix Beta 3 – New Features (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Silverlight TV 52: Entity Level Validation, Defining MetaData and Nested ComboBoxes with WCF RIA Services (John Papa)
• Engadget Podcast 219 – 11.13.2010 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Reminder: Philly (Malvern) ASP.NET Web Platform Firestarter Next Week! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• After Silverlight Firestarter: WCF RIA Services Campfire (Colin Blair)
• Silverlight Futures (Jim O’Neil)
• MSDN Flash Poll #12: If I had a pound (Mike Ormond)
• Presenting at the jQuery Summit Online Conference on November 17th (Rey Bango)
• Free SQL Server Training for the Week of November 15, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

• The new Execute Package Task in SSIS in Denali and SSIS Server, Catalogs, Environments & Environment Variables in SSIS in Denali (Jamie Thomson)
• tempdb, Please allow me to shrink you (Pradeep Adiga)
• Microsoft coaches NoSQL options for Azure cloud (Gavin Clarke)
• New Path to MCM: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 includes Wrox Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Jim Minatel)
• SSIS : Using variables as a source in a Data Flow Component (Josef Richberg)
• SQL SERVER – Reducing CXPACKET Wait Stats for High Transactional Database (Pinal Dave)
• Database Skills (Ken Downs)
• ORDER BY in Denali (David Dye)

Miscellaneous

• Snippet manager in PowerGUI Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Docs.com now supports Facebook Groups, makes office work more social (Lee Mathews)
• Experiments in not using the mouse (Mark Needham)
• The Presenter’s Fallacy: Lack of Context (Markus Egger)
• Zen and the Art of Software Craftsmanship (Steve Smith)
• Quick Search for all Windows Phone 7 Apps (John Papa)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 76 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) by Andy Hunt

Top Links

• Using EF “Code First” with an Existing Database (Scott Guthrie)
• Prism 4.0 CTP Available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch (Somasegar)
• MonoTools 2 for VisualStudio has been released (Miguel de Icaza)
• Introducing Microsoft Ribbon for WPF and Building a Simple Ribbon Application in WPF and Add more content to my Simple Ribbon Application (Varsha Mahadevan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft.Data and Positioning and NHibernate is lazy, just live with it (Oren Eini)
• Optimizing Regular Expression Performance, Part II: Taking Charge of Backtracking (Ron Petrusha)
• Sudoku Solver and Generator (Jörgen Pramberg)
• Better grilling with topological sorting (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Link an entity to a hierarchy with different Id type (Al Kampfer)
• Microsoft.Data – Let’s Inject Some Love Into the Conversation (Evan Nagle)
• Introducing Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ (Jason Zander)
• Quick Access Extension (Weston Hutchins)
• OData Synchronization with WCF Data Services (Nick)
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Creating New Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
• Defining Descriptive Text for Enumeration Members (Scott Mitchell)
• Parallel Tasks – .net 4.0 feature (Arun Mahendrakar)
• UIGlassButton Generator in MonoTouch (Craig Dunn)
• Using ILMerge Internalization with Caution (Abel Avram)
• Netduino – .NET Micro Framework, open source, electronics platform, free (software), code walk though, cool… (Greg Duncan)
• How to use the ArcGIS iPhone SDK with MonoTouch (Al Pascual)

Web Development

• Free ASP.NET Source Code – Tailspin Spyworks gets a new landing page. (Joe Stagner)
• Now Available: Azure Security Notes PDF (J.D. Meier)
• Is ASP.NET MVC A Gateway to Ruby on Rails? (Dane Morgridge)
• Tell Me the Development Problems that Script Junkie Can Try to Solve via Solutions-based Content (Rey Bango)
• Add-on Performance Part 1: Measuring Add-on Performance (Herman Ng)
• Orchard – Release v0.5 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Let’s change the tune (Gojko Adzic)
• Using Reactive Extensions (Rx) to Simplify Asynchronous Tests (Jeremy Likness)
• Day 3 – Daily Outcomes – Use Three Stories to Drive Your Day and CRUD for Content (J.D. Meier)
• What Enterrpise Architects can Learn from Designers (Mike Walker)
• Container-friendly domain events (Jimmy Bogard)
• Going Down the CQS Rabbit Hole (Russell Ball)
• Open Thread: Does Working from Home Make You More Productive? (Simon Mackie)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Visualizing Data – Only $9.99. Use code DDVDT. Slashdot rated 9/10 (O’Reilly Media)
• Crowdsourced Testing, Changing the Game (Vikas Hazrati)
• I Took A Shot At Object Calisthenics (Pete Seale)
• Building Touchable Interactivity (Andrew Trice)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• I Started a CodePlex Project: The Extended WPF Toolkit (Brian Lagunas)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF: The Sample (Davy Brion)
• Today’s Adventure: Getting the FourSquare Codeplex Project working on the latest Windows Phone Tools Beta (Don Burnett)
• Make sure the web.config pages/namespace can be used together with ASP.NET MVC 3 P1 and Razor (Fredrik Normen)
• Windows Phone 7 Game: BulletAsylum (Joey deVilla)
• No accelerometer support in the Windows Phone 7 emulator? Not the end. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Document Toolkit 2.0.0.4 (Koen Zwikstra)
• WP7 + XNA Tips, part 1 – Running The Emulator From the Command Line (Chris Williams)
• Simple Page Navigation (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Some Best Practices for Silverlight Application Development (XAML) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Book Review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Step by Step (Michael Crump)
• MVVM, MVP, or code behind–all ok, as long as you build a great Ux (Rob Relyea)
• Cinch V2 Article 5 Is Out There (Sacha Barber)
• What Codecs are supported in Windows Phone 7? (Wes Yanaga)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Enterprise Social Networking with SharePoint-Episode 48 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Booking your travel in Outlook with the new Bing add-in (Tina Wood)
• Jay Schmelzer: Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch (Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone gets back in the game with “7” (Don Burnett)
• ASP.NET Membership Training – 3 new Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Technology & Friends Episode 107: Michael Kimsal on JavaScript (David Giard)
• Polymorphic Podcast – 2010.08.03 Software Craftsmanship with David Starr (Craig Shoemaker)
• Countdown to PDC: Developers, Developers, Developers (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• GitHub Jobs Pre-Launch (Kyle Neath)

Database

• Getting started with PIVOT Queries in SQL Server 2005/2008 and SQL Server FILESTREAM feature and Differential Backups (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Performance – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Sync Framework for SQL Azure (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server Backup File Confusion – Log Shipping (Steve Jones)
• Order of Nested SCOPE Statements (Chris Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8, a repeat of Windows 7′s success? (Brody McKee)
• Why The IDE Has Failed Us (John Sonmez)
• Objective C: Parsing an XML file (Mark Needham)
• The new Hotmail is now available to everyone! (Mike Schackwitz)
• Microsoft hardware teasing us (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #657 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 3, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for August 03, 2010 — #917 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher

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Top Links

• The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework is releasing at MIX 2010 (Silverlight Team)
• Sharing Solutions between VS 2008 and VS 2010 (Oliver Sturm)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released (Scott Guthrie)
• WebForms vs MVC (again) (Karl Seguin)
• A Visual Look At The LINQ SelectMany Operator (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Pre-Order Visual Studio 2010 Professional upgrade today, and save hundreds (Omar)
• Printing the File Path in the Page Header (Zain Naboulsi)
• Introducing the Visual Studio Extension of the week and Visual Studio Color Theme Editor – Extension #01 (Sara Ford)
• How to merge your referenced assemblies into the output assembly for improved usability (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Upcoming: Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 (Devon Musgrave)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Zen Coding and ReSharper PowerToys (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 – SEO Enhancements with MetaKeywords and MetaDescription properties (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Binding a select in a client template (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Issue with dependent assemblies when rebuilding a WAP and the Workarounds (Anh Phan)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released! (Phil Haack)
• Did you miss the IIS7 FastCGI Update ? (Joe Stagner)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – From Blocking to Async (Matthew Podwysocki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Tips to get the most out of your coding time (Hatim Rih)
• Agile Friday: "Done Done" Now Online and The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 7: Releasing (James Shore)
• Gallio/MbUnit very slow? and Gallio.Utility.exe considered evil (Oliver Sturm)
• Advanced Castle Windsor – generic typed factories, auto-release and more (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail (Mark Suster)
• You can’t learn the basics from the pros (Oren Eini)
• Good list to help run a brainstorming session (Jason Haley)
• Pairing isn’t the Solution (Jay Fields)
• FIT vs SLIM (Gojko Adzic)
• Multi-User Systems and Concurrency (Richard Carr)
• Why Programmers Can’t Program (Dave M. Bush)
• Code Bubbles – A very interesting coding UX (John V. Petersen)

Silverlight / WPF

• SNEAK PEEK: New Silverlight application themes (Tim Heuer)
• WPF Text Clarity Improvements (Brittany Behrens)
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 3) – Silverlight Styles and Themes (Me)
• Silverlight 4 Book Discount Codes and Avast Ye XAML Heads (Frank La Vigne)
• SNEAK PEEK: .toolbox design school for Silverlight and Expression (Adam Kinney)
• WCF Ria Services For Real (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How to Parallelize Your Application – Part 1 Why Do It? and Part 2 Threads v Tasks and Part 3 Using Tasks (Bruce Kyle)
• Two Introductory VS2010 Entity Framework Videos on Pluralsight on Demand (Julie Lerman)
• Free TekPub Episode: Using Mercurial with CodePlex (Matt Hawley)
• Episode #6 – Julie Lermon on Learning The Entity Framework (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 13: MVVM Light Toolkit (John Papa)
• Video of FOSDEM IronRuby presentation (Ivan Porto Carrero)

Community / Events

• RJ and The Microsoft Military Community: We Still Serve (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Welcome Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00004 (Jeff Atwood)
• Geek out about SharePoint with SharePoint MVPs (Joseph Mirabella)
• SketchFlow and Blend at Mix 2010 (Christian Schormann)
• Meet SilverlightShow at MIX and Get a FREE T-shirt (Emil Stoychev)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Checklist for Analyzing Slow-Running Queries (Pinal Dave)
• The Busy Developer’s Guide to SQL Server Modeling (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Learning SQL Server (Martin Bell)
• If timestamp is deprecated, why do none of the current db tools support rowversion? (Julie Lerman)
• SSIS – XML Source Script (Simon Sabin)
• System Variables, Stored Procedures or Functions for Meta Data (Buck Woody)

Miscellaneous

• eBook Pricing (Jim Minatel)
• The incomplete list of impolite WP7 dev requests (Chris Sells)
• Poll: Which office software suite have you chosen? (Ed Bott)
• 2010 Shaping Up As Big Year for Speech Recognition (Zig Serafin)
• MSDN Windows Developer Center Redesign (Pete Brown)
• Introducing the Google Wave Extensions Gallery (Dan Peterson)

More Link Collections

• Creators Club Communiqué 45 (Kathleen Sanders)
• The Morning Brew #558 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 11, 2010 — #812 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB

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)

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