Top Links

• Frequently Asked Questions about the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability (Scott Guthrie)
• Agile Test practices with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 [TMap and Scrum] (Clemens Reijnen)
• An MVVM marquee control (in Silverlight and WPF) (John Rayner)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Increase Performance When Editing TFS 2010 Build Process Templates (Ed Blankenship)
• Minimize your TFS Backup size (Mike Fourie)
• Know Your Debugger Part 3: Breakpoint Types (Dane Morgridge)
• Keyboard Navigation Between Output Window Panes (Zain Naboulsi)
• Dynamically Centering a Windows Forms Label Control (Joe Stagner)
• Ambiguous Optional Parentheses, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• Financial Messaging Services Bus (FMSB) – Add-ons for ESB Toolkit (Vinay Balasubramaniam)

Web Development

• My Programming Sins – 1. [Not] Testing Javascript (Karl Seguin)
• jQuery Tidbits : jQuery.trim() (Kevin Griffin)
• Build Your Own Cloud? What You’ll Need! (David Lemphers)
• Understanding ASP.NET Dynamic Data: Entity Templates (Oleg Sych)
• Early Customer Enthusiasm for a More Beautiful Web (Roger Capriotti)
• Is OAuth 2.0 Bad for the Web? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• User Experiences: Accessibility in IE9 Beta (Sharon Newman)
• User Experiences: Sites in the Spotlight (Mirko Mandic)
• How to add Twitter support to UserVoice using Yahoo Pipes and FeedBurner (Daniel Cazzulino)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article:Bad Attitudes of Agile (Christopher Goldsbury)
• Intuition And Complexity (Derick Bailey)
• The Secret Ninja Cucumber Scrolls (Gojko Adzic)
• How to Break the Vicious Cycle of Technical Debt (Israel Gat)
• Man up! (A developer’s responsibility to their team) (Cal Evans)
• MSTest: Unit Test Adapter threw exception: Type is not resolved for member XXX (Jarosław Dobrzański)
• Notes: How to gather Agile Requirements with User Stories? Why Use them? How to write them? (Zubair Ahmed)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Layer Supertype (Giorgio Sironi)
• Model-Driven Development: Where are the Successes? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Putting Priorities into Practice (K. Brian Kelley)
• Learning cycles at an overall project level (Mark Needham)
• The Problems with Estimating Business Value (Mike Cohn)
• Exclusive Interview: Mary Poppendieck on Lean Transformations (Nitin Bharti)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is Loopy and Who are you? (Rudi Grobler)
• WPF, Default Buttons and input (Oren Eini)
• Making Your Windows Phone Games Show Up Under The Games Hub (Dani Diaz)
• See how we make the sausage [Episode 5 of the Inside Windows Phone show highlights the Windows Phone Toolkit!] (David Anson)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools Hiccup, Links (Karsten Januszewski)
• The Great Silverlight Competency Test #5 (Jesse Liberty)
• Blend Bits 11: Effects (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Phone Memory Constraints (Rene Schulte)
• Pivot Applications for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WP7 Stock Quoting Demo Series Part 2 (John McFetridge)
• Lt. Bennett returns and brings his Silverlight source code with him! (Tim Heuer)
• The soothing sound of texting, R.I.P. (Luke)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Brandon Watson and Friends Build Windows Phone 7 Apps! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 93: Computer Errors, Home Media, and The Fall of The Roman Empire (Jon Galloway)
• Let’s Play TDD #19: UI Training (James Shore)
• Major Nelson Show 371: The one without Major Nelson (Larry Hyrb)
• Sparkling Client Show 107: John Papa talks about Upcoming Silverlight Awesomeness (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Ping 75: IE9 Beta, Halo in History, Tokyo Game Show and SCRABBLE and The Office Show: Storytelling with Office 2010 (Laura Foy)
• Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)

Community / Events

• September Live Chats – Learn More About SharePoint with the MVP Experts (Lonnie Webb)
• Windows Phone 7 Launch Events – A chance to learn more about the platform (Dennis Delimarsky)

Database

• Most SQL Server DBAs Still Don’t Know About Instant File Initialization (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQL SERVER – COUNT(*) Not Allowed but COUNT_BIG(*) Allowed – Limitation of the View 5 (Pinal Dave)
• New SQL Azure website (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• What Do You Think Just Happened To This Database Server? (Glenn Berry)

SharePoint

• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Managing Images, Videos and Audio files with new SharePoint 2010 Asset Library (Lonnie Webb)
• What’s new for developers in SharePoint 2010 (Mike Ormond)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Bing adds Twitter recommendations to search (Todd Bishop)
• Adding Sysinternals’ Secure Delete to your Windows Explorer Files, Folders and Drives (Greg Duncan)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Mercurial: The Definitive Guide – Only $9.99. Use code DDMDG (O’Reilly Media)
• NNTP Phase Out Continues at Microsoft (Richard Hay)
• Introducing Seesmic Desktop 2 (Loic Le Meur & Marco Kaiser)
• Windows HPC Server 2008 R2: The next step in High Performance Computing (Somasegar)
• Showcasing High-Performance Computing on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #690 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Head First C#, 2E: A Learner’s Guide to Real-World Programming with Visual C# and .NET (Head First Guides) by Andrew Stellman

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Top Links

• MIX10 – IronRuby and IronPython – Part 1 (Intro) (Jimmy Schementi)
• ReSharper 5.0 Goes RC! (Jura Gorohovsky)
• FaceLight – Silverlight 4 Real-Time Face Detection (René Schulte)
• The Opposite of Fitts’ Law (Jeff Atwood)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game (Daniel Vaughn)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Help Source and #line hidden and #line default (Richard Carr)
• Moving to Visual Studio 2010 e-book (MS Downloads)
• How to setup dynamic groups in MSBuild without Visual Studio ruining them (Oren Eini)
• Toggle Icon Size in the New Project Dialog (Zain Naboulsi)
• Your First MFC C++ Ribbon Application with Visual Studio 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation to connect to MySQL (Stephen Forte)
• Virtual method/property patching with C# dynamic and Castle DynamicProxy (Louis DeJardin)
• XMI Support in VS2010 (Cameron Skinner)
• Programmatically Detecting Screen Readers (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

• Google Launches Maps Elevation Data API (Adam DuVander)
• Metsys.Bson – the BSON Library (Karl Seguin)
• Upgrading Suteki Shop to ASP.NET MVC 2 (Mike Hadlow)
• Web Deployment Made Awesome: If You’re Using XCopy, You’re Doing It Wrong (Scott Hanselman)
• Check Username Availability with jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, C# (Bill Sternberger)
• One Form with Multiple Tables (Dave M. Bush)
• Extending the Web Publishing Pipeline to package database project deployed SQL file (Xinyang Qiu)
• Text details in OData (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Winforms (and WPF) Testing (Anne Epstein)
• BizTalk ESB Toolkit Architecture Poster (MS Downloads)
• Facilitating A Kanban Konversation (Karl Scotland)
• Pipes and Filters Pattern in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Selenium test suite for Suteki Shop (Mike Hadlow)
• Success Stories for Getting Results (J.D. Meier)
• Strengthening your domain: Encapsulating operations (Jimmy Bogard)
• Eliminating Repetitious Coding With Vim / ViEmu And Macros and I Want Assert.NotYetImplemented(); In .NET Test Frameworks (Derick Bailey)
• The 98th Thing Every Programmer Should Know (Greg Young)

Silverlight / WPF

• Building Your First Windows Phone App with Silverlight and Visual Studio 2010 (Me)
• Silverlight Isn’t Fully Cross-Platform (Justin Angel)
• Bing Maps releases a new Silverlight powered Twitter Maps application (Silverlight Team)
• Rotating and cropping an image in WPF (Pete Brown)
• XAML Editor love – via VS 2010 Extensions (Rob Relyea)
• Fonts in SketchFlow and Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part III (Christian Schormann)
• Become a Design All-Star – Check out the new .toolbox design program for Silverlight! (Arturo Toledo)
• Silverlight 4 INotifyDataErrorInfo (Jason Rainwater)
• New WPF Showcase Addition: MetatOGGer (Jay Esguerra)
• Freedom isn’t free [Tip: When creating a DependencyProperty, follow the handy convention of "wrapper+register+static+virtual"] (David Anson)
• Silverlight with WCF RIA Services Throws "Project File … Not Found" Error When Compiling in Visual Studio 2010 RC (Chris Pietschmann)
• An Integrator’s take on developing for Windows Phone 7 Series (Nathan Dunlap)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Weyer and Rammer Program iPhones with MonoTouch (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• J.B. Rainsberger – On Coderetreat (Corey Haines)
• Silverlight This Week – The Mix10 Conference (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Channel 9 Live at MIX10: Dean Hachamovitch on IE9 (Nic Fillingham)
• Community Megaphone Show #6 with guest Stephen Bohlen (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• The Global Silverlight Tour! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Star Sightings at MIX 10 (John Papa)
• MIX10: Yet another way to view video content sessions using their OData feed (Tim Heuer)
• Making that corporate office a little more personal (Jeff Wilcox)
• Great Presentation to the Israel Dot Net Developers User Group (IDNDUG) (Brad Abrams)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Out of the Box – Activity and Performance Reports from SSSMS (Pinal Dave)
• Formatting the time from a datetime or time datatype by using the STUFF function (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Azure’s OData Support (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Adding a Column to Every Table (Joe Webb)
• Parsing flat files using SSIS : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Improves Developer, User Experience (Bruce Kyle)

SharePoint

• Get Ready for SharePoint 2010 with Ignite Online: now available for partners on the Partner Learning Center! and Feedback around protecting SharePoint (SharePoint Team)
• Business Connectivity Services Profile Pages, Crawling + Search (Hrayr Diloyan)
• Understanding SharePoint the Great Disruptor (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Regular Expressions Cookbook – Only $9.99! Use code DDREC (O’Reilly Media)
• Predictions for the Future of Unified Communications (Gurdeep Singh Pall)
• New book: Windows 7: The Best of the Official Magazine (Devon Musgrave)
• PowerGUI Spring Wallpaper (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Microsoft Learning Content Development System (LCDS) v2.4 Released (Greg Duncan)
• What Makes A Great Cover Letter, According To Companies? (Kat Neville)

More Link Collections

• Crazy Ruby Sharing (Tobin Harris)
• Interesting Finds: March 24, 2010 – Morning Edition and Interesting Finds: March 24, 2010 – Evening Edition (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #567 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2010 — #819 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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

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Top Links

• Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Series Development and Design (Dave Bost)
• How to (and not to) give a talk on F# (Ted Neward)
• My top 5 free VS 2010 extension picks (Damien Guard)
• Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET4 (Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Troubleshooting pkgdef Files (Bill Weinberger)
• Using Older Frameworks with Multi-Targeting (Zain Naboulsi)
• A simple WCF service with username password authentication: the things they don’t tell you (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Work Item Visualization CodePlex Project (Cameron Skinner)
• Managing NHibernate Sessions with IoC (Erik Peterson)
• OData does not support Select Many Queries (Chris Woodruff)
• What’s new in Code Analysis for Visual Studio 2010 (Duke Kamstra)
• TMap for VS2010 Flyer and Architecture Analysis Practices with VS2010 Direct Graphs and Layer Diagrams (Clemens Reijnen)

Web Development

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Platform – Only $9.99! Use code DDDSA (O’Reilly Media)
• Skipfish: Google’s New Tool to Harden Web App Security (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Azure – ASP.NET to Forms Auth with Roles in Azure Tables (J.D. Meier)
• Azure Targets Facebook Developers (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Introduction to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 (Brian Mains)
• Will WCSF VS 2010 version support Unity 2.0 and ASP.NET MVC? (Blaine Wastell)
• Background Tasks in Purr Mode at Sueetie.com (Dave Burke)
• Dynamic User Specific CSS Selection at Run Time (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Injecting Those Dependencies (Brett Schuchert)
• Slides of My Presentation on Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection Pattern (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Defensive Programming and the UI (Mark Needham)
• Swashbuckling Tentacles (Derick Bailey)
• Is Unstructured Collaboration the Key to Business Agility? (Jacob Morgan)
• Include Method Extension for IObjectSet – What about the mocks? (Julie Lerman)

Silverlight / WPF

• Prism will support Unity 2.0 (Blaine Wastell)
• Silverlighting Your PHP: Adding Silverlight With Nothing But Notepad (Justin Whitney)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application (Brad Abrams)
• Free Silverlight, Expression Blend Training (Bruce Kyle)
• Silverlight Printing (Scott Seely)
• Simulate Geo Location in Silverlight Windows Phone 7 emulatorand Make your Silverlight applications Speak to you with Microsoft Translator and Silverlight Client for Facebook updated for Silverlight 4 RC (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mark Brown Introduces Us to the Web Platform Installer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Mohawk in HD (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MSDN Simulcast: Cloud Computing & Windows Azure Platform (Part 1 of 3): Overview and (Part 2 of 3): Storage Options and (Part 3 of 3): Solutions (Emily Gibson)
• Episode 106- PowerScripting Podcast – SQL PSX with Chad Miller (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Cloud Cover Episode 5 – MIX Edition (Ryan Dunn)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 158: Rich Hickey on Clojure (SE-Radio Team)
• 2 New WPF Videos (Jay Esguerra)
• After-Mix Silverlight and the Phone in the Pub (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• New England Code Camp 13 – The Schedule! (Bob Familiar)
• Free Events – It’s All About Expectations (Andy Warren)
• What’s going on with INETA and the Regional Speakers Bureau? (Chris G. Williams)
• Events this Week – March 22nd, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 15 New SharePoint 2010 Launch Community Parties To Be Announced (Joel Oleson)
• Good Times and Vibes at Mix 10 (Phil Haack)

Database

• First look at Raven DB (Oren Eini)
• Why UniqueIdentifier is a Bad Choice for a Clustered Index in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Newsletters and Magazines (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Start Button "Orb" Changer 2.0 (Blake Handler)
• Windows Live Messenger 2010 beta preview (Andrew Lyle)
• IE9 Tech Preview beats latest Firefox alpha, as Chrome 5 clobbers King Opera (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Kodu: New Xbox build! (Stephen Coy)
• Windows Phone 7 desktop wallpapers (Steve Clayton)
• Free Bing T-Shirt for your avatar (Larry Hyrb)
• Mouse Gestures for IE – 64-bit gotcha (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Getting the most speed out of Verizon FIOS (Pete Brown)
• Test if AD object/path exists (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

• Flagged Links #71 (Jason Bock)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 3.22.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #565 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 409 (Sam Gentile)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2010 — #817 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Windows Workflow Foundation: Practical WF Techniques and Examples using XAML and C#: A C# developer’s guide to the features and programming interfaces of Windows Workflow Foundation

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Top Links

• Kaxaml Update + Downloads + A Request (Robby Ingebretsen)
• AndAnd.NET (Andrew Stopford)
• Using Unit of Work Pattern with Entity Framework (Gil Fink)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introducing .NET 4.0 (the book that is) (Mike Ormond)
• New Visual Studio Process Template Certification Program (Stephanie Saad)
• The 6th of Diduary: Did you know you can record a user’s actions for debugging? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Scoop: Reflector v6 pro RTM to be released by the 15th of this month (Patrick Smacchia)
• Functional C#: LINQ vs Method chaining (Mark Needham)
• Using and Abusing the F# Dynamic Lookup Operator (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Integrating ELMAH for a WCF Service (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Performance: Using LCG to copy property values of two objects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Query Continuations in Data Services (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

• View Models in ASP.NET MVC (Simon Ince)
• MVC Turbine v2.0 for MVC2 RC2 (.NET 3.5) (Javier G. Lozano)
• Setting the Page Editor Options in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Part I) (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Traditional architecture makes me flinch (Oren Eini)
• Programmer Tip: Consider Looking For Your Own Sources Of Motivation. (Rajiv Popat)
• CQRS – Event Sourcing (Mark Nijhof)

Silverlight / WPF

• ViewModel Active Awareness in a Prism Based Application (Daniel Vaughan)
• Rules of MVVM?? (Michael Sync)
• WPF Quick Tip: How to Restrict Window Size in WPF 4 and Creating Customized UserControls (Deriving from ContentControl) in WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
• Test Driven Silverlight Body Snatchers (Jesse Liberty)
• Help Me Figure Out What to Write (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: Sara Ford, recognize touch gestures, make Windows 7 into a hotspot (Dan Fernandez)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #82 (Jeff Atwood)
• jQuery Podcast 10 – appendTo (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Don Box – feelings for XML (Rob Relyea)

Community / Events

• Philly Alt.NET “Practical DDD in .NET” Presentation: That’s a Wrap! (Steve Bohlen)

Database

• Interesting UNION with ORDER BY behavior (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Paging With SPListItemCollectionPosition (Charles Chen)

Miscellaneous

• Google Voice Quick Reference Cheatsheet v2.0 Speeds Through Phone Menus (Adam Pash)
• Over 200 DRM-free Microsoft Press eBooks now available (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2010 — #793 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekend Reading, February 5th (Dominic Carr)
• Required Reading – January 2010 Week 1 (Mike Ceranski)
• New and Notable 401 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

Testing Computer Software, 2nd Edition

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Eclipse and VSTS (Pieter de Bruin)
• Lightweight Linq Parser (Brad Abrams)
• Building A Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 1 (Chris Patterson)
• Windows 7 Runtime Libraries Available for Vista and Windows Server 2008 (Zhiming Xue)
• Attach a Debugger When a Process Starts (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• 7 on 7: Sensor and Location API (Jim O’Neil)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 1: Introduction and Freescale Board Setup and Testing (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• WOHOO!!!, Debug Diag 64bit is finally released (Tess Ferrandez)

Web Development

• Don’t Look Now, But MapQuest Might Be Great (Adam DuVander)
• MVC Best Practices (Jimmy Bogard)
• Announcing the Zoho Projects API (Celina Balasingh)
• 12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Simone Chiaretta)
• Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP developers (Maarten Balliauw)
• Verify JavaScript syntax using C# (Mads Kristensen)
• DotNetNuke 5.x Can’t Move Module On A Page (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD Invades Space Invaders (Michael Kennedy)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 6 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 18. (Rajiv Popat)
• Manual Mocking: Resisting the Invasion of Dots and Parentheses (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Cost Oriented Architecture of Cloud Applications (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Coding: Connascence – Some examples (Mark Needham)
• Uniqueness validation in CQRS Architecture (Jérémie Chassaing)

Silverlight / WPF

• Video Player Expression Blend 3 Behavior Library (MS Downloads)
• New WPF Features: ClearTypeHint (Lester Lobo)
• You ask: Should Silverlight use BAML? (Rob Relyea)
• WPF and databinding to dynamic properties (Torkel Ödegaard)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video on creating a PowerPack (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• 10-4 Episode 34: Debugger Enhancements and Improvements (Jason Olson)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Don Box – Perspectives on SOAP, Programming Data and M (Charles Torre)
• Screencast: SharePoint 2010 for Project Management Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Tekpub Production Calendar (Rob Conery)
• Developing Windows Azure applications for PHP, Ruby, and Java, using Eclipse (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

• Growing the next generation of computer scientists and business leaders (Kyle Ewing)
• Expression Blend Feedback Forum (Adam Kinney)
• "Oslo" at the 2009 PDC (Chris Sells)
• PDC2009: XAML Futures Talk (Rob Relyea)

Database

• Disable SQL Azure Firewall (Jason De Lorme)
• Windows Azure Tables: Expect Continuation Tokens, Seriously! (Steve Marx)
• Another Great SQL Azure Query Tool (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• Free Download: SharePoint Assessment WBS & Project Schedule (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Short Overview of SharePoint Features in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Jausovec)

Miscellaneous

• Set Up Windows Home Server to Automate Your Backups and Corral Your Media (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/10/29 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Dr. Explain Gives Your Software a Brain (Lee Dumond)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #465 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 – 2 — #718 and Silverlight Cream for October 28, 2009 — #719 (Dave Campbell)
• My Top 10 Personal Favorite And Overlooked Posts (Davy Brion)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #572 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 28th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 385 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Graphical Paths with Gradient Colors (Charles Petzold)
• Where Does Silverlight and WPF Belong? (Chris Love)
• Why Silverlight Is the Future and Silverlight Online Goodies (Rocky Lhotka)
• New Tutorial: DataGrid Binding via Data Entities & WCF (Jesse Liberty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• VSTS Has a New Web Site (Cameron Skinner)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.1 Released (for Windows and Silverlight) (Rocky Lhotka)
• A Story of TFS WTFery (Ben Scheirman)
• Model Driven Template/Scaffolding AddIn for Visual Studio (Eric Hexter)
• Developing with Microsoft Business Rules Engine (Mohamad Halabi)

Web Development

• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Streaming Video, but Were Afraid to Ask, and Then Some… (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Why to Use a CSS Framework? and More About CSS Frameworks (Daniela Panfili)
• Html and Uri String Encoding without System.Web (Rick Strahl)
• Chapter 1 – An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC (Stephen Walther) – Link of the Day
• Trying to Extend the ASP.NET MVC (T4) Item Templates to Create Multiple Files (Eric Hexter)
• Building AgiliTrain: Part 3 – Data Validation (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Friday Books – CSS: The Missing Manual (Dave M. Bush)
• REST Fundamentals (Kalyan Bandarupalli)
• Slide Elements in Different Directions (Karl Swedberg)
• Minifying HTML and JavaScript Using Microsoft Expression Web (Jason N. Gaylord)
• How to Use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile: Why Do We Integrate Early? (Mark Needham)
• The Essence of Great UI – An Overview (Mark Miller)
• S.O.L.I.D. By Example: Open Closed Principle (Bobby Johnson)
• Bounded Context, Extension Methods, and Fluent API’s (JP Hamilton)
• UX Patterns (and not UI Architecture Patterns) (Christopher Bennage)
• Why ‘Should Attach View to Presenter’ Is an Invalid Unit Test / Observation (Derick Bailey)
• Software Development "Lessons Learned" (Jarod Ferguson)
• The Next Level of Code Analysis Using ‘NDepend’: An Interview with Patrick Smacchia (Suprotim Agarwal)

.NET Community / Events

• Introducing .NET Shout Out (Joe Stagner)
• MSDN Webcast: ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 3.5 Overview (Lindsay Rutter)
• MVPs Headline at TechEd 2009! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

• Managing Files with SQL Server 2008′s FILESTREAM Feature (Thiru Thangarathinam)
• Some Simple Code to Show the Difference Between Newid and Newsequentialid (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Performance Is Important – Why Jeff Atwood (CodingHorror.com) Is Wrong and Right About Performance (Wallace B. McClure)
• New in Labs: Multiple Inboxes (Octavian "Vivi" Costache)
• Mobile Manager for Netflix (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Learning and Understanding (Gabriel Schenker)
• Suggested Sites & Privacy (Jane Kim)
• UAC Feedback and Follow-Up (Jon DeVaan & Steven Sinofsky)
• The History of Microsoft – 1975 (Tina @ Channel9)
• Pulling the Sword from the Stone: Amazon’s Kindle Books to Be Available on Mobile Phones (Chris Webb)

More Link Collections

• CloudNews for February 5th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• jQuery Week? (Thomas S. Williams)
• Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2009 — #508 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for February 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (2/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #281 (Chris Alcock)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 10 (Denis Gobo)
• Interesting Finds: February 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day