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Top Links

• Installing the Spark View Engine into ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 (Andrew Siemer) – If you are using MVC and you have not tried Spark yet, do yourself a favor and check it out.
• Business Errors are Just Ordinary Events (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Big UI Library Improvements (Peldi Guilizzoni) – A great update to the best UI mockup tool available.
• Everybody stand-up! 7 resources for standup meetings. (Simone Chiaretta) – A nice collection of links to useful information on standups.
• Prism and MEF (David Hill) – How do you use them together? Read on…
• Party with Palermo: MVP Summit 2010 edition – book flight now (Jeffrey Palermo) – I’ll be there!
• Ready, Set, Go! (Dave Astels) – Dave summarizes what you need to know about Google’s Go language.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows 7: Jump Lists (Arian T. Kulp)
• NH Prof new feature: Filter static files (Oren Eini)
• Haskell vs F#: Function composition (Mark Needham)
• Creating extensions for VS 2010 (Somasegar)
• Building and publishing an extension for Visual Studio 2010 (Quan To)
• C# regions sure can be useless (Jeff Wilcox)

Web Development

• Guided Tour: jQuery – guard and default operators (Sergio Pereira)
• ASP.NET WebForms + Routing Video and Downloads (Michael Kennedy)
• The CategoryAttribute and Dynamic Data (Peter Blum)
• jQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 And The Live Event (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Chickens and Pigs (Julie Stickler)
• Building software that matters, part two (Gojko Adzic)
• Real World Benefits From Loose Coupling, Inversion Of Control And Dependency Injection (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft Feedback 2010 (Rinat Abdullin)
• Clarified CQRS (Udi Dahan)
• Is the term ‘Agile’ still useful? (Patrick Kua)
• Don’t Break the Interface (Peter Bromberg)

Silverlight / WPF

• WriteableBitmapEx – WriteableBitmap Extensions Now on CodePlex (Rene Schulte)
• xml syntax highlighting in Silverlight (Nick Kramer)
• WPF/XAML helping VS2010 Extensibility (Rob Relyea)
• SketchFlow helps deliver an ambitious new auction tool – meeting tight time and budget constraints (Silverlight Team)
• Overlaying Icons on the Windows 7 Taskbar with WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 4: System.Xml.Linq.dll is missing?? Well, sort of… (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Proper Care and Feeding of Regular Expressions: Your World Examples (MS Podcasts)
• .NET Rocks! – Live from Øredev 2009 (Carl Franklin)
• Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams Interview with Billy Hollis: Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010 (Brad Abrams)
• PDC09 Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp videos now online and available (Greg Duncan)
• Watch New WPF & WinForms Videos! (Jay Esguerra)
• The Outlook calendar starts in 1601 – But Why? (Laura Foy)
• Enabling Help in the Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Kathleen McGrath)
• SPC Interviews-Episode 39 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Office Casual – Smart Art (Tina Wood)
• Telerik OpenAccess Data Services Wizard December CTP Instruction Video (Stephen Forte)

Community / Events

• IndyHall Member Profiles: Mike Nicholaides (Parker Whitney)
• Microsoft, Open Source and the CodePlex Foundation (Lawrence Moroney)

Database

• What can cause log reads and other transaction log questions (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Future of Business Intelligence (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Press Releases "First Look: Microsoft Office 2010” for Free Download (Blake Handler)
• "Programming Pearls" (Jason Bock)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/10 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• PowerShell is all about enabling you. Even the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) can be extended (via PowerShell of course) (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft Responds to Windows BitLocker Claims (Paul Thurrott)
• By Extension, Chrome Battles Firefox (MG Siegler)
• Windows 7: The 64 Bit Question (Debra Shinder)
• Test-Spelling (James Brundage)
• Microformats: Boon or Bane? (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 9, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #495 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 09, 2009 — #753 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman Links for December 9, 2009 (Dave Burke)

The Geek Shelf

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.NET / Visual Studio

• F#: Composing Functions (Steve Horsfield)
• Prototyping DSLs in F#: Parsing and Semantic Checking (Adam Granicz)
• Soma Blog on New Features in C# 4.0 (Charlie Calvert)
• Templated E-Mail using .NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Running 64-bit Binary References in Visual Studio (Dave Schinkel)
• Visual Studio Team System for Small Teams (David Starr)
• Using Accessibility Modifiers on Auto Properties (Justin Etheredge)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Iterator Blocks Part Seven: Why no anonymous iterators? (Eric Lippert)
• All for that small Drop Down Box – Part 1 (Vishal Joshi)

Web Development

• Keyboard Enabling a Web Form (Chris Love)
• 404 Error When Running Web Applications in IIS 7 (Dave Schinkel)
• Tip #93: Did you know … PHP and Custom Error Pages configuration? (Kern Handa)
• Tracing Windows Azure Apps to Storage (David Lemphers)
• 50 Useful New jQuery Techniques and Tutorials (Smashing Magazine)
• On the Fly DropDown Editing with jQuery (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Does YAGNI Mean You Ignore The Obvious (Alan Skorkin)
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Reasoning and A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Mapping and A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: CRUD and Concepts & Features in NH Prof: Filtering (Oren Eini)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer Series and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Mapping Classes To Tables and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Out Of The Box CRUD Functionality (Davy Brion)
• Time Management Quotes (J.D. Meier)
• How about a StoryTeller Preview Release! (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• Stars & Craftsmanship (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XIV: Persisting proxies (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• More than just version control (Jimmy Bosse)
• Learning: Thoughts on doing so more effectively and Pair Programming: Keeping both people engaged and Book Club: What I’ve learned about DDD since the book (Eric Evans) and Rock Scissors Paper: TDD as if you meant it (Mark Needham)
• The Correct Process Guides Us (Tracer Architecture Cont.) (Max Pool)
• 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Patrick Kua)
• Writing Great Unit Tests: Best and Worst Practices (Steve Sanderson)
• Identify Code Structure Patterns at a Glance (Patrick Smacchia)
• Refactoring Day 24 : Remove Arrowhead Antipattern (Sean Chambers)
• Review of ANTS Memory Profiler (Scott Seely)

Silverlight / WPF

• Type-On Text for SketchFlow with a Behavior (Christian Schormann)
• How can I add labels to a WPF pie chart? (Bea Stollnitz)
• Updates made to MVVM Foundation (Josh Smith)
• Creating Master Details Application using WPF 3.5 and LINQ to XML (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 24: Stored Procedures (Brad Abrams)
• Roget’s Hierarchical Thesaurus in a Silverlight App (Charles Petzold)
• Test driving a WPF App – Part 2: Adding some data (Brian Button)
• Using one platform to build another [HTML 5's canvas tag implemented using Silverlight!] (David Anson)
• The Application Class and Application Services in Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Read singleton approach in WPF application (Tamir Khason)
• Cinch does ok (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – James Kovacs on Convention over Configuration (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Simon Guest on Patterns for Moving to the Cloud (Bob Familiar)
• WebDev Radio Episode 68: Frank Wierzbicki on Python, Jython, Java and more (Michael Kimsal)
• Enhanced Interaction with Project Natal (Frank La Vigne)
• Rob Greenlee on Zune Podcasting (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Herding Code 58: Presentation Patterns with Jeremy Miller, Ward Bell, Rob Eisenberg and Glenn Block (Part 2) (Jon Galloway)
• Major Nelson Show #329: DiRT2, Arkham Asylum and Shadow Complex (Larry Hyrb)
• Google Wave API Hackathon & Federation Day: Videos Available Now! (Pamela Fox)
• Ping 26: NFL & Silverlight, Movie Maker, Students, Win7 free trial (sorta) (Laura Foy)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #1 (Stephen Forte)
• Episode 143: API Design with Jim de Rivieres (SE Radio Team)
• ToolShed Tooltip #22 – Channel9 and the Tool Shed … A Treasure Chest of Resources (Russell Fustino)
• Episode 81 – PowerScripting Podcast – David Warburton talks about AutoPowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Events this Week – August 24th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The fall line-up and event list – we hope to see you there! (Kimberly Tripp)
• CodeMash is coming (Maggie Longshore)
• LIDNUG: Free Online Virtual Chat with Me Tuesday Morning (Scott Guthrie)
• PASS Board of Directors – Call for Nominations (Steve Jones)
• Benefits of TDD and Pair Programming (Course Day #1) (Roy Osherove)

Database

• Examining database shared locks using sys.dm_tran_locks (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Index Seek vs. Index Scan – Diffefence and Usage – A Simple Note (Pinal Dave)
• Scripting all jobs on SQL Server 2005/2008 into one file (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Search: Improving the Relevancy of Search Results (Bob Mixon)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell REPL, by Example (Pete Seale)
• Free OneNote 2007 PowerToy "THE" for Extracting Highlighted Text from a Page (Blake Handler)
• How A Ruby Case Statement Works And What You Can Do With It (Alan Skorkin)
• Integrate Data with New Microsoft Office 2010 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft OneApp announced (Steve Clayton)
• Nokia to deliver Windows 7-powered netbook with 12 hours of battery life (Paul Thurrott)
• Playing around with Posterous; post on “social media wars” (Robert Scoble)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Aug 23 – 2009 and LINKBLOG for Aug 24 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #418 and The Morning Brew #419 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 23, 2009 — #672 and Silverlight Cream for August 24, 2009 — #673 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #88 – “Oh, look!” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 08.19 ~ 08.25 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #67 (Grant Palin)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/23/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Interesting Post… 8/17/2009 through 8/22/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links (8/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 24th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Weekly Link Post 107 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading a Microsoft Project file (mpp) in C# (Tom Hearn)
• Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines (Aaron Marten)
• Expressions Cheat Sheet (Jimmy Bogard)
• Client-side properties and any remote LINQ provider (Damien Guard)
• Adding and removing websites to/from security zones programmatically (C#) (Dennis Dietrich)
• It Already Is A Scripting Language (Eric Lippert)
• Correlating Downloads to Usage With Visual Studio 2010 (Joe Kuemerle)
• Using SqlHelper in a .Net application (Sam Tyson)
• iTextSharp – The easy way (Dave M. Bush)
• Providing Safe Alternatives (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• Google Releases Virtual Keyboard AJAX API (Andres Ferrate)
• Mind if my MVC T4 template changes your code a bit? (David Ebbo) – Link of the Day
• JavaScript implementation of "M" (Chris Sells)
• Developer Tools for Google Chrome (Ian Fette)
• Two frameworks are better than one (Simone Chiaretta)
• Better JavaScript class generation (Jay Kimble)
• Share Your Work in the Wave Samples Gallery (Pamela Fox)
• Learning to Create Icons using Expression Design (Arturo Toledo)
• Testing MVC Elements and Interactions with Mock Container (Rinat Abdullin)
• Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 2 Controllers, Views and Testing (Ryan Svihla)
• Debugging with Different Browsers in Visual Studio 2008 (Michael Ceranski)
• .NETOOP high level configuration storage decision. (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Where are my Entities and my Repositories? and Which model is best? That’s not the question. (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Ubiquitous Language in Product Development (Dave Laribee)
• Avoid Using NHibernate With NUnit 2.4.6 (Davy Brion)
• Using Typemock Isolator for Integration Tests (Francis K. Cheung)
• Security Design Reviews (Jossie Tirado)
• QTB: Agile Adoption – How to stuff it up (Mark Needham)
• Just Be Honest and Tell the Truth (Jeff Perrin)

Silverlight / WPF

• ToggleButton Command for Prism (Corey Schuman)
• Giving WPF Some Love (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• From Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition: UI Element Binding (Pete Brown)
• Expression Design for Developers part 4 – Using Layers and Exporting to XAML (Joel Cochran)
• Using Binding to position a Collection of elements – Take 2 (Josh Twist)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! #458 – Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack at NDC! (Carl Franklin)
• WebDevRadio Episode 67: MySQL with Keith Murphy (Michael Kimsal)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #121: Exploring how to use Expressions w/ Spark (Donn Felker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #59 (Jeff Atwood)
• How to use a delegate (Jennifer Marsman)
• Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session Posted (Brian Peek)
• ThirstyDeveloper #66 – HAML with a side of SASS (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

Community / Events

• Spark v1.0 and presentation for MPLS ALT.NET (Louis DeJardin)
• TDD Master Class almost full (Roy Osherove)
• Silverlight Ads on Xbox LIVE Announced at Cannes (Silverlight Team)
• VAN: Doing 2 Part Series on Castle development July 1st and 8th at 8pm (Ryan Svihla)
• Looking for a charity for CodePlex project owners to donate advertisement revenue (Sara Ford)

PowerShell

• Control your PC with your voice … and PowerShell (Joel Bennett)
• New Powershell Survey on Connect (Osama Sajid)

Database

• Repost: Watch out for SQL Server Parameter Sniffing (Chris Brandsma)
• Better Know A SSIS Transform – The Sort Transform (Devin Knight)

Miscellaneous

• PM Tip #10: Interview Tips for Landing a Great Program Management Job (Brad Abrams)
• Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Hidden Costs and The iPhone Software Revolution (Jeff Atwood)
• Audio files from Ghostbusters (Larry Hyrb)
• Become a Gmail ninja with tips from Googlers (Jason Clarke)
• XBOX 360 & ZUNE BUZZ (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Birdies: Cute Free Twitter Icons For Your Blog (Smashing Magazine)
• Zune HD video hands-on quickie (Paul Miller)
• Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest (Rafe Needleman)
• Introducing Microsoft Hohm – Save Energy & Money and Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) in Windows 7 (Nic Fillingham)
• FriendFeed Adds File Sharing. No Movies, But MP3s Are Fine. (MG Siegler)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 24, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #376 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 24, 2009 — #621 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 24th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• New and Notable 334 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 24th June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day