Top Links

• Scale-out computing on DevLabs (Somasegar)
• TPL (Task Parallel Library) Dataflow CTP Released (Greg Duncan)
• Keeping an application’s UI responsive with multi-threading (Jerry Joyce) – WP7 tip
• Customers Get Dryad, DryadLINQ (Douglas Gantenbein)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #25 – LINQ and Fluent Programming (Jesse Liberty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Code Metrics PowerTool 10.0 (MS Downloads)
• WCF 4.0 Features Part #1 and Learning WCF RIA Service Part #2: Adding Query Methods (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Enumerating resources from a native library via WinAPI (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Pasting a Single Selection Into a Box Selection vstipEdit0008 (Zain Naboulsi)
• VS Achievements (Scott Wiltamuth)
• MonoDroid on the Mac (Wally McClure)
• Code Metrics PowerTool (Pieter de Bruin)
• Date/Time Support in NHibernate (James Kovacs)
• Final Draft Chapters of Parallel Programming with C++ Online (Ade Miller)
• Code Providers – Remove Region Directives (Alex Skorkin)
• OpenNI + Kinect (getting set up on Windows) (Baba)
• .NET Tools that I would never want to part with.. (Don Burnett)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Validation Control with Images Notification (Abhijit Jana)
• HTML5 Blizzard: Full Hardware Acceleration in Action (Jason Weber)
• How to open jQuery UI Dialog from codebehind and Disable all input controls on a form with jQuery (Raghav Khunger)
• Creating a picture gallery with HTML5 canvas (Martin Beeby)
• Calling .NET Framework Classes from WebMatrix (Joe Stagner)
• Click’less WebPI … as in a command line WebPI (Web Platform Installer) (Greg Duncan)
• Python’s Yield (Anne Epstein)
• Is OpenID Living Up to Our Expectations? (Abel Avram)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Back to Basics: Mock Eliminating Patterns (John Sonmez)
• Measuring Quality in Agile (Mitch Ruebush)
• How to add RowTest support to MSTest (Dror Helper)
• Get a Better Word for Software “Craftsman” (Krishna Kumar)
• It’s Design (K. Scott Allen)
• Deliberate Discovery: The stuff I don’t know list (Mark Needham)
• Dipping Your Toes into Kanban (David J. Bland)
• Wasting Time as an Agile Developer? 5 Ways to Fix Time-Bandits at Work (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 4 in Action (Denis Gladkikh)
• Windows Phone 7 – Part #2: Your First Application (Andrea Boschin)
• Catel – WPF and Silverlight MVVM library – Release: v1.1 (CodePlex)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #1 (Jeff Prosise)
• Silverlight Spy 4 licensing (Koen Zwikstra)
• Step By Step: Bing Maps Silverlight and an Out Of Browser (OOB) Application (Chris Pietschmann)
• Building a personal website using Silverlight. (Michael Crump)
• Upcoming free Windows Phone 7 Webinar Series – Shawn Wildermuth and Mark Arteaga (Senthil Kumar)
• Quickly building a trial mode for a Windows Phone application (David Poll)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Doc Norton Sharpens His Saw and .NET Rocks! – Andrew Parsons and Alfred Thompson Educate Kids in Software! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Making an impact at Microsoft (Kelly Fife)
• Keynote Web Camps Belgium by Scott Hanselman (Liese Jespers)
• Johanna Rothman Interview, with Ian Dees (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – The Connector (Clint Rutkas, Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• SQL SERVER – What is a Technology Evangelist? (Pinal Dave)
• 10 Reasons Developers Should Blog. (Joe Stagner)
• My Top 10 Interaction Developer picks for MIX11 Open Call (Adam Kinney)

Database

• Microsoft Books Online for SQL Server Code-Named "Denali" CTP1 (MS Downloads)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Small Package, Big Win (26/31) (Jason Strate)
• Rename a SQL Server database (Madhivanan)
• SQL Server 2005 SP4 Released (Wes Yanaga)
• Ridiculously Unnormalized Database Schemas – Part Two (Michael Swart)
• SSAS Dimension Attribute Discretization Methods (Devin Knight)
• RavenDB vs MongoDB – Why I don’t usually bother (Rob Ashton)

SharePoint

• Deployment guide for SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• New Product Beta – Storage Maximizer for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK preview goes live (Chris Ziegler)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming iOS 4 – $17.99 (Save 50%) Code DDP4R (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 26 January 2011 – #11 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Morning Brew #779 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 01/26/2011 and Daily News Digest 01/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services: Problem, Design, Solution (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Erik Veerman

Top Links

• Thoughts on WebMatrix (Rob Conery)
• Monads in C#-4. Linq loves Monads! (Mike Hadlow)
• Announcing release of ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrix (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, IIS Express and Orchard released – The Microsoft January Web Release in Context (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Variables and Function in F# (Dhananjay Kumar)
• SharpDevelop 4.0 Final (Christoph Wille)
• So you want to get that TFS-powered project from CodePlex… (Dennis Delimarsky)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Constraining Generics with Where Clause (James Michael Hare)
• Query to find methods with parameters having default values (Jason Haley)
• Fast String Sort in C# and F# (Stefan Savev)
• Customize the Debugging Windows : Change Debugging Window View as per your requirements (Abhijit Jana)
• Hey .NET Developers! Its Christmas All Over Again! (Mike Ceranski)
• Not as easy as it looks (Eric Lippert)
• Mono Releases Mono Packager for Mac (James Vastbinder)
• Phonetic String Comparison with Soundex (Jonathan Wood)
• Your Own Sandbox (Miguel de Icaza)
• UppercuT v1.0 and 1.1–Linux (Mono), Multi-targeting, SemVer, Nitriq and Obfuscation, oh my! (Rob Reynolds)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0: Learn Programming Now! (Valerie Woolley)

Web Development

• When we can use HttpContext.Current.Items to stores data in ASP.NET? (Abhijit Jana)
• MVC Music Store v2.0 (CodePlex)
• WebMatrix, Razor, MVC3 and Orchard Release Today! (Chris Koenig)
• Creating a Code 39 Barcode using HTML, CSS and Javascript (Connect Code)
• Book Review – HTML5: Up and Running (Gil Fink)
• WebMatrix and Web Deploy v2.0 (MS Downloads)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 and NuGet 1.0 Released (Including Source Code!) (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Razor Syntax – RenderBody, RenderPage and RenderSection (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Unobtrusive jQuery and HTML 5 MSDN Flash Article (Simon Ince)
• Scaffold your ASP.NET MVC 3 project with the MvcScaffolding package and MvcScaffolding: Standard Usage (Steve Sanderson)
• Table footer statistics for YUI 2 DataTable (Matt Parker)
• Gritty Technical Info on Windows Azure Web Roles (Part I) (Adron Hall)
• Orchard 1.0 – We’re ready for production ! (Joe Stagner)
• Getting Started with WebMatrix (Wes Yanaga)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mocks, Stubs and Unreadable Tests: Clearly I’m Doing This Wrong (Derick Bailey)
• Back to Basics: Unit Testing, Automated Blackbox Testing, and Conclusions! (John Sonmez)
• Challenges in Agile Adoption: Distributed Teams and Getting Left Behind (Mitch Pronschinske)
• How Developers Should ‘Read’ Exceptions (Davy Brion)
• Stardate 2011.14.1: Friday’s Book (Kyle Szklenski)
• The Product Owner and Governance? and The Adoption Side of the Story (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Keeping The Crowds Out For The First Couple Of Sprints. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Posting A Photo From Windows Phone 7 To A Web Service (Chris Love)
• 6 of 10 – Embedding web content should be done with extreme caution. (Alfred Astort)
• There’s a blob on your web page – but don’t wipe it off [New Delay.Web.Helpers assembly brings easy Amazon S3 blob access to ASP.NET web sites!] (David Anson)
• How to change the StartPage of the Windows Phone 7 Application in Visual Studio 2010? (isenthil)
• Silverlight TV 57: Performance Tuning Your Apps (John Papa)
• Kinect hand tracking with WPF 4 and Bing Maps 3-D (Josh Blake)
• Windows Phone 7 App Submission Checklist (Matthias Shapiro)
• Silverlight 4 receives InfoWorld’s 2011 Technology of the Year Award (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• On WebMatrix with Rob Conery (Scott Hanselman)
• New Home Page, Smooth Streaming added to Channel 9 today (Cara, Duncan Mackenzie & Geoffrey)
• E2E: Herb Sutter and Erik Meijer – Perspectives on C++ (Charles Torre)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 384: CES, Cruises, Ducks, M&M’s and Eminem (Larry Hyrb)
• Excel 25th Anniversary – Part Two (Tina Wood)
• The One Thing: Paul Swider and SharePoint 2010 (Paul J. Swider)
• CodeMash 2011 – WebMatrix Launch Keynote (James Senior & Nic Fillingham)
• Cloud Cover – Hard Hat Edition (Wade Wegner)
• The Office Show – Social Networking with Office (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone 7 and XBox 360 Game Camps in NY (Bob Familiar)
• Online YUI 3 Introductory Course Fri, Jan 21st (Luke Smith)
• Speaking at DC .NET on Jan 18th (Kevin Griffin)
• Last Call for Speakers 24 Hours of PASS (Jason Strate)
• CodeMash Day 0: Craft, Podcasts, music and games (Bill Wagner)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Create XML Document (13/31) and 31 Days of SSIS – Instant Excel Spreadsheet (14/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Quick Look at SQL Server Configuration for Performance Indications (Pinal Dave)
• Removing Time From A Datetime Value (Joe Webb)
• Identity Columns: Are You Nearing The Limits? (Michelle Ufford)

SharePoint

• How to pass InitParams to Silverlight Application which is hosted as SharePoint 2010 web parts? (Abhijit Jana)
• Using the Dialog Platform (Dallas Tester)

Miscellaneous

• Ballmer, Microsoft and the future (Todd Bishop)
• Steve Ballmer finally shows who’s in charge of Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
• The Amazing Life Of Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• It’s Official: 2010 the Biggest Year in Xbox History (Microsoft Blog Admin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2011 and Interesting Finds: January 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 85 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2011 — #1026 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #770 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 01/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# BootCamp – Questions and Answers – part I – Introduction (Steffen Forkmann)
• Using Reflection in C# to Figure Out if an Integer List Has Values (Peter Kellner)
• NHibernate Mapping – <list/> (Oren Eini)
• DDD and the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Evgeny Salamatov)
• LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0 (Damien Guard)
• Create a Generic List at Run Time and Quickly Find All "TODO’s" in Your .NET Project (Srinath M.)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – TeamCity Integration Coming (Rob Reynolds)
• Review: CryptoLicensing for .NET (Roy Osherove)
• NCover v3.1.2 released! (Stephen Ward)
• Analyze and explore the evolution of .NET Framework by yourself (Patrick Smacchia)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: 1.8.0.2 Beta (CodePlex)

Web Development

• JSMag June 2009 now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Creating Rails Like Flash Feature in .NET The Flash Control (Mohammad Azam)
• Control TextBox’s AutoComplete Action (Chris Love)
• Sueetie Content Parts and List View Controls, Oh My (Dave Burke)
• Free ASP.NET 4.0 beta hosting available (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML Editor FieldTemplate for Dynamic Data Using AJAX Control Toolkit Editor (Stephen Naughton)
• How to Use Microsoft.Web.Administration : Using Scripts to Automate Management : Managing and Maintaining IIS 7.0 : The Official Microsoft IIS Site (Stuart Manning)
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Scott Guthrie)
• GridView Selection and Postback using jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• clientscript as the view controller (Jay Kimble)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• BOOK: Agile Testing and Sensing and Sense-making in the Agility Cycle (Brad Appleton)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Utils Class (Chris Missal)
• Bricks and Mortar: Building a Castle (James Kovacs)
• Simple Nested Closure (Matt Hinze)
• What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
• Yes, I’m going to finish "Build Your Own CAB" (sorta) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Refactoring guard clauses, or “How to ask politely” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Telerik Releases RadScheduler for Silverlight Beta (Ina Tontcheva)
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• XAML: Using Generic Types in XAML 2009 and Empty string in XAML (Rob Relyea)
• Ocean for Silverlight – Enables Sharing Business Objects With WPF (Karl Shifflett) – Link of the Day
• Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework (Jeff Wilcox)
• Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 1: Animation to Catch the Eye (Jennifer Marsman)
• Sync Multi Select Listbox with ViewModel (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht : CLR 4 – Inside the Thread Pool (Charles Torre)
• Windows 7 RC2 Build 7224 Videos (Stephen Chapman)
• Netcast #11 – The Two Silos (Todd O. Klindt)
• Ping 14: Bing, VPlay, Zune HD, Celebrifeed, Mediaroom (Laura Foy)
• Show: Episode 2 It’s All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Microsoft’s Project Natal demo video has us jumping with anticipation (Nilay Patel)

Community / Events

• 2009 E3 Xbox.com Press Kit (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Shane Young! (Amanda Murphy)
• SharePoint Conference Washington DC (Bob Mixon)
• Foundation Series, Session 4, Wed June 10th (Brian Donahue)
• 2009 E3 Xbox Media Briefing (Larry Hryb)
• SQLAuthority News – Summary of TechEd India 2009 – A Grand Event (Pinal Dave)
• God Bless Xbox: Microsoft’s E3 News Roundup [Roundup] (Matt Buchanan)
• Breaking News: Atlassian Acquires GreenHopper (Max Pool)
• LosTechies welcomes Sharon Cichelli "Girl Writes Code" (Joe Ocampo)
• Free Virtual Expo on SharePoint – June 10 (Joel Oleson)

SharePoint

• Reading Digital Signatures from InfoPath Forms in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Workflow (Tom Hearn)
• SharePoint: Some users doesn’t receive alerts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Tip: Don’t use "&" in instance.xml when creating a WSP (S.S. Ahmed)

Database

• How to execute multiple SQL scripts (Martin Bell)
• Log Shipping for DR and failing back in case of disaster. The cheap way! (Ted Krueger)
• Microsoft Reporting Services (Sub Reports, Charts, Parameters, Expression Editor, etc) (Jorge Paulino)

Miscellaneous

• New details emerge about Microsoft Exchange & Outlook Mobile (PhoneArena Team)
• Google to sell eBooks by year’s end and Rumor: Google bringing the BBC iPlayer to the US? and Microsoft’s Bing 411 offers phone numbers, directions over the phone (Brad Linder)
• Bing Travel, Bing Community, and your Windows Live ID – why are they separate? and Bing Search Bars are now everywhere! (damaster)
• Microsoft "Project Natal" invents a better Wii (Joel Johnson)
• Web v.Next (John Stockton)
• Bing Goes Live—Here’s What You Can Do With It (Kevin Purdy)
• Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads (Kevin Purdy)
• Oh dear, there IS a Club Bing (Kip Kniskern)
• The Rotting Stink of Corporate IT (Sara J. Chipps)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 1 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Project Natal is going to change the games forever! (Taimur Asad)
• Gmail Notifier Plus Adds Email Alerts to the Windows 7 Taskbar (The How-To Geek)
• Acer launching world’s first Android-based netbook in Q3 (Thomas Ricker)
• Make Bing your default search provider in IE (Paul Thurrott)
• The Ultimate USB *Key* Drive » Lacie iamaKey 8GB (Matt Walker)
• Adobe releases trio of Labs goodies for designers, developers (Lee Mathews)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey Part 8: Deliver with Confidence and Style (Justin Etheredge)
• Google Docs gets x’ier with .docx and .xlsx support (Josh Lowensohn)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #359 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2009 — #605 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 325 (Sam Gentile)
• The Technology Post for June 1st (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 1st June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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