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Top Links

• Maybe – The Uh, Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (Jordan Terrell)
• Attracting Developers to Your API (Alex Willen)
• Paint.NET 4.0 build 4158 screenshot (Rick Brewster)
• A few tips for working with XAML inside of Visual Studio 2010. (Michael Crump)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ ToLookup Operator (Richard Carr)
• DXCore Services – Navigation (Alex Skorkin)
• Azure Service Package Inefficiency (Bug) – Content Size Added Twice (Bart Czernicki)
• Robustness with RabbitMQ in .NET (Peter Ritchie)
• An Obsessive Compulsive Guide To Source Code Formatting (Phil Haack)

 

Web Development

• Filter and Display Data with ASP.NET Web Pages using Microsoft WebMatrix (Christian Nagel)
• Contact Form Revisited with ASP.NET MVC 3, jQuery Validator, & the jQuery Form Plugin (Deran Schilling)
• Announcing HtmlTags 1.0 (Joshua Flanagan)
• Raising Server side event from JavaScript in ASP.NET (Tweaking the existing bits) (Abhijit Jana)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When to Cease Being an Agile Coach? (Todd Charron)
• Coded UI Test (CUIT) – Convert Manual Test Case to Code using Visual Studio 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Humble Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Prerequisites for Continuous Deployment (Dan Ackerson)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Searching your contacts (Rudi Grobler)
• A Simple WP7 JumpList in WPF (Ratish Philip)
• Using IIS Express to Secure Silverlight and WCF Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Get an ApplicationBarIconButton by name (Arian Kulp)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 157: Charles Stacy Harris III on the Micro Framework (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 399: We discuss L.A. Noire, wrapping up the Gears Beta and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 209: Your Call Is Important To Us (Paul Thurrott)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 56 – Riak with OJ Reeves (Richard Banks)
• Google I/O 2011 Session Videos Available (David Hayden)

 

Community / Events

• Join us at WebVisions Conference Next Week (Doris Chen)
• Window Phone Gaming Bootcamp Online–Wednesday, June 1, 2011 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Wild Rumor Department: Zune to become Xbox Live, more, announcement coming May 24th? (Kip Kniskern)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Download PowerPivot Security Architecture Diagram and SQL SERVER – Running SSIS Package in Scheduled Job (Pinal Dave)
• How to get difference between two dates – TSQL (Vishal)
• Let’s Get Visual – The Art of Report Design (Paul Turley)

 

Miscellaneous

• Livescribe Connects its Digital Pen with Google Docs, Evernote (Ina Fried)
• Own Your Powershell Profile (Paul Cowan)
• Windows Phone 7 App Pick: Paul Thurrott Pocket Tech (Paul Thurrott)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 070 for 5/23/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 22 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #857 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 15-May-2011 to 21-May-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

The Geek Shelf

Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl

 

 

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Top Links

• MvcXaml – Images from XAML within ASP.NET MVC Application (Chris Pietschmann)
• Monads in C#–1. Introduction and Monads in C#–2. What’s the point? (Mike Hadlow)
• Running Ruby on Windows Phone (Rob Miles)
• Grouping Routes Part 2 (Phil Haack)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Read-Only Data in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Distinct operator in Linq (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• 30 Days Left to Submit XNA Game Studio 3.1 Games to App Hub (Team XNA)
• Loading COM components in your Web Service (Mike Snow)
• How to find and fix performance problems in ORM powered applications (Frans Bouma)
• How to use out of scope object with in Conditional Breakpoint ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Query Notification to .NET Application (SQLDependency & SQLCacheDependency) (Abhishek Sur)

 

Web Development

• Dynamic Sitemaps in ASP.NET (Jonathan Wood)
• How to sort ASP.NET DropDownList based on DataValueField or DataTextField using LINQ? (Abhijit Jana)
• ASP.NET and jQuery to the max – Part 2 (Gianluca Negrelli)
• Detecting HTML5 Features Using Modernizr (Gil Fink)
• Be Careful with Data Services Authentication + Batch Mode (Chris Sells)
• Learn To Work With The Web, Instead Of Against It (Davy Brion)
• ASP.NET 4.0- Html Encoded Expressions (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Book Review – JavaScript Patterns (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• HTML5: Installing the Microsoft WebSockets prototype and HTML5: Rebuilding the WebSockets Server prototype (Jef Claes)
• Detect External and Internal Links in a Web Page using jQuery – Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• Sueetie.com Now .NET 4.0…And All That It Implies (Dave Burke)
• Tutorials on ASP.NET MVC 3 (David Hayden)
• Converting a generic list into JSON string and then handling it in java script (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Bookmark to inject FireBug Light into Internet Explorer. (Jason Jarrett)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Open / Closed Principle (Richard Carr)
• Free ArchiMate Modeling Tool – Archi (Mike Walker)
• Solving Problems, Breaking it Down (John Sonmez)
• Dynamic For The Win (Anders Janmyr)
• R is for Reliability (Anne Epstein)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Design Guidelines – Cheat Sheet (Cheryl Simmons)
• Cross Domain Issue – Case Study in Silverlight (Hima)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #19 – MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts #4 and Passing Parameters With Behaviors In MVVM Light for Windows Phone (Jesse Liberty)
• Customizing Silverlight ChildWindow Style using Blend (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight) by Colin Eberhardt (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight: Making a DateTimePicker (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 7 Application Acceleration (Nick Randolph)
• Behaviors for accessing the Windows Phone 7 MarketPlace and getting feedback (András Velvárt)
• Windows Phone 7 Animated Button Press (Michael Washington)
• Jounce Part 9: Static and Dynamic Module Management (Jeremy Likness)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 62: What Features of ASP.NET 4.0 Must Developers Learn (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 135 – PowerScripting Podcast – James Brundage from Start-Automating.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Phone 7 at CES 2011 (Laura Foy)
• [Video] – I Need Agile Methodology (Peter Saddington)
• The Engadget Podcast Show 004: CES 2011 Part 4 – 01.08.2011 (video) (Trent Wolbe)
• Have you wondered what it’s like to work at Microsoft? Here is a tour of campus and the surrounding area. (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Benko on the Microsoft Touch Mouse and PC Showcase with Ben the PC Guy (Larry Larsen)
• Connected Show: Migrating To Azure (Brian Hitney)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Event for Public Sector (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Windows Phone 7 – Meanwhile at CES 2011… and Microsoft at CES – A quick glance at Windows 8 and the rest (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Congratulations to New and Re-awarded MVPs! (Lonnie Webb)
• Registration Open for Silicon Valley and Redmond Web Camps! (Doug Holland)
• How to Say Thanks in an Answer (Jeff Atwood)

 

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – What The Sorts?! (7/31) and 31 Days of SSIS – Merge Join Is My Friend (8/31) (Jason Strate)
• Create Date in T-SQL – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Get File Statistics Using fn_virtualfilestats and SQL SERVER – master Database Log File Grew Too Big (Pinal Dave)
• The OUTPUT clause (Martin Catherall)
• RTFM365, Week 5 (Jen McCown)
• Installing MySql Connector for Mono and Basic MySQL Transactions (2#4u)

 

SharePoint

• Using PowerPoint 2010 to Create a Custom Theme for SharePoint 2010 (Melissa Coates)

 

Miscellaneous

• When Changing Your Environment Might Mean a Change in You (Bobby Johnson)
• An Idle Thought about Selecting a Development Platform (Jeremy Miller)
• Why Verizon won’t let Apple announce iPhone (Joe Wilcox)
• Microsoft is working on a FaceTime competitor for Windows Phone [Update] (Brad Sams)

 

More Link Collections

• Everyman on Storybuilders, Clubs over Crowds, Driving Social Actions, Corporate Ipsum (Dave Burke)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 01.01 ~ 01.10 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for January 08, 2011 — #1023 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Week Retrospective 14 – A Couple Good [Agile Guides], [Tool Review], and Warcraft (Peter Saddington)

 

The Geek Shelf

SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Eric Carter

 

 

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Top Links

• Stack Overflow Releases API Into Public Beta (Vineel Shah)
• PowerShell Integration Into Visual Studio (Jeffrey Snover)
• FXCop 10 was Shipped with Windows 7.1 SDK (Jonathan Allen)
• Application extensibility model – working with MEF and Importing multiple extension assemblies in C# with MEF (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Generic Type Generator (Alexander Van Berg)
• Now our Visual Studio is cooking with Power! The PowerGUI Visual Studio PowerShell extension that is… (Greg Duncan)
• Write Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Kate Gregory)
• Use Preprocessor Directives for better debugging (Tim Hibbard)
• Great Uses of Using Statement in C# (Steve Smith)
• Document Well 2010 Plus: Hidden Options (Radames Cruz Moreno)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part III: Adding a Metadata Class (Stephen Forte)
• Showing Hidden Tool Windows with the Auto Hide Channel (Zain Naboulsi)
• Update to "Creating Custom FieldData Classes in CSLA" (Jason Bock)
• Use Dovetail SDK in .Net (Sam Tyson)

 

Web Development

• Multi-Select List Box in ASP.NET MVC (Gary Pretty)
• Interested in web services interoperability with WCF? (Matt Milner)
• Internet Explorer Developer Tools: HTML (Pete LePage)
• Of .prototype and function() (K. Scott Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Story Sizing, Elephants and Mice (John Sonmez)
• Aspects of Kanban in Methods and Tools (Karl Scotland)
• Lokad.CQRS – Intro into App Engine Architecture, Multiple Message Subscribers (Rinat Abdullin)
• BDD-Style QUnit Testing ASP.NET MVC’s jQuery Validation (Elijah Manor)
• indentation of trailing lines of code (Anthony Steele)
• Widen People’s Job Titles (Jurgen Appelo)
• Coding: Controlled Technical Debt (Mark Needham)
• Top 10 Design Mistakes: #9 (Pete LePage)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 multitouch behavior: beta testers needed (#wp7dev)! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Readying myself for Windows Phone 7 "Hello, Operator?" (Mike Ormond)
• Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite (Rudi Grobler)
• I want more shell applications, especially for mobile (Tim Heuer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pluralcast 18 : BDD in .NET with StoryQ (David Starr)
• This Week in Silverlight – Windows Phone 7 and Bus Tracking (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 17 – Silverlight with Miguel Madero (Richard Banks)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 11 (Richard Hay)
• Radio TFS 29: Getting the Band Back Together (Martin Woodward)
• Windows Weekly 161: Paul’s Perihelion (Paul Thurrott)
• Technology & Friends Episode 95: Jay Wren on Mono (David Giard)
• ARCast.TV – UI of the New Era, Designing for Multiple Devices (Denny Boynton)

 

Community / Events

• New England GiveCamp: "Awesome, simply awesome" (Jim O’Neil)
• Tech●Ed 2010 Shows the Value of Microsoft MVPs (Toby Richards)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – TRANSACTION, DML and Schema Locks (Pinal Dave)
• GROUP_CONCAT in SQL Server (Alex Bolenok)

 

SharePoint

• A short, sweet and concise four step guide for installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 (x64) (Greg Duncan)
• SharePoint Vulnerability and Hotfix Recommendations (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Save Even More Money with a TechNet Standard Subscription (Paul Thurrott)
• I Smell Smoke (Rob Conery)
• Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition? (Jeff Atwood)
• Dealing with Dates & Time Zones in Objective-C (Ben Scheirman)
• Setting the Arrow on Lines in Adobe PhotoShop or Elements (Dave Schinkel)
• Getting Started with iPhone and iOS Development (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Specifying a View in TechNet and MSDN URIs (June Blender)
• Programmer Tip: The Virtues Of A Little Bit Of ‘Boredom Time’ In Your Life. (Rajiv Popat)
• Teaching programming to kids (Vijaye)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 6/21/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Links #110 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #625 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 150 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Post… 6/14/2010 through 6/20/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis