Top Links

• Spec Explorer 2010 Release 3.3 now available as a Visual Studio Power Tool! (Robert DuWors)
• Dev Bandwagon – Part 1 (Deran Schilling)
• The Truth About Value Types (Eric Lippert)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone 7 and 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #1: Project Template (Jeff Blankenburg)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Clipboard Ring (Richard Carr)
• Understanding C#: Equality, IEquatable, and Equals() (Andrew Stellman)
• Executing ad-hoc queries with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• WCF: The right way. A Quick Reference Guide. (Nic Roche)
• Monads in C#: Which Part Is The Monad? (Derick Bailey)
• A RPN Calculator in F# (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Implementing Reliable Inter-Role Communication Using Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus, Observer Pattern & Parallel LINQ (Valery Mizonov)
• The Immediate Window: Running WinDbg and SOS (Son of Strike) Commands and The Immediate Window: Running Commands (Zain Naboulsi)
• New XNA Game Studio 4.0 Developer Education Content Available! (Team XNA)
• New book: Programming Windows Identity Foundation (Rosemary Caperton)
• Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition (Brian Noyes)
• Custom Windows Workflow activity for dependency resolution–Part 3 and Part 4 and Part 5 and Part 6 and Wrap up and Creating updatable generic Windows Workflow activities and Neovolve.Toolkit 1.0 RTW (Rory Primrose)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (IV) -Tracking Documents (Rob Ashton)
• Know Your Debugger Part 4: Modifying Your Application During Execution (Dane Morgridge)
• MonoTouch… help!? CATiledLayer not "quite" working (Craig Dunn)

Web Development

• Become a Cut, Copy, Paste JavaScript Programmer (Chris Love)
• ASP.Net MVC2 – All in One with JSON and Entity Framework (Justin Mathew)
• HTML5 Demo Sites (Mike Swanson)
• Bing Maps: Adding and tracking pushpins using JavaScript (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML5 Grows Up: The Genesis of Beauty of the Web (Tim Sneath)
• Construct a Sorted PHP Linked List (Stoimen Popov)
• AntiXSS V4.0 (MS Downloads)
• PHP Manager for IIS 7 Released (Brian Swan)
• ‘Test Drive ASP.NET MVC’ Version 1.1 is Available (Jonathan McCracken)
• Tutorial: Implementing a shopping cart with WebSharper (Adam Granicz)
• Distributed Cache in Azure: Part II (Brian Hitney)
• IE9’s faster, more capable Compatibility View List (Marc Silbey)
• Add-ons: Detecting and Displaying Add-on Version Numbers (Herman Ng)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making Agile Work Why Spend the Afternoon as well on Technical Debt? (Israel Gat)
• The Pepsi Challenge of Waterfall, Agile, and Kanban (Derek Huether)
• Concepts and features – an example (Jimmy Bogard)
• A DSL For Handling Zero, One, Many (Derick Bailey)
• ASP.NET Security Fix Now on Windows Update (Scott Guthrie)
• Article:Using Coding Katas, BDD and VS2010 Project Templates: Part 2 (Jamie Phillips)
• CQRS: Sagas with Event Sourcing (Part II of II) (Jonathan Oliver)
• BizTalk Patterns part 1 – Asynchronous Aggregation (Quoc Bui)
• What is Static Software Testing? (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• When Process Improvements Don’t Make Sense (John Sonmez)
• Build Automation for your Application using MSBuild and The Check In Dance (Steve Smith)
• Data Access Guidance (ADO.NET Team)
• Good Subjective, Bad Subjective (Robert Cartaino)
• What we don’t need in object-oriented programming (Giorgio Sironi)
• The Moving To-Do List (Amber Singleton Riviere)
• Is Enterprise Architecture Still Relevant for Cloud Computing? (Boris Lublinsky)
• You’re a Bad Programmer. Embrace It. (Jared Richardson)
• You can depend on me (Eric Brechner)
• How We Evaluate the Experiences We Engineer (Jess Holbrook)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• HTC Mondrian and Samsung Omnia 7 leak, while Windows Phone 7 gets its own YouTube channel and Microsoft to unveil 3 Windows Phone 7 devices (Phone Arena)
• WP7 Code: Distance Computations with the GeoLocation API (Dragos Manolescu)
• Expression Blend 4 SP 1 Now Supports Flash UI Components (Abel Avram)
• Windows Live Messenger confirmed for Windows Phone 7 (damaster)
• Step-by-Step Guide to Silverlight Shape Controls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Smart Dispatcher – Getting Back to the UI Thread (John Papa)
• Displaying Images in Silverlight 4 DataGrid using Converter (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Intro to IronRuby/DLR Scripting in C# Silverlight 4 Application (Chris Pietschmann)
• WPF DomainUpDown control (Marcin Kaluza)
• Hands-on : Windows Phone 7 Review (Michael Crump)
• Dotfuscator 4.9 Beta with Exception Tracking and Windows Phone 7 Support (Michael Letterle)
• The New Trade Me API and Windows Phone 7 Developer Competition (Nigel Parker)
• Windows Phone 7 Resources On Microsoft Platform Ready (Wes Yanaga)
• Creating Windows Phone 7 Application and Marketplace Icons (Rick)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 4 – Activity – User Photos and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 5 – Activity – User Comments (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Podium (Rudi Grobler)
• Trivia: Application Bar Icon and Color (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Getting Things Done with Lane Newsom (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Mark Relph Wants More Windows Applications! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The tech behind Kinect: Major subsystems, RGB camera, Depth Sensor (Tina Wood)
• jQuery Podcast 35 – jQuery UI 1.8.5 (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Video Tutorial – Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform (Nitin Bharti)
• Windows Phone Unleashed – Redmond (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Yet Another Podcast Show #3 – John Papa on MVVM and Patterns (Jesse Liberty)
• Let’s Play TDD #27: Yet Another Value Object (James Shore)
• Silverlight TV 47: Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Performance Tips (John Papa)
• Engadget Podcast 214 – 09.30.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #17 with guest David Giard (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Web Camps TV #5 – Building your own WebMatrix Helpers (Erik Porter & James Senior)
• endpoint.tv – WF4 Activities, Callbacks and Event Handlers (Ron Jacobs)
• The GeekDads Episode #77: Jar Jar is a Replicant (Ken Denmead)
• SQLBits videos (distinctly amateur) (Jamie Thomson)
• Cassandra Tutorial – Installing Cassandra (Jeremiah Peschka)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch Events in and around Mid-Atlantic and Web Platform Firestarter Series is Underway – Sign Up for One Near You! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Meetup Event: App Pricing Strategy Panel + Intro to Microsoft Windows Phone/Marketplace, 10/13 (Zhiming Xue)
• If You Missed the Windows Phone Firestarter in Philly You Are in Luck (Dani Diaz)
• Speaking at the Software Architect 2010 conference (Simon Brown)
• Silverlight Sessions Coming to DevConnections Las Vegas November 1-4 (Dan Wahlin)
• Upcoming conferences and courses (Udi Dahan)
• Events–Future of Web Apps 2010 (Sara Allison)
• CSLA .NET training, Atlanta, Nov 8-10 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Microsoft via Pakistan, Purdue & Google (Ariel Meadow Stallings)

Database

• The Lone Ranger And Data Integrity (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Get Query Running in Session (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Released and How to flip a bit in SQL Server by using the Bitwise NOT operator (Denis Gobo)
• Common SQL Server Mistakes – Indexing Every Column (Steve Jones)
• Cleaning up excess contiguous spaces in strings. A mystery. (Phil Factor)
• Read Environment Variables in T-SQL (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Index Operations Showdown: Drop & Create vs. Create With Drop_Existing vs. Rebuild (Kendal Van Dyke)
• Find the largest tables in a database (Jeffrey Yao)
• If I had to draw circles to visualize SQL Joins, I would… cheat and use this… (Greg Duncan)

SharePoint

• Upgrading the SSP Database (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Biggerplate features 101 Business Mindmaps (Chance Brown)
• Diving into Windows 7 Embedded Compact Part One (Don Burnett)
• Radical language and platform shift (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Hotmail vs. Exchange Online (Brett Hill)
• Office skipped version "13" (makes you wonder what they will do in 2013!) (Michael S. Kaplan)
• Windows Live Mesh 2011 Review (Mike Fourie)
• Daily Dose – Chromium OS on the iPad (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows Live Essentials 2011 – Available Now (Nic Fillingham)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Closure: The Definitive Guide – Only $14.99. Use code DDSDF (O’Reilly Media)
• Bing Gets an IE9 Pinned Site Jumplist For Your Windows 7 Taskbar (Richard Hay)
• Why Professional Certification Might Be Good (Steven Lott)
• Windows Live Messenger for Zune (Sunshine)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 29, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #697 and The Morning Brew #698 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 29, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 30, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 09.16 ~ 09.30 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for September 20, 2010 — #957 and Silverlight Cream for September 30, 2010 — #958 (Dave Campbell)
• September 29th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• SQLAuthority News – Monthly Roundup of SQLAuthority Blog Posts (Pinal Dave)

The Geek Shelf

Brownfield Application Development in .Net by Donald Belcham

Top Links

• VS 2010 Productivity Improvements, Part III (Somasegar)
• Multi-Tier Performance Tuning with ANTS Performance Profiler 6 (Jeremy Jarrell)
• HTML5, Native: Third IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• 7MC Gofer (Rudi Grobler)
• .NET Rocks! – Kevin Hazzard on Code Contracts (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Challenge: Dynamically dynamic (Oren Eini)
• Bounty for R# on Monodevelop (Greg Young)
• Self-localizing Error Messages (John Sonmez)
• C# 4.0 How-To – Book review and Lazy initialization in .NET – a short overview (Dennis Delimarsky)
• A RichTextBox that can bind to the Rtf property (Mike Baldini)
• Working with WCF: Part Six – Fault Contracts (James Bender)
• Key lookup in WCF Data Services (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• “Windows Azure Platform: Articles from the Trenches Volume 1” free eBook now available (Think the “We’ve been there, done that, learn from our mistakes and triumphs” Azure eBook) (Greg Duncan)
• Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2010 (Umair Saeed)
• Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0: Using Tasks (Jennifer Marsman)
• Change Tool Window Animations and Cycle Through Your Open Tool Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• More On System.Tuple And Serialization/Deserialization (Davy Brion)
• Full support for custom types in TFS Build 2010 build definition editor (Rory Primrose)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part IV: Making an OData feed from your Domain Service (Stephen Forte)
• Processing Command Line Arguments in an Offline ClickOnce Application (Joel Cochran)

Web Development

• Using ASP.NET Charting in ASP.NET MVC (Venkata Subbarao)
• Using ModelMetaData in ASP.Net MVC 2 to wire up sweet jQuery awesomeness (Eric Hexter)
• Updates to the IE Testing Center (Jason Upton)
• IE9 Platform Preview 3 Now Available (Mike Ormond)
• Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC = Released! (Jonathan McCracken)
• Checking Client Download Success with ASP.NET MVC (K. Scott Allen)
• How To: Put HTML5 (Pete LePage)
• Autocomplete Migration Guide (Jörn Zaefferer)
• Automating browser actions with Vimium and AutoHotKey (Kyle Baley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Presentation:Kanban for Video Game Development (Clinton Keith)
• Review: Agile Web Development With Rails, Fourth Edition (Part I) (Eric Anderson)
• Do ScrumMasters need to be Technical? (Mark Levison)
• Lokad.CQRS – Plugging NHibernate and Relational Databases into Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• TDD and Python (Steven Lott)
• Inspired – The Cognitive Surplus – Capturing Lost (Scott Lock)
• Tagging Releases in Source Control (Steve Smith)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• HyperVideo & Windows Phone 7 Project Update (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 4: Using Commanding Parameters for Performing Insert Operations (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Silverlight powers the new Windows Live Hotmail (Silverlight Team)
• Microsoft Expression Studio Learning Portal (Richard Hay)
• XNA Panoramic Menus For Windows Phone 7 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• NDC Presentation: Ruby for .NET Developers (Scott Bellware)
• Boagworld – CSS Trickster Chris Coyier (Paul Boag)
• ~7 Hours Recordings from the WIF Workshops (Joel Reyes)

Community / Events

• Meeting Wendy Friedlander (Sara J. Chipps)
• Effectively Planning, Tracking and Controlling Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 – A Free Live Webcast – June 25 @ 10am PT (O’Reilly Media)
• BizSparkCamp for Windows Phone 7: Life’s a Pitch (Sara Allison)
• From ALT.NET to NOT.NET (Joey Beninghove)

Database

• Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 2 and How To Stay Current with SQL Server Cumulative Updates (Glenn Berry)
• My Productivity Tools (Joe Webb)
• SQLAuthority News – Meeting Bryan Oliver and Learning Wisdom of Life (Pinal Dave)
• Creating reports that the end user can customize (Jacob Sebastian)

Miscellaneous

• Play Games "Missile Command" & "Tower Defense" Within Excel 2010 and Free "National Geographic Photo of the Day" Desktop Wallpaper Changer for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Learning Powershell (Grant Fritchey)
• How To: Read PDFs in Apple’s iBooks with a little help from Dropbox (Jay Hathaway)
• Managing Your Hiring Effort (Jim Holmes)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Python Cookbook, 2nd Ed – Only $9.99 Use code DDPCK (O’Reilly Media)
• The 7.9 WEI PC (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft Windows Live Wave 4 Finally! (Richard Hay)
• Even Copy & Paste Gets a Revamp in Office 2010 (Sarah Perez)
• Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 – Part 1 – Building a WEI 7.9 and RFC for building a GOM (God’s Own Machine) (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #628 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for June 23, 2010 — #888 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Roger Jennings

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit and Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1 Samples (codename "Dublin" and codename "Velocity") (MS Downloads)
• Vs2010 IntelliTrace and Entity Framework Database Interaction (Julie Lerman)
• Tailspin Travel (Jonathan Carter)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/18 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Dublin Becomes Windows AppFabric! (Sam Gentile)
• Building Applications for Windows Azure (Somasegar)
• Windows Identity Foundation Ships! (Vittorio Bertocci)
• Programming Windows 7 Using Visual Studio 2010 (Yochay Kiriaty) – Link of the Day
• Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) released on DevLabs (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Awesome .NET 4: Named and Optional Parameters for Classes and Methods (Tom Hearn)
• Visual Studio 2010 – Visual Basic New Feature – NonSerialized Events (Karl Shifflett)
• Breaking up with the ternary operator (Matt Hinze)
• Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Adding Statistical Formulas (Scott Mitchell)
• Twitter Word Cloud Visualization with Google API (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released (Phil Haack)
• Windows Azure now supports various OS image types (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Cascading DropDownLists With ASP.NET and jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer (John Resig)
• Pass Number 1: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET (Rob Conery)
• The AJAX UpdatePanel Is it your worst enemy? (Kevin Jones)
• What Dynamic Data REALLY Is and Is building apps with Dynamic Data faster? (Peter Blum)
• ASP.NET Google SPDY Tweaks (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Start with the big picture (Simon Brown)
• Reducing friction as a standard operating method (Oren Eini)
• Semi-literate Programming and 8 Pieces of Architectural Advice for CMS (Michael Krakovskiy)
• The SOA Manifesto (Josh Twist)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 9 (Michael Feathers) and The ‘should’ word (Mark Needham)
• How We Do Things – The Team Room (Scott C. Reynolds)

Silverlight / WPF

• The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight™/WPF™ version 1.1 is now available. (Al Pascual)
• Using the FluidMove Behavior (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs (Deborah Kurata)
• WPF : A True WPF Browser Control That Can Bend It Like Beckham (Sacha Barber)
• TOP 10 LIST: Silverlight for Games (Andy Beaulieu)
• New WPF Features: PixelShader3 Support (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Lev Novik on the Microsoft Sync Framework (Carl Franklin)
• Introducing "Dallas" and Building on Azure: KBB.com and Building on Azure: Siemens and Buidling on Azure: OriginDigital and Erik Meijer: Rx in 15 Minutes – Rx is Here!!!!! and Getting Started with Rx Extensions for .NET and Manuvir Das: Windows Azure One Year Later (Charles Torre)
• Code Cast 34 – David Starr Sells Out to the Man (David Starr)
• Writing your first Rx Application and Reactive Extensions API in depth: intro (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• 30 “Quick Hit” Videos for folks that couldn’t join us at PDC (Joe Stagner)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #152: Introduction to MEF, Getting rolling with basic usage (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• PDC09 – A Call to Dream (Nikhil Kothari)
• A Quick Rundown of PDC 2009 Day 1 Announcements (Me)
• Internet Explorer 9 to be Announced at PDC (Muhammad Ali)
• Coding4Fun at PDC! (Coding4Fun)
• Microsoft PDC 09: Day 1 (Dan Rigsby)
• PDC 2009 – Day 1, Keynote (Dave Bost)
• Are you a poet? Compose a Haiku and Win! (Kim Spilker)
• Talking at #notatpdc about Blend 3 and SketchFlow (Laurent Bugnion)
• Gabriel Schenker introduction to NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate Part 2 (Zachariah Young)
• PDC 2009 Day 1: Keynote, Roy Ozzie and PDC 2009 Day 1: Keynote, Bob Muglia and PDC 2009 Day 1: Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic and PDC 2009 Day 1: Concurrency Fuzzing & Data Races and PDC 2009 Day 1: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Changes and PDC 2009 Day 1: Data-Intensive Computing on Windows HPC Server with the DryadLINQ Framework and PDC 2009 Day 1: Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests (Sasha Goldshtein)
• PDC 2009 Day 1, post-keynote: What are we learning so far? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Live from LA: Day One with the Surface Team at PDC (Kyle R. Warnick)
• PDC09 Keynote: Open Source, Open Platforms and the Democratization of Data (Rick Minerich)
• PDC 2009: Recap Day 1, what’s on the menu for Day 2? (Sunshine)

Database

• SQL Server Substring Functions (Richard Carr)
• Don’t use text datatype for SQL 2005 and up (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table – A Puzzle to Find Index Size for Each Index on Table (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Managing Permissions in SharePoint 2007 (Lightning Tools)
• New SharePoint 2010 Architecture Models (Mike Walker)
• Introducing SharePoint 2010 (Beta) (Zhiming Xue)

Miscellaneous

• Advantages & Disadvantages of Microsoft Office 2010 64-Bit Version (Blake Handler)
• Office Mobile 2010 to come with WM 6.5 devices exclusively (Phone Arena Team)
• How to Work From Home During Chaotic Repairs (Celine Roque)
• Explore images with Google Image Swirl, now in Labs (Aparna Chennapragada)
• Your Office in the Clouds: The Best Online Virtual Desktops (Doriano "Paisano" Carta)
• Upcoming Free Xbox LIVE Weekends (Larry Hyrb)
• Ray Ozzie is wrong about smartphone apps (Robert Scoble)
• Windows 8: More Roadmaps (Stephen Chapman)
• We need a language for programmers (Scott Koon)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #479 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2009 — #734 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Microsoft PDC09 keynote highlights (Maarten Balliauw)
• New and Notable 391 (Sam Gentile)
• Links from the PDC09 (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Interesting Finds: November 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Motivating F# equality and comparison constraints (Brian McNamara)
• NHibernate – Cross session operations (Oren Eini)
• Jumping the trampoline in C# – Stack-friendly recursion (Bart de Smet)
• Resolve IP Address And Host Name From MAC Address using C# and Windows ARP Utility (Chris Pietschmann)
• Getting Up to Speed With .NET 4.0 (Jim O’Neil)
• Dump debugging with Parallel Stacks (Daniel Moth)
• Converting From System.Data.Linq.Binary to String and Back (Peter Kellner)
• Claims-Based Authorization with WIF Article (Sam Gentile)

Web Development

• Adding Editors and Owners to BlogEngine.NET blogs in Sueetie (Dave Burke)
• Integrating Google Javascript Compiler in Visual Studio (Kim Major)
• Use Google’s Closure Compiler in C# (Mads Kristensen) – Link of the Day
• Whitespace: The Silent Killer (Jeff Atwood)
• $.fadeTo/fadeOut() operations on Table Rows in IE fail (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why my Mom and Ted Neward Irritate Me (David Starr)
• Microsoft Silverlight 1.0: An SDL Implementation Story and Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Process Guidance – Version 4.1a and Security Considerations for Client and Cloud Applications and Preventing Security Development Errors: Lessons Learned at Windows Live by Using ASP.NET MVC (MS Downloads)
• Request/Response Service Layer Series and Request/Response Service Layer: Requests And Responses (Davy Brion)
• Using Latest NUnit Version With MSpec (Howard Dierking)
• Programmer Tip: Strive To Connect With Human Beings Whenever You Can. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Magellan Quickstart and Magellan and IOC/DI Containers (Paul Stovell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SDU Show 45 with guest Jamie Thomson (SQL Down Under)
• TWC9: Channel 9 Goes Live, Zune, detecting memory leaks, Life at MSFT (Dan Fernandez)
• ARCast.TV – Improving Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System (Bob Familiar)
• Engadget Podcast 170 – 11.08.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Episode 91 – PowerScripting Podcast – Oisin Grehan on Pmodem and Modules (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• A Feed You Should Read #11 – The Road to Know Where (Greg Duncan)
• Oredev Wrap-Up (Julie Lerman)
• PDC 2009 (Brian Peek)
• ISV Software Architecture Workshop (Ashish Jaiman)
• SQL Pass 2009 Recaps and Live Blogs (Rhonda Tipton)

Database

• SQL Azure & SQL Server playing together (Steve Clayton)
• SQL SERVER – Removing Key Lookup – Seek Predicate – Predicate – An Interesting Observation Related to Datatypes (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• HTML5 YouTube viewer: close, but not quite there (Jay Hathaway)
• The Droid fails AS A PRODUCT when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone (Robert Scoble)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 8, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #472 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #78 (Grant Palin)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/09/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Links of the week #97 (David Vidmar)
• Links (11/8/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 118 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Post… 11/1/2009 through 11/8/009 (Mike Cottmeyer)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Massive Search & Replace Among Files Checked-in to TFS (Jason Jarrett)
• Query Editor: Making Queries Available on Menus (Jason Haley)
• What is Windows Identity Framework (WIF)? (Sam Gentile) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• Asp.Net MVC JavaScriptView (Chris Brandsma)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Dynamic Data and Many to Many Entity Framework Entities and MSDN Guidance on ASP.NET MVC vs WebForms and its Impact on my EF + ASP.NET Work (Julie Lerman)
• Fluent-API to add ActionFilters to Controllers – ASP.NET MVC Part 2 (Fredrik Normén)
• ClientIDMode in ASP.NET 4.0 (Rick Strahl)
• Facebook Developer Toolkit – Release: Version 3.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• With Blame Goes Guilt (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Knowing when to persevere and when to change approach and Coding: The agent noun class (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ is Live! (Brad Abrams)
• Several WPF Localization questions (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 129: Hypirony And Ironicracy (Paul Thurrott)
• HDI Video: Generate from Usage in Visual Studio 2010 with Karen Liu (Charlie Calvert)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #73 (Jeff Atwood)

Community / Events

• Subscribe to 62 Silverlight Twitter’ers. (Jesse Liberty)
• .NET Framework Contest & Campaign: Win $12,00, a 12-day Galapagos Islands Adventure, or a new Smart Car! (Sam Gentile)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure are Compiled on First Run – SP taking Longer to Run First Time (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Twitter in your console prompt: using PS Jobs for background work (Joel Bennett)
• Zune HD 4.3 Firmware Brings Support for Apps and 3D Games (Muhammad Ali)
• Herding Cats: Organize your Desktop Icons with Stardock Fences for Windows (Scott Hanselman)
• A good url regular expression? (repost) (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Paint.NET 3.5 (Final) now available (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2009 — #726 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 11.01 ~ 11.08 (yuanjian)
• Interesting Post… 11/1/2009 through 11/8/009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Windows Identity Framework (WIF) Announcements (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day