Design / Methodology / Testing

• Managing Agile (Diana Larsen)
• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 5 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Reading: Designing for the Social Web (Nikhil Kothari)
• DI/IOCs (Sacha Barber)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NH Prof Is in Public Beta (Oren Eini)
• Writing a Simple Windows Live Writer Plugin (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Creating T-SQL Static Code Analysis Rules (Gert Drapers)
• Building Domain Specific Languages in C# (Neal Ford)
• Baby Steps in Microsoft Robotics Studio (Leon Bambrick)
• .NET Technical Forecast 2009 (Brian Noyes)
• LINQ Query Syntax C# vs. VB vs. SQL (Paul Litwin via Frank La Vigne)
• 10-4 on Channel9 (Joel Reyes) – Episode 3 is up!

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4.0 WebForms Podcast Is Now Up (Scott Galloway)
• Sueetie Wiki Now Ready for Pickup: Some Assembly Required (Dave Burke)
• An Introduction to jQuery, Part 1 (Rick Strahl)
• SYTYAWD #2 Are You Scared of JavaScript (Jeff McWherter)
• Live Framework SDK – Having a Single MeshObject (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight

• Silverlight 2 – Drag and Drop Part 1 of 2 (Corey Miller)
• Hosting Silverlight Content on a CDN (Tim Heuer)

.NET Community / Events

• ALT.NET Seattle 2009 Is Happening (Glenn Block)
• Party with Palermo: Alt.Net/MVP Summit Edition (Save the Date) (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• SQL Server 2008-2005 – Find Longest Running Query – T-SQL (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Lessons Learned in 2008 (J.D. Meier)
• Hello, 2009 (John Lam)
• Windows 7 Beta 1 Performance – How Does the OS Compare to Vista and XP? (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
• Wetware Refactorings (Jeff Moser) – Link of the Day
• 2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited (Ted Neward)
• Ballmer’s CES Keynote Promises to Be a Snoozer (Non-Announcements Revealed!) (Erick Schonfeld)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #256 (Chris Alcock)
• Discoveries This Week 01/02/2008 (Rick Minerich)
• LINKBLOG for January 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Week Episode 5 (Denis Gobo)
• CloudNews for January 2nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Documenting Your SharePoint Application Design – Part 2, The Process (Rob Foster)
• Discussion: OO 101 Solutions and the Open Close Principle at the Architecture Level (Oren Eini)
• The Injected Context (Jarod Ferguson)
• Teaching Someone to Test Using an Isolation Framework (Derik Whittaker)

Web Development

• Emulating Classical Inheritance in JavaScript Destroys the Purity of the Language (Brian Reindel)
• A Web Developer’s Responsibility (John Resig)
• jQuery Character Table (Sergio Pereira)
• Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 2) – ASP.NET MVC vs. ASP.NET Web Forms (Nick Berardi)
• The Benefit of Writing Mapping Files by Hand (Anne Epstein)
• Using ASP.NET and jQuery to Highlight a Row in GridView without a PostBack (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Looking at Oxite the "Glass Half-Full" Way (Simone Chiaretta)
• jQuery – Loading Partial Content (Dave M. Bush)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain – Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
• GUI Toolkits and Does the .NET Community Need an Eclipse? (Andrew Stopford)
• Using T4 Templates with GDR Database Projects (Patrick Sirr)
• VS 2010 for Web Developer Previews (Vishal R. Joshi)
• MSchema: An Example – Part 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Building IronRuby with Mono (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Oslo == 42 (Erik Wynne Stepp) – Link of the Day
• Introducing the New Task Type (Daniel Moth)
• Read and Use FM Radio (or Any Other USB HID Device) from C# (Tamir Khason)
• EF Designer Bug Workaround for 0..1 Associations to Derived Types (Error Code 3034) (Julie Lerman)

Silverlight

• HyperVideo Continuing the Dialog and HyperVideo – Getting Started (Jesse Liberty)

PowerShell

• PowerShell ISE Can Do a Lot More Than You Think and My PowerShell_ISE Profile (Jeffrey Snover)
• PowerShell 2 CTP3 – Custom Accelerators, Finally! (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Surprises in the Windows 7 License Agreement (Ed Bott)
• Convert PDF to Word for Free (Manish Agrawal)
• Software as a Service Is a Matter of Trust (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft Forum – Creating a New Community Anti-Pattern (Colin Jack)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #253 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 30, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• Tech Twitterings #9 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: December 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 30, 2008 — #471 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for December 30th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSchema: An Example – Part 1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Array Slicing Extension Method (Fredrik Eriksson)
• Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain – Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)

Silverlight / WPF

• Exploring a Model-View-ViewModel Application; WPF Password Manager, Cipher Text (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight ToolTips – Positioning and Customizing (Corey Schuman)
• Security and Silverlight (John Papa)

Web Development

• What Would You Choose for New .NET Web Development? (Davy Brion)
• Windows Azure – Final Updates to PhotoStore App! (David L.)
• Understanding the jQuery Object Returned from a jQuery Selector Query (Rick Strahl) – Link of the Day
• My Baseline ASP.NET MVC Modifications (Oren Eini)
• Interesting Use of XML Literals as a View Engine (Phil Haack)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Architecting for Green Computing (Abel Avram)
• Hard Work and Practice in Programming (Tim O’Reilly)
• Do Not Put Presentation Concerns in the Controllers! and Architecture Advice: Scale the Architecture to Fit the Application (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Retro Gaming at Its Best (Eric Gunnerson) – Miner 2049er was my favorite game on the Atari 5200 and Atari 800.
• Revisiting the Daily Reputation Cap and Programming: Love It or Leave It (Jeff Atwood)
• Finding a Good Cheap Home for Side Projects with Unfuddle (Russell Ball)
• Windows 7 Beta: Notes and Observations (Paul Thurrott)
• I Love to Code (Phil Haack)

More Link Collections

• Weekly Links #33 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #252 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 29, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• Most Popular Posts of 2008 (Ade Miller)
• Visual Studio Links #93 (Darren Stokes)
• Links of the Week #65 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: December 29, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for December 29, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2008 — #470 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for December 29th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Container-Managed Application Design, Prelude: Where Does the Container Belong? (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Unit Testing in Silverlight Land with Typemock Isolator (Roy Osherove)
• Learning Culture and Nothing Fails Like Success – Why Continuous Improvement Is Continuous (Scott Bellware)
• SOA Principles of Service Design (Colin Jack)
• Thinking Only of the Junior Developer (Chris Brandsma) – Link of the Day
• Junior vs Senior Developers? (Davy Brion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using Closures to Simplify Asynchronous Programming and Caution When Eager Loading in the Entity Framework (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What Is Microsoft Waiting for Providing a Descent Path API? (Patrick Smacchia)
• Tired of Working with Big Visual Studio Solutions? (Davy Brion)
• Fixing the VS2010 CTP Expiration Problem (Darren Stokes)

Web Development

• New Features in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (Simone Chiaretta)
• ViewData Mechanics and Segmentation (Excerpt from ASP.NET MVC in Action) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• When Is a ASP.NET Project Not an MVC Project (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Reverse Engineering the WMD Editor (Jeff Atwood)
• Page Design with CSS Using Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• Accessible News Slider Plugin for jQuery Is Making a Comeback (Brian Reindel)
• New Sueetie Wiki Setup Doc Roundup (Dave Burke)
• Windows Azure – End to End App Dev Journal (David L.)

.NET Community

• Elegant Code Cast 18 – Chris Tavares on EntLib, Unity and More (David Starr)
• Xmas Present from DZone: My First Article Resyndicated to DZone .NET Zone (Simone Chiaretta)
• DZone Syndicates Top .NET Articles and My Interview on High on Coding About ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Miscellaneous

• WordPress 2.8 Survey: What Do You Want in the Next Version of WordPress? (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Extract an msi Before Installing It. (Like the ASP.NET MVC RC msi) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• My Software Is Being Pirated (Jeff Atwood)
• My Bests of 2008 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Small Basic: Tetris – Sample of the Week (Vijay)
• SQL Server Management Studio Startup Options (Richard Carr)
• Windows 7 Beta Review (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Triple Shot Links #13 (Russell Ball)
• Silverlight Cream for December 26, 2008 — #467 and Silverlight Cream for December 27, 2008 — #468 and Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2008 — #469 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: December 27, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 28, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• My Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2008 and Weekly Link Post 74 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (12/28/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• 40+ JavaScript and jQuery Resources That Will Make You a Better Web Developer (Brian Reindel)
• LINKBLOG for December 27, 2008 and LINKBLOG for December 28, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Final Release (J.D. Meier) – Co-Link of the Day
• Chief Engineer (Scott Bellware) – Co-Link of the Day
• Rhino Service Bus (Oren Eini)
• Avoiding the Uncanny Valley of User Interface (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to SQL / Entity Framework / NHibernate ORM Top-Down, Objects First (Peter Bromberg)
• IronPython and LiveFX: Ori’s LiveOE.py and IronPython and LiveFX: Raw HTTP Access (Harry Pierson)
• SharpDevelop – Release 3.0 Beta 3 (CodePlex)
• Processes in .NET Part 2 – Performing Actions on Files with Verbs (Rick Minerich)
• Introduction to Directed Graph Markup Language (DGML) (Cameron Skinner)
• Lhotka’s Post Is Pointless – Please Get Rid of VB, Microsoft! (Dave Schinkel)
• Language Improvements in C# 4 (Gunther Lenz)
• Migrations in C# Using RikMigrations (Justin Etheredge)

Web Development

• Some Tips and Tricks While Using ASP.NET GridView Paging (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Create Your App on Zoho Creator and Deploy It on Google App Engine (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Connecting Your Web Site to the Live Framework (i.e. Using Delegated Auth) (Kevin Ledley)
• Locking the Screen During a Postback (Scott Mitchell)
• Car Trackr on Windows Azure – Part 3 – Data Storage (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET MVC Samples, Oxite, and Community (Scott Hanselman)
• GridViews – Multiple Rows Per Record (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• IronPython and WPF (JP. Hamilton)
• Building and Deploying WPF Applications Using the .NET Client Profile (Zhiming Xue)
• Using WPF Binding StringFormat Property with Nullable Types (Karl Shifflett)
• XAML Practices Series, Part 1 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Silverlight 3 – What We Know So Far and What We Can Predict (Part 2 of 3) (Bart Czernicki)
• Exploring the Model-View-Controller (MVC) Pattern (Pencho Popadiyn) – MVC with Silverlight

Events / Community

• Saving DotNetKicks (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

• Impersonating a SQL Server DBA (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Prepares Developers for ODF in Office 14 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Are Bloggers & Social Networks Killing the Big Shows? (Robert Scoble)
• New in Labs: Turn an Email Into a Google Doc (Jeremie Lenfant-Engelmann)
• Publish and Share Your Presentations in the Cloud (Zhiming Xue)
• I’ve Concluded That You Guys Don’t Think I’m an Idiot – A Reflection on the Sexes and the Field (Sara Chipps)
• Detours (MS Research)
• Microsoft Sends Out Windows 7 Beta 1 Invites (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for December 16, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2008 — #457 and Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2008 – 2 — #458 (Dave Campbell)
• WMOC#28 – Zen of Results – eBook and WSOAC#40 – REST Patterns and Anti-Patterns and WSDAC#28 – IronPython 2.0 Released (Dilip Krishnan)
• Silverlight News for December 17, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #246 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for December 16th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day