Web Development

• SOA Is Dead; Long Live… Well, Services    (Gunther Lenz)
• Working with ASP.NET MVC Part 3 – URL Routing (Justin)
• Javascript: Add a Month to a Date and Javascript Dates – Be Aware of Mutability (Mark Needham)
• Live Framework SDK – Inviting Others (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Azure – Sending SMTP Emails! (David L.)
• DimeCasts.NET #75 – Introduction to S#arp Architecture (Kyle Baley) – Link of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Parallelising Loops in .NET 4 (Daniel Moth)
• The DLR Is the Language of Languages (Kevin Hazzard)
• Setting Up Profiles in StructureMap 2.5 (Derik Whittaker)
• Auto-Wiring in StructureMap 2.5+ and A Challenge to the VB.NET Community at Large on OSS (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Processes in .NET Part 3 – Interfacing with Simple Console Programs by Example, Tesseract OCR (Rick Minerich)
• The Visual Studio 10 CTP VPC Expired! What Should I Do? (VSX Team)
• New Black Book (Josh Poley)
• IoC Libraries Compared (Chris Brandsma)
• IronPython Nightly Builds and Nightly Builds Technical Info (Harry Pierson)
• The Most Important Feature of .NET 4.0 (Kathleen Dollard)
• You Don’t Have to Use Query Expressions to Use LINQ (Jon Skeet)

Silverlight / WPF

• Live Framework SDK – Adding a Silverlight MEWA (Mike Taulty)
• Tip: Getting Hierarchical Entities via ADO.NET Data Services from Silverlight (John Papa)
• PhotoSuru, An Innovative Photo-Viewing WPF Application (Adam Kinney)
• Subscribe to the Expression Newsletter (Pete Brown)
• Published the Source Code for Silverlight 2 Runtime & SDK Controls (Seema, Andre Michaud, & Jon Sheller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Rules Engine (Martin Fowler)
• Architecture by Baseball: Moneyball (Larry Clarkin)
• Pex – Software Cracker? (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Karvonite – Agile Persistence Framework – Release: January (CTP 2009) (MSDN Code Gallery)

.NET Community / Events

• New York Microsoft Cloud Computing User Group Meeting (William Zack)
• Developer Dinner: Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services WebCast (1/8/2009) (John Papa) – Buy John’s book!
• MSDN Developer Conference Is Coming to DC/Reston, VA (Zhiming Xue)
• CLR Team Blog Now Live (Justin Van Patten)
• Recap of Microsoft CES Announcements (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• The SQL Server Memory Leak Confusion (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Predictions for 2009 (Stephen Forte)
• Your Products Aren’t "I"s (Thomas Williams)
• R.I.P. Dr. Dobb’s (Eric Sink)
• 10 Killer WordPress Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• Windows 7 Beta – Go Get It! (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Microsoft Research Songsmith (MS Research)
• New Program Allows Everyone to Design Video Games (Mike Snider)
• Six Vista Annoyances Fixed in Windows 7 (Ed Bott)
• Xbox: The Next Phase Begins (Stephen Chapman)
• Halo Wars Coming Febrary 28th (Larry Hyrb)
• Device Stage in Windows 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Dictionary Attacks 101 (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Visual Studio Links #96 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: January 7, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for January 7th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Silverlight Cream for January 07, 2009 — #478 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for January 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #260 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for January 08, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• Link Listing – January 8, 2009 (Christopher Steen)

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