Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 3 – All About Actions (Rob Eisenberg)
• Microsoft Licensing Changes for IronRuby and IronPython (Miguel de Icaza)
• Sterling OODB v0.1 Alpha Released! (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• "Facebook C# SDK" Announced for Microsoft Visual Studio Developers (Blake Handler)
• Debugging Distributed Transactions: Fault Handling (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Code Contracts – Generating documentation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• IronRuby – Release v1.1 and IronPython – Release v2.7 Alpha 1 (CodePlex)
• Full Screen Mode (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• MVC IsAuthorized and AuthorizedActionLink (Chris Cavanagh)
• ASP.NET Output Cache Provider (Gil Fink)
• Chirpy Attains Godlike Bird-Power In Version 1.0.0.4 (Evan Nagle)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Writing off a badly executed practice (Mark Needham)
• The art of community leadership (Brian Ahier)
• Which Language Do You Code In? (Davy Brion)
• Windows Phone Test Framework (UnitTest, UITest, PerformanceTest) – Release v0.5.1.0 (CodePlex)
• Coded UI Test – Tip 2 – Assertions (Shai Raiten)
• Nu and the OSS dependency nightmare (Dru Sellers)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Tutorial: Updating your Windows Phone Splash Screen with Transparent Images (Jason Zander)
• Windows Phone 7 will not feature Windows Live Sync at launch (Michael Gillett)
• Teaching An Old Control New Tricks With Templates (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone–a 8.5 minute video (Rob Relyea)
• Real-world MVVM Presentation from DDDSydney (Paul Stovell)
• Seven Must-See Videos and Presentations for Web App Developers (Louis Lazaris)
• Windows Weekly 165: I’ve Said Too Much (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• What to do before OSCON (Kevin Shockey)
• The Great Much More Signal, Much Less Noise Challenge of 2010 (Jesse Liberty)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Quickstart Downloads from Microsoft (Pinal Dave)
• Order By Does Not Always Guarantee Sort Order (Adam Haines)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Get a Free Power Efficiency Report for Your PC (Paul Thurrott)
• What then, is b? (Leon Bambrick)
• Swype spotted swiftly slinging fingers across Windows 7 screens? (Sean Hollister)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Linkblogging: Object Calisthenics (Pete Seale)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 17, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Expression Web 3.0 and 4.0 Articles Link List (Minal Agarwal)

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jQuery in Action, Second Edition by Bear Bibeault

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• Hilo: Windows 7 development walk-throughs (Somasegar)
• Greg Young at NDC2010 "7 Reasons DDD Projects #FAIL" (Vladimir Gitlevich)
• A new found respect for acceptance tests (Mark Needham)
• TWC9: WebMatrix and Razor, Debug MSBuild files, and beer fetching robots (Dan Fernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• “Fake – F# Make” 1.33.0 released (Steffen Forkmann)
• XML Serialization (Richard Carr)
• Building a component that works with different versions of a library (Jeffrey Richter)
• NoRM: Another .NET Provider for MongoDB (Abel Avram)
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2010, the Quick Reference Poster… (Greg Duncan)
• A practical illustration of why the new C# 4.0 dynamic and optional parameter features are valuable (John V. Petersen)
• F# and Code Contracts: not quite there yet (Kurt Schelfthout)
• Sorting Items in the Toolbox and Icon vs List View in the Toolbox (Zain Naboulsi)
• .NET: Fated to Succeed? (Keith Ward)
• How the SetEntitySetAccessRule and EntitySetRights APIs came to be (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

• Understanding ASP.NET 4 URL Routing in 2 minutes and Implementing Routing in ASP.NET 4 applications (Hima)
• Sueetie: The World’s First Mobile Online Community (Dave Burke)
• JavaScript if Statements Syntax (Marc Grabanski)
• Book Review: HTML5 For Web Designers (Pete LePage)
• Working with Application Pool Identities (Steve Smith)
• Installing Umbraco To Windows 7 Ultimate – Step By Step (Peter Kellner)
• Sitemaps and Blog Engine Download (Dr. Dave)
• Expecting Windows Azure Admin Mode and VM Roles this Year (Rinat Abdullin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• dotCover 1.0 Beta Released (Hadi Hariri)
• Importance of Tooling and Statistics in CQRS World (Rinat Abdullin)
• How To Succeed With Scrum When Your Company Is Anti-Agile (Rob Diana)
• Why Small is Better (John Sonmez)
• Defining Development Experience (Richard Cirerol)
• patterns & practices – Windows Azure Guidance – Part 2 – Release Candidate (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Hosting WPF controls in a WinForms application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 Development (Jeff Blankenburg)
• WPF SendKeys or mocking the keyboard in WPF (Kirill Osenkov)
• Visual State Manager A-Z and Styles (followup) (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 57: Getting the Details on Recent Silverlight 4 Updates from John Papa (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• WebDevRadio Episode 79: July catchup (Michael Kimsal)
• StartUp Podcast Show #74 Kent Beck on Lean Startups, TDD and startups (Bob Walsh)
• CodeStock 2010 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal’s Live Podcast at CodeStock and CodeStock 2010 Part 2 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal Talks PowerShell at CodeStock (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Cloud Cover Episode 18 – ASP.NET Providers (Ryan Dunn)
• Windows Weekly 164: But I Digress (Paul Thurrott)
• NYC Silverlight 4 Firestarter (Part 1 of 4): The Silverlight 4 Platform Overview and (Part 2 of 4): Silverlight LOB Application Basics and (Part 3 of 4): A Little Fun With Media: Webcams, Mics, & A/V and (Part 4 of 4): Application Navigation & Windows (Emily Gibson)
• Video: The OData Protocol (Eric Hagan)
• Engadget Podcast 204: Q&A Bonanza – 07.09.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• jQuery Podcast 29 – Rey Bomb #3 (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session from Cairo Code Camp – Part 3 (Muhammad Mosa)

Community / Events

• GeekGolf 2010 on September 11, 2010: Golfing, Steak Dinner and Fun (Chris Woodruff)
• Open Letter to (and deal for) Silverlight Bloggers (Dave Campbell)
• What is ForkCan.com – Do you have what it takes to Share your code? (Fredrik Normen)
• The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta (Robert Cartaino)
• SQLAuthority News – Milestone – 1400th Post and Why do I blog (Pinal Dave)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Parallelism – Row per Processor – Row per Thread – Thread 0 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Crawling case sensitive repositories using SharePoint Server 2010 (Syed Anas Hashmi)
• Install Windows Server 2008 R2 and Sharepoint 2010 on a VM (Peter Bromberg)

Miscellaneous

• Free Microsoft Visio 2010 Stencils for I.T. Professionals (Blake Handler)
• Slides of My Presentation on Code Bubbles (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows-Friendly Cygwin Paths (Derek Greer)
• Something blue (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Windows PowerShell Community Extension project (Ed Wilson)
• How to edit very old posts with Windows Live Writer (Simone Chiaretta)
• Productivity Tip: Using Your Keystrokes Where They Add Value. (Rajiv Popat)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2010 — #899 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 9, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries this Week 07/09/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 58 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight, .NET 4.0 and LINQ Articles Link List (.NET Curry)

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Programming Wpf: Building Windows Ui with Windows Presentation Foundation   [PROGRAMMING WPF 2/E] [Paperback]

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Top Links

• Bing 404 Plugin for WordPress (Caleb Jenkins)
• CinchV2 : More sneak previews (Sacha Barber)
• Creating Scrollable Edit Content in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• DebuggerDisplay Name and Type Parameters (Richard Carr)
• Gemli.Data: Basic LINQ Support (Jon Davis)
• 15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Paul Harrington)
• Swap the Current Anchor Position (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Simple Accordion Menu With jQuery & ASP.NET (Steve Boschi)
• Designing websites for accessibility in Expression Web – Part II (Minal Agarwal)
• Part 3 – A Cascading Hierarchical Field Template & Filter for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Isolation At Work: Good Or Bad? (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Great-Circle Arcs on the Sphere (Charles Petzold)
• WPF (and Silverlight): Choose your Fonts and Text Rendering Options Wisely (Pete Brown)
• Updates and New Home for Sticky Plugin (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

•  Windows Weekly 159: Gypsy Stole My iPhone (Paul Thurrott)
• Coding4Fun Show – NUI with Josh Blake (Brian Peek)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Subquery or Join – Various Options – SQL Server Engine knows the Best (Pinal Dave)
• How to refresh the local IntelliSense cache in SQL Server Management Studio (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Re-Enable DreamScene on Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Navigation Rethink, Cloned Goals, Cap’n Crunch, The Blink Test (Dave Burke)

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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

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Top Links

• Win7 Library Tool (Zorn Software)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Creating objects of correct type when using lazy loading (Gunnar Peipman)
• How can I sort a hierarchy? (Bea Stollnitz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• VS2010 RC, TFS2010 RC Virtual Machines are here… (Greg Duncan)
• Tips and Tricks: Quickly Closing Documents (Weston Hutchins)
• Cut, Copy, and Paste Collapsed Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)
• Approaching Parallelism (Bruce Kyle)
• Entity Framework POCO Template for .NET 3.5 (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• IIS 7 URL Rewriter for SEO Friendly URL’s (David Hayden)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Blaming your tools (Corey Haines)

Silverlight / WPF

• What’s new in Silverlight 4 (Al Pascual)
• Silverlight 4 RC – Socket Security Changes (Mike Taulty)
• Be vewy vewy quiet I’m writing WPF with MVVM (Scott Galloway)
• Building Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications on a .NET 3.5 build machine (Jeff Wilcox)
• Response to Ward Bell’s Review of Advanced MVVM (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 148: He’s Got A Gun! (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : 3117 : The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to rollforward (Pinal Dave)
• How to Backup a SQL Express Database (Mike Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Wave 4: Mobile Experience to support themes (damaster)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Art of Community — Only $9.99! Use code DDTAC (O’Reilly Media)
• Everybody Wins In The Certification Game (Davy Brion)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for March 20, 2010 — #815 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.15 ~ 03.21 (yuanjian)
• Interesting jQuery Bookmarks (Marc Grabanski)

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Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed

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Top Links

• Getting Started with iPhone Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Use Filters in SSMS to only see the things that are of interest to you (Denis Gobo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Converting Between C# and Visual Basic (VB) (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Custom Profile Properties (Cameron Skinner)
• Setting a Tracepoint in source code — vstipDebug0010 (Zain Naboulsi)
• F#: function keyword (Mark Needham)
• Telerik OpenAccess DSW Beta 1 Released (Peter Bahaa)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Performance I: Combining resources and ASP.NET MVC Performance II: Optimizing resources (Gunnar Peipman)
• A Slightly Improved Password Field Template (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using ROI As A Constraint, Not An End In Itself (Derick Bailey)
• Leadership Tip: Your Ideas Do Not Need Your Protection – They Need Your Commitment. (Rajiv Popat)
• Git: Remotes, contributions, and the letter N (James Gregory)

Silverlight / WPF

• Virtual Universe and Starting Positions and Celestial Grid (Dave Brown)
• Setting up icons for a Silverlight OOB application (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 142: Snake In The Brass (Paul Thurrott)
• How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build a WCF REST Collection Endpoint and How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build an Astoria service and Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build a WCF Endpoint (Peter Bahaa)

Database

• NoSQL – A Practical Approach, Part 1 (Rob Conery)
• SQL Server Table Variables (Richard Carr)
• Azure Storage Client Extensions + Azure Table Query (Jason Haley)
• Couple of Azure Storage tools (Hanu Kommalapati)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Free "Hyper-V VM State to Memory Dump Converter" and SlickRun: Free Tool for Windows 7 Gives Quick Access to "Anything" (Blake Handler)
• Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Run Windows Live Messenger from the Notification Area (Paul Thurrott)
• Rumored Windows Phone 7 details surface ahead of MWC launch: Zune-like UI, no multitasking (Donald Melanson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 6, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman on: Pricing Strategies, the Freelancer’s Website, Blog Comments, Saving Things (Dave Burke)
• Interesting Finds: 2010 02.01 ~ 02.07 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #91 (Grant Palin)

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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers)

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• Windows Home Server Vail CTP4 Leaks, Includes a Built-in App Store (Anum Lodhi)
• STUPID goals (Christophe Louvion)
• Running static code analysis on SQL Server database with Visual Studio Team System for database architects (Denis Gobo)
• Good Team Dynamics Are Essential For High Technical Quality (Davy Brion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming – PDC 2009 (Luke Hoban)
• XML Documentation Comments and Finding a Node in an XML String (Deborah Kurata)
• MEF and decrypting LoaderExceptions (Derik Whittaker)
• .NET Framework 4.0: Comparing LINQ and PLINQ performance (Gunnar Peipman)
• NServiceBus 2.0 Release Candidate 2 Available (Udi Dahan)
• Application running in the iPad Simulator (Wally McClure)
• Exporting dynamically changing configuration values (Glenn Block)
• Guidelines, a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor — vstipEdit0015 (Zain Naboulsi)
• VS 2010 Quick Hit: Generate from Usage (Dariusz Parys)
• LINQ to SQL with Stored Procedures (Arian T. Kulp)
• MP3 player for Windows 7 (Shoban Kumar)

Web Development

• WCF and JQuery Using JSON (Chris Love)
• Daily Dose – Will HTML5 Kill Flash? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• ASP.NET: ListBox Tooltip (Deborah Kurata)
• 50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques (Smashing Magazine)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Programmer Tip: Consider Taking A Couple Of Happy Hours Each Day Of Your Life. (Rajiv Popat)
• Gherkin style specification testing in .NET (Ryan Lanciaux)
• Attitude of the development team to the product (Brian Marick)
• Saving Time by Mindmapping (Chance Brown)
• Are we functional? (Eric Brechner)
• Thoughts On TDD (A Case Study With Ruby And RSpec) (Alan Skorkin)
• Test Tool Checklists – TMAP NEXT DOWNLOADS (Clemens Reijnen)

Silverlight / WPF

• New York Times Silverlight Kit Updated (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Saving Files Locally in Silverlight (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight TV Episode 5: Using Metadata with MEF (John Papa)
• ARCast.TV – Enabling Architects with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Episode 99- PowerScripting Podcast – Shannon Ma on NetPoint (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Herding Code 71: James Avery and Rob Conery on NoSQL and a bunch of other stuff (Jon Galloway)
• Major Nelson Show 349: BioShock 2, NFS: Shift and Windows Home Server (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• Leveraging Twitter to Promote User Groups (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Life With My Geek: Man Cave Has Jumped Shark (Elle Starr)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Question – How to Convert Hex to Decimal (Pinal Dave)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #529 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2010 01.19 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for January 31, 2010 — #790 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Post… 1/24/2010 through 1/31/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Weekly Link Post 130 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/1/2010 (Pete Brown)
• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Insight Series (Joel Oleson)
• Links (1/31/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

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I. M. Wright’s "Hard Code" (Best Practices)

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• The paradox of choice: best of breed or cheapest of the bunch (Oren Eini)
• Inversion Of Control Containers And Factories Aren’t Mutually Exclusive (Davy Brion)
• Mocking Mocking and Testing Outcomes. (Uncle Bob Martin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Entity Framework Inheritance Types (Gil Fink)
• Drag and drop code onto the Toolbox — vstipTool0007 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Quick Tip: Parse String to Nullable Value (Keith Dahlby)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API: Introduction to Working with Location in .NET 4 Beta 2 (Pete Brown)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• D.C. and the Wrapper Factory (Dennis Dietric)
• Coding: The collecting parameter pattern and TDD: Removing the clutter (Mark Needham)
• Being provoked by your uncle (Mark Nijhof)
• Understanding And Avoiding The Serious Perils Of F-You-Code. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• XamlPadSample-Step 1d-Window (Rob Relyea)
• Pants on the Ground: The Silverlight Application (Charles Petzold)
• Configuration & Decoupled Modules (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 140: It’s Finger Friendly (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9 – Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Talks and WebCast (Cameron Skinner)
• Why we all need celebrity programmers (Roy Osherove)
• As A Movement, ALT.NET Has Been Dead For A While (Davy Brion)

Database

• SQL Server Cursors (Richard Carr)
• Time is no use for recording Time (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Sample Databases for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (December 2009) Samples Refresh 4 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Theme Builder" Beta for Office 2007 (Blake Handler)
• Windows 3.11 in-a-browser is retrocomputing awesome (Lee Mathews)
• It’s an awesome time to be a Developer (Pete Brown)
• Steam shows massive adoption of Windows 7 by gamers (Sebastian Anthony)
• Dynamic Blog Posts DynaPosts (Jesse Liberty)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 23, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 – 2 — #785 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link #89 (Grant Palin)

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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

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• Visual Studio 2010 Launch is 12th April… (Mike Ormond)
• jQuery 1.4 Released! (John Resig)
• Deep Discounts for MIX 10 End Jan 15th (John Papa) – Today!
• ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation (Scott Guthrie)
• The Internet Isn’t Being Held Hostage (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Making NCloak fool Reflector (an implementation) (Paul Mason)
• DevExpress and a Stumper (Andy Warren)
• .Net Remoting Made Easy (Dave Verschleiser)
• Why Can’t I Access A Protected Member From A Derived Class? Part Six (Eric Lippert)
• Debugging Native memory leaks with Debug Diag 1.1 (Tess Ferrandez)
• Repeated menu options in Visual Studio for Data Dude (Simon Sabin)
• Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 3 – Sieve Me One (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Missing LINQ – Beware of Generated Code and Spread The Word – Install .NETFx 4 Beta 2 via Windows Update (Mike Ceranski)
• 2010 Survey Results: What .NET Framework features do you use? (Scott Hanselman)
• Some Common Operations using List – Part I (Suprotim Agarwal)
• F#: Refactoring to sequence/for expressions (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• How you can force the Ajax Script Loader to use jQuery 1.4 (Dave Ward)
• jQuery Snippets & jQuery 1.4: What’s your opinion? (John Sheehan)
• T4MVC in MSDN Magazine (K. Scott Allen)
• What Would a Stack Overflow API Look Like? (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Reducing Code Coupling – Inversion of Control (Grant Palin)
• The future of UI will be boring (Scott Berkun)
• More on Context… Establishing Personas (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Higher Order Software Development (Vishwas Lele)
• The difference between continuous Integration tools and automated build tools (Roy Osherove)
• Knowing and not Knowing (Jeremiah Peschka)

Silverlight / WPF

• AutoMagically Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged (Justin Angel)
• Converting Hexadecimals to Colors in code for Silverlight and Flash to Silverlight Guide – Graphics, Images and Display List (Adam Kinney)
• WPF WebBrowser and JavaScript interaction (Oren Eini)
• Silverlight: SketchFlow (Deborah Kurata)
• Quick tip: Finding Silverlight 4 documentation fast (Laurent Bugnion)
• A Field Guide to WPF Presentation Patterns and Introducing MicroModels (Paul Stovell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Flash Podcast 019 – Windows Mobile Widgets (Eric Nelson)
• The Agile PMP on InfoQ (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Herding Code 68: New Year Shenanigans (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• Mix10 And Molecular Biology DNA Visualizer (Justin Angel)
• First Quarter 2010 Speaking Schedule (Chris Love)
• PDC09 Trip Report Kit available for download. Taking out the drudgery so you can focus on the fun. (Dave Isbitski)
• Software Craftsman Cooperative Membership (David Starr)
• Creators Club Communiqué 37 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Get Ready for the ‘MSDN Get Ready’ training events (Katrien De Graeve)
• Looking for a change? Come work with us! (Larry Hyrb)
• Platz on Pausch, Pikachu and pursuing your passions (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• 2010 TechEd PreCon: Multiparadigmatic C# (Ted Neward)
• The Sparkling Client Goes to Mix 2010! (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• NYC Microsoft BizSpark Camp for Windows Azure! (Stephen Forte)

Database

• The Database Design Process (Buck Woody)
• SQLAuthority News – Vote for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 – Vote for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and SQL SERVER – Initializing a Merge Subscription Without a Snapshot (Pinal Dave)
• Quickest way to get the row count of a table and User defined function performance is awful, Micorosft please sort this out (Simon Sabin)
• Find Out If You Are Using Deprecated Features In SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)
• Fluidity with "Quadrant’s" Unique User Interface (Kraig Brockschmidt)

SharePoint

• Adding jQuery to SharePoint (Tom Hearn)
• Free Developer Training for SharePoint (Bruce Kyle)
• How SharePoint Can Deliver Project Transparency (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Approve all items button in a SharePoint View (Greg Galipeau)
• Creating Comparison and Wildcard Filters for BCS in SharePoint Designer 2010 (Phill Duffy)
• BCS Creator and Updater methods for Dot Net Assembly (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• You should know Linux (Karl Seguin)
• Iconizer Catalogs Icons for Customization (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Windows 7 Step by Step — Only $9.99! Use discount code W7SS9 (O’Reilly Media)
• You are responsible for your education (Mark Nijhof)
• Developing Windows PowerShell Best Practices book (Ed Wilson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #518 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2010 — #778 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for January 14, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (1/14/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

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Top Links

• Favor – Help Us Test .NET 4 Beta 2 on Windows Update (WU) (Scott Hanselman)
• The Illusion of Performance (John Stockton)
• Introducing the Portable Extensible Metadata (Irinel Crivat)
• Visual Studio 2010 Ranger News (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit updated (Pieter de Bruin)
• Creating Ribbon Applications on Windows 7 (Zhiming Xue)
• Visual Studio Myth Buster (Innovation Showcase)
• The Project Location is not Trusted (Dave M. Bush)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 3. How to resolve arrays (Mike Hadlow)
• Searching and Navigating Code in Visual Studio 2010 (Brittany Behrens)
• The RDLc Disconnect – they’ve done it again (William Vaughn)
• Pasting a single selection into a box selection and Zero-length box selection (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• IE8 Accelerator Creation Guide (Innovation Showcase)
• SEO Tips for Developers : Page Speed (Chris Missal)
• Of Web Browsers and Humanity (K. Scott Allen)
• Awesomium v1.5 (Chris Cavanagh)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 5 – Nginx (Karl Seguin)
• Search Engine Optimization got a lot easier (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mocks, the removal of test detail, and dynamically-typed languages (Brian Marick)
• Know Your Product Specifications (Buck Woody)
• Designing the Entity Framework 2nd level cache (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned from Tony Robbins and 10 Ways to Improve How You Manage Information (JD Meier)
• Separating Passion & Common Sense from Bad Decisions (Dave Schinkel)
• I. M. Wright: “One to one and many to many” (Eric Brechner)
• All about the “M” (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to create great work environments (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 – How to Capture Audio and Video from a Web Cam (Innovation Showcase)
• Free Developer Training for WPF 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• Silverlight, Bing Maps, Vectors and “Did I blog this or did I just dream it?” (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight: Tooltip for each ListBox item (Steve Pietrek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ivar Jacobson on the Unified Process (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Community Megaphone Podcast – Show #1 with guest Kevin Griffin (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• SilverlightShow Eco Contest – win a trip to MIX10 (Adam Kinney)
• The Software Craftsman Cooperative (David Starr)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 1/27/2010 – Clojure (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Announcing the Microsoft Azure Application Development contest for U.S. state and local government partners! (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Looking back at 2009, and looking forward at 2010 (Simone Chiaretta)

Database

• Find Out What Percent Of The Log Is Being Used For Each Database In SQL Server 2005 and 2008 and Interview with Brent Ozar about the book Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Find Busiest Database (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• How To Install SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (Standalone) on VMWare (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint 2010 List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 published (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• How to not suck at a techincal interview (Brad Cunningham)
• Where is Rename-Computer? (Lee Holmes)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Apprenticeship Patterns — Only $9.99! Use discount code AP999 (O’Reilly Media)
• Intellisense in MobileShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• ZScreen is now a more kick-ass screenshot tool, especially on Windows 7 (Lee Mathews)
• The science behind Project Natal (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #517 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2010 — #777 (Dave Campbell)
• F# Discoveries This Week 01/13/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• What You Wanted to Know: Top “How to” Posts of 2009 (Silverlight Team)

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

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Top Links

• The TekPub LINQ Challenge Part 2 – Faster Algorithms (Justin Etheredge)
• ASP.NET MVC 2: Strongly Typed Html Helpers (Scott Guthrie)
• Patterns in Practice: A Retrospective (Jeremy D. Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• First Look at Workflow in .NET 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• List of extensibility points in visual studio 2010 (Roy Osherove)
• C# Object Initializer: More thoughts (Mark Needham)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – Introduction and 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 1. Registering Delegates (Mike Hadlow)
• .NET Projects: Generating Documentation with Sandcastle (Grant Palin)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 (Scott Guthrie)
• Ordering fields in ASP.NET MVC 2 templated helpers (Maarten Balliauw)
• Serialize only Selected Elements of a Form and Submit it using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Virtual Method Performance Penalty (Davy Brion)
• Learning in the Open: I – Starting with ActiveRecord (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• A philosophical discussion about Inversion of Control frameworks (Marcus Bratton)
• Gesturcons: an icon language to describe natural user interface gestures (Ron George)

Silverlight / WPF

• How SilverUnit can help you be famous (Roy Osherove)
• Silverlight : MVVM Library and File Upload (Sacha Barber)
• Using the Model View Presenter pattern in WPF (Paul Stovell)
• Migrating from Silverlight Streaming to Windows Azure (Mike Ormond)
• Synchronous Invocation of Delegates with the Silverlight Dispatcher (Daniel Vaughan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Screencast: How to Effectively Utilize Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• This Week in Testing Episode 10 – Do Not Ship It, Part 3 (Dror Helper)
• Episode 97- PowerScripting Podcast – Clint Huffman and His PAL Project (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Fun with Physics for Toddlers with eBeam and Crayon Deluxe (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• This Week In User Group Land 1/11/2010 – 1/17/2010 (Chris G. Williams)
• 2010 – A Personal Change: putting my “Head In The Cloud” (Bart de Smet)
• Lessons Learned in 2009 (JD Meier)

Database

• Calculate the Number of Business Days in a Range (Richard Carr)
• DZone Daily Dose – W3C Drafts Indexed Database API Standard (Mitch Pronschinske)

Miscellaneous

• Predictions for 2010 Part IV: Google v Apple (Stephen Forte)
• Today’s kindergartners, tomorrow’s workforce (Anthony Salcito)
• Stupid Windows 7 Trick: Keyboard Shortcut for Windows XP’s Task Switcher (Blake Handler)
• Windows Mobile 7 – New Details Emerge (Taimur Asad)
• Tortoise SVN tip: Repair move (Simone Chiaretta)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for January 10, 2010 — #774 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #514 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #105 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Post… 1/4/2010 through 1/10/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Weekly Links #87 (Grant Palin)
• Links (1/10/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 127 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/11/2010 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

Dependency Injection

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