• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part III (Luca Bolognese)
• In ngen’ed assemblies, static field initializers don’t run until the field is first accessed (Kirill Osenkov)
• LocalDB: A Lightweight SQL Express for Developers (Jenni Ripley)
• Peeling the Mango – Win Phone 7 Programming from the Ground Up (Part 1) (Pete O’Hanlon)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# and Running Parallel Tasks (Carl Nolan)
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Nullable Math Doesn’t Always Add Up (James Michael Hare)
• OOP without classes in F# (Joh)
• Extend NuGet Command Line (Rob Reynolds)
• You Can Upgrade TFS 2010 to SQL 2008 R2 (Shai Raiten)
• Threading in Monotouch/iPhone/iOS FTW! (Wally McClure)
• Leverage T4Scaffolding for WCF Web API (Steve Michelotti)
• Managed Stack Explorer: A Tool to Complement Process Explorer (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Getting Started with Windows Azure Platform Development (Scott L. Holmes)
• Extend NuGet Command Line (Rob Reynolds)
• Windows 7 Slates: Development Tip 1 (Rob Tiffany)
• Use it or lose it, part deux [New Delay.FxCop code analysis rule helps identify uncalled public or private methods and properties in a .NET assembly] (David Anson)
• That’s Ripplelicious (Greg Duncan)
• Copy packages from one NuGet feed to another (Maarten Balliauw)

Web Development

• Error Handling In Asynchronous Code With Callbacks and Return Codes (Karl Seguin)
• Model Metadata and Validation Localization using Conventions (Phil Haack)
• Defense in Depth: Locking Down Mash-Ups with HTML5 Sandbox (Jacob Rossi)
• How to Implement Trackback Handler in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Extending the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles with PHP and MVC3 (Nathan Totten)
• How to style buttons with jQuery Mobile (O’Reilly Media)
• Unit testing JavaScript code when Ajax gets in the way (Giorgio Sironi)
• Switching from ASPX to Razor view engine (Alexander Beletsky)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.1.2 RC build 107.403 is available. (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Time to Update Those Foursquare Apps: API v1 Goes Dead August 1st (Allen Tipper)
• Bing Maps AJAX 7.0 control updated with new features (damaster)
• PHP Returning Numeric Values in JSON (Lorna Mitchell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: CQRS (Martin Fowler)
• Machine.Specifications (mspec) testing framework support in Unit Test Runner (Alex Skorkin)
• Skills to Pay the Bills and Lead a Better Life and Organizing, Reading, and Writing Information Faster (JD Meier)
• What mobile apps are essential for collaboration on the go? (Simon Mackie)
• Ken Schwaber – Always Telling It Like It Is (Peter Saddington)
• Message-oriented Architectures (Peter Ritchie)
• When Do You Say A Development Task Is Really Done? (Rob Diana)
• If you can’t change the people, change the culture… (Naeem Khedarun)
• A visual look at RavenDB velocity (Oren Eini)
• Stabilizing Application Architectures Through Simplification (Dan Ackerson)
• Continuous Integration: The Last Mile (James Betteley)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 UX Resources (David Kelley)
• WPF 4.0 : Editable ListBox using Commanding for Data Templates (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Windows Phone Status Bar Symbols – What on Earth? (Mike Ormond)
• WP7: Mango to be released in September (or earlier!) (Owen Williams)
• Create your first Windows Phone app in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)
• A Windows Phone Twitter Application : Part 2 of 2 (Sudheer Kovalam)
• StatLight 1.4 and almost 1.5 (Jason Jarrett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Checking In: Gov Maharaj – Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly (Charles Torre)
• Coding QA Episode 59 – Fede and Atlassian (Part 1) (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• Tips and Advice – Story Sizing and Granularity (Agile Toolkit)
• Silverlight TV 78: Designing Tiles and Splash Screens for Windows Phone (Design Tips Mini Series) (John Papa)
• Let’s Play TDD #123: MiGLayout (James Shore)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Aaron Drenberg Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• Webinar – Compositional and Convention-based Web Development With FubuMVC (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• How to Find Conference and User Group Presenters (Steve Smith)
• Windows 7 Application Compatibility Screencast (Jennifer Marsman)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Released (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 15 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Concat function in SQL Server Denali CTP3 and Format function in SQL Server Denali CTP3 (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – Management Studio – Schema Changes History Report (Vishal)
• SELECT INTO and IDENTITY (or, BOL is Sorta Wrong) (Jen McCown)
• Do you use T-SQL debugging? (Jakub Dvorak)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Upgrade Essentials Checklist (Joel Oleson)
• .NET Framework support in SharePoint 2010 (Mary Lee)
• Social Squared version 5.5.0.1 release (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• VMware Highlights Enterprise Clouds With vSphere 5 (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Microsoft says it will have a ‘single ecosystem’ for PCs, tablets, phones, and TVs… and is ‘Windows’ dead? (Nilay Patel)
• How we used HTML5 to make SkyDrive fast for millions of people (Steve Bailey)

More Link Collections

• Link dump for July 13th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Web Dev Tweets 13-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Today’s Links (7/14/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #895 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 14 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 07/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed by Ray Rankins

Top Links

• The Present and Future of WPF (Pete Brown)
• Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows Phone 7 News at PDC10 (Charlie Kindel)
• Examining OData – Windows Phone 7 Development — How to create your URI’s easily with LINQPad (Chris Woodruff)
• Asynchrony in C# 5, Part One (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Async CTP and C# Language Specification for Asynchronous Functions and Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V2.0 CTP – October Update and Whitepaper: Asynchrony in .NET (MS Downloads)
• Asynchronous C# and F# (I.): Simultaneous introduction (Tom)
• C#/.NET Five More Little Wonders That Make Code Better (2 of 3) (James Michael Hare)
• C# 5.0 Asynchronous Made Easy (Abhishek Sur)
• Visual Studio 2010 Adding Intellisense Support for CUDA C (Ade Miller)
• Using Enter Key as a Tab (Deborah Kurata)
• Microsoft Test Manager Test Case Specification what kind of action to use (Clemens Reijnen)
• Visual Studio Async CTP for the rest of us… (Michael Crump)
• C# and VB.NET vNext (Patrick Smacchia)
• C# 5 Async, Part 1: Simplifying Asynchrony – That for which we await (Reed Copsey)
• Visual Studio Async CTP: The C# Perspective and Visual Studio Async CTP: A Few More Things (Sasha Goldshtein)
• TFS on Windows Azure (Shai Raiten)
• Karandeep Anand: Windows Azure AppFabric Caching (Wade Wegner)
• Tutorial: Pic Viewer Revisited on the Async CTP (Jason Zander)
• Step Out Of or Over a Method (Zain Naboulsi)
• New OData Producers and Consumers (Alex James)
• The Microsoft Sync Framework 4.0 October 2010 CTP has Arrived! (Rob Tiffany)
• Tokenizing control – convert text to tokens (Pavan Podila)
• Making Asynchronous Programming Easy (Somasegar)
• PDC10: Mysteries of Windows Memory Management Revealed: Part One (Tim Sneath)
• Code Generation Using Custom Item Template, Custom Template Wizard and T4 Engine (Kirill Chilingarashvili)

Web Development

• HTML5 Is Taking Off (Abel Avram)
• Just Where Is WebResource.axd? (Scott Mitchell)
• HTML5, Using the whole PC: Sixth IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Request Limit Length Limits for IIS’s requestFiltering Module (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft Is Serious To Take On Amazon Web Services (Krishnan Subramanian)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Tobias Mayer on Scrum Alliance (Dan Mezick)
• Testing User Stories – Problem Development Before Solution Development (Scott Bellware)
• Why Short Iterations Work (David Bernstein)
• 5 Keys to Effective Scenario Maps and ADO.NET Scenarios Map (J.D. Meier)
• CQRS – The Cult of Shiny Things (Jak Charlton)
• NBehave alpha now shipping with Should assertion framework (Naeem Khedarun)
• Interview:Elizabeth Hendrickson on the State of Functional Testing Tools (Elizabeth Hendrickson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App 1: Feedr, an RSS reader. and Windows Phone App 2: MobileMobile, a fun game for toddlers. and Windows Phone App 3: Fact-Of-The-Day and Expression Design: Problems with exporting slices, wrong image sizes. (Avi Pilosof)
• What is Silverlight for Windows Embedded for C++? (Don Burnett)
• Windows Phone 7 Trial API Walkthrough (Jason Petrin)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #29: Animations (Jeff Blankenburg)
• [PDC10] WPF vNext (Jeremy Alles)
• Kung Fu Silverlight at PDC 2010: Patterns and Practices with MVVM and RIA Services (John Papa)
• How to Host your Silverlight application on Amazon S3 for Free (mbcrump)
• Silverlight 4 in Action Source Code (Pete Brown)
• Live from PDC – Things I Wish I Knew Three Months Ago about Windows Phone and PDC Live – Optimizing Performance for Silverlight Windows Phone 7 Applications (Yochay Kiriaty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing Async – Simplifying asynchronous programming and Stephen Toub: Task-Based Asynchrony with Async and Lucian Wischik: Inside VB.NET Async and Visual Studio Async: Meet the team and Mads Torgersen: Inside C# Async (Charles Torre)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show #144 – Windows Azure Part II – Worker Roles (Wally McClure)
• The Killer App: A Channel 9 Halloween Special (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• ALM Summit Here We Come (Shai Raiten)
• PDC 2010 – Day one, part one and PDC 2010 – Day one, part two (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Hand picked sessions from PDC2010 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC): All About the Cloud. (Microsoft Blog Admin)
• Windows Azure PDC 2010 Announcements (Hanu Kommalapati)

Database

• Adding Data Compression to an Existing Clustered Index in SQL Server 2008 R2 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – List of all the Views from Database (Pinal Dave)
• Nullable parameters in SQL 2005 & SQL 2008 – Column, parameter, or variable #1: Cannot find data type Nullable`1 (Simon Sabin)
• The building blocks of a database: Transactional & persistent hash table (Oren Eini)
• Getting Schooled on Dynamic PIVOT… Or, PIVOT Part 2 (Audrey Hammonds)

SharePoint

• Offline SharePoint TFS Team Portal Sites with SharePoint Workspace (Ed Blankenship)
• Export SharePoint List (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Windows® AIK for Windows® 7 (MS Downloads)
• Using Powershell to make your NuPack Packages – more Awesome (Eric Hexter)
• This week in OneNote Test (John Guin)
• Running IE9 Tech Preview 6 with full UI (Kip Kniskern)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on 8 top books in honor of Microsoft #pdc10 Code DDRPC (O’Reilly Media)
• WP7 vs Android – Part Three: Features Galore (Owen Williams)
• Regular Users Running Admin Scripts (Safe) (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #718 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 28, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

Top Links

• Parallelism in .NET – Part 19, TaskContinuationOptions (Reed Copsey)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #27: Windows Phone Marketplace (Jeff Blankenburg)
• The State of Agile (Tobias Mayer)
• The State of Agile (Derek Huether)
• The State of Agile (Ken Schwaber)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF Data Services Oct 2010 CTP 1 (MS Downloads)
• F# Parallel Extras (I.): Image pipeline using agents and F# Parallel Extras (II.): Agent-based blocking queue and F# Parallel Extras (III.): Financial dashboard with cancellation (Tom)
• Why I hate implementing Linq and Exception handling for flow control is EVIL!!! (Oren Eini)
• Some common Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management questions and answers… and OData Primer – A human curated OData resource just for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Tips and Tricks: Deferred execution using LINQ (Hajan Selmani)
• RavenDb: Playing with Inheritance and Polymorphism (Mike Hadlow)
• Debug Executable Without Using Attach to Process (Zain Naboulsi)
• Laharsub, a .NET Messaging Server (Abel Avram)
• Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Four: Turning yourself inside out and Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Five: CPS and Asynchrony (Eric Lippert)
• Introduction to AMQP for .Net developers (Jon Fancey)
• Building a Mobile-Browser-Friendly List of PDC 2010 Sessions with Windows Azure and OData (Steve Marx)

Web Development

• Accessing Server-Side Data from Client Script (Part 2) (Scott Mitchell)
• RavenDb, ASP.NET MVC and Windsor working together (Mike Hadlow)
• Ajax, ASP.Net MVC and Progressive Enhancement (Andy Butland)
• Timing The Execution Time Of Your MVC Actions (Nick Berardi)
• ASP.NET Web Projects: web.debug.config & web.release.config (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
• Building mobile web site with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Mobile and Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 web application to server where ASP.NET MVC 3 is not installed (Gunnar Peipman)
• MIME-Handling Changes in Internet Explorer (Eric Lawrence)
• An Introduction To Hosting (Karl Seguin)
• Azure@home Part 10: Worker Role Run Method (continued) (Jim O’Neil)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Press Release for Getting Results the Agile Way and How To Create a patterns & practices Team and Principles and Values Define a Culture (J.D. Meier)
• Agile Contract Negotiation, Don’t be a Liar (John Sonmez)
• Examples from Unit Testing 101 Talk (Jim Holmes)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Data-Driven Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• Extending GitHub Issues (Joshua Flanagan)
• Distributed Agile: Communication (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Create your own Format Bar for the WPF RichTextBox (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Developer Guidance Map (J.D. Meier)
• Adding a ViewModelLocator and Merged Dictionaries to App.xaml (Laurent Bugnion)
• How to build a Google Finance client app with Windows Phone 7 (Jonathan Cogley)
• CryoDefense submitted to the marketplace! (Tree)
• An Amazing Windows Phone 7 Application: Cocktail Flow (Gergely Orosz)
• WP7 Development Tips Part 1 (Kevin Marshall)
• WP7 Code: Managing Application State (Dragos Manolescu)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 129 – PowerScripting Podcast – Security Ninja Dave Kennedy on Ethical Hacking with PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Community Megaphone Podcast – Show 18 with David Hoerster (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Technology & Friends Episode 122: Jennifer Marsman on Imagine Cup (David Giard)
• Code Camp Video Interview (Jeff Atwood)
• The Office Show: Rocking your data with Excel 2010 (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 143 – Windows Azure Part I – Web Roles – Audio (Wally McClure)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – October 26th, 2010 and Office Hours Today in DC! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Make Sure You Don’t Miss Windows Phone Sessions During PDC10 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Countdown to PDC10 (Aseem Datar)
• Project Phoenix. No, it’s not about Gandalf… (Luke Hayler)
• PDC 10 on tap (Kip Kniskern)
• Taking a Lap around MEF (Derik Whittaker)
• Shout from Cape Town: Microsoft Announces Global Technology Program for Teachers and Students to Address Environmental Issues (Anthony Salcito)
• Military veterans at Microsoft: We Still Serve (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• PDC schedule published as OData, but where’s the iCalendar feed? (Jamie Thomson)

Database

• How can you tell, from the server side, what version of the SQL Server Data Access Client Driver is being used on a connection? This way… (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Challenge – SQL Puzzle – Query Creating Most TempDB IO Usage (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Getting started with SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Movember – Lightning Mo-Tools (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• This Is the PlayStation Phone (Ben Parr)
• Microsoft offers Office for Mac 2011 to TechNet, MSDN subscribers (Ed Bott)
• More talent leaves the building (Jon Fancey)
• Using PowerShell Cmdlets (Josh Topal)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Free to Choose Your "In a Nutshell" – Save 50% – Code: DDNTZ (O’Reilly Media)
• Evernote 4 for Windows is here! (Philip Constantinou)
• Full Text of the Ray Ozzie ‘Dawn of a New Day’ Memo (Paul Thurrott)
• Tech Geek, Cool Geek or Comic Book Geek–what type of Geek are you? (Sara Allison)
• Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate (Steven Bink)
• Windows 7 SP1 Release Candidate Now Available for Download (Taimur Asad)
• Help us improve Tasks (David Tattersall)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 26, 2010 — #979 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 26 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #716 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition) by Aaron Hillegass

Top Links

• Introducing NuPack Package Management for .NET – Another piece of the Web Stack (Scott Hanselman)
• Mono 2.8 is out (Miguel de Icaza)
• Announcing NuPack, ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta, and WebMatrix Beta 2 (Scott Guthrie)
• POCO Results for MVC Actions (Javier G. Lozano)
• Blendable MVVM ViewModelLocator using MEF (Jan Brandsma)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Sequence Equality (Richard Carr)
• The benefits of a plugins based system: RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• View files on GitHub from Visual Studio (Joshua Flanagan)
• Understanding the Autos Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• HowTo: Logging with Log4Net (Code Inside Team)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (VIII) – Signing In + RavenDB Testing (Rob Ashton)
• Events and Multi-threaded Applications (Eric Quist)
• New book on NHibernate (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Icon support for custom Windows Workflow activities (Rory Primrose)
• Code Shot – hCard Template (James R. Eggers)
• Under the ORM Hood: Revealing the SQL (Nick Harrison)

Web Development

• Unobtrusive Ajax in ASP.NET MVC 3 and Unobtrusive Client Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3 and ASP.NET MVC 3 Service Location, Part 5: IDependencyResolver and Part 6: Model Validation and Part 7: Model Metadata and Part 8: Value Providers and Part 9: Model Binders and Part 10: Controller Activator and Part 11: View Page Activator (Brad Wilson)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta Released and Introducing NuPack Package Manager (Phil Haack)
• The Evolution of Package Management for .NET (Rob Reynolds)
• Which ASP.NET MVC view engine do you prefer? and ASP.NET MVC3 Beta 1 (Dane Morgridge)
• Daily Dose – W3C Official: Don’t Use HTML5 Yet (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Taking steps in the right direction: The learning path from WebMatrix/Razor to Visual Studio/ASP.NET (Rachel Appel)
• A third option for using jQuery templates and Announcing Bootstrap – a simple JS library for loading scripts (Scott Koon)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Special Case (Giorgio Sironi)
• Microsoft announces WebMatrix Beta 2 (Lawrence Moroney)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article:Using Coding Katas, BDD and VS2010 Project Templates: Part 3 (Jamie Phillips)
• Selling Scrum to Your Manager? (Mark Levison)
• A Simple Alternative to “If..” AKA Strategy Pattern Envy (Bobby Johnson)
• You’re a Bad Manager. Embrace It. (Jared Richardson)
• Bad Programmer, Bad Process Or Bad Education (Rob Diana)
• Why Hard Interviews are Good (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• databinding BingMaps Control Wp7 MVVM (Baba)
• Accessing the ViewModel Inside a DataTemplate in Silverlight (Brendan Enrick)
• WP7 Code: Reverse GeoCoding with the Bing Maps Service (Dragos Manolescu)
• S-OOB + W7 = ? (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Camps TV #7 – WebMatrix Beta 2 Launches Today! and Web Camps TV #8 – NuPack with Phil Haack (James Senior)
• Silverlight TV 48: Creating Rich Interactive Prototypes with Sketchflow – Part 1 (John Papa)
• tickWell for Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Updating AJAX Patterns How-Do-I Videos. and To Podcast of Not ? You tell me. (Joe Stagner)
• jQuery Podcast 36 – Bocoup (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• RECAP: Let’s Play TDD, Episodes 21-30 (James Shore)
• endpoint.tv – AppFabric Caching vs. IBM eXtreme Scale benchmark (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Introducing Office Hours and Call for Speakers – SQL Saturday DC and SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Best Job in the Company… (Tim Sneath)
• My Team in Developer Guidance at Microsoft (Pete Brown)
• A video tour of Microsoft’s ultra-modern Oslo office (Thomas Kohnstamm)

Database

• AutoGenerate Numeric ID’s in SQL Server with No Sequence (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Connection Strings: Database Mirroring Failover Partner Setup & Sample Backup/Restore Preparation Script (Hugo Shebbeare)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Quiz – The View, The Table and The Clustered Index Confusion (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS runs in BIDS but not with SQL Agent (Ted Krueger)
• Programmatic detection of configuration options (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Using Sticky Notes in Windows 7 (Senthil Kumar)
• So I Got Promoted, Now What? Get To Know Your Peers (Joe Webb)
• Logitech Revue with Google TV Available This Month for $299 (Blake Robinson)
• Evolving Reading Interests, Part Two (Davy Brion)
• Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts Implementation in Office 2010 (Hima)
• Marketers vs. Developers the Email Templating Problem (Nick Berardi)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Buying a Home: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99. Use code DDBHM (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #702 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 6, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for October 06, 2010 — #961 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action by Wictor Wilen

Top Links

• LightSwitch: Initial thoughts and Profiling LightSwitch using Entity Framework Profiler and Analyzing LightSwitch data access behavior and LightSwitch & Source Control and LightSwitch on the wire (Oren Eini)
• Dynamically Loading Silverlight Video Players using MEF (Michael Washington & Hisowa)
• Android Development, Part 0 of N: Introduction (Joel Ross)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF, NSubstitute, and Autofac (Jason Bock)
• Mindscape releases LightSpeed 3.11 ORM (John-Daniel Trask)
• Rangers shipped Visual Studio 2010 Database Guide (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Using the right tool for the job – introducing WebMatrix and LightSwitch (Mike Ormond)
• Find Symbol Results Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
• CodeRush Notifications (Rory Becker)

Web Development

• Internet Explorer Developer Tools: The CSS Tab (Pete LePage)
• Implementing the Store Locator Application Using ASP.NET MVC (Part 2) (Scott Mitchell)
• Using the SEO Feature in Expression Web 4 (Minal Agarwal)
• New MapQuest Directions API Built on Open Data (Adam DuVander)
• Redirect Tcp Connections in Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• Feels like a new day – implementing the MetaWeblog API (Josh Twist)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Your Agile isn’t my Agile! (Bob Hartman)
• An effective testing strategy (Jimmy Bogard)
• Day 24 – Bounce Back with Skill and Day 25 – Fix Time, Flex Scope (J.D. Meier)
• Should the Best Scrum Team Be Rewarded? (Mark Levison)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Implicit Lock (Giorgio Sironi)
• Commenting Methods Using Liskov Substitution Principle (Brendan Enrick)
• Read and Recommended: A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum (Stephen Forte)
• How To Do Large Scale Refactoring (Vikas Hazrati)
• Quality assurance is not testing (Jeffrey Palermo)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Working with CollectionView in WPF(Filter,Sort, Group, Navigate) (Abhishek Sur)
• WCF on the Windows Phone 7–The How to Guide (Simon Jackson)
• Sending tile push notifications on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Acceptable Windows Phone 7 Movie Sizes and How to Generate Them.. (Don Burnett)
• TimeZone patch to WPF Performance Profiling Tools for WPF 4 is now available (Jossef Goldberg)
• First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–II) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Stay away from Windows Phone 7, Blendtec! (Luke)
• Windows Phone Screen Stealing Status Bar (Rob Miles)
• Windows Phone 7′s short-term future includes phone-to-console gaming, Twitter? (Ross Miller)
• An easy sell… sneak preview of new Windows Phone 7 apps (Sara Allison)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – David Chappell on Effective IT Innovation (Bob Familiar)
• Sparkling Client Show 104: Windows Phone Dev Tools Nearing Release! (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• ASP.NET MVC in 4 minutes! (Jonathan McCracken)

Community / Events

• Looking Back (Nate Kohari)
• Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Event (Sara Ford)
• BI Immersion Event in Bellevue, WA in October! (Paul S. Randal)

Database

• Changing the size of a column in SQL Server Management Studio (Josh Twist)
• Change an Existing Index in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Does Order of Column in WHERE clause Matter? (Pinal Dave)
• Service Update to SQL Azure Now Supports Database Copy (Bruce Kyle)
• Searching for ranges when you have quarters and years (Denis Gobo)
• The Lazy DBA Series: Email me, I’m broke! and The Lazy DBA Series: High Availability (Ted Krueger)
• Use ReadOnlyVariables and ReadWriteVariables properties in Scripts (Todd McDermid)
• Property Owner is not available for Database (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates Office 2010 Web Apps (Blake Handler)
• I wanted to start my best-practices series… (Joel Bennett)
• Developer Survey: Challenges and New Technologies (Dave West)
• How to Make Money With Your API (Daniel Jacobson)
• How I Bonded with my Windows Phone – a cycling misadventure (Sara Ford)
• Daily Dose – Adobe’s McAllister Speaks Out Against Oracle (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Your Top 10 #Ebook Deal of the Day-Geek Beach Reads-Only $9.99 ea. Use code DDGRD (O’Reilly Media)
• Taking Docs back to school (Pat Kinsel)
• Windows 95 Turns 15 Years Old (Richard Hay)
• Inspecting Local Root Lifetime (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Adobe updates Photoshop.com, releases Express Editor, Organizer and Android app (Sebastian Anthony)
• Expression Is Hiring (Christian Schormann)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 24, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Windows 7 Animation Manager Resources and Windows 7 Sensors and Location Resources and Windows 7 Touch Resources (Don Burnett)
• Tech Tweets for 24-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #672 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2010 — #932 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Introducing Windows Azure (Expert’s Voice in .Net) by Henry Li

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)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action, Second Edition by Bear Bibeault

Top Links

• 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)

The Geek Shelf

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

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

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)

The Geek Shelf

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

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)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

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)

The Geek Shelf

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