Top Links

• Introducing IIS Express (Scott Guthrie)
• Caliburn v1.1 Released! (Rob Eisenberg)
• Entity Framework Repository & Unit Of Work T4 Template on CodePlex (Dane Morgridge)
• Windows 8 Plans Leaked: Numerous Details Revealed (Stephen Chapman)
• Introducing the PivotViewer Control for Silverlight (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Understanding C#: Using BackgroundWorker to make your UI responsive (Andrew Stellman)
• Organize Using (C# Only) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Working with Zip Files in .NET (Richard Lee)
• Generating MD5 and SHA1 checksums for a file (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WCF by Example – Introduction (Enrique Albert)
• How to host WCF services in IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 (Merrick Chaffer)
• Elegant infoof operators in C# (read Info Of) (Patrick Smacchia)
• How I understood monads, part 2/2: have we met before? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• COM Apartments (Marius Bancila)
• Ghost team foundation build controllers (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The Archivist Is Live! (Karsten Januszewski)
• NHibernate 2nd level cache: Doing it wrong? (Mark Needham)
• Do We Need If Blocks? (John Sonmez)
• OData and Workflow Foundation (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• One of the reasons the section color addin was easy to write (John Guin)
• Performance Impact of Server-side Generated GUIDs in EF (Lei Li)
• Developing with Messenger Connect: Recognizable & intuitive and Social Distribution and Realtime Shared Experiences with Messenger Connect and Identity (authentication, profile & relationships) and Windows Live Messenger Connect is now available (Angus Logan)

Web Development

• JavaScript tests now available on the IE Testing Center (Alex Chi)
• HTML5Rocks.com (RJ Owen)
• Mobile Web Toolkits (Brendan Kowitz)
• Action Filter versus Controller Base Class (K. Scott Allen)
• An overview of Open Data Protocol (OData) (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)
• 50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers (Vitaly Friedman)
• Measuring Web Page Performance (Anderson Quach)
• Filling Address Fields using HTML5 Geolocation and jQuery (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Which TFS2010 “Agile” Project Template one is right for you? One side-by-side of MS Agile v5, MS Scrum v1[Beta] and Scrum For TFS(SfTS) v3 (Greg Duncan)
• NCover 3.4.10: NCover Explorer Fixes (Alan Johnson)
• Business Driven Test Management with Microsoft Test Manager (Clemens Reijnen)
• Don’t do it alone (Paul Boag)
• Principles of Programming Architecture (Dave M. Bush)
• Intuition and ‘quit thinking and look’ (Mark Needham)
• Visualize First. Build Later. (Dave West)
• Isolator 6.0.4 is out! (Doron Peretz)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Enhanced ListView Operations using MVVM (Izhar Lotem)
• Using WrapPanel and DockPanel in Windows Phone 7 With Blend (Matthias Shapiro)
• A Convention based Approach for wiring your Views to ViewModels in MVVM – AutoViewModelLocator (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Silverlight Bing Maps: Draw Circle Around a Latitude/Longitude Location (Chris Pietschmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio 2010/2008 and Microsoft Test Manager Screen Casts – [HE] (Shai Raiten)
• Roger Peter’s great video on using the Facebook Developer Toolkit with Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• Windows Weekly 162: Geeks Who Love Too Much (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Live Messenger Connect SDK (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 63: Sweet deal from MS, Burger King & Xbox, IE 9 and Zune (Laura Foy)
• Consistent UX, Composite Apps and Windows 7 with Jack Henry (Jared Bienz)
• Technology & Friends Episode 97: Brian Jackett on Powershell (David Giard)
• geekSpeak Recording – Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (Emily Gibson)
• The Archivist: Your friendly neighborhood tweet archiver (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• Join the OData Mailing List (Mike Flasko)
• What I learned at FOO Camp ‘10 (Scott Berkun)
• SQL Saturday 42 Musings (Jeremiah Peschka)
• One of the great things about TechEd … (Ed Wilson)

Database

• SQL Server Instance Checklist (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQLAuthority News – Exam 70-433 – MCTS – Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Database Development and SQL SERVER – Outer Join Not Allowed in Indexed Views (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• 3 Ways to Accelerate Your SharePoint Career (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Get FULL Access to SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Book Online (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Chrome Extension Development (Sergio Pereira)
• TechSmith Lights Up Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft leaks plans for a Windows 8 app store (Jay Hathaway)
• The OneNote Test Team is Hiring! (John Guin)
• Microsoft’s Support Sets Us Apart (Barbara Gordon)
• Cloud computing in healthcare – private, public, or somewhere in between (Steve Aylward)
• Xbox 360 is hiring for Kinect (Jason Pankow)
• What I would do if I was in charge of Windows 8 (Miguel de Icaza)
• Co-Authoring Using Office 2010 (Sarah Perez)
• C++ killed my grandpappy – Is C++ hard and where are the C++ coders hiding? (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft removing your 3D glasses (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft details early Windows 8 improvements to OEMs (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 29, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #631 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 28, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

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Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Venkat Subramaniam

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Top Links

• Learning to Write (Software) (Caleb Jenkins)
• How do I expose configuration information through MEF? (Glenn Block)
• .NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentBag (Justin Etheredge)
• NDepend v3 is now 100% integrated in Visual Studio. (Patrick Smacchia)
• Opinion & Review: Apple’s iPad (Blake Handler)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Simple Query Results Caching with EF4 (Dan Simmons)
• Making an Ocean with XNA (Louis Ingenthron)
• C# in Depth, 2nd Edition (Ferdinando Santacroce)
• Delegates and Lambda Expressions (John Oriente)
• MonoTouch on iPad (MonoTouch Team)
• Passing around an ObjectContext: by value or reference? (Julie Lerman)
• Transparently releasing components in Windsor (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Configuring SmtpClient to drop emails in a folder on disk (Mike Hadlow)
• Searching Breakpoints — vstipDebug0002 (Zain Naboulsi)
• NHibernate new feature: No proxy associations (Oren Eini)

Web Development

• Drupal Goes Hosted With Private Beta Launch of “Gardens” (Invites) (Robin Wauters)
• Extensible Output Caching with ASP.NET 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Dynamic Select Lists with MVC and jQuery (Mike Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An op for Microsoft to nail the low hanging fruit: Cloudify every app’s settings/config (Andrew Connell)
• The tension between software architects and their employers (Simon Brown)
• Moving To A Distributed Version Control System (Ade Miller)
• Securing Your Agatha Service Layer (Davy Brion)
• Agile Tenet #11 – Self Organizing Teams (Julie Stickler)
• 3 Pillars of Architecture (Kirk Knoernschild)

Silverlight / WPF

• Fluent Silverlight – Binding control events to actions (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• XAML: writing down all values of an object? (Rob Relyea)
• Announcing the First User Interface (UI) Components for Silverlight 4 (Silverlight Team)
• Chapter Excerpt in CODE magazine (Pavan Podila)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Catching up with Juval Löwy (Carl Franklin)
• Connected Show Podcast – Agile: Putting the “Soft” in Software (Brian Johnson)
• MSDN Tiki Hut Roadshow, Silverlight Edition (Emily Gibson)
• 157 Power Point Templates (Tina Wood)
• This Week in Testing Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 4) (Dror Helper)

Community / Events

• Registration Open For SharePoint Saturday – Feb. 27th. (Jim O’Neil)
• The Code Retreat Tour 2010 (Corey Haines)
• I’ll be speaking at Philly ALT.NET on Domain Driven Design (Stephen Bohlen)

Database

• SQL Server Temporary Tables (Richard Carr)
• SQL Search 1.0 Beta Available (Brad M. McGehee)
• Cleaning up sys.dm_exec_cached_plans (Dave Ballantyne)
• Backup and copy warm-standby (log shipped) databases in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 2: optimizing log block IO size and how log IO works) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• A Shoemaker’s Advice on SharePoint Training: It’s Not Just About the Tools (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Creating Limit Filters in SharePoint Designer 2010 (Phill Duffy)

Miscellaneous

• Apple iPad: A Comprehensive Guide (Ben Parr)
• The disappointments of Apple iPad (Imran Hussain)
• Bye Bye Arrow Keys (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Apple’s Solution For The iPad’s Missing SD Card Slot And USB port: Adapters (Matt Burns)
• Microsoft & Internet Freedom (Steve Ballmer)
• Daily Dose – Is the iPad Everything We Thought it Would Be? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Office 2012: Estimated RTM Dates Surface on an MSDN Blog and Engineering 8: Microsoft’s Windows 8 Blog to be Determined… (Stephen Chapman)
• Apple Drops an iDud (Paul Thurrott)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: The Social Media Marketing Book — Only $9.99! Use discount code SMMB9 (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LX (Charlie Calvert)
• Tech Tweets for 27-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #527 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 27, 2010 — #788 (Dave Campbell)

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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great

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Top Links

• Teaching Kids to Code – FREE classes in Jan 2010 (Vijaye)
• Scanning images in WPF via WIA (Pete Brown)
• TekPub’s Mastering LINQ Challenge (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• UML Profiles and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate: Part One (Cameron Skinner)
• Validate a Windows Username and Password against Active Directory (Tom Hearn)
• How to get out of the GAC all the registered assemblies (Daniel Cazzulino)

Web Development

• "Hello, World" in FubuMVC (Jeremy D. Miller)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 2 – YSlow (Karl Seguin)
• A Popup Insert control for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Open and publish a live website in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NHibernate, polymorphic associations and ghost objects (Oren Eini)
• Some preliminary thoughts on end-to-end testing in Growing Object-Oriented Software (Brian Marick)
• Avoiding The Typical Software Development World Stereotypes – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Promoting reuse using Behaviors: RotateRefreshBehavior (Bob Bartholomay)
• Fluent Silverlight – static reflection and Fluent Silverlight – Table of content (Gabriel N. Schenker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How to Live to be 100: A Mindmap and Video (Chance Brown)
• Video ambient lighting effects (Coding4Fun)
• geekSpeak Recording – The Dynamic Language Runtime in .NET 4 and geekSpeak Recording – Windows Workflow Services and the .NET Framework 4 and geekSpeak Recording – Generics and Collections and geekSpeak Recording – Refactoring Tips and Tricks with Llewellyn Falco and geekSpeak Recording – Rich Internet Applications with Windows Azure (Emily Gibson)
• A Deeper Look at Speech NUI (Larry Larsen)
• This Week in Testing Episode 10 – Do Not Ship It, Part 2 (Dror Helper)

Community / Events

• Vote for the UberProf case study in Mix 2010 (Oren Eini)
• Boston Geek Dinner – January 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Things I’d Like To Present (Christopher Bennage)
• Codemash 2.0.1.0 – Speaking, MCing and Podcasting (Keith Elder)

Database

• How to Read the Results of SELECT @@VERSION in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Reporting Services Reading linebreak in textbox (Steve Simon)
• Turning off the ghost cleanup task for a performance gain (Paul S. Randal)
• SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 2 – Using the New SharePoint Lists (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Set your hotkeys in PowerGUI Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• The ultimate ‘God Mode’ list: 39 secret Windows 7 shortcuts (Ed Bott)
• Creative Commons Data Dump Jan 10 (Jeff Atwood)
• Three post-CES goals for Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
• January’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Windows 8 Server: The First Version of Server to Contain System Restore? (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft at CES: Finally, what to expect from Windows Mobile 7 and Windows Phone (Tim Conneally)
• Bing deconstructed! (Microsoft JobsBlog)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for January 08, 2010 — #772 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Jan-2009 (Elijah Manor)

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Ironpython in Action

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Top Links

• OCGM: A New Windows User Experience (Stephen Chapman) – Some insight into the UX design philosophy in Windows 8.
• Day #28: Silverlight Application Themes (Jeff Blankenburg) – Jeff nears the end of his 30 days of Silverlight sereies.
• Cost of Maintenance (Larry Clarkin) – A reminder about the importance of a good design up front.
• iPhone and Android Development – NOT STARTING A FLAME WAR!!!! (Leon Gersing) – Leon compares ease of programming against each platform.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating An Application With Full Plug-in Support (Arian T. Kulp)
• Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing in C# and F# (Rick Minerich)
• D3DImage Extension Methods (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Update for Windows Azure Blob Storage publishing plugin for Expression Encoder (James Clarke)
• Migrating Applications to Windows Azure (Bob Familiar)
• More Windows Code Pack and Windows 7 developing delightfulness (Greg Duncan)
• More LINQ with System.Interactive – Exploiting the code = data relationship (Bart de Smet)

Web Development

• JavaScript inside ColdFusion – CFJS (Michael Kimsal)
• 7 Tips for Loading JavaScript Rich Web 2.0-like Sites Significantly Faster (Omar Al Zabir)
• Embedding HTML from jQuery AJAX Call Into Your Page (Elijah Manor)
• Do you know how to permanently redirect old incoming URL’s? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• KiGG Design And Architecture – Part 3 The Core (Muhammad Mosa)
• Self executing recursive javascript functions (Kris Gray)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fighting the profiler memory obesity (Oren Eini)
• Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: My First Attempt (Mark Needham)
• Agile Tenet #6– Face-to-face Communication (Julie Stickler)

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows 7, VS2010, WPF all mixed together DevX article style (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight HVP Design Update (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Compass indicators properties for Telerik’s Docking Control for Silverlight and WPF (Telerik Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 4 – Yet More on Capturing Video from Webcams (Mike Taulty)
• Better WPF Circular Progress Bar (Sacha Barber)
• Solution to minimize the loading of too much data to a DataGrid– WCF RIA Services and Silverlight (Fredrik Normen)
• Read and Recommended: Essential Silverlight 3 (Stephen Forte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Hunter Tours Us Through ASP.NET 4.0 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• (free) Training videos from the last year. (Eric Hexter)
• Episode 96- PowerScripting Podcast – Ed Wilson The Scripting Guy on PowerShell Best Practices (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Mark Your Calendars for Microsoft BI Conference (Bruce Kyle)
• Running a Small User Group – Getting Help (K. Brian Kelley)
• January Events (Matt Hinze)
• 12/28/2009 – Speaking at Northern Delaware .NET User Group on 1/28/2010 (Kevin Goff)
• This One is for the Quiet Ones (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• Data is Just Data – Information – that’s another thing! (Buck Woody)
• Standard Point-in-time and time-interval representations (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Get Date of All Weekdays or Weekends of the Year (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• On Learning (Anne Epstein)
• Using "within" in a WMI event query (Kapil Mathur)
• DZone Daily Dose – 12/29 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Write-Progress & WPK (James Brundage)
• A Desktop UI for Zoho Services (Rodrigo Vaca)
• Consulting vs. Employee-hood, or “How to consider your options” (Kyle Baley)
• The decade in graphic form (Steve Clayton)
• Chrome Corner – weekly updates, extensions, themes, and tips for Google Chrome (Lee Mathews)
• Hoping they will learn… Usability! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Read Facebook updates in Google Reader (or any other RSS tool) (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2009 — #765 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #506 (Chris Alcock)

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Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

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Top Links

• Cool Things to Do with Dynamics in dotNET 4 (Kevin Jones) – Kevin examines the new dynamic keyword coming in .NET 4.0 with some tips on when/how to use it.
• Magellan with Windows Forms (Paul Stovell) – Just because you have to develop with WinForms doesn’t mean you can’t take advantage of MVC.
• Render Silverlight in WPF – WPF SilverlightViewport (Jeremiah Morrill) – Hosting Silverlight in a WPF app… there’s an API for that.

.NET / Visual Studio

• 6 Of My Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts (Hatim Rih)
• Blogging code samples stays easy [Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code for Visual Studio 2010!] (David Anson)
• Visual Studio 2008 Server Explorer Missing… (Doug Holland)
• High CPU in .NET app using a static Generic.Dictionary (Tess Ferrandez)
• Receiving notifications when garbage collections occur (Jeffrey Richter)
• Discovering Dallas: Part 3 (Jim O’Neil)
• How to Get a Stack Trace from C# without throwing Exception (Peter Kellner)
• Entity Framework troubleshooting and performance (Simon Sabin)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Textual attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

Web Development

• e-Commerce using ASP.NET MVC Framework (Ramani Sandeep)
• Using jQuery To Hijack ASP.NET MVC Form Posts (Malcolm Sheridan)
• JS Methods, static and instance (Kris Gray)
• Making Sense of ASP.NET Paths (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Effectus: Isolated features (Oren Eini)
• 8 Ways to Be Heroic (Noah Blumenthal)
• Essential Habits Of An Effective Professional Freelancer (Rob Smith)
• Testing tips (That is testability, not TDD part 2) (Wes McClure)
• Why GUI Test Automation is Popular and Tempting? Part I – Business context (Shrini Kulkarni)
• One change at a time (Mark Needham)
• Managers Are Not Game Designers! (Jurgen Appelo)
• That Rotting Design (Kirk Knoernschild)

Silverlight / WPF

• Falling Snow in Silverlight (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Day #21: Rapid Silverlight Prototyping In SketchFlow (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Magellan View Engines (Paul Stovell)
• WPF Manipulation Basics (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• [Video] Spark View Engine Part 1 (Mike Ormond)
• .NET Rocks! – Eric Lawrence on Fiddler (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: .Net Rocks Part 1 and Channel 9 Live at PDC09: .Net Rocks Part 2 (Nic Fillingham)
• Episode 95- PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Jones from the CS Techcast on SQL (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast #4: Developing for the Cloud (David Starr)
• SharePoint 2010 Branding-Episode 40 (Rob, Nick & Brett)

Community / Events

• Chris’ Year in Review 2009 (Chris Missal)
• 3 years of Encosia, the best of 2009, and my gratitude (Dave Ward)
• Getting started at Microsoft (Jon Galloway)
• Spoke at Girl Geek Dinner – World Still Intact (Sara J. Chipps)
• Windows Azure for Microsoft Partners (Steve Clayton)

Database

• Geek City: Exploring the Transaction Log Structure (Kalen Delaney)
• SQL Azure Data Sync tool (Stephen Forte)
• SQL SERVER – Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Design Patterns: Entry 2.5 (Charles Chen)
• Here’s a couple of helpful observations on VSeWSS 1.3 and Here’s a walkthrough building an Event Receiver in VSeWSS (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on his way out the door in 2010? (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Hacking PowerGUI (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• 10 things Microsoft did right in 2009 (Joe Wilcox)
• The meaning of open (Jonathan Rosenberg)
• Windows 8: LinkedIn’s Latest (Stephen Chapman)
• The 10 Tech Commandments for Employment After Age 40 (Shlomi Ben-haim)
• Latest Must Have Software (Tim Boland)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #502 and The Morning Brew #503 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 21, 2009 — #759 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/21/2009 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 124 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/21/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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The Ultimate HTML Reference

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Team Build and Layer Validation (Cameron Skinner)
• Entity Framework 4: Part 1 – Simple Model First (Eric Nelson)
• Reactive Framework Extensions Generator (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Fun with Mono.Cecil (Louis Salin)
• Going Interactive with the Reactive Extensions (Matthew Podwysocki)
• The Purpose, Revealed (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Microsoft Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1 released (Imran Hussain)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Lee Matos)
• ASP.NET + StructureMap = Epic Win (Stephen Wright)
• Really Easy Way To Partition an ASP.NET MVC With An Admin Area (Tobin Harris)
• Book review: Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development and Supporting multiple submit buttons on an ASP.NET MVC view (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Default Parameter Values (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Cucumber intro (Leon Gersing)
• Agile is not Scrum (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• A Day in the Life of a Scrum Team (Brian Marick)
• Local variables are evil (or just irritating) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Four Kinds of Trust (1): Trust Your People (Jurgen Appelo)
• Why SketchFlow is not a mockup software (Simone Chiaretta)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: lots of little fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Programmer Tip: A Passionate Contributor Is Better Than A Self Proclaimed Alpha Geek. (Rajiv Popat)
• Review: Test-Driven Development by Example (Grant Palin)
• Microsoft Test and Lab Manager and security and permission settings (Clemens Reijnen)
• TDD: Testing delegation (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and RIA Services: Implementing Search (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight and RIA Services: Managing Your Codes and Silverlight and RIA Services: Binding to a DataForm and Silverlight and RIA: Adding a ComboBox to a DataForm (Deborah Kurata)
• WCF RIA Services Binding Deep dive (Fredrik Normén)
• Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications – Part 1 (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• WPF Tips and Tricks Part 2 – Panels (Jason Rainwater)
• The MVVM Framework Tour – This time, Silverlight styling! (Greg Duncan)
• Concluding "New WPF Features" Series (Lester Lobo)
• Opinions: View() or Window()/Page()? and Magellan and WPF Page management woes (Paul Stovell)
• Windows7 / VS2010 / WPF 4 Demo App and WPF : RatingsControl That Supports Fractions (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Live from PDC, it’s My .NET Story! (Carl Franklin)
• Implementing a Silverlight SharePoint WebPart with Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• C9 Lectures: Brian Beckman – Covariance and Contravariance in Physics 1 of 1 and C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 9 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• Reactive Extensions API in depth: Contract (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Set Your Data Free (Zach Skyles Owens)
• This Week in Testing Episode 5 – You know what really bugs me? (Gil Zilberfeld & Dror Helper)
• Thirsty Developer 79: Tim Heuer on Silverlight 4 (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• PDC09 List Updated and MP4, WMVHigh RSS feeds now available too (Greg Duncan)
• Free GSPUG Webcast on Dec 1: Delivering SharePoint Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Events This (and Next) Week – November 25th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Geek Profiles – Scott Guthrie (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight MVP List on Twitter (John Papa)
• Windows Azure Storage at PDC 2009 (Brad Calder)

Database

• SQL Server Single Character Functions and SQL Server Soundex Functions (Richard Carr)
• Temporary procedures : T-SQL and SQL Server Acronym Overload (Jamie Thomson)
• How to Get Table Sizes in SQL Server (Keith Elder)
• Whats in what edition SQL 2008 R2 – Stream insight only in Data Centre Edition (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Performance Guide (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Office 15: A SharePoint Developer’s Dream? (Stephen Chapman)

Miscellaneous

• A Reading Guide To Becoming A Better Developer (Davy Brion)
• Word Clouds in PowerPoint with PowerShell (Mike Ormond)
• PowerShell Configurator (PSConfig) – Server configuration power via PowerShell goodness (Greg Duncan)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/26 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows 8: Death by Road Map! (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie: ‘Nobody’s going to be 100% open’ and Microsoft ‘worked with Apple’ for Silverlight on iPhone, says Goldfarb (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• The Atari classics are back and free to play! Asteroids, Lunar Lander and MORE! (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 25, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 26, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #485 and The Morning Brew #486 (Chris Alcock)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – NOV ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Source Code for Programming F# (Chris Smith)
• Windows 7 Ribbon for WinForms – Yes you can… (Greg Duncan)
• Surface SDK 1.0 SP1 supports XNA Game Studio 3.0 and later (Eric St. John)
• Sample: Get Calendar Data Using Exchange Web Services (C#) (Jason Zander)
• What’s new for editor extenders in Beta 2? (Noah Richards)
• Hello World With Agatha (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Deploying A Web Application with Git and FTP (Rob Conery)
• LinkedIn API Platform Goes Live: Your Resume and Business Network Now Have an API (Adam DuVander)
• Developers Get a Sneak Peek at Internet Explorer 9 (Bruce Kyle)
• JQuery Validator plus Element IDs, and Names (Chris Brandsma)
• ASP.NET 4.0 ScriptManager Improvements (Dave Reed)
• Visual WebGui: Cloud Optimization and the Application Layer (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Accelerate PHP Applications on Windows with the new Cache Extension (Lawrence Moroney)
• Renaming jQuery UI Tabs (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Serialize Any .NET Object to a JSON String (Deepak Choudhari)
• Where does this go? Applying SoC to dynamic data – Part 1 (Peter Blum)
• Enabling the ASP.NET Ajax script loader for your own scripts (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Offsetting Your Bad Code Footprint (Billy McCafferty)
• Always write a spec, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Book Review: Debug It! (Paul Butcher, Pragmatic Bookshelf) (Ted Neward)
• Pros don’t make do (Scott Koon)
• TestAPI 0.4 Released (Lester Lobo)
• Connecting Your Tests to an Implementation and Static vs. Instance-Based Models (Nico Kicillof)
• Mindscape LightSpeed an O/R Mapper Done Right (Rob Bazinet)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Beta – Accessing a users webcam and microphone and Silverlight 4 Beta – Text Trimming and Silverlight 4 Beta – Using Silverlight as Drop Target (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight (Corrina Barber)
• What’s New in Silverlight 4 (John Papa) – Link of the Day
• Sharing isn’t easy for anyone [Tricks for sharing the same XAML files across Silverlight and WPF] (David Anson)
• Using the WebBrowser control and debug a Silverlight Out-of-browser (OOB) application in VS 2010 (Fredrik Normén)
• Free Embeddable Fonts for your WPF Applications (Learn WPF)
• New WPF Features: DatePicker\Calendar\VSM\Datagrid (Lester Lobo)
• Running FxCop rules against Silverlight or WPF XAML and XAML Toolkit CTP – November 2009 is now live! (Michael Shim)
• Microsoft’s Bob Muglia and Ray Ozzie on Silverlight vs. standards (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Taking a WebCam Photo with Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• EdgeCam Shots – Saving Silverlight 4 Webcam Snapshots to JPEG (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010 (Beth Massi)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 40: Silverlight 4 and Behind the Scenes at PDC 2009 with Scott Guthrie (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Øredev chit-chat: Dag König and Scott Hanselman and Øredev chit-chat: Dag König and Julia Lerman and Øredev chit-chat: Johan Lindfors and Alan Smith and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Shawn Wildermuth and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Scott Bellware and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Ayende Rahien (Dag König)
• 10-4 Episode 36: Windows Server AppFabric and Workflow Services Lab (Ron Jacobs)
• Silverlight Podcast: Expression Encoder 3 (Silverlight Team)
• Videos of C# Authors at PDC (Charlie Calvert)

Community / Events

• PDC2009, Coding4Fun, and Mind Blaster (Brian Peek)
• SharePoint 2010 Experience: Dec 2nd and 3rd (Jim O’Neil)
• Oredev Keynote – Information Overload and Managing the Flow: Effectiveness and Efficiency (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• Hitting the upper limit of foreign key constraints (Jimmy Bogard)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Hex Dumper in PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft’s TechNet Releases "Explore as Administrator" PowerToy for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/24 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Collaboration Without Compromise (Ayca)
• I Don’t Get The Hype – Google Wave is Discussion Forums Web 2.0 (Keith Elder)
• Windows Azure vs. Windows 8 Server? (Stephen Chapman)
• Orchard team looking for a new developer (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Extensions: One Step Closer to the Finish Line (Ian Fette)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/23/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2009 — #741 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #483 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 393 (Sam Gentile)

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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)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Imaginet and Telerik Introduce Free Team Workload Management Tools (Charles Sterling)
• Extending the Entity Framework Provider Model to support DDL (Alex James)
• Lightweight Debugging for Hybrid C#/IronPython Apps (Harry Pierson)
• MVP Writes ‘How To’ Guide For Live Writer Plugins (Jas Dhaliwal)

Web Development

• October 2009 JSMag now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Type Safe Session Variables and Forms Authentication – Manual Authentication (Dave M. Bush)
• Creating a Filtering User Interface With jQuery In a Web Forms Application: Part 1 (Scott Mitchell)
• Deploying the CrystalReportViewer Control to a Production Web Site (Bob Clegg)
• MvcContrib working on Portable Areas (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Exploring the ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assemby (Maarten Balliauw)
• Working with SVG files in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer (Mikhail Arkhipov)
• Doing AJAX the easy way with JQuery and MVC (Michael Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: My First Tests (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using a service bus for queries (Oren Eini)
• How to Collaborate with Remote Employees with Office Communicator 2007 R2 (Scott Hanselman)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 2 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Rambling on Cyclomatic Complexity (Patrick Smacchia)
• AutoMapper Introduction and Samples from NETDUG (Richard Cirerol)
• The Zen of “Go Away” Rates (Russell Ball)
• Echoes from the Stone Age (Uncle Bob Martin) – Link of the Day
• Book Club: Integration tests are a scam (J.B. Rainsberger) and Software Development Apprenticeship: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• More On Caliburn & Silverlight’s SaveFileDialog (Christopher Bennage)
• Animated Dotted Text Outlines: Getting the Flicker Out (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight 3 online and offline Docs updated (Sam Landstrom)
• Updated Silverlight getting started for beginners (Tim Heuer)
• The Visual Guide to WPF Font Weights (LearnWPF.com)
• WPF Wonders: Building Control Templates (Rod Stephens)
• Silverlight for Windows Embedded (Rudi Grobler)
• Sheldon (Paul Stovell) - “Sheldon is a WPF command line control, and code to integrate it with IronPython. It’s designed as a sample that demonstrates how a WPF application might be made scriptable.”

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Expert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman – Inside Clojure (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 61: CodePlex Foundation, Bing Visual Search, Microsoft Ajax CDN, Zune HD Release (Jon Galloway)
• Ping 32: MyPhone, Pressure sensitive Keyboards, Microsoft TAG, Anti- Virus (Laura Foy)
• Spaghetti Code Talks PHP Bridge (Jeff Brand)
• Expression Blend tutorial: Brushes, gradients, fills and strokes (webcast) (Vibor Cipan)
• CCR at MySpace (Michael S. Scherotter)

Community / Events

• Call For JavaScript Authors – JSMag (Michael Kimsal)
• Page O’ Nerds (Dave Schinkel)
• Upcoming Silverlight Talks (Andy Beaulieu)

Database

• Alternating Background Colors in Reporting Services (Joe Webb)
• T-SQL To find Out If An Index Is Clustered Or Non Clustered (Denis Gobo)
• Easier Management of SQL Azure Databases with SQL Azure Manager (Stephen Forte)
• SQL SERVER – Query Optimization – Remove Bookmark Lookup – Remove RID Lookup – Remove Key Lookup (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• We’re excited to announce a new sister site the SharePoint Pod Show! (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)

Miscellaneous

• InfoQ has to be the best online resource for software development (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Free VMWare Player 3 can now create virtual machines (Lee Mathews)
• Choosing a smart password (Michael Santerre)
• EXCLUSIVE: Windows 8 and Windows 9 Kernels to Support 128-bit Architecture? and Windows 8 User Interface and Multi-Tier Distributed Applications (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft considering making Zune services available to Apple users (Sumeeth Evans)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #449 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 6-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 377 (Sam Gentile)
• Double Shot #556 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 6th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading from Text Files with StreamReader (Richard Carr)
• Chocolate Salty Bools (Lee Dumond) – Title of the day. Well done, Lee…
• How to keep you fingers on the keyboard within VSTS 2010 Architecture Edition (Clemens Reijnen) – Link of the Day
• When an object-relational mapper is too much, DataReader too little (Damien Guard)
• Must Everything Be Virtual With NHibernate, Part II (Davy Brion)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 – Code Coverage Settings Window Closes Unexpectedly (Doug Holland)
• Debugging a COM object (Runtime Callable Wrapper) with Visual Studio 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
• .NET Access Control Service takes a REST (Keith Brown)
• BizTalk Project Creation Fails – or, Why did BizTalk in VS 2008 break? (Matt Milner)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Sorting and Filtering Chart Data (Scott Mitchell)
• DotNetNuke – Retrieving Host Access (Dave M. Bush)
• Working with Events, Part 3: More Event Delegation with jQuery (Louis-Rémi Babé)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD: Copying and pasting tests (Mark Needham)
• Agile Architecture, Lean Principles (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Do you plan your work? (Louis Salin)
• A Mess is not a Technical Debt. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 17. (Rajiv Popat)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Change is Good (Rob Reynolds)
• Best Time-Tracking Application: Klok (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• MultiBrowser or CrossBrowser Testing and deconstructing Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview (Scott Hanselman)

Silverlight / WPF

• A new way to get the full version of Expression Encoder 3 (James Clarke)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kent Tegels on SQL Server Integration Services (Carl Franklin)
• C# 4.0 Dynamic with Chris Burrows and Sam Ng (Charlie Calvert)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #142: Isolation Frameworks: Learning to use Partial Mocks (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• Working from home & commuting via float plane (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Steal My Book (Roy Osherove) – I’ve almost finished ‘The Art of Unit Testing’ and it’s worth every penny. Do yourself a favor and go buy a copy.
• Chance to win a free HD Zune and free VSTS 2010 Training in a Northwest City near you! (Charles Sterling)
• Events this week – September 22nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Goodbye MSDN Magazine (Howard Dierking) – Good luck, Howard. Thanks for everything you have done for msdnmag!
• MVP Profile of the Week….. (Robert Pearl) – Greg Larsen, SQL MVP, is featured this week.

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight CTP2 (Sumeeth Evans)
• SQL SERVER – Insert Values of Stored Procedure in Table – Use Table Valued Function (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Google Wave in Internet Explorer (Lars Rasmussen)
• Introducing Google Chrome Frame (Ian Fette)
• XPS Essentials Pack Version 1.1 (MS Downloads)
• Setting up TortoiseSVN to use WinMerge (Derik Whittaker)
• Getting More Performance out of Windows Live Meeting (William Vaughn)
• Create Your Own Forum With Zoho Discussions (Stan Schroeder)
• Windows 8 Special: Features and Considerations (Stephen Chapman)
• Office Web Apps (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft Courier Multitouch Tablet Unveiled (Taimur Asad)
• Helping You Recover Your Work in Office 2010 (Nitie)
• Paint.NET 3.5 Beta 1 released – now with added shiny (Paul O’Brien)
• U need some .Net training and/or course materials? Then .Net U is for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 1: The Bing Translator (Runar Olsen)
• Back-to-School With 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials (Melissa Scroggins)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #439 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 22, 2009 — #697 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for September 22, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 373 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 22nd September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #546 (Mike Gunderloy)

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