Top Links

• On Reflector (Miguel de Icaza)
• Windows Azure Software Development Kit (SDK) Refresh Released (Windows Azure Team)
• Physical Wall Boards are King for Agile – Keep it Simple (Peter Saddington)
• If Writing An Object That Is IDisposable, Don’t Fail During Construction (Steve Smith)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Few Tips on Customizing Debugging Window View in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Changing the Desktop Wallpaper (Richard Carr)
• Conway’s Game of Life with F# and SDL.NET (Scott Philip Brown)
• How to Intercept a WCF Message to track message size (Derik Whittaker)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Useful But Overlooked Sets (James Michael Hare)
• Getting the "windows azure web role entry point has stopped working" when using Visual Studio 2010 and the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio (Jon Flanders)
• Do you know about the Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Guidance? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• AsmSpy: A little tool to help fix assembly version conflicts (Mike Hadlow)
• Middleware in the WCF Web APIs (Ryan Riley)
• How to view the XAML Code on the Intellisense popup in Visual Studio 2010 ? (Senthil Kumar)
• Helpful DateTime extension methods for dealing with Time Zones (Joshua Flanagan)
• Coding Helpers – Move to Region (Alex Skorkin)
• Creating Console apps that use the Server Profile (David Ebbo)
• System.Object : a look on mother of all managed classes (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• How to get list of all active HttpModules in ASP.NET? (Abhijit Jana)
• Curiosities in Microsoft.Web.Helpers: Video.Flash and Analytics.GetGoogleHtml and JSON Deserialization Made Simple With System.Web.Helpers and List (Karsten Januszewski)
• MVC Tip – An easy way to deal with those NotFound Errors (Mike Ceranski)
• An Open Letter To jQuery Plugin Authors (Richard Freedman)
• MvcSiteMapProvider 3.0.0 released (Maarten Balliauw)
• WebSharper 2.1 Beta 5 available (Adam Granicz)
• New York City Touts Its API on Subway Advertisements (Adam DuVander)
• JSON Toolkit – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 9: Optimistic Concurrency Patterns (Arthur Vickers)
• ‘Why’ often unhelpful (Mark Needham)
• Frustrating automation investigations (John Guin)
• Hex values for Crayola colors (Cory Doctorow)
• Things That Work: Download to Paper (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Animations — Alternatives, Performance (Jan Slodicka)
• A Pivot-Style Data Grid without the DataGrid (Jeremy Likness)
• Google Maps for Windows Phone 7 using Bing Map Control (Naveed Tejani)
• Animated WPF Panels (Fredrik Bornander)
• Blend Bits 21–Importing from Photoshop & Illustrator… (Mike Taulty)
• New book: Microsoft Silverlight Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 and New book: Microsoft XNA Framework Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 (Devon Musgrave)
• Silverlight Spy 4 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Some Useful WP7 Content for your Toolbag (Mike Ormond)
• Changing the border for a DatePicker control on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ListPicker FullScreen mode Background problem: workaround (Windows Phone Geek)
• Microsoft will release new WP7 developer tools, including CDMA updates (Phone Arena)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• John Platt: Introduction to Sho – A Playground for Data (Charles Torre)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Phil Haack, Ted Neward, Two Friends and Qdoba (Scott Hanselman)
• Let’s Play TDD #83: Parsing and Formatting (James Shore)
• Silverlight TV 60: Checking Out the Zero Gravity Game, Now on Windows Phone 7 (John Papa)
• WCF RIA Services Webinar – Querying and Updating Data (Brian Noyes)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #23 with guest Eric Kepes (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• Nerd Nite, February 10, 2011 (Philly Nerd Nite)
• Kathleen Dollard in Vermont and New Hampshire (Jim O’Neil)
• Join Us for WebCamps – Free Web Developer Training – Around the World (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• What is SQL Server Crescent? (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks and sys.dm_exec_requests – Wait Type – Day 4 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Prompts for Reporting Services (Chris Webb)

SharePoint

• Working with SharePoint 2010 Themes (Anweshi Deverasetty)

Miscellaneous

• How to Write Without Writing (Jeff Atwood)
• If Reflector needed money so badly, why didn’t they ask? (Joe White)
• Red Gate should have said… (Keith Dahlby)
• Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ Release Candidate (minus Drive Extender) goes to testers and What does it mean to be a Microsoft beta tester any more? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Ultimate PC, 5 months in (Pete Brown)
• Is Microsoft going to sell their own tablet? [VIDEO] (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 3th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 3 February 2011 – #19 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Morning Brew #785 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 02/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 3-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Distributed Weekly 88 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft XNA Framework Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold

Top Links

• Announcing: Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Support RTW (Jason Zander)
• BCL Extensions Source Code released on CodePlex (Frans Bouma)
• Performing Code Reviews in TFS 2010 (Ivo Manolov)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Beginning F#: Positive Discrimination (Ian Voyce)
• Disabling the Visual Studio Splash Screen (Richard Carr)
• RavenDB Multi Tenancy (Oren Eini)
• XMI Export Sample (Cameron Skinner)
• Setting mouse cursor position with WinAPI (Dennis Delimarsky)
• “Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (November 2010)” (Think PDC 2010 version… With Azure VM[Beta], VPN, Remote Desktop and more) (Greg Duncan)
• LINQ to Z3, The World’s Fasted Theorem Prover (Jonathan Allen)
• Document Outline: WPF and Silverlight Projects and Document Outline: Windows Form Projects (Zain Naboulsi)
• MefContrib 1.0.0.0 sees the light of day! (Andreas Håkansson)
• Time-travel with .NET or DateTime, DateTimeOffset and the lost DST hour (Greg)
• Synchronizing multiple nodes in Windows Azure (Josh Twist)
• Get Started with LightSwitch at New Developer Center (Bruce Kyle)
• These aren’t the Droids you are looking for – A guide to obfuscation (Simon Jackson)
• BizTalk Server–distinguished field (Quoc Bui)
• Bit twiddling: What does warning CS0675 mean? (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator – A powerful Photoshop-like CSS gradient editor from ColorZilla (Paul Boag)
• Sammy.JS (Mike Hadlow)
• Getting The Route Name For A Route (Phil Haack)
• HTML5: New in the javascript Selector API (Jef Claes)
• JSMentors.com – The Mailing List to Learn JavaScript in a Professional and Courteous Environment (Rey Bango)
• Date and time in PHP 5 (Giorgio Sironi)
• A Closable jQuery Plug-in (Rick Strahl)
• HTML5 Recipes: More on Storage (Romin Irani)
• AJAX to the rescue! (Sam Tyson)
• How to convert dates from Google Reader and Facebook API with Json.NET (Simone Chiaretta)
• In the YUI 3 Gallery: Server-Sent Events (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Windows Azure, SQLite and Temp (Rinat Abdullin)
• The trip down the writing of a IE managed extension path continues… Dealing with the potholes (i.e. Debugging) (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Development practice: Retrospectives in Kanban (Michael)
• Insightful Leadership Books (J.D. Meier)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Four Phase Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• Is the Project Going to Fail? – How to Spot the Signs of a Problem in the Project (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Opinion: On some aspects of modern software development and distribution. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• AutoTest.NET (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Better git-svn Through Aliases: git up & git dci (Keith Dahlby)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Better together [DynamicOrientationChanges and TransitionFrame create a comprehensive transition experience for Windows Phone 7] (David Anson)
• ChevronWP7: Community Enabler or Jailbreaking Tool? (Nick Randolph)
• Silverlight and WCF Service Consumption: Event vs. APM (Jeremy Likness)
• Now you can develop for WP7 in VB too (Mike Ormond)
• Visual Basic for the Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW (Larry Lieberman)
• WP7 update to bring copy/paste, multitasking, Bing upgrades, and custom ringers (Phone Arena)
• Paul Juenger on WHS Phone WP7 Application (Silverlight Show)
• Part 2 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers. (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Martin Woodward Brings Team Foundation Server to Everyone! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 9 of n (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 98: Dale Ragan on Moncai (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 132 – PowerScripting Podcast – Aaron Nelson on the PASS Summit (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 169: Memory Grid Architecture with Nati Shalom (SE-Radio Team)
• Let’s Play TDD #56: Window Titles (James Shore)
• ARCast.TV – Building Recovery.gov Using SharePoint and Other Technologies (Zhiming Xue)
• Windows Weekly 184: Extension Denied (Paul Thurrott)
• YUI Theater — Nicholas C. Zakas: “YUI Test” (49 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Technology & Friends Episode 127: Jason Follas on Looting Design Ideas from World of Warcraft (David Giard)
• Yet Another Podcast #16 – Adam Kinney (Jesse Liberty)
• No Network Activity Indicator in Windows 7: But Why? (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – November 29th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Managing Projects Using Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Webcast Dec 3rd 9AM PST and Visual Studio 2010 Test Edition Webcast Dec 14th 11am PST (Charles Sterling)
• Blog Round-up – What Are You Thankful For? (Jason Strate)
• Support Computer Science Education Week 2011! (Lindsay Lindstrom)

Database

• SSIS Package Annotation in Denali (Brian K. McDonald)
• Executing PowerShell in SQL Server Redux (Chad Miller)
• Using DMVs to Find the Ports that SQL Server is Listening On (David Levy)
• Change the Default Language for SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – DBA or DBD? – Database Administrator or Database Developer and SQL SERVER – Automated Type Conversion using Expressor Studio (Pinal Dave)
• Run SSIS Package from Stored Procedure (Ted Krueger)
• Loops Without Cursors (Ken Downs)
• SQL Indexing and Performance Part 1: SQL Storage and Indexing (Lefteris Karafilis)

SharePoint

• Introducing SharePoint Online Workflows (Josh Topal)
• Creator and Updater BCS Methods in SharePoint 2010 using Web Service (Lightning Tools)
• Missing server reference in SharePoint 2010 (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft eyes leap back into TV: sources (Yinka Adegoke)
• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: New Features that Increase Productivity when building forms in InfoPath 2010 (Lonnie Webb)
• Get Going on Powershell (Jason Crider)
• The Pee-Wee Herman Rule (Jeff Atwood)
• Kodu PC Build 1.0.94.0 released (Stephen Coy)
• Windows Server 8: Microsoft Searching for an SDET to Help Ship Windows 8 Server Backup (Stephen Chapman)
• Speeding Up Your Scripts! (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 29, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 050 for 11/29/2010 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #739 and The Morning Brew #740 (Chris Alcock)
• ASP.NET, MVC, EF 4.0 and .NET Articles in November 2010 and Author of the Month and T-SQL and SQL Server Administration Articles Link List – November 2010 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Silverlight Cream for November 28, 2010 — #1001 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 11/29/2010 and Weekly Article Digest 11/29/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled (Expert’s Voice in SQL Server) by Grant Fritchey

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Top Links

• DSL Book now available as rough-cut (Martin Fowler)
• The Open Data Protocol .NET Framework Client Library – Source Code Available for Download (Shayne Burgess)
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Controllers (Jimmy Bogard)
• How does MEFedMVVM compose the catalogs and how can I override the behavior? – MEFedMVVM Part 4 (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Custom Build Steps, Tools, and Events (Andrew Arnott)
• Launch of Visual Studio 2010 & Dotfuscator CE 5 (Brandon Siegel)
• Using optional parameters in C# 4.0 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Enable or Disable All Breakpoints and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using the WPF Tree Visualizer (Zain Naboulsi)
• ReSharper 5.0 Adds New “Add Parameter” Refactoring (Peter Kellner)
• UML Sequence Diagram: F# Script (Phil Trelford)
• Box Selection and Multi-Line Editing with VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Launching an F# web application inside VS2010 as if it were C# (Steve Gilham)
• Xml Document Transform (XDT) Snippets for VS 2010 (Vishal Joshi)
• MicrosoftDataServicesRootUri, or How to customize WCF Data Service URIs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Every Program There Is, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• Coding4Fun – Photos Near You (Arian T. Kulp)

Web Development

• Calling Web Service Functions Asynchronously from a Web Page (Steve Wellens)
• Tip #104: Did you know … How to view text for the ‘hint’ buttons on the Publish Web Dialog? (Nichole Baker)
• Creating RSS feeds in ASP.NET MVC (Damien Guard)
• IIS and PAE (Tess Ferrandez)
• Sueetie Localizer Ready to Rock in Gummy Bear 1.3 (Dave Burke)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Next Week’s Art of Agile Excerpt (Poll) (James Shore)
• The Most Annoying Habit Of A Software Manager (Alan Skorkin)
• Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer – book review (Gunnar Peipman)
• Principles of Software Development Productivity (Peter Ritchie)
• Code and Coffee: Save Yourself! (Jared Richardson)
• The Exciting Enterprise (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Easier debugging thanks to lightweight methods (Patrick Smacchia)
• NCover 3.4: .NET 4 Support And More (Stephen Ward)
• Usability Do’s And Don’ts For Interactive Design (Ben MacGowan)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 5 Future Features (Justin Angel)
• Using the ChangePropertyAction (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• WPF 4 Migration Issues/Breaking Changes and My StaticResource reference worked differently with WPF 4 RC than it does with WPF 4 RTM (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight revolutionizes beta of next Windows Home Server (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #4 – Enabling Out of Browser Applications and Silverlight Tip of the Day #5 – Debugging Out of Browser Applications (Mike Snow)
• MVVM with Transaction and View Locator Example (Jeremy Likness)
• 3 Silverlight Free Demos (John Papa)
• Simple Databinding and 3-D Features using Silverlight in Windows Phone 7 (WP7) (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – High Value Asset Tracking with Bing Maps, Silverlight and Windows 7 (Bob Familiar)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 53: A Lap Around OData with Mike Flasko (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• video: Basic Test Specification and Execution scenario (Clemens Reijnen)
• geekSpeak Recording – Five Key Developer Features in Expression Blend with Corey Schuman and MSDN Radio: Expression, Poetry, and the Windows Phone (Emily Gibson)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #87 (Jeff Atwood)
• Sod This 8 – The Secure Show (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
• This Week In Silverlight April 23 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Windows is named Windows : But Why? (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Joining the Vertigo Team! (Justin Angel)
• Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 (#LSSC10) Review (Derick Bailey)
• Events This Week – April 26th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Win a 15-minute phone conversation with Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover! (Devon Musgrave)
• Live Chats to Learn more about Sharepoint – 28 MVP Experts (Melissa Travers)

Database

• ETL Process using Raven (Oren Eini)
• Upgrades from Beta or CTP SQL Server Software are NOT Supported (Buck Woody)
• Getting Started with Mongo on Windows (Erik Peterson)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (26/30) nested transactions are real (Paul S. Randal)
• Find Tables with No Primary Key – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: MySQL Cookbook, Second Edition – Only $9.99 use code DDMSC (O’Reilly Media)
• SSIS : Using the VariableDispenser object within Script Components (Josef Richberg)
• SQL University: Auditing SQL Server, Part I (K. Brian Kelley)
• Steps for MySQL DB Replication (Manish Agrawal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Cheat Sheet Updated (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Using BCS from Visual Studio 2010 for deployment to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and This product requires Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 or above (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Observations on my own Startup (Dan Morrill)
• Using Windows Explorer & SkyDrive without ANY 3rd party software (not even Office 2010!) (Greg Duncan)
• Feedback on the IE9 Platform Preview (John Hrvatin)
• Share Photosynths on Facebook (Sunshine)
• Tower of Hanoi (Vijaye)
• Windows Home Server "Vail" Public Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• The EU is trying to kill startups (Stephen Forte)
• Daily Dose – A Farewell to Floppy Disks (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #588 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2010 — #848 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Expert’s Voice in .Net)

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Top Links

• 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)

The Geek Shelf

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

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Using a worker AppDomain to register a COM assembly (Joe White)
• N-Tier Methods in Entity Framework 4 – Use with Care (Julie Lerman)
• Productivity Improvements in Mono 2.4: Components and Architecture (Tapas Pal)
• Effective C#, 2nd Edition: What Content got dropped, and why? (Bill Wagner)
• More on Timers in .NET (Rhonda Tipton)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Startup Failures (Rick Strahl)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy 2.2 beta in the wild! (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Most Amazing ReFactor Using ReSharper EAP 5.0 I’ve Seen! (Peter Kellner)

Web Development

• Using Windows Azure BLOB storage with PHP (Gunnar Peipman)
• Microsoft Releases Bing API Software Development Kit (SDK) (Blake Handler)
• Hiding Foreign Key or Children Columns Globally in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• More on medium trust: what permission are you missing? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Validating CheckBoxLists when using ClientIDMode=Predictable (Pete Blum)
• jQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Doc Reviews – The Documentation Sprint (Julie Stickler)
• Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway (Jeff Atwood)
• You don’t need a UML tool (Simon Brown)
• the Importance of Observers (Brett Schuchert)
• One-Way (Or Fire And Forget) Requests With Agatha (Davy Brion)
• Bing Outage exposes Testing in Production (TiP) Hazards (Ken Johnston)
• Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• If Agile Isn’t the Point, What Is? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Saying "NO". (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Hiring Kick-Ass Programmers Who Interview Your Organization. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: ComboBox SelectedItem (Deborah Kurata)
• Building Hello MEF – Part II – Metadata and why being Lazy is a good thing. (Glenn Block) – Link of the Day
• BugCamSmash Dissected part 1 – Smash a Bug (Adam Kinney)
• Cinch : Major change alert (Sacha Barber)
• Inserting Silverlight DeepZoom images into your Web page (Silverlight Team)
• MVVM Light V3/alpha3 for Blend 3 and Blend Preview 4 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Extensibility Series – Loading Metadata for Microsoft Controls (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – The State of Powershell with Lee Holmes and Jason Shirk (Scott Hanselman)
• Pixel8 Podcast – ASP.NET Simplicity and Performance with Scott Hunter (Craig Shoemaker)
• Connected Show Podcast: PDC 2009 Pizza Party (Brian Johnson)
• Coding4Fun at PDC 2009 – Video Montage (Brian Peek)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 41: Developing Better User Experiences with Internet Explorer 8 with Jon Box (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: Scott Hanselman, Jon Galloway, Bing, parallel unit tests, more (Dan Fernandez)
• Introducing the Pluralcast (David Starr)
• Progression of the Iconic Background (Larry Larsen)
• Video on Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Mike Cottmeyer… DZone Interview at Agile 2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Scott Guthrie (Nic Fillingham)
• Life at Microsoft: Episode 3 (Tina Wood)

Database

• SQL Server DateTime Manipulation Functions (Richard Carr)

SharePoint

• BCS Model in Visual Studio 2010 – SpecificFinder and IdEnumerator (Nick Swan)
• Permissions Reporting in SP2010 (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server Free Trial now with Power Pack 3 (Nicole Berett)
• Ignoring Namespaces in XPath (Joel Bennett)
• Google Officially Launching Chrome Extensions Next Week (MG Siegler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/5 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Flickr Drive Integrates Flickr into Windows Explorer (Sarah Perez)
• New-Object PSObject –Property [HashTable] (Jeffrey Snover)
• Entrepreneurship Tip: Every Client Is Not Meant To Be Your Client. (Rajiv Popat)
• Freelance work what it should be vs what it is. (Paul Zubkov)
• User Account Control and WMI (Kapil Mathur)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 04, 2009 — #748 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for the Week of 2009.12.04 (Jeremiah Peschka)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Eclipse and VSTS (Pieter de Bruin)
• Lightweight Linq Parser (Brad Abrams)
• Building A Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 1 (Chris Patterson)
• Windows 7 Runtime Libraries Available for Vista and Windows Server 2008 (Zhiming Xue)
• Attach a Debugger When a Process Starts (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• 7 on 7: Sensor and Location API (Jim O’Neil)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 1: Introduction and Freescale Board Setup and Testing (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• WOHOO!!!, Debug Diag 64bit is finally released (Tess Ferrandez)

Web Development

• Don’t Look Now, But MapQuest Might Be Great (Adam DuVander)
• MVC Best Practices (Jimmy Bogard)
• Announcing the Zoho Projects API (Celina Balasingh)
• 12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Simone Chiaretta)
• Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP developers (Maarten Balliauw)
• Verify JavaScript syntax using C# (Mads Kristensen)
• DotNetNuke 5.x Can’t Move Module On A Page (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD Invades Space Invaders (Michael Kennedy)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 6 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 18. (Rajiv Popat)
• Manual Mocking: Resisting the Invasion of Dots and Parentheses (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Cost Oriented Architecture of Cloud Applications (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Coding: Connascence – Some examples (Mark Needham)
• Uniqueness validation in CQRS Architecture (Jérémie Chassaing)

Silverlight / WPF

• Video Player Expression Blend 3 Behavior Library (MS Downloads)
• New WPF Features: ClearTypeHint (Lester Lobo)
• You ask: Should Silverlight use BAML? (Rob Relyea)
• WPF and databinding to dynamic properties (Torkel Ödegaard)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video on creating a PowerPack (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• 10-4 Episode 34: Debugger Enhancements and Improvements (Jason Olson)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Don Box – Perspectives on SOAP, Programming Data and M (Charles Torre)
• Screencast: SharePoint 2010 for Project Management Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Tekpub Production Calendar (Rob Conery)
• Developing Windows Azure applications for PHP, Ruby, and Java, using Eclipse (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

• Growing the next generation of computer scientists and business leaders (Kyle Ewing)
• Expression Blend Feedback Forum (Adam Kinney)
• "Oslo" at the 2009 PDC (Chris Sells)
• PDC2009: XAML Futures Talk (Rob Relyea)

Database

• Disable SQL Azure Firewall (Jason De Lorme)
• Windows Azure Tables: Expect Continuation Tokens, Seriously! (Steve Marx)
• Another Great SQL Azure Query Tool (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• Free Download: SharePoint Assessment WBS & Project Schedule (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Short Overview of SharePoint Features in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Jausovec)

Miscellaneous

• Set Up Windows Home Server to Automate Your Backups and Corral Your Media (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/10/29 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Dr. Explain Gives Your Software a Brain (Lee Dumond)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #465 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 – 2 — #718 and Silverlight Cream for October 28, 2009 — #719 (Dave Campbell)
• My Top 10 Personal Favorite And Overlooked Posts (Davy Brion)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #572 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 28th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 385 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• ReSharper 5.0 – Bookmarks (Tim Barcz) – Link of the Day
• Review: The .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security (Mike Hadlow)
• Visual Studio Profile (Daniel Moth)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 6 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• How to Make Your Application Better on Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• Hybrid App Debugging – The Debug Window (Harry Pierson)
• Enforced Strings (Paul Stovell)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Cheat Sheets (Elijah Manor)
• Highlight and Auto Select CheckBoxList Items With jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 13. (Rajiv Popat)
• Using Dependency Injection and Mocking For Testability (Rob Conery)
• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Test Infrastructure (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Coding: API readability/testability (Mark Needham)
• TDD: Keeping assertions clear (Mark Needham)
• Guest Post: Suggestions for Effective Team Communication in a Virtual Environment (Larry Silverman)
• DDD: Entity Injection and Mocking Time (Jonathan Oliver)
• Event Aggregation (Davy Brion)
• Exploring NServiceBus (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Magic Numbers: Integers (Josh Poley)
• Evolving a Workflow (Karl Scotland)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 3 (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating Behaviors in Silverlight 3 (Andy Beaulieu)
• NUnit and Silverlight (Joe White)
• Expression Encoder: Which edition is right for you? (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.4 released (Koen Zwikstra)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Intro to ASP.NET MVC & the MVC Design Pattern (MS Podcasts)
• ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Framework Fundamentals & Practices (MS Podcasts)
• ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Routing & Controllers (MS Podcasts)
• ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Rendering Markup & Working with Data (MS Podcasts)
• ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: ASP.NET MVC & AJAX (MS Podcasts)
• TWC9: Office Engineering, Zune HD app, .NET Audio Recorder (Dan Fernandez)
• Kickoff to the Road Trip and SharePointOverflow.com-Episode 32 (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)

Community / Events

• Review: Stack Overflow DevDays Boston (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Another Community Update (Joel Cochran)
• Windows 7 Launch Party (Laura Foy)

Database

• SQL Server Announcements From Microsoft (Glenn Berry)
• Decimal and Numeric problems when you don’t specify precision and scale (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Download Logical Query Processing Poster (Pinal Dave)
• Adventures in SQL CLR and C# (Wesley Brown)
• An issue when enabling protocols with Powershell (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Recommends More Windows Home Server Add-ons (Blake Handler)
• The single biggest reason why Windows 7 won’t be another Vista (Ed Bott)
• Social Media Oops Means We Get a Deep View at Microsoft (Dan Morrill)
• Boot Windows 7 from VHD without installing a native OS (Mike Ormond)
• Barnes and Noble ‘confirms’ color Plastic Logic e-book reader for Spring 2010 (video) (Thomas Ricker)
• Updated Windows Mobile 7 RTM Time Frame and Office Mobile 7 Teaser (Stephen Chapman)

More Link Collections

• Everyman Links for October 9, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Interesting Finds: October 9, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Post… 10/1/2009 through 10/10/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• New and Notable 379 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 9th October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 8: WCF Based Data Source (Brad Abrams)
• New in Silverlight 3: Perspective Transforms and What’s New In SL3 – Based-on Styles and What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Validation (Jesse Liberty)
• Building Silverlight 2 and 3 applications with Visual Studio 2008 (Tim Heuer)
• Day # 18: Silverlight Effects (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Prism Visual Studio Templates (including MVVM) (Marc Schweigert)
• Lokad Shared Libraries 1.5 and Autofac for Silverlight 3.0 (Rinat Abdullin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Entity Framework 4.0: On the way to Composite Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
• MEF and XAML integration – Self composition (Glenn Block) – Link of the Day
• Creating WCF Services using .NET 4.0 and WF 4.0 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• TFS – How To Remove Source Control Bindings (Michael Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Texas Dependency Injection Massacre (Harry Pierson)
• When Bad is Good (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Book Club: The Dreyfus Model (Stuart and Hubert Dreyfus) (Mark Needham)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 6. (Rajiv Popat)
• Every Paradigm Has its Place (Rick Minerich)

Web Development

• Google Wave Sandbox Update (Pamela Fox)
• Compressing and combining files with JavaScriptMVC (Peter Eysermans)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: V8: Building a High Performance JavaScript Engine (Mads Ager, Lars Bak & Anders Sandholm)
• This Week C9: Office 2010, Azure pricing, ScottGu on MVC, and Silverlight 3 (Dan Fernandez)
• Walkthrough: Debug a WPF window or Windows Form without running your application [Video] (Habib Heydarian)
• Herding Code 54: Rob Conery interviews the Herding Code guys (Jon Galloway)
• ToolShed Tooltip #19 – IE 8 Developer Tools, saves the day (and time) (Russell Fustino)
• Video: WI-INETA JavaScript presentation (Sergio Pereira)

Community / Events

• Intro to iPhone Development at ALT.NET Geek Dinner (Ben Scheirman)
• High Scalability Blog on Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• Hiding Empty Content Areas in SharePoint 2007 [WCM] Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• What I’ve Learned over the Last Five Years (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How to Get (the Right) People to Follow You on Twitter (Mark Suster)
• Xbox Live Dashboard Update Preview (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Breaking: Incoming Xbox Live update detailed in full (Sumeeth Evans)
• Walter Cronkite, 1916 – 2009 (Phil Plait)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 17, 2009 — #644 (Dave Campbell)
• Rants and Raves #4 (Joel Cochran)
• Links for the Week of 2009.07.17 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 17th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 343 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day (Sorta)

.NET / Visual Studio

• bistro f# extensions go beta! and move to codeplex… (Alex Pedenko)
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit and Microsoft Sync Framework (MS Downloads)
• NHibernate – Beware of inadvisably applied caching strategies (Oren Eini)
• How to Create a Generic Integer List From a List of Objects Using LINQ and How Fast are In Memory LINQ Evaluations for Doing Simple Things? (Peter Kellner)
• Quadrant Tutorials (Sam Gentile)
• A Great Buried Sample in Dynamic Data Preview 4 – Dynamic Data Futures (Stephen Naughton)
• Fix For WCF NetMsmqBinding Not Picking Up Messages in Queue (Keith Elder)
• LINQ to XSD on CodePlex (Marcelo Lopez Luiz)
• Axum – Ping Pong with Ordered Interaction Points (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Git For Windows Developers – Git Series – Part 2 (Jason Meridth)
• Hunt the Class (James Hart)
• CodeDom vs T4: two approaches to Code Generation (David Ebbo)

Web Development

• Tip #73: Did you know… about IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta (Deepak Verma)
• A Slightly Closer Look at Sueetie List Controls (Dave Burke)
• IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit (Scott Guthrie)
• Implementing KeyBoard Shortcuts in ASP.NET applications using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ASP.NET MVC Training Kit (Mike Ormond)
• .NET 2.0 ActiveX Control Gotchas (Safe for Scripting and Hooking into Events) (Rick Minerich)
• HTML 5 – The Future of Application Development? (Michael Ceranski)
• Programming SEO – Cross Linking (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• Resx and BAML Resources in WPF (Rick Strahl)
• “Because XAML is so darn fun to say. Zaml.” (Rob Relyea)
• Using the MVVM Toolkit in VS2010 (Rudi Grobler) – Link of the Day
• Document Toolkit 1.1 Beta available and Silverlight Spy 3 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Troubleshooting Silverlight 3 Broken Bindings (Karl Shifflett)
• WPF: Pong (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight3 PlaneProjection Primer (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Blend Artboard Exceptions and Loaded Event (Andy Beaulieu)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fighting technical debt with the wall of pain (Jimmy Bogard)
• The Five Traits of Agile Projects (Brad Appleton)
• How Can This Test Fail? (Davy Brion)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 0 (Rob Reynolds)
• Catching Up On Lean (K. Scott Allen)
• PDF Output With yUML, And Other Things… (Tobin Harris)
• KARVONITE: AGILE PERSISTENCE FRAMEWORK (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• TestDriven.Net 2.22: Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Jamie Cansdale)
• Observing And Understanding Builders – Part 5 (Rajiv Popat)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Tour the homepages of your favorite celebrities (Marissa Mayer)
• Deployment in .NET 4 Beta 1 (Adam Kinney)
• Toolshed Episode 2: It’s All About the Tools (Bob Familiar)
• Rick Byers and Simon Hall: CLR 4 – Side-by-Side In-Process – What. How. Why. (Charles Torre)
• Radio TFS 21: The Beta 1 Show (Radio TFS)
• Conversation with Steven Bristol (Corey Haines)
• Management lessons from the financial crisis: A conversation with Lowell Bryan and Richard Rumelt (Mike Walker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #56 (Jeff Atwood)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #115: Learning how to add IntelliSense for the Spark View Engine (Donn Felker)
• Oren Melzer on what’s new in Windows CardSpace Geneva beta 2 (Donovan Follette)

Community / Events

• AJAX Usage Among .NET Developers – 2009 Edition (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Frequently Asked Questions about the INETA Regional Speakers Bureau (Chris G. Williams)
• Windows 7 Ship Dates Announced and Some Training Resources to Prepare Yourself (Dave Bost)
• Another Local Silverlight Event This Month (Frank La Vigne)
• Strengthening the Microsoft Ecosystem with Source Code (Harry Pierson)

Database

• Insight into SQL Profiler’s history (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – What is Interim Table – Simple Definition of Interim Table (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Bing: How Useful Is Microsoft’s New Search Offering? (Darrell Etherington)
• Running a Subversion Server off your Windows Home Server (Scott Hanselman)
• Google Squared Goes Live, Formats Your Searches Into a Spreadsheet (Azadeh Ensha)
• Bing vs. Google face-off, round 3 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• How to find a specific user’s profile page – #042 (Sara Ford)
• Using Live Mesh and Git – the best of both worlds (Louis DeJardin)
• Sharing Files With BitTorrent (Jeff Atwood)
• KillCopy Speeds Up Disk Transfers and Securely Deletes Files (Jason Fitzpatrick)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 3, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #361 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 03, 2009 — #607 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 3rd (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 3rd June, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Deep Zoom Composer (MS Downloads)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #107 – Animation Easing Demo (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight 3 and GPU Acceleration (Mike Taulty)
• The State of the ViKi (Jesse Liberty)
• How to show a Silverlight app on your wiki homepage – #017 (Sara Ford)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate Mapping – Named queries <query/> and <sql-query/> (Oren Eini)
• Light Up with Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Type Theory Essentials in Pictures – Part 1 – Answers (Bart de Smet)
• Creating a Select Count(*) with NHibernate using Criteria (Derik Whittaker)
• NHibernate 2nd level cache and multiple databases (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Coding Dojo #12: F# (Mark Needham)
• Notifications and Subscriptions (Kevin Ledley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kobe – In the nuts & bolts and don’t really liking it and Kobe – Data Access done wrong and Kobe – When the documentation is the only delivery that matters and Kobe – an example of exception handling done wrong and Kobe – Architectural Overview (Oren Eini)
• Kobe – Oh Dear Lord Why?! (Karl Seguin)
• Code Sample Taxonomy (Phil Haack)
• Just say “No!” to C# Regions? Really?! (Dave M. Bush)
• A lovely couple (of architecture books) (Dino Esposito)
• Qualifying Architecture with Quality Attributes and Architecture Journal 19: TechEd 2009 Special Edition (Mike Walker)
• Exception Driven Development (Jeff Atwood)

Web Development

• Friday Books – ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Dave M. Bush)
• Sueetie Data Core: The Unification (Dave Burke)
• Custom Route Constraint in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Sequentially download multiple files (with jQuery) (Peter Eysermans) – Link of the Day
• Mapping a Generic List to a List of SelectListItems (Erik Peterson)
• Visual Studio 2010 Enhancements for ASP.NET (Mike Ormond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Pat Hynds on why projects fail (Carl Franklin)
• Deep Agile Conference 2009 – Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, Jack Ganssle (Bob Payne)
• The History of Microsoft – 1985 (Tina)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Tour of Fog Creek Software with Joel Spolsky (Scott Hanselman)
• 10-4 Episode 16: Windows Workflow 4 (Ron Jacobs)
• Welcome to “The Id Element” Show and Stuart Kwan – On Identity and Microsoft code name “Geneva” (Donovan F.)

Community / Events

• MSDN Events Presents: The Best Of MIX (Dave Campbell)
• Learning WPF at the WPF LOB tour and XAMLFest events (Tim Heuer)
• Comments: Now with Flags and Votes and The Stack Overflow Question Lifecycle (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• sharepoint guidance v2 – drop 7 (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• SharePoint: Customizing standard forms (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Office 2010 FAQ (Paul Thurrott)
• How to upgrade two out of four of your hard drives in Windows Home Server (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Live Labs goes through re-org – new projects coming soon (damaster)
• Recession Proof Your Programming Skills (Nick Berardi)
• Is Open Source Experience Overrated? (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #329 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 16, 2009 — #572 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-04-16 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Tech Twitterings #24 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (4/16/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for April 16th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day