Design / Methodology / Testing

• White Paper on ORM (Stephen Forte)
• How I’m Currently Writing My BDD Style Tests – Part 1 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Updated Version of the Free Data Structures and Algorithms Book Available! (Granville Barnett)
• Getting Value Out of Your Unit Tests (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Death of System.DateTime? and MSBuild Script to Compress All JavaScript Files in a Project (Omer van Kloeten)
• (Very) Tentative Steps with the Live Framework SDK (Mike Taulty)
• Cloud Messaging Made Easy with Linxter (Brian Noyes)
• Why We Need Named Parameters (Jimmy Bogard)
• Dynamic Data: Associated Types and the Models They Love (Jonathan Carter)
• Did You Know That Today’s Tip on msinfo32.exe Ends the Series? – #382 (Sara Ford)
• String Extraction (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery and Upcoming View Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate (Scott Guthrie)
• An Investigation into Routes (Kyle Baley)
• MVC Controllers and Forms Authentication (Nikhil Kothari)
• Sueetie – The Future in .NET Open Source Online Community Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 5 – Deploying in the Cloud (Maarten Balliauw)
• On Oxite (Glenn Block)
• Hot New Features Coming with ASP.NET MVC RC in January 09 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Creating a REST WCF Service From an Existing XSD Schema (Keith Elder)
• This Could Be Big. Sueetie Is Online! (Dave Burke) – Link of the Day
• Friday Books – jQuery Reference Guide (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• Patient Journey Demonstrator December 2008 Released (Martin Grayson)
• Making the WPF Slider Control Behave (Karsten Januszewski)
• Now Available: Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2! (John Papa)
• WPF Application Quality Guide (jytylr)
• WPF DataGrid Sample: Locking Input to the Row Being Edited (Vincent Sibal)
• Bubbles – 1 Chart – Three Axes (Jesse Liberty)

.NET Community / Events

• 2009 Goals (Pete Brown)
• Webcast Schedule for January 2009 (Nandita)
• Congratulations Sara Ford! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ALT.NET Is the Opposition Party (Nate Kohari)

Miscellaneous

• Your Developer Horoscope (K. Scott Allen)
• Top 10 Most Annoying & Overplayed Phrases or Actions in the Workplace (Dave Schinkel)
• The Perfect Time to Release Source Code? (Robert Muehsig)
• 8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• Microsoft Digs Into PHP (Matt Asay)
• Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 18, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2008 — #459 and Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2008 – 2 — #460 (Dave Campbell)
• Visual Studio Links #89 (Darren Stokes)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.12.12~2008.12.18 (yuanjian)
• Links (12/18/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #248 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 19, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

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