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Top Links

• Microsoft StyleCop going open! (Greg Duncan)
• Pex 0.91 is out! (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Using Vim search/replace commands (Louis Salin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating your First Crystal Report for Use in a .NET Application (Jeff McWherter)
• Using Vim As Your C# Code Editor From Visual Studio (Derick Bailey)
• Don’t overlook Enterprise Library 5.0 Migration Guide (Grigori Melnik)
• It’s TFS Tool Time! TFS 2010 RTM compatibility Power Tools, MSSCCI and new Build Extension releases (Greg Duncan)
• Working with WCF: Part Three – Connecting To Your Service With A Client pt. 2 (James Bender)
• 6 Cool #VS2010 Quick Tips you should know when working with Visual Studio 2010 (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• How Do I Use Xbox LIVE APIs on Windows Phone? (Andre Vrignaud)
• CSLA 4 Authorization Rules (Rockford Lhotka)
• Sign a .NET Assembly with a Strong Name Without Recompiling (Ryan Farley)
• Moving from Visual Studio 2010 RC to RTM (Mike Ormond)
• Show CodeRush Xpress 10.1 Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Debugging with the Right Tools (Maoni Stephens)
• DataServiceProviderMethods – the least implemented class you’ll ever see (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Create New Code Snippets from Existing Ones (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• RTM’d today: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)
• Accessible Showing and Hiding (Filament Group)
• Tip #103 revisited (Jimmy Lewis)
• Meet WOFF, The Standard Web Font Format (Sylvain Galineau)
• First 3 ASP.NET MVC for the Rest of Us Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Going Parallel with ForkJoin (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Is Apple Doing a Favor to HTML5? (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Version 3.4 in a little more than 48 hours (Daniel Waldschmidt)
• How to Stay Productive in Tough Situations as a Remote Employee (Dawn Foster)
• The Agile Visitor (Derek Greer)
• Raven performance testing (Oren Eini)
• NDepend 3.0 – Completely Integrated with Visual Studio (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Visualize IoC Container and Domain Dependencies – Part 2 (Rinat Abdullin)
• Think: Free Mind Maps for Newbies (Simon Mackie)

Silverlight / WPF

• Game programming in F# (with Silverlight and WPF) (Brian McNamara)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #3 – Mouse Right Clicks (Mike Snow)
• Prism Source Updated for Unity 2.0 and Silverlight 4 (Bob Brumfield)
• Yet Another MVVM Locator Pattern (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight 4 enables Authorization header modification (Tim Heuer)
• Custom Attached Properties in Silverlight (Umair Saeed)
• WPF : Using PRISM Regions Outside Of PRISM (Sacha Barber)
• The SpiderWebControl for Silverlight (Pavan Podila)
• Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Erik Meijer and Cormac Herley – Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users (Charles Torre)
• Updated Windows Phone 7 videos show Office doing awesome things (Chris Ziegler)
• Screencast – Git Part 2 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Which is your favorite Nick Swan? (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• jQuery Podcast 21 – Rey Bomb 2 (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)

Community / Events

• Win a free pass to the Web Optimization Summit! (Michael Kimsal)
• I’ll be presenting [virtually] at the Philly SharePoint Saturday, May 8, 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• TEC SharePoint Conference Agenda for Speakers and Attendees (Joel Oleson)
• Cavalcade of Camps: Launch and Learn – May 15th (Jim O’Neil)
• Nothin But .Net – San Diego,CA (July 26-30, 2010) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• First Typemock Academy – 4 days from now (Roy Osherove)
• SharePoint MVP Chats Coming Soon (Paul Andrew)
• MMS Partner Presentation: Windows Management Framework (Jeffrey Snover)
• Your Story: Interviewing at Microsoft by new hire Thom Mitchell – Part II (Thom Mitchell)

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 24 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script to Take Database Offline – Take Database Online (Pinal Dave)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (23/30) lock escalation (Paul S. Randal)
• Using Table Value Constructors aka Row Constructors in SQL Server 2008 to insert multiple rows using a single statement (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Visio Stencils! and Creating Custom Error Pages in SharePoint 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• What’s New in SharePoint 2010 Capacity Planning (Joel Oleson)
• SharePoint 2010 RTM and BCS Permissions (Jon Flanders)
• Temporarily disabling List View Threshold on a large list (Dina Ayoub)

Miscellaneous

• Office Hub on Windows Phone 7 Emulator (Uzair Ghani)
• Thoughts on Microsoft History and OSS (Udi Dahan)
• Microsoft Surface Week in Review (Eric Havir)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2010 — #845 (Dave Campbell)
• Distributed Weekly 47 (Scott Banwart)

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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

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Top Links

• 10 Reasons your CIO should NOT block Social Networking (Joel Oleson)
• Nice “Quick Hit” Videos about ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• MonoTouch support for the iPad is ready (MonoTouch Team)
• Reading Code, Spark’s Once Attribute (Chris Missal)
• Calling constructors in arbitrary places (Eric Lippert)
• Evolutionary Architecture (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using Mercurial with Visual Studio (Ade Miller)
• The Entity Framework and the “The invoked member is not supported in a dynamic assembly” exception. (Brian Lagunas)
• Creating Your First Carrier Extension and More On Dovetail Carrier RuleSets (Kevin Miller)
• Calling Non-Public Methods (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• C# 4.0 Optional Parameters – Exploration. (Jason Jarrett)
• I Can Feel You – Using the Windows 7 Sensor Platform (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Directed Graph ML (DGML) support in QuickGraph (Jonathan de Halleux)

Web Development

• Editing a variable length list, ASP.NET MVC 2-style (Steve Sanderson)
• Beyond web.config (Karl Seguin)
• Using jQuery in an ASP.NET MVC application To Create Stunning Tooltips – Version 2 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• An alternative to editing JavaScript in Visual Studio: RubyMine (Peter Eysermans)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Club: Growing Object Oriented Software – Chapter 7 (Steve Freeman & Nat Pryce) (Mark Needham)
• Replacing the Iron Triangle of Project Management? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• How to resolve a binary file conflict with Git (Joshua Flanagan)
• Using Git as an SVN Client (Michael Wagg)
• Want a learning culture? Start a brown bag. (Scott Schimanski)
• Do You Live to Program or Program To Live? (Mike Ceranski)

Silverlight / WPF

• A Silverlight, Deep Zoom and Smooth Streaming extravaganza (Mike Ormond)
• Open Source Silverlight Video Players (Corey Schuman)
• MVVM – It’s Not Kool-Aid* (Jesse Liberty)
• Rounder, Faster, Better – WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.0.0 (Rene Schulte)
• Using the WPF Tree Visualizer — vstipDebug0004 (Zain Naboulsi)
• DataBinding tooling: keeps getting better (Rob Relyea)
• Handing Events with Care? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Code Not Taken [Comparing two ways of creating a full-size Popup in Silverlight - then picking the best] (David Anson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ASP.NET Soup to Nuts: Web Application Design and Architecture (MS Podcasts)
• geekSpeak Recording – Migrating to Team Foundation Server from Visual SourceSafe and geekSpeak Recording – SQL Azure Under the Hood with Chris Rolon (Emily Gibson)
• Create a SharePoint List using InfoPath 2010 (LaurHar)
• The Thirsty Developer 83: Visual Studio 2010 Testing Tools with Ram Cherala (Dave Bost)
• Countdown to MIX10: Nishant Kothary, the UX Theme, and 55 New Sessions (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Google Wave at I/O (Pamela Fox)
• PDC video, TechEd Iceland, VS2010, profiling, Silverlight 4 (Seema Ramchandani)

Database

• How To: Query Azure Log Tables with LINQPad (Jason Haley)
• FILESTREAM: Storing Binary Objects in a database – or not (Buck Woody)

Miscellaneous

• BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• Apple’s iPad Announcement from One .NET Developer’s Perspective (Me)
• Mercurial + PowerShell (Ade Miller)
• 12 reasons why I won’t buy an Apple iPad (Joe Wilcox)
• Daily Dose – Google Go Joining GNU Compiler Collection (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Download 150+ PowerPoint templates for free from Microsoft (Lee Mathews)
• Zune software references rumored Project Pink devices, a video upload service? (Ross Miller)
• Localization of Kodu (Stephen Coy)
• Business Intelligence Features in Excel 2010 (Office Team)
• Windows Mobile 7: UX Flow Prototypes and Microsoft’s Electronic Textbook Concept: Potential Courier Application? (Stephen Chapman)
• Customer Presentations (Cameron Skinner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #528 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 28, 2010 — #789 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman Links for January 28, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Creators Club Communiqué 39 (Kathleen Sanders)
• New and Notable 397 (Sam Gentile)

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Head First Design Patterns

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Top Links

• Why are unused using directives not a warning? (Eric Lippert)
• .NET 4.0 and System.Threading.Tasks (Justin Etheredge)
• Silverlight Client for Facebook available (Tim Heuer)
• Software Development Do’s and Dont’s (Mike Ceranski)
• KISS Your ASP.NET MVC Routes (K. Scott Allen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Best Practice to Minimize your Windows Azure Compute Hours! (Gunther Lenz)
• Announcing the Entity Framework POCO Template update for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Diego Vega)
• Missile Launchers with F# (Coding4Fun)
• Duplicated columns in generated sql from NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)
• Profiler New Feature: Side by Side diff (Oren Eini)
• Don’t Use Try/Catch (Karl Seguin)
• XNA 3D Primer Published – Get a free copy! (Michael C. Neel)
• Do You Have A Great Windows Azure Idea? (Windows Azure Team)
• Adding labels to Breakpoints — vstipDebug0001 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Calls to ReportExecutionService.Render() Hang (Tony Rasa)

Web Development

• ASP.NET: Displaying a Second Window with JavaScript and ASP.NET: Selecting a Row in a GridView (Deborah Kurata)
• The Twitter API: The Schrodinger’s Cat of Web Service APIs (Karsten Januszewski)
• Translating routes (ASP.NET MVC and Webforms) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Setting Up IoC in ASP.NET MVC using Castle Windsor (Ali Bastani)
• jQuery 1.4 Opacity and IE Filters (Rick Strahl)
• Tip#101: Did you know… How to scope Theme (Anh Phan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Delivering value (Brian Marick)
• Highly Recommended Book: Debug It! (Davy Brion)
• Designing applications for cloud deployment (Gojko Adzic)
• Architecting for Desktop Virtualization – Part 3: Treat Your Desktop Client Like a Web Client (Jeremy Jarrell)
• TDD: Simplifying a test with a hand rolled stub and TDD: Rewriting/refactoring tests (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Flattery will get you everywhere [Html5Canvas source code now available on CodePlex!] (David Anson)
• More Silverlight Performance Goodness (Frank La Vigne)
• Incorporating Video into a Silverlight 4 Application (Scott Seely)
• Be one of the first to get the Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook! (Silverlight Team)
• XamlPadSample Step 1e-App.xaml and Assemblies (Rob Relyea)
• Simple 3D WPF Charting Wins Overall Best Article Dec 2009 (Sacha Barber)
• Magellan is on CodePlex (Paul Stovell)
• Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With VS 2010 Tooling (Article 2 of 7) and Adding a Navigation Page to a Silverlight Business Application Template (Article 4 of 7) and Adding Speakers Page Template With Converters In Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Article 5 of 7) and Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7) and Authentication and Authorization Using RIA Services (Article 7 of 7) (Peter Kellner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight TV Episode 4: 3 Steps to MEF – Export, Import, Compose (John Papa)
• Daniel Jeberaj on .NET Component Development (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Ping 45: Helping Haiti, Xbox taking over, Bing & Purge (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 82: Team Foundation Server 2010 Setup with Ed Holloway (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – January 25th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• If He Walks Like A Ruby Developer, But He Talks Like A PHP Developer, Then What Exactly Is He? (Jonathan Carter)
• Code Mastery – FREE EVENT – Boston (Rockford Lhotka)
• SharePoint 2010 SocialFest (Steve Clayton)

Database

• Tracking SQL Server Time (Buck Woody)
• DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP bug fixed in 2008 SP1 CU6 (Paul S. Randal)
• SQLAuthority News – Download White Paper – Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Understanding Feature and Code Depreciation for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
• Adding ribbon items into existing tabs/groups (ribbon customization part 2) (Chris O’Brien)
• I added a Web Part to my site home page which causes an exception (Paul Andrew)
• Integrating Microsoft Silverlight with Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 (Robert Hess)

Miscellaneous

• Google Reader Gets Smart, Tracks Updates on Feedless Web Sites (Adam Pash)
• A Feed You Should Read #21 – All About Microsoft by Mary-Jo Foley (Greg Duncan)
• More Resources for Developers (Ian Fette)
• Wrox PDF Ebooks DRM-free (Jim Minatel)
• Use The Right Version of PowerShell. (Jeffrey Snover)
• 2010 Tech Trends; Microsoft CIO Shares Some Thoughts (Dominic Carr)
• Search Fundamentals – Basic Indexing (Alan Skorkin)
• Dose – Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK Released… Wait, No! I Take it Back! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Accessing Office Documents Using Your Phone (Office Team)
• Cheat sheet: Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 01/26/2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #525 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #106 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: January 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)

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Essential LINQ

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Top Links

• New Article – Getting Started with WCF RIA Services (Dan Wahlin)
• Coding is not Kata (Sara Ford)
• UML Modeling and Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010 (Oleg Sych)
• VS2010 Architecture Explorer Analyzers (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Updates "MultiPoint Mouse SDK" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Getting the System Up Time (Richard Carr)
• Book Review: F# for Technical Computing (Granville Barnett)
• Skipping the SMTP line with Postmark (Daniel Crenna)
• Repeat your last search (Zain Naboulsi)
• Coding: Missing abstractions and LINQ (Mark Needham)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 6. The Event Wiring Facility (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• Editable Routes (Phil Haack)
• Populating Hierarchical Data Using Model Binders in ASP.NET MVC Application (Mohammad Azam)
• Creating an external facing Azure Worker Role endpoint (Maarten Balliauw)
• Why choose between Ajax or MVC ? Together they KISS so sweet… (Peter Van Ooijen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Building software that matters: two books you absolutely have to read (Gojko Adzic)
• Is There A Good Reason To Hide Inherited Members? (Davy Brion)
• DVCS (Distributed Version Control System): support for agile? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Interface-Oriented Design – Book Review (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Dependency Injection Inversion (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Avoiding The Typical Software Development World Stereotypes – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Breakpoints Not Being Hit (Christopher Bennage)
• Restricted Pan and Zoom in WPF (Tony Rasa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• PM Podcast 138: Delivering SharePoint Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Get Your Questions Answered on Silverlight TV (John Papa)
• Major Nelson Show 347: Welcome to 2010 (Larry Hyrb)
• This Week in Testing – Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 1) (Dror Helper)
• Episode 98- PowerScripting Podcast – Steven Murawski from PowerShellCommunity.org (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• The CodeMash Precompiler Part 0 (Leon Gersing)
• Free Developer Training for Windows Mobile 6.5 (Bruce Kyle)
• What Is Wrong With My Blog? (Justin Etheredge)
• Happy 4th Birthday jQuery (Mike Ceranski)
• Microsoft MVPs for Charity (Stephen Forte)
• Contribute to Assembla development to earn money, glory, and get the feature you want (Andy Singleton)

Database

• Hey Microsoft, Our Databases Aren’t Services! (Davy Brion)
• SQL Server PowerShell Extensions – Release: v2.0.1 Production (CodePlex)

SharePoint

• Free Download: SharePoint eMagazine (1st Issue) (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Module Manifests Tip: allowed cmdlets and variables (Joel Bennett)
• Microsoft Surface Rocks the Red Carpet at the Golden Globes (Steve Seow)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #519 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 17, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2010 — #781 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #88 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/18/2010 (Pete Brown)
• A Feed You Should Read #20 – blogs.msdn.com (Greg Duncan)
• Links (1/17/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Some Azure Links (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

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Top Links

• An IoC-Agnostic Prism Bootstrapper (Ward Bell)
• Hello from 2020 (Rob Conery)
• Powershell and SQL Authentication (Martin Bell)
• Leveraging Windows 7 Boot to VHD to Test Visual Studio 2010 (Chris Patterson)
• DZone 2009: How many links promoted, buried, etc? (Rick Ross) – DZone has been hard at work keeping spam and other irrelevant content out of your way.

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Essence of LINQ – MinLINQ (Bart de Smet)
• CciSharp, a post-compiler for .NET based on CCI (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Review: C# in Depth (Grant Palin)
• Language Envy – C# needs Ranges (Sergio Pereira)
• Sprache C# (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Show CodeRush Xpress 9.3 Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Two Major Milestones for RoundhousE and UppercuT (Rob Reynolds)
• With the new year we get a loved series sequel, Visual Studio Tips and Tricks v2 – Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks (Greg Duncan)
• It’s Easy to Forget (Christopher Bennage)

Web Development

• Death to confirmation dialogs with jquery.undoable (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC – Do I Really Need It? (Peter Bromberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Dunbar’s Number, Monkeyspheres and how to design for social (Ron George)
• Brown, Green, Refactor and RTM ready tests (Roy Osherove)
• Micro optimization decision process and Patterns for reducing memory usage (Oren Eini)
• One to one and many to many (Eric Brechner)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber, Cuke4Nuke and TeamCity (Gojko Adzic)
• Recovering from the depths of developer burn out – Some tips from the field (Greg Duncan)
• How To Change a Habit and Make It Stick (JD Meier)
• The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch and OOP: Behavioural and Structural Constraints (Mark Needham)
• Lazing Around with Autofac2 and Declarative Context Adapters in Autofac 2 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Entrepreneurship Tip: Shipping Mediocre Products Is Not An Option. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Magellan Diagnostics and Magellan Shared Layouts and Extending the WPF XML namespaces (Paul Stovell)
• Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Authentication/Authorization in an INavigationContentLoader (David Poll)
• Day #31: Geocoding and More Fun In Bing Maps for Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Polling Video – A Viable sub-second alternative? (Jesse Liberty)
• Saving Snapshots to PNG in Silverlight 4 and the WebCam (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Huey and Wegner Migrate Us to SQL Azure (Carl Franklin)
• E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 1 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 71: Frank Zammetti on webOS (Michael Kimsal)
• This Week in Testing – New Year Resolutions (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Nikolaj Bjørner and Leonardo de Moura: The Z3 Constraint Solver (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• Agile 2010, Nashville August 9-13 (Ade Miller)
• The Morning Brew – Review of the Year 2009 (Chris Alcock)
• Looking Ahead to 2010 – New Year’s Resolutions (Andrew Connell)
• Trends for 2010 (J.D. Meier)
• Goals for 2010 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Yet Another 2009 Year In Review (John Sheehan)
• It’s time to look ahead to 2010 (Bill Wagner)
• 2009 Blogged – Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
• 2009 Year in Review (Rob Bazinet)
• 2010 and Forevah (Rob Reynolds)
• Where Do You Want to Be In a Year? (Tim Barcz)
• Looking back at 2009, and forward to 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Click The Button – The Contest (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Best of "The Moth" 2009 (Daniel Moth)

Database

• SQL Server IF Conditions (Richard Carr)
• “SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide” – 486 pages of SQL Server 2008 upgrade guidance (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Find Location of Data File Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Using Variables in SSIS: Purpose review and functional examples (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Debugging Silverlight Client OM Apps in SharePoint and SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Trouble finding the CAML reference in the 2010 SDKs? (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Read and Recommended: Confessions of a Public Speaker (Brian Noyes)
• New Subversion Reference Site (Alex Coisman)
• IE8 64-bit Windows 7 and the Mobile Code Bug (Part 2) (William Stanek)
• Install OS X Snow Leopard in VMware Windows 7 (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft Talked About Windows Mobile 7 And We All Missed It (Paul Thurrott)
• Fairness is Highly Overrated (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Dec 31, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #508 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 1, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2009 — #767 and Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2009 – 2 — #768 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.21 ~ 12.31, bye 2009 (yuanjian)
• Everyman Links for January 1, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 31-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

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The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library (Expert’s Voice in .Net)

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Top Links

• Microsoft Job Posting Confirms Xbox LIVE Windows Mobile Phones (Kat Hannaford) – Where’s my ZuneHD/WinMo/XboxLive device??? 
• Software Patents: Our Industry’s Nuclear Weapon (Davy Brion) – Davy’s argument against patents.
• Still waiting for a 64-bit Flash Player (Ed Bott) – Me too!
• Magellan Asynchronous Controllers (Paul Stovell) – Paul updates his WPF MVC framework to v1.1.
• 4th Web Client Guidance Drop Available on Codeplex and Proposed UX Design (Blaine Wastell) – p&p goodies… get ‘em while they’re hot.
• Embedding HTML from jQuery AJAX Call Into Your Page (Elijah Manor) – Cool tip from Elijah.

.NET / Visual Studio

• More LINQ with System.Interactive – More combinators for your Swiss Army Knife (Bart de Smet)
• No more magic strings with VisualStateManager.GoToState (András Velvárt)
• Update on using MSDeploy for remote deployments. (Eric Hexter)
• Dealing with Nullable Types and IIf in VBNET (Kevin Jones)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Other attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

Web Development

• Gummy Bear 1.1 Is In The Can (Dave Burke)
• 4 JavaScript frameworks you may never have heard of (Michael Kimsal)
• Converting an RGB Color To Hex With JavaScript (Phil Haack)
• Using BindAttribute In ASP.NET MVC To Exclude Bindable Data (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Guidelines for consistent exception handling (Samir Bellouti)
• When mini benchmarks are important (Oren Eini)
• Recommended Book: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Davy Brion)
• Runtime Fault Injection using TestAPI (Lester Lobo)

Silverlight / WPF

• Getting the Absolute Position (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• WCF RIA Services DomainService life-cycle and adding Transactions (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight HVP Design – Configuration & Scenarios (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF : New Threading Component (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Jeffrey Van Gogh and Bart De Smet: Inside System.Interactive (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #156: Learning how to use Named Content Areas w/ Spark (Derik Whittaker)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: TWoC9 Day 3 (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• Origins of a love affair (Damien Guard)
• Running a Small User Group – Getting Help (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

• Getting the ISO Week and Year (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• BCS Multiple Finder Methods for External Content Types (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Presenting Lessons I’ve Learned (Jay Fields)
• 10 Things to Do Before the New Year (Meryl Evans)
• Windows 7 Tip: Creating A Help Toolbar (Michael S. Scherotter)
• 50 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks (Steve Clayton)
• Stephen King’s On Writing… A Memoir Of The Craft (Mike Cottmeyer)
• DZone Daily Dose – 12/30 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• 3 Microsoft Project 2010 Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• Hoping they will learn… Usability! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Stormy weather? Who is monitoring the cloud? (Andy Singleton)
• Conversation Piece: Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
• How to pass arguments for remote commands and Bringing remote commands to your local session and Saving remote session to your local disk (Lukasz Anforowicz)

More Link Collections

• 2009′s Most Popular Articles (Scott Mitchell)
• The Morning Brew #507 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2009 — #766 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/29/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts (Simone Chiaretta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Put Intellipad-like language editing features into your applications (Chris Sells)
• An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part VI) (Habib Heydarian)
• Windows Azure Management API and .NET Services Update (Hanu Kommalapati)
• The Azure Deployment and Management API is Here! (Bill Zack)
• Some Really Cool LINQ to Help Performance and Show Line Thickness (Peter Kellner)
• Create a SQL Azure CRUD Application with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• NHibernate, Inverse, and Object Associations (Jonathan Oliver)
• Hacking LINQ Expressions: Join With Comparer (Keith Dahlby)

Web Development

• Murach’s ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with C# 2008 (Dave M. Bush)
• Tab Navigation with Smooth Horizontal Sliding Using jQuery (Karl Swedberg)
• JavaScript and its love for zeroes (Sergio Pereira)
• Now Running on Behistun and ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Adding your logo to the page in an SEO optimized way. (Kris Gray)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MbUnit CsvDataAttribute (Charles Chen)
• MbUnit 3.1 (Andrew Stopford)
• UI Patterns (Daniela Panfili)
• StructureMap and Multiple AppDomains – Ensure you have loaded your components correctly (Derik Whittaker)
• Open Source development model and How to lead a convoy to safety (Oren Eini)
• Can’t See Recent Commits in Tortoise SVN Log and Do Not Return True/False on a Transaction Success/Fail (Dave Schinkel)
• Composed Events (Dru Sellers)
• Push to Multiple Git Repos (Mike Gunderloy)
• SOA Maturity Models and Open Group SOA Governance Framework (Mike Walker)
• Why is ‘Buy’ not always better than ‘Build’ (Mike Hadlow) – Link of the Day
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 10. (Rajiv Popat)
• The CSM Integrity Deficit (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Set Based Concurrent Engineering: A simple example and TDD: Keeping test intent when using test builders (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Glow Behavior (Andy Beaulieu)
• how to build an outlook style application – part 1 and how to apply a viewmodel to new windows (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• WPF App: Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight (Rob Relyea)
• Cinch Code Generated Is Out (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight Spy documentation (Koen Zwikstra)
• Using WCF 3.5 REST Services and Consuming it in WPF 3.5 applications – An Application Development approach. (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #198 – The Return of 3-Tier Architecture – RIA Services with Brad Abrams (Scott Hanselman)
• ARCast.TV: Steve Michelotti of e.imagination on High Performance Web Solutions (MS Podcasts)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard Part I (Me)
• The Coding4Fun Show: Advanced Rendering with Silverlight, Rick Barraza (Brian Peek)
• TWC9: Sven Groot, Beer taste test, Office Web, ASP.NET Auto-Starts, System.IO changes (Dan Fernandez)
• SharePoint Community Panel Discussion-Episode 30 (Rob, Nick, and Brett)
• PDC09 Workshop: Developing Microsoft BI Applications – The How and The Why (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

• Now with more forehead! (or, a happy shade of blue) (Pete Brown)

Database

• SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (BI) and SQL SERVER – Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries Depend Upon Expression Location (Pinal Dave)
• DBA’s & PowerShell? Yep, PowerShell is not just for your IT brethren, you can have PS fun too! (Greg Duncan)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP – Utility Control Point (UTP) (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Could not connect to computer ‘.’ – Debugging requires you to connect by name on windows 7 (Simon Sabin)
• Checking Foreign Keys (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

• Accessing SharePoint Document Libraries via Webdav with Windows 7 (Amanda Murphy)
• Easier Silverlight Development against SharePoint (Matthew McDermott)

Miscellaneous

• The Best Way To Interview A Developer (Alan Skorkin)
• A Closer Look at Office Web Apps in Windows Live (damaster)
• Office 15: Tentatively Planned for 2013 (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft’s AD cmdlets available for Win 2003 and later (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• How To Access And Try Microsoft Office Web Apps Tech Preview (Sunshine)
• Using a PS Session without having Administrative Permissions (Per Østergaard)
• Could Microsoft Tag augment Windows Mobile reality? (Joe Wilcox)
• At long last, GIMP v2.8 to finally implement single-window interface (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• Links for the Week 2009.09.20 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 18th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Interesting Post… 9/13/2009 through 9/20/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – SEP ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

• RIA Services Contrib – Release 0.51 (CodePlex)
• Silverlight Animation Tip (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Star Wars Scroller in Silverlight 3 and A Quick Note on XAML Namespaces in Silverlight/WPF (Frank La Vigne)
• Validation. Hey! You’re Done! (Jesse Liberty)
• Download M-V-VM Project Template/Toolkit (Lester Lobo)
• WPF design flaw of the day: no initial focus (Joe White)
• Playing around with Syntax Highlighter (Pete Brown)
• WPF : Attached Commands (Sacha Barber)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – Demos of new features (Velvárt András)
• More Validation Fun – But Not Done Yet (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Did You Know? Silverlight Class Library Can’t Be Named with “.Resources” (Michael Sync)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Wanted: A kickass .NET API for CouchDB (Richard Dingwall)
• NHibernate Validator and NHibernate, the database query cache and parameter sizes and NHibernate Search and NHibernate Filters (Oren Eini)
• Chess Program in C# (Jacques Fournier)
• Introduction to Mixins For the C# Developer (Justin Etheredge)
• F#: Erlang style messaging passing and F#: Entry point of an application and F#: Stuff I get confused about (Mark Needham)
• Using IronRuby with RubyMine (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Projects, Assemblies, and Namespaces – oh my (Udi Dahan)
• A simple sample for C# 4.0 ‘dynamic’ feature (Kirill Osenkov)
• Functional Composition and Partial Application (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• JavaScript book excerpt, discount and free shipping offer (Michael Kimsal)
• How to Set JavaScript Programmatically on a Page in ASP.NET with Parameters (Peter Kellner)
• jQuery Tabs Plugin with Images (Dave Schinkel)
• Using jQuery with Client-Side Data Binding Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• JavaScript Gotcha in IE7 (Christopher Bennage)
• yUML and jQuery for Large Diagrams (Tobin Harris)
• Swap images with user interaction in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical .NET Unit Testing – Free paper released (Jason Young)
• Agile Meets The Recession and The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part II (Bob McIlree)
• Artisanal Retro-Futurism ⊗ Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism (Brian Marick)
• How Many Bedrooms Did You Say? (Max Pool) - Link of the Day
• On Getting Rid Of Common Libraries… What About Don’t Repeat Yourself? (Davy Brion)
• A Culture of Microcomponents (Ben Scheirman)
• Pex 0.12.40430.3 : Exploration Tree View, Partial Stubs… and Stubs as Parameterized Models with Contracts (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Pair Programming: When your pair steps away (Mark Needham)
• The Hunt For Simplicity (Justin Etheredge)
• Mocking for IronRuby (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Remote Retrospectives with Twiddla (Jim Holmes)
• Your Application is a Rotting Old Shack, Now What? (Michael Janke)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 3 (Rajiv Popat)
• Can we avoid tooling to prevent spaghetti code? (Patrick Smacchia)
• Metadata Belongs With The Class, Not With Another Class (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Metadata Classes – A Force for Good or Evil? (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #178 – JavaFX and the Web’s Four Virtual Machines (Scott Hanselman)
• Jason Olson: Composing Programming Languages, F# and OO (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 64: CouchDB with Jan Lenhardt and Chris Anderson (Michael Kimsal)
• This week on C9: Windows 7 RC, Glimmer for jQuery, and ZOMG Ponies (Dan Fernandez)
• Recent Pluralsight On-Demand! library updates (Aaron Skonnard)
• 10-4 Episode 17: F# Intro (Jason Olson)
• Screencast: Windows Workflow Foundation workflow service context basics and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Creating Custom Context Bindings and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in .NET client applications and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in WF client applications (Matt Milner)
• Behaviors in Blend 3 – Podcast (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• FitNesse with Bob Martin – Part 2 (Stephen Wright)

Community / Events

• IT Samurai School coming soon… (Billy McCafferty)
• Best Practices Conference (William Vaughn)
• Devlicio.us Motto Contest Finals – Put your voice (Tuna Toksoz)
• Secure a Speaking Slot for Tech Ed North America 2010 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• On speaking, trolling, inciting and growing (Ted Neward)
• INETA Live – Call for Speakers (Steve Andrews)
• Axum, Reactive Framework and other Lang.net items (Matthew Podwysocki)
• What Should Microsoft Do For .NET Open Source? (Rob Conery)

Database

• Geek City: Controlling Lock Granularity (Kalen Delaney)
• Real World Perspectives on the Pros and Cons of Stored Procedures (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Doing my SQL myths session on Live meeting (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Example of DDL, DML, DCL and TCL Commands and SQL SERVER – Add or Remove Identity Property on Column and SQL SERVER – Roadmap of Microsoft Certifications – SQL Server Certifications (Pinal Dave)
• Create a new embedded Firebird database (DotNetFacts)

SharePoint

• Search and Natural User Interfaces – Part 2 (Nathan Treloar)
• SharePoint SDK 1.5 (April 2009) Released! (Randall Isenhour)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases “Sneak-Peek” Images of Upcoming Office 2010 and MSDN Blogger Recommends Free Windows 7 Federated Search Providers (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on devices, startups, IP and open source (Todd Bishop)
• Book: Growing Software (David Starr)
• Network Monitor (Netmon) 3.3 Overview (Will Gregg)
• Windows Virtual PC and the Microsoft Device Emulator (Brian Peek)
• Windows 7 setup secrets (Ed Bott)
• XP Mode in Windows 7 is no cop out (Lee Mathews)
• Top 10 Scenarios; ISVs Add Customer Value with Windows 7 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• Glimmering with effects (Coding4Fun)
• Interviewing the Interviewee (Dave Schinkel)
• Pablo’s Topic of the Month – May 2009 Edition (Gregory Long)
• A Little Bit of Personality (Denise Trabona & Samuel Moreau)
• Wolfram Alpha Search Engine On Video (Jesus Diaz)
• Windows 7 Blame Feature (Nick Berardi)
• Codesqueeze Charity Kickin – Room To Read (Max Pool)
• Tips for CodePlex Projects hosting multiple applications – #026 (Sara Ford)
• iBrowz: A New RSS Reader for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
• Test driving Windows 7 RC and PowerShellPlus 3.0 on Virtual PC (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #339 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 01, 2009 — #584 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2009 — #585 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #51 (Grant Palin)
• New and Notable 317 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for May 1st, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (5/3/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Discoveries This Week 05/01/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory: Books ISBN: 0321534468 ISBN-13: 9780321534460

Silverlight / WPF

• JavaFx vs Flash vs Silverlight (Terence Tsang)
• What I Use for Silverlight Development (Shawn Wildermuth)
• MVVM notes and references (Corey Schuman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Things we wish Microsoft would fix in Visual Studio 2010 (Jason Short)
• Right click, New Visual Studio Solution (Ben Scheirman)
• Guidance for building Sharepoint Applications with Visual Studio Team System (Charles Sterling)
• devhawk_ipy and Writing an IronPython Debugger: Refactoring (Harry Pierson)
• Fluent NHibernate: Conventions Rewrite (James Gregory)
• Team System 2010 Roadmap (J. Bienz)
• Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Rangers Ship New SharePoint guidance! (Ted Malone)
• Implementing a WCF Service Firewall Part II of N (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NUnitEx: Test Driving NUnit’s 3.0 API and New Poll: What Kind Of Testing Do You Do? and Continuous Failure (Davy Brion)
• Workability (Scott Bellware) – Link of the Day
• OO: Reducing the cost of…lots of stuff! (Mark Needham)
• Feature Teams or Component Teams? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• BDD on Steroids (Mo Khan)
• Jay Fields on Pairing and Conversation with Paul Pagel (Corey Haines)
• 100,000 Downloads of Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2.0 (J.D. Meier)
• Fumbling toward automation: running JavaScript tests with Watir (Joe White)
• Oppression, Revolution and the Future of Scrum (Tobias Mayer)
• The List – Keep Yourself on Track (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Bare Minimum (Karl Seguin)
• Developing with Source Code Control – Best Practices Part 2 (Peter Ritchie)

Web Development

• Twitter Stats using Greasemonkey & jQuery (Elijah Manor)
• Web Slice and Feed Authentication – Developer Guidelines (Amy Placzkiewicz)
• Making a jQuery Plugin Truly Customizable (James Padolsey)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (1 in a series) (Sara J. Chipps)
• Client Rendering Views with Spark and ASP.NET MVC (K. Scott Allen)
• Calculating the Size of SOAP Messages (Davy Brion)
• ASP.NET MVC RC Finally Working for Me (Jimmy Bogard)

Database

• Designing a document database: Replication (Oren Eini)
• Where should the ON clause go? (Simon Sabin)
• Building Applications with SQL Server 2008 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Microsoft Bringing SQL Server to the Cloud (Steve Clayton)
• Backups are for sissies!!! (Ted Krueger)

PowerShell

• Want to Influence the PowerShell Cookbook V2? (Lee Holmes)
• Out-GridView Revisited (Xin Li)
• Reserving keywords (Jason Shirk)

Community / Events

• Rebel DE Yell (G. Andrew Duthie)
• IronPython at PyCon (Harry Pierson)
• Progressive Audio Webinar (William Vaughn)
• Podcast #45 (Jeff Atwood)
• Coming at Mix 09: Adding Messenger to your site gets better and (much) easier (Kip Kniskern)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Windows 8 will be Version 6.11 (and other Insider Tidbits) (Blake Handler)
• Google Reader starts a conversation (Dolapo Falola)
• Chiming In On Sexual Harassment (Andy)
• Stop Blaming Technology and Own Up to Responsibility (Bil Simser)
• What’s in a version name? (Jimmy Bogard)
• Microsoft unveils Windows Mobile App store details (Brad Linder)
• Mirroring Subversion from Windows (Christopher Bennage)
• MSDN Subscriptions web site – February 2009 release (Chris Deluca)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Future Files (Dave Burke)
• Windows 7 build 7057 torrent appears on Mininova (Lee Mathews)
• Sony Reader PRS-700 (Spence Harbar)
• Start With Windows Mobile (Steve Clayton)
• Photosynth Comes to the iPhone (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft Unveils Windows Mobile App Store Details (Brad Linder)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for March 11, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #305 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 11, 2009 — #538 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for March 11, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Twitterings #19 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 304 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight.FX and Silverlight Store Sample App (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 2.0 Walkthrough – Creating a “Traffic Jam” game and Silverlight Game – Part 1 – Creating the main layout and Part 2 – Creating a Car UserControl and Part 3 – Using Linq to XML to read and generate the levels and Part 4 – Adding drag and drop functionality to move the cars around and Part 5 – Storing Highscores in Isolated Storage (Tess Ferrandez)
• The Power of ICommand (Rudi Grobler)
• Silverlight – Databinding ListBox (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: Validity, Consistency and Immutability (Casey Charlton)
• Back to Basics: Interfaces (Karl Seguin)
• Coding: Good Citizens (Mark Needham)
• Is Excessive Mapping Of DTOs/ViewObjects to Entities A Code Smell (Michael Nichols)

.NET / Visual Studio

• January 2009 "Oslo" SDK Refresh (Chris Sells)
• What Should I Talk About In A Presentation About NHibernate? (Davy Brion)
• Writing and IronPython Debugger: Adding Interactivity (Harry Pierson)
• Gratuitous Use of Linq (Jacob Proffitt)
• On Tagging, Part 1 (Howard Dierking)
• WCF: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority (Josh Twist)
• Recursive LINQ with Y-combinator (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• Big Day for Sueetie Source and Documentation updates (Dave Burke)
• Adding Search To Your Site (In 5 Minutes) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 10-4: Episode 11: Bi-Directional Routing with ASP.NET WebForms 4.0 (Public Sector DPE Team)
• New ASP.NET MVC Validation Tutorials Posted at www.ASP.net/MVC (Stephen Walther)
• MVC Contrib – Release: RC – 0.0.1.846 (CodePlex)

Community / Events

• Foundation Series Workshop 1 – Wednesday, March 11th (Brian Donahue) – A new series of workshops for Philly-area developers. Don’t miss it! – Link of the Day
• Alt.net: Alienation by adoption (Ayende Rahien)
• Are you going to MIX09? (Pete Brown)
• SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 4 – Keynote from SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 4 – Keynote of Steve Ballmer (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint unit testing and SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (Joris Poelmans)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Codeplex Releases "Windows Live Writer Backup" (Blake Handler)
• Ballmer: Microsoft needs to make faster Windows Mobile advances (Todd Bishop)
• A Journey in Technical Computing (Ade Miller)
• Windows Mobile Finally Gets a Decent Facebook App (John Herrman)
• Live Mesh…the story so far (Steve Clayton)
• Zoho Writer 2.0 launches with fresh look (Raju Vegesna)
• Intro to Programming: Microsoft Small Basic (Paul)
• We need a new slogan (Roy Osherove)
• 10 Awesome Things I Remember About Computers (Scott Hanselman)
• Flash / ActionScript Guitar Synthesizer and Andre’s Amazing Lab (Pete.Brown)
• Zune news: New streaming podcasts, new Zune Social functionality (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #300 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: March 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Technical Articles and White Papers on SQL Server (Jose Barreto)
• CloudNews for March 4th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Creators Club Communiqué 20 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Links (3/4/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 299 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day