• SQL Server 2011 (Denali) CTP3 Released! (Brian McDonald)
• Small Basic 1.0 is here! (Sandra Aldana)
• Announcing the Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK Release (Pete Brown)
• Stacks and queues in JavaScript (Jef Claes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ForEach Method for the collections (Abhijit Jana)
• Tracking Changes in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Parallel for loop in C# 4.0 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Switching Visual Studio Environment Tools with Powershell and SlightlyPosher (Naeem Khedarun)
• Detecting and Changing a File’s Internet Zone in .NET: Alternate Data Streams (Mike Hadlow)
• Refactorings specific to auto-implemented properties (Alex Skorkin)
• Entity Framework 4.1 managing relations (Gian Maria Ricci)
• What curious property does this string have? (Eric Lippert)
• Interactive WinForm Tag Cloud Control (Think “Cool, I can add a Word/Tag Cloud thing to my WinForm app!”) and Kinect Buttons (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• HTML5 – Selectors API Level 1 (Gil Fink)
• When the Overlords Demand WebForms You Can Still Do MVC (J.P. Hamilton)
• A JavaScript Trick You Should Know (Stoimen Popov)
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Windows Azure Team)
• Lockdown Pt 2– Sanitization and Data Security (Tim Kulp)
• Cloud-based Development via Node.js and Cloud9 IDE Integration Coming Soon (Rey Bango)
• Getting Started with the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Nathan Totten)
• SassAndCoffee hits 1.0! (Paul Betts)
• Debugging Web Workers in IE10 (Jonathan Carter & Gaurav Seth)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 3 – More on Functions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Maarten Balliauw)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Move Method (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Patterns of Compositional Architecture: DSLs – Registries and Patterns of Compositional Architecture: DSLs – Conventions (Josh Arnold)
• Documenting Key End-to-End Deployment Scenarios (Vishal Joshi)
• Thinking of Enterprise Architecture as Vectors (Jeevak Kasarkod)
• Why Can’t Software Development Be More Like Sports? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Distributed Version Control is a Disruptive Change (Bill Wagner)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part VIII–CRUD is so 90s (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Soundboard (Rudi Grobler)
• 12 "All about WP7 Isolated Storage" articles (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to Create a Different Circular Loader using XAML? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application : Part 1 of 2 (Understanding OAuth) (Sudheer Kovalam)
• Blog Post: Community Spotlight: Silverlight MVVM Templates (T. DuPont)
• Background Agents – Part 2 of 3 and Background Agents – Part 3 of 3 (Peter Torr)
• Extending a XamRibbon ButtonTool to execute ICommands (Devin Rader)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Efficiently Query a SQL Server Compact Database Using LINQ? (MS Podcasts)
• Boagworld – Helping users find content and take action (Paul Boag)
• Yet Another Podcast #42–Colin Blair and RIA Services (Jesse Liberty)
• Hot Apps: Angry Birds, Hungry Pigs, Mosaic, MTV News, Pirates Assault (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Conference 2011 (Andrew Connell)
• People’s choice award at the Imagine Cup: Vote early! Vote often! (Surf4Fun)
• PowerShell Deep Dive @ The Experts Conference Europe 2011 (Travis Jones)
• Steve Ballmer at WPC: the Zune Confusion (Kip Kniskern)
• Author news: Charles Petzold reading in Seattle on Thursday (Devon Musgrave)
• Top Students Descend on Microsoft Research Cambridge (Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche & Kenji Takeda)

Database

• CTP3 is Here! Five Things to Know About the Next Version of SQL Server (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Migration Assistant 5.1 Supports SQL Server v-Next (Brian Swan)
• Using PowerShell to manage SQL Server Compact database files (Erik EJ)
• SSIS enhancements in Denali CTP3 (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Denali CTP3: Policy Based Management (Jorge Segarra)
• Automating Web App Deployments with SSIS (Jorge Segarra)
• SQL Server Codename “Denali” CTP3 Resources (Jose Chinchilla)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 13 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Query to Find Duplicate Indexes – Script to Find Redundant Indexes (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1–new table hint options for FORCESEEK and FORECSCAN (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server – TSQL – GROUP BY GROUPING SETS() (Vishal)
• SQLDIY: Index Usage Statistics (Wesley Brown)
• How to move the Model Database (Ryan Adams)
• Copying parent-child rows and SQL Dependency Tracker (Jakub Dvorak)

SharePoint

• SharePoint provision default WebParts for MySites (Greg Galipeau)
• Troubleshooting IIS and SharePoint When a Worker Process Goes Haywire (Joel Oleson)
• Chat Web Part for SharePoint 2010 (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• FUSE Labs Releases CompanyCrowd (MS FUSE Labs)
• A New Android Market for Phones (Dirk Dougherty)
• Running Dropbox as a service on Windows Server 2008 (Peter von Lochow)
• Will the Xbox 720 run Windows 8? (Sebastian Anthony)
• Just Announced: Windows Azure Marketplace Expands Application Selling Capabilities In US Markets (Windows Azure Team)
• Check if your WP7 app is a Bing Instant Answer (Adam Kinney)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – July 13 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Today’s Links (7/12/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #893 (Chris Alcock)
• MS Surface: Links to SDK and Resources (Luis Cabrera)
• 70 Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tutorials You Must Read (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Daily News Digest 07/13/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software (Pragmatic Programmers) by Jonathan Rasmusson

Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 6d – A “Billy Hollis” Hybrid Shell (Rob Eisenberg)
• The first Commandment: Thou shalt not reference the IoC container! (Mike Hadlow)
• Task Parallel Library: Real-World Results (Tim Barcz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate: Complex relationships (Oren Eini)
• Working With SQL Server HierarchyId Data Type In .NET Application (Deepak Kapoor)
• Using Code Contracts Visual Studio and with Resharper (Henning Krause)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: DateTime is Packed with Goodies (James Michael Hare)
• Visual F# 100 Examples: Example Number 16(Search a Record Value) (Rey Dacoco)
• Spec Explorer 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Emacs Emulation (Zain Naboulsi)
• 10 Steps To Become Better .NET Developer (Rinat Abdullin)
• NHibernate 3.0 cookbook review (Alec Whittington)
• Community Callout – Change Target Framework (Rory Becker)
• Back to Basics – Null-Coalescing Operator (Gil Fink)

Web Development

• HTML5 Day 5: New Date Input Type (Chris Pietschmann)
• Easy text input limiting with jQuery. (Joe Stagner)
• Going through presentation hell – make sure you check your existing apps when you install ASP MVC 3! (John V. Petersen)
• Session-less Controllers in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Finding elements using jQuery – Part 2 (Ryan Sukale)
• New to ASP.NET MVC? Test-Drive Your Way (Ted Neward)
• HTML5 – Netscape/IE 3 all over again? (Gojko Adzic)
• Adding proper THEAD sections to a GridView (Rick Strahl)
• Bing Maps AJAX Control SDK 7.0 (PDF) and Bing Maps SOAP Services SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Refactoring" Now Online (James Shore)
• Lokad CQRS does not use Windows Azure Table Storage (Rinat Abdullin)
• Scrum to Evolve Over Time? (ScoutMaster)
• Scrum Teams (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Queues are still queues (Jimmy Bogard)
• Get Good with Git (Chris Wanstrath)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Caching of, in, and around your Silverlight application (part 1) (Kevin Dockx)
• Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone? What does it bring to the table? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 "mass storage" mode discovered (Owen Williams)
• Windows Forms to XAML: Do I really need a Designer for Silverlight or WPF Applications? (Pete Brown)
• Continue The Momentum (Dani Diaz)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: The MVVM Pattern with Laurent Bugnion (Scott Hanselman)
• Silverlight TV 53: T Minus 2 Weeks to the Silverlight Firestarter (John Papa)
• Windows Phone Radio Episode Eight is Live (Brian Seitz)
• RECAP: Let’s Play TDD, Episodes 41-50 and Let’s Play TDD #51: Alternate Background Color (with Roy Osherove) and Let’s Play TDD #52: Success! (with Roy Osherove) (James Shore)
• Video: Ballmer leads the mob at Microsoft’s new Bellevue store (Todd Bishop)
• Using XNA for Developing Windows Phone Games (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

• Meet me at Microsoft Virtual Techdays – 23 November 2010 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Could There Be a Tailgate Party at the Firestarter? (John Papa)

Database

• Want to Make Your SQL Server Run Faster for Free? (David Levy)
• Useful SQL Server System Stored Procedures You Should Know (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How many times did my database auto grow? (Pradeep Adiga)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: Real World Branding with SharePoint Server 2010 Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)
• Eric Swift on Connecting Lync to SharePoint (Eric Swift)
• Windows Phone 7 and SharePoint (Mike Ormond)

Miscellaneous

• Template for Tracking Professional Development (Andy Warren)
• "Metaprogramming Ruby" (Jason Bock)
• Synchronization and road construction (Bill Wagner)
• Kinect-ing people through Natural User Interface (Andy Robb)
• Excellent Developers Are the Best Hires (Michael Norton)
• Rough Cuts: Microsoft Excel 2010: Data Analysis and Business Modeling, Third Edition (Kim Spilker)
• Capistrano, sed, escaping forward slashes and ‘p’ is not ‘puts’! (Mark Needham)
• Democratizing Research With the Cloud (Steve Clayton)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Regular Expressions Cookbook – $14.99 (Save 53%) Use code DDRGC (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Game Studios Holiday Points Offer (Richard Hay)
• New Kodu PC Release, Build 1.0.92.0 (Stephen Coy)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 18, 2010 — #994 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 18, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #733 (Chris Alcock)
• Serge Filter for 11/19/2010 (Serge Baranovsky)
• Daily News Digest 11/19/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC (Pragmatic Programmers) by Jonathan McCracken

Jump to: .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# – Fluent NHibernate – POCO Class Object (Bob Lucke)
• Outlook for Azure – scattered clouds but generally sunny (Vishwas Lele)
• Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 – New REST Features (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Introducing the Reactive Framework Part I (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Parallelizing a loop with tasks, avoiding the pitfall (Daniel Moth)
• More Fun with Regular Expressions : Word and Paragraph Parsing (Chris Love)
• What is up with the Entity Framework vNext? (Oren Eini)
• WinForms User Controls 101 (Deborah Kurata)
• Pre and Post Deployment Events (Gert Drapers)
• Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – TabbedThumbnail (Part 1) (Rudi Grobler)

Web Development

• Creating a Filtering User Interface With jQuery In a Web Forms Application: Part 2 (Scott Mitchell)
• BlogML 2.1 Released (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Write ASP.NET without Web Forms or MVC ! (Joe Stagner)
• Creating Beautiful Dialogs Using JQuery UI (Mohammad Azam)
• Determine The Role of a User in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software Externalities (Phil Haack)
• Response: "Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease" by Ted Neward (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Haacked, but not content; agile still treats the disease (Ted Neward) – Link of the Day
• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Test Infrastructure (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Creating sustainable competitive advantage (Seth Godin)
• Refactoring Dinner: Interfaces instead of Inheritance (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Our Code Stinks (Steve)
• Modeling as Expressed in Code, Part 1 and Modeling as Expressed in Code, Part 2 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Paper Prototypes (Larry Clarkin)
• Essential Versus Accidental Tasks (Joel Ross)

Silverlight / WPF

• New to Silverlight? (Mike Ormond)
• Anatomy of an MVVM Application *or* How Tards Like Me Make MVVM Apps (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Using Custom Validation Rules in WPF (Joel Cochran)
• Make your WPF buttons color hot-track! (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Juval Lowy on The EnergyNet, the Next Software Boom (MS Podcasts)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #147: Abstracting away Dependencies for Simpler code (Derik Whittaker)
• Claudio Caldato on PHP & ADO.NET Data Services (Dmitry Lyalin)
• An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 (Zhiming Xue)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: S. Somasegar Full Length Interview (Tina)
• MSDN TV – Bing Maps Silverlight Map Control (Johan Lindfors)
• Discussion with Rob Lefforts Episode 35 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)
• Tom Goulet – Cucumber, Ruby and the transition to Generalizing Specialist (Bob Payne)

Community / Events

• My Picks for PDC 2009 (Dan Fernandez)
• Happy 14th Birthday Frank’s World! (Frank La Vigne)
• Survey on the usage of ORM Frameworks in .NET (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Focusing on Data – Try #3 (Sam Gentile)
• Thoughts about the Design Master Class (Laila Bougria)
• Mid Atlantic Roadshow – October to December Tour (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL Server Basic Mathematical Functions (Richard Carr)
• SQLAuthority News – First Editorial – T-SQL Challenges Beginners (Pinal Dave)
• Win A Copy Of SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• How to Make your own Ringtones in Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Remote Desktop Services Architecture (Steven Bink)
• Facebook Keyboard Navigation Makes Facebook Easier to Jump Around (Kevin Purdy)
• What’s new in PowerGUI 1.9.5 (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #454 (Chris Alcock)
• LINKBLOG for October 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: October 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #560 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 381 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 13th October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC and NHibernate Framework Architecture (Quach Nguyen)
• iTextSharp – HTML to PDF – Parsing HTML (Dave M. Bush)
• How to Access JavaScript Variables on Postback in ASP.NET (Deepak Choudhari)
• ASP.NET MVC Calendar component (Gunnar Peipman)
• NerdDinner On Azure – Take 2 (Jim O’Neil)
• Lots of buzz about MvcContrib! (Jeffrey Palermo)
• MS Azure and Green Computing (Peter Koen)
• Programmatically Creating Website Thumbnails (Rob Bazinet)
• ASP.NET Membership Tip: Requiring New Users To Change Their Password When Logging On For The First Time (Scott Mitchell)
• Dynamic Data Custom Field Template – Values List, Take 2 (Steve Naughton)
• Fluent Sharp NHibernate Persistence Configuration, or “How to build credibility through OSS name dropping” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 12: DataSet (Brad Abrams)
• Simple column labels you can create at home! [Re-Templating the Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization ColumnDataPoint to add annotations] (David Anson)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Navigation (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Version Compatibility (Hanu Kommalapati) – Link of the Day
• Bindorama – Binding Craziness now for Silverlight too! (Josh Twist)
• The Silverlight 3 Toolkit ( July 09 ) (Mike Taulty)
• WPF Wonders: 3D Drawing (Rod Stephens)
• Use Try/Catch Block with Analytics Object (Silverlight 3 bug) (snoutholder)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding Controls on Forms (Deborah Kurata)
• Iterator Blocks, Part Six: Why no unsafe code? (Eric Lippert)
• Visual Studio 2010 RIP List (Partial) (Habib Heydarian)
• Method to Release COM Object References (Srinath MS)
• Combining two disparate collections (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Log Elmah errors in Team Foundation Server (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Overview of Visual Studio Team System 2010 for Developers (Part 1) (Subodh Sohoni)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pet Peeve Code Smell: Multiple Calls to a Method in a Block (Bobby Johnson)
• Macto, or How To Build a Prison (Oren Eini)
• Event Aggregator Using the Magnum Pipeline (Chris Patterson)
• Tests are not ‘Tasks’ you put on a backlog… (Derik Whittaker)
• Reading Code: Rhino Mocks (Mark Needham)
• Deadly Poison of Lazy Loading and not following Design Guidelines (Wesley Bakker)
• Architecting for Desktop Virtualization – Part 1: Rethink ClickOnce (Jeremy Jarrell)
• How to Interact with Your Team as a Manager (Steve Rowe)
• Static Typing vs. Dynamic Typing (Michael Feathers)
• Can Managers Lead Agile Teams? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Community / Events

• Intuit Backs a New Open Source Community (Andres Ferrate)
• Call for Nominations – PASS Board of Directors (Andy Warren)
• A Deleted Response to a TFS Blog Post (Ben Scheirman)
• Unethical behavior (Oren Eini)
• Don’t be such a #@%#! Lazy Programmer! (Dave M. Bush)
• Are you a Developer or Designer in the NY/NJ/PA area using Microsoft Software? Let’s chat! and Looking to create a more compelling experience for your users? Silverlight? WPF? Expression? Does it all sound like gibberish? The Mid Atlantic Roadshow is coming to your backyard! (Dave Isbitski)
• Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers (Gunnar Peipman)
• Nobody Has a Duty to Teach (Max Pool)
• All C# Compiler Developer Team blogs (Kirill Osenkov)
• Please sign the official “Bring Sara Ford to TechEd Australia” petition! (Sara Ford)
• Session Submission is now open for SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship (Sam Gentile)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Scott Hanselman on scaling websites with caching (Bob Familiar)
• Some useful WMI webcasts (K. Mathur)
• Ping 22: Microsoft & Linux BFF’s! Xbox handheld coming, Bing Jingle, Win a Surface (Laura Foy)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 101 (Part 2) (Dux Raymond Sy)

Database

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Design Process Decision Flow (Pinal Dave)
• The Case For Renaming Controls In a Reporting Services Report (Thomas Williams)
• Hey Developers! Tune your SQL! (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Bing Could Be Improved with Online Game (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Laplink Releases "PCmover" Utility for Upgrading Windows XP to Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• 10 Ways To Bing It! (Deepak Kapoor)
• Canonical and ShortUrl on Channel9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
• Windows 7: The Best Vista Service Pack Ever (Jeff Atwood)
• Windows 7 Is NOT a "Vista Service Pack" (Sasha Goldshtein) – Sasha rebuts Jeff’s article.
• Microsoft Wave launched (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft entices Windows Mobile developers with chance to win Surface table (Tim Conneally)
• Version Control with Git Book Review (Mike Riley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 27, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #398 and The Morning Brew #399 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2009 — #656 and Silverlight Cream for July 26, 2009 — #655 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 27th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links of the week #85 – “Back from Amsterdam” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Link Post 103 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Leveraging The Windows Forms WebBrowser Control (For The Win) (Charles Chen)
• Dispose, Finalize and SuppressFinalize (Dave M. Bush)
• Telerik Does LINQ to "M" (Chris Sells)
• Microsoft.Scripting.Debugging (Harry Pierson)
• Dotfuscator 4.5.1200 (Joe Kuemerle)
• F#: Convert sequence to comma separated string (Mark Needham)
• LINQ to M is available (Stephen Forte)
• Domain driven reports: adding custom code (Peter Van Ooijen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile in 500 words… and An Updated p&p Agile Showcase (Ade Miller)
• Refactoring challenge Part 2 – Preparation (Jimmy Bogard)
• Dynamic Languages: A Separation of Concerns (Chris Sells) – Link of the Day
• The essence of Lean software development (Corey Ladas)
• ‘Make it Happen / Whatever it Takes Attitude’ (Dave Schinkel)
• Testing With "The Force" (Jeff Atwood)
• Python and Ruby, Silverlight, and testing (Jeff Wilcox)
• Reuse: Is the Dream Dead? (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Error Handling – an Anecdote (Michael Janke)
• I’d Rather Be Wrong! (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Get Browser Information In Silverlight (Deepak Kapoor)
• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-7 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Day #9: Using Keystrokes in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Silverlight FloatableWindow update: start position and resizable (Tim Heuer)
• Deep Zoom Composer – June Preview Features Explained (Sunshine)

Web Development

• Kapow – ETL for HTML (Jamie Thomson)
• Retrofit ASP.NET Aspx Urls with System.Web.Routing (Louis DeJardin)
• Preserving Existing Events in JavaScript (Marc Grabanski)
• Dynamic Data Custom Field Template – Values List (Stephen Naughton)
• Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database (Raju Vegesna)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• IE 8 Firestarter: Developing for IE8 (MS Events)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #125: Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to Stub & Fake Data (Derik Whittaker)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “The VP-geebees” (Devon Musgrave)
• Downloadable Videos from NDC (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Herding Code 53: SubSonic 3.0 Release Party with Rob Conery (Jon Galloway)
• ToolShed Tooltip #18 – Using Live ID in your Application (Russell Fustino)
• Conversation with Muness Alrubaie (Corey Haines)
• Applying Effects to Bitmap Images using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)

Community / Events

• The Lounge Survey Pt. 1 (James Avery)
• Web Rumble ’09 (Karl Seguin)

Database

• SQL Server Decode/Encode unicode data (George Mastros)
• Agile Database Techniques (Gert Drapers)
• How to search for all words inclusive without using Full Text search (Naomi)
• A couple of ways of getting the top 2 distinct values from a set in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Microsoft SQL Services Is Now Microsoft SQL Azure, More Software + Services News Next Week At WPC09 (Sunshine)

SharePoint

• A Primer to SharePoint Security (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s MSDN Releases "VHD Tool" to Create & Modify VHD Properties for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• The 9 Books That Helped My Career and I Recommend (Chris Woodruff)
• Windows 7 Family Pack, Anytime Upgrade prices leak (Ed Bott)
• Sinofsky promotion to Windows president much deserved, but Ballmer should have done it sooner (Joe Wilcox)
• File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) Release Candidate available for download (Jose Barreto)
• Why Chrome OS Now? Because Microsoft Office In The Cloud Comes Monday. (MG Siegler)
• OS evolution (Rockford Lhotka)
• Features Aren’t Magically Born (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #386 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 08, 2009 — #632 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 339 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 8th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) and Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Agent and Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) and F# May 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Scalar and Void Functions (Dan Rigsby)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet (Dan Fernandez)
• IronPython 2.6 CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 and IronPython 2.6 Beta 1 (Harry Pierson)
• General Download of VS2010 / .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 (Jason Zander)
• Surface Development Part 3: ScatterView (Jennifer Marsman)
• WinFormsMVC (Steve Andrews) – Link of the Day
• IronRuby CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 and IronRuby 0.5 Released (Jimmy Schementi)
• Entity Framework 4 Persistence-Ignorance First Look (Muhammad Mosa)
• Parallel Stacks – another new VS2010 debugger window and VS2010 Fix for "not all anonymous methods are the same" (Daniel Moth)
• First few VS 2010 extensions are now available (Quan To)
• C# 4 and the dynamic keyword – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 and Back to Basics: Using Fusion Log Viewer to Debug Obscure Loader Errors (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Start Page Customization (Adrian)
• VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 Released (Michael Ceranski)
• .NET Framework 4.0: Using System.Lazy (Gunnar Peipman)
• Parameter Count Mismatch Error (Shahar Yair)
• T4 Toolbox: LINQ to SQL schema generator (Oleg Sych)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Can you justify your actions with regards to this pattern? (Oren Eini)
• An Agile CM Manifesto: Lame Oxymoron or Long Overdue? (Brad Appleton)
• Reducing Code Coupling – Introduction and Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit 2nd Ed. (Grant Palin)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 1 (Rajiv Popat)
• Art Of Unit Testing (The Samurai Book)– Get it now, it’s done. (Roy Osherove)
• Caricature Ready for Beta (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• To CI or not to CI, did not realize it was still even a question? (Derik Whittaker)
• Throttling the Agile Enterprise (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• 3 essentials to quickly learning Blend (Corey Schuman)
• Silverlight Visual Studio helper files (Tim Heuer)
• NET RIA Services: Building Data-Driven Business Applications with Microsoft Silverlight3 and Microsoft ASP.NET (Jeff Barnes)

Web Development

• jQuery Progressbar (Dave M. Bush)
• Book review: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Simone Chiaretta)
• CSS Tabeless Design Basics – Positioning Content with Floats instead of Tables (Dave Schinkel)
• Automatically minify and combine JavaScript in Visual Studio (Dave Ward)
• Password FieldTemplates for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Consume an ASP.NET WebService returning List<> with Dates using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ECMAScript 5 Objects and Properties (John Resig)
• ASP.NET MVC Domain Routing (Maarten Balliauw)
• FireAtlas – FireBug for ASP.NET Ajax (Joe Stagner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ten Things that Annoy Miguel Castro (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – David Makogon on Architecting Interface to Improve Testability (Bob Familiar)
• 10-4 Episode 20: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Brian Keller)
• MetraTech: Polymorphic Iterators, Concurrency, CRM and MetraFlow and Luke Hoban: Latest version of F# Released – What’s the story? What’s next? and Microsoft Manufacturing Toolkit (Charles Torre)
• New Screencast: Custom Sprocs in Entity Framework (Dan Rigsby)
• Geneva Server, Windows CardSpace Geneva, Information Cards and PHP Interoperability (Donovan Follette)
• Catching up with Paul Culmsee-Episode 24 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)
• History of User Experience (Pixel8 Podcast)

Community / Events

• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow – Summer 2009 (Zhiming Xue)
• The state of Open Source in the .NET ecosystem: A five year summary (Oren Eini)
• Twitter contest: what can you code in 130 characters? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• CMAP Hands On Labs Group Meeting – Silverlight – Thursday, May 21st at 6:30pm (Christopher Steen)

Database

• SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: ) (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS and SSRS Usergroup Available Online (Simon Sabin)
• IDENTITY vs. ROWGUID (Rob Teixeira)

PowerShell

• V2 Quick Tips: Finding Extra Outputs From Your Script (James Brundage)

SharePoint

• SharePoint on SharePoint: Launch of new website (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Blogging about Pex, let us know! (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Mozilla’s Jetpack to bring next generation add-ons (Josh Lowensohn)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 3 – Detailed Notes (Justin Etheredge)
• CardSpace v2 moving into a new role? (Keith Brown)
• Kumo, Bing, or ???: Are secrets extinct? (Kip Kniskern)
• Ray Ozzie Asserts Microsoft’s Position In The Cloud (Leena Rao)
• A first glimpse of virtualization in Windows 7 (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Learn iPhone Development for Free (Rob Bazinet)
• How to receive email notifications for work items – #033 (Sara Ford)
• Microsoft’s Beginner’s Guide To Cloud Computing (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for May 20, 2009 — #597 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 20th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 19th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• CloudNews for May 20th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• LINKBLOG for May 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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