• Windows 8, What Does It Mean to Me? (Peter Ritchie)
• Decoding Windows 8 UX Principles– Let Context breathe instead of the UI! (Scott Barnes)
• Inheritance and Representation (Eric Lippert)
• Dependency Management in .Net: Using NuGet without Visual Studio (Derek Greer)
• Microsoft’s new Windows 8 contracts: The debut of the developer clipboard (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• More on Async, Win8, and C# (Bill Wagner)
• Checking Password Strength (Richard Carr)
• How SignalR killed RavenMQ (Oren Eini)
• What’s new in WCF Web API Preview 5 – introducing the test client (Alexander Zeitler)
• F# type providers – as if by magic… (Ivan Towlson)
• Day 2: Building a Metro App with Visual Studio 11 Express (Stephen Forte)
• Database changes between TFS 2010 and TFS 2011 (Tarun Arora)
• O’ Reilly Deal of the Day 20/Sep/2011 – CLR via C#, Third Edition (Tatworth)
• Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part IV) – Connecting Multiple Kinect Devices with System and Navigate Code Using Code Definition Window in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Use EF 4.0 or not ? (Ankit Agrawal)
• Review of InRule v 4.0 Business Rule Authoring system (Bill Osuch)
• Quick tip: Adding objects in resources. (Laurent Bugnion)
• Running C++ AMP kernels on the CPU (Daniel Moth)
• SharpDevelop 5 – NRefactory 5 + semantic highlighting (Daniel Grunwald)
• Are .Net programmers planning to abandon Win 8? (Don Burnett)
• Using Netduino to monitor Twitter and Kinect Panorama Viewer (Greg Duncan)
• Mono for Android Release 1.2.0 (Xamarin Team)

Web Development

• Practical Google+ Api (Giorgio Sironi)
• JSHint – a JavaScript code quality checker (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Tip #110 Did you know … How to referencing root project’s master page’s properties from sub project’s content page? (Xinyang Qiu)
• Calling the Yahoo Term Extraction from C# to generate keywords (for web page, etc) (Greg Duncan)
• How to Get Diagnostics Info for Azure/PHP Applications–Part 1 (Brian Swan)
• How do I use Sinatra to access the Google+ API? (Satish Talim)
• Creating an OData Server Quickly (Jesse Liberty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Parenting (Jag Reehal)
• Goal Setting and Routines (John Sonmez)
• Technical Anti Patterns Arising from Social Inadequacy (Roy Osherove)
• The Purpose of Time Tracking (Jurgen Appelo)
• IT Scenarios for the Cloud (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building a Reminder Application in Windows Phone Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
• Phone7.Fx : How to use the IOC Container and MVVM (Nicolas Humann)
• Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 Release Candidate (Michael Crump)
• Windows 8 and what it means for Silverlight and the coming Slate Wars (David Kelley)
• 2000 WPF Things #390 – Scrollbar Visibility in a ScrollViewer (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.0.0.400 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 017: David Hahn (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Jay Schmelzer Builds Apps With LightSwitch (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• How Do I: Cross Domain Requests (xdr) and How Do I: Use the Animation Control in MFC? and How Do I: Use Implicit Line Continuation in Visual Basic 10? (MS Podcasts)
• Community Megaphone Show #31 with Guest David Giard (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Live at BUILD – interview with Rafael Rivera and Long Zheng (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone Radio–42 (Foursquare video) (Brian Seitz)

Community / Events

• Learn from Windows Azure Experts at the Seattle Interactive Conference, November 2-3, 2011 (Windows Azure Team)
• Here’s the one Microsoft Windows 8 slide that everyone wants to redo (Mary Jo Foley)
• Business Intelligence Code Camp–October 15th (Jim O’Neil)
• WindowsPhoneGeek Community Recognition Program officially Announced! (Windows Phone Geek)
• Some Thoughts About My Week at Build and Windows 8 (Robby Ingebretsen)
• BUILT: Post-Conference Conversations After Microsoft BUILD (Mike Desmond)
• Webinar: Top 5 Unit Testing Problems in C++ Legacy Code and How to Solve Them and Webinar: Using Typemock Isolator to speed the development of SharePoint Web Parts (Typemock)
• Visual Studio BUILD sessions and Tips & Tricks Cheat Sheet (Weston Hutchins)

Database

• SSIS: How to Remove Occasional Quotes and Replace The Column Delimiter (Arthur Zubarev)
• Building a Visual Studio project from an existing SSAS database (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – Date and Time Functions – EOMONTH() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
• Performance Tuning – Over the Top Biz Logic (Jason Brimhall)

SharePoint

• Client Object Models Operation in SharePoint Online Solutions (SharePoint Developer Team)

PowerShell

• Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) #1 Available for Download (Travis Jones)

Miscellaneous

• Android > iOS (And Other Statistics) (Alex Miller)
• Book Review: Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Line of Business Systems Integration (Charles Young)
• Windows 8 and the up and coming Hardware Revolution (Keith Elder)
• New book: Microsoft OneNote 2010 Plain & Simple (Kim Spilker)
• Take Control of Windows 8 with Metro UI Tweaker (Mark Wilson)
• Microsoft: Desktop apps will run on Windows 8 on ARM (Mary Jo Foley)
• Recent Thoughts On Hiring and Being Hired (Jay C. Fields)
• Preparing for Handsets (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 19, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (9/19/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Afternoon Tea – Monday 19th September and The Morning Brew #941 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 09/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #712 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 19 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream Top 5 News for September 12-18, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Link dump for September 19th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

Azure in Action by Chris Hay

Top Links

• Spec Explorer 2010 Release 3.4 now available! (Xiang Li)
• More on Microsoft ‘Jupiter’ and what it means for Windows 8 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Navigation in a #WP7 application with MVVM Light (Laurent Bugnion)
• SayIt, don’t spray it! [Free program (and source code) makes it easy to use text-to-speech from your own programs and scripts] (David Anson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to setup multiple startup projects in Visual Studio? and Exception Occurred ? – Get Troubleshooting tips from your favorite blogs (Abhijit Jana)
• The design of RavenDB’s attachments (Oren Eini)
• Complied Queries in LINQ and Remote and Local execution of Query in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET – Finding an Item’s Index in IEnumerable<T> (James Michael Hare)
• LINQ Lycanthropy: Transformations into LINQ (Michael Sorens)
• Managing Connections with SQL Azure and Entity Framework (EF Team)
• MonoDroid Bridges .NET with Android (Abel Avram)
• First NuGet Experience (Davy Brion)
• .NET Extensions – Extension Methods Library for C# and VB.NET – Release: v2011.03 and Json.NET 4.0 Release 1 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• WCF REST Service Activation Errors when AspNetCompatibility is enabled (Rick Strahl)
• Entity Framework with SQL Server Compact 4.0 and ASP.NET – Dynamic Data, OData, deployment (part two) (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• Razor Syntax Quick Reference (Phil Haack)
• Book review: Pro HTML5 Programming (Jef Claes)
• How to Bin Deploy SQL Compact Edition 4.0 and Razor web projects (Anh Phan)
• Customizing ELMAH’s Error Emails (Scott Mitchell)
• Razor Tip #1 (K. Scott Allen)
• I Think I Know What Web 3.0 Is, Its Not Semantic (Chris Love)
• Migrating World Maps To Azure (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Cloud Throw Down: Part 4 – Perspectives on PaaS (Adron Hall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Coming up next in OpenWrap… (Sebastien Lambla)
• Putting mocks in their place (Jimmy Bogard)
• Can You Really Create A Business Logic Layer? (Ken Downs)
• Automated Testing is Like Optimizing (Fredrik Olsson)
• Foundations of Programming 2 – Chapter 3 – IoC 180 (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Blend Bits 20–Group Into (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #18 – MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts 3 and Entity Framework Code-First, oData & Windows Phone Client (Jesse Liberty)
• Video Series: “Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners” (Joey deVilla)
• Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight) – by Colin E. (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Tools for the lazy: Templify and NuGet (Maarten Balliauw)
• WPF & Silverlight Grids – Faster Creation Using CodeRush Templates and a Custom Plug-in (Mark Miller)
• Prevent your Silverlight XAP file from caching in your browser. (Michael Crump)
• My wish list for Windows Phone 7 (Simone Chiaretta)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 14 (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• BenkoTips Live and On Demand: What’s New in ASP.NET Web Forms 4 (MS Podcasts)
• C9 Lectures: Greg Meredith – Monadic Design Patterns for the Web 3 of n (Charles Torre)
• The Engadget Podcast Show 002: CES 2011 Part 2 – 01.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Learning Umbraco from the Master (Martin Beeby)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Dining On Campus (Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
• Microsoft Touch Mouse (Larry Larsen)
• David Molnar and Margus Veanes – BEK – Domain Specific Language for String Manipulation Functions (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Silverlight TV 56: WCF RIA Services and Azure (John Papa)

Community / Events

• NYC Code Camp: Call for Sessions!! (Stephen Forte)
• Congratulations to the new and renewed Client App Dev MVPs! (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft CES 2011 – More on Kinect, Surface 2.0 and the Touch Mouse (Jeff Meisner)
• Microsoft and Samsung Unveil the Next Generation of Surface (Eric Havir)
• Mono at CES: More Games (Miguel de Icaza)
• Party with Palermo: MVP Summit 2011 – save the date (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• SQL Server Index Tuning for Mere Mortals (Glenn Berry)
• “Effective Clustered Indexes” (Think “Clustered Indexes in-depth from a real world, major SQL Server shop, DBA”) (Greg Duncan)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Recursive SSIS Package (6/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_exec_query_optimizer_info – Statistics of Optimizer (Pinal Dave)
• CHECKDB running every minute? Check Database Properties (Pradeep Adiga)
• Three Mistakes I Made With MongoDB (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME (Kendra Little)

SharePoint

• New SharePoint Developer Features in VS2010 SP1 – Unit Testing and IntelliTrace (Saaid Khan)

Miscellaneous

• Mobile Phones + Savings: A Powerful Pair (Bill Gates)
• Introducing Microsoft Surface 2.0—our vision for healthcare (Bill Crounse)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Building Wireless Sensor Networks – $13.99 (Save 50%) Code DDBWN (O’Reilly Media)
• Project Emporia available for Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)
• Evernote app for Windows Phone 7 to launch ‘this winter’ (Vlad Bobleanta)
• WMI Code Creator (Thomas LaRock)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – January 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• My 2010 Posts and Windows Client Developer Roundup 053 for 1/6/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Recent Knowledge Base Articles Posted (Richard Hay)
• Top 10 SilverlightShow Articles for Year 2010 and Daily News Digest 01/07/2011 and Daily News Digest 01/06/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #765 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (2nd Edition) (Effective Software Development Series) by Bill Wagner

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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)

The Geek Shelf

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

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Top Links

• Announcing availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 (Somasegar)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning XNA 3.0 – Only $9.99 Use code DDLXN (O’Reilly Media)
• Introducing Autofac 2.1 RTW (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Steve Jobs admits iTunes for Windows is a sub-standard app (Jon Johansen)
• Understanding T4: MSBuild Integration (Oleg Sych)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Fluent Email in .NET (Luke Lowrey)
• Generic Types (Richard Carr)
• How to Create, Develop, Deploy Windows Azure App (Bruce Kyle)
• Optional Parameters and Auto-Implemented Properties (Deborah Kurata)
• How to use WMI from a .NET Application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using the Undo and Redo Stack and Change the Tooltip Font Size (Zain Naboulsi)
• Making the Most of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Zachariah Young)
• Ship It!! Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 Now Available (Jason Zander)

Web Development

• XML and XSL Transformation in ASP.NET MVC – XmlActionResult (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Lazy Loading jQuery Collapsible Panel in ASP.Net Using JSON (Satheesh Babu)
• What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 – ClientID Generation for a Cleaner MarkUp (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Automating ASP.NET MVC deployments using Web Deploy (Jeffrey Palermo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Working with Legacy code #3 : Build a safety net. (Andrew Stopford)
• Application Architecture Guide Layer Diagrams – Patterns & Practices (David Hayden)
• Productivity Tip: Reducing Your Talk-Time And Getting Some Real Work Done. (Rajiv Popat)
• What is a Domain Event? (Greg Young)
• Why Agile Results? (J.D. Meier)
• Balsamiq Biweekly Release: version 1.7! (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Event Bubbling and Tunneling (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• SpellChecker in WPF (Abhishek Sur)
• 30 seconds from File|New to a new CRUD Silverlight application with Telerik’s new LINQ Implementation (Stephen Forte)
• Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight – Part Three (Corrina Barber)
• WPF: Binding to Anonymous Types from LINQ (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 151: Paul’s Tent Pole (Paul Thurrott)
• Whirlwind 9: Introducing C# 4 and Whirlwind 10: What’s new in C# 4: Dynamic Lookup and Whirlwind 11: What’s new in C# 4 – Named & Optional Parameters (Bruce Kyle)
• Episode 109 – PowerScripting Podcast – v2 Experts Panel (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast 13 : Women in Technology (David Starr)
• Engadget Podcast 191 – 04.11.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Major Nelson Show 356: PAX East wrap up and Splinter Cell Conviction (Larry Hyrb)
• Introducing AppFabric: Moving .NET to the Cloud by Aaron Skonnard and What’s new in Silverlight 4: Part 2 by Mike Taulty (Matthijs Hoekstra)

Community / Events

• The local Microsoft .Net Community and why you SHOULD attend a CodeCamp (Dave Isbitski)
• SQLAuthority News – Spot the SQLAuthority Baby Contest – SQL Server Cheat Sheet (Pinal Dave)
• Watch the Visual Studio 2010 launch live! (Joseph Mirabella)
• The Worldwide MVP Community Joins Together This Week (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• That No SQL Thing – Document Databases (Oren Eini)
• SQL SERVER – What is MDS? – Master Data Services in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
• A DMV a Day – Day 11 and A DMV a Day – Day 12 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (11/30) database mirroring failover is instantaneous (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• What NOT to Migrate into SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Download Free "Visual Studio Theme" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Awesomium 1.6 Alpha (Chris Cavanagh)
• Making presentations that stick (Garr Reynolds)
• Daily Dose – Yahoo’s CTO Quits (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 11, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #577 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 10, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 11, 2010 — #836 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #115 (David Vidmar)
• Cheetsheet: 2010 04.08 ~ 04.11 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #100 (Grant Palin)
• Everyman on Specializing, Community Interaction, Inventing the Future, Solar Paint (Dave Burke)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/12/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 140 (Rhonda Tipton)
• 10 New Articles; 10 More Ways to Learn the Google Wave APIs (Pamela Fox)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Visual Studio 2010

Top Links

• Comparing NHibernate and EF4 (Chris Sells)
• Add a Flickr widget to any web site with jQuery (Dan Hounshell)
• WPF for the Web guy…a story of pain, despair and learning (Scott Galloway)
• Passing NULL into Overloaded Methods in unit tests… (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight TV Episode 3: Multi-Touch 101 with Silverlight (John Papa)
• Bill Gates launches new site, offering peek inside his mind (Todd Bishop)
• Windows Phone teaser for Mix10 (Kip Kniskern)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing a Parallelized Octree in F# (Ade Miller)
• The Project Location Is Not Trusted (Dave M. Bush)
• Looks the same – with half the overhead! [Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code gives more compact output; Can you do better?] (David Anson)
• A new feature request for C# I would like is fall through exceptions (Derik Whittaker)
• Controlling Application Lifetime In Topshelf and Configuring Topshelf Using A StructureMap Container (Kevin Miller)
• Functional collectional parameters: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Using Generate from Usage — vstipEdit0011 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Much Ado About Monads – Creating Extended Builders Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• UML Modeling and Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Provost)

Web Development

• My Favorite Helpers For ASP.NET MVC (Rob Conery)
• IIS Tools – truck load of them at www.iis.net (Harish Ranganathan)
• Build an AJAX-Enabled Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Part 3 (Bogdan Zamfir)
• Large or asynchronous file uploads in ASP.NET MVC (Daniel Crenna)
• ASP.NET Support in ReSharper 5 (Hadi Hariri)
• Implementing a jQuery Modal Window in ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Click and Retrieve the Value of a GridView Cell using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Using Custom Security Attributes in ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ceranski)
• Performance Optimizations Made By Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo JavaScript Minimizers (Nick Berardi)
• HttpContext.Items and Server.Transfer/Execute (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Collaboration Patterns – Part 1 and Collaboration Patterns – Part 2 (Andy Warren)
• When the design violates the principle of least surprise, you don’t close it as By Design (Oren Eini)
• If It’s Not Working, Change Your Approach (JD Meier)
• Pollyanna Pixton on Agile Leadership (Christophe Louvion)
• Good Managers Sometimes Have to Play Assholes (Jurgen Appelo)
• Scrum Anti-Pattern: NOT Prioritising Stories Within Sprints (Karl Scotland)
• Using Glance to visualize Code Metrics (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: Themes (Deborah Kurata)
• Creating torn images (Coding4Fun)
• My Silverlight 4 Book Now Available for Pre-Order (Frank La Vigne)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.8 (Koen Zwikstra)
• XamlPadSample – Step 1 (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 39: CLR 4 Security and Sandboxing (Jason Olson)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #80 (Jeff Atwood)
• Craig Mundie shows off the future of NUI (Laura Foy)
• MVC 2 – Template Helpers and MVC 2 – Areas and MVC 2 – DataAnnotations and Parallel Computing (Martin Esmann)
• This Week in Testing Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 2) (Dror Helper)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Follow up, 6 months later, On Managing People with Chris Sells (Scott Hanselman)
• Authoring and Running Manual Tests in Visual Studio 2010 using Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16 & 18, 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Asking the Mountain To Come To You (Rob Conery)
• What do I have in store and hope for 2010 (Chris Woodruff)
• Life With My Geek: The Cave Phenomenon (Elle Starr)
• Zoho Reaches Out To Open Source Community (Krishnan Subramanian)
• My CodeMash 2010 experience (Bill Wagner)
• ALT.NET: Looks Like its Introspection Time Again! (Steve Bohlen)
• What can you get with 10KB of Ruby or Python code? (Jimmy Schementi)

Database

• Performance Tuning Methodology Preferences (Buck Woody)
• XML Validation in SQL Server Intergration Services (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Step by step (aka Dummies or Busy Dev Guy) guide to installing SharePoint 2010 in a virtual machine free eBook (Reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• How to Remove Corrupted SharePoint Sites – Preparing for SharePoint 2010 Upgrade (Joel Oleson)
• BCS Secure Store Services (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Google Chrome OS the Easy Way (Chris Leeds)
• Introducing the Windows Experience Pack (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Intuit and Microsoft Sign Deal to Serve SMBs (Ben Kepes)
• Free ebook: First Look Microsoft Office 2010 (Devon Musgrave)
• “What’s New for Developers in Outlook 2010” (Greg Duncan)
• Perform asynchronous asset management using Windows Powershell cmdlets for WMI (Kapil Mathur)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: The Sustainable Network — Only $9.99! Use discount code TSNE9 (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Research Works on “Mental Tagging” of Images (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Jan 20, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: January 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #522 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 20, 2010 — #783 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

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Top Links

• Microsoft Confirms Xbox Natal To Ship "Holiday 2010" (Kat Hannaford)
• NBDN Remote Pilot/Beta – February 8-12 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• TDD: 4 questions that will help you create the simplest thing that could possibly work (Roy Osherove)
• Silverlight HVP Proof Of Concept Released! (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

• jQuery and ASP.NET UpdatePanel (Dave M. Bush)
• Bob Dylan Meets HTML5 (Molly E. Holzschlag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to effectively define a sufficient set of BDD scenarios/Acceptance tests? (Gojko Adzic)
• Event Driven Architecture: Publishing Events using an IOC container (Jarod Ferguson)
• 3 Ways to Know Something (JD Meier)
• How Dovetail uses StructureMap with NHibernate (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Architecture Journal 22: Taking BI Beyond the Business Analyst (Mike Walker)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms (Fredrik Normen)
• Silverlight and styles (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Silverlight 4 OOB: Please remove the My-Folders restriction. It doesn’t work anyways. (Ingo Rammer)
• The ultimate hack for Silverlight in Blend (Josh Smith)
• Fonts and Silverlight (Koen Zwikstra)
• iMeta Agility & Silverlight (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SQL Azure Lessons Learned: Telerik (Ben Riga)
• Mike Ziock: Microsoft Online Services Operations (Charles Torre)
• ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Framework Fundamentals and Practices and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: ASP.NET MVC and AJAX and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Rendering Markup and Working with Data and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Routing and Controllers (Emily Gibson)
• The Access Show: Access Developer contest – win an Xbox 360, Zune, or Windows 7 (Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• 2009 highlights and plans for 2010 – part 2 (Simon Brown)
• Blend and design-focused MIX10 Open Call Entries (Adam Kinney)

Database

• MERGE and OUTPUT – the swiss army knife of T-SQL (Jamie Thomson)
• How to obtain RecordCount (or Number of cases) from a DMX query (Steve Simon)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Content Type Publishing Setup (Charles Chen)
• Sharepoint and MbUnit (Andrew Stopford)
• SharePoint Visual Studio 2010 extensions on CodePlex SPVSX (Paul Andrew)
• Editing .cmp files to fix lookup field issues (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Leveraging WMI to Monitor Your Enterprise (Mike Ceranski)
• Video Review: Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Card for Digital Cameras and Your Life’s Workflow (Scott Hanselman)
• Why do big companies suck? (Scott Berkun)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #511 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 6-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer)

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Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

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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

• Using F# Discriminated Unions in C# (Beta2) (Jared Parsons)
• Simple Linq to Sql Enhancements with T4 Templating (Nathan Bridgewater)
• IronPython 2.0.3 and 2.6 RC2 (Harry Pierson)
• TFB210602: Failed to copy. (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• A Chance to Influence the MSDN Visual Studio Documentation (Help System) (Charlie Calvert)
• VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue (Brittany Behrens)
• Windows7 Trigger Start Services – Part 2: Building a Trigger Start Optimized Service (Yochay Kiriaty)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Creating Drill Down Reports (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET 4 Web Server Here Shell Extension (Phil Haack)
• Optimize your web site for search engines using the SEO Toolkit (MS Web Platform Team)
• Using PHP within the Expression Development Server (Chris Leeds)
• Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP developers (Maarten Balliauw)
• 12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Simone Chiaretta)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (5 in a series) – What the Frig is a View Model (Sara J. Chipps) – Link of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An epic bug story (Oren Eini)
• MVC Web Testing Strategies – verifying content (Jimmy Bogard)
• TestDriven.Net 3.0 Alpha – Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Jamie Cansdale)
• Stop Exposing Collections Already! (Davy Brion)
• The SOA Manifesto – Pointlessness Manifested (Harry Pierson)
• Developer Codpieces (Leon Bambrick)
• The Most Productive Programming Language (Dave Laribee)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF is the future, get over it, post of the day – “Are desktop developers ignoring WPF at their peril?” (Greg Duncan)
• New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects and d:DesignInstance, d:DesignData in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Karl Shifflett)
• 10 Expression Blend 3 Tutorials for Silverlight available for download (Adam Kinney)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 1 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight Live Streaming being discontinued. What now? (Rene Schulte)
• New Silverlight Tooling Support in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Visual Web Developer Team)
• Inserting a Silverlight Navigation and Slideshow into Your Web Page (Silverlight Team)
• Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
• Obfuscation of WPF applications (status update) (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: Windows Presentation Foundation with Todd Fine (MS Screencasts)
• Vacation of Fluent NHibernate: Monday ClassMaps (Bobby Johnson)
• Dave Thompson: Turning Software into Services (Charles Torre)
• Recorded PowerShell Introductory Session from Quest Connect (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Part 1 – Taking Sketched Code Towards Unity and Part 2 – Dependency Injection with Unity and Part 3 – Modularity with Prism and Part 4 – The Unity Bootstrapper and Part 5 – Moving to a Modular Silverlight Project and Part 7 – Commands and Part 8 – Loosely Coupled Events and Part 9 – Sharing Data with Region Contexts and Part 10 – A Larger Example – "Email Client" (Mike Taulty)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Tim Huckaby Full Length Interview (Tina)
• Access Web Databases and The Access Show (Office Team)

Community / Events

• Office and SharePoint Sessions at PDC (Ahmed El-Ramly)
• SharePoint Live Virtual Conference & Expo – November 5, 2009 (Andrew Connell)
• Google Groups is Dead (John Resig)
• Getting Geeky with Windows 7! My house party and visiting Best Buy on launch day. (Dave Isbitski)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Tuning the Performance of Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• FAST meets SharePoint – What’s Coming in Search for SharePoint 2010 (Nate Treloar)

Miscellaneous

• Google launches Android 2.0 SDK (Brad Linder)
• Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars [Gaming] (Adam Frucci)
• 7 on 7: Direct2D and DirectWrite (Jim O’Neil)
• Dear Microsoft: What’s the deal with Windows 7 upgrades? (Ed Bott)
• Google Wave will have an App Store too! (Sebastian Anthony)
• Windows Management Framework is here! (Nathan Burkhart)

More Link Collections

• SharePoint 2007 Posts: Recap (Pete Seale)
• LINKBLOG for Oct 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #464 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 — #717 and Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 – 2 — #718 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 27-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update (Brad Abrams)
• CloudNews for 27th October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• PowerCommands for Reflector 1.3 and Introducing Query Editor (Jason Haley)
• F# First Class Events – Composing Events Until Others (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Learning Scala via C# Part 1 – What Is Scala? (Justin Etheredge)
• TFS Build: _PublishedWebsites for exe and dll projects. Part 2 (Mike Hadlow)
• Using LINQ to Convert an Array Into a Generic List with C# (Peter Kellner)

Web Development

• Generate Metatags for ASP.NET Pages Dynamically (Deepak Choudhari)
• qTip Tooltip with jQuery UI ThemeRoller Support (Elijah Manor)
• Build pretty clean URL for your dynamic pages using JavaScript (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• A generic way to find ASP.NET ClientIDs with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
• Using Adaptive Streaming with Encoder 3 (Jeff Paries)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Technical Debt Quadrant (Martin Fowler)
• UI Mockups (Oren Eini) – Link of the Day
• Performance Counters Added to MassTransit (Chris Patterson)
• The Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Is Here! (David Hill)
• There’s Only One Thing You Can Learn From Code Coverage (Davy Brion)
• Integrating Exception Handling Into the Development Cycle (Lee Dumond)
• Cosmo: project status panel (Leon Bambrick)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 1 & 2 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• IncaBlocks Released, Thanks AgileZen and Kanban! (Michael C. Neel)
• The Art of Unit Testing (Michael Sonsino) – A review of Roy Osherove’s awesome book.
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 15. (Rajiv Popat)
• Gone are the Days of Simple Developer Tools (Rob Bazinet)
• A simple way to know you’re missing some leadership skills (Roy Osherove)
• Defining the problem : How business works (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Reducing Code Coupling – Dependency Injection (Grant Palin)
• Releasing psake v1.00 & psake v2.00 (James Kovacs)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pixel8 – Magic, Mind-Controlled Interfaces and What Makes an Experience Architect (Craig Shoemaker)
• ARCast.TV: Juval Lowy on The EnergyNet, the Next Software Boom (MS Podcasts)
• .NET Rocks! – Donald Farmer on Gemini (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV Special – Jim Wilt on Increasing Solution Adoption Success Using Architectural Skills (Bob Familiar)
• Immo Landwerth: Future Directions of Native Image Generation via NGen (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #70 (Jeff Atwood)
• Interview with Fujitsu on Document Scanning Systems with SharePoint-Episode 36 (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)
• Countdown to PDC09: Coding4Fun Meets PDC (Larry Larsen)
• PDC09 Workshop: Microsoft Technology Roadmap (Robert Hess)
• Water Cooler Interview with Eric Shupps (Kirk Evans)

Community / Events

• p&p Summit 2009: Developing for Multi-Core (Ade Miller)
• PDC 2009 – I can’t wait! (Brad Abrams)
• Unbridled Endorsement of the Best Code Camp Ever (Sara J. Chipps) – Philly.NET FTW!!!
• I’ll Give Away Signed Books + Mentoring Workshop Seats @ SharePoint Conference 2009 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow new dates announced! Arming you with Windows 7 and Silverlight keys to success. (Dave Isbitski)
• Southern Maryland GiveCamp Announced! : GiveCamp.org (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Awesome Scrum Developer Training coming to Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus (Peter Kellner)
• SQL University and why you should be attending (Ted Krueger)

Database

• UDF Overhead – A simple example (Dave Ballantyne)
• Considering surrogate keys for Unknown members (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Enable Automatic Statistic Update on Database (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure CTP 2 (Jim O’Neil)

Miscellaneous

• Integrated Interface for Google’s Services (Alex Chitu)
• Windows 7 on Family Guy: First Sneak Peek: (Blake Handler)
• Re-imagining the Desktop with 10/GUI (Frank La Vigne)
• Writing WMI providers FAQ series – 3 – Is it better to use embedded objects or association in a CIM model? (Kapil Mathur)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #455 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: October 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for October 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 14-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 14th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 382 (Sam Gentile)
• Double Shot #562 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day