• Eduasync part 18: Changes between the Async CTP and the Visual Studio 11 Preview (Jon Skeet)
• Day 1 results from the #smokedbywindowsphone $100 challenge (Ben Rudolph)
• Windows Phone 2011 Retrospective (Brandon Watson)
• Adding your own callbacks to existing JavaScript functions (Dave Ward)
• “Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (Jan 16th) (Scott Guthrie)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge (Oren Eini)
• Basic Volume Control (Richard Carr)
• Benjamin Day slides us into “How to be a C# ninja in 10 easy steps" and BugAid – Enhanced C# Debugging tool (and free for non-commercial open source projects too) (Greg Duncan)
• Kicking off StructureMap 3 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How can I detect the language a run of text is written in? (Raymond Chen)
• Kinect Apps – ensuring Kinect Runtime is installed (Rob Relyea)
• With Azure SDK 1.6, Azure Diagnostics is enabled by default can cause thousands of daily transections to Azure Storage (Avkash Chauhan)
• async \ await and Exception Handling (Bnaya Eshet)
• A brief overview of type system metadata in various languages (Dru Sellers)
• VS hangs for 1 minute on start debugging? Check for dead symbol paths! (Kirill Osenkov)

Web Development

• Using jQuery Deferred To Create Compound Objects From Multiple Asynchronous Data Sources (Ben Nadel)
• NetAdvantage For jQuery Chart – An HTML5/jQuery Chart Designed for Performance! (Graham Murray)
• Controlling Selection with CSS user-select (Sharon Newman)
• jQuery Grid – Showing Row Selectors & Selection (Jordan Tsankov)
• JSON serialization problems and solution in MVC3 (Nuri Halperin)
• Why is there Flash in the HTML5 version of Cut the Rope? (Robby Ingebretsen)
• Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development (Michael J. Ross)
• CSS Buttons with Pseudo-elements (Sergio Camalich)
• Advanced Random Numbers in JS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• PhpStorm 3.0: New and Noteworthy in Database Realm (Alexey Korsun)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Experts advise growing Agile projects with feature teams (Anand Vishwanath)
• Agile Project Management—Driving Value or Where’s the Beef? (Bob Galen)
• How Great Leaders Inspire Action – Simon Sinek (Peter Saddington)
• Forrester: Developer Testing Lowers Costs & Increases Quality (Avi Kaye)
• Integration testing with Azure development storage (Rory Primrose)
• Open/Closed Principle on real world code (Giorgio Sironi)
• Do Tests Get Too Much Respect? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Getting started with Git and GitHub (Simone Chiaretta)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Extending XAML Applications with Custom Commands and Getting Started with Coding4Fun Button Controls (Windows Phone Geek)
• Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) and Windows Embedded Silverlight Tools (MS Downloads)
• HttpWebRequest (WebClient) And Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #471 – How FlowDirection Works with the Image Element (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #7 – Check for Network Connections (Senthil Kumar)
• Joe Belfiore interview: Windows Phone will compete on quality, not specs (Vlad Savov)
• A WPF Custom Control for Zooming and Panning (Ashley Davis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Geek Out About Electricity! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ACMQ Online Programming Competition: Jan 1- Feb 12, 2012 (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 050 – “Silent and Invisible” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Boagworld: Give users a sense of control (Paul Boag)
• Windows Weekly 243: Live From CES (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Podcast 273: CES 2012 Day 3 – 01.11.2012 and The Vergecast 010: CES 2012 Day 1 – 01.11.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 281: CES 2012 – 01.11.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Inside Windows Phone #30 | Arturo Toledo is back (Larry Lieberman)
• The Engadget Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop at CES 2012 (video) (Myriam Joire)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 1 (Robert Green)
• VIDEO: Watch a Galaxy Nexus get #smokedbywindowsphone (Ben Rudolph)
• Phoenix Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• Magenic celebrates a few of its internal OSS developers… (Greg Duncan)
• CES 2012: Two new Nokia apps for Windows Phone coming soon – Nokia Transport and Nokia City Lens (damaster)
• Meet Todd Anglin – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)

Database

• The SSIS Expression Way–Skipping an Unwanted File (Arthur Zubarev)
• SQL Server – Backup to NUL trick – read throughput (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL SERVER – Non-Clustered Index and Automatic Rebuild – Quiz – Puzzle – 11 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Join Hint in SQL – Guest Post by Joydeep Das (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Now accepting more users for the Data Explorer Cloud service! (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites Installer Error: KB976462 Could Not Be Installed (Martin W. Angler)
• On Site SharePoint Experience UI/UX Branding Class with Dustin Miller and Heather Solomon (Joel Oleson)
• SharePoint 2010 Fluent Ribbon API Release 1.4 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Creating a WordPress and Blogging New Year’s Resolutions List (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules For Startups (Mark Cuban)
• Book Excerpt: "To The Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise" (Pankaj Arora)
• Using MessageBox Control Outside UpdatePanel Control (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango Commercial Release 2: What’s inside (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 086 for 1/11/2012 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #1020 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for January 11, 2011 – #0025 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #794 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/11/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/12/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 10-Jan-2012 and 11-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-11 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 Jan 2012: (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Jennifer Kyrnin

• Microsoft to launch LightSwitch cloud/desktop development tool on July 26 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Managing data in web applications with HTML5 Web Storage (Rachel Appel)
• Fubu, Spark, Diagnostics, and Validation (Josh Arnold)
• Uploading Data to a Service Operation (Glenn Gailey)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Get time of Code Execution Using StopWatch (Abhijit Jana)
• The First Rule of Threading: You Don’t Need Threads! (Mike Hadlow)
• F# User-Defined Numeric Literals (Neil)
• PLINQO for NHibernate 1.0 Released! and CodeSmith 4th of July Sale (T. DuPont)
• Content Update: Windows Azure Diagnostics API and Service Runtime API References Improved with New Descriptions and Code Examples (Windows Azure Team)
• CodeRush Tool Windows – Message Log (Alex Skorkin)

Web Development

• CSS3 Animation With jQuery Fallbacks (Addy Osmani)
• Adding sharing links to the blog–JavaScript edition (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Building a Twitter live search app with Knockout, jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 3 (Anders Fjeldstad)
• Using PC Hardware more efficiently in HTML5: New Web Performance APIs, Part 1 (Jatinder Mann)
• CRUD Operation with ASP.NET MVC and EFCodeFirst Part-2 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• How to navigate your app with jQuery Mobile (chco)
• What makes a successful blog? We ask the html5 doctor (Martin Beeby)
• Figure out if the current running application is a web application without a reference to System.Web.dll (Daniel Fisher)
• The Ruby Train Goes Choo-Choo (Pete Seale)
• datajs samples (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• WordPress 3.2 Released With Internet Explorer 6 Left Behind (Richard Hay)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Lokad.CQRS Can Make Windows Azure Cheaper for You (Rinat Abdullin)
• Rethink your Data Model (Karl Seguin)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part V–Cross Cutting is a fine line (Oren Eini)
• 3 keys to dispersed team success (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Learning. It ain’t hard. (James Gregory)
• Best Books to Read on Personal Development (JD Meier)
• Beliefs and Discussions (Krishna Kumar)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Performance Best Practices: Windows Phone Mango Local Database (Windows Phone Geek)
• Everything you need to know about Windows Phone “Mango” Tools, Training Kit and Developer Phone Images (Dave Isbitski)
• Excellent Silverlight for Windows Phone Performance Posts (Jeff Wilcox)
• Windows Phone Fundamentals–Layout (Jesse Liberty)
• How to Create a Circular Loader using XAML? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• SketchFlow Templates for Windows Phone (Mike Ormond)
• Silverlight is Dead, Long Live XAML (Stephen Forte)
• What is GameInviteTask and why can’t I use it? (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Abolade Gbadegesin: Inside Windows Phone "Mango" (Charles Torre)
• Ping 107: Ballmer, Birds, Office 365, Kinect and health care (Laura Foy)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 177: IBM i (OS/400) Operating System with Steve Will (SE-Radio Team)
• Let’s Play TDD #120: DollarsTextField: Done! (James Shore)

Community / Events

• Should Bloggers and Influencers Make Money from Posts and Tweets? (Joel Oleson)
• User Experience Design Soon to be a Flooded Industry? (Jeffrey Smith)
• What Microsoft taught Zoosk.com founder about entrepreneurship (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• SQL Server “Denali”: Project Crescent (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 6 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Functions – PATINDEX() (Vishal)
• What does WITH (NOLOCK) actually mean (Denny Cherry)
• Replacing Cursors with Set-Based SQL Queries – Part 2 (Andrew Zwicker)
• Converting OR to Union (Gail Shaw)
• Data Obfuscation (Thomas LaRock)

Miscellaneous

• Passing parameters to -EncodedCommand (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• How To Get The Windows 8 Interface Now (Ken Bell)
• 5 Things to Learn About Learning at TEDx (Kevin Makice)
• Will you want a Windows 8 Tablet or Convertible Laptop/Netbook? (Mike Halsey)
• webOS 3.0 Is Based on Enyo, a New HTML Framework (Abel Avram)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 5 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #888 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links– 2010_23 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Daily News Digest 07/06/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher

• HTML5? Ok, so let’s also deploy Microsoft Silverlight onto Android then… (Scott Barnes)
• Introducing Schema.org: Bing, Google and Yahoo Unite to Build the Web of Objects (Steve Macbeth)
• Using system alerts with the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Dependency Injection With ASP.NET HttpModules (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to use DXCore in a Console App outside of Visual Studio (Alex Skorkin)
• Blog Post: Announcing The CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Visual Studio Template Editor (Blake Niemyjski)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Empty(), DefaultIfEmpty(), and Count() (James Michael Hare)
• CodeCopy Auto Code Converter – Release: v0.1 (CodePlex)
• How to Configure a Self Reference in Code First (Gil Fink)
• Stupid Dynamic Tricks (Matt Hamilton)

Web Development

• MVC on TekPub: Real World Examples (Rob Conery)
• You Might Want To Start Taking JavaScript Seriously (Davy Brion)
• Implementing Collapse Panels with jQuery. (Joe Stagner)
• Good JavaScript Reading, Part 1: Eloquent JavaScript (Joey deVilla)
• Diving into ASP.NET MVC 3 Model Metadata Providers (Raj Aththanayake)
• WordPress Theme ‘Windows Metro’ – Release: v1.00.0017 Alpha (CodePlex)
• Sueetie Version 3.2 Now Available for Download (Dave Burke)
• Read/Write Photos Coming to Twitter API, Videos Next? (Adam DuVander)
• Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 4: Dependency Analysis with Directed Graph (Chad Myers)
• YUI 3.4.0 Preview Release 1 (Jenny Donnelly)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The "Testable Object" Pattern (Brad Wilson)
• FsUnit.MvcSample Now On NuGet Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
• Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) recognized by TOGAF as valid Architecture Framework (Mike Walker)
• How To–Design Your Week with Skill (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building Windows Phone 7 Mango Application with No Code using Behaviors and Creating WP7 Tile and Application Icons for FREE with Paint.NET (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPF Deobfuscator Addin to Visual Studio (Mattias Högström)
• WP7 build error ‘Xap packaging failed’ (Andreas Hammar)
• RichTextBox in Windows Phone 7.1 or Mango (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Populating a Windows Phone “Mango” SQL Server Compact database on desktop (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• The Full Stack, Part 12: Adding photo support to our Windows Phone app – Capture, storage, and display (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 4 – Application Bar (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A few tips for working with XAML inside of Visual Studio 2010 (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Developer Training: Are You Interested? (Nick)
• PivotViewer Shorts Part 4: Restyle the ZoomSlider child controls (xpert360)
• Categorize Windows Phone Home Screen Tiles (Saijo George)
• Using Color Ranges to Visualize Data Distribution in xamTreemap (Nikolay Arhangelov)
• Listbox – ScrollViewer performance improvement for Mango and how it impacts your existing application? (SL WP Perf Team)
• Customizing SystemTray’s Background in Mango (Jaime Rodriguez)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #111: Icon in JTextField: Go! (James Shore)
• Silverlight TV 75: Quick and Dirty UX Testing (Design Tips Mini Series) (John Papa)
• Stephen Elop Talks Microsoft and Windows Phone, Quickly Flashes Nokia WP7 Device (Video) (Hyde13)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 176: Quantum Computing with Martin Laforest (SE-Radio Team)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Dave Nielsen Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Windows 8 Is Gorgeous, But Is It More Than Just A Shell? (Video) (Erick Schonfeld)

Community / Events

• Preparing for CodeStock 2011 (Jason Gaylord)
• MVP Award Program: Personalizing our Facebook (Lonnie Webb)
• BUILD will show you that ‘Windows 8’ changes everything! (Doug Holland)

Database

• SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 CTP (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server Version Number Database (SQL Server 6.5 through 2008 R2 SP1 CTP…) (Greg Duncan)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 VHD Available for Download (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Survey: do you regularly reboot SQL Server? (Paul S. Randal)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: 50 Tips & Tricks for MongoDB Developers – Only $8.49 w/code DD5XT (O’Reilly Media)
• Using Built-in system functions – UPDATE() (Vishal)
• Avoiding OR Conditions with Joins (Andrew Zwicker)
• DROPping all Databases on an Instance (Mike Hillwig)

SharePoint

• Unleashing SharePoint 2010 for Records Management, Governance and Compliance (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8: It’s all about touch and apps (Todd Bishop)
• Conversation Translator Add-In for Microsoft Lync 2010 and Tabbed Conversations for Microsoft Lync 2010 (MS Downloads)
• 11 Gadgets to Organize Your Workspace (Amber Singleton Riviere)
• Windows 8: I Don’t Think I Could Be More Excited (Chris Love)
• OneNote tip: Jumping to Frequently Used Pages (John Guin)
• 4 Questions about Windows 8 (and a lot more) (Kip Kniskern)
• How Marketplace Manages Bulk App Publishing (Todd Brix)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – June 2 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily Links 03/06/2011 (Jax)
• Link dump for June 1st (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 06/02/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 1-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #865 (Chris Alcock)
• Just Published: May 18-31 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (Beck Andros) (SharePoint Developer Team)
• Daily WP7 Development News June 2nd 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming by Marijn Haverbeke

Top Links

• #Ebook Deal/Day Celebration: Save 60% ALL @MicrosoftPress ebooks! Code: DDMSP (O’Reilly Media)
• Why you fail with TDD (Dror Helper)
• Update on ASP.NET MVC 3 RC2 (and a workaround for a bug in it) (Scott Guthrie)
• FlickrNet – Release 3.1.4000 (CodePlex) – Dedicated WP7 binary now available.

.NET / Visual Studio

• New Features of IntelliTrace Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 – Service Pack 1 Beta (Abhijit Jana)
• I got 99 problems but dynamic ain’t one (Rick Minerich)
• Visual Studio Tools for SQL Server Compact 4 now available (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• Comparing and updating database schemas using Visual Studio 2010 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Minority Report Meets Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK (MS Downloads)
• The @” syntax in Objective-C vs C# (Miguel de Icaza)
• AD FS 2.0 to secure WCF and Workflow Services hosted in Windows Server AppFabric (Suren Machiraju)
• How to use Action DXCore control and DXCore Services – BigHint (Alex Skorkin)
• Mixins in .NET (Arnon Rotem Gal-Oz)
• Change the Default View in the HTML Editor (Zain Naboulsi)
• No rest for the weary [Free tool and source code to temporarily prevent a computer from entering sleep mode - now available for .NET, 32-bit, and 64-bit!] (David Anson)
• StatLight release (V1.2 & V1.3) (Jason Jarrett)
• Multitouch Part 2: Support for Gestures in Windows 7 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Best Practices for Maximizing Scalability and Cost Effectiveness of Queue-Based Messaging Solutions on Windows Azure (Valery Mizonov)

Web Development

• Displaying a Grid of Data in ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)
• Using Geolocation in the Browser and with Hosted Services (Chris Heilmann)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 : DLLs needed to run app on Windows Azure (George Chatzimanolis)
• CSS Defaults: The Dirt, Part 2 (Niels Matthijs)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Basics – Working with List Boxes (Pete Sutcliffe)
• jQuery Datepicker: Display on image click (Raghav Khunger)
• The CSS Position Property (Thierry Koblentz)
• jQuery Templates and jQuery Mobile (Wally McClure)
• Internet Explorer 9: Welcome to a more beautiful – and trusted – web (Roger Capriotti)
• New Windows Azure Platform Features Available Today (Katrien de Graeve)
• Enhanced Protection with IE9’s SmartScreen Filter (Eric Lawrence)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Nigel Marsh on Work-Life Balance (J.D. Meier)
• Unlocking the Full Potential of Agile with Deployment Automation (Peter Saddington)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Testcase Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Let’s Kill Productivity! (Dan Pritchett)
• Code is the Culprit! Always? (Vikas Hazrati)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Yes you can write Inline Code in XAML (Brian Lagunas)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #3 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Silverlight Out of Browser Kit Allows Cool Windows 7 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• More Monitoring Web Requests on Windows Phone (Mike Ormond)
• Windows Phone from Scratch #13 — Custom Behaviors Part II: ActionTrigger and iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Animation and Games (Jesse Liberty)
• Line of Business (LOB) Application using Silverlight 4, WCF 4, EF 4 and Commanding Architecture (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Some Advice on the Windows Phone 7 AppHub (Nick Randolph)
• WordPress for Windows Phone 7 Is Now Available for Download ! (Taimur Asad)
• Accelerometer support on WP7 Emulator (Maciek Grabek)
• WP7 UserControls (Baba)
• ABC–Win7 App (Mike Snow)
• Engaging Movie Experiences on WP7…So Hot Right Now. (Ben Lower)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Greg Meredith – Monadic Design Patterns for the Web – 2 of n (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #68: It’s Sh*t Like This, Java (James Shore)
• Hot Apps: Avatar Gadgets, Guitar Hero 5, Geico, Local Concerts, Idiot Test (Laura Foy)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #182: Using Property/Method Exports in MEF (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – December 14th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Agile Seminars in Pune, India this January (Stephen Forte)
• TechEd and ALM Summit content online (Pieter de Bruin)

Database

• SQL Server Hardware Book (Glenn Berry)
• Get Password Expiration Date in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Server Side Paging in SQL Server 2011 – A Better Alternative (Pinal Dave)
• XQuery Lab 63 – Deleting empty elements from an XML document (Jacob Sebastian)
• Adding Existing Reports to Reporting Services Solution and Group Level Page Numbering using Reporting Services 2008 R2 (Brian McDonald)
• Do IF statements cause recompiles? (Gail Shaw)

SharePoint

• WCF Web Service and BCS Meta Man (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• How to enumerate all certificates on a smart card (PowerShell) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• PowerShell Help Browser (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• New book: Network Your Computers & Devices Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• The story behind Kinect (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #751 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/14/2010 and Daily News Digest 12/15/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

LINQ to Objects Using C# 4.0: Using and Extending LINQ to Objects and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) by Troy Magennis

Top Links

• The Ins and Outs of CSS Resets (Dave Ward)
• User Stories are Temporary (Scott Bellware)
• Taking a look at ReSharpers Code Issues Feature (Naeem Khedarun)
• How We Evaluate the Experiences We Engineer (Jess Holbrook)
• Windows Phone 7 Passing Data Between Applications (Nick Randolph)

.NET / Visual Studio

• 5 things I would like to see in C# 5.0 (Abhishek Sur)
• Custom Windows Workflow activity for dependency resolution–Part 2 (Rory Primrose)
• Reaching Unreachable Code (Jason Bock)
• Adding space to a concatenated String (Rey Dacoco)
• LINQPad’ing into Dallas – The latest LINQPad now has “Dallas” support baked in. (Greg Duncan)
• Enumerating Through XML Elements Using LINQ-to-XML (Scott Mitchell)
• RavenDB–Image Gallery Project (II) – Setting Up (Rob Ashton)
• Agatha 1.2 Is Available (Davy Brion)
• Update to Avatar Proportions in XNA Game Studio 4.0 (Team XNA)
• The Immediate Window: Design-Time Breakpoints (Zain Naboulsi)
• 6 ways of doing locking in .NET (Pessimistic and optimistic) (Shivprasad koirala)
• Windows Server AppFabric Monitoring – How to create operational analytics reports with AppFabric Monitoring and Excel PowerPivot (Emil Velinov)

Web Development

• Create ZIP Files From An ASP.NET Application (Scott Mitchell)
• Version Re-Sync Coming in Sueetie 2.0 (Dave Burke)
• ASP.Net MVC2 – All in One with JSON and Entity Framework (Justin Mathew)
• How to execute a Local File using Html Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• SharePointForWordpress Theme Inspired by SharePoint 2010 (Karim Roumani)
• MS10 – 070 Post Mortem analysis of the patch (Marc Brooks)
• Options for upgrading an App Engine application (Kyle Baley)
• PHP: What Is More Powerful Than list() (Stoimen Popov)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Maintainable Systems 2 (Simon Brown)
• CQRS: Sagas with Event Sourcing (Part I of II) (Jonathan Oliver)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Value Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Hiring for an Agile Team (Vikas Hazrati)
• Death by a Thousand Cuts From a Lack of Software Requirements Management (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Good Subjective, Bad Subjective (Robert Cartaino)
• Making sense of data visualisation (Sara Allison)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WCF Rest Service – WP7 Client (Peter Daukintis)
• Binding Html to the Web Browser Control (Nigel Sampson)
• This one’s for you, Gregor Mendel [Code to animate and fade Windows Phone orientation changes now supports a new mode: hybrid!] (David Anson)
• Windows Phone 7 – First experiences with a real device and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 3 – The Core – Getting the full token (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Flex vs Silverlight: Versioning in the eyes of the coder (Justin J. Moses)
• Understanding Silverlight releases (and the September 2010 2nd service update) (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Greg Meredith – Monadic Design Patterns for the Web – Introduction to Monads (Charles Torre)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 372: Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford talks about the new Borderlands Game-Add on and Duke Nukem Forever (Larry Hyrb)
• Podcasts you need to subscribe to if you use jQuery (Matthew David)
• Let’s Play TDD #26: Integrating StockMarket into StockMarketTableModel (James Shore)
• Podcasts I listen (Rudi Grobler)
• Talking XNA with Shawn Hargreaves and Charles Cox (Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
• The GeekDads Episode #77: Jar Jar is a Replicant (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Flash Editorial for September 27th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• ALM Summit Nov 16-18 (Cameron Skinner)
• Detailed Outlines for October’s Training (James Shore)
• Azure Firestarter – coming soon! (Brian Hitney)
• Visual Search and TechCrunch Disrupt (Aya Zook & Stefan Weitz)
• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Mitigating Risk with Project 2010 and Inactive Tasks (Lonnie Webb)
• Are you a good fit for Microsoft? Show us. (Sandeep Sood)
• Want to Build Apps for Windows Phone 7? Get Free Training at Various Locations Nationwide. (Rey Bango)

Database

• SQL SERVER – View Over the View Not Possible with Index View – Limitations of the View 11 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB: Splitting entities across several documents (Oren Eini)
• Read Environment Variables in T-SQL (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Find the largest tables in a database (Jeffrey Yao)

Miscellaneous

• Biggerplate features 101 Business Mindmaps (Chance Brown)
• Managing Certificate Revocation Lists and Certificate Stores (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Android Development, Part 1a: From Nothing To Running (Joel Ross)
• Introducing the Microsoft Online Service Health Dashboard (Morgan Cole)
• Bing Gets an IE9 Pinned Site Jumplist For Your Windows 7 Taskbar (Richard Hay)
• A Book Review of Effective Perl Programming Ways to Write Better; More Idiomatic Perl (Stephen Robillard)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 28, 2010 — #956 and Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2010 — #957 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 28, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #696 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Entity Framework: Building Data Centric Apps with the ADO.NET Entity Framework by Julia Lerman

Top Links

• ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Tuesday, Sept 28th (Scott Guthrie)
• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Building a WCF REST + JSON Service (Rob Tiffany)
• Steve Ballmer Explains why Windows CE (formerly Mobile) isn’t going away for Enterprise Devices (it’s just changing) (Don Burnett)
• Ambiguous Optional Parentheses, Part Three (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Conversion (Richard Carr)
• Customize the Debugging Windows : Change Debugging Window View as per your requirements (Abhijit Jana)
• Power Management Guidelines for Windows Developers (Aseem Datar)
• F# Computation Expressions, Yield/For Mechanics (Neil)
• The Immediate Window: Working with Members (Zain Naboulsi)
• Adding support for Bags (Ahmed Moustafa)
• Logical Call Context: Flowing Data across Threads, AppDomains, and Processes (Jeffrey Richter)
• Coding4Fun: Home Energy Monitoring (Ken Hughes)
• Netduino Basics: Using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) (Pete Brown)
• Monotouch: drawing an image pixel by pixel (Peter Van Ooijen)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (I) (Rob Ashton)
• Update on Plug-in Development for Windows Live Writer (Jonathan Allen)

Web Development

• Article:Interview and Book Excerpt: Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC (Jon Arild Tørresdal)
• Five Must Have Tools for MVC Developers (Mike Ceranski)
• Binding a Custom Meta field to a Template in Sitefinity with a ASP.NET Usercontrol (Zubair Ahmed)
• CSS refactoring (Giorgio Sironi)
• jQuery: Setting Up a Vector Path Fill Color (Stoimen Popov)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: REST in Practice – Only $9.99. Use code DDRSP (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DSL book material on InformIT (Martin Fowler)
• Managers New to Agile May Not Know What to Do (Johanna Rothman)
• Making Feedback Work – The Anti-Patterns (Sumeet Moghe)
• Enterprise Application Architecture: Designing Applications and Services in .Net – Part II (Venu Gopal)
• An Interview with Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons on Domain-Specific Languages (Neal Ford)
• User Experiences: Quieter Notifications (Ritika Virmani)
• Stable Teams (Roman Pichler)
• Introducing jstub (Karl Seguin)
• 37 Productivity Tips for Working From Anywhere (Sarah Kessler)
• Article:Technical Debt a Perspective for Managers (Mark Levison)
• Mocking SPContext.Current with JustMock (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 App : Currency converter for Windows Phone 7 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7 Screen Capture (Mike Ormond)
• WP7 Stock Quote Demo Part 5: Push Phone side (John McFetridge)
• Blend Bits 13: Fluid Layout and the Popup Panel (Mike Taulty)
• Collision Detection on Windows Phone 7 (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight…not just for the Web… (Cheryl Simmons)
• Silverlight TreeMap (Christian Nagel)
• The Amazing iPhone to Windows Phone 7 Tutorial Mind Map (Jesse Liberty)
• Xaml Art Assets (Lester Lobo)
• Adding Behavior to Styles and other XAML (Markus Egger)
• Applying data templates dynamically by type in WP7 (Badea Florin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building More Windows Phone 7 Applications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 372: DeathSpank ToV, NBA 2K11 and Dead Rising 2 (Larry Hyrb)
• Pluralcast 25 : Windows Phone 7 (David Starr)
• Ping 76: Windows 7 Idle Cycles, Zune Marketplace, Where are the Windows Phones, Seesmic & Silverlight (Laura Foy)
• The Startup Success Podcast – Show #83 Brian Noll; selling developer tools to enterprise (Bob Walsh)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: Birds of a Feather Flock Together; Submit Your BOF by October 10 and Microsoft Board Member Helmut Panke and IE9 Notifications (Larry Larsen)
• Windows 7 Embedded Media Center Device (Don Burnett)
• Essential Tools for Podcasting (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – September 27th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Have you connected with a SharePoint MVP? (SharePoint Team)
• New England Code Camp 14 – October 2nd (Jim O’Neil)
• Windows Phone 7 Two-Day Developer Events (Brandon Watson)
• Software Development Trends Survey Points to Optimistic 2010 Predictions (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Server Fault: Hiring From The Community Again (Jeff Atwood)
• You’re Invited to Philly .NET Code Camp 2010.2 (Nick Berardi)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – SQL Health Check and SQL Seminars (Pinal Dave)
• Use xp_cmdshell results in T_SQL (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• Set object caching user accounts with PowerShell (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft ‘upgrading’ Spaces to WordPress.com, ending platform (Todd Bishop)
• Factionalism: Site or Tag? (Jeff Atwood)
• The bright spot in Microsoft’s mobile OS disaster is… (Joe Wilcox)
• Microsoft to shut down Spaces, migrate 30 million to WordPress.com (Kip Kniskern)
• PowerShell Cookbook Scripts Available Everywhere (Lee Holmes)
• Introducing the Microsoft Online Service Health Dashboard (Morgan Cole)
• Cross Device Apps (Steve Tibbett)
• Choosing a Content Management System (CMS) – Kentico CMS Review (Suprotim Agarwal)
• RIM Unveils BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet with Unbelievable Specs! [Video] (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #695 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 27, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for September 28, 2010 — #956 (Dave Campbell)

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

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Top Links

• Bing 404 Plugin for WordPress (Caleb Jenkins)
• CinchV2 : More sneak previews (Sacha Barber)
• Creating Scrollable Edit Content in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• DebuggerDisplay Name and Type Parameters (Richard Carr)
• Gemli.Data: Basic LINQ Support (Jon Davis)
• 15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Paul Harrington)
• Swap the Current Anchor Position (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Simple Accordion Menu With jQuery & ASP.NET (Steve Boschi)
• Designing websites for accessibility in Expression Web – Part II (Minal Agarwal)
• Part 3 – A Cascading Hierarchical Field Template & Filter for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Isolation At Work: Good Or Bad? (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Great-Circle Arcs on the Sphere (Charles Petzold)
• WPF (and Silverlight): Choose your Fonts and Text Rendering Options Wisely (Pete Brown)
• Updates and New Home for Sticky Plugin (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

•  Windows Weekly 159: Gypsy Stole My iPhone (Paul Thurrott)
• Coding4Fun Show – NUI with Josh Blake (Brian Peek)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Subquery or Join – Various Options – SQL Server Engine knows the Best (Pinal Dave)
• How to refresh the local IntelliSense cache in SQL Server Management Studio (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Re-Enable DreamScene on Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Navigation Rethink, Cloned Goals, Cap’n Crunch, The Blink Test (Dave Burke)

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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

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Top Links

•  use Less to reduce CSS clutter! (Coding4Fun) – Info on .Less, a .NET port of a Ruby Gem.
• Mary Poppendieck on “The Tyranny of The Plan” (Christophe Louvion) – A video from the 2009 UK Lean Conference
• ASP.beer Seattle (Javier G. Lozano) – A meetup during the MVP Summit in February. I’ll be there!
• So Long Tehran and Thanks for All the Fish (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Keyvan has made his way to the U.S. to continue his studies. Join me in welcoming him!
• Confessions of a First Time Manager (Tim Barcz) – Some lessons learned from Tim.
• Creating Team Trust (Johanna Rothman) – Some team leadership tips from Johanna on Roy Osherove’s “Five Whys” blog.
• ViewModel Pattern for Silverlight – Options for Hooking a View to its Model (Nikhil Kothari) – Nikhil looks at some MVVM options with Silverlight.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Passing JavaScript Objects to the CLR World (Mohammad Azam)
• Two reasons that Assembla is the best way to deliver or get code (Andy Singleton)
• Garbage Collection in .NET – How it really works (Techie Mate)
• Compiling F# code for the XBox 360 (Don Syme)
• Visual Studio Project Sample Loading Error: Assembly could not be loaded and will be ignored. Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80131515) (Brad Abrams)
• Remote Command Service for Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• Agatha Feature Suggestion: Caching and Agatha’s Caching Layer Implementation: First Draft and Using NHibernate In Your Service Layer (Davy Brion)
• Killer Feature for VNext – Language Embedded DSL (Kathleen Dollard)
• Programmatically Increase, Decrease and Mute the Volume (Suprotim Agarwal)

Web Development

• Code for My Blog is On Github (Rob Conery)
• Using Fiddler to Capture RIA Services (Andy Beaulieu)
• Roll your own AJAX Extender for JQuery Calendar (Brendan Kowitz)
• ASP.NET: Gradients and ASP.NET: Buttons (Deborah Kurata)
• Enabling IoC in ASP.NET ActionResults (or, a better ActionResult) (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC ControllerFactory for Unity and the reasoning behind it (Simone Chiaretta)
• Generating Dynamic HTML Tables with jQuery From an In-Memory DataTable (Michael Ceranski)
• A free standing ASP.NET Pager Web Control (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile is Not Scrum, Part 2 (David Starr)
• 5 Simple Steps to Execute Unit Testing Using NUnit (Shivprasad Koirala)
• Name that refactoring: 1 and Name that refactoring: 2 (Brett Schuchert)
• NDepend And Lack Of Cohesion Of Methods… Not to be trusted (Davy Brion)
• Keeping Close to Users – Everyone Should be Tech Support for Someone (Julie Stickler)
• The Art of Subliminal Productivity (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Understanding Perceived Performance and More on Perceived Performance (Howard Dierking)
• TDD: Only mock types you own (Mark Needham)
• Book Review: Enterprise Integration Patterns (Mike Hadlow)
• Entity Framework Profiler is now in public beta and ÜberProf new feature: Programmatic Integration (Oren Eini)
• Picking Between Your Official Designation And Your Secret Titles. and Programmer Tip: Look Out For The Best Alpha Geeks And Learn From Them. (Rajiv Popat)
• Four Kinds of Trust (4): Trust Yourself! (Jurgen Appelo)
• The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 3 – Extending the container with custom use cases (Marcus Bratton)
• The Art of Color (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: Wish List (Deborah Kurata)
• Magellan Transitions and Magellan Action Results and Magellan Exceptions (Paul Stovell)
• Wrap music [A more flexible balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
• My XAP file is 5 Mb size, is that bad? (Braulio Diez)
• Make Your WPF Applications Adapt to the Host Machine (Srinath MS)
• Using a different mscorlib for F# in Visual Studio (Silverlight and probably XNA too) (Steve Gilham)
• 12 Days of RIA – Day 5 – Read Only Data (John Pelak)
• Working with Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Buttons with WPF 4 and Overlaying Icons on the Windows 7 Taskbar with WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
• Exchanging Data between Silverlight 3.0 User Controls using Dependency Properties and Events (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – The Spark View Engine for ASP.NET MVC with Louis DeJardin (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Weekly 134: Prestige Mode (Paul Thurrott)
• Hidden Gem from PDC Videos (Jason Haley)
• ARCast.TV – Rocky Lhotka on Development Frameworks (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: Silverlight Web cam apps, VS extensibility, Explorer shell extensions (Dan Fernandez)
• Enterprise Library 5 Video from PnPSummit (David Hayden)
• Rx API in depth: Concat, Catch and OnErrorResumeNext (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Herding Code 65: Scott Hanselman on His Secret Ninja Squad and Jon’s new job (bonus: netbook operating system install clinic!) (Jon Galloway)
• Peer to Peer Series Part 7: PeerChannel Basics (Jeff Brand)
• Technical Preview for CAT.NET 2.0 (Jossie Tirado)

Community / Events

• IronRuby @ RubyConf – Part 3: Sneaking Ruby to the top (Jimmy Schementi)
• French MVP Launches Windows 7 Tutorials Site! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

• SQL Server Query Plan cache – what is it and why should you care? (Damien Guard)
• Introducing SQL Server to Oracle and Dynamic SQL Server connections in Reporting Services (Ted Krueger)
• SQL Query Commenting/Uncommenting Quick Tip (Erik)
• SQL SERVER – White Paper – Partitioned Table and Index Strategies Using SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: Designing and Developing High-Performance SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 vs. MindTouch the Battle of the Platforms (Mark Fidelman)
• BCS Webinar Slides (Nick Swan)
• Video Blogging with Javascript and the Media Web Part (Mihai Coman)

Miscellaneous

• Mark Anderson to Microsoft: Your consumer business is dead (Todd Bishop)
• Google Apps highlights – 12/11/2009 (Jeremy Milo)
• P80 Windows Home Server add-in update (Ben Palmer)
• Stack Overflow Rack Glamour Shots (Jeff Atwood)
• Jive Software vs. MindTouch – a Guide for Decision Makers (Mark Fidelman)
• WordPress Makes Blogging On The Fly Easier, Integrates With Twitter API (Leena Rao)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 12, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #497 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 12, 2009 — #755 (Dave Campbell)
• AppFabric a.ka. "Dublin" Links (Sam Gentile)
• Links of the week #101 (David Vidmar)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.08 ~ 12.14 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #83 (Grant Palin)
• Links (12/13/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 123 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/14/2009 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

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.NET / Visual Studio

• PowerCommands for Reflector (Jason Haley) – Jason consolidates his .NET Reflector add-ins and moves them to CodePlex.
• CSharp VAR Misconceptions (Dave M. Bush)
• Using The WCF REST Starter Kit and ATOMPub with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 .NET Framework Source Debugging (Doug Holland)

Web Development

• I Can’t Send E-Mail from localhost; Cannot connect to SMTP server (Chris Love) – A quick tip on sending email from your .NET code.
• ASP.NET MVC Refcard available (Simone Chiaretta)
• Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Refcard (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Getting and Setting Query String Values in JavaScript (Rick Strahl)
• Dynamically Loading Config Files (Joel Ross)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Secret Of Being A Great Mentor (Alan Skorkin) – Link of the Day
• 7 Japanese aesthetic principles to change your thinking (Garr Reynolds)
• Best Practices for Your Software Available for Free (Bruce Kyle) – Links to patterns & practices resources.
• “Screen Activator” Pattern (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Daily Standup Meetings – Introduction and 5 useful tips and Making Impossible Decisions Without Panicking (Roy Osherove)
• Easier Unit Testing of WCF Services with ServiceTestContext (Lars Wilhelmsen)

Silverlight / WPF

• Document Toolkit 1.1 RTW (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight, Isolated Storage, RIA and Network Changes – Part II (Malcolm Sheridan)
• How can I add labels to a WPF pie chart? – Implementation details (Bea Stollnitz)
• Service Locator in MVVM and Animating width and height when they are Double.NaN (Marlon Grech)
• The “From Russia with Love” way to create ViewModels (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Building Collaborative Applications Without Code Using Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (MS Podcasts)
• Major Nelson Show #331: Seattle Penny Arcade Expo 2009 (Larry Hyrb)
• TFS 2008 Best Practices – 6 ways to ensure quality and Designing the Windows 7 Desktop Experience (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• A chat with Sara Ford – CodePlex turns 3, reaches 10,000 projects (Nic Fillingham)
• Ping 28: Free Win7, Zunes, Xbox, Interface of the future (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Events this Week – September 7th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• TechEd Australia Day 1 (Deepak Kapoor)

Database

• SQL Server Comparison Operators (Richard Carr) – Some T-SQL basics.
• How I got started with SQL Server (Denis Gobo) – A new meme floating around the ether.

Miscellaneous

• Download Office 2010 Beta Icons Pack (Taimur Asad) – Download some hi-res versions of the new MS Office icons.
• Behind the Scenes of Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters ads (Steve Clayton)
• Learn Windows PowerShell 2.0 with PowerGUI (Osama Sajid)
• C++ Wrapper for Windows 7 Taskbar Tabbed Thumbnails (Sasha Goldshtein)
• CppDepend goes RTM Today (Patrick Smacchia)
• Big Agile Book Structure (Mike Cottmeyer)
• WordPress.com Enables RSSCloud In Post Feeds (Nik Cubrilovic)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 7, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 07, 2009 — #686 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for September 6, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #427 and The Morning Brew #428 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #69 (Grant Palin)
• Links (9/7/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 367 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 7th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Weekly Link Post 109 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Double Shot #535 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Enumerable.Range and Enumerable.Repeat (Deborah Kurata)
• Visual Studio Code Analysis Performance (Doug Holland)
• Type-Free Lambda Calculus in C#, Pre-4.0 – Defining the Lambda Language Runtime (LLR) (Bart de Smet)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 4 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Exploitable Crash Analyzer (Sasha Goldshtein)
• NHibernate on the cloud: SQL Azure and SQL Azure, Sharding and NHibernate: A call for volunteers (Oren Eini)
• Set focus on DataGridView cell (DotNetFacts)
• F# First Class Events – Async Workflows + Events Part III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Dynamic type parameter constraints in C# 4 (Chris Burrows)
• Code Contracts.Net to Xml Comments! (Jonathan de Halleux)

Web Development

• How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+) (Peter Kellner)
• Google Wave: 5 Ways It Could Change the Web (Ben Parr)
• Patching Ruby on Rails Refresher (Rob Bazinet)
• Creating an Image Frame (Chris Love)
• Tidbits for Web Developers Targeting IE8 (Jim O’Neil)
• Setting Cookies in Fiddler (Julie Lerman)
• MVC – Using the jQuery DatePicker (Michael Ceranski)
• Insert FrontPage Includes in Microsoft Expression Web 2.0 and 3.0 (Minal Agarwal)
• Fiddler: Trying to work out how it all hooks together (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When conversions ignore the errors… (Michael S. Kaplan)
• Noodling on Kanban… Part Four and The Big Agile Persona and Building an Agile Book with Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 15. (Rajiv Popat)
• Step #1 – Claim Your Territory, Own your team and The first five Whys and Step #2 – Use a big visible board with post it notes and If you don’t own your team, Someone else will and 4 ways to discover a stuck team member, and what you can do about it (Roy Osherove)
• Why Git? and Break the algorithm: Distributed Lock and Soft Deletes aren’t Append Only model (Oren Eini)
• Manufacturing Authority And Trust (Alan Skorkin)
• More ORM Ignorance (Davy Brion)
• Hiring Developers – Why "Smart and Gets Things Done" is not Enough (Ed Willis)
• The Provider Model Pattern, Really? (Justin Etheredge)
• Balsamiq – It’s Not Just For Salad Anymore (Lee Dumond)
• Book Club: Promiscuous Pairing & Beginner’s Mind (Arlo Belshee) and Coding: Checking invariants in a factory method (Mark Needham)
• Configuring Team build using XUnit [From client] – Update. (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Introducing Entity Framework Unit Testing with TypeMock Isolator (Muhammad Mosa)
• Stone Soup (James Bender)
• Staff Meeting Bingo (aka Geo Distributed Engineering Challenges) (Jason Zander)

Silverlight / WPF

• Supporting Graceful Shutdown and Saving on Close From a WPF Prism App (Brian Noyes)
• SketchFlow: Global State Behavior Sample (Christian Schormann)
• What do you call that small white square icon in Expression Blend? (Adam Kinney)
• 5 Reasons Why Silverlight Is My Preferred Web Development Platform (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day
• Selector Double Click Firing ViewModel ICommand and Selector DoubleClick Behaviour calling ViewModel ICommand and Cinch : A Code Generator Is Coming (Sacha Barber)
• How to prevent a TabItem from being selected (Josh Smith)
• Detecting design time mode in WPF and Silverlight and Installing the MVVM Light Toolkit and MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.1: What’s new? (Laurent Bugnion)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Comments about Adding… (Brad Abrams)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• This Week C9: VS 2010, Must-Have Developer Utilities, Upgrade your home (Dan Fernandez)
• Connected Show – Episode #15 – Jon Skeet goes DEEP on C#4.0 (Bob Familiar)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #3- REST Collections (Stephen Forte)
• Review: Three Technical Podcasts I Subscribe To (Steve Sanderson)
• Show #331: Seattle Penny Arcade Expo 2009 (Larry Hyrb)
• New DevNugget: ASP.NET Databinding and jQueryUI (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Spreadsheet of every TED talk as of 9/2/2009 (Mark Frauenfelder)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Wants You to Party Like It’s XP (Mary Jo Foley)
• Event: Silverlight Firestarter, September 17th and Event: ASP.NET MVC Firestarter, October 3rd (Dave Bost)
• Microsoft MVPs Are Ready For Windows 7! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Rhino Mocks 4.0 Planning Forum (Oren Eini)
• How to contribute to open source (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Database

• SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR : Cannot drop the database because it is being used for replication. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3724) and SQL SERVER – Find Gaps in The Sequence and SQL SERVER – Importance of Database Schemas in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Mapping the Brain using SQL Server 2008 Spatial Features (Trevor Dwyer)
• Using SQL Server in Powershell outside of SQLPS (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

• URL Shortening in SharePoint with bit.ly (Jan Tielens)

Miscellaneous

• Creative Mindmaps for Learning (Chance Brown)
• Free eBook: DevShaped (Dave Bost)
• Updated New and Final Wrox Covers (Jim Minatel)
• Looking for Free Stock Photos? Try Everystockphoto (Simon Mackie)
• Work Item Notifications and Recommended Download (Sara Ford)
• Branding 101 for Developers – Part 3 of 4 (Sidney de Koning)
• Old WordPress Versions Under Attack (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Dynamic Typing? (Bil Lewis)
• Expanding your blog readership (Eugene Rosenfeld)
• Data Visualization Features in Excel 2010 (MS Office Team)
• Newsflash: Killing Zombies Increases your Typing Speed (Russell Ball)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2009 – 2 — #684 and Silverlight Cream for September 05, 2009 – 2 — #685 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #90 – “Shadow Complex is so cool” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 09.01 ~ 09.05 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #69 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Post… 8/30/2009 through 9/5/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• New and Notable 367 (Sam Gentile)
• LINKBLOG for Sep 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• CloudNews for 4th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day