Top Links

• CSLA 4 release (Rockford Lhotka)
• Entity Framework 4 “Code-First”: Custom Database Schema Mapping (Scott Guthrie)
• If you missed the Windows Phone 7 Jump Start sessions (Devon Musgrave)
• Unstated Requirements (Chad Myers)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Tab Settings (Richard Carr)
• Profiling an application with Visual Studio – CPU Sampling (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Database Development with Visual Studio 2010: Database Projects and Database Server Projects (Gouri Sohoni)
• Would like some Ultimate [Ranger] Architecture Guidance? There’s a Visual Studio Gallery page for that… (Greg Duncan)
• ‘forr’ shortcut in Visual Studio 2008/2010 (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Death to the DAO and How to Test LINQ (Scott Leber)
• WCF RIA Services Contrib RTM Release and TVersity Dot Net – Alpha 1.3 (CodePlex)
• Using External Tools (Zain Naboulsi)
• An intro to what OpenWrap is (Sebastien Lambla)
• Surgery using leeches? (Jonathan Cogley)

Web Development

• mvcConf slides and code posted (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using dynamic type to test controller actions returning JsonResult (Gunnar Peipman)
• More Ext JS with ASP.NET MVC Goodies: Populating a GridPanel (Jorge Ramon)
• Build the Mobile Web with WebMatrix (Rob Tiffany)
• FYI, Check Out This abbr. API ASAP (Adam DuVander)
• Conditional Row Highlighting in Dynamic Data and Using Entity Framework from a different DLL in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Azure@home Part 2: WebRole Implementation (Jim O’Neil)
• Daily Dose – PHP Language Update (Mitch Pronschinske)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Manager 2.0: The Role of the Manager in Scrum (Pete Deemer)
• Principles 2: Principles of Software Testing (Ivo Manolov)
• Be like the bamboo: 7 lessons from the Japanese forest (Garr Reynolds)
• Work In Progress Version Of The Book On Builder At Work – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)
• How do you test asynchronous code? Part II (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Lokad CQRS – Message Throttling and Auto Scaling in the Cloud and Lokad CQRS – Using Protocol Buffers Serialization for Azure Messages (Rinat Abdullin)
• Notes from a TDD masterclass (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Design Resources – UI Guide and Design Templates (Bob Caswell)
• New phone bits, same pretty charts [Upgraded my Windows Phone 7 Charting example for the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta] (David Anson)
• WPF: integrating our application with the Windows 7 Taskbar (I) (Josué Yeray)
• Windows Phone 7 Panorama & Pivot controls – v0.9 (samples included) (CodePlex)
• Expression Encoder Screen Capture Codec (MS Downloads)
• Speech recognition in Windows Phone 7 (Kip Kniskern)
• How to pass values to Silverlight application from ASPX page using InitParameter? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight 4.0 and Network Authentication while performing Web Request (Mahesh Sabnis)
• How to detect when a list is scrolling (or not) (Peter Torr)
• A Value Converter for the BALL Watch Silverlight Contest (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Cinch V2 : Article 3 out there (Sacha Barber)
• Developing for the Windows Phone 7 – Part 1: The Phone (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows Phone 7 vs iOS 4 – Web Browser Speed Test [Video] (Taimur Asad)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 206 – 07.24.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 166: Revenge Of The White Icons (Paul Thurrott)
• Video: C# Scalability and MongoDB on .NET (Eric Hagan)
• endpoint.tv – Workflow and Custom Activities – Best Practices (Part 4) (Ron Jacobs)
• Cloud Cover Episode 20 – Visual Studio Tools with Jim Nakashima (Steve Marx)

Community / Events

• Free SQL Server Training for the Week of July 26, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)
• Software Craftsmanship 2010 (Chris Wanstrath)
• Powerpoint and Code Demos from my MVCConf Presentation (John V. Petersen)
• Boys and Girls bringing digital technology to life (Pamela Passman)
• Retrospective from online course (Greg Young)

Database

• A little Dance with SSIS and Informix (Jason Brimhall)
• NVARCHAR(MAX) VS NTEXT in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Find Queries using Parallelism from Cached Plan (Pinal Dave)
• Reporting Services – Custom Code requests (Simon Sabin)
• SQL University: Introduction to Indexes, Part the Third (Grant Fritchey)

SharePoint

• Project Management Resources for SharePoint 2010 Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• How to Make a Presentation (part 3) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Firefox Friday — "Beta 2 is coming, and it’ll break stuff" edition (Lee Mathews)
• This Week At Microsoft – Great Financial News, Kinect, Cloud and More. (Owen Linderholm)
• Resume review & advice: behind the scenes (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Ditching the Service Layer and IOC for Mxins in Ruby (Paul Cowan)
• Microsoft SyncToy Folder Synchronization Tool (Richard Hay)
• Sysinternals Suite Updated (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 60 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 07/23/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Cream for July 24, 2010 — #909 (Dave Campbell)

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Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck

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• OData Client for Objective-C (Claudio Caldato)
• CinchV2 :Version2 of my Cinch MVVM framework part 3 of n (Sacha Barber)
• Prototypes and Inheritance in JavaScript (K. Scott Allen)
• Windows Phone 7 UI Design and Interaction Guide Updated (Andre Vrignaud)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Real world authorization implementation considerations (Oren Eini)
• D3: Implementing the WCF Service and EF Query Tuning (Danny Simmons)
• MSDN: Double the Azure (Somasegar)
• Taking JetBrains Resharper 5 for a spin. (Joe Stagner)
• General usage of ThreadPool (Dennis Delimarsky)
• OData and optimistic concurrency (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Settings Automatically Saved On Exit — vstipEnv0026 (Zain Naboulsi)
• NHibernate Mapping Generator 2.0 Beta 1 (CodePlex)
• Caching workflow activities to increase performance (Rory Primrose)
• Debugging Distributed Transactions: Transactional Deadlocks, Part 2 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• .NET and Azure Samples Showcase .NET Technologies Used in a Layered Architecture (Abel Avram)
• How do you use the following SDK tools… (Luis E. Cabrera)

Web Development

• Website Performance : Crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s (Karl Seguin)
• Dissecting the IE9 Fish Tank demo: PNG based sprite sheet animation with Canvas (Adam Kinney)
• I just wanted a bunch of Buttons with a Mouse-Over / Hover behavior. (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How do you introduce software architecture? (Simon Brown)
• Agile Friday: "The XP Team" Now Online (James Shore)
• SRP: Single Responsibility Principle (Andy Stopford)
• Agile Beyond Software (Dan Mezick)
• I have been outed! Sorta. (Chris Smith)
• Improving testability with the Castle Dictionary Adapter (Ben Hall)
• Application Performance Tuning Philosophy (Danny Simmons)
• The Five Levels of Incompetence (Paul Vick)
• Code ownership in Agile teams (Dror Helper)
• TDD, small steps and no need for comments (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Chromium WebBrowser updates (Chris Cavanagh)
• Creating a Connected Experience (Don Burnett)
• Does Microsoft have a secret weapon for Windows Phone 7? (Ed Bott)
• MVVM Light Hotfix for Windows Phone 7 developer tools beta (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Phone 7 database – Upgrade to Beta Release of Phone Tools (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• New Videos and Tutorials for this Week. (Joe Stagner)
• Mike Francis’ walkthrough of the Windows Phone 7 “app store” Marketplace and Chris K’s posted presentations on Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• Building a Dynamic Collection Solution for PivotViewer (Larry Larsen)
• Start-Up Podcast Show #76 Shawna Pandya, Co-Founder of CiviGuard (Bob Walsh)
• YUI Theater Comes to Boxee, Courtesy of Chad Auld and the Brilaps Team (Eric Miraglia)
• Understanding the Value of Prism (Silverlight TV #37) (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Creators Club Communiqué 57 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Devopalooza at VS Live! Redmond (Stephen Forte)

Database

• News Flash: SQL Server Paging Still Sucks! (John Sonmez)
• SQLAuthority News – Guest Post – Walkthrough on Creating WCF Data Service (ODATA) and Consuming in Windows 7 Mobile application (Pinal Dave)
• Changing a data source isn’t saved and Report Builder 3.0 (Simon Sabin)
• T-SQL tip: Use a role for EXECUTE permissions (Stuart Ainsworth)
• What happened to my memory? Part 2 (Jeremy Carter)
• SQL University: Introduction to Indexes, Part the Third (Grant Fritchey)

SharePoint

• Lightning conductor 2010 web part– improved treeview and XSL view (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Instant Replay (Stephanie Horstmanshof)
• Microsoft Employees to get a Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)
• Creating your first PowerGUI Script Editor Add-On (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• PowerShell Cookbook (site, not book)–Short, simple yet still sweet… (Greg Duncan)
• A behind-the-scenes look at designing the new Hotmail: part one (Michael Kopcsak)
• “Be What’s Next”, Microsoft’s new motto (Michael Gillett)
• 5 Questions to Ask Before Taking that Telecommuting Job (Simon Mackie)
• Poem to MonoTouch (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2010 — #908 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #649 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• 7 hand-picked posts from CodeClimber (aka the 7 Link Challenge) (Simone Chiaretta)

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Writing Secure Code: Practical Strategies and Proven Techniques for Building Secure Applications in a Networked World by Michael Howard

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• Gems – Package Management For .NET and How To – Gems And .NET (Rob Reynolds)
• Recursive Model Binding (K. Scott Allen)
• Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and Choosers, and Few More Things That Are on the Way – Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Sharing binaries between Surface and Windows 7 (Josh Blake)
• Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4 (Scott Guthrie)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ One-to-Many Projection (Richard Carr)
• Graph Colouring With Simple Backtracking, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• NHProf new feature: Expensive queries report (Oren Eini)
• Code Contracts – Invariants (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Policy Injection: WCF Instance Provider (Kiran Kumar G)
• Authenticating Against Multiple Domains with C# & StructureMap (Deran Schilling)
• EF CTP 4 Brings Code First Updates and Productivity Improvements (Abel Avram)
• Building a component that works with different versions of a library–STATIC METHODS (Jeffrey Richter)
• Exploring Amazon S3 with F# (Vagif Abilov)
• SmartAssembly: Eating Our Own Dogfood (Andrew Clarke)
• Reset All Your Development Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• New goodies in the Q2 Release of Telerik OpenAccess : Part II (Stephen Forte)
• MSBuild Known Issues (VS Team)

Web Development

• Sueetie Going Mobile Series: Gallery Server Pro and Sueetie Going Mobile Series: YetAnotherForum.NET and Sueetie Going Mobile Series: ScrewTurn Wiki (Dave Burke)
• Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (and .NET) Hands on Labs Now Available (Matthew Podwysocki)
• The CSS Corner: Better Web Typography For Better Design (Sylvain Galineau)
• Object oriented Javascript (Kiran Kumar G)
• Evernote to Promote Platform with App Store (Adam DuVander)
• Building Wave Gadgets with GWT (Pamela Fox)
• Using ASP.NET MVC and JavaScript to Query Twitter’s Public API (Malcolm Sheridan)
• OData Decimal and JSON (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 4 Adding A Master Page (Chris Love)
• Building Better MVC Code with T4MVC (Mike Ceranski)
• Friday Algorithms: A Data Structure: JavaScript Stack (Stoimen Popov)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Full Coverage by Tests Driven Development (bis) (Patrick Smacchia)
• Agile Friday: "Informative Workspace" Now Online (James Shore)
• Effective Specifications for Agile Teams: Slides and Links (Gojko Adzic)
• GitHub: Cross-Repository Compare View (Ryan Tomayko)
• How do you test asynchronous code? Part I (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Buy vs. Build & YAGNI (Oren Eini)
• A Different Frame of Reference and Challenge: Breaking Your Brain About Storage (Greg Young)
• McClelland’s Motivational Model (J.D. Meier)
• Anti-Pattern: Too much of your application is about interacting with external resources (Ryan Svihla)
• TDD: I hate deleting unit tests (Mark Needham)
• CQRS Event Store (Jonathan Oliver)
• The Flow Experiment (Karl Scotland)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using INotifyDataErrorInfo for validation in MVVM with Silverlight and WPF and Using INotifyDataErrorInfo for validation in MVVM with Silverlight (Jag Reehal)
• Building an Airport Status Mashup with Silverlight and Bing Maps (Djonatas Tenfen)
• Telerik Releases RichTextBox for Silverlight, Assembly Minifier and 6 New Controls (Ina Tontcheva)
• Making an Offline RSS Reader for Windows Phone 7 and Getting Started with WPF 4 (Frank La Vigne)
• Templates, Visual State and Fun With Controls (Jesse Liberty)
• Optimizing the On-Screen Keyboard (Kirupa)
• How to Create a Silverlight OOB Installer Wrapper UI Library? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight in Action: Chapters are Complete! (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Converting from webforms to MVC presentation? (Eric Hexter)
• Show #75 Phil Libin and Andrew Sinkov of Evernote (Bob Walsh)
• Scott Guthrie on creating the .NET Framework (DotNetKicks)
• Where do you start? (video) (Simon Brown)
• Digital Lens – Seeing Through Other Eyes (Larry Larsen)
• Andrew Nurse: Inside "Razor" (Charles Torre)
• Templating Controls with Silverlight (Silverlight TV #36) (John Papa)

Community / Events

• How you can see Kinect BEFORE it goes on sale (Larry Hyrb)
• Tagged, I’m It: My Reading List (Dave Swersky)

Database

• GROUPBY, HAVING and ORDER BY Usage in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Datetime Function TODATETIMEOFFSET Example (Pinal Dave)
• Data mart or data warehouse? (Justin Swanhart)

SharePoint

• Announcing the release of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit V1 (Jie Li)

Miscellaneous

• Top 7 Script Editor Add-Ons (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #644 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2010 — #904 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 15, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 15-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 56 (Kathleen Sanders)

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Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Imar Spaanjaars

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• Simple Code First with Entity Framework 4 – Magic Unicorn Feature CTP 4 (Scott Hanselman)
• New Mono Runtime Features (Miguel de Icaza)
• iPhone versus Windows Phone 7 Coding Comparison (Don Burnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• XLinq default namespace gotcha (Adam Kinney)
• What’s up with code contracts? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• EF CTP4 Released! and EF CTP4 Walkthrough: Productivity Improvements and EF CTP4 Walkthrough: Code First (EF Team)
• A new book that explains Microsoft Surface development! … and a new library on codeplex! (Microsoft Surface Blog)
• Visual Studio VB 2010 Enhancements (Hima Bindu Vejella)
• New Visual Studio Tips Book: Tip Layout and Importing or Changing Your Environment Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• New goodies in the Q2 Release of Telerik OpenAccess : Part I (Stephen Forte)
• Administrative Report Pack for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Shai Raiten)
• Using Dovetail SDK Using Visual Basic.Net and Refreshing Component Guids in your Wix XML (Kevin Miller)
• What’s New in Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0 – Part 2 (Matteo Slaviero)

Web Development

• jQuery Cookbook (Dave M. Bush)
• The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 24: Dear EditorTemplates, Are We Done Posting Yet? (Evan Nagle)
• JavaScript vs Silverlight: An answer (Laurent Bugnion)
• FubuMVC for ASP.Net MVC Devs at MVCConf (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Late to the JQuery Party (John Sonmez)
• Sueetie Going Mobile Series: BlogEngine.NET (Dave Burke)
• Pragmatic Spark – Turning it up to eleven (Robert Greyling)
• Hard Working Model Binder (K. Scott Allen)
• Caching Improvements in Internet Explorer 9 (IE Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Albacore v0.2.0 Preview 1 Is Available (Derick Bailey)
• Test Lint Pro – Launch Sale and Typemock back to basics: Faking "Future" Instances (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Does A Kanban System Eschew Estimation? (Karl Scotland)
• Gotchas: The Profiler Uses Processor Resources Too! (Ade Miller)
• Veracity: The next step in DVCS (Eric Sink)
• Evolving Loosely-Coupled Frameworks & Apps (Udi Dahan)
• The fallacy of quick answers (Scott Berkun)
• Running CodedUI Test From Another Application (Shai Raiten)
• Testing with XPathNavigator.Evaluate (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Beta Tools (Brandon Watson)
• Reflectoron in Prism: a WPF MVVM tutorial. (Eli Arbel)
• Performance Profiling Silverlight 4 Step-by-Step (Jeremy Likness)
• Document Toolkit 2 Release Candidate (Koen Zwikstra)
• Getting started with shader effects in WPF (Kubajzz)
• Xaml Meets ASP.NET MVC – Create databound visualizations with Xaml + ASP.NET MVC using XamlAsyncController (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Silverlight 4 RIA services tutorial – Part 2 (Nikos Printezis)
• Designing for Multiple Orientations (Kirupa)
• Windows Phone 7 gets cloudy (Steve Clayton)
• Natural User Interface library (Coding4Fun)
• A Matter of Controls Part 2 (Dr. Dave)
• WPF 4 Series: Getting Started (WPF Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Seth Juarez on Machine Learning (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Social Networking for Developers – Part 1 – Every Developer Needs a Blog and Hanselminutes on 9 – Social Networking for Developers – Part 2 – Make your Blog Suck Less (Scott Hanselman)
• Video: The Windows Phone 7 Philosophy (Eric Hagan)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – ADP West 2010 – Jean Tabaka -Linchpin (Bob Payne)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #179: Parallel Programming w/ Task Parallel Library (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• Speaking at SQL Server Connections in Las Vegas, November 1-4, 2010 (Glenn Berry)
• Back by Popular Request – Live Chats with MVP Experts (SharePoint Team)
• The 2nd ALT.NET tool night (Dror Helper)
• Books.. Check ‘Em Out! (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Better Coding Through Community (Dane Morgridge)

Database

• Changing the name of your SQL server (John Pertell)
• SQL SERVER – Datetime Function SWITCHOFFSET Example (Pinal Dave)
• Kung fu and the art of SQL Server (Stuart Ainsworth)

SharePoint

• New Book: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant (Valerie Woolley)
• How to set permissions for BDC Entities (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Developer Perception on Mobile Platforms Survey Results (Abel Avram)
• Zappos Comes to its Senses, Allows Mobile Apps (Adam DuVander)
• DevCheatSheet.com, The Developer focused cheat sheet aggregator (just about all languages, all areas, all the time…) (Greg Duncan)
• Bill Gates Invests in Cleaner Car Technology (Jolie O’Dell)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99 use code DDPEM (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 14, 2010 — #903 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #643 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting CodeRush Blog Series (Mark Miller)

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Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010 (Expert’s Voice in .Net) by Alex Mackey

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Top Links

• Windows Phone Developer Training Kit – Beta Refresh (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Tools Now in Beta (Charles Petzold)
• T-SQL Tuesday #8: Learning and Teaching (Paul Vick)
• Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 – Part 2 – UPDATE and PODCAST on Building a WEI 7.9 and RFC for building a GOM (God’s Own Machine) (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Introducing furious – a proof-of-concept RRM for F# (Alex Pedenko)
• Entity Framework with nHydrate (Michael S Knight)
• "Fake – F# Make" 1.40.5.0 released – Bugfixes for CruiseControl.NET (Steffen Forkmann)
• Getting the Mouse Pointer Position (Richard Carr)
• VerCache Madness with .NET ActiveX Controls (Rick Minerich)
• Solution Folders (Deborah Kurata)
• LINQ and WMI results – why not? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using XPathNavigator.Evaluate (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Visual Studio 2010 Extensions Magic: Automatic Updates. (Rachel Appel)
• Debugging Distributed Transactions: Configuring WCF Transaction Flow (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Exporting Your Environment Settings (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Adding a Javascript Block Into a Form Hosted by WebBrowser Control (Gil Fink)
• Announcing the Zoho Recruit API (Rina Sagayamary P)
• Sueetie Going Mobile Series: the Sueetie Framework (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC2 Areas (Dane Morgridge)
• Slow Down Filter for Throttling Requests with ASP.NET MVC (Deran Schilling)
• jQuery JavaScript Templates Tutorial: Inline Expressions and Code Blocks (Rey Bango)
• How To: HSL and HSLA Color Models (Pete LePage)
• Reporting with Data: How the New York Times Uses APIs (Adam DuVander)
• Follow up: Eliminating redundant eventhandlers using a dictionary to map controls (Jef Claes)
• Laharsub: HTTP REST pub/sub service for AJAX and Silverlight web clients (Tomasz Janczuk)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Estimating a software system and Enterprise Software Developer training course (Simon Brown)
• Working with Legacy code #6 : Technical Debt (Andy Stopford)
• Testing Techniques for Applications With Zero Tests (Vikas Hazrati)
• The Benefits of Top-Down Thinking & Why it is Critical to Entrepreneurs (Mark Suster)
• Presentation: Work Agile with VS2010 (Clemens Reijnen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Spin Spin Sugar [Updated code to easily animate orientation changes for any Windows Phone application] (David Anson)
• Windows Phone Gets Serious (Mike Ormond)
• Tips for uninstalling the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTPs and moving to beta (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Hostility Towards Windows Phone 7 (and a hopeful message…) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• How to write WPF 4 Surface applications with Blake.NUI (Josh Blake)
• Silverlight 4 MSDN Offline and Online Docs Updated (Sam)
• Silverlight 4 RIA services tutorial – Part 1 (Nikos Printezis)
• Intuit Partner Platform Delivers Windows Phone 7 SDK (Walid Abu-Hadba)
• Silverlight 4, WPF 4 and Windows Phone 7 Multi-Touch Manipulation – Release V0.5.1 for developer tools beta (July 2010) (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steven Sanderson on MVVM, Knockout, and HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – "Razor," IIS Express, SQL 4 Compact Edition and VS2010 Tooling with Damian Edwards (Scott Hanselman)
• endpoint.tv – WF State Machine and ADO.NET Activity Packs (Ron Jacobs)
• ARCast.TV – Sungard uses Silverlight 4 and Bing Map to Visualize Pipeline for Gas Trading Application (Bob Familiar)
• Outlook Social Connector, Now with Facebook (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 65: Data, Services, and Search – Oh My (Laura Foy)
• MSDN Radio: Past, Present, and Future of .NET with Rocky Lhotka (Emily Gibson)
• Technology & Friends Episode 101: Brian Sherwin on Refactoring (David Giard)
• CSLA 4 MVVM video series pre-release offer (Rockford Lhotka)
• New Video: Introduction to Xaml (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Let’s meet for Dinner in London! (Glenn Block)
• MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio 2010 Ecosystem Series: The State of Web Development in Visual Studio 2010 (Eve Turzillo)
• Awarded Silverlight Cream’s Best Blog Post of 2010 (Jesse Liberty)

Database

• Monitor Activities on your SQL Server 2005/2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Core DBA Skill – Backing up the tail log (Steve Jones)
• Creating Report in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDs) with Analysis Services Cube (Gouri Sohoni)
• T-SQL Tuesday #008: Top ten mistakes to make when attending a class (Paul S. Randal)
• Another use for PowerShell and SQL (John Pertell)
• Red Gate SQL Source Control (Grant Fritchey)

SharePoint

• Planning SharePoint Deployments with RACI (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger and Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook (MS Downloads)
• Consider Your Future Coworkers Before Taking a Job [Jobs] (Adam Pash)
• Windows 7 SP1 won’t be available to public until 2011 (Owen Williams)
• Service Pack 1 Beta for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2: Direct Download Links (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft announces Windows Phone Live, integration with Zune (Tim Conneally)
• How Do I Get a Job at Xbox? (Steve Clayton)
• I Bought An iPad… And I’m Returning It. (Derick Bailey)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 14, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #642 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• What YOU Are Interested In (Jeremy Likness)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• 500 Posts (Davy Brion)
• Silverlight Cream for July 13, 2010 — #902 (Dave Campbell)

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Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Lisa Crispin

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Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta Released (Scott Guthrie)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta Released (Brandon Watson)
• ClickOnce Releases (Matt Hawley)
• MultiTouch Behavior: Update for Windows Phone 7 tools beta (Laurent Bugnion)
• Announcing Blake.NUI – a multi-touch NUI library (Joshua Blake)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Understanding C#: Namespaces and assemblies (a quick .NET tutorial) (Andrew Stellman)
• XNA Game Studio 4.0 Beta is Live! (Kathleen Sanders)
• App Inventor for Android, VB Revisited (Rob Bazinet)
• Working with Tabs in the Toolbox and Find Your Development Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• Hello World XNA Game Studio 4 Part 2 Linking to Autodesk’s SoftImage Mod Tool (Don Burnett)
• Getting Started with Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (Bart de Smet)

Web Development

• Getting Request.Form Data Out of XDomainRequest In ASP.NET (Karsten Januszewski)
• Request for Real-World Web Applications (WebDevTools Team)
• Adding ASP.NET Membership to your OWN Database. (Joe Stagner)
• jQuery JavaScript Templates Tutorial: Nesting Templates (Rey Bango)
• MVC in Practice: Designing Models (Stoimen Popov)
• How To Clear the Data From an Umbraco to Start From Scratch (Peter Kellner)
• WebForms refactoring: Eliminating redundant evenhandlers using a dictionary to map controls (Jef Claes)
• Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 3 Adding E-Mail Support (Chris Love)
• Introducing the Windows Azure Platform Appliance (Ryan Dunn)
• Just Announced at WPC: the Windows Azure Platform Appliance (Windows Azure Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Review: Brownfield Application Development in .NET (Grant Palin)
• Social Learning without the Technology – 7 Patterns to try out (Sumeet Moghe)
• Full Coverage by Tests Driven Development (Patrick Smacchia)
• Linchpin: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• “Quality is value to some person” restated (Brian Marick)
• Want to learn Team Foundation Server 2010 ALM? (Stephen Forte)
• Typemock Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Command Handlers and the Domain Model (Greg Young)
• Resharper 5.1’s Test Runner Is Broken (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• UnityServiceBehavior updated to support named resolutions (Rory Primrose)
• Windows Phone CTP vs Windows Phone Beta (Koen Zwikstra)
• Uninstalling Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP (Nick Berardi)
• Announcing Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft’s Windows Phone Developer Tools get a major update ahead of dev phone launch (Tim Conneally)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta Released (Blend Team)
• ‘ServiceReferences.ClientConfig’ in the .xap application package Error in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Phone Manipulation Classes and Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta Available (Mike Ormond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 118 – PowerScripting Podcast – James Hamilton and Thomas Lee Talk Hotmail and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• A Few C plus plus TDD videos (Brett Schuchert)
• This Week In Silverlight – Phones are here! (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – July 12th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft PDC10 Announced (Mike Ormond)
• Microsoft PDC10 Announced–Book hotel early (Tim Heuer)
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start–Four free three hour (12 hours total) virtual sessions to jumpstart your WinPhone7 development (Space is limited) (Greg Duncan)
• Upcoming Events (Brent Ozar)
• We are hosting 2 great Windows Phone 7 community events in July 2010 (Michelle Flynn)
• Improvements to Badge System (Jeff Atwood)
• Free Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 Training (Rudi Grobler)

Database

• SQL Server DMV Starter Pack E-Book Published (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – How do I Learn and How do I Teach (Pinal Dave)
• HOWTO: Update Records in a Database Table With Data From Another Table (MS SQL Server) (Scott Mitchell)
• Change Data Capture rundown 100 (setup) (Ted Krueger)
• Handy indexes for versioning with RavenDB (Scott Galloway)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Guidance from the Patterns & Practices Group (Andrew Connell)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Admin’s Pocket Consultant – Only $9.99 use code DDMAC (O’Reilly Media)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Research Unveils Next Generation of WorldWide Telescope at 11th Annual Faculty Summit (Tony Hey)
• Microsoft Releases Bing Travel Planner for Outlook 2010 (Blake Handler)
• App Inventor for Android (Mark Friedman)
• Announcing SharpRobotica.com …the softer side of robotics (Billy McCafferty)
• Destination Arcade to launch with the Summer of Arcade (Larry Hyrb)
• More handy Script Editor Add-Ons (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Effectively Planning, Tracking & Controlling Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Graph Colouring With Simple Backtracking, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• Realizing the Promise of Cloud Computing with Microsoft (Robert Wahbe)
• Today At Microsoft – Tablets, Partners, Twitter and Martians. (Microsoft Blog)
• New Windows Home Server Vail Beta This Week? (Richard Hay)
• Value of Windows Azure Platform Appliance for SaaS (Rinat Abdullin)
• Mobile Browser Cache Limits, Revisited (Ryan Grove)
• Project Management in Java: A Confused .NET Developer’s Perspective (Ryan Svihla)
• App Inventor lets you build your own Android app (well, soon: it’s in closed beta) (Sebastian Anthony)
• Windows 7 SP1 Beta Now Available for Download (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft set to launch Outlook Facebook Social Connector today (Tom Warren)
• Is Microsoft Still Huge? (Zhiming Xue)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 12, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #641 (Chris Alcock)

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Essential Windows Azure: Architecting and Developing Applications for the Cloud (Developer’s Library) by Kevin Hoffman

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Top Links

• Rethinking UI programming (Paul Stovell)
• Migrating apps from Windows Phone April CTP Refresh to the beta build (Jaime Rodriguez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Editing a variable-length list, Knockout-style (Steve Sanderson)
• Enforce Correct Usage By Wrapping Types (John Sonmez)
• EntityRoots – An EF Extensibility Exercise (Danny Simmons)
• PLINQO or LINQ to SQL “Supercharged”: Getting Started (Zubair Ahmed)
• Desktop Google Reader 1.3.1 More Social (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Shift Focus to the Next TextBox using the Enter Key using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Thoughts on WebMatrix (Nikhil Kothari)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Top 10 Lessons in Improving Communication (Eduard Ezeanu)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Designing the Windows Phone 7 “Mix Zoomery” app (András Velvárt)
• Vuvuzela Source Code (Mike Ormond)
• Mahhala – FluidKit (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 20 – Philip Beadle on Automating DNN Builds (Richard Banks)
• Episode 100: Technology and Friends (David Giard)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – FREE Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN (Pinal Dave)

Database

• SSIS – Enabling Logging (Gethyn Ellis)

Miscellaneous

• OData and Ruby (K. Scott Allen)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Hackers & Painters – Only $9.99 use code DDMPT (O’Reilly Media)
• Xbox Live Announces Destination Arcade (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Links (7/11/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Weekly Link Post 152 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links #113 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 7/12/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2010 — #901 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #640 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #125 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Post… 7/4/2010 through 7/11/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

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Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life! by Chris Bernard

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Top Links

• Hilo: Windows 7 development walk-throughs (Somasegar)
• Greg Young at NDC2010 "7 Reasons DDD Projects #FAIL" (Vladimir Gitlevich)
• A new found respect for acceptance tests (Mark Needham)
• TWC9: WebMatrix and Razor, Debug MSBuild files, and beer fetching robots (Dan Fernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• “Fake – F# Make” 1.33.0 released (Steffen Forkmann)
• XML Serialization (Richard Carr)
• Building a component that works with different versions of a library (Jeffrey Richter)
• NoRM: Another .NET Provider for MongoDB (Abel Avram)
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2010, the Quick Reference Poster… (Greg Duncan)
• A practical illustration of why the new C# 4.0 dynamic and optional parameter features are valuable (John V. Petersen)
• F# and Code Contracts: not quite there yet (Kurt Schelfthout)
• Sorting Items in the Toolbox and Icon vs List View in the Toolbox (Zain Naboulsi)
• .NET: Fated to Succeed? (Keith Ward)
• How the SetEntitySetAccessRule and EntitySetRights APIs came to be (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

• Understanding ASP.NET 4 URL Routing in 2 minutes and Implementing Routing in ASP.NET 4 applications (Hima)
• Sueetie: The World’s First Mobile Online Community (Dave Burke)
• JavaScript if Statements Syntax (Marc Grabanski)
• Book Review: HTML5 For Web Designers (Pete LePage)
• Working with Application Pool Identities (Steve Smith)
• Installing Umbraco To Windows 7 Ultimate – Step By Step (Peter Kellner)
• Sitemaps and Blog Engine Download (Dr. Dave)
• Expecting Windows Azure Admin Mode and VM Roles this Year (Rinat Abdullin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• dotCover 1.0 Beta Released (Hadi Hariri)
• Importance of Tooling and Statistics in CQRS World (Rinat Abdullin)
• How To Succeed With Scrum When Your Company Is Anti-Agile (Rob Diana)
• Why Small is Better (John Sonmez)
• Defining Development Experience (Richard Cirerol)
• patterns & practices – Windows Azure Guidance – Part 2 – Release Candidate (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Hosting WPF controls in a WinForms application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 Development (Jeff Blankenburg)
• WPF SendKeys or mocking the keyboard in WPF (Kirill Osenkov)
• Visual State Manager A-Z and Styles (followup) (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 57: Getting the Details on Recent Silverlight 4 Updates from John Papa (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• WebDevRadio Episode 79: July catchup (Michael Kimsal)
• StartUp Podcast Show #74 Kent Beck on Lean Startups, TDD and startups (Bob Walsh)
• CodeStock 2010 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal’s Live Podcast at CodeStock and CodeStock 2010 Part 2 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal Talks PowerShell at CodeStock (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Cloud Cover Episode 18 – ASP.NET Providers (Ryan Dunn)
• Windows Weekly 164: But I Digress (Paul Thurrott)
• NYC Silverlight 4 Firestarter (Part 1 of 4): The Silverlight 4 Platform Overview and (Part 2 of 4): Silverlight LOB Application Basics and (Part 3 of 4): A Little Fun With Media: Webcams, Mics, & A/V and (Part 4 of 4): Application Navigation & Windows (Emily Gibson)
• Video: The OData Protocol (Eric Hagan)
• Engadget Podcast 204: Q&A Bonanza – 07.09.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• jQuery Podcast 29 – Rey Bomb #3 (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session from Cairo Code Camp – Part 3 (Muhammad Mosa)

Community / Events

• GeekGolf 2010 on September 11, 2010: Golfing, Steak Dinner and Fun (Chris Woodruff)
• Open Letter to (and deal for) Silverlight Bloggers (Dave Campbell)
• What is ForkCan.com – Do you have what it takes to Share your code? (Fredrik Normen)
• The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta (Robert Cartaino)
• SQLAuthority News – Milestone – 1400th Post and Why do I blog (Pinal Dave)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Parallelism – Row per Processor – Row per Thread – Thread 0 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Crawling case sensitive repositories using SharePoint Server 2010 (Syed Anas Hashmi)
• Install Windows Server 2008 R2 and Sharepoint 2010 on a VM (Peter Bromberg)

Miscellaneous

• Free Microsoft Visio 2010 Stencils for I.T. Professionals (Blake Handler)
• Slides of My Presentation on Code Bubbles (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows-Friendly Cygwin Paths (Derek Greer)
• Something blue (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Windows PowerShell Community Extension project (Ed Wilson)
• How to edit very old posts with Windows Live Writer (Simone Chiaretta)
• Productivity Tip: Using Your Keystrokes Where They Add Value. (Rajiv Popat)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2010 and Interesting Finds: July 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2010 — #899 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 9, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries this Week 07/09/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 58 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight, .NET 4.0 and LINQ Articles Link List (.NET Curry)

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Programming Wpf: Building Windows Ui with Windows Presentation Foundation   [PROGRAMMING WPF 2/E] [Paperback]

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Top Links

• Silverlight in Action Book Excerpt: Creating a Custom Panel (Pete Brown)
• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 2 – Customizing The Bootstrapper (Rob Eisenberg)
• A Quick Introduction to Dependency Injection using StructureMap (Dane Morgridge)
• Looking for work? Wanting to contribute? (Arian T. Kulp)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Removing the Ceremony from C# (Jim Burger)
• Dynamic in F#: Reading data from SQL database (Tomas Petricek)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First C#, 2nd Ed – Only $9.99. Use code DDHF2 (O’Reilly Media)
• Productivity Improvements for the Entity Framework (Rowan Miller)
• Debugging MSBuild script with Visual Studio (2) (Dan Moseley)
• Navigate Among Control Groups in the Toolbox (Zain Naboulsi)
• Generic Method Dispatch (Sasha Goldshtein)
• CSLA 4 release candidate available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Nice OData shout-out (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Fun with VS2010 Ultimate: Comparing SQL Data (Zubair Ahmed)

Web Development

• How WebMatrix, Razor, ASP.NET Web Pages and MVC fit together (David Ebbo)
• The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 23: Baby Got Postbacks, a Preamble (Evan Nagle)
• Building HTML in jQuery and JavaScript (Marc Grabanski)
• WebMatrix Beta in pictures (Gunnar Peipman)
• Friday Algorithms: JavaScript Bubble Sort (Stoimen Popov)
• Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 2 Adding Database Support (Chris Love)
• Subtext vNext: which features would you like and on which framework? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Will WebMatrix win over the LAMP crowd? (Stephen Forte)
• Apache Cayenne 3.0 faster and easier, Microsoft launches WebMatrix, a free dev suite and Ruby 1.9.2 is on its way (Sara Allison)
• Cloud Security Threats and Countermeasures at a Glance (J.D. Meier)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Incremental Requirements (James Shore)
• "Refactoring" Notes (Keith Dahlby)
• Mercurial workflows: local development work (Jimmy Bogard)
• The Math of Mediocrity (Charles Chen)
• Do Story Points Relate to Complexity or Time? Response (Rob Reynolds)
• Parallel Programming with Microsoft® .NET (Ade Miller)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Meet the Windows Phone 7 Rockstar team – Beastware (Anand Iyer)
• Slingbox Maker Sling Media Describes Cross-Platform Commitment to Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)
• XAML Compliance Suite v1 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• Silverlight Media Framework 2 released–integrate with Live Writer (Tim Heuer)
• Deep Zoom in Action (Sara Allison)
• Faking It… (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 87: Jeff Atwood on Area 51 and Stack Overflow (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon, Kevin Dente & K. Scott Allen)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 42 Introducing WebMatrix (Matthew Osborn & Federico Silva)
• Ch9Live at Tech.Ed NA 2010 – Ask Mark Russinovich Anything… LIVE! (Nic Fillingham)
• Scott Hanselman on ASP.NET MVC 2 Basics (Frank La Vigne)
• jQuery Essentials Slideshow, Version 2 (Marc Grabanski)

Community / Events

• @ElijahManor is Looking for a jQuery &| ASP.NET MVC Job (Elijah Manor)
• We’ll be at PASS in November – will you? (Paul S. Randal)
• Oh…. ‘I do like to be beside the C# Side’ – Win tickets to FEST10 (Rory Becker)
• Signup for MvcConf – Virtual ASP.Net MVC Conference (Eric Hexter)
• Are you a developer or designer in the NYC/NJ/PA/VA/MD area currently working on a Windows Phone 7 application? Let me know about it! (Dave Isbitski)
• SQLAuthority News – I am a MVP and I Love SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• 5 Organizations Helping Women Get Ahead in Tech (Emily Goligoski)

Database

• Check If Stored Procedure Exists, Else Drop It and Recreate – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Free SSRS Training – SQL Lunch #23 (SSRS R2 – Shared Datasets & Report Parts) (Patrick LeBlanc)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: MySQL High Availability – Only $9.99 Use code DDMHA (O’Reilly Media)
• Creating Models from Databases with Billions of Tables (Julie Lerman)

Miscellaneous

• Windows to Mac transition – Not for me (Brian Noyes)
• More Windows 8 hints, this time on the virtualization front (Mary-Jo Foley)
• OneNote Calendar Planner Add-in Upgraded for OneNote 2010 (Blake Handler)
• AROS Gets Media Center (Don Burnett)
• Why I love Ruby (John V. Petersen)
• Multithreaded Robocopy (K. Scott Allen)
• Rumor: Beta of "Vail" and "Aurora" to be available next week (Owen Williams)
• Xbox Live Formula Working for Microsoft (Richard Hay)
• Nearly 50% of Windows 7 PCs run 64-bit versions (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #639 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 8, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Resources (Frank La Vigne)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• July 9th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Silverlight, WPF, VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)

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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans

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Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 1 – Configuration, Actions and Conventions (Rob Eisenberg)
• Introducing WebMatrix (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft WebMatrix in Context and Deploying Your First Site (Scott Hanselman)
• The Controlled Calculator: An example of combining models while showing other features of Spec Explorer (Robert DuWors)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The PowerGUI Visual Studio PowerShell extension is now officially a v1 (RTW/RTM, Released, Stable, etc, etc) (Greg Duncan)
• Using the Tika Java Library In Your .Net Application With IKVM (Kevin Miller)
• Custom Query Options on the WCF Data Services Client (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• TFS Event Handler for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Introducing Stacky: A .Net Client Library for the StackOverflow API (Luke Foust)
• Navigating Bookmarks (Zain Naboulsi)
• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Extending LINQ – Adding Query Operators (Scott Mitchell)
• First MonoTouch Book is out (Miguel de Icaza)
• Hosting Windows PowerShell 2.0 under CLR 4.0 and The Case of The Failed Demo – StackOverflowException on x64 (Bart de Smet)
• Building Setup Project In devenv.com Command Line Fails, Works In IDE (Shai Raiten)
• Named Arguments versus Object Initializers (K. Scott Allen)

Web Development

• Microsoft’s WebMatrix, The Simple ASP.NET Editor (Chris Love)
• WebMatrix & Razor: A new option for beginning developers (Dan Fernandez)
• ASP.NET MVC, jQuery & JSON (Dane Morgridge)
• Determining an ASP.NET Page’s View State Footprint (Scott Mitchell)
• New Windows Azure Book Now Available for FREE Download! (Windows Azure Team)
• In the YUI 3 Gallery: Base64 and Y64 encoding (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Generic Activity Indicator for Ajax Requests (Rey Bango)
• Using Stringify With the New window.msPerformance in Internet Explorer 9 (Karsten Januszewski)
• A GPU-Powered Shopping Experience with Amazon.com (Seth McLaughlin)
• Resources: Windows Azure for PHP developers (Glen Gordon)
• Pssst…Yeah you….Script Junkie…Check out this code… (Bob Familiar)
• Does Azure Debugging Cost Too Much? (Jonathan Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A short diagramed guide of a few Model-View-* patterns (Greg Duncan)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day – Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps – Only $9.99. Use code DDTAP (O’Reilly Media)
• Interview: Mike Cottmeyer on Agile in the Enterprise (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Group feedback (Mark Needham)
• Show Covering Tests with dotCover (Hadi Hariri)
• Short-Burst Work (J.D. Meier)
• Self-assessment – what have YOU learned lately? (Brian McNamara)
• The great Standup Report controversy (Andy Singleton)
• Do Story Points Relate to Complexity or Time? (Vikas Hazrati)
• xUnit.net – Release: v1.6.1 (CodePlex)
• Your design sucks (Paul Boag)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft® Silverlight™ for Symbian Developer Tools (MS Downloads)
• Vuvuzela for Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
• Using IDataErrorInfo for validation in MVVM with Silverlight and WPF (Jag Reehal)
• Banana SplitButton [A WPF-specific fix for SplitButton and some code analysis improvements for the Silverlight version, too] (David Anson)
• XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 version 6.1 Silverlight 4 Support and XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 for Cider version 2.1 Silverlight 4 Support (Karl Shifflett)
• File Explorer using Silverlight 4 COM Interoperability (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Printing in Silverlight 4 (Markus Egger)
• Three essential plugins for Expression Blend (Avivo)
• Smooth Morphing with Transition Effects (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Don’t forget to Encrypt your Windows Phone 7 Data (Rob Tiffany)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – James Kovacs on psake (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 117 – PowerScripting Podcast – Bartek Bielawski, Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson Scripting Games 2010 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• This Week In Silverlight – Kin RIP and Welcome new MVPs (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – ADP 2010 West – Ryan Martens – Rally Dev and the addition of Agile Zen (Bob Payne)
• Intro to "Small Basic" with Vijaye Raji (Robert Hess)
• Ping 64: IIS Express, IE Reversing the Trend, RIP Kin, Hulu Plus and more… (Laura Foy)
• The GeekDads Episode #71: Must Have Bacon Beer! (Ken Denmead)
• Lane McCullough: Dell hardware running IE 9 Canvas demos and Simon Calvert & Scott Hunter: WebMatrix and the new Razor Syntax (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – July 6th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• CodePlex: Upgrading all TFS servers to TFS 2010 (Matt Hawley)
• Area 51: Asking the First Questions (Robert Cartaino)
• Announcing a Ruby with Shoes Course (Satish Talim)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Upper Case Shortcut SQL Server Management Studio (Pinal Dave)
• Network compression and database mirroring (Simon Sabin)
• Virtual Lab: Setting up Database Mail on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
• Setting Up Replication And Manually Initializing The Subscriber (Shaun Stuart)

SharePoint

• Practical Powershell for SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
• Feature upgrade (part 2) – a sample to play with (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Notepad++ version 5.7 software update (Ben Palmer)
• Sacrificing some IDE capabilities (Jay Fields)
• New book: Microsoft Project 2010 Step by Step (Carol Vu)
• Firefox 4 Beta 1 now available for download (Darren Murph)
• Reader Feedback: Is CompSci Education Failing? (Keith Ward)
• Developing for the iPhone and Android: The pros and cons (Jonathan Hassell)
• Remove Firefox 4.0′s big, ugly, unmovable orange button (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #637 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 6, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

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IronPython in Action by Michael J. Foord

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