Top Links

• Useful Value Converters (Nigel Sampson)
• Reactive Extensions–Observable Sequences are First Class Objects (Jesse Liberty)
• Introducing RouteMagic (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Safe IO on the Xbox 360 in F# (Johann Deneux)
• AXUM + Belief Propagation = Cool Possibilities (Don Burnett)
• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 5: Working with Property Values (Arthur Vickers)
• Introducing DirectCanvas (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Entity framework support for table valued functions and thus full text (Simon Sabin)
• Use “Obsolete” attributes to indicate Obsolete Methods (Abhijit Jana)
• Internals of Exception Handling (Abhishek Sur)

Web Development

• Create nice animation on your ASP.NET Menu control using jQuery (Hajan Selmani)
• Changing an HTML Form’s Target with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
• ViewBag does not exist in current context (Steve Smith)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 12 Key Reasons Companies Adopt Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Getting Things Done with Backpack and 37Signals (Michael Kennedy)
• Big Software Rewrites (Ray Houston)
• Two versions of being practical… (Shrini Kulkarni)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• GPS Emulator for Windows Phone 7 (Joey deVilla)
• Charting in a Silverlight Application using MVVM and Missing Chart Legend (Deborah Kurata)

Community / Events

• POPL 2011 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• 7 Things You Need to Know to Drive User Adoption of SharePoint (Joel Oleson)
• Free Mix11 Windows Phone 7 app now available (Greg Duncan)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Exporting Execution Plans (29/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – 2011 – SEQUENCE is not IDENTITY (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Fetching lists from SharePoint 2010 site using client object model (Dhananjay Kumar)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – January 30, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Week Retrospective 17 – Agile Sucks, Giveaway, and Denouncing Your CSM (Peter Saddington)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 29 January 2011 – #14 and Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 30 January 2011 – #15 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News Jan 30th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ASP.NET MVC, Sharepoint, Silverlight, Expression Web and .NET Articles in January 2011 and Author of the Month (Suprotim Agarwal)

The Geek Shelf

Pro .NET 4 Parallel Programming in C# (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Adam Freeman

Top Links

• Windows Phone From Scratch #12–Custom Behaviors (Part I) (Jesse Liberty)
• Back to Basics: Why Unit Testing is Hard (John Sonmez)
• An Explosion of Alternative Web Frameworks (Mike Hadlow)

.NET / Visual Studio

• EF Feature CTP5: Inheritance Scenarios with Code First Fluent API (Gil Fink)
• On the performance of F# on the Xbox 360 (Joh)
• Implementing The TakeLast, TakeLastWhile, SkipLast and SkipLastWhile LINQ Operators (Paulo Morgado)
• Writing a Compiler in C#: Parsing, Part 4 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta IIS Express Integration (Ibrahim Hashimi)
• Using JScript Libraries in Other JScript Files (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Fluent-Style Programming in JavaScript (Chris Sells)
• HTML5 selectors and jQuery (Jef Claes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Distributed Agile: Other observations and Bugs: Prioritising by bucket (Mark Needham)
• Cloud CQRS Lifehacks From Lokad – Part 2 (Rinat Abdullin)
• Power Comes In Different Forms (Mark Nijhof)
• The SOLID Principles (Richard Carr)
• You don’t scale a mutli tenant environment (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using EQATEC Profiler to monitor Windows Phone 7 application performance (Dennis Delimarsky)
• How many Windows Phone 7 devices have been sold? Everyone wants to know, here’s the best guess so far (Kelly Sommers)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 221 – 12.11.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows-Weekly-186-Russia-Calling (Paul Thurrott)
• Dave Thomas – Agile 2010 – The big tar ball and other unintended consequences. (Bob Payne)
• Silverlight 4 – Coded UI Framework Video Tutorial (Michael Crump)

Community / Events

• Meet me at DevCon on 19th December 2010 – Speaking on LightSwitch (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Have you taught introductory Developer courses? We still want you! (Amanda Van Kleeck)

Database

• SSIS: great idea, but buggy as heck. (Don Halloran)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 System Views Poster (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Activity Monitor and Performance Issue (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• AC’s Best Damn SharePoint 2010 Books (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Review of The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun (Brian Bondy)
• Who really needs a Chrome OS laptop? (Joe Wilcox)
• On The Road With Cr-48: The Chrome Notebook Is Both Shiny And Tarnished (MG Siegler)
• Gawker Source Code and Databases Compromised (samzenpus)
• Panelize fixes one of Chrome OS’s fundamental flaws (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman on Expert Is As Expert Does, One-Dimensional Freelancing, Freelancer to Consultant (Dave Burke)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 12, 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for December 12, 2010 — #1008 (Dave Campbell)
• Week Retrospective 10 – ScrumMasters aren’t PM’s, Agile Lifestyle, and December Giveaway! (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Application Development in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Scott Dorman

Top Links

• The Weekly Source Code 55 – NotABlog: A Local XML-RPC MetaWebLog Endpoint That Lies To Windows Live Writer (Scott Hanselman)
• Abstracting the persistence medium isn’t going to let you switch persistence abstractions (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer Values (Rob Miles)

.NET / Visual Studio

• StickyNotes VS2010 TRIAL now available (Pablo Galiano)
• Cancellation with .NET 4 (Part 2) (Christian Nagel)
• Cleaning a VS2010 solution with a sledgehammer (Rory Primrose)
• Find Keyboard Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
• The initial OpenWrap installation and Adding OpenWrap to an existing project (Part 1) and OpenWrap’s view on versioning (Sebastien Lambla)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Razor View Best Practices – Keep logic out of your Razor views (Jag Reehal)
• Finally Gave my Sueetie Wiki Some Good Luvin’ (Dave Burke)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Day 2 – Monday Vision – Use Three Stories to Drive Your Week (J.D. Meier)
• Principles 3: Principles of Software Development (aka Principles of Shipping) (Ivo Manolov)
• Done Criteria (Paul Stovell)
• Project Plans in a Nutshell (J.D. Meier)
• You Don’t Need an Application Server (Mike Hadlow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 4 Code Demos from the Microsoft TechReady Workshop (Dan Wahlin)
• Exiting a Windows Phone Application (Peter Torr)
• Bubble Breaker in Windows Phone 7 using XNA (Dimitrios Ilias Gkanatsios)
• Silverlight On Mobile : Windows Phone 7 Splash Screen and Customization (Vikram Pendse)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 App – Sudoku (Part 2) (John Baird)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 363: Kinect Pricing, Bundles, MOH Beta and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 120 – PowerScripting Podcast – Alex Riedel on PrimalScript and Visual PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Technology & Friends Episode 106: J Wynia on Spark View Engine (David Giard)
• Pluralcast 21 – Extending Visual Studio 2010 with Kate Gregory (David Starr)

Community / Events

• Briefly: Significant Personnel Moves Inside of Microsoft Azure (Kevin Kline)
• Speaking at DevLink! (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – T-SQL Challenges and Hints and Suggestions (Pinal Dave)
• Implicit Transactions and the performance issue (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• Online privacy, Tracking, and IE8’s InPrivate Filtering (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Lesson for Microsoft: Advertising works (Joe Wilcox)
• A Touchy Subject (Joey deVilla)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming Interactivity – Only $9.99. Use code DDPTY (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #655 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #126 (David Vidmar)
• Everyman on Startup Failure Simply Stated, Insider as Fan, iPhone and its Surroundings (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #116 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 035 for 8/2/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for August 01, 2010 — #916 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 155 (Rhonda Tipton)

The Geek Shelf

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Jez Humble

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)

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

Extension Methods and "yield return" (Jason Bock)

On exception handling and state management (Jeffrey Richter)

Parr’s Rules for MVC Views (K. Scott Allen)

IE9 Platform Preview 3 with HTML5 video support due today (Tom Warren)

Now Available: Layered Architecture Sample for .NET 4.0 (J.D. Meier)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Nullable>T< Structure (Richard Carr)
• Book review – C# 4.0 How-To by Ben Watson (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Opening OpenXML, the Open XML Package Editor Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 (Greg Duncan)
• C#: StackTrace (Mark Needham)
• Data Services Expressions – Part 7 – Navigation (Vitek Karas)
• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Querying and Searching XML Documents Using LINQ to XML (Scott Mitchell)
• Simply Using Matrixes in your projects (Sam Stokes)
• My First Request For The Next .NET Version (Davy Brion)
• Topshelf Update (Dru Sellers)
• Atomize your strings to improve memory usage (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

• Uploading and Displaying Files Using ASP.NET MVC Framework (Mohammad Azam)
• HTML5 Rocks!: A resource for open web developers (Paul Irish)
• Tools For Web Designers and Web Developers (Pete LePage)
• Web Application Extensibility with FubuMVC (Part 1) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Hands on mocking of ASPNETMVC controller action (Mehfuz Hossain)
• jQuery Fundamentals Training Material Available as Open Source (Rey Bango)
• Open Government Data and Bing Map Apps (Marc Schweigert)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Key Questions for a PM at patterns & practices (J.D. Meier)
• Lokad.CQRS – Plugging NHibernate and Relational Databases into Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• On Leadership… (Chad Myers)
• The Rugged Software Manifesto (Vikas Hazrati)
• Using Mercurial as a local repository for Team Foundation Server / Start Front’N (Eric Hexter)
• A Lap Around TestApi v0.5 (Ivo Manolov)
• Rietveld update, or “How to make code reviews fun (without canceling them)” (Kyle Baley)
• Don’t Sweep Feedback Under the Rug (Mark Suster)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• EasyPainter and other WPF/Silverlight goodies from http://nokola.com (Kirill Osenkov)
• Review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook (Michael S. Scherotter)
• How do You Sign In with Xbox LIVE on Windows Phone 7? (Andre Vrignaud)
• Get Started with Silverlight (New QuickStart Articles) (Sam Landstrom)
• WPF and convention based binding (Torkel Ödegaard)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Wizards of Smart #9 – 25 Zeros + IDEs + SOLID (Jonathan Birkholz)
• Choice (Roy Osherove)
• Episode 96: Chet Kloss on Microsoft CRM (David Giard)
• Ping 62: Azure Tools, Kinect, Xbox, Visual Studio 1.2 (Laura Foy)
• Multi-Targeting Deep Dive with Visual Basic 2010 (Beth Massi)
• eCSStender: the ‘jQuery of CSS’ (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• I’ll be speaking at the SoCal Code Camp this Weekend (Scott Mitchell)
• Join these 3 FREE Microsoft Project + SharePoint 2010 Events (Dux Raymond Sy)
• First Ever Meeting of the Washington, DC .NET User Group (Pete Brown)
• Upcoming John Robbins .NET Debugging 2 day course (Glen Gordon)
• CodeStock 2010: The Year We Connect (Alan Stevens)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Guest Post – SELECT * FROM XML – Jacob Sebastian (Pinal Dave)
• Benchmarking: do multiple data files make a difference? (Paul S. Randal)
• XQuery Lab 59 – OPENXML() and XML Namespace Declarations and Using the XMLTable() Function (Jacob Sebastian)
• Modeling hierarchical structures in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools and Chapter 1 of upcoming Inside Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 on MSDN (Andrew Connell)
• Need to roll up SharePoint content and display multiple columns easily? (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• What to Know BEFORE Upgrading to Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) (Blake Handler)
• Bing’s Summer Update (Satya Nadella)
• Xbox LIVE Family Pack coming this November (Larry Hyrb)
• New in PowerGUI 2.1 – Custom welcome pages (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• What are your 10 essentials? Here are mine… (John V. Petersen)
• Xbox Live family subscription plan available starting in November for $99 (Laura June)
• There are only three types of programmers in the world… (Paul Vick)
• DreamSpark Program Adds Free Expression Studio 4 Software (Richard Hay)
• Windows 7 SP1 beta now available for testers (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 22, 2010 — #887 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #627 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

CLR via C# (Dev-Pro) by Jeffrey Richter

Top Links

• Using rake under IronRuby (Joshua Flanagan)
• Take Control of Logging and Tracing in Windows Azure (Mike Kelly)
• Best Practices (Peter Ritchie)
• WP7 Back Button in Games (Andy Beaulieu)
• Visual Studio Language & IDE Resources from TechEd North America 2010 (C#, VB, F#, IronPython, IronRuby) (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Microsoft E3 Xbox 360 Press Conference Details (Richard Hay)

.NET / Visual Studio

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step – Only $9.99 use code MDMVB (O’Reilly Media)
• MongoDB and C# (Craig G. Wilson)
• Querying namespace-based XML data in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The Managed Menu Extension (MME) makes adding right click menus to VS2010 simple and easy (via MEF) (Greg Duncan)
• Why you need to tag your build servers in TFS and Ghost team foundation build controllers (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Road to MonoDevelop 2.4: Navigation (Miguel de Icaza)
• Manipulate Docx with C# without Microsoft Word installed with Open XML SDK (Ric Rodrigues)
• MDA: Callback On Garbage Collected Delegate (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using Conditional Mapping in Entity Framework (Gil Fink)
• Project Euler Problem 1 and 2 in F# (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Using Quick Find (Zain Naboulsi)
• XmlDictionary and Binary Serialization (Scott Seely)
• Hide and seek (Eric Lippert)
• Team Build Service Is Ready But Not Working (Shai Raiten)

Web Development

• Creating Add-Ins for Expression Web 4 (Jonathan Allen)
• Visual Studio 2010 JavaScript Intellisense Behavior (K. Scott Allen)
• Four Twitter Mashups Available as One API (Adam DuVander)
• Custom web faults with System.ServiceModel.Web 3.x (Matt Milner)
• Drupal Cheat Sheet Desktop Wallpaper (Smashing Magazine)
• Rely on Declarative Security Features in the Browser (David Ross)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: TeamRoom (Martin Fowler)
• Work In Process (WIP) Limits, Policies, Etc. (Derick Bailey)
• TDD: Driving from the assertion up (Mark Needham)
• Release Management, Features or Time (John Sonmez)
• From KFC Development to PVC Systems (Karl Scotland)
• Code Like Kudzu! (Jared Richardson)
• Asymmetry and emptiness: lessons from the tearoom (Garr Reynolds)
• Free Stand Up report – the Simplest and Easiest way to manage a distributed team (Andy Singleton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Master-Detail UI in Blend (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Memory Leak Hotfixes for WPF 3.5 SP1 (Jossef Goldberg)
• How to Enable Using the Binding Builder in WPF and Silverlight Applications and Using WPF and Silverlight UserControls (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Tip: Using LINQ to Select the Largest Available Webcam Resolution (Pete Brown)
• Printing Tip – Handling User Initiated Dialogs Exceptions (John Papa)
• CinchV2 is out there (Sacha Barber)
• Display Google Maps Imagery using Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Chris Pietschmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 2010 E3 Xbox 360 Media Briefing (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 115 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Sizemore on TechEd 2010 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Designing in Microsoft Office 2010 (Tina Wood)
• This Week in Silverlight – Teched and Quizes (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Visual Studio Test Professional 2010: The Tool for the Modern Tester (Brian Keller)
• Ping 61: Azure Apps, Windows Live Essentials, E3, Colbert & Bing (Laura Foy)
• Security Talk Series: Using the SDL in Office 2010 (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – June 14th, 2010 and Do You Attend User Groups? Run a User Group? We’d Like to Hear From You! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft Kinect, Xbox 360 “Slim” and More: Early Highlights from E3 (Barb Dybwad)
• Kinect Introduced at E3 (Owen Linderholm)
• New Hires in New York (Joel Spolsky)
• MVPs Todd Klindt, Kyle Rosenthal, and Stuart Celarier discuss TechEd 2010 New Orleans (Joseph Mirabella)
• The Top 10 Developer Mistakes That Won’t Scale (Brent Ozar)

Database

• Introduction to SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Server Management (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Shrinking NDF and MDF Files – Readers’ Opinion (Pinal Dave)
• Maps in Reports! (Grant Fritchey)

Miscellaneous

• Kinect for Xbox 360 Sets the Future in Motion – No Controller Required (MS PressPass)
• Xbox Kinect—beyond playing games (Bill Crounse)
• Kinect and Windows Live Messenger: soon to be bff? (Kip Kniskern)
• Daily Dose – The Winds of Change Blow for the OSI (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Connecting Windows Live Messenger and Xbox Live (Piero Sierra)
• Windows Live Sync Beta Transition Guide (Richard Hay)
• New Xbox 360 Slim Unveiled ! Shipping Today for $299 (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• T-SQL Tuesday #007 – Roundup (Jorge Segarra)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 06/14/2010 – TechEd Edition (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 149 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #621 (Chris Alcock)
• Code Generation 2010, new Xbox 360 launched and Umbraco 4.1 is out (Sara Allison)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed by Chad Carter

Top Links

• Repositories and the Save Method (K. Scott Allen)
• Using LINQPad to Query Stack Overflow (Nick Berardi)
• ‘Kinect for Xbox 360′™ is Official Name of Microsoft’™s Controller-Free Game Device (MS PressPass)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#: A failed attempt at F#-ish pattern matching (Mark Needham)
• Code Contracts Part 6 – Runtime Support (Kevin Hazzard)
• Opening GAC as folder (Greg Galipeau)
• List(T).ForEach or foreach, it doesn’t matter…or does it? (Mattia Baldinger)

Web Development

• Using Script reference Profiler to Improve the Performance of an ASP.NET AJAX page (Girish Dagdiya)
• jQuery AJAX with ASP.NET Web Forms & Sitefinity (Deran Schilling)
• Securing Dynamic Data 4 (Replay) (Steve Naughton)
• Google Sitemap Generation From A Custom SiteMapResult (Mike Brind)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The patterns & practices Way (J.D. Meier)
• Lokad.CQRS – Messages, Commands, Events and Ping Pong (Rinat Abdullin)
• Leadership Tip: Avoiding The Perils Of Organizational Procrastination. (Rajiv Popat)
• Silverlight Unit Testing (Jason Apergis)
• The Refactoring Dilemma (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Update: June 2010, User Interface Changes (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone 7 performance (Al Pascual)
• Getting offline help for Silverlight (and many other technologies) for VS2010.. (Cheryl Simmons)
• Coding4Fun Cannon – Coding for Windows Phone 7 (Clint Rutkas)
• Mahhala – Bag o’ Tricks (Rudi Grobler)
• What I’m Reading – 2 – Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook (Dave Campbell)
• Visual WebGui Rides the XAML Wave (Mitch Pronschinske)
• New tutorials on .toolbox on PathListBox and Fluid UI (Adam Kinney)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The History of Microsoft with Charles Simonyi: Part Two (Tina Wood)
• Technology & Friends Episode 92: Steve Smith on Performance and Scalability and Episode 93: David Truxall on Team Foundation Server (David Giard)

Community / Events

• DDD Exchange 2010 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Effective specifications for agile projects (Gojko Adzic)

Database

• Parameterized Report using a Stored Procedure (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Review of “The ART OF XSD – SQL Server XML Schema Collections” by ASP.NET MVP Hima Vejella (Jacob Sebastian)

SharePoint

• Lookup Foreign Key Values in External Lists (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s "Application Compatibility Toolkit" Updated to Support 64-bit Version of Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• New in PowerGUI 2.1 – Charts (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Google Chrome OS Will Allow Remote Desktop Access From Browsers [Google] (Erica Ho)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Best Android Apps – Only $9.99 use code DDBAA (O’Reilly Media)
• Xbox 360 Slim outed by Italian ad? (Tim Stevens)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 14, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Weekly Links #109 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 6/14/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for June 13, 2010 — #881 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #620 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #123 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck

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Top Links

• Vim+Grep: Find All Occurrences Of Text In Your Project (Derick Bailey)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Async Method Chaining (Matthew Podwysocki)
• StackOverflow Desktop Client in C# and WPF – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• A Brief, Incomplete and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (James Iry)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to get info from client certificates issued by a CA (C#) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: BigInteger and C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: Complex numeric type (Sam Gentile)
• How Do I: Using IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2010 (Chris Koenig)
• New IDE Features in Visual Studio 2010 for C# Developers (Kirill Osenkov)
• Protecting your .NET applications (Suprotim Agarwal)
• WCF Data Service Projections – null handling and expansion (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Shake – C# Make – Release v0.1.11 (CodePlex)
• F#: Tacit programming (Mark Needham)
• Pinning Projects and Solutions with Visual Studio 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Build Tools Roundup For .NET Systems (Derick Bailey)
• Every Program There Is, Part Five (Eric Lippert)
• If you are seeing intermittent crashes with VS 2010 (Gary Horen)

Web Development

• Globalizing ASP.NET MVC Client Validation (Phil Haack)
• Use ScriptSrc.net to Copy and Paste the Script tag for Your Favorite JavaScript Library (Rey Bango)
• Resolve a URL from a Partial View (ASP.NET MVC) (Scott Mitchell)
• JavaScript Coding Standards (Simon Ince)
• jQuery and Windows Azure (Stephen Walther)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• "Art of Agile" Training Courses This October (James Shore)
• Project Greenfield (Joel Cochran)
• What Do I Mean by a Complex Product? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The devil is in the detail (Paul Boag)
• The True Cost of Quality (John Sonmez)
• How the SDL helped improve Security in Office 2010 (Didier Vandenbroeck)
• Software As A Destination vs Software As A Journey (Alan Skorkin)
• Poka-Yoke in UI design (Janko Jovanovic)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: Near-Final Screenshots (Paul Thurrott)
• Control templates in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Building a Simple Windows Phone App (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Droppy Pop: A Windows Phone 7 Game (Andy Beaulieu)
• Why you should check out Expression Blend Behaviors when using Silverlight (Dave Isbitski)
• Integrating HTML into Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight HVP – Next Steps and Community Involvement (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7 Panorama & Pivot controls – Release v0.7 (samples included) (CodePlex)
• Binding to Silverlight ComboBox and Using SelectedValue, SelectedValuePath and DisplayMemberPath (John Papa)
• WPF Shell Integration Library (Lester Lobo)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #17 – Double Click (Mike Snow)
• Fiddler inspector for WCF Silverlight Polling Duplex and WCF RIA (Joe Zhou)
• Common Navigation UI and Authorization-driven Sitemaps (David Poll)
• Quick and easy scalable rounded bevels (Phil Middlemiss)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• New Video by Jon Harris: Blend 4 for Windows Phone in 90 Seconds (Christian Schormann)
• Ping 57: IE9, Alan Wake, Silverlight, Spindex, MMS (Laura Foy)
• Pluralcast 15 : SQL Server Under the Covers (David Starr)
• QuarkPromote Lights Up Windows 7 with RIA Web Application on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 12 – WebForms MVP with Tatham Oddie (Richard Banks)
• endpoint.tv – Configuring Windows Server AppFabric Persistence (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Events this Week – May 10th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Special Silverlight Designer Events THIS WEEK at NERD (Jim O’Neil)
• Open Data Event Rallies Developers (Adam DuVander)
• Two Cool Typemock Contests (Roy Osherove)
• OData Blowout in June… 8 OData Workshops in Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Chicago and NYC (Chris Woodruff)
• “10 Days for Office 2010” Starting May 12 (Joseph Mirabella)
• API Forum Grand Opening (Rick Olson)
• Hate Software Bugs?! Fan page snapshot (Tal Townsend)

Database

• SQL Server PowerShell Provider And PowerShell Version 2 Get-Command Issue (Buck Woody)
• Create Date Ranges for Consecutive dates in a SQL Server Table (Suprotim Agarwal)
• What 5 things should SQL Server get rid of? (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Spatial Database Queries – What About BLOB – T-SQL Tuesday #006 (Pinal Dave)
• Moving Data from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 (Zhiming Xue)
• DBA Survivor by Tom LaRock – Book Review (Brent Ozar)

Miscellaneous

• DocTranslator: Google Translation Mashup Service for Microsoft Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Making Sense of the SenseCam (Rob Knies)
• Microsoft Access 2010 Source Code Control (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft and LG partner to release Xbox 360 3D gaming (Matt Blowes)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Mathematica Cookbook – Only $9.99 use code DDMTC (O’Reilly Media)
• Benchmarking: Introducing SSDs (Part 1b: not overloaded log file array) (Paul S. Randal)
• Firefox 3.7 will become 4.0 — Firefox 4, with updated Gecko, confirmed for later this year (Sebastian Anthony)
• Analyze Your Git Log With Ruby (Tobin Harris)
• Announcing the Clinical Documentation Solution Accelerator (CDSA) (MS CUI Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #597 (Chris Alcock)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 05.01 ~ 05.10 (yuanjian)

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Top Links

• Pair Management (Michael Feathers)
• “Suggested Resources” Visual Studio Plug-In (Tom Hollander)
• SQL SERVER – Attach mdf file without ldf file in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Slim Xbox 360 and Natal bundle to debut at E3? (Vladislav Savov)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Enable or Disable a Breakpoint and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using Hide Selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 Multi-Monitor Support (Richard Carr)
• Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh (MS Downloads)
• Writing basic information to Excel files from a .NET application (Dennis Delimarsky)

Web Development

• Server Driven Paging With WCF Data Services (Phani Raj)
• WCF, REST and URL Rewriting with Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• Twitter’s Many Geo APIs (Adam DuVander)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Small Step Refactoring: Overload Constructor (Mark Needham)
• RavenDB Performance Tweaks (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned from Seth Godin (J.D. Meier)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Events Deserialization (Jérémie Chassaing)
• If Self-Documenting Code is the What, Unit Tests are the Why (John Sonmez)
• Vanilla Scrum and Multi-Team Value Streams (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Elastic Collisions (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• A ?refreshing? Authentication/Authorization experience with Silverlight 4 (David Poll)
• Expression Blend 4 SDK for Windows Phone Streamlines Development (Bruce Kyle)
• Unit Testing Modal Dialogs in MVVM and Silverlight 4 (Slobodan Pavkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 110 – PowerScripting Podcast – Andrew Mason from Microsoft on Server Core (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 10 – James Crisp live at the ALM Conference (Richard Banks)
• WSDAPI – Ralf Beckers about Web Services on Devices for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 (Jan Schenk)
• Major Nelson Show 358: Left4Dead’s The Passing, BioShock 2 MP DLC and Split/Second (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• Road Trip with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell (Al Pascual)
• Coders Go the (Long) Distance for Imagine Cup (Lukas Velush)
• Great Indian Developer Summit Wrap-Up (Stephen Forte)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Books OnLine – available now… (Dukagjin Maloku)
• A DMV a Day – Day 26 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (25/30) fill factor (Paul S. Randal)
• Debugging 64 bit SSIS packages (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Forums in SharePoint 2010 (Lightning Tools)
• SharePoint PowerShell Forum (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Miscellaneous

• The Plug Computer (Mike Ceranski)
• Daily Dose – Android Market Reaches 50k Apps; Development Accelerates (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Word 2010 Navigation Pane and more and Outlook 2010 – My Top 9 features (Daniel Moth)
• Human Computer Interaction, A Portal to the Future (Hui MA)
• Job Hoppers Redux: An Employee’s Perspective (Mark Suster)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/26/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Finds: April 26, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #587 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 25, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2010 — #847 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 142 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Everyman on Putting Facebook Last, Next Killer Mobile App, Worker or Entrepreneur (Dave Burke)

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Top Links

• An Address on the Craft (David Starr)
• Querying the Future With Reactive Extensions (Phil Haack)
• Foursquare Shows Why You Should Be Excited About Windows Phone 7 Apps (Matt Buchanan)
• Comments on the SDTimes article (Ted Neward)
• MEF CompositionInitializer for WPF (Reed Copsey)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# async on the client side (Brian McNamara)
• Using Solution Folders (Zain Naboulsi)
• Free ebook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (DRAFT Preview) (Devon Musgrave)
• Parallelism in .NET – Part 16, Creating Tasks via a TaskFactory (Reed Copsey)
• Self Validation in Validation Application Block (Gil Fink)
• Thoughts on versioning data services (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Raise of Hands: Do you use the Surface Simulator? Do you use the Surface Simulator APIs? (Luis Cabrera)
• NBody.net Code Available (Ade Miller)

Web Development

• Using jQuery to Insert a New Database Record (Stephen Walther)
• Do Initialization in OnStart() (Steve Marx)
• Google Analytics and jQuery, happy together (Wesley Bakker)
• DOM Level 3 Events support in IE9 (Travis Leithead)
• Standards Documentation for IE7 and IE8 (Adrian Bateman)
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook! (Gunther Lenz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Architecture Journal Topics Model, Processes (Bruce Kyle)
• Programmer Tip: Being The Best Purple Cow You Can Become. (Rajiv Popat)
• Don’t Give Up on the State Pattern Just Yet – Revisited (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Test Manager 2010 Test Plans (Clemens Reijnen)
• How to write custom static code analysis rules and integrate them into Visual Studio 2010 (Duke Kamstra)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Authentication and Personalization (Brad Abrams)
• Book Excerpt: The Silverlight Layout System (Pete Brown)
• Discover How to Move from Flash to Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)
• When you have two good options, go with the easier one [Tip: Set DependencyProperty default values in a class's default style if it's more convenient] (David Anson)
• Exploring Design-Time Data in Blend 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• OpenFileDialog sample (Margaret Parsons)
• iPhone SDK vs. Windows Phone 7 Series SDK Challenge, Part 2: MoveMe (Shawn Burke)
• Windows Phone 7 in 7 – Learning how to develop for Windows Phone 7, in 7 minute blocks… [Coming soon, starting April 5th] and Application Bar Icons for your Windows Phone 7 development (Greg Duncan)
• A JOURNEY INTO SILVERLIGHT ON WINDOWS PHONE -VIA Learning Windows Phone Programming (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Displaying 2D QR barcodes in Windows Phone applications (Jeff Wilcox)
• Windows Phone 7 development: first impressions (Gunnar Peipman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 49: Getting the Right Message about NServiceBus with Udi Dahan (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: MIX Wrapup, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Phone 7 Tutorials (Dan Fernandez & Clint Rutkas)
• Windows Weekly 149: Ask The Beavers (Paul Thurrott)
• Channel 9 Live at MIX10: Javascript Panel with Douglas Crockford, John Resig & Erik Meijer (Nic Fillingham)
• Pete at MIX10: Umbraco Core Team Interview (Pete Brown)
• jQuery Podcast 17 – jQuery UI 1.8 (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Cloud Cover Episode 6 – Service Bus Tracing (Ryan Dunn)
• MIX 10k Winners and Judges Take the Stage at MIX10 (Laura Foy)
• New Video – MIX10 Day One Windows Phone 7 Series Recap with the Windows Phone Champs and New Video – MIX10 Day Two Windows Phone 7 Series Recap with the Windows Phone Champs and New Video – MIX10 Event Summary with Larry Gregory and Warren Wilbee (John O’Donnell)
• MSDN Radio: There’s a Feed for That, After MIX with Pablo Castro and geekSpeak Recording – Inside SQL Server Integration Services with Andy Leonard (Emily Gibson)

Community / Events

• PAX Day 1 (Eric Havir)
• ISV Software Architecture Workshop May 20th 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• That No SQL Thing (Oren Eini)
• Enabling super single user mode with SQL Server (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : 4214 BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Introducing the SharePoint Site Collection Keep Alive Job (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard for Debugging Code (Paul Andrew)
• Lightning Conductor Web part – striking new features (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases 2 New Add-ons for "NetMon" Network Monitoring Tool (Blake Handler)
• How To Answer A Programming Interview Question And Look Good Doing It (Alan Skorkin)
• Miro updates Internet TV app to version 3, launches Video Converter (Jay Hathaway)
• Shocker: HTC plans Windows Phone 7 Series device by year’s end (Sean Hollister)
• USB Memory Support for the Xbox 360 coming April 6th (Larry Hyrb)
• DotNetKicks – Going Back to the Good Days (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Azure: How to activate the MSDN Premium Special Account (David Makogon)

More Link Collections

• OData weekly roundup #1 (Alex James)
• Interesting Finds: March 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for March 26, 2010 — #821 and Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2010 — #822 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 03/26/2010 (Rick Minerich)

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