Top Links

• Engadget Gets the Goods on XBOX LIVE for WP7 (Don Burnett)
• Microsoft delivers on-premises private-cloud building block (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Big day for Microsoft games: Microsoft Flight, Age of Empires Online; Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7 titles revealed (Kip Kniskern)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Edition – Only $9.99 use code DDVCS (O’Reilly Media)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to publish a printer in Active Directory (C#) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• New to C#, Visual Studio, and SQL Server (Jonathan McCracken)
• Proposed New Visual Studio ALM Stack Exchange Site (Ed Blankenship)
• WCF RIA Services Part 5 – Metadata and Shared Classes (Brian Noyes)
• Roll Your Own Item Template with the Export Template Wizard (Zain Naboulsi)
• NHibernate 3.0 QueryOver Syntax is the Bee’s Knees (Bobby Johnson)
• Quick and Dirty way to backup a SQL Azure database to a local copy using EF and Dynamic Query (James Clarke)
• Why I Love NServiceBus (Jonathan Oliver)
• Coding Standards and Best Practices : Dealing with strings Part (1) and Implementing Multithreaded Singleton Class (Peter Bahaa)

Web Development

• Exposing Java Implemented Logic – JSP or ASP.NET ? (Joe Stagner)
• Resig Introduces jQuery Mobile (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A Boolean Date Time Field Template for Dynamic Data 4 (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Quickly setting up Autospec and Growl for TDD goodness in Ruby!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Optimistic Offline Lock (Giorgio Sironi)
• Can We Adopt Agile? Not Yes. (Peter Schuh)
• Monday Morning Productivity Jump Start (Amber Singleton Riviere)
• I&I over P&T (Steve ‘Doc’ List)
• Estimating is Overestimated (Sergio Romano)
• Write testable code even if you don’t write tests (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight – Property Value Synchronization between Two View Models (Kiran Kumar G)
• Creating a small downloader tool for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Creating Application using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Commanding and ADO.NET Entity Framework (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Xbox LIVE Games for Windows Phone 7 Unleashed at Gamescom (Michael Klucher)
• WPF Application Framework (WAF) 1.0.0.400 (CodePlex)
• Picking the right resolution for RibbonWindow’s Icon and Images in Ribbon Sample (Varsha Mahadevan)
• Virtualizing Data in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications (Peter Torr)
• Windows Phone Applications – Gestures (Ricky Tan)
• Windows Phone 7 gets all musical on your keystrokes (Steven Hodson)
• Debugging Silverlight with Visual Studio and Firefox and Storing and playing media on Windows Phone 7 (Tim Heuer)
• Windows 7 Phone: Details Matter (Sarah Perez)
• One for the ladies (your mkop editor)
• Two more WP7 tutorials (Nigel Sampson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone 7 app: Halo Waypoint just announced (Tina Wood)
• YUI Theater — Dennis Lembree: “Making JavaScript Accessible (26 min.)” (Allen Rabinovich)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 25 – Entity Framework with Matthew Wills (Richard Banks)
• Sparkling Client Show 103: Windows Phone 7 Development Hardware with Walt Ritscher (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Countdown to PDC10: There’s one pass left! Is your name on it? (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 70: ZoomIt, PC & Mac Ads, Media Room, Gaming on Windows Phones (Laura Foy)
• Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration (Silverlight Show)

Community / Events

• How to Insult a Writer (Charles Petzold)
• Growing Faith in Open Source, But Few Give Back (Mitch Pronschinske)

Database

• Migrate MySQL, Access Databases to the Cloud with SQL Server Migration Assistant (Bruce Kyle)
• Count the Number of Occurrence of Characters in a String – SQL Server Challenge (Suprotim Agarwal)
• What I learned today – CHECKDB and database snapshots (John Pertell)
• Integration Services vNext Coming Soon? (Todd McDermid)
• Termination options for ALTER DATABASE (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Cookbook V2 Now Available (Lee Holmes)
• Xbox 360 Limited Edition Halo Reach console sounds (Larry Hyrb)
• Add-ons, and Opting out of Google Analytics Without Them (Eric Lawrence)
• Windows Home Server Vail August Preview Available for Testers – Brings Client Connector for Mac with Time Machine Support (Imran Hussain)
• Ruby Programming and Education: A Match Made in Heaven (Satish Talim)
• Mathematics Add-in for OneNote 2010 is available (John Guin)
• Microsoft Releases VMMSSP (Krishnan Subramanian)
• A Quick guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell Part-1. (Md. Marufuzzaman)
• Microsoft Heads Back to School (Anthony Salcito)
• Daily Dose – Vim Increases Vigor (Mitch Pronschinske)
• RTM’d Today: Programming Windows Identity Foundation (Rosemary Caperton)
• Now You Can Get 4 TV Tuners on 1 Card (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft’s 3 Screens and a Cloud – in a single image and Vote on your favorite wishlist items for Windows 8 (Steven Hodson)
• Use the "Spike" Feature in Microsoft Word to Copy and Paste Text (The How-To Geek)
• Small Basic Tutorials (Vijaye)
• Profiler Usage Analysis (Oren Eini)

More Link Collections

• Weekly Links #118 (Grant Palin)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/15/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 157 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #666 (Chris Alcock)
• Blogs to follow – WPF Disciples (Rudi Grobler)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server MVP Deep Dives by Paul Nielsen

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Top Links

• Back to (Parallel) Basics: Do you really want to do that? or Why doesn’t the new Parallel.For support BigInteger? (Scott Hanselman)
• The Three Pillars of Xbox LIVE on Windows Phone (Andre Vrignaud)
• Dell Lightning Specs and Launch Date (Windows Phone 7) (Taimur Asad)
• The Best Way to Keep Your Product Moving Forward (Jared Richardson)
• A Guide to Parallel Programming – Drafts of Preface and Chapters 1 (Ade Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Declarative Security and Reflection (Shawn Farkas)
• Test View Issue: An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame (Charles Sterling)
• Start Extending Visual Studio 2010! (Richa Prasad)
• Using Code Snippets and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Pin a DataTip to source (Zain Naboulsi)
• Network List Manager API wrapped for .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New Release: Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (J.D. Meier)
• ReSharper 5.0’s LINQ Refactoring Continues to be Amazing! (Peter Kellner)
• Actions, Step and Rules (Rob DuWors)
• VS 2010 Debugger Improvements (BreakPoints, DataTips, Import/Export) (Scott Guthrie)
• Try Mono.Cecil if you need System.Reflection.Emit in Windows Phone 7 (Michael Sync)
• Immutable instances and deferred references (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Capturing Filtered Windows Events with Windows Azure Diagnostics and Call DiagnosticMonitor.Start() Only Once (Steve Marx)
• UppercuT and Mercurial (hg) (Rob Reynolds)

Web Development

• Facebook Makes Huge API Changes – Open Graph Protocol and Much More (Andres Ferrate)
• Applying CSS Styling via Metadata (Stephen Naughton)
• Meet the Lovely Lucene at Sueetie.com (Dave Burke)
• Inside The CSS Working Group (Sylvain Galineau)
• Asynchrony in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Resource Usage: IoC Containers And Large Object Graphs and Expressive Code: Good Variable Names Instead Of Magic Values And Calculations (Derick Bailey)
• The Elephant and the Rider (J.D. Meier)
• Sogeti TMAP process template certified and ready (Clemens Reijnen)
• Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 (Kirill Osenkov)
• Lured in by the complexity (Mark Needham)
• Interview: Patrick Kua : Agile Coach (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF

• International Radio Operators Alphabet in F# & Silverlight – Part 1 (Mark Pearl)
• Avatar Mosaic -Experimenting with the Artefact Animator (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #1 – Using Static Resources in Class Libraries (Mike Snow)
• Get a Silverlight XAP signing certificate for cheap thanks to GoDaddy (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dan Fernandez Live in Los Angeles (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Welcome to Docs – Video Tutorial and Getting Started for Docs – Video Tutorial (Amy Sorokas)
• Introducing Docs for Facebook: Making Your Documents Social (Charles Torre)
• Brian Noyes on MVVM, Prism, and Silverlight 4 (Eric Hagan)
• Tech-Ed is About the "Stuff" You Can Use Today and Concurrency Visualizer High Speed Tour (Larry Larsen)
• endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric in action monitoring and troubleshooting and endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric – Configuring Monitoring Data (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Lover, Interested to attend TEC2010 from Apr 25-28, 2010 in LAX for FREE? (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Join Microsoft Technical Fellow for a Roundtable Discussion About Launching Windows 7 in an Enterprise Organization (Joseph Mirabella)
• Need Unit Testing Academy then join TypeMock Academy (Muhammad Mosa)
• Your Story: Interviewing at Microsoft by new hire Thom Mitchell – Part I (Thom Mitchell)
• Awkward: The Other Microsoft Interview Story (Pete Brown)

Database

• List of Undocumented Stored Procedures in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 (MS Downloads)
• That No SQL Thing: Document Database Migrations (Oren Eini)
• #SQLR2 Launch Goofs (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 Supports PDO (PHP Data Objects) (Bruce Kyle)
• Which Edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 should you use? (Buck Woody)
• A DMV a Day – Day 22 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Create Primary Key with Specific Name when Creating Table (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS code smell – Unused columns in the dataflow (Jamie Thomson)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (21/30) corruption can be fixed by restarting SQL Server (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Server 2008 R2: Helping Customers Get More Value Out of Their Data (Ted Kummert)
• Do you use disable index or drop index when running your ETL processes in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Announcing the CMIS Connector for SharePoint (Ryan Duguid)

Miscellaneous

• Getting Mediaencoder working with Windows 7 and Windows Vista –and Video capture with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (Charles Sterling)
• Coding4Fun Cannon – Building the Robot (Clint Rutkas)
• Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 is now available for everyone to download – not just OEMs (Imran Hussain)
• More Amazon S3 cmdlets and PowerPack (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Apple seeking to acquire ARM? (Sadat Karim)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming the iPhone User Experience – Only $9.99 use code DDPTP (O’Reilly Media)
• Introducing Docs for Facebook (Dominic Carr)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 21, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #585 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 21, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 21, 2010 — #843 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders

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Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 2 (Release Candidate 2) Now Available (Scott Guthrie)
• How Agile Works – My Program Manager Cheat Sheet (Sara Ford)
• Unit Testing Simple ASP.NET MVC Controllers (Chris Missal)
• Conversational Stories (Martin Fowler)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using a Wiimote as a Sensor Driver on Windows 7 (Greg Duncan)
• Dotfuscator 4.6.1200 Released (Joe Kuemerle)
• .NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentQueue (Justin Etheredge)
• The 5th of Diduary: Did you know you can hide Intellisense without retyping? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 9. Configuring fluently registered components with XML (Mike Hadlow)
• Race Condition When Modifying the HttpRequestMessageProperty in an Outgoing WCF Message (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Back to Basics – Keep it Simple and Develop Your Sense of Smell – From Linq To CSV (Scott Hanselman)
• Euler Problem 14: Learn to Memoize (Bill Wagner)
• Setting a Breakpoint in the Call Stack Window — vstipDebug0008 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0 (Steve Stefanovich)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Unit Testing by Roy Osherove (Me)
• If you are way off in the deep end, there is only so much that tooling can do for you (Oren Eini)
• Update From NCover Central Command (or someplace close) (Daniel Waldschmidt)
• Pair Programming with Screen (Jason Meridth)
• StructureMap 2.6 (and 2.5.4) is Released! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Benefits of Pair Programming (Katie McCroskey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Hack: Use Native/Desktop CLR Without COM Registration (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.9 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Getting Started with WPF 4: Button Controls Part 1 – The Button is a Content Control and Upcoming Deal on my Silverlight 4 Book for Blog Subscribers (Pete Brown)
• Installing and Setting Up and Encoding for IIS 7 Smooth Streaming and Silverlight (Scott Hanselman)
• Developing the world’s first interactive Silverlight banner: Metia’s perspective (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight DataGrid quick styling tip: keep selected row focus state (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – How Craigslist Works – with Jeremy Zawodny (Scott Hanselman)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Don Syme – Introduction to F#, 1 of 3 (Charles Torre)
• Silverlight TV Episode 6: Creating Custom Pre-Loaders (John Papa)
• How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build a WCF REST Collection Endpoint (Stephen Forte)
• This Week in Testing Episode 12 – 3 Guys, a Girl and a Bunny (Part 1) (Dror Helper)

Community / Events

• Feb 10 – Silverlight 4 talk, Rockville, MD (David Makogon)
• pluralsight & devweek march 15-19 london (Meagon Marshall)
• Agilepalooza Atlanta! (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Corporate Retreat Round-up (Corey Haines)
• Upcoming Appearances (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Reporting In NoSQL (Rob Conery)
• Introducing: Azure Table Query Project (Jason Haley)
• Multi-Monitor Support in SQl Server Management Studio 2008 (Buck Woody)
• Detecting and Troubleshooting Non-Yielding Worker Threads in SQL Server 2005/2008 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Stream Aggregate Showplan Operator – Reason of Compute Scalar before Stream Aggregate (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Free Microsoft Software for Students, Startups, and Small Hosting Businesses (Jennifer Marsman)
• How Many Passes? (Eric Lippert)
• Xbox LIVE being discontinued for Original Xbox consoles and games (Larry Hyrb)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Making Things Talk – Only $9.99! Use code DDMTT (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Small Basic 0.8 (Steven Bink)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #533 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: February 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for February 04, 2010 — #792 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (2/4/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Creators Club Communiqué 40 (Kathleen Sanders)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Edition: In C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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Top Links

• Microsoft Job Posting Confirms Xbox LIVE Windows Mobile Phones (Kat Hannaford) – Where’s my ZuneHD/WinMo/XboxLive device??? 
• Software Patents: Our Industry’s Nuclear Weapon (Davy Brion) – Davy’s argument against patents.
• Still waiting for a 64-bit Flash Player (Ed Bott) – Me too!
• Magellan Asynchronous Controllers (Paul Stovell) – Paul updates his WPF MVC framework to v1.1.
• 4th Web Client Guidance Drop Available on Codeplex and Proposed UX Design (Blaine Wastell) – p&p goodies… get ‘em while they’re hot.
• Embedding HTML from jQuery AJAX Call Into Your Page (Elijah Manor) – Cool tip from Elijah.

.NET / Visual Studio

• More LINQ with System.Interactive – More combinators for your Swiss Army Knife (Bart de Smet)
• No more magic strings with VisualStateManager.GoToState (András Velvárt)
• Update on using MSDeploy for remote deployments. (Eric Hexter)
• Dealing with Nullable Types and IIf in VBNET (Kevin Jones)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Other attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

Web Development

• Gummy Bear 1.1 Is In The Can (Dave Burke)
• 4 JavaScript frameworks you may never have heard of (Michael Kimsal)
• Converting an RGB Color To Hex With JavaScript (Phil Haack)
• Using BindAttribute In ASP.NET MVC To Exclude Bindable Data (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Guidelines for consistent exception handling (Samir Bellouti)
• When mini benchmarks are important (Oren Eini)
• Recommended Book: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Davy Brion)
• Runtime Fault Injection using TestAPI (Lester Lobo)

Silverlight / WPF

• Getting the Absolute Position (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• WCF RIA Services DomainService life-cycle and adding Transactions (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight HVP Design – Configuration & Scenarios (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF : New Threading Component (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Jeffrey Van Gogh and Bart De Smet: Inside System.Interactive (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #156: Learning how to use Named Content Areas w/ Spark (Derik Whittaker)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: TWoC9 Day 3 (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• Origins of a love affair (Damien Guard)
• Running a Small User Group – Getting Help (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

• Getting the ISO Week and Year (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• BCS Multiple Finder Methods for External Content Types (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Presenting Lessons I’ve Learned (Jay Fields)
• 10 Things to Do Before the New Year (Meryl Evans)
• Windows 7 Tip: Creating A Help Toolbar (Michael S. Scherotter)
• 50 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks (Steve Clayton)
• Stephen King’s On Writing… A Memoir Of The Craft (Mike Cottmeyer)
• DZone Daily Dose – 12/30 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• 3 Microsoft Project 2010 Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• Hoping they will learn… Usability! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Stormy weather? Who is monitoring the cloud? (Andy Singleton)
• Conversation Piece: Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
• How to pass arguments for remote commands and Bringing remote commands to your local session and Saving remote session to your local disk (Lukasz Anforowicz)

More Link Collections

• 2009′s Most Popular Articles (Scott Mitchell)
• The Morning Brew #507 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2009 — #766 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/29/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts (Simone Chiaretta)

The Geek Shelf

Windows 7 Inside Out

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 8: WCF Based Data Source (Brad Abrams)
• New in Silverlight 3: Perspective Transforms and What’s New In SL3 – Based-on Styles and What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Validation (Jesse Liberty)
• Building Silverlight 2 and 3 applications with Visual Studio 2008 (Tim Heuer)
• Day # 18: Silverlight Effects (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Prism Visual Studio Templates (including MVVM) (Marc Schweigert)
• Lokad Shared Libraries 1.5 and Autofac for Silverlight 3.0 (Rinat Abdullin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Entity Framework 4.0: On the way to Composite Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
• MEF and XAML integration – Self composition (Glenn Block) – Link of the Day
• Creating WCF Services using .NET 4.0 and WF 4.0 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• TFS – How To Remove Source Control Bindings (Michael Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Texas Dependency Injection Massacre (Harry Pierson)
• When Bad is Good (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Book Club: The Dreyfus Model (Stuart and Hubert Dreyfus) (Mark Needham)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 6. (Rajiv Popat)
• Every Paradigm Has its Place (Rick Minerich)

Web Development

• Google Wave Sandbox Update (Pamela Fox)
• Compressing and combining files with JavaScriptMVC (Peter Eysermans)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: V8: Building a High Performance JavaScript Engine (Mads Ager, Lars Bak & Anders Sandholm)
• This Week C9: Office 2010, Azure pricing, ScottGu on MVC, and Silverlight 3 (Dan Fernandez)
• Walkthrough: Debug a WPF window or Windows Form without running your application [Video] (Habib Heydarian)
• Herding Code 54: Rob Conery interviews the Herding Code guys (Jon Galloway)
• ToolShed Tooltip #19 – IE 8 Developer Tools, saves the day (and time) (Russell Fustino)
• Video: WI-INETA JavaScript presentation (Sergio Pereira)

Community / Events

• Intro to iPhone Development at ALT.NET Geek Dinner (Ben Scheirman)
• High Scalability Blog on Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

• Hiding Empty Content Areas in SharePoint 2007 [WCM] Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• What I’ve Learned over the Last Five Years (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How to Get (the Right) People to Follow You on Twitter (Mark Suster)
• Xbox Live Dashboard Update Preview (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Breaking: Incoming Xbox Live update detailed in full (Sumeeth Evans)
• Walter Cronkite, 1916 – 2009 (Phil Plait)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 17, 2009 — #644 (Dave Campbell)
• Rants and Raves #4 (Joel Cochran)
• Links for the Week of 2009.07.17 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 17th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 343 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day (Sorta)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Bitmasking userAccountControl attribute in LDAP from C# (Tom Hearn)
• DebuggerDisplay and DebuggerBrowsable – Two Debugger Attributes you should know (Amit Raz)
• NHibernate Mapping – <many-to-one/> (Oren Eini)
• WCF Services hosted in Azure – more samples just released…. and Issue with the First Release of MUrl Sample and Twitter (Brian Loesgen)
• F# and the PFX Round 1 (Chris Smith)
• D3: Using T4 to Generate Entity and Context Classes and Building N-Tier Applications with the EF – The Basics (Danny Simmons)
• Resharper 4.5 Is Out (Davy Brion)
• How A .NET Developer Learned Ruby And Rake, To Build .NET Apps In Windows (Derick Bailey)
• Article series on NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• ADO.NET Data Services, JSON, and PowerShell (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Breakpoint Management (Harry Pierson)
• Programmable in-memory aggregations (Jamie Thomson)

Web Development

• N-Layered Web Applications with ASP.NET 3.5 Part 5: Dealing with Concurrency (ASP.NET Daily Articles)
• Publishing an ASP.NET Web Application in IIS (Charlie Calvert)
• Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell? (Geir Wavik)
• ASP.NET MVC: Is it worth it? (Peter Bromberg)
• ASP.NET MVC Controls and Good versus Evil (K. Scott Allen)
• 13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using jQuery with the ASP.NET CustomValidator Control (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Binder for ironruby mvc (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Handling script errors from three different perspectives (Travis Leithead)

Silverlight / WPF

• Analyze performance issues in your WPF application with WPFPerf. (blagunas)
• SilverlightShow announces "Shared Experience" Initiative (Corey Miller)
• Looking at Virtual Earth Silverlight Control (Corey Schuman)
• Grouping data in Silverlight DataGrid (Tim Heuer)
• VideoWiki – Step 0 (Jesse Liberty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Quality against a deadline (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• We Are Not Doing DDD (Casey Charlton)
• Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, Friday Reflection (J.D. Meier)
• Test-After Development is not Test-Driven Development (Stephen Walther)
• The Secret to Organizational Agility (Revisited) (Mike Cottmeyer)
• You should be using Balsamiq Mockups (Michael C. Neel)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kathleen Dollard on MEF and More! (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Jeffrey Palermo on ASP.NET MVC (Bob Familiar)
• Intelligent Light: Computational Fluid Dynamics and High Performance Computing (Charles Torre)
• Resigning ClickOnce Application and Deployment Manifests with MAGE (Beth Massi)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #48 (Jeff Atwood)
• Herding Code Episode 42: Scott Bellware on BDD and Lean Development (Jon Galloway)
• 10-4 Episode 15: Model-First Development with the Entity Framework 4.0 (Jonathan Carter)

Database

• The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created (Gunnar Peipman)
• Article: Azure Storage (Michael Kennedy)

SharePoint

• Bad Practices for SharePoint Server 2007 Search (Bill English)
• sharepoint guidance v2 – drop 6 video (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• How to create a browser cache save URL to a javascript or css file in SharePoint (Stefan Gossner)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Codeplex Releases "Paste As" Plugin for Windows Live Writer (Blake Handler)
• Support Through Friendship & Unity (Chris G. Williams)
• Have You Called Your Client Today? (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Choosing a Source Control Tool (Mike Hadlow)
• Block Ads Using IE8 and DigiTweet, a Gorgeous New Twitter Application (Sarah Perez)
• DZone RefCardz (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Adobe offers free Flex 3 license to unemployed developers (Lee Mathews)
• Changes in Windows 7 Build 7077 (Taimur Asad)
• How to view all comments on all wiki pages – #011 and You Can Easily Print CodePlex Wiki Pages – #012 (Sara Ford)
• Programmer Competency Matrix (Michael Ceranski)
• Team meeting Twitter feedback and You can now purchase Xbox LIVE Arcade titles from Amazon (Larry Hyrb)
• Out, out, you damn foreigners! (Ted Neward)
• WIN VISTA GADGET FOR LATEST XBLCG (Pete)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #325 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 08, 2009 — #566 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 04.06~04.09 (yuanjian)
• CloudNews for April 8th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Tech Twitterings #23 (Elijah Manor)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Edition (Alexander Jung)
• The M Programming Language – Part 3 – Primer to MGrammar (Bart de Smet)
• Practical Oslo Examples Starting to Emerge… (Brian Loesgen)
• An IronPython Profiler (Curt Hagenlocher)
• WinForms – Change The Active Tab (Dave M. Bush)
• F#: Forcing type to unit for Assert.ShouldThrow in XUnit.NET (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pitfalls for software architects (Simon Brown)
• Optimize Communication, Throw the Boss Out (Jurgen Appelo)
• Your IoC Container Choice is Not a Feature of Your Application (Tim Barcz)
• DDD: Recognizing relationships between bounded contexts (Mark Needham)
• How To Correctly Sandbag Your Estimates (Max Pool)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 – Where is Silverlight Mobile? (Bart Czernicki)
• Running Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 on the Same Machine (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight 3 Quick Tip : Lambda Expressions for Async Web Service Calls (Pete Brown)
• Using the Navigation Framework in Silverlight 3 (Harsh Bardhan)
• Quick 3-d Update (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

• YSlow: Add expires header to images in IIS 7 (Mads Kristensen)
• Subtext Is On The Move (Phil Haack)
• Subtext goes to Google Code (Simone Chiaretta)

Community / Events

• Coding In Public Slides and Video (Alan Stevens)
• One Week Left Before Silverlight Tour V3! (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Show #314 :MLB 2K9 and Cliff Bleszinski discusses Gears of War 2 Maps (Larry Hryb)
• Episode 64 – PowerScripting Podcast – Fred Baptiste talks PolyMon and PolyMonRT (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

PowerShell

• PingMonitor: interactive WPF UIs from PowerShell (1.0 or 2.0) (Joel Bennett)

SharePoint

• Looking for a good MOSS BDC Book? Check out SP 2007 Dev’s Guide to BDC (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever (Jeff Blankenburg) – Link of the Day
• First screenshots of build 7070 leak, RC-Escrow coming (Emil Protalinski)
• SQLAuthority News – Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009 (Pinal Dave)
• Functional Programming and Collective Intelligence (Matthew Podwysocki)
• This weeks Deal: Alien Hominid HD (Larry Hyrb)
• Wallpapers & Themes Pack from Windows 7 Build 7068 (Taimur Asad)
• The Ugly American Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Live Mesh, my initial thoughts (Kit Kai)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #317 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #46 (Grant Palin)
• Links of the week #77 (David Vidmar)
• Links (3/29/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 87 (Rhonda Tipton)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.6 (Jeff Brown) – Link of the Day
• Event: Version 1.1.0 of DDDSample Application released (Eric, Jimmy, Ying & Vlad)
• AntiPaste, because Pasting Code Is Harmful (Tony Rasa)
• Dramatically leverage your Code Reviews (Patrick Smacchia)
• Pair Programming: From a Lean angle (Mark Needham)
• Game Development going Agile (Michael C. Neel)
• Experimenting With Fluent Interfaces in the Domain (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 3: Triggers, Actions, Behaviors (Christian Schormann)
• Folding animation in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• Interested in Silverlight 3? (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Silverlight for WordPress (Tim Heuer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ExceLINQ – Not Your Typical LINQ Provider (Bart de Smet)
• ADO.NET Data Services Friendly Feeds , Mapping EDM Types – I (Phani Raj)
• Inserting Many to Many Relationships in EF with or without a Join Entity (Julie Lerman)
• Enterprise Library 5.0 Product Backlog Prioritization Survey (J.D. Meier)

Web Development

• What happened to MicrosoftAjaxDataService.js? (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Getting an ASP.NET Application Relative Path from a Logical Path (Rick Strahl)
• Prototype of VEToolkit + ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Component Checked In (Chris Pietschmann)

Community / Events

• Contest to thank all who have played and purchased Dr. Popper on Xbox Live Community Games (Bill Reiss)
• Silverlight team and Twitter (Corey Schuman)

Miscellaneous

• New Crop of Job Hunters (With Microsoft Résumés) (Julie Bick)
• Job Satisfaction, And Making The World A Better Place (Casey Charlton)
• Support Of Commercial Software vs Open Source Software (Davy Brion)
• Win7 and IE8 Beta Issues (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Laziness in Scala (Ted Neward)
• Determining Browser Market Share (John Resig)
• Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Jan Van Ryswyck)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 29, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2009 – 2 — #556 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: March 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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