• Supporting sensors in Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• Get involved in Open Source today – How to contribute a patch to a GitHub hosted Open Source project like Code 52 (Scott Hanselman)
• Now, more than ever, you need a designer (Pete Brown)
• 01. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – The Team and Activities and 02. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Regression Test Sets and 03. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Test Automation and 04. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Undone Backlog Item (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Team Foundation Server (TFS) in the Cloud – My Experience So Far (Buck Woody)
• LINQ to Twitter v2.0.23 Released (Joe Mayo)
• Rx – Aggregate vs. Scan (Bnaya Eshet)
• Sinister Bug is Sinister (Bobby Johnson)
• Preview of Visual Studio 11: Agile Support, Group Collaboration, and Clone Detection (Jeff Martin)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentQueue (Simon Cooper)
• Enumerations And The CStr Function (Jesse Taber)
• What’s New In The Latest JustCode Internal Build (JustCode Team)
• Review – ComponentOne Studio for Entity Framework (Brian Muirhead)

Web Development

• Resumable.js: Fault Tolerant Resumable File Uploads in JavaScript (Devon Govett)
• Add HTML5 Geolocation plus Bing Maps into ASP.NET MVC views (Rachel Appel)
• Using oData with jQuery Hierarchical Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
• JavaScript for C# developers: coercion (Julian M. Bucknall)
• More dynamic JavaScript value inspection (Christian Krebs)
• Some Thoughts On Functional JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
• Find the jQuery Bug #2: Point of No Return (Elijah Manor)
• Using HTML5, web sockets and some C# to build a multiplayer Space Shoot[er] (Greg Duncan)
• jQuery Grids in MVC with Wijmo (Kevin Griffin)
• Arctext.js – Curving Text with CSS3 and jQuery (Pedro Botelho)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Form Template Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript Performance: for vs. while (Stoimen Popov)
• Rant: That’s Not Rest. (Derick Bailey)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Blob Storage Stream Wrapper (Puja Pramudya)
• Server-Sent Events (Remy Sharp)
• Announcing Native Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing Using SendGrid for Windows Azure Customers (Brian Goldfarb)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: xizzle (Jason Jarrett)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to use Pex and Moles to generate unit tests for a project having external dependency(WCF Proxy) using Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Atul Verma)
• Coming Soon: A New Perspective in Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Picking a domain for CQRS Journey RI (Grigori Melnik)
• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• The Rise of the Front End Developers (Veera Sundar)
• Ask Ayende: Handling filtering (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned while Introducing a New Programming Language (Jay C. Fields)
• How Do You Fix A Bug? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Testing Ruby Applications on Windows Azure – part 3: Remote Desktop (Larry Franks)
• Developer machine automation: Dependencies (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Missing Silverlight Resources and ASP.Net security (Derik Whittaker)
• See the WPF Visual Tree with the VS 2010 WPF Visualizer (Gil Yoder)
• Bug fix: WPF4 project template for #MVVMLight V3 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Review of “Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook” (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #480 – ZIndex Values and Render Transforms (Sean Sexton)
• Catel – WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 MVVM toolkit – Release: v2.5 (CodePlex)
• PivotViewer Basics : Basic Item Adorners (Tony Champion)
• Caliburn Micro Part 3: More About Events and Parameters (Jason)
• Fixing the [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the entry assembly. (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Troy Hunt Secures ASP.NET (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview sessions and Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Introduction (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Boagworld: Does your labelling cause confusion? (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 102: What Would You Do? (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 182: Domain-Specific Languages with Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons (SE-Radio Team)
• Mike Downey on the HTML5 Player Framework (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• MVP Summit 2012 MVP 2 MVP Languages Sessions (Joseph Guadagno)
• My upcoming Talk: Introducing PRISM/MEF for the Agile Developer – February 2012 (Sam Abraham)
• First F# Seattle Meetup This Saturday, Redmond (Don Syme)
• Windows Azure User Groups in NYC and NJ (Peter Laudati)
• Philly Nerd Nite on the radio (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• GitHub Drinkup in Atlanta (Steve Smith)
• Talking Cloud with Windows Azure MVP Anton Staykov (MVP Award Program)
• Thinking About Developer Events (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Windows Azure and Cloud9 IDE at Node Summit (Glenn Block)
• Microsoft to replace Mix with a new developer conference (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Correct Value for Fillfactor – Quiz – Puzzle – 24 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Many-to-Many Relationships and Partition Slices (Chris Webb)
• Take advantage of Database Mirroring in your applications and Automating Index Statistics Collection (Ted Krueger)
• Cheatsheet: Relational Database Management Systems Comparison (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Announcing SQL Azure Import/Export Service Now in Production (Gregory Leake)

SharePoint

• Creating a custom XML indexing connector for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Hacking and Securing iOS Applications – $9.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• RedHawk to be part of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8, too? (Mary Jo Foley)
• New WPAppInfo web site by WindowsPhoneGeek (Windows Phone Geek)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 25, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #803 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1029 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/24/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/25/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 16-22, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-24 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 16-22, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan

• MVVM Light Toolkit patch for WP7 Mango Beta (Laurent Bugnion)
• The next version of Windows Phone has the sweet taste of “Mango” (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Multi-Targeting with Windows Phone 7 Mango tools (Simon Jackson)
• New Game Development Education on App Hub for the Windows Phone Mango Tools Release (XNA Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Projecting Indexes with LINQ (Richard Carr)
• Thoughts on installing and updating NuGet packages outside of Visual Studio (David Ebbo)
• Code Metrics – Class Coupling (Zain Naboulsi)
• Your Voice is Important (ADO.NET Team)
• LINQ to LDAP – Release v1.5 (CodePlex)
• Compress data in sql server 2008 standard thanks to FILESTREAM and NHibernate (Gian Maria Ricci)
• The Darkness Behind DateTime.Now (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Creating your NuGet enterprise server (Al Pascual)
• Getting Started with FSRepository 2.0 (Daniel Mohl)
• NuGet for the Enterprise: NuGet in a Continuous Integration Automated Build System (Scott Hanselman)
• Dealing with blob data in HealthVault XML (Eric Gunnerson)

Web Development

• HTML5 and Accessibility (Bruce Lawson & Steve Faulkner)
• Creating a Line Chart using the HTML 5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
• Creating a Data Access Layer using Dynamics in WebMatrix (Steve Lydford)
• NOW AVAILABLE: New Windows Azure Platform Pricing Calculator (Windows Azure Team)
• About Obsolete Features in HTML5 (Louis Lazaris)
• To the end of bloated code and broken websites – Nicole Sullivan on how CSS is evolving to meet performance and device needs. (Jenn Webb)
• Working with the $(this) object in jQuery (Joe Stagner)
• Desigining CSS3 Navigation in Expression Web 4 SP2 (Pad Gallagher)
• How to retrieve HTTPModule details from HttpModuleCollection ? and How to return 404 Http status code from ASP.NET MVC Application? (Abhijit Jana)
• Consuming OData via JSP in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Internet Explorer Mobile 9 is DOA Without Touch Support (Chris Love)
• Azure Throughput Analyzer from Microsoft Research (Hanu Kommalapati)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How Software Testers Scrum (David Starr)
• Microsoft Test Manager – Test Runner–Playback error with C:\fakepath (Clemens Reijnen)
• Running JustMock profiler outside of Visual Studio (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Don’t Do Role-Based Authorization Checks; Do Activity-Based Checks (Derick Bailey)
• Estimating our Work (Michael Norton)
• Chaos Monkey is your friend (Peter von Lochow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Mango – Sockets and Windows Phone 7 Mango – BingMapsTask and Windows Phone 7 Mango – BingMapsDirectionsTask and XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 11 – Tombstoning (Peter Kuhn)
• Mango, the Next Windows Phone, Is Packed with New Features (Abel Avram)
• Metro List View double line – from PSD to Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• wp7 pathlistbox (babaandthepigman)
• Microsoft says WP7 will have 4G devices this fall (Brad Sams)
• Windows Phone "Mango" finally supports multiple calendars, calendar subscriptions, and to-do lists (damaster)
• Bytes by MSDN Interview: Jason Jacobs talks about developing for Windows Phone 7 (Kim Spilker)
• Silverlight 5 Window : The things those I did not like (Kunal Chowdhury)
• “Mango” from the trenches part 1: Adding a new live tile to the start page #wp7dev (Laurent Bugnion)
• Augmented Mango – SLARToolkit for Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
• Powerful 3D in new British Airways Windows Phone 7 Application (Ubelly)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 (Beta) install (xpert360)
• Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) – Official feature set revealed. and New Windows Phone application types (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Use wildcards to include resource files in a project (Ward Bell)
• Managing the Back Stack and Full Stack #11–We’ve Been Busy (Jesse Liberty)
• Mango’s new GameStateManagement (Jo de Greef)
• The one where we gather up all the Mango news in one post (Kip Kniskern)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 112: Josh Arnold and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC (Jon Galloway)
• Joe Belfiore Announces Next Release of Windows Phone, Code-Named ‘Mango’ and Windows Phone "Mango" Developer Tools Release (Laura Foy)
• New Features in Windows Phone "Mango" – with Video! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Northwind Seating Company Demo with Kinect (Don Burnett)
• The GeekDads Episode #92: Bob, Are You a Cereal Masticator? (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• LASLUG – May meeting tomorrow: Awesome prizes + live streaming! (Cigdem Patlak)
• ImagineCup Wordwide Finalists Announced (USA) (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Upcoming Academy Live Sessions Cover Partner Solutions Powered by Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)

Database

• SQL Server CLR User Defined Function using Visual Studio 2010 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Benchmarking: Multiple data files on SSDs (plus the latest Fusion-io driver) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• ComponentOne Announces Launch of Software Development Kit for Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 (Eve Turzillo)
• Deciding Which SharePoint 2010 API to Use (Jim Crowley)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing The Techy Mobile App.. (Don Burnett)
• Building a MIDI Thru Box Part 1 (Pete Brown)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 24th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #859 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for May 24 2011 — #1094 (Dave Campbell)
• Quick Links for Windows Phone 7.1 Mango Developer Tools (John Papa)

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan

• Entity Framework 4.1 Release Candidate with Go-Live (with Final Release to follow in a month) (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Getting Up to BAT: Designing an Automation Framework (John Sonmez)
• New EF4 & EF4.1 content on MSDN (Julie Lerman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Controlling drawn shapes in C# (rld1971)
• Copy TFS queries between iterations (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Visual Studio Extension Sync Extension – ExtensionSync (Greg Duncan)
• Using the Recent Projects List (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tasks.Show Shows 7 Dev Tasks (Greg Duncan)
• Weak Event Handlers (Jeffrey Richter)
• LightSwitch Beta 2 Adds Support for Windows Azure (Abel Avram)
• Using in mappings without Iesi.Collections (.Net 4) (Jose Romaniello)
• Facebook C# SDK – Release: v5.0.6 (Beta) (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Foundations of Programming 2 – Appendix A – jQuery Basics (Karl Seguin)
• Free Video Training: MVC3 | Available Until March 18 and 15 Web Performance Tips: Getting things Right on the Client (Doris Chen)
• HTML5 Video Update—WebM for IE9 (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – “node_modules” Folders (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on UX ebooks from @RosenfeldMedia, our new pub partner (O’Reilly Media)
• Try Isolator 6.0.8 (Avi Kaye)
• Values and Beliefs (Michael Norton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New book: Microsoft Expression Blend 4 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Windows Phone 7 Beta Exam Coming Soon — Submit Your SME Profile Now! (Lisa Denbeste)
• Creating WP7 Custom Theme – Sample Theme Implementation and All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Store data in IsolatedStorageSettings (Windows Phone Geek)
• Playing media content on Windows Phone 7 with MediaElement and How VideoCamera/PhotoCamera content is saved on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jon Snook Takes CSS3 Seriously (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Talkin’ C++ with Alon, Marius, Bruno, and Jim and Checking In: Mike Sampson – Channel 9 Cloud and PEX4FUN WP7: A Mobile Game for Programmers (Charles Torre)
• Screencast: Creating a Metro-Style Combo Box in WP7 and Screencast: How to Debug a WP7 App Without the Debugger Attached (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The GeekDads Episode #87: The Big Hugfest (Ken Denmead)
• VIDEO – WebMatrix – Application State (Joe Stagner)
• Technology & Friends: Episode 144: Matt Groves on Monodroid (David Giard)
• endpoint.tv – WCF Web HTTP (REST) Test Tool Preview (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Reaching out to our MVPs in Japan (Lonnie Webb)
• Microsoft PDC 2011: Seattle or bust? (Mary Jo Foley)
• MSDN Events Presents SharePoint 2010 (Doris Chen)
• First Sessions for MIX11 Announced (Bruce Kyle)
• Ward Cunningham Interview (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Kodu Cup Contest (Stephen Coy)
• Mid Atlantic Developer Expo Call for Speakers is OPEN! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New Events Section Now Available on Channel 9! (Duncan Mackenzie)

Database

• SQL Server Denali CTP1 Diagnostic Information Queries (Glenn Berry)
• Agile: Creating an SSRS Burndown Chart Part 3 (Steve Novoselac)
• What Does Microsoft Mean By Scans? (Michael Swart)

SharePoint

• Unit Testing SharePoint with TypeMock (Part I) and Unit Testing with SharePoint (Part Two) (Avi Kaye)
• Lightning conductor 2010 web part–improved filtering (Lightning Tools)
• Google Sites Becomes A Real SharePoint Competitor (Rob Diana)

Miscellaneous

• XML Explorer – Portable app for spelunking large XML files (with source) (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 03/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #813 and The Morning Brew #814 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 185 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2011 — #1061 (Dave Campbell)
• IE9 on 9 – Some Interesting Links to Related Demos and Conversations (Charles Torre)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 15th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 16th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

Top Links

• Announcing Silverlight 5 (Scott Guthrie)
• Silverlight 5 Announced, RIA Services Toolkit December 2010 Released (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 5 Plans Revealed (Tim Heuer)
• MonoTouch for iOS 4.2 is out. (Miguel de Icaza)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Toolbox: Generic Reversing Comparers (James Michael Hare)
• LINQ Secrets Revealed: Chaining and Debugging (Michael Sorens)
• Visual Studio Permissions Needed on Windows Vista or Later (Zain Naboulsi)
• New HiDef Education and Avatar Samples for XNA Game Studio 4.0 (Team XNA)
• How to use IssueProvider DXCore component (Alex Skorkin)
• Exploring Reactive Extensions (Rx) through Twitter and Bing Maps Mashups (Colin Eberhardt)
• New Book: Windows Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Merging CodeRush Templates (via Export and Import) (Rory Becker)
• Don’t Upgrade to Windows Azure SDK 1.3 Yet (Rinat Abdullin)
• Some NHibernate Best-Practices (Nick Harrison)
• Quick Tip: Right-click VS 2010 Command and Admin Command Prompt (Jeremy Likness)

Web Development

• Functional vs. Object-Oriented JavaScript Development (Dino Esposito)
• jQuery Templates, composite rendering, and remote loading (Dave Ward)
• Grouping Routes Part 1 (Phil Haack)
• WebGrid WebHelper in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC (Malcolm Sheridan)
• JavaScript Objects Coding Style Reviewed (Stoimen Popov)
• Different Routes for Different Hosts Using Constraints (Simon Ince)
• A Book Review of Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Azure Platform (Patterns & Practices) (Stephen Robillard)
• JSON Continues its Winning Streak Over XML (Romin Irani)
• The Problem Is Not JSON Or XML, It Is About Data Context (Rob Diana)
• An update to nuget support in OpenWrap (Sebastien Lambla)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Easy ways to maximize the value of TDD (Matt Hinze)
• [White Paper] – 3 Planning Stages in Agile and Code Inspections – Review Code with Two Developers (ScoutMaster)
• The case against Interfaces in TDD (Jimmy Bogard)
• The Three "R"s of Clean Code (Michael Norton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 5 cool things in Silverlight 5 (Rudi Grobler)
• Does Anyone Know What Silverlight Is? (Karl Seguin)
• WCF RIA Services Toolkit December 2010 (Silverlight Show)
• WPF MVVM and calculated properties (Al Kampfer)
• Monitoring Web Requests on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
• Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 1) (Mike Taulty)
• Why a 64-bit runtime for Silverlight 5 Matters (Bart Czernicki)
• Silverlight 5 (Christian Nagel)
• The validation story in Silverlight (Part 1) (Gill Cleeren)
• WPF Custom Chrome Library (gbahns)
• Silverlight 5 Timeline And Lots of Questions (James Vastbinder)
• From Silver to Gold in One Release: Silverlight 5 (Jeremy Likness)
• Chrome to Windows Phone 7 Pushes Links to Windows Phone 7 from Chrome [Downloads] (Kevin Purdy)
• New Features Announced for Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• I just Upgraded my WPF application from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4 and Now My Images Look Terrible–A Visual Guide to the BitmapScalingMode property. (LearnWPF)
• Hiding/Showing Windows Phone 7 Emulator Performance Count Numbers and Taking Screen Shots of Windows Phone 7 Panorama Apps (Markus Egger)
• Silverlight 5 – 5 Quick Things (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Connecting your Windows Phone 7 Device to PC (Zhiming Xue)
• My first WP7 application (published) (Derik Whittaker)
• Laurent Duveau on Morse Code Flash Light WP7 Application (Silverlight Show)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Orleans: A Framework for Scalable Client+Cloud Computing (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #60: Layout Managers (James Shore)
• Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie (John Papa & Nic Fillingham)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Xbox (Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon) – San Francisco, CA – March, 2011 (Wally McClure)
• 13 years at Microsoft. What’s Next (Steve Clayton)
• Come and join the F# Compiler & Tools team! (Don Syme)
• Why We Built the JSMentors.com JavaScript Mailing List (Rey Bango)
• system.data.objects dev guy becomes a compiler padawan (Danny Simmons)

Database

• Please allow us to cancel loading of log in SQL Server Management Studio Log Viewer (Simon Sabin)
• Do you know the difference between .mdf, .ndf and .ldf files? (Martin Bell)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of SQL – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDRSQ (O’Reilly Media)

SharePoint

• Cross web application roll up web part (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• XPS Essentials Pack Version 1.2 (MS Downloads)
• A OneNote 2010 powertoy to bulk erase ink (John Guin)
• Static type langagues (Louis Salin)
• Type systems and their advantages (Matt Hinze)
• The Power of WordPress (Richard Hay)
• Halo: Reach Art Inspiration Windows 7 Theme (Richard Hay)
• Woz’s tour through computing history (and his favorite iPhone apps) (Robert Scoble)
• Dipping into C (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Facebook Client for Your Desktop (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 79 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily News Digest 12/03/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #743 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of SQL by Stephane Faroult

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

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.NET / Visual Studio

• First CTP of SQL Azure and Updated Training Kit Available! (Windows Azure Team)
• Metaprogramming (Me)
• Two Components for your Toolbox (Aaron Lerch)
• NHibernate DSL Built Using "Oslo" (Chris Sells)
• Why is covariance of value-typed arrays inconsistent? (Eric Lippert)
• Running Multiple Instances of a Windows Service Using TopShelf (Kevin Miller)
• Creating .Net Configuration Sections (Michael Cummings)
• Neat Visual Studio Test Options (Steve Andrews)
• Debug Composition from within Visual Studio (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Web Development

• New Features in Web Platform Installer v2 (Adam Kinney)
• Using JQuery to supplement CSS inadequacies (Dave Burke)
• Reimagining www.asp.net, Part Three: The Community Experience (John Sheehan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simplifying deployment (Simon Brown)
• Complex vs Complicated (Dru Sellers)
• Ship it, or Ship Out (Jak Charlton)
• CI Servers and Build Scripts and Continous Integration Workflow (Jonathan Oliver)
• XP As A Kanban System (Karl Scotland)
• TDD: Tests That Give Us a False Confidence of Coverage (Mark Needham)
• Being a Duct Tape Programmer (Michael C. Neel)
• BAM! Geometric Shapes, Multi-Line support, Oh my! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 18. (Rajiv Popat)
• Manifesto for Continuous Improvement and Why managing a software team can be more effective than "regular" management (Roy Osherove)
• The Duct Tape Programmer (Uncle Bob Martin)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight VisualBrush and rounded corners (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight designer sample code is posted (Jim Galasyn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #199 – Monomania – Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware (Scott Hanselman)
• AgileToolkit Podcast – Jim Miller – The Product Owner Role and Business Alignmnet (Bob Payne)
• Scott Guthrie: Introducing WebsiteSpark and Web Platform Installer V2 RTM (Charles Torre)
• Web Application Toolkits and Web Application Toolkit: Template-Driven Emails and Web Application Toolkit: REST Services and Web Application Toolkit: Mobile Web Applications (Jonathan Carter)
• Xbox 360 Project Natal Creators panel from Tokyo Game Show 2009 (Larry Hyrb)
• Be Productive and Stop Using XML and Be Productive and Go Mouseless (Roy Osherove)
• Web Application Toolkits: FAQ (James Senior)
• InfoPath SharePoint integration videos now online (Kathy Hughes)
• Ade Miller on Developing for Multi-Core Computers (Keith Pleas)

Community / Events

• Announcing WebOSSFlame (Scott Koon) – Link of the Day
• Microsoft offers free software and support to small software companies (Justin Sargent)

Database

• Filtered indexes and filtered stats might become seriously out-of-date (Kimberly Tripp)
• SQL SERVER – Outer Join in Indexed View – Question to Readers (Pinal Dave)
• The last good date for your database (Steve Jones)

SharePoint

• Deploying Reporting Services WebParts to SharePoint WSS and MOSS (Tom Hearn)
• Planning for SharePoint 2010 – Upgrade Planning Part 2 Moving the Databases (Chandima Kulathilake)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge (Mary-Jo Foley)
• PowerShell Cookbook Now Available on iPhone (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft Releases Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit v3.5 (Blake Handler)
• Early debut for Windows 7 PCs (Todd Bishop)
• Ruby Exceptions And Exception Handling (Alan Skorkin)
• Good information is easy to find (Joe Webb)
• Kinda wishing I could keep using Delphi (Joe White)
• Microsoft Press Enters Strategic Alliance with O’Reilly (Tim O’Reilly)
• New Evernote beta brings face-lift, drawing tools (Josh Lowensohn)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #441 (Chris Alcock)
• Links (9/24/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Windows 7 and R2 Guides (Steven Bink)
• Weekly Bits #1 (Tim Boland)
• Tech Tweets for 24-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 24th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #548 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: September 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 2.1 Alpha 1 Is Out! and Upgrading To NHibernate 2.1 (Davy Brion)
• Ninject knows a new trick (Ivan Porto Carerro)
• Connecting to Live Mesh with the Live ID Client SDK (Sean Timm)
• Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design (Muhammad Mosa)
• Analyzing the code base of CruiseControl.NET (Patrick Smacchia)
• Extract Properties To Style (Rudi Grobler) – Link of the Day
• PowerShell for Visual Studio – Release and StyleCop for ReSharper – Release Candidate – Refresh (0.0.14317.000) (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Future Creep – Your aren’t gonna need it! (Andrew Woodward)
• Product Owner or Product Ownership (Mike Cottmeyer)

Database

• Designing a document database: View syntax (Oren Eini)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of ON Clause on LEFT JOIN – How ON Clause Effects Resultset in LEFT JOIN (Pinal Dave)

Community / Events

• Let’s Talk Silverlight At Mix! (Jesse Liberty)
• Robert and Rocky ride again at Rackspace (Robert Scoble)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Blogger Recommends Free "ClearContext" Personal Organizer Add-in for Outlook 2007 (Blake Handler)
• Interesting first week for JSMag (Michael Kimsal)
• FriendFeed Notifier brings real-time updates to the desktop (Jay Hathaway)
• Can we declare programming in Xml to be dead yet? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How to fix the Windows 7 7057 desktop.ini startup bug (Lee Mathews)
• Quality SharePoint books (Spence Harbar)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2009 — #541 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: March 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 305 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day