• O Reilly – 50% off ebooks and videos to Sept 28th (TATWORTH)
• One scary future for Windows 8 I hope we never see (Steven Hodson)
• WinRT demystified (Miguel de Icaza)
• Will XNA be available in Windows 8 Metro Apps? (Ryan Hayes)
• WebMatrix and node.js: The easiest way to get started with node on Windows (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / WinRT / Visual Studio

• Specifying Assembly Information in Visual Studio and How to Pass Command Line Arguments using Visual Studio ? (Abhijit Jana)
• How to configure a build controller against tfspreview (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Using WinRT from C# //build Demo (Harry Pierson)
• Teaching XNA with class with the "Game Development with XNA: Semester 1" class and Kinect SDK dev series with a runtime extension and more on buttons (with Hover Button Control too) and "What’s New in the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview" (and Yield is coming to VB.Net!) (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The String Remove() and Replace() Methods (James Michael Hare)
• Adventure in parserland – parsing lambda expressions in F# – Part V (Luca Bolognese)
• Setting useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy At Runtime (Reed Copsey)
• Back to Basics: Big O notation issues with older .NET code and improving for loops with LINQ deferred execution (Scott Hanselman)
• TFS Azure–Technical Access Preview Experience! (Tarun Arora)
• Installing the Advanced Configuration of TFS vNext from the BUILD Conference in Anaheim (Tim Elhajj)
• Announcing: Windows Azure SDK 1.5, Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and new Service Management Features (Vijay Rajagopalan)
• Modifying an IntelliTrace Collection Plan for the Stand-Alone Collector (Patrick)
• The Windows Runtime (Harry Pierson)
• Build day 2: WinRT and managed languages (Bill Wagner)
• Windows 8 : how to detect the orientation and the layout state of a metro app ? (Jonathan Antoine)
• Metro and WinRT: Too early to call, but I’m paying close attention (Pete Seale)
• Arrays of ValueTypes don’t like object.Equals (Chris Gardner)
• Windows 8 Remote Debugging + Setup (Andy Beaulieu)

Web Development

• Reviewing SignalR–Part I (Oren Eini)
• A more complete Simple Membership MVC 3 Sample and ASP.Net MVC4 Developer Preview install fails with web platform installer and ASP.NET MVC4 Developer Preview goodness! (Kevin LaBranche)
• New JavaScript editing features for Web development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Xinyang Qiu)
• Zombies! RUN! (Managing Page Transitions In Backbone Apps) (Derick Bailey)
• Site Ready WebSockets (ieblog)
• Free Book Chapter: Creating a User Account in Rails (Mitch Pronschinske)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Count Bug Fixes Towards Velocity? Depends … (Vikas Hazrati)
• Why some projects just go right (Paul Boag)
• Business Scenarios for the Cloud (JD Meier)
• Application Lifecycle Management in Team Foundation Server 11 and Designing Loosely Coupled Metro Applications with URIs (Jonathan Allen)
• Windows Azure Architecture Guide (MS Downloads)

XAML

• Silverlight Developers Have the Smoothest Road to Metro (Brian Noyes)
• WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 0 and WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 1 – XML Namespace (Morten Nielsen)
• Expand and Collapse ExpanderView inside data bound ListBox via code (Windows Phone Geek)
• Announcing Windows Phone Starter Kits (Chris Koenig)
• Upload Image from Silverlight to Azure BLOB using WCF (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF Elements 5 Beta – Grab it and enter the Xbox draw! (John-Daniel Trask)
• If Silverlight is Dead… (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight 5 in Action Book Update, and Announcing the Next Big Book (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #388 – Layout Containers Don’t Provide Scrolling Support (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio vNext: DirectX 11 Development Experience (Charles Torre)
• JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.6.4, Node 0.5.6 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Let’s Play TDD #140: Cleaning Up the Menu Code (James Shore)
• Xbox LIVE On Windows 8 Enables Gamers To Play Against PC, Windows Phone And Xbox 360 [VIDEO] (Ben Reid)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – William Shulman Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Windows 8 Running on ARM (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• My first few days at Mozilla (Joe Stagner)
• Download all the Build Videos with RSS (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone ‘Mango’ Developer Event, Cambridge MA (Bob Familiar)
• ASP.NET Training in San Diego on Saturday, September 24th (Scott Mitchell)
• BUILD Day #2 in Review According to MVPs (MVP Award Program)
• Join NW Ohio .NET User Group for Their 10th Anniversary! and Learn About Test Studio’s R2 Release via a Webinar on 9/29! (Jim Holmes)
• Microsoft Build: News from the Windows 8 sessions (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

• Scripts to Enable Microsoft Help Viewer for Microsoft SQL Server Code-Named “Denali” CTP3 (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – String Function – CONCAT() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• RTM’d today: Deploying Cloud-Based Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 – An OS of two halves. (Colin Eberhardt)
• Joe Belfiore: No Mango This Week (Still Might Land this Month) (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows To Go (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 5 deal-breaking flaws in Windows 8 (Sebastian Anthony)
• Protecting you from malware (Steven Sinofsky)
• Windows Azure Marketplace News from BUILD: Announcing NEW Data Offerings and International Availability (Sudhir Hasbe)
• iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8? A coder’s guide (Matthew Baxter-Reynolds)
• Xbox Live integration coming to Windows 8 (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #939 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 09/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 14-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Geek Reading September 15, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily Links 15/09/2011 (Jax)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan

• Feedback Request for using NuGet Without Committing Packages (Phil Haack)
• XNA RPG – Learning XNA while building a RPG, a 26 part tutorial series (Greg Duncan)
• Project Silk (Karl Shifflett)
• Why use the command processor pattern in the service layer (Ian Cooper)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Important counter sets for monitoring ASP.NET performance using Perfmon Tool (Abhijit Jana)
• Facebook C# SDK – Release: v5.0.10 (RC) (CodePlex)
• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #5 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows Azure Kit Adds WP7 Authentication, Traffic Manager, SQL Azure Reporting (Bruce Kyle)
• Programmatically calling validation in a rehosted Workflow 4 designer (Patrick D. Fletcher)
• Creating tag cloud using ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework (Gunnar Peipman)
• VS2010 SP1 New Features: Performance Wizard Support for Silverlight (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to create a WF4 WorkflowServiceHostFactory for AppFabric Auto-Start (Ron Jacobs)
• New Content: Code Quick Start: Capturing Diagnostics in your Windows Azure Application and Windows Azure SDK 1.4 Refresh Issue Resolved (Windows Azure Team)
• Dynamically Loading .NET Assemblies using Interfaces and Reflection (Scott Bentley)
• The Windows Native Ribbon Part 1.5: Laying out Controls and Groups (Michael Dunn)
• An Introduction to Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) – Part I (Niladri Biswas)
• Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1 (MS Downloads)

Web Development

• ContosoKarate (WM) – The HTML Theme and ASP.NET Web Pages Integration (Joe Stagner)
• Caching Data in ASP.NET Applications (Nathan Totten)
• An Introduction to CSS 3 in Expression Web (Pad Gallagher)
• CSS3 Media Queries Explained (Andrew Spooner)
• Editable lines in Google Maps using the Javascript v3 API (Tobias Södergren)
• WebDeploy tip for WebMatrix…watch out for port blocking (G. Andrew Duthie)
• IE9 Compat Inspector (Tony Ross)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 5: How to implement dynamic Jump List Categories (Jennifer Marsman)
• HTML 5: Specification news! Latest specifications released! Silverlight Impacted? (Sam)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 3 Ways to Maintain Quality in Your Unit Tests (Avi Kaye)
• Visualising quality: initial ideas (Gojko Adzic)
• BDD Antipattern: Specs with concealed intent (John Rayner)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Helper (Giorgio Sironi)
• Templates for SDL Practices (MS Downloads)
• Integration: Coupling (Paul Stovell)
• Using Kinect for NUI Part 4 – Buttons (Deborah Hanamura)
• Using Stubs (Richard Carr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Get a visual parent of an element in Silverlight and Windows Phone App – Where’s My Car (Arian Kulp)
• Silverlight 5 3D Housebuilder Project Shown at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Using Perspective Transforms inside ListBox ItemTemplate (Windows Phone Geek)
• An elegant ThreadLocal for Silverlight (Oren Eini)
• Application Bar for your Windows Phone 7 and Async support for Silverlight and WP7 (Abhishek Sur)
• Supporting Non-Supported Entities like IEnumerable in Sterling (Jeremy Likness)
• Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 Beta (Michael Crump)
• Fix: Calling WCF Methods with Parameters Synchronously on Windows Phone 7 (Nick Randolph)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Linked RichTextBoxes and Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Composition Thread? and Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Debugging Data-Binding (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Pat Hynds Plans for Disaster Recovery (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 4 of n (Charles Torre)
• Microsoft SDL Requirements Phase – Security Practices and Campus Tours: Fuse Labs with Lili Cheng (Larry Larsen)
• SE Podcast #02 (Alex Miller)

Community / Events

• XNA for Windows Phone 7: a 3-day Online Training Course (Svetla Stoycheva)
• Introducing the BarCamp Tour (Joey deVilla)
• Download Videos, Presentations from MIX11 (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft and Wintellect Present – Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter (Jeffrey Richter)

Database

• A Palindrome Program in SSIS using Copy Column, Derived Column, Character Map and Conditional Split Transformation. (Niladri Biswas)
• A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 27 (Glenn Berry)
• Sorting on Multiple Columns in SSRS (Luke Hayler)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets (Pinal Dave)
• How to find out when a DB recovery model was changed (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 2 – Server Configuration – Data/Log Files (Ted Krueger)
• SSMA for MySQL 5.0 and SSMA for Oracle 5.0 (MS Downloads)
• Daily Denali Delight – Day 5 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)

SharePoint

• How to Connect SharePoint 2010, Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Where are all the SharePoint Testers? (Joel Oleson)
• Design Workflow using SharePoint Designer 2010 and InfoPath Form 2010 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 cloud roaming options via Windows Live revealed (damaster)
• Get your interview skills in shape (Microsoft JobsBlog)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 27th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 04/27/2011 and Daily News Digest 04/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #842 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle by Michael Howard

• Announcing the Silverlight 5 Beta Release and the Silverlight.net Redesign (Pete Brown)
• Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) (Robin Reynolds-Haertle)
• Microsoft outlines more developer features coming with ‘Mango’ update this fall (Mary Jo Foley)
• Kinect Demos with the Channel 9 team (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Duncan Mackenzie, Jeff Sandquist & Laura Foy)
• Mix11: Windows Phone 7 news (Jeremy Alles)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ExpandoObject class in C# 4.0 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Serializing Continuations (Mike Hadlow)
• Coding Faster: Give Me Your Thoughts (Zain Naboulsi)
• Async 10: Switching Threads (Bill Wagner)
• Enabling RSS Auto Discovery (Jonathan Wood)
• Refreshing the Async CTP (Eric Lippert)
• All-In-One Code Framework is now on MSDN Code Gallery, has a new sample browser and is cooler than ever (Greg Duncan)
• Me on NHibernate 3.2 (James Gregory)
• Using VSDBCMD to deploy an Entity Framework (EF) CodeFirst (or any other) database to AppHarbor and Using VSDBCMD to deploy an Entity Framework (EF) CodeFirst database to AppHarbor with VSDBCMD (Jason Jarrett)
• Parsing Non-Standard Date and Time Formats (Ron Petrusha)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Intranet Template with "This resource cannot be found" and User.Identity.Name is blank Error (Bart Czernicki)
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Intranet Application template (Gunnar Peipman)
• Implementing validations using Data Annotations in ASP.NET MVC (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio Async CTP vs. ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Refresh (Chris Koenig)
• ASP.NET web services mistake: manual JSON serialization (Dave Ward)
• MVC + Code-First + Azure Part 1: Local Development (EF Team)
• RouteDebugger 2.0 (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC: Create Custom Attributes for MetaData (Malcolm Sheridan)
• WebSockets in 5 minutes (Giorgio Sironi)
• Installing ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update (Steve Smith)
• Book Review: Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook (Trevor James)
• Smashing Book 2: Why We Love It And Why You’ll Love It, Too (Vitaly Friedman)
• Windows Azure and Microsoft SXP Serve Up to Two Million Rich Media Experiences Daily on Microsoft Showcase (Azure Team)
• Announcing YUI 2.9.0 (Jenny Han Donnelly)
• Book Review: Crafting Rails Applications (Ben Scheirman)
• Announcing datajs version 0.0.3 (Alex James)
• Windows Azure Updates SDK with New Deployment Tool, CDN Preview, Geo Performance Balancing (Bruce Kyle)
• A Better Solution For Partial View Controllers (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How Rabu’s Schedule Projections Work (James Shore)
• Software development is not a relay sport (Simon Brown)
• Announcing YUI Test 1.0.0 Beta 2 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Why Rules Rule (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft Research Project Emporia Digg-like Windows Phone Personal News App (Todd Ogasawara)
• Implicit DataTemplates for Control in Silverlight 5 Beta (Abhijit Jana)
• Basic XNA (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight 5 Beta – Lets deal with its features (Abhishek Sur)
• Silverlight 5 Beta has released…Get the chm! (Cheryl Simmons)
• Early Impressions of IE9 for Windows Phone 7 (Chris Love)
• Even simpler MVVM with Simple MVVM Toolkit v2 (think "NuGet’able, new features, new Project Templates, bug fixes and generally good and tasty stuff") (Greg Duncan)
• Be What’s Next with “Mango” Developer Tools and Platform (Matt Bencke)
• 5 Things You Need to Know to Start Using Video and Audio Today (Nigel Parker)
• Text Search with Ancestor Binding and Child Windows in Silverlight 5 (Jeremy Likness)
• What’s new in Silverlight 5 beta? 3D graphics support! (John Mulhausen)
• Microsoft Media Platform Released to Web (Don Burnett)
• How to create a Silverlight 5 Project? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Getting started with Windows Phone 7 and Azure (with video tutorial) (Michael Crump)
• What’s next for Windows Phone? Just ask Joe (Michael Stroh)
• Silverlight 5: Advancements in Text and Silverlight 5: Supporting Double and Even Triple Click for the Mouse and Silverlight 5: Working with Operating System Windows and Silverlight 5: Using the SoundEffect Class for Low-Latency Sound (and play WAV files in Silverlight) and Silverlight 5: Working with Implicit Templates and Silverlight 5: Debugging Bindings with Xaml Breakpoints (Pete Brown)
• Use the Silverlight ListBox as an Expanding Menu (Paul Sheriff)
• Async for Windows Phone (Joel Reyes)
• Silverlight 5 3D + SLARToolkit Augmented Reality = Win! and XNA for the Web – Silverlight 5 (Rene Schulte)
• Watch my PluralSight Silverlight 5 Course for Free (for 24 hours) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Breaking Changes (snoutholder)
• Silverlight 5 launches in beta (Tim Conneally)
• Silverlight 5 Beta–A guide to the new features (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dan Wahlin Digs Deep on Web Client Development (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Alex Turner: Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) – WP7 Demo and Mads Torgersen: Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) Overview (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone 7 Announcements & Demo’s from MIX 11 with Joe Belfiore (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #103: Test Double (James Shore)
• MIX11 Windows Phone 7 Ad by Brandon Foy (Nic Fillingham)
• This is Windows Phone Next — developers take notes (video) (Myriam Joire)
• Scott Hanselman Takes “Jellybean”, the Kinect-Controlled Lounge Chair, for a Spin (Joey deVilla)

Community / Events

• Gamefest 2011: Save the Dates! (XNA Team)
• My Take on the Silverlight 5 Part of the MIX 11 Keynote and Silverlight Tour Now Includes Silverlight 5! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows Phone Mango, Kinect Beta SDK for Windows and Silverlight 5 announced (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Expression Blend at Mix 2011 (Christian Schormann)
• MIX’11: Microsoft Details Future of Windows Phone and MIX’11: Microsoft Highlights Kinect SDK for Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone, Kinect Exemplify New Usage Scenarios and Device Capabilities at MIX11 (MS PressPass)
• Advice on applying for different roles (Eugenia Sawa)
• Surface Present at MIX 2011 (Luis Cabrera)
• The MIX 2011 Keynote on Wednesday 4/13 Recap (Jeremy Likness)

Database

• SQL Server Development Tools Advisory Program (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Transaction Log Impract Detection Using DMV – dm_tran_database_transactions (Pinal Dave)
• Advanced performance troubleshooting: waits, latches, spinlocks (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Kinect Audio: Preparedness Pays Off (Rob Knies)
• Published My First Course on Pluralsight (John Sonmez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 13 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 13th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #834 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

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

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Top Links

• Using Web Services from an XNA 4.0 WP7 Game (Michael Cummings)
• CodePlex: Search Project Openings, New Ad Format, and more (Matt Hawley)
• The Weekly Source Code 52 – You keep using that LINQ, I dunna think it means what you think it means. (Scott Hanselman)
• Unity Extension For Disposing Build Trees On TearDown (Rory Primrose)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF & Mex are correct, but why is my metadata not published???? (Derik Whittaker)
• Retrieve Security Information of Files using .NET (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Working with the bit.ly API to shorten URLs (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services: Part I and Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part II: Query Methods (Stephen Forte)
• Hide the Quick Find and Quick Replace Tool Window After the First Match and Auto Hide All Tool Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Command Image Changing Extension (Ryan Molden)
• Run Cassandra As A Windows Service (Nick Berardi)
• Connection Pooling in ADO.NET (Hima Bindu Vejella)
• A Couple Useful Powershell Commands for working with Ruby/IronRuby (Bobby Johnson)

Web Development

• common css mistakes/putting a stop to them (Niels Matthijs)
• Announcing jQuery Fundamentals: An Open-Source jQuery Training Curriculum (Rebecca Murphey)
• Adding HTML5 placeholder attribute support through progressive enhancement (Robert Nyman)
• Parameterization vs. Web.Config Transformation (Vishal Joshi)
• Build a List Tree with the Beauty of jQuery (Stoimen Popov)
• Start Using CSS3 Today: Techniques and Tutorials (Vitaly Friedman)
• The query parameter ‘$format’ begins with a system-reserved ‘$’ character but is not recognized (Chris Love)
• Issues with modal overlays on the web (Janko Jovanovic)
• Reactive programming with WebSharper (Joel Bjornson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Real Customer Involvement" Now Online (James Shore)
• Get to No as fast as possible (Tim Hibbard)
• p&p – Windows Azure Guidance – Part 2, Drop 1 (CodePlex)
• Setting up automatic test runs after compilation in VS2010 (Eric Hexter)
• Make the JavaScript Test Pass (K. Scott Allen)
• Automating scheduled tasks (Jimmy Bogard)
• Less is More Redux (Peter Bromberg)
• Modeling Websites and Native Code (Somasegar)
• TestApi v0.5 Released! (Ivo Manolov)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Device Requests (Brandon Watson)
• Revisiting the Code Not Taken [Updated analysis of two ways to create a full-size Popup in Silverlight] (David Anson)
• Three Hotfixes for WPF Memory Leaks (Jonathan Allen)
• Silverlight 4: Accessing Windows 7 Taskbar using the new COM API (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Time categories with WPF and Exchange (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• CinchV2 : Article 2 (Sacha Barber)
• IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta Now Available (Silverlight Team)
• Using d:DesignSource for design-time DataGrid grouping with sample data (Jack Ukleja)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Patterns of Parallel Programming – TechEd Talk Online (Ade Miller)
• Video: 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 minutes! (Sara Ford)
• Video: What’s New in Expression Blend 4 (Eric Hagan)
• StartUp Podcast Show #71 Nilofer Merchant on the New How of business (Bob Walsh)
• Community Megaphone Show #12 with guest Frank La Vigne (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Wizards of Smart – Heroku, Cloud, and Iron Ruby (Jonathan Birkholz)

Community / Events

• Survey for Interesting Finds followers (Jason Haley)
• SQLAuthority News – Interview with SQL Server MVP Madhivanan – A Real Problem Solver (Pinal Dave)
• Training classes for DevExpress Silverlight products? (Oliver Sturm)
• Behind the scenes with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team: ‘I think about this really as a first release’ (Chris Ziegler)
• Rock out in the Microsoft candidate experience lobby (Kelly)
• Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint – with the MVP Experts (Melissa Travers)

Database

• Replace SQL Server DateTime records of a column with UTC time (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Shrink, Damn’d Log! Shrink, I Say! (Jeremiah Peschka)
• XQuery Lab 57 – Getting Started with OPENXML (Jacob Sebastian)

SharePoint

• Give me your tired, your poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free… With open arms we welcome Notes Admins and Developers to SharePoint (Joel Oleson)
• Defining Actions for External Content Types in BCS Meta Man (Hrayr Diloyan)
• Mapping the Office Item Type for External Content Types in BCS Meta Man (Phill Duffy)

Miscellaneous

• Inside the Microsoft Certified Master Program (Brent Ozar)
• Announcing Windows Embedded Handheld (Chris Koenig)
• Interviewing .NET Developers (JP Hamilton)
• Introducing Zoho Wiki 2.0 (Susan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #624 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 17, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for June 17, 2010 — #885 (Dave Campbell)
• Highlights from the Google I/O Wave Developer Sandbox (Pamela Fox)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

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Top Links

• Introducing Typemock Test Lint (Roy Osherove)
• Developer Certification WTF? (Uncle Bob Martin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Go To a Line Number (Zain Naboulsi)
• DataTemplate in Generic.xaml – it should be the next ToString()! (Rob Relyea)
• Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes) (Scott Guthrie)
• Comparing LINQ to SQL vs the classic SqlCommand (Al Pascual)
• Building Hello MEF – Part IV – DeploymentCatalog and Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel (Glenn Block)
• Windows Azure Tools from 3rd parties (Hanu Kommalapati)

Web Development

• Goodbye Http Handler, Hello FileResult (Mike Ceranski)
• Preview Tools in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: JavaScript: The Good Parts – Only $9.99! Use code DDJSG (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Your Developers Don’t Want To Swap Pairs – Practical Agility (Alan Skorkin)
• Less is More, Slower is Better (J.D. Meier)
• Ubiquitous and unambiguous ? (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Leadership Tip: Stop Cloning Teams. Encourage Diversity In The Approaches Taken. (Rajiv Popat)
• A movement called weekend testing – What it can do you and your testing career? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Role Specific Interfaces: DIP And ISP In Action (Derick Bailey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Thirsty Developer 87: Ironing It All Out with Jimmy Schementi (Dave Bost)
• Major Nelson Show 352: Xbox LIVE Profile Policy change, SXSW community event and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 104- PowerScripting Podcast – MDT 2010 with Keith Garner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• A Great SlideShare from the always outspoken and beloved Scott Barnes of Readify.Net (Don Burnett)
• My "What’s New in Silvelright 3" Video from 0reDev Last Fall (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Lessons learned from building the NHibernate Profiler (Oren Eini)

Community / Events

• MIX10, Coding4Fun Show, and You! (Brian Peek)
• Ready to test those Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series apps? (Jeff Wilcox)
• My First Week as a Developer Evangelist (Sara Ford)
• Introducing the MVC Melee!!! (Sara J. Chipps)
• A few announcements for those in the UK (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• Geek City: More About Nonclustered Index Keys (Kalen Delaney)
• 03-08-2010 – SetFocus BI/SQL Master’s Program Tip: Sending an email inside of SSIS to a Gmail account (Kevin Goff)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL SERVER 2008 R2 Pricing (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft set to destroy Apple in every games market (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #554 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #110 (David Vidmar)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/8/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Links #95 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #25 – MSMVPs.com (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 135 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 406 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

Ironpython in Action

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Top Links

• New drop of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) available (Bart de Smet)
• Better Application Services and CQS using S#arp Architecture 1.0 Q3 2009 (Billy McCafferty)
• TWC9: 100th Episode! WPF, VS2010 RC tips, Bonus Footage (Brian Keller)
• NUnit vs. MsTest: NUnit wins for Unit Testing. (Roy Osherove)
• Pex and Moles become Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools (Nikolai Tillman)
• Microsoft shows off single game running on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox (Paul Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Functional I/O (or at least “O”) (Ashley Nathan Feniello)
• Visual Studio Test Professional (VSTS) 2010: Organization of artifacts (Subodh Sohoni)
• MSBuild 4 Detailed Build Summary (Cliff Hudson)
• Hotfix for “Issue with Auto-Generated Designer Files not Adding Controls” (Mayuri Diwan & Nichole Baker)
• Use F6 to Jump Between Split Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Functional C#: Using Join and GroupJoin (Mark Needham)
• Updated Data Model Designer Extension Starter Kit (Julia Kornich)
• XTrace.cs – C# trace with printf formatting (Hans Dietrich)
• Working with WCF: Part One: Introduction and Your First Service (James Bender)
• Why is CruiseControl.Net Hiding My Test Results? (Chris Missal)
• My Visual Studio Color Settings (Keith Elder)

Web Development

• When Session Objects Get Created With No Session Variables (Dave M. Bush)
• Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from ORCS Web (Ben Byrd)
• Use ASP.NET 4 Browser Definitions with ASP.NET 3.5 (Stephen Walther)
• Microsoft is “All In” the Cloud (Bill Zack)
• BSON Serialization (Karl Seguin)
• Passivity, or “How to help your views leave the nest” (Kyle Baley)
• Javascript: The ‘new’ keyword (Mark Needham)
• I am moving… to the cloud! (Rudi Grobler)
• Detecting Ajax Events on the Server (Doug Neiner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 22 minute meeting (Scott Berkun)
• The case against Rock Star developers (Stephen Forte)
• How Ruby Taught Me To DRY Up My Code With Lambda Blocks and Don’t Expose IList Just So You Can Assert Against Its Contents (Derick Bailey)
• Getting code ready for production (Oren Eini)
• A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, CQS, Repositories and Separation of Concerns (Billy McCafferty)

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows Phone 7 Series for Designers and Developers (Christian Schormann)
• Excited about Windows Phone Development! and WPF: Now with Less Fuzz (Pete Brown)
• Turn your head and check out this post [How to: Easily rotate the axis labels of a Silverlight/WPF Toolkit chart] (David Anson)
• MVVM for Dummies (Martin Hinshelwood)
• WPF4 RC has better text clarity. RTM will be even better. (Rob Relyea)
• Request for Feedback (WPF VNext) (Lester Lobo)
• Another review of Advanced MVVM (Josh Smith)
• Creating a Custom Silverlight Pre-Loader (Brian Lagunas)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 146: Google Fatigue (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Announces the Windows Home Server YouTube Channel (Blake Handler)
• Video Trip Report: If this is Tuesday, this must be Cairo (Scott Hanselman)
• Cloud Cover Episode 3 – Worker Role Endpoints (Ryan Dunn)
• Microsoft Research: Tools to Help Resolve Concurrency Problems (Robert Hess)
• jQuery Podcast 14 – Phil Haack (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• A Conversation with Bill Buxton and Albert Shum; Microsoft’s UX Gurus (Nic Fillingham)
• Herding Code 75: Barry Dorrans on Developer Security (Jon Galloway)
• Your Rx.NET Prescription Has Been Refilled (Jeffrey van Gogh)

Community / Events

• Join us at MIX, March 15-17th 2010! (Zhiming Xue)
• SharePoint and Office 2010 Keynotes (Mike Walker)
• Going to Vegas with my Phone… (Seema Ramchandani)
• PyCon 2010: Python in the browser (Jimmy Schementi)
• Headspring continues to hire: we will train contract-to-hire positions (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• Default value for OLE DB Destination FastLoadMaxInsertCommitSize in SQL Server 2008 (Jamie Thomson)
• How to archive data from a table to a local or remote database in SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

 patterns & practices – SharePoint Guidance: Drop 6 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• PsyMUD: a MUD for Linux (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft Announces May 12th Launch Date of Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• LEAKED: More Juicy Microsoft Courier Details and Pics (Barb Dybwad)
• Windows Phone 7 Series Themes for 6.5 Devices (Sarah Perez)
• Outlook Folder Macros for Getting Things Done (Jonathan Cogley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2010 — #807 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Gone With The Week (Mar 1 – 5, 2010) (MSDN Magazine)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0

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Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Series for Designers and Developers (Christian Schormann)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Details Announced (Frank La Vigne)
• Soft Skills are Actual Skills (David Starr)
• Erik Meijer: Rebel with a Cause (Charles Torre)
• Pex 2010 (aka Pex 0.90.50303.0) now available on MSDN Subscribers Downloads (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• My First Windows C++ Application in Ages: Hello World in Win32 with Visual C++ 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Using Mongo With LINQ (Rob Conery)
• DiffPlex 1.0 Released!! (Matt Manela)
• Creating and Sharing Project & Item Templates (Aaron Marten)
• Is select (System.Uri) broken? (Oren Eini)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part I: Locks (Chris Burrows)
• Combining Higher Order Functions in C# (Mike Hadlow)
• Split Your Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Poll: IoC Containers for .NET (Oliver Sturm)
• Empty Nothings (Dustin Campbell)
• Mercurial Is Getting Better for .NET Projects (Rinat Abdullin)
• Beta of VS Team Explorer with Cross Platform Support (Somasegar)
• Maximum number static fields allowed in mscorlib? (David Kean)
• How to set the startup program for debugging a project for the entire team (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Functional C#: Using Join and GroupJoin (Mark Needham)
• Too much reuse (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• HTML Agility Pack Rocks Your Screen Scraping World (Lee Holmes)
• JavaScript Magazine March 2010 Now Available (Michael Kimsal)
• Introducing oEmbed (Cory Isakson)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – jQuery Integration (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Tab Isolation (Andy Zeigler)
• Using Other Web Servers on Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Using Delegate and Undelegate in jQuery 1.4.2 (Jordan Boesch)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Sit Together" Now Online (James Shore)
• Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria Overview (MS Downloads)
• Refining My TDD Strategy (Russell Ball)
• The 22 minute meeting (Scott Berkun)
• Architecture Lives Here (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Solution: Testing Web Services with MSTest on Team Build (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Getting Started with Agile Results (J.D. Meier)
• Field Vs. Property: Does It Really Matter? and When Do You Specify Expected Parameters In Stub Methods? (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• 1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight (Christopher Bennage)
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 2) – Silverlight/WPF Project Frameworks (Me)
• Favorite Tool and Library Downloads for Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Learning the M-V-VM pattern for XAML development (Tim Heuer)
• Persisting the Configuration (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• endpoint.tv – Announcing Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 (Ron Jacobs)
• This Week in Silverlight – March 4 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• MSDN Live Meeting: SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform (Katrien De Graeve)

Community / Events

• SharePoint MVP Chat brought to you by MSDN (Andrew Connell)
• NYC .NET Developer’s User Group->Next Meeting (Stephen Forte)
• Steve Ballmer on Cloud Computing: We are all in! (Sunshine)
• Schedule for my session at MIX10 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Spring 2010 jQuery Talks (John Resig)

Database

• ROI and the DBA (Buck Woody)
• Exploring SQL Server Modeling through MCsla (Rockford Lhotka)
• More SQL Azure Samples (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009 Release 2) (Chris Sells)
• Something for the weekend – Whats the most complex query? (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Order of Columns in Update Statement Does not Matter (Pinal Dave)
• NoSQL DB, Objectivity/DB 10 Beefs Up Java and Adds C# .NET support (Mitch Pronschinske)

SharePoint

• How to connect SharePoint BDC to Oracle through TNS (Dmitry Kaloshin)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to Spend $9.5 Billion on Research in 2010 (Jeremy Kirk)
• Free ebooks correlated with increased print-book sales (Cory Doctorow)
• A Preview of Windows Phone 7 Series Capabilities (Zhiming Xue)
• Apple Tops Google and Microsoft as the World’s Most Admired Company for 2010 (Skipper)
• Run XP Mode in VirtualBox Instead of Virtual PC (The How-To Geek)
• Did a Microsoft VP really suggest an Internet tax for cybersecurity? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Daily Dose – Facebook Going Public, But Not For a While and Kiln: A DVCS for Fog Bugz (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Offers Free Guides to a 21st-Century Education (Rob Bayuk)
• Tip of the Day: Online Career Events (Anne Cheng)
• Surface and Healthcare at HIMMS (Eric Havir)
• Free Risk (like game) – TurboRisk v2 (Now includes IDE to edit/compile/test your own AI players) (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #553 (Chris Alcock)
• Creators Club Communiqué 44 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Links (3/4/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: March 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Web Deployment Painkillers: VS 2010 & MS Deploy (Vishal Joshi)
• Search For This Line In IntelliTrace (Habib Heydarian)
• Dynamic objects and ReSharper (Hadi Hariri)
• Reactive Extensions API in depth: Primitives (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Some Love for VB.NET 10 Too (Kevin Jones)
• EF POCOs and GetObjectStateEntry (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• Emulate ASP.NET validation groups with jQuery validation (Dave Ward)
• New Endpoint Options Enable Additional Application Patterns (Mohit Srivastava)
• .nodeName Case Sensitivity (John Resig)
• Where does this go? Applying SoC to dynamic data – Part 2 (Peter Blum)
• T4MVC now has a real home and a dedicated forum! (David Ebbo)
• GraffitiCMS to be released as open source (Julian M. Bucknall)
• MSDN – Converting an existing ASP.NET application to Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• 2010: The Year of Microsoft on the Web? (Stephen Chapman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Now Available: Final PDF of the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, Second Edition (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
• Using the exploration result object model: Basics (Wolfgang Grieskamp)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 10 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• The joy of MSpec (Mike Hadlow)
• Kanban Trail Markers (Karl Scotland)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Beta – Using Silverlight as Drop Target (Brian Lagunas)
• EdgeCam Shots – Saving Silverlight 4 Webcam Snapshots to JPEG (Rene Schulte)
• State, Element, and Storyboard Pickers (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Handling Network Outage in Silverlight with Caliburn (Rob Eisenberg)
• New WPF Features: MultiTouch (Lester Lobo)
• Refresh the cached EntitySet after a SubmitChanges – WCF RIA Services (Fredrik Normén)
• What’s New in Silverlight 4 – Download and Run! (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks – Bowen and Cummings on XNA (Carl Franklin)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #75 (Jeff Atwood)
• The Visual Studio Documentary – Alan Cooper, the Father of Visual Basic (Tina Wood)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Guided Tour inside the Windows Azure Cloud with Patrick Yantz (Scott Hanselman)
• Our Picks for Must See PDC Videos (Bruce Kyle)

Community / Events

• Central Jersey .NET Agile Firestarter – Saturday December 12, 2009 (Stephen Forte)
• PDC 2009 review (Steve Clayton)
• New Event Series! Meet the… (Alex Hillman)
• Albacore: Come join the discussion! (Derick Bailey)

Database

• SQL Server Single Character Functions (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column (Pinal Dave)
• How to Get Table Sizes in SQL Server (Keith Elder)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 (Gert Drapers)
• The Observer Effect In Action (Dave Ballantyne)

SharePoint

• 5 Reasons Why Executive SharePoint Ignorance is Not Bliss (Part 1) (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s TechNet Releases "Explore as Administrator" PowerToy for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Windows 7’s solution to beta software (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Land the Tech Job You Love (Matt Stine)
• How Big is Your Processor Cache? Find out with Coreinfo (Ade Miller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #484 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 — #742 and Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2009 – 2 — #743 – updated (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 24, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 24-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft names Visual Studio 2010 dates (Gavin Clarke) – Link of the Day
• NHibernate Shards: Progress Report (Oren Eini)
• Getting Started with Query Editor (Jason Haley)
• HealthVault 0908 SDK Highlights… (Eric Gunnerson)
• Visual Studio 2008 "DataDude" Duplicate Menu Items and SQL Server 2008 – SQLCLR .NET Framework Version (Doug Holland)
• XNA and textures (Coding4Fun)
• Lambda Expressions: Execution (Deborah Kurata)
• A fan-dev Team Build Property Reference Guide (Greg Duncan)
• Using ReSharper, I’ve Always Wondered Why They Had the “Invert if” refactor (Peter Kellner)
• Mapping From IDataReader/IDataRecord with AutoMapper (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Dynamic lookup operator, aka duck typing in F# (Laurent Le Brun)

Web Development

• Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library Preview 6 (James Senior)
• Using the New Microsoft Ajax Minifier (Stephen Walther)
• How to render the same template on the server and client with minimal redundancy (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Add temporary bookmarks in Code View in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• How To Optimize the Speed of Your Website (Michael Ceranski)
• Treating Javascript as an integration point (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Quick reference poster–the VSTS Rangers “scrumified“ process (Clemens Reijnen)
• LinqToSql Profiler & NHibernate Profiler – What is happening? (Oren Eini)
• Message Granularity (Dru Sellers)
• Is Functional Abstraction Too Clever? (Keith Dahlby)
• Dissecting Remarkable Code And Design – Part 2. and Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
• Efficient Development, Deployment and Customer Feedback at Lokad (Rinat Abdullin)
• A Possible Job Description: Team Leader and Introducing Typemock IntelliTest (Roy Osherove)
• Coding: Role based interfaces (Mark Needham)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part II: Observe First, Judge Later (Patrick Kua)
• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Dependency Injection Mess With Mocks (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming (David Cooksey)

Silverlight / WPF

• More on AERO Shake and WPF (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Silverlight Streaming to be discontinued: new Azure service coming (Kip Kniskern)
• MVVM Light Toolkit on Codeplex and Clean shutdown in Silverlight and WPF applications (Laurent Bugnion)
• Creating Killer Animations in Code (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Cinch : Some code changes (Sacha Barber)
• Big Spaceship delivers a beautiful Silverlight experience for Victoria’s Secret (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 126: Danger Paul Danger (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Matt Hessinger on How Business Drives Architecture and Migrating Legacy Applications to .NET – Webcast by Magenic (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: Virtual PC tools, .NET 4.0 FAQ, MVC in Azure (Dan Fernandez)
• Major Nelson Show #335: Forza Motorsport 3 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Video: Influence Strategies and Test Review: MEF (Roy Osherove)
• Engadget Podcast 167 – 10.16.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hanselminutes on Channel 9 – Inside CodePlex.com (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Goodbye, Twitter (Leon Gersing)
• Stack Overflow: Programmers working for Free?! (Christopher Diggins)
• Clearing the ***Sparks (Dani Diaz)
• Mads Kristensen in Iran (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Philly Code Camp 2009.2 (Nick Berardi)
• TrackAbout Is Hiring! (Joel Ross)
• Windows 7 Labs @ PDC (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Discount extended: Register for PDC by Oct 30 and save $300 (Sandra Haynes)

Database

• Collecting information about your SSIS packages [SSIS Nugget] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – Auditing in SQL Server 2008 and SQL SERVER – Change Collation of Database Column – T-SQL Script – Consolidating Collations – Extention Script (Pinal Dave)
• Best Practices for Applications Login to SQL Server? (R. Barry Young)
• Series of "Bad habits to kick" by Aaron Bertrand (Ted Krueger)
• What to do till the SQL Azure management tools come? (Bill Zack)

SharePoint

• Upgrade approaches poster and Upgrading services poster and Upgrade testing poster and Upgrade planning poster (MS Downloads) – Some SharePoint 2010 posters from Microsoft.

PowerShell

• The release of Microsoft’s PowerShellPack (Joel Bennett)
• Announcing: Open Source PowerShell Cmdlet and Help Designer (Lee Holmes)
• PowerShell V2 Virtual Launch Party (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Flight Simulator Team Finds New Home at Cascade Game Foundry (Blake Handler)
• What I Use: October 2009 Update (Paul Thurrott)
• What am I missing? MSMQ Perf Issue (Oren Eini)
• A Feed You Should Read #8 – msdev (Greg Duncan)
• Free e-book: Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance (Devon Musgrave)
• Why Professionals Still Need Their Own Web Sites (Charles Hamilton)
• The Interview With The Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Announcing Let Me Bing That For You (Phil Haack)
• Zoho Projects Now Integrated With Google Apps (Leena Rao)
• 77 Windows 7 Tips on Technet (Steven Bink)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 Build 14.0.4514.1009 (Taimur Asad)
• Introducing the Documentation tab for CodePlex projects (Sara Ford)
• Identifying The Technologies That Will Matter (Mike Walker)
• LiveLessons Programming in Objective-C 2.0 Review (Mike Riley)
• A Sneak Peek at D&D on Microsoft Surface (Larry Larsen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2009 — #710 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 16-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links #75 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #457 (Chris Alcock)
• My Top 20 Most Popular Posts (So Far) (Davy Brion)
• Links for the Week of 2009.10.16 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 16th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Weekly Link Post 115 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Double Shot #563 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links (10/18/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• PowerCommands for Reflector 1.3 and Introducing Query Editor (Jason Haley)
• F# First Class Events – Composing Events Until Others (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Learning Scala via C# Part 1 – What Is Scala? (Justin Etheredge)
• TFS Build: _PublishedWebsites for exe and dll projects. Part 2 (Mike Hadlow)
• Using LINQ to Convert an Array Into a Generic List with C# (Peter Kellner)

Web Development

• Generate Metatags for ASP.NET Pages Dynamically (Deepak Choudhari)
• qTip Tooltip with jQuery UI ThemeRoller Support (Elijah Manor)
• Build pretty clean URL for your dynamic pages using JavaScript (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• A generic way to find ASP.NET ClientIDs with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
• Using Adaptive Streaming with Encoder 3 (Jeff Paries)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Technical Debt Quadrant (Martin Fowler)
• UI Mockups (Oren Eini) – Link of the Day
• Performance Counters Added to MassTransit (Chris Patterson)
• The Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Is Here! (David Hill)
• There’s Only One Thing You Can Learn From Code Coverage (Davy Brion)
• Integrating Exception Handling Into the Development Cycle (Lee Dumond)
• Cosmo: project status panel (Leon Bambrick)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 1 & 2 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• IncaBlocks Released, Thanks AgileZen and Kanban! (Michael C. Neel)
• The Art of Unit Testing (Michael Sonsino) – A review of Roy Osherove’s awesome book.
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 15. (Rajiv Popat)
• Gone are the Days of Simple Developer Tools (Rob Bazinet)
• A simple way to know you’re missing some leadership skills (Roy Osherove)
• Defining the problem : How business works (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Reducing Code Coupling – Dependency Injection (Grant Palin)
• Releasing psake v1.00 & psake v2.00 (James Kovacs)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pixel8 – Magic, Mind-Controlled Interfaces and What Makes an Experience Architect (Craig Shoemaker)
• ARCast.TV: Juval Lowy on The EnergyNet, the Next Software Boom (MS Podcasts)
• .NET Rocks! – Donald Farmer on Gemini (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV Special – Jim Wilt on Increasing Solution Adoption Success Using Architectural Skills (Bob Familiar)
• Immo Landwerth: Future Directions of Native Image Generation via NGen (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #70 (Jeff Atwood)
• Interview with Fujitsu on Document Scanning Systems with SharePoint-Episode 36 (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)
• Countdown to PDC09: Coding4Fun Meets PDC (Larry Larsen)
• PDC09 Workshop: Microsoft Technology Roadmap (Robert Hess)
• Water Cooler Interview with Eric Shupps (Kirk Evans)

Community / Events

• p&p Summit 2009: Developing for Multi-Core (Ade Miller)
• PDC 2009 – I can’t wait! (Brad Abrams)
• Unbridled Endorsement of the Best Code Camp Ever (Sara J. Chipps) – Philly.NET FTW!!!
• I’ll Give Away Signed Books + Mentoring Workshop Seats @ SharePoint Conference 2009 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow new dates announced! Arming you with Windows 7 and Silverlight keys to success. (Dave Isbitski)
• Southern Maryland GiveCamp Announced! : GiveCamp.org (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Awesome Scrum Developer Training coming to Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus (Peter Kellner)
• SQL University and why you should be attending (Ted Krueger)

Database

• UDF Overhead – A simple example (Dave Ballantyne)
• Considering surrogate keys for Unknown members (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Enable Automatic Statistic Update on Database (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure CTP 2 (Jim O’Neil)

Miscellaneous

• Integrated Interface for Google’s Services (Alex Chitu)
• Windows 7 on Family Guy: First Sneak Peek: (Blake Handler)
• Re-imagining the Desktop with 10/GUI (Frank La Vigne)
• Writing WMI providers FAQ series – 3 – Is it better to use embedded objects or association in a CIM model? (Kapil Mathur)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #455 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: October 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for October 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 14-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 14th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 382 (Sam Gentile)
• Double Shot #562 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day