Top Links

• Developers: Why You May Not Want To Listen To Robert Scoble (Brandon Watson)
• Using Mole 2010 to analyze collections (Josh Smith)
• cleancoders.com is live! (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Prism Template Pack 1.4: Now with MEF Support! (David Hill)
• MEF 2 Preview 3 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Inserting the Class Name in a Code Snippet (Richard Carr)
• Multiple Sort For Collection Using LINQ and LINQ and Nullable Values or SQL ISNULL with LINQ and Find duplicate with Linq and How to Sort Generic List Using Lambda Expression For Dynamic Type And Dynamic Property ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Code Issues – Nested code can be flattened (Alex Skorkin)
• Stored Procedure in WCF Data Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: ConcurrentBag and BlockingCollection (James Michael Hare)
• Performance Troubleshooting Article and VS2010 SP1 Change (Jason Zander)
• A simple approach to hydrating the C# MongoDB Driver Objects (John V. Petersen)
• The Case of Switch-Case in C# (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Installing NuGet on VS2010 (first blood) (Peter Kellner)
• "M"osetta Stone (Craig Dunn)
• Danger, Will Robinson! (Eric Lippert)
• Back to Basics – Reading a File into Memory Stream (Gil Fink)
• "Regular Expression Cheat Sheet (.NET)" from RegExLibrary and Netduino Green Squared (Greg Duncan)
• EF 4.1 Is Coming (DbContext API & Code First RTW) (EF Team)
• Book – Professional Team Foundation Server 2010 from Wrox (Ed Blankenship)
• Do you know how to move the Team Foundation Server cache (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Simple reads with Entity Framework (Matt Hinze)
• Custom IfThen activity (Rory Primrose)

Web Development

• A Self-Closing HtmlGenericControl (Jonathan Wood)
• ASP.NET: Building tree picker dialog using jQuery UI and TreeView control (Gunnar Peipman)
• IIS not starting: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process (Rick Strahl)
• Defining Default Content For A Razor Layout Section (Phil Haack)
• jQuery 1.5.1 Supports IE9 (Tony Ross)
• Web PI v3 (MS Downloads)
• Unobtrusive Client Side Validation with Dynamic Contents in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Imran Baloch)
• Basic JavaScript Part 11: Functional Initialization (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• ASP.NET Rounded Coreners AND DropShadow with jQuery. and Who to follow if your staying up to date with ASP.NET ! and Get in the Game–Orchard New Module Content ! and Dynamically Selecting WebMatrix Page Layouts & Styles (Joe Stagner)
• Using the ASP.NET Repeater Control (Mark Kendall)
• Highly Recommended Book: REST In Practice (Davy Brion)
• Using jQuery with CheckBox and ASP.NET GridView (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Use Custom Resize to Make The IE9 Mobile Experience (Chris Love)
• LightSwitch vs HTML 5 ? and HTML (including HTML 5) and LightSwitch at the same time? (Michael Washington)
• IndexedDB – The Store In Your Browser (Parasuraman Narasimhan)
• Effective NHibernate Session management for web apps (Jose Romaniello)
• Hosting The Same Windows Azure Web Project With Two Different Configurations (Peter Kellner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• ALM Practices Part 3: Unit Testing & TDD (Dennis Doomen)
• Simulating your way out of regression testing (Gojko Adzic)
• Book Review: Driving Technical Change (Jim Holmes)
• Want to Be an Quality Assurance Tester? – Learn to Code and Agile Software Development Doesn’t Create Secure Software (Peter Saddington)
• Entities, Transactions, and Broken Boundaries (Udi Dahan)
• WebStresser: A very simple web load testing tool (Mike Hadlow)
• What size icon am I supposed to use my for app/toolbar/menu/dialog/etc? The "Icon Reference Chart" might be just the icon cheatsheet you’ve been looking for… (Greg Duncan)
• Less Is More (JC Teague)
• Learning and games, games and learning (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Stardate 2011.63.1: Design stenches – Rigidity (Kyle Szklenski)
• xUnit.Net – Running the tests (RunAfterTestFailed Custom Attribute) (Maria Marcano)
• Thoughts On Developer Longevity (Davy Brion)
• The Power And Pain of Process–Part 1 (Andy Warren)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF: Advanced Jump Lists using a Single Instance Application (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Charting: Formatting the Axis and Silverlight Charting: Formatting the Tick Marks (Deborah Kurata)
• "Your feedback is important to us; please stay on the line…" [Improving Windows Phone 7 application performance is even easier with these LowProfileImageLoader and DeferredLoadListBox updates] (David Anson)
• What is XAP file in Silverlight? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Silverlight Animations Made Easy with Sv Fx (Greg Gum)
• A Numeric Input Control for Windows Phone 7 (Jeremy Likness)
• Highlights of XNA development on Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Tip Of The Day: Call resources by their absolute path and Windows Phone 7 Tip Of The Day: Know how app navigation works internally (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The Mobile Web and Windows Phone 7 (Joey deVilla)
• Changing the Default Windows Phone 7 Deployment Target In Visual Studio 2010 (Michael Crump)
• Importing Adobe Illustrator files in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)
• Phoney Tools Updated (WP7 Open Source Library) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Lync for Windows Phone 7 (Steven Bink)
• How I let the trees grow (Peter Kuhn)
• Using DockPanel in WP7 and Working with ItemsPanel in WP7 and New FREE XNA Jump Start mini-course by Microsoft and Getting data out of WP7 WMAppManifest is easy with Coding4Fun PhoneHelper (Windows Phone Geek)
• MonoDroid meet MonoTouch & WindowsPhone7 (Craig Dunn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: JavaScript and jQuery: Moving beyond Alert() (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp on HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 2 of n and Visual C++ to (re)support C++/CLI Intellisense (Charles Torre)
• Cloud Cover Episode 38 – VM Role with Corey and Cory (Wade Wegner)
• TWC9: Marketplace limit raised to 100, Automate Azure builds, TFS Power Tools (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone Radio 20 (Brian Seitz)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone [VIDEO]: Quick App for Push Notifications (Uses Windows Azure) (John Mulhausen)
• Silverlight TV 64: Dive into 64bit Support, App Model and Security (John Papa)
• WPF Developer Training Videos (108) and Windows 7 Specific Desktop Applications Videos (9) (Joe Stagner)
• Windows Phone 7 – Episode 5 – Pages (Dennis Delimarsky)
• This Developer’s Life 1.1.4 – Obsession (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Oredev Videos on Responsibility Driven Design and Internal DSL’s with C# (Jeremy Miller)
• Video: Zoom In or Out of the Text Editor (Zain Naboulsi)
• Let’s Play TDD #91: Rendering ValidDollars (James Shore)
• Windows Phone 7 Push Notification QuickApp / Web Service (With Azure Publishing Instructions!) (JoMul)
• Defrag 001: Startup Slow Downs, Can’t Boot, Blue Screens, Homegroup, IE Logins (Larry Larsen)
• The GeekDads Episode #86: Science Isn’t a Matter of Opinion (Ken Denmead)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #25 with guest Chad Green (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Installing Drupal 7 on Windows Azure with the Windows Azure App Companion Tool (Craig Kitterman)

Community / Events

• Philly Nerd Nite No. 4, March 10, 2011 (Nerd Nite)
• Code Project Mobile Virtual Conference with MonoDroid (Wally McClure)
• Bill Gates Talks About Knowledge Revolution at TED [LIVE BLOG] (Sarah Kessler)
• The State of Tekpub, 2011 (Rob Conery)
• Long term value of acceptance testing: Webinar, March 22nd (Gojko Adzic)
• Speaking at Cincinnati Day of Agile on 3/26 (Jim Holmes)
• I Give Up: What IS an MVP? (Jen McCown)
• MIX it up at the Open Source Fest at MIX11 (Greg Duncan)
• INETA NorAm Component Code Challenge (Chris Williams)

Database

• SSRS – Creating and Using Shared Schedules Part 3 (Brian McDonald)
• SQL Server: WAITFOR Statement (Dhananjay Kumar)
• SQL SERVER – Demo Script – Keeping CPU Busy and SQL SERVER – Concurrancy Problems and their Relationship with Isolation Level and SQLAuthority News – Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 Reference Guide (Pinal Dave)
• New Collection of SQL Server Videos on Channel 9 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Configuration connection properties for the External Content Type in BCS MetaMan (Lightning Tools)
• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools Overview Presentation (Mike Morton)
• US West Region MSDN Events Presents: SharePoint (Wes Yanaga)

Miscellaneous

• Intellisense patch for PowerGUI Script Editor 2.4 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Pastebin updated to V3, releases Windows app (Erez Zukerman)
• Ebooks: List of our free books (Kim Spilker)
• What is the best job search tip you’ve received? (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• A Few Deep Dive Abstracts (Travis Jones)
• Paint.NET v3.5.8 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• JetBrains market IDE to iPhone Devs (Tobin Harris)
• Microsoft begins work on IE9 RTM-Escrow build (Tzvi Friedman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 3, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 4, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Distributed Weekly 92 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2011 — #1053 (Dave Campbell)
• Week Retrospective 22 – Writing Better User Stories (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 2th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 3th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 4th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• 2-Mar-2011 and 3-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links– 2010_09 (Joe Stagner)
• This Week’s Link List (March 4, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #804 and The Morning Brew #805 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Eric Carter

Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

IronPython in Action by Michael J. Foord

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Top Links

• When will WebForm vs MVC become like ListView vs Repeater? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using xUnit.Net with .Net 4.0 (Mendelt Siebenga)
• Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC Don’t Serve the Same Master (K. Scott Allen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A new and *good* "VB" (Jimmy Nilsson)
• New Book Project – Learning WCF 2nd Edition (Brian Noyes)
• Hidden Gems: Why .NET Developers Need to Take a 2nd Look at Project Rosetta (John Papa)
• Leveraging VS2010’s Entity Data Model Designer for .NET 3.5 Projects and Some Visual Studio tips I picked up recently (Julie Lerman)
• How many PCs in the world have the .NET Framework installed? (Scott Hanselman)
• Using the VSIX Manifest Editor (Lance Collins)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 7. How to Write a Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Reading ID3 Tags from MP3 Files (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• .NET Framework 4.0 Poster (Prashant Khandelwal)

Web Development

• JavaScript version of Flash (Michael Kimsal)
• Are Enterprise AJAX Applications Doomed…Or Are We? (Roy Goffey)
• FastCGI for IIS6 and IIS5.1 has been released. (Lawrence Moroney)
• Book Review: 51 Tips, Tricks, and Recipes with jQuery & ASP.NET Controls (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Constructor over-injection anti-pattern (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Do You Know What’s Really Going On? (Davy Brion)
• Value Driven… The Book’s Layout (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The limits of innovation (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

• Cutting Edge Silverlight4 COM+ Features (Justin Angel)
• FlexibleBehavior class: More on reuse and Behaviors (Bob Bartholomay)
• Exploring: XamlPad to XamlDesigner (Rob Relyea)
• Sometimes it takes a village to solve a problem [Workaround for a Visual Studio 2008 design-time issue with the WPF Toolkit when Blend 3 is installed] (David Anson)
• Extract styles in Expression Blend (András Velvárt)
• Avoiding issues when typing text in Bindings (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 42: How to Get More Business from Microsoft Pinpoint (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #159: Working with Partials in Spark: Part 2 (Derik Whittaker)
• Office Casual: Ribbon Hero (Tina Wood)
• The Dev Behind Ribbon Hero and Build a CableCard MCE PC with Ceton TV Tuner (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Whither Alt.Net? (Ian Cooper)
• Active vs. Activist (Derick Bailey)
• Your story: the Microsoft interview (Microsoft JobsBloggers)
• On ALT.NET and patience (Sergio Pereira)
• Talking in Las Vegas: MIX2010 and MVVM (Laurent Bugnion)

Database

• .NET Culture and SQL Server (Steve Burch)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 to be released in May and Use alter table alter column to change datatypes for a column in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Remote DB maintenance auditing promotion (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Upgrades HealthVault Connection Software for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• MSDN Flash Editorial for January 18th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Bing Maps out of beta (Kip Kniskern)
• Apple’s Secret Cloud Strategy And Why Lala Is Critical (Michael Robertson)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Your Body: The Missing Manual — Only $9.99! Use discount code YBMM9 (O’Reilly Media)
• 3 Microsoft Visio 2010 Beta Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• Console Battle Heats Up Between Wii and XBox: Netflix, ESPN Rumors Up the Stakes (Natania Barron)
• Daily Dose – IBM has the Most Patents, but Microsoft’s Could be Worth More (Mitch Pronschinske)
• “Everything I need to know [about developing software] I learned from Dungeons and Dragons.” (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 19, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2010 and Independent Consultant Notes: January 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #520 and The Morning Brew #521 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 19-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software (Programmer to Programmer)

Web Development

• New jQuery Ribbon release! (Mikael Söderström)
• First Look: Google Wave (Paul Thurrott)
• ASP.NET 4.0: Modifying ClientID of controls (Gunnar Peipman)
• Sample Code for New Windows Azure Blob Features (Steve Marx)
• Using ‘Tracing Images’ feature in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Debuggable Self-Host Windows Service Projects (Brian Noyes)
• NHibernate – Coarse Grained Locks (Oren Eini)
• Pretty Printing Exceptions (Chris Cavanagh)
• Installing the Couch(DB) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio 2010 (Kathleen McGrath)

Silverlight / WPF

• ViewModel with MVC/Navigation in Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
• Cider/Blend/Other tools – Please don’t hardcode knowledge of “WindowsBase.dll” for XAML component model attributes, etc… (Rob Relyea)
• Google Wave: the sky is falling and Flash/Silverlight are dead (Tim Heuer)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Persistence Patterns: Cascading Updates (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
• xUnit.NET: Running tests written in Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Needham)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 5 (Build IT!) and Part 6 (Source Control & What NOT to Check In) and Part 7 (TortoiseSVN Global Ignore List) and Part 8 (Next Steps) (Rob Reynolds)
• Git Getting Stronger (Mike Riley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 48: Dustin Campbell on Visual Studio 2010 (Jon Galloway)
• Bing: Test Drive Microsoft’s New Search Engine (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 63: F# with the Nomadic Developer (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

Community / Events

• Why Should I go to a Code Camp? (Dave Schinkel)

PowerShell

• PoshCode Poll: How do you want Search to work? (Joel Bennett)

SharePoint

• Modifying Built-in Content Types in SharePoint (Bob Mixon)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Create Multiple Filegroup For Single Database (Pinal Dave)
• Service Master Key Backup (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

• REVIEW: First Look at Microsoft’s New BING Search Engine (Blake Handler)
• The Stack Overflow Trilogy (Jeff Atwood)
• All electronics should label their energy use (Rob Relyea)

More Link Collections

• May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio (Scott Guthrie)
• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 324 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• JavaScript for C# programmers: convert string to integer (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Tip #45: Did you know…How to change the DynamicData folder location? (Deepak Verma)
• Tip #46: Did you know… that Web Deployment “migrate” operation is “sync” operation with all migration rules enabled? (Kateryna Rohonyan)
• Tip #47 Did you know… that front page script remote debugging requires turning off IE’s Enhanced Security Configuration in windows 2003 and windows 2008? (Xinyang Qiu)
• Handling interactions between ViewModel classes (Brian Button)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Code Canvas (Kael Rowan) – Link of the Day
• Help Us Prioritize the Enterprise Library 5.0 Backlog (Ade Miller)
• Cascading Filters – Dynamic Data Futures (Futures on Codeplex) (Steve)
• Using VS.NET 2005 SP1 with SQL Server 2008 connectivity (Ted Krueger)
• Windows Azure – .NET Services and the Service Bus and C# and Optional Parameters (Mike Taulty)
• IronPython 2.6 Alpha 1 (Harry Pierson)
• DBFile project now on CodePlex (Jason Haley)
• Essential LINQ (Jason Zander)
• Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Contrib – Release: 0.4.0.1 and T4 Toolbox – Release: 9.3.21.2 and StyleCop for ReSharper – Release: 1.0.0.000 (compatible with ReSharper 4.1) (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Idealistic vs. Practical (Christopher Bennage)
• Framework Design Guidelines: the System.* namespace (Brad Abrams)
• JavaScript Unit Testing Frameworks (Elijah Manor)
• Always Assume That You’re the Problem (Justin Etheredge)
• F#: Forcing type to unit for Assert.ShouldThrow in XUnit.NET (Mark Needham)
• Underscoring A Point (Rod Paddock)

Silverlight / WPF

• Machine is now available! Reuxables 2.0, WPF Toolkit, and more. (Dax Pandhi)
• Props to Two Cool Silverlight Applications (Corrina Barber)
• Silverlight Localization Gotcha (Davy Brion)
• Toolkit Control – TimePicker (Jesse Liberty)
• DLR Hosting in Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)
• Installing Silverlight 3 – A Step By Step Guide for Upgrading your Development Environment (Harsh Bardhan)
• Expression Blend 3 & Behaviours (Mike Taulty)
• RadControls for Silverlight 3 now available (Valentin Stoychev)
• Why is it called a "DependencyProperty"? (Mike Hillberg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pete Brown, Silverlight Wizard in Action (Adam Kinney)
• This Week on C9: New SDKs, Silverlight 3, Web utilities and cool Show Off Projects (Dan Fernandez)
• Azure videos worth watching (Bill Zack)
• No More Underscrores in Visual Basic 10 (Beth Massi)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Eilon Lipton and the ASP.NET MVC Rumors (Scott Hanselman)
• MIX09: Time Lapse camera, setup and tear down (Duncan Mackenzie)
• Episode 130: Code Visualization with Michele Lanza (SE-Radio Team)
• Kona Screencast 1: It’s Baaaaack! (Rob Conery)
• Some of the Shows I did at or around MIX – Hanselminutes, Continuum (Pete Brown)
• Mike Swanson – XAML Plugin for Adobe Illustrator (Robert Hess)
• 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – MVP Interviews – Part 5 and 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – I’m a PC and I’m and MVP! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Community / Events

• A few favorite photos from MIX09 (Adam Kinney)
• Requesting Contracted .NET OSS Bug Fixes from the Community (Bobby Johnson)
• Contest: Help Us To Find A Motto For Devlicio.us (Tuna Toksoz)

Database

• Spring cleaning your indexes – Part II (Kimberly L. Tripp)
• ExecutionLog Table in SSRS 2008 Gone (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• CCleaner version 2.18.878 software update (Ben) – IE8 support added
• Get hip to Mesh… it rocks! (Andrew Connell)
• Presentation tip: They Remember the Mistakes more than the Polish (Brad Abrams)
• DreamSpark – High School access now and new stuff! and Blu-ray/DVD Comparison Utility (Coding4Fun)
• Windows Mobile 7 screenshots (or mockups, or something) leaked? (Chris Ziegler)
• Small Basic: Sample of the week: Turn ‘em Off (Vijaye)
• Windows 7 Build 7068 leaks in the wild (Taimur Asad)
• Where to Find Windows 7 Logon Screen Backgrounds (Sarah Perez)
• There’s a lot of Software in Our Future (Dino Esposito)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 27, 2009 and LINKBLOG for March 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2009 — #554 and Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2009 — #555 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 309 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for March 27th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: March 27, 2009 and Interesting Finds: March 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day