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Top Links

• OCGM: A New Windows User Experience (Stephen Chapman) – Some insight into the UX design philosophy in Windows 8.
• Day #28: Silverlight Application Themes (Jeff Blankenburg) – Jeff nears the end of his 30 days of Silverlight sereies.
• Cost of Maintenance (Larry Clarkin) – A reminder about the importance of a good design up front.
• iPhone and Android Development – NOT STARTING A FLAME WAR!!!! (Leon Gersing) – Leon compares ease of programming against each platform.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating An Application With Full Plug-in Support (Arian T. Kulp)
• Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing in C# and F# (Rick Minerich)
• D3DImage Extension Methods (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Update for Windows Azure Blob Storage publishing plugin for Expression Encoder (James Clarke)
• Migrating Applications to Windows Azure (Bob Familiar)
• More Windows Code Pack and Windows 7 developing delightfulness (Greg Duncan)
• More LINQ with System.Interactive – Exploiting the code = data relationship (Bart de Smet)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript inside ColdFusion – CFJS (Michael Kimsal)
• 7 Tips for Loading JavaScript Rich Web 2.0-like Sites Significantly Faster (Omar Al Zabir)
• Embedding HTML from jQuery AJAX Call Into Your Page (Elijah Manor)
• Do you know how to permanently redirect old incoming URL’s? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• KiGG Design And Architecture – Part 3 The Core (Muhammad Mosa)
• Self executing recursive javascript functions (Kris Gray)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fighting the profiler memory obesity (Oren Eini)
• Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: My First Attempt (Mark Needham)
• Agile Tenet #6– Face-to-face Communication (Julie Stickler)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows 7, VS2010, WPF all mixed together DevX article style (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight HVP Design Update (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Compass indicators properties for Telerik’s Docking Control for Silverlight and WPF (Telerik Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 4 – Yet More on Capturing Video from Webcams (Mike Taulty)
• Better WPF Circular Progress Bar (Sacha Barber)
• Solution to minimize the loading of too much data to a DataGrid– WCF RIA Services and Silverlight (Fredrik Normen)
• Read and Recommended: Essential Silverlight 3 (Stephen Forte)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Hunter Tours Us Through ASP.NET 4.0 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• (free) Training videos from the last year. (Eric Hexter)
• Episode 96- PowerScripting Podcast – Ed Wilson The Scripting Guy on PowerShell Best Practices (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

 

Community / Events

• Mark Your Calendars for Microsoft BI Conference (Bruce Kyle)
• Running a Small User Group – Getting Help (K. Brian Kelley)
• January Events (Matt Hinze)
• 12/28/2009 – Speaking at Northern Delaware .NET User Group on 1/28/2010 (Kevin Goff)
• This One is for the Quiet Ones (Sara J. Chipps)

 

Database

• Data is Just Data – Information – that’s another thing! (Buck Woody)
• Standard Point-in-time and time-interval representations (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Get Date of All Weekdays or Weekends of the Year (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• On Learning (Anne Epstein)
• Using "within" in a WMI event query (Kapil Mathur)
• DZone Daily Dose – 12/29 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Write-Progress & WPK (James Brundage)
• A Desktop UI for Zoho Services (Rodrigo Vaca)
• Consulting vs. Employee-hood, or “How to consider your options” (Kyle Baley)
• The decade in graphic form (Steve Clayton)
• Chrome Corner – weekly updates, extensions, themes, and tips for Google Chrome (Lee Mathews)
• Hoping they will learn… Usability! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Read Facebook updates in Google Reader (or any other RSS tool) (Sebastian Anthony)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2009 — #765 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #506 (Chris Alcock)

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Lambda Expressions: An Introduction and Lambda Expressions: Finding an Item in a Generic List and Delegates and Lambda Expressions: Syntax and Lambda Expressions: Predicate Delegates and Lambda Expressions: Action Delegates and Lambda Expressions: Func Delegates (Deborah Kurata)
• "M" Language Type Definitions for 280 Popular (and not so popular) Data Models (Chris Sells)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Enabling Bulk Inserts (Davy Brion)
• Team Build Property Reference Guide (Steve Andrews)
• LINQ to SQL, Lazy Loading and Prefetching (Rick Strahl)

 

Web Development

• Model View Presenter via ASP .NET (Steven James Gray)
• Prevent Cut, Copy and Paste Operations in an ASP.NET TextBox using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NHProf in the real world: NHibernate Search integration (Oren Eini)
• Slutty Types (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day
• Non-Technical Factors that Lead to Poor Architectures (Mike Walker)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part I: Ask for It (Patrick Kua)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 14. (Rajiv Popat)
• 200 Page Manual on Inversion of Control, Part 2 (Rob Conery)
• How We Do Things – Testing Part 2 (Scott C Reynolds)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight DataForm for WPF? (Rudi Grobler)
• Manipulating Character Outlines in Silverlight (Charles Petzold)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video Posted for Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines (Brad Abrams)
• Episode 87 – PowerScripting Podcast – Sergei Antonov from the IIS team (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Herding Code 62: MonoTouch with Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton (Jon Galloway)
• Road2SPC Interview with Tom Rizzo (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Query Optimization – Remove Bookmark Lookup – Remove RID Lookup – Remove Key Lookup – Part 3 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Engineering SharePoint (SharePoint Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• My Tools of the Trade – 2009 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Lifehacker Readers’ Biggest Google Annoyances (Kevin Purdy)
• Installing Ubuntu on Hyper-V (Mike Hadlow)
• Intellects Don’t Appreciate Intelligence (Max Pool)
• Five Best Windows Task Manager Alternatives (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Find users in too many groups (Dmitry Sotnikov) – A PowerShell tip.
• Zoho Meeting: Instant PC Diagnostics with Remote Support (Hari)
• TIP: How to Run Programs as a Domain User from a Non-domain Computer (James Kovacs)
• Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication (MG Siegler)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #452 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 11, 2009 — #709 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #93 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #74 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #7 – A Continuous Learner’s Weblog, Links (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 114 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 10/11/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• New and Notable 380 (Sam Gentile)
• Links (10/11/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• A Developer’s Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit (Aaron Skonnard)
• .NET University is Live (Charlie Calvert)
• Splitting Text into Words and Randomly Pick Items From a List and Passing Data Between Forms: Constructor and Write a Memorization Helper Application (Deborah Kurata)
• Why do ref and out parameters not allow type variation? (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Communication With a Background Thread in ASP.NET (Chris Love)
• Google Wave Extension Updates (Dan Peterson)
• DotNetNuke – Retrieving Host Access (Dave M. Bush)
• Developing Guidelines For Cloud Usage, Lessons From Social Media Gaffes (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Simple API for Cloud Application Services (Maarten Balliauw)
• Scale in the browser (Mads Kristensen)
• Expression SuperPreview – No VPCs required !!! (Joe Stagner)
• Download four free sample chapters from Visual Web Developer book (Mikhail Arkhipov)
• Using JqGrid with ASP.NET MVC (Michael Ceranski)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pulled in Too Many Directions? Get Focused (Amber Riviere)
• Wa: The key to clear, harmonious design (Garr Reynolds)
• Make It Easy To Refactor (Jak Charlton)
• Concurrency Programming is Like Thinking in 5 Dimensions (Rinat Abdullin)
• 10 Reasons You Might Be Writing Coyote Code and Make BDD Your BFF (Rob Conery)
• Be More Efficient And Don’t Read This (Max Pool)
• Leading from the Front (Jim Holmes)
• The Agile Mindset (Patrick Kua)
• Continuous Integration, Plugins and Going Too Far (Leon Bambrick)
• TDD: Tests that give us a false confidence of coverage (Mark Needham)
• Mind Maps: Get Blog Ideas Fast (Meryl Evans)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Colorful Explosion (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• I get by with a little help from my friends [PieSeries annotations trilogy complete!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 3 SketchFlow DataBinding (Malcolm Sheridan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kent Tegels on SQL Server Integration Services (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – Using LAAAM to Make Good Architectural Decisions, Fast! (Bob Familiar)
• WebDevRadio Episode 69: Curtis Mitchell on Spark with ASP.NET MVC (Michael Kimsal)
• Screencast: Understanding Task Dependencies, Lead and Lag (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Ping 30: Bing Images, Xbox anywhere, Browsers & Battery life (Laura Foy)
• SharePoint Forum Knowledge Base Feature released (Lightning Tools)
• Spring in 2009 with Eberhard Wolff (SE-Radio Team)
• Thirsty Developer 73 – Building a Bridge to PHP (Dave Bost)
• SQL Server Express: Overview (Zach Skyles Owens)

 

Community / Events

• Innovation Showcase Web Site Launched (Bob Familiar)
• Session Voting Open for SQLBits V (Simon Sabin)

 

Database

• Free eBook: “Protecting SQL Server Data” (Brad M. McGehee)

Miscellaneous

• Yet Another .NET Interview Questions List (Charles Chen)
• XPS Essentials Pack Version 1.1 (MS Downloads)
• A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (Jeff Moser)
• Output Redirection With Bash (Alan Skorkin)
• "Programming Scala" Is Now Available (Dean Wampler)
• There More Like Guidelines, Not Rules – Some Insight on How I Use Twitter (John Papa)
• That Posh is Delicious… Posh-Delicious that is (Greg Duncan)
• Two Different Ways of Running Virtual Machines on Windows 7 (Zhiming Xue)
• Windows Workstation 2008 R2: An even better OS for a laptop (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Programming for Absolute Beginners (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Create Your Own Forum With Zoho Discussions (Stan Schroeder)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #438 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 21, 2009 — #696 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 09.15 ~ 09.20 (yuanjian)
• New and Notable 372 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 21st September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (9/21/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #545 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Introducing PowerBuilder 12 .NET (Yakov Werde)
• Debugging .NET apps for .NET 4.0 (Tom)
• Rhino Divan DB – Consideration (Oren Eini)
• Global Exception Handler (WinForms) and Nullable Data Types (Deborah Kurata)
• Dev Tip Build Your Solutions from the Context Menu (Jimmy Bosse)
• Thoughts on C# 4.0’ optional parameters (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• CodeRush Test Runner In-source UI Preview (Mark Miller)
• F# First Class Events – Async Workflows + Events Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

Web Development

• Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer (MS Downloads)
• Lucene.net: The Main Concepts (Simone Chiaretta)
• Simple Example of Twilio and Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Kanban Board Is A Production Leveling Task Board (Derick Bailey)
• Is Agile a mystery? (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Answer: The lazy loaded inheritance many to one association OR/M conundrum (Oren Eini)
• DDD: Repository Implementation Patterns (Jimmy Bogard)
• Your code via NDepend (Brendan Kowitz) – Link of the Day
• Modularity Pattern – Manage Relationships (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Coding: Reduce fields, delay calculations (Mark Needham)
• The Conversation Conversation and Noodling on Kanban… Part One (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Why Declarative UIs Are Important (Shawn Wildermuth)
• brownfield development – other ideas? (Howard Dierking)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• U.S. Army using Silverlight for Resourcing Troops (Adam Kinney)
• Compiling pixel shaders for Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• More Silverlight MVVM fun (Rockford Lhotka)
• Service Locator in MVVM (Marlon Grech)
• Expression Blend 3.0 TFS Source Control (Doug Holland)
• UI without code or XAML: PropertyGrid, DataForm, etc. (Kirill Osenkov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen on the Legal Side of Software! (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV: The Cloud Part 1, What it Means to the User and ARCast.TV: The Cloud Part 2, What is Microsoft Doing (MS Podcasts)
• Creating DSLs in Oslo (Amanda Laucher)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #66 (Jeff Atwood)

 

Community / Events

• Western European ReMix Tour 2009 (Brad Abrams)
• Webinars Next Week (William Vaughn)
• I’m A Lucky Programmer Too! (Chris Missal)
• Windows 7 Compatibility Labs and Seminars in Washington DC region (Ashish Jaiman)
• MVP Releases Windows Azure Community Site (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Random Thoughts on Day 2 of the Nothing But .NET Course (Russell Ball)
• Thanks and A Software Development School Idea (Corey Haines)
• Get Windows 7 Ultimate for free… by throwing a party (Nilay Patel)
• Please, please, please post StructureMap questions to the list (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Database

• Microsoft Downplays SQL Server Database Vulnerability (Brian Prince)
• Handling Temp tables in reporting services (Simon Sabin)
• Using Oslo to Speed Up Database Development (Stephen Forte)
• SQL SERVER – What is Data Mining – A Simple Introductory Note (Pinal Dave)
• Using a Calendar for a Date Hierarchy Parameter with SSAS 2008 and SSRS 2008 (riverguy)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Governance and best practices, some thoughts (Joris Poelmans)

 

Miscellaneous

• WorldWide Telescope’s New Frontier (Rob Knies)
• 3 Ways to Track Your Rank on Twitter (Adam DuVander)
• Using Ruby Blocks And Rolling Your Own Iterators (Alan Skorkin)
• Zoho Projects : Add Task Notes, Log Time from My Timesheet, View Unread Chat Topics (Celina B.)
• WL Movie Maker PM Mike Torres Part 2: a LiveSide interview (Kip Kniskern)
• “Weekly” Release: FogBugz Wiki integration and more! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• New Feature in Zoho Share : Add to Favorites (Rajasekaran Gopalan)
• The Ultimate Windows Console Replacement (Michael Ceranski)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #425 (Chris Alcock)
• Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Web Slice, Accelerator, Search Provider resources (Hanu Kommalapati)
• CloudNews for 2nd September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Self-Initializing Fake (Martin Fowler)
• OR/M suitability and Watermarking and Security and NH Prof New Feature: Detect Cross Thread Session Usage (Oren Eini)
• Are You The Best Developer In The World? (Alan Skorkin)
• Analyzing AutoMapper performance (Jimmy Bogard)
• Agile Living (Christopher Bennage)
• Think a little, code a little (Mark Needham)
• Scenario Tables for FitNesse (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Daycare As A Kanban System (Derick Bailey) – Link of the Day
• Documenting source code (Gunnar Peipman)
• Project Turing – Data Entry (a mini-tutorial) (Jesse Liberty)
• Own the Feedback (Steve Rowe)
• Testing Random code (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 8. (Rajiv Popat)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Grouping and Joining Data (Scott Mitchell)
• Dictionary look-up or create made simpler (Damien Guard)
• How to debug an exception with the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger (Habib Heydarian)
• Edit Project Files Directly in Visual Studio (Srinath MS)
• Unflattening a list, or "How to ask ‘how to’" (Kyle Baley)
• Creating a Simple Procedural Workflow using VS 2010 and Windows Workflow WF 4.0 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• New WF 4 whitepaper has been published (Matt Milner)
• Show CodeRush Xpress Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Spec# and Boogie Released on CodePlex (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Simplistic Object Copying in .NET (Rick Strahl)

 

Web Development

• Twitter Developer Tips From the Guy Who Wrote the Book (Adam DuVander)
• Hiding a DropDownList Behind a JQuery UI Dialog (Chris Love)
• A Non-Compressed BlogEngine.NET 1.5 Developer Tip (Dave Burke)
• Reducing the Bounce Rate of Tech Blogs with Subtext and Lucene.net (Simone Chiaretta)
• jQuery tip – beware anonymous functions in your event handlers (Scott Koon)
• ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX Enhancements (Mike Ormond)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 18: Custom Linq Provider (Brad Abrams)
• Bing Maps Silverlight: Plot/Edit Pushpin data via a ChildWindow (Chris Pietschmann)
• Tracking Dangling Object References In Silverlight and Refactor Safe Implementation Of INotifyPropertyChanged (Davy Brion)
• Scrolling so smooth like the butter on a muffin [How to: Animate the Horizontal/VerticalOffset properties of a ScrollViewer] (David Anson)
• Creating A Form – Level 100 (Jesse Liberty)
• Is The Blend 3 Trial Worth The Download? (Joel Cochran)
• Cross Domain Silverlight XAP Access in Silverlight (Karsten Januszewski)
• Applications Using WPF (Mike Taulty)
• Streamlining Csla.Silverlight.InvokeMethod (Rockford Lhotka)
• RIA Services, Silverlight and MVVM (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Kim Hamilton and Wes Dyer: Inside .NET Rx and IObservable/IObserver in the BCL (VS 2010) (Charles Torre)
• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Singleton – Overview and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Singleton – Refactoring and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Singleton – AuthChecker Class and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Singleton – Testability (Howard Dierking)
• Silverlight 3 UK Launch: Chat with Ian Ellison-Taylor (Mike Taulty)

 

Community / Events

• Patterns of Parallel Programming at PDC 2009 (Ade Miller)
• SharePint – Best Practices DC 2009 Edition (Andrew Woodward)
• Great New Blogger – Skorks.com (Max Pool)
• PDC 2009: Developing Quality Software using Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
• Cloud Security Survey (J.D. Meier)
• Events this Week – August 4th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Richmond Code Camp 2009.2 is coming up! (Justin Etheredge)
• AltNetBeers #13 – StackOverflow edition (Sebastien Lambla)
• New Microsoft Careers Site: Now with your input! (Lisa Olson)

 

Windows 7

• Microsoft’s Releases "Windows XP Mode" & "Windows Virtual PC" for Windows 7 RC (Blake Handler)
• How to Move Your Windows XP Application to Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• User Account Control Data Redirection (Yochay Kiriaty)

 

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: Real World Branding with SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)

 

Database

• Teaser: Left Join..the SQL ego crusher (Denis Gobo)
• Editing Configuration files : SSIS Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• Tips for the Accidental DBA (Michael Ceranski)
• SQL SERVER – Get a List of Fixed Hard Drive and Free Space on Server (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Adding PowerShell to StExBar (Rob Reynolds)

 

Miscellaneous

• Introducing the Zoho Calendar Plugin for Microsoft Outlook (Arvind Natarajan)
• Microsoft trademark reveals Microsoft Store logo (Sumeeth Evans)
• New in Labs: Hide labels, see subject lines on netbooks (Christopher Semturs)
• On C# in Depth and the State of Old School Technical Publishing (Russell Ball)
• What recent computer science graduate should know. (Paul Zubkov)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #405 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 350 (Sam Gentile)

 

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