Top Links

• Announcing the Web Standards Update – HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor (Scott Hanselman)
• Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Web Standards Update – behind the scenes (Mads Kristensen)
• Microsoft Kinect gets more awesome = Win SDK (xpert360)
• Composite Services Guidance–Release Candidate and Composite Services Guidance: External Routing Configuration sample (Francis Cheung)
• Introducing The MVC Wijmo CTP (Kevin Griffin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using __arglist to send parameters to a Method and Help yourself in Debugging by using Call Stack and Immediate Window (Abhijit Jana)
• Portable Library Tools Now RTM – VS2010 RTM SP1 (Don Burnett)
• Entity Framework 4.1: Code First and WCF Data Services (Glen Gailey)
• LINQ Intersect() 2.7x faster with HashSet (Patrick Smacchia)
• Debugger Canvas and Code Bubbles (Zain Naboulsi)
• Safer asynchronous workflows for GUI programming (Tomáš Petříček)
• New Book: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-516): Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
• Microsoft Platform Ready Website Updated to Include Office 365 (Wes Yanaga)
• Help yourself in Debugging by using Call Stack and Immediate Window (Pranay Rana)
• Portable Library Tools RTW (think "One library binary, many platforms") (Greg Duncan)
• C++ AMP Provides Massive Parallelism (Abel Avram)

Web Development

• jQuery Plugin: FunkyFocus v1.1 (Deran Schilling)
• jQuery versus the Ajax Control Toolkit–Why should I use jQuery Instead ? and Replacing the ACT PagingBulletedList with the jQuery ListNav Plugin. (Joe Stagner)
• Using HTML App Host Tasks from the ECMA Script Context (David Kelley)
• Equality in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Book Review: Drupal Web Services (Michael J. Ross)
• The Rise Of The API, The Future Of The Web (Rob Diana)
• Network capture with Internet Explorer (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Official boat-load, as in supertanker, sized OpenXML content list (Insert "One OpenXML content list to rule them all" here) (Greg Duncan)
• Binding A Backbone View To A Model, To Enable and Disable A Button and Solving Backbone’s “this.model.view” Problem With Underscore.js (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Clean Coder – sharpen your professional skills (Gojko Adzic)
• The Challenge of Personal Change (J.D. Meier)
• Free Version of YouTRACK Issue and Bug Tracker from JetBrains (David Hayden)
• Agile and Architecture Conflict (Vikas Hazrati)
• Automated code reviews for PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
• Unit Testing Raised Events (Richard Carr)
• Collective note taking – More value from your test notes? (Sigurdur Birgisson)
• Why the New YouTrack Matters (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Should we get this tool? (Jef Claes)
• Why Your Form Checkboxes Should Always Use Label Tags (Anthony)
• Testing Chromium: AddressSanitizer, a fast memory error detector. (Kostya Serebryany)
• Caching, the funny way (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Drag and Drop for Business Applications (Michael Varey)
• In-app purchase coming to Windows Phone "Mango" and Windows Phone "Mango" developer handsets for serious developers only, available next week (damaster)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 13 – What is Tombstoning? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Displaying PDF Files in Windows Phone 7 Mango (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer Game using Sockets in XNA (Ricky Tan)
• Silverlight 5 and HTML 5 (Surf4Fun)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Aspect Oriented Programming at NDC (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ICSE 2011: John Rushby – Formal Methods, Verification and Some Computing History (Charles Torre)
• Hot Apps: Doodle Jump, Lo-Mob, NBA GameTime 2011, PotatoGrid, Alchemy (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #115: Wrapping Up the Icon Spike (James Shore)
• The Thirsty Developer 102: These are Exciting Times (Dave Bost)
• AppFabric.tv – How To Build Workflow Services with a Database Respository (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Looking Forward to Next Week’s SQL Server JumpIn! Camp (Brian Swan)
• Join Us Tomorrow For A Special Channel 9 Live Kinect Event (Nic Fillingham) – That’s today.

Database

• New Microsoft SSIS transform (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Free Online Training on .net and SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Dark color theme for SQL Server Management Studio (Raghav Khunger)
• SSIS: The Ninth Circle of Merge Hell (Russell Ball)
• Help us select the new RavenDB logo (Oren Eini)
• Things That Should Be In TSQL (Don Halloran)

SharePoint

• Recapping my webinar w/Idera: Understanding SharePoint Server 2010 Managed Metadata (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Office 2010 is One Year Old Today (Paul Thurrott)
• You probably won’t buy Google Chromebook, but should reconsider and When do you want Windows 8? (Joe Wilcox)
• TidyFS: Microsoft’s simpler distributed file system (Mary Jo Foley)
• Announcing Zoho Docs – Google Chromebook integration (Naveen Venkat)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Getting Started with the Internet of Things – Only $9.99 w/code DDGST (O’Reilly Media)
• What I look for in Peer Review Feedback at Microsoft (Pete Brown)
• Daily Dose: Microsoft Adding More Support for C++ (Ross Jernigan)
• Developer Week in Review: Are .NET programmers going extinct? – Microsoft embraces HTML5, selling a startup at 15, and a new version of Java looms. (James Turner)
• Selling More Shopify Apps, Part 1: The Decision-Making Process (Joey deVilla)

More Link Collections

• Link dump for June 15th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 06/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 15-Jun-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #874 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4: Building Modular MVVM Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight (Patterns & Practices) by Bob Brumfield et al

Top Links

• Mole 2010 Released (Karl Shifflett)
• Productivity Power Tools introduces Find, Organize Imports for VB, Enhanced Scrollbar, Middle-Click Scrolling and more! (Sean Laberee)
• Flatten your architecture: Simplicity as a core value (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone Shake Gestures Library (Yochay Kiriaty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Open XML 2.0 Code Snippets for VS2010 (and VS2008 too) (Greg Duncan)
• IronPython 2.7 Release Candidate 1 (CodePlex)
• Attach to Process – Macro for Visual Studio 2010 (Ingo Rammer)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 RTM Virtual Machines (Zain Naboulsi)
• Different approaches to Casting and Use “Shift+Enter” to add “;” automatically at end of the line (Abhijit Jana)
• Five Windows 7 taskbar features available to developers (Brian Bondy)
• How could I work without resharper (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Windows 7 Taskbar Integration for MFC Applications (John Bristowe)
• Oracle Releases Beta of Entity Framework Provider (EF Team)
• FileSystemHelper Update and Release (Jason Strate)
• Free Alternatives to Reflector (Kevin Hazzard)

Web Development

• Using ASP.NET, Membership, and jQuery to Determine Username Availability (Scott Mitchell)
• How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development (Christina Warren)
• Recommended Book: HTML5 And CSS3: Develop With Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Davy Brion)
• ASP.NET Security Videos & Tutorials (29) (Joe Stagner)
• HTML5 and JavaScript tools: What could (and should) Microsoft do? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Custom Data Annotation Validator Part II: Client Code (K. Scott Allen)
• A jQuery Plug-in to monitor Html Element CSS Changes (Rick Strahl)
• Styling ASP.NET GridView using jQuery Theme Switcher Widget (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How much traffic does your website create with each request? Use IISExpress 7.5 to find out. (John V. Petersen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: In-Line Teardown (Giorgio Sironi)
• Versioning strategies for the sane (Jimmy Bogard)
• Espoused theory, theory in action & hypocrisy and Pair Programming: “What are you trying to learn?” (Mark Needham)
• How You Should Align Your Form Buttons (Anthony)
• Windows Azure Use Case: Hybrid Applications (Buck Woody)
• The Impact of Accidental Complexity on Estimates (Jay Fields)
• In Pursuit of Quality, let’s Call Quality as something else (Shrini Kulkarni)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Index was outside the bounds of the array when Obfuscating a LARGE WP7 application and How to Obfuscate your WP7 application via nant and build scripts (Derik Whittaker)
• Enhancing the general Zune experience on Windows Phone 7 with Zune web API (Dennis Delimarsky)
• OpenXLive – A social network (SNS) platform for Windows Phone 7 games (or "Don’t write your own Leaderboard, Achievements, Online Gaming, Social Networking, and Cloud Store if you don’t have too") and Windows Phone 7 Development QuickStarts (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight Sans Xaml? and Asynchronous Callbacks with Rx and When Isolated Storage Isn’t Enough (Jesse Liberty)
• HTML5 versus Silverlight–Is Silverlight Dead? (Joe Stagner)
• Mole 2010 has shipped (Josh Smith)
• New Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.2 officially released and How to define and reuse resources in WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 65: What does Open Source have to do with Windows Azure? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Herding Code 106: Mark Rendle on Simple.Data (Jon Galloway)
• Hot Apps: iBlast Moki, Life Lights, OK!, MonsterUp, Classic Valentine (Laura Foy)
• The Garage Science Fair (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• Technology & Friends Episode 138: Chris Eargle on Fluent Interfaces (David Giard)
• ASP.NET mvcConf Videos Available (Scott Guthrie)
• Let’s Play TDD #88: Cascading Failures (James Shore)
• Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 3 and Razor (Dan Wahlin)

Community / Events

• What lots of students miss when they start software development and ImagineCup @ Facebook – now with team pages (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Free TDD Class Seat in March – Here’s How (Roy Osherove)
• Come to MIX & show off your .NET Open Source App (Joe Stagner)
• Mobile Connections Event – early bird pricing ends February 25th (Wally McClure)
• From Zero To Deployed Contest – Prizes Announced (Rob Reynolds)
• Event: MIX11 Open Call Speakers & Sessions Announced (Kim Spilker)
• A Conference I want to go to (Dru Sellers)
• Hug an Engineer – It’s National Engineers Week (Doug Cornelius)

Database

• SQL SERVER – OLEDB – Link Server – Wait Type – Day 23 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Is SQL Server Express Enough for the Job? (William Vaughn)
• Survey: how is your tempdb configured? (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• New book: Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Kim Spilker)
• Calling a WCF Service using jQuery in SharePoint (Anweshi Deverasetty)

Miscellaneous

• Explore Zoho Reports Series: Part I – Formula Column (Arvind Natarajan)
• Extending the Omnibox (Christos)
• Craig Mundie’s TechForum: A Look Ahead (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Android 3.0 SDK Now Available to All Developers (Stan Schroeder)
• Could we see a Zune powered tablet from Microsoft? (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 02/23/2011 and SilverlightCream top picks for Feb 14 – 20, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 22-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #798 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 22th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for February 22, 2011 — #1050 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET by Rebecca M. Riordan

Top Links

• CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project (Jonathan Wanagel)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming C# 4.0 – Only $9.99. Use code DDP4E (O’Reilly Media)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TIP support for any ADO.NET app (Cameron Skinner)
• Automatic Delimiter Highlighting (Zain Naboulsi)
• One-Click Publishing of .NET4 Workflow (XAML) Definitions for Services hosted in AppFabric – similar to the ‘Activate’ Workflows in SharePoint Server 2010! (Suren Machiraju)
• DevForce & RIA Services Part 2a: Querying (Ward Bell)
• What is Functional Programming? (Christopher Bennage)

Web Development

• DZone’s Top 10 JavaScript and Web Design Books (Mitch Pronschinske)
• BankSimple: Banking as a Service, API and All (Alex Stone)
• Dallas on PHP (via WebMatrix) (Jim O’Neil)
• AppFabric cache event notification (Ed Kisinger)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Gartner Shares 10 Ways the World of Work will Change (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Padded Grid (Dave Kerr)
• Sticky v1.0.50906 Released for Seesmic Desktop 2 (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stories from Tech Ed Australia! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends – Episode 114: Keith Elder on WCF 4 (David Giard)
• Ping 73: Double Rainbow, Windows Phone RTM, Xbox Controller, 3D engines (Laura Foy)
• Learn about Windows Phone 7 in 7 minutes (Sara Allison)
• WinExtra’s Daily Brief Ep. 4 … it’s a ZunePhone (Steven Hodson)

Community / Events

• .NET Community Session : ASP.NET 4.0 In-Depth (Abhijit Jana)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Index Levels and Delete Operations – Page Level Observation (Pinal Dave)
• “select *, %%bmk%% from tablename” while rebuilding the index (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• Docs.com Creates a Resume and Analysis of Your Friends from Your Facebook Account [Microsoft] (Adam Dachis)
• Sorting Data in Zoho Writer (Arvind Natarajan)
• Processing Email in Outlook (Daniel Moth)
• Introducing Presdo Link: a breakthrough in scheduling (Eric Ly)
• Amazon steals Microsoft’s Director of Game Platform Strategy for some reason (Thomas Ricker)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 6, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #680 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 160 (Rhonda Tipton)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn

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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)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

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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)

Book of the Day

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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)

Book of the Day

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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)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Live Writer Plug-in: Paste Visual Studio Code (Blake Handler)
• 6 Books That Should Be On Every .NET Developers Bookshelf (Charles Chen)
• Git – TFS Integration – Options (Jim Deville)
• F#: Playing around with asynchronous workflows (Mark Needham)
• Visual Studio Redesign: lose the designers, add a command prompt? (Peter Eysermans)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Calendar component (Gunnar Peipman)
• Authenticating users with RPXNow (in ASP.NET MVC) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Securing Web Services (Even with OOB) (Shawn Wildermuth) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Data virtualization (Bea Stollnitz)
• Silverlight Spy 3 Beta available and Win a free Silverlight Spy 3 license (Koen Zwikstra)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Refactoring challenge #2 – functionally illiterate (Jimmy Bogard)
• DDD and Code ReUse (Jérémie Chassaing)

Community / Events

• Call for Nominations – PASS Board of Directors (Andy Warren)
• Why Can’t You Have Just One Site? (Jeff Atwood)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Coding4Fun Show: MEF Utility Runner with Arian Kulp (Brian Peek)
• Episode 78 – PowerScripting Podcast – Kirk Munro PowerShell MVP (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Database

• SQL SERVER – List All Missing Identity Values of Table in Database (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 101 (Part 1) (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• A Few Usability Enhancements to Zoho Projects 2.0 (Vijay)
• OEMs Pick Up Windows 7 RTM Code in Redmond (Steven Bink)
• The Coding Ballerina (Sara Chipps)

More Link Collections

• Everyman Links for July 26, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links (7/26/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Zen is Live! (Nate Kohari) – Link of the Day
• Refactoring challenge (Jimmy Bogard)
• Refactoring challenge Part 1 – Examination (Jimmy Bogard)
• Fluent Context Builders (Chris Bilson)
• Lower the Cost of Knowing (Gabriel Torok)
• Embrace Pain (Ian Cooper)
• Code: It’s Trivial (Jeff Atwood)
• Micro-rant: Ninject and IKernel (Joe White)
• Serializing (Queuing) Messages To Aggregates (Jonathan Oliver)
• Relearning: The Productivity Problem that We’re Not Supposed To Talk About (Scott Bellware)
• Kicking Your Coding into High Gear (Rob Bazinet)

Web Development

• Examining ASP.NET’s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 16 (Scott Mitchell)
• Building ASP.NET Applications with Delphi and Advantage Database Server (Cary Jensen)
• Making a jQuery JSON Request to an ASP.NET Handler And Back (Dave Schinkel)
• Improving jQuery’s JSON performance and security (Dave Ward)
• ASP.NET MVC & jQuery Part 3: MvcContrib Grid & jQuery Plugins (Elijah Manor)
• HTML 5 Parsing (John Resig)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.1 Released and SubSonic: Working With Git (Rob Conery)
• Event Aggregation with jQuery (K. Scott Allen)
• Sneak Peek at our book Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Simone Chiaretta)
• PHP SDK for Windows Azure – Milestone 2 release (Maarten Balliauw)
• KiGG support for Entity Framework and MySQL (Muhammad Mosa)
• Rounded Corner Rendering in newer Browsers (Rick Strahl)
• Video: Google’s HTML 5 Work: What’s Next? (Matthew Papakipos)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Building Tuple (Matt Ellis)
• Part 3 of Dana’s End-to-End "Oslo" Series: Quadrant (Chris Sells)
• iTextSharp – HTML to PDF – Positioning Text (Dave M. Bush)
• New Visual Studio Debugger 2010 feature for C/C++ Developers: Using string functions in conditional breakpoints (Habib Heydarian)
• How to copy an entire folder tree with Nant (Derik Whittaker)
• Azure .NET Services – July CTP SDK Released (Jeff Barnes)
• F#: Parsing Cruise build data and C#: Removing duplication in mapping code with partial classes (Mark Needham)
• .NET – Write Once, Run Anywhere? (Michael Ceranski)
• Managing Application Configuration (Mitchell Hashimoto)
• RegEx.Split vs. String.Split (Srinath MS)
• VSTS 2010: Overview of Team System 2010 for Architects (Subodh Sohoni)
• Deployment and Updates of Desktop Applications: WiX, ClickOnce and Other Scenarios (Rinat Abdullin)
• LINQ is not LINQ To SQL (Justin Etheredge)
• Patterns and Match Expressions in F# (Kathleen McGrath)
• Insert Master Detail Data with LINQ to SQL and Select Max Value with LINQ to SQL (Deepak Kapoor)

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-6 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Day #7: Using WCF Web Services With Silverlight (and LINQ) and Day #8: Custom Fonts in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Installing the MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.0.0 (Laurent Bugnion)
• MVVM – Philosophy and Case Studies – Introduction (Rob Eisenberg)
• Designing a Glassy Button using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• Style Silverlight ScrollViewer with a New ControlTemplate and Scrolling in Silverlight Panels (Deepak Kapoor)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stephen Forte on Data Access Options (Carl Franklin)
• Task Parallel Library: Task Results (Dariusz Parys)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #124: Learning the Mediator Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Inside Secret Microsoft Meeting Rooms – What Laptop do Alpha Geeks Use? (Scott Hanselman)
• Webcast on ASP.NET MVC (in Italian) (Simone Chiaretta) – Anyone know a good streaming video translator? 
• The History of Microsoft – 1996 (Tina)
• Yavor Georgiev – Using WCF with Silverlight 3.0 (Robert Hess)
• Episode 75 – PowerScripting Podcast – Oisin Grehan and Joel Bennett talk Poshcode (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• CodePlex Turns 3 years old; Breaks the 10,000 project mark (Sara Ford)
• return thoughts.Where(x => x.IsCaffeineInspired) (Russell Ball)
• Top 200 Development and Social Media Blogs (OPML) (Jurgen Appelo)

SharePoint

• How We Did It: BDC Meta Man Web Edition (Nick Swan & Phill Duffy)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for Developers (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Gazelle browser takes a radical path (Ina Fried)
• Introducing the Google Chrome OS (Sundar Pichai)
• Thrive for Developers (Michael S. Scherotter)
• 7 Tips to Get Started Blog Writing (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Is your career THRIVING – Microsoft has a new portal to help. (Joe Stagner)
• How to insert Superscript, Subscript, and Strikethrough in your wiki pages – #048 (Sara Ford)
• Zoho Plug-ins for Microsoft Apps (Raju Vegesna)
• Game Programming Made Easy (Winda Benedetti)
• New Halo 3 Maps Coming This Fall (Larry Hyrb)
• Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs Come Out of Beta (Alex Chitu)
• Engineering Windows 7 for a Global Market (Julie Bennett & John McConnell)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #385 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2009 — #631 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 7th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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