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Top Links

• Windows programming: The "it works on my machine" syndroma (Patrick Smacchia)
• Visualizing the Windows Phone Accelerometer (on a Zune HD) (Charles Petzold)
• Beta Version of WCSF for VS2010 Available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Coding4Fun – Paint With Light (Randall Maas)
• A Checklist for OData Feed publishers (Phani Raj)
• Download Your Free Copy of DZone’s Latest Refcard on Lean Software Development! (Lyndsey Clevesy)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Convert Text to Morse Code (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 Professional Whitepaper (MS Downloads)
• SonicFileFinder 2.2 Released (Roland Weigelt)
• Delete to the Beginning or End of a Word (Zain Naboulsi)
• CSLA 4 business rules subsystem and CSLA 4 business rule chaining (Rockford Lhotka)
• Editor Guidelines UI – Extension #4 (Sara Ford)
• Automatic Properties, Collection Initializers, and Implicit Line Continuation support with VB 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Creating a Time UUID (GUID) in .NET (Nick Berardi)
• RIA Services and Entity Framework POCOs (Julie Lerman)
• Add an attribute to an MSXML node (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Dotfuscator 4.6.5000 ships, includes VS 2010 RTM support and offline Runtime Intelligence (Joe Kuemerle)

Web Development

• Expression Web 3 SP2 (MS Downloads)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Render Template to String (Joey Bratton)
• jsTree and Nested XML Data Stores (Charles Chen)
• A Custom ASP.NET MVC Model Binder for Repositories (Mike Hadlow)
• Open Data Protocol AKA OData (Mike Ceranski)
• Adding Google Charts to your ASP MVC Applications (John V. Petersen)
• ASP.NET MVC and CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 8 Tips for Performance Metrics (Jurgen Appelo)
• Defining the Last Responsible Moment (Karl Scotland)
• Turning a bug into a feature (Eric Lippert)
• Mind your boomerangs and Twist 2.0: acceptance testing – the productive way (Gojko Adzic)
• Scrum Flow at a Glance (J.D. Meier)
• Refactor This: Answers and Refactor This: Results (Oren Eini)
• The performance implications of IEnumerable vs. IQueryable (Chris Sells)
• Red For The Right Reason: Fail By Assertion, Not By Anything Else (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 6 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Managing service references and endpoint configurations for Silverlight applications (Tim Heuer)
• Creating a Silverlight Client for @shanselman ’s Nerd Dinner, using oData and Bing Maps (Anoop Madhusudanan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Software Engineering Radio Episode 159: C++0X with Scott Meyers (SE-Radio Team)
• Pete at MIX10: Richard Costall – Silverlight Manic Miner for Windows Phone 7 (Pete Brown)
• Episode 108 – PowerScripting Podcast – SharePoint 2010 with Gary LaPointe (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• This Week in Silverlight 4.1.2010 and Silverlight Consulting Life – MSDN Bytes Interview (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Improving perceived WPF app startup performance with MEF and a Splash Screen (Marc Schweigert)
• Ping 54: Windows Phone 7 Training Kit, 64GB Zune, Microsoft helps electric cars (Laura Foy)
• Herding Code 77: Eric Hexter on MvcConf, C4MVC, and MvcContrib (Jon Galloway)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Games Studio Writer John Sutherland – from Pong to Natal (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Visual Studio 2010 : /* Life Runs on Code */ (Rachel Appel)
• DevExpress Training Dates Available (Oliver Sturm)
• Behind the Scenes of the Developer Launch (Eddie Amos)
• 24 Hours of PASS: Celebrating SQL Server 2008 R2 (Glenn Berry)
• ReMIX Atlanta and .NET Rocks Roadshow – sign up today! (Glen Gordon)

Database

• Avoid SQL Injection with Parameters and Understanding SARGability (to make your queries run faster) (Simon Sabin)
• MongoDB vs. SQL Server – INSERT comparison part deux (Denis Gobo)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (5/30) AWE must be enabled on 64-bit servers (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Retrieve and Explore Database Backup without Restoring Database – Idera virtual database (Pinal Dave)
• Comparing Red Gate SQL Prompt to SQL Server IntelliSense (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A DMV a Day – Day 6 (Glenn Berry)
• Delay Validation with SSIS Tasks (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• Maximizing SharePoint 2010 on a Mac + iPhone or iPod + iPad (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Integrating the Git bash into Console (Jimmy Bogard)
• HP takes aim at iPad (Steve Clayton)
• New Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria (CEC) program website live (Steven Bink)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning iPhone Programming – Only $9.99 Use code DDLPP (O’Reilly Media)
• Developing with the Google Wave APIs – For a grade! (Pamela Fox)
• Daily Dose – iPhone OS 4.0 To Be Revealed Thursday (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Update on upcoming books: Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, and ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 05, 2010 — #831 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #573 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #114 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: April 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Resources to help you create an Azure App Today! (Jeff Barnes)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010

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Top Links

• T4MVC 2.6.13: now officially in MvcContrib, with a few new features (David Ebbo)
• A Vision of the Future for Home and Work Experiences by Microsoft Surface (Arturo Toledo)
• Game Developers Have a Great Opportunity with Windows Phone 7 Series (Ron Pessner)
• pluralsight and InnerWorkings (Meagon Marshall)
• 10 things Microsoft did right in 2010 (so far) (Joe Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Go To a Line Number and Print with Line Numbers / Summary Info Poll and Reuse the Same Editor Window When Opening Files (Zain Naboulsi)
• Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive) (Scott Mitchell)
• Tuning C++ build parallelism in VS2010 (Dan (VS Team))
• ThinkGearNET Library (Brian Peek)
• VB and C# coevolution (Scott Wiltamuth)
• Slicing and Dicing Strings with CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
• When should I use Areas in TFS instead of Team Projects (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Combining Higher Order Functions in C# and How to tell if a type is a delegate (Mike Hadlow)
• The yield statement cannot be used inside an anonymous method or lambda expression and Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in F# (Oliver Sturm)
• IronRuby Unleashed Is Out Now (Justin Etheredge)
• WCF Service Cannot Be Activated Because of ASP.NET Compatibility and WCF Data Service Error – Request Error (Keith Elder)
• .Net, Native, P/Invoke marshaling just like magic… “Marshaling with C# Pocket Reference” (Think “Marshalling Guide for the Busy Dev Guy”) (Greg Duncan)
• XNA Game Studio 4 News (GDC 2010) (Greg Duncan)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• TMap for VS2010 Testing Process Template RC published on Codeplex. and VS2010 TMap Testing Template | Initial Work Items #1 (Clemens Reijnen)
• MindBlaster Article Posted (Brian Peek)
• Save a diagram to Image File (Cameron Skinner)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part II: Semantic Changes and +=/-= (Chris Burrows)
• Michael Klucher on XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
• Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in C# (Chris Sells)
• Using Copy-On-Write In Multithreaded Code To Reduce Locking Overhead (Davy Brion)
• FluentPath: a fluent wrapper around System.IO (Bertrand Le Roy)

Web Development

• Deleporter: Cross-Process Code Injection for ASP.NET (Steve Sanderson)
• Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib (article) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Profiling Apps 1 of N: The MVC ActionLink (Hadi Hariri)
• Working with the HTML5 Community (Adrian Bateman)
• ASMX ScriptService mistakes: Installation and configuration (Dave Ward)
• Displaying Multimedia Content In A Floating Window Using FancyBox (Scott Mitchell)
• Using Lucene – External Indexes (Oren Eini)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• VCS Survey (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Animations – Big Teams (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Git/Branch-Per-Feature – Composable Deployments/Releases? (Joey Beninghove)
• Some Day Kanban Will Fail 75% of the Time (Jurgen Appelo)
• The 8th Phase (Karl Seguin)
• Getting real: Book review and Pair Programming: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Review: The Productive Programmer (Grant Palin)
• CQRS Performance Engineering: Read vs Read/Write Models (Derick Bailey)
• State Pattern Misuse (Greg Young)
• The Dissatisfied Designer (Dave Laribee)
• Cut the abstractions by putting test hooks (Oren Eini)
• Work is a Rubber Ball that Bounces Back (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF / Silverlight Quick Tip: INotifyPropertyChanged for indexer and Binding to a Dictionary in WPF and Silverlight and Tracing WPF in Visual Studio 2010 (Pete Brown)
• WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity (Scott Hanselman)
• Small Basic – Now with SilverLight (Vijaye)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 : Focus and Activation (Paul Harrington)
• Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog ( again ) (Mike Taulty)
• A syntax highlighting TextBlock for Silverlight 3 (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Catastrophic Failure Message (Kathleen Dollard)
• Silverlight Challenge: Creating a DependencyProperty (Christopher Bennage)
• Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel (Glenn Block)
• Pixel Perfect Development (Dave Schinkel)
• Simplified INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation with WeakReference Support and Typed Property Access API (Daniel Cazzulino)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Toad + ,NET = Datadude for Oracle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 157: Hadoop with Philip Zeyliger (SE-Radio Team)
• endpoint.tv – Install/Uninstall AppFabric & Referencing Caching Libraries (Ron Jacobs)
• Video of My Last Iteration Planning Meeting with CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• Episode 104- PowerScripting Podcast – MDT 2010 with Keith Garner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Conversation with Gary Bernhardt (Corey Haines)
• Ping 51: TechFest, Ballmer, Xbox, Android & Tina Wood! and What is the Cloud? (Laura Foy)
• Videos of developer sessions at Oredev (including mine on .net debugging) (Tess Ferrandez)
• David Anderson on kanban – radio interview (Christophe Louvion)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport – Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night – SharePoint 2010 Pro Summit Edition (Andrew Connell)
• I love Codeplex! (Arian T. Kulp)
• Silverlight @ #MIX10 – The Next Web Now (Silverlight Team)
• You Can Sponsor Philly Code Camp (Nick Berardi)
• Microsoft at SXSW 2010 (Dominic Carr)
• Windows Live Wave 4 at Mix? Follow our liveblog and find out (Kip Kniskern)
• Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10 (John Papa)
• 2010 Summit – in a word, “more!” (Joseph Mirabella)
• Speaking on “Ignite your coding” (Glenn Block)
• Getting ready for MIX10 (Ed Bott)
• Events This Week – March 8th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Looking for more SharePoint 2010 Info? Check out these Free Webcasts by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• MIX10, Coding4Fun Show, and You! (Brian Peek)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Improve Performance by Reducing IO – Creating Covered Index and SQLAuthority Book Review – Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Pinal Dave)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 4: network optimization) (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Server Locking & Block Scripts (Joe Webb)
• Why abbreviate schema names? (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Readying SharePoint For Teleworking (Will Kelly)
• Accessibility and SharePoint 2010 (Tim McConnell)
• Configure SharePoint Server 2010 for Mobile Device Access (Office Team)
• Training from Microsoft on SharePoint 2010 (Paul Andrew)
• Beyond F5 deployment – my top 5 benefits of Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Kodu (MS Downloads)
• A Trip Down Memory Lane – Presentations over 10 years old (Scott Hanselman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDNUT (O’Reilly Media)
• Remote File Explorer in PowerGUI and PowerShell in the Enterprise (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Office Web Apps to graduate with Windows Live Wave 4: gives clue to final release date? (damaster)
• The incomplete list of impolite WP7 user feature requests (Chris Sells)
• UITableView Example Code (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/9/2010 – Special Edition (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Finds: March 8, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 9, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #555 and The Morning Brew #556 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2010 — #809 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Mar-2010 and Tech Tweets for 9-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• My new home page, refreshed [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!] (David Anson)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.9.2010 (Bob Familiar)

The Geek Shelf

Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET

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Top Links

• Evil Date Parsing lives! Viva Evil Date Parsing!, explained (Michael S. Kaplan)
• In praise of ELMAH (Mike Hadlow)
• Get Started with F# via Higher order IEnumerable extension methods in C# (Rick Minerich)
• Snoop, Now even better, thanks to the Community (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A simpler F# MailboxProcessor (Luca Bolognese)
• The Soundex Algorithm (Richard Carr)
• The 13th of Diduary: Did you know that you can write apps for the Zune HD? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Search for Project Templates in the New Project Dialog — vstipProj0001 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Back to Basics: C# 4 method overloading and dynamic types (Scott Hanselman)
• Odd behavior of C# 4.0 "dynamic" (Oliver Sturm)
• What’s new with Entity Framework in Visual Studio 2010 RC (EF Team)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Optional URL Parameters (Phil Haack)
• Javascript: Passing functions around with call and apply and Javascript: Some stuff I learnt this week (Mark Needham)
• Review of “Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript” (Scott Koon)
• Handling errors with jQuery.load (Simon Ince)
• WCF and JQuery Exception Handling (Chris Love)
• Site Authentication Required, Except Default.aspx (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Integrating JavaScript Unit Tests with Continuous Integration (Francis K. Cheung)
• Nourishing Technology and product communities. (Peter Ritchie)
• Programmer Tip: Thinking About What Works For ‘You’ Or ‘Your’ Team. (Rajiv Popat)
• CQRS and Event Sourcing (Greg Young)
• Git: Remotes, contributions, and the letter N (James Gregory)
• Wanna see how Dovetail builds software (or not, it’s a free country)? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Resolution: Efficient Querying (Oren Eini)
• Composition versus Inheritance (Chad Myers)
• Premack’s Principle Applied To Software (K. Scott Allen)
• Kaikaku or Kaizen (Patrick Kua)

Silverlight / WPF

• Announcing: The WPF Feature Feedback and Voting Site and Announcing: touch.codeplex.com – Multi-touch for Silverlight 3/4 and WPF 3.5sp1 (Pete Brown)
• SG SLUG – What’s new in Silverlight 4? Presentation and Demo (Michael Sync)
• Surface Physics Download (Dave Brown)
• Silverlight for Developers (Part I) (Arian Kulp)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Jon Skeet – World’s Greatest Living Programmer, or just a nice English guy? (Scott Hanselman)
• Creating Visualizations for SQL Server Data Mining (MS Podcasts)
• Azure Miniseries #2: Deployment (Brian Hitney)
• Pluralcast #8 : The Economics of Cloud Computing (David Starr)
• CodeCast Interview: VS 2010 Shell with Weston Hutchins (Weston Hutchins)
• jQuery Podcast 11 – Yehuda Katz (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Reporters’ Roundtable Podcast: HTML 5 vs. Flash (Rafe Needleman)

Community / Events

• Where to Find Developer Events? (Dave Bost)
• FitNesse clinic, March 2nd, London (Gojko Adzic)
• ASP.beer Cancelled (Javier G. Lozano)
• Where I’ll be during the MVP Summit (Simone Chiaretta)

Database

• Is NoSQL Finally Going Mainstream? (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Whats missing in the SQL Certification process? (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – Download SQL Server 2008 Express Datasheet (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Search the Internet with Start Menu Search (Paul Thurrott)
• TED2010, Haiti and the Winter Games – Weekend Reading for February 12th (Dominic Carr)
• 10 ways Microsoft can save Windows Mobile — starting NEXT WEEK! (Joe Wilcox)
• Treat Your Presentation like a Performance to Nail Timing and Delivery (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Where the Multitouch Devices Are, pt. 2 (Larry Larsen)
• Why Google Buzz will fail…and how to fix it (Stephen Forte)
• eReading – Lending Books (Steve Jones)
• Office 2010 general available on June 15 2010 (Steven Bink)
• Microsoft And Partners Are About To Add A Big Fat Social Layer To Outlook (Robin Wauters)
• Mighty Box, an App Launcher for Windows (Sarah Perez)
• Building on PowerShell: Execution Policies (Lee Holmes)
• A Guide To Following The 2010 Winter Olympics Online (Leena Rao)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for February 12, 2010 — #797 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2010 02.08 ~ 02.13 (yuanjian)
• New and Notable 403 (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Massive Search & Replace Among Files Checked-in to TFS (Jason Jarrett)
• Query Editor: Making Queries Available on Menus (Jason Haley)
• What is Windows Identity Framework (WIF)? (Sam Gentile) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• Asp.Net MVC JavaScriptView (Chris Brandsma)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Dynamic Data and Many to Many Entity Framework Entities and MSDN Guidance on ASP.NET MVC vs WebForms and its Impact on my EF + ASP.NET Work (Julie Lerman)
• Fluent-API to add ActionFilters to Controllers – ASP.NET MVC Part 2 (Fredrik Normén)
• ClientIDMode in ASP.NET 4.0 (Rick Strahl)
• Facebook Developer Toolkit – Release: Version 3.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• With Blame Goes Guilt (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Knowing when to persevere and when to change approach and Coding: The agent noun class (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ is Live! (Brad Abrams)
• Several WPF Localization questions (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 129: Hypirony And Ironicracy (Paul Thurrott)
• HDI Video: Generate from Usage in Visual Studio 2010 with Karen Liu (Charlie Calvert)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #73 (Jeff Atwood)

Community / Events

• Subscribe to 62 Silverlight Twitter’ers. (Jesse Liberty)
• .NET Framework Contest & Campaign: Win $12,00, a 12-day Galapagos Islands Adventure, or a new Smart Car! (Sam Gentile)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure are Compiled on First Run – SP taking Longer to Run First Time (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Twitter in your console prompt: using PS Jobs for background work (Joel Bennett)
• Zune HD 4.3 Firmware Brings Support for Apps and 3D Games (Muhammad Ali)
• Herding Cats: Organize your Desktop Icons with Stardock Fences for Windows (Scott Hanselman)
• A good url regular expression? (repost) (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Paint.NET 3.5 (Final) now available (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2009 — #726 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 11.01 ~ 11.08 (yuanjian)
• Interesting Post… 11/1/2009 through 11/8/009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Windows Identity Framework (WIF) Announcements (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading and Writing Text Files in One Command (Richard Carr)
• Extending the ObservableCollection to add navigation methods such as MoveFirst, MoveNext, MoveLast, and MovePrevious. (Brian Lagunas)
• DAL: Using a Data Provider Factory and Count Lines Of Code (Deborah Kurata)
• Must Everything Be Virtual With NHibernate, Part III (Davy Brion)
• Tired of entering your login info every time you open a CodePlex hosted Solution in Visual Studio? and A Feed You Should Read #5 – Team System Rocks (Greg Duncan)
• What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part III – Service-Discovery Feature (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Understanding T4: Preprocessed Text Templates (Oleg Sych) – Link of the Day
• Pondering Axum + F# (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery (Dave M. Bush)
• Html Encoding Code Blocks With ASP.NET 4 (Phil Haack)
• MVC Turbine (Javier G. Lozano)
• Reimagining www.asp.net, Part Four: The Toolbox Experience (John Sheehan)
• Wine.com Uncorks Its API (Leena Rao)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer – Part 1 of 4 (Sara Chipps)
• Convert a Delimited String to a Generic List (Srinath MS)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Daily TDD Kata – now I’m doing what Jack does (Andrew Woodward)
• Become A Better Developer By Indexing Your Brain (Alan Skorkin)
• Distributed Source Control and Even tests has got to justify themselves (Oren Eini)
• Duct Tape Programming (Kirk Knoernschild)
• What Kind Of Developer Are You? (Davy Brion)
• Personal Kaizen: 15 Tips for your continuous improvement (Garr Reynolds)
• Debunking the duct tape programmer (Jeffrey Palermo)
• TDD: It makes you question what you’re doing and The Duct Tape Programmer: Some thoughts and Learning from others/Learning yourself (Mark Needham)
• Change is the only constant… (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Mockups for FogBugz, now shipping! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 17. (Rajiv Popat)
• UppercuT – Elegant Solution to Strong Naming (Rob Reynolds)
• Victory In Software Development (K. Scott Allen)

Silverlight / WPF

• Saving Files from Silverlight (using Caliburn) (Christopher Bennage)
• Blend Behaviors (David Hill)
• Using RelayCommands in Silverlight and WPF and MVVM Light Toolkit Messenger V2 beta (Laurent Bugnion)
• ColorPicker Control for WPF/Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 124: Never Too Much Cilantro (Paul Thurrott)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 38: The Present and Future of Workflow Foundation with Brian Noyes – Part 2 (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: WebsiteSpark, Win7 BootCamp, useful PowerShell scripts (Dan Fernandez)
• Ping 31: Ars Technica, Website Spark, Embedded Spark, Cougars (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Comparing myself to Uncle Bob Martin (Andrew Woodward)
• PDC09 $300 discount ends October 13 (Devon Musgrave)
• 7 Years As A Professional Software Developer (Davy Brion)

Database

• Keep your DBA guard up at all times (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – FILESTREAM Storage in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• Report Builder 2.0 and Stored Procedures (William Vaughn)
• SQL Server MVP Deep Dives a book written by SQL Server MVPs supporting a good cause (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• If you are using SharePoint 2007 + Windows 7 and getting SLOW transfer rates within document libraries… (Shane Perran)

Miscellaneous

• 11 Powerful Twitter Tips (Garin Kilpatrick)
• Why I think Programmer is a Dirty Word (Chris Woodruff)
• git instaweb (Jason Meridth)
• Writing WMI providers FAQ series – 1 – If a provider doesn’t support query capabilities, how is the query handled by WMI? (Kapil Mathur)
• XNA on the Zune HD (Joel Ivory Johnson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 26, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #91 – “Indian Summer” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Double Shot #548 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 374 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 25th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Weekly Links #72 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 112 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Simulating a Swarm Algorithm in C# (Mike Gold)
• Gotchas: Adding Attributes to Properties on Interfaces in F# (Ade Miller)
• XNA Game Studio 3.1 Zune Extensions Released – Get your Zune HD Dev On (Greg Duncan)
• XNA Game Studio 3.1 Zune Extensions (XNA Team)
• Using the Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard with Multiple Versions of OpenAccess (Stephen Forte)
• F# under the covers III (Steve Gilham)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (Joe Stagner)
• Generically Constraining F# – Part I (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 4 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Reflection with dynamic (Kirill Osenkov)
• PSA: NHibernate Session.Save() do you know what it returns? (Derik Whittaker)
• Using LINQ to query object hierarchies (Gunnar Peipman)
• What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part- II – Developing Routing Service (Mahesh Sabnis)

Web Development

• Accessing Images On Flickr From An ASP.NET Website Using The Flickr.Net Library (Scott Mitchell)
• Take Two: A jQuery WCF/ASMX ServiceProxy Client (Rick Strahl)
• Announcing the Microsoft AJAX CDN (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Supporting Web Standards Development with SuperPreview (Steve Guttman)
• Making JavaScript APIs Easier to Use (John Teague)
• There’s a Javascript Magazine, and its really good! (Kris Gray)
• Output DOCTYPE In XSLT (Deepak Kapoor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Club: SOLID Principles (Uncle Bob Martin) (Mark Needham)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 8. (Rajiv Popat)
• The Downside of Transparency (Chris Sells)

Silverlight / WPF

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Martin Woodward on Team System (Carl Franklin)
• RADAR: Windows Automatic Memory Leak Detection (Charles Torre)
• Radio TFS 26: Random Beta 1 Stuff (Martin Woodward)

Community / Events

• Critical Path Training to give away $15,000+ of free SharePoint 2010 training and Amazon Kindles at the SharePoint Conference! (Andrew Connell)
• Administering setup in Visual Studio 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• PDC09 – See you there! (Greg Duncan)
• More on Codeplex.org (Scott Koon)
• Top 10 reasons for coming to SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Last day to enter the raffle for a ticket to Roy Osherove’s TDD workshop (Sebastien Lambla)

Database

• The Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Introduction (Wesley Brown)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight CTP2 (Pinal Dave)
• Blobs and Filestreams (Andy Warren)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Tip: Providers (James Kovacs)
• The Windows 7 upgrade survival guide (Ed Bott)
• Zune HD gaming and app downloads confirmed: Twitter, Facebook, and 3D games on the way (updated) (Thomas Ricker)
• Windows PowerShell : Variables, Types, and Operators (Phil Pennington)
• Use the tools Microsoft didn’t use to create Zune HD apps (Paul Thurrott)
• Announcing Pocket Tabs for iPhone (Ben Scheirman)
• Google Gets Real-time Search (Darrell Etherington)
• What do YOU want to see in Windows 8? (Stephen Chapman)
• IE8 Download Notification in Windows 7 (Keith Elder)
• Windows 7 For Architects & Developers – Updates (Jeff Barnes)
• Challenge: NH Prof Exporting Reports (Oren Eini)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Sep 15, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: September 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #434 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 15, 2009 — #692 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 15th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Double Shot #541 (Mike Gunderloy)
• 9 Articles from Joel On software for Tech Leads (Roy Osherove)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Trying MonoDevelop On OS X (Davy Brion)
• monoTouch .net development kit now available for iPhone (Paul O’Brien)
• Lucene.net: Your First Application (Simone Chiaretta)
• Gain more control over your ATOMPub feeds with the Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• .NET Performance: Tales from the Field (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Pre-Deployment Scripts (Gert Drapers)
• Append Only Models with NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• AutoMapper 1.0 RC1 released (Jimmy Bogard)
• Using LINQ to query object hierarchies (Gunnar Peipman)
• System.IO Improvements in the .NET 4.0 Framework (Michael Ceranski)
• Writing an SVN PreCommit Hook in .NET that integrates with Jira (Russell Ball)
• What’s the difference between a partial method and a partial class? (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
• Have VS 2008 SP1 and a Data Dude/WiX/SilverLight Project and the right-click Create Unit Tests wizard is “borked?” There’s a hotfix for that… (Greg Duncan)
• Hacking LINQ Expressions: Select With Index (Keith Dahlby)

Web Development

• Doloto: Accelerating Web 2.0 Applications (Rob Knies)
• What Language Are You Speaking? There’s an API for That (Adam DuVander)
• S#arp Architecture has Moved to GitHub (this ain’t yo momma’s SCM) (Billy McCafferty)
• Auto-Start ASP.NET Applications (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• JQuery Does Not Like QuirksMode (John Teague)
• ASP.NET MVC in Action arrived at my doorstep today (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Engineering the Windows Live / MySpace integration and Leveraging Activity Streams (Rob Dolin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Document Your Air, Food, and Water and How to say NO by saying YES (Roy Osherove)
• Experience-Driven Development (J.D. Meier)
• Your Own Personal Development Plan (Jeremiah Peschka)

Silverlight / WPF

• Reuxables Themes for Silverlight 3.0 (Dax Pandhi)
• Bing Visual Search powered by Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight tip – Dynamic TextBlock (Corey Schuman)
• Is Silverlight the new WebForms? (Dave Ward)
• How to set WPF ScrollViewer VerticalOffset and Horizontal offset (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Sketchflow Screens (CodeFest)
• ARCast.TV – Caleb Jenkins On Dependency Injection (Bob Familiar)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #140: Using Reflection to Invoke members (Derik Whittaker)
• Office Casual – The basics of Visio (Tina)
• Tool Shed Tooltip #25 – Live Writer … more than a blogging tool (Russell Fustino)
• My CodePlex Jump from tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere – The Full Video (Sara Ford)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #5- ATOMPub Property Selector (Stephen Forte)
• What is Microsoft’s Visual Basic 6 Support Strategy? (Beth Massi)
• Ping 29: Silverlight & Movies, Company meeting, Tweets, Win7, Viral Vids (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Silverlight Firestarter this Thursday – Don’t Forget!! (Dave Campbell)
• Community For MVC – Virtual Meeting – Wednesday 9/16/2009 12:00 – 1:00 PM CST ; T4MVC presented by David Ebbo (Eric Hexter)
• Events this Week – September 14th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Codeplex.org: A confusing name for a confusing mission (Scott Koon)
• Free Webcast: 8 Steps to Microsoft Project Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• What developer tweeps are using for their app dev (Pete Brown)

Database

• The Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Introduction (Wesley Brown)
• Top 10 reasons for coming to SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Blobs and Filestreams (Andy Warren)
• Cryptography in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• 6 ways to import data into SQL Server (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• Updated Version of SharePoint List Viewer Utility (Eric Shupps)

Miscellaneous

• WordPress 2.9 to get a built-in image editor (Brad Linder)
• PowerShell equivalent of NET HELPMSG (Lee Holmes)
• Zune HD gaming and app downloads confirmed: Twitter, Facebook, and 3D games on the way (updated) (Thomas Ricker)
• Google Fast Flip Gives a Print Look and Feel to Google News (Adam Pash)
• The Windows 7 upgrade survival guide (Ed Bott)
• ‘Twas the night before Zune HD… (Paul Thurrott)
• RTM’d today: Windows 7 Resource Kit (Devon Musgrave)
• On translating VBScript to Windows PowerShell (Ed Wilson)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #433 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 14, 2009 — #691 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (9/14/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Double Shot #540 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 14th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating High Quality Images with C# and GDI (Tom Hearn)
• LINQ to SQL cheat sheet (Damien Guard)
• Painting on the DataGridView and Converting Month Abbreviations to Month Numbers (Deborah Kurata)
• Nhibernate Unit of Work & multiple requests (Oren Eini)
• Four switch oddities (Eric Lippert)
• Linq to Mocks is finally born (Daniel Cazzulino) – Link of the Day
• Testing with NHibernate and SQLite (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.3 for .NET 2.0 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Six things that will happen when you uninstall your MSDN documentation (Roy Osherove)

Web Development

• Twitter Announces Retweet API (Andres Ferrate)
• A Simple ScriptManager for ASP.NET MVC (Chris Pietschmann)
• 3 New APIs for Gamers: World of Warcraft in 3D, LEGO and GamePro (John Musser)
• What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 (Harish Ranganathan)
• JavaScript: Not for the faint at heart? (Scott Koon)
• PHP Linux Windows ASP.NET Performance – Redux ! (Joe Stagner)
• Fun With Wacky JavaScript Type Comparison (Nick Berardi)
• Windows Azure Reference Application released to MSDN Code Gallery (Lamont Harrington)
• All Programming Is Web Programming (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Will Microsoft support distributed teams and cloud deployments? (Andy Singleton)
• To Test The Untestable Bug. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• “Hero Mode Refactoring” AKA Enemy Of Brown Field Development (Ryan Svihla)
• Refactoring Day 13 : Extract Method Object (Sean Chambers)
• DDD is a dense book (Greg Young)
• Modularity by Example (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 4. (Rajiv Popat)
• Singletons Are Evil Part 2 (Scott Densmore)
• TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Faster! (Jamie Cansdale)

Silverlight / WPF

• Triggers in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• Linq For Silverlight Developers (Jesse Liberty)
• More Silverlight application themes and fixes (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #135: Exploring StructureMap: Learning how to setup profiles (Derik Whittaker)
• SharePoint MVP Debuts on The Water Cooler Show (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Easing in Silverlight Animations (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Behind the Scenes: Office Labs (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Virtual Architect Council Events in August (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight 3 FireStarter Will Be Streamed Online (Frank La Vigne)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET 8/26/2009 – jQuery UI with Richard Worth (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Session Sneak Peek for the SharePoint Conference 2009 (SharePoint Team)
• Friending and Reputation (Chris Brogan)

Database

• Recover a database without the ldf file (Ted Krueger)
• Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 1 (Martin Bell)

PowerShell

• Growl for Windows – From PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Exchange 2010 buzz grows louder (Mary-Jo Foley)
• How to "Send To" DZone from Google Reader (Me)
• Convert Google Reader Items to PDFs (Kevin Purdy)
• Microsoft NERD gets a logo (Steve Clayton)
• Powershell 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Release Candidate (Osama Sajid)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for August 13, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #412 (Chris Alcock)
• Links (8/13/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• New and Notable 355 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 13th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating an MD5 String Extension method in C# (Tom Hearn)
• My latest whitepaper on WCF 4.0 (Aaron Skonnard)
• LINQ to SQL cheat sheet (Damien Guard)
• Create your own Code Analysis rule set using Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
• Invoking Python Functions from C# (Without Dynamic) (Harry Pierson)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Tabbed Thumbnails and Previews in Native Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Nhibernate Unit of Work & multiple reuqests Set Status / Close (Oren Eini)

Web Development

• Introducing Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC (Kazi Manzur Rashid)
• A simple map function for plain JavaScript arrays (Scott Koon)
• Six Microsoft web development tools you might not be aware of (Keith)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Container Configuration (Ariel Raunstien)
• Big Visible Charts,Continuous Integration and Distributed Teams (Ade Miller)
• Facilitation Antipattern: Chicken Little and Facilitation Antipattern: Helpless (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Unused Constructor Dependencies (Eric Anderson)
• Command Query Separation? (Greg Young)
• Refactoring Day 12 : Break Dependencies (Sean Chambers)
• NCover v3.2 Released! (Stephen Ward)
• Leading Agile… the Book? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XIII: Mix in this, mix in that (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• A Response to 5 Right Reasons to Apply Kanban (Derick Bailey) – Link of the Day
• What I’m up to: P&P guidance for federated identity (Keith Brown)
• Challenging projects and the five stages of grief (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• New networking stack in Silverlight 3 (Cheryl Simmons)
• An out-of-browser install pattern for Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3 and RIA Services – Part I (Malcolm Sheridan)
• From DB to DataGrid – So Many Choices! (Jesse Liberty)
• Cinch (My MVVM framework) Part 6 is out (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Video

• .NET Rocks! – Steve Evans on IT for Developers (Carl Franklin)
• 10-4 Episode 30: Database Schema Extensibility (Brian Keller)
• Code Cast 29 – Open Source at Microsoft (David Starr)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #65 (Jeff Atwood)
• Water Cooler Interview with Shane Young (Kirk Evans)
• SharePoint Pod Show – SharePoint and Code Access Security-Episode 28 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Netcast 19 – Drunk Monkeys (Todd O. Klindt)

Community / Events

• A Silverlight 3 FireStarter event narrative (Adam Kinney)
• Upcoming Silverlight events (Tim Heuer)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP Open to All (Bruce Kyle)
• SQL SERVER – Reason for SQL Server Agent Starting Before SQL Server Engine Service (Pinal Dave)
• Mobile DB Performance Testing (Chris Brandsma)
• A Case of Shifting Identity (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Spreading some SharePoint Love to EditorPart (Bil Simser)
• Visual Studio T4 template for SharePoint Solution (DDF) (Waldek Mastykarz)

Miscellaneous

• Paint.NET v3.5 Enhanced for Windows 7 with DirectWrite (Blake Handler)
• New Pluralsight On-Demand! Feature: Downloadable Slides (Aaron Skonnard)
• Why Open Source Rules And Commercial Drools (Alan Skorkin)
• I scream, you scream, we all scream for iGoogle social! (Marissa Mayer)
• Windows 7 RTM Training Kit Updates (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The New Dashboard, PAX 2009, and Xbox LIVE Indie Games! (Kathleen Sanders)
• IE6 no more (Simone Chiaretta)
• My Opinion of Windows 7 Thus Far (Stephen Chapman)
• ScaleOut Unveils Management Pack for Parallel Backup (Justin Sargent)
• Enhancements to Remote Presentations in Zoho Show (Raju Vegesna)
• Get-SystemUptime and Working with the WMI Date Format (James Brundage)
• Wondering what skills are needed in the market? (Kim Spilker)
• Windows 7 Ferrari prototype theme available for download (Lee Mathews)
• Greg Shields on Microsoft’s new certifications (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #411 (Chris Alcock)
• CloudNews for 12th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Non-Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Precedence vs order, redux (Eric Lippert)
• RunAs in C# (Eugene Rosenfeld)
• Why do I see ExecutionEngineException, StackOverflowException and OutOfMemoryException on the heap when debugging .net applications? (Tess Ferrandez)
• Building a Hybrid C# / IronPython App Without Dynamic Type and Compiling Python Packages into Assemblies (Harry Pierson)
• EF4 – New Properties for Entity Properties? (Julie Lerman)
• Rough Notes on Unity (Mike Taulty)

Web Development

• August JSMag now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Siesta: Painless REST via ASP.NET MVC (Nate Kohari) – Link of the Day
• See how I used Firebug to learn jQuery (Dave Ward)
• Part 3: MS Azure and Green Computing (Peter Koen)
• Engineering POV: IE6 (Dean Hachamovitch)
• How to create a DropDownList with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
• 5 Different Ways of Showing and Hiding Content of an ASP.NET Panel using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Louis DeJardin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Field Guide to Team Distribution (Ade Miller)
• Refactoring for Agility (Brad Appleton)
• Web Work 101: Communication Methods (Celine Roque)
• Choose The Right Goals (Davy Brion)
• Get a Rails-Stylee Interactive Shell For Your NHibernate Backed Domain Model (Tobin Harris)
• Dreyfus Model: More thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Planning Poker – An Agile Estimation Tool (Michael Ceranski)
• The benefits of XCopy deployment (Patrick Smacchia)
• Refactoring Day 10 : Extract Method (Sean Chambers)
• UI Patterns Refactored – Divide and Conquer (Mendelt Siebenga)
• DDDD: Distributing A Single Bounded Context (Jonathan Oliver)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Windows Presentation Foundation in Office Clients (Beth Massi)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 21: Hierarchical Data (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight 3 “toast” notifications (Tim Heuer)
• WPF Wonders: 3D Drawing with Textures, Transformations, and Realism (Rod Stephens)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Vishwas Lele on Real-World Azure (Carl Franklin)
• Inside Windows 7: Reliability, Performance and PerfTrack (Charles Torre)
• ThirstyDeveloper Podcast #71 – Talking Silverlight with Tim Heuer (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Daryl Zuniga and Mike Barnett – Xml Documentation from Code Contracts for .Net (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Countdown to PDC09: Discounts, Workshops, and Tweets (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 24: Facebook, IPhone, Zune, SkyFinder (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Presenting Expression for Developers on a European ReMix Tour (Adam Kinney)
• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow of Silverlight Goodness Comes to DC (and a bunch of other places) (Frank La Vigne)
• Events this Week – August 10th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MICROSOFT ARCHITECT COUNCIL | Innovation is the Name of the Game (Zhiming Xue)
• MVP Leads Love Twitter! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

• Using Multi-Value Parameters in SQL Server Reporting Services (Tom Hearn)
• Microsoft delivers test versions of SQL Server 2008 R2 (Mary-Jo Foley)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online CTP August 2009 (MS Downloads)
• Developer Tip Get column names for a SQL query (Jonathan Cogley)
• SQL2008 R2 – Whats New – Unicode Compression (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview (CTP) Announced (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Discussion – Effect of Missing Identity on System – Real World Scenario (Pinal Dave)
• A PG blog Dedicated to SSRS Integration with SharePoint (Reza Alirezaei)
• Why Use Named Pipes? (K. Brian Kelley)
• Column order doesn’t matter… generally, but – IT DEPENDS! (Kimberly Tripp)

Miscellaneous

• Get Some Green For Your Green-Themed Site (Adam DuVander)
• Test Google’s New Search Infrastructure (Alex Chitu)
• The Lounge’s James Avery on Bootstrapping Your Own Company (Bobby Johnson)
• VMWare Acquires SpringSource (Cameron Christoffers)
• Easy Transfer makes the Windows 7 migration easier (Debra Shinder)
• Coming Soon: Trilogy Stickers (Jeff Atwood)
• Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (Updated) (Jason Kincaid)
• Zune HD hits FCC in prolific photo shoot, 16GB and 32GB capacities (Ross Miller)
• Recession Proof Your Programming Skills (Listmania-ed) (Nick Berardi)
• Here I go again! Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition (for EF4) (Julie Lerman)
• Xbox 360 System Update now available (Larry Hyrb)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets Consolidated! Azure, Win7 and TFS, OH MY! (Angela Binkowski)
• LINKBLOG for August 10, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: August 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #409 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 353 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 10th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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