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Top Links

• Maybe – The Uh, Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (Jordan Terrell)
• Attracting Developers to Your API (Alex Willen)
• Paint.NET 4.0 build 4158 screenshot (Rick Brewster)
• A few tips for working with XAML inside of Visual Studio 2010. (Michael Crump)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ ToLookup Operator (Richard Carr)
• DXCore Services – Navigation (Alex Skorkin)
• Azure Service Package Inefficiency (Bug) – Content Size Added Twice (Bart Czernicki)
• Robustness with RabbitMQ in .NET (Peter Ritchie)
• An Obsessive Compulsive Guide To Source Code Formatting (Phil Haack)

 

Web Development

• Filter and Display Data with ASP.NET Web Pages using Microsoft WebMatrix (Christian Nagel)
• Contact Form Revisited with ASP.NET MVC 3, jQuery Validator, & the jQuery Form Plugin (Deran Schilling)
• Announcing HtmlTags 1.0 (Joshua Flanagan)
• Raising Server side event from JavaScript in ASP.NET (Tweaking the existing bits) (Abhijit Jana)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• When to Cease Being an Agile Coach? (Todd Charron)
• Coded UI Test (CUIT) – Convert Manual Test Case to Code using Visual Studio 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Humble Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Prerequisites for Continuous Deployment (Dan Ackerson)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Searching your contacts (Rudi Grobler)
• A Simple WP7 JumpList in WPF (Ratish Philip)
• Using IIS Express to Secure Silverlight and WCF Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Get an ApplicationBarIconButton by name (Arian Kulp)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 157: Charles Stacy Harris III on the Micro Framework (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 399: We discuss L.A. Noire, wrapping up the Gears Beta and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 209: Your Call Is Important To Us (Paul Thurrott)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 56 – Riak with OJ Reeves (Richard Banks)
• Google I/O 2011 Session Videos Available (David Hayden)

 

Community / Events

• Join us at WebVisions Conference Next Week (Doris Chen)
• Window Phone Gaming Bootcamp Online–Wednesday, June 1, 2011 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Wild Rumor Department: Zune to become Xbox Live, more, announcement coming May 24th? (Kip Kniskern)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Download PowerPivot Security Architecture Diagram and SQL SERVER – Running SSIS Package in Scheduled Job (Pinal Dave)
• How to get difference between two dates – TSQL (Vishal)
• Let’s Get Visual – The Art of Report Design (Paul Turley)

 

Miscellaneous

• Livescribe Connects its Digital Pen with Google Docs, Evernote (Ina Fried)
• Own Your Powershell Profile (Paul Cowan)
• Windows Phone 7 App Pick: Paul Thurrott Pocket Tech (Paul Thurrott)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 070 for 5/23/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 22 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #857 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 15-May-2011 to 21-May-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

The Geek Shelf

Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl

 

 

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Top Links

• ReSharper 5.1.2 Release Candidate (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Using Sterling in Windows Phone 7 Applications (Jeremy Likness)
• Taking a screenshot from within a Silverlight #WP7 application (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Phone Marketplace reaches 5,000 apps (Kip Kniskern)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• What’s up with repositories? Basics. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• “Azure Blob Studio 2011” A standalone utility and/or Visual Studio 2010 extension for Azure blob management (with VB source too) and “Team for Word” hooks Word to Team Foundation Server for free (source available too, GPLv2) (Greg Duncan)
• DXCore plug-in Option Pages overview (Alex Skorkin)
• Server Explorer: Data Connections (Zain Naboulsi)
• Azure@home Part 13: Remote Desktop Configuration (Jim O’Neil)
• Converting Numbers to Words (Jonathan Wood)

 

Web Development

• Using COM Objects from ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• HTML5 Labs Launched and WebSocket Update (James Vastbinder)
• Convert ASP.NET DropDownList into Multi Select ListBox using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Reuse your closures with functors (Giorgio Sironi)
• Ext JS In Action (Ed Rought)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum Teams and a ScrumMaster’s Patience and [Agile Guide] – Story Mapping for Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Delegated Setup (Giorgio Sironi)
• Use Downtime Projects to Recharge, Try New Work Habits (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Getting the Customer Involved (Vikas Hazrati)
• How To: Fake an Abstract Class with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• My, How the Times Are a Changin’ (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Best Practices in Enterprise and Applications Architecture (Mike Walker)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• My “What’s new in Silverlight 4 demo” app (Andrej Tozon)
• WPF Tutorial (Abhishek Sur)
• Consistency from WPF and GDI+ in creating images from stream (Gian Maria Ricci)
• WPF Twitter client with Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern step by step (Kirill Lykov)
• Making a generic UpdateSourceTrigger for PropertyChanged in Silverlight (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight 4 Unleashed (Michael Crump)
• An RSS Reader For All Screens – Sharing your View Model and Code between Windows Phone 7, Silverlight, WPF, Surface (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Project templates for F# games on Windows Phone 7 using XNA (Joh)
• Silverlight: Reading from a File Contained in your XAP (Mike Snow)
• What I Learned In WP7 – #Issue 11 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Updated SMF Thumbnail Scrubbing Sample Code (Michael S. Scherotter)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #72: Starting to Look Like a Real Application (James Shore)
• Fantastic video on Software Engineering (Kris Gray)
• Bytes by MSDN: Dr. Ivan Sanabria and Tim Huckaby – Migrating VB6 apps to C# or .NET (MS Podcasts)

 

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Meet Up – Tempe, AZ (Brian Seitz)

 

Database

• SSIS Multiple File Export (Jason Brimhall)
• SSMS Tools Pack 1.9.4 is out! Now with SQL Server 2011 (Denali) CTP1 support. (Mladen Prajdić)
• Filtered Index Vs. Indexed Views in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Running older compatibility levels in newer versions and Policy-Based Management for SQL Agent History (Ted Krueger)
• SSAS Understanding Multiple Security Roles (Devin Knight)
• Can You Dig It? – StmtCursor and StmtReceive Elements (Jason Strate)
• T-SQL: CASE Statement and RTFM365, Week 3 (Jen McCown)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Secure Store Service and Oracle (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• Lifehacker Pack for Windows Phone 7: Our List of the Best WP7 Apps (Kevin Purdy)
• Baking Social Into the Experience (Steve Clayton)
• Application to install on a new development machine–revisited (Dror Helper)
• Seasons gifts from the MonoTouch (iPhone) treasure chest. Background (GPS) tasks and UIControl (Peter van Ooijen)
• Reviewing a Decade of Digital Life – The size and the direction of personal media (Scott Hanselman)
• Hurry Up Microsoft, It’s Make or Break Time For The Zune (Steven Hodson)
• 4 Reasons Why Virtual Router is Superior to Connectify (Chris Pietschmann)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 29 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #759 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/29/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for December 27, 2010 — #1016 and SilverlightShow for 20-26 Dec 2010 and Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2010 — #1017 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Silverlight 4 Unleashed by Laurent Bugnion

 

 

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Top Links

• Our app matches what Forbes thinks Windows Phone 7 needs, so why aren’t we getting any love for our App? (Don Burnett)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #14: Tombstoning (Multi-tasking) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• MonoTouch & WindowsPhone7: indexed lists (Craig Dunn)
• Cool site of the day: extensionmethod.net (John V. Petersen)
• Use a Single Version File For All Projects in a Solution (Mike Hadlow)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Gotchas: Assembly Level Attributes in F# (Ade Miller)
• TFS vs. Subversion (Jaroslaw Dobrzanski)
• Using C#’s implicit type conversions from other .NET languages (Luis Diego Fallas)
• NHibernate Schema Export in Suteki Shop (Mike Hadlow)
• Paint Application in Visual F# (Rey Dacoco)
• The Watch Window: Hexadecimal Display (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Live SDK and HealthVault SDK (MS Downloads)
• And for today’s cheatsheet, another String Format sheet for ya… (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Paging with XPO in ASP.NET (Oliver Sturm)
• Registration Form Gets Some Lovin’ for Sueetie 2.0 (Dave Burke)
• Book Review: Introducing HTML5 (Pete LePage)
• Why HTML5 Web Apps Are Going to Rock Your World (Simon Mackie)
• Sandboxed Natives: Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too (John David Dalton)
• KiGG 3.0 Released (Muhammad Mosa)
• IE9 Customisation (Dave)
• “Stranger Danger” – Introducing SmartScreen® Application Reputation (Ryan Colvin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile certification and quantification is a myth (Gojko Adzic)
• How To Adopt Getting Results the Agile Way (J.D. Meier)
• From ‘Survive to Thrive’ with Agile (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Why are *automated tests* so important? (Peter Gfader)
• The User Is The Anonymous Web Designer (Alexander Dawson)
• You don’t have to always stare at a screen (Giorgio Sironi)
• Gossip Game Requirements (Jared Richardson)
• A Really Bad Idea — Adding Clutter to A Language (Stephen Lott)
• Agile: Constraints (Mark Needham)
• Agile to Lean to Insane Software Development (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Zombie (Team Member) Motivation Techniques (Derek Huether)
• Why not do it right the first time? (Dror Helper)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Making Text Clickable in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 (Brendan Enrick)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 11- Group Membership (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Reactive Extensions #3: Windows Phone 7 (Andrej Tozon)
• WP7 Code: Geofencing with the GeoLocation API and Rx (Dragos Manolescu)
• Windows Phone: Taking screenshots for marketplace submissions and Programmatically supporting Windows Phone themes with differing colors for text (Avi Pilosof)
• Windows Phone Radio Episode 3 (Brian Seitz)
• Who’s building the official Messenger app for WP7? (Not Microsoft!) (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone 7 Apps – Currency Converter (Mike Ormond)
• The BLINK tag is back, and it runs on WP7 now (#wp7dev) (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Phone App Challenge #1: The Pomodoro Timer (Joey deVilla)
• Silverlight 4.0 – Secure Communication to WCF service using Custom User Name and Password Validator (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Anti-aliased Lines And Optimizing Code for Windows Phone 7–First Look (Nokola)
• Turtle Graphics and L-systems with F# and WPF (Scott Philip Brown)
• Architecting WP7 – Part 3 of 10: Enough Architecture (or Where is my VM) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Creating a Simple Action (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 6 of n (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 82: Various security topics (Michael Kimsal)
• Web Camps TV #9 – Script Junkie, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and "the dance" (James Senior)
• Robert Martin interview (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Let’s Play TDD #35: Right on Form (James Shore)

 

Community / Events

• Silverlight Firestarter- Watch it Live (John Papa)
• TODAY: Let’s MEF! SilverlightShow Webinar with Gill Cleeren (Silverlight Show)
• SQL SERVER – 1500 Posts – A MileStone – Origin of Blog Name Revealed (Pinal Dave)
• MVP Birds of a Feather Lunch at PASS Summit 2010 (Andy Warren)
• YOU ARE INVITED!! PDC Viewing Party – October 28 2010 – Reston and DC (Joel Reyes)
• Philly Code Camp Autumn 2010: That’s a Wrap! (Steve Bohlen)
• Calling Boise Developers (David Starr)
• Frank’s World Turns 15 Years Old Today (Frank La Vigne)
• A new beginning (Laurent Bugnion)

 

Database

• RavenDB – Live projections, or how to do joins in a non relational database (Oren Eini)
• List Indexes For Database using TSQL (Brian K. McDonald)
• Return of Index Analysis Part 3 and Finding Missing Values from an Array (Jason Strate)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Usage Best Practices (MS Downloads)
• Asynchronously Checking if a Command is Available in the SharePoint Ribbon (Andrew Connell)
• Warning to SharePoint Administrators: Don’t Ignore the Red Health Bar (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Configuring Beyond Compare On Windows With Cygwin (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Global hooks getting lost on Windows 7 (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• New Signals in Search: The Bing Social Layer (Bing Team)
• TweeVo v1.1 Released! (Brian Peek)
• Presentation:Writing a Technical Book (Eric Merritt, Martin Logan & Richard Carlsson)
• iPad And IT Admins: VMware Jumps Into iPad Mania (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Are you a good fit for Microsoft? Show us (Part III of III) (Sandeep Sood)
• Search goes social (Steve Clayton)
• Zune software is NOT coming to the Mac–A sync software will be (Tauqeer)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Oct-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #707 (Chris Alcock)

 

The Geek Shelf

Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold