• 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

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

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

Top Links

• Using RabbitMQ with C# and .NET (Justin Etheredge)
• Yet another simplification of Prism’s EventAggregator syntax and Yet another simplification of Prism’s EventAggregator syntax part II–mocking extension methods (Glenn Block)
• Tips & Tricks: Styling Caret of a Silverlight TextBox Control (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 7 portal goes live (Michael Gillett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Executing WMI Queries (Richard Carr)
• Disabling Linq (Oren Eini)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Built-in support for charts and ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Caching charts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Applied Mathematics in C# via the Extreme Numerical Libraries for .NET (logicchild)
• The Watch Window: Visualizers (Zain Naboulsi)
• #NhDay – A post-mortem debugging session (Rob Ashton)
• Custom Workflow activity for business failure evaluation–Part 1 (Rory Primrose)
• MEF Contrib is live! (Davide Zordan)
• Playing with Netduino (Joaquin Jares)
• LINQPad v4.27 beta (Joe Albahari)

Web Development

• Using HTML5 to Let the Data Tell the Story (Andrew Trice)
• HTML5 and CSS3 Support in Komodo IDE 6 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Chart control – XML file Binding (Suprotim Agarwal)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: PHP in a Nutshell – $9.99 – You Save 58%. Use code DDPNS (O’Reilly Media)
• 7 Rules of Thumb When You Build an API (Simon Hamp)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Feature Tip: When You Are Skipping Features Choose Wisely. (Rajiv Popat)
• Why You Don’t Need Dependency Injection In Ruby (Davy Brion)
• How-To: Change Behavior of Instance Methods with Isolator++ and How-To: Asserting A Method Was Called With Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Aspect Oriented Programming with Action<> (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 4G support confirmed (Long Zheng)
• wpf loading splash screen (Amr Azab)
• Trials and Tribulations (Michael Klucher)
• Another WP7 Navigation Approach with MVVM (Geoff Hudik)
• Back-Chaining in WP7 (James Ashley)
• Testing on device (CryoDefense Team) – CryoDefense game for WP7 FTW!
• How Is Blend Extensible? (Victor Gaudioso)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #10: InputScope & TextBoxes and 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #11: Accelerometer (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Omnia 7 From Samsung Has WP7 Trapped In Its 4-Inch Super AMOLED Screen [Windows Phone 7] (Kat Hannaford)
• WPF Jigsaw Puzzle (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• Windows Phone 7 ads reveal Samsung Focus for AT&T, November 8th date and shiny new website (Sean Hollister)
• Using The Silverlight Data Pager Control With View Model / MVVM (Openlight Group)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 215 – 10.09.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 30 – The Sharepoint Episode (Richard Banks)
• .NET Gadgeteer (Clint Rutkas)
• Windows Phone Videos Posted at Microsoft Showcase Site and More Windows Phone 7 Videos Posted Online (Richard Hay)
• Let’s Play TDD #33: Value Objects Pay Off (James Shore)
• Windows Weekly 177: Find Free Food (Paul Thurrott)
• Dream.in.Code Podcast Episode #6 – Glenn Block (Dennis Delimarsky)

Community / Events

• MSDN Simulcast Event: Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch: Jump-Start Your Mobile Development (Zhiming Xue)

Database

• Enabling SQL Server Management Pack Alerts with System Center Operations Manager 2007 – Enabling the Blocking Sessions Rule (Bill Ramo)
• SQL SERVER – Encrypted Stored Procedure and Activity Monitor (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Always Create Your Own Group Templates with SharePoint Ribbon Customizations (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Zune 4.7 (MS Downloads)
• MindManager 9: Taking Work from Concept to Completion (Chance Brown)
• Please go see “Waiting for Superman.” Here’s Why: (Mark Suster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 10, 2010 — #964 and Silverlight Cream for October 10, 2010 – 2 — #965 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 9, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 045 for 10/11/2010 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #704 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #132 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 10 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA by Nick Randolph

Top Links

• Visual Basic Comes to Windows Phone 7 (Brandon Watson)
• BizTalk 2010 RTM’d (Jon Fancey)
• Your Software Can Learn A Lot From ATMs (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using MemBus for messaging between application components (Gunnar Peipman)
• Non Deadlocking Read/Write Locker and Thread-Safe Collections (Tamus)
• Windows Server AppFabric How-To: Adding multiple persistence stores to an AppFabric installation (Emil Velinov)
• Entity Framework Extensions (Multiple entity updates) – Release: v1.0.0.4 and LinkedIn Developer Toolkit – Release: v1.0 Beta (CodePlex)
• Calculate Business Days using LINQ (Hajan Selmani)
• Show All Settings with Visual Basic Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.0 – September Update (MS Downloads)
• Using Google Docs as an Online Database (Ryan Farley)
• Using NHibernate To Persist And Query Ruby Objects (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Nested jTemplate, jQuery and JSON in ASP.NET (Aamir Hasan)
• How to remove Hyperlink from ASP.NET TreeView Control Nodes ? (Abhijit Jana)
• I Am Not A Fan Of Flash HTML5 Comparisons (Ben Forta) – or Silverlight v. HTML5?
• Developing a REST Web Service using C# – A walkthrough (Anshu Dutta)
• Windows Azure Diagnostics in PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Web Page Image Capture in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Agile vs. Waterfall the Wrong Fight? (Wille Faler)
• Github: A little help for merging pull requests (Kyle Neath)
• Zombie (Stakeholder) Management Strategy (Derek Huether)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Differences between WPF and *Silverlight Rendering Stacks (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Windows Phone 7 has tethering support, up to carriers whether to enable it (Chris Ziegler)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 1 – An Introduction and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 2 – The Core – Signature (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools Tutorial (Jason Zander)
• iPhone to Windows Phone 7: Launchers and Choosers (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone + VB developers = Great Mobile Apps (Somasegar)
• Handling picture orientation in CameraCaptureTask in Windows Phone 7 (Tim Heuer)
• Hosting a Silverlight application in a custom website (Unni Ravindranathan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight TV 46: What’s Wrong with my WCF Service? (John Papa)
• Updates to Office Web Apps (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Join the Microsoft Talent Network (Anne Cheng)
• Talking Is Good, Where Can I Do More? (Jeremiah Peschka)

Database

• SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 4 (MS Downloads)
• Check if Database Exists In SQL Server – Different ways (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Outer Join Not Allowed in Indexed Views – Limitation of the View 8 (Pinal Dave)
• Common SQL Server Mistakes – Multi Row DML Triggers (Steve Jones)
• Things good to know about SQL State Server (Jef Claes)

Miscellaneous

• Current Vim Plugin Set (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 Poster (MS Downloads)
• Hundreds of Microsoft Press ebooks now available in the Kindle Store (Devon Musgrave)
• The Complete Guide to Setting up Python Development Environment on Windows (Eran Kampf)
• The Presentation Zen Bento Box (Garr Reynolds)
• How to make OneNote 2010 speak to you (John Guin)
• Microsoft’s NGO Software License (Brad Smith)
• #MakerFaire #Ebook Deal of the Day – Only $9.99ea. Use code: DDMFB (O’Reilly Media)
• Using a 4×20 HD44780-controlled LCD Display with the Netduino (Pete Brown)
• Internet Explorer 9 System Requirements Clarification (Richard Hay)
• Office Web Apps Gets an Update, Now Has PowerPoint and Excel Embedding (Simon Mackie)
• Another nasty Zune gotcha coming your way and it’s gonna hurt (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #693 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Linq Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O’Reilly)) by Joseph Albahari

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Top Links

• New Offers for Visual Studio 2010 (Somasegar)
• Call for Speakers for Philly.NET Code Camp 2010.1 (Nick Berardi)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 : Performance tuning (Paul Harrington)
• Location sensor for Windows 7 – It’s about time! (Arian T. Kulp)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Rhino DivanDB – A full coding sample – Embedded (Oren Eini)
• Release Candidate of Database Projects available and GDR Power Tools update (Barclay Hill)
• NServiceBus 2.0 RTM (Udi Dahan)
• Making VS2010 and/or your WPF applications happy in Remote Desktop/RDP Land (Greg Duncan)
• Marshal.ReleaseComObject Considered Dangerous (Paul Harrington)
• Import and Export DataTips — vstipDebug0013 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Consuming WCF 3.5 REST Service in Windows Mobile 6 Emulator and Windows Mobile Device (Mahesh Sabnis)

Web Development

• Difference between ASP.NET Sessions, Application variables and Cache objects. (Al Pascual)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning Rails: Live Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDRAS (O’Reilly Media)
• Building a Star Rating System with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Mike Ceranski)
• Sharing ObjectDataSource From Codebehind (Dave M. Bush)
• Discover which Control Raised a PostBack (Gil Fink)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Evaluating enhancements (Simon Brown)
• User Stories and TFS2010 – Like Carmel and apples and Visual Studio 2010 makes Testing/QA professionals officially happy (it’s true!) – Test Professional and Test Case WorkItem Type (Greg Duncan)
• Getting Results the Agile Way – The Book on Getting Results (J.D. Meier)
• The Problems With Acceptance Testing (James Shore)
• Thought experiment: The Curry Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Agile lets people be people (Patrick Kua)
• An Evolution of Test-Specification Styles – My Journey to MSpec (Richard Cirerol)
• Intro To Git (Jesse Freeman)
• New Site for Agile Managers and Team Leaders (Jurgen Appelo)
• A reminder about context switching (Mark Needham)
• MSpec Live Templates (Hadi Hariri)
• Book Review – Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (Russell Ball)

Silverlight / WPF

• LocBaml for .NET 4.0 (Michael Sync)
• Using the RawImage in a WPF application. (Luis Cabrera)
• WPF : A Fun Little Boids Type Thing (Sacha Barber)
• Running CSLA .NET 3.8.2 under .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Live Geometry (Kirill Osenkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Oren Eini on Creating DSLs in Boo (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Connected Show Podcast – Is That A Phone In Your Pocket?! (Brian Johnson)
• The Engadget Show – 006: Avner Ronen, the first Windows Phone 7 Series device, Dell Mini 5, and more! (Chad Mumm)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #165: Introduction to Nhibernate.Burrow (Derik Whittaker)
• Destination Adapter Comparison : SSIS Video Nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 50: Multi-Point Server, IE6 Funeral, 3 Designs for Windows Phone (Laura Foy)
• Silverlight TV 11: Dynamically Loading XAPs with MEF (John Papa)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Iron with Jimmy Schementi (Jeff Brand)
• Pluralcast #10 : Reading Code with Alan Stevens (David Starr)
• The Verification Corner – Specifications in Action with Spec# (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• SMX West 2010, Steve Ballmer Edition (Aya Zook)
• Silverlight Design Day Registration Open for Boston (Adam Kinney)
• Events This Week – March 1st, 2010 and Post-MSDN Roadshow Geek Dinner in Richmond This Wednesday! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Headspring Agile Boot Camp, March 24-26 – sign up now – Austin, TX (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Microsoft Shows off Mobile Surface at TechFest 2010 (Hammad)
• March Community Calendar (Joel Cochran)
• Announcing New England GiveCamp (Jim O’Neil)
• The 1st of March: Did you know Stir Trek: Iron Man Edition is on May 7, 2010? (Jeff Blankenburg)

Database

• How Do You Drive Your DBA Mad? (Andy Warren)
• Powershell for Batch Operations (Grant Fritchey)
• Have you backed up your keys lately? (Buck Woody)
• Ten years of SQL Server (Jamie Thomson)
• Getting SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express installed on Windows 7 (Matt Milner)
• Execute Package Task Packages fail for no apparent reason (Simon Sabin)
• Why do you need a primary and a secondary access key for Windows Azure storage? (Jennifer Marsman)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Site Definition Upgrade Discussion with Microsoft’s Sean Livingston (Joel Oleson)
• Walkthrough of enabling CRUD for SharePoint 2010 external lists using Visual Studio 2010 (SharePoint Team)
• Lightning Conductor Calendar View (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Google welcomes Picnik (Brian Axe)
• WHS Add-in WHS Mobile version 1.5.4.0 available (Ben Palmer)
• Bing Autosuggest – History Repeats Itself – and That is a Good Thing (Robert Williams & Todd Schwartz)
• Attracting Talent (Eric Lippert)
• Introducing Robots API v2: The Rise of Active Robots (Dan Peterson)
• Play Guitar By Flexing Alone: Microsoft Research’s Muscle-Computer Interface (Wilson Rothman)
• Zune (phone) news (Kip Kniskern)
• My MacGyver Moment (Jeremiah Peschka)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.02.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #550 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #109 (David Vidmar)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

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Top Links

• Visual Studio First Launch Sequence (Sasha Siddhartha)
• Cause and Effect and Developer Productivity and Denying Productivity and How the Mainstream Lost Software Development Productivity (Scott Bellware)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Detecting User Inactivity (Richard Carr)
• Say hello to Uber Prof (Oren Eini)
• Writing object to object mapper: first implementations (Gunnar Peipman)
• WCF Data Services and EF POCOs that are in their own Assembly (Julie Lerman)
• Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 (Kirill Osenkov)
• Generating Structured Text with StringTemplate (Mike Ceranski)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 10. Configuration with type converters (Mike Hadlow)
• Built-in Charting Controls (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series) (Scott Guthrie)

Web Development

• More amazing JavaScript demos (Michael Kimsal)
• Adding variable output behavior to your FubuMVC actions (Joshua Flanagan)
• Behind the Curtain (Jesse Liberty)
• AutoScroll an ASP.NET Multiline TextBox using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Understanding The Significance Of Weak Ties In Your Professional Life. (Rajiv Popat)
• BDD with SpecFlow and MSpec Boo DSL (Andrew Stopford)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight for Developers (Part I) and (Part II) and (Part III) (Arian T. Kulp)
• Data Binding, Currency and the WPF TreeView (Chris Sells)
• Background Stars (Dave Brown)
• BBQ Shack ? Ocean v2 for Visual Studio 2008 (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 101- PowerScripting Podcast – Matthew Giles from Connect-SMART (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

•  Headed To Austin and Speaking at the .NET User’s Group (Phil Haack)
• A TED responsibility (Robert Scoble)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Find the Size of Database File – Find the Size of Log File (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Use a Zune Remote Control with Windows Media Center (Henry Juliao)
• Mapping Out the Microsoft Application Platform at a Glance (J.D. Meier)
• The 8th of Diduary: Did you know how many things the Windows key can do? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: R in a Nutshell – Only $9.99! Use discount code DDRNT (O’Reilly Media)
• Innovators Use Bing (Steve Clayton)
• Generating Getters and Setters in Eclipse (Rhonda Tipton)

More Link Collections

•  The Morning Brew #534 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #107 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #91 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #23 – The Code Project (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/8/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 131 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (2/7/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

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Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 3 (Expert’s Voice in Silverlight)

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Top Links

• Getting Started with iPhone Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Use Filters in SSMS to only see the things that are of interest to you (Denis Gobo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Converting Between C# and Visual Basic (VB) (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Custom Profile Properties (Cameron Skinner)
• Setting a Tracepoint in source code — vstipDebug0010 (Zain Naboulsi)
• F#: function keyword (Mark Needham)
• Telerik OpenAccess DSW Beta 1 Released (Peter Bahaa)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Performance I: Combining resources and ASP.NET MVC Performance II: Optimizing resources (Gunnar Peipman)
• A Slightly Improved Password Field Template (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using ROI As A Constraint, Not An End In Itself (Derick Bailey)
• Leadership Tip: Your Ideas Do Not Need Your Protection – They Need Your Commitment. (Rajiv Popat)
• Git: Remotes, contributions, and the letter N (James Gregory)

Silverlight / WPF

• Virtual Universe and Starting Positions and Celestial Grid (Dave Brown)
• Setting up icons for a Silverlight OOB application (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 142: Snake In The Brass (Paul Thurrott)
• How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build a WCF REST Collection Endpoint and How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build an Astoria service and Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build a WCF Endpoint (Peter Bahaa)

Database

• NoSQL – A Practical Approach, Part 1 (Rob Conery)
• SQL Server Table Variables (Richard Carr)
• Azure Storage Client Extensions + Azure Table Query (Jason Haley)
• Couple of Azure Storage tools (Hanu Kommalapati)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Free "Hyper-V VM State to Memory Dump Converter" and SlickRun: Free Tool for Windows 7 Gives Quick Access to "Anything" (Blake Handler)
• Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Run Windows Live Messenger from the Notification Area (Paul Thurrott)
• Rumored Windows Phone 7 details surface ahead of MWC launch: Zune-like UI, no multitasking (Donald Melanson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 6, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman on: Pricing Strategies, the Freelancer’s Website, Blog Comments, Saving Things (Dave Burke)
• Interesting Finds: 2010 02.01 ~ 02.07 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #91 (Grant Palin)

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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers)

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Top Links

• 10 Reasons your CIO should NOT block Social Networking (Joel Oleson)
• Nice “Quick Hit” Videos about ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• MonoTouch support for the iPad is ready (MonoTouch Team)
• Reading Code, Spark’s Once Attribute (Chris Missal)
• Calling constructors in arbitrary places (Eric Lippert)
• Evolutionary Architecture (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using Mercurial with Visual Studio (Ade Miller)
• The Entity Framework and the “The invoked member is not supported in a dynamic assembly” exception. (Brian Lagunas)
• Creating Your First Carrier Extension and More On Dovetail Carrier RuleSets (Kevin Miller)
• Calling Non-Public Methods (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• C# 4.0 Optional Parameters – Exploration. (Jason Jarrett)
• I Can Feel You – Using the Windows 7 Sensor Platform (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Directed Graph ML (DGML) support in QuickGraph (Jonathan de Halleux)

Web Development

• Editing a variable length list, ASP.NET MVC 2-style (Steve Sanderson)
• Beyond web.config (Karl Seguin)
• Using jQuery in an ASP.NET MVC application To Create Stunning Tooltips – Version 2 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• An alternative to editing JavaScript in Visual Studio: RubyMine (Peter Eysermans)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Club: Growing Object Oriented Software – Chapter 7 (Steve Freeman & Nat Pryce) (Mark Needham)
• Replacing the Iron Triangle of Project Management? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• How to resolve a binary file conflict with Git (Joshua Flanagan)
• Using Git as an SVN Client (Michael Wagg)
• Want a learning culture? Start a brown bag. (Scott Schimanski)
• Do You Live to Program or Program To Live? (Mike Ceranski)

Silverlight / WPF

• A Silverlight, Deep Zoom and Smooth Streaming extravaganza (Mike Ormond)
• Open Source Silverlight Video Players (Corey Schuman)
• MVVM – It’s Not Kool-Aid* (Jesse Liberty)
• Rounder, Faster, Better – WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.0.0 (Rene Schulte)
• Using the WPF Tree Visualizer — vstipDebug0004 (Zain Naboulsi)
• DataBinding tooling: keeps getting better (Rob Relyea)
• Handing Events with Care? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Code Not Taken [Comparing two ways of creating a full-size Popup in Silverlight - then picking the best] (David Anson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ASP.NET Soup to Nuts: Web Application Design and Architecture (MS Podcasts)
• geekSpeak Recording – Migrating to Team Foundation Server from Visual SourceSafe and geekSpeak Recording – SQL Azure Under the Hood with Chris Rolon (Emily Gibson)
• Create a SharePoint List using InfoPath 2010 (LaurHar)
• The Thirsty Developer 83: Visual Studio 2010 Testing Tools with Ram Cherala (Dave Bost)
• Countdown to MIX10: Nishant Kothary, the UX Theme, and 55 New Sessions (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Google Wave at I/O (Pamela Fox)
• PDC video, TechEd Iceland, VS2010, profiling, Silverlight 4 (Seema Ramchandani)

Database

• How To: Query Azure Log Tables with LINQPad (Jason Haley)
• FILESTREAM: Storing Binary Objects in a database – or not (Buck Woody)

Miscellaneous

• BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• Apple’s iPad Announcement from One .NET Developer’s Perspective (Me)
• Mercurial + PowerShell (Ade Miller)
• 12 reasons why I won’t buy an Apple iPad (Joe Wilcox)
• Daily Dose – Google Go Joining GNU Compiler Collection (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Download 150+ PowerPoint templates for free from Microsoft (Lee Mathews)
• Zune software references rumored Project Pink devices, a video upload service? (Ross Miller)
• Localization of Kodu (Stephen Coy)
• Business Intelligence Features in Excel 2010 (Office Team)
• Windows Mobile 7: UX Flow Prototypes and Microsoft’s Electronic Textbook Concept: Potential Courier Application? (Stephen Chapman)
• Customer Presentations (Cameron Skinner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #528 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 28, 2010 — #789 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman Links for January 28, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Creators Club Communiqué 39 (Kathleen Sanders)
• New and Notable 397 (Sam Gentile)

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Head First Design Patterns

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Top Links

• CodePlex now supporting native Mercurial and Using Mercurial on CodePlex and First Mercurial project on CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• The WebForms Rant (Karl Seguin)
• Making DevExpress & ReSharper Play Nicely (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK (MS Downloads)
• DSLs in Boo is out! (Oren Eini)
• Develop Web Apps in F# with WebSharper (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Some Astoria tips I learnt today (Marlon Grech)
• A basic proxy for intercepting method calls (Part –2) (Mehfuz Hussain)
• Selecting Static Results with Dynamic LINQ (Keith Dahlby)
• Telerik Data Services Wizard New Feature:DataServiceKey (Stephen Forte)
• IntelliSense Suggestion Mode — vstipEdit0012 and How to customize what files to search with Find in Files — vstipFind0005 (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Using CDN Hosted jQuery with a Local Fall-back Copy (Jon Galloway)
• IIS Application Warm-Up Module (Gunnar Peipman)
• Daily Dose – YouTube and Vimeo Foster HTML5 Escalation (Mitch Pronschinske)
• When will WebForm vs MVC become like ListView vs Repeater? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Explore CSS Properties Panel in Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MbUnit AssertEx (Andrew Stopford)
• Don Reinertsen on Second Generation Lean Product Development (Christophe Louvion)
• Controls Do Not Make You More Productive (Justin Etheredge)
• Management By Intimidation Is Downright Stupid And Risky. (Rajiv Popat)
• Automapper: First thoughts (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• How can I sort data virtualized items in WPF? (Bea Stollnitz)
• Aspen – part 6 of X – Reusing ObjectContex among Repositories during a DomainSerivce operation. (Fredrik Normen)
• Known Issue – Controls Deriving From A Generic Base Class Must Be In Separate Assembly (Karl Shifflett)
• Scrubbing with Thumbnails with the SMF Player (Michael S. Scherotter)
• XamlPadSample Step 1c-Project (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV Special – Designing Multi-tenant Applications on Windows Azure (Bob Familiar)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “Spontaneous combustion of rancid management” (Devon Musgrave)
• jQuery Podcast 8 – api.jquery.com (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Herding Code 69: Scott Bellware on HTML Specialists (Jon Galloway)
• Erik Meijer and Team: Cloud Data Programmability – Connecting the Distributed Dots (Charles Torre)
• MSBuild Interview on CodeCast (Chuck England)

Community / Events

• Advanced Agile: Beyond the Low-Hanging Fruit – webinar by Mary Poppendieck 3 February 2010 (Christophe Louvion)
• An Introduction to Silverlight – Thursday 4th March 2010 at Microsoft, Edinburgh (Mike Perrin)
• Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-Visual Studio Tools For Architects (Jeff Barnes)
• Available for Microsoft Solutions Architecture (Sam Gentile)

Database

• “Excel found unreadable content” when exporting a Reporting Services report (Jamie Thomson)
• Use sys.dm_os_performance_counters to get your Buffer cache hit ratio and Page life expectancy counters (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Free SharePoint Reports with No Server Install (Joel Oleson)
• How ComponentOne Web Parts Improve the SharePoint Experience (Eve Turzillo)
• Operating System Requirements of SharePoint 2010 (Umesh Unnikrishnan)

Miscellaneous

• Write better knols with object embedding and PicApp (Cedric Dupont)
• O’Reilly drops ebook DRM, sees 104% increase in sales (Cory Doctorow)
• Running MobileShell on Windows 7 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Microsoft, don’t give up on Steve Ballmer just yet (Joe Wilcox)
• Office 2010 System Requirements (Alex Dubec)
• ShellMenuNew Cleans Up the Windows Explorer "New" Menu (The How-To Geek)
• Is the Zune Phone Enough? (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 — #784 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 – 2 — #785 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Azure Resources (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Help Me Get Started Using Visual Studio (Charlie Calvert)
• New and Notable 396 (Sam Gentile)

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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture