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Top Links

• HTML5 Video (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Scrum and the C-Word (David Starr)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools April 2010 Refresh (Tim Heuer)
• Adding an Application bar to your Windows Phone (both globally and locally) in XAML (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows phone capabilities security model (Jaime Rodriguez)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Collection Initializers and ToString and the Visual Studio Debugger (Deborah Kurata)
• Twitter lists in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Every Program There Is, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Remove Projects from the Recent Projects List and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Free your Document Windows and What’s new in Code Analysis for Visual Studio 2010 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Add Service Reference – How to Avoid Generating Already Existing Classes (Gil Fink)
• LINQ to GPU (with Brahma) (Greg Duncan)
• Pure Virtual Function Call: Repro Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
• ReSharper Settings Manager – Release v2.1 (CodePlex)
• More with Discovery, Day 3 (Scott Seely)

 

Web Development

• E-commerce APIs: Store Site in a Box (Adam DuVander)
• Asynchronous TreeView in ASP.NET MVC (Tomasz Pęczek)
• More on Custom Page Styling in ScrewTurn Wiki (Dave Burke)
• Tip: Replacing Html.Encode Calls With New Html Encoding Syntax (Phil Haack)
• VWD Available on Web Platform Installer (Now in Four Languages) (Van)
• Tip #105: Did you know … How to include empty directory when package a web application? (Xinyang Qiu)
• Update Your Windows Azure Website in Just Seconds by Syncing with Blob Storage (Steve Marx)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Incremental Design and Architecture" Now Online (James Shore)
• SOA Anti-pattern: Nanoservices (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Why Software Sucks…and What You Can Do About It – book review (Gunnar Peipman)
• Do You Like Pain? (Jared Richardson)
• A Lean Way of Life (J.D. Meier)
• Get Moles for free on Visual Studio Gallery (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Coding: Generalising too early (Mark Needham)
• Mocking HttpContext with JustMock and Playing with aspx page cycle using JustMock (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Unit Test Runs Stale Code Because Code Coverage Is Enabled in Visual Studio (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend for Windows Phone: Update Available (Christian Schormann)
• Creating WPF UIs for PowerShell with PowerBoots and Visual Studio WPF Designer (Joel Bennett)
• Don’t Wanna Know Plugin for Seesmic Desktop Platform (Adam Kinney)
• IContextAware services to bridge the gap between the View and the ViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 3 (Marlon Grech)
• Be careful when installing the Blend Windows Phone 7 Add-In (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #8 – Detecting Alt, Shift, Control, Window & Apple Keys Combinations (Mike Snow)
• Consuming REST/POX and REST/JSON services in Silverlight 4 (Carlos Figueira)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kate Gregory Live in St. Louis, MO (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Startup Podcast Show #66 Tom Foremski, SiliconValleyWatcher.com (Bob Walsh)
• WebDevRadio Episode 76: Lithium Framework for PHP (Michael Kimsal)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #172: Code Contracts: Validating state with Assert, Assume, ForAll, Exists (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight TV 22: Tim Heuer on Extending the Silverlight Media Framework (John Papa)
• Paul and Kimberly interview from MVP Summit (Paul S. Randal)
• Debugging Sandboxed Code in InfoPath 2010 Forms (Laura Harring)

 

Community / Events

• Wrox Sponsoring Hello World Mobile App Dev Conference at AppCon Las Vegas Aug 24 (Jim Minatel)
• Typemock Academy – The Event (Gil Zilberfeld)
• MSDN Meeting recording & links – MIX 2010 update (Silverlight 4, IE9, Windows Phone 7 dev) (Katrien De Graeve)
• pluralsight joins the .net rocks road trip tour with on-demand! (Meagon Marshall)

 

Database

• A DMV A Day – Day 30 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (29/30) fixing heap fragmentation (Paul S. Randal)
• Writing A Transact SQL (TSQL) Procedure For SQL Server 2008 To Delete Rows From Table Safely (Peter Kellner)
• MongoDB vs. SQL Server 2008 Performance Showdown (Michael Kennedy)
• Ensure your view and function meta data is up to date. (Simon Sabin)

 

SharePoint

• Deployment guide for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 and the Lightning conductor web part (Brett Lonsdale)

 

Miscellaneous

• Office Ribbon in OneNote 2010 (Jeff Cardon)
• Speculation About the "Courier" Project (Frank Shaw)
• Introducing Microsoft® Surface® Design and Development Training (Luis Cabrera)
• An immersive experience for homebuilders on Surface (Eric Havir)
• Developing Docs and Docs.com and Facebook User Content (Pat Kinsel)
• “Halo” Studio to Release New Game on Multiple Consoles (Samuel Axon)
• IMDb app for Windows Mobile released (Uzair Ghani)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 29, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 29, 2010 — #851 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #591 (Chris Alcock)
• Creators Club Communiqué 52 (Kathleen Sanders)
• The Big List of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML Development Tools, Libraries, Projects, and Books (Rey Bango)
• Netcast List April 2010 (Steve Rowe)
• Interesting Finds: April 30, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• April 30th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2010 (Scott Guthrie)

 

The Geek Shelf

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