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.NET / Visual Studio

• Imaginet and Telerik Introduce Free Team Workload Management Tools (Charles Sterling)
• Extending the Entity Framework Provider Model to support DDL (Alex James)
• Lightweight Debugging for Hybrid C#/IronPython Apps (Harry Pierson)
• MVP Writes ‘How To’ Guide For Live Writer Plugins (Jas Dhaliwal)

Web Development

• October 2009 JSMag now available (Michael Kimsal)
• Type Safe Session Variables and Forms Authentication – Manual Authentication (Dave M. Bush)
• Creating a Filtering User Interface With jQuery In a Web Forms Application: Part 1 (Scott Mitchell)
• Deploying the CrystalReportViewer Control to a Production Web Site (Bob Clegg)
• MvcContrib working on Portable Areas (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Exploring the ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assemby (Maarten Balliauw)
• Working with SVG files in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer (Mikhail Arkhipov)
• Doing AJAX the easy way with JQuery and MVC (Michael Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: My First Tests (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using a service bus for queries (Oren Eini)
• How to Collaborate with Remote Employees with Office Communicator 2007 R2 (Scott Hanselman)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 2 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Rambling on Cyclomatic Complexity (Patrick Smacchia)
• AutoMapper Introduction and Samples from NETDUG (Richard Cirerol)
• The Zen of “Go Away” Rates (Russell Ball)
• Echoes from the Stone Age (Uncle Bob Martin) – Link of the Day
• Book Club: Integration tests are a scam (J.B. Rainsberger) and Software Development Apprenticeship: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• More On Caliburn & Silverlight’s SaveFileDialog (Christopher Bennage)
• Animated Dotted Text Outlines: Getting the Flicker Out (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight 3 online and offline Docs updated (Sam Landstrom)
• Updated Silverlight getting started for beginners (Tim Heuer)
• The Visual Guide to WPF Font Weights (LearnWPF.com)
• WPF Wonders: Building Control Templates (Rod Stephens)
• Silverlight for Windows Embedded (Rudi Grobler)
• Sheldon (Paul Stovell) – “Sheldon is a WPF command line control, and code to integrate it with IronPython. It’s designed as a sample that demonstrates how a WPF application might be made scriptable.”

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Expert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman – Inside Clojure (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 61: CodePlex Foundation, Bing Visual Search, Microsoft Ajax CDN, Zune HD Release (Jon Galloway)
• Ping 32: MyPhone, Pressure sensitive Keyboards, Microsoft TAG, Anti- Virus (Laura Foy)
• Spaghetti Code Talks PHP Bridge (Jeff Brand)
• Expression Blend tutorial: Brushes, gradients, fills and strokes (webcast) (Vibor Cipan)
• CCR at MySpace (Michael S. Scherotter)

Community / Events

• Call For JavaScript Authors – JSMag (Michael Kimsal)
• Page O’ Nerds (Dave Schinkel)
• Upcoming Silverlight Talks (Andy Beaulieu)

Database

• Alternating Background Colors in Reporting Services (Joe Webb)
• T-SQL To find Out If An Index Is Clustered Or Non Clustered (Denis Gobo)
• Easier Management of SQL Azure Databases with SQL Azure Manager (Stephen Forte)
• SQL SERVER – Query Optimization – Remove Bookmark Lookup – Remove RID Lookup – Remove Key Lookup (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• We’re excited to announce a new sister site the SharePoint Pod Show! (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)

Miscellaneous

• InfoQ has to be the best online resource for software development (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Free VMWare Player 3 can now create virtual machines (Lee Mathews)
• Choosing a smart password (Michael Santerre)
• EXCLUSIVE: Windows 8 and Windows 9 Kernels to Support 128-bit Architecture? and Windows 8 User Interface and Multi-Tier Distributed Applications (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft considering making Zune services available to Apple users (Sumeeth Evans)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #449 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 6-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 377 (Sam Gentile)
• Double Shot #556 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 6th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day