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.NET / Visual Studio

• Application Settings (Richard Carr)
• .NET 4.0 is so Lazy (Fredrik Normén)
• Lists in F# (Kathleen McGrath)
• Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2010 (Daniel Moth)
• Gabriel Schenker introduction to NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate. (Zachariah Young)

Web Development

• Upload a File via WebRequest Using CSharp (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC is MUCH better than MS seems to think (Dino Esposito) – Link of the Day
• Fluent-API to add ActionFilters to Controllers – ASP.NET MVC Part 3 (Fredrik Normén)
• Unrecognized attribute ‘targetFramework’ – Asp.Net 4.0 (Jarod Ferguson)
• Configuring the PasswordRecovery To Send Email to an SSL-Enabled SMTP Client (Scott Mitchell)
• Free ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 Beta Hosting to help you get up to FOUR ! (Joe Stagner)
• Combining JavaScript and CSS to Make Pages Load Faster (Peter Kellner)
• Calling the Google Closure Javascript Compiler – Code (Kim Major)
• Optimize your web site for search engines using the SEO Toolkit [UPDATED] (Lawrence Moroney)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework (MS Downloads)
• Easy Mockups with Balsamiq (Grant Palin)
• In response to "The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming" (Doug Rohrer)
• Interface Inheritance Esoterica (Phil Haack)
• Coding: Pushing the logic back (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and RIA: Ignoring a Property in Your Business Object and Silverlight and RIA: Sharing Your Business Object Files and Silverlight and RIA: Enum Properties (Deborah Kurata)
• Embedding IronPython in Silverlight – Importing (Jimmy Schementi)
• New WPF Features: Cached Composition (Lester Lobo)
• Announcing the Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Silverlight Team)
• Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released (Sunshine)
• Design feedback for Silverlight needed and Two Silverlight SDKs released – Bing and Facebook (Tim Heuer)
• Creating Custom Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
• Magellan and Composite WPF and Magellan and the Microsoft MVVM Toolkit (Paul Stovell)
• Paper 2010 First Preview + New Releases Imminent (Dax Pandhi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Videos on Channel9 (Andrew Connell)
• C9 Conversations: Yousef Khalidi on Cloud Computing (Charles Torre)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 39: Building Composite WPF Applications with Claudio Lassala (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Anders Hejlsberg full length interview (Tina Wood)
• This Week in Testing: Episode 3 – Magic Numbers (Roy Osherove & Gil Zilberfeld)
• PDC09: John Durant on newly announced SharePoint features (Robert Hess)
• How to Cancel Work using .NET4 CancellationToken (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Get Your BI Project Started with Free Developer Training on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
• Asp.Net Mvc 2 (Chris Canal) – Upcoming ScotALT.NET Meeting
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 11/24/2009 “Stop Talking, Start Teaching” with Jeff Casimir (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Travelogue: Oredev 2009 Wrap-Up (Stephen Bohlen)
• Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day One (Jimmy Bosse)
• My Twitter Notes from Scott Guthrie Keynote at DevConnections (Julie Lerman)

Database

• Using Transactions with SqlBulkCopy (Scott Mitchell)
• From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling (Chris Sells)
• Do not use spaces or other invalid characters in your column names (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Sharepoint Resource Available for SQL Server (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates "SyncToy" File Synchronization Program for Windows 7 and Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Virtual Router" Wifi Hotspot for Windows 7 and Microsoft’s Research Labs Releases "Social Web Experience Toolbar" for Internet Explorer (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft buys Teamprise: so what? (Joel Bennett)
• Google unveils the ‘Go’ programming language (Cristian)
• Microsoft to Release Vista Ultimate Extras on Windows 7 (Muhammad Ali)
• PowerPack Creation Manual (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Ditch these 6 words (Anne Cheng) – Resume tips.
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/11 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Wanted: Microsoft seeks Midori OS UI Architect (Stephen Chapman)
• Rejoice, surfers! Bing it up with free WiFi access across the US (Sebastian Anthony)
• A Discussion on Imperative vs. Declarative Programming (Bill Wagner)
• PowerShell your PDC (Greg Duncan)
• A Move Into The Cloud Is Inevitable (Justin Etheredge)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #474 (the real 474) (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 10, 2009 — #728 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 389 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• F# Language Details (Gotchas) (Chris Smith)
• Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework (MS Downloads)
• Query Editor: Writing Queries, Part 1 (Jason Haley)
• Über Prof goes live (Oren Eini)
• Using Windows Touch Gestures with .NET (Part 1: Configuration) (Jason Ipock)
• The Wisdom of Crowds: Implementing a Smart Ranking Algorithm (Lee Dumond)
• Populating a TreeView Control from a List (Deborah Kurata)
• Teamprise: Enabling TFS collaboration across heterogeneous platforms (Somasegar)
• Telerik “M” Compare and “Repository” Migration Tool November CTP (Stephen Forte)
• Announcing the new Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform (Silverlight Team)
• Three Umpires (Eric Lippert)
• JNBridgePro 5.0 Bridges Java and .NET (Mitch Pronschinske)
• On being Culture Aware (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• Preventing Security Development Errors: Lessons Learned at Windows Live by Using ASP.NET MVC (MS Downloads)
• zen-coding: turn those CSS selectors upside down (Leon Bambrick)
• ASP.NET Authentication – Multiple Domains w/ Same Application (Dave M. Bush)
• Server Side Validation With ASP.NET MVC And Data Annotations (Malcolm Sheridan)
• $.fadeTo/fadeOut() operations on Table Rows in IE fail (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft sees a silver lining in the cloud (Steve Clayton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Security Considerations for Client and Cloud Applications (MS Downloads)
• Dependency Injection 101 (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Fields and virtual members (Jimmy Bogard)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Processing Requests (Davy Brion)
• Electronic Kanban Tools and WIP Limits: LeanKitKanban and AgileZen Get It! (Derick Bailey)
• You say Tomato, I say Pomodoro (Joel Cochran)
• The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming and The Bridge Pattern – When a single class hierarchy is not enough (David Cooksey)
• Trying Out Personal Kanban (Or At Least My Interpretation Of It) (Joel Ross)
• Getting started with BDD (Behavior Driven Development) in .NET (Tom Janssens)
• Legacy Code: Sensing (Mark Needham)
• Reuse Creates Bottlenecks (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Can Agile Be Combined with Offshore? 12 Lessons Learned. (Peter DeYoe)
• 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design (Whitney Hess)

Silverlight / WPF

• .NET RIA Services + Silverlight Behaviors Resources (Andy Beaulieu)
• XAML 2009 Features: Node Loop flexibility (Lester Lobo)
• Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released (Sunshine)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Live from DevReach, Sofia, Bulgaria (Carl Franklin)
• Pluralsight Training Videos on .Net Reflector (Jason Haley)
• Ping 37: SQL Server, Windows 7, Bing, Google, Bill Gates Birthday (Laura Foy)
• ASP.NET 4 / VS 2010 “Quick Hit” Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Talk: Stop Programming JavaScript by Luck (Sergio Pereira)
• SharePoint PodShow – A Conversation with Foxit Software Episode 37 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Thread Blocking Analysis in the VS2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – November 9th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Countdown to Microsoft PDC 2009 – part 2 (Lars Wilhemlsen)
• Party with Palermo: PDC ‘09 edition – 6 days and counting (Jeffrey Palermo)
• SQL Authority News – Training MS SQL Server 2005/2008 Query Optimization And Performance Tuning (Pinal Dave)
• Next "Oslo" CTP to be released in conjunction with PDC (Sam Gentile)
• PDC and Python (in that order) (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• Does the S in SQL stand for Scary? (Coding4Fun)
• Fuzzy Logic and Regex come to T-SQL in SQL Server 2008 R2 – available now! (Jamie Thomson)
• Always include precision and scale with decimal and numeric (George Mastros)
• SQL Azure & SQL Server playing together (Steve Clayton)

SharePoint

• Determining if MOSS is Standard or Enterprise (Tom Hearn)
• StructureMap and SharePoint (Tony Rasa)

Miscellaneous

• What I Use and Kindle for PC Now Available (Paul Thurrott)
• A Good URL Regular Expression? (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Mark Russinovich on Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Devon Musgrave)
• PowerPack Creation Manual (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Tortoise more than just version control (Jimmy Bosse)
• Recent UI updates to GitHub (Kyle Neath)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Rocks! (Jeffrey Snover)
• Verizon – Google Droid Review (Tim Boland)
• Happy 5th Birthday, Firefox! (Simon Mackie)
• Download Podcasts with Powershell (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft’s Top 3 advances in Exchange Server 2010 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/10 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• 7 Taskbar Tweaker Lets You Change Windows 7 Taskbar Functionality (Sarah Perez)
• Today in O’Reilly Answers – The Droid, Tip-of-the-Tongue Effect, Technology for Political Candidates, and more (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #474 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 09, 2009 — #727 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/9/2009 (Bill Zack)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Links and Azure Links and Workflow Links and New and Notable 388 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Motivating F# equality and comparison constraints (Brian McNamara)
• NHibernate – Cross session operations (Oren Eini)
• Jumping the trampoline in C# – Stack-friendly recursion (Bart de Smet)
• Resolve IP Address And Host Name From MAC Address using C# and Windows ARP Utility (Chris Pietschmann)
• Getting Up to Speed With .NET 4.0 (Jim O’Neil)
• Dump debugging with Parallel Stacks (Daniel Moth)
• Converting From System.Data.Linq.Binary to String and Back (Peter Kellner)
• Claims-Based Authorization with WIF Article (Sam Gentile)

Web Development

• Adding Editors and Owners to BlogEngine.NET blogs in Sueetie (Dave Burke)
• Integrating Google Javascript Compiler in Visual Studio (Kim Major)
• Use Google’s Closure Compiler in C# (Mads Kristensen) – Link of the Day
• Whitespace: The Silent Killer (Jeff Atwood)
• $.fadeTo/fadeOut() operations on Table Rows in IE fail (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why my Mom and Ted Neward Irritate Me (David Starr)
• Microsoft Silverlight 1.0: An SDL Implementation Story and Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Process Guidance – Version 4.1a and Security Considerations for Client and Cloud Applications and Preventing Security Development Errors: Lessons Learned at Windows Live by Using ASP.NET MVC (MS Downloads)
• Request/Response Service Layer Series and Request/Response Service Layer: Requests And Responses (Davy Brion)
• Using Latest NUnit Version With MSpec (Howard Dierking)
• Programmer Tip: Strive To Connect With Human Beings Whenever You Can. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Magellan Quickstart and Magellan and IOC/DI Containers (Paul Stovell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SDU Show 45 with guest Jamie Thomson (SQL Down Under)
• TWC9: Channel 9 Goes Live, Zune, detecting memory leaks, Life at MSFT (Dan Fernandez)
• ARCast.TV – Improving Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System (Bob Familiar)
• Engadget Podcast 170 – 11.08.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Episode 91 – PowerScripting Podcast – Oisin Grehan on Pmodem and Modules (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• A Feed You Should Read #11 – The Road to Know Where (Greg Duncan)
• Oredev Wrap-Up (Julie Lerman)
• PDC 2009 (Brian Peek)
• ISV Software Architecture Workshop (Ashish Jaiman)
• SQL Pass 2009 Recaps and Live Blogs (Rhonda Tipton)

Database

• SQL Azure & SQL Server playing together (Steve Clayton)
• SQL SERVER – Removing Key Lookup – Seek Predicate – Predicate – An Interesting Observation Related to Datatypes (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• HTML5 YouTube viewer: close, but not quite there (Jay Hathaway)
• The Droid fails AS A PRODUCT when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone (Robert Scoble)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 8, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #472 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #78 (Grant Palin)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/09/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Links of the week #97 (David Vidmar)
• Links (11/8/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 118 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Post… 11/1/2009 through 11/8/009 (Mike Cottmeyer)

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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)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Windows Service Installer and Auto Start After Installation (Chris Pietschmann)
• Foreign Key Relationships in the Entity Framework (Tim Laverty)
• Neat VS10 Feature: Pinning A Debugger Watch (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• Detect Recursive Calls in Your .NET Code (Michel Posseth)
• DataAnnotations not in the client profile (Rockford Lhotka)
• MPI Project Template for VS2010 (Daniel Moth)
• Timers in .NET (Rhonda Tipton)
• All Your RegKeys Are Belong To Us (Aaron Marten)

Web Development

• A theming engine for ASP.NET MVC 2 (Daniel Crenna)
• Using serialized JSON to move complex data to and from the browser (Jason Grundy)
• Create ASP.NET Dynamic Hyperlinks from URLs Stored in Web.Config (Deepak Choudhari)
• Running WCF Service in IIS on Windows 7 Error: no svc MIME Type (Keith Elder)
• Note to self on HTTP namespace reservations (Mike Taulty)
• How To View JSON in a Pretty Way (Peter Kellner)
• Quickly Determine Whether a Column Is Fully Visible in a DataGridView (Srinath MS)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Dave M. Bush)
• Using MSDeploy to automate your Enterprise Application remote deployments. (Eric Hexter)
• Introduction to Distributed Source Control (Jason Young)
• Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Code (Howard Dierking)

Silverlight / WPF

• New WPF Features: Full Trust Xbap Deployment (Lester Lobo)
• Designer v Xaml v Code (Jesse Liberty)
• XAML for WinMo6.5? (Rob Relyea)
• WPF : Callout Popup (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Scott Stanfield from Vertigo – PSLUG First Meeting (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• New Katacast (Corey Haines)
• Peer to Peer Series Part 6: Introduction to PeerChannel (Jeff Brand)
• Each month through June 2010, we’ll bring you a 90-minute Architect focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs. (Jeff Barnes)
• Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) and Software Security Today (Charles Torre)
• Webcast: Building Modern Apps in ASP.NET WebForms (Michael Kennedy)
• Oredev 2009 – LIVE (now recorded) Closing Panel Video (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Idea for new user group (Jason Haley)
• Recap of Oredev and some .net debugging videos (Tess Ferrandez)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM Best Practices (Greg Duncan)
• SSIS Package Stats Collector version 2 (Jamie Thomson)
• Always include size when using varchar, nvarchar, char and nchar (George Mastros)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Editions Pricing Announced (Denis Gobo)
• SQLAuthority News – Data Compression Strategy Capacity Planning and Best Practices (Pinal Dave)
• Sproc Executing Slow? It Might be This (Rob Reynolds)

Miscellaneous

• Web Office Suites: Complementary and Coopetive Technologies (Will Kelly)
• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Icon Maker" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free) (Ed Bott)
• Almost everything you ever wanted to know about the MSG (stand alone Outlook Email message) file format but were afraid to ask (Part 1) (Greg Duncan)
• Click-to-Run: Delivering Office in the 21st Century (Paul Barr)
• Teaching Your Kids To Be Programmers (Paul Govan)
• Google Chrome 4: Yes, it’s fast, but is it usable? (Scott M. Fulton, III)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 6-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #578 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: November 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Use Extension Methods to Phase Out a Bad API (Brian Noyes)
• .NET Services SDK (MS Downloads)
• Observing global hotkeys in C# / F# (Steffen Forkmann)
• Entity Framework Profiler (Oren Eini)
• What’s new in VB 2010 (Chris Williams)
• Multiple outputs from T4 made easy – revisited (Damien Guard)
• Creating something from nothing, asynchronously [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET improved!] (David Anson)
• Visual Studio 2010: UML modeling projects and Visual Studio 2010: Visualizing dependencies (Gunnar Peipman)
• ADO.Net Entity Framework Community Technology Preview Released! (EF Team)
• .NET Collection Enumeration Performance, part 1 (Matthew Wilson)
• New Entity Framework Feature CTP for VS2010 Beta 2 (Julie Lerman)
• Model First with the Entity Framework 4 (Noam Ben-Ami)
• It’s time to rip up EntityBag and throw it away (Dan Simmons)
• Classic Rock evolved into Heavy Metal (Rene Schulte) – Rock Scroll for VS on steroids.
• Automapper Auto Profile Registration. (Eric Hexter)
• On Your Mark… Get Set… Go! It’s Time to Get Ready for the Windows Azure Platform (Gunther Lenz)
• Visual Studio 2010 Power +25 with PowerCommands 10.0 (Greg Duncan)
• F# 1.9.7 Language Specification Now Available (Don Syme)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 1: Introduction and Freescale Board Setup and Testing (Pete Brown)
• New .NET Features from Telerik (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Improvements to VS 2010 Text Selection (Brittany Behrens)
• Accessing Windows Azure Blobs Using Custom Storage Domain Names and Introducing the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (Brad Calder)
• Visual Studio 2010 should be free….. (Stephen Forte)
• Using the New Windows Azure CDN with a Custom Domain (Steve Marx)
• It is only 8, how can it be legacy??? and CSLA .NET 3.8.0 released and available! (Rockford Lhotka)

Web Development

• Using CSS Selectors (Chris Love)
• Embedding Google Search Appliance Results in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Adding uberVU badge to your blog (Gunnar Peipman)
• A RouteHandler for IHttpHandlers (Phil Haack)
• Solving Confusing Browser Security Prompts with Protocol-Relative Hyperlinks (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Localize ASP.NET MVC 2 DataAnnotations validation messages (Maarten Balliauw)
• Developing for the web using VS 2010 and .NET 4 (Somasegar)
• Google offers JavaScript programming tools (Stephen Shankland)
• Sort the Items of an ASP.NET DropDownList using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Note to self on HTTP namespace reservations (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Analysis Paralysis : Getting Carried Away With UML (Charles Chen)
• Design software as a long running process (Simon Brown)
• Re: "It’s OK not to unit test" or what you do on your time is your business. (Leon Gersing) – Link of the Day
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Dave M. Bush)
• Simple names are not so simple, Part Two, plus, volcanoes and fried foods (Eric Lippert)
• Now Available: patterns & practices Application Architecture Book (J.D. Meier)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Serialization (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Recursive Common Table Expressions (Kevin Jones)
• TestDriven.Net 2.24: XCopy Deployable Test Runners (Jamie Cansdale)
• It’s Okay To Write Unit Tests (Justin Etheredge)
• Outcomes and Sync Steps (Karl Scotland)
• Agile Architecture Deck & Code (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Consistency in the code base and TDD: Useful when new on a project (Mark Needham)
• Organizational Myopia? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Debugging: It’s all about finding Albuquerque. (Leon Bambrick)
• Excuse me sir, What Planet is this? (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Selective Unit Testing – Costs and Benefits (Steve Sanderson)
• The code is the truth, but it is not the whole truth (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight, RIA Services, and Your Business Objects (Deborah Kurata)
• Introduction to WPF 4 Multitouch (Jaime Rodriguez)
• The Silverlight Toolkit – now in the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Jeff Wilcox)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 2: EventToCommand behavior (Laurent Bugnion)
• New WPF Features: Bindable Run and Xaml 2009 Features: Built in Types (Lester Lobo)
• Drawing Shapes – Silverlight WriteableBitmap Extensions III (Rene Schulte)
• SVG to XAML or Canvas (from SixPairs.com) and WPF4 Summary, Features, & Forums (Rob Relyea)
• WPF : Callout Popup (Sacha Barber)
• The XXI Olympic Winter Games on NBCOlympics.com: Brought to you in Full HD With Silverlight and Smooth Streaming (Silverlight Team)
• Grouping data in a Silverlight DataGrid (Tim Heuer)
• Creating Custom Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks – Dean Guo Takes Us Into Project Trident (Carl Franklin)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 6 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• Noah Coad: An Overview of Visual Studio Express 2010 (Dan Fernandez)
• 10-4 Episode 35: PreEmptive Solutions Runtime Intelligence (Drew Robbins)
• Microsoft MVPs Attend Windows 7 Launch Party in NYC! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Countdown to PDC09: Big Brains Descend Upon PDC and Teach Us How to Dream (Larry Larsen)
• TDD Space Invaders Video and Downloads and Webcast: Building Modern Apps in ASP.NET WebForms (Michael Kennedy)
• Recommended books part III (Roy Osherove)
• Toolshed: Episode 5 – Its All About The Tools TV Show (Russell Fustino)
• Office Casual – How to Twitter in Outlook with TwInbox and Life at Microsoft: The truth revealed…again! (Tina Wood)
• Thirsty Developer 77: Sku’s a Changing with Visual Studio 2010 (Dave Bost)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Debugging Crash Dumps with Tess Ferrandez and VS2010 (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• "I am sure a lot of you are frustrated at your colleagues, not being here at this conference. Not…" (Sebastian Hermida)
• Announcing O’Reilly Answers – Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions. (Allen Noren)
• Conferences and the Twitter Phenomenon #SPCONN09 (Andrew Connell)
• Announcing Channel 9’s first live broadcast – This Week on C9 this Friday! (Dan Fernandez)
• Quick note: PDC attendees save 25% on certification exams (Devon Musgrave)
• DevExpress CodeRush with Refactor Pro Giveaway and Whiskerino 2009: A Beard Growing Contest (Elijah Manor)
• Day 1 of PASS (Joe Webb)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL PASS Summit, Seattle 2009 – Day 3 (Pinal Dave)
• The Underground at PDC (Tim Heuer)
• Upcoming US Events with Google Wave Presentations (Pamela Fox)

Database

• Don’t start your procedures with SP_ and Don’t prefix your table names with tbl (George Mastros)
• SQL 2008 – The Power of the MERGE Command (Michael Ceranski)
• Shocking news for SQL 2008 R2 (Simon Sabin)
• Test your Full Recovery model by restoring backups (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• Upgrading a SharePoint 2007 Publishing Site Master Page to SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Changes in Rendering (Andrew Connell)
• Pre-register for SharePoint 2010 Beta (Vasudev)

Miscellaneous

• Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac Upgraded to Support Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Google Chrome Converts User Scripts into Extensions (Alex Chitu)
• PayPal Releases PayPal X and Launches $50,000 Developer Challenge (Andres Ferrate)
• LiveLabs Thumbtack back from the dead (Dave Campbell)
• It takes real balls to do it right (Derik Whittaker) – Well-deserved kudos to JetBrains.
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/5 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• How to Make Zune-Compatible Movies with Movie Maker and Re-Install All Your Apps with One Click (Sarah Perez)
• November’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Gmail: Choose which messages get downloaded for offline use (Maria Khomenko)
• New Enterprise PKI Management Console (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #470 and The Morning Brew #471 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 04, 2009 — #725 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Nov-2009 and Tech Tweets for 5-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #577 and Double Shot #578 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links (11/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• SharePoint 2010 Development Resources (Mike Walker)
• Arturo’s Top 20 Resources for Learning Silverlight/Blend (Mike Taulty)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• New Article by Bill Wagner on Dynamic Method Bags in C# 4.0 (Charlie Calvert)
• Windows Azure, MSBuild, and Lotsa Files! (David Lemphers)
• Visual Studio 2010: UML modeling projects (Gunnar Peipman)
• VM Workshop – The multifactor, multifaceted, open source, example MVVM app in Silverlight, WPF, WebForms, ASP.NET MVC, Ajax, WinForms flavors (all in both C# & VB too) (Greg Duncan)
• F# under the covers VII (Steve Gilham)
• Com interop in C# 4.0: Indexed Properties (Sam Ng)
• TFS Build Agent and MSBuild Running the VS 2005 version of MSTest when it should be VS 2008 (James Allderidge)
• Workaround for Add-Member on plain .Net objects (Tianjie ‘James’ Wei)

Web Development

• Examining ASP.NET 2.0’s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 17 (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET MVC View Model Patterns (Steve Michelotti)
• Using jQuery validation with ASP.NET WebForms (Dave Ward)
• jQuery Enlightenment eBook Review (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas – Part 3 (Eric Hexter)
• Html Encoding Nuggets With ASP.NET MVC 2 (Phil Haack)
• Tip#99: Did you know… You can now install new Media and Developer Tools products with Web PI v2 RTW? (Katerina Rohonyan)
• Use iframes with XHTML 1.0 Strict (Mads Kristensen)
• Use Keyboard Shortcuts to Create Tooltips for Forms using jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• MVC – Spark, The Alternative View Engine (Michael Ceranski)
• GridView and Updating a Row Manually (Dave M. Bush)
• MVC Application Extensibility with MVC Turbine (Javier G. Lozano) – Link of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Transparency 101: Basic Transparency Rules (Shawn Farkas)
• Turtles and Architecture (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Data Driven Engineering: Tracking Usage to Make Decisions (Peter Koss-Nobel)
• Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control are not rocket surgery (Scott Koon)

Silverlight / WPF

• Integrated Security With Silverlight And WCF (Davy Brion)
• XAML: Gradients (Deborah Kurata)
• WPF Sample: Convert HTML to XAML (and Back) (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The WPF Starter Kit – A simple, barebones, pick it up in an afternoon, MVVM/Navigation/Commanding Framework (Greg Duncan)
• Client App Dev MVP releases the Razre WPF Application Framework (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Introduction to WPF 4 Multitouch (Jaime Rodriguez)
• NBC Winter Olympics on Silverlight (Larry Larsen)
• Quick tip: Snooping WPF application with elevated permissions (Laurent Bugnion)
• New WPF Features: Script Interop in Xbap (Lester Lobo)
• Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – TabbedThumbnail (Part 2) and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Progress (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Erik Meijer and Burton Smith – Concurrency, Parallelism and Programming (Charles Torre)
• This Week in Testing – Episode 2 – Lamest Test (Roy Osherove & Gil Zilberfeld)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 011 – Steve Marx on Windows Azure (Eric Nelson)
• Lazy Optimized Resource Initialization (Phil Pennington)
• BizTalk Server, SOA and the Shift to the Cloud (1/2) (Richard Seroter)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Scott Guthrie Full Length Interview (Tina Wood)
• Channel 9: Dynamic in C# (Sam Ng)
• PDC09 Workshop: Developing Quality Software Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Robert Hess)
• Discriminated Unions in F# (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• Billy McCafferty talking about S#arp Architecture on Nov 4 (Zachariah Young)
• Day Zero of PASS (Pre-conference seminar with Kim Tripp) (Joe Webb)
• Stephen Toub Tour – Parallel Computing Resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• Windows 7 Bootcamp at PDC 09 (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft to show Office Mobile 2010 at TechEd Europe (Sumeeth Evans)
• The $10k Code Challenge (Mitch Pronschinske)
• StackOverflow DevDays in London (Simone Chiaretta)

Database

• SQL Server Trigonometric Functions (Richard Carr)
• PowerShell 101 for the DBA: Managing Server Configuration via PowerShell Part 1 (Josh Jones)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter and SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Editions Announced (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Doing SharePoint 2010 Development – What’s in your rig? and Upgrading a SharePoint 2007 Publishing Site Master Page to SharePoint 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Free SharePoint 2010 1 Day Developer Workshops and SharePoint 2010 Developer Resources (John Wiese)

Miscellaneous

• Exchange Server 2010 Help (MS Downloads)
• Google Chrome Converts User Scripts into Extensions (Alex Chitu)
• MSN and Bing – a Match Made in Redmond (Kristin Meldahl)
• Microsoft’s Aaron Margosis Updates His "LUA Buglight" Tool for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Virtu-Al PowerPack – A must-have tool for VMware (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• What Microsoft won’t tell you about Windows 7 licensing (Ed Bott)
• Note to Self: Learn PowerShell by using it. Do one PS thing a day… (Greg Duncan)
• ThoughtWorks Studios Rolls Out New Version Of Mingle, Integrates With Google Wave (Leena Rao)
• VHD Attach enables right-click mounting and dismounting of VHD files in Windows 7 (Lee Mathews)
• IASA Group releases Certified IT Architect Professional (CITA-P) (Mike Walker)
• Resume, resume…What did I do with that resume? (Lisa Olson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #469 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2009 — #723 and Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2009 – 2 — #724 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 3, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• An RSS Dashboard in F#, part one (Brian McNamara)
• New Article on Detecting Memory Leaks . NET Applications and CSharp “How Do I Videos (Podcasts)” for the Zune Software (Charlie Calvert)
• Questionnaire DSL with Microsoft "Oslo" (Chris Sells)
• Awesome F# – Decision Trees – Part II (Chris Smith)
• IronRuby 0.9.2 (Jim Deville)
• When NHibernate Won’t Do What You Think It Should (Jak Charlton)
• Touch and Gestures (Jason Ipock) – Link of the Day
• T4 Template Goodness (Sacha Barber)
• Result of my survey on the usage of ORM Frameworks in .NET (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• I Love FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies! (Peter Kellner)
• Concurrent Visualization Techniques in the VS2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)
• Prioritizing CSLA .NET work items (Rockford Lhotka)
• Encrypting and Decrypting Data Using X.509 Certificates (Joel Ross)
• Simple names are not so simple (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• November 2009 JavaScript Magazine is now available! (Michael Kimsal)
• Walking through a new Web Application in Visual Studio 2010 (.NET 4.0) (Jef Claes)
• Ambiguous References in DefaultWsdlHelpGenerator.aspx (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas – Part 2 (Eric Hexter)
• Using ASP.NET and Jcrop to crop images online (Gunnar Peipman)
• MvcMaps Preview 1 – A Unified Bing/Google Maps API for ASP.NET MVC (Chris Pietschmann)
• Implementing KeyBoard Shortcuts on an ASP.NET Hyperlink Control using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Access a Control by ID From Within a Databound Control (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The bouncer pattern (Sebastian Hermida)
• Form – Storm – Norm – Perform (Jason Grundy)
• The 7 signs your UI was created by a programmer (Ian Voyce)
• Book Review: “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know” (Will Kelly)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 7 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: a nice basket of low-hanging fruit (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Emergence in Development Teams (Jurgen Appelo)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Let’s use it. (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 8 (Michael Feathers) (Mark H. Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Building a Zune Website with Expression Blend 3 StarterKit (MS Downloads)
• Customers using Prism and Prism release for Silverlight 3.0 (Blaine Wastell)
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and SL 3.0 (Bob Brumfield)
• As the platform evolves, so do the workarounds [Better SetterValueBindingHelper makes Silverlight Setters better-er!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight From Zero (Jesse Liberty)
• New WPF Feature: Binding to Dynamic Objects (Lester Lobo)
• LINQ shortcut when using Silverlight and ADO .NET Data Services (Stephen Forte)
• Frame Rates (Kirupa Chinnathambiis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Vittorio Bertocci authenticates us with WIF (Carl Franklin)
• Channel 9 Learning Centers Offer Developers Free Training (Bruce Kyle)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 008 – Gary Short on using XAF to build WebForm and WinForm apps (Eric Nelson)
• First Look: Microsoft “Health Tech Today” (Bill Crounse, MD)
• Ping 36: Zune, Seth MacFarlane, voice recognition, Impatient Optimists (Laura Foy)
• Talking Architects – Neil Ward-Dutton (Matt Deacon)
• endpoint.tv – High Performance WCF .NET Stock Trader with Greg Leake (Ron Jacobs)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #150: Adding IoC Support to your WCF Services (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• Stack Overflow Careers: Amplifying Your Awesome (Jeff Atwood)
• More Twitter List goodies: official list widgets! (Jay Hathaway)
• Events This Week – November 2nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• A week of Monospace and Innotech (Gary Sherman)
• November Conferences (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft December Developer Dinner for Partners – Parallel Computing for Managed Developers (Joel Reyes)
• CodeMash 2010 Registration Open! (Jim Holmes)

Database

• How to get the most out of 96 cores (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation / Resources (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint Designer 2010 New Shell Tour (Kolby Hoover)

Miscellaneous

• The Complete Guide to Google Wave Is a Comprehensive Book on Wave (Adam Pash)
• Clicky is Google Analytics all grown up (Jason Clarke)
• WaveSandbox.com: Federate This (Pamela Fox)
• UI Extensibility in Office 2010 (Mirko Mandic)
• Windows 7 SP1 details begin to surface (Steven Bink)
• Google opens up Wave federation (Tom Krazit)
• 10 Things I am Loving About Windows 7 (Chris Lentz)
• Microsoft, what is the meaning of this? (Rob Eisenberg) – A curious email from MS about Azure.
• Lightweight (Kimberly Wolk) – A new look for MSDN.
• HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists (Josh Catone)
• PowerPack Challenge: The Winning Strategy (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Download ten free Windows 7 chapters (Devon Musgrave)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #468 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: November 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/2/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 02, 2009 — #722 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #96 (David Vidmar)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/02/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Double Shot #575 and Double Shot #574 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 387 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Some quick F# notes… (Brian McNamara)
• .Net Framework 4.0: VB.NET supports automatic properties (Gunnar Peipman)
• The ADO.NET Providers team wants to hear your opinion (Luiz Santos)
• Interesting .Net 4 thing of the day: String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace() (Greg Duncan)
• VS2010 Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Collaboration… MyFavoriteNamspace (Clemens Reijnen)
• What’s new in CLR via C#, 3rd Edition as compared to the 2nd Edition (Jeffrey Richter)
• Dynamic Help Removed From Visual Studio 2010 (Lee Dumond) – Link of the Day
• Learning Scala via C# Part 3 – Getting Loopy (Justin Etheredge)
• C# can now consume indexed properties (Bill Wagner)
• Using WCF with SQL Azure and Telerik OpenAccess (Stephen Forte)
• NHibernate feature: SaveOrUpdateCopy & Merge (Torkel Ödegaard)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 2: Accelerometer as a Joystick (Pete Brown)

Web Development

• A Sign Of The Times: The First Foreclosure API (Adam DuVander)
• ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas via MvcContrib (Eric Hexter)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture manifesto (Simon Brown)
• What kind of logging should you do in production? (Oren Eini)
• How to create, edit and playback CodedUI Tests in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Charles Sterling)
• Constructor Injection vs Setter Injection (Davy Brion)
• Using Kuler to create color themes (Garr Reynolds)
• 5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization (Mark Suster)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part VI: It’s Okay To Disagree (Patrick Kua)
• Should I use MEF with an IoC container? – Part 1 (Glenn Block)
• Random Thoughts On Truly Remarkable Story Telling – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Business Data Connectivity Model – Finder Method (Nick Swan)
• State Pattern, Enumeration Class and Fluent NHibernate (Oh my!) (Richard Cirerol)
• Search and Messaging (Udi Dahan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 128: The Upgrade Conundrum (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Mark Pollack on Architecture Refactoring (Bob Familiar)
• Major Nelson Show #337: DJ Hero, MUA2, Lego Rock Band and MW2 (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 90 – PowerScripting Podcast – SCOM with Jeremy Pavleck and Scott Moss with guest host Jonathan Medd (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Recommended books – part II (Roy Osherove)

Community / Events

• Countdown to Microsoft PDC 2009 – part 1 (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• Evan Light’s Road Trip (Corey Haines)

Database

• Installing sql server express 2008 is easier than it used to be and Installing SQL server Express 2008 Management Studio (Christiaan Baes)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Brings Windows 7’s DirectX 11 to Windows Vista (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/2 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Google Wave Guide: User Manual Released for Wave (Pete Cashmore)
• 15+ great Google Chrome extensions (Lee Matthews)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 1, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #467 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #77 (Grant Palin)
• Links (11/1/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 117 (Rhonda Tipton)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Character Testing with the Char Structure (Richard Carr)
• Linq to SQL Profiler – Progress (Oren Eini)
• RichTextBox Styles (Deborah Kurata)
• Awesome F# – Decision Trees – Part I (Chris Smith)
• Creating Launcher Scripts for IronRuby (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Irony (Kirill Osenkov) – Link of the Day
• Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 3 (Chris Patterson)
• Sweet State Machine DSL in "M" (Chris Sells)
• T4 Preprocessed Text Templates in Visual Studio 2010 (Karl Shifflett)
• CSLA .NET 3.8.0 Beta 3 available (Rockford Lhotka)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates (Brad Wilson)
• Writing cache based repositories for web application prototyping (Gunnar Peipman)
• Add an Image Command Field to a GridView at Runtime in ASP.NET (Deepak Choudhari)
• Search and Filter Items of an ASP.NET DropDownList using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• JavaScript class browser: once again with jQuery (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Mvc Turbine v2 RC (Javier G. Lozano)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Oye! Oye! New poppendieck book now available (Christophe Louvion)
• A Culture of Blame (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Spontaneous combustion (Eric Brechner)
• Should I use MEF with an IoC container? – Part 1 (Glenn Block)
• Review: The Art of Unit Testing (Grant Palin)
• Book Review: Enterprise Service Bus (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• MVP Releases BizUnit on CodePlex! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Development Methodology "Renovation" (Jeff Perrin)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Now ! (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Coding: Invariant checking on dependency injected components and Coding: Copy/Paste then refactor (Mark Needham)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 19. (Rajiv Popat)
• NHProf and Caliburn Testability (Rob Eisenberg)
• Question on Module Design (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XV: Patterns and Antipatterns (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Silverlight / WPF

• Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight – October 2009 (MS Downloads)
• WPF’s CollectionViewSource (Beatriz Costa)
• Random Rectangles in Silverlight (using WriteableBitmap) (Charles Petzold)
• Essential Silverlight 3 (Dave M. Bush) – Dave’s review of the Apress title.
• New WPF Features: LayoutRounding (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: Asli Bilgin, Halloween, VS2010, and community events (Dan Fernandez)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 009 – Tom Quinn discusses Test Doubles, Mocking and Coding Dojos (Eric Nelson)
• Office Casual – Jott (Tina)
• Engadget Podcast 169 – 10.31.2009 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Expression Blend Twitter List (Adam Kinney)
• MSDN and TechNet Live Present: Highlights from "The New Efficiency" Launch (Denny Boynton)
• MSDN Roadshows Coming to a City Near You (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Recap from the Microsoft Women’s Conference 2009 (Sara Ford)

Database

• Deploying Reporting Services reports using msbuild (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Authority News – Advanced T-SQL with Itzik Ben-Gan – Solid Quality Mentors (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Bing for mobile now live at m.bing.com (Justin Jed)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/10/31 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Happy Hallo-Wave-een! (Pamela Fox)
• Multitouch Fingerpaint in 30 Lines of PowerShell Script (Larry Larsen)
• SkyDrive Explorer adds 25gb of free cloud storage to Windows Explorer and Microsoft Security Essentials rated best free antivirus for Windows (Lee Mathews)
• Why I switch services so often (why I don’t use Google Reader anymore) (Robert Scoble)
• Sending Automated emails with Send-MailMessage, ConvertTo-HTML, and the PowerShellPack’s TaskScheduler module (James Brundage)
• Tools we use for running our startup (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Microsoft and their huge problem in the clouds – A Response To Krishnan’s Take (Alex Espinoza)
• Windows 7 with BitLocker and Still Booting To VHD and Using a Bluetooth Jawbone Headset for BT-Audio (Microphone or Speakers) on Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Unfinished Windows 7 Feature Turns Laptops Into Wi-Fi Hotspots (Sumeeth Evans)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 31, 2009 — #721 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 30-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 10.25 ~ 10.31 (yuanjian)
• Links for the Week of 2009.10.30 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 30th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Interesting Post… 10/26/2009 through 10/31/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Double Shot #573 (Mike Gunderloy)

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