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.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate and Composite Keys (Anne Epstein)
• PDC09 Downloader Source Code (Frank La Vigne)
• Visual Studio 2010: Generating sequence diagrams on the fly (Gunnar Peipman)
• IntelliTrace: A graphical comparison (Habib Heydarian)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 2- The Repository (Julie Lerman)
• NHibernate Event Listener Registration With Fluent NHibernate (Rob Reynolds)
• Microsoft Surface SDK opens doors to all (Vladislav Savov)

Web Development

• T4MVC 2.5.01: added support for Html.RenderAction and Html.Action (David Ebbo)
• ASP.NET MVC: Creating reports using Chart control (Gunnar Peipman)
• Lot’s of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP this week (Bill Staples)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kitchen Agile (Leon Bambrick)
• CQRS – The Domain Events (Mark Nijhof)
• Managing to the Constraint (Mike Cottmeyer)
• User Interface Design Is Not About Lorem Ipsum And Pretty Boxes. (Rajiv Popat)
• Take 3: Python, ISP, IoC, and OCP need a fundamental rethink. (Ryan Svihla)
• What’s all this nonsense about Katas? (Uncle Bob Martin) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• SketchFlow: Including Multiple Tab Content In Word Export (Christian Schormann)
• WCF RIA Services – What you need to know when creating DTO/Presentation Model (Fredrik Normén)
• Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight 4 Fluid UI (Jesse Liberty)
• Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I (Karl Shifflett)
• XAML 2009 Features: FactoryMethod\Arguments (Lester Lobo)
• Debugging Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Applications (Mike Taulty)
• The big Silverlight 4 Question (Peter Bromberg)
• EdgeCam – Silverlight 4 Webcam & Edge Detection Shader (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA) (Jossie Tirado)
• Life at Microsoft: The truth revealed…again! (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 – Out of Browser Evolves (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• PDC09 Session Downloader (Frank La Vigne)
• PDC09 RSS feed file for your podcast catcher of choice (i.e. Grab all the PDC sessions for your Zune, Reader, FeedDemon, etc) (Greg Duncan)
• PDC ‘09: Three Screens and a Cloud, Pt. 1 – Azure (David Makogon)
• Why I like Steven Sinofsky (Stephen Forte)
• Shut Up and Build Something (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• SQL Server String Index Functions (Richard Carr)
• Procedures with cursors and Missing foreign key constraints (George Mastros)
• First sighting of SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) (Jamie Thomson)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 for Oracle DBA (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• The Search Developer Story in SharePoint 2010 – Query Interfaces (Arnt Schøning)
• BCS Meta Man Alpha Release (BCS Meta Man Team)

Miscellaneous

• Testing for PowerShell Remoting: Test-PsRemoting (Lee Holmes)
• Fixing Search Results: PowerShell 2.0 is RTM (Joel Bennett)
• Azure and Hardware (Bill Evjen)
• Systems Management with NetPoint and PowerGUI (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Why Chrome OS Will Succeed (in a limited market) (Eric Anderson)
• MVPs Release Windows 7 Resource Kit (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Twitter in a Dead End (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Why Google Chrome OS has already won (Robert Scoble)
• Foobar2000 v1.0 Beta — holy crap, it’s finally here! (Sebastian Anthony)
• BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Announced (Sam Gentile)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 20, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2009 — #737 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for the Week 2009.11.20 (Jeremiah Peschka)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Depends vs Call, Do you know and understand the difference in NAnt? (Derik Whittaker)
• IntelliTrace: A graphical comparison (Habib Heydarian)
• Introducing: The Agatha Project (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft Surface SDK opens doors to all (Vladislav Savov)
• Integrating Traditional .NET MSMQ Application with Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 using MsmqIntegrationBinding (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 1- Model and POCO Classes (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation (Phil Haack)
• Visualize your Twitter Timeline with jQuery and SIMILE (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A better Model Binder addendum (Jimmy Bogard)
• There’s Lazy Loading, And Then There’s Lazy Coding (Davy Brion)
• Always write a spec, part one (Eric Lippert)
• Buy Bad Code Offsets Today! (Jeff Atwood)
• MSpec latest build download now available (Aaron Jensen)
• The Danger of Single Responsibility in Programming Continued (David Cooksey)
• Programmer Tip: A ‘Large’ Project Means Nothing. (Rajiv Popat)
• Take 2: Why we use SOLID in static languages and how we get the same functionality for cheap in dynamic languages (Ryan Svihla)
• NDepend — a belated "kicking the tyres" review (Steve Gilham)
• Design Patterns Are Not Outdated (Steve Rowe)

Silverlight / WPF

• Application Library Caching – November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit and BusyIndicator: David Poll’s ActivityControl is now in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Release and Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser … plus a tutorial (Jeff Wilcox)
• MVVM and Prism Demo for PDC09 Silverlight Session (John Papa)
• WCF RIA Services and DTO with association (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight 4 WebCam – at a glance (Corey Schuman) – Link of the Day
• Sharing Blend Workspace Settings (Andy Beaulieu)
• Wrox Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference Book Review (Joel Cochran)
• Fishbowl for Facebook Using the Windows 7 Taskbar for Extra Spice (Yochay Kiriaty)
• RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 3 & 4 Library Sharing with .NET 4.0 Library or WPF (Karl Shifflett)
• XAML 2009 Features: Generics Support (Lester Lobo)
• The big Silverlight 4 Question (Peter Bromberg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Connected Show Podcast: Who’s Exception is it? (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 8 of 13 and Wes Dyer and Stephen Toub: Rx and Px – Working Together and Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 – Out of Browser Evolves (Charles Torre)
• Video of my Prism and MVVM at PDC (John Papa)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09 Mike Anguilo (Nic Fillingham)
• ThirstyDeveloper Podcast – John Bristowe on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• Stackoverflow Overflow (Bob Nadler)
• PDC 2009 Day 3: Lighting Up Windows Server 2008 R2 Using the ConcRT on UMS and PDC 2009 Day 3: Developing Applications for Scale-Up Servers Running Windows Server 2008 R2 and PDC 2009 Day 3: DirectCompute: Capturing the Teraflop and PDC 2009 Day 3: Power Tools for Debugging and PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie (Sasha Goldshtein)
• XAML UI (WPF + Silverlight) Momentum shown at PDC09! (Rob Relyea)

Database

• Get 25% Off SQL Server E-Learning from Microsoft (Brad M. McGehee)
• Where is the next Access? (Ian Cooper)
• Collation conflicts with temp tables and table variables. (George Mastros)
• Geek City: Intent to Update (Kalen Delaney)
• RoundhousE: Version Your Database (Rob Reynolds)
• To BUILTIN\Admin or not to BUILTIN\Admin (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Expert SQL Server 2008 Encryption by Michael Coles (Pinal Dave)
• Code Name Houston: New SQL Azure Developer Tool (Stephen Forte)
• GUIDs: Not Necessarily Unique (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – It finally has an official name! (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Releasing the Chromium OS open source project (Caesar Sengupta)
• Hello, open source developers. Would you like to help build an operating system for web users? (Ian Fette)
• No Telecommuting Allowed! (Jim Lynch)
• Windows PowerShell and the Windows Management Framework (Lee Holmes)
• Open XML: One Year In (Shawn Villaron)
• My Google Wave Wish List: The Document Collaboration Edition (Will Kelly)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #481 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 — #735 and Silverlight Cream for November 19, 2009 – 2 — #736 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 19-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (11/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Projects: Packaging Your Build (Grant Palin)
• Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) (Somasegar)
• Data Dude moving into lower priced VS Editions in VS 2010 – excellent! (Kimberly Tripp)
• Diagnosing Toolbox Filtering Errors (Josh)
• Give us more control of Intellisense (Peter Blum)
• MPI Cluster debugger plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 (Joe Hummel)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Programming (Ferdinando Santacroce)
• Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit and Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1 Samples (codename "Dublin" and codename "Velocity") (MS Downloads)
• Feature Request For Visual Studio 2010: Local Revision History (Tuna Toksoz)
• New Windows API Code Pack Version (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part V (Matthew Podwysocki)
• NHibernate Event Listener Registration With Fluent NHibernate (Rob Reynolds)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Adding Statistical Formulas (Scott Mitchell)
• Html.RenderAction and Html.Action (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET 4.0: Writing custom output cache providers (Gunnar Peipman)
• An Early Look At IE9 for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Azure to Feature App Marketplace (Mitch Pronschinske)
• HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer (Mikhail Arkhipov)
• Translating your content title using Google Translate API to use in a URL (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Is Windows Azure the Right Technology for the Future? (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• There’s Lazy Loading, And Then There’s Lazy Coding (Davy Brion)
• Two controllers, type conformance and the Liskov Substitution Principle (Mark Needham)
• Call for help with MSpec and MSpec v0.3 (Aaron Jensen)
• Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Class Design and Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Projecting Projections (Howard Dierking)
• The Demise of the Test Lab – An Ode to when Testers worked in test labs (Ken Johnston)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Trusted Applications and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Camera and Microphone Support and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: HTML Hosting in the WebBrowser Control and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: RichTextArea and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Clipboard Access and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Silverlight as a Drop Target and Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Managed Extensibility Framework (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight 4 Debuts with Killer Demos at PDC09 and RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development (Nikhil Kothari)
• I Think Silverlight just ate WPF from the inside (Bill Wagner)
• Rundown of Silverlight 4 Beta Features and 6 Hands on Labs (Adam Kinney) – Link of the Day
• Silverlight 4 all about Media, Business Applications and calling your COM objects as trusted application! (Al Pascual)
• WPF: Still Alive and Kicking (Frank La Vigne)
• New WPF Features: SynchronizedInputPattern (Lester Lobo)
• Is WCF RIA Services ready for the Enterprise? and Silverlight 4 Commanding enables ViewModels (Fredrik Normén)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.5 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight 4 Gets Top Requested Features (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Fishbowl – THE Windows FaceBook client? (Greg Duncan)
• Data Binding Changes in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 4 Beta Announced! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 4 Beta, RIA Services… and Beer! and Silverlight 4 Beta: Implicit Styles (Andy Beaulieu)
• Welcome to WCF RIA Services Beta! (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight 4 Beta is out – and the Toolkit has it covered! [Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 release now available for Silverlight 3 and 4!] (David Anson)
• Enabling Validation in Silverlight 4 with IDataErrorInfo (John Papa)
• WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4 Beta (Tomasz Janczuk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta with Phil Haack (Scott Hanselman)
• IE 9: First look at the new JS Engine and IE 9: Standards and Interoperability and IE 9: Surfing on the GPU with D2D and GalaxyZoo: Citizen Science for Classifying Galaxies (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #74 (Jeff Atwood)
• Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Silverlight 4 Podcast Pack with Tim Heuer (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• This Week in Test Episode 4 – Animals that Talk Back (Dror Helper & Gil Zilberfeld)
• Introducing the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta (James Senior)
• Internet Explorer 9 Screenshots and Video Demo (Taimur Asad)

Community / Events

• MSDN Radio 18 Nov – PDC09, samtal runt tunnan (Dag König)
• PDC 2009 – Day 2, Keynote (Dave Bost)
• PDC09 Keynote Day 2 – Silverlight 4.0 and Free Laptops?! (Rick Minerich)
• PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Steven Sinofsky and PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie and PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Kurt DellBene and PDC 2009 Day 2: Microsoft Perspectives on the Future of Programming and PDC 2009 Day 2: Future of Garbage Collection and PDC 2009 Day 2: The State of Parallel Programming and PDC 2009 Day 2: Developing with the Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework and PDC 2009 Day 1: Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Silverlight Tour Now Includes Silverlight 4! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• My Introduction to Castle Winsor for IoC Session Scheduled for NotAtPDC (Steve Bohlen)
• Shut up and build something (Sara J. Chipps)
• Silverlight 4 beta released at #PDC09 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Microsoft PDC09 day 2 keynote highlights (Maarten Balliauw)
• PDC 2009: Recap Day 1, what’s on the menu for Day 2? (Sunshine)
• PDC Day One, working the halls (Kip Kniskern)
• Live from LA: Day One with the Surface Team at PDC (Kyle R. Warnick)
• Pablo’s Fiesta Open Space Conference (Chad Myers)
• December Headspring workshop: Decoupling Layers using Inversion of Control (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Understanding Table Hints with Examples (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server collation conflicts (George Mastros)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Public Beta is now available for download and Path to User Profile Synchronization success in SharePoint 2010 Beta (SharePoint Team)
• FYI – Interesting Little Bug in VS 2010 Beta 2 when working with the SharePoint 2010 Silverlight Client Object Model (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates Office Filter Packs for Windows 7 & Office 2010 Beta and Advantages & Disadvantages of Microsoft Office 2010 64-Bit Version (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/19 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Pivot: The latest technology from Live Labs (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Enters Beta (Will Kelly)
• Office Mobile 7 UI Prototype Image on Microsoft.com (Stephen Chapman)
• Office Mobile 2010 – BETA (Steven Bink)
• Is IIS 7 Console Based on PowerShell? (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Careers Employer Beta Underway (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 18, 2009, Part 2 and Interesting Finds: November 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for Nov 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #480 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets from 18-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 392 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2009 — #734 (Dave Campbell)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit and Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1 Samples (codename "Dublin" and codename "Velocity") (MS Downloads)
• Vs2010 IntelliTrace and Entity Framework Database Interaction (Julie Lerman)
• Tailspin Travel (Jonathan Carter)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/18 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Dublin Becomes Windows AppFabric! (Sam Gentile)
• Building Applications for Windows Azure (Somasegar)
• Windows Identity Foundation Ships! (Vittorio Bertocci)
• Programming Windows 7 Using Visual Studio 2010 (Yochay Kiriaty) – Link of the Day
• Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) released on DevLabs (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Awesome .NET 4: Named and Optional Parameters for Classes and Methods (Tom Hearn)
• Visual Studio 2010 – Visual Basic New Feature – NonSerialized Events (Karl Shifflett)
• Breaking up with the ternary operator (Matt Hinze)
• Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Adding Statistical Formulas (Scott Mitchell)
• Twitter Word Cloud Visualization with Google API (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released (Phil Haack)
• Windows Azure now supports various OS image types (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Cascading DropDownLists With ASP.NET and jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer (John Resig)
• Pass Number 1: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET (Rob Conery)
• The AJAX UpdatePanel Is it your worst enemy? (Kevin Jones)
• What Dynamic Data REALLY Is and Is building apps with Dynamic Data faster? (Peter Blum)
• ASP.NET Google SPDY Tweaks (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Start with the big picture (Simon Brown)
• Reducing friction as a standard operating method (Oren Eini)
• Semi-literate Programming and 8 Pieces of Architectural Advice for CMS (Michael Krakovskiy)
• The SOA Manifesto (Josh Twist)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 9 (Michael Feathers) and The ’should’ word (Mark Needham)
• How We Do Things – The Team Room (Scott C. Reynolds)

Silverlight / WPF

• The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight™/WPF™ version 1.1 is now available. (Al Pascual)
• Using the FluidMove Behavior (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs (Deborah Kurata)
• WPF : A True WPF Browser Control That Can Bend It Like Beckham (Sacha Barber)
• TOP 10 LIST: Silverlight for Games (Andy Beaulieu)
• New WPF Features: PixelShader3 Support (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Lev Novik on the Microsoft Sync Framework (Carl Franklin)
• Introducing "Dallas" and Building on Azure: KBB.com and Building on Azure: Siemens and Buidling on Azure: OriginDigital and Erik Meijer: Rx in 15 Minutes – Rx is Here!!!!! and Getting Started with Rx Extensions for .NET and Manuvir Das: Windows Azure One Year Later (Charles Torre)
• Code Cast 34 – David Starr Sells Out to the Man (David Starr)
• Writing your first Rx Application and Reactive Extensions API in depth: intro (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• 30 “Quick Hit” Videos for folks that couldn’t join us at PDC (Joe Stagner)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #152: Introduction to MEF, Getting rolling with basic usage (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• PDC09 – A Call to Dream (Nikhil Kothari)
• A Quick Rundown of PDC 2009 Day 1 Announcements (Me)
• Internet Explorer 9 to be Announced at PDC (Muhammad Ali)
• Coding4Fun at PDC! (Coding4Fun)
• Microsoft PDC 09: Day 1 (Dan Rigsby)
• PDC 2009 – Day 1, Keynote (Dave Bost)
• Are you a poet? Compose a Haiku and Win! (Kim Spilker)
• Talking at #notatpdc about Blend 3 and SketchFlow (Laurent Bugnion)
• Gabriel Schenker introduction to NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate Part 2 (Zachariah Young)
• PDC 2009 Day 1: Keynote, Roy Ozzie and PDC 2009 Day 1: Keynote, Bob Muglia and PDC 2009 Day 1: Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic and PDC 2009 Day 1: Concurrency Fuzzing & Data Races and PDC 2009 Day 1: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Changes and PDC 2009 Day 1: Data-Intensive Computing on Windows HPC Server with the DryadLINQ Framework and PDC 2009 Day 1: Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests (Sasha Goldshtein)
• PDC 2009 Day 1, post-keynote: What are we learning so far? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Live from LA: Day One with the Surface Team at PDC (Kyle R. Warnick)
• PDC09 Keynote: Open Source, Open Platforms and the Democratization of Data (Rick Minerich)
• PDC 2009: Recap Day 1, what’s on the menu for Day 2? (Sunshine)

Database

• SQL Server Substring Functions (Richard Carr)
• Don’t use text datatype for SQL 2005 and up (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table – A Puzzle to Find Index Size for Each Index on Table (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Managing Permissions in SharePoint 2007 (Lightning Tools)
• New SharePoint 2010 Architecture Models (Mike Walker)
• Introducing SharePoint 2010 (Beta) (Zhiming Xue)

Miscellaneous

• Advantages & Disadvantages of Microsoft Office 2010 64-Bit Version (Blake Handler)
• Office Mobile 2010 to come with WM 6.5 devices exclusively (Phone Arena Team)
• How to Work From Home During Chaotic Repairs (Celine Roque)
• Explore images with Google Image Swirl, now in Labs (Aparna Chennapragada)
• Your Office in the Clouds: The Best Online Virtual Desktops (Doriano "Paisano" Carta)
• Upcoming Free Xbox LIVE Weekends (Larry Hyrb)
• Ray Ozzie is wrong about smartphone apps (Robert Scoble)
• Windows 8: More Roadmaps (Stephen Chapman)
• We need a language for programmers (Scott Koon)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #479 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2009 — #734 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Microsoft PDC09 keynote highlights (Maarten Balliauw)
• New and Notable 391 (Sam Gentile)
• Links from the PDC09 (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Interesting Finds: November 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Text Sharp – Visual Studio 2010 text clarity tuner (Sergey Vlasov)
• Code Name Dublin Tutorials (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft donates .NET Micro Framework to open source (Gavin Clarke)
• Linq to Sql profiler – transactions (Oren Eini)
• Pluralsight On-Demand! v2.0 released today (Aaron Skonnard)
• XNA Role Playing Game (RPG) Starter Kit (Coding4Fun)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Testing Asynchronous Client-Side Usage and Request/Response Service Layer: Conclusions (Davy Brion)
• Creating something from nothing – and knowing it [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET refined!] (David Anson)
• Closing over the loop variable, part two (Eric Lippert)
• NHunspell – 0.9.2 released and two cool C# & VB.Net Code Projects too (Greg Duncan)
• Fun with LINQ Aggregate (Mike Hadlow)
• Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Azure Summary (Tony Rasa)
• Creating Windows 7 Multitouch Applications (Zhiming Xue)
• Why Future should be in your future (Jason Grundy)

Web Development

• Making ASP.NET MVC Actions be Transactional By Default (Scott Kirkland)
• T4MVC 2.5.00 update: multiple output files and minified javascript support (David Ebbo)
• Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way (Jeff Atwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Remove dependencies inside one iteration (Andy Singleton)
• Usability and Touch (Jason Ipock)
• Teach an Old Dog New Tricks: How to Break Bad Work Habits (Karen Leland)
• Applied Modularity – Part 1 (Kirk Knoernschild)
• The Extensible Test Runner You’ve Been Waiting For (Mark Miller)
• UX Design Tools & Techniques (Jeffrey Dunn)
• Back to Basics: Usage of Static (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• How to deal with bad decisions made by the team and How to start agile development in your team (Roy Osherove)
• I recant my IoC! IoC containers in dynamic languages are silly. (Ryan Svihla)

Silverlight / WPF

• Learning Prism (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) MVVM Fundamentals (Damian Schenkelman)
• Reproducing a WPF memory leak (Oren Eini)
• Silverlight’s CollectionViewSource (Bea Stollnitz)
• Updates made to WPF graphing application (Josh Smith)
• How to create a Module based Silverlight application (Part 1) (Fredrik Normén)
• New WPF Features: UIA Virtualization (Lester Lobo)
• Double event firing in VB/XAML. How common? (Rob Relyea)
• A ChildWindow management service for MVVM applications (Andrea Boschin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: Web Application Security with Keith Brown (MS Podcasts)
• Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Part III (Charlie Calvert)
• Ping 38: Facebook SDK, MSN Video, Bing, Bill Gates, IE8 (Laura Foy)
• Silverlight Podcast: IIS7 Media Services 3.0 (Silverlight Team)
• Episode 92 – PowerScripting Podcast – The BSonPosh module with MVP Brandon Shell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Developers Meet at "Geek Heaven" in Los Angeles (MS PressPass)
• GiveCamp – Code for non-profits in your community (Andy Singleton)
• Developers, Architects Meet at PDC (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft PDC 2009 – Patterns of Parallel Programming Workshop (Doug Holland)
• Building extensible RIAs at PDC (Glenn Block)
• Not at PDC? You can still take part – Party Underground @ PDC, See the keynotes and more… (Greg Duncan)
• Make: Philly meeting November 22nd (Matt Mets)
• PDC week! Panel on OSS + ASP.NET (Bertrand Le Roy)
• PDC 2009 Day 0: Vista is through and PDC 2009: Scuttling huge chunks of Vista architecture for a faster Windows 7 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• PDC 2009: Day 0 (Paul Thurrott)
• Reporting Live from the Windows 7 Seminar: Boot Camp (Yochay Kiriaty)

Database

• Do not use the float data type (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – 2005 2008 – Backup, Integrity Check and Index Optimization By Ola Hallengren (Pinal Dave)
• Article of the Week – Kimberly L. Tripp (Partitioned Tables and Indexes) (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Free e-book: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Devon Musgrave)

SharePoint

• External Content Type in SharePoint Designer – SQL Server (Nick Swan)
• Automate Activation/Deactivation of SharePoint Features (Jim Holmes)
• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 1 – Introduction to the new List View (Greg Chan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft makes available new high performance Windows Server test build (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google Chrome Feed Preview (Alex Chitu)
• The High Cost of Losing a Developer (Dave Laribee)
• Social Software 2.0: Enterprise Process Ubiquity (Hutch Carpenter)
• Don Dodge Dumps Microsoft After it Dumps Him (Zoli Erdos)
• Office 2010 Beta Available for Download via MSDN and TechNet (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LVII (Charlie Calvert)
• The Morning Brew #478 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 16, 2009 — #733 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 16, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 16-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/16/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• New and Notable 390 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Self-Contained Entity Framework Models and ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Julie Lerman)
• Multi-Threaded K-Means Clustering in .NET 4.0 (Justin Etheredge)
• Fun with Linq Aggregate (Mike Hadlow)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part IV (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Asynchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
• Enabling Recomposition in MEF (Preview (Derik Whittaker)
• Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for the Entity Framework (EF Team)
• Partitioning Data Using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Windsor lazy loading (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Passionate Programmer Book Review (Louis Salin)
• A Gentle Nudge: Too Much Inspiration Is Highly Overrated. (Rajiv Popat)
• The Open/Closed Principle – A real world example (Joel Abrahamsson)
• "Mark my words, if you want to stay relevant and competitive in the coming years — I…" (Sebastian Hermida)
• Revisiting NAnt for Builds (Grant Palin)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF graph that detects circular dependencies (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 130: Trapped, Like Carrots (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com (Bob Familiar)
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio Beta 2, Part II (Charlie Calvert)
• Major Nelson Show #339: Getting Ready for Holiday 2009 (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• SketchFlow and Blend at PDC ‘09 (Christian Schormann)
• NotAtPDC is back! (Steve Andrews) – Link of the Day
• SQLAuthority News – Notes of Excellent Experience at SQL PASS 2009 Summit, Seattle (Pinal Dave)
• Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 Atlanta (Karl Scotland)

Database

• SQL Server Random Number Generation (Richard Carr)
• RoundhousE: Configuration (Rob Reynolds)

Miscellaneous

• I Can Do That With 1 Line of PowerShell: Installed Software (Jeffrey Snover)
• Signing PowerShell Scripts – Automatically (Joel Bennett)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/16 (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #477 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 15, 2009 — #732 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #97 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 11.09 ~ 11.16 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #79 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Finds: November 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (11/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 119 (Rhonda Tipton)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Linq to Sql Profiler is now on public beta (Oren Eini)
• Useful Query Editor Query – 1 (Jason Haley)
• "M" For Language Definition in November 2009 CTP (Chris Sells)
• Loading Enterprise Library validation rules from external file (Gunnar Peipman)
• Enum conversion. Why Oh Why? (Jason Jarrett)
• An Improved Entity Framework Tip for EF4 thanks to Zeeshan (Julie Lerman)
• Microsoft Surface SDK WE now available to MSDN Subscribers (Eric Havir)
• MPI Cluster Debugger launch integration in VS2010 (Daniel Moth)
• ADO.NET Data Services : Efficient Error Handling across Application Tiers (Phani Raj)
• November 2009 Release of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK (Sam Gentile)
• DevExpress 2009.3 Tools Released: CR_ClassCleaner, Refactor_UpdateNamespace, DX_SourceOutliner and More! and TDD Support Refactorings for CodeRush/Refactor!Pro: Refactor_MoveTypeToFileInProject (and more!) (Steve Bohlen)
• More Data Binding (David Fowler)

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4.0 – and semantic markup and ASP.NET 4.0 – New Project Templates (Mike Ormond)
• ASP.NET MVC: Validating objects using Enterprise Library validation application block (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using the jQuery UI Datepicker with ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates (Jason Grundy)
• Capturing and Transforming ASP.NET Output with Response.Filter (Rick Strahl)
• It’s Time for This: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET MVC (Rob Conery)
• Consuming a Portable Area with a Web Forms application (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Rotate ASP.NET Hyperlink Controls in the Same Position using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Anchor (Steven ‘Doc’ List) – Link of the Day
• DTO’s, DDD & The Anemic Domain Model (Jarod Ferguson)
• How to annoy your teammates (Jimmy Bogard)
• Code Coverage: What Is It Good For? (Dave Laribee)
• KiGG Design And Architecture – Part 1 The high level design (Muhammad Mosa)
• TDD: Combining the when and then steps and A reminder to talk to the rubber duck (Mark Needham)
• How We Do Things – Specification (Using the right tools) (Scott C Reynolds)
• Surviving Without Random Lies In The World Software Development. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Developer, developer, developer… (Dax Pandhi)
• MVVM – This might hurt a little… (Avi Pilosof)
• Prototype of OpenStreetMap Silverlight Control using DeepEarth and Bing Maps SDK (Chris Pietschmann)
• SketchFlow in the Real World (Frank La Vigne)
• A MVVM framework “…three hour tour…” (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight: Images (Deborah Kurata)
• The Silverlight HVP Spec (Jesse Liberty)
• Bug correction in Messenger and new feature in EventToCommand (MVVM Light Toolkit V3 alpha) (Laurent Bugnion)
• XAML 2009 Features: Named Object References (Lester Lobo)
• Magellan Installer (Paul Stovell)
• MVVM Study Part 4: Naked WPF (Rob Eisenberg)
• Silverlight: Avoid Caching When Using WebClient Class (Steve Pietrek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Erik Meijer and Patrick Dussud – Inside Garbage Collection and E2E: Erik Meijer and Dave Campbell: Data, Databases and the Cloud (Charles Torre)
• Videos: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 with Jim Nakashima (Charlie Calvert)
• TWC9: C9 Live at PDC, Teamprise, SDKs galore, (Dan Fernandez)
• Interviews at TechEd Europe 2009 – MVP Laurent Bugnion (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Using Web Service APIs in Your Apps (Twin Cities .NET User Group Talk Video) (John Sheehan)
• Engadget Podcast 171 – 11.13.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Announcing Channel 9 Live at PDC09 (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• Silverlight Developers Guide to PDC09 (Adam Kinney)
• IndyHall 201: How IndyHall Communicates with it’s Community (Alex Hillman)
• Small Milestone (Davy Brion) – Congrats, Davy!
• Author news: Steve McConnell speaking in Bellevue, WA (Devon Musgrave)
• Going to PDC09? Want to Meet the WPF Team? The WPF team will be at PDC ready to chat with you! (Jay)
• Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day Four (Jimmy Bosse)
• Skills Matter Lean and Kanban Exchange (Karl Scotland)
• PDC09: Pre-Conference Workshop on Silverlight 3 (Mike Taulty)
• PDC 2009 Preview: The move to Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 (Scott M. Fulton, III)

Database

• Geek City: UPDATE Locks (Kalen Delaney)
• Undetectable Distributed Deadlocks (Emtucifor)
• Identify procedures that call SQL Server undocumented procedures (George Mastros)
• SQL Server 2008 Enterprise feature coming to SQL Server Standard 2008 R2 – Backup Compression (Greg Duncan)
• SQLAuthority News – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server and SQL SERVER – Whitepaper Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• Beginning stages of a DR plan for SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• RoundhousE DB Migration: Action Shots (Rob Reynolds)

SharePoint

• Removing a Dead SharePoint Web Part (Charles Chen)

Miscellaneous

• My excuses for not blogging about the Microsoft/Teamprise deal (Eric Sink)
• Sign-up & Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Software & Services (Blake Handler)
• Signing PowerShell Scripts – Automatically (Joel Bennett)
• This week in search 11/13/09 (Johanna Wright)
• ASP.NET Interview Questions For New College Graduates (Dave M. Bush)
• Small Basic Programs in 25 lines (Vijaye)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 13, 2009 — #731 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman Links for November 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 3.0 QueryOver (Jason Grundy)
• Using Windows Touch Gestures with .NET (Part 2: Retrieving Gestures) (Jason Ipock)
• InfoPath 2010 Reference: InfoPath 2010 Developer Reference for Managed Code Form Templates and Office 2010: Developer References (MS Downloads)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Testing Synchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
• Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework (EF Team)
• Closing over the loop variable considered harmful (Eric Lippert)
• Databinding 3.0 (David Fowler)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part III (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Parallel Debugging (Daniel Moth)
• F# – Designing Functional Interfaces for Pipelining (Rick Minerich)
• Can I host a VSIX on my own server? (Quan To)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC in Action (Dave M. Bush)
• S#arp Architecture 1.0 2009 Q3 with NHibernate 2.1.1 GA Released (Billy McCafferty)
• Test-Driving a new feature for JavaScript (Sergio Pereira)
• A Tale of 2 Web UIs (Mike Taulty)
• Create an attractive loading panel in jQuery (Nick Berardi)
• Web 2.0 – What’s it all about? (Lawrence Moroney)
• Crushed by complexity—me too, and for a long time (Dino Esposito)
• Improving ASP.NET: Finding controls and Part 2 (Peter Blum)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• My pomodoro experience (Sebastian Hermida)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Export to PDF, a fresh coat of paint! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Programmer Tip: Stop Those CYA Emails And Engage In Meaningful Discussions. (Rajiv Popat)
• Test driven design – Willed vs. Forced Designs (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day
• How We Do Things – Evolving our Specification Practice (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Adapting our approach for the context (Mark Needham)
• Pex 0.19.41110.1: Better Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2 Support, Smoother Moles (Jonathan de Halleux)
• CQRS: Reporting Database Access Strategies and The Software Simplist (Jonathan Oliver)
• Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – On BDD and MSpec (Howard Dierking)
• Lazy Loading is… well… lazy and Tips for ORM Data Access (Jarod Ferguson)
• Willed and forced design (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF

• New themes now available (Dax Pandhi)
• Displaying Text at Angles and Text Morphing but with Decomposed Outlines (Charles Petzold)
• Display OpenStreetMap Imagery using Bing Maps Silverlight Control v1 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Mix and Blend: Surfing + Silverlight = Design (Arturo Toledo)
• Magellan and the MVVM Light Toolkit (Paul Stovell)
• New WPF Features: Updated File Dialogs (Lester Lobo)
• On Our Cross Plat Commitment (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 7 of 13 and Windows Embedded: Past, Present and Future and MFC: Integrating your application with the Windows Restart Manager and MFC: Implementing handlers for preview, thumbnail and search filtering (Charles Torre)
• Parallel Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 – MSDN mag companion (Daniel Moth)
• TaskCompletionSource (Phil Pennington)
• The MNR Show without Major Nelson (Larry Hyrb)
• Countdown to PDC09: Steve Marx on Cloud Development (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• IndyHall Member Profiles: Johnny Bilotta (Alex Hillman)
• Sacramento .NET Users Group – Microsoft PDC 2009 (Doug Holland)
• Our little team is growing – Welcome to Jon Galloway and Pete Brown (Scott Hanselman)
• Why conferences must talk about failure (Scott Berkun)
• Back to business for the SQL Server community (Ted Krueger)
• Free Balsamiq Mockups for UX Training (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Course: Leading Software Teams – Essential Practices for team leads (Roy Osherove)

Database

• SQL Server Logarithmic Functions (Richard Carr)
• OUTER JOIN order (Howard)
• Sort transform arbitration [SSIS] and MDS is x64 only (Jamie Thomson)
• SSRS 05 Passing Multi-Value Parameters Between Reports. (thirster42)
• Best Practice: Coding SQL Server triggers for multi-row operations (Denis Gobo)
• From "Oslo" to SQL Server Modeling (Sam Gentile)
• SQL SERVER – Policy Based Management – Create, Evaluate and Fix Policies (Pinal Dave)
• Automatic Generation of Stored Procedure Return Types (Noam Ben-Ami)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases More Free Visio 2007 Add-ins for I.T. Professionals (Blake Handler)
• “Look kids! Big Ben…House of Parliament…”and Bing in the UK! (Kristin Meldahl)
• RUMOR: Google’s Chrome OS arriving next week (Jay Hathaway)
• Your top Windows 7 questions, answered (Ed Bott)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/13 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A Tentative Content Plan for 2010 (MSDN Magazine)
• Xbox LIVE Update coming Nov. 17th (Larry Hyrb)
• How to avoid typos on your resume (Anne Cheng)
• Windows Azure Platform TCO/ROI Comparison Tool (Bill Zack)
• Discover Bing (Steve Clayton)
• The Most Intriguing Concept In Google’s Go Language (Justin Etheredge)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #476 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (11/12/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Mono Tools for Visual Studio allow cross-platform remote debugging (Joel Bennett)
• “Smart” Duplicate Line in Visual Studio out of the box (David Vidmar)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Exposing The Service Layer Through WCF and Request/Response Service Layer: Synchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
• Reflector to the rescue…AGAIN (Derik Whittaker)
• Delete a work Item in TFS (Kirstin Juhl)
• First drop of "TMap for VS2010" available on Codeplex (Clemens Reijnen)
• Select the Highest value in each Group or Category using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Six Things That’ll Surprise You About .NET 4.0 (Michael Kennedy)
• “Hello GTK#” from the latest IronPython and F# (Steve Gilham)

Web Development

• Facebook SDK (Coding4Fun)
• Validating A Username Using JQuery and ASP.NET Membership Provider (Chris Love)
• ASP.NET Cross Domain Form Submission (Dave M. Bush)
• AJAXified jQuery Flip Plugin (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC wins with simplicity, not features (Jeffrey Palermo) – Link of the Day
• Dream it: Build It: Grow It – With the Microsoft Web Platform (Lawrence Moroney)
• Error Handling in MVC with ELMAH (Michael Ceranski)
• ASP.NET Workaround: Calling a JavaScript Function from a HyperLinkField in a GridView (Srinath MS)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Big UI changes and their effect on tests (Brian Marick)
• Choosing Authority Levels for Team Members (Jurgen Appelo)
• Legacy Code: Sensing (Mark Needham)
• Message Passing Interface (MPI) (Daniel Moth)
• What they don’t tell you about user stories (Patrick Kua)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF : Tube Planner Using A Guided Search (Sacha Barber)
• Magellan Controllers (Paul Stovell)
• XAML 2009 Features: XAML Event handling (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• In His Own Words: Stephen Wolfram on Computational Knowledge (Adam Sohn)
• Introduction to NCover on Dimecasts (Alan Johnson)
• .NET Rocks! – Stephen Forte in The Netherlands (Carl Franklin)
• Interviews at TechEd Europe 2009 – MVP Laurent Bugnion (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SyncToy 2.1 Available for Download (Larry Larsen)
• "Parallel Programming Talk" show (Daniel Moth)
• Bob Muglia on Azure, Silverlight, and Realtime (Steve Gillmor)
• The Access Show – Episode Two (Tina Wood)
• Concurrent Programming with .NET4 Collections (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Windows Azure PDC Sessions Announced (Mike Ormond)
• Another Prism Class Available Jan 11 – Jan 14 (Blaine Wastell)
• Get Your BI Project Started with Free Developer Training on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
• PDC guide for the busy guy (Greg Duncan)
• Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day Two (Jimmy Bosse)
• PDC and Python (In That Order) (Sara J. Chipps)
• My Twitter Notes from Scott Guthrie Keynote at DevConnections (Julie Lerman)

Database

• Connecting to SQL Azure with SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 (Bart Czernicki)
• SQL Server Management Studio for SQL Azure now available (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview Feature Pack (MS Downloads)
• Best Practice: Every table should have a primary key (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Disable CHECK Constraint – Enable CHECK Constraint (Pinal Dave)
• Enter The Dragon: RoundhousE DB Migrations (Rob Reynolds)
• SSRS 2005 Matrixes (thirster42)

Miscellaneous

• Bing’s Next Chapter Begins Today (Henry Hall)
• Perhaps "Go" is the new Visual Basic (Leon Bambrick)
• How Many Calories in a Burger? What’s 2^2^2^2^2? Bing and Wolfram|Alpha Have the Answers (Tracey Yao & Pedro Silva)
• ASP.NET Interview Questions For New College Graduates (Dave M. Bush)
• Windows 7: Its the Little Things (Debra Shinder)
• PowerShell-Based console for SMS 2003 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Static vs. Dynamic languages: What I really want (Jeffrey Palermo)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/12 (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Switching virtual networks the easy way (Peter Van Ooijen)
• New App Links SkyDrive to Windows Explorer (Sarah Perez)
• Bing vs. Google rematch on video search (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• MSN Video is being re-launched in the U.S. as Bing Video powered by Silverlight and Smooth Streaming (Silverlight Team)
• Captains Log – Twitter Style (Tobin Harris)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #475 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 11, 2009 — #729 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 11, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Office 2010 Team Blogs Recap (John Wiese)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

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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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