Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 Released (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
• Biggest Suprises in Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 3 and CSLA .NET 3.7 (Rockford Lhotka)
• SketchFlow Map: A Mini Tutorial, Part I and Creating a Minimal Workspace for SketchFlow (Christian Schormann)
• Physics Helper 3: Coming Soon! and Silverlight 3 Released! (Andy Beaulieu)
• UI Virtualization (Bea Stollnitz)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 1: Navigation Basics (Brad Abrams)
• What’s new in Expression Encoder 3 (James Clarke)
• Editing a ToolTip Style in Blend 3 and SketchFlow Controls (Corey Schuman)
• Silverlight Charting gets an update – and a TreeMap! [Silverlight Toolkit July 2009 release now available!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 3 Released – Exciting Stuff Here! (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 (RC) Released! (Jeff Barnes)
• What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Wiki Released (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 3 Released! What is new/changed? (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3 + .NET RIA Services July Preview (Nikhil Kothari)
• Welcoming Silverlight 3 RTW and What Happened to the asp:Silverlight Control? (Pete Brown)
• See the Light: Silverlight 3 & Expression 3 Launch and Get Silverlight 3 and Microsoft Expression 3 Now (Silverlight Team)
• Simplify Your XAML with Resources and Control Templates (Srinath MS)
• One way to avoid messy PropertyChanged event handling (Josh Smith)
• Silverlight 3, Blend 3 and the MVVM Light Toolkit (Laurent Bugnion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft MSDN Blogger Recommends ".NET Version Detector 2009" (Blake Handler)
• Combining Assemblies Using ILMerge (Richard Carr)
• Bart’s Control Library – Not What You Think It Is – Part 0 (Bart de Smet)
• DAL: DataTable Visualizer and Populating a Business Object from a DataTable and Enum: Binding to the Description Attribute (Deborah Kurata)
• Entity Framework 4.0: How to use POCOs (Gunnar Peipman)
• Views into CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Typed Datasets: A First Step to .NET Flexibility (Susan Sales Harkins)
• Monotouch – Mono (.NET) for the iPhone/iTouch (Wally McClure)
• Visual Studio Database Professional GDR R2 – Support for SQL 2008 (Simon Sabin)
• F#: Downloading a file from behind a proxy (Mark Needham)
• WCF Proxy Generator – Significant Updates (Michele Leroux Bustamante)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Modeling Inheritance in "M" (Chris Sells)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 4. (Rajiv Popat)

Web Development

• RSS Feeds and Google Sitemaps for ASP.NET MVC with LINQ To XML (Mike Brind)
• Say Hello to Sueetie Marketplace! (Dave Burke)
• Tip #88: Did you know… To not stress your server, limit the number of concurrent requests (Carlos Aguilar Mares)
• A (less) simple include for ASP.NET (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Getting the element that has the focus via JavaScript (Peter Eysermans)
• Cheesy ASP.NET MVC Project Upgrader for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Keeping ELMAH’s Error Log Size In Check (Scott Mitchell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Scott Guthrie: Silverlight 3 is here! and Scott Guthrie and Christian Schormann: Web Programming, Design Tools and Silverlight 3 (Charles Torre)
• This Week C9: Scott Hanselman, Silverlight, Expression Studio 3, C#/CLI (Dan Fernandez)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – The .NET Micro Framework with Colin Miller (Scott Hanselman)
• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: SoC – Overview and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: SoC – The Big Picture and Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: SoC – Principles to Practice (Howard Dierking)
• Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Launch Video – well sort of. (Tina)

PowerShell

• PowerBoots makes me want to use PowerShell! (Chris Sells)

Database

• Best practices on setting NOCOUNT and NOCOUNT and linked servers (Martin Bell)
• String concatenation with max types stops plan caching (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Standby Servers and Types of Standby Servers (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Office 2007 Ribbon & Toolbar Learning Resources (Blake Handler)
• Google accounts on Twitter (Karen Wickre)
• Converting data from Passwords Plus to SplashID (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Know What Questions to Ask During a Job Interview [Job Search] (Azadeh Ensha)
• How to add Hulu Desktop icon to Windows Media Center and Windows 7 RC users will be able to install Windows 7 Upgrade discs (Brad Linder)
• Test Your Skills With ‘Toughest Developer Puzzle’ (Bruce Kyle)
• Windows 7 Hardware Requirements (Debra Shinder)
• Microsoft’s "Gazelle" browser detailed — it’s more of a research project (Nilay Patel)
• Thoughts on the Chrome OS announcement (Ted Neward)
• Brizzly: A Twitter Reader From The People Who Brought You Google Reader (MG Siegler)
• Gmail New Mail Notifications for Windows 7 (Michael Kennedy)
• Rants and Raves #3 (Joel Cochran)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 10, 2009 — #634 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 10th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• SQL Server Resources – 7/11/09 (Rhonda Tipton)

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Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Blend 3 with SketchFlow Available for Download and SketchFlow Concepts: An Overview (Christian Schormann)
• Improved HitTest Method for Silverlight 3 and "Printing" in Silverlight 3 with WriteableBitmap (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight 3 Relase Download Links and Installation Instructions (Bart Czernicki) – Link of the Day
• Get Browser Information In Silverlight (Deepak Kapoor)
• Silverlight 3 + ClearType (Chris Cavanagh)
• Syntax Highlighting TextBoxes in WPF – A Sad Story (Harry Pierson)
• http://silverlight.live.com (Kirill Osenkov)
• Silverlight Spy and Silverlight 3 RTW (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes! (Tim Heuer)
• Day #10: Styling Silverlight Controls (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Announcing Expression Encoder 3 (Silverlight Team)
• Asynchronous Execution, Animation and more in MVVM with Caliburn (Rob Eisenberg)
• Expression Blend 3 and the New ‘Make Into Control’ Feature (Malcolm Sheridan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft MSDN Blogger Recommends ".NET Version Detector 2009" (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2 Available (Zhiming Xue)
• Task Parallel Library: Parallel Invoke (Dariusz Parys)
• Querying on Child Count With NHibernate (Tuna Toksoz)
• Modeling DSLs with F# and Units of Measure (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Use the "Oslo" Repository to Store Service Config (Chris Sells)
• Adding Attachments to a Document in CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• ICustomQueryInterface and CLR V4 (Mike Stall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learn The Art of Unit Testing (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Behind Every Failed Project Are Reasons That Are Simple And Straight Forward. (Rajiv Popat)
• Preventing fragile tests – how can isolation frameworks help or hinder your goal? and Minimizing unit Test Fragility – 8 features in Typemock Isolator to help (Roy Osherove)
• It’s all in the details (Steve Jones)
• Is that a Property or a Method? (Derik Whittaker)
• Code Quality (Peter Waldschmidt)
• Avoid the trap of perfectionism (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Does Kanban Respect People, Self Organisation and Continuous Improvement and Kanban Is My First Language (Karl Scotland)

Web Development

• Easy Retweet Button (John Resig)
• Tip #87: Did you know… How to reuse a web page by converting into an ASP.NET User Control? (Web Dev Tools Team)
• Invoke JavaScript using the ASP.NET Wizard Control (Malcolm Sheridan)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.2 Is Released (Rob Conery)
• Preview of Windows Azure SDK for PHP Submitted for Zend Framework (Bruce Kyle)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #188 – Kanban Boards for Agile Project Management with Zen Author Nate Kohari (Scott Hanselman)
• Agile 2009 – Conference preview with Johanna Rothman (Bob Payne)
• MVC Public Service Announcement Video Series (Bobby Johnson)
• Expert to Expert: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Inside the .NET Reactive Framework (Rx) (Charles Torre)
• ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Session Video Available Now (Mike Ormond)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Services Is Now Microsoft SQL Azure, More Software + Services News Next Week At WPC09 (Sunshine)
• How to get data out of Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains (thirster42)
• Push your DBA skills over the edge by becoming a better developer and Go ahead and click it! I triple dog dare you!!! (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Request SQLAuthority.com Stickers and SQL Server Cheat Sheet (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Detecting a tap on a UITextView (Ben Scheirman)
• Launch a Process as Standard User from an Elevated Process (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Favorite Windows 7 Feature #1: Download status in the task bar (Scott Lock)
• Windows Azure Project Attire! (David Lemphers)
• Waegis After a Year (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• 2nd Annual Summer of Arcade kicks off July 22nd (Larry Hyrb)
• Telerik Ships Alpha "M"-Based Comparison Tool (Chris Sells)
• Azure Explanation for the Code Phobic (Matthew McDermott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #387 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2009 — #633 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for July 9, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links for the Week of 2009.07.10 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 9th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (7/9/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Leveraging The Windows Forms WebBrowser Control (For The Win) (Charles Chen)
• Dispose, Finalize and SuppressFinalize (Dave M. Bush)
• Telerik Does LINQ to "M" (Chris Sells)
• Microsoft.Scripting.Debugging (Harry Pierson)
• Dotfuscator 4.5.1200 (Joe Kuemerle)
• F#: Convert sequence to comma separated string (Mark Needham)
• LINQ to M is available (Stephen Forte)
• Domain driven reports: adding custom code (Peter Van Ooijen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile in 500 words… and An Updated p&p Agile Showcase (Ade Miller)
• Refactoring challenge Part 2 – Preparation (Jimmy Bogard)
• Dynamic Languages: A Separation of Concerns (Chris Sells) – Link of the Day
• The essence of Lean software development (Corey Ladas)
• ‘Make it Happen / Whatever it Takes Attitude’ (Dave Schinkel)
• Testing With "The Force" (Jeff Atwood)
• Python and Ruby, Silverlight, and testing (Jeff Wilcox)
• Reuse: Is the Dream Dead? (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Error Handling – an Anecdote (Michael Janke)
• I’d Rather Be Wrong! (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Get Browser Information In Silverlight (Deepak Kapoor)
• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-7 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Day #9: Using Keystrokes in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Silverlight FloatableWindow update: start position and resizable (Tim Heuer)
• Deep Zoom Composer – June Preview Features Explained (Sunshine)

Web Development

• Kapow – ETL for HTML (Jamie Thomson)
• Retrofit ASP.NET Aspx Urls with System.Web.Routing (Louis DeJardin)
• Preserving Existing Events in JavaScript (Marc Grabanski)
• Dynamic Data Custom Field Template – Values List (Stephen Naughton)
• Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database (Raju Vegesna)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• IE 8 Firestarter: Developing for IE8 (MS Events)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #125: Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to Stub & Fake Data (Derik Whittaker)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “The VP-geebees” (Devon Musgrave)
• Downloadable Videos from NDC (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Herding Code 53: SubSonic 3.0 Release Party with Rob Conery (Jon Galloway)
• ToolShed Tooltip #18 – Using Live ID in your Application (Russell Fustino)
• Conversation with Muness Alrubaie (Corey Haines)
• Applying Effects to Bitmap Images using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)

Community / Events

• The Lounge Survey Pt. 1 (James Avery)
• Web Rumble ‘09 (Karl Seguin)

Database

• SQL Server Decode/Encode unicode data (George Mastros)
• Agile Database Techniques (Gert Drapers)
• How to search for all words inclusive without using Full Text search (Naomi)
• A couple of ways of getting the top 2 distinct values from a set in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Microsoft SQL Services Is Now Microsoft SQL Azure, More Software + Services News Next Week At WPC09 (Sunshine)

SharePoint

• A Primer to SharePoint Security (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s MSDN Releases "VHD Tool" to Create & Modify VHD Properties for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• The 9 Books That Helped My Career and I Recommend (Chris Woodruff)
• Windows 7 Family Pack, Anytime Upgrade prices leak (Ed Bott)
• Sinofsky promotion to Windows president much deserved, but Ballmer should have done it sooner (Joe Wilcox)
• File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) Release Candidate available for download (Jose Barreto)
• Why Chrome OS Now? Because Microsoft Office In The Cloud Comes Monday. (MG Siegler)
• OS evolution (Rockford Lhotka)
• Features Aren’t Magically Born (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #386 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 08, 2009 — #632 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 339 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 8th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Zen is Live! (Nate Kohari) – Link of the Day
• Refactoring challenge (Jimmy Bogard)
• Refactoring challenge Part 1 – Examination (Jimmy Bogard)
• Fluent Context Builders (Chris Bilson)
• Lower the Cost of Knowing (Gabriel Torok)
• Embrace Pain (Ian Cooper)
• Code: It’s Trivial (Jeff Atwood)
• Micro-rant: Ninject and IKernel (Joe White)
• Serializing (Queuing) Messages To Aggregates (Jonathan Oliver)
• Relearning: The Productivity Problem that We’re Not Supposed To Talk About (Scott Bellware)
• Kicking Your Coding into High Gear (Rob Bazinet)

Web Development

• Examining ASP.NET’s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 16 (Scott Mitchell)
• Building ASP.NET Applications with Delphi and Advantage Database Server (Cary Jensen)
• Making a jQuery JSON Request to an ASP.NET Handler And Back (Dave Schinkel)
• Improving jQuery’s JSON performance and security (Dave Ward)
• ASP.NET MVC & jQuery Part 3: MvcContrib Grid & jQuery Plugins (Elijah Manor)
• HTML 5 Parsing (John Resig)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.1 Released and SubSonic: Working With Git (Rob Conery)
• Event Aggregation with jQuery (K. Scott Allen)
• Sneak Peek at our book Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Simone Chiaretta)
• PHP SDK for Windows Azure – Milestone 2 release (Maarten Balliauw)
• KiGG support for Entity Framework and MySQL (Muhammad Mosa)
• Rounded Corner Rendering in newer Browsers (Rick Strahl)
• Video: Google’s HTML 5 Work: What’s Next? (Matthew Papakipos)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Building Tuple (Matt Ellis)
• Part 3 of Dana’s End-to-End "Oslo" Series: Quadrant (Chris Sells)
• iTextSharp – HTML to PDF – Positioning Text (Dave M. Bush)
• New Visual Studio Debugger 2010 feature for C/C++ Developers: Using string functions in conditional breakpoints (Habib Heydarian)
• How to copy an entire folder tree with Nant (Derik Whittaker)
• Azure .NET Services – July CTP SDK Released (Jeff Barnes)
• F#: Parsing Cruise build data and C#: Removing duplication in mapping code with partial classes (Mark Needham)
• .NET – Write Once, Run Anywhere? (Michael Ceranski)
• Managing Application Configuration (Mitchell Hashimoto)
• RegEx.Split vs. String.Split (Srinath MS)
• VSTS 2010: Overview of Team System 2010 for Architects (Subodh Sohoni)
• Deployment and Updates of Desktop Applications: WiX, ClickOnce and Other Scenarios (Rinat Abdullin)
• LINQ is not LINQ To SQL (Justin Etheredge)
• Patterns and Match Expressions in F# (Kathleen McGrath)
• Insert Master Detail Data with LINQ to SQL and Select Max Value with LINQ to SQL (Deepak Kapoor)

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-6 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Day #7: Using WCF Web Services With Silverlight (and LINQ) and Day #8: Custom Fonts in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Installing the MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.0.0 (Laurent Bugnion)
• MVVM – Philosophy and Case Studies – Introduction (Rob Eisenberg)
• Designing a Glassy Button using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• Style Silverlight ScrollViewer with a New ControlTemplate and Scrolling in Silverlight Panels (Deepak Kapoor)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stephen Forte on Data Access Options (Carl Franklin)
• Task Parallel Library: Task Results (Dariusz Parys)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #124: Learning the Mediator Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Inside Secret Microsoft Meeting Rooms – What Laptop do Alpha Geeks Use? (Scott Hanselman)
• Webcast on ASP.NET MVC (in Italian) (Simone Chiaretta) – Anyone know a good streaming video translator? 
• The History of Microsoft – 1996 (Tina)
• Yavor Georgiev – Using WCF with Silverlight 3.0 (Robert Hess)
• Episode 75 – PowerScripting Podcast – Oisin Grehan and Joel Bennett talk Poshcode (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• CodePlex Turns 3 years old; Breaks the 10,000 project mark (Sara Ford)
• return thoughts.Where(x => x.IsCaffeineInspired) (Russell Ball)
• Top 200 Development and Social Media Blogs (OPML) (Jurgen Appelo)

SharePoint

• How We Did It: BDC Meta Man Web Edition (Nick Swan & Phill Duffy)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for Developers (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Gazelle browser takes a radical path (Ina Fried)
• Introducing the Google Chrome OS (Sundar Pichai)
• Thrive for Developers (Michael S. Scherotter)
• 7 Tips to Get Started Blog Writing (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Is your career THRIVING – Microsoft has a new portal to help. (Joe Stagner)
• How to insert Superscript, Subscript, and Strikethrough in your wiki pages – #048 (Sara Ford)
• Zoho Plug-ins for Microsoft Apps (Raju Vegesna)
• Game Programming Made Easy (Winda Benedetti)
• New Halo 3 Maps Coming This Fall (Larry Hyrb)
• Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs Come Out of Beta (Alex Chitu)
• Engineering Windows 7 for a Global Market (Julie Bennett & John McConnell)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #385 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2009 — #631 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 7th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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While I am home for a couple of weeks with my family and new baby, I will be posting the following morning’s Dew Drop the night before. Enjoy!

.NET / Visual Studio

• Vault 5.0 Beta 2 (Eric Sink)
• LINQPad and Azure (Jamie Thomson)
• Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 5 ) (Mike Taulty)
• Upgrading from “Weigelt” GhostDoc to “SubMain” GhostDoc (Roland Weigelt)

Silverlight

• Creating a ComboBox Style AutoCompleteBox Control in Silverlight (Dan Wahlin)

Web Development

• The MVC in JavaScriptMVC (Peter Eysermans)
• Use Castle Windsor to Read Your Config Files Automatically (Phillip Jacobs)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Do We Keep Building Tightly Coupled Software? (Justin Etheredge) – Link of the Day
• Domain Driven Design: Anti Corruption Layer (Mark Needham)
• Distraction free development department. (Paul Zubkov)
• Features over Usability : How not to design a web application (Pete Brown)
• Agile Development with Projects 2.0 (Rodrigo Vaca)
• Agile Estimation (Stephen Forte)

Community / Events

• Boston Nerd Dinner – July 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Events This Week – July 6th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Implementing a Hybrid Architecture Based on SOA and ROA in the Enterprise (Bob Familiar)
• Microsoft’s MVP Team Talk on Community Radio! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SQL Detect and Threat Modeling LOB Applications with TAM 3.0 (Jossie Tirado)
• Ping 19: BingTones, SilverLight & Xbox join forces, Win7 guides, IE8 controversy (Laura Foy)
• The Connected Show (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Yes, I Am Still Talking About Prism – On The Connected Show! (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Object Grouping Best Practices: Using Schemas for Logical Separation (Hugo Shebbeare)
• SQL Server – How to Force the Job Owner for a Maintenance Plan (Michael Ceranski)
• How to copy data/append data into files from within T-SQL (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• How to Browse / Download Latest in Source Control – #047 (Sara Ford)
• Piwik – Cool Open Source Alternative to Google Analytics (Software Wikipedia)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for July 06, 2009 — #630 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for July 6th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• New and Notable 338 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 6th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Code Metrics: An Introduction to Visual NDepend (Jose R. Guay Paz)
• Embracing Change – quotable quotes on change and uncertainty and Technical Debt – Definition and Resources (Brad Appleton)
• Protecting Your Application From Remote Problems (Davy Brion)
• Lessons in Software from James Waletzky (J.D. Meier)
• Join the CLUB (Coding Like Uncle Bob) (Jurgen Appelo) – Link of the Day
• Sometimes Hardware is Cheaper than Programmers (Michael Janke)
• Form over function often fails (Nick Berardi)
• Where do developers care for Software Quality? (Patrick Smacchia)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A Simple .NET Profanity Filter (James Newton-King)
• MSpec – Take 2 (Chris Bilson)
• Looking Inside Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• What is a build script? Writing MsBuild Scripts – Part I (Tuna Toksoz)
• WSDL/Schema First – WSCF.blue for WCF goes Beta 1 (Sam Gentile)
• Day #6: Silverlight and the Twitter "Hello, World" (Jeff Blankenburg)

Web Development

• HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF) (Smashing Magazine)
• jLinq 2.2.0 Released! (webdev_hb)
• miniurl – ASP.NET MVC URL Redirection Sample Application (Javier G. Lozano)
• CSS Tips and Tricks (Michael Ceranski)
• AutoMapper in NerdDinner (Matt Hinze)
• Five Questions with Eric Hexter and Jeffrey Palermo (Jonathan Allen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 114: Rob Greenlee (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• SQL Server Subqueries (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Languages for BI – MDX, DMX, XMLA (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Building WCM Sites on SharePoint? – Get the Adventureworks demo modules and site installer (Chandima Kulathilake)

Community / Events

• July 7th – Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Nerd Dinner (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• Players Become Gamers with Kodu (Bruce Kyle)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 5, 2009 and LINKBLOG for July 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #383 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 05, 2009 — #629 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #83 – “Not much to bookmark” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #60 (Grant Palin)
• Links (7/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Discoveries This Week 07/05/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Technical Debt – Definition and Resources (Brad Appleton)
• Lessons Learned from Bruce Lee (J.D. Meier)
• Brownfield Application Development in .NET: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• The Problem with Big Design Up Front is the "Big" not the "Up Front" and Designing the Work (Scott Bellware)
• Where do developers care for Software Quality? (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• UX Thoughts – Learning Phase Tools II (András Velvárt)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC: How to combine scripts and other resources (Gunnar Peipman)
• DinnerNow.net 3.0 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is here! (Habib Heydarian)
• Python Web Framework Series – Pylons Part 7: Refactoring, Deployment And Wrap-Up (Ryan Svihla)
• Improving the AJAX Control Toolkit with the Lightweight Test Automation Framework (LTAF) (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Day #4: Communicating Between Two Silverlight Controls and Day #5: Silverlight Drag and Drop (Jeff Blankenburg)
• “XNAVATARS” – PART 2 – NO SHADOWS? (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Porting DinnerNow.NET to Azure (Vishwas Lele)

Miscellaneous

• Revive your User Group, part II (Joe White)
• Experimenting with PowerShell (Jose Barreto)
• 5 Things You Can Do With Aviary Screen Capture (Thursday Bram)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 03, 2009 — #628 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for July 3, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 07.01 ~ 07.05 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Link Post 100 (Rhonda Tipton)

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I’m catching up a bit after the birth of our third daughter, Rubina Mae Ashcraft, on Tuesday afternoon. My sincere thanks to everyone who sent their congratulations on Twitter and Facebook. Apologies to the many great blog posts that have not been included.

Congrats to all the new and renewed Microsoft MVPs this week too!

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Create Reflection Effect on Images Using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask in WPF (Anum Lodhi)
• WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI. (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Coding Contest (Dino Esposito)
• Handling Events within Silverlight Control Templates – AutoCompleteBox Example (Dan Wahlin)
• Choosing Colors to Complement Your User Interface with Expression Design and Experimenting with User Interface Colors with Expression Design and Creating a Sample Icon using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Application – Animal Testing Breaks Hearts (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TweetCraft – A World of Warcraft Twitter client (Dan Fernandez)
• Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper (Eric Hexter)
• "XNAVATARS" – PART 1 (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Meffifying Windows Azure (Glenn Block)
• VSTS 2010 TMap Process Template 1,2 and 3 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 3 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• MCsla on the Olso May CTP (Rockford Lhotka)
• Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems (K. Scott Allen)
• IronRuby 0.6 Released! (Jimmy Schementi)
• Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 Post Beta 1 (Muhammad Mosa)
• Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 4 ) (Mike Taulty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner (Jimmy Bogard)
• “Controllerless” MVC: A high-level overview of my attempt (Erik)
• Which Unit Testing Framework? (John Resig)
• Agile Is NOT a Risk Management Strategy (Jurgen Appelo)
• Domain Driven Design: Conformist (Mark Needham)
• Is your Organization out of Alignment? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Web Development

• XHTML 2 Cancelled (Timothy)
• Restricting BlogEngine.NET Comments to Sueetie Registered Users Only (Dave Burke)
• SubSonic 3.0 is Released (Rob Conery) – Link of the Day

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Successful Cross Platform .NET Development – Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover and The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove (Scott Hanselman)
• Whirlwind Around .NET 4 (Eric Mork)
• Scott Ambler on the Agile Process Maturity Model (Carl Franklin)
• This Week C9: Speech Recognition, Army of 1, TweetCraft and more (Dan Fernandez)
• Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo) (Jose Fajardo)
• What’s New in Software Development: NeverFail Software Adopts Hyper-V (Bruce Kyle)
• Downloading Prism and 10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Episode #123: Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Object Invariant Conditions (Derik Whittaker)
• Herding Code 52: The Alan Stevens and G. Andrew Duthie Debate Continues! (Jon Galloway)
• Conversation with Stuart Halloway (Corey Haines)
• Three great screencasts on Silverlight unit testing (Jeff Wilcox)
• Using WPF in Office Add-Ins (John Wiese)

Community / Events

• AgiliTrain and Rachel Appel Announce New Classes (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Automatically create a SQL Server table in a new database. (George Mastros)
• DRY SQL (Jamie Thomson)
• PUTting the Couch(DB) in Your Living Room and DELETE Documents from CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• SQL SERVER – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Free Windows 7 Training Resources (Blake Handler)
• Bringing a Bit of Twitter to Bing (Sean Suchter)
• The Blurring Lines of Languages (Justin Etheredge)
• MSDN / Technet Subscribers Get Windows 7 July 13th (Keith Elder)
• An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two (Ken Sipe)
• Who is developing the software profession? (Maggie Longshore)
• Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.2 available as a free download (Jose Barreto)
• The fallacy of the standardized developer machine/image (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Announcing The Social Way To Get Things Done: Zoho Projects 2.0 (Rodrigo Vaca)
• How to display ads on your project from The Lounge – #045 (Sara Ford)
• Kodu Nears Xbox Launch and Want to Compare Search Engines? and Follow @Microsoft on Twitter (…and All the Rest!) (Sarah Perez)
• Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress” (Jason N. Gaylord)
• All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions (Jeff Atwood)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 3, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #382 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for July 2nd, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 3rd July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Domain Driven Design Quickly (Ade Miller)
• Self-Organization and Complexity (Brad Appleton)
• The “collaboration” piller (version 1) (Brian Marick)
• Hungarian Notation – Use What Works Spit Out The Bones (Dave M. Bush)
• D3: Building Great Software is a Battle, Don’t Leave Any Assets on the Sidelines (Dan Simmons)
• UX Team of One (Frank La Vigne)
• Are You in a Claustrophobic Team? (Max Pool)
• Lessons in Software from Alok Srivastava (J.D. Meier)
• New DDDD Content (Jonathan Oliver)
• Threat Analysis & Modeling Tool – TAM 3.0 (Jossie Tirado)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MGraph Visualizer Plug-in for Intellipad! (Chris Sells)
• The void is invariant (Eric Lippert)
• Sticky DataTips: A new way to view variables in the Visual Studio 2010 debugger (Habib Heydarian)
• Explore C# 4’s New Dynamic Types and Named/Optional Parameters (Joydip Kanjilal)
• New CodePlex project: a simple Undo/Redo framework (Kirill Osenkov)
• How to execute a special build on TFS using Team Foundation Object Model (TFS APIs) – Part 1 (Subodh Sohoni)

Web Development

• AJAX Features in ASP.NET MVC (Dino Esposito)
• How we do MVC – View models (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
• ASP.NET WebForms vs. MVC (Michael Ceranski)
• Displaying SQL Server Messages using ASP.NET and ADO.NET (Malcolm Sheridan)

Silverlight / WPF

• Fun With Speech Recognition in WPF (Frank La Vigne)
• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-4 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• WPF Toolkit: Charting release (Jeff Wilcox)
• WPF3D Lighting and Shading (Jordan)
• Game Programming with Silverlight. (Mike Snow)
• Principles of Design Series: Learning about Points, Lines, and Form using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Prism Eventing (Eric Mork)
• Google I/O 2009 – AJAX APIs to Navigate User-Generated Content (Me)
• ARCast.TV – Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell (Bob Familiar)
• New Screencast: Working with Property Grids (Dan Rigsby)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #122: Creating Custom Functions w/ NAnt (Derik Whittaker)
• Tales from the Toolshed (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Demo of SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Features – Configure DW Storage and Demo of SQL Server 2008 DW features: Configuring tempdb for Data Warehouse (Joe Longtin)
• The History of Microsoft – 1995 (Tina)
• Netcast #14 – Not Dead Yet (Todd O. Klindt)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 139: Fearless Change with Linda Rising (SE-Radio Team)
• Toolshed Tooltip #15 – Intro from Episode 3, meet MVP’s Stan Schultes, Don Demsak and Jessica Moss. and Toolshed Tooltip #16 – Expression Blend 2 Video, Animation and VS Integration Intro (Russell Fustino)
• Prism’s Event Aggregator (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Yochay Kiriaty – Windows 7 Developer Training Kit (Robert Hess)
• Ping 18: Ballmer apologizes, Paul Allens latest move, Surface fun, Security Beta (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• July Community Events (Eric Shupps)
• Events This Week – June 29th, 2009 and Microsoft Local Impact (G. Andrew Duthie)

SharePoint

• Want A Job? Learn SharePoint, Says Gary Blatt – 100% of the Federal Government has licenses, but they can’t find developers to implement their sites. (James Turner)
• Visio design templates for SharePoint 2007 (Joris Poelmans)

Database

• Approaches to "UPSERT" (Ken Downs)
• After disabling TDE you still requires the certificate to restore the database (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Policy-Based Management – Create, Evaluate and Fix Policies (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium? (Ed Bott)
• Musings About Project Natal (Frank La Vigne)
• AutoSave Adds Reassurance to Notepad++ Editing (Kevin Purdy)
• Get Firefox’s Ctrl+K Shortcut in Internet Explorer (The How-To Geek)
• The "Risk" of Open Source Software Support (Tim Barcz)
• Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You (Scott Hanselman)
• Oracle Woos Microsoft OracleClient users (Julie Lerman)
• How to Contribute to Open Source (When You’re Not Exactly Scott Hanselman) (Sara Chipps)
• How to stop that annoying beep on your server (Simon Sabin)
• Survey of Surveys on IT Spend for 2009 (Mike Walker)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 29, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LI (Charlie Calvert)
• The Morning Brew #379 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 29, 2009 — #624 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 29th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• SharePoint: Recommended links June 2009 (Tobias Zimmergren)
• Daily Find #122 (Tim Boland)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Moving the Mouse Pointer Programmatically and Hiding the Mouse Pointer (Richard Carr)
• MSpec… for Boo! (Aaron Jensen)
• Creating audio signals in .Net (Coding4Fun)
• F#: Setting properties like named parameters (Mark Needham)
• Generating Code with Visual Studio’s T4 (Michael Ceranski)
• Changing Configuration Settings in a Desktop Client Application (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (Mike Walker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Agile methods to deliver on a fixed-budget, fixed-time commitment (Andy Singleton)
• Cloud Computing Design Patterns (Bob Nadler)
• Another Kata: Expression Tokenizer (Brett Schuchert)
• Elegant Code Project Structure Purse Fight (Chris Brandsma)
• It’s the subleties and Facilitation Antipattern: Repetitor (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Don’t Create Aggregate Roots (Udi Dahan) – Link of the Day
• Making your code easier to understand context/specification style unit tests (Ian Cooper)
• Microsoft ESB Toolkit (Mike Walker)
• Fighting Fabricated Complexity (Patrick Smacchia)
• A Craftsman sometimes has to create his own tool (Sergio Pereira)
• What Investing Can Teach You About Software Development (Part 2) (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Real World Refactoring (Joshua Flanagan)
• Simple Python testing in Silverlight with unittest (Jimmy Schementi)
• The Blurring Lines of Languages (Justin Etheredge)
• Yes… Agile Isn’t Project Managment… (Mike Cottmeyer)

Web Development

• Never worry about ASP.NET AJAX’s .d again (Dave Ward)
• Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 4 Introduction For Database Support With SQL Alchemy. (Ryan Svihla)
• Principals, Code-Behind, & View Engines (K. Scott Allen)
• ASP.NET DropDownList with Custom Paging (Malcolm Sheridan)
• VS2010 Beta1 Web Application Project Database package and SMO options (Xinyang Qiu)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls (Mike Ormond)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Wrap Panel (Deepak Kapoor)
• YouTube video in Silverlight 3 (Corey Schuman)
• WPF discussions 090626 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening! (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 113: The Rural Juror (Paul Thurrott)
• ThirstyDeveloper #67 – Open Spaces and unmeetings (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Toolshed Tooltip #14 – Developer Community Update by MVP Don (XML) Demsak from Episode 3 (Russell Fustino)
• Major Nelson Show #323: Geoff Keighly, Worms 2 and behind the scenes at E3 (Larry Hryb)
• SharePoint development: using SharePoint as an application development platform and SharePoint Web Content Management / Publishing – Episode 9 (Rob, Nick & Brett)

Community / Events

• Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q2 2009) (Jurgen Appelo) – Congrats to Scott for making #1 and to Justin for his debut at #43!
• NDC09 Trip Report (Phil Haack)
• C’Mon Get Meta! (Jeff Atwood)
• Nayyeri.NET Turns Four (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Happy Blog-day, Keyvan!

SharePoint

• Community Kit For SharePoint (Dave Mann)
• How to Build a Change Control System in SharePoint (Dux Raymond Sy)

Database

• MVP Helps To Jumpstart SQL Server 2008! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Management Studio New Features and SQL SERVER – Maximum Number of Index per Table (Pinal Dave)
• Hyperlinks in custom reports (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• Firefox 3.5 coming June 30th, Fennec updated today (Brad Linder)
• The Five Best and Five Worst Mountain Dews of All Time (Curtis Silver) – Diet Code Red FTW!
• Organizational Chaos Followup (Jesse Liberty)
• 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills (Smashing Magazine)
• Bing Toolbox (Sunshine)
• Review: "Programming Clojure", by Stu Halloway (Ted Neward)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 28, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: June 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: June 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #378 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 06.22 ~ 06.28 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #59 (Grant Palin)
• Links of the week #82 – “Back From Holidays in Croatia” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Links (6/28/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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