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Top Links

• Cheat Sheet – Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection Pattern (J.D. Meier)
• Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension (Karl Shifflett)
• Dynamically extending applications using MEF and the new F# CodeDom (Matt Moloney)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using Hide Selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• Validating Application Architecture with Visual Studio 2010 – Layer Diagrams (Derik Whittaker)

Web Development

• Editable MVC Routes (Apache Style) (Nick Berardi)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML – Only $9.99! Use code DDHFH (O’Reilly Media)
• node.js: A little application with Twitter & CouchDB (Mark Needham)
• Twitter to Introduce Versioning to Their API (Matthew Casperson)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – jQuery Live Event Integration (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Javascript Tetris part II – some tests (Mendelt Siebenga)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.4 Released (Rob Conery)
• Bundler Now Supports Named Bundles (Justin Etheredge)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using NBuilder to Mock Up a Data Driven UI – Part 2 (Andrew Siemer)
• Microsoft Competencies for Skilled Effectiveness (J.D. Meier)
• Validate your conventions. (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Sucking Less: Checking In More Often (Jerry Andrews)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using the Bing Maps Silverlight control on the Windows Phone 7 (Bart Czernicki)
• Silverlight Toolkit and the Windows Phone: WrapPanel, and a few others (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.10 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Building SL3 applications using OData client Library with Vs 2010 RC (Phani Raj)
• Commands as XAML Resources (Ward Bell)
• Consuming Binary Encoded WCF 4.0 Service in Silverlight 3.0 Applications (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Issues building the OData Explorer sources (Phani Raj)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 354: SXSW, MIX, PAX East, Game Room and more (Larry Hyrb)
• WebDev Radio Episode 74: IE9, visitor recording, conferences and more (Michael Kimsal)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 6 – XNA with Luke Drumm (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Recapping SharePoint 2010 Pro Summit in Las Vegas, NV (Andrew Connell)
• Silverlight and Blend events tour this week in England and Ireland (Adam Kinney)
• MIX10 recap (Jens Schaller)
• 15 New SharePoint 2010 Launch Community Parties To Be Announced (Joel Oleson)
• MIX10 Recap (Pete Brown)
• Looking Back at MIX10 (Roland Weigelt)

Database

• SQL Injection License Plate Hopes to Foil Euro Traffic Cameras [Imagecache] (Joel Johnson)
• Script: Transaction Log Backup (Gethyn Ellis)
• SQL SERVER – Enumerations in Relational Database – Best Practice (Marko Parkkola)

SharePoint

• A great new SharePoint Publication: SharePoint Pro Magazine (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Start Button "Orb" Changer 2.0 (Blake Handler)
• Pow! Biff! Wham! Splat! (James Kovacs)
• Use TortoiseHg (Mercurial) with SVN repository (Rinat Abdullin)
• ICE now uploads to Photosynth (Sunshine)
• Synaptics driver enables multitouch gestures on older trackpads (Donald Melanson)
• Diffing tool feature request (Jason Jarrett)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #564 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 21, 2010 — #816 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #112 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #97 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #26 – GeeksWithBlogs.net (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 137 (Rhonda Tipton)
• March 21st Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, Visual Studio, Silverlight (Scott Guthrie)
• Links (3/21/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/22/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting jQuery Bookmarks (Marc Grabanski)

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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

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Top Links

• Win7 Library Tool (Zorn Software)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Creating objects of correct type when using lazy loading (Gunnar Peipman)
• How can I sort a hierarchy? (Bea Stollnitz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• VS2010 RC, TFS2010 RC Virtual Machines are here… (Greg Duncan)
• Tips and Tricks: Quickly Closing Documents (Weston Hutchins)
• Cut, Copy, and Paste Collapsed Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)
• Approaching Parallelism (Bruce Kyle)
• Entity Framework POCO Template for .NET 3.5 (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• IIS 7 URL Rewriter for SEO Friendly URL’s (David Hayden)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Blaming your tools (Corey Haines)

Silverlight / WPF

• What’s new in Silverlight 4 (Al Pascual)
• Silverlight 4 RC – Socket Security Changes (Mike Taulty)
• Be vewy vewy quiet I’m writing WPF with MVVM (Scott Galloway)
• Building Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications on a .NET 3.5 build machine (Jeff Wilcox)
• Response to Ward Bell’s Review of Advanced MVVM (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 148: He’s Got A Gun! (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : 3117 : The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to rollforward (Pinal Dave)
• How to Backup a SQL Express Database (Mike Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Wave 4: Mobile Experience to support themes (damaster)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Art of Community — Only $9.99! Use code DDTAC (O’Reilly Media)
• Everybody Wins In The Certification Game (Davy Brion)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for March 20, 2010 — #815 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.15 ~ 03.21 (yuanjian)
• Interesting jQuery Bookmarks (Marc Grabanski)

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Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed

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Top Links

• Code excavations, wishful invocations, perimeters and domain specific unit test frameworks (Roy Osherove)
• Unlock Windows Phone 7 Series Emulator for Full Experience (Taimur Asad)
• Preview of Charles Petzold’s Programming for Windows Phone Book Here for download.. (Don Burnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Lambda Expressions (Richard Carr)
• Turn Off or On Outlining and Turn Off the Selection Margin (Zain Naboulsi)
• Functional C#: Continuation Passing Style (Mark Needham)
• The Add Reference Dialog is the Wrong Scenario (Peter Ritchie)
• Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL: Additional programming patterns in EF4 (EF Team)
• Teaching AutoMapper about our conventions (Joshua Flanagan)
• Sneak peek at the first “Feature Pack” for VS2010 Visualization and Modeling Tools (Cameron Skinner)
• .NET Stack Traces And Anonymous Methods (Derick Bailey)

Web Development

• Make IE8 the best dev browser (Mike Ormond)
• Creating scrollable content area using CSS overflow property in Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• The Internet Explorer Testcenter welcome page: Clarification & Corrections (Jason Upton)
• The CSS Corner: About CSS corners (Sylvain Galineau)
• ASP.NET Performance Framework (Karl Seguin)
• ' is in XML, in HTML use ‘ (Kirill Osenkov)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD: Expressive test names (Mark Needham)
• Don’t Give Up on the State Pattern Just Yet (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Getting Started with Agile… Two of ‘Who Knows’ (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Results-Based Testing (Erik Peterson)
• A Response Concerning Semantics And Intention Revealing Code (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using SketchFlow to Prototype for Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
• Install checklist for Silverlight 4 RC, Blend 4 Beta and Windows Phone Developer tools from MIX10 (Adam Kinney)
• MVVM, Josh Smith’s Way (Ward Bell)
• Working with the On-Screen Keyboard with Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Media Codec Support and Creating an Application Bar in Windows Phone 7 in Silverlight XAML and Differences in the Silverlight Web Browser control in a desktop versus the Windows Phone 7 and Setting up a Push Notification Channel on the Windows Phone 7 series and Accessing the Location Service on a Windows Phone (Preliminary CTP info) and Instead of using WCF you can use the Open Data Library for Windows Phone 7 and Using the Media Element Control with Windows Phone Series 7 (Don Burnett)
• Updated security overview for Silverlight 4 RC (Nick Kramer)
• Multithreading in Windows Phone 7 emulator: A bug (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• jQuery Podcast 16 – jQuery Meetups (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• endpoint.tv – WF4 in the Real World – Microsoft Dynamics AX (Ron Jacobs)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 48: Web Development with ASP.NET MVC In Action Authors (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• This Week in Testing – Guys, Girl and a Bunny (TypeMock)

Community / Events

• SxSW 2010 – Sessions (pt 1) and SxSW 2010 – Sessions (pt 2) and SxSW 2010 – The Experience (Rhonda Tipton)
• MIX10 Wrap Up (Mike Swanson)
• Rob E’s Mini-MVVM Framework @ MIX10 (Ward Bell)
• MIX10: Day#3 Mini-Notes (Cigdem Patlak)
• Call for book proposals on topics for developers (Kimberly Kim)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation Download (Pinal Dave)
• How to Backup a SQL Express Database (Mike Ceranski)
• Licensing SQL Server Reporting Services (Joe Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Open PowerShell Cookbook Beta Available Online (Lee Holmes)
• The Meaning And Significance Of Eleventh Hour In Your Work Life – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Living Green: The Missing Manual — Only $9.99! Use code DDLGM (O’Reilly Media)
• Getting Started with Xcode IDE for iPhone Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows Live Wave 4: Messenger Companion and Windows Live Wave 4: Photo Gallery with Facial Recognition and Photo Fuse! and Windows Live Wave 4: Web Messenger (damaster)
• The Best Funny And Educational Geek Songs and Faster List Intersection Using Skip Pointers (Alan Skorkin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)

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Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse

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Top Links

• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Drag and Drop (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Code Comments, What Are They Good For? (Russell Ball)
• EntLib 5 and Unity 2 Beta 2 Downloads (David Hayden)
• S#arp Architecture 1.5 Beta 1 released (Alec Whittington)
• Silverlight 4 PathListBox for Motion Path Animation (Andy Beaulieu)
• Compiled or Bust? (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• GAT/GAX Dev10 RC Available (Bob Brumfield)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part III: Breaking Changes (Chris Burrows)
• MSDTC Woes With NServiceBus And NHibernate (Davy Brion)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• Image Insertion – Extension #2 (Sara Ford)
• Cleaning Up a Folder Structure From Visual Studio Artifacts From the Shell (Simone Chiaretta)
• C++, Java and .NET: Lessons Learned from the Internet Age (Matt Raible)
• Functional C#: Continuation Passing Style (Mark Needham)
• Encoding fun with XmlWriter and StreamWriter (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Do you know the minimum builds to create on any branch? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows 7 Taskbar Features in .NET 4 (Jason De Lorme)

Web Development

• On Building a Data-Driven E-Commerce Site (Chris Sells)
• Got SQL Azure? Then you’ve got OData (OData.org)
• An even better way to run T4MVC: a VS AddIn (David Ebbo)
• The New JavaScript Engine in Internet Explorer 9 (Shanku Niyogi)
• SVG in IE9 Roadmap (Jennifer Yu)
• I spy a Live Framework portal (Jamie Thomson)
• NHibernate, HttpModules, ASP.NET JSON Web Services and Database Transactions (Jason Grundy)
• Getting started with node.js on Windows (Scott Koon)
• An easy way to set up an OData feed from your SQL Azure database (Stephen Forte)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 8: Planning and Agile Friday: "Slack" Now Online (James Shore)
• Essential and accidental complexity (Mark Needham)
• Getting Things Done (Ben Yoder)
• Rhino Mocks Examples, with a fix (Sharon J. Cichelli)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part II and Blend 4: About Path Layout, Sidebar – More About ListBox Than You Ever Wanted To Know (Christian Schormann)
• Synchronous Web Service Calls in Silverlight using JavaScript (Daniel Vaughan)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight (Scott Guthrie)
• 10 Favorite Open Source Fonts You Can Embed in WPF or Silverlight (Robby Ingebretsen)
• GetObject vs StartObject in System.Xaml (Michael Shim)
• Developing a Windows Phone 7 Application that consumes OData (Phani Raj)
• Silverlight 4 RC API listing in one big text file (Nick Kramer)
• Silverlight 4 RC RichTextBox changes (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mix10 Session – 6 Things Every jQuery Developer Must Know (Elijah Manor)
• SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell-Episode 44 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Techfest: NUI Movement (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Author news: An interview with Jeffrey Richter (Devon Musgrave)
• MIX 10 Wrapup (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows Azure Firestarter Event: April 6th, 2010 (Steve Marx)
• Upcoming Webcast: LINQPad: Version 2 and Beyond – Live Event March 23, 2010 (O’Reilly Media)
• Get Ready to Party – SharePoint 2010 Community Launch Party! (Joel Oleson)

Database

• PowerShell: Read Excel to Create Inserts (Buck Woody)
• Kill your temp tables using keyboard shortcuts : SSMS and SSIS Lookup component tuning tips (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions & Answers Needs Your Help (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Stay Interview Instead of Exit Interview (Andy Warren)
• Microsoft Releases Updated Free Panoramic "Image Composite Editor" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Windows XP Mode to no longer require hardware virtualization [Updated: Now with links to the 32/64 update/patch] (Greg Duncan)
• Can Microsoft out Microsoft Apple? (Stephen Forte)
• How to Launch the Recycle Bin from the Start Menu Search Box (The How-To Geek)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #563 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 46 (Kathleen Sanders)

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Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition)

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Top Links

• Popfly Game Engine updated to run on Windows Phone 7 Series (Ben Anderson)
• The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript Released (Matthew Podwysocki)
• 36 Best Business Books that Influenced Microsoft Leaders (J.D. Meier)
• Writing a StarCraft Bot in F# (Chris Smith)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Collapse to Definitions with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)
• Working with WCF: Part Two – Your First Host and A Bit About Configuration (James Bender)
• Implementations of Slideshow in C# and Clojure (Craig Andera)
• Architecture Analysis Practices with VS2010 Direct Graphs and Layer Diagrams (Clemens Reijnen)
• Visualizing large code bases with VS2010 (Cameron Skinner)
• New Controls Added to the Community Control Gallery (Jay Esguerra)

Web Development

• Announcing the Border Radius Support plugin (Scott Koon)
• Session and Cache are By Reference (Peter Bromberg)
• Bundler Now Supports Css And .less (Justin Etheredge)
• XmlWriter, encodings and BOM (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Filtering RSS Feed using LINQ and Binding to an ASP.NET GridView (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Remove page flicker in IE8 (Wesley Bakker)
• Now Available: Command-line Tool for PHP to Deploy Applications on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• ASP.NET Forms Authentication to Azure Table Storage (J.D. Meier)
• DisplayAttribute “Prompt” or Watermark in Dynamic Data 4 (Visual Studio 2010 & .Net 4.0) (Steve Naughton)
• Web Client Guidance Nears Completion (Blaine Wastell)
• Update on the open source .NET Data Services Client (OData Team)
• More Standards Documentation Available (John Hrvatin)
• Test drive 104 new Professional-grade tests for web standards (Jason Upton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Anti Patterns Catalog (Leon Gersing)
• Challenge: Learn One New Thing Today (Buck Woody)
• Scrum Gathering Musings (Karl Scotland)
• Working With Assertions Made on Arguments in Rhino Mocks (Chris Missal)
• Application Events: Modeling Selection vs De-Selection as Separate Events? (Derick Bailey)
• Do you know that every user story should have an owner? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Serializing models for RouteValueDictionary and later model binding (Matt Hinze)
• How UX can get anything they want (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part II (Christian Schormann)
• Physics Games in Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight for Symbian Beta available now (Sunshine)
• Let it ring – WriteableBitmapEx for Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
• The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Released at Mix (Michael S. Scherotter)
• WPF : Re-usable MVVM Ready Breadcrumb control (Sacha Barber)
• Confessions of a ListBox groupie [Using IValueConverter to create a grouped list of items simply and flexibly] (David Anson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Agile 2009 – Bob Martin – The software craftsmanship movement (Bob Payne)
• .NET Rocks! – Instrumenting Applications with Runtime Intelligence (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Rhino ETL Video (Oren Eini)
• Ken Schwaber and and Sam Guckenheimer: Professional Scrum Development and Introducing RxJS – Reactive Extensions for JavaScript and Erik Porter and Nathan Heskew: Introducing Orchard (Charles Torre)
• Managing SharePoint Designer 2010 Video (SharePoint Designer Team)
• Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight (John Papa)
• Unit Testing Silverlight & Windows Phone Applications – talk now online (Jeff Wilcox)
• Covariance and Contravariance in .NET 4.0 (Martin Esmann)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #167: Setting Up Basic Mappings w/ Fluent NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• The MIX10 Photo Montage (Me)
• MIX10 Favorites (Joel Cochran)
• MSDN Flash Editorial for March 15th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Designing practical workshops (Gojko Adzic)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Mirroring Configured Without Domain – The server network address TCP://SQLServerName:5023 can not be reached or does not exist (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• MozyHome to branch out and cover Windows Home Server (Ben Palmer)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual – Only $9.99! Use code DDQB2 (O’Reilly Media)
• Cloud Computing is a bad metaphor (Scott Berkun)
• WorldWide Telescope Map App released and Windows Live Wave 4 leaked! (Sunshine)
• iPhone 3.2 SDK Beta 5 Now Available for iPad (Taimur Asad)
• Testing the Internet Explorer Platform Preview (IE9) – reviewing the good, the bad and the main letdown (Robert Nyman)
• Microsoft’s preview release plans for IE9 are a good start, but I want more! (Lee Mathews)
• Early Peek at Internet Explorer 9 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Phone 7 Gets Its First Twitter App: Twikini (Greg Kumparak)
• IE9: Microsoft’s new browser gets no respect at all (Ed Bott)
• Your Best Foot Forward: Writing An Effective Technical Cover Letter (Eric Anderson)
• Windows Phone 7 Series’ cutting room floor is an extravaganza of bright colors and chunky fonts (Chris Ziegler)

More Link Collections

• Linkblogging: 2009 Q4 (Pete Seale)
• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #562 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for March 17, 2010 — #814 (Dave Campbell)

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Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

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Top Links

• Mix10 Session Downloader (Frank La Vigne)
• HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Microsoft, jQuery, and Templating (Stephen Walther)
• Prism 4.0 Plans (Blaine Wastell)
• Microsoft’s Bill Buxton Tells UI Developers to ‘Do It Naturally’ (Joe Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Review of RedGate .NET Reflector Pro (Scott Seely)
• Cleaning up a folder structure from Visual Studio artifacts from the shell (Simone Chiaretta)
• Collapsing or Expanding All Your Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)
• Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 (Kirill Osenkov)
• Working with WCF: Part Two – Your First Host and A Bit About Configuration (James Bender)
• TMap for VS2010 Process Template Explained… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Protecting PowerShell Scripts with Team Foundation Server (TFS) (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Coding4Fun Cannon – Project Overview (Clint Rutkas)
• XNA Tutorial Gets Game Developers Ready for Windows phone 7 (Bruce Kyle)

Web Development

• Take Control Of Web Control ClientID Values in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Building Social Web Applications – Only $9.99! Use code DDBSW (O’Reilly Media)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing deeper (Matthew Podwysocki)
• IE9 Finally Ready to Join the HTML5 Party (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Translator v2 widget and APIs (Kip Kniskern)
• Announcing the OData Explorer (Phani Raj)
• OData.org updated, gives clues about future SQL Azure enhancements (Jamie Thomson)
• Windows Phone 7 user agent (Mads Kristensen)
• OData rocking at MIX10 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Microsoft <3 jQuery (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microsoft’s Bill Buxton on Design (Ina Fried)
• Take a look at the Windows Phone 7 Series “Metro” book (Devon Musgrave)
• Parallel Pair Programming (Mark Needham)
• Measuring Technical Debt (Mitch Ruebush)
• The Complexity Hammer (Steve Rowe)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part I (Christian Schormann)
• Silverlight 4: GPU Accelerated PlaneProjection (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 is NOT the same full Silverlight 3 RTM (Bart Czernicki)
• Testing a WPF UI using Ruby, Cucumber and WiPFlash.dll (Ben Hall)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services and Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client (Brad Abrams)
• Silverlight for Symbian Beta available now (Sunshine)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 4 : Direct Hosting of WPF content (Paul Harrington)
• Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application (Pete Brown)
• Control input focus from ViewModel objects (Josh Smith)
• MVVM Light V3 released at #MIX10 and What’s new in MVVM Light V3 and Sample code for my #mix10 talk online (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight 4 RC News (Don Burnett)
• Some steps for moving WCF RIA Services Preview to the RC version. (Fredrik Normen)
• Windows Phone 7 Series will have themes… sort of (Nilay Patel)
• WPF : Re-usable MVVM Ready Breadcrumb control (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• In your hands: IE 9 – Surfing on Metal with GPU Powered HTML5 and In your hands: IE9 and SVG – Past, Present and Future of Vector Graphics for the Web and In your hands: IE 9 Performance – From JS to COM to DOM to HTML5 on GPU and In your hands: Introducing the IE9 Developer Platform Preview (Charles Torre)
• “Build Your Own MVVM Framework” is Online (Rob Eisenberg)
• J.B. Rainsberger – Value Objects (Corey Haines)
• Covariance and Contravariance in .NET 4.0 (Martin Esmann)
• Silverlight TV 16: Top Features in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight (John Papa)

Community / Events

• MIX10 Day 2 Keynote – IE9, OData and Azure (Me)
• MIX10 – Day 1 and MIX10 – Day 2 – First IE9 Platform Preview, OData SDKs, “Dallas” CTP2 (Sunshine)
• Getting Started With nServiceBus on VAN Mar 31 (Zachariah Young)
• Philly.Net Code Camp 2010.1 is Coming… (Mitch Ruebush)
• IE9 Platform Preview Feedback (Justin Saint Clair)
• Side Projects, Community Involvement, Etc. (Derick Bailey)
• What’s Up at Mix: IE9, JQuery and Open Data (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• Using linked servers, OPENROWSET and OPENQUERY (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and WITH NO_WAIT during ALTER DATABASE (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Chat Web Part for SP 2010 – Sandbox Solution (Lightning Tools)
• Advanced donut caching: using dynamically loaded controls (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

• Zune 4.2 (MS Downloads)
• An Interview Question That Prints Out It’s Own Source Code (In Ruby) (Alan Skorkin)
• Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office Released – Automate Office documents without Office (Greg Duncan)
• Daily Dose – IBM Stops Disclosing Number of U.S. Employees (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Office 2010 Assessment & Planning (Brian Shiers)
• About the Platform Preview (Justin Saint Clair)
• Microsoft Bing: Behind the Scenes of the Decision Engine (Stefan Weitz)

More Link Collections

• Great Blog Posts on Expression Blend 4 for Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #561 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 408 (Sam Gentile)
• Mix 10 Rollup Post (Scott Hanselman)

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Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB

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Architectural constructs (Simon Brown)

Structuring the software design process (Simon Brown)

jqueryvsmootools.com – great comparison site (Michael Kimsal)

Introducing Blend 4 – For Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)

Pessimistic Locking (Richard Carr)

.NET Rocks! – Phil Haack Introduces MVC 2 (Carl Franklin)

Bing API, Version 2 (MS Downloads)

Expression Blend 4 Beta Feature Overview available for download (Adam Kinney)

The Difference Between A Developer, A Programmer And A Computer Scientist (Alan Skorkin)

MIX10 Day 1 Keynote – Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7 Series (Me)

Interesting Finds: March 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)

VS 2008 CloudServiceItems.vsi (Jason Haley)

Silverlight 4 and RIA Services Release Candidate Available NOW (Brad Abrams)

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Index (Brad Abrams)

The Morning Brew #560 (Chris Alcock)

REST: Resources, URI’s and Representations (Cory Isakson)

Prism – A Look Ahead (David Hill)

Silverlight 4 RC Announced, Plays Nice with Visual Studio Again (David Makogon)

Semantic Code: Migrating From A Chatty Interface To A Simple One With A Data Transfer Object (Derick Bailey)

A Type Safe IDataReader Wrapper (Derick Bailey)

Entity Framework 4.0: Optimal and horrible SQL (Gunnar Peipman)

Windows Phone Series 7 Emulator Images (Don Burnett)

MIX10 Day 1 wrap-up: five trends you might have missed (Ed Bott)

Tech Tweets for 15-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Three (Eric Lippert)

Events This Week – March 15th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

PS for your VS – PowerConsole a PowerShell console for VS 2010 (Greg Duncan)

Code Access Security and .NET 4.0 (Jason De Lorme)

How to know if you’re a coding optimist or pessimist (Jeremy D. Miller)

Windows Phone 7 Series actually looks pretty good (Joe Wilcox)

Silverlight TV 15: Announcing Silverlight 4 RC (John Papa)

Silverlight TV 14: Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight (John Papa)

The Book Shelf: Lean Software Development An Agile Toolkit (John V. Petersen)

Office OpenXML SDK 2.0 RTW (John Wiese)

The Silverlight definitive diff lists (Koen Zwikstra)

Surface + Dungeons and Dragons = Surfacescapes (Larry Larsen)

Windows Phone 7 Keynote Announcements from MIX 10 (Laura Foy)

Ping 52: Nic Fillingham, Windows Phone 7, XNA and Channel 9 Live (Laura Foy)

We’re at MIX! (Lyndsey Clevesy)

Using FTP to access Windows Azure Blob Storage (Maarten Balliauw)

Adventures in Scrum: Lesson 1 – The failed Sprint (Martin Hinshelwood)

Adventures in Scrum: Lesson 2 – For the record (Martin Hinshelwood)

Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Wikipedia Lookup (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight 4 RC and Windows Phone Marketplace Unveiled at MIX (Mitch P.)

VMware Hires Key NoSQL Developer (Mitch P.)

Daily Dose – XML Co-Inventor Joins Android Team; Scorns Apple (Mitch P.)

Three Windows Phone 7 Series devices, all in a row (Nilay Patel)

#Ebook Deal of the Day: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know – Only $9.99! Use code DD97T (O’Reilly Media)

Jeff Handley on WCF RIA Services for Silverlight 4 (Pete Brown)

New Videos up on Channel 9: WPF with C++ and WCF RIA Services (Pete Brown)

Pete Blois on Windows Phone 7 in Blend 4 and Rooler (Pete Brown)

Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (RC) (Pete Brown)

Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application (Pete Brown)

SQL SERVER – MAXDOP Settings to Limit Query to Run on Specific CPU (Pinal Dave)

SQL SERVER – Quick Note of Database Mirroring (Pinal Dave)

AgiliTrain Announces Two New Windows Phone Courses (Shawn Wildermuth)

Start preparing for the Silverlight Pivot control now (Silverlight Team)

Recap of MIX10 Day 1 (Silverlight Team)

SSMS – Please get keyboard shortcuts working for schemas (Simon Sabin)

Introducing Windows Phone 7 Development Tools (Somasegar)

Pluralcast # 11 : Parallel Programming in .NET 4 (David Starr)

Using Microsoft Surface for Agile Planning (Stephanie Saad)

Bing for Nokia S60 (Stimulant)

Sort Items in an XML file using LINQToXML and Load it in a Dictionary (Suprotim Agarwal)

Windows Phone 7 ROM Build 7.0.0.6077 (Taimur Asad)

The Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (Rene Schulte)

Mix Session: Windows Phone UI and Design Language (Christian Schormann)

New in the Silverlight 4 RC: XAML Features (David Poll)

A guide to what has changed in the Silverlight 4 RC (Tim Heuer)

Getting Started with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Development (Tim Heuer)

Visual Studio 2010 Text Clarity: ClearType Options (Paul Harrington)

Expanding Your Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)

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• First Encounters of the MEF Kind (Mike Ceranski)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 5 – Magellan and more with Paul Stovell (Richard Banks)
• Why does Visual Studio 2010 convert my projects? (Richa Prasad)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Layered diagram extensions (Pieter de Bruin)
• Visual Studio Team System 2005 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Installer) (MS Downloads)
• Better error messages – Part 2 (Aeshen) and Better error messages – Part 3 (Aeshen) (Arian T. Kulp)
• Using FTP to access Windows Azure Blob Storage (Maarten Balliauw)
• Bruger Test Automation med Visual Studio 2010 (Martin Esmann)
• NHibernate Tip: Use set for many-to-many associations (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Collapsing Your Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• node.js: First thoughts (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Be Honest And Committed To Shipping – Whether It Is In Or Outside Your Organization. (Rajiv Popat)
• Are You Playing Checker or Chess? – YAGNI Revisited (Tim Barcz)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio Special – Niklas Gustafsson om Axum (Dag König)
• Screencast: Best Practices in SharePoint User Management (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Major Nelson Show 353: Wil Wheaton, MW2 Stimulus Package and Supreme Commander (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 105- PowerScripting Podcast – PSCX 2.0 with Keith Hill and Oisin Grehan (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• New Videos up on Channel 9: WPF with C++ and WCF RIA Services (Pete Brown)

Community / Events

• Mix Session: Windows Phone UI and Design Language (Christian Schormann)
• Watch Microsoft MIX10 Live Keynotes March 15 & 16 (Zhiming Xue)

Database

• SQL SERVER – MAXDOP Settings to Limit Query to Run on Specific CPU (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS – Please get keyboard shortcuts working for schemas (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: CouchDB: The Definitive Guide – Only $9.99! Use code DDCDB (O’Reilly Media)
• Daily Dose – Apple Doesn’t Win Case Against Users of "i" (Mitch Pronschinske)

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• Interesting Finds: March 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #559 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #111 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #96 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 136 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (3/14/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

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Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions

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• What do you think of the EntLib 5.0 configuration tool? (Tom Hollander)
• patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide Layer Diagrams (Pre Release) (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Just because it’s virtual doesn’t mean it isn’t real… Using Visual Studio Lab Management to help virtualize your ALM (Greg Duncan)
• VS2010 TMap Testing Template | The Test Infrastructure (Clemens Reijnen)
• Windows Azure Platform Training Roadmap (Bill Zack)
• How to Convert Tabs to Spaces and Vice Versa (Zain Naboulsi)
• T4 Tutorial: Integrating Generated Files in Visual Studio Projects (Oleg Sych)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation to create OData feeds (Stephen Forte)

Web Development

• Get The Drop On ASP.NET MVC DropDownLists (Mike Brind)
• Using T4 Templates to Create Strongly Typed View Names (Mohammad Azam)
• What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 – Better ViewState Control (Suprotim Agarwal)
• MvcFutures (Tony Rasa)
• Asp.Net MVC 2 Areas (Chris Brandsma)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Where do you start? (Simon Brown)
• Layer Diagram templates for P&P Architecture Guide (Cameron Skinner)
• My (very) short list of must read books for aspiring designers #mix10 (Robby Ingebretsen)
• Use Your Spine And Commitment To Avoid Or Stop Haggling Over Timelines. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Making WPF Binding Errors Exceptions (Jason Bock)
• I’m writing a MVVM book – What would you like to see in it? (Brian Lagunas)
• Article Published: Context Sensitive History. Part 2 of 2 (Daniel Vaughan)
• Henry Sowizral on Refacing C++ with WPF in Expression Design (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 147: Now More Random (Paul Thurrott)
• Format-PoshTable – A Video (Joel Bennett)
• ARCast.TV – IHI Shines Silverlight on Healthcare Improvement (Bob Familiar)
• Engadget Podcast 187 – 03.13.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Interview with "Uncle Bob" Martin (Gil Zilberfeld)

Community / Events

• What I’ll be doing at MIX10 – sessions, events and Channel 9 Live! (Adam Kinney)
• MIX10 Resources (Corey Schuman)
• Announcing events WPF for LOB & Windows 7 and .NET 4 (Karl Shifflett)
• MIX 2010 Twitter Map, powered by Bing Maps (Katrien De Graeve)
• Come Hang at Mix…MVVM Style (Rob Eisenberg)
• DLS @ SXSW – Microsoft booth tour (Victor Agreda, Jr.)
• AgiliTrain is Giving Away Three Seats to Silverlight Courses (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Upcoming Wave Developer Events (Pamela Fox)

Database

• Optimistic Locking (Richard Carr)
• SQLAuthority News – Interesting Whitepaper – We Loaded 1TB in 30 Minutes with SSIS, and So Can You (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• How Apple should combat Windows Phone 7 Series gaming (Imran Hussain)
• UppercuT – Custom Extensions Now With PowerShell and Ruby (Rob Reynolds)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 14, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for March 13, 2010 — #813 (Dave Campbell)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.08 ~ 03.14 (yuanjian)
• New and Notable 407 (Sam Gentile)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/14/2010 (Pete Brown)

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jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide

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• .toolbox – Free online Silverlight and Expression Blend training (Adam Kinney)
• Southern Maryland GiveCamp is One Week Away – Help Still Needed! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Ms-PL Source Release for System.Web.Mvc 2 (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Printing the File Path in the Page Header and Automatic vs. Default in Fonts and Colors (Zain Naboulsi)
• Getting an Assembly From the GAC (Jim Holmes)
• That Splitting Thing (Oliver Sturm)
• Visual Studio Addin failed to load (Patrick Smacchia)
• dotTrace 3.1 64-bit disabled inside Visual Studio 2008 (Sergio Pereira)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation to create OData feeds (Stephen Forte)
• TOC and excerpts for Richter’s CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• SQL Style Extensions for C# (Leon Bambrick)
• Announcing the MEF Contrib Documentation Project (Chris Woodruff)
• Including Existing Templates in a VSIX Container (Aaron Marten)

Web Development

• Daily Dose – ASP.NET MVC 2 Has Arrived (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Goodbye Http Handler, Hello FileResult (Mike Ceranski)
• ASP.NET: Cannot use a leading .. to exit above the top directory (Michael C. Neel)
• Azure: The true cost of web and worker roles (David Makogon)
• Get The Drop On ASP.NET MVC DropDownLists (Mike Brind)
• A better way to auto-run T4MVC when you build (David Ebbo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail (Mark Suster)
• Leadership Tip – Letting The Critic Speak Up Whenever Needed. (Rajiv Popat)
• The cult of busy (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

• “Advanced MVVM” Book Review (Justin Angel)
• Previewing fonts in WPF with no code or executable (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Microsoft User Experience Kit launched today at SXSW (Silverlight Team)
• The MIX10 Trivia Application – Silverlight, WCF, ASP.NET (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 4: Implicit Themes and a Sneak Peek (Brian Lagunas)
• A Designer-friendly Approach to MVVM (András Velvárt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Thirsty Developer 88: Coding 4 Fun with Clint Rutkas (Dave Bost)
• GDC 2010: XNA Game Studio 4.0 (Tina Wood)
• SP Tech Con Interviews-Episode 43 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• endpoint.tv – WF4 in the Real World – Microsoft CRM (Ron Jacobs)
• Cloud Cover Episode 4 – CDN (Ryan Dunn)
• jQuery Podcast 15 – John Resig (1.4.1 – 1.4.2) (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Connected Show Podcast: The One About The News (Brian Johnson)
• Community Megaphone Show #5 with guest Steve Michelotti (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #85 (Jeff Atwood)

Community / Events

• SketchFlow and Blend at Mix 2010 (Christian Schormann)
• AgiliTrain is Giving Away Three Seats to Silverlight Courses (Shawn Wildermuth)
• IE9 and MIX10: six big questions for Microsoft (Ed Bott)
• Mike Swanson on MIX10 (Frank La Vigne)
• Some of the ways to keep up with MIX10 (Devon Musgrave)
• What to expect (and what not to) from Mix (Kip Kniskern)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 CTP 1 and SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (March 2010 Update) (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 with Powershell (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Your Interview: Question & answer game plan (Part 3 of 3) (Ryan Graves)
• Facebook Add-ons for IE8 (Giorgio Sardo)

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• Interesting Finds: March 12, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• F# Discoveries This Week 03/12/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Resources from MSDN Event – Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, SharePoint 2010 (Dave Bost)

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