Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight.FX Updated for Silverlight 3 (Nikhil Kothari)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 6: Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) (Brad Abrams)
• Bringing the Silverlight Toolkit’s TreeMap to WPF [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 0] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 3 unit test framework binaries available (Jeff Wilcox)
• Creating a Range Slider in Silverlight (and some of the binding gotchas in SL3) (Josh Twist)
• Animated page navigation in SL3 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Day #17: Silverlight Layout Options (Jeff Blankenburg)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Two ways to use T4 templates: support code vs. one-time generation (David Ebbo) – Link of the Day
• Manually Adding Event Handlers in VB.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Validation Class (Deborah Kurata)
• Iterator Blocks, Part Three: Why no yield in finally? (Eric Lippert)
• Dryad/DryadLINQ and Project Trident Released (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Adding Persistence to the .NETOOP Edit in Place control. (Joe Stagner)
• System.Data.Linq.Binary is not XmlSerializable (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• PM Skills for Life (J.D. Meier)
• StrictMock vs. DynamicMock: What are You Testing Here Anyway? (Jimmy Bosse)
• Defensive Programming, or Why Exception Handling Is Like Car Insurance (Lee Dumond)
• Book Review: The Nomadic Developer (Jim Holmes)
• Discussion: Mentoring, Knowledge Transfer and Different Styles Of Learning (Ryan Svihla)
• Lean Reading List (Scott Bellware)
• Mocking indexer getters with Moq (Bertrand Le Roy)

Web Development

• Creating Ruby-like "Extensions" in JavaScript (Chris Pietschmann)
• Creating A RESTful API With WCF (Justin)
• Google Wave Sandbox Update (Pamela Fox)
• Setting up Visual Studio Intellisense for jQuery (Ralph Whitbeck)
• HTML5 and The Future of the Web (Tim Wright)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Roger Barga – Introduction to Dryad and DryadLINQ (Charles Torre)

SharePoint

• Fixing 400 RequestLength Issue in SharePoint and IIS (Tom Hearn)

Database

• String Aggregation in T-SQL & PL-SQL (Jamie Thomson)
• File/Folder/Share Permissions for DBAs and Database Developers (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – Two Methods to Retrieve List of Primary Keys and Foreign Keys of Database (Pinal Dave)

Community / Events

• Popfly Shutting Down (John Montgomery)  
• Submit your ideas to change the face of broadband (Richard Whitt)
• Google Reader’s Social Evolution (Alex Chitu)
• Presentation Patterns for Virtual ALT.NET in August: You pick the topics (Jeremy D. Miller)

Miscellaneous

• More Microsoft Research Releases (Jim O’Neil)
• Two reasons (so far) why I would not uninstall Office 14 and return to Office 12… (Kit Kai)
• Companies Don’t Get Killed by Competition, They Commit Suicide (Sridhar Vembu)
• Book Review: Beautiful Security (Jim Holmes)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #392 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2009 — #642 and Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2009 – 2 — #643 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for July 16th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Links (7/16/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 16th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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Silverlight / WPF

• Physics Behaviors for Silverlight 3! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms (Brad Abrams)
• Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer (Corey Schuman)
• Using Blend with Prism Apps in Silverlight 3 (John Papa)
• MVVM Foundation demo (Josh Smith)
• Creating a Range Slider in WPF (and other cool tips and tricks for UserControls) (Josh Twist)
• MVVM with Type-Safe INotifyPropertyChanged (JP Hamilton)
• Day #16: Silverlight AutoComplete TextBox (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Restricting Access to your WCF Service to a known Silverlight Client and Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Take your ideas from concept to completion with Expression Blend 3 and Watch us on ‘The Visual Kitchen’ to see all-new capabilities of Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 (Silverlight Team)
• A .NET RIA Services Data Load Batch Manager (Scott McCraw)

Web Development

• It is done… S#arp Architecture 1.0 RTM (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Sueetie now running ScrewTurn Wiki 3.0 RC1 (Dave Burke)
• Anti-XSS 3.0 Released (Jossie Tirado)
• Using the ValidationSummary control with ASP.NET MasterPages (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Cloud Computing with Windows Azure (Michael Ceranski)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.3 Is Released (Rob Conery)
• Resource Files and ASP.NET MVC Projects (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Useful C# method for unit testing (Avi Pilosof)
• The Anemic Domain Model Pattern and Unshackle Your Domain (Greg Young)
• Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Introduction and Part 1: Why (Derick Bailey)
• Architecture Astronauts and Over Engineers (Harry Pierson)
• Pex v0.15.40714.1: Better performance, less Bugs… (Jonathan de Halleux)
• The Database Doesn’t Matter or Don’t Pollute Your Domain (Tim Barcz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• What’s New in CodeRush 9.2 (Mark Miller)
• F#: Passing command line arguments to a script (Mark Needham)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Aaron Erickson Identifies the Seven Deadly Firms (Carl Franklin)
• Demo Videos from Blend/SketchFlow Launch Online (Christian Schormann)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #127: Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to validate expectations (Derik Whittaker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #61 (Jeff Atwood)
• 10-4 Episode 27: Server-Driven Paging with ADO.NET Data Services (Jonathan Carter)
• ThirstyDeveloper #68 – Scraping the web (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Tips and Tricks for Improving SharePoint 2007 Performance-Episode 27 (Rob, Nick, and Brett)
• What Is Windows Azure…For Dummies (Steve Clayton)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting with Laura Rogers! (Amanda Murphy)
• Why Choose the Best Practices Conference? (Bill English)
• Super User Semi-Private Beta Begins (Jeff Atwood)
• Revive your User Group, part III (Joe Webb)
• Code 7 and Say Hello to LA and PDC (Jim O’Neil)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET 7/22/2009 – Naked JavaScript (Matthew Podwysocki)

Database

• Storage Size And Performance Implications Of A GUID PK (Derick Bailey)
• Data Dump to Excel through SSIS and SSRS (Guiseppe Scarfone)
• IsNumeric, IsInt, IsNumber (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Four Different Ways to Find Recovery Model for Database (Pinal Dave)
• Operand type clash: date is incompatible with int error when trying to do +1 on a date data type in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• WCF errors from SharePoint event receiver and Getting paid for your SharePoint software, part 2 (Eugene Rosenfeld)

Miscellaneous

• Google Reader’s Social Evolution (Alex Chitu)
• Try InfoPath 2010 and Win an Xbox! (Amanda Murphy)
• Office 2010 is Surprisingly Coming with Free Web Bits (Tom Milnes)
• Star Gates: Small Basic Sample of the Week (Vijaye)
• Favorite Windows 7 Feature #2: Aero Peek (Scott Lock)

More Link Collections

• 30 Great Posts and Tutorials on Silverlight and Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Interesting Finds: July 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #391 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 — #640 and Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009 – 2 — #641 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 15th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 342 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET Rocks! – Brian Noyes on Workflow 4.0 (Carl Franklin)

Enumerating a user secure certificate store in C# (Tom Hearn)

An Overview of Partial Classes and Partial Methods (Scott Mitchell)

Lying as a valid coding pattern (Oren Eini)

Bart’s Control Library – Not What You Think It Is – part 2 (Bart de Smet)

BingTweets Debuts (Bing)

Just say no to ‘Poor Man’s Dependency Injection’. (Chad Myers)

The Morning Brew #390 (Chris Alcock)

An Evening of DSLs (Chris Canal)

Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer (Corey Schuman)

Silverlight Cream for July 14, 2009 — #639 (Dave Campbell)

2009 Silverlight Control Builder Contest is live! (Dave Campbell)

One Entire Week of SlickEdit 2009 (Dave Campbell)

MOQ Mothers (David Starr)

EMTF 2.0 Beta released (Dennis Dietric)

Database ID: Int vs. BigInt vs. GUID (Derick Bailey)

Using Element to Element Binding for ToolTips in Silverlight 3 (Dan Wahlin)

Compiling .NET with Rake: Some Updates and More Details (Erik Base)

The Law of Demeter Is Not A Dot Counting Exercise (Phil Haack)

Agile Fails Better (Ian Cooper)

A SQL Server at every port (Ivan Wilson)

MVP TV: Real World TFS: Tips for a Successful Team System Implementation (Jas Dhaliwal)

Giving Your MVC Views an Identity (JC Teague)

Meta Is Murder (Jeff Atwood)

Super User Semi-Private Beta Begins (Jeff Atwood)

Announcing the MVVM Foundation library (Josh Smith)

About Project Success and Failure (Jurgen Appelo)

Back in Stock with 5-Star Reviews — Windows Internals 5th Edition (Kim Spilker)

Having Fun with the New Editor in VS 2010 (Kirill Osenkov)

Agile Transitions – BANG! (Kirk)

Book Club: An agile approach to a legacy system (Chris Stevenson and Andy Pols) (Mark Needham)

Guids and compression (Martin Bell)

Must Read Blogs for Developers (Michael Ceranski)

Cloud Computing with Windows Azure (Michael Ceranski)

Using the ASP.NET AJAX Editor Control to Implement In-Place Content Editing. (Joe Stagner)

Day #14: Perspective 3D In Silverlight 3 (Jeff Blankenburg)

Day #15: Silverlight Charting (Jeff Blankenburg)

A Focus on Search User Experience (ntreloar)

Google Wave API Presentations: Now Online (Pamela Fox)

Building a Presentation Framework with Prism for Silverlight (John Papa)

Weekly Release: New Font Sizes, Backgrounds and Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Patrice Godefroid – Automated Whitebox Fuzz Testing with SAGE (Peli de Halleux)

Creating a Silverlight WCF Binary Encoding Client in Code (Pete Brown)

Restricting Access to your WCF Service to a known Silverlight Client (Pete Brown)

SQL SERVER – Restore Sequence and Understanding NORECOVERY and RECOVERY (Pinal Dave)

Episode 76 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones Talks Security (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Final Approved Verb List for Windows PowerShell 2.0 (PowerShellTeam)

Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 5. (Rajiv Popat)

LINQ to SQL and Transactions (Rick Strahl)

.NET 2.0+ ActiveX Controls Part 2 – Controlling Internet Explorer via IWebBrowser (Rick Minerich)

More On SubSonic’s Simple Repository (Rob Conery)

New and Notable 341 (Sam Gentile)

CloudNews for 14th July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Sobees Goes Silverlight, Delivers the Real-Time Web to your Browser (Sarah Perez)

It’s a Man-Bag – Muzetto Laptop Messenger Bag Review (Scott Hanselman)

Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services pricing announced (Denis Gobo)

New Overview for all TFS Migration / Integration Tools (Stephanie Saad)

Securing Dynamic Data Preview 4 Refresh – Part 3 (Steve Naughton)

Windows 7 RTM Information – in case you did not see this (MSDN)

Deep Zoom Composer Updated – July 2009 / Release Candidate (Sunshine)

What is "news", and what is "unethical"? (Ted Neward)

Tasks graduates from Gmail Labs (The Gmail Team)

Silverlight 3: Cached Assemblies and you can to! (Tim Heuer)

Twenty (20) Rich Text Editors to use in your applications (Tobias Zimmergren)

Netcast #16 – Rated XML (Todd O. Klindt)

Implementing EnrichWith(of StructureMap) with Castle (Tuna Toksoz)

Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model (Windows Azure Team)

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Silverlight / WPF

• First Book on SketchFlow: A Chapter Available for Download (Christian Schormann) – Link of the Day
• Getting Started with Silverlight 3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 3: Authentication and Silverlight 3 Controls Sample App (Brad Abrams)
• Get URI Of Silverlight Plugin Host Page (Deepak Kapoor)
• Building a Presentation Framework with Prism for Silverlight (John Papa)
• Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 3: Cached Assemblies and you can to! (Tim Heuer)
• Using Element to Element Binding for ToolTips in Silverlight 3 (Dan Wahlin)
• Guidance on WPF\SL differences (Lester Lobo)
• Deep Zoom Composer Updated – July 2009 / Release Candidate (Sunshine)
• Where is the Blend SDK? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ‘Brush’ type does not have a public TypeConverter class. (Joel Cochran)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Asynchronous order processing (Oren Eini)
• Using a controller to manage static resources (Daniel Crenna)
• Agile and Prototyping (Daniela Panfili)
• Scrum or Kanban… it’s not Black or White (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The 3 L’s Towards Loving The Code We Hate (Max Pool)
• Kanban Is Process Control, Not A Process For Adding Value To WIP (Derick Bailey)
• Throw away and rebuild or refactor from within (Derik Whittaker)
• On Managing API (Patrick Smacchia)
• Test Doubles: My current approach (Mark Needham)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: New Font Sizes, Backgrounds and Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Working in Scenarios (Patrick Kua)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Updated DBFile with some more extension methods (Jason Haley)
• Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Preview 6: V1 Feature Complete Silverlight Support and Much More! (Brad Abrams)
• Book Review: Essential LINQ (Bill Wagner)
• More Entity Framework Resources (Joe Stagner)
• LINQ to SQL and Transactions (Rick Strahl)
• Encrypt and Decrypt Configuration File Sections from a Command Line (Deepak Choudhari)
• Using NHibernate for Legacy Databases (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Fun with Breakpoints in the Visual Studio Debugger (Habib Heydarian)
• Converting Between List and String Types (Srinath MS)
• Securing Dynamic Data Preview 4 Refresh (Stephen Naughton)
• How to: Ensure that files are buildable when they are being checked in to Team Foundation Version Control. (Subodh Sohoni)
• Iterator Blocks, Part Two: Why no ref or out parameters? (Eric Lippert)
• Evaluating an Object’s PropertyPath (Rahul Singla)

Web Development

• CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF) (Smashing Magazine)
• Spammers Are Vermin (Jacob Proffitt)
• Tell me what smells in WebForms as a view engine (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Twenty (20) Rich Text Editors to use in your applications (Tobias Zimmergren)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell (MS Events)
• Video: The Myth of the Genius Programmer (Brian Fitzpatrick & Ben Collins-Sussman)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #126: Building a NAnt script – Part 5: Adding MSTest results to your build scripts (Derik Whittaker)
• Silverlight 2 Security (Jossie Tirado)
• Episode 76 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones Talks Security (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 140: Newspeak and Pluggable Types with Gilad Braha (SE-Radio Team)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – The Nerds of Tomorrow (Scott Hanselman)
• 10-4 Episode 26: Creating Extensible Applications with the Managed Extensibility Framework (Jason Olson)

Community / Events

• VAN is a friend of Pablo’s! (Chad Myers)
• MVP TV: Real World TFS: Tips for a Successful Team System Implementation July 15th 9:00am PST and What’s New in CLR v4 (.NET Framework 4) from the CLR Development Team Friday July 17th 10:00AM PST (Charles Sterling)
• Van Presentation on Wednesday 15th July – Developer Productivity (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Catch Me On Tour, Bringing jQuery & MVC to You! (Rachel Appel)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 developer docs now available! (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

Database

• Guids and compression (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – Backup Timeline and Understanding of Database Restore Process in Full Recovery Model (Pinal Dave)
• Better Know A SSIS Transform – Conditional Split (Devin Knight)

PowerShell

• Advanced Debugging in PowerShell (Ibrahim Abdul Rahim)

Miscellaneous

• Bing at Month One (Yusuf Mehdi)
• More Windows 7 MIA Features (Debra Shinder)
• Yes, there’s an Office 2010 Mobile too (Paul Thurrott)
• Office 2010 and Microsoft’s Strategic Muddle (Sridhar Vembu)
• Microsoft’s new Office 2010 brings Office back from the dead (tons of videos) (Robert Scoble)
• 10 Reasons You’ll Love Office 2010 (Sarah Perez)
• It’s a Man-Bag – Muzetto Laptop Messenger Bag Review (Scott Hanselman)
• Official names assigned for project Geneva (Keith Brown)
• Microsoft to launch new music streaming service “this month” (Kip Kniskern)
• The echo chamber misreads another Windows 7 survey (Ed Bott)
• A Look At Office 2010 with Chris Capossela (Larry Larsen)
• The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010 (Leena Rao)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 14, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #389 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 13, 2009 — #637 and Silverlight Cream for July 13, 2009 – 2 — #638 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 340 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 13th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

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Design / Methodology / Testing

• Comments on The Myth of Developer Productivity (Brian Noyes)
• Discover Your Why (J.D. Meier)
• Why There’s Nothing Wrong With Dependency Injection in NerdDinner (Tim Barcz)
• Lessons From My First Attempt At Bringing Agile Into A Non-Agile shop. (Ryan Svihla)
• The Myth of Developer Productivity (Scott Bellware) – Link of the Day
• The 3 L’s Towards Loving The Code We Hate (Max Pool)
• nplus1.org – A Crash Course in Failure (Michael Janke)

Silverlight / WPF

• NibblesTutorials: Beautiful New Tutorials On Blend and SketchFlow (Christian Schormann)
• Overview of Sample Data in Blend 3 (Corey Schuman)
• A Simple Electronic-Music Sequencer for Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight 3 Element To Element Binding (Deepak Kapoor)
• Welcoming Silverlight 3 RTW (Pete Brown)
• Simplifying the Process of Calling a WCF Service from Silverlight (or any .NET Application) (Dan Wahlin)
• Animating when Data Changes – Part II (Josh Twist)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Bart’s Control Library – Not What You Think It Is – Part 1 (Bart de Smet)
• The MethodLinq concept (Brendan Kowitz)
• Accessing ActiveMQ on Mac OSX from a Windows VM (Chris Patterson)
• Handy WCF Techniques (David Starr)
• Entity Framework 4.0: POCOs and table-per-type inheritance mapping (Gunnar Peipman)
• How we handle application configuration (Joshua Flanagan)
• F#: Wrapping .NET library calls and F#: A day writing a Feedburner graph creator (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• AspPathGuru: A little T4 love for ASP.NET WebForms (David Ebbo)
• Create and Stylize Horizontal Navigation Menu from CSS lists using Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Part II) (Minal Agarwal)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 115: Windows 7 Secrets (Paul Thurrott)
• Major Nelson Show #325: NCAA, BF:1943, Madden, Babo:Invasion and gdgt.com (Larry Hryb)

Community / Events

• Boston .Net Architecture Study Group – Wed July 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Interested in a Free SharePoint 101 Hands-On Lab on July 25, 2009? (Dux Raymond Sy)

Database

• How parameter datatypes can effect caching (Martin Bell)
• Shrink log in all your user databases (Naomi)
• SQL SERVER – BLOB – Pointer to Image, Image in Database, FILESTREAM Storage (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• PCPlus 270: An introduction to diffs (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Missing from Windows 7, but Not Lost (Brad Jones)
• Download Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 and Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 1 (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft Releasing Technology Too Fast? (Sam Gentile)
• The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010 (Leena Rao)
• Traffic in the Cloud with Azure, Bing Maps, DeepZoom (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 12, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 13, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #388 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2009 — #635 and Silverlight Cream for July 12, 2009 — #636 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #84 – “Finally Summer” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 07.06 ~ 07.12 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #61 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 101 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (7/12/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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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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Happy Silverlight 3 RTW Day!

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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