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.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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.NET / Visual Studio

• The HornGet Project: Bringing "apt-get install" to .NET Projects (Billy McCafferty)
• Transitioning from VSTS2008 to Visual Studio 2010 and Where has “Team System” gone? (Anthony Borton)
• Visual Studio: Clipboard Ring (Deborah Kurata)
• VS2010 Beta 2 Feedback Survey (Jason Zander)
• ReSharper 5.0 – Now with VS 2010 Beta 2 (JP Hamilton)
• Designer Support for One-Way navigations in Entity Framework 4 (Julie Lerman)
• Starting to Use the Windows 7 Touch API in .NET (Jason Ipock)
• Performance (Cameron Skinner)
• Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 2 (Chris Patterson)
• The Weekly Source Code 46 – Jeff Key rocks Taskbar Meters that Monitor your Windows 7 CPU and Memory and Disk in the Taskbar (Scott Hanselman)
• The Best Way to Hide a Column in a DataGrid (Srinath MS)
• How to Fix “The application cannot start” Error (Weston Hutchins)
• Compiling Mapping using Fluent NHibernate (Michael Nichols)
• Instructions for collecting dumps in VS2010 (Daniel Moth)

Web Development

• Integration between Zoho & External Apps – Part II (Raju Vegesna)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (5 in a series) – What the Frig Is a View Model? (Sara J. Chipps)
• HTML5, a 3 minute guide (Leon Bambrick)
• Converting a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project (Nichole Baker)
• eBook 51 Tips, Tricks and Recipes with jQuery and ASP.NET Controls (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Software, Sewing, and the Craftsman (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• Unit Testing: Testing Properties and Unit Testing: Exposing Internal/Friend Members and Unit Testing: Exposing Private Members (Deborah Kurata)
• Why We Delegate: The Darkness Principle (Jurgen Appelo)
• Agile practices do not address technical complexity (Scott Koon)
• DDDD: Why I Love CQRS (Jonathan Oliver)
• Software Architecture for Developers (Simon Brown)
• Low-Technology (Dave Laribee)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part V: Thank Them For Their Feedback (Patrick Kua)
• It’s all about the delivery (Hadi Hariri)
• Coding: Consistency when invariant checking (Mark H. Needham)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XV: Patterns and Antipatterns (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Silverlight / WPF

• Real-time list filtering with Silverlight, MVVM, and PagedCollectionView (Avi Pilosof)
• Countdown to Visual Studio 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• wpf text blurry blues? (Coding4Fun)
• NEW series on Patterns-Based Development with Silverlight (Murray Gordon)
• Drawing Lines – Silverlight WriteableBitmap Extensions II (Rene Schulte)
• Showing Progress in the Windows 7 Taskbar with WPF 4 (and a short romp through Windows 7 cleartype settings) (Pete Brown)
• New WPF features: Key\Gesture Binding (Lester Lobo)
• Essential Silverlight 3 (Dave M. Bush)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Chris Sells in on DataDude (Carl Franklin)
• Code Cast 33 – Jimmy Bogard on AutoMapper (Chris Brandsma)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 007 – Mike Ormond discusses ASP.NET 4.0 and MSDN Flash Podcast 010 – Paul Jackson on Memory Mapped Files in .NET 4, Oslo and more (Eric Nelson)
• Connected Show Podcast: User Experience: It ain’t Lipstick baby (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 5 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• New WPF Video: How Do I: Use CollectionViews to Sort and Filter Data (Todd Miranda)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #72 (Jeff Atwood)
• Bug Killer – A Channel 9 Halloween special (Laura Foy)
• Vacation of Fluent NHibernate: Tuesday Conventions (Bobby Johnson)
• Creating a Web Part for SharePoint by Using a Designer (Kathleen McGrath)
• Recommended Books – part 1 (Roy Osherove)
• New Official jQuery Podcast Announced (Elijah Manor)
• How to Effectively Utilize Microsoft Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 – A Free, Live Webcast – Nov 3rd @ 10am PT (Dux Raymond Sy)
• BlockingCollection Demonstration in Producer-Consumer Scenarios (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Mark Your Calendars: Dec 5, 2009 – SharePoint Saturday DC is Back! (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SOA Manifesto (Rockford Lhotka)
• Where to engage with questions about WPF4 Beta2 (Rob Relyea)
• PDC 2009 – What’s Happening at the Patterns Workshop (Ade Miller)
• Windows Azure Platform Launch Update (Windows Azure Team)
• Windows Azure at PDC 2009 (Steve Marx)

Database

• You see that database? OFF WITH HIS HEAD! (Oren Eini)
• Another T-SQL Challenge (Dave Ballantyne)
• Manipulating Blob Data in MSSQL with C# (Michael Ceranski)
• Eschewing Date Types in our Database (Karl Seguin)
• Connecting to SQL Azure with Telerik OpenAccess (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• Configuring ASP.NET (And SharePoint) to use SQL-based Sessions (Tom Hearn)
• October 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Jie Li)

Miscellaneous

• Getting Your Groove Off (Howard Dierking)
• Computer Forensics in a Windows 7 (and Vista) world and Seen all the PowerShell goodness in Win7? Want to use the same tool Microsoft did to create much of it? Here you go! “PowerShell Cmdlet and Help Designer” (free and source available BTW) (Greg Duncan)
• Enough, Microsoft. No One Is Endorsing Piracy. Obviously. (Paul Thurrott)
• Are You Classic or Lightweight? The MSDN Redesign (Wolf Schmidt)
• Building an iPhone Application (Eran Kampf)
• Connectify creates and shares Virtual WiFi Hotspots with Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #466 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 29, 2009 — #720 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 386 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 29th October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – OCT ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Finds: October 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (10/29/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• 14 Silverlight Articles You Must Read on DotNetCurry (Minal Agarwal)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Eclipse and VSTS (Pieter de Bruin)
• Lightweight Linq Parser (Brad Abrams)
• Building A Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 1 (Chris Patterson)
• Windows 7 Runtime Libraries Available for Vista and Windows Server 2008 (Zhiming Xue)
• Attach a Debugger When a Process Starts (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• 7 on 7: Sensor and Location API (Jim O’Neil)
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 1: Introduction and Freescale Board Setup and Testing (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• WOHOO!!!, Debug Diag 64bit is finally released (Tess Ferrandez)

Web Development

• Don’t Look Now, But MapQuest Might Be Great (Adam DuVander)
• MVC Best Practices (Jimmy Bogard)
• Announcing the Zoho Projects API (Celina Balasingh)
• 12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Simone Chiaretta)
• Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP developers (Maarten Balliauw)
• Verify JavaScript syntax using C# (Mads Kristensen)
• DotNetNuke 5.x Can’t Move Module On A Page (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD Invades Space Invaders (Michael Kennedy)
• Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 6 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 18. (Rajiv Popat)
• Manual Mocking: Resisting the Invasion of Dots and Parentheses (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Cost Oriented Architecture of Cloud Applications (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Coding: Connascence – Some examples (Mark Needham)
• Uniqueness validation in CQRS Architecture (Jérémie Chassaing)

Silverlight / WPF

• Video Player Expression Blend 3 Behavior Library (MS Downloads)
• New WPF Features: ClearTypeHint (Lester Lobo)
• You ask: Should Silverlight use BAML? (Rob Relyea)
• WPF and databinding to dynamic properties (Torkel Ödegaard)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video on creating a PowerPack (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• 10-4 Episode 34: Debugger Enhancements and Improvements (Jason Olson)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Don Box – Perspectives on SOAP, Programming Data and M (Charles Torre)
• Screencast: SharePoint 2010 for Project Management Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Tekpub Production Calendar (Rob Conery)
• Developing Windows Azure applications for PHP, Ruby, and Java, using Eclipse (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

• Growing the next generation of computer scientists and business leaders (Kyle Ewing)
• Expression Blend Feedback Forum (Adam Kinney)
• "Oslo" at the 2009 PDC (Chris Sells)
• PDC2009: XAML Futures Talk (Rob Relyea)

Database

• Disable SQL Azure Firewall (Jason De Lorme)
• Windows Azure Tables: Expect Continuation Tokens, Seriously! (Steve Marx)
• Another Great SQL Azure Query Tool (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• Free Download: SharePoint Assessment WBS & Project Schedule (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Short Overview of SharePoint Features in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Jausovec)

Miscellaneous

• Set Up Windows Home Server to Automate Your Backups and Corral Your Media (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/10/29 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Dr. Explain Gives Your Software a Brain (Lee Dumond)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 28, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #465 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 – 2 — #718 and Silverlight Cream for October 28, 2009 — #719 (Dave Campbell)
• My Top 10 Personal Favorite And Overlooked Posts (Davy Brion)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #572 (Mike Gunderloy)
• CloudNews for 28th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 385 (Sam Gentile)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Using F# Discriminated Unions in C# (Beta2) (Jared Parsons)
• Simple Linq to Sql Enhancements with T4 Templating (Nathan Bridgewater)
• IronPython 2.0.3 and 2.6 RC2 (Harry Pierson)
• TFB210602: Failed to copy. (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• A Chance to Influence the MSDN Visual Studio Documentation (Help System) (Charlie Calvert)
• VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue (Brittany Behrens)
• Windows7 Trigger Start Services – Part 2: Building a Trigger Start Optimized Service (Yochay Kiriaty)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Creating Drill Down Reports (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET 4 Web Server Here Shell Extension (Phil Haack)
• Optimize your web site for search engines using the SEO Toolkit (MS Web Platform Team)
• Using PHP within the Expression Development Server (Chris Leeds)
• Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP developers (Maarten Balliauw)
• 12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Simone Chiaretta)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (5 in a series) – What the Frig is a View Model (Sara J. Chipps) – Link of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An epic bug story (Oren Eini)
• MVC Web Testing Strategies – verifying content (Jimmy Bogard)
• TestDriven.Net 3.0 Alpha – Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Jamie Cansdale)
• Stop Exposing Collections Already! (Davy Brion)
• The SOA Manifesto – Pointlessness Manifested (Harry Pierson)
• Developer Codpieces (Leon Bambrick)
• The Most Productive Programming Language (Dave Laribee)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF is the future, get over it, post of the day – “Are desktop developers ignoring WPF at their peril?” (Greg Duncan)
• New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects and d:DesignInstance, d:DesignData in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Karl Shifflett)
• 10 Expression Blend 3 Tutorials for Silverlight available for download (Adam Kinney)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 1 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight Live Streaming being discontinued. What now? (Rene Schulte)
• New Silverlight Tooling Support in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Visual Web Developer Team)
• Inserting a Silverlight Navigation and Slideshow into Your Web Page (Silverlight Team)
• Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
• Obfuscation of WPF applications (status update) (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: Windows Presentation Foundation with Todd Fine (MS Screencasts)
• Vacation of Fluent NHibernate: Monday ClassMaps (Bobby Johnson)
• Dave Thompson: Turning Software into Services (Charles Torre)
• Recorded PowerShell Introductory Session from Quest Connect (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Part 1 – Taking Sketched Code Towards Unity and Part 2 – Dependency Injection with Unity and Part 3 – Modularity with Prism and Part 4 – The Unity Bootstrapper and Part 5 – Moving to a Modular Silverlight Project and Part 7 – Commands and Part 8 – Loosely Coupled Events and Part 9 – Sharing Data with Region Contexts and Part 10 – A Larger Example – "Email Client" (Mike Taulty)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Tim Huckaby Full Length Interview (Tina)
• Access Web Databases and The Access Show (Office Team)

Community / Events

• Office and SharePoint Sessions at PDC (Ahmed El-Ramly)
• SharePoint Live Virtual Conference & Expo – November 5, 2009 (Andrew Connell)
• Google Groups is Dead (John Resig)
• Getting Geeky with Windows 7! My house party and visiting Best Buy on launch day. (Dave Isbitski)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Tuning the Performance of Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• FAST meets SharePoint – What’s Coming in Search for SharePoint 2010 (Nate Treloar)

Miscellaneous

• Google launches Android 2.0 SDK (Brad Linder)
• Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars [Gaming] (Adam Frucci)
• 7 on 7: Direct2D and DirectWrite (Jim O’Neil)
• Dear Microsoft: What’s the deal with Windows 7 upgrades? (Ed Bott)
• Google Wave will have an App Store too! (Sebastian Anthony)
• Windows Management Framework is here! (Nathan Burkhart)

More Link Collections

• SharePoint 2007 Posts: Recap (Pete Seale)
• LINKBLOG for Oct 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #464 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 — #717 and Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 – 2 — #718 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 27-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update (Brad Abrams)
• CloudNews for 27th October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Visualizing Concurrency, F# and More (Matt Davey)
• Vacation of Fluent NHibernate: Introduction (Bobby Johnson)
• Providing Feedback (Cameron Skinner)
• Running IronPython Scripts from a C# 4.0 Program (Charlie Calvert)
• Getting Loopy (Coding4Fun)
• Creating something from nothing [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET!] (David Anson)
• Simple Kick Start Example using MEF (Preview (Derik Whittaker)
• .Net Framework 4.0: Enumerating file system objects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Upcoming ADO.Net Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (EF Team)
• Looking for questions or feedback on IntelliTrace (Habib Heydarian)
• Consuming Services with WCF (Herbjörn Wilhelmsen)
• Working with AS400-iSeries-System i Stored Procedures in .NET (Joel Cochran)
• Toolbox Search (Josh)
• Box Selection and Multi-Line Editing (Brittany Behrens)
• VSIX and MSI (Quan To)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard October CTP (Stephen Forte)
• Extending Visual Studio 2010 UML Designers – Part 1: Getting Started (Peter Provost)
• Speeding up data access by using Linq to SQL or EF (Jason Young)

Web Development

• Website Background Services Are Hot (Pete Seale)
• Playing with JQuery Validation Library, Part 2 (Chris Brandsma)
• ClientIDMode in ASP.NET 4.0 (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft Expression Super Preview Tool – Completely Useless ? (Dave Schinkel)
• Authentication – Assigning Permissions to Roles (Dave M. Bush)
• TIP: How To Generate a Fully Qualified URL in ASP.NET (E.g., http://www.yourserver.com/folder/file.aspx) (Scott Mitchell)
• jQuery Enlightenment is a Worthy Purchase (Marc Grabanski)
• Conditional UIHint (Steve Naughton)
• Building HtmlHelper Extension Methods for ASP.NET MVC (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Manage Your Windows Azure Application From PowerShell (Steve Marx)
• ASP.NET MVC View Model Patterns (Steve Michelotti)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Strategy rather than code (Simon Brown)
• Is software engineering still relevant? (Bob Stout)
• SOA Manifesto (Colin Jack)
• Hierarchical Namespace Component (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

• Hypervideo, Closed Captions & Accessibility (Jesse Liberty)
• Introducing the WPF 4 Calendar Control (Pete Brown)
• WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• WPF Comics Book Reader – Release v2.8 (CodePlex)
• New WPF features: Custom Speller Dictionary (Lester Lobo)
• Caliburn v1 RTW for WPF, Silverlight 2.0 and 3.0! (Rob Eisenberg) – Link of the Day

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Wolfgang Grieskamp and Keith Stobie: Spec Explorer – An Overview (Charles Torre)
• .NET Rocks! – Doug Seven on Visual Studio 2010 (Carl Franklin)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #149: Introduction to NDepend, adding NDepend to your Nant Script (Derik Whittaker)
• Free Webcast: How to Effectively Utilize Microsoft Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Developing Data-tier Applications using Visual Studio 2010 (Elisa J.)
• A Feed You Should Read #9 – 10-4 (Greg Duncan)
• Ping 35: Hanselman, Windows 7 launch, Sharepoint 2010 Beta, Pointless apps (Laura Foy)
• deCast – Patterns-Based Silverlight – Part III – The Pipeline Pattern (Rob Bagby)
• SpecExplorer: Model-Based Testing made practicable (Jonathan de Halleux)
• ThirstyDeveloper Podcast – Windows Mobile 6.5 with Loke Uei Tan and Anand Iyer (Dave Bost)
• Polymorphic Podcast 2009.10.26 – ASP.NET AJAX Preview 6 with Stephen Walther (Craig Shoemaker)
• SharePoint Conference 2009 Interview – one real, one fun (Andrew Connell)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Conference 2009 – Wrapup (Andrew Connell)
• Joining Windows (Harry Pierson)
• Sam Gentile Presentation: WF4, WCF4, and Dublin: Whats New in VS2010 (Sam Gentile)

Database

• FYI: A new barrier to SQL Azure adoption (Jamie Thomson)
• Amazon Releases Relational Database As A Service – My Initial Thoughts (Krishnan Subramanian)
• SQL SERVER – How to Enable Index – How to Disable Index – Incorrect syntax near ‘ENABLE’ (Pinal Dave)
• Dealing with Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation errors and Interesting Increase Key Value Post By CSS SQL Server Engineers (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• #spc09 The Future of SharePoint Project Management (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Sharing VSeWSS experiences (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• CIO MAG: Windows 7 Bible: Your Complete Guide to the Next Version of Windows (Bob Familiar)
• Free e-book: Windows 7 troubleshooting tips (Devon Musgrave)
• Microsoft Opens Up the PST Format (Paul Thurrott)
• PST File Format Documentation coming… (Greg Duncan)
• Advice for Public Speakers (Bill Wagner)
• Windows7 Trigger Start Services – Part 1: Introduction (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub (Tekkub Stoutwrithe)
• 7 on 7: Direct2D and DirectWrite (Jim O’Neil)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines 10/26/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Interesting Finds: October 26, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #463 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 26th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #569 (Mike Gunderloy)

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