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Top Links
- Now Available: Windows 7 Phone Guide (J.D. Meier)
 - Fluent Builders Part 2 (Peter Ritchie)
 - Mono: What we are Cooking (Miguel de Icaza)
 - A Burden Called Meetings (Jan Van Ryswyck)
 - Visual Studio Explosion! – VS2010 SP1 *BETA* Released and Context (Scott Hanselman)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Ignoring Members During XML Serialization (Richard Carr)
 - Rob Miles XNA 3.0 eBook at Half Price (Rob Miles)
 - Getting MySQL to work with Entity Framework 4.0 (Gunnar Peipman)
 - VS2010/TFS2010 VM Refresh Downloads now available (Greg Duncan)
 - Fluent NHibernate Supports NHibernate 3 O/R Mapper (David Hayden)
 - TFS Test Steps Editor – Multiline Support (Shai Raiten)
 - DXCore Components – CodeMetricProvider and How to use CodeMetricProvider control to build you own code metric (Alex Skorkin)
 - MonoReports: Report Designer and Reporting Engine (Miguel de Icaza)
 - Creating a Domain Service Factory to Host POCO Entities (Beavis Killer)
 
Web Development
- Dynamic Page Menus in WebMatrix Templates with CSS and jQuery. (Joe Stagner)
 - ASP.NET 4 Unleashed in Bookstores! (Stephen Walther)
 - Class-Level Model Validation with EF Code First and ASP.NET MVC 3 (Scott Guthrie)
 - Disable HTML, CSS, or JScript IntelliSense (Zain Naboulsi)
 - How Microsoft is making PHP Development easier (Rafael Dohms)
 - Foursquare API v2 is Public, v1 Deprecated (Daniel Luxemburg)
 - Declaring Static Methods in PHP (Lorna Mitchell)
 - Duplicate DOM elements with the same ID (Jason Jarrett)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Personal Development Books List (J.D. Meier)
 - Developers and Change – Scare Tactics? and Agile #Failure = #Win (ScoutMaster)
 - Test Attachment Cleaner (Shai Raiten)
 - Aspect Oriented Programming in Python using Decorators (Dror Helper)
 - 5 Ways to Reduce Workplace Stress (Chris Spagnuolo)
 - Coverage with TeamCity and dotCover with MSTest, NUnit or MSpec (Hadi Hariri)
 - There Is No Objective Management (Jurgen Appelo)
 - #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of Capacity Planning – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDACP (O’Reilly Media)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Silverlighting Your PHP, Part 3: Bringing PHP Into Visual Studio (Justin Whitney)
 - WPF – Copy UIElement as Image to Clipboard (Brian Lagunas)
 - Gestures in Windows Phone 7 (Chris Koenig)
 - Lessons Learned in Personal Web Page Part 1: Dynamic XAML (Jeremy Likness)
 - Windows Phone From Scratch #10 – Visual State Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
 - Top 10 Tips To Getting Help With Silverlight (Jesse Liberty)
 - Writing Cross-Platform XAML Applications (Mike Ormond)
 - WP7 Tip: disabling the Pivot Control swipe gesture (James Ashley)
 - Helpful Windows Phone 7 Tips (Keith Ward)
 - Requirements of and pitfalls in Windows Phone 7 serialization (Peter Kuhn)
 - How to use T4 templates in WP7, Silverlight, Desktop or even MonoDroid apps (Daniel Cazzulino)
 - Issue with the WP7 PictureDecoder and Workaround (Rene Schulte)
 - Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser and WebBrowser Control Site Formatting (Nick Randolph)
 - Silverlight basics. Validation (Denis Gladkikh)
 - Windows Phone Unplugged – How to Detect the Zune Software (Rene Schulte)
 - Windows Phone Marketplace payouts coming in January, reporting available now (Todd Brix)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Panel Discussion on Data Access in Silverlight at DevReach (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Windows 7 Feature: Explorer Browser (MS Podcasts)
 - Silverlight TV 54: New Silverlight Training Series (John Papa)
 - Let’s Play TDD #64: Integrating ApplicationModel (James Shore)
 - Okapi, Endless Mural with HTML5 and IE9 (Larry Larsen)
 
Community / Events
- Celebrating the second Computer Science Education Week (Maggie Johnson)
 - Got Game: How to Keep Girls Interested in Computer Science (Bob Familiar)
 - National Computer Science Education Week Highlights Need to Empower Students Early (Cameron Evans)
 - Why am I working in India? (Mark Needham)
 - MSDN Flash Poll #14: My First Computer was a… (Mike Ormond)
 - Free Jump Start Course on Windows Azure Development next week – December 15-17, 2010 (Kim Spilker)
 - Interview: Tamir Berliner of PrimeSense (Josh Blake)
 
Database
- Tools cooperation – Visual Assist X and IDE Tools (Alex Skorkin)
 - Video: Data Modeling in the SQL Server Space (Kevin Kline)
 - SQL SEVER – Finding Memory Pressure – External and Internal (Pinal Dave)
 - Querying relative information with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
 - Missing Values in IDENTITY Column (Mike Hillwig)
 - SQL Indexing and Performance Part 4: Design Considerations (Lefteris Karafilis)
 - Can You Dig It? – Parallelism in the Plan Cache (Jason Strate)
 - SQL Server Compact 4.0 CTP2 released (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
 
Miscellaneous
- Xbox 360 Takes No. 1 Spot in Console Sales for Sixth Month in a Row (Microsoft Blog)
 - More Free Microsoft E-Books (Richard Hay)
 - Kinect, with the magicians from MIT, fulfils its Minority Report destiny (Sebastian Anthony)
 - How Can I View MSMQ Messages and Queues? (Steve Smith)
 - Spoon Lets You Run Portable Desktop Apps From Your Browser (Whitson Gordon)
 - Windows Phone Update In February Says Developer (Matt Rosoff)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
 - Silverlight Cream for December 09, 2010 — #1006 (Dave Campbell)
 - The Morning Brew #748 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily News Digest 12/10/2010 (Silverlight Show)
 - Distributed Weekly 80 (Scott Banwart)
 
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