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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)
 
Book of the Day
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 ISBN: 073562710X  | 
Microsoft® Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition (Patterns & Practices) (9780735627109): Microsoft Patterns & Practices Team: Books
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development Problem – Design – Solution (9780470447628): Emad Ibrahim: Books