Silverlight / WPF
- SketchFlow: A Bit of History (Christian Schormann)
 - Expression Blend 3 SDK (MS Downloads)
 - Bye Bye Popfly (Ben Anderson)
 - SketchFlow Control Explorer (Corey Schuman)
 - Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 is available for download (James Clarke)
 - Deep Zoom Composer Released! (Sunshine)
 - What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Element Binding and What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Multi-Select List Box (Jesse Liberty)
 - SilverBullet Part 8 – Accessing local files (Timmy Kokke)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Implementing Plug-Ins with a DI Container (Brian Noyes)
 - Bottlenecks (Anne Epstein)
 - Feature by feature (Oren Eini)
 - Refactoring Challenge Part 3 – Pattern Implementation (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Remember to not dive too deep too soon (Derik Whittaker)
 - We Remembered Not to Dive Too Deep Too Soon (Chris Missal)
 - The Template Pattern A Benevolent Dictator (Ben Yoder)
 - DDD, TDD, BDD, and CQS and TDD: Isn’t It About Time? (Jonathan Oliver)
 - Convert Mockups to HTML+Image Maps Prototypes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
 - Refactor Your Way To Success (Justin Etheredge) – Link of the Day
 
Web Development
- Why ASP.NET (webforms) Sucks. (Charles Chen)
 - The Ultimate List Of JQuery Plugins And Examples (Deepak Kapoor)
 - Tip #90: Did you know … How to rearrange menu items in Visual Web Developer? (Reshmi Mangalore)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- A First Look:Visual Studio Team System 2010-Architecture Edition (Angela Binkowski)
 - LINQ Language Deep Dive with Visual Studio 2008 (Beth Massi)
 - IronPython – Release: 2.0.2 (CodePlex)
 - When Cast doesn’t Cast to T (Bill Wagner)
 - Windows 7 is final and includes .NET 3.5sp1 (Rob Relyea)
 - My Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts and Snippets (Shawn Wildermuth)
 - Life without EF or any ORM (Julie Lerman)
 - Improve Your Code Golf Game with LINQ and Using IDisposables with LINQ (Keith Dahlby)
 - Converting Text to Proper Case (Deborah Kurata)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- 10-4 Episode 28: An Introduction to the Historical Debugger (Brian Keller)
 - Michael Fortin: Windows 7 Efficiency (Charles Torre)
 - Stack Overflow Podcast #62 (Jeff Atwood)
 - ThirstyDeveloper #69 – Web Services with Scott Seely (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
 - ToolShed Tooltip #20 – SSIS Data Profiling saves your eyeballs (Russell Fustino)
 - DimeCasts.NET Episode #129: How to read from Performance Counters (Derik Whittaker)
 - Video: Windows 7 RTM Sign-Off (Roger)
 
Database
- Partitioning Existing Tables (Martin Bell)
 - Restoring multiple transaction log backups (Ted Krueger)
 - SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Write Script to Generate Primary Key and Foreign Key (Pinal Dave)
 - Sync is the word (Jamie Thomson)
 
SharePoint
- Using Workflow in SharePoint? (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
 
Miscellaneous
- Fill a Backpack with Bing cashback (Anne Taylor Hartzell)
 - Bing Home Page Photo Contest Finals! GO VOTE!! (Elif Ertem)
 - Getting Ready for Windows 7 Part 3: Three Must Do Features For Your Users and Part 4: Gain Strategic Advantage Using Windows 7 Features (Bruce Kyle)
 - Is Your Application Ready for Windows 7 RTM? (Yochay Kiriaty)
 - My Virtual Lab setup Hyper-V 2008 and Virtual Server 2005 R2 (Wesley Brown)
 - Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers (Jeff Atwood)
 - Microsoft Live Services Plug-in for Moodle (Sarah Perez)
 - Improving Cold Startup Performance (Prefetch) (Sasha Goldshtein)
 - Finding Work as a Freelance Software Developer (Rob Bazinet)
 - Weird things said in job interviews (Gretchen Ledgard)
 - When will Subscribers get Windows 7 RTM? August 6th. (Mike Kinsman)
 - Our Next Engineering Milestone: RTM (Win 7 Team)
 - 10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
 - Exciting new downloads (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: July 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
 - The Morning Brew #396 (Chris Alcock)
 - Cloudy Links July 23, 2009 (Deepak Kapoor)
 - Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2009 — #651 and Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2009 -2 — #652 (Dave Campbell)
 - New and Notable 345 (Sam Gentile
)  - CloudNews for 22nd July, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
 
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