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Top Links

• SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009 Release 3) for Visual Studio 2010 RTM Now Available (Chris Sells)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Released! (Grigori Melnik)
• Project Natal caught in the wild (Tauqeer Ahmed)
• Microsoft SQL Server2008 R2 RTM – Express with Advanced Services (MS Downloads)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Basic 2010 Language Enhancements (Scott Mitchell)
• Conditional UIHint for Dynamic Data 2 and .NET 4 (Stephen Naughton)
• GAX 2010 and GAT 2010 (MS Downloads) – These two were in the MS Downloads ‘unofficial’ RSS feed, but the links are not currently working. I am guessing that they are coming soon, so try again later if they don’t work for you.
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Migration Guide (MS Downloads)
• [Insert Three Hour Tour and/or TPL Report Joke Here] – “A Tour of Various TPL Options” – 28 page free ebook about parallel programming options in .Net via the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and A trip down the .Net 4 System.Xml path, some pitfalls and how you can avoid them (Greg Duncan)
• HashSet, equality and identity (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Inserting Code Snippets and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Searching Breakpoints and Surround with a Code Snippet and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: How to Import and Export Breakpoints (Zain Naboulsi)
• Querying Literals in Entity SQL (Julie Lerman)
• Visual studio color styles (Torkel Ödegaard)
• NHibernate Get vs Load and Sub Types (Mike Hadlow)
• Modify VS 2010 Template to Reference System.Configuration (Peter Ritchie)
• Towards a Smaller .NET 4 – Details on the Client Profile and Downloading .NET (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

• jQuery + MVC = Progressive Enhancement (Simon Ince)
• Introducing Shrinkr The URL Shrinking Service built with ASP.NET MVC 2 (Muhammad Mosa)
• Put Blob Without Overwrite and Build Your Own Web Role: Running Hosted Web Core in Windows Azure and Changing Advanced FastCGI Settings for PHP Applications in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• One-Click Publish – What’s New Since Beta 2 (Yugang Wang)
• Asynchrony in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Handle JSON Exceptions Gracefully in ASP.NET MVC 2 (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How Easy Is Unit Testing Code Analysis Rules? (Jason Bock)
• Jeff Sutherland: How to make your team hyperproductive (Gojko Adzic)
• Partial Book Review: Beautiful Teams. (Derick Bailey)
• The R.E.A.L.I.T.Y. principles of Agile Software Certification. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Best-kept Secret in DDD Community (Vladimir Gitlevich)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Effective UI – Only $9.99 use code DDEUD (O’Reilly Media)
• Focusing on the controller’s responsibility (Matt Hinze)

Silverlight / WPF

• Aero Glass WPF Window (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Phone-y charts [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 4 and Windows Phone 7 Charting sample!] (David Anson)
• WPF: Validation Feedback with ValidationDecorator (Mike Strobel)
• Tip of the Day #111 – How to Configure your Silverlight App to run in Elevated Trust Mode (Mike Snow)
• New WPF Showcase Addition: Alfa Ebooks Manager (Jay Esguerra)
• Free Training – Building Silverlight Business Applications and Get Silverlight 4 – Simplified! (John Papa)
• Silverlight 4, MVVM and Test-Driven Development (Martin Hinshelwood)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Must See – Typemock Balloons Bash (TypeMock Team)
• Agile 2009 – Johanna Rothman – Manage Your Project Portfolio (Bob Payne)
• Herding Code 78: Ruby on Rails, View Engines, Web Security, Section 3.3.1 and Visual Studio 2010 with Rob Conery (Jon Galloway)
• MSDN Simulcast: Techniques in Advanced .NET Debugging with John Robbins (Part 2 of 3) and MSDN Simulcast: Techniques in Advanced .NET Debugging with John Robbins (Part 3 of 3) and MSDN Radio: XNA and Windows Phone 7 Series with Michael Klucher (Emily Gibson)
• Security Talk: MSF Agile + SDL (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• .toolbox events in May – Free Blend training in Chicago, New York, Boston and Austin (Adam Kinney)
• Second SharePoint MVP Chat Brought to you by MSDN (Andrew Connell)
• My Last Day at Microsoft (Brad Abrams)
• More Drupal 7 Details at DrupalCon (Mitch Pronschinske)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 4/27/2010 – What has Mono done for the .NET developer lately? (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Devscovery 2010 <- April 27-29 (Rachel Appel)
• Schedule for the Redmond WPF for LOB & Windows 7 and .NET 4 Event (Karl Shifflett)

Database

• That No SQL Thing: Modeling Documents in a Document Database (Oren Eini)
• New book: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, Second Edition (Karen Szall)
• Ted Kummert to make significant announcement related to SQL Server (Jamie Thomson)
• A DMV a Day – Day 21 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (20/30) restarting a log backup chain requires a full database backup (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – When are Statistics Updated – What triggers Statistics to Update (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• So You’d Like to Send Some Email (Through Code) (Jeff Atwood)
• Handy Categories on NSString (Ben Scheirman)
• iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 2 Now Available for Download (Taimur Asad)
• Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx – Part XI (Dave Campbell)
• Top 10 Benefits of PowerPoint 2010 (Office Team)
• Windows Live completes the Windows Experience (Piero Sierra)
• Thinking More Functionally with PowerShell (Russell Ball)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 04.20.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 20, 2010 — #842 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #584 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Learning Windows Azure platform Resources (Paul Mehner)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R) 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant