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.NET / Visual Studio
- Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit and Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1 Samples (codename "Dublin" and codename "Velocity") (MS Downloads)
- Vs2010 IntelliTrace and Entity Framework Database Interaction (Julie Lerman)
- Tailspin Travel (Jonathan Carter)
- DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/18 (Mitch Pronschinske)
- Dublin Becomes Windows AppFabric! (Sam Gentile)
- Building Applications for Windows Azure (Somasegar)
- Windows Identity Foundation Ships! (Vittorio Bertocci)
- Programming Windows 7 Using Visual Studio 2010 (Yochay Kiriaty) – Link of the Day
- Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) released on DevLabs (Matthew Podwysocki)
- Awesome .NET 4: Named and Optional Parameters for Classes and Methods (Tom Hearn)
- Visual Studio 2010 – Visual Basic New Feature – NonSerialized Events (Karl Shifflett)
- Breaking up with the ternary operator (Matt Hinze)
- Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Sasha Goldshtein)
Web Development
- Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Adding Statistical Formulas (Scott Mitchell)
- Twitter Word Cloud Visualization with Google API (Elijah Manor)
- ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released (Phil Haack)
- Windows Azure now supports various OS image types (Hanu Kommalapati)
- Cascading DropDownLists With ASP.NET and jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
- Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer (John Resig)
- Pass Number 1: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET (Rob Conery)
- The AJAX UpdatePanel Is it your worst enemy? (Kevin Jones)
- What Dynamic Data REALLY Is and Is building apps with Dynamic Data faster? (Peter Blum)
- ASP.NET Google SPDY Tweaks (Dave M. Bush)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Start with the big picture (Simon Brown)
- Reducing friction as a standard operating method (Oren Eini)
- Semi-literate Programming and 8 Pieces of Architectural Advice for CMS (Michael Krakovskiy)
- The SOA Manifesto (Josh Twist)
- Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 9 (Michael Feathers) and The ‘should’ word (Mark Needham)
- How We Do Things – The Team Room (Scott C. Reynolds)
Silverlight / WPF
- The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight™/WPF™ version 1.1 is now available. (Al Pascual)
- Using the FluidMove Behavior (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs (Deborah Kurata)
- WPF : A True WPF Browser Control That Can Bend It Like Beckham (Sacha Barber)
- TOP 10 LIST: Silverlight for Games (Andy Beaulieu)
- New WPF Features: PixelShader3 Support (Lester Lobo)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Lev Novik on the Microsoft Sync Framework (Carl Franklin)
- Introducing "Dallas" and Building on Azure: KBB.com and Building on Azure: Siemens and Buidling on Azure: OriginDigital and Erik Meijer: Rx in 15 Minutes – Rx is Here!!!!! and Getting Started with Rx Extensions for .NET and Manuvir Das: Windows Azure One Year Later (Charles Torre)
- Code Cast 34 – David Starr Sells Out to the Man (David Starr)
- Writing your first Rx Application and Reactive Extensions API in depth: intro (Jeffrey van Gogh)
- 30 “Quick Hit” Videos for folks that couldn’t join us at PDC (Joe Stagner)
- DimeCasts.NET Episode #152: Introduction to MEF, Getting rolling with basic usage (Derik Whittaker)
Community / Events
- PDC09 – A Call to Dream (Nikhil Kothari)
- A Quick Rundown of PDC 2009 Day 1 Announcements (Me)
- Internet Explorer 9 to be Announced at PDC (Muhammad Ali)
- Coding4Fun at PDC! (Coding4Fun)
- Microsoft PDC 09: Day 1 (Dan Rigsby)
- PDC 2009 – Day 1, Keynote (Dave Bost)
- Are you a poet? Compose a Haiku and Win! (Kim Spilker)
- Talking at #notatpdc about Blend 3 and SketchFlow (Laurent Bugnion)
- Gabriel Schenker introduction to NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate Part 2 (Zachariah Young)
- PDC 2009 Day 1: Keynote, Roy Ozzie and PDC 2009 Day 1: Keynote, Bob Muglia and PDC 2009 Day 1: Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic and PDC 2009 Day 1: Concurrency Fuzzing & Data Races and PDC 2009 Day 1: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Changes and PDC 2009 Day 1: Data-Intensive Computing on Windows HPC Server with the DryadLINQ Framework and PDC 2009 Day 1: Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests (Sasha Goldshtein)
- PDC 2009 Day 1, post-keynote: What are we learning so far? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
- Live from LA: Day One with the Surface Team at PDC (Kyle R. Warnick)
- PDC09 Keynote: Open Source, Open Platforms and the Democratization of Data (Rick Minerich)
- PDC 2009: Recap Day 1, what’s on the menu for Day 2? (Sunshine)
Database
- SQL Server Substring Functions (Richard Carr)
- Don’t use text datatype for SQL 2005 and up (George Mastros)
- SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table – A Puzzle to Find Index Size for Each Index on Table (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint
- Managing Permissions in SharePoint 2007 (Lightning Tools)
- New SharePoint 2010 Architecture Models (Mike Walker)
- Introducing SharePoint 2010 (Beta) (Zhiming Xue)
Miscellaneous
- Advantages & Disadvantages of Microsoft Office 2010 64-Bit Version (Blake Handler)
- Office Mobile 2010 to come with WM 6.5 devices exclusively (Phone Arena Team)
- How to Work From Home During Chaotic Repairs (Celine Roque)
- Explore images with Google Image Swirl, now in Labs (Aparna Chennapragada)
- Your Office in the Clouds: The Best Online Virtual Desktops (Doriano "Paisano" Carta)
- Upcoming Free Xbox LIVE Weekends (Larry Hyrb)
- Ray Ozzie is wrong about smartphone apps (Robert Scoble)
- Windows 8: More Roadmaps (Stephen Chapman)
- We need a language for programmers (Scott Koon)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #479 (Chris Alcock)
- Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2009 — #734 (Dave Campbell)
- Tech Tweets for 17-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
- Microsoft PDC09 keynote highlights (Maarten Balliauw)
- New and Notable 391 (Sam Gentile)
- Links from the PDC09 (Sergejus Barinovas)
- Interesting Finds: November 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Book of the Day
Land the Tech Job You Love (Pragmatic Life) (9781934356265): Andy Lester: Books ISBN: 1934356263 |