Author: Alvin A.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Managed Preview Handlers (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Circumventing the KB957543 .NET 3.5 SP1 Regression Bug (Omer van Kloeten)
• F# and Haskell, Estranged Cousins (Rick Minerich)
• Programming Team Foundation Server with the TFS SDK (Joydip Kanjilal)
• MSTest ReSharper 4 Plugin (Shawn Neal)
• IronPython and CodeDOM: Dynamically Compiling C# Files (Harry Pierson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• It’s More Than Syntax (Peter Ritchie)
• Rules of the Road (Peter Provost)
• First -Scrum- Impressions (Laila Bougria)
• Flaccid Scrum (Martin Fowler)
• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 7 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• TDD: Test DRYness (Mark Needham)
• Leadership 101: Integrity Is a Coin You Can’t Afford to Spend (Jim Holmes)
• New Agile Videos on Channel 9 (Ade Miller)

Web Development

• Overriding Global T4 Templates in ASP.NET MVC Project with Per Project Templates (David Hayden)
• A Lesson in DRY Learned with jQuery (Chris Missal)
• Is Classic WebForms More Mature Than ASP.NET MVC? (Jeffrey Palermo) – Link of the Day
• Alternating Styles in DataView (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Form Validation with ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate (Maarten Balliauw)
• 30 Essential Controls (Theresa Neil) – Tools for RIA development
• ASP.NET MVC RC 1 Source Code and MVC Contrib – Release: 0.0.1.214 – RC Release for MVC RC1 (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases Word 2007 XAML Generator Add-In (Blake Handler)
• Caliburn V1 Roadmap (Rob Eisenberg)
• Custom Animations in Silverlight (Gozzo Smith)
• XamlCruncher for Silverlight (Charles Petzold)

.NET Community / Events

• My Favorite MIX09 10k Challenge Entries (Pete Brown)
• TCSWeekly Episode 003 – Silverlight, Moonlight, Kaxaml, Facebook, Multi-Touch (Adam Kinney)

Database

• Using SQL 2008 Table Valued Parameters in Microsoft Access (Stephen Forte)
• School of Wrox – Week of Warehousing (Free Webinar Series) (Jim Minatel)

Miscellaneous

• More Windows 7 Themes, and an Amazing List of Free Stuff from Microsoft (Paul Thurrott)
• How Does Your Programming Lanuage Rate? (Michael Ceranski)
• 50% off All Manning Books for DZone Members (Wei Ling Chen)
• RTFLF – Read the *Expletive* Log File (Scott Hanselman)
• Hardware Is Expensive, Programmers Are Cheap II (Michael Janke)
• My Current .NET Application and Tools Stack (Eric Hexter)
• Bring on the Programmer Apologists (Chris Brandsma)
• HD vs. SD – Flip MinoHD vs Flip Ultra – Head to Head (Scott Hanselman) – I don’t agree with all of Scott’s perceived negatives of the MinoHD, but it’s an interesting review/comparison.
• The Sad Tragedy of Micro-Optimization Theater (Jeff Atwood)
• Behind Cable’s DOCSIS 3.0 Broadband Claims (Eric Rabe)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: The Myths of Innovation (Dave Burke)
• Google’s GDrive Inches Closer to Becoming a Reality (Lee Matthews)
• Github: Making Code More Social (Brady Forrest)
• Live Search Add-In for Firefox Adds Auto-Suggest (Kip Kniskern)
• How to Get Chrome’s “New Tab” Page in Firefox (Philipp Lenssen)

More Link Collections

• CloudNews for January 29th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Tech Twitterings #13 (Elijah Manor)
• Catching Up on Some Blog Reading (Mike Taulty)
• Links (1/29/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight Cream for January 29, 2009 — #501 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #276 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 285 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: January 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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