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.NET / Visual Studio
- 12 Tips To Speed-up Your Windows Forms Applications (Denis Basaric)
 - Microsoft Windows 7 SDK (ISO) and Windows Media Center SDK (MS Downloads)
 - Instantiating interfaces (Oren Eini)
 - (Mis)using C# 4.0 Dynamic – Type-Free Lambda Calculus, Church Numerals, and more (Bart de Smet)
 - ExpressionVisitor shipping in .NET 4.0 (David Kean)
 - DAL: Save Data Using a Stored Procedure and Using Linq with Microsoft Word and Excel (Deborah Kurata)
 - Wow, the hatred for ‘var’ lives on (Derik Whittaker)
 - Displaying custom HTML in WebBrowser control and Developing Delicious applications (Gunnar Peipman)
 - Observations on the ‘if’ statement (Chris Brandsma)
 - A GC API that would be convenient (Patrick Smacchia)
 - A Look At Tasks In The System.Threading.Tasks VS2010 Namespace (Sacha Barber)
 - Introduction to HealthVault Development #13: More more than one person (Eric Gunnerson)
 - Fluent NHibernate 1.0RC (James Gregory) – Link of the Day
 - TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Faster! and TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Cleaner Stack Traces (Jamie Cansdale)
 - LinqToSQL A Detailed Review (Jesse Liberty)
 - Windows 7 Taskbar: Tabbed Thumbnails and Previews in Native Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
 
Web Development
- NPR Opens 80,000 Transcripts via New Transcript API (Andres Ferrate)
 - Windows Azure Sample Application Riviera (Deepak Kapoor)
 - Announcing Sueetie Themes (Dave Burke)
 - DinnerNow.net 3.1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 released (Habib Heydarian)
 - Dysfunctional JavaScript (James Hart)
 - ASP.NET MVC – Some Frequently Asked Questions (Suprotim Agarwal)
 - Book Review: Web Design for ROI (Tim Barcz)
 - Signed Access Signatures and PHP SDK for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
 - Snapshot Panel in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
 - Prototyping a Drupal Module for Google Wave (Pamela Fox)
 - The Design and Development Benefits of CSS (Tom Lerchenfeld & Josh Frankel)
 - ASP.NET disk-based caching (Karl Seguin)
 - How to use Ninject 2 with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
 - Range-Specific Requests in ASP.NET (Scott Mitchell)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft Updated (Ade Miller)
 - Benchmarks are useless, yes, again and Taking advantage on the Data Transfer Tier (Oren Eini)
 - Kanban In Time-Boxes: The Cadence of WIP and Sprints (Derick Bailey)
 - Continuous learning and getting left behind (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Thoughts on agile design and platforms (Eric Gunnerson)
 - the difference between model-view-viewmodel and other separated presentation patterns (Erwin Van Der Valk)
 - Should I use MEF for my general IoC needs? (Glenn Block)
 - My favorite form of a “TODO” in code (Jeremy D. Miller)
 - Spearmen, Javelin Throwers, and the State Pattern. Oh My! (Troy Goode)
 - Convention over Configuration – The Next Generation? (Udi Dahan)
 - Adjusting NHibernate mapping for tests (Krzysztof Koźmic)
 - Builders hanging off class vs Builders in same namespace and Impersonators: Why do we need them? (Mark Needham)
 - Does A Kanban System Eschew Iteration (Karl Scotland)
 - Brian Harry on Agile delivery of VSTS (Keith Pleas)
 - Refactoring Day 15 : Remove Duplication and Refactoring Day 16 : Encapsulate Conditional (Sean Chambers)
 - What a difference a framework can make… (Sebastien Lambla)
 - Circular Refactoring (Sergio Pereira)
 - Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 5. (Rajiv Popat)
 - Why the Re-Think? (Mike Cottmeyer)
 
Silverlight / WPF
- So What’s a Silverlight Value Converter Anyway? (Dan Wahlin)
 - SilverX converts Flash video to Silverlight (Jay Hathaway)
 - Adding a Rotating Button to the Swivel Behavior Demo and Silverlight 2 Animation – Book Review (John Papa)
 - WPF: Dynamic Search UI (JP Hamilton)
 - Silverlight triggers (Rockford Lhotka)
 - Wpf Drag & Drop behaviour (Martin Hinshelwood)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Windows Weekly 118: Microsoft Gets Its Mojo Back (Paul Thurrott)
 - Great VSTS 2010, Agile, and Scrum Webcasts Available Soon! (Angela Binkowski)
 - This Week C9: Win7 API’s, Spec# and Boogie, Expression 3 Starter Kits (Brian Keller)
 - Team System Videos Online! (David Starr)
 - Major Nelson Show #328: Xbox 360 System update, BIGS 2 and Trials HD (Larry Hyrb)
 - Ping 25: Comedians, SQL server, Photosynth, Facebook, Zune, Bingle (Laura Foy)
 - Video: Smart & Lean Organizations (Max Pool)
 - Episode 80 – PowerScripting Podcast – Klaus Graefensteiner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
 
Community / Events
- CodePlex Editor Role (Harry Pierson)
 - Microsoft Technology Roadmap at PDC in LA (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
 
Database
- Data Mining – Handling Missing Values the Database (Eran Kampf)
 - Scripting Objects with Magic (Jeremiah Peschka)
 - Introduction to Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server 2008 and Evaluate the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview (CTP) (Pinal Dave)
 - Powershell and SMO scripting – Part 2 (Martin Bell)
 - Keeping Your Code in Sync With Your Database (Michael Ceranski)
 
Miscellaneous
- Free Copy of Windows 7 and Free Windows 7 Training for I.T. Professionals & Developers from Microsoft (Blake Handler)
 - More Growl for Windows from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)
 - Rate Your Employer Sites – It’s About Damn Time (Dave Schinkel)
 - Windows 8: Next-Generation GUI Confirmed and Windows 8 to Include Data Center Automation (Stephen Chapman)
 - Writing PowerShell cmdlets in F# — May CTP (Steve Gilham)
 - Wave 2 of Windows 7 Client and Windows Server 2008 R2 – NOW LIVE ON MSDN SUBSCRIBER DOWNLOADS! (MSDN Subscriptions Blog)
 - Latest Article About Nerding it Up (Sara J. Chipps)
 - Presenting using Windows 7 (Rudi Grobler)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 15, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
 - LINKBLOG for August 14, 2009 and LINKBLOG for August 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
 - Everyman Links for August 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
 - Community Convergence LIII (Charlie Calvert)
 - The Morning Brew #413 (Chris Alcock)
 - Links of the week #87 – “Snow Patrol” Edition (David Vidmar)
 - Weekly Links #66 (Grant Palin)
 - Links (8/16/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
 - Interesting Post… 8/10/2009 through 8/16/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
 - Weekly Link Post 106 (Rhonda Tipton)
 - F# Discoveries This Week 08/16/2009 (Rick Minerich)
 - New and Notable 356 and New and Notable 357 (Sam Gentile)
 - CloudNews for 14th August, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
 
Book of the Day
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 ISBN: 1430215690  | 
Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation (9781430215691): Jeff Paries: Books
Pro ADO.NET Data Services: Working with RESTful Data (Expert’s Voice in .Net): John Shaw, Simon Evans: Books
jQuery Reference Guide: A Comprehensive Exploration of the Popular JavaScript Library: Jonathan Chaffer: Books