I was first introduced to this cat by Karl Lynn.

I dig it the most.

Top Links

• Countdown to MIX10: The Gu (Larry Larsen)
• .NET 4.0 And Our Parallel Future (Justin Etheredge)
• A Vision for FubuMVC’s Component Model (gems, Nu, engines, slices, oh my…) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Introducing Sharpy (Jaco Pretorius)

.NET / Visual Studio

• One team’s journey in their upgrading of their TFS from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008
  (i.e. Something you may have to think about in your move to TFS2010) (Greg Duncan)
• Quirks in .NET – Part 2 (Kevin Jones)
• Code Definition Window — vstipTool0012 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 background flickering and customization (Alin Constantin)
• Getting Started with MSBuild (Chuck England)
• How to: Retarget a project using DTE (Ion Todirel)
• .NET OSS dependency hell (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Creating Routing Service using WCF 4.0, .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 RC (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Careful with that axe, part two: What about exceptions? (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Using Ruby On Rails With Oracle And Deploying It All To Tomcat (Alan Skorkin)
• Cures for the Common Ailments – Getting a Random Item in JavaScript (Chris Love)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Did Your Boss Thank You For Coding Yourself to Death? (Alan Skorkin)
• Large-Scale Agile (James Shore)
• Changing basic assumptions in apps (Brian Marick)
• Noisy code does not equal clean code (Derik Whittaker)
• Pair Programming: In interviews and Coding: Shared libraries (Mark Needham)
• Castle Project code organization (Patrick Smacchia)
• Systems Thinking, The Vanguard Method and Software Development (Karl Scotland)
• How To Use a Coach Effectively (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML Attributes on Separate Lines (Christopher Bennage)
• Highlighting a "weak" contribution
  [Enhancements make preventing memory leaks with WeakEventListener even easier!] (David Anson)
• AutoCompleteBox: Now with 100% more WPF (Jeff Wilcox)
• BubbleBurst v1.1 release (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – It’s the Visual Studio 2010 Launch Show! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Create Code-Free Mashups with InfoPath and SharePoint Web Parts (LaurHar)
• This Week in Silverlight – February 25 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• This Week in Testing Episode 14 – Google Buzz FAIL (Gil Zilberfeld, Doron Peretz & Dror Helper)
• Using the Code Analysis Tool (CAT.NET 2.0) to Identify Security Vulnerabilities (Jossie Tirado)

Community / Events

• Growing the Pool of SQL Speakers – Part 2 (Andy Warren)
• I’ll be speaking at TechEd 2010 North America on SharePoint 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Children and Internet safety top priority for Microsoft and MVPs (Joseph Mirabella)
• IndyHall Member Profiles: Megan Canney (Parker Whitney)

Database

• Fun with a non relational databases (Oren Eini)
• Versant ODB as Easy as ORM (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Calculating number of workdays between 2 dates (Ramireddy)
• Generating surrogate keys with xquery (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 3 – List View Architecture (Eric Andeen)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Research Releases "Collage" Presentation Tool for Teachers (Blake Handler)
• PowerShell Version Two – Get Continuous Perf Counters (Buck Woody)
• Does that new Windows Activation update really ‘phone home’? and Windows 7 memory usage: What’s the best way to measure? (Ed Bott)
• Energy efficiency and sustainability: Johnson Controls using Surface (Eric Havir)
• What Developers Can Expect from Microsoft and Daily Dose – US Lobbyists Blacklist Open Source Promoting Counties (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Cleaning Out Old Calendar Entries in Outlook (Keith Elder)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning Python, 4th Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDPYT (O’Reilly Media)
• Bitter Version 2.4 (Mike Hall)
• Engineering Messenger for real relationships (Piero Sierra)
• The Exec Problem (James Kovacs)

Pretty cool stuff!

Top Links

• Expression Blend: Designer Tool or Tool for Design (John Stockton)
• TechNet 2.0 – Episode 6 – Wiki (Keith Combs)
• Live Mesh: It’s Alive! (Paul Thurrott)
• Can the Reporting Services BI Tools be More Like Report Builder 2.0? (William Vaughn)
• Timeline integrates Photoshop with Subversion (SVN) for full version control (Sebastian Anthony)
• Put Missing Kids on your 404 Page – Entirely Client-Side Solution with YQL, jQuery, and MSAjax (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Is CAS dead in .NET 4? (Shawn Farkas)
• Robocode – robot warfare (Coding4Fun)
• Excerpt #3 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Jeffrey Richter)
• Visual Studio 2010 background flickering and customization (visualstudioblog)
• Code Definition Window — vstipTool0012 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Small LINQ Trick for Converting List to String Text List (Peter Kellner)
• MEF is not An IoC container; but MEF uses IoC (Peter Ritchie)
• C#: Overcomplicating with LINQ (Mark Needham)
• Introduction into ADO .NET Data Services/RIA Services (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• Creating Multiple Choice Exam Application Using ASP.NET MVC Framework (Mohammad Azam)
• Unique Keys versus IDs in Web Applications (Chris Missal)
• Documenting Standards in IE (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Client Side Validation with jQuery (Mike Ceranski)
• Daily Dose – Zend Server 5.0 GA Boasts Code Tracing (Mitch Pronschinske)
• jQuery 1.4 breaks ASP.Net MVC actions with array parameters (Kevin Miller)
• Introducing RealDolmenBlogs.com (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is the big picture? (Simon Brown)
• Mercurial Tutorial (Joel Spolsky)
• Did Your Boss Thank You For Coding Yourself to Death? (Alan Skorkin)
• Repository Shootout: distributed vs centralized, hosted vs installed …
  You be the judge – Take our 2 Minute Survey. (Alex Coisman)
• Code Kata (Julian M. Bucknall)
• On the Utility of TestPropertyAttribute (Craig Andera)
• Branching Strategies: When To Branch And Merge and 
  Branching Strategies: The Cost Of Branching And Merging (Derick Bailey)
• Agile Tenet #12 – Reflect on Improvement (Julie Stickler)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Snapshots ! (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Pair Programming: In interviews (Mark Needham)
• How to Get Started With Agile? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Announcing the February 2010 Release of Microsoft Health CUI (MS Health CUI Team)
• Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 1) – Controls for Silverlight Developers (Me)
• Article Published: Context Sensitive History. Part 1 of 2 (Daniel Vaughan)
• XAML Attributes on Separate Lines (Christopher Bennage)
• Moonlight Feels Right for Mono 2.6 (Tapas Pal)
• MEF, Silverlight and the DeploymentCatalog (Mike Taulty)
• SLARToolkit – Silverlight Augmented Reality Toolkit (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Steven Cloherty: Microsoft Online Services Risk Management (Charles Torre)
• Community Megaphone Show #4 with guest JP Toto (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Looping over SQL scripts and executing them : SSIS video nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• BCS Discussion with Brad Stevenson-Episode 42 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 11 – WCF and TCP (Mike Taulty)
• Using the Code Analysis Tool (CAT.NET 2.0) to Identify Security Vulnerabilities (Jossie Tirado)
• VISUG Recording: F# Introduction (Katrien De Graeve)

Community / Events

• Are you interested in a virtual PowerShell brown-bag event? (Joel Bennett)
• Learn how to customize SP2010 sites with SharePoint Designer 2010 by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• Like jQuery? Live in the DC Area? Have I got a Group for you! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Take a look at MVPs on MS News Center (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• Rhino Divan DB reboot idea (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server Proper Case Function (George Mastros)
• The fast, yet as complete as, possible SQL Azure Start to Finish Guide –
  aka What is a “DB as a SQL Azure/web service” demo without Northwind? (Greg Duncan)
• Rounding to the Nearest X Minutes, the Lazy Way (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Accessing system views in global stored procedures (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Designer’s new workflow editor: introduction (SharePoint Designer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Eclipsys and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance to Make Enterprise Health IT More Open and Powerful (MS News Center)
• Looking for Reviewers for PowerShell Cookbook v2 (Lee Holmes)
• Macmillan’s DynamicBooks offers editable digital textbooks (Jay Hathaway)
• More Wrox Books in Mobi and ePub Formats (Jim Minatel)
• Microsoft launches Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 (Ray Comvalius)
• U.S. Surgeon General Announces Connection with Microsoft HealthVault (David Cerino)
• Cracking Down on Botnets (Tim Cranton)
• Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone development: integrate, prioritize, focus (Kip Kniskern)
• The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook Review (Mike Riley)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning Perl, Fifth Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDPER (O’Reilly Media)

Top Links

• Strengthening your domain: Aggregate Construction (Jimmy Bogard)
• All About MIX10 (Mike Swanson)
• The game is over, people! (Michael S. Kaplan)
• Key Software Development Trends (Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Free Entity Framework v1 eBook – 514 pages of barebones, yet still good foundational, EF’ness (Greg Duncan)
• Working With Messages (Me)
• Profiler new feature: Too many joins detection (Oren Eini)
• New in .NET 4: Don’t Forget to Dispose() your SmtpClient Instances (Lee Dumond)
• Undo and Redo Global Actions — vstipEdit0020 and Insert File As Text — vstipEdit0021 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Daily Dose – Mono Supports MeeGo Apps – Android Support Coming (Mitch Pronschinske)
• RoundhousE – ADO.NET over SMO (Rob Reynolds)
• Solution: Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 extension does not load in vs 2010 RC (Roy Osherove)
• The Case of 64-Bit .NET Upgrade Bug (Russell Ball)

Web Development

• A Testable PayPal IPN with Rails 2.3 (Rob Conery)
• Comparing the Performance of Visual Studio’s Web Reference to a Custom Class (Sam Menard, John Jakovich & Jamie Davis)
• Note to self: Asp.Net MVC Controllers are not Code Behind (Chris Brandsma)
• Internet Explorer gains modicum of HTML5 (Seth Rosenblatt)
• WCF Data Services and jQuery (Shawn Wildermuth)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Would You Do? Management Scenario #1 (Andy Warren)
• Wanna Review My Code? (Davy Brion)
• Links to Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) Pattern Code and Discussions (Mike Glenn)
• MSpec and Auto Mocking (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Lessons Learned from Dr. Seuss (J.D. Meier)
• Refactoring: Small steps to pull out responsibilities (Mark Needham)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Updated Certificate, Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Finding an Object TreeViewItem (Carole Snyder)
• Performing DML Operations using WCF REST Service and Silverlight (Mahesh Sabnis)
• MEF, Silverlight and the DeploymentCatalog (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Joel Semeniuk on using TFS with small teams (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Silverlight TV 10: Jesse Liberty Explains the Hyper Video Project (John Papa)
• Running Reporting Services Reports in Windows Azure (Marc Schweigert)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 10 – WCF and HTTP (Mike Taulty)

Community / Events

• Free Event! Next Generation Testing with Visual Studio 2010 (Angela Binkowski)
• DevTeach Toronto 2010 Ultimate Edition (James Kovacs)
• Nerd Dinner in Portland February 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Preparing for the 2010 Scripting Games (Ed Wilson)
• Virtual Alt.NET – UppercuT Automated Builds (Rob Reynolds)
• Featured Woman in Technology: Lisa S. Jones (Jennifer Marsman)

Database

• Viewing Missing Indexes in Management Studio 2005 (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Rollup Clause (Pinal Dave)
• Script to get indexes and their included columns (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Upgrade SharePoint 2003 to 2010 – Free Tech Preview (Joel Oleson)
• RootFinder Property – BCS Search (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 1.0 SP1 Release Candidate Available for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Google is a dangerous monopoly — more than Microsoft ever was (Joe Wilcox)
• Bing – It Does Way More Than You Think (Keith Elder)
• The 24th of Diduary: Did you know what you can do with a Home Server? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Understanding 64-Bit Office (Ted Way)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First Programming – Only $9.99! Use code DDAGP (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft boosts college grad hires (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• Sam Ramji Joins Mindtouch Board (Krishnan Subramanian)

Top Links

• Good beats innovative nearly every time (Scott Berkun)
• Sharpy – an ASP.NET MVC view engine based on Smarty (Maarten Balliauw)
• An Overview Of System.Collections.Generic (Justin Etheredge)
• Bing – It Does Way More Than You Think (Keith Elder)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Hey, NHibernate give me back my milliseconds (Derik Whittaker)
• Some e-books and .NET 4.0 beta exams (Gunnar Peipman)
• Roll Your Own Project or Item with the Export Template Wizard — vstipProj0004 and Undo and Redo Global Actions — vstipEdit0020 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Setting a Char Value and Setting a Char Value to a Symbol and Converting from String to Char or Visa Versa and Working with Char in a RichTextBox and Building a Set of Alphabetic Letters (Deborah Kurata)
• Telerik OpenAccess Data Services Wizard Beta 2-Now with Visual Studio 2010 Support (Stephen Forte)
• Announcing the YouTube SDK for .NET (Frank Mantek)
• Getting Started with LINQ to XML (Mike Ceranski)
• Book Review: the CLR via C# (Russell Ball)
• Careful with that axe, part one: Should I specify a timeout? (Eric Lippert)
• Visual Studio 2010 Tip: Scroll to Zoom (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Profiler Speculative Feature: Query plans (Oren Eini)
• Daily Dose – .NET Reflector Launches Commercial Upgrade (Mitch Pronschinske)

Web Development

• How to Make Sense of a User’s Geolocation (Adam DuVander)
• The 23rd of Diduary: Did you know that you can use SuperPreview to compare browser renderings? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Setting the Page Editor Options in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Part III – CSS tab) (Minal Agarwal)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observables (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Postback Text Processing with the AJAX Modal Dialog (Joe Stagner)
• “Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises” – The best of both, cloud and on-premise, worlds? [Coming later this year, free] (Greg Duncan)
• Manipulating Action Method Parameters (Phil Haack)
• New Web Application Toolkits (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Waking the dragon (Louis DeJardin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Non-Programming Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Designing enhancements (Simon Brown)
• "Debug It!" (Jason Bock)
• The One Skill You Need To Master To Succeed And Grow As A Developer (Alan Skorkin)
• Slaying relational dragons (Oren Eini)
• Man and the machine …. (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Gesturecons – icons for prototyping Multi-touch applications (Adam Kinney)
• Agile Security Engineering and Three D’s for Motivation – Direction, Decision, and Dedication (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight for Developers (Part II) (Arian Kulp)
• Getting started with XAML (Umair Saeed)
• The State of Data Access in Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight YouTube Jukebox (Daniel Vaughan)
• This is what happens when two Toolkits fall in love… [The February 2010 release of the WPF Toolkit is now available!] (David Anson)
• WPF Shell Integration Library for .NET 3.5 (jwalk)
• 5 Simple Steps to Commanding in Silverlight (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure Miniseries #3: ServiceConfig vs web.config (Brian Hitney)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #164: Learning how to use Manual Mocks for Testing (Derik Whittaker)
• The Thirsty Developer 86: Talking SharePoint with Kirk Evans (Dave Bost)
• This Week in Silverlight – February 21 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 9 – UDP Multicasting (Mike Taulty)
• Ping 49: Live Labs Pivot, Win7 testers, Facebook wins, Search Assault (Laura Foy)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Android (Jeff Brand)
• ConnectedShow Podcast – Is That A Phone In Your Pocket?! (Dmitry Lyalin)

Community / Events

• Microsoft MVP Summit – 2010 (Caleb Jenkins)
• Post 2010 MVP Summit — Thanks! (Dave Campbell)
• Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-How To Architect Killer Apps with Windows 7 and Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-Visual Studio Tools For Architects (Bob Familiar)
• IEEE Student Members Get Microsoft Developer Tools (Bruce Kyle)
• How to get Microsoft to speak at your event (Buck Woody)
• A weekend with Ken Schwaber (Anthony Borton)
• Interested in Working on CodePlex? (Matt Hawley)
• MIX – Microsoft, W3C and SVG (Patrick Dengler)
• Events This Week – February 22nd, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• SQL Server Triggers (Richard Carr)
• SQLAuthority News – Links to Book On Line – Data Mining Algorithms (Analysis Services – Data Mining) (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Connect to BdcService and GetEntities – BCS Object Model (Hrayr Diloyan)
• New SharePoint whitepaper published (Jon Fancey)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 1.0 SP1 Release Candidate Available for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft and Amazon.com Sign Patent Agreement (MS News Center)
• Small Basic: Sample of this week: Snake Bite (Vijaye)
• The 22nd of Diduary: Did you know what a Zune can really do? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Office 2010 and AppV 4.6 (Reed Shaffner)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The New Community Rules – Only $9.99! Use code DDNCR (O’Reilly Media)
• Deployment Process of an iPhone Application (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Coding: Effect sketches and the Mikado method (Mark Needham)

Top Links

• Linq to SQL Profiler 1.0 Released! (Oren Eini)
• .NET coming to Android in the form of MonoDroid (Imran Hussain)
• Getting Started With Machine.Specifications (MSpec) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Inversion of Control (IOC) with XAML (Rob Relyea)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSBuild Task Factories: guest starring Windows Powershell (Andrew Arnott)
• Using CTRL + ALT + B to Open the Breakpoints Window — vstipDebug0011 
  and Using CTRL + ALT + Down Arrow to Open the File Menu Dropdown List — vstipEnv0003 (Zain Naboulsi)
• XML Literals: Escaping Characters (Deborah Kurata)
• Code Metrics: Measuring LoC in .NET applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• How to package COM component (Xinyang Qiu)
• How VSIX extensions are discovered and loaded in VS 2010 (Mariano Blanco)
• TweeVo (Brian Peek)
• FluentNHibernate And NHibernate.Linq (Charles Chen)
• Will the real data object stand up? (Rockford Lhotka)
• Avoiding Memory Leaks With NServiceBus And Your Own Castle Windsor Instance (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft Semblio – A set of tools for educators to create rich interactive content/training,
  with extensibility via SDK, .Net and WPF (SDK free available today, rest coming soon) (Greg Duncan)
• C#: A lack of covariance with generics example and C#: Overcomplicating with LINQ (Mark Needham)
• A basic proxy for intercepting method calls (Part – 3) (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Crystal Reports and Visual Studio 2010 (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• Making your ASP.NET application work as a service. and The Orchard Project as my new blog engine. (Al Pascual)
• Gummy Bear 1.2 is Fully Baked! (Dave Burke)
• Simple pager for ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• Intro to jQuery Materials (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Announcing WeBlog – A Next Generation Blogging Platform (Mike Ceranski)
• Creating x.509 certificates with Pluralsight self-cert (Mike Hadlow)
• jQuery Custom Element and Global Events (Sergio Pereira)
• Partial Validation in ASP.NET MVC 2 (Steve Sanderson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microsoft XNA Test Tools (February 2010) (MS Downloads)
• Ubiquitous language leaking in the wrong direction (Peter Van Ooijen)
• Leadership Tip: Avoiding Generic Whining Within Your Organization.
  and Soul Searching Question For Managers: Why Do You Want Manage Your Team?
  and Avoiding The Typical Software Development World Stereotypes – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)
• You’ll Never Get Sustainable Progress For Free (Davy Brion)
• Using an ORM is like kissing your sister part 2 and CQRS and CAP Theorem
  and Why use Event Sourcing? (Greg Young)
• BigTable concerns, or “How to put your trust in the cloud” (Kyle Baley)
• Event Sourcing and the Event Pipeline (Jonathan Oliver)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 – Accessing System Devices with Com Interop, such as a Scanner. (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Beta 4 Networking. Part 8 – TCP Sockets (Mike Taulty)
• Magellan Forms and Magellan Major Changes (Paul Stovell)
• Silverlight Lessons Learned Materials (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Exchanging Data between XAP files using Local Collection API in Silverlight 3 (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes Podcast 201 – The Making of a Open Source MonoTouch iPhone app with Chris Hardy
  and Hanselminutes Podcast 202 – A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP (Scott Hanselman)
• Missing Screencasts (Rob Conery)
• geekSpeak: Advanced ASP.NET with Shaun Walker, founder of DotNetNuke
  and Lock Contention, Using Intel Parallel Studio to Improve Performance
  and geekSpeak: Advanced ASP.NET with Shaun Walker, founder of DotNetNuke (MS Podcasts)
• Windows Weekly 144: I Have Really Big Spreadsheet Needs (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9: Windows Phone 7 Series, Hanselcart, MS Deploy (Dan Fernandez)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #84 (Jeff Atwood)
• Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Working with Application ID
  and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Using the Taskbar Button Overlay Icons and Progress Bars
  and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar –Jump Lists, Part 1
  and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump Lists, Part 2
  and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Tabbed Thumbnails
  and Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar – Custom Previews and Thumbnail Clips (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Cloud Cover – Episode 1 (Ryan Dunn)
• Engadget Podcast 184: MWC 2010 Roundup – 02.19.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Visual Studio Tutorial – Part 2 – Our First Project (Keith Elder)

Community / Events

• CodeStock 2010 Keynote: Rachel Appel (Michael C. Neel)
• MVPs Give Microsoft Reason to Listen (Toby Richards)
• RSS feed for SQL Server Connect feedback (Jamie Thomson)
• Visual Studio 2010 to launch on April 12 at DevConnections 2010 in Las Vegas (Imran Hussain)
• The 2010 MVP Summit from the eyes of a rookie (Joseph Mirabella)
• SQL Social Update – Bill Vaughn will be at the meeting on the 16th March (Simon Sabin)

Database

• SQL Server User-Defined Functions (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Recompile Stored Procedure at Run Time
  and SQL SERVER- IF EXISTS(Select null from table) vs IF EXISTS(Select 1 from table) (Pinal Dave)
• Data Type Precedence and Implicit Conversions (Seth Phelabaum)
• Renaming a computer and maintenance plans (Martin Bell)
• SQL Server Implicit String Conversion/Concatenation
  (XML parsing: line , character , unexpected end of input) (Chinh Do)

Miscellaneous

• Luke Wroblewski on Windows Phone 7 Series UX (Christian Schormann)
• Microsoft Releases Documentation for "Outlook Personal Folders File (.pst) Format Structure Specification"
  and Microsoft Releases "Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)" for Windows7
  and Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "SharePoint Outlook 2007/2010 Connector"
  and Microsoft Releases Free "Software & Database Shapes" for Visio 2003 & 2007 Standard Editions (Blake Handler)
• The 21st of Diduary: Did you know that you can stop your mouse from interrupting sleep mode? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Windows Live Meeting – Can’t it be Better? (William Vaughn)
• Top 10 Windows Media Center Plug-Ins and Boosters (Kevin Purdy)
• A Feed You Should Read #24 – CodePlex.com (Greg Duncan)
• Getting ‘hands-on’ with Microsoft’s vision (Ian Sands)
• Check out Mercurial version control with my CodePlex repository (Jeffrey Palermo)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 20, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Finds: 2010 02.20 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #93 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 133 (Rhonda Tipton)
• New and Notable 404 and New and Notable 405 (Sam Gentile)

Top Links

• Your First S#arp Project in 15 Minutes (Billy McCafferty)
• AutoMapper 1.0 RTW (Jimmy Bogard)
• MVC Turbine v2.0 for MVC2 (.NET3.5) (Javier G. Lozano)
• .NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentStack (Justin Etheredge)
• Wrapping about Collections (K. Scott Allen)
• Warmup – Getting Started (Rob Reynolds)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Araxis Merge 2010 Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Integration (Doug Holland)
• The customer is always right
  [Updated free tool and source code to prevent a machine from going to sleep!] (David Anson)
• Tangible T4 for VS2010 – Tangible T4 Editor V1.6 for VS2008 and VS2010 now available (Greg Duncan)
• Hosting MEF within application and libraries. (Glenn Block)
• Functional C#: Writing a ‘partition’ function (Mark Needham)
• A Kick in the Monads – Writer Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Beta Release of Windows Azure Drive (Brad Calder)
• .NET Gem Fun (Tobin Harris)
• Windows Azure Tools and SDK 1.1 Released (Windows Azure Team)
• Using Sensors in Your Application – Native Implementation, Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• CSLA .NET 3.8.2 released (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to video: Using Telerik Data Services Wizard Beta1 to build an Astoria service (Stephen Forte)
• Windows Azure General Availability (Doug Hauger)
• The 2nd of Diduary: Did you know about "Block Replace" in Visual Studio 2010? (Jeff Blankenburg)

Web Development

• Stupid API Rant: the SalesForce Web Service API (Andrew Connell)
• Zend Framework Supports Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Creating a WCF Service for JSON (Chris Love)
• ASP.NET: Mega Menus (Deborah Kurata)
• Applying CSS Styling via Metadata (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• It is less expensive to do it inefficiently! (Oren Eini)
• Gherkin style specification testing in .NET (Ryan Lanciaux)
• Are We Continuously Improving Or Just Continuously Changing? (Derick Bailey)
• How I Approach a Defect (Chris Missal)
• “Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines”
  – aka the UX Guide for Windows 7 and Vista free eBook (Greg Duncan)
• Slicing the day (Mark Nijhof)
• Software on the Cheap (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Do you care about performance? – .NET Performance Testing and Optimization (Wally McClure)
• Style follows semantics (Eric Lippert)
• Limitations of the Dreyfus Model (Patrick Kua)

Silverlight / WPF

• ASP.Net server-side image resizing with WPF (Bertrand Le Roy)
• What’s new in Silverlight 4? NYC Silverlight meetup presentation available for download (Dave Isbitski)
• New Silverlight 3 Behavior for Toggling DataGrid Row Detail Visibility (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Quick tip: Commenting out properties in XAML (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight 3 – Open, Edit and Save a Text File to a Location outside the Isolated Storage (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Quick tip about changing SketchFlow’s startup page name (Silverlight) (Pavan Podila)
• Moving a WPF Window with Custom Chrome (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 3 Applications broken with new WCF Data Services release (Phani Raj)
• Silverlight 4 & MEF – Switching on functionality based on application context (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pixel8 Podcast – Silverlight 4 with Jeff Prosise (Craig Shoemaker)
• .NET Rocks! – Kent Brown and Ed Pinto on WCF 4.0 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Code to Live – Sara Ford (Josh Holmes)
• 22 Visual Studio 2010 Testing, ALM, Coded UI, Test Elements, Lab Management and more videos (Greg Duncan)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #81 (Jeff Atwood)
• Ping 46: iPad, Ballmer & Gates, MS Paint, Office & Olympics (Laura Foy)
• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Development Tools Overview (Matthijs Hoekstra)
• Don’t Think Chrome OS Will Compete With iPad? Watch This Video. (MG Siegler)

Community / Events

• Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator Election Begins (Jeff Atwood)
• Saying Farewell to CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-How To Architect Killer Apps with Windows 7 (Jeff Barnes)

Database

• Script: open transactions with text and plans (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Watch Seventy-Two Changes at Microsoft (Jia Wu)
• WHS Add-in ‘Codename Umbrella’ beta preview released (Ben Palmer)
• Can Microsoft close the app gap with Apple’s iPad? (Ed Bott)
• Greasemonkey comes to Chrome – get your userscripts ready! (Jay Hathaway)
• GTDInbox Firefox add-on turns Gmail into a todo list (Jason Clarke)
• Windows 7 Running on the Apple iPad via Citrix (Jesus Diaz)
• How Will We Make Decisions in the Future? (Bruno Aziza)
• Ebook Deal of the Day:
  Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — Only $9.99! Use discount code BPAHJ (O’Reilly Media)
• Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures (Office Team)
• Microsoft and cloud interoperability (Steve Clayton)
• Gmail Chrome extensions (Christos Apartoglou)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #530 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 1-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• A Feed You Should Read #22 – TechNet Blogs (Greg Duncan)
• Some Recent Notable Silverlight Posts (Karen Corby)
• New and Notable 398 (Sam Gentile)

Top Links

Top Links

• Moonlight 3.0 Preview 1 (Miguel di Icaza)
• To Control and Observe – Productive Software Development and Mistaking Efficiency for Productivity and Controlled Productivity (Scott Bellware)
• Read from your mirror in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• Real World S#arp Architecture (Billy McCafferty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Playing WAV Files (Richard Carr)
• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #2 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• .NET Reflector Pro in Final Stages (Mitch Pronschinske)
• What happens behind the scenes: NHibernate, Linq to SQL, Entity Framework scenario analysis (Oren Eini)
• Telerik LINQ to M Refresh (Stephen Forte)
• Race Condition When Modifying the HttpRequestMessageProperty in an Outgoing WCF Message (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Announcement: Unpublishing Extensions from Beta 2 to RC (Weston Hutchins)
• Using Sensors in You Application – Managed Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 8. Dependency graph visualization (Mike Hadlow)
• Create a floating DataTip — vstipDebug0006 and Adding comments to a DataTip — vstipDebug0007 (Zain Naboulsi)
• The Surface Monster Returns! Nom Nom Nom (Eric Havir)
• VS 2010 Quick Hit: Multi-Targeting (Dariusz Parys)
• Functional C#: Writing a ‘Partition’ Function (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• US Government Launches Business.gov API – Gives Free Access to Small Business Resources (Andres Ferrate)
• Debugging ASP.NET generated code (David Ebbo)
• Using FullCalendar jQuery component with ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• Putting Files at the Root of Blog Storage in Windows Azure (Karsten Januszewski)
• Making Your JavaScript Unobtrusive (Mike Ceranski)
• Love jQuery = Love ASP.NET Ajax Library (Marc Schweigert)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Small Things Matter (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Branch-Per-Feature: How I Manage Subversion With Git Branches
  and Can PDCA Help Us Improve Our Test-First Development Efforts? (Derick Bailey)
• The Difference between an Anti-Pattern and a Code Smell (Peter Ritchie)
• Solving Complexity with Message Based Architectures (Jak Charlton)
• Strengthening your domain: a primer (Jimmy Bogard)
• Business Primitives (2/2) (Dru Sellers)

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows 7 Sensor Trigger for WPF Applications (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Rules of MVVM?? (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight Splash Page (John Stockton)
• Taming the WPF Expander Control (Karl Shifflett)
• Loading Projects in Visual Studio not Located on Local Machine (Karl Shifflett)
• WPF : How To Create Your Own Threaded DataSourceProvider (Sacha Barber)
• Adventures with Silverlight and WCF – The remote server returned an error: NotFound (Doug Holland)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Walling and Taber on Micropreneur Academy. (Carl Franklin)
• UX + AGILE + BLEND +.NET= Efficient Design Practices (Don Burnett)
• The GeekDads Episode #60: iPadCast (Ken Denmead)
• Binding Silverlight Controls to a Data Service in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
  and Silverlight Object Binding in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Kathleen McGrath)
• Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK 1.5 Exposed (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Simplifying how to share content on Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez)
• CES reflections (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Announcing the “20 days to OpenRasta” project (Sebastien Lambla)
• At Balsamiq, Everyone Blogs. Join Us. (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Get the List of Object Dependencies –
  sp_depends and information_schema.routines and sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft, OData and RDF and Visio stencils for SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• ROWCOUNT when setting variables (Martin Bell)
• Report Builder <Next> Wish List – V1.0 (William Vaughn)

SharePoint

• The Great Virtualization Debate: What to do? SharePoint 2010 for Laptops (Joel Oleson)
• Lightning Storm Forums for SharePoint – Feb 2010 release (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Can You Really Measure Customer Satisfaction? (Phil Haack)
• Will your new Windows 7 PC support XP Mode? (Ed Bott)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Search Patterns. Only $9.99! Use code SPDFD (O’Reilly Media)
• Kodu Tutorial #4 Main Menu->Options (Stephen Coy)
• How Does Microsoft Do IT? (Buck Woody)