Other

• Tool: Disk2VHD, Alessandro Perilli
• The WCF Extensibility Guidance is now on MSDN!, Jesus Rodriguez
• Microsoft Sync Framework v2.0 SDK and Redistributable RTM/RTW, Greg Duncan
• Microsoft Moves Visual Studio Towards The Cloud, Leena Rao
• What is this thing you call "thread safe"?, Eric Lippert
• F# October 2009 CTP and Administration Guide for Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Downloads
• Time To Update My Favorites, Jesse Liberty
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 3,4 & 5 (Michael Feathers), Mark Needham
• Rant: Compilers != Parsers, Ayende Rahien
• F# October 2009 CTP/Beta2 – F# + Rx Together At Last, Matthew Podwysocki
• Another release of F# along with VS2010 Beta2, Inside F#

Visual Studio 2010

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is on MSDN! and VS 2010 Beta 2 Debugger In-Depth First Look, John Robbins
• Visual Studio 2010 to launch March 22 with Azure, Team Foundation Server for all, Tim Anderson
• Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks content updated for VS2010 Beta2, The Moth
• Using a download manager to quickly download Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Brian Keller
• Some Tidbits of Entity Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Julia Lerman
• What’s new in Beta 2 for the Task Parallel Library? (Part 1/3), dashih
• Dynamic in C# 4.0: Creating Wrappers with DynamicObject, Alexandra Rusina
• VS2010 Beta 2 Installed on a Previous Beta 1 System, Sam Gentile

From CodePlex Feed

• .NET Extensions - http://dnpextensions.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=34621

Code to look at

• Keystroke monitoring, Vladimir S Sabanov

Web

• Har Har! One archive for Web performance and beyond; Implemented in Firebug and HttpWatch, Dion Almaer

Database

• SQL Server 2008’s New Import and Export Wizard, ejohnson2010
• Database Audit Trails: How Would You Do It?, Davy Brion
• DeployToDatabaseAddToServerExplorer, Richard Hundhausen
• The Complexity of the Query Optimization Process, Ben Nevarez

Debugging

• .NET Hang Case study: The danger of locking on strings, Tess
• Configuring Automatic Crash Dumps, Sasha Goldshtein

Agile

• Technical Debt Management: Pay the Interest or Pay down the Principal?, Brenda Michelson
• Agile Prioritization: Which Widget?, Scott Sehlhorst

Architecture

• Collaboration without common values is fruitless, Nick Malik

Cloud Computing

• Beware the allure of Fool's Cloud, Phil Wainewright
• Parallelism and the Cloud, Microsoft Research
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/19/2009+, OakLeaf Systems
• Code Creating a Database in SQL Azure, Christian Weyer

Career

• Courageous Decision Making - Quit Being a Wimp and Lead, Mike Figliuolo
• Five Ways to Stay Focused, Be More Successful & Get More Done, Matt Heinz

Innovation

• Innovation Perspectives - Engineering versus Intangible Value, Braden Kelley
• Innovation Action Lags Talking by 35% - New Research, Dan Keldsen

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – October 19, 2009 and Dew Drop – October 20, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• Links of the week #94, David Vidmar
• Community Convergence LVI, Charlie Calvert
• Daily Review #7, Jeff Schoolcraft
• The Morning Brew #458, Chris Alcock