"As a result of writing the post: Edit Test Case properties directly from the test runner of Microsoft Test Manager I asked one the ALM MVPs, Terje Sandstrom, to also look at one of the most requested Visual Studio Update 1 features - but an area I didn't have a post on yet: Grouping in the new Unit Test Explorer. He takes a look and by morning sends me this post and indicates he wants to do three more in this series! "

"ThoughtWorkers are passionate about technology. We build it, research it, test it, open source it, write about it, and constantly aim to improve it - for everyone. Our mission is to champion software excellence and revolutionize IT. We create and share the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar in support of that mission. The ThoughtWorks Technology Advisory Board, a group of senior technology leaders in ThoughtWorks, creates the radar. They meet regularly to discuss the global technology strategy for ThoughtWorks and the technology trends that significantly impact our industry. "

"Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) includes several projection operators but none that allow multiple items to be created from each item in a sequence. This article describes a custom operator that allows several selections to be made per item."

(Better than the official TopShelf documentation) "I am creating windows services using Topshelf for a while and I forget how "hard" (not that hard but harder) it was to create a windows service without Topshelf."

"The latest version of the C# Yellow Book is now available for free download. You can get it here, or you can press the spiffy new short cut on this page. "

"Productivity is the hallmark of programming with managed code. So often productivity boils down to figuring out why something isn't working - diagnostics. The CLR provides one of the best foundations for diagnostics. In this post, Richard Lander - a program manager for the Common Language Runtime - shows how more than just developers can now track down root causes for problems. -- Brandon"

"Mighty Moose is from this point forward free. Not "free in beta" or "free with a bunch of functionality turned off" but free (license is being updated as I write this). We announced this rather quietly at NDC."

"Learn how to use log4net without fear. Stop copying config files and figure out how to make log4net do exactly what you want."

"Visual Studio 2012 comes with a lot of enhancements. One of the significant one is the Solution Explorer enhancement and it has many. Solution Explorer looks like a build from scratch. The new Solution Explorer is the combination of Object Browser, Class View, Find All References etc. Ideally you do not need to go to any other Window to work"

"Returns information from, or expressions based on, each row affected by an INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, or MERGE statement. These results can be returned to the processing application for use in such things as confirmation messages, archiving, and other such application requirements. The results can also be inserted into a table or table variable. Additionally, you can capture the results of an OUTPUT clause in a nested INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, or MERGE statement, and insert those results into a target table or view."

" SQL Sentry Plan Explorer is a FREE tool that builds upon the graphical plan view in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to make query plan analysis more efficient. It is a lightweight standalone app that contains many of the plan analysis features introduced in SQL Sentry v6. It does not require a collector service or database. "

"Like many developers, I happen to be a fan of using uniqueidentifier columns as primary keys on database tables (as opposed to the other common practice of using integers). While I don't do this all the time, in many cases I think it just makes sense, especially when the records in and of themselves don't share a "sequential" relationship to one another. I understand this is a rather controversial topic in some circles; with good arguments on both sides. Quite frankly, whether you personally agree with this practice or not is beside the point. For the purposes of this discussion, it's just important that you understand two things: one, that this done all the time; and two, that this scenario was not properly supported under Entity Framework V1."

"What really blew me away about Rx is how it allows you to handle complex async interactions declaratively. No need to chain callbacks together or worry about race conditions. With Rx, you can easily compose multiple async operations together. It's powerful."

"Firefox Inspect in 3D is Clever, Beautiful"

"The 32-bit and 64-bit development story on Windows seemingly never stops causing problems for developers. It's been a decade since 64-bit processors have started popping up in the Windows consumer environment, but we just can't get it right. If you forget some of the gory details, here are a couple of reminders:"

"Parser combinators are an idea that I enjoy every time I go back and look at again. They are an approach to building parsers by composing very simple atomic parsers into bigger and bigger units which can ultimately express real world grammars. This idea has been particularly popular in functional languages where the parsers can naturally be thought of as functions from input strings to parse trees, and composition of parsers is just function composition. This approach often leads to a simple syntax which makes the resulting parsers pleasantly declarative in that internal-DSL kind of way. "

"Its our pleasure to share best resources/tools for developers and designe for every technologies as HTML5, jQuery, Javascript, PHP, etc. Every programming technologies/techniques provides the number of tools that helps developers and designers a lot in. Today we are going to presents the best development tools for .Net developers. These are the development tools that helps developers for their next project. Most of them are freeware and open source tools."

"I've written before about one kind of memory leak the .Net Garbage Collector cannot protect against: those caused by event handlers keeping objects alive beyond their best-before date. Daniel Grunwald has a very comprehensive article on CodeProject explaining the problem in depth, and giving a number of solutions, some of which I've used in the past."

"What social authentication solutions are available for .NET developers? What are their features? These are questions I was looking to get answered. I've provided my findings in this article, which focuses primarily on active solutions, that have compatibility with ASP.NET MVC. I've listed four solutions: a direct DotNetOpenAuth implementation example (several exist), SimpleSocialAuth, SocialAuth.NET, and a third-party, API-based solution called Janrain Engage."

"Joda Time is the industry standard date and time handling library for Java. Noda Time is an idiomatic port to the .NET platform. "