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Top Links

• Announcing: Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Support RTW (Jason Zander)
• BCL Extensions Source Code released on CodePlex (Frans Bouma)
• Performing Code Reviews in TFS 2010 (Ivo Manolov)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Beginning F#: Positive Discrimination (Ian Voyce)
• Disabling the Visual Studio Splash Screen (Richard Carr)
• RavenDB Multi Tenancy (Oren Eini)
• XMI Export Sample (Cameron Skinner)
• Setting mouse cursor position with WinAPI (Dennis Delimarsky)
• “Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (November 2010)” (Think PDC 2010 version… With Azure VM[Beta], VPN, Remote Desktop and more) (Greg Duncan)
• LINQ to Z3, The World’s Fasted Theorem Prover (Jonathan Allen)
• Document Outline: WPF and Silverlight Projects and Document Outline: Windows Form Projects (Zain Naboulsi)
• MefContrib 1.0.0.0 sees the light of day! (Andreas Håkansson)
• Time-travel with .NET or DateTime, DateTimeOffset and the lost DST hour (Greg)
• Synchronizing multiple nodes in Windows Azure (Josh Twist)
• Get Started with LightSwitch at New Developer Center (Bruce Kyle)
• These aren’t the Droids you are looking for – A guide to obfuscation (Simon Jackson)
• BizTalk Server–distinguished field (Quoc Bui)
• Bit twiddling: What does warning CS0675 mean? (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator – A powerful Photoshop-like CSS gradient editor from ColorZilla (Paul Boag)
• Sammy.JS (Mike Hadlow)
• Getting The Route Name For A Route (Phil Haack)
• HTML5: New in the javascript Selector API (Jef Claes)
• JSMentors.com – The Mailing List to Learn JavaScript in a Professional and Courteous Environment (Rey Bango)
• Date and time in PHP 5 (Giorgio Sironi)
• A Closable jQuery Plug-in (Rick Strahl)
• HTML5 Recipes: More on Storage (Romin Irani)
• AJAX to the rescue! (Sam Tyson)
• How to convert dates from Google Reader and Facebook API with Json.NET (Simone Chiaretta)
• In the YUI 3 Gallery: Server-Sent Events (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Windows Azure, SQLite and Temp (Rinat Abdullin)
• The trip down the writing of a IE managed extension path continues… Dealing with the potholes (i.e. Debugging) (Greg Duncan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Development practice: Retrospectives in Kanban (Michael)
• Insightful Leadership Books (J.D. Meier)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Four Phase Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• Is the Project Going to Fail? – How to Spot the Signs of a Problem in the Project (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Opinion: On some aspects of modern software development and distribution. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• AutoTest.NET (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Better git-svn Through Aliases: git up & git dci (Keith Dahlby)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Better together [DynamicOrientationChanges and TransitionFrame create a comprehensive transition experience for Windows Phone 7] (David Anson)
• ChevronWP7: Community Enabler or Jailbreaking Tool? (Nick Randolph)
• Silverlight and WCF Service Consumption: Event vs. APM (Jeremy Likness)
• Now you can develop for WP7 in VB too (Mike Ormond)
• Visual Basic for the Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW (Larry Lieberman)
• WP7 update to bring copy/paste, multitasking, Bing upgrades, and custom ringers (Phone Arena)
• Paul Juenger on WHS Phone WP7 Application (Silverlight Show)
• Part 2 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers. (Michael Crump)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Martin Woodward Brings Team Foundation Server to Everyone! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 9 of n (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 98: Dale Ragan on Moncai (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 132 – PowerScripting Podcast – Aaron Nelson on the PASS Summit (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 169: Memory Grid Architecture with Nati Shalom (SE-Radio Team)
• Let’s Play TDD #56: Window Titles (James Shore)
• ARCast.TV – Building Recovery.gov Using SharePoint and Other Technologies (Zhiming Xue)
• Windows Weekly 184: Extension Denied (Paul Thurrott)
• YUI Theater — Nicholas C. Zakas: “YUI Test” (49 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Technology & Friends Episode 127: Jason Follas on Looting Design Ideas from World of Warcraft (David Giard)
• Yet Another Podcast #16 – Adam Kinney (Jesse Liberty)
• No Network Activity Indicator in Windows 7: But Why? (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Events This Week – November 29th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Managing Projects Using Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Webcast Dec 3rd 9AM PST and Visual Studio 2010 Test Edition Webcast Dec 14th 11am PST (Charles Sterling)
• Blog Round-up – What Are You Thankful For? (Jason Strate)
• Support Computer Science Education Week 2011! (Lindsay Lindstrom)

 

Database

• SSIS Package Annotation in Denali (Brian K. McDonald)
• Executing PowerShell in SQL Server Redux (Chad Miller)
• Using DMVs to Find the Ports that SQL Server is Listening On (David Levy)
• Change the Default Language for SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – DBA or DBD? – Database Administrator or Database Developer and SQL SERVER – Automated Type Conversion using Expressor Studio (Pinal Dave)
• Run SSIS Package from Stored Procedure (Ted Krueger)
• Loops Without Cursors (Ken Downs)
• SQL Indexing and Performance Part 1: SQL Storage and Indexing (Lefteris Karafilis)

 

SharePoint

• Introducing SharePoint Online Workflows (Josh Topal)
• Creator and Updater BCS Methods in SharePoint 2010 using Web Service (Lightning Tools)
• Missing server reference in SharePoint 2010 (Wesley Bakker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft eyes leap back into TV: sources (Yinka Adegoke)
• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: New Features that Increase Productivity when building forms in InfoPath 2010 (Lonnie Webb)
• Get Going on Powershell (Jason Crider)
• The Pee-Wee Herman Rule (Jeff Atwood)
• Kodu PC Build 1.0.94.0 released (Stephen Coy)
• Windows Server 8: Microsoft Searching for an SDET to Help Ship Windows 8 Server Backup (Stephen Chapman)
• Speeding Up Your Scripts! (Tobias Weltner)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 29, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 050 for 11/29/2010 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #739 and The Morning Brew #740 (Chris Alcock)
• ASP.NET, MVC, EF 4.0 and .NET Articles in November 2010 and Author of the Month and T-SQL and SQL Server Administration Articles Link List – November 2010 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Silverlight Cream for November 28, 2010 — #1001 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 11/29/2010 and Weekly Article Digest 11/29/2010 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled (Expert’s Voice in SQL Server) by Grant Fritchey

 

 

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Top Links

• Writing LINQ providers easily and elegantly (LinqExtender 3.0) (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Quick introduction to Pex (Gunnar Peipman)
• Re-examining WP7 Launchers and Choosers (James Ashley)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• XNA GS 4.0 + F# 2.0 + Xbox 360 = love ! (Joh)
• Document Outline: Web Projects (Zain Naboulsi)
• Building Linq Expressions Dynamically (zergIII)
• [Pre-Book Review] Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Common add function in JavaScript (Raghav Khunger)
• Sueetie Now Supercharged with YetAnotherForum.NET 1.9.5 (Dave Burke)
• Introducing Nancy, a lightweight web framework inspired by Sinatra and If it kinds looks like a duck, why not just get a duck (Andreas Håkansson)
• How to dock/pin IE9 developer tools (Jef Claes)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to: Invoke events inside your production code using Typemock Isolator (Dror Helper)
• Plays Well With Others – Eight Behaviors of Excellent Leaders (Kevin Kline)
• Leadership Tip: The Art Of Not Making Your Decisions Over Meetings. (Rajiv Popat)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How Microsoft Can Fix Windows Phone in 2011 (Paul Thurrott)
• Simple WPF 2D Graphics: DrawingVisual (Danny Simmons)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #8–Styles (Jesse Liberty)
• Phonealytics – Google Analytics App for Windows Phone 7 (Luke Lowrey)
• MahTweetsWP7 – Nightly Build 69 and XamlQuery/WPF – The Write Less, Do More, WPF Library – Release: v1.2 (Runtime, Source) (CodePlex)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WinExtra on Windows – All meat, no stuffing (Steven Hodson)

 

Community / Events

• Add certifications to your LinkedIn profile (Jef Claes)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Challenge – Puzzle – Why does RIGHT JOIN Exists (Pinal Dave)
• Revisiting Normalization and Denormalization (Ken Downs)
• I/O is frozen on database, No user action is required (Pradeep Adiga)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 and Windows Live Wave 5 to offer cloud-based identity and roaming settings? (damaster)
• Just started blogging? A seasoned pro? Just thinking about it? Here’s some lessons and tips that might help on your road to fame and fortune… (i.e. Learn from the mistakes of others…) (Greg Duncan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 27, 2010 and Interesting Finds: November 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the week #135 (David Vidmar)

 

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Expression Web 4 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) by Chris Leeds

 

 

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Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Improving the In-Memory Database (Rob Tiffany)
• Command Changes in Prism 4 (Brian Noyes)
• Automatic compilation of Linq to SQL queries (Gunnar Liljas)
• Design Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Windows Azure (Bill Zack)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Choosing Visual Studio StartUp Projects (Richard Carr)
• Binary Attachments In WCF With MTOM and Visual Studio 2005 2008 2010 Put Curly Braces On Same Line (Deepak Kapoor)
• A Brief Introduction to F# (Mike Ormond)
• Dependency Graph in Visual Studio 2010 – View Assembly Dependencies (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Command / Query service in WCF (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Running Multiple Versions of Visual Studio Side-By-Side and Change the Order of Your Application Settings (Zain Naboulsi)
• How The Garbage Collector Can Cause Random Slowness (Edward Elliott)
• How to get domain name from URL (Raghav Khunger)
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (XVIII) – Adding Edit Functionality (II) (Rob Ashton)
• ΝUnit Inspired Task Runner (cigwork)
• Simulating projectile motion with the Animation Manager using C++ (Jerry Joyce)
• Creating the Parallax and Scrolling Background (Michael C. Neel)

 

Web Development

• Writing for the Windows Azure for PHP portal (Maarten Balliauw)
• Short review of "Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework" (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ASP.NET: How to avoid ArgumentNullException in StructureMap controller factory and ASP.NET MVC: Comparing same view on ASP.NET and Razor view engine (Gunnar Peipman)
• jHash: Easily Manage Browser History / window.location.hash (Chris Pietschmann)
• WebSharper 2.0 Beta available (Adam Granicz)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Preface" Now Online (James Shore)
• It Starts with Strategy (J.D. Meier)
• [Tool Review] – Project Management with Bacon (ScoutMaster)
• Book Review – The Checklist Manifesto (Steve Jones)
• How to convert Subversion repository to Mercurial (Hg)–it’s easier than you think! (Igal Tabachnik)
• Team Communication: Learning models (Mark Needham)
• Book Review – The Nomadic Developer (Jan Van Ryswyck)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Controlling a Missile Launcher via a Windows Phone 7 device (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
• CHART OF THE DAY: Windows Phone 7 Has The Least Expensive Paid Apps (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG) (Jay Yarow)
• Blend Bits 18–Sample Data (Mike Taulty)
• Capital FM app for Windows Phone 7 (Luke)
• ChevronWP7: an early Christmas present for Windows Phone 7 owners (Steven Hodson)
• Developing Phone 7 apps on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Pieter de Bruin)
• I can see my home screen with Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mark Russinovich: Windows Azure, Cloud Operating Systems and Platform as a Service (Charles Torre)
• YUI Theater — Nate Koechley: “A Taxonomy of Touch” (36 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Demo of Image Optimizer (Mads Kristensen)

 

Community / Events

• Survey results: Open source developer preferences (Jonathan Wanagel)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU 6 includes small changes to .dtsx files (Jamie Thomson)
• Get the Current Stored Procedure Name in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Challenge – Puzzle – Usage of FAST Hint and SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Challenge – Error While Converting Money to Decimal (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Achitecture – Competitive Differentiation (James Vastbinder)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management Leads the Pack According to Gartner! (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• A first look at Office 365 (damaster)
• How WordPress Saved the Web (Marc Grabanski)
• We Hold These Tweets To Be Self-Evident [COMIC] (Matt Silverman)
• CodePlex supports Windows Live Writer! (Gunnar Peipman)

 

More Link Collections

• Weekly Link Post 172 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Distributed Weekly 78 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for November 25, 2010 — #999 and Silverlight Cream for November 26, 2010 — #1000 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #738 (Chris Alcock)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting by Aaron Erickson