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Top Links

• WP7 Panorama: Smoothly fading the background (and enabling fading when changing, too) (Jeff Wilcox)
• A Windows Phone 7 game – Tetris7 (Sigurd Snørteland)
• Prompting the User From a View Model – Prism 4 Gems (Brian Noyes)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Future of F#: Type Providers (Robert Pickering)
• Windows Phone 7 Apps – Getting from Concept to Customer (Mike Ormond)
• Visual Studio Safe Mode (Zain Naboulsi)
• Do you know about the Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework ? (Joe Stagner)
• Back to (Parallel) Basics: Don’t Block Your Threads, Make Async I/O Work For You (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Solution for ASP.NET routing on GoDaddy shared hosting (Julian M. Bucknall)
• HTML5 Day 2: Upgrade ASP.NET MVC 2 Site Template to HTML5 (Chris Pietschmann)
• 6 Great Ruby on Rails 3 Learning Resources (Rob Bazinet)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do Use Cases Have a Place In Scrum? (Dan Puckett)
• A Rulebook For Your Organization – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Visuals for Getting Results the Agile Way and 10 Better Ways for Better Days (J.D. Meier)
• The Known Unknowns of SOA (Udi Dahan)
• Castle Windsor/Core 2.5.2 (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Beautiful Teams – $12.99 (Save 59%) Use code DDBTM (O’Reilly Media)
• Consistency vs. Innovation (Dan Pritchett)
• The PHPUnit Refcard is out (Giorgio Sironi)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Create F# Silverlight Apps from Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Cameron Taggart)
• Currency Converter For Windows Phone 7 (Sanchal Kunnel)
• Metrodentity (Rudi Grobler)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 131 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Sean Kearney on the Mic (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Technology & Friends Episode 125: Jeff Blankenburg on Windows Phone 7 Development (David Giard)
• Yet Another Podcast #14 – Shawn Wildermuth (Jesse Liberty)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Information Related to DATETIME and DATETIME2 (Pinal Dave)
• Copy Column Headers in SSMS grid result (Pradeep Adiga)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Fan Web Part (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• History Channel app for WP7 offers GPS-based U.S. history lessons (Phone Arena)
• The PowerShell CookBook (Joe Webb)
• RTM’d today: Windows Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out (Karen Szall)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Daily News Digest 11/15/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #729 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 14, 2010 — #992 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET: Design Patterns for Decomposition and Coordination on Multicore Architectures (Patterns & Practices) by Colin Campbell