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Top Links

• What I Learned Playing StarCraft (Christopher Bennage)
• Whose domain is it anyway? (Dan North)
• Natural User Interfaces (Martin Beeby)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Internal of Deferred or Lazy Execution in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C# for the iPhone: Monotouch is here to stay (Peter van Ooijen)
• Use “Obsolete” attributes to indicate Obsolete Methods (Abhijit Jana)
• Internals of Exception Handling (Abhishek Sur)
• DbUp: DataDude done right (Paul Stovell)
• Handling GUI Events in Dataflow Networks with Axum (Don Burnett)
• Spot the defect: Bad comparisons, part four (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Basic JavaScript Part 9: Reusing Methods of Other Objects (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Installing DotNetNuke using WebMatrix (Martin Beeby)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CQRS with Akka actors and functional domain models (Debasish Ghosh)
• Big Software Rewrites (Ray Houston)
• Great Engineering Quotes (K. Scott Allen)
• Technical User Stories – 3 Reasons NOT to Have Them (Peter Saddington)
• Thou Shalt Name Thy Parameter “command” (Davy Brion)
• Foundations of Programming 2 – Chapter 4 – Unit Testing (Karl Seguin)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Accessing Data in a Silverlight Application: EF (Deborah Kurata)
• Why switching from Android to Windows Phone 7 won’t be a problem (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using the AutoCompleteBox (Peter Kuhn)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 386: Dead Space 2, Crysis 2 and COD Black Ops First Strike (Larry Hyrb)
• Technology & Friends Episode 134: Kevin Pilch-Bisson on Asynchronous Programming in the next versions of C# and VB (David Giard)
• VIDEO – Microsoft WebMatrix – Form Field Validation (Joe Stagner)

 

Community / Events

• DevWeek 2011 (Mike Taulty)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Data Collector Proof of Concept (Bill Ramos)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Importing Execution Plans (30/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – What is Fill Factor and What is the Best Value for Fill Factor (Pinal Dave)
• Backup file contents with SSIS – INSERT/UPDATE Decisions (Ted Krueger)

 

Miscellaneous

• Steve Jobs’ health is not a private matter (Joe Wilcox)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: iOS 4 Programming Cookbook – $17.99 (Save 50%) Code DD4PC (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2011 01.24 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #781 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #139 (David Vidmar)
• T-SQL and SQL Server Administration Articles Link List – January 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Silverlight Cream for January 30, 2011 — #1037 and Silverlight Cream for January 30, 2011 – 2 — #1038 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

LINQ to Objects Using C# 4.0: Using and Extending LINQ to Objects and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) by Troy Magennis

 

 

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Top Links

• Useful Value Converters (Nigel Sampson)
• Reactive Extensions–Observable Sequences are First Class Objects (Jesse Liberty)
• Introducing RouteMagic (Phil Haack)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Safe IO on the Xbox 360 in F# (Johann Deneux)
• AXUM + Belief Propagation = Cool Possibilities (Don Burnett)
• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 5: Working with Property Values (Arthur Vickers)
• Introducing DirectCanvas (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Entity framework support for table valued functions and thus full text (Simon Sabin)
• Use “Obsolete” attributes to indicate Obsolete Methods (Abhijit Jana)
• Internals of Exception Handling (Abhishek Sur)

 

Web Development

• Create nice animation on your ASP.NET Menu control using jQuery (Hajan Selmani)
• Changing an HTML Form’s Target with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
• ViewBag does not exist in current context (Steve Smith)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 12 Key Reasons Companies Adopt Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Getting Things Done with Backpack and 37Signals (Michael Kennedy)
• Big Software Rewrites (Ray Houston)
• Two versions of being practical… (Shrini Kulkarni)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• GPS Emulator for Windows Phone 7 (Joey deVilla)
• Charting in a Silverlight Application using MVVM and Missing Chart Legend (Deborah Kurata)

 

Community / Events

• POPL 2011 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• 7 Things You Need to Know to Drive User Adoption of SharePoint (Joel Oleson)
• Free Mix11 Windows Phone 7 app now available (Greg Duncan)

 

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Exporting Execution Plans (29/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – 2011 – SEQUENCE is not IDENTITY (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Fetching lists from SharePoint 2010 site using client object model (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – January 30, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Week Retrospective 17 – Agile Sucks, Giveaway, and Denouncing Your CSM (Peter Saddington)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 29 January 2011 – #14 and Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 30 January 2011 – #15 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News Jan 30th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ASP.NET MVC, Sharepoint, Silverlight, Expression Web and .NET Articles in January 2011 and Author of the Month (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

The Geek Shelf

Pro .NET 4 Parallel Programming in C# (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Adam Freeman

 

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Top Links

• Windows Phone GPS Emulator (Yochay Kiriaty)
• MvcScaffolding: One-to-Many Relationships (Steve Sanderson)
• Windows File Dialog Custom Places in WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
• MVVM Party: Data Service Required (Ward Bell)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Immediate Window (Richard Carr)
• Code metrics from the command line (Cameron Skinner)
• The Small Things: Asynchronous WCF Calls Without Setting Up Service Reference (Eric Quist)
• Sample .gitignore or exclude for .NET / Visual Studio / C# (Keith Elder)
• Code Templates – Region Directives (Alex Skorkin)
• Nancy, the little community-powered framework that could (Andreas Håkansson)
• Hobocopy Lives! (Craig Andera)
• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 3: Finding Entities and Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 4: Add/Attach and Entity States (Arthur Vickers)
• Debug Analyzer.NET – A debugging utility, written in .Net, for .Net developers, to help debug .Net applications and If only this app could speak… (Greg Duncan)
• How to use 0 instead of null for foreign keys (Jose Romaniello)

 

Web Development

• Changing ASP.NET Menu Control Image Pop-Out and How to pass multiple values using GridView HyperLinkField ? (Abhijit Jana)
• jQuery Tips: bind() or live()? (Doris Chen)
• Introducing the PHP on Azure Contest (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software Project SOS (Simon Brown)
• Interview:Diana Larsen and James Newkirk on the State of Agile (Diana Larsen & James Newkirk)
• Book review: Succeeding With Agile – Software Development Using Scrum, by Mike Cohn (Per Ola Sæther)
• Attack Surface Analyzer BETA (Maor David-Pur)
• Walk Out On Sources Of Negativity (Davy Brion)
• Hamon or the Skin Deep Beauty of Code (Michael Krakovskiy)
• Microsoft Test Manager error in displaying test steps caused by malware (Terje Sandstrom)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Catel – Part 5 of n: Building a WPF example application with Catel in 1 hour (Geert van Horrik)
• Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development: Creating Games using XNA Game Studio 4 (Chris Williams)
• Expression Design 5 January 2011 Preview (Don Burnett)
• Download: Windows Phone Programming in C# in the Microsoft Faculty Connection (Kim Spilker)
• New Windows Phone update KB published, update coming soon? (Kip Kniskern)
• Fun Theme-Friendly Windows Phone Icon (Matthias Shapiro)
• R.I.P. GooNews (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: Coding4Fun, DevLabs projects, XAMLQuery, VS Achievements (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone Radio 15 Hits the Airwaves (Brian Seitz)
• Windows Weekly 193: Microsoft: Rest in Pieces (Paul Thurrott)
• Win4dows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 4 – Secure Development (Larry Larsen)
• Cloud Cover Episode 34 – Advanced Startup Tasks and Video Encoding (Wade Wegner)
• Video on Migrating In premise DataBase to SQL Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Community / Events

• Area 51 Gets Organized. Let’s Talk! (Robert Cartaino)
• Announcing: ATX Code Lunch (Chad Myers)
• Coding4Fun arrives on Channel 9 (Steve Clayton)
• Stack Overflow Search — Now 81% Less Crappy (Jeff Atwood)
• Windows Phone 7 at the App Developers Conference at Mobile World Congress (Andy Wigley)

 

Database

• BGInfo isn’t just for wallpaper you know… (I didn’t, but now I do – Using BGInfo to capture and save system configuration to SQL Server (or other database) (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – 2011 – Introduction to SEQUENCE – Simple Example of SEQUENCE (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Content Editor Web Part in SharePoint 2010 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A Better Enhanced SharePoint 2010 Floating Ribbon (Greg Galipeau)

 

Miscellaneous

• Android 3.0 Has Been Optimized for Tablets (Abel Avram)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• WebDev Tweets 28-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News Jan 29th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 28 January 2011 – #13 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Weekly Links– 2010_04 (Joe Stagner)

 

The Geek Shelf

Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4 by Matthew MacDonald