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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