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Top Links

• Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
• Using T4 to Generate SQL Merge Scripts (Kevin Hazzard)
• New JavaScript library for OData and beyond (Alex James)
• Accessing RavenDB from Silverlight (Oren Eini)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Home-made Regular Expressions in F# (Anton Tayanovskyy)
• Implementing The TakeLast, TakeLastWhile, SkipLast And SkipLastWhile LINQ Operators and A Scrolling Status Control (Jonathan Wood)
• Expression Builder, DSL, Fluent Interfaces and C#, RPG (as in role playing game) Style (Greg Duncan)
• Writing a Compiler in C#: C Code Generation, Part 2 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Understanding Commands: The Extend Keyword (Zain Naboulsi)
• More Any and All (Alex James)
• You Want To Wrap OData Around What?!?! (Jonathan Carter)
• Autoprojecting LINQ queries (Jimmy Bogard)
• Windows Azure Use Case: New Development (Buck Woody)
• Windows Azure for Developers Task 1: Resolving Failed to initialize Windows Azure storage emulator Error (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Once More In Defense Of The var Keyword (K. Scott Allen)
• Real Apps, Real Code (Mark Hopkins)
• Just Released: New Version of the Windows Azure Service Management CmdLets (Windows Azure Team)
• Peer Review Pipeline Closed for New XNA GS 3.1 Games or Updates on App Hub (XNA Team)

Web Development

• Displaying a Sorted, Paged, and Filtered Grid of Data in ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)
• jQuery Mobile Form Validation (Elijah Manor)
• Stackoverflow Exceptions with Html.Action (K. Scott Allen)
• Bing Spatial Data Services SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Node Version Management with n (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article:Agile Contracts (Allan Kelly)
• New version of Cuke4Ninja book published (Gojko Adzic)
• My Arm’s Broke, Fix Me – Three Levels of Guidance in patterns & practices (JD Meier)
• [Agile Guide] – Agile User Stories and Estimating Spikes and Top Ten Essentials to Discovering and Inventing (Peter Saddington)
• Multiple mocks, asserts, and hidden results (Roy Osherove)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Guard Assertion (Giorgio Sironi)
• Strategies Against Architecture & Interactions Over Processes and Tools (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Book Review: The Passionate Programmer (Lorna Mitchell)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Productive Programmer – $15.99 (Save 50%) Code DDTPP (O’Reilly Media)
• Opportunity Cost versus Real Cost (Joe Webb)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What About Windows Phone 7? (Bill Wagner)
• WP7 ContextMenu: answers to popular questions (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #5 (Jeff Prosise)
• Day 1: Working with Telerik Silverlight RadControls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A guide to OData and Silverlight (Thomas Castøe Martinsen)
• Simple Error Reporting on WP7 REDUX (Rudi Grobler)
• Creating An Application Bar–Don’t Panic (Jesse Liberty)
• Use lightbox to show images whose paths are stored in database (Raghav Khunger)
• WP7 Contrib – When messaging becomes messy and services shine (Rich Griffin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Craig Symonds and Mohsen Agsen: C++ Renaissance (Charles Torre)
• Countdown to MIX11: Get the Goods (including a free pass) in 10 Minutes (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: De Blob Revolution, Quadra, Yelp, Designspiration, EndoMondo Sports Tracker (Laura Foy)
• Special 48-Hour Offer: Free ASP.NET MVC 3 Video Training (Scott Guthrie)

Community / Events

• Boston Area SharePoint Users Group meeting… I’ll be there! (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Visual Studio Is Hiring! (Sean Laberee)
• ImagineCup – Upcoming live sessions (Dennis Delimarsky)

Database

• SQL SERVER – PAGEIOLATCH_DT, PAGEIOLATCH_EX, PAGEIOLATCH_KP, PAGEIOLATCH_SH, PAGEIOLATCH_UP – Wait Type – Day 9 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server:Export query results to CSV (Raghav Khunger)
• Importance of network latency when using database mirroring (Paul S. Randal)
• T-SQL Tuesday#15 – Automation with PowerShell (Replace with RegEx) (Ted Krueger)
• How To Unpivot (and pivot) Like a Boss (thirster42)

SharePoint

• Minimizing the page weight in anonymous SharePoint 2010 Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint: Writing a Custom Event Receiver (Sumit Maitra)
• Error: “The sandboxed code execution request was refused because the Sandboxed Code Host Service was too busy to handle the request” (Ricky Kirkham)

Miscellaneous

• Loving Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 (Don Burnett)
• What are a nice bunch of Microsoft Web services guys doing in Xbox land? and At last, it’s Windows 7 SP1, Server 2008 R2 day (Mary Jo Foley)
• Pass Results from One PowerShell Script To Another (Steve Smith)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 8, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 02.01 ~ 02.09 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #788 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #140 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 181 (Rhonda Tipton)
• WebDev Tweets 8-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily News Digest 02/09/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 8 February 2011 – #24 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 8th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell