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Top Links

• Creating your own private NuGet feed: MyGet (Maarten Balliauw)
• MVVM T4 Now Available via NuGet (Rick Ratayczak) – Rick’s T4 templates on CodePlex generate “view models and views for WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone using T4 Toolbox and MVVM Light.”
• “Mango” from the trenches part 2: Starting a Bing Maps navigation #wp7dev (Laurent Bugnion)
• Eduasync part 9: generated code for multiple awaits (Jon Skeet)
• What ASP.NET MVC Could Learn From Rails (Justin Etheredge)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Nice F# Syntax for Rx (Reactive Extensions) (Don Syme)
• Into and let in LINQ ( Let vs Into) and Enable Scroll Override in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Kinect drivers can be inter-changed for experimentation purposes and Want to develop for Kinect (before the SDK) with .NET – what are the options? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• LINQ: Join Between a Collection and XML Data (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Code Issues configuration and options (Alex Skorkin)
• Creating a Code First Database Initializer Strategy (Gil Fink)
• C++ Productivity: Memory Management 101 for the .NET Guy (Jeremiah Morrill)
• On partitionning .NET code (Patrick Smacchia)

 

Web Development

• Referencing Routes in ASP.NET MVC The Rails Way (Rob Conery)
• HTML5 Reaches ‘Last Call’ at W3C (Bruce Kyle)
• Scaffolding and packaging a Windows Azure project in PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 1: Cache and Cool Stuff in FubuCore and FubuMVC Series (Chad Myers)
• Filter and Display Data with ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) (Christian Nagel)
• Prop function in jQuery 1.6 (Hajan Selmani)
• Working with jQuery Selectors – Events . (Hima)
• Jquery tips – Tip 1 – How to display nice popup information messages (Nilos Printezis)
• Object Oriented JavaScript: Inheritance (Stoimen Popov)
• Get list of all active session variables in ASP.NET (Abhijit Jana)
• Pleasant Surprises: the Razor view Engine (Russell Ball)
• Blogging Facebook Social Comments Integration (Joel Oleson)
• New Release: SassAndCoffee 0.8 (Paul Betts)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Can Scrum work for the DBA? (Adam Mikolaj)
• Dealing with Critics and Criticism and Performance Review Template (JD Meier)
• Testing Pattern: Exploratory API via the Web (Patrick Kua)
• Essential ScrumMaster Interview Questions (Peter Saddington)
• NUnit Timed Tests (Richard Carr)
• Dependency Injection Haskell Style (Mike Hadlow)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Literal Value (Giorgio Sironi)
• 5 Things “House” Can Teach You about Fixing Bugs (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Triple-Loop Learning (Jurgen Appelo)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Settings in Silverlight (Daniel Fisher)
• Switching between Windows Phone 7.1 Mango and 7.0 RTW developer tools and vice versa and How to Navigate to an external URL in WP7 and Windows Phone 7 Mango: First look at RichTextBox control (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPFSpark: 1 of n: SprocketControl (Ratish Philip)
• Workaround for WP7 Mango Unit Testing Framework "Cannot find a Resource with the Name/Key typeNameConverter" (Daniel Vaughan)
• New OData Tombstoning Behavior in Mango (Glenn Gailey)
• Modifying the Silverlight Toolkit’s DateTimePicker for WP7 and Modifying the Silverlight Toolkit’s DateTimePicker for WP7–part 2 (John Baird)
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start with Mango – 1 – Creating a Hello World Application and Windows Phone 7 Jump Start with Mango – 2 – Know more about Page (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Completing the Pin code list screen for the PinCodeKeeper WP7 app (Per Ola Sæther)
• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 8–The EventAggregator (Rob Eisenberg)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Michele Leroux Bustamante Still Focused on Identity (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• How Do I: Display Virtual Earth Maps inside a PictureBox Control? and How Do I: Use the MapPoint Web Service on Windows Mobile Devices? (MS Podcasts)
• Technology & Friends Episode 158: Dixit, Martin and Hoover on Apprenticeships (David Giard)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 007: Interview with Ayende Rahien (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 18 (Richard Hay)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 57 – Chris Walsh on Mango for WP7 (Richard Banks)
• Yet Another Podcast #37 Silverlight HTML5 & Developers Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Recording of Telerik’s webinar ‘Crash Course in Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7′ (Evan Hutnick)

 

Database

• DDL Triggers in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – SELECT * vs SELECT COUNT(*) (Pinal Dave)
• Optimizer Timeouts with XQuery (Grant Fritchey)
• Using Built-in system functions – LEN() and DATALENGTH() (Vishal)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Foundation 2010 Events Pipeline (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Awesome embeddable, deployable web browser that’s free for independents… Awesomium! (Greg Duncan)
• Baby Steps in Windows Device Driver Development: Part 1, Install the Tools and Configure Kernel Debugging (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Mac and iOS Development Toolbox (Scott Densmore)
• Windows Phone’s follow-up to Mango is called Apollo (Steven Hodson)
• WP7 Mango: Multiplayer Confirmed For Windows Phone? (WP7GIRL)
• Attachmate response for Mono, Monotouch, and Mono for Android is PR Spin at its worst – What they are telling the community (Wally McClure)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 05.22 ~ 05.31 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Link Post 195 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #862 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/30/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 05/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for May 29, 2011 — #1096 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 30th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• T-SQL, SQL Administration and SQL Server BI Articles Link List – May 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Best SQLAuthority Posts of May (Pinal Dave)

 

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development by Jayaram Krishnaswamy

 

 

Top Links

• Facelift for the Windows Phone 7 Social Viewer Template (Nick Randolph)
• WP7 Marketplace Hits 20,000 Apps!! (Hyde13)
• “Mango” from the trenches part 2: Starting a Bing Maps navigation #wp7dev (Laurent Bugnion)
• Eduasync part 8: generated code from a complex async method (Jon Skeet)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• A Simple Windows Forms Template for F# (Don Syme)
• F# Async: Plays well with others? (Ian Voyce)
• Dijkstra’s Algorithm (Richard Carr)
• Into and let in LINQ ( Let vs Into) (Pranay Rana)
• DXCore – source code and source tree elements coordinate inside source files (Alex Skorkin)
• EF 4.1 Validation (Andriy Svyryd)
• If time zones infect your projects, and you’ve heard of the zoneinfo/tz/Olsen database, then this is .Net API for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Reactive Extensions v1.0.10425 Computation Expression Builder (Edmondo Pentangelo)
• AppFabric Cache – Compressing at the Client (James Podgorski)
• Log Method Name Helper (Steve Smith)

 

Web Development

• Chrome Developer Tools: Put JavaScript memory under control (Mikhail Naganov)
• “HTML5 & MVC3″ Debriefing (Gustaf Nilsson Kotte)
• Building a jQuery Plug-in to make an HTML Table scrollable (Rick Strahl)
• Distributed computing fallacies and REST (Jimmy Bogard)
• Getting to the OneNote API with Python (John Guin)
• IE9 Pinned Site Jump List Items Not Displaying Consistently Across Computers (Karl Shifflett)
• Light Up Your Website with Windows 7 and IE9 (Nigel Parker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Difference Between Unit Testing and Integration Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Time Changes What’s Important and 7 Steps for V-Teaming with Skill (J.D. Meier)
• Debugging NUnit Tests in C# Express (Richard Carr)
• Mobile UI Design ramblings… (Craig Dunn)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Mango – Silverlight and XNA integration (Peter Kuhn)
• WP7 – 7 Months Later (Andrew Connell)
• Windows Live on Windows Phone "Mango": The Past, Present, and Future (damaster)
• Monitor network connectivity in WP7 apps (Daniel Moth)
• Mango Update – Silverlight Box Scrolling (Deborah Hanamura)
• Windows Phone 7 Design/UI Cheat Sheet – One sheet, lots of shared knowledge… and Dev Dude’s Guide to Mango Series – "Windows Phone Mango–What’s New?" in 8 parts (Think "Code trucks filled with many Mango’s") (Greg Duncan)
• What’s New in Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WPF 4: DataForm User Control using Reflection (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Creating a WP7 project for the PinCodeKeeper app and Completing the Pin code list screen for the PinCodeKeeper WP7 app (Per Ola Sæther)
• Building a Navigation ListBox (Nigel Sampson)
• Walkthrough on Play Background Audio in Windows 7.1 [Mango] Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New Release: ReactiveUI 2.3.1 (Paul Betts)
• Alarms and Notifications in Mango (Peter Torr)
• Success of the PDC10 Player and Application (Silverlight Team)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Synchronize Multiple Threads? and How Do I: What is Azure? (MS Podcasts)
• Herding Code 113: Mark Russinovich on Zero Day and Computer Security (Jon Galloway)
• GDC 2011 – Xbox LIVE Best Practices for Windows Phone 7 (MS Downloads)
• Inside Windows Phone show is back (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Windows Weekly 210: Mow That Phone (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 018 – “Mango Down Under” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Engadget Podcast 241 – 05.27.2011 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• The value of open-source is the vision not the source code (Andreas Håkansson)

 

Database

• SQL Server: Calculate tempdb Space using DMV (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Notes on SQL Azure and SQL Azure – SQL Azure Throttling and Decoding Reason Codes (Pinal Dave)
• Book Review: Securing SQL Server By Denny Cherry (Denis Gobo)
• SQL University Troubleshooting Week: Having a Plan for Every Situation (David Levy)
• Different Database Editions in SQL Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Dynamic PIVOT on multiple columns (Naomi Nosonovsky)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to Fix Microsoft: Get The Swagger Back (Chris Love)
• MonoDevelop Wishlist (Dru Sellers)
• Real-time 3D design tool, MachStudio Pro, now free (as in free, not even reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• A Quartet of Book Reviews (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Social Media Distractions Are Costing Businesses Major Money [STUDY] (Jolie O’Dell)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 28, 2011 and Interesting Finds: May 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 27 , 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – May 29 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily Links 28/05/2011 (Jax)
• May 27th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• Daily News Digest 05/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• This Week’s Link List (May 27, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Links of the week #151 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 22-May-2011 to 28-May-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 34 – Product Ownership and Uber ScrumMasters (Peter Saddington)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Nick Randolph

 

 

Top Links

• Continuous Client: Our multi-device dream but how do we build it? (Kelly Sommers)
• Implementation hiding – it’s important (Kyle Szklenski)
• The Busy Developers Guide to Mango. (Michael Crump)
• Managing Resources with Reactive Extensions (Jesse Liberty)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Safe X (ml parsing with XLINQ) [XLinqExtensions helps make XML parsing with .NET's XLINQ a bit safer and easier] (David Anson)
• Atomicity, volatility and immutability are different, part one (Eric Lippert)
• NetOffice – A version independent Microsoft Office API proxy (Think "No More PIA" or "One Library, many Office versions") and There’s a new T4 editor in town… The (free) Devart T4 Editor for Visual Studio 2010 and/or 2008 (Greg Duncan)
• Book review : C# in Depth Second Edition (Patrick Smacchia)
• Feedback Opportunity: Command Complexity in Visual Studio (Sam Zaiss)
• All-In-One Code Framework – Release: 2011-05-26 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• New jQuery Plugin: FunkyFocus (Deran Schilling)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Canvas – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM94 (O’Reilly Media)
• JavaScript Server Roundup – The Lowdown on Several Engines (Rey Bango)
• HTML5 is more than cool (Rob Nyman)
• Creating Custom Ajax Control Toolkit Controls (Stephen Walther)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0 released (Maarten Balliauw)
• Lower the cost of Azure pricing through Tools, Promotions and Technology Decisions (Bart Czernicki)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Tip #7 – Learning From the Past (Aaron Bjork)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Hook (Giorgio Sironi)
• Basic unit testing with Typemock Isolator (Avi Kaye)
• 5 Big Issues When Scaling Scrum (Sean McHugh)
• Effective Tests: Double Strategies (Derek Greer)
• Git For Subversion Users: Article And Presentation (Derick Bailey)
• Enable and Equip Your Product Owners (Peter Saddington)
• Enterprise Architecture Mind Maps (Mike Walker)
• 9 Ways To Increase Your Productivity While Working From Home (Nellie Akalp)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get Phone Network Information in WP7 Mango via code and Windows Phone 7 Mango: Using Viewbox control (Windows Phone Geek)
• SQL CE on Windows Phone 7.1 tips from an ISV (Linq, connection strings and creating/updating your DB’s schema) (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta 7.1 Installation behavior (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight 5 Features Ancestor Relative Source Binding (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Nodo vs Mango – Windows Phone ListBox Performance Improvements in Action (Rene Schulte)
• Visual Basic on Windows Phone 7 and XNA development? Supported! (Surf4Fun)
• How to configure Autofac on WindowsPhone7 (Brendan Kowitz)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Steve Marx Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Silverlight TV 74: What’s New in RIA Services (John Papa)
• Defrag 006: Troubleshooting Windows 7, Outlook Crash, SSD speeds and Show Us Your Tech: ‘Softie Builds Nuke Reactor in Garage (Larry Larsen)
• Video: British Airways 3D app on Windows Phone 7 Mango (Steve Clayton)
• Turn-by-Turn navigation in WP7 Mango Video (Windows Phone Geek)
• Let’s Play TDD #109: Zombie TDGotchi (James Shore)

 

Community / Events

• Donate Your Swag! MVP Organizes Bag Drive for Tornado Victims (Lonnie Webb)
• Events are Bustin’ Out All Over (Jim O’Neil)
• An opportunity for a viable .NET open source ecosystem (Joshua Flanagan)

 

Database

• Creating a Windows Sidebar gadget for a SQL Server Reporting Services Report walkthrough (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Copy Database from Instance to Another Instance – Copy Paste in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• How to drop all objects since a particular date (Simon Sabin)
• Using Built-in System Function – HOST_NAME() (Vishal)

 

SharePoint

• Develop Cloud-Based Collaborative Solutions with SharePoint Online and Office365 Beta (Jenni Ripley)
• Just Published: May 2-17 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (Beck Andros)

 

Miscellaneous

• Introducing the Colm Programming Language (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Wrox ebooks available for purchase on oreilly.com (Jim Minatel)
• Report: Microsoft to show tablet version of Windows 8 next week (Mary Jo Foley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Android Apps with Flex 4.5 – Only $9.99 w/code DDM98 (O’Reilly Media)
• 8 Reasons Web Workers Should Look Forward to Windows 8 (Simon Mackie)
• wp7applist Windows Phone 7 App Released (Richard Hay)
• My Phone might be coming back with the new web-based Windows Phone Marketplace? (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 26th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2011 — #1095 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #861 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold