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Top Links

• Coming Soon: Visual Studio Achievements and Visual Studio Achievements API and FxCop For VS Achievements (Karsten Januszewski)
• Eduasync part 16: Example of composition: majority voting (Jon Skeet)
• Refactor “if” statements – functional programming style (Dror Helper)
• Kinect for Windows – Building the Future (Craig Eisler)
• Using the Roslyn Symbol API (Kevin Pilch-Bisson)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Code Definition Window (Richard Carr)
• NHibernate vs. Entity Framework: Usage (Oren Eini)
• Small LINQ to JSON library (Guillaume Ranslant)
• F# Math (III.) – Defining custom numeric types (Tomas Petricek)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Predicate, Comparison, and Converter Generic Delegates (James Michael Hare)
• Preview of Visual Studio 11: New IDE Features (Jeff Martin)
• Always prompted for credentials in TFS 2010? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• What! C# could do that!! @ironshay demoing my ElasticObject implementation in @LIDNUG presentation (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Convert MP3 to AAC,FLAC to AAC (.NET/C#) FREE (Justin Oehlmann)
• If You’re Using “#if DEBUG”, You’re Doing it Wrong (Peter Ritchie)
• It is not unreasonable to expect uninitialized garbage to change at any time, you don’t need to ask for an explanation (Raymond Chen)
• Take care to unhook Anonymous Delegates (David Vallens)
• Stop premature email sending with NServiceBus (Jimmy Bogard)
• Rewriting an if (Jef Claes)
• Mono: Updated Documentation Site (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Web Development

• New Color Picker in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview for CSS and CSS Editor Hierarchical Indentation in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Binding to oData with jQuery Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Learning HTML5 – Sample Sites (Steve Albers)
• New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Call for jQuery 1.8 Ideas (Dave Methvin)
• Book review: Closure: the Definitive Guide (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Reducing JavaScript Code Using jsRender Templates in HTML5 Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Back to Basics – JavaScript onerror Event (Gil Fink)
• Getting Started with the Infragistics jQuery Combo (Jordan Tsankov)
• Download Free eBook: Razor View Engine in MVC 3 – by @itorian (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Hover and Click Trigger for Circular Elements with jQuery (Mary Lou)
• JavaScript Intellisense with Telerik in ASP.NET Master Page Project with VS 2010 (Otto Neff)
• How to Format HTML with Windows Live Writer (Peter Kellner)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Preserve Whole Object and PhoneGap: native applications written in HTML (Giorgio Sironi)
• Keyword parameters in JavaScript and ECMAScript.next (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Changing the Default Focus Styles (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Walking Dead: HTML/JavaScript (Ward Bell)
• Custom mime types with Cassini (Arian Kulp)
• Bing Spatial Data Services SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
• Knockout JS Pluralsight Course in the Works (John Papa)
• How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js (Zack Grossbart)
• Ranking – Part II and Ranking Part III (PointsToShare)
• Creating a Dynamic DataRow for easier DataRow Syntax (Rick Strahl)
• Backbone Persistence (Unknown Author)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 Beta (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Azure Diagnostics generate exception in SystemEventsListener::LoadXmlString when reading event log which includes exception as event data and Can you programmatically enable CDN within your Windows Azure Storage Account? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Packaging a Custom PHP Installation for Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Backbone vs Knockout (Derick Bailey)
• Evolving ECMAScript (Shanku Niyogi, Amanda Silver, John Montgomery, Luke Hoban & Steve Lucco)
• WebStorm your Node app! (Maxim Mossienko)
• Modernizr.js: Polyfills (K. Scott Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• RE: Clean Architecture (Simon Brown)
• Unit testing is… well, broken. (Dewald Galjaard)
• Gratitude Quotes (J.D. Meier)
• Invest in Your Team – Know Them (Peter Saddington)
• Importance of Good Domain Models (Rinat Abdullin)
• Solution Architecture Guidance and 13 Mobile Development Questions to Think About and Outline for an Executive Summary (Eric Johnson)
• Systems Thinking in a Bar (Jurgen Appelo)
• Organize Your Tests, Part II: Use Metadata! and Combinatorial / Pairwise Tools (Jim Holmes)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 13 : binding to types that Implement ICustomTypeProvider and How to bind an ItemsControl to an Enum with localized descriptions (Jonathan Antoine)
• Generic WPF/Silverlight Value Converter (Clifford Nelson)
• How to get user Input from a Popup in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• Building and Using Expression Blend Behaviors (David Kelley)
• Windows Phone 7.5 – Play with music (Andrea Boschin)
• OData caching in Windows Phone (Samidip Basu)
• Navigation in Windows Phone 7 apps and Creating a simple Media Player for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Lua for you’ah… Adding Lua scripting support to your .Net/WPF app or game (Greg Duncan)
• Leveraging Background Services and Agents in Windows Phone 7 (Mango) (Jon Galloway)
• What is the Future of Silverlight? Let’s Discuss… (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using MVVMLight, ItemsControl, Blend and behaviors to make a ‘heads up compass’ (Joost van Schaik)
• Windows Phone Marketplace: One Year In (Sarah Perez)
• 2000 WPF Things #436 – Using a Drop Shadow with a Border (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #23: Execution Model and 31 Days of Mango | Day #24: Performance Analysis (Jeff Blankenburg)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cloud Panel Discussion at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SPLASH 2011: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt – JavaScript Modules and GoingNative 4: Jim Springfield on ATL, GoingNative Conference – Register Today! (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 127: Setting up your Computer and Work Area (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Let’s Play TDD #145: Displaying the FileDialog (James Shore)
• Video on How to create Flickr Photo viewer App for Windows Phone 7 and Video on How to work with Picture in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A Dozen Windows Phone Videos… And Counting (Jesse Liberty)
• SE Podcast #28 – Brent Ozar (Alex Miller)
• Defrag: Moving Page File, Recovering Encrypted Files, Missing User Account (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Fusion Sentient, PhotoVote, FaceArt, Action Potato, The Jumble (Laura Foy)
• What The Tech 94: I’ve Got A Deal For You! and Windows Weekly 236: The PC Plus Era (Paul Thurrott)
• Gillmor Gang 11.22.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget HD Podcast 275 – 11.22.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Marcus Whitney Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• SOA Made Simple – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

 

Community / Events

• 2011 Virtual and Live Speaking Locations (John Papa)
• Announcing GoingNative 2012 Conference (Visual C++ Team)
• Getting more and more into the Microsoft Belgian community (Simone Chiaretta)
• 1 Year on Next at Microsoft: Tour the Microsoft HQ (Steve Clayton)
• Visiting MVPs Around the World (Nestor Portillo)
• Rock, Paper, Azure is back… (Brian Hitney)

 

Database

• 3 SQL Server Book Review Short Takes (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Query Performance Analysis using DMVs (Carl Nolan)
• SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 7 Released and SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 2 Released (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Data Tools CTP4 (SSDT) download available for all languages (Janet Yeilding)
• Monitoring SSRS Report Performance – Part 4 (John Pertell)
• Geting Started with SSRS – Part 1 – SQL Server Reporting Services Overview and Installing in Windows Server 2008 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Three Things That Rock About SQL Server (Kendra Little)
• SQL Server: Test Linked Server Connection (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – 2012 – Summary of All the Analytic Functions – MSDN and SQLAuthority and SQL SERVER – Solution to Puzzle – Simulate LEAD() and LAG() without Using SQL Server 2012 Analytic Function and SQL SERVER – DVM sys.dm_os_sys_info Column Name Changed in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB–Replication & Master <-> Master support (Oren Eini)
• Always set the SEQUENCE cache size (Denny Cherry)
• Getting Started with MongoDB (Matthew Setter)

 

SharePoint

• Firebird and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)
• Lightning conductor 2010 web part version 2.0.0.2 (Brett Lonsdale)

 

Miscellaneous

• JobsBlog Rewind: 3 tips for getting a job in the new year (MS JobsBlog)
• The Kinect knows no national boundaries, as shown by Chinese University students pushing the Kinect’s boundaries (Greg Duncan)
• SkyDrive – designing personal cloud storage for billions of people (Omar Shahine)
• Giving Thanks To Arcane Programming Languages (Rob Diana)
• Doom 3 GPL source code now available (Ross Miller)
• Computer Algorithms: Sequential Search (Stoimen Popov)
• Making Android Games that Play Nice (Tim Bray)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 22, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 23, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 23 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #758 and Double Shot #759 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/22/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/23/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/24/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #987 and The Morning Brew #988 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/22/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 22 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 22 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 23 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 24 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for November 14 – 20, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2011 — #1172 and Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2011 — #1173 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed