• Windows Phone Native Series – ExitApplication, PlaySystemSound, GetSystemInformation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Recognition Compensation (Phil Haack)
• SocialViewer gets Windows Phone Mango treatment (Nick Randolph)
• Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency (Steven Sinofsky)
• Metro WebView Source and HTML workarounds (Brent Schooley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Refactoring Code using Visual Studio Extract Method (Abhishek Sur)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The DateTime TryParse() and ParseExact() Methods (James Michael Hare)
• LINQPad helps you learn LINQ (Jason Short)
• TFS 2010 Report Results are not up to date after installing Service Pack 1 (Sebastian Dau)
• GHI (non-beta) .NET Gadgeteer SDK released! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• List View Data Binding in Windows 8 JavaScript Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections (Simon Cooper)
• SolutionScripts – little scripts for the Nuget console (Matt Hinze)
• StyleCop 4.7 (CodePlex)
• New Refactorings in JustCode Q3 2011 (JustCode Team)
• Rx – Sample (Bnaya Eshet)
• Using the Kinect to build a NUI E-Book and F#, Kinect and a little LegoNXT (Greg Duncan)
• Global reach (Antoine Leblond)
• Parsing HTML in C# (Marlon Grech)

Web Development

• Comment and Uncomment for CSS Editor in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• JavaScript for C# developers: converting arguments into an array (Julian M.  Bucknall)
• CSS Lint v0.9.2 now available (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Adventures In The Third Dimension: CSS 3D Transforms (Peter Gasston)
• Things Still Missing From CSS (Trent Walton)
• Using ProudMonkey Controls with ASP.NET AJAX Update Panel (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• PHP Performance: Bitwise Division (Stoimen)
• Update: Deploying Ruby Applications to Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
• When APIs Play Spoilsport? (Romin Irani)
• Easy steps to a mobile-friendly responsive design with an embedded YouTube video and a fluid resize (Scott Hanselman)
• Our AJAX Conventions – The AjaxContinuation and Our Ajax Conventions–Clientside Continuations (Josh Arnold)
• Using the Cloud to Enable the Next Generation of Mobile Enterprise Applications (Chris Love)
• The digits of MUSIC.js (Dave Mahon)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Connecting to Windows Azure Storage from Hadoop Cluster and Using Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv://) for input data and storing results in Hadoop Map/Reduce Job on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Getting comfy with PhpStorm – one of the best IDEs so far! (Hasin Hayder)
• Understanding JavaScript OOP (Quildreen Motta)
• Photo Mosaics Part 9: Caching Analysis (Jim O’Neil)
• Programming Office 365 Jump Start 1 (Tanzim Saqib)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Contextualising just enough up front design (Simon Brown)
• No Class is an Island (John Sonmez)
• Announcing Lokad.CQRS vLean – SampleProject and Tools (Rinat Abdullin)
• 5 Do’s and Don’ts for Managing Distributed Teams – A Tech Lead Speaks (Adam Feber)
• test on real mobile devices without breaking the bank (Brad Frost)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Q3 2011 SP1 RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 now adds support for bindable Data Descriptor collections (Deyan Ginev)
• Free SilverlightShow Ebook: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Silverlight Show)
• The Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
• Framework Exceptions in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Let me out – Facebook Logout in a Windows Phone App and SLARToolkit Samples Updated (Rene Schulte)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone – Capitalization (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #467 – Use a UniformGrid for Evenly Spaced Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
• New Markets for Windows Phone Developers (Todd Brix)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Recording of yesterday’s webinar ‘Leveraging Azure for Windows Phone Devs’ now available (Silverlight Show)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #128: Predictions 2012 (Bob Walsh)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Harald Horgen Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Gillmor Gang Live 01.05.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• On Microsoft MVP Program (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Do community because you like it, not because of the incentives (Simone Chiaretta)
• A very few thoughts on the MVP program (Jeremy Miller)
• MVP Program, Award and my view on things (Dennis Vroegop)
• Windows 8 – First Apps Contest and Are you a Developer or Designer in the NY/NJ/PA area using Microsoft Software? (Dave Isbitski)
• Your Blog is The Engine of Community (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS in a PDF (Jason Strate)
• Reader Review: SQL Server 2008 Internals (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – Locking and Blocking – Important Aspect of Database and Effect on Performance – Quiz – Puzzle – 5 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• The Art of the Execution Plan (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell

• StudioShell 1.2 Released (Jim Christopher)

Miscellaneous

• Hot Topics: A Contest Formula that Works (Lauren Gundrum)
• Things We Wish Clients Would Say (Louis Lazaris)
• Programmers are born not made (Swizec Teller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #790 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/5/2012 and Daily News Digest 01/06/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 04-Jan-2012 and 05-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News 5 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #1016 (Chris Alcock)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– December 2011 (Beth Massi)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 01/05/2012 (Bob Rhubart)
• Distributed Weekly 136 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• Recap: Windows Phone 7.5 “a breath of fresh air” (Michael Stroh)
• Exploring Windows Phone 7.5’s Web Marketplace. And a surprise new feature! (Ben Rudolph)
• Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update begins (Eric Hautala)
• September 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Compiling Unsafe Code in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Highlighting Execution Hot Path in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler Call Tree (Abhijit Jana)
• Background Transfer Download Sample For C# In Windows 8 (Karsten Januszewski)
• Day 2: Building a Metro App with Visual Studio 11 Express (Stephen Forte)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Quick Launch (Zain Naboulsi)
• Asynchronous Operations in Windows 8 with the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) (Visual C++ Team)
• Setting up a NuGet repository in seconds: MyGet public feeds (Maarten Balliauw)
• Keep it secret, keep it safe (Eric Lippert)
• Wiimote Kinecting Music with Holofunk (Greg Duncan)
• What’s happening on the NuGet feed (leveraging OData in an RSS reader) (Jason Jarrett)
• Environments for Windows Azure development (Tom Hollander)
• Announcement: Namespace Global (Lucian Wischik)

Web Development

• Building Offline Experiences with HTML5 AppCache and IndexedDB (Israel Hilerio)
• What’s New in HTML5 – Markup and More ! and A Useful Firefox Plugin for Web Developers – Firesizer (Joe Stagner)
• Massive’s Dynamic Query Syntax (Rob Conery)
• Large Ruby File Downloads Done Right! (Dan Watson)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP #108.1421 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• YUI 3.4.1 is now live (Allen Rabinovich)
• Adding A ‘has_image?’ Matcher To Capybara (Derick Bailey)
• Come Node With Me – The Working Man’s Introduction to Node.js (Drew Peterson)
• Search for code duplicates in PhpStorm (Eugene Kudelevsky)
• A Guide to Wijmo Theming (Kevin Griffin)
• Running Processes in Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)
• SassAndCoffee 1.1 issues with AppHarbor (Paul Betts)
• Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6 (Paul Irish)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Running unit tests in Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (WinRT) (Laurent Bugnion)
• NServiceBus Modelling Tools (Udi Dahan)
• Don’t give a chicken access to your schedule / feature set (Oren Eini)
• Scrum Sprint Monitor v1.1.0.292 (CodePlex)
• Good Collaboration: Bringing Devs and Testers Closer and Wrapping Performance Testing Introduction: What to Monitor (Plus Learning Resources) (Jim Holmes)
• Meddlers (Free Exercise) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Continuous Integration: Why You Don’t Really "Get It" (Mitch Pronschinske)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• pInvoke in Silverlight5 and .NET Framework (Alexandra Rusina)
• The Top 10 Over-Engineering Mistakes in Silverlight Applications (Jeremy Likness)
• Know About WP7 System Tray – Tips to Show or Hide it (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Enumerating Printers using PInvoke in Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #396 – Rich ListBox Content Using Data Binding, part II (Sean Sexton)
• RadMap for Silverlight – How To Consume Tiles from Local Server (Telerik Silverlight Team)
• Wiring up an AutoCompleteBox to a JSON Service in Silverlight (Steve Smith)
• Developers get MORE with Windows Phone 7.5 (Todd Brix)
• Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 3 – Adding wind effect (Lazar Nikolov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET 4.5: David Kean and Mircea Trofin – Portable Libraries (Charles Torre)
• End User Adoption and the SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide with Rob Bogue-Episode 67 and SharePoint Pod Show Road Trip and Chat with Latasha Battle-Episode 68 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Engadget HD Podcast 267 – 09.27.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Ping 118: Windows Phone wins people choice, Windows makes a difference, Clinton & Gates, Symbian developers (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #143: File → Save As… (James Shore)
• Boagworld: Working with WordPress (Paul Boag)
• Check It Out: Mouse Without Borders (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Attend a Windows Phone Camp…Win a New Phone! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming Free HTML5 Training in West Region (Doris Chen)
• Event: Meet Microsoft Press authors at Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 (Kim Spilker)
• October 4th to 6th–FREE Online Conferences on Phone, Azure and IE (Eric Nelson)
• The Magic Behind the Curtain: Celebrating Microsoft Research’s 20th Anniversary (Jeffrey Meisner)
• I’m speaking at the Northern Virginia Code Camp THIS WEEKEND! (Kevin Griffin)
• Moving Along (Michael Swanson)
• October Tech Calendar (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• SSIS Child Errors in Parent Package (Mike Davis)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV Enhancement – sys.dm_exec_query_stats – New Columns (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Implementing Claims-Based Authentication with SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• compare sharepoint site permissions and clone permissions (Brett Lonsdale)

PowerShell

• Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft and mindshare: can Mango be cool in the mall? (Kip Kniskern)
• MSDN Magazine: October Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
• How to update your Windows Phone (Luke)
• Windows Phone 7.5 Mango review (Brad Molen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 27, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/27/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #947 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 09/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 26-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for September 27, 2011 — #1151 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #718 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0), The (4th Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Anders Hejlsberg

• About this blog and your comments and Introducing the team (Steven Sinofsky)
• The Future of the Living Room (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Exploring the August 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit for ‘Mango’ (Jeff Wilcox)
• New Ajax Grid Scaffolding NuGet Package for MVC 3 (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• New Book: FRIENDLY F# through Game Development and XNA (Don Syme)
• Getting Started with the F# PowerPack – Part 2 (Daniel Mohl)
• Code Metrics: Working with Columns (Zain Naboulsi)
• Try, try, try again… SQL Azure, Azure Storage, AppFrabric Service Bus Retry Article and Library and A passel of Parallel Programming samples and Back to basics with a Basic XNA and Kinect SDK sample (Greg Duncan)
• YouTrackSharp and YouTrackForReSharper on JetBrains GitHub and dotTrace: Profiling decompiled code (Hadi Hariri)
• Facebook C# SDK – 5.2 Beta and StyleCop – Release v4.6 (CodePlex)
• Upgrading Our ClickOnce App From .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0 (Pete Seale)
• RavenDB Multi GET support (Oren Eini)
• Dive into the summer with MSDN: The Windows Azure Platform (Katrien de Graeve)
• Android for .NET Developers – Creating Files (Dino Esposito)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Route Debugger: One handy tool (Bill Wagner)
• Beginning an HTML5 Application – The Requirements (Joe Stagner)
• PHP: Fetch $_GET as String with http_build_query() (Stoimen Popov)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Value to Reference (Giorgio Sironi)
• Adding the New HTML Editor Extender to a Web Forms Application using NuGet (Stephen Walther)
• Facebook: Simplifying the Developer App (Alan McConnell)
• An introduction to JSDoc (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Video Manipulation with the Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
• Underscore.js (K. Scott Allen)
• Now Available: Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles v1.1 (Windows Azure Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Effective Sketches (Simon Brown)
• Microsoft Patterns & Practices Books Offer Guidance on Adopting Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• Designing an API: Is JSON/JSONP an and/or decision? (Kyle Baley)
• Splitting Story Points is a Smell…Stop it! (Matthew Barcomb)
• Tales from the Engine Room: Bulk Updates (Patrick O’Keeffe)
• Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes (Anthony)
• Lockdown Pt. 3: Are Our Applications Secure Yet? (Tim Kulp)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Localizing the August 2011 Windows Phone Toolkit (Andrej Tozon)
• Windows Phone Toolkit August 2011: Overview and Getting Started (Windows Phone Geek)
• Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – PIN Authentication (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Book Review: Windows Phone 7 Game Development (lookitskris)
• ALL SilverlightShow ebooks now available in MOBI and EPUB format (Silverlight Show)
• The Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is now available for ‘Mango’ application development (Jeff Wilcox)
• Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch (Jesse Liberty)
• Working with Default FontSize in Windows Phone 7 Applications (Kunal Chowdhury)
• SilveOS, the Silverlight-based ‘operating system’ takes on Chrome OS (Tim Conneally)
• 2000 WPF Things #367 – You Can’t Bind to a Calendar Control’s SelectedDates Property (Sean Sexton)
• Brand new Mango release of Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – JD Meier Gets Results the Agile Way (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• How Do I: Authenticated RSS Feeds (MS Podcasts)
• Checking In: Rick Molloy – Gone Native (Charles Torre)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 6 (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• The GeekDads Episode #98: Chaotic Evil is the Best Kind of Evil (Ken Denmead)
• Women in IT Architecture – Part 1 of 2 (Bob Rhubart)
• Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Program Video (Mike Walker)
• The JavaScript Show – Programming discussion: JavaScript prototypes, understanding "this", extending native objects (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for August 17th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Social Media Collective @ NERD (Jim O’Neil)
• Full Day ASP.NET MVC 3 Training Event in Los Angeles on August 27th, 2011 (Scott Mitchell)
• At Microsoft’s Build conference, All Will Be Revealed (or will it?) (Kip Kniskern)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Geography Data Type – Calculating Distance Between Two Points on the Earth – Day 18 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – OVER ( … ROWS / RANGE … ) (Vishal)
• Adding an Index to Save Space (Tim Radney)

Miscellaneous

• Amazingly, Microsoft Might Not Miss The Boat On Tablets (MSFT) (Dan Frommer)
• Free eBook: Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime (Rosemary Caperton)
• The new book: Mindfire. What is it? (Scott Berkun)
• MSMQ and Cached DNS (Jimmy Bogard)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Geek Reading August 17, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (8/17/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #919 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• SilverlightShow for August 8 – 14, 2011 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

• Novell/Xamarin Partnership around Mono (Miguel de Icaza)
• Microsoft moves forward with ‘Roslyn’ compiler as a service project (Mary Jo Foley)
• Sysinternals Process Explorer v15… Celebrating the 15th anniversary of Sysinternals (and the release of The Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference) (Greg Duncan)
• Use ViewModels to manage data & organize code in ASP.NET MVC applications (Rachel Appel)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft® Visual Studio Team Foundation Server® 2010, Service Pack 1 (MS Downloads)
• Pitfalls of cancelling a VSIX project template in an IWizard and Creating a simple bootstrapper – Introduction and Creating a simple bootstrapper – Proof of concept (Rory Primrose)
• LINQ to XlsX… Using VB.Net, LINQ, the OpenXML SDK and a little C# helper, to query an Excel XlsX and Kinecting with Robots – Kinect Services for the Microsoft Robotic Development Studio (Greg Duncan)
• Replying with attachments to an email message with EWS (Henning Krause)
• Status of Monotouch and Mono for Android #monotouch #monodroid (Wally McClure)
• Developing a Windows Azure AppFabric Application (Vikram Desai)
• Configuring, Deploying, and Monitoring Applications using AppFabric Application Manager (Adam)
• Get List of Active Directory Domains (Paul Sheriff)
• Mapping the Memory Usage of .NET Applications: Part 2, VMMap and MemoryDisplay (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Xamarin welcomes MonoTouch and MonoDroid "home" (Craig Dunn)
• Vote on the stories for the EntLib Azure Integration Pack! (Grigori Melnik)
• Windows Azure Platform Management Portal Updates Now Available (Bharat Ahluwalia)

Web Development

• RavenDB MVC Profiler Support (Oren Eini)
• CSS Basics: The Box Model, Margin and Padding (Terrence Dorsey)
• HTTP status code in WCF using error handling (Morten Faester)
• So You Want to Be a jQuery AJAX Developer? Here are Some Must Read Books (Chris Love)
• filterByData jQuery Plugin: Select by HTML5 Data Attr Value (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC Model Binders (Gil Fink)
• Overoptimizing my JavaScript stack implementation for fun (Jef Claes)
• Create An HTML/CSS Mobile Web App Using Sencha Touch (Jen Gordon)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.1.2 released! (Alexey Gopachenko)
• PhpStorm: What makes a difference (Alexey Korsun)
• Lucene.net is back on track (Simone Chiaretta)
• MVC Controls Toolkit 1.2.0 RTW (CodePlex)
• A Review of The Book of Ruby – Pleasant Prose Meets Car-Crash Code (Peter Cooper)
• Using WCF and WIF to perform WS-Trust active claim requests (Alex Thissen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Recreating Scrum using Kanban and Explicit Policies (Cory Foy)
• RTM’d today: I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft, Second Edition (Valerie Woolley)
• Elevator Pitches for Projects (JD Meier)
• How to focus on the wrong thing when writing code (John Rayner)
• Effective Tests: Avoiding Context Obscurity (Derek Greer)
• Breaking the Laws of Nature (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Why Your Form Help Tips Should Open on Mouse Hover (Anthony)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Getting started with Caliburn.Micro for Windows Phone Part 0 and Getting started with Caliburn.Micro for Windows Phone Part 1 and Getting started with Caliburn.Micro for Windows Phone Part 2 and Getting started with Caliburn.Micro for Windows Phone Part 3 (deanvmc)
• Upload large file of size more than 5 MB from Silverlight to Server location using WCF (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Nokia’s WP7 Support Begins with "Bubble Level Silverlight v1.0" Tools (Senthil Kumar)
• An interesting “small tiles” concept for Windows Phone (Steven Hodson)
• Using the Isolated Storage Explorer tool on WP7 Mango to export your .sdf file (Derik Whittaker)
• Mad King DataGrid (Jacob Proffitt)
• The Visual Studio LightSwitch Economy (Michael Washington)
• 31 Days of Mango Questions (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Using Caliburn Micro as a Data Template Selector (Nigel Sampson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Rey Bango is all about Javascript and .NET Rocks! – Brad Abrams Builds Platforms for Google (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 154 – PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Heller From Cisco on PowerShell and UCS (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Path to Agility 2011 – Kelly Allen – Deming then, now and for the foreseeable future (Agile Toolkit)
• Ping 109: Microsoft Stores, Halo & Kinect, XP Countdown, Windows 8, Mango (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for July 18th, 2011 and MADExpo Wrap-Up and HTML5 Web Camps Coming to Mid-Atlantic (and elsewhere) (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft delays Mediaroom IPTV conference to 2012 (John Callaham)
• Code Camp Times Two (Jim O’Neil)
• We Work in Philly: A Community-Edited Guide to Philadelphia (David Goodman)
• I’m doing the BUILD HIVE 2011 conference combo (Adam Kinney)
• Client Technologies and the BUILD Conference (Mike Taulty)
• Google+ Invite Form (Elijah Manor)
• What’s new and cool in Drupal 7? (Angela Byron & Jeff Eaton)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 5 Released (Glenn Berry)
• Configuring a VMWare clone for SSRS disaster recovery (John Pertell)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 19 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – Denali CTP3 – DATEFROMPARTS() and TIMEFROMPARTS() (Vishal)
• Windows Azure Table Storage in detail (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Denali SQLPS First Impressions (Chad Miller)

SharePoint

• MVPs for Office 365: SharePoint Designer Workflow Tasks and InfoPath 2010 (Lonnie Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Announces Simple Transfer of Health Data From Google Health Service to Microsoft HealthVault (MS PressPass)
• Building a PC, Part VII: Rebooting (Jeff Atwood)
• One Billion Dots and Beyond – the Viral Phenomenon of World’s Biggest PAC-MAN (Carter Rabasa)
• #Video Deal/Day: OpenGL iPhone Games with Cocos2D – Only $9.99 w/code DDJ2N (O’Reilly Media)
• New research shows Windows Phone is connecting with people (Brian Seitz)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – July 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• SilverlightShow for July 11 – 17, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for July 18, 2011 — #1118 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #897 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (7/18/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 07/19/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 18-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 by Dino Esposito

• Debugger Canvas on DevLabs (Somasegar)
• 3-Day Test Driven Development with Uncle Bob Martin in Philadelphia (EventBrite)
• Building a Cloud OS for .NET Developers – Part 2 (Michael Kennedy)
• ReSharper 6.0 Beta Available (Hadi Hariri)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Common Table Expressions (Abhijit Jana)
• Creating Windows Services, visually (well using the Component Designer and Visual Studio Windows Service template anyway) and MFCMAPI – Articles-a-pluza! (Greg Duncan)
• Linq to NHibernate – String.Equals with StringComparison option (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• Ordering data in LINQ Queries by more than one column (Pranay Rana)
• TFS API Part 38 – Create Label (Shai Raiten)
• RSA private key import from PEM format in C# (Tamir Khason)
• A nice, basic log4net setup (Andreas Hammar)
• Appending to a Windows Azure Block Blob (Steve Marx)
• Implementation of a Message Broker on BizTalk (Steinar Moen)
• Advanced scenarios with Windows Azure Queues (Maarten Balliauw)

Web Development

• Web Role Instances recreated, repaired while deploying MVC 3 Applications on Windows Azure (Harish Ranganathan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Classic Computer Science in JavaScript (Rey Bango)
• MiniProfiler: Lightweight profiler for ASP.NET web applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• Five little known files to help improve your web site (Greg Duncan)
• Certificates in Windows Azure (Jaime Alva Bravo)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier – Release: v4.22 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing Principles (Avi Kaye)
• Is Agile Doomed? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Book Review: The Clean Coder by Uncle Bob Martin (Cory Foy)
• Balsamiq New Release: Partial PNG Export and more! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Mocking Generator Methods (Michael Foord)
• Visio 2010 WBS Modeler (MS Downloads)
• Questioning Team Accountability (Amr Elssamadisy)
• Parkinson’s Law and Iteration Zero (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Changing the Title in the Tile Icon of a Windows Phone 7 Application (Jayson Gaylord)
• 10 Silverlight 5 Demos (John Papa)
• Windows Phone 7 Competitions (Rudi Grobler)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Recommendations and Best Practices (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPF ListBox as Bar Chart (Christian Nagel)
• Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 2) (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 12 – Using Isolated Storage to Store and Retrieve Data (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Expression Blend templates for Windows Phone applications (Pam)
• Off-thread decoding of images on Mango, how it impacts your application ? (SL WP Perf Team)
• Panorama Template (Alex Knight)
• ShellToast on Windows Phone – when HTTP push is just too much (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ICSE 2011: Conversation with Kumiyo Nakakoji (Charles Torre)
• Episode 149 – PowerScripting Podcast – Vittorio Bertocci on Windows Azure Access Control Services (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Check Out New Windows Azure Jump Start Video Series (Windows Azure Team)
• Pluralcast 44 : Joe Hummel on High Performance Computing (David Starr)
• Let’s Play TDD #114: Icon Challenges (James Shore)

Community / Events

• Presenting a Free Webinar w/ Idera July 15, 2011 – Understanding SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata (Andrew Connell)
• Philly Nerd Nite Summer Update (Michelle & Melissa)
• What I learned at FOO Camp ’11 (Scott Berkun)
• Microsoft Gamefest 2011 – Seattle, WA August 22-23, London, England July 14-15, and Tokyo July 29! (Doug Holland)
• Upcoming Events for June 13th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New York City F# Meetup Group, June 16, Chris Marinos – Getting Your Func(tional) on with F# (Don Syme)

Database

• Time to start thinking about, and providing feedback on, what you’ll need to upgrade to Denali (aka next version of SQL Server) (Greg Duncan)
• SSIS Fuzzy Lookup Error (James Serra)
• SQL Server Instant File Initialization (PQW) (John Sansom)
• SSAS – Understanding KeyColumns Dimension Property (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Watch Online and Download – Inside of Next Generation SQL Server – Best Practices Analyzer using Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer and SQLAuthority News – BI Quiz Question – How to Optimize Cube? – Hints (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Migration Wizard (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Saving Table Space (Quick And Dirty) (David Forck)
• Using Catalog Views – sys.sql_expression_dependencies (Vishal)

SharePoint

• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Practical SharePoint Governance for Everyone (Deb Sorenson)

Miscellaneous

• Book Review – Eloquent Ruby (Dan Watson)
• Windows 7 on a Mac: my Boot Camp survival guide (Ed Bott)
• 11 things Microsoft did right in fiscal 2011 (Joe Wilcox)
• Microsoft files trademark for Kinect-like ad tech (John Callaham)
• Tip: Disabling spell check underlining in the OneNote Web Client (John Guin)
• New! Microsoft Press eReference Library Hosted by Safari Books Online (Kim Spilker)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Concurrent Programming in Mac OS X and iOS – Only $6.49 w/code DDCCR (O’Reilly Media)
• Why Microsoft Has Developers Horrified About Windows 8 (Peter Bright)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – June 13 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• SilverlightShow for June 6-12, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for June 13, 2011 — #1106 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 072 for 6/13/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #872 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Links 14/06/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 06/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan

• Spec Explorer 2010 Release 3.5 now available! (Xiang Li)
• async 11: Control Flow and await (Bill Wagner)
• New April 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
• Office 365 Marketplace and the Open Beta (Joel Oleson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Default Extension methods and Dynamic query with Linq (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio 2010 and UML(Unified Modeling Language) Part-I (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Accessing ObjectContext Features from EF 4.1 DbContext (Julie Lerman)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)
• MSBuild Extension Pack April 2011 Release (Mike Fourie)
• Closures in CSharp (Abhishek Sur)
• Coding Helpers – Smart Parentheses and Smart Brackets (Alex Skorkin)
• ReSharper 6 Enhances Razor Support (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• Create user friendly date fields with ASP.NET MVC EditorTemplates & jQueryUI (Rachel Appel)
• Presentation Tips Learned From My (Many) Mistakes (Phil Haack)
• Get your FREE ASP.NET Razor Templates (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET MVC: Defining short URL-s for root level pages and ASP.NET MVC 3: Using controllers scaffolding (Gunnar Peipman)
• MVC Extension Method for Hosting Static Content on a CDN (Nathan Totten)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Testcase Class per Feature (Giorgio Sironi)
• Creating a Bot for the Rock Paper Azure Contest (Steve Smith)
• HTTP is great (Rob Ashton)
• Exploring ECMAScript 5 with a Simple Game of Poker (ieblog)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NUnit Type Assertions (Richard Carr)
• Developer Chronicle: Lasagna is not a good role model (Jimmy Nilsson)
• .gitconfig (Nick Berardi)
• "I’ll Whack Your Fingers"-Oriented Programming (Joh)
• Refactoring is Not About Reducing Code (Krishna)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What the new App Hub in Windows Phone Mango means for the Enterprise (Rob Tiffany)
• WriteableBitmapEx goes NuGet (Rene Schulte)
• New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.3.2 officially released and Coding4Fun WP7 Message Prompt in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• A Fast Loading Windows Phone 7 NavigationList Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• The WPF Renaissance (James Ashley)
• ReactiveUI posts now in PDF format (Paul Betts)
• Family.Show [Insert a Sixth Sense quote here] (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 7 Mango: My feedback as I peel it apart (Kelly Sommers)
• Working with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta and Issues with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Out of Box Experience – Windows Live ID and the Benefits to Having One For Your Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Multiple Window Support and LightTouch–Silverlight Touch Library from Wintellect (Mike Taulty)
• Social Viewer Template for Windows Phone 7 Published (Nick Randolph)
• Awesome Windows Phone Resource (PubSec)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio: Coding4Fun with Clint Rutkas (MS Podcasts)
• Technoloby & Friends Episode 152: Randy Pagels on Visual Studio Test Professional (David Giard)
• XNA: Game Development – The Game Loop (Tina Wood)
• Windows Weekly 204: I’m In A Cab (Paul Thurrott)
• Podcast- Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi- ASP.NET Tools Integration (Joe Stagner)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 51 – Xerxes Battiwalla talks Shouldly (Richard Banks)
• Deploying PHP Applications to Windows Azure without Visual Studio (Karsten Januszewski)
• Yet Another Podcast #31–Laurent Bugnion Live at Mix (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 6 – Windows Azure Role Security (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 012 – “MIX’n It Up” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The GeekDads Episode #89: Awesomest of Awesome Events Ever Awesomely Possible (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 18th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Mix 11 Videos – Download them all with RSS (Scott Hanselman)
• My Annual Arizona .NET Speaking Event this Friday (Scott Guthrie)
• Vote for your favorite love song playlist and win a fab Windows Phone and music package (Luke)
• MIX11 for the Silverlight Guy (Mike Taulty)
• MIX11 Session feedback: WCF Web APis: "There’s a URI for That" (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Thoughts on the MIX 11 announcements (Nigel Parker)
• Seacoast .NET Inaugural Meeting–Apr. 20th (Jim O’Neil)
• INETA Community Leadership Summit at TechEd 2011 and Help me go to Tech Ed 2011 (Chris Williams)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Making Database to Read Only – Changing Database to Read/Write and SQL SERVER – Appling NOLOCK Hint at Query Level – NOLOCK for whole Transaction (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS Tips & Tricks – Registered Server Groups (Seth Phelabaum)
• Why do we need error handling? (Kim Tessereau)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Health Score – Something to add to your SharePoint-based applications and SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Customization Deep Dive (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Office 365 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Windows PowerShell Language Specification Version 2.0 (MS Downloads)
• Office 365 Public Beta: Available Now! (Joey deVilla)
• Coding While You Commute (Leon Bambrick)
• Balancing work and kids: real advice for real life (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• PowerShell Language now licensed under the Community Promise (PowerShell Team)
• Paint.NET in 24 more languages?! tl;dr … Yes (Rick Brewster)
• My Top 10 Programming Quotes (Senthil Kumar)
• Photosynth Team releases iPhone App (Joe Stagner)
• Update progress for AT&T Windows Phones (Eric Hautala)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 16, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 — #1073 and SilverlightShow for April 4 – 10, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 – 2 — #1074 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 190 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links– 2010_15 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• The Morning Brew #836 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 18th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 04/18/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 04/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

LINQ Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O’Reilly)) by Joseph Albahari

Top Links

• Recognition: It’s Cheap and Effective (Jim Holmes)
• Using AutoCompleteBox in a Windows Phone Panorama or Pivot item (Jeff Wilcox)
• Jounce Part 12: Providing History-Based Back Navigation (Jeremy Likness)
• Go Try NuGet. Seriously. (Brendan Enrick)
• CSLA 4 mono platform porting update (Rockford Lhotka)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MonoDevelop & Teaching F# & QCon tutorial (Tomas P.)
• How to use SelectMany with LINQ JOINS (Abhijit Jana)
• Book Review: Programming Windows Identity Foundation (Gunnar Peipman)
• YACE (Yet Another Comment Extension) for VS2010 – Small, big, bigger and Red! SharpComments (Greg Duncan)
• Creating a JavaScript Object as Name Value Pairs (Kathleen Dollard)
• Installing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Integrating Ruby and C# with RabbitMQ (Scott Banwart)
• Using the New IntelliSense (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 with support for SQL Server Compact 4.0 released (Erik EJ)
• MEF addict [Combining .NET 4's type embedding and MEF to enable a smooth upgrade story for applications and their extensions] (David Anson)
• Unique Constraints in the Entity Framework (Faisal Mohamood & Kati Iceva)
• References and Pointers, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Microcontroller Projects and Source Code (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Custom DisposalScope activity and Calling a workflow service operation multiple times and WF content correlation and security (Rory Primrose)
• Machine.Specifications (MSpec) 0.4 (Aaron Jensen)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta 1 (CodePlex)
• Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ (Ade Miller)
• Getting Rid of Magic Strings in Entity Framework 4 Includes (Matt)

Web Development

• "The Amazing <html>5doctor Easily Confused HTML5 Element Flowchart of Enlightenment!" or "The header, footer, aside, section, article, figure, div flowchart cheatsheet" (Greg Duncan)
• Replacing the Ajax Contol Toolkit with jQuery – how do you want it ? and Dynamic Cascading Selection Lists for ASP.NET WebForms with jQuery. (Joe Stagner)
• datajs formats for OData flavored with simplicity (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Put your cloud on a diet (or: Windows Azure and scaling: why?) and Windows Azure CDN updates (Maarten Balliauw)
• Internet Explorer 9 Security Part 2: Protection from Socially Engineered Attacks (Ryan Colvin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile, Decoupled Security for Better Service Orientation (Francois Lascelles)
• Agile and Fixed-Scope Projects – It Can Be Done! (Peter Saddington)
• Book Review: Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools – Part 1 (Shrini Kulkarni)
• The case for a makefile (Louis Salin)
• Distributed Version Control: My reasons for using it (Bill Wagner)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A highlighting AutoCompleteBox in Silverlight (Peter Kuhn)
• MVVM in Android (xandytsui)
• Another 7 for 7 – The Windows Phone 7 Ignition Kit presents Windows Phone 7 in 7 Steps (Greg Duncan)
• Testing Network Availability (Jesse Liberty)
• CodeProject article about Mole 2010 (Josh Smith)
• Drawing in WP7: #3 Understanding Path shapes and All about WP7 Isolated Storage – intro to Isolated Storage (Windows Phone Geek)
• Mindscape Phone Elements Released (John-Daniel Trask)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kent Alstad Makes Javascript Perform (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• IE9 RTW Due Date, A Big Thank You, MIX11, and a Unicorn Named Frank and Parallel Programming for C++ Developers: Tasks and Continuations, Part 1 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• Windows Client – LINQ Training Videos (20) and Silverlight Essentials Video Training (Joe Stagner)
• Herding Code 107: Apple Subscription fees, Nokia, Reflector, Mono, Watson, CardSpace, and IE9 RC (Jon Galloway)
• Free Video Training: ASP.NET MVC 3 Features (Scott Guthrie)
• Building a SharePoint Development Machine Using the Easy Setup Script (Donovan Follette & Paul Stubbs)
• TechFest 2011: Facial Recognition in Videos (Laura Foy)
• endpoint.tv – Performance Testing with SO-Aware (Ron Jacobs)
• Saving energy with the .NET Micro Framework (Fabien Royer)
• Let’s Play TDD #93: Insanity Check (James Shore)

Community / Events

• A Great Week with MVPs (Lonnie Webb)
• Roanoke Code Camp 2011 is this Saturday! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• DevConnections new "Fundamentals" Track! (Paul Sheriff)
• Speaking of MSFT day-long workshops — "A day of GPU with Microsoft and NVIDIA" (Joe Hummel)
• Would you like to learn more about MVVM? Check out DevReady with MVVM (John V. Petersen)

Database

• SQL Server Videos on Channel 9 From Microsoft (Glenn Berry)
• Why I don’t use SSIS checkpoint files (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server: SSMS 2008 Intellisense Stops Working after Installing VS 2010 SP1 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Sharing your ETL Resources Across Applications with Ease (Pinal Dave)
• PostgreSQL Extensions (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SUM (T-SQL Tuesday #016) (grrlgeek)
• Disaster recovery 101: fixing metadata corruption without a backup (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Joli OS 1.2 adds file browser with Dropbox integration, public profiles (Lee Mathews)
• Qlockwork 3.0 Launch! (Anne Currie)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 9 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 03/10/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• 7-Mar-2011 and 8-Mar-2011 and 9-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #809 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 09, 2011 — #1057 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 9th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 10th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 by Ted Pattison

Top Links

• Two Caliburn Releases in One Day! (Rob Eisenberg)
• Windows Phone Pivot Control: Enable text wrapping for the Title (Jeff Wilcox)
• Not Everything Has a DeclaredType (Jason Bock)
• Academics, Enthusiasts to Get Kinect SDK (Rob Knies)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Visual Studio Code Snippets (Richard Carr)
• Getting Added And Deleted Items In A List Using LINQ (Abhijit Jana)
• Office 2010 Sample: Open XML SDK 2.0 Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Migrate MsTest of database edition to VS2010 (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Exploring Windows Azure Storage APIs By Building a Storage Explorer Application (Paolo Salvatori)
• Adding a Reference inside a NuGet project (Paul Betts)
• Creating an Internet Explorer Add-in Toolbar Button using C++ and ATL (Pete Brown)
• Extending the BizTalk ESB Toolkit – Orchestration (Scott Banwart)
• NuGet Fluent Cassandra (Nick Berardi)
• WiX It – A (The?) free and (all?) powerful Setup/MSI builder (Greg Duncan)
• Kinect for Windows SDK to Arrive Spring 2011 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Windows Azure for developers Task4: Error Attaching the debugger in Windows Azure SDK 1.3 and Windows Azure For Developers Task 5: Configuring Virtual Machine sizes (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Never Say Never, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• TypeInference where T : AssumptionsAreWrong (Bill Wagner)
• ColorPicker Controls for WinForms (Jonathan Wood)

Web Development

• Design style for OData in datajs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• User Interface for Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.0 (Jorge)
• Python 3.2 Released (Python.org)
• Last Session Debugging Value using Data Tips (Abhijit Jana)
• Custom Data Annotation Validator Part I : Server Code (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Review: Object-oriented Software Metrics (Patrick Kua)
• Let’s Play Name That SDLC: Volume 1 (David J. Bland)
• Security in the Software Development Lifecycle (Srini Penchikala)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 0-60 with a Windows Phone 7 app (Andy Robb)
• Creating theme friendly UI in WP7 using OpacityMask (Windows Phone Geek)
• Our first Windows Phone update—and how to get it (Michael Stroh)
• Windows Phone 7 first update rolls in – not NoDo (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Attaching a Command to the WP7 Application Bar. (Michael Crump)
• What difference does a sprite sheet make? (Peter Kuhn)
• Simple menu for your WP7 application (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Udi Dahan Clarifies CQRS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Podcast 233 – 02.21.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• AuthorsCast: Stephen Baker on Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything (Lee Dumond)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #24 at CMAP Code Camp (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• How Should the PASS Nominating Committee Be Selected? and How To Write Better Queries WebCast (Joe Webb)
• CSLA .NET at Open Source Fest: MIX11 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Microsoft photographers’ book raises over $60K for the United Way (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• The life of a journalist at HIMSS (Neil Versel)
• Open Source Fest at MIX11 (John Papa)
• vNext (Rudi Grobler)
• Events This Week – February 21st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• Five Favorite Free SQL Server Downloads (Brent Ozar)
• Using SQL Server Compact 4.0 with Desktop Private Deployment and a Setup project (MSI) (part 2) (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server Concurrency Series from the CAT (Customer Advisory Team) and Free Training SQL Server Training DVD’s (or online) from Quest (reg-ware) – 12 Sessions, Two DVD’s, Zero cost… (Greg Duncan)
• Shameless Self-Promotion – Introduction to SQL Server [Book] (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL Server: First Day of Previous Month (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Jacob Sebastian – Filestream – Wait Types – Wait Queues – Day 22 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• What does a SQL Server developer need to know? (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• The Windows 8 tablet interface to feature live tiles similar to WP7 (Phone Arena)
• List of all post Windows 7 and Windows 8 builds (Brad Sams)
• Academic Earth – Free and easy access to full video courses and lectures (from Yale, UCLA, Harvard, Berkley, MIT, Stanford and more) and [Preview Book Review] "Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6" by Augusto Alvarez (Greg Duncan)
• Amazon Prime members now get streaming movies, TV shows (Lee Mathews)
• MVPs for Office 365: How to create a secured kiosk access with Office 365? (Lonnie Webb)
• Windows 8 roadmap: A picture is worth a thousand build numbers (Mary Jo Foley)
• Unicode 6.0.0 is [actually] released! (Michael S. Kaplan)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: 21 Recipes for Mining Twitter – $8.49 (Save 50%) Code DDMTW (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 02.14 ~ 02.22 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #797 (Chris Alcock)
• SilverlightShow for Feb 14 – 20, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for February 21, 2011 — #1049 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Article Digest 02/21/2011 and Daily News Digest 02/22/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 21th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities by Mike Liu

Top Links

• New Bing Bar available for download today (Joshua Schnoll)
• Updating and Publishing a NuGet Package – Plus making NuGet packages smarter and avoiding source edits with WebActivator (Scott Hanselman)
• ReSharper 6 Bundles Decompiler, Free Standalone Tool to Follow (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Longs for 64-bit Applications, and Other Interviewer Gems (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Distributed authorization with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• ILSpy: The Open-Source .NET Assembly Browser and Decompiler (Christoph Wille)
• AppHarbor – Azure Done Right AKA Heroku for .NET (Rob Reynolds)
• Refactorings – Inline Method (Alex Skorkin)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Insight vs ELMAH (Tom DuPont)
• CAML.Net Intellisense – now with added Feature upgrade schema (Chris O’Brien)
• Status Update: accessing Facebook with MonoTouch (Craig Dunn)
• What is the Difference Between Path.GetTempFileName and Path.GetTempPath (Peter Kellner)
• Subversion and Monodevelop (Peter van Ooijen)
• Looking inside a double (Eric Lippert)
• Updating Plug-ins on the Community Site (Mark Miller)
• Asycnhronous Service Calls with Coroutines (Matt Hamilton)

Web Development

• Merging jQuery Deferreds and .animate() (Dan Heberden)
• Using MVC 3 with non-English Locales and Handling Optimistic Concurrency Exception with EF and MVC 3 (Rick Anderson)
• Making WIF local STS to work with your ASP.NET application and 5 minutes WIF: Make your ASP.NET application use test-STS (Gunnar Peipman)
• Adding a Custom Button to TinyMCE – REVISED (Stoimen Popov)
• Cross-domain Ajax: Implementation and Considerations (Dino Esposito)
• Can you use PHP without frameworks nowadays? (Giorgio Sironi)
• Enabling Dragging of an Image to Pin a Site to the Windows Taskbar in IE9 (Scott Hanselman)
• datajs DateTime sample (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• W3C Geolocation API in IE9 (Andy Zeigler)
• Microsoft WebSockets Prototype (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• It’s OK to Fail in Agile (Peter Saddington)
• What are you working on? (Steve Smith)
• How to torture your project manager (Scott Berkun)
• Multi-page Reports in Gallio/MbUnit v3.3 (Yann Trevin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Tip – How to automatically sync your OneNote documents to the Cloud (Dave Isbitski)
• Silverlight 5, HTML5 and WPF (James Ashley)
• Books on Building Games for Windows Phone (and Xbox, and Windows) (Joey deVilla)
• Would you like to write about Windows Phone 7 Development? (Mike Ormond)
• How to use WCF services to access SQL Azure Database from Windows Phone 7 app – Part 4 (Per Ola Sæther)
• Asynchronous Web and Network Calls on the Client in WPF (and Silverlight and .NET in general) and More on Asynchronous Service Calls in WPF – a MVVM Touch from Matt Hamilton (Pete Brown)
• Flashcards.Show Version 2 for the Desktop, Browser, and Windows Phone (Yochay Kiriaty)
• All about UriMapping in WP7 and Passing WP7 Memory Consumption requirements with the Coding4Fun MemoryCounter tool (Windows Phone Geek)
• Push Notification Status (Mark Hopkins)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #87: InvalidDollars (James Shore)
• Silverlight TV 62: The Silverlight 5 Triad Unplugged (John Papa)
• Countdown to MIX11: Boot Camps Are Where You Should Camp Your Booty (Larry Larsen)
• List of Microsoft Web Development Walkthroughs and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Sending Mail (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• MVP Tweets (Richard Hay)
• Learn How to Manage Your Website In The Cloud with Windows Azure in A Free Webinar February 22, 2011 with SiteCore (Windows Azure Team)
• ASPInsiders Twitter List (Elijah Manor)
• Come celebrate the Beauty of the Web (Ryan Gavin)
• MSMVP Event: Bringing Exceptional Expertise to the Local Store (Lonnie Webb)
• Jeffrey Richter, Wintellect, and Windows Azure (Jeffrey Richter)

Database

• How to Interpret SELECT @@VERSION in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server: Storing Images and Other BLOB types (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – LOGBUFFER – Wait Type – Day 18 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Parsing the FullName field to individual components (Naomi)

SharePoint

• Using RefreshCommandUI with the Server Ribbon (Dallas Tester & Fred Mameri)

Miscellaneous

• Bing releases the new “Bing Bar”, just for Matt Cutts (Kip Kniskern)
• MetroTwit v5 packs more features into the slick Windows Twitter app (Lee Mathews)
• #Video Deal/Day: McCullough & Berglund on Mastering #Git – Save 50% w/code DDBRG (O’Reilly Media)
• New Interview Questions for Senior Software Engineers (Scott Hanselman)
• Ruby on NetBeans lives! (Thomas Enebo)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #795 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 17th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for Jan 7-13, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for February 17, 2011 — #1048 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 02/17/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 17-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links– 2010_07 (Joe Stagner)

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle: SDL: A Process for Developing Demonstrably More Secure Software by Michael Howard

Top Links

• On Her Majesty’s Secret Source Code: .NET Reflector 7 Early Access Builds Now Available (Bart Read)
• Identifying AppFabric Access Control Service users uniquely (Gunnar Peipman)
• HowTo: apply StyleCop Settings on several projects (Code Inside Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Insert Blank Lines (Richard Carr)
• Wrong Answer #2: Your own ThreadLocal and Wrong Answer #3: Your own Thread Local (Oren Eini)
• Simple HTTP Server in C# (David Jeske)
• Reporting in .NET Part II (Deborah Kurata)
• WCF by Example – Chapter XIII – Business Domain – Parent & Child Relationships (Enrique Albert)
• Team Foundation Server Administration tool v2.1 Released (Think “TFS2010 version”) and Retargeting VS2010 Unit Tests to .Net 3.5 (with VS2010 SP1) (Greg Duncan)
• Understanding Tag Specific Options and HTML Editor Tag Navigation (Zain Naboulsi)
• ADO.NET – Some Internals Uncovered (Abhishek Sur)
• Big delay while calling EnvelopedCms constructor (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• VSDB Common Pitfalls 1 (Gert Drapers)
• NDepend – Code Query Language (CQL) (Hajan Selmani)
• Fun with XNA and 2.5D (Michael C. Neel)
• .Config File Transformation (Oleg Sych)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# developers: writing a library (part 3) (Julian m. Bucknall)
• HTML5: The Geolocation API is scary (good) (Jef Claes)
• ASP.NET: Including JavaScript libraries conditionally from CDN and ASP.NET MVC 3: Using AppFabric Access Control Service to authenticate users (Gunnar Peipman)
• Bing Maps Ajax 7: Add a Simple Mini Map (Chris Pietschmann)
• My view of the future for Web-Enabled Applications (Bill Wagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Distributed Agile: Bringing onshore people offshore (Mark Needham)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Suite (Giorgio Sironi)
• How to Deal with Unknown Unknowns (Jurgen Appelo)
• Understanding Software Development Disasters – Part2 and Understanding Software Development Disasters – Part3 (Rajiv Popat)
• Find out where is the method that was called unexpectedly using fake objects (Dror Helper)
• Highly Recommended Book: The Passionate Programmer (Davy Brion)
• Should We Move a Failed Story Back? (Dan Puckett)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: Beating Expectations (Chris Sells)
• Header Editable Tab Control in Wpf (Amit Kumar Dutta)
• A Matter of Controls Part 3 (Dave)
• Windows Phone 7 Database Rapid Repository V2.0 Released (Sean McAlinden)
• Getting friendly with presets, Part II (Elliot Meacham)
• Using the Multi-Touch Behavior in a Windows Phone 7 Multi-Page application (Davide Zordan)
• Silverlight FAQ – 13 Questions for Beginners (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Bad Image Quality In .NET 4.0 WPF Project (Sacha Barber)
• WPF TaskDialog Wrapper and Emulator (Sean A. Hanley)
• Review of Windows Phone 7 OS: 2 months of real usage (Dennis Delimarsky)
• First thoughts from our WP7 competition winner and Top 7 Christmas Windows Phone 7 apps (Andy Robb)
• Treeview Anti-Pattern (Greg Gum)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 381: Call of Duty: Black Ops new downloadable content announced, Fallout New Vegas Dead Money and BF BC2 heads to Vietnam (Larry Hyrb)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 40 – Udi Dahan on SOA and NServiceBus (Richard Banks)
• Windows Weekly 187: Fez Edition (Paul Thurrott)
• Technology & Friends Episode 130: Martin Schray on Technical Evangelism (David Giard)
• Hanselminutes: Transitions – Exploring issues moving from small companies to large corporations (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Stack Overflow: Subscribe to Tags via Email (Jeff Atwood)
• Calling all Windows Phone 7 experts! Update your SME profile now! (Lisa Denbeste)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Securing TRUNCATE Permissions in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Stackoverflow amongst evil nofollow web abuse sites (Brian Bondy)
• Microsoft to add finger and hand rotation tracking to Kinect (Byron Hinson)
• A week with Google’s Chrome OS laptop, Day 5: My life in the cloud (Joe Wilcox)
• Searching for the Perfect Developer’s Laptop. (Michael Crump)
• Reading The Windows Event Log (Rhonda Tipton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 19, 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2010 — #1012 and Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2010 – 2 — #1013 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #754 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook by Dentler Jason