• Caliburn Micro Part 1: Getting Started (Jason Fauchelle)
• EF 4.3 Beta 1 Released (EF Team)
• Scoping CQRS/ES Guidance Project (Grigori Melnik)
• JavaScript Pattern Collection (Shi Chuan)
• 101 Async Samples (Joe Mayo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Data Access review thoughts (Oren Eini)
• SSDT CTP4 and Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Adam Mahood)
• How to work with Custom Method in WCF Data Service? and Flyout control in Windows 8 HTML JavaScript Metro Application and Code analysis using Telerik JustCode (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Stopwatch Ticks are not TimeSpan Ticks (James Michael Hare)
• My Artilcle on the UITableView with MonoTouch and the iPhone/iOS is now online (Wally McClure)
• Garbage Collection in The Age of Smart Pointers (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentStack (Simon Cooper)
• 2012 Roadmap Revealed: 6 Major Releases (TeamPulse Team)
• Why does CreateEvent fail with ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND if I give it a name with a backslash? (Raymond Chen)
• DebuggerDisplay Attribute (Joseph Guadagno)
• Search in JustDecompile (JustDecompile Team)
• Reading and Writing text files in Windows 8 Metro (Morten Nielsen)
• Speaking of Speech Recognition… Check out Julius, the OSS high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder (Greg Duncan)
• EF 4.3 Configuration File Settings and EF 4.3 Beta 1: Automatic Migrations Walkthrough and EF 4.3 Beta 1: Code-Based Migrations Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
• Developing Apps for Windows 8 (Christopher Smith)
• ReSharper and code generation (Jeremy Alles)
• Unable to cast transparent proxy to type <type> (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• HTML5 Reference Poster and Bipin shows us that creating a tag cloud doesn’t have to be hard to do (in ASP.Net) (Greg Duncan)
• An approach to mobile support in ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
• Automatically numbering headings via CSS (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Understanding the Rails Asset Pipeline (Rob Conery)
• My top 3 improvements in Windows Azure from the December update (Eric Nelson)
• New API Lets You Show Three Alternative Routes on Bing Maps (Bruce Kyle)
• Access Amazon’s EC2 (and more) from within NodeJS (Dave Mahon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introducing the Android Design site (Tim Bray)
• New book: Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice (Valerie Woolley)
• 5 Things Every Mobile Design Should Have (Patrick Cox)
• small-scale software craftsmanship (Ariya Hidayat)
• Inclusive Design (Faruk Ateş)
• Article: Design for Testability – The True Story (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• UriMapper in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Working with animation in Expression Blend (Alex Mukora)
• Creating Cascading Drop Down Lists in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Beth Massi)
• A Windows Phone-CES Post Mortem (Andrew Brust)
• “Operation Not Permitted” On IsolatedStorageSettings in Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #472 – UniformGrid Defaults to Being Square (Sean Sexton)
• Capturing the transport data between Visual Studio and Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New RSS Starter Kit (Chris Koenig)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Verge Mobile Podcast 009: CES 2012 – 01.12.2012 and The Vergecast 011: CES 2012 Day 2 – 01.12.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• VIDEO: Windows Phone wins 88% of #smokedbywindowsphone challenges at CES 2012! (Ben Rudolph)
• Let’s Play TDD #158: writeFile() and readFile() (James Shore)
• Surface 2.0 at CES (Steve Clayton)
• RadioTFS – First Show of 2012 (Martin Woodward)
• Gweek 035: Interview with Robert Anton Wilson’s daughter (Mark Frauenfelder)
• MVP First Timers Webcast On Demand (Denny Cherry)
• Basic Ad Controls for Windows Phone Apps with David Kelley (Silverlight Show)

Community / Events

• Boston Area Geek Dinner: Thursday January 19, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• New Cities and New Courses (Shawn Wildermuth)
• F# courses and talks (Winter 2012 and beyond…) (Tomas Petricek)
• A New Coding Project Every Week at Code52 (Paul Betts)
• Charles Petzold on His 25 Years with MSDN Magazine (Michael Desmond)
• MVP Award Program at CES 2012 (Kari Finn)
• Nokia Lumia 900 collects the hardware at CES with numerous awards (PhoneArena Team)
• .NET Performance Diagnostics: How and Where to Start -User Group Meeting January 18th Eagan, MN (Charles Sterling)
• Next Week: Central Ohio Windows Phone User Group January Meetup (Silverlight Show)

Database

• Anatomy of the SQL Server Database: Settings and Secrets Video (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – DACPAC and SQL Azure – Quiz – Puzzle – 12 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Missing Indexes (Jason Brimhall)
• Have you tried the “Data Explorer” samples yet? (Data Explorer Team)

Miscellaneous

• How to Take Screen Shots From An Android Phone or Tablet (Chris Love)
• Learning Android: Roboguice – Injecting context into PreferenceManager (Mark Needham)
• Microsoft’s Ballmer: If I had it to do all over again… (Mary Jo Foley)
• Why Doesn’t Windows 8 Just Look Like THIS? (Paul Thurrott)
• Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign for Windows 0.96 Beta released (Ron)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1021 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for January 12, 2011 – #0026 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-12 and ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-13 (Bob Rhubart)
• Double Shot #795 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 1/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 12-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Wallace B. McClure

• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 3) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 22: Why Collaboration Matters (A Real World Example) (Jim Holmes)
• Channel 9 New feature: your own personal video queue (Duncan Mackenzie)
• The Likes & Dislikes of Microsoft in 2011 (Scott Barnes)
• Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology (Soulskill)

.NET / Visual Studio

• XML Documentation Comments (Richard Carr)
• I am reviewing Microsoft’s 70-515 C# exam PrepKit from UCertify (Abhishek Sur)
• Getting Assembly Information Using Reflection (Michael Ceranski)
• With Windows 8 Metro HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/WinRT, Read Any File From Project Directory and Debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Preview / WinRT Metro JavaScript With Live Watch Variables Pinned to the background (Peter Kellner)
• Working with DatePicker control in Windows 8 HTML5 Metro App and Working with Message Dialog Control in Windows 8 HTML Metro App (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Hashtables vs. Arrays (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• New GhostDoc Pro in Beta soon (Tatworth)
• New Resharper Code Style Sharing in v6.1 Features. (Mark Pearl)
• Mapping and Auto-Mapping Objects (Elton Stoneman)
• Graphite with .Net and Ubuntu 11.10 (Henrik Feldt)
• Sandcastle Help File Bbuilder v1.9.3.3 Beta 1 (VS2010 Support) (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 10 – Running a JavaScript Map/Reduce Job from Interactive JavaScript Console (Avkash Chauhan)
• HTML5 Progress Bars (Chris Coyier)
• ASP.NET Tutorial – Creating Web.Config file (Chris D.)
• Introduction to Column Hiding in jQuery igGrid (Jordan Tsankov)
• CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 1 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• CSS Selector Profiler, Source Mapping and Software Rendering (Peter Beverloo)
• Checking if a view has changed in ASP.NET (Tim)
• APIs in 2012: Predictions From the Experts (Adam DuVander)
• Day 11 – Animating with sprite sheets (Val Head)
• Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 4 (Dan Wellman)
• Batman.js: Micro-framework with macro features (Dave Mahon)
• IE9 not rendering box-shadow Elements inside of Table Cells (Rick Strahl)
• Do you need to worry about the cookie crisis? (Paul Boag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Automating PHPUnit Tests in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• The Value is in the Change (J.D. Meier)
• Out of context, architecture is nothing but modern art (Oren Eini)
• Testing Rendered Output of NancyFx with the Razor View Engine Gotchas (Bobby Johnson)
• More flexibility at work equals better health, new study confirms (Jessica Stillman)
• Formula for project success (Jimmy Bogard)
• Management Myth, Myth of 100% Utilitization Posted (Johanna Rothman)
• Donald Reifer: “Software Change Management: Doing More With Less” (Devon Musgrave)
• xUnit.net 1.9 (CodePlex)
• Interview: Jeff Sutherland: Are Agile Teams Truly Agile? (Jeff Sutherland)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to launch Call Task from Secondary Tile in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Running Windows Phone Unit Tests via MSBuild (Francis Cheung)
• WPF TextBox With Ellipsis (Mark)
• 2000 WPF Things #465 – Using GridSplitters with Nested Grids (Sean Sexton)
• Vibrating the phone (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 5 Security: Designed for the Intranet (Jonathan Allen)
• Seven Silverlight snippets you can not live without (Loek van den Ouweland)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C++ and Beyond 2011: Scott, Andrei and Herb – Ask Us Anything (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #156: Persistence, for Realsies (James Shore)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 35 (Richard Hay)
• The Vergecast 008 – 01.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hot Apps: Minesweeper, Cheezia. Interior Design, Talking Alien, Zombie Squish (Laura Foy)
• The GeekDads Episode #106: Skylanders Farming (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 3rd, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Maine’s First SharePoint User Group (Jim O’Neil)
• Engadget’s 2012 CES Preview (Engadget staff)

Database

• CSV to SQL Server Compact scripting utility (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Understanding Identity Beyond its Every Increasing Nature – Quiz – Puzzle – 3 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment service released (Denis Gobo)
• Embracing RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Notes on Scalability (Jeremiah Peschka)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft patent could signal Xbox digital video recorder (Greg Lamm)
• Metro Style Desktop Wallpaper Calendar – January 2012 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Cropping screenshots in OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
• Learn to Code in 2012 with Free Weekly Programming Lessons from Codecademy [Programming] (Melanie Pinola)
• UX service consulting: It’s all about motivation! (Miao Wang)
• 5 Awesome Learning Resources For Programmers (To help you and your kids to grow the geek neurons) (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Holo Everywhere (Tim Bray)
• Windows Phone partners bet $100M on Nokia Ace (Ed Oswald)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #788 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 04/01/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 1/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1014 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 01/03/2012 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 03, 2011 – #0021 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Oracle Database 11g The Complete Reference (Oracle Press) by Kevin Loney

• Stack Exchange API V2.0 Public Beta (Kevin Montrose)
• GUI REPL for Roslyn (Chris Sells)
• Windows Phone Marketplace Has Reached 50,000 Apps (Antonio Hernandez)
• Charlie Kindel, ex-Microsoft, posts thoughts on Windows Phone’s successes and failures (Chris Ziegler)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Five (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Cancelling Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
• Renaming Project Files in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Integrating Red Gate SmartAssembly Into TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
• VSColorOutput – Visual Studio Output Coloring Extension (Think "Adding color to the Build/Debug Output window text") and Virtual Postcard with Kinect and The Android Eye for the .Net Guy… The Android for .NET Developers Series by Dino Esposito (Greg Duncan)
• StyleCop 4.7.0.0. is out (Tatworth)
• Extending Unity (Robert May)
• Features Nuget Would Benefit From (Paul Stack)
• Why is the file size reported incorrectly for files that are still being written to? and Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Dragging out (Raymond Chen)
• Yield Operator Fun (Sebastian Dau)
• ReSharper 6.1: Improvements in IntelliSense Options (Hadi Hariri)
• TPL – Continuation (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

• Control level request validation in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• Deploying a simple ASP.NET MVC 3 to Azure with SQL Server Compact (Al Pascual)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.41 (CodePlex)
• Get Value of CSS Rotation through JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
• Working with the JavaScript “this” Keyword (Dan Wahlin)
• CSS3 Images Pre-Last Call WD Published (Elika J. Etemad)
• Little HTML5 Round-up (Greg Duncan)
• CSS3 Lightbox (Manoela Ilic)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Field and Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Microsoft helps extend JavaScript (Sara Allison)
• Performance testing with Selenium and javascript (JP Castro)
• Packaging a JavaScript Library with Nuget (Sumit Maitra)
• Microsoft Developers finally get a .NET Framework for HTML5 Mobile Applications (Webgui)
• Binding And Handling JSON Field In jQuery Repeater and 30 Minutes To Grasp ASP. NET jQuery Repeater and Using jQuery Repeater to Mark a Multi-line EMail Message As Spam and Show Progress (zoyobar)
• Day 2 – GPU accelerate your DOM elements (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Windows Azure Trial Account Spending Limit and The New, Improved No-Risk Windows Azure Trial (Jim O’Neil)
• Knockout.js Observable Extensions (Josh Bush)
• Orchard Hands-On Lab available (Greg Duncan)
• Making the First Letter Stand Out (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Introducing filer.js (Eric Bidelman)
• Deployment of Applications with Infragistics Reporting in Windows Azure (Mihail Mateev)
• knockoutjs: Uncaught Error: ko.applyBindings: first parameter should be your view model; second parameter should be a DOM node (Alexander Zeitler)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0.1 Beta (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Automating Docco Generation And Deployment To Heroku And Github and The Responsibilities Of The Various Pieces Of Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
• First Experience Building Something With Clojure (Gareth Rushgrove)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today (Joel Semeniuk)
• Introduction to bddify and Method name conventions in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
• NOT Doing Scrum – Back to the Basics and Teams Over Processes – Don’t Be Insane (Peter Saddington)
• Example of Self-documenting Unit Test with Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
• Introducing the for-if anti-pattern (Raymond Chen)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 20: Refactoring a Monster Test, Part 2 and 31 Days of Testing—Day 21: Data Driving Your Functional Tests (Jim Holmes)
• Sample XPath utility for Coded UI Test (Gautam Goenka)
• How-To: Returning a Class By Value with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Expanding your horizons: Actions (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Testing Windows Phone 7 Apps with Typemock (Avi Kaye)
• Silverlight & XNA – A Tale of Two Cities (Simon Jackson)
• Adding the “Pinch-to-zoom” feature to your pictures with RadSlideView for Windows Phone (Georgi Atanasov)
• 23 skins and counting with v1.1 of the Windows Phone 7.1(5) Emulator Skin Switcher and Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.5.0 Now Available… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #2 – Installing PhoneGap and Getting Started (Senthil Kumar)
• Book Review: Fun with Silverlight 4 authored by Rajesh Lal (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Real World Windows Phone Dev Part 4: The Panorama (Matt Hidinger)
• Adding an Easter Egg to your WP7 Application (Michael Crump)
• My Top Frameworks for Windows Phone Development (Pieter de Rycke)
• 2000 WPF Things #458 – Properties to Set When Using a Horizontal or Vertical GridSplitter and #459 – Using Two (or More) GridSplitter Elements in the Same Grid and #460 – A GridSplitter Can Share a Cell with Another Control (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Final notes before the beta and Addition to the Coding4Fun Toolkit – MetroFlow (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Caliburn.Micro: RadTransitionControl custom convention (Mikael Koskinen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steve McConnell Studies Development Practices and The Tablet Show – Richard Griffin Programs in WinJS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Simon Peyton-Jones and John Hughes – It’s Raining Haskell and YOW! 2011: Martin Thompson – On Concurrent Programming and Concurrency Folklore and GoingNative 5: Inside the Visual C++ IDE, Meet Raul Pérez (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 189: Paul Litwin and Suzanna Moran on Geeks Giving Back (David Giard)
• What The Tech 99: Wishlists and Predictions For 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
• Gillmor Gang Live 12.28.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 118 – 12.26.2011 and Engadget HD Podcast 280 – 12.27.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Let’s Play TDD #154: Save and Cancel… Done! (James Shore)
• Gweek 032: Bitter Seeds and the Game of Go (Mark Frauenfelder)

Community / Events

• Changes, changes, changes and CodeMash 2.0.1.2 (Ted Neward)
• Webinar: Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• OSS and .NET Year In Review 2011 (Phil Haack)
• Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators (Kinect for Windows Team)

Database

• Dynamic Sorting in SSRS (Unknown Author)
• SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: 15138 – The database principal owns a schema in the database, and cannot be dropped and SQL SERVER – Target Recovery Time of a Database – Advance Option in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Effect of Compressed Backup Setting at Server Level on Database Backup (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Auditing: Creating a Database Specification (SQLArcher)
• Free O’Reilly eBook "Oracle Essentials, 4th Edition" (Tatworth)
• Case Sensitive search with SQL (koolprasad2003)
• Performance Impacts of Unicode, Equals vs LIKE, and Partially Filled Fixed Width (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
• Why Management Studio forces you to know SQL (Gian Maria Ricci)

SharePoint

• Three Degrees of the SharePoint Community Challenge (Joel Oleson)
• Understanding Business Connectivity Services (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• 10 New Year’s Resolutions Every Web Developer Should Make (Andrew Burgess)
• Here are three Ruby functions… (Brian Marick)
• Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone? (Chris Velazco)
• The Case For Developer Platforms (James Yu)
• Moving to the Cloud Part 2: Mostly Sunny (Chris Sells)
• Preliminary Internet Explorer 11 and Internet Explorer 12 Release Dates (Vygantas)
• Windows 8 Slate Review (Jeremy Likness)
• iOS Rich Text Editing : Sample Project (Josh Garnham)
• Learning Android: WebView character encoding (Mark Needham)
• How Microsoft Can Fix Windows 8 in 2012 and Kindel: Yes, Windows Phone is Superior, But Here’s Why It’s Not Selling (Paul Thurrott)
• So, just what IS the problem with Windows Phone? (Kip Kniskern)
• My next year TOP5 wishlist for Windows media, WP7 and XBox teams in Microsoft (Gunnar Peipman)
• Results of the reverse engineering poll – people do it, whether you want it or not (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 26, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 27, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 12.20 ~ 12.28 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – #0016 and Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – 2 – #0017 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #781 and Double Shot #782 and Double Shot #783 (Mike Gunderloy)
• 2011 Yearly Link Roundup (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Daily News Digest 12/27/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 22-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #1010 (Chris Alcock)
• Backbone Fundamentals, Three.js Boilerplate, zoom.js and Node Roundup: Clarinet, Sandbox, actionHero and jQuery Roundup: jQuery-inlog, -prefix-free, jquery.animate-enhanced (Alex Young)
• Daily WP7 Development News 28 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Recently in Web Development (December Edition) (Siddharth)
• MVP Mondays: Popular Posts from 2011 (MVP Award Program)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training) by Jeremy Osborn

• 31 Days of Mango | Day #11: Live Tiles (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Source (Derik Whittaker)
• A C# Reading List (Eric Lippert)
• HTML5 Player Framework 1.0 (CodePlex)
• An Introduction to Semantic Zoom in Windows 8 Metro (Colin Eberhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Docking External Document Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer Part 2: A Larson Scanner with Button, Potentiometer and Progress Display (Pete Brown)
• Entity Framework’s CodeFirst Automatically Generates Foreign Keys For you (Peter Kellner)
• How can I tell whether a DLL has been registered? (Raymond Chen)
• Dynamically creating a Generic Type at Runtime (Rick Strahl)
• Debugging .NET code called from X++ code in AX 2012 (Satya Srikant Mantha)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0–Status, Website and Future (Eric J. Smith)
• NetAdvantage 2011.2 – Available Immediately! (Jason Beres)
• MSBuild Extension Pack November 2011 Release (Mike Fourie)
• Extensions for Reactive Extensions (Rxx) v1.2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• JavaScript Create User Wizard for ASP.NET (S V Saichandra)
• JavaScript does not need classes (Axel Rauschmayer)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Python and AWS Cookbook – $6.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Want to Metro a web site? Check out the [mostly]free Metro Dynamis Web framework (Greg Duncan)
• Securing Your WordPress Website (Daniel Pataki)
• datajs version 1.0.2 released (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• New series book – Service Design Patterns (Martin Fowler)
• Jasmine-BDD: A Screencast On The Standalone Test Runner (Derick Bailey)
• 3 Keys to Agile Results (JD Meier)
• People, NOT Technology (Peter Saddington)
• Tech Leads will Rule the World (Andy Singleton)
• Innovative Navigation Techniques to Save You Header Space (Anthony)
• What Win8 Should Learn from Windows Phone (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What Good is a Pig? (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Sound vs. Valid Argument (Mark Pearl)
• Redesigning The Country Selector (Christian Holst)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: The kind of bug you don’t want to discover (Peter Kuhn)
• Blend 5 and Visual Studio 11 feedback – The Future of Windows 8 Development (Benjamin Laffont)
• WP7 app update and NeutralResourcesLanguage (Andreas Hammar)
• The Death of Flash and Silverlight (Chris Love)
• Code to disable hardware Back Button in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Reformatting All .xaml Files in Visual Studio Solution (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• Build Dependencies and Silverlight 4 (Kyle Burns)
• Toolset agnostic build server and Silverlight projects (Marko Apfel)
• WP7Contrib – FindaPad and the fastest list in the west (Rich Griffin)
• Inside Windows Phone Apps – Fandango (Sara Allison)
• 2000 WPF Things #428 – Setting Other Layout Properties from Within Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Styling Windows Phone Silverlight Applications (Tim Murphy)
• Upgrading your charting experience using XamDataChart (Kiril Matev)
• Those Darn Gray Box’s (David Kelley)
• Introduction to Infragistics Reporting (Mihail Mateev)
• CODE Framework v4.0.11110.0 (CodePlex)
• Building Microsoft Exchange client for Windows Phone – part 3/3 – displaying the data in Metro UI (Valentin Stoychev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SPLASH 2011: Dave Thomas – On Modern Application Development and Asynchronous Programming for C++ Developers: PPL Tasks and Windows 8 (Charles Torre)
• Video on How to work with Page Navigation and Back Button in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Microsoft: The Art of Touch (Steve Clayton)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: DevExpress CodeRush (Robert Green)
• When adding or changing elements on your site, test everything. (Paul Boag)
• Make: Live Ultimate Kit Episode 11/9/11 (video) (Matt Richardson)
• Nokia stores retail experience: Coming Soon! (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Exploring the Ocean in Our Brains with Jaron Lanier (MS JobsBlog)
• Training – US, Europe, and now Virtual! (Udi Dahan)
• Windows Phone Inner Circle–Try out the new Windows Phones (Bob Familiar)
• Upcoming SilverlightShow Webinar: Unit Testing for Windows Phone (Silverlight Show)
• RIT Game Camp–December 2-4 (Jim O’Neil)
• Global Day of Coderetreat in Indianapolis (Aaron Lerch)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Licensing and Hardware Considerations (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle to Win Print Book – Functions FIRST_VALUE and LAST_VALUE with OVER clause and ORDER BY (Pinal Dave)
• Book Review: Microsoft SQLServer 2008 R2 Master Data Services (Shane Willerton)
• Researching NoSQL Is No Different Than The Early RDBMS Market (Rob Diana)
• SQL Azure: REBUILD All Indexes in Database – Alternative to DBCC DBREINDEX (Chris Pietschmann)
• Stored Procedure Checklist (Jack Vamvas)
• Using Windows Azure Cmdlets to Delete old Windows Azure Diagnostics log from Windows Azure Storage (Avkash Chauhan)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Thoughts (Tim Murphy)

PowerShell

• The PowerShell Pay-it-Forward Award (Lee Holmes)
• Robocopy and PowerShell [Insert standard and very old, "two great tastes..." line here] (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Exclusive: Nokia, AT&T collaborating on Lumia 800 with LTE (Chris Ziegler)
• Xbox 360 Fall 2011 Dashboard update now available to beta testers, Xbox.com updated (damaster)
• Android – New Layout Widgets: Space and GridLayout (Tim Bray)
• View HTML Source of Email in GMail and Google Apps (Steve Smith)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 11 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #979 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #749 and Double Shot #750 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/10/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 10 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis

• Review: Microsoft Touch Mouse for Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft to focus on HTML5 and JavaScript for Office 15 development (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google’s “What’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander” patent whining (Steven Hodson)
• Microsoft Tweets Out An Email Showing It Tried To Work With Google On Buying Patents (MSFT, GOOG, AAPL) (Jay Yarow)
• Microsoft Research’s .NET Gadgeteer steps out into the light, shoots daggers at Arduino (video) (Joseph Volpe)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio QuickWatch (Richard Carr)
• C#: DateTime to Midnight datetime (Raghav Khunger)
• Announcing the August 2011 Release of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and NOW AVAILABLE: August 2011 Update of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (Windows Azure Team)
• The Time is Now to Try JustTrace (Chris Eargle)
• A .NET generic limitation (Patrick Smacchia)
• RavenDB Session Management with NServiceBus (Oren Eini)
• Visual Basic Sudoku Solver and Generator (ZiggyG)

Web Development

• Building Mobile JavaScript WebApps With Backbone.js & jQuery: Part I (Addy Osmani)
• Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–Revealing Prototype Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
• HTML5 Part 3: Audio and Video (Jennifer Marsman)
• PHP Static Analysis Tool Usage (Lorna Wilson)
• Dive into the summer with MSDN: HTML5 (Katrien de Graeve)
• Assetic: JavaScript and CSS files management (Giorgio Sironi)
• You can’t build a quality website in a factory (Paul Boag)
• Announcing Windows Azure Storage Analytics (Windows Azure Storage Team)
• Backbone: Don’t Route What Should Be A Command Or Event and Stop Using Backbone As If It Were A Stateless Web Server (Derick Bailey)
• Google App Engine Builds Steam, Updates Datastores and Task Queues (Romin Irani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Take Advantage Of Your BDD Framework (Davy Brion)
• Tim Kropp on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
• Algorithmically Estimating Developer Time (Peter Saddington)
• Building Android projects with Jenkins, Ant and Mercurial (Mendelt Siebenga)
• Message-Oriented Architecture is a Misleading Term (Peter Ritchie)
• Getting version numbers and names right is hard (Matt Lacey)
• The forgotten control flow construct (Joh)
• Where is the greatest friction? (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• The War Between Developers, Designers and Project Managers (Joey deVilla)
• Choosing the Correct CI Tool (Paul Stack)
• New Manager, New Product Owner, Too Much Work (Johanna Rothman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): [Column] attribute and 7 Mistakes Developers make when implementing Windows Phone Custom Controls (Windows Phone Geek)
• Understanding NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch – Dealing with Charts (Part 1) (Mihail Mateev)
• Know your cookies (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 7 Feature Requests (Daniel Egan)
• Adding a system-wide keyboard hook to your WPF Application (LearnWPF)
• Using the “Copy Xaml” feature in Expression Design to create HTML5 SVG Path Data. (Michael Crump)
• Working with animations on the Windows Phone (Surf4Fun)
• 2000 WPF Things #357 – RadioButton is a ContentControl (Sean Sexton)
• Summer Fun in the Mango Sun… Sample Data, Locations and Accelerometer (Greg Duncan)
• Simple Tips: Application Image Processing (Deborah Hanamura)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cristian Libardo Builds a CMS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SE Podcast #14 (Alex Miller)
• Interview: Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Hot Apps: Words By Post, Fractal Graphics, ScriptTD, Drynks, Penguin (Laura Foy)
• MVP Talks Hyper-V in Taiwan (Lonnie Webb)
• The GeekDads Episode #97: A Whole New World Behind the Grotto (Ken Denmead)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #55: Kinecting with the Cosmos with Jonathan Fay, Dr. Mark SubbaRao & Michelle Yehling (Part 2) (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Coding4Fun Kinect Turret (Greg Duncan)
• Rob Relyea: Kinect SDK Beta 1 Refresh is live (Dan Fernandez)
• Look who’s talking: Speech in Mango (Bill Pardi)

Community / Events

• Upcoming FubuMVC Webinar Series and FubuMVC Webinar: F101 – Behaviors, Configuration, and Runtime (Josh Arnold)
• HTML5 and IE workshop by the water, powered by Microsoft Webcafe – 25th August 2011 in Brussels (Katrien de Graeve)
• August Silverlight Giveaway by Telerik and First Floor Software! (Michael Crump)
• The First Day of School (Mike Desmond)

Database

• SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: Get T-SQL query metadata without executing it (Jakub Dvorak)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Efficient Query Writing Strategy – Day 4 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – T-SQL – Comparing table data/structure using UNION, EXCEPT and INTERSECT (Vishal)
• SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY function (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Managing Large Lists in SharePoint for Users and Site Admins (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Two New Free Xbox Live Games Next Week (August 10th) – Sudoku & Minesweeper (Hyde13)
• Developer interest in Android increases, approaches iOS (Joe Wilcox)
• Powershell to HTML (Jack Vamvas)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 3, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Geek Reading August 3, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (8/3/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #909 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Azure Platform (Patterns & Practices) by Eugenio Pace

• Code First Migrations: Walkthrough of August 2011 CTP (Rowan Miller)
• Another Helping of Mango for Devs (Cliff Simpkins)
• Node.js on Windows (or JavaScript for the backend) (Christopher Bennage)
• Request for Comments: Issues with .NET and Microsoft Product Versioning (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Speech Recognition (Richard Carr)
• Getting Started with igDataSource and WCF and Getting Started with igGrid, OData, and WCF Data Services (Aaron Marisi)
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Default Parameters are Compile-Time Substitutions (James Michael Hare)
• Interactive Extensions for LINQ to Objects (Jonathan Allen)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part V (Luca Bolognese)
• Entity Framework Code First Migrations: Alpha – NuGet Package of the Week #10 (Scott Hanselman)
• Start an application on boot with Mono for Android #Android #monodroid (Wally McClure)
• Stephen Toub says, "I’ve got your Samples for Parallel Programming with the .NET… right here…" and Can the Kinect "know" what you are doing? and Media Player I NUI you well… (Greg Duncan)
• Working with the Master Category List–EWS edition (Henning Krause)
• Code First Migrations: August 2011 CTP Released (EF Team)
• Entity Framework v4.1 update 1, the Kill-The-Tool-Eco-system version (Frans Bouma)
• Preprocessor? .NET don’t need no stinkin’ preprocessor! [DebugEx.Assert provides meaningful assertion failure messages automagically!] (David Anson)
• Now Available: The June CTP of Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus REST API from Java, PHP (Alessandro Catorcini)
• Node.cs (Oren Eini)
• Do you know how to upgrade a process template but still keep your data intact? (Martin Hinshelwood)

Web Development

• Book Reivew: JavaScript Enlightenment (Elijah Manor)
• HTML5 Drag and Drop in IE10 PPB2 (Sharon Newman)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Inline Class (Giorgio Sironi)
• OOP JavaScript: Accessing Public Methods in Private Methods and PHP Strings: How to Get the Extension of a File (Stoimen Popov)
• HTML 5: Add an audio player to your webpage for Free! (Surf4Fun)
• ECMAScript.next: Array.from() and Array.of() (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Shortening URLs from PHP with Bit.ly (Lorna Wilson)
• YUI 3.4.0 Preview Release 3 Now Available on CDN (George Puckett)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP 4 released (Maarten Balliauw)
• Future Orchard Part 2: more Tokens (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: FrequencyReducesDifficulty (Martin Fowler)
• A Survival Guide for New Agile Coaches – Believe in It (Dave Rooney)
• How not to do TDD (Roy Osherove)
• How Rigid is Scrum? (Vikas Hazrati)
• How to fix Subversion merge (Jimmy Bogard)
• Architecture of Tankster– Scale (Part 2) (Nathan Totten)
• Macto: And it goes on your permanent record, too! (Oren Eini)
• Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster with Unified Text Fields (Anthony)
• Where the Focus Goes (JD Meier)
• Khan Exercise Rewrite (John Resig)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM in real life Windows Phone applications Part2 and Using Sockets in WP 7.1 (Mango Beta 2) (Windows Phone Geek)
• Creating an application like Google Desktop in WPF and C# (Chris P.)
• Announcing NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch (Jason Beres)
• Custom accelerometer motions for the Windows Phone emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Hosting a Windows Forms control inside a WPF and Difference between a UserControl and a CustomControl and Accessing local assemblies in XAML (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Replaceable resources in Silverlight (John Rayner)
• My eBook and articles series on OData for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 is complete. (Michael Crump)
• Posting Twitter Status Update from Windows Phone (Nick)
• WP7Contrib – Bing Service Wrapper Part II – Route (Richard Griffin)
• LightSwitch Farm: A Story In The Not So Distant Future (Michael Washington)
• Page State–Step by Step (Jesse Liberty)
• Using XamTimeline and XamDataChart to build an annotated view of your time-series data (Kiril Matev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Pete Brown Has Fun With Silverlight and More! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GoingNative 0: Help us fly this plane, Some modern C++, Meet Ale Contenti and Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis: Introducing Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference (Charles Torre)
• SE Podcast #13 (Alex Miller)
• Interview: Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Engadget Show – 023: We tour a headphone factory, talk record labels, and look at They Might Be Giants’ favorite gadgets (Brian Heater)
• ScriptTD: So You Want To Build a Tower Defense Game? and Defrag: 3TB limit, Forced Shutdowns, Optimizing Win7 for Netbooks (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Tentacles, Birds & Beaks, Who’s Near Me, Pin To Start, Executive Caddie (Laura Foy)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Eric Boyd Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Let’s Play TDD #127: Yearly Spending Field (James Shore)

Community / Events

• Andre Artis: Influencing the next generation of Black Technologists (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Speaking engagement: Progressive .NET, London, September 7th (Jon Skeet)
• Want to Improve/Change Your Career? Get Hooked up in the Community! (Jim Holmes)
• What’s in your laptop bag? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• What’s In Your Laptop Bag? and Progressive .NET Tutorials–London Sept 5-7 (Jesse Liberty)
• What’s restricting the expansion of telework? (Jessica Stillman)

Database

• SQL Server does not script indexes by default (James Serra)
• SQL Server: Top 10 Cached Queries and SQL Server: Behavioral Change in Union Operator (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Latest expressor Data Integration Platform Posts and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Guest Post by Nakul Vachhrajani – Day 28 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Guest Post by Feodor Georgiev – Day 29 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Injection Pocket Reference for MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle (Denis Gobo)
• Lookup functions in SSRS 2008 R2 – II (Vinay Pugalia)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – Analytic Functions – LAG() and LEAD() (Vishal)
• T-SQL refactoring (Jakub Dvorak)

SharePoint

• My Experience Upgrading SharePoint with FAB 40 (Joel Oleson)
• WCF to the rescue: Fixing bad performing BDC connectors in SharePoint (Mark Kendall)

Miscellaneous

• The Technology Hype Cycle and why you should bet your Software Career on the Cloud (Frank Kelly)
• Mango Build 7712 for Developers: What’s New? (Antonio Hernandez)
• OneNote Spy (omspy) for OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
• Java SE Goes to 7 (Oracle Tech Net)
• How to connect to a Wireless WIFI Network from the Command line in Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Android: New Tools For Managing Screen Sizes (Tim Bray)
• Just Announced: Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS Now Supports Access Control Service, Includes Cloud Ready Packages (Windows Azure Team)
• Dilbert’s Scott Adams accepts the Windows Phone Challenge (Doug Holland)
• Updated build of Windows Phone “Mango” now supports music streaming from SkyDrive (damaster)
• Windows Phone: The one where sharing photos via SkyDrive…doesn’t (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone 7 Mango Build 7712 Observations (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 27, 2011 and Interesting Finds: July 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – July 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily Links 28/07/2011 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #904 and The Morning Brew #905 (Chris Alcock)
• Link dump for July 28th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 07/28/2011 and Daily News Digest 07/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 26-Jul-2011 and 27-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Today’s Links (7/27/2011) and Today’s Links (7/28/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 27 July 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 28 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for July 27, 2011 — #1121 and Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2011 — #1122 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Head First Android Development by Jonathan Simon

• Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ 2011 is Available Today (Jason Zander)
• ScriptTD: Tower Defense Made Easy (Clint Rutkas)
• WP7: Developers to get Mango RTM before release [Update: Its true!] (Owen Williams)
• Nobody’s Going to Help You, and That’s Awesome (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• This is my Favorite… VS 2010 Favorites Menu Extension and NUI for PowerPoint (Greg Duncan)
• Add Automatic Exception Reporting To Your .Net Software – Allow End-Users To Report Bugs Easily (G. Himangi)
• Order in Chaos: .NET Collections (Arik Poznanski)
• Refactoring and Profiling Python with Visual Studio (Jonathan Allen)

Web Development

• Sueetie Activity Popup Notification jQuery Coexistence (Dave Burke)
• Profiling ASP.NET website in Visual Studio with Performance Wizard (Zubair Ahmed)
• Merge sorting in JavaScript (Jef Claes)
• Handlers – A useful FubuMVC Convention (Josh Arnold)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Hide Delegate (Giorgio Sironi)
• Google App Engine Gets Support for Go (Abel Avram)
• Windows Azure is still a science project *sad face* (Scott Barnes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Publishers and 5 Characteristics of the Innovation Personae (Peter Saddington)
• TeamCity – When 1 build agent just isn’t enough (Doug Rathbone)
• Macto: Once more from the top, I swear I had a few more over there (Oren Eini)
• Automated UI Testing – Part 1 – WatiN (Paul Stack)
• A Good Guide for Proper Programming – “The Principles of Good Programming” (Greg Duncan)
• Software Architecture: Quality Attributes (Todd Merritt)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Coding4Fun Toolkit with 2 new Tile controls and 1 new property helper! (Windows Phone Geek)
• Infragistics Debuts NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch (Infragistics News)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch availability (Somasegar)
• Using XamRibbon ButtonTool in MVVM applications (Ivo Evtimov)
• Drawing objects in Expression Blend (Alex Mukora)
• Windows Phone Toolkit–Date and Time Pickers and Windows Phone Fast Application Switching–Don’t Panic! (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone “Mango” – Released to Manufacturing (Terry Myerson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Work Around LINQ to DataSet Limitations in Visual Basic Device Projects? (MS Podcasts)
• C9 Lectures: Greg Meredith – Monadic Design Patterns for the Web 4 of n (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #126: Following Patterns (James Shore)
• Pluralcast 47 : MSBuild with David Starr (Matt Milner)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #54: Kinecting with the Cosmos with Jonathon Fay, Dr. Mark SubbaRao & Michelle Yehling (Part 1) (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Blind Ambition–an ImagineCup documentary (Dennis Delimarsky)

Community / Events

• Women in Technology (Krishna Kumar)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Guest Post by Rick Morelan – Day 27 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Slipstreaming of updates in Denali (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – End of Month using EOMONTH() (Vishal)
• Using database snapshots (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Profile synchronization guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Managing Visual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010 and How Do Get Solutions Files From Existing SharePoint Farm? (Joel Oleson)
• Office 365 Integration with SharePoint Intranet (Lightning Tools)
• SharePoint 2010 database maintenance whitepaper (Paul S. Randal)
• RTM’d today: MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Word Expert, Excel Expert, Access, and SharePoint Exams (Rosemary Caperton)
• Rapid Application Development Using InfoPath and BCS – Part 2 (Anweshi Deverasetty)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Camera Codec Pack (think “1.97 bazillion custom camera codec’s, one download”) + Windows Photo Gallery gets RAW (support) (Greg Duncan)
• Developer: Xbox Live Indie Games is not "a viable platform" (John Callaham)
• Console output with a transparent background color (Josh Poley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Android Development – $17.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDJ4E (O’Reilly Media)
• Updated for 2011 – McDonald’s WiFi Guide with updates for Mac OS X Lion and Windows 7 and How to write or burn a CD (CD-R) that includes CD-Text with ImgBurn (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 203 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Today’s Links (7/26/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #903 (Chris Alcock)
• SilverlightShow for July 18 – 24, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for July 26, 2011 — #1120 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight Cream Top 5 News for July 18-24, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 26 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily Links 26/07/2011 (Jax)
• Link dump for July 25th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 07/26/2011 and Daily News Digest 07/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 25-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Entity Framework 4 in Action by Stefano Mostarda

• Getting Started Using HTML5 Boilerplate (Dan Wahlin)
• Project Silk Drop 10 (Karl Shifflett)
• The Sterling NoSQL Database in a Mango World (Jeremy Likness)
• Fix the code, not the tooling (Oren Eini)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# Class Library Template (Carl Nolan)
• .NET and Distributed Concurrency (Alex Rønne Petersen)
• New Contexts in CodeRush 11.1 and New StringProviders in CodeRush 11.1 (Rory Becker)
• Here’s one for the developers – a trial offer for Windows Azure (Steven Hodson)
• Comicster Plug-Ins (Matt Hamilton)
• Professional Team Foundation Server 2010 – Review (Mike Fourie)

Web Development

• Filter and Display Data with ASP.NET MVC (Part 2)Partial Views and JQuery (Christian Nagel)
• Passing ASP.NET Session Variables to WCF Service (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Helpful Resources For Upgrading to Rails 3.1 (Jason Rudolph)
• Firefox 6: new features for developers (Axel Rauschmayer)
• New Release: SassAndCoffee 0.9 – now not glacially slow! (Paul Betts)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of REST APIs (George Reese)
• How to pin your site with IE9 on Windows (Andrew Spooner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Need Help Starting Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Test Track Pro and the case of the missing data (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Real life UX is still UX (Laurent Bugnion)
• The Importance of a Business Recovery Plan (K. Brian Kelley)
• Legacy code is not necessarily "ugly code" (Marco Tedone)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• AgFx makes writing data-heavy Windows Phone applications child’s play! (Rudi Grobler)
• Coding4Fun WP7 ColorHexagonPicker in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• Fetching Data from SQL Azure table in Windows 7.1 [Mango] Phone using WCF Data Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Working With Prism 4.0 (Hello World Sample with MVVM) and Step by Step Prism (Abhishek Sur)
• Achieving full motion body tracking with Kinect/WPF (Don Burnett)
• Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 1) (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 6 – Working with Navigation (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight games: Crayon Cannon still one of the best, but not for the reason you think (Surf4Fun)
• See Live Examples of LightSwitch In DotNetNuke and LightSwitch Tips Forum Has Been Launched (Michael Washington)
• WindowsPhoneMVP – Sending Events to the Presenter (Brendan Kowitz)
• Metro In Motion Part #6 – Rolling List Location Indicator (Colin Eberhardt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Think Like A Developer & Designer (Episode 05): Video (MS Podcasts)
• Technology & Friends Episode 159: Chander Dhal on SOLID (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 019 – “Live at XAPFest 2011” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 58 – Windows 8 Round Table (Richard Banks)

Database

• SQL SERVER – BI Quiz – Troubleshooting Cube Performance (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup starts and then disappears (Ted Krueger)
• Finding Duplicates – Interesting twist (Naomi Nosonovsky)
• Relating Master Data Services Hierarchies to Analysis Services Hierarchies (Melissa Coates)
• Column order can matter (Dave Ballantyne)
• Using Nightly Populated Tables For Faster SQL Queries (Andrew Zwicker)

SharePoint

• Office 365 and SharePoint Development Training (Paul J. Swider)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal/Day: App Inventor – Only $15.99 w/code DDVEN #Android (O’Reilly Media)
• Governance Might be the Most Misunderstood Term Consultants Use. (Paul J. Swider)
• The Future of Microprocessors—Must Read for Developers (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #866 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 05, 2011 — #1101 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 and CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Pragmatic Programmers) by Brian P. Hogan

• BUILDing a bright future (Somasegar)
• Previewing Windows 8 (MS News)
• Microsoft Buying Nokia’s Phone Business For $19 Billion — TWEET (MSFT, NOK) (Jay Yarow) – Nothing but a ‘baseless’ rumor, but still interesting.
• Caliburn.Micro v1.1 RTW (Rob Eisenberg)
• 4 Questions about Windows 8 (and a lot more) (Kip Kniskern)
• UNEDITED: My thoughts on Windows 8 announcements (Scott Barnes) – And be sure to check out Scott’s prophetic Tweet from last September.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Anatomy of an Automation for the Tfs Automation Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Murach Web Development Books Updated to 4 (Joe Stagner)
• Analyze Your Move to the Cloud and Windows Azure With MAP 6.0 Beta (Windows Azure Team)
• Faking DbContext (K. Scott Allen)
• What is next for the profilers? (Oren Eini)
• Internals of Array (Abhishek Sur)

Web Development

• JSON-P and MVC (Karsten Januszewski)
• Replacing the Animation Control Extender with jQuery Animations (Joe Stagner)
• How, When, And Why Script Loaders Are Appropriate (Alex Sexton)
• Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 3: Static Reflection (Chad Myers)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article:Testing Misconceptions (Liam O’Connor)
• Start All Your Meetings in Pole Position (John Sansom)
• Convention-based IOC is great … if everyone follows the conventions (John Rayner)
• ALM Practices Every Developer Should Know About (Dennis Doomen)
• PHPSpec: BDD for your classes (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Simple F# ViewModel for Silverlight MVVM (Don Syme)
• Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone Q2 BETA1 now available for download (Valentin Stoychev)
• Windows Phone 7 Mango: Expression Blend with 4 New Behaviors (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone emulator in Airplane Mode – unintentionally (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Installing Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1… no love from LightSwitch (James Johnson)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issues 13 and 14 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 3 – Know more about PhoneApplicationPage (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows 8: the lovechild of Windows Phone and Windows 7 (Tim Conneally)
• XamGrid – Implementing Custom Column Filtering UI (Nikolay Zhekov)
• TouchStudio – State Variables (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Understanding Common terms of Windows 7 Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Mango Samples (Arian Kulp)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 – Taking care of your data (Tina Wood)
• Video: Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks Presentation on LinkedIn (LIDNUG) (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• AppFabric.tv – Troubleshooting WCF Performance (Part 2) (Ron Jacobs)
• Coding QA Episode 56 – Localization and Globalization (Unknown Author)
• SE Podcast #06 (Alex Miller)
• The Engadget Show – 021: Joystiq’s Chris Grant and Justin McElroy, Babycastles, gadgets, gaming (Tim Stevens)
• Spaghetti Code – May 2011 (Jeff Brand)
• A Quick Look At "Windows 8" (Duncan Mackenzie & Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• BUILD with Windows 8 (Tim Heuer)
• Beer Camp Philly 2011 (Parker)
• National GiveCamp Dates Announced! (Chris Koenig)
• Microsoft: If we ‘Build’ a new developers conference, will they come? (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

• Do You Ever Physically Defragment Your SQL Server MDF & LDF Files? (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQL Server Locking and You! (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 VHD Available for Download (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Statistics are not Updated but are Created Once (Pinal Dave)
• Do you use schemas? would you like keyboard shortcuts in SSMS to work with them (Simon Sabin)
• Data Quality and Master Data Management with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 book available as a free download (Denis Gobo)
• Performance issues from wasted buffer pool memory (Paul S. Randal)
• Analysis Services 2008 R2 Operations Guide published (Chris Webb)
• Hiding the SQL Server sa Login (Richard Carr)

SharePoint

• Unleashing SharePoint 2010 for Records Management, Governance and Compliance (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• More Omnia 7 updates resume (Eric Hautala)
• Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky Introduces the New Look of Windows (Ina Fried)
• Oracle Donates OpenOffice.org To Apache: A Quick Analysis (Krishnan Subramanian)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Cassandra: The Definitive Guide – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDCSD (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows 8 (Paul Stovell)
• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Beta available for download (Ray C)
• Slinging windows with WinSplit Revolution (Russell Ball)
• Windows 8 (Steve Clayton)
• Introducing ViewPropertyAnimator (Tim Bray) – Android stuff.
• Some Thoughts on Windows 8 (Mike Hadlow)
• Stephen Elop Talks Microsoft and Windows Phone, Quickly Flashes Nokia WP7 Device (Video) (Hyde13)
• Windows Phone "Mango" concepts that never made the cut (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #864 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 06/02/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• 31-May-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News June 1st 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2011 — #1098 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf (Windows 8 Edition)

HTML5 24-Hour Trainer (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Joseph W. Lowery

• Windows Phone Marketplace on the Web for Mango (Todd Brix)
• Building a Cloud OS for .NET Developers – Part 1 (Michael Kennedy)
• OData Updates in Windows Phone “Mango” (Glenn Gailey)
• OAuth and REST in Android: Part 1 (John Sonmez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Adding your own local content to the new Visual Studio Help Library (Greg Duncan)
• My CLR via C#, 3rd Edition book is E-Book deal of the day on May 26, 2011 (Jeffrey Richter)
• Code Metrics – Maintainability Index (Zain Naboulsi)
• EntityLock, implement a logic locking strategy in my domain (Gian Maria Ricci)
• MadProps.AppArgs (Matt Hamilton)
• Develop Microsoft Surface apps. Without a Surface (Steve Clayton)

Web Development

• NetAdvantage jQuery Controls are Theme Roller Ready (Murtaza Abdeali)
• 50 Fresh jQuery Tutorials 2011 (Dong Nguyen)
• Bin Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 (Phil Haack)
• Taking The M out of MVC – JSON, The dynamic Keyword, LINQ (Karsten Januszewski)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Canvas – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM94 (O’Reilly Media)
• Globalization, Internationalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC 3, JavaScript and jQuery – Part 1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Enabling RSS Site-wide in Orchard (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Annoying.Js – One include, many irritated users… (Greg Duncan)
• Project Silk Documentation Drop: New Chapters Ready for Review (Karl Shifflett)
• Netflix + OData + datajs sample released (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.1 RC (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Boards from Sys Admin to Sales (Amr Elssamadisy)
• Why ‘Ok’ Buttons in Dialog Boxes Work Best on the Right (Anthony)
• Basic unit testing with Typemock Isolator (Avi Kaye)
• Domain Driven Design Architecture with .Net eBook Released (We’re talking 475 pages of DDD…) – "N-Layered Domain-Oriented Architecture Guide with .Net 4.0" (PDF, XPS, with ePub and Mobi coming soon) (Greg Duncan)
• Enable and Equip Your Product Owners (Peter Saddington)
• Code Kata : "Simple" Database Design (S. Lott)
• All wannabe software testers out there … (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Code Snippets for the Dispose Pattern (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Testing in the Cloud (Vikas Hazrati)
• Symptoms of a centralized VCS (Jimmy Bogard)
• Marissa Mayer: I Learn Most When I Do Things I’m Not Ready To Do (Julie Zeveloff)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Catel – Part 6 of n: Bing Maps application for WP7 (Geert van Horrik)
• Metro List View double line (ep. 2) – from PSD to HTML (Adam Kinney)
• How to install Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (Mango) and How to choose a Contact and get Contact details in a WP7 app (Windows Phone Geek)
• Blending XNA with Blender – "Blender 2.57b & XNA 4.0 Part I" (Greg Duncan)
• The Midweek Download: May 25th Edition–Windows Phone releases beta of “Mango” developer tools plus Windows Live Messenger, Office 365 and IE9 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Entity Framework 4.1 Code First, Silverlight, and Shared Models with REST+JSON (Jeremy Likness)
• Download Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• New Addition to Windows Phone Quickstarts- Pivot and Panorama Controls (Nitya Ravi)
• Why is a Y in the Windows Phone Mango Camera API (Rene Schulte)
• Unity 3D and Silverlight in Harmony with SLARToolkit’s Augmented Reality (Rene Schulte)
• Silverlight & XNA- A tale of two cities (Simon Jackson)
• Blinking UI with a CaretBrush (Pavan Podila)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta 7.1 Installation behavior (Senthil Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steve Smith Tells Performance Stories (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Agile 2010 – Johanna Rothman – Agile Program Management (Agile Toolkit)
• Let’s Play TDD #108: Wishing for First-Class Functions (James Shore)
• AppFabric.tv – Troubleshooting WCF Performance (Part 1) (Ron Jacobs)
• Inside the Mango Developer Tools: App Platform and Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Search and Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Communications and Hot Apps: Assassins Creed, Ninja Boy +, Burglar Alarm, Windows Phone News, Rhapsody (Laura Foy)
• New behind-the-scenes videos and more on Marketplace (Michael Stroh)

Community / Events

• Houston Code Camp – Call for Speakers (Ben Scheirman)
• Join me next week in Boston for SPTechCon! (Andrew Connell)
• Can an open-source backer thrive inside Microsoft? This one says no (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone Garage (PubSec)
• Moving on to Greener Pastures (Kevin Griffin)
• MVPs Share Deep Tech-Ed Experience (Lonnie Webb)

Database

• SSRS 2008 R2: How to dynamically size your INDICATORS (Patrick LeBlanc)
• SQL SERVER – Getting Columns Headers without Result Data – SET FMTONLY ON (Pinal Dave)
• Using Built-in System Functions – NEWID() and NEWSEQUENTIALID() (Vishal)
• The Ties that Bind Us….Community, People, Exceptional DBAs… (Robert Pearl)
• Bad T-SQL Song Lyrics or How My Music Playlists Torment Me By Reminding Me of So Many T-SQL Code Sins (Thomas LaRock)

SharePoint

• Using SharePoint List Data in Microsoft Expression Blend (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• Is Charles Petzold a guilty pleasure for you? (Devon Musgrave)
• Why Microsoft Is 3X Better Than Apple For Customer Support (AAPL, MSFT) (Mark Fidelman)
• Your tips for video conferencing interviews (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• My Phone might be coming back with the new web-based Windows Phone Marketplace? (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Find: May 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #860 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/25/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/26/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• SilverlightShow for May 16-22, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 25th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher