• Visual Studio 11 Programming Language Advances (Somasegar)
• Analyzing SQL Server Compact queries using Visual Studio 2010 Premium/Ultimate (Erik EJ)
• Microsoft Windows Simulator Touch Emulation (Mynor Ivan Muralles)
• The Sweet Spot of Multiple Monitor Productivity: That Magical Third Monitor (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Sizeof Keyword (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 11 ALM VM (Enrique Lima)
• Why NuGet for Visual Studio 2010 is so useful! (Harish Ranganathan)
• Code smell – LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… (Peter Gfader)
• TFS SDK Get Groups Users Permissions using TFS API with Linqpad (Tarun Arora)
• Initial Review of APress "Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming" – ISBN13: 978-1-4302-3530-9 (Tatworth)
• 3 Tips to Improve Your Connection Strings and Working with Lazy Loading in Entity Framework Code First (Steve Smith)
• Metro Controls – Jump Viewer (Rich Griffin)
• CTP Version of The Developers Guide to AppFabric (Alan Smith)
• Moving to Azure: The Plan and Start and Moving to Azure: The Database (Michael C. Neel)
• Parsing Concerns–Part 2 (Jesse Taber)
• Check Windows Azure Roles instance running in Emulator? and .NET 4 for Enterprise Architects and Developers by Sudhanshu Hate (Dhananjay Kumar)
• MSDN Magazine Article: Authoring an F#/C# VSIX Project Template (Daniel Mohl)

Web Development

• MVC 3 HandleError Attribute and AJAX Forms (Jimmy Larkin)
• Client-Side Hierarchical DataBinding to OData with RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX (Veli Pehlivanov)
• Getting started with Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview with ASP.NET MVC4 (Bart Czernicki)
• New F#/C# ASP.NET MVC 3 Template (Daniel Mohl)
• Json.NET 4.0 Release 3 (CodePlex)
• JavaScript Has Built-In Mix-ins With ‘apply’ Or ‘call’ (Derick Bailey)
• HTML5 Dev Conference Presentation: Dive into HTML5: SVG and Canvas (Doris Chen)
• Keep your layouts DRY with Rails and jQuery Mobile (Jacob Orshalick)
• First Review of ASP. NET MVC 4.0 Developer Preview (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Ninjecting MVC3 (Jef Claes)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Subclass with Fields (Giorgio Sironi)
• HTML For Babies: Give Your Toddler A Head Start (Richard Darell)
• JavaScript Reference group Dedicated Worker (Xinyang Qiu)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Planning and Managing Drupal Projects – $6.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• WebStorm/PhpStorm – New in 3.0: Xdebug profiler integration (Nikolay Matveev)
• What I learned from transferring my blog from WordPress to Orchard (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MiniTest::Spec setup with Capybara in Rails 3.1 (Jared Ning)
• New SPL Features in PHP 5.3 (Matthew Turland)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Retrospectives – A picture is worth a thousand words (Jag Reehal)
• Are Scrum Masters agents for change? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why you should be using CQRS almost everywhere… (Udi Dahan)
• Three reasons not to have your own private office and Ten Things Distributed Team Leaders Should Do (Roy Osherove)
• The Specialist (Rob Conery)
• Three Virtual Sticky Note Boards, all free (mostly) (Greg Duncan)
• Master of your domain (Eric Brechner)
• Sharpening the sword (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• A post about software craftmanship (stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before) (Christian Jacobsen)
• The Competition-Innovation Relationship We All Benefit From (Davy Brion)
• Creative Design Process (Stuart Mayhew)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• System Tray ProgressIndicator in Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Expression Blend 4 does not start after installing the NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview (Rich Griffin)
• 2000 WPF Things #399 – WrapPanel Will Change Layout of its Children as its Size Changes (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Online Conference–Beyond the tools (Andrew Spooner)
• Detecting if Zune is Connected From Your NoDo/Mango App and The Fastest Way to Switch Free/Paid and NoDo/Mango App Build in Visual Studio (Nokola)
• Expression Design September 2011 Preview now available (Pam Keesey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 176: Kevin Griffin on jQuery Mobile (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 036 – “Champagne and Mango” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 413: Gears Horde Mode tips, Spider-Man: Edge Of Time and NBA 2K12 (Larry Hyrb)
• Cloud Cover Episode 60 – Introducing the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
• Engadget Podcast 258 – 09.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Phone Radio 44 (Brian Seitz)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 24 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Weekly 228: The Train Dance (Paul Thurrott)
• This is my next Podcast 026 – 10.02.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 7: Web Standards in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• TWC9 September 30th 2011 (Clint Rutkas, Duncan Mackenzie & Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for September 12th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Speaking at DevReach 2011 (Steve Smith)
• Congratulations New and Re-Awarded MVP Awardees! (MVP Award Program)
• YUIConf 2011 Early Bird Registration Is Now Open (Jenny Donnelly)

Database

• SSIS Variable and Expressions Followup (Bradley Schacht)
• SQL SERVER – CE – Samples Database for SQL CE 4.0 and SQL SERVER – CE – List of Information_Schema System Tables and SQL SERVER – SQL Backup and FTP – A Quick and Handy Tool (Pinal Dave)
• Troubleshooting SQL Server: A guide for the Accidental DBA and SQL Server Deep Dives Volume 2 (Ted Krueger)
• How to find out which Table is not having rows in SQL Server? (Vinay Pugalia)
• Dataset with Text or Stored Procedure (Brian McDonald)
• Sneak peek at the new RavenDB Studio (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• What’s wrong with Microsoft ? (Joe Stagner)
• Practical Foundations for Programming Languages [Working Draft] free eBook – Think "586 pages of if I wanted to create a programming language I’d want to read this book…" or "It’s making my brain hurt… ouch.. ouCH… OUCH!" (Greg Duncan)
• The Weaknesses of Training Strategies for Programmers (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Sources of Insight is Available on the Kindle (JD Meier)
• I’m giving up Google Chromebook (Joe Wilcox)
• Microsoft’s deals with Nokia and Skype: are we waiting for Godot? (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Makes A Movie (Miguel Carrasco)
• Three Great Books for Lego Robotics and general Lego Motion Builders (Pete Brown)
• Paint.NET v3.5.9 is now available and A small bug in Paint.NET v3.5.9 with Ctrl+0 (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 1, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 1 , 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – October 2 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 25-September-2011 to 01-October-2011 and Monthly Summary – September 2011 – 26 Posts You May Want to Read (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Geek Reading September 30, 2011 and Geek Reading October 1, 2011 and Geek Reading October 2, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (September 30, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #950 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/30/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Retrospective 52 – Art of #Agile and Developer Mythbusters (Peter Saddington)
• Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2011 — #1153 and Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2011 – 2 — #1154 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #721 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 30th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Roger Jennings

• Biggest DotNetBar Release In Last 5 Years (Denis Basaric) – With Metro UI controls.
• Silverlight 5 RC now Available (Pete Brown)
• Strongly Typed Data Controls (ASP.NET vNext Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Reflecting on our first conversations (part 1) (Steven Sinofsky)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Synchronisation in Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
• Using Lucene.NET search engine library in .NET applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: An Oft Overlooked String Constructor (James Michael Hare)
• Using Power Tools Shell Extension with VS2008 (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Analytics, Leasing, and More: Extensions to the .NET Windows Azure Storage Library (Steve Marx)
• Making It More Functional (Chris Eargle)
• Now Available: Workflow Foundation Activity Pack for Windows Azure CTP 1 (AppFabric Team)
• GetFileFingerPrint method (AngelEyes)

Web Development

• Unit Testing a jQuery Plugin with CoffeeScript and Pavlov (Daniel Mohl)
• How to Navigate the HTML5 Video Maze (Nigel Parker)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: JavaScript Web Applications – $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD388 (O’Reilly Media)
• Currying versus partial application (with JavaScript code) (Axel Rauschmayer)
• The Importance (and Ease) of Minifying your CSS and JavaScript and Optimizing PNGs for your Blog or Website (Scott Hanselman)
• HTML 5: Canvas as a place to play (Surf4Fun)
• Dynamically set control visibility inside ItemTemplate’s of GridView using Bind Expression (Abhijit Jana)
• Tiered, Adaptive Front-end Experiences (Paul Irish)
• SassAndCoffee 1.1 Released (Paul Betts)
• Creating a quick Todo listing app on Windows using IIS7, Node.js and Mongodb (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• NodeJs on Windows & Azure round-up from the awesome Angel… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Azure Remote Desktop Connectivity for PHP Applications (Brian Swan)
• Uploading Stream in AZURE BLOB (Dhananjay Kumar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Stories from my experiences learning Scrum (Eric Sink)
• .NET Sample of Marrying CQRS, JS, and Http (Rinat Abdullin)
• A User, an Account and SaaS (Oren Eini)
• How to create a method stub in Rhino Mocks that performs nothing. (cdpcodingblog)
• Your Code is NOT Somebody Else’s Problem (Dan Ackerson)
• Balsamiq Mockups Tool (Gil Fink)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Convert in code as in XAML: how to get the XAML processor’s converter? (Jonathan Antoine)
• TripleDES cryptography on Silverlight and Windows Phone (Nicolas Humann)
• 3D Head Tracking with Kinect SDK & WPF (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight 5 RC Released – Using PInvoke and Silverlight 5 RC – Using the Task Parallel Library (TPL) (Jeremy Likness)
• MVVM light V3 installer for non-English systems (Laurent Bugnion)
• Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 RC (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #378 – Positioning Tooltips (Sean Sexton)
• Free GUI Isolated Storage Explorer Tool (Mike Ormond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) and How Do I: Document Compatibility Mode – Apache (MS Podcasts)
• C++ and Beyond 2011: Sean Gibb – C++ and Hardware, C++11, C++ Renaissance (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #135: File → New (James Shore)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 032 – “Tango and a Dirty Penny” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Campus Tours: Windows Accessibility Lab (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Sign up for a free Windows Phone Camp (Sara Allison)
• BUILD: Starting the BUILD series ! (Jeremy Alles)
• Xbox MVPs Come to Seattle to Play at PAX! (MVP Award Program)
• Speaking at North Dallas .NET Users Group (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Now I am a Telerik MVP (Most Valuable Professional) (Kunal Chowdhury)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Programming & Development For Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Shredding XML – Day 33 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• A Stored Procedure to Reseed Your Table To Its Largest Value (Michael Swart)
• "Intro to NoSQL" or "Noodling NoSQL" or "No NoSQL? Now know NoSQL…") (Greg Duncan)
• Indexing for Deletes (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** SharePoint & Windows Azure Developer Training Kit – Summer Update (Andrew Connell)
• How do I – Remove all traces of a Workflow from my SharePoint list? (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• RTM’d today: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-667): Configuring Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Karen Szall)
• A Dummies’ Guide to SharePoint and jQuery–A Real World Example (Mark Rackley)

Miscellaneous

• Reset PowerShell Runspace in PowerGUI Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• MSDN Magazine Web Site Gets a Makeover (Mike Desmond)
• Technical Talent Versus Team Dynamics (Robert May)
• Windows Phone apps magazine (David)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #929 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 09/01/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/02/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 31-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Today’s Links (9/1/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 1 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading September 1, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• T-SQL, SQL Administration Articles Link List – August 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Daily Links 01/09/2011 (Jax)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 1 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development (Pragmatic) by Trevor Burnham

• Detecting a Windows Phone physical drop – Part 2 – Detecting the fall (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Understanding “Prototypes” in JavaScript (Yehuda Katz)
• And we’re back… (Andy Wigley)
• Keyvan.TV’s Launch Date (Keyvan Nayyeri)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Manage disconnected team with TFS (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Documentation for WCF RIA Services Contrib Entity Tools (Colin Blair)
• Real-World F# Programming Articles on MSDN (Don Syme)
• VidCoder – Release v1.0.0 (CodePlex)
• JediBot and Your code as a cloud, word cloud that is… (Greg Duncan)
• Spring.NET Validation (Łukasz)
• Tip: Do not dispose objects multiple times (Arian Kulp)
• Windows Server AppFabric v1.1 CTP – Windows Server 2003 Distributed Cache Client (MS Downloads)
• Write Compact and Functional Code with BFsharp (Michael Mac)
• Error Inspection using Telerik Just Code (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Enums in the Entity Designer (Sarah McDevitt)
• Hybrid Reference Implementation Using BizTalk Server, Windows Azure & SQL Azure (Valery Mizonov)
• Validating Emails for System.Net.Mail (Steve Smith)

Web Development

• MVC Test Driven Development: Session Variables (Russell Aboobacker)
• The Backbone.js Todo List Refactored – Part 2: Being Reactionary (Rob Conery)
• PHP Strings: How to Get the Extension of a File (Stoimen Popov)
• node.js: Building a graph of build times using the Go API (Mark Needham)
• Creating a Simple CSS Animation (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Contemplating performant acceptance testing (Evan Light)
• Change your mind: your product is your team (Roy Osherove)
• Security is a Process, but Products are Products (Steve Tibbett)
• Lack of Software Engineers Bears Risks (Michael Stal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using the Windows Phone Isolated Storage Explorer tool (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPF Timeline Control – Part I (Danny Staten)
• Tethering Windows Phone 7 (David Kelley)
• Using Attribute Validation in Silverlight with WCF RIA Services Example (Jeremy Likness)
• 2 Good Reasons to update to the latest Mango Beta 2 Refresh Update (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Within Windows with Rafael Rivera (Scott Hanselman)
• Engadget Podcast 252 – 08.12.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Phone Radio – 38 (Brian Seitz)
• This is my next Podcast 019 – 08.12.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• TWC9: Coded UI Test, TFS Power Tools, Sudoku Webcam Solver (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Cloud Cover Episode 55 – Visual Studio LightSwitch with Jay Schmelzer (Wade Wegner)

Community / Events

• Ruby Programming 27th Batch: Registrations now open (Satish Talim)
• Achieving Nerdvana with Big Nerd Ranch (Paul Thurrott)
• Webcast: “Mango” Jump Start! Aug. 23-24! Pass it on… (Kim Spilker)
• Journey to SQL PASS Summit 2011 – Part 2 – Logistics (Luke Hayler)
• Free SQL Server Webcasts Coming Up (Brent Ozar)
• Author news: A call for Kinect authors (Devon Musgrave)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Challenge (G. Schwartz)

Database

• Gradually Deleting Data in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
• Updating the SSRS “Name” Property to Control CSV Column Headings (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Ranking Functions – Advanced NTILE in Detail – Day 13 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Generate SQL Azure Databases (Carl B. Anderson)
• Can You Dig It? – Researching Index Scans (Jason Strate)

Miscellaneous

• Ebook updates: Five titles updated in the past week (Devon Musgrave)
• Someone is selling my Foundations of Programming ebook on Amazon.com (and it isn’t me) (Karl Seguin)
• Windows 8 To Feature A Lot More MinWin Technology (Robert Boland)
• Allowing a Windows Service to Interact with Desktop without LocalSystem (Keith Dahlby)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 12, 2011 and Interesting Finds: August 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 115 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links (Senthil Kumar)
• Today’s Links (8/12/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 08/12/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 11-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Geek Reading August 12, 2011 and Geek Reading August 13, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Retrospective 45 – England Prevails + #Free Book (Peter Saddington)
• Link dump for August 12th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Entity Framework: Building Data Centric Apps with the ADO.NET Entity Framework by Julia Lerman

• 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

• MyGet now supports pushing from the command line (Maarten Balliauw)
• Atomicity, volatility and immutability are different, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Quality is in the eye of the customer (Eric Brechner)
• The mystery of Windows 8′s new ‘Protogon’ file system and Could E3 be Microsoft’s launch pad for Project ‘Orapa’? (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• “Not able to view the solution file in Visual Studio” – Hide and Show solution file in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• A Simple Windows Service Template for F# (Don Syme)
• Coded UI Test (CUIT) – Variations and Editing with Visual Studio 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
• What is the Tfs Automation Platform and What about hosting the Tfs Automation Platform and How might we implement the Change Iteration Automation for the Tfs Automation Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Change Visual Studio Compare Tool To WinMerge (Shai Raiten)
• Virtual properties – they’re just dumb (Kyle Szklenski)
• A Broker Pipeline Component for End-To-End Ordered Delivery (Paolo Salvatori)
• Performance of Non-Zero lower bound Single Dimensional Array (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 3 + Entity Framework + Infragistics jQuery Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Using the jQuery Template Plugin for Consistant User Notifications (Bobby Johnson)
• The Orchard CMS Gazette (Jason Gaylord)
• jQuery ASP.NET MVC Controls – Release: v1.4.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Content Update: New Guidance Available on Using SSL Certificates with Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP features Open Source Libraries (Bruce Kyle)
• Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 2: Extension Methods (Chad Myers)
• Record Visual Studio Web Test Using Fiddler (Steve Smith)
• Which .Net Web Framework? Let’s at least ask the question. (Jeremy Miller)
• Build Canvas-based Heatmaps with Heatmap.js (Rey Bango)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Derived Value (Giorgio Sironi)
• Start All Your Meetings in Pole Position (John Sansom)
• Mindmapping Today is About More Than a Visual Diagram (Chance Brown)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using Microsoft Expression Blend 4.0 to implement MVVM (Gildon Opao)
• IE9 for Windows Phone Mango in the Spotlight (Joe Marini)
• Where is RichTextBox in the Mango beta? (Jaime Rodriguez)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Create .NET Compact Framework controls with a Gradient Background? (MS Podcasts)
• .NET Rocks! – Stories from Tech Ed US! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 148 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Hester and Sarah Dutkiewicz (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint Implementation at United Airlines-Episode 61 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Let’s Play TDD #110: Create a Beautiful, Simple Result (James Shore)
• Hot Apps: Hydro Thunder GO, DNA Roulette, Easy Animator, Apple Bin, Grandma’s Secrets (Laura Foy)
• Podcast- Don Smith on Project Silk (Joe Stagner)
• The Thirsty Developer 101: Oh JavaScript, My JavaScript (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• Three-time intern Tessa Palmer on how to rock your Microsoft internship (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Announcing – CodeRush Feature Workshop (Rory Becker)

Database

• Top 10 Keys to Deploying SQL Server on VMware (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Creating All New Database with Full Recovery Model (Pinal Dave)
• Generate a GUID/newid() in SSIS 2008 (Scott Herbert)
• My head hurts from hitting it against a wall–SSMS log viewer and 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)
• SQL Server Quiz June 2011 (William Vaughn)
• Identity Reseeding (Steve Jones)
• SQL Exercise During Candidate Interview Process (aszwickart)

SharePoint

• Creating client applications with Microsoft.SharePoint libraries (Arian Kulp)
• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Debugging Techniques for SharePoint Online Applications (Lonnie Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Xbox: Now That’s Entertainment (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Microsoft Teases New Device — Could It Be A TV Box? (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• Windows Phone "Mango" concepts that never made the cut (damaster)
• The Kindle is ready for programmers (Giorgio Sironi)
• My First Experience with Windows Azure Support (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• On the road again… with TFS On the Road. A free WP7 TFS App (using the TFS OData Services) (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #863 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/31/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 31 , 2011 (admin)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 31st 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for May 23-29, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for May 31, 2011 — #1097 (Dave Campbell)
• Monthly News Digest @SilverlightZone – May 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• .NET Tips – Links on ASP.NET C# MVC Visual Studio Tips – May 2011 (Abhijit Jana)
• Weekly Links– 2010_19 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Top 9 posts from 6 months of microsoft.com/next (Steve Clayton)

The Geek Shelf

Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• Currency Converter v2 – Now on Caffeine! (Pedro Lamas)
• Migrate to ASP.NET MVC 3 by leveraging your ASP.NET Web Forms skills (Rachel Appel)
• Building Great Teams (Jim Holmes)
• Just Released: Windows Azure AppFabric Caching Service (Windows Azure Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• RavenDB Auto Sharding Bundle Design–Early Thoughts (Oren Eini)
• Update to OData Service Validation Tool (Turker Keskinpala)
• Using PerfWatson to report performance issues to Microsoft (Selma Ikiz)
• OData Survey (Alex James)
• Source Code for the updated Table Powertoy for OneNote (John Guin)
• Unexpected effects of the RegEx SET operator (Greg)
• Rock, Paper, Azure Deep Dive: Part 2 (Brian Hitney)
• Code Contracts Rewrite aborted due to metadata errors (Derik Whittaker)
• Geolocation API and Client-Side Maps Frameworks (Gil Fink)
• A Plethora Parallel Programming PDF’s – 12 Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4 articles for download and My cool found API call of the X: StrFormatByteSize (convert file size into human readable text) (Greg Duncan)
• Creating an Entity Framework connection from another one. (James)

Web Development

• Few important tips that you should know while using ASP.NET Session (Abhijit Jana)
• JavaScript: Using the shift method on the arguments array (Julian M. Bucknall)
• IonMonkey: Mozilla’s new JavaScript JIT compiler (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
• Single Package Version per Solution (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook – Review (Hajan Selmani)
• 3 Articles on JavaScript Performance (Joe Stagner)
• Tiggr: A Tool for Building Interactive Html Prototypes (Max Katz)
• Securing your ASP.NET MVC 3 Application (Rick Anderson)
• ActiveX Filtering for Developers (Herman Ng)
• Ajax Control Toolkit and Superexpert (Stephen Walther)
• MVC Controls Toolkit 1.0 Release (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Truth About Agile Adoption (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Steve Jobs: "Good Enough" is Never Good Enough (J.D. Meier)
• The Future of Interaction? (Andrew Spooner)
• Object Composition Over Inheritance (Rakesh Gunijan)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to customize the WP7 ListBox Selected Item | Part1: Control Template and How to customize the WP7 ListBox Selected Item | Part2: Visual States and Coding4Fun Toolkit with new Color Picker Control and Coding4Fun Toolkit with new Color Hexagon Control (Windows Phone Geek)
• List of some new APIs that will be introduced with the updated SDK (Windows Phone – Mango) (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Hardware Decoded H.264 (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight Validation: Resource File (Deborah Kurata)
• Windows Phone 7 Design Stencil (as in really… a stencil…) (Greg Duncan)
• Noodling Network Nodes – Diagraming with the NetworkView custom WPF control (Greg Duncan)
• Coming In Mango–ICommand (Jesse Liberty)
• Create a reflection of an object on the artboard in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)
• Using the Windows Phone Panorama Control (Paul Sheriff)
• Using the Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer simulator (Sam)
• What I learned designing my first Windows Phone7 app (Daniela Panfili)
• TouchStudio Update v1.1 beta: accelerometer, location, maps, charting, screenshots, … (Nikolai Tillmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Billy Hollis is a XAML Developer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Spaghetti Code – April 2011 (Jeff Brand)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 53 – Jordan Knight on the Modern Web (Richard Banks)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – The Microsoft Home (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – May 2nd, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Announcing SharePoint Saturday The Conference #in DC #SPSTCDC on Aug 11-13, 2011 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Jenny Lay-Flurrie: working through challenges to achieve success and enable others (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Windows Phone Accelerator Labs Coming to Chicago and Dallas in May (Angela Binkowski)

Database

• SSRS 2008: Cascading Parameterized Report (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQL SERVER – Error: Failed to retrieve data for this request. Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc – ‘DATABASEPROPERTY’ is not a recognized built-in function name. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 195) (Pinal Dave)
• Foreign Keys Help Performance (Steve Jones)

SharePoint

• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Quick Tips for Improving Search in SharePoint 2010 (Lonnie Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Tabula (Kirill Osenkov)
• Microsoft’s plan to increase its focus on developers: The full internal memo and Microsoft to deliver Windows Thin PC to customers by June 30 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Tekpub Update May 2011 (Rob Conery)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 067 for 5/1/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily News Digest 05/02/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 05/02/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #843 (Chris Alcock)
• SilverlightShow for April 25-May 01, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 2nd 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• My 17 .NET Tips on Silverlight ASP.NET Windows Phone C# From DailyDotNetTips.com (Abhishek Sur)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert C. Martin

• My Focus-themed Windows Phone emulator theme (Jeff Wilcox)
• Of memory and strings (Jon Skeet)
• Silverlight coming to Xbox, bringing WP7 games along with it? (Tim Stevens)
• Standards-based web, plug-ins, and Silverlight (Walid Abu-Hadba, Scott Guthrie & S. Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting the CLR Version (Richard Carr)
• How to use a WCF custom channel to implement client-side caching (Paolo Salvatori)
• DBX vs. Visual Studio and WinDbg: Part 1, Calling Functions and DBX vs. Visual Studio and WinDbg: Part 2A, Configuring Multiple Breakpoints (Sasha Goldshtein)
• IronPython Fully Implements Python 2.7 (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Productivity Power Tools – Enhanced Scroll Bar (Arian Kulp)
• MEF Logger – Creating plugins using MEF (fmsalmeida)
• Reference Architecture Framework for Discrete Manufacturing (MS Downloads)
• BizTalk Best Practices & Coding Guidelines for the IT Services Industry (Ambar Ray)
• Building a Nuget Server with gold plating (Mike Ceranski)
• Executing SQL queries on SQL CE 4 through Entity Framework (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Getting Started with Azure AppFabric Service Bus: Creating Namespace (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Automatically map similar schemas in BizTalk 2009 (and earlier!) (David Vidmar)

Web Development

• Convert HTML to Text (Jonathan Wood)
• ASP.NET MVC ActionResults explained (Rachel Appel)
• ASP.NET Deployment Needs To Be Fixed (Rob Conery)
• Image Manipulation With jQuery and PHP GD (Andy Croxall)
• Running JavaScript when the Web Page loads. (Joe Stagner)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Utility Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• jQuery.unbind() (Stoimen Popov)
• What Is New in EcmaScript 5? (Anders Janmyr)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Pumping Data Between Streams (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Tracking JavaScript Events using Google Analytics (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting up to BAT: Adding Smoke Tests to Your Build (John Sonmez)
• CQRS: Out of Sequence Messages and Read Models (Jonathan Oliver)
• Long Feedback Cycle on a 4 Year Old Project (Patrick Kua)
• [Guide] – Create the Perfect Agile Workshop (Peter Saddington)
• Agile with a Little Bit of Lean (sciske)
• Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: The baseline (Oren Eini)
• "Necessary" Refactoring (Michael ‘Doc’ Norton)
• Mocks and Tell Don’t Ask (Ian Cooper)
• Code Management versus Project Management (Andy Singleton)
• Updating another automation test to increase stability (John Guin)
• It Takes Complexity to Handle Complexity (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Resharper 6 WPF binding validation (Daniel Fisher)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save Images and Building WP7 Custom Validation Control – Architecture & Basic Prototype (Windows Phone Geek)
• Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [4/6] and Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [5/6] and Using Pandora’s Artist Explorer service to discover new music on Windows Phone 7 and Pandora – hidden endpoints (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 – Creating Trial Applications (Pencho Popadiyn)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Here, HTML 5, Sterling Feedback and More (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight, HTML5, The Web, The Phone and All That (Joey deVilla)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Building Location Service Applications in Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
• Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application (Part 3) and A Silverlight Developer’s look at TFS 2010 Remote Hosting. (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono I: Getting Started and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono II: Basic Navigation and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono III: Shared Libraries (Nick Randolph)
• HTML vs. Silverlight vs. WPF (Paul Stovell)
• Windows Phone 7 XNA Game Tutorial For Ya (snoutholder)
• New Book: Building Enterprise Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and the Model View ViewModel Pattern (Kim Spilker)
• How to design a Custom Control by editing the Part Template? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cory Fowler Runs PHP on Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 150: Darcy Lussier on WP7 Offline Storage (David Giard)
• Episode 143 – PowerScripting Podcast – Chris Harris from Microsoft on SCOM 2012 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Weekly 202: Opera Not Oprah (Paul Thurrott)
• Let’s Play TDD #100: Twenty-Five Hours (James Shore)
• Lyssa Adkins – Coaching Agile Teams Agile 2010 (Agile Toolkit Podcast)
• Yet Another Podcast #30 Abby Fichtner–Microsoft Evangelist (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag 003 – Win7 Shutdown Slowdowns, Prob Step Recorder, MSI Failures (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Parachute Panic, Dog-A-Pedia, Hairdo For You, Chicks’n'Vixens, Soundtrckr (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 100: The Meta Episode (Dave Bost)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 50 – David Tchepak and Richard Banks (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Announcing Conshohocken.rb (Dane Morgridge)
• 14 Free SharePoint 2010 Webinars by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• Speaking at SharePoint Connections 2011 in Boston (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• ImagineCup 2011 Finals coming to Redmond (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MSDN Events Presents: WebMatrix to ASP.NET MVC Web Camp (Angela Binkowski)
• Windows Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter: Explore the Benefits of Windows Azure Data Storage and Compute Services (Jeffrey Richter)
• Learning Opportunities to Embrace the Cloud (Jim O’Neil)
• NUI at MIX11 (Josh Blake)
• Behind the Scenes in Japan, Windows Azure MVPs Help Drive Vital Communications (Lonnie Webb)

Database

• Developing with SQL Server: Three ways to get at data (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
• SQL Server: First and Last Day of Year, Quarter, Month and Week (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL University – Performance Week (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Win Windows Phone from Idera in 140 Characters – A Cartoon Challenge of SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Use a database how it was intended to be used (Denis Gobo)
• Announcing the Metro Early Adoption Program for SQL Server Code Name “Denali” (Wes Yanaga)
• SQL Azure Use Case: Shared Data Hub (Buck Woody)
• To TOP or not to TOP an EXISTS (GilaMonster)
• Is ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN NOT NULL to NULL always expensive? (Sankar Reddy)
• How I Avoid Two-Phase Commit (Jonathan Oliver)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 SDK Offline SDK (*.CHM) Updated (Andrew Connell)
• New Book: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer Reference (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server 2011, Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Now on MSDN, TechNet (Paul Thurrott)
• Calling Excel Math Functions From PowerShell (Doug Finke)
• Tekpub Download Upgrade Low-down (Rob Conery)
• Jetbrains announced appCode (CIDR) EAP – an Objective-C IDE for Mac and iOS development (Michael Hunger)
• Scaling and Queuing PowerShell Background Jobs (Travis Jones)
• Microsoft Customers Abandoned Again: SharedView No Longer Supported (William Vaughn)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #827 and The Morning Brew #828 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 5, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 04/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets: 4-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for April 04, 2011 — #1070 and SilverlightShow for March 28-April 3, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 05, 2011 — #1071 (Dave Campbell)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 Picks for March 28 – April 3, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 5th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed by Brian Loesgen

Top Links

• Not Really Interested In Lean (Phil Haack)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Interim Fix List (Jason Zander)
• Why are anonymous types generic? (Eric Lippert)
• Listen to your Phone – Getting User Feedback with System Information (Rene Schulte)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Mouse Clipping (Richard Carr)
• Answer: Your own ThreadLocal (Oren Eini)
• Finding a Relative Path in .NET (Rick Strahl)
• Bi-Directional SkipList in C# (David Jeske)
• WCF RIA Services DomainContext Abstraction Strategies–Say That 10 Times! (Dan Wahlin)
• Colorizing Source Code and A Convenient LogFile Class (Jonathan Wood)
• Problems with MSSCCI and VB6 (Shai Raiten)
• EF4 Code First Control Unicode and Decimal Precision, Scale with Attributes (Dane Morgridge)
• Use a Specific Port for the Development Server (Zain Naboulsi)
• Best Practices for Maximizing Scalability and Cost Effectiveness of Queue-Based Messaging Solutions on Windows Azure (Valery Mizonov)
• The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit December Update Available for Download (Maor David-Pur)
• Unbound Actions – Reopen last closed document (Alex Skorkin)

Web Development

• Basic JavaScript Part 4: Enforcing New on Constructor Functions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• ASP.NET: Including JavaScript libraries conditionally from CDN (Gunnar Peipman)
• 5 Ways to Let Users Customize Content (Anthony Tseng)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile’s Secret Ingredient (Gil Zilberfeld)
• [Agile Guide] – Writing Good User Stories and Santa and Kanban – A Story (Peter Saddington)
• Integrating JavaScript Unit Tests with Visual Studio (Stephen Walther)
• 4 Cross-Browser Testing Tools (Charles Hamilton)
• Foundations of Programming 2 – Chapter 1 – Quality and Efficiency (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 4 Training (MS Downloads)
• Bootloader mode on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight and Visual Studio 2010 (Deborah Kurata)
• Slides: Application Development for Windows Phone 7 (Andrej Tozon)
• WPF ListView with better touch support (Al Kampfer)
• Top 7 Christmas Windows Phone 7 apps (Andy Robb)
• "And she’d say, ‘Can you see … what I’m saying?’" [How to: Localize a Windows Phone 7 application that uses the Windows Phone Toolkit into different languages] (David Anson)
• Windows Phone 7 Applications Must-Have Apps! (Don Burnett)
• Authentication in Silverlight using WCF and ASP.NET Membership Provider (Mahesh Sabnis)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #7 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Custom Application Bar to Feature in Chapter (Daniel Vaughan)
• Closing the Virtual Keyboard (SIP) and forcing binding in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Miguel de Icaza Builds .NET Apps on the Mac with MonoMac (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Pluralcast 31 : Lessons in Performance and Scalability (David Starr)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #183: Load Testing WCF Services w/ VS2010 (Derik Whittaker)
• Ping 87: Paramount on Windows Phone, H264 & Firefox, P Diddy, neosaurs, Microsoft is cool! (Laura Foy)
• Agile Release Planning Video (James Shore)
• WP7 Minute Episode III : Camera Integration (Daniel Egan)
• The Engadget Show – 016: Mitsubishi’s Frank DeMartin, iRobot, Aldebaran’s NAO robot, Ubisoft Battle Tag, CES ’11 preview, and more! (Chad Mumm)

Community / Events

• Ready to MIX it up? (G. Andrew Duthie)
• March 2nd to 4th in Portland, Oregon: The Art of Agile Delivery (Training) and February 28th and March 1st in Portland, Oregon: The Art of Agile Planning (Training) (James Shore)
• Your Chance to Speak at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Upcoming Free Developer Training for Web, Windows and Cloud (Dave Bost)
• First thoughts from our WP7 competition winner (Andy Robb)
• Jeremiah Peschka & Buck Woody Talk Database Communities (Brent Ozar)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 5 Released (Glenn Berry)
• Required Parameters [SSIS Denali] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Observation of the View (Pinal Dave)
• Sitting on the couch (Giorgio Sironi)

SharePoint

• New book: Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSEWSS) v1.3 Released (Paul Andrew)
• New SharePoint Development Team Blog (Zain Naboulsi)

Miscellaneous

• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Using co-authoring features in Office 2010, Office Web Apps, and Office for Mac 2011 (Lonnie Webb)
• Microsoft Brings SBS into the Cloud (Paul Thurrott)
• Powershell, Me and the MCM part II (Jason Brimhall)
• A bulk image importer powertoy for OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
• Integration Between Zoho Apps: Part III (Raju Vegesna)
• Free calling in Gmail extended through 2011 (Robin Schriebman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 175 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 20 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #755 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/20/2010 and Weekly Article Digest 12/20/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

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

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

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