• Hypermedia and Web API. Design brain dump and samples (Glenn Block)
• TWC9: January 6, 2012 – C9 Video Queue, Silverlight 5, Metro and WP7 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Is PhoneGap Right for You? (David J. Kelley)
• What You May Not Know About jQuery (Burke Holland)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Stein’s Algorithm (Richard Carr)
• string.format escape sequence in c# (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Stack Unwind Does Not Occur When C++ Exceptions Propagate Into Managed Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Windows Libraries for JavaScript: Part I (Chris Sells)
• How to work with NuGet? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: SQL Queries and Parameter Prefix (Ricardo Peres)
• A bit more about Using Ninject 2.2 – factory methods (AngelEyes)

Web Development

• jQuery Splitter and jQuery Tooltip (jqwidgets)
• ASP.NET Page Methods with Parameters (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Intro to Property-Based Animations (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Our Ajax Conventions–Request Correlation and Our Ajax Conventions–Validation (Josh Arnold)
• Dropbox REST API Part 2: API Requests (Christophe Geers)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Few tips and tricks to manage your Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Hadoop Streaming and Reporting and Hadoop Streaming and Windows Azure Blob Storage (Carl Nolan)
• JSON.net and Deserializing Anonymous Types (David Hoerster)
• New Year – Updated Ubuntu Rails Setup (Eric Proctor)
• Microsoft Previews Windows Azure Application Integration Services (Richard Seroter)
• Programming Office 365 Jump Start 2 (Tanzim Saqib)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting Results the Agile Way – Top 10 Best Seller on Amazon in Time-Management and 10 Things Great Managers Do and 30 Days of Getting Results – Free Time-Management Training (JD Meier)
• CRUD it’s now CQRS … or is it? (Jeremy Likness)
• Interview: Mike Cottmeyer on Agile Adoption and Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic (Peter Cooper)
• You are responsible for making that feature work. Write a test. Just do it… (Jason Jarrett)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to Show a deleted List Item with a Strike Through in XAML (Derik Whittaker)
• New maintenance release for Windows Phone (Eric Hautala)
• Windows Phone 7 Info Hub – All the phone info, one helpful hub [#wpdev] (Greg Duncan)
• WP7 Tips: How to Pin an Application to the Start Screen? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrieving a WebPage Title and Sharing it with the ShareLinkTask in WP7 (Michael Crump)
• Follow Up: How Many Apps Are on Your Windows Phone Handset? (Richard Hay)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone – User Feedback (Rudi Grobler)
• WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 1of Many and WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 2of Many (Vijaya Malla)
• WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 049 – “Dial 666 For Evil Carrier” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 425: Hello 2012 (Larry Hyrb)
• WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)
• Using the Windows Phone Storage NuGets for Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• Gillmor Gang 01.07.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 120 – 01.06.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• New Video: Integrating Test Studio with TFS (Jim Holmes)

Community / Events

• RavenDB Course in London: 28–29 February (Oren Eini)
• Nerd Nite No. 10, January 11, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite)
• Microsoft Free Virtual Private Cloud Event, Jan 17th and code.NASA – Coding opportunities for wanna-be space cowboys and girls. NASA says "We’ve got our OSS space app’s right here…" (Greg Duncan)

Database

• The officially easiest way to play with SQL Server 2012… The SQL Server Virtual Labs (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Collation and Collation Sensitivity – Quiz – Puzzle – 6 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Indexed Views and Restrictions – Quiz – Puzzle – 7 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Federation – Introduction (Shaun)
• Normalizing Your Database (James Serra)
• Does My MongoDB Replica Set Need An Arbiter? (Karl Seguin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – About this Series and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Why You Should Care & the Development Story and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Breaking Out of the Sandbox and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Integration Options (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Best way to browse iOS documentation (Deepak Kapoor)
• Excerpt Old Posts – A WordPress Plugin to get around the Feedburner 512K Limit (Jon Galloway)
• Weekend project: Create a family calendar (Juliette Guilbert)
• Learning Android: Freezing the UI with a BroadcastReceiver and Learning Android: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space with android-maven-plugin (Mark Needham)
• Why I think Windows Phone is superior phone OS? (Slobodan Pavkov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Pie in the Sky (January 6, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Maker Geek Roundup 005 for 1/7/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Windows Dev News for January 07, 2011 – #0022 and SilverlightShow for Dec 26, 2011 – Jan 1, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 01-January-2012 to 07-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 66 – Enterprise Scrum Tool Review & Agile Teams to Avoid (Peter Saddington)
• MVP Friday Five: January 6, 2012 (MVP Award Program)

The Geek Shelf

Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform by Andrew Troelsen

• New F# Windows Phone Library Project Template (Daniel Mohl)
• Async Programming in Visual Studio 2010 (Bill Wagner)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #10: Network Information (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Getting a Quick Feel for a New Software Team (Peter Ritchie)
• Bill Gates on Natural User Interfaces (Steve Clayton)

.NET / Visual Studio

• PyKinect (Yep, Python and Kinect, in Visual Studio yet!) (Greg Duncan)
• ReSharper 6.1 EAP for Visual Studio 2011 (Hadi Hariri)
• New Entity Framework Book(s) Status (Julie Lerman)
• Docking External Document Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Pyvot for Excel (Mike Stall)
• MapWindow GIS v4.8.6 – Final Release – 64Bit (CodePlex)
• Further Tales of the Keyboard Ninja (Just* Team)
• How to access Service Configuration settings in Windows Azure Startup Task (Avkash Chauhan)
• POLAR – Creating a Virtual Machine in .NET (Paulo Zemek)
• Building a .NET Quality Control Tool for Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies (Kevin Ha)

Web Development

• Refactoring MVC Routes (Deran Schilling)
• ASP.NET MVC: Converting business objects to select list items (Gunnar Peipman)
• Backbone.js: Object Literals, Views Events, jQuery, and `el` (Derick Bailey)
• 6 for 5… Six lesson class for HTML5 (Greg Duncan)
• Announcing JesCov – JavaScript code coverage (Ola Bini)
• Web applications with the Play framework (Giorgio Sironi)
• Improving the JavaScript typeof operator (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Adobe puts full support behind HTML5, leaves Flash to standalone mobile apps (Tim Conneally)
• Recipe for a Brittle Data Service (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Web sites vs Web apps (Rockford Lhotka)
• Your users don’t care if you use Web Sockets (Scott Hanselman)
• Programming for the future of mobile (Jef Claes)
• Learn from my Express.js HTTP status code blunder (Dave Ward)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.359 (Alexey Gopachenko)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and DevExpress XAF (Patrick Liekhus)
• People, NOT Technology (Peter Saddington)
• Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop (Steve Schoeffel)
• Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 3: NDbUnit (Thomas Weller)
• Code Analysis for All (Tim Burrell)
• New Article: Best Practices for Performance Improvements Using Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Ruppert Koch)
• TDD With Roy Osherove (Rob Conery)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of Readable Code – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Is Implementing Continuous Delivery the key to success? (Paul Stack)
• Getting your App Continuously Tested (Maria Marcano)
• Sound vs. Valid Argument (Mark Pearl)
• Arity (Chris Eargle)
• MSpec Runnner Available for ReSharper 6.1 EAP (Hadi Hariri)
• The last vestiges of Hungarian notation (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• The New "ListPicker Learning Pack" : Solution to all your ListPicker problems and GART Geo AR Toolkit and Getting Started with Windows Phone Reminders (Windows Phone Geek)
• Blend 5 and Visual Studio 11 feedback – The Future of Windows 8 Development (Benjamin Laffont)
• Inside Windows Phone Apps – IMDb (Sara Allison)
• 2000 WPF Things #427 – Changing Margins from Within Blend (Sean Sexton)
• The differences between IE9 on the desktop and IE9 on WP7 (Martin Beeby)
• Styling Windows Phone Silverlight Applications (Tim Murphy)
• WP7: Northern Lights WP7 Toolkit v0.0.1 (Bjorn Kuiper)
• Building Microsoft Exchange client for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
• Putting back functionality left out of VB Core – ( If you can’t live without Mid when writing WP7 apps ) (VBTeam)
• What if “Microsoft” were in our shoes? About Windows Phone (Vijaya Malla)
• How to Control Screen Layouts in LightSwitch (Chris D.)
• Live Tiles in WP Mango (Daniel Egan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dan Hanan and Danny Warren Mix Kinect and Metro (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SPLASH 2011: Gilad Bracha – Dart, Newspeak, and More and Microsoft DevCamps: Free, Fun, No-Fluff Events for Developers (Charles Torre)
• Information Integration – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 001 – 11.09.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• What The Tech 92: Just Like RIM (Paul Thurrott)
• There’s Something About Nolock: Webcast Video (Kendra Little)
• SE Podcast #26 (Alex Miller)
• Toji: The Psake Based, Nuget Powered Canned Build of Awesome (Bobby Johnson)

Community / Events

• VS Live Orlando in December (Rockford Lhotka)
• A Coder Interview With Al-Farooque Shubho (The Code Project)
• TEDxPhilly 2011: The City [Recap] (Bianca)

Database

• Why does my SSIS package run slower in BIDS than DTEXEC? (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – OVER clause with FIRST _VALUE and LAST_VALUE – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 – ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING (Pinal Dave)
• Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed (Eric Humphrey)

SharePoint

• Two New User Adoption and Engagement Strategies: ShareLab and ShareLove (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• What is Bill Gates reading? 5 books on helping world’s poor (Michele Matassa Flores)
• Microsoft Download Manager (MS Downloads)
• Yesterday’s Patch Tuesday delivers some OneNote 2010 goodness too. Free update to improve OneNote 2010′s SkyDrive and sync features… (Greg Duncan)
• Samsung jumps on the ‘Windows 8 in second half of 2012′ bandwagon (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the week #163 (David Vidmar)
• Daily News Digest 11/9/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #978 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links– 2011_35 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News 9 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #748 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Head First C#, 2E: A Learner’s Guide to Real-World Programming with Visual C# and .NET (Head First Guides) by Andrew Stellman

• 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

• Feedback Request for using NuGet Without Committing Packages (Phil Haack)
• XNA RPG – Learning XNA while building a RPG, a 26 part tutorial series (Greg Duncan)
• Project Silk (Karl Shifflett)
• Why use the command processor pattern in the service layer (Ian Cooper)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Important counter sets for monitoring ASP.NET performance using Perfmon Tool (Abhijit Jana)
• Facebook C# SDK – Release: v5.0.10 (RC) (CodePlex)
• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #5 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows Azure Kit Adds WP7 Authentication, Traffic Manager, SQL Azure Reporting (Bruce Kyle)
• Programmatically calling validation in a rehosted Workflow 4 designer (Patrick D. Fletcher)
• Creating tag cloud using ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework (Gunnar Peipman)
• VS2010 SP1 New Features: Performance Wizard Support for Silverlight (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to create a WF4 WorkflowServiceHostFactory for AppFabric Auto-Start (Ron Jacobs)
• New Content: Code Quick Start: Capturing Diagnostics in your Windows Azure Application and Windows Azure SDK 1.4 Refresh Issue Resolved (Windows Azure Team)
• Dynamically Loading .NET Assemblies using Interfaces and Reflection (Scott Bentley)
• The Windows Native Ribbon Part 1.5: Laying out Controls and Groups (Michael Dunn)
• An Introduction to Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) – Part I (Niladri Biswas)
• Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1 (MS Downloads)

Web Development

• ContosoKarate (WM) – The HTML Theme and ASP.NET Web Pages Integration (Joe Stagner)
• Caching Data in ASP.NET Applications (Nathan Totten)
• An Introduction to CSS 3 in Expression Web (Pad Gallagher)
• CSS3 Media Queries Explained (Andrew Spooner)
• Editable lines in Google Maps using the Javascript v3 API (Tobias Södergren)
• WebDeploy tip for WebMatrix…watch out for port blocking (G. Andrew Duthie)
• IE9 Compat Inspector (Tony Ross)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 5: How to implement dynamic Jump List Categories (Jennifer Marsman)
• HTML 5: Specification news! Latest specifications released! Silverlight Impacted? (Sam)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 3 Ways to Maintain Quality in Your Unit Tests (Avi Kaye)
• Visualising quality: initial ideas (Gojko Adzic)
• BDD Antipattern: Specs with concealed intent (John Rayner)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Helper (Giorgio Sironi)
• Templates for SDL Practices (MS Downloads)
• Integration: Coupling (Paul Stovell)
• Using Kinect for NUI Part 4 – Buttons (Deborah Hanamura)
• Using Stubs (Richard Carr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Get a visual parent of an element in Silverlight and Windows Phone App – Where’s My Car (Arian Kulp)
• Silverlight 5 3D Housebuilder Project Shown at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Using Perspective Transforms inside ListBox ItemTemplate (Windows Phone Geek)
• An elegant ThreadLocal for Silverlight (Oren Eini)
• Application Bar for your Windows Phone 7 and Async support for Silverlight and WP7 (Abhishek Sur)
• Supporting Non-Supported Entities like IEnumerable in Sterling (Jeremy Likness)
• Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 Beta (Michael Crump)
• Fix: Calling WCF Methods with Parameters Synchronously on Windows Phone 7 (Nick Randolph)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Linked RichTextBoxes and Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Composition Thread? and Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Debugging Data-Binding (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Pat Hynds Plans for Disaster Recovery (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 4 of n (Charles Torre)
• Microsoft SDL Requirements Phase – Security Practices and Campus Tours: Fuse Labs with Lili Cheng (Larry Larsen)
• SE Podcast #02 (Alex Miller)

Community / Events

• XNA for Windows Phone 7: a 3-day Online Training Course (Svetla Stoycheva)
• Introducing the BarCamp Tour (Joey deVilla)
• Download Videos, Presentations from MIX11 (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft and Wintellect Present – Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter (Jeffrey Richter)

Database

• A Palindrome Program in SSIS using Copy Column, Derived Column, Character Map and Conditional Split Transformation. (Niladri Biswas)
• A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 27 (Glenn Berry)
• Sorting on Multiple Columns in SSRS (Luke Hayler)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets (Pinal Dave)
• How to find out when a DB recovery model was changed (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 2 – Server Configuration – Data/Log Files (Ted Krueger)
• SSMA for MySQL 5.0 and SSMA for Oracle 5.0 (MS Downloads)
• Daily Denali Delight – Day 5 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)

SharePoint

• How to Connect SharePoint 2010, Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Where are all the SharePoint Testers? (Joel Oleson)
• Design Workflow using SharePoint Designer 2010 and InfoPath Form 2010 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 cloud roaming options via Windows Live revealed (damaster)
• Get your interview skills in shape (Microsoft JobsBlog)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 27th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 04/27/2011 and Daily News Digest 04/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #842 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle by Michael Howard

The Morning Dew may some some more downtime this week while I enjoy some time off with my family.

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Top Links

• Another source for LINQ extensions (Jimmy Bogard)
• Take NuGet to the next level with sample packages (David Ebbo)
• Visual Studio 2010 enhancements (Somasegar)
• Windows Phone 7: Tombstone Frustration (Nick Randolph)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Track Changes and Advance Scroll Mode in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Duplicate queries in tfs between iterations (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Available March 8th for MSDN Subscribers, general availability March 10th (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Sharing port between WCF Services in netTcpBinding (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Extending TFS’s Extensible Source Control Explorer – TFSSCExplorerExtension (Team Foundation Server Source Control Explorer VS 2010 Extension) (Greg Duncan)
• No More 250 Users Limitation In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (Shai Raiten)
• Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and More (Zain Naboulsi)
• NOW AVAILABLE: February 2011 Update of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (Windows Azure Team)
• Parsing Tokens with Extension Methods and Programmatically Resizing an Image (Jonathan Wood)
• When is Code First not code first? (Arthur Vickers)
• References and Pointers, Part One (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 (Devon Musgrave)
• HTML5 Cheat Sheet (Frank La Vigne)
• ASP.NET WebForms Dynamically Selecting MasterPages (Joe Stagner)
• Pro ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010, Third Edition (Tom Jensen)
• Internet Explorer 9 Security Part 1: Enhanced Memory Protections (Eric Lawrence)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD/BDD and the lean startup (Ian Cooper)
• Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part I: How I started to use Scrum (Stephen Forte)
• The [Iteration] is Dead (Peter Saddington)
• A few tips for being a more effective solo developer (Rachel Appel)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM For Silverlight/WP7- the Refcard… and Building Custom Gauges for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Apps at Warp Speed (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight Unit Test For Phone (Jesse Liberty)
• Charles Petzold on Programming Windows Phone 7 (Julie Lerman)
• Accessing SharePoint UserProfileService from Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight Team)
• Drawing in WP7: #1 Getting Started and Line Shape and Drawing in WP7: #2 Drawing shapes with finger (Windows Phone Geek)
• Taking a look at the Mindscape Phone Elements for WP7. (Michael Crump)
• IE on Windows Phone 7 – some supported URI schemes (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Handling WP7 orientation changes via Visual States (András Velvárt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mark Miller and Seth Juarez Go Mad with Kinect! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Pluralcast 37 : HTML 5 with Craig Shoemaker (David Starr)
• Ping 93: Kinect plays with Windows Phone, Gamertags revived, Live Mesh, HTML5 Contest (Laura Foy)
• Countdown to MIX11: Open Source Fest-a-Palooza (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Forms Training Videos (114) and Windows Client VS 2008 & .NET 3.5 Training Videos (23) and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Roles & Membership (Joe Stagner)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 5: CQRS EventStore – Best Framework/Library Ever! (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)

Community / Events

• GDC 2011 (Miguel de Icaza)
• Events This Week – March 7th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 30 Projects and Counting Will be at Open Source Fest at MIX11 (John Papa)
• New England GiveCamp 2011 (Jim O’Neil)
• Thoughts (on Windows Phone 7) from the MVP Summit (Chris Williams)
• JetBrains night at Bristol .NET User Group (Hadi Hariri)

Database

• SSRS – Creating and Using Shared Schedules Part 4 (Brian K. McDonald)
• Migrate a SQL Server Compact database to SQL Server using Web Deploy (MSdeploy) (Erik EJ)
• The Three C’s Of Interviewing (Joe Webb)
• Column-based Storage in SQL Server 2011 (Jonathan Allen)
• Repair SQL Server Database marked as Suspect or Corrupted (Madhivanan)
• SSRS: My Filter is not Working!!! (Patrick LeBlanc)
• SQL SERVER – Difference between COUNT(DISTINCT) vs COUNT(ALL) (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tuesday #016 Grouping Market Data With T-SQL (Denis Gobo)
• Leading Wildcards Aren’t A Good Default (Andy Warren)
• T-SQL Tuesday #016 – Summarizing data using GROUPING SETS() (Jacob Sebastian)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Aggregates (Jason Strate)
• T-SQL Tuesday #016 – COUNT and DELETE duplicates (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• MVPs for Office 365: Organize Your Information Better in SharePoint Online Office 365 with Managed Metadata (Lonnie Webb)
• Social Squared Ideas–Installation Guide and Social Squared Ideas–Getting Started (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• MSDN Library Home Adds Quick Links (JD Meier)
• A treeview control for OneNote 2007 (John Guin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 184 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 062 for 3/7/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for March 07, 2011 — #1055 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 7th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #807 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 03/08/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

• You Really Should Be Using NuGet (Justin Etheredge)
• NuGet Package of the Week #1 – ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization (Scott Hanselman)
• Effective Tests: Introduction (Derek Greer)
• MVVM Charting – Binding Multiple Series to a Visiblox Chart (Colin Eberhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using CUDA and Thrust with Visual Studio 2010 (Ade Miller)
• Adding vcard support and bookmarked URIs for specific representations with WCF Web Apis and WCF Web APIs Roundup–Volume 2 (Glenn Block)
• One Thousand Views of AppHub (Zain Naboulsi)
• Auto updating a desktop app (Louis Salin)
• A Case for WinForms (Jonathan Allen)
• EntityDataSource Control Basics (Joydip Kanjilal)
• Part 1 of a tutorial on monads (Brian Marick)
• ReSharper Easter Egg? (Chris Missal)
• ILSpy – yield return (Daniel Grunwald)
• Logging Best Practices Using Crypto Logger (G. Himangi)
• Using Code First Model Configurations Classes (Gil Fink)
• How Dynamic Language Runtime(DLR) feature in .NET Framework 4 is a boon for debugging COM objects (Abhijit Jana)
• All about .NET Timers – A Comparison (Abhishek Sur)
• Upgrading TortoiseHg to v2.0 (Igal Tabachnik)

Web Development

• Bing HTML5 preview to coincide with IE9 launch? (damaster)
• Using a custom build of MVC 3 (David Ebbo)
• What is jQuery Connect ? How to use jQuery Connect? (Hima)
• Output Caching Actions Gotcha in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning about CQRS and Event Sourcing (Eric Quist)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – BDD Style Unit Tests with Jasmine-Node Sprinkled With Some Should (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Stub (Giorgio Sironi)
• A Paradox of Reification – A Tool or a Fallacy? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Developer Driven Culture (Rob Diana)
• Quests and powerups (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Discovering New Keywords with a Search Combo Box (Anthony)
• Getting Up to BAT: Picking a Browser Automation Tool (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get and edit the default Styles of the Silverlight for WP7 Toolkit controls and Mindscape Phone Elements WP7 controls released and 12 WP7 Coding4Fun Toolkit in Depth articles covering all controls (Windows Phone Geek)
• Using Mole 2010 to compare objects (Josh Smith)
• Native Extensions 2.0 For Microsoft Silverlight Released (Davide Zordan)
• Why We’re Going With HTML(5) Instead Of Silverlight (Davy Brion)
• Reading files asynchronously using WebClient class in Silverlight (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A penny for your thoughts on Windows Phone 7 tombstoning (Peter Torr)
• Mole 2010 Demo Released (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 389: Dragon Age 2, Yoostar 2, Homefront (Larry Hyrb)
• Yet Another Podcast #27–Paul Betts (Jesse Liberty)
• VIDEO – WebMatrix – Improve Performance with Caching and WPF 3.5 Training Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 006 –“There’s a New Kid in Town” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Technology & Friends Episode 141: Alexei Govorine On VS DB Tools (David Giard)
• Windows Weekly 198: Smart, Very Smart (Paul Thurrott)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 51 – New Owners and Test as Dev (Federico Silva & Matthew Osborn)

Community / Events

• NYC .NET Developers Group->Next Meeting (St. Pats Day!) (Stephen Forte)
• Test Driven Development Firestarter (Kevin Griffin)
• Visual Studio ALM MVP of the Year 2011 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• JetBrains night at Bristol .NET User Group (Hadi Hariri)
• Is your Kanban worth a new iPad? @TargetProcess (Tal Druyan)
• IE9 / WP7 Boot Camps (Joey deVilla)
• Stack Overflow and the Computer History Museum (Jeff Atwood)

Database

• Storing images in SQL Server with RIA Services (Unknown Author)
• SQL SERVER – Running Multiple Batch Files Together in Parallel and SQL SERVER – Enable PowerPivot Plugin in Excel (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS:Multi Instance Management made easy. (SQL Archer)
• Not Only SQL (Peter Ritchie)
• Best Practice: version check, data base and DB updates… how to split the db in the team? (Code Inside Team)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Aggregates (Jason Strate)

Miscellaneous

• Transferring/Moving a VHD from Windows Virtual PC (Windows XP Mode) to another computer (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 6, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #806 (Chris Alcock)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 03.01 ~ 03.06 (yuanjian)
• March 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, EF, .NET (Scott Guthrie)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for March 06, 2011 — #1054 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 03/07/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 03/07/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Links of the week #143 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Advanced MVVM by Josh Smith

Top Links

• Capturing Screen Images in WPF using GDI, Win32 and a little WPF Interop Help (Pete Brown)
• WCF.AsParallel() using ReactiveUI and Rx.NET (Paul Betts)
• A Dynamic Data Utility for WebMatrix (Rob Conery)
• Task Parallel Library Ported to Silverlight 4 (Damon Payne)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing Background Processes (Oren Eini)
• Keyboard Shortcuts for the Book (Zain Naboulsi)
• WIF & ACS Survival Guide (Valery Mizonov)
• iPhone Programming with MonoTouch article in DevConnections Magazine – April, 2011 and Passing values between Activities using MonoDroid (Wally McClure)
• 8-part Async series by Eric Lippert (Weston Hutchins)
• What is a Dynamic list? (Rory Becker)
• Code Providers – Add Contract (Alex Skorkin)
• Quick Script for Building .sln Files With Configurations (Jim Holmes)
• Intellisense when editing Service Bus configuration files? Yes please! (Paolo Salvatori)
• Hirerachy Data Source – Using Fluent API convert flat data structure to hirerachy structure (Kiran Kumar)
• Strange, but legal (Eric Lippert)
• LLBLGen Pro v3.1 released! (Frans Bouma)
• Visual NHibernate – Using Templates (Gareth Hayter)

Web Development

• Understanding CSS Selectors (Emily Lewis)
• ASP.NET MVC Performance Tips (Marcin Doboz)
• Why ASP.NET MVC is different than Classic ASP (Rachel Appel)
• Sharp Architecture 1.9.5 Released (Alec Whittington)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Test automation strategy for legacy systems (Gojko Adzic)
• Unit Test Case, Subject Matter Experts and Requirements (Steven Lott)
• Message-Based Architecture Goodness (Steve Smith)
• Taking a Break From Sprinting (Dan Puckett)
• Behavior-Driven Development in PHP with Behat (Giorgio Sironi)
• TestApi v0.6 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• 5 Hints for the New Product Owner (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Dev Tools – January Update (Chris Koenig)
• What it lacks in efficiency, it makes up for in efficiency! [Silverlight-ready PNG encoder implementation shows one way to use .NET IEnumerables effectively] (David Anson)
• WP7 – Understanding Serialization (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• January Update of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools support Copy & Paste (Doug Holland)
• Windows Phone 7 – Part #4: The application lifecycle (Andrea Boschin)
• Using SQL Server Compact 4.0 with WPF DataGrid, Entity Framework 4 and Private deployment (part 1) (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• Communication between HTML in WebBrowser and Silverlight app (Jaime Rodriguez)
• MVVM Light V4 preview (BL0014) release notes (Laurent Bugnion)
• Using XXRS and XXR with XR…a how to. (Rob Relyea)
• 4 important things to have in your Windows Phone 7 app (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Simple Error Reporting on WP7 (Rudi Grobler)
• The Full Stack: The Client Side (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Andrew Russell Develops XNA Games for XBox, iPhone and More! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #84: Parentheses (James Shore)
• Ping 91: PACT for gaming, Swim on Kinect, Microsoft Cookbook, H.264 on Chrome (Laura Foy)
• WP7 Minute–Episode VIII–Visual Voicemail (Daniel Egan)

Community / Events

• Upcoming MSDN webcasts on TFS 2010 and Windows Phone 7 (Katrien de Graeve)
• New XAML-Based User Group started in Birmingham, Alabama. (Michael Crump)
• MvcConf MVC Q&A call for questions (Jeffrey Palermo)
• SharePoint Connections Coast-to-Coast: I’ll be there! (San Antonio & San Diego) (Andrew Connell)
• TechReady – 12 SharePoint Sessions (PubSec)
• TechDays 2011: Rx talk in Paris (Jeremy Alles)
• The early bird gets the…erm, discount. Ready for MIX11? and Events This Week – February 7th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• Messing with Errors in SSIS, or does the Propagate “Property” really exist? (Julie Smith)
• SSIS: Custom Folder in your Package Store (Patrick LeBlanc)
• SQL SERVER – Automation Process Good or Ugly and SQL SERVER – SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD – Wait Type – Day 8 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• 10 Things Every DBA Should Do (John Sansom)

SharePoint

• Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on 6 #SharePoint 2010 Titles from @MicrosoftPress (O’Reilly Media)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell: Download List of SQL Server MVPs (Jason Strate)
• Procrastination Flowcharts (Joey deVilla)
• MVPs for Office 365: Microsoft Demonstrates Commitment to Service Updates (Lonnie Webb)
• More engineers at the top: Just what the doctor ordered for Microsoft? (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 07, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 058 for 2/7/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #787 (Chris Alcock)
• WebDev Tweets 4-Feb-2011 and 7-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 7th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 7 February 2011 – #23 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for February 07, 2011 — #1043 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 02/08/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by Tom DeMarco

Top Links

• Sketchflow To Final (Michael Washington)
• ConcurrentDictionary used with Lazy (Reed Copsey)
• CLR 4 Does Not Use LoadLibrary to Load Assemblies (Sasha Goldshtein)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learn WCF RIA Service Part #1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Monads in C#-5. Maybe (Mike Hadlow)
• Internals of Extension Methods (Abhishek Sur)
• Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 2 (Shai Raiten)
• Developing Snowfight – Basic particle engine (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Code Providers – Seal Class (Alex Skorkin)
• The Basics of EF Validation: IDataErrorInfo (Chris Sells)
• Asynchronous Programming Now and in the Future (Jason Rainwater)
• EasyHttp (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• EF Concurrency Mode Fixed + MVC (Chris Sells)
• Building a Self Updating Site Using NuGet (Phil Haack)
• Expression Web 4 SuperPreview – A closer look (Minal Agarwal)
• How to update controls which are outside of updatepanel during partial page rendering? (Abhijit Jana)
• Setting the Initial Sort Order – Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The art of Unit Testing with Examples in .NET (Denis Gladkikh)
• The passionate programmer (Code Inside Team)
• Testing: Behaviour-Driven Development with F# (Flying Frog)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Automapper and Silverlight 4? Yes Please! (Dave Swersky)
• Building a Silverlight LOB Application and Building a Multi-Page Silverlight LOB Application and Theming a Silverlight Application using Existing Themes and Theming a Silverlight Application using Custom Themes (Deborah Kurata)
• WP7 Saving to Media Library (Daniel Egan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 136 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jim Christopher on StudioShell and a Goodbye to Andy (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Engadget Podcast 229 – 01.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• CodeMash v2.0.1.1 (Chris Smith)
• Alt.Next (Ian Cooper)
• CodeMash Day 2 (Bill Wagner)
• A Train of Thought – Wrapping up CodeMash 2011 (Jeremy Miller)
• One Million Developers, Designers on Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• Using SQL Server Profiler with EF (Chris Sells)
• Data Compression in SQL Server 2008 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Every Which Way Outputs (15/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper Download – Using Star Join and Few-Outer-Row Optimizations to Improve Data Warehousing Queries (Pinal Dave)
• Adventures in query tuning: non-seekable WHERE clause expressions (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Creative Commons Data Dump Jan ’11 (Jeff Atwood)
• My bookkeeping post for 2011 (Jeremy Miller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the week #137 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2011 — #1028 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

• Developing for the Windows Phone 7 – Part 3: Your First App (Shawn Wildermuth)
• For Developers: Easily integrate Admob ads in Windows Phone 7 apps (Surur)
• Page-turning ‘Macallan’ UI will hit a Windows 7 tablet this year (video) (Sean Hollister)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Grouping on Multiple Properties with LINQ (Richard Carr)
• CreateDelegate – An Exercise in Using Expressions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Package management for .NET: Nu (Oren Eini)
• Thoughts on Change Framework Command (Jason Haley)
• Comparing .NET XML Serializers: Part One (Ivan Krivyakov)
• Customize Your Toolbars in Visual Studio 2008: Commands Tab and Understanding Commands: Simple Commands and Show All Toolbox Controls (Zain Naboulsi)
• Cautiously Merging IL (Udi Dahan)

Web Development

• Mining API Mapping for Language Migration (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• The future of OpenRasta (Sebastien Lambla)
• Wave Visualizer: Turning Threads into Trees (Pamela Fox)
• Gowalla’s Write API: the Experience is Distributed (Adam DuVander)
• DOM Traversal (Jonathan Seitel)
• ASP.Net MVC 3.0 Preview 1, Razor and nested master pages (Fredrik Normen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 – Updated Sprint Burndown Report (Aaron Bjork)
• The Art of Agile Development (Brendan Enrick)
• 30 Days of Getting Results the Agile Way (J.D. Meier)
• User story is worthless, Behavior is what we need (Omar Al Zabir)
• Rough Notes on using FitNesse with C++ (Brett Schuchert)
• I messed up (Eric Brechner)
• Breaking Even Small Things Up (John Sonmez)
• DoD TSP BOK – Free eBook, “Team Software Process (TSP) Body of Knowledge (BOK)”) (Greg Duncan)
• The value of naming things (Mark Needham)
• IBM Rational Enterprise Architecture Program (Mike Walker)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to Install Offline Documentation for Windows Phone Developer Tools (Blake Handler)
• Silverlight Queues: Design (Oren Eini)
• Screen orientation on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Enforcing Single Instance WPF Applications (Daniel Vaughan)
• An Implementation of Castle Windsor Bootstrapper for Caliburn.Micro (Bobby Johnson)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF Series and MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Architectural Overview (Davy Brion)
• Xaml Fxcop Rules Using Xaml Toolkit and Running Xaml FXCop rules in FXCop GUI (Lester Lobo)
• Effective Data Representation in Silverlight 4.0 using TargetNullValue, StringFormat and FallbackValue (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Rendering a Xaml Gauge Control (and other WPF Controls) in ASP.NET MVC (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Windows Phone taskhost.exe error (Rob Miles)
• CSLA .NET and MVVM video series (Rockford Lhotka)
• Dealing with Images with Bad Metadata – Corrupted Color Profiles in WPF (Scott Hanselman)
• WPF: Drag and drop between listboxes (Nikos Printezis)
• WP7: Launchers and Choosers (Corrado Cavalli)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: New Channel9 Preview, Power Tools, MVC 3 Preview 1, Laser Graffiti (Dan Fernandez)
• jQuery Podcast 30 – Chris Coyier (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Windows Weekly 167: Childlike Wonder (Paul Thurrott)
• endpoint.tv – Canonical REST Service (Ron Jacobs)
• Software Architecture: Where do you start? (Zubair)
• Start Up Podcast Show #77 Jordan Ritter, CTO and Founder of CloudCrowd (Bob Walsh)
• A Conversation with Gilad Bracha (Charles Torre)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: Redmond Heads to Berlin (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Free SQL Server Training for the Week of August 2, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)
• My upcoming community speaking events (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint Virtual Expo Networking Event (Joel Oleson)
• Why Google Cares About Developers (Brad Abrams)
• Have a WP7 App idea? Want to code an App?–Hook up with Mobile App Match (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft "Daily Build" Nerd Dinner – August 4th in Seattle, Redmond (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• Print Dates without Day or Time in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to BINARY_CHECKSUM and Working Example (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Windows Service could not connect to the report server database (Viswanathan Durairaj)
• NoSQL Summer Reading List (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Best Practices in Developing Requirements for SharePoint Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Over 3,000 Windows Phone 7 devices connected to Facebook (Brody McKee)
• Ruby Is Scary (Jak Charlton)
• Lesson for Microsoft: Advertising works (Joe Wilcox)
• Discovering Bing (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 31, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 30, 2010 — #914 and Silverlight Cream for July 31, 2010 — #915 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 30, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 31, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 07.22 ~ 07.31 (yuanjian)
• Linkblogging: Object Calisthenics (Pete Seale)

The Geek Shelf

Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design by Diomidis Spinellis

Top Links

• Project Houston CTP released – try it out with brentotweets (Jamie Thomson)
• 10 Commandments of Usability (Dave Laribee)
• SRP: Single Responsibility Principle (Andy Stopford)
• Free JustCode, JustMock licenses for all Thursday webinar attendees (Zain Naboulsi)

.NET / Visual Studio

• An interesting RavenDB bug (Oren Eini)
• Mono 2.8 Trick: tracing exceptions (Miguel de Icaza)
• Feature Builder v1.0 Released (Remember, this is the tool that helps build tools… The Power Tool for Visual Studio Power Tools) (Greg Duncan)
• Interactive ToolTip using Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Customize the Command Prompt (Zain Naboulsi)
• Working with custom proxies (Rory Primrose)
• Productivity power tools, navigation (Gian Maria Ricci)

Web Development

• An Examination of ClientIDMode in ASP.NET4 (Hima)
• HTML Snippets in Visual Studio 2010 (Dane Morgridge)
• New ASP.net Ribbon Control (Peter Bahaa)
• A simple way to Defend Against Unauthenticated Web Service Access. (Joe Stagner)
• Demand for HTML5 Skills On the Rise, Report Says (Simon Mackie)
• Microsoft Web Farm Framework Version 2 for IIS 7 (x64) (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Driving CRUD screens with BDD (Gojko Adzic)
• Coded UI Test – Tip 3 – Locate Controls Using Win + I (Shai Raiten)
• Clean Coding, The Cheat Sheet. Starts SOLID and gets better from there… (Greg Duncan)
• The prepared mind vs having context when learning new ideas (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft confirms Windows Phone 7 launch partners: HTC, Samsung, LG, Dell and Asus (Florin Troaca)
• Windows Phone 7 and Windows Live Calendar: What you can and can’t do (damaster)
• The MVVM Pattern Is Highly Overrated (Davy Brion)
• More Windows Phone 7 Jump Start sessions, plus forum (Devon Musgrave)
• The new WPF Team Blog – one place to get it all! (Margaret Parsons)
• Fantasia Lite: New Silverlight Painting Tool (Nikola)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The GeekDads Episode #72: The Geek Double Twist (Ken Denmead)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 2 of n (Charles Torre)
• Video: Cloud Delivery and Azure (Eric Hagan)
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Firestarter (Part 1 of 5): Keynote, Intro to SOA & WCF and (Part 2 of 5): Most Common WCF Usage Configurations and (Part 3 of 5): REST Programming with WCF and (Part 4 of 5): WCF Made Easy, Data & RIA Services and (Part 5 of 5): What’s New with WCF 4.0 (Emily Gibson)
• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: The Overview Video (Rob Tiffany)
• Building a Compelling Design with a PivotViewer Collection (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Using OneNote: The Best Way To Get Course Materials (Bob Caswell)
• Beta Review: Forrst is an awesome community for designers and developers (Erez Zukerman)
• .NET speaker Idol, Guess who won? (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Webcast Next Week – Using XML to Query Execution Plans (jstrate)
• Getting Started In Blogging And Technical Speaking – At The 2010 PASS Summit (Kendal Van Dyke)

Database

• Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 9 (Glenn Berry)
• Database Development with Visual Studio 2010: Overview of SQL Server Data-Tier Application (DACPAC) (Gouri Sohoni)
• Calculate Age from Date Of Birth using SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQLAuthority News – SolidQ Journal Released – A Must Read for All (Pinal Dave)
• New book: Microsoft Access 2010 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)
• A strategy for managing security for different environments using the Database Development Tools in Visual Studio 2010 (Jamie Thomson)
• PostgreSQL Tutorial – Creating Your First Database (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• DB2 and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 and BCS Meta Man July 2010 Release (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Testing begins with Yahoo! (Satya Nadella)
• “Work Without Walls” – Free eBook for management/workers thinking about “Working Remote” (reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• Interviewing (A Gently Stolen Idea) (Jeremiah Peschka)
• A frank conversation about the futures of Apple and Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
• Why Aren’t More Developers Building Businesses? (Marc Grabanski)
• Developers Still the Most In-Demand IT Workers (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Smart girls at the party (Phil Plait)
• Bing Webmaster Tools updated, now utilizes Silverlight 4 and Microsoft Employees to get a Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #648 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 21, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 07.09 ~ 07.21 (yuanjian)

The Geek Shelf

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