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Top Links

• EF Code First and Data Scaffolding with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update (Scott Guthrie)
• White Paper: Flex, Silverlight or HTML5? Time to decide… (Colin Eberhardt)
• Pull Request Listing, Recent Releases in Followed Projects, and Projects You May Like (Matt Hawley)
• MSDN Patterns & Practices introduces Project Silk, a web guidance project (Rachel Appel)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The LINQ Set Operations — they’re not just for math! (James Michael Hare)
• Data Structures in C# (Rob Miles)
• New Windows Azure Connect Features Add New Locations, Enhance Interface (Windows Azure Team)
• Is Mono dead? Is Novell dying? (Rob Conery)
• Generate better NHibernate logs (Jose Romaniello)
• Must-have resource for Azure developers (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

 

Web Development

• HTML 4 to 5 Cheat sheet, see what’s new and removed for Tags and Attributes. (Greg Duncan)
• Calling Web Service Page Methods with jQuery (Joe Stagner)
• Microsoft ASP.NET – Too many options (Peter Gfader)
• ASP.NET MVC: Getting selected values from CheckBoxList (Gunnar Peipman)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0 Beta Released (Andy Robb)
• New IE9 Developer Content on MSDN (IE Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The conflict between agile and architecture (part 1) (Simon Brown)
• My Work with Scrum.org (David Starr)
• Tips for UI Tests with GWT: HTML IDs, or “How to buy votes” (Kyle Baley)
• Getting up to BAT: Scaling Out (John Sonmez)
• Best practices: Dynamics of Software Development, 2006 Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Lifecycle of singleton objects (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins (Anthony T)
• A Fluent Backwards Design (Jeremy Likness)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building CTA Bus Tracker for WP7 – Part 1 (Erik Klimczak)
• Part 4b – Hello piggy and Part 4a – Raising the floor and Part 4c – Launching our pig and Part 4 – Three, two, one… launch! (Jo de Greef)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 175: Game Development with Andrew Brownsword (SE-Radio Team)
• At look at the Lync SDK with Marcelo Farjalla (Larry Larsen)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #47: WCF Web API with Glenn Block and Scott Seely (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Silverlight TV 71: Laurent Bugnion, Luigi Rosso, and Ward Bell Talk Silverlight 5 at MIX11 (John Papa)

 

Community / Events

• It’s Not Too Late to Attend – or Host – A Windows Azure Boot Camp Near You! (Windows Azure Team)
• May 2011 Edition of Philly Nerd Nite (Nerd Nite)
• Developer Stand up Comedy – Coding 4 Fun (Scott Hanselman)
• Join the Open Source Un-Contest and Get a Free eBook from O’Reilly (Joe Stagner)
• Announcement: Richard Hale Shaw Seminar in Ann Arbor (Bill Wagner)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Video – Best Practices Analyzer using Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 8 – Server Monitoring – Baseline (Ted Krueger)
• Which Database Is Right for Me? (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• Database maintenance for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 design samples: Corporate portal with classic or claims-based authentication (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint: Create Dashboard with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SharePoint and Azure Integration Opportunities (Vishwas Lele)

 

Miscellaneous

• BizTalk 2010 VHD (MS Downloads)
• 2011 Ultimate Tools List for Mac (Ben Scheirman)
• Right click DMP your Windows Explorer – Creating file association and context menu for WinDbg (Greg Duncan)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Android Apps with Adobe AIR – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDAAR (O’Reilly Media)
• Commerce Tracking with Google Analytics for Android (Tim Bray)
• Install Ruby on Rails on Windows Easily with Rails Installer (David Hayden)
• ‘Walshied’ Windows Phone 7 that won’t update? There’s a fix for that (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Home Server 2011 Will Protect Your Data (Richard Hay)
• Musings on ebooks (Martin Fowler)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: Cinco de Mayo 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 5 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 05/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #846 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 5th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2011 — #1085 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development: Creating Games using XNA Game Studio 4 by Chris G. Williams

 

 

Top Links

• 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

 

 

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Top Links

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

 

.NET / Visual Studio

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

 

Web Development

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

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

 

Community / Events

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

 

Database

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

 

Miscellaneous

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

 

More Link Collections

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

 

The Geek Shelf

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