• 10th Day of Silverlight : O/S Integration and 11th Day of Silverlight : 3D (Tony Champion)
• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module pattern (part 4) – debugging (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Comparing Strings in Unit Tests (Phil Haack)
• Fluent Assertions 1.7.0 has been released (Dennis Doomen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing IEqualityComparer (Richard Carr)
• Twitter Search JSON Deserialization (Tim Murphy)
• Contact Columns and other pieces of help info in Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
• How to read managed function parameter values from call stack when they read in WinDBG? (Sebastian Dau)
• Stylecop Suppress Message (Kazim Sardar Mehdi)
• Using async / await (Bnaya Eshet)
• Kinect’ing to Arduino with Visual Basic and The Kinect, Windows Azure Service Bus and SignalR together in Kinectonitor (Greg Duncan)
• Comparing Transparent Lazy Loading between NHibernate and Entity Framework (Henry He)

Web Development

• ASP.NET: Integrating Search and Help with Cross-Page Posting (Peter Vogel)
• Multi-column combo box – NetAdvantage for jQuery (Atanas Dyulgerov)
• ASP.Net MVC4 developer preview fails to build with Nuget package restore. (Kevin LaBranche)
• Javascript coding style recommendation: in return and throw statements use only simple variables (Michael Freidgeim)
• JavaScript Performance (Steve Souders)
• WebAPI Developer Preview 6: Self Hosted Mode Example (John V. Petersen)
• Troubleshooting “500 Internal Server Errors” in the Windows Azure Emulator when Working with Node.JS (Aaron Stannard)
• Using Symbolic links with local storage to store large amount of data in Windows Azure Application Drive and Setting Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv) as data source directly from Portal at Hadoop on Azure (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Run Lokad.CQRS code natively on Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• Physician, Heal Thyself–ScrumMaster, Master Thyself (Robert May)
• The evolution of a task board (Dror Helper)
• Huboard – Github issues made awesome (Ryan Rauh)
• 5 Skills for Tech Leads (Sergio Romano)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to hide the soft keyboard in a Windows Phone app (Windows Phone Geek)
• Telerik RadDatePicker control for Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A simple Windows Phone control for reading QR codes (Jeff Wilcox)
• Your path to a WP7 app in 30 days (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A Dynamic DataTemplate Generator for WPF (Matt Hamilton)
• Breakdown of Windows Phone App Download Statistics (Rene Schulte)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #8 – Retreive Device Information (Senthil Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Why work at Microsoft? International Microfilms Contest Shows Why (MS JobsBlog)
• TWC9: New Team Members, Win8, C++, SQL 2012, Cloud Numerics (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Rick Barraza)
• The JavaScript Show – Fluentconf, Scrollorama, Impress.JS (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Engadget Podcast 274: CES 2012 Day 4 – 01.12.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 121: CES 2012 – 01.12.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 282: CES 2012 – 01.13.2012 and The Vergecast at CES: Day Four (Trent Wolbe)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 37 (Richard Hay)
• Adron Hall Visual Studio AWS Toolkit & SDK Presentation Video (Bobby Johnson)
• Hands-on: Nokia Lumia 900, THE Windows Phone [video] (Tim Conneally)

Community / Events

• Critical Path Training SharePoint Developer Roadshow in Boston & SharePint! (Andrew Connell)
• Updates to the Coding4Fun Team! (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• CES 2012: what I learned, why I’m not going back (Ed Bott)
• TED2012 speaker lineup (Mark Frauenfelder)
• CodeMash 2012–what an awesome event! (Paul Stack)
• The Chat I Had With Stephen Elop as We Both Nearly Missed Final Ballmer-Note (Ina Fried)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Debate – Table Variables vs Temporary Tables – Quiz – Puzzle – 13 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• How to connect to SQL Server when your default database is unavailable (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Windows 8: What we learned this week (Mary Jo Foley)
• Rake. Huh? and Rake Fundamentals: tasks with prerequisites and Rake Fundamentals: rakefiles and tasks and Rake Fundamentals: file tasks and Rake Fundamentals: directory tasks and Rake Fundamentals: FileLists (Dale Smith)
• What I Use: Evernote and Microsoft Word for Writing (Paul Thurrott)
• The TED imperatives (Seth Godin)
• Skype to Come to Windows Phone as App First – Baked Into OS Later? (Coming Soon?) (Antonio Hernandez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 137 – CodeMash 2012 Edition (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 14 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Re-blog – January 6 – January 12 (Jason Strate)
• MVP Friday Five: January 13, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (1/13/2012) and Daily News Digest 1/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-13 (Bob Rhubart)
• Pie in the Sky (January 13, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• Windows Dev News for January 13, 2011 – #0027 (Dave Campbell)
• Retrospective 67 – PMI, Agile Emails, and Agile Country (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery: Novice to Ninja by Earle Castledine

• Vulnerability in AntiXSS Library Could Allow Information Disclosure (Barry Dorrans)
• jQuery UI 1.8.17 (Scott González)
• JavaScript Needs Blocks (Yehuda Katz)
• jsFiddle is Well Worth 3 Minutes (John Papa)
• I’ve got $100 that says your smartphone will get #smokedbywindowsphone (Ben Rudolph)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Data Access and the essence of needless work, Part II (Oren Eini)
• Changing the default Framework from Client Profile to Full in five minutes and five steps (aka Editing a Project Template to change its default Framework) (Greg Duncan)
• DateTime.UtcNow is generally preferable to DateTime.Now (Kirill Osenkov)
• SQL Azure Federations and the Entity Framework (EF Team)
• Phalanger – The PHP Language Compiler for the .NET Framework – Release 3.0 (January 2012) for .NET 4.0 and C# LinkedList Tutorial – Learning C# (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Using The RequireJS Build / Optimizer To Concatenate Modularized CSS Files (Ben Nadel)
• Using ASP.NET MVC Validation Mechanism without ASP.NET MVC (Alexander Beletsky)
• A Really Empty ASP.NET MVC 3 Project Template (Phil Haack)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Subclass (Giorgio Sironi)
• Show Large Image on Mouseover with jQuery (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Levels in Renderscript (Tim Bray)
• iHeartRadio Launches Developer API (Sarah Perez)
• Full Screen API embiggens the lowliest of web apps (Dave Mahon)
• Accessing Windows Azure blob Storage as Network Drive and Running Apache Pig (Pig Latin) at Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Facebook Mobile Evangelist Tries To Convince Developers To Build Web Apps (Boonsri Dickinson)
• Running VisualPHPUnit in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• (Better) Tabs with Round Out Borders (Chris Coyier)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.7.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Top 10 Ways to Be Comfortable in Your Own Skin (J.D. Meier)
• Scrum (2012) – Should I fire my testers and replace them with developers? (Mark Pearl)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Manual of Style, Fourth Edition (Valerie Woolley)
• Coded UI Tests : Property “ReadOnly” cannot be retrieved due to the current state of Edit (Jonathan Antoine)
• Why Scrolling is the New Click (Anthony)
• Non-trivial and real-world feedbacks on writing Unit-Tests (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Localization Improvements for YLAD (Peter Kuhn)
• Data from Cloud on Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Real-time Direct2D Graph for WPF (Greg Duncan)
• Document Toolkit January 2012 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• WP7 Tips: How to Unpin an Application from the Start Screen? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Threading Considerations for Binding and Change Notification in Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #470 – Elements that Support RightToLeft Flow (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #6 – Make your WP7 Vibrate (Senthil Kumar)
• Tombstone Territory: Saving Silverlight/XNA State of your WP7 Game and Free Tool for XAML: XamlPadX 4.0 (Surf4Fun)
• Living the Dream: Make the Video Game You’ve Always Wanted and Get Paid For It (Dave Isbitski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Hanselman and the Web Stack of Love! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Podcast 272: CES 2012 Day 2 – 01.10.2012 and The Vergecast 009: CES 2012 Day 1 – 01.10.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Admin Accounts, Block Sizes, PerfView (Larry Larsen)
• Boagworld – Integrating Facebook and your website and Don’t allow form to compromise function (Paul Boag)
• Hot Apps: Earthworm Jim HD, Mini Squadrom, Dress Pal, Grantophone, Ski Guide (Laura Foy)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #129: Michael Sliwinski, CEO of Nozbe (Bob Walsh)

Community / Events

• January 18th in Portland, OR: Agile Tune-Up (James Shore)
• Lead Better Austin, TX – April 2012 (Roy Osherove)
• What’s in Microsoft’s What’s Next booth at CES? (Steve Clayton)
• Sharing The Point Venues in Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile Announced! (Joel Oleson)
• SF Drinkup #33 (Kami Lott)
• ComponentOne is taking on CodeMash (Kevin Griffin)

Database

• SQL Server Can Run Databases from Network Shares & NAS (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server – Maintaining different environments (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL SERVER – Reasons for Using Output Clause – Quiz – Puzzle – 10 of 31 and SQL SERVER – A Quick Look at expressor Data Quality Solutions (Pinal Dave)
• How To Improve Database Performance Without Changing Code (Thomas LaRock)
• Getting Started with MongoDB – Part 2 (Matthew Setter)
• MySQL MyISAM and InnoDB Engine Differences (Jes Schultz Borland)

SharePoint

• Office 365/SharePoint Online + Windows Azure Authentication Challenges – About this Series (Andrew Connell)
• Quick hint: How to Find the Installed Language Packs of a MOSS 2007 Installation (Martin W. Angler)

Miscellaneous

• Squeezing Python into an Android with a Single APK (Christopher Smith)
• Windows Store is coming in February – will your company have an application in it? (Eric Nelson)
• Windows 8 on ARM: The desktop remains (or does it?) (Mary Jo Foley)
• 2012 is a very important year for Microsoft and it starts it with a bang (Michael Gillett)
• Everything to Everyone – The Mobile Landscape (Tommy Rausch)
• Microsoft’s Windows Phone Strategy for 2012 (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 11, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – Jaunary 11 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #793 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1019 (Chris Alcock)
• MySQL Resources and ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-10 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 09, 2011 – #0023 and Windows Dev News for January 09, 2011 – 2 – #0024 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for January 2-8, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 01-January-2012 to 07-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News 10 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript 24-Hour Trainer (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jeremy McPeak

• JSON Toolkit 2.0 (CodePlex)
• Node.JS on Windows Azure Part 1: Setting Up Your Environment (Aaron Stannard)
• Every public change is a breaking change (Eric Lippert)
• If you like typing XAML you will love ReSharper 6.1 ! (Jeremy Alles)
• jQuery Mobile Upcoming Releases: 1.0.1, 1.1, and beyond (Todd Parker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Data Access and the essence of needless work, Part I (Oren Eini)
• Intellitrace in VS2010 (Mark)
• Deploying Visual Studio 2008 ClickOnce Projects in TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
• Visual Studio 11 ALM VHD’s, VirtualBoxed (and even on x86 hosts too) (Greg Duncan)
• Breaking Changes in the LINQ to Twitter Search API (Joe Mayo)
• Extension Method of the Day – IsReallyFuckingNullOrEmpty() (Scott C. Reynolds)
• “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.” [ManagedMsiExec sample app shows how to use the Windows Installer API from managed code] (David Anson)
• I Hate You, OutDir parameter (Pete Seale)

Web Development

• HTML5 Game Development – Lesson 6 (Andrey Prikaznov)
• Animated Web Banners With CSS3 (Caleb Jacob)
• CSS Corner: Using the Whole Font (Sylvain Galineau)
• Minify JavaScript using UglifyJS and NodeJS (Jonathan Creamer)
• Sencha: The 2012 HTML5 Wishlist (Michael Mullany)
• HTML5 Will Replace Native Apps–But It Will Take Longer Than You Think (AAPL, GOOG, ADBE) (Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry)
• Cascading DropDownList in ASP.Net MVC (Rick Anderson)
• Ruby On REST 3: One Model, Multiple Representations! (Nick Sutterer)
• Windows Azure Libraries for Java 0.1 December 2011 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Creating Printer Friendly Pages (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Web Fonts, now more compressed (Scott Knaster)
• Fix Common IE Problems: Update your Docmode for Web Standards (Rey Bango)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure : Running Hive Scripts from Interactive Hive Console (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fluent API in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
• O’ Reilly Deal of the Day 10/Jan/2012 – Version Control with Git (Tatworth)
• Gallio plugin for the VS2011 Test Window and MbUnit 101: Assert.That (Andy Stopford)
• [Agile Tool Review] – EasyBacklog – Quick and Easy Backlog Management (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #5 Basic XAML (Windows Phone Geek)
• Crafting the Øredev Windows Phone app live tile (Andreas Hammar)
• WPF Elements 5 Dashboard Sample (Jason)
• Silverlight Reporting Open Source Printing/Reports Example Updated for Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #469 – Filling a UniformGrid from Right to Left (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Audio from 2012 Microsoft CES Keynote (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 171 – PowerScripting Podcast – Listener Call-In (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Tablet Show – Kevin McNeish Prefers Objective-C (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Gweek 034: Giant Jenga! (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Engadget Podcast 271: CES 2012 Day 1 – 01.09.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 36 (Richard Hay)
• New Video: Integrating Test Studio with Team Pulse (Jim Holmes)
• VIDEO: First look at the Nokia Lumia 710 and LTE-powered HTC Titan II (Ben Rudolph)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 9th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• I’m a CodeProject MVP 2012 (Shai Raiten)
• Free Silverlight Show Webinar: Windows Phone 7.5 Background Workers and 10 Days Left to Catch an Early-bird Discount for the 4-day XAML Training in London (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Phone Camps in London (4th Feb) and Bristol (11th Feb) and Updated agenda for Six Weeks of Windows Azure now available #6weeksazure (Eric Nelson)
• AT&T shows off coming new Windows Phones at CES (Mary Jo Foley)
• Webinar: Test Dependencies & Legacy Code (Avi Kaye)
• Proud to be a CodeProject MVP 2012 (Colin Eberhardt)
• Rewarded as Codeproject MVP 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Steve Ballmer Was ON FIRE At Today’s AT&T Event In Vegas (Matt Rosoff)
• Git Events in Pittsburgh on February 21st & 22nd (Matthew McCullough)
• CES 2012: TI’s OMAP platform to power Windows 8 tablets (Michael)
• CES: Nokia Lumia 900, gorgeous and 4G fast, comes to AT&T (Michael Stroh)
• CES 2012: Kinect For Windows Retail Pricing Revealed (Richard Hay)

Database

• SQL Server –WRITELOG and how to reduce it (Jack Vamvas)
• Consolidating SQL Server Databases (David Barbarin)
• SQL SERVER – Locking, Blocking and Deadlock – Quiz – Puzzle – 9 of 31 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• How To Add Custom ASP.NET Page Using Layouts Folder Approach in SharePoint2010 (Member 3664831)

Miscellaneous

• Nokia Lumia 900 official: 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED, 4G LTE, exclusive to AT&T (Daniel Cooper)
• Microsoft in 2012: two screens and a question mark (Ed Bott)
• Adobe Lightroom 4 enters free public beta with new editing tools and photo books (Jacob Schulman)
• Starting February 1, 2012: Use the Power of Kinect for Windows to Change the World (Craig Eisler)
• Learning Android: Robolectric – Testing details got saved to SharedPreferences (Mark Needham)
• Om Nom Now Om Line (Ryan Gavin)
• Setting a Custom Icon for your External Drives in Windows Explorer (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 01.01 ~ 01.09 (yuanjian)
• Double Shot #792 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Postings–10/01/2012 (BizTalk Visionary)
• The Morning Brew #1018 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 9 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 02-08, 2012 and Daily News Digest 1/10/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• NEW! Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #1) (Himanshu Singh)

The Geek Shelf

Introducing Microsoft WebMatrix by Laurence Moroney

Top Links

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Designing Interfaces, 2nd Edition – $19.99 (Save 50%) Code DDD2F (O’Reilly Media)
• Using Windows Phone Gestures as Triggers (Nigel Sampson)
• Demystifying Silverlight Dependency Properties (Dan Wahlin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Why I Believe Visual Studio LightSwitch will be a Win and Extending a Legacy Application by Associating Local Data with External Data (Dan L. Moyer)
• Call a Method Asynchronously using Delegate BeginInvoke and EndInvoke Pattern (Suprotim Agarwal)

Web Development

• Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery, HTML 5 Style (Mike Ormond)
• FubuMVC’s Internal Runtime, the Russian Doll Model, and how it compares to ASP.Net MVC and OpenRasta (Jeremy Miller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Prebuilt Fixture (Giorgio Sironi)
• Foundations of Programming: Why Markdown? (And why not Word?) (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM Framework Explorer update and top MVVM Frameworks (Jeremy Alles)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 15 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 500 Metro Style WP7 Icons (Bil Simser)

Community / Events

• Ubelly picks from CES (Andrew Spooner)
• SQLAuthority News – Free Trip on SQL Cruise (Pinal Dave)
• Announcing Philly Code Camp 2011.1 – Saturday, April 9, 2011 (John V. Petersen)
• HIMSS back in Chicago, as is ignorance about health IT (Neil Versel)
• Agile 2011 Early Bird Submissions (Mike Cottmeyer)

Database

• SQL Server Compact 4.0 release on Jan 13? (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Override Variables (9/31) (Jason Strate)
• SSMS Addin Wrapper – Source Code and Usage (Don Halloran)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Phone 7 comes to Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” and Media Center set-top boxes (damaster)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #766 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 01/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML by Eric T Freeman

Top Links

• Coding4Fun: Autotune.NET (Mark Heath)
• Windows Phone Blue Book Pdf (Rob Miles)
• Integrating ASP.NET MVC 3 into existing upgraded ASP.NET 4 Web Forms applications (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Silverlight Media Framework 2.3 Released (Kunal Chowdhury)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Import and Export Breakpoints in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Second edition of the MSBuild and Team Foundation Build book released (Dan Moseley)
• How to: Invoke PowerShell and use the results from C#? (Joel Bennett)
• Investigating an OutOfMemoryException (Oren Eini)
• MTM Azure Data Diagnostic Adapter a nice ALM for Cloud scenario … (Clemens Reijnen)
• StreamInsight: Creating a LINQPad data context (Mark Simms)
• Attempt was made to load an assembly from a network location (Steve Smith)
• Writing an EF Enabled ADO.NET Provider and Part 2 (Pedro Ardila)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning XNA 4.0 – $15.99 (Save 50%) Code DDXN4 (O’Reilly Media)
• Strong-naming assemblies and OpenWrap (Sebastien Lambla)
• MongoMapper Extract Superclass Refactoring (Tobin Harris)
• Get and Set property accessors are ‘actually’ methods (Arun Mahendrakar)
• 4/2011 is? The end of mainstream/free support for SourceSafe… Use this as a kick-in-the-butt to move to a modern version control solution. and XNA 3.1 to XNA 4.0 Cheatsheet (well cheat page… okay, long cheat page… almost a cheat book… anyway, you get the idea…) (Greg Duncan)
• The Full Stack #5 – Entity Framework Code First (Jesse Liberty)
• Revisiting XML Configurations In Unity (Gil Fink)

Web Development

• jQuery Usage Among Top Sites (Scott Mitchell)
• WebSharper Beta 4 released (Adam Granicz)
• Drupal 7.0 Available Now (Christina Warren)
• Preprocessed Razor Templates (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Sprint – Agile Poster + Unboxing! (Peter Saddington)
• Why Your Form Buttons Should Never Say Submit (Anthony)
• Naming of unit tests – Should we follow a guideline? (Peter Gfader)
• HowTo: MsBuild &NUit (Code Inside Team)
• Guidance Product Model for Domain “X” (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight) (Colin Eberhardt)
• $99 Marketplace Rebate Extension for Windows Phone 7 (Doris Chen)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #17: MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7 update will be released this month (Owen Williams)
• Performance of Windows Phone 7 Applications (Jan Slodicka)
• Flickr Taps into the Power of Windows Azure to Deliver Seamless Photo Sharing on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7 Slates (Windows Azure Team)
• Know If Your WP7 App is Running in the Emulator or Device at Run-Time (Chris Love)
• Refresh a WP7 PhoneApplicationPage (Daniel Vaughan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Rob Conery Talks OpenID and More (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hot Apps: CES 2011 -Xbox LIVE Titles for Windows Phone (Laura Foy)
• Mads Torgersen on the Future of C# and the New Async Keyword (Mark Miller)
• Arc Touch – Meet the Designer (Larry Larsen)
• WP7 Minute Episode V–The Kindle App (Daniel Egan)

Community / Events

• Getting into SharePoint 2010 Development? Two free webinars around data access (Andrew Connell)
• CES 2011: Series of Windows Phone 7 updates coming in the next few months and CES 2011: Microsoft Surface 2.0 revealed, Windows 8 to run on SoC (damaster)
• CES: Microsoft shows off Surface 2.0 and CES: What Microsoft’s Ballmer didn’t say (Mary Jo Foley)
• Event: Be a Presenter at MIX11 (Kim Spilker)
• The most important tablet is missing from CES, and it’s not iPad 2 (Joe Wilcox)

Database

• Reducing SQL Server I/O Contention during Sync :: Tip 1 (Rob Tiffany)
• 40+ hours of free SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) training videos from SQLskills and Microsoft (Greg Duncan)
• 31 Days of SSIS – One Variable to Rule Them All (5/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Beginning SQL Server: One Step at a Time – SQL Server Magazine (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Mastering Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Mark Kendall)
• Company Forum – 5 benefits (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Amazon Launches the Appstore Developer Portal (Abel Avram)
• "Windows 8" will run on ARM natively, Microsoft says (Ed Oswald)
• The Robots Are Taking Over (Justin Etheredge)
• Will ‘Jupiter’ be key to Microsoft’s Windows 8 app store’s future? and Microsoft already seeking developer input for Office 16 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft shows off next generation of Surface, has per-pixel touch detection (Paul Miller)
• Win7 Mobile Phone Comparison Chart (Mike Snow)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 5, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #764 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 5 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 01/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Silverlight Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold

Top Links

• Methodologies for the Design of Robotic and Multi-Agent Systems (Billy McCafferty)
• In-depth look at Customizing Type Layout with ReSharper (Hadi Hariri)
• Making Sites Shine with @font-face (Emily Lewis)
• Windows Phone 7 codenamed “No Donuts” update details leaked ahead of CES (damaster)
• The developer’s true goal (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Set Breakpoint to multiple Functions at a same time in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Logging errors with MonoDroid and Android (Wally McClure)
• Controlling XML Serialization of the Root Element (Richard Carr)
• IT Book of the Year: Professional Visual Studio 2010 (Nick Randolph)
• IO throughput: Haskell vs F# (Flying Frog)
• CodeSmith Tools 2011 Roadmap (Thomas DuPont)
• Reset Window Layout (Zain Naboulsi)
• The Weekly Source Code 58 – Generating (Database) Test Data with AutoPoco and Entity Framework Code First (Scott Hanselman)
• Book Review – Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (Jeremiah.Clark)
• Looking at the code for the image importer (John Guin)
• Preprocessed T4 Templates (K. Scott Allen)
• Using CSLA 4: Creating Business Objects draft online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Project of Projects with team Foundation Server 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)

Web Development

• Displaying a Paged Grid of Data in ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)
• The Robots Are Taking Over (Justin Etheredge)
• The significance of the $ in jQuery (Matthew David)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning iOS 4 SDK for JavaScript – $13.99 (Save 50%) Code DD4JP (O’Reilly Media)
• Using jQuery and Javascript in WordPress (Per Ola Sæther)
• HTML5 Recipes: Forms Enhancements (Romin Irani)
• Sueetie.com Now Running BlogEngine.NET 2.0 (Dave Burke)
• Browser + hardware working together to deliver a richer web (Ryan Gavin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Implicit Setup (Giorgio Sironi)
• Don’t avoid difficult tasks (Dror Helper)
• The Makings of a Great Team (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• You Against Your Lists (J.D. Meier)
• Theorems Regarding Business Logic (Ken Downs)
• Book Review: Driving Technical Change (Bill Wagner)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Searching the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Programmatically (Doug Holland)
• Creating a Location Aware Mapping App for Windows Phone 7 (Frank La Vigne)
• (WPFS) MVVM Light Toolkit: Soup To Nuts Part I (Jesse Liberty)
• A guide to cleaner XAML with custom namespaces and prefixes (WPF/Silverlight) – by Sandrino Mattia (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Amazon Kindle for Windows Phone 7 now available (Lee Mathews)
• A better way to organize your Silverlight Code Snippets. and Cellbi Silverlight Controls Giveaway (5 License to give away) (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight: Fixing the BookShelf Sample (Peter Kuhn)
• Metro, Windows Phone 7 design language (Andrew Spooner)
• PathListBox: making data look cool (Alex Knight)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Developing Silverlight Applications for SharePoint 2010 (MS Podcasts)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 170: Large Agile Software Development with Bas Vodde (SE-Radio Team)
• Yet Another Podcast #19 – Lisa Feigenbaum (Jesse Liberty)
• Runas Radio Discussion on Upcoming Office 365 (Joel Oleson)
• Meet the PowerShell Team: Jon White (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – January 4th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Web Camps: MVC & jQuery Free Training (Doris Chen)
• Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon) – March, 2011 in San Francisco (Wally McClure)
• Microsoft at 2011 CES, January 6-9, 2011 (Doug Holland)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 2, Jan. 13, 2011 (Nerd Nite)
• Microsoft to Tease Windows 8 at CES Today ! (Haras)
• Upcoming CodeRush Webinars (Mark Miller)
• Snow and SQL mix for Microsoft’s Cascade Skier (Ariel Meadow Stallings)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Folder Structures (4/31) and XQuery for the Non-Expert – Binary Values (Jason Strate)
• Deny Delete on a Table to All Users Except a Few – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Copy Statistics from One Server to Another Server (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS addin (and wrapper) (Don Halloran)

SharePoint

• Capacity planning for SharePoint Server and Planning for server farms for SharePoint Server (MS Downloads)
• SP2010 AJAX part 7: Useful tools when building AJAX applications (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft set to ‘turn on’ new Washington datacenter (Mary Jo Foley)
• Silverlight Cream Monday WP7 App Review # 2 (Dave Campbell)
• Metro Home brings a little Windows Phone 7 style to your desktop (Lee Mathews)
• C# Silverlight Developer Jobs at Inviso in Bellevue, WA (Michael S. Scherotter)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Zone: News Archive – #3 – 4th January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• SilverlightShow for Dec 27-Jan 2, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for January 04, 2011 — #1022 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #763 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 01/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Brownfield Application Development in .Net by Donald Belcham

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Top Links

• Teaching Kids to Code – FREE classes in Jan 2010 (Vijaye)
• Scanning images in WPF via WIA (Pete Brown)
• TekPub’s Mastering LINQ Challenge (Justin Etheredge)

.NET / Visual Studio

• UML Profiles and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate: Part One (Cameron Skinner)
• Validate a Windows Username and Password against Active Directory (Tom Hearn)
• How to get out of the GAC all the registered assemblies (Daniel Cazzulino)

Web Development

• "Hello, World" in FubuMVC (Jeremy D. Miller)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 2 – YSlow (Karl Seguin)
• A Popup Insert control for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Open and publish a live website in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NHibernate, polymorphic associations and ghost objects (Oren Eini)
• Some preliminary thoughts on end-to-end testing in Growing Object-Oriented Software (Brian Marick)
• Avoiding The Typical Software Development World Stereotypes – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Promoting reuse using Behaviors: RotateRefreshBehavior (Bob Bartholomay)
• Fluent Silverlight – static reflection and Fluent Silverlight – Table of content (Gabriel N. Schenker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How to Live to be 100: A Mindmap and Video (Chance Brown)
• Video ambient lighting effects (Coding4Fun)
• geekSpeak Recording – The Dynamic Language Runtime in .NET 4 and geekSpeak Recording – Windows Workflow Services and the .NET Framework 4 and geekSpeak Recording – Generics and Collections and geekSpeak Recording – Refactoring Tips and Tricks with Llewellyn Falco and geekSpeak Recording – Rich Internet Applications with Windows Azure (Emily Gibson)
• A Deeper Look at Speech NUI (Larry Larsen)
• This Week in Testing Episode 10 – Do Not Ship It, Part 2 (Dror Helper)

Community / Events

• Vote for the UberProf case study in Mix 2010 (Oren Eini)
• Boston Geek Dinner – January 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Things I’d Like To Present (Christopher Bennage)
• Codemash 2.0.1.0 – Speaking, MCing and Podcasting (Keith Elder)

Database

• How to Read the Results of SELECT @@VERSION in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Reporting Services Reading linebreak in textbox (Steve Simon)
• Turning off the ghost cleanup task for a performance gain (Paul S. Randal)
• SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 2 – Using the New SharePoint Lists (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Set your hotkeys in PowerGUI Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• The ultimate ‘God Mode’ list: 39 secret Windows 7 shortcuts (Ed Bott)
• Creative Commons Data Dump Jan 10 (Jeff Atwood)
• Three post-CES goals for Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
• January’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• Windows 8 Server: The First Version of Server to Contain System Restore? (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft at CES: Finally, what to expect from Windows Mobile 7 and Windows Phone (Tim Conneally)
• Bing deconstructed! (Microsoft JobsBlog)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for January 08, 2010 — #772 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Jan-2009 (Elijah Manor)

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Ironpython in Action

Got the year right in today’s title. Thanks to Jason for the nudge… 

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Top Links

How to meet other craftsmen (Sebastian Hermida)

The source code IS (still) the executable [Updated CSI, a C# interpreter (with source and tests) for .NET 4] (David Anson)

Silverlight XAML Viewer with info callouts and links to MSDN docs (Bob Bartholomay)

.NET / Visual Studio

More LINQ with System.Interactive – Functional fun and taming side-effects (Bart de Smet)

Much Ado About Monads – Reader Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

Building A Color Picker Using ASP.NET MVC And jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

2009 highlights and plans for 2010 – part 3 (Simon Brown)

Agile Tenet #8 – Sustainable Pace (Julie Stickler)

Review of "Agile Coaching" by PragProg press (Jason Meridth)

Writing Internal DSL’s in MSDN (Jeremy D. Miller)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4.0 (Carl Franklin)

Community / Events

Announcing PowerShellGroup.org – A home for PowerShell User Groups (Joel Bennett)

Microsoft CES 2010 Keynote and CES 2010 Xbox news (Larry Hyrb)

Miscellaneous

wmic vs WMI Powershell cmdlets (Kapil Mathur)

Television of the future isn’t just on your TV (Ted Malone)

Create a System Restore Point in 1-click with Quick Restore Maker (The Windows Club)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #512 (Chris Alcock)

Silverlight Cream for January 06, 2010 — #770 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Coaching

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Top Links

• Microsoft Confirms Xbox Natal To Ship "Holiday 2010" (Kat Hannaford)
• NBDN Remote Pilot/Beta – February 8-12 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• TDD: 4 questions that will help you create the simplest thing that could possibly work (Roy Osherove)
• Silverlight HVP Proof Of Concept Released! (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

• jQuery and ASP.NET UpdatePanel (Dave M. Bush)
• Bob Dylan Meets HTML5 (Molly E. Holzschlag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to effectively define a sufficient set of BDD scenarios/Acceptance tests? (Gojko Adzic)
• Event Driven Architecture: Publishing Events using an IOC container (Jarod Ferguson)
• 3 Ways to Know Something (JD Meier)
• How Dovetail uses StructureMap with NHibernate (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Architecture Journal 22: Taking BI Beyond the Business Analyst (Mike Walker)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms (Fredrik Normen)
• Silverlight and styles (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Silverlight 4 OOB: Please remove the My-Folders restriction. It doesn’t work anyways. (Ingo Rammer)
• The ultimate hack for Silverlight in Blend (Josh Smith)
• Fonts and Silverlight (Koen Zwikstra)
• iMeta Agility & Silverlight (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SQL Azure Lessons Learned: Telerik (Ben Riga)
• Mike Ziock: Microsoft Online Services Operations (Charles Torre)
• ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Framework Fundamentals and Practices and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: ASP.NET MVC and AJAX and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Rendering Markup and Working with Data and ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Routing and Controllers (Emily Gibson)
• The Access Show: Access Developer contest – win an Xbox 360, Zune, or Windows 7 (Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• 2009 highlights and plans for 2010 – part 2 (Simon Brown)
• Blend and design-focused MIX10 Open Call Entries (Adam Kinney)

Database

• MERGE and OUTPUT – the swiss army knife of T-SQL (Jamie Thomson)
• How to obtain RecordCount (or Number of cases) from a DMX query (Steve Simon)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Content Type Publishing Setup (Charles Chen)
• Sharepoint and MbUnit (Andrew Stopford)
• SharePoint Visual Studio 2010 extensions on CodePlex SPVSX (Paul Andrew)
• Editing .cmp files to fix lookup field issues (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Leveraging WMI to Monitor Your Enterprise (Mike Ceranski)
• Video Review: Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Card for Digital Cameras and Your Life’s Workflow (Scott Hanselman)
• Why do big companies suck? (Scott Berkun)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #511 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 6-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Managing Agile (Diana Larsen)
• Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 5 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Reading: Designing for the Social Web (Nikhil Kothari)
• DI/IOCs (Sacha Barber)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NH Prof Is in Public Beta (Oren Eini)
• Writing a Simple Windows Live Writer Plugin (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Creating T-SQL Static Code Analysis Rules (Gert Drapers)
• Building Domain Specific Languages in C# (Neal Ford)
• Baby Steps in Microsoft Robotics Studio (Leon Bambrick)
• .NET Technical Forecast 2009 (Brian Noyes)
• LINQ Query Syntax C# vs. VB vs. SQL (Paul Litwin via Frank La Vigne)
• 10-4 on Channel9 (Joel Reyes) – Episode 3 is up!

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4.0 WebForms Podcast Is Now Up (Scott Galloway)
• Sueetie Wiki Now Ready for Pickup: Some Assembly Required (Dave Burke)
• An Introduction to jQuery, Part 1 (Rick Strahl)
• SYTYAWD #2 Are You Scared of JavaScript (Jeff McWherter)
• Live Framework SDK – Having a Single MeshObject (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight

• Silverlight 2 – Drag and Drop Part 1 of 2 (Corey Miller)
• Hosting Silverlight Content on a CDN (Tim Heuer)

.NET Community / Events

• ALT.NET Seattle 2009 Is Happening (Glenn Block)
• Party with Palermo: Alt.Net/MVP Summit Edition (Save the Date) (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• SQL Server 2008-2005 – Find Longest Running Query – T-SQL (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Lessons Learned in 2008 (J.D. Meier)
• Hello, 2009 (John Lam)
• Windows 7 Beta 1 Performance – How Does the OS Compare to Vista and XP? (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
• Wetware Refactorings (Jeff Moser) – Link of the Day
• 2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited (Ted Neward)
• Ballmer’s CES Keynote Promises to Be a Snoozer (Non-Announcements Revealed!) (Erick Schonfeld)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #256 (Chris Alcock)
• Discoveries This Week 01/02/2008 (Rick Minerich)
• LINKBLOG for January 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Week Episode 5 (Denis Gobo)
• CloudNews for January 2nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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