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Top Links

• Windows Phone 7.1(5) Emulator Skin Switcher v1.2 and source now available (Greg Duncan)
• The Learn to Code Movement and Software Security (Mark Curphey)
• Skype coming soon to Windows Phone (or is it?) – updated (Kip Kniskern)
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #3 Ideation and Concept (Arturo Toledo)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• [Quick VS Tip] Using regular expressions do the find/replace in Visual Studio and WinRT People – A WinRT community effort and site (Greg Duncan)
• Autocorrecting unknown actions using the Levenshtein distance (Jef Claes)
• When Using EF CodeFirst With Visual Studio, How to Live With Cannot drop database because it is in use error. and EntityFramework CodeFirst and AutoKey Generation (Peter Kellner)
• Input Parameters in Fluent API (Mehdi Khalili)

 

Web Development

• Understanding CoffeeScript Comprehensions (Karl Seguin)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 4 (Jorge Ramon)
• Hosting A Node.js Site Through Apache (Davy Brion)
• NetBash Updated – Formatting Helpers Added (Luke Lowrey)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Results for Time Management (J.D. Meier)
• Book Review and my thoughts on UX (User Centered Design) (Rohit Sharma)
• A meta post about negative code reviews (Oren Eini)
• Focused Retrospectives: things to watch for (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• One project, one declarative language, two platforms – A side-by-side XAML project on Silverlight 5 and WinRT (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #9 – Handling Orientation – Part 1 (Senthil Kumar)
• 12th Day of Silverlight: PivotViewer (Tony Champion)
• WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 4of Many (Vijaya Malla)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 37 (Richard Hay)
• Engadget Podcast 276: CES Finale – 01.14.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Announcing the GoingNative 2012 Full Schedule (Charles Torre)

 

Community / Events

• CodeMash 2012 report and Coding in the style of Glee (Jon Skeet)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Cases When Stored Procedure RECOMPILE – Quiz – Puzzle – 14 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• How to connect to SQL Server when your default database is unavailable (Denis Gobo)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 08-January-2012 to 14-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

The Geek Shelf

Beginning C++ Through Game Programming by Michael Dawson

 

Top Links

• 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

 

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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