• Welcome to Building Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• NHibernate Work-Around is not really a Work-Around… (Phillip Haydon)
• Book Reviews: CoffeeScript and JavaScript Web Applications (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Silverlight 5 Incompatibility: Play by the Rules (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some special monads in F# – Part 1 of n – InfinityMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 2 of n – UndoMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 3 of n – DistributionMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 4 of n – Application: The Monty Hall problem (Steffen Forkmann)
• Parallel For Loop (Richard Carr)
• Downloading file as byte array from AZURE BLOB storage in WCF Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Code Metrics – Creating Work Items from Code Metrics Results (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tip #109 Did you know … How to speed up build time by *only* building the currently selected project in a multi-project solution? (Mark Berryman)
• Baby Steps in Windows Device Driver Development: Part 6, Hiding Processes (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Answer: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)
• DXCore standard string providers list and How to specify the CodeRush user information and use it inside text expansions (Alex Skorkin)
• Code Kata Answers to Calculating averages (Mal)
• Photo Mosaics Part 4: Tables (Jim O’Neil)
• What’s Wrong With This Code? (#28) (K. Scott Allen)
• Lego my Robotics Developer Studio… "Robot Development Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio" book now available for purchase and Along came a spider… a .NET Gadgeteer FEZ Spider! and NUI Racing – Using Kinect (and C++) to drive TrackMaina (Greg Duncan)
• Annual SQL Connectivity Survey (Raghu Ram)
• Interactive IdP With SAML-P WIF Extension (Jimmy Larkin)

Web Development

• Building the Account at a Glance HTML5/jQuery Application (Dan Wahlin)
• What is the correct media type for JavaScript source code? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Running ClamAV (Antivirus Software) in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Rails 3 – Only $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD271 (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• IT projects; if you can’t beat them, change the game (Simon Brown)
• Think of Yourself as a Thinker (J.D. Meier)
• Creatively Thrashing With TDD (Rob Conery)
• Inversion of Control Course Published on Pluralsight (John Sonmez)
• Monsters Built Using Kanban (Peter Saddington)
• Rails Misapprehensions: The Dependency Injection Pattern (Nick Sutterer)
• How Microsoft Is Changing Version Control for Images (Rowan Puttergill)
• Thoughts on Mocking (Part 1 of 2) and (Part 2 of 2) (Gregory Brown)
• New book: I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft, Second Edition (Valerie Woolley)
• Technical Debt and Open Source (Joe Mayo)
• One Year since TeamPulse V1 (Joel Semeniuk)
• Planning for a new level of verifications in automation (John Guin)
• Use, Reuse, and Architectures (Kyle Szklenski)
• Microsoft Visio 2010 Template: Application Architecture Pivot Diagrams (MS Downloads)
• Advantages Of Being A Polyglot Programmer (Davy Brion)
• Lessons in Software Reliability (Jim Bird)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Mango Custom application Theme Step by Step (Windows Phone Geek)
• Screen Orientations in Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
• Fetching Picasa Images through RSS in WP7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• HTML 5 or Silverlight 5, which will Microsoft choose for the next O/S (Surf4Fun)
• What happens when I publish a Windows Phone ‘Mango’ application update? (Todd Brix)
• Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – OAuth client & basic infrastructure (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 2000 WPF Things #365 – SelectedDate and SelectedDates Properties of Calendar Control (Sean Sexton)
• System.Threading.Tasks and updating the UI thread (Geoff Hudik)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Shaun Walker Talks A Little DNN 6 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Building Web Parts-Episode 65 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Surface 2.0 Stress Test Robot – PaTTY (Nic Fillingham)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 66 – A Chat About ALM (Richard Banks)
• Ping 113: 3D Human face, Windows 7, Microsoft Fashion, Excel Challenge (Laura Foy)
• New Async Programming Videos (Spotty)

Community / Events

• Coffee Talk: Introduction to Scrum – webcast event this Friday! (Martin Hinshelwood)
• SQLAuthority News – Pluralsight Giving Away Free Subscription to Quiz Participants (Pinal Dave)
• GirlDevelopIt Brings Affordable Programming Classes to Philly (Nicole Kline)
• Cricket brought me back to Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• Major update to SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 available (Erik EJ)
• Using SSIS lookup transformation editor with millions of rows (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – System and Time Data Types – Day 16 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• How I Scrapped MySQL for MongoDB in Three Hours (Mike Borozdin)

Miscellaneous

• Gorilla vs. Shark (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 08.08 ~ 08.16 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading August 15, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (8/15/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #917 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 078 for 8/15/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily News Digest 08/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Link dump for August 15th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Links of the week #158 (David Vidmar)
• Daily WP7 Development News 15 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life! by Chris Bernard

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

• Top 10 Keys to Deploying SQL Server on VMware (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Creating All New Database with Full Recovery Model (Pinal Dave)
• Generate a GUID/newid() in SSIS 2008 (Scott Herbert)
• My head hurts from hitting it against a wall–SSMS log viewer and Do you use schemas? would you like keyboard shortcuts in SSMS to work with them (Simon Sabin)
• Data Quality and Master Data Management with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 book available as a free download (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server Quiz June 2011 (William Vaughn)
• Identity Reseeding (Steve Jones)
• SQL Exercise During Candidate Interview Process (aszwickart)

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider

• All Updated Windows Phones Are Not Alike (Brandon Watson)
• Should I use HTML5 or Silverlight? One man’s opinion. (Scott Hanselman)
• Spatial Types in the Entity Framework (Pedro Ardila)
• LightSwitch: 10 Times As Many Silverlight Developers As Today (Michael Washington)

.NET / Visual Studio

• DLR in C# using Scripting Language (Abhishek Sur)
• WCF scales up slowly with bursts of work (Dustin Metzgar)
• EasyNetQ, a simple .NET API for RabbitMQ (Mike Hadlow)
• Blog Post: PLINQO for NHibernate, Beta 1 Released! (T. DuPont)
• Using CSLA 4: Data Portal Configuration draft online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Meet the new Microsoft® Surface® Input Simulator (Luis Cabrera)
• Top Failed Bots (Brian Hitney)
• MEFing up RIA Services Part 2: Kyle’s Turn (Colin Blair)
• Something "sort" of handy… [IListExtensions adds easy sorting to .NET list types - enabling faster search and removal, too!] (David Anson)
• dotCover 1.1, dotTrace 4.5 Performance Beta 2 (Jura Gorohovsky)

Web Development

• Updating JavaScript Benchmarks for Modern Browsers (Mike Belshe)
• CSS3 Gradients in IE10 Platform Preview 1 (Jennifer Yu)
• Built-in GZip/Deflate Compression on IIS 7.x (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET MVC: Implementing CheckBoxList (Gunnar Peipman)
• Continuous Integration In PHP w/Jenkins (Eric Hogue)
• Best Windows Hosting Offers (including plenty of free stuff) (Andy Robb)
• How to get a source code enlistment set-up for Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Anecdotally, datajs delivers quiet success (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10 Tips for Agile Adoption in the Enterprise (Peter Saddington)
• A Mockery review (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using Fakes (Richard Carr)
• A minimal actor framework, part 2 (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Uploading Data back to Azure (Rob Tiffany)
• Working with WP7 ListPicker SelectedItem and New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.4.0 officially released and Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Implementation and Best Practices (Windows Phone Geek)
• 20 useful Expression Blend tips & tricks (Alex Knight)
• Event to Command in WPF MVVM application (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–The Third Dimension (Mike Taulty)
• Step-by-Step Using ImplicitDataTemplate in Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Games: Add Images and use the mouse to move images (Sam)
• Housebuilding with John Papa and Sliverlight 5 at MIX11 (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Conversation with Herb Sutter: Perspectives on Modern C++(0x/11) (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 111: John Papa on the Open Source Fest at MIX11 (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 146 – PowerScripting Podcast – Directors from PowerShellCommunity.org (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SE Podcast #03 (Alex Miller)
• MAUI: Mobile Assistance Using Infrastructure and Microsoft Private Cloud Security Overview (Larry Larsen)
• Web Camps TV #11 – MVC Turbine with Javier Lozano (Drew Robbins)
• Hot Apps: Max & The Magic Marker, Gadget Watch, 4th & Mayor, Shuriken Ninja, Back Track (Laura Foy)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Hardware Model Shop (Clint Rutkas & Nic Fillingham)
• Get Your CodeRush Training Here (Mark Miller)

Community / Events

• Developing SharePoint 2010 Solutions Using External Data and Services – May 25, 2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• Author news: Azure deep dives with Jeffrey Richter (Devon Musgrave)
• SilverlightShow, CodeStock and Devlink lined up for the next couple of month. (Michael Crump)
• What do you ask when interviewing a company? (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• Working with large XML files in Management Studio (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 7 – Server Security and grouping – Schema Control (Ted Krueger)
• How do you create or update stored procedures. (Martin Catherall)
• Policy-Based Management and Local Password Policy (Jorge Segarra)

Miscellaneous

• Bing Maps Control for iOS (MS Downloads)
• Code-Named “Dryad” Ships in Beta! (Ade Miller)
• "Climbing Mt PowerShell" comic now available (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft announces OAuth 2.0 support for Messenger Connect (Kip Kniskern)
• Oracle Plans to Transfer Hudson IP to Eclipse (Mitch Pronschinske)
• ‘Walshied’ Windows Phone 7 that won’t update? There’s a fix for that (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 05/04/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 4-May-2011 and 3-May-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #845 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 04, 2011 — #1084 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 4th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed by Stephen Walther

• Ribbon Hero 2 Release (Sarah Faulkner)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 3: How to implement basic site properties (Jennifer Marsman)
• A foray into the installation, setup, and configuration of an Orchard site. (Rachel Appel)
• Beyond the browser: Microsoft’s ‘C3′ next-gen platform for HTML-based applications (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Different Versions of Integrated Web Server in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Saving images to SQL Server Compact with Entity Framework 4.1 Code First (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• Debugging 64 bit application using IntelliTrace – Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Abhijit Jana)
• Browsing recently accessed files in Visual Studio using CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)
• Enhance your Visual Studio Productivity with Telerik JustCode (Chris Eargle)
• VS2010 SP1 New Features: Silverlight 4 Support (Zain Naboulsi)
• Using Kinect for NUI Part 3 – Cursor (Deborah Hanamura)

Web Development

• Conditional Filters in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Phil Haack)
• jQuery Confirm Buttons and Dialogs for ASP.NET and Beginning the Contoso Karate WebMatrix Sample App (Joe Stagner)
• Direction-friendly Navigation Bar (Thierry Koblentz)
• Add-ons and IE Reliability (Herman Ng)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Representing Agile Testing (Dan Puckett)
• Article:Agile Architecture Interactions (James Madison)
• The Most Complex Program of All Time (John Sonmez)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Testcase Superclass (Giorgio Sironi)
• Can an Open Source Project Just Be Done? (Rob Conery)
• NUnit Utility Assertions (Richard Carr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Incremental Search (Peter Kuhn)
• Style Browser for WPF (Renat Khabibulin)
• Coding4Fun Toolkit with new Color Slider Control and All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save Binary files (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Markup Extensions and Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Implicit Data Templates and Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Ancestor Relative Binding and Silverlight 4, UserControls and the dreaded “name already exists in the tree” (Mike Taulty)
• Live Geometry for Windows Phone 7 (Kirill Osenkov)
• WPF 4: Developing End-to-End application using Prism 4 Commanding and DataGrid Custom Behavior (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Best of FREE Frameworks, Tools and Controls for Windows Phone 7. (Michael Crump)
• Supporting both Double and Triple Click in Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
• Various Clients and Forms Authentication (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 110: Geoff Dalgas and Jarrod Dixon take us behind the scenes at StackExchange (Jon Galloway)
• XNA: Game Development – Creating Player Animation (Tina Wood)
• The Engadget Show – 020: RIM’s Ryan Bidan, GDGT’s Peter Rojas, Ford CEO Alan Mulally, lots of tablets, Shredder test-drive (Chad Mumm)
• Yet Another Podcast #32–Kent Quirk and Game Development (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• A Microsoftie mountaineer on passion, perseverance and peak performance (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• CSLA 4 training: June 2011 (Rockford Lhotka)
• StackExchange average age of users for each tag (Brian Bondy)
• Hacking Education: A Contest for Developers and Data Crunchers (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• SQL Server Management Objects 2008 (SMO) New Features (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQLAuthority News – Pluralsight On-Demand FREE for SQL Server Course (Pinal Dave)
• Disable SQL Agent Jobs with PowerShell (Eric Humphrey)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010: Storing Documents on the File System with Remote Blob Storage (Damon Armstrong)
• New SharePoint 2010 SDK Available for Download: Now Includes SharePoint Online! (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• ‘Amazing Experiences’: Kinect for Xbox 360 Moves to Windows with upcoming SDK (Steve Clayton)
• Maybe there’s something wrong with the universe, but probably not (Eric Lippert)
• Listening to Kinect (Steve Clayton)
• New Book: Beyond Bullet Points, 3rd Edition: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2011 — #1078 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 25th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #840 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

• Spec Explorer 2010 Release 3.5 now available! (Xiang Li)
• async 11: Control Flow and await (Bill Wagner)
• New April 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
• Office 365 Marketplace and the Open Beta (Joel Oleson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Default Extension methods and Dynamic query with Linq (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio 2010 and UML(Unified Modeling Language) Part-I (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Accessing ObjectContext Features from EF 4.1 DbContext (Julie Lerman)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)
• MSBuild Extension Pack April 2011 Release (Mike Fourie)
• Closures in CSharp (Abhishek Sur)
• Coding Helpers – Smart Parentheses and Smart Brackets (Alex Skorkin)
• ReSharper 6 Enhances Razor Support (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• Create user friendly date fields with ASP.NET MVC EditorTemplates & jQueryUI (Rachel Appel)
• Presentation Tips Learned From My (Many) Mistakes (Phil Haack)
• Get your FREE ASP.NET Razor Templates (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET MVC: Defining short URL-s for root level pages and ASP.NET MVC 3: Using controllers scaffolding (Gunnar Peipman)
• MVC Extension Method for Hosting Static Content on a CDN (Nathan Totten)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Testcase Class per Feature (Giorgio Sironi)
• Creating a Bot for the Rock Paper Azure Contest (Steve Smith)
• HTTP is great (Rob Ashton)
• Exploring ECMAScript 5 with a Simple Game of Poker (ieblog)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NUnit Type Assertions (Richard Carr)
• Developer Chronicle: Lasagna is not a good role model (Jimmy Nilsson)
• .gitconfig (Nick Berardi)
• "I’ll Whack Your Fingers"-Oriented Programming (Joh)
• Refactoring is Not About Reducing Code (Krishna)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What the new App Hub in Windows Phone Mango means for the Enterprise (Rob Tiffany)
• WriteableBitmapEx goes NuGet (Rene Schulte)
• New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.3.2 officially released and Coding4Fun WP7 Message Prompt in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• A Fast Loading Windows Phone 7 NavigationList Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• The WPF Renaissance (James Ashley)
• ReactiveUI posts now in PDF format (Paul Betts)
• Family.Show [Insert a Sixth Sense quote here] (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 7 Mango: My feedback as I peel it apart (Kelly Sommers)
• Working with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta and Issues with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Out of Box Experience – Windows Live ID and the Benefits to Having One For Your Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Multiple Window Support and LightTouch–Silverlight Touch Library from Wintellect (Mike Taulty)
• Social Viewer Template for Windows Phone 7 Published (Nick Randolph)
• Awesome Windows Phone Resource (PubSec)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio: Coding4Fun with Clint Rutkas (MS Podcasts)
• Technoloby & Friends Episode 152: Randy Pagels on Visual Studio Test Professional (David Giard)
• XNA: Game Development – The Game Loop (Tina Wood)
• Windows Weekly 204: I’m In A Cab (Paul Thurrott)
• Podcast- Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi- ASP.NET Tools Integration (Joe Stagner)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 51 – Xerxes Battiwalla talks Shouldly (Richard Banks)
• Deploying PHP Applications to Windows Azure without Visual Studio (Karsten Januszewski)
• Yet Another Podcast #31–Laurent Bugnion Live at Mix (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 6 – Windows Azure Role Security (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 012 – “MIX’n It Up” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The GeekDads Episode #89: Awesomest of Awesome Events Ever Awesomely Possible (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 18th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Mix 11 Videos – Download them all with RSS (Scott Hanselman)
• My Annual Arizona .NET Speaking Event this Friday (Scott Guthrie)
• Vote for your favorite love song playlist and win a fab Windows Phone and music package (Luke)
• MIX11 for the Silverlight Guy (Mike Taulty)
• MIX11 Session feedback: WCF Web APis: "There’s a URI for That" (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Thoughts on the MIX 11 announcements (Nigel Parker)
• Seacoast .NET Inaugural Meeting–Apr. 20th (Jim O’Neil)
• INETA Community Leadership Summit at TechEd 2011 and Help me go to Tech Ed 2011 (Chris Williams)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Making Database to Read Only – Changing Database to Read/Write and SQL SERVER – Appling NOLOCK Hint at Query Level – NOLOCK for whole Transaction (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS Tips & Tricks – Registered Server Groups (Seth Phelabaum)
• Why do we need error handling? (Kim Tessereau)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Health Score – Something to add to your SharePoint-based applications and SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Customization Deep Dive (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Office 365 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Windows PowerShell Language Specification Version 2.0 (MS Downloads)
• Office 365 Public Beta: Available Now! (Joey deVilla)
• Coding While You Commute (Leon Bambrick)
• Balancing work and kids: real advice for real life (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• PowerShell Language now licensed under the Community Promise (PowerShell Team)
• Paint.NET in 24 more languages?! tl;dr … Yes (Rick Brewster)
• My Top 10 Programming Quotes (Senthil Kumar)
• Photosynth Team releases iPhone App (Joe Stagner)
• Update progress for AT&T Windows Phones (Eric Hautala)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 16, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 — #1073 and SilverlightShow for April 4 – 10, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 – 2 — #1074 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 190 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links– 2010_15 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• The Morning Brew #836 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 18th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 04/18/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 04/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

LINQ Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O’Reilly)) by Joseph Albahari

• Mono Android and iPhone Updates (Miguel de Icaza)
• Happy birthday Channel 9! (Eric Lippert)
• Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.3 Released (New Message Prompt, Password Prompt controls and Toast fixes + now NuGet’able too) (Greg Duncan)
• LinqPad, Linq Queries and IEnumerable (Jesse Liberty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Preventing check-ins to TFS that contain code analysis warnings (Andrew B. Hall)
• Debugging Series: Symbols Server and Your Symbols (Cameron Skinner)
• CodeRush Tip– Create a Select / Switch statement with branches for each element of an enumeration (Rory Becker)
• How to enumerate solution and source code items using DXCore (Alex Skorkin)
• Attribute Based Caching for .NET (David Cooksey)
• Customizing Team Build 2010 post series in 16 (to-date) parts and Translating for fun and… fun… (Greg Duncan)
• Getting a Windows Azure account for Rock, Paper, Azure (Brian Hitney)

Web Development

• Images in a web page: meh… Images *in* a web page: cool! [Delay.Web.Helpers assembly now includes an ASP.NET web helper for data URIs (in addition to Amazon S3 blob/bucket support)] (David Anson)
• Bing Maps JavaScript Intellisense Helper Now Available as Nuget Package (Chris Pietschmann)
• Automatically Including Current Language In Generated URLs With ASP.NET MVC (Davy Brion)
• Checking whether page is secure or not in ASP.NET or JavaScript (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• MvcScaffolding: Overriding the T4 Templates (Steve Sanderson)
• Eight HTML5 Drafts Updated (W3C Staff)
• Live datajs sample showing OData.read (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• C++ Unit Testing Roundup (Avi Kaye)
• Problems with Agile? Check your Culture! (Michael Sahota)
• Unit Test Logging for Builds with Xcode 4 and Team City (Scott Densmore)
• Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: Hiding global state (Oren Eini)
• Reference Architecture Framework for Discrete Manufacturing (MS Downloads)
• On Leadership – Lead by Example (K. Brian Kelley)
• Windows Git Tip: Hide ^M (Carriage Return) in Diff and posh-git Release v0.3 (Keith Dahlby)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7: Right alignment bug for item templates with grids (Håkan Reis)
• How to implement Template Binding in Silverlight Custom Control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WP7 – How To Extend ListBox When Reaching Last Item (Shai Raiten)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio: Code Generation with T4 and Visual Studio with Oleg Sych (MS Podcasts)
• Checking In: Eric Lippert – On Compiler Evolution, Designing C# and Blogging (Charles Torre)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 67: Tips on how to be an Independent Software Consultant with Michael Eaton (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)

Community / Events

• Free HTML5 Event on 4/26: HTML5 and Browsers (Doris Chen)
• Attending MIX 2011? There’s an app for that! (niravi)
• I’ll be presenting at the Atlanta SharePoint Saturday! (Andrew Connell)
• A bookshelf on your Careers 2.0 profile (Matt Sherman)
• A Punctuated Life (Christopher Bennage)
• Catch the MIX11 Sessions, Even if You’re Not in Vegas (Joey deVilla)
• Pluralsight’s Weekly Webcast: ReSharper Tips and Tricks (Jura Gorohovsky)
• MSDN Events Presents ‘Understanding Azure’ for Developers, Architects (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• What does the lock icon mean in SSMS when looking at a stored procedure? (Denis Gobo)
• Data Modelling: My Favourite Example (Michael Swart)
• SQL University: Index Usage (Grant Fritchey)

SharePoint

• Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• LinkedIn Launches Revamped Developer Platform (Ben Parr)
• Rails 3 Baby Steps – Part 4 (Justin Etheredge)
• Automatically map similar schemas in BizTalk 2009 (and earlier!) [BizTalk] (David Vidmar)
• Authors! Here are our updated proposal guidelines (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows 8 to feature adaptive Aero colorization, get it now on Windows 7 (Lee Mathews)
• Microsoft Executives In A Heated Battle Over Opening More Retail Stores (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• Taking Proper Screenshots in Windows for Blogs or Tutorials (Scott Hanselman)
• GNOME 3 released, ushers in an interesting amalgam of iOS and OS X (Sebastian Anthony)
• Think about your presentation and who reviews it (Ted Krueger)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 6, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 6th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #829 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 04/06/2011 and Daily News Digest 04/07/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 6-Apr-2011 and 5-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts by

Top Links

• NuGet 1.1 Released! (Phil Haack)
• Blizzard’s Goal is to Release Diablo III This Year (Brian Crecente)
• Sterling Object-Oriented Database 1.0 RTM (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Source Server and Symbol Server Support in TFS 2010 (Ed Blankenship)
• ODAC Entity Framework and LINQ Beta was Released (Gil Fink)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 with SP1 (Shai Raiten)
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.2856.0 (MS Downloads)
• CodeRush Code Issues technology overview and CodeRush Code Issues overall list (Alex Skorkin)
• How To Build Windows Services in .NET The Easy Way with Topshelf–Part 1 (Keith Elder)

Web Development

• Using jQuery Live instead of jQuery Hover function (Hajan Selmani)
• OData, jQuery and datajs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Detecting which button was clicked in MVC (Simon J. Ince)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Become a patterns & practices Developer! (Bob Brumfield)
• Writing Tests for HealthVault Applications (Eric Gunnerson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft + Nokia and some Windows Phone Radio for Good Measure (Brian Seitz)
• Achievement unlocked: Windows Phone 7 and WireShark combo (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Snoop – The WPF Spy Utility – Release v2.6.1 (CodePlex)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #6 (Jeff Prosise)
• WPF : Weird 3D Level Tree Like Control (Sacha Barber)
• Windows Phone 7 QuickStarts Live! (Sam Landstrom)
• Exclusive: Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 concept revealed! (Vlad Savov)
• Blend Bits 24–Templating Part 2 (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight Simple MVVM Commanding (Deborah Kurata)
• Reactive Drag and Drop Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
• Why To Do Today doesn’t have a Live Tile (Nigel Sampson)
• To the Cloud! with Expression Encoder 4 (Don Burnett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: mvcConf, WP7 Tools update, AsmSpy, JavaScript OO (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Cloud Cover Episode 36 – Mark Russinovich Talks Fabric Controller and Cyber Terrorism (Wade Wegner)

Community / Events

• Prism Talk – Infragegistics MVPs (Brian Noyes)
• What does the Microsoft and Nokia alliance mean for developers? (Wally McClure)
• SQL Azure track at the PASS summit (Allen Kinsel)
• The Imagine Cup Challenge! (Aseem Datar)

Database

• SQL Server Compact Edition 4.0 Toolkit v2 – Don’t leave your Visual Studio without it… (Greg Duncan)
• A NULL Is Not Unknown (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – PAGELATCH_DT, PAGELATCH_EX, PAGELATCH_KP, PAGELATCH_SH, PAGELATCH_UP – Wait Type – Day 12 of 28 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• XMLPad – a new tool in my developer utility belt (Jamie Thomson)
• Khan Academy and BitTorrent partner to deliver P2P educational video (Lee Mathews)
• Caveat utilitor – Can I run two versions of Microsoft Project side-by-side? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Paint.NET v3.5.7 Beta (Build 4058) is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Tools of the trade: Scott Saponas, Microsoft Research (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 11, 2011  and Interesting Finds: February 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Week Retrospective 19 – Personal Kanban and Agileurls.com (Peter Saddington)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 11 February 2011 – #27 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 11th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• This Week’s Link List (February 11, 2011) (Brian Swan)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Imar Spaanjaars

Top Links

• Using MEF to link view model locator and load assembly UIs dynamically (Rick Ratayczak)
• CodePlex: MVVM Light Toolkit – Release v3 SP1 (3) (Laurent Bugnion)
• Where Enterprise Architecture and Project Management Intersect (Bob McIlree)
• Database Deployment with the VS 2010 Package/Publish Database Tool (Rachel Appel)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Linqer – a nice tool for SQL to LINQ transition (Hajan Selmani)
• What to do when your Netduino locks up and Visual Studio won’t deploy to it (Pete Brown)
• Show All Settings with Web Development and Zero-Length Box Selection Video vstipEdit0009 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Password Generator – Release v2.2 (CodePlex)
• 14 Days Left to Submit XNA GS 3.1 Games on App Hub (Team XNA)
• Autofac 2.4 is here – come and “NuGet” it! (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• .NET 4 Coming to Server Core (Bruce Kyle)
• Using Dynamic Data with EF Code First and NuGet (David Ebbo)
• The Entity Framework DZone Refcard and FreeImage 3.15 out today… (Greg Duncan)
• Using a ToDo list more effectively (Hadi Hariri)
• Installing Nuget package with package manager console step by step overview. (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Spot the defect: Bad comparisons, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Code Issues – Try statement without catch or finally (Alex Skorkin)

Web Development

• Prefixing Input Elements Of Partial Views With ASP.NET MVC (Davy Brion)
• HTML5 Wish List for 2011: Interview with Michael Mullany (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
• ASP.NET MVC: Fun With Routes (Jeremiah Clark)
• Using the Dojo Toolkit with Microsoft’s WCF (SitePen)
• Dependency Injection in MVC 3–with Views (John V. Petersen)
• Excerpt from upcoming title: Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET 4 (Kim Spilker)
• And now instead, 5 things Java envies PHP for (Giorgio Sironi)
• My Blog is Now Running on Ruby in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Drupal 7 and New Support for Microsoft Technologies (Joe Stagner)
• Treeble with YUI 3 DataTable (John Lindal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Myths of Kanban (Dan Puckett)
• Asynchronous Control Updates In C#/.NET/WinForms (Derick Bailey)
• Functional Style BDD Step Definitions (Phillip Trelford)
• A good coach seeks first to understand (Michael ‘Doc’ Norton)
• The Language Divide (Gil Zilberfeld)
• How we systemically apply filters to our data access and A quick follow up about data restrictions (Joshua Flanagan)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• AutoComplete TextBox with WPF (Christian Nagel)
• Loading Data when the User Scrolls to the End of a List in Windows Phone 7 (Daniel Vaughan)
• Tasks: Launchers and Choosers–Windows Phone From Scratch #22 (Jesse Liberty)
• Integrating RadMap for Silverlight in ASP.NET – by @telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Integrating HTML into Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• $10,000 for your Windows Phone 7 app (Andrew Spooner)
• Making of – The first version of the presentation layer for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• “Create a Whimsical Animated Silverlight Background” (Mike Taulty)
• Developer Guidance – Onboarding Windows Phone 7 – Release: Fuel Tracker Source (CodePlex)
• WP7 TimeSpanPicker in depth (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 137 – PowerScripting Podcast – Adam Driscoll from Quest on the New vWorkspace PowerShell Module (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint Designer 2010 and the SharePoint Community-Episode 55 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Silverlight Training Course (Silverlight 4) – by @Ch9 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WP7 Minute Show Episode 7: Diagnostics (Richard Hay)
• Ping 89: OneNote on iPhone, Kinect Helicopter & Operation, Speller Contest, Atlanta (Laura Foy)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 3: Messaging (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• VIDEO SERIES – Microsoft WebMatrix (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – January 24th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Philly Tech Week now live, be a sponsor or event organizer today (Technically Philly)
• Philly Code Camp 2011.1 – Sponsors (Nick Berardi)
• My proposals for the #MIX11 open call (Laurent Bugnion)
• MIX11 BootCamps (Chris Koenig)
• A Note from Microsoft’s own Jennifer Marsman (Don Burnett)
• MIX11 Open Call Voting Started (Gil Fink)
• Coffee and Code at Cloud: Wednesday, January 26th (Joey deVilla)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – One Package, Unlimited Databases (24/31) (Jason Strate)
• Keeping Perspective: What Are You Building? (Joe Webb)
• SQL Server: Export Table to CSV (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – 2011 – Clipboard Ring – CTRL+SHIFT+V (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft SQL Server Licensing For Dummies.. (Robert Pearl)
• Backup file contents with SSIS – Defining the Design and Backup file contents with SSIS – Foreach Loop Container and file handling (Ted Krueger)
• SQL for Developers: Data Crunching (Tim Corey)
• Corrupting Databases for Dummies- Hex Editor Edition (Kendra Little)
• RTFM365, Week 7 (Jen McCown)

Miscellaneous

• Packtpub Microsoft Monday (Alec Whittington)
• Cursors in Powershell (Martin Bell)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming #Android – $17.99 (Save 50%) w/Code DDPAE (O’Reilly Media)
• Print from your phone with Gmail for mobile and Google Cloud Print (Tyler Odean)
• Manual Memory Management in Objective-C (Umair Saeed)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup 056 for 1/24/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #777 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for January 24, 2011 — #1034 (Dave Campbell)
• SilverlightCream top picks for January 17-23, 2011 and Daily News Digest 01/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 24 January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

Non-Designer’s Design Book, The (3rd Edition) [Paperback] by Robin Williams (Author)

Top Links

• SQL Server Compact 4.0 released! (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM and ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor Syntax and IIS 7.5 Express (MS Downloads)
• WebMatrix Released to Web (Markus Egger)
• WP7 “Phantom Data” Source Possibly Revealed? (Bil Simser)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 designer error: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: objectType (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• 25% discount on all Microsoft books from Packt (Silverlight Show)
• ANTS Memory Profiler Review (Sasha Goldshtein)
• RTM’d Today: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-511): Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
• Enterprise Library Extensibility (Grigori Melnik)
• Reference of namespaces in OData (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Phonetic Comparisons using the Soundex Algorithm (Jonathan Wood)
• DXCore abstract source tree structure (Alex Skorkin)
• Visual Basic is Losing Its Runtime Library (Jonathan Allen)

Web Development

• Writing a Custom HTTP Handler in ASP.NET (Jonathan Wood)
• Geomap Project – HTML Extensions for Rendering Map Displays (Chris Pietschmann)
• The CSS Corner: CSS3 Media Queries (Sharon Newman)
• HTML5 “standard”? (Rockford Lhotka)
• IntelliSense for Razor Hosting in non-Web Applications (Rick Strahl)
• ASP.NET and HTML5 Local Storage (Stephen Walther)
• Announcing YUI 3.3.0 (Satyen Desai)
• Adding a Multi-Column Search to the Default List page in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• WebMatrix shipping January 13, 2011 (Lawrence Moroney)
• Developing Applications for the Cloud – Hands on Labs and Moving Applications to the Cloud – Hands on Labs (MS Downloads)
• How to use IIS Manager to get Worker Processes (w3wp.exe) details information ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Feature Sample for Microsoft WebMatrix with Razor – Beta 3 (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: IntegrationContractTest (Martin Fowler)
• 12 Key Agile Thinking Tools (Mike Cottmeyer)
• TDD for algorithms: the state of the art (Giorgio Sironi)
• Polymorphism and Messaging (Udi Dahan)
• Programming is not a Craft: My Take (David Starr)
• Stardate 2011.12.1: Hasty Decisions (Kyle Szklenski)
• Secrets of rapid release cycles, from the Google Chrome team (Andy Singleton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• HTML5: The WebSockets prototype with Silverlight, HTML Bridges and JavaScript (Jef Claes)
• How to run multiple instances of the Windows Phone 7 emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Working with gradients in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)
• Windows Phone 7: Pinch Gesture Sample (Peter Kuhn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Phil Japikse is All About BDD (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Programming Streams of Coincidence with Join and GroupJoin for Rx (Charles Torre)
• Excel 25th Anniversary – Part One (Tina Wood)
• Talking with Don Knuth, software pioneer (Robert Scoble)
• Microsoft Research: Opportunities and innovation (Kelly Fife)
• WP7 Minute Episode VI–Find My Phone (Daniel Egan)

Community / Events

• Mobile Connections in Las Vegas April 17-21 (Wally McClure)
• CodeMash Precompiler Morning Thoughts (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• WebMatrix Launch–Today at CodeMash (Jim O’Neil)
• Paul Culmsee and 21 Apps join up for Information Mapping & Info Architecture Master Classes (Joel Oleson)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – UnPivot Alternative (12/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Note on DB_ID() and DB_NAME() – Get Current Database ID – Get Current Database Name (Pinal Dave)
• Investigation: Can different combinations of components effect Dataflow performance? and Always use dtexec.exe to test performance of your dataflows. No exceptions. (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• #Video Deal/Day: Crap Detection 101 – $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDCRP (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Jan-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 12 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• SilverlightShow for Jan 3-9, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2011 — #1025 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #769 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 01/12/2011 and Daily News Digest 01/13/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Ten Great Articles on WCF RIA Services (Frank La Vigne)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook by Gill Cleeren

Top Links

• Visual Basic Prism 4 Reference Implementations, QuickStarts, and Hands-on Labs (MS Downloads)
• TWC9: Scott Hanselman, IIS7 live streaming, WP7 for Beginners, SQL Azure + EF (Dan Fernandez & Scott Hanselman)
• Going Mobile with Silverlight (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Service in F# (Ted Neward)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Changing the Text Case in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Raven Suggest (Oren Eini)
• Debugging with Async (Abhishek Sur)
• Async Programming with .NET and C# v.next (Christian Nagel)
• Associating Code with a Tag using Delegates and Associating Code with a Tag using Delegates II (Deborah Kurata)
• Asynchrony in C# 5, Part Seven: Exceptions (Eric Lippert)
• A glimpse at the future of Visual Studio ALM (Greg Duncan)
• ViM Emulation (Zain Naboulsi)
• NuGet Package Transformations (Phil Haack)
• NuGet Package Management for .NET (George Chatzimanolis)
• CodeRush – Common StringProviders (Rory Becker)
• Aimee.NET – Refactoring Lucene.NET: Setting up the Project (Matthew Dennis)

Web Development

• Reducing Code by Using jQuery Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• Install WebMatrix helpers to your ASP.NET MVC 3 project with NuGet (George Chatzimanolis)
• HTML5 Web Messaging Draft Published (W3C Staff)
• RTM’d today: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-515): Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Rosemary Caperton)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Threads vs. Events (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Install WebMatrix helpers to your ASP.NET MVC 3 project with NuGet (George Chatzimanolis)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Review: Enterprise Integration Patterns (John Sonmez)
• Pedant Corner: Clarifying IoC, DIP and DI (Mike Hadlow)
• Tracking Value – How do you do it? (ScoutMaster)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Radio Number Nine (Brian Seitz)
• Simple, Blendable, DI driven ViewModels (Joel Cochran)
• Using the LongListSelector control on Windows Phone 7 and Page orientation not changing? There is a solution for that! (Dennis Delimarsky)
• How to Reposition a Silverlight Child Window? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Copy files to a Windows Phone 7 device in Windows Explorer (Lee Mathews)
• Photoshop Action for Windows Phone 7 Dithering (Robby Ingebretsen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 378: The one we recorded at the grand opening of the Seattle area Microsoft Store (Larry Hyrb)
• ARCast.TV – Extending SharePoint Capabilities to the Mobile Platform (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Video: HTML5 Primer with Scott Stanfield (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Cloud Cover Episode 32 – AppFabric Caching (Ryan Dunn)
• This Developer’s Life 1.0.8 Motivation (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Xbox Indies: Come Play With Us (Michael C. Neel)

Database

• Want to Make Your SQL Server Run Faster for Free? (David Levy)
• Synchronous execution of SSIS packages using T-SQL : Denali (Jamie Thomson)
• Could not Allocate space for Object because Primary Filegroup Is Full Error – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Beginning T-SQL 2008 by Kathi Kellenberger (Pinal Dave)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – XMLNAMESPACE and XQuery for the Non-Expert – Nodes (Jason Strate)
• Tapping Into Your Reporting Services Database (thirster42)
• SSMS Enhancement in SQL11 (Denali) – Support for Code Snippets (Jacob Sebastian)
• A Second in the Life of a Query Operator (Brad Schulz)
• Using Powershell to not script database collations for columns (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

• How SharePoint 2010 Changes the Metadata Game (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Parsing a URL with a Regex (Chad Myers)
• Paint.NET Updated (Richard Hay)
• 25 years of Windows! (Steven Bink)
• CryoDefense Version 1.4 is live! (Tree)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 19, 2010 and Interesting Finds: November 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 77 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2010 — #995 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Expert F# 2.0 (Expert’s Voice in F#) by Don Syme