• Getting Started with Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
• Run Your Unit Tests in Parallel to Maximize Performance (Steve Smith)
• Announcing OData T4 for C#, Preview 1 (Ahmed Moustafa)
• New Videos on CQRS/DDD and Practical CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
• What’s it like building apps for Windows 8? Developers speak out (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Puzzlers available for download (Bill Wagner)
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: From start to finishing–tracing a request (Oren Eini)
• Teams and TFS Groups in TFS11, the backlog, board and security settings. (Clemens Reijnen)
• .NET Demon Provides Continuous Compilation and Testing for Visual Studio (Jenni Konrad)
• C#, Async, Limits, oh my! (Peter Ritchie)
• Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview: Team Explorer My Work Page (Mickey Gousset)
• More on TPL Data Flow from Zlatko Michailov (Jonathan Allen)
• Building an English-Based Rules Engine in .NET with IronRuby Slides and Demo (Keith Elder)
• SkyDrive API Link Round-Up and A "Get right to work introduction to Lucene.Net" (Greg Duncan)
• Aggressive Inlining in the CLR 4.5 JIT (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Abusing the Microsoft Research’s Touch Mouse Sensor API SDK with a Console-based Heat-map (Scott Hanselman)
• Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent (Shawn Cicoria)
• Entity Framework 4.3 Gets Final Tune-Up — Enum Support Promised in 5.0 (David Ramel)
• Simple Microsoft™ CAB Sample (Tom Puglisi)
• Timeouts for long running operations… (Marlon Grech)

Web Development

• HTML5 and validation issues with this blog (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Facebook App using DotNetNuke (Dave M. Bush)
• How Wikipedia uses HTML5 to save bandwidth (Jef Claes)
• From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference (Jeffrey Way)
• CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 2 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• JavaScript Pattern Roundup – Issue 1 (Shi Chuan)
• How To Integrate Facebook, Twitter And Google+ In WordPress (Kevin Muldoon)
• Tracking API usage with Google Analytics (Maarten Balliauw)
• Retrieving a Logged On User ID (Bunch)
• Just published my first node.js Windows Azure application (Eric Nelson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: AggregateOrientedDatabase (Martin Fowler)
• TDD/BDD as Architectural Tools (James Kovacs)
• Article: Interview and Book Excerpt: Service Design Patterns (Jeevak Kasarkod)
• Coded UI Test and Microsoft Test Manager Survey (Shubhra Maji)
• The quickest and easiest “Getting Started w/ GitHub” article you’ll ever read! (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Faceted Minimization: Simplifying the Sidebar Navigation (Anthony)
• "Re: I have a question about proving code correctness" (Frans Bouma)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• PhoneGap on Windows Phone Adds Support For Facebook, Twitter, Bing Maps, and More (Eric Genesky)
• How to host a Silverlight Application using JavaScript? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #477 – Default ZIndex Value for Child Elements of Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #10 – Beep sound (Senthil Kumar)
• Free Ly: Expression Design, XAML and Expression Blend, why bother? (Surf4Fun)
• “Metro Done Right” according to my tweeps (András Velvárt)
• WPFSpark 1.1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint Pod Show – Building a SharePoint team-Episode 69 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Full Stack Resumes–MVVM Design (Jesse Liberty)
• Visual Studio Achievements in 60 seconds (Dan Fernandez, Karsten J. & Golnaz)
• [Humor] – What Project Managers Say and Talk Like (Peter Saddington)
• Architecting Applications for Multiple UIs video now available! (Paul Sheriff)
• Blog Post: New and Improved Generator Overview Video (Autumn Wilkins)

Community / Events

• Join me at the ALM & Test days in Italy (Jason Zander)
• “I Gotta Get Me Some of That [Azure]” (Jim O’Neil)
• Thoughts on the Latest PASS Fracas… (Audrey Hammonds)
• Meet Abhishek Sur – Client App Dev MVP from India (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Microsoft International Development Centers (Anne Cheng)

Database

• Use VALUES clause to get the maximum value from some columns [SQL Server, T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)
• SSRS Tip: Hide a tablix if no rows returned (Jen McCown)
• SQL SERVER – MERGE or INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE – Quiz – Puzzle – 19 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• How I use PowerShell to generate table output for blog posts from query results (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – Powershell Excel to HTML (Jack Vamvas)
• Could not find stored procedure ‘sp_ExecuteSQL’ (Ted Krueger)
• SQL 2012 Database Engine Tuning Advisor: Now With More Plan Cache! (Thomas LaRock)
• RavenDB Sequential Number Generator (Nick Berardi)

SharePoint

• WebPartAdderExtension – a better way of deploying web parts (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

• Powershell Emailing Strings as attachments (Mike Koerner)

Miscellaneous

• Jobless rate for software developers: 4.4 percent (Greg Lamm)
• Microsoft has ‘perks galore’ but still lags behind Google (Jennifer Sokolowsky & Greg Lamm)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 138 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #799 and Double Shot #800 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 20 Jan 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 1/20/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily and Weekly Front-End Dev Resources (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #1026 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-19 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 19 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems by Steve Krug

• 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

• Visual Studio 11 Programming Language Advances (Somasegar)
• Analyzing SQL Server Compact queries using Visual Studio 2010 Premium/Ultimate (Erik EJ)
• Microsoft Windows Simulator Touch Emulation (Mynor Ivan Muralles)
• The Sweet Spot of Multiple Monitor Productivity: That Magical Third Monitor (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Sizeof Keyword (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 11 ALM VM (Enrique Lima)
• Why NuGet for Visual Studio 2010 is so useful! (Harish Ranganathan)
• Code smell – LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… (Peter Gfader)
• TFS SDK Get Groups Users Permissions using TFS API with Linqpad (Tarun Arora)
• Initial Review of APress "Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming" – ISBN13: 978-1-4302-3530-9 (Tatworth)
• 3 Tips to Improve Your Connection Strings and Working with Lazy Loading in Entity Framework Code First (Steve Smith)
• Metro Controls – Jump Viewer (Rich Griffin)
• CTP Version of The Developers Guide to AppFabric (Alan Smith)
• Moving to Azure: The Plan and Start and Moving to Azure: The Database (Michael C. Neel)
• Parsing Concerns–Part 2 (Jesse Taber)
• Check Windows Azure Roles instance running in Emulator? and .NET 4 for Enterprise Architects and Developers by Sudhanshu Hate (Dhananjay Kumar)
• MSDN Magazine Article: Authoring an F#/C# VSIX Project Template (Daniel Mohl)

Web Development

• MVC 3 HandleError Attribute and AJAX Forms (Jimmy Larkin)
• Client-Side Hierarchical DataBinding to OData with RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX (Veli Pehlivanov)
• Getting started with Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview with ASP.NET MVC4 (Bart Czernicki)
• New F#/C# ASP.NET MVC 3 Template (Daniel Mohl)
• Json.NET 4.0 Release 3 (CodePlex)
• JavaScript Has Built-In Mix-ins With ‘apply’ Or ‘call’ (Derick Bailey)
• HTML5 Dev Conference Presentation: Dive into HTML5: SVG and Canvas (Doris Chen)
• Keep your layouts DRY with Rails and jQuery Mobile (Jacob Orshalick)
• First Review of ASP. NET MVC 4.0 Developer Preview (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Ninjecting MVC3 (Jef Claes)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Subclass with Fields (Giorgio Sironi)
• HTML For Babies: Give Your Toddler A Head Start (Richard Darell)
• JavaScript Reference group Dedicated Worker (Xinyang Qiu)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Planning and Managing Drupal Projects – $6.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• WebStorm/PhpStorm – New in 3.0: Xdebug profiler integration (Nikolay Matveev)
• What I learned from transferring my blog from WordPress to Orchard (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MiniTest::Spec setup with Capybara in Rails 3.1 (Jared Ning)
• New SPL Features in PHP 5.3 (Matthew Turland)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Retrospectives – A picture is worth a thousand words (Jag Reehal)
• Are Scrum Masters agents for change? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why you should be using CQRS almost everywhere… (Udi Dahan)
• Three reasons not to have your own private office and Ten Things Distributed Team Leaders Should Do (Roy Osherove)
• The Specialist (Rob Conery)
• Three Virtual Sticky Note Boards, all free (mostly) (Greg Duncan)
• Master of your domain (Eric Brechner)
• Sharpening the sword (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• A post about software craftmanship (stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before) (Christian Jacobsen)
• The Competition-Innovation Relationship We All Benefit From (Davy Brion)
• Creative Design Process (Stuart Mayhew)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• System Tray ProgressIndicator in Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Expression Blend 4 does not start after installing the NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview (Rich Griffin)
• 2000 WPF Things #399 – WrapPanel Will Change Layout of its Children as its Size Changes (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Online Conference–Beyond the tools (Andrew Spooner)
• Detecting if Zune is Connected From Your NoDo/Mango App and The Fastest Way to Switch Free/Paid and NoDo/Mango App Build in Visual Studio (Nokola)
• Expression Design September 2011 Preview now available (Pam Keesey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 176: Kevin Griffin on jQuery Mobile (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 036 – “Champagne and Mango” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 413: Gears Horde Mode tips, Spider-Man: Edge Of Time and NBA 2K12 (Larry Hyrb)
• Cloud Cover Episode 60 – Introducing the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
• Engadget Podcast 258 – 09.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Phone Radio 44 (Brian Seitz)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 24 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Weekly 228: The Train Dance (Paul Thurrott)
• This is my next Podcast 026 – 10.02.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 7: Web Standards in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• TWC9 September 30th 2011 (Clint Rutkas, Duncan Mackenzie & Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for September 12th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Speaking at DevReach 2011 (Steve Smith)
• Congratulations New and Re-Awarded MVP Awardees! (MVP Award Program)
• YUIConf 2011 Early Bird Registration Is Now Open (Jenny Donnelly)

Database

• SSIS Variable and Expressions Followup (Bradley Schacht)
• SQL SERVER – CE – Samples Database for SQL CE 4.0 and SQL SERVER – CE – List of Information_Schema System Tables and SQL SERVER – SQL Backup and FTP – A Quick and Handy Tool (Pinal Dave)
• Troubleshooting SQL Server: A guide for the Accidental DBA and SQL Server Deep Dives Volume 2 (Ted Krueger)
• How to find out which Table is not having rows in SQL Server? (Vinay Pugalia)
• Dataset with Text or Stored Procedure (Brian McDonald)
• Sneak peek at the new RavenDB Studio (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• What’s wrong with Microsoft ? (Joe Stagner)
• Practical Foundations for Programming Languages [Working Draft] free eBook – Think "586 pages of if I wanted to create a programming language I’d want to read this book…" or "It’s making my brain hurt… ouch.. ouCH… OUCH!" (Greg Duncan)
• The Weaknesses of Training Strategies for Programmers (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Sources of Insight is Available on the Kindle (JD Meier)
• I’m giving up Google Chromebook (Joe Wilcox)
• Microsoft’s deals with Nokia and Skype: are we waiting for Godot? (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Makes A Movie (Miguel Carrasco)
• Three Great Books for Lego Robotics and general Lego Motion Builders (Pete Brown)
• Paint.NET v3.5.9 is now available and A small bug in Paint.NET v3.5.9 with Ctrl+0 (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 1, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 1 , 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – October 2 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 25-September-2011 to 01-October-2011 and Monthly Summary – September 2011 – 26 Posts You May Want to Read (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Geek Reading September 30, 2011 and Geek Reading October 1, 2011 and Geek Reading October 2, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (September 30, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #950 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/30/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Retrospective 52 – Art of #Agile and Developer Mythbusters (Peter Saddington)
• Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2011 — #1153 and Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2011 – 2 — #1154 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #721 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 30th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Roger Jennings

• Working with Live Tiles in WP7 Mango–Creating, Updating and Deleting them (Derik Whittaker)
• ILSpy v1.0 RTW’s – Stick a fork in it, it’s done… (Greg Duncan)
• Making Scrum Meetings Effective (John Sonmez)
• The Difficulty with Deadlocks (Jeremiah Peschka)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Unable to preserve pending changes on gated check in (Rory Primrose)
• How To Change TFS 2010 Attachment Size (Shai Raiten)
• Show Assemblies in the Add Reference Dialog Box (Richard Carr)
• Importing issues from Jira to database using C# (Gunnar Peipman)
• Task Parallel Library: How To Write a Simple Delay Task and An Action Cache (Mike Hadlow)
• ValueType and ReferenceType : Under the Hood Part 2 and ValueTypes and ReferenceTypes : Under the Hood (Abhishek Sur)
• Agatha 1.3 Is Out (Davy Brion)
• Pimping the content of a (Monotouch) iPhone app with a webview (Peter van Ooijen)
• New Open Source Project: OptionStrict.oEmbed (Richard Cirerol)
• COM ByteArray and Dynamic type issues in .NET (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• Building MVC Select Lists The Easy Way (Michael Ceranski)
• A little bit on Javascript magic inside C# code (Alexander Beletsky)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Move Field (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript: How to deep copy an object (Raghav Khunger)
• JavaScript properties: inheritance and enumerability (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Dynamically Change Chart Control Type in ASP.NET 4.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• Using Moq to mock ASP.NET MVC HttpContextBase (Gunnar Peipman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to return default(Type) in runtime – a TDD example in four unit tests (Dror Helper)
• Lokad.CQRS – Getting Simpler and Faster (Rinat Abdullin)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part IX–Not Invented Here is FUN (Oren Eini)
• Veracity 0.9.1 (Eric Sink)
• Clarification behind the message that properties are bad. What I learned was: Tell don’t ask (Kelly Sommers)
• Increase in Iteration Duration for benefit (Venkatesh Krishnamurthy)
• Self-Improvement Process (Rinat Abdullin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight JavaScript Integration – Part 1 (Al Rosan)
• A Simple WPF ComobBox based Brush Selector Control (Pete Barber)
• Calculating Correct Change on the Windows Phone with Genetic Algorithms (Windows Phone Geek)
• Consuming ODATA in Silverlight 4.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF Behaviors in the F# WPF Project Templates (Daniel Mohl)
• From design to delivery, a WP7 application development story – PinCodeKeeper (Greg Duncan)
• Functional WPF Part One and Functional WPF Part Two and Functional WPF Part Three and Functional WPF Part Four and Functional WPF Part Five (Simple example of how to use it) (Edmondo Pentangelo)
• Enriching Windows Phone 7.1 (“Mango”) Apps with Secondary Tiles (Jeff Prosise)
• 31 Days with WP7 – A Collection of Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorials You Must Read (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight 4.0: Applying TextChange behavior to the TextBox (Mahesh Sabnis)
• GUID Generator: My first Windows Phone application is available on the marketplace (Paulo Morgado)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 App – from Zero to Marketplace (Per Ola Sæther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deed Fried Bytes Episode 73: Developing Real World Applications with TDD with James Bender and Jeff McWherter (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Technology & Friends Episode 165: Matt Wilburn on Robotics Competition (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 22 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Weekly 217: A Baby Named Bing (Paul Thurrott)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 63 – Lachlan Heasman on Project Management and Developers (Richard Banks)
• Yet Another Podcast #43–Sean McKenna and Windows Phone Data (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 025 – “Pink and Waterproof” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• SharePoint Search–What you need to know-Episode 64 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)

Community / Events

• Why do people love Indy Hall? We asked. They told. (Alex Hillman)
• The new MSDN Forums Assistant (Paulo Morgado)
• Arguing About Developer Communities Doesn’t Make Sense (Davy Brion)
• ImagineCup 2011 – The competition is over, but the effects aren’t (Dennis Delimarsky)

Database

• SQL Server Denali FileTables Feature – The fruits of WinFS? (Think "A FileStream enabled table that you can access as a network file share and other standard File IO API’s" or "SQL Server File System in a Table") (Greg Duncan)
• Self Modifying Packages in SSIS? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle v5.1 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Handling ReportViewer Parameters (William Vaughn)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 16 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 17 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 18 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Columnstore Index FAQ wiki page published (Denis Gobo)
• End Of Month Function in Denali CTP 3 (Brian K. McDonald)
• New trace events in 2008R2 SP1 (Chris Webb)
• XQuery Lab 64 – Reading values from an XML column (Jacob Sebastian)

Miscellaneous

• Slightly modified “CD” Command for Powershell (Jason Jarrett)
• The impact of United States debt crisis on technology (John Petersen)
• Everybody jump for joy – Spotify coming to Windows Phone (Steven Hodson)
• Ruby 1.9.2-p290 Released: The Lowdown on Ruby’s Latest Production Release (Peter Cooper)
• My first PowerShell Script to Move Folders (Tim Radney)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 07.11 ~ 07.18 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Friday Links 07-15-2011 (JD Meier)
• Link dump for July 15th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 10-July-2011 to 16-July-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for July 17, 2011 — #1117 (Dave Campbell)
• This Week’s Link List (July 15, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #896 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 07/18/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 07/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 15-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #156 (David Vidmar)
• Retrospective 41 – #Android and #iPhone #Agile #Apps (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Brownfield Application Development in .Net by Donald Belcham

• NuGet 1.4 Released (Phil Haack)
• Updated Windows Azure AppFabric SDK Now Available for Download (Windows Azure Team)
• The Busy Developers Guide to the Kinect SDK Beta (Michael Crump)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 game at the Kinect Code Camp (Adam Kinney)
• The Debugger Mindset (John Sonmez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• using “Default” Keyword in C# (Abhijit Jana)
• Internal classes to understand WCF Message: XmlDictionary Class and Internal classes to understand WCF Message: XmlDictionaryWriter Class and Reading XML file through LINQ: few Tips (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Choosing the Right Collection Class (James Michael Hare)
• WCF 4: Download Files using WCF REST EndPoints (Mahesh Sabnis)
• C#: String.Compare ignore case (Raghav Khunger)
• Kinect – Getting Started – Control Camera Angle and Kinect – Getting Started – Become The Incredible Hulk (Shai Raiten)
• Binding Box now supprots the Wcf Interop Bindings (Yaron Naveh)
• Getting started with Kinect SDK (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
• NuGet with MEF and Using NuGet for Application Plug-Ins (Matt Hamilton)
• WTF Azure! (As in get a free The Daily WTF Mug just for trying out Windows Azure for 30 days, no Credit Card needed… US only though) (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• CSS 3.0 as the only schema in Visual Studio (Daniel Fisher)
• An Example to Use jQuery Validation Plugin (Song Li)
• Get started with ASP.NET MVC and PetaPoco (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• New features and improvements in ASP.NET vNext (Zubair Ahmed)
• Windows 8 and the Two Worlds of HTML (James Ashley)
• Filtering an ASP.NET GridView control with jQuery (Joe Stagner)
• CitiBank: It was not a breach of security, but a breach of stupidity (Rachel Appel)
• Microsoft Rejects WebGL for Security Reasons (Abel Avram)
• Netflix API Ditching DVD Endpoints to Focus on Streaming (Adam DuVander)
• Web Application Project vs. Website (Steve Naughton)
• What’s new in OpenWrap 1.1? (Sebastien Lambla)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is Agile Results? and Email Therapy (JD Meier)
• Have a Customer Advocate in Agile (Peter Saddington)
• Lokad.CQRS – Framework that is Designed for Farewells (Rinat Abdullin)
• Enterprise, SaaS, and Platforms (Udi Dahan)
• Mocking Events with Moq (Richard Carr)
• Test Maintenance; Or, The Third Era of Programmer Testing (Brian Marick)
• New Books on Software Architecture (Michael Stal)
• Git tutorial – comparing files with diff (Veera)
• Getting Started with Pub/Sub using Rhino Service Bus and Consuming Events in the Same Process as the Publisher with Rhino Service Bus (Eric Quist)
• Git on Windows: Creating a network shared central repository. (Jason Jarrett)
• Arrogance vs. Confidence: what’s the difference? (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building a Reusable ICommand implementation for Windows Phone Mango MVVM apps (Windows Phone Geek)
• Screenshot Tools for WP7 (Rudi Grobler)
• ChevronWP7 Labs to provide official Windows Phone unlocking service for homebrew developers (damaster)
• XAML with .NET Primer Part One (Don Burnett)
• Will the real Windows Phone 7 SketchFlow Template please stand up… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone API mapping tool for Android Developers (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 14 – Detecting Network Information of the Device (Kunal Chowdhury)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Using Isolated Storage to save, load and delete Pin Codes (Per Ola Sæther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Inside IronJS – A complete JavaScript/ECMAScript open source implementation on the .NET DLR (Scott Hanselman)
• Herb Sutter – Heterogeneous Computing and C++ AMP (Charles Torre)
• Daniel Moth: Blazing-fast code using GPUs and more, with C++ AMP (Charles Torre)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #50: Developer Smackdown is 2 and we just hit show #50!! How do you learn? (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Engadget Podcast 244 – 06.17.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 57 – Optimal Test Automation (Unknown Author)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 021 – “More Mango Down Under” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• This is my next Podcast 011 – 06.18.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Video: The 3 amigos at NDC2011 (Roy Osherove)
• C++ AMP recording and slides (Daniel Moth)
• Windows Phone Radio – 32 (Brian Seitz)

Community / Events

• How Transparency and Social Media are Evolving the SharePoint Community (Paul J. Swider)
• Houston Code Camp Registration is Now Open (Ben Scheirman)
• BizSpark / Windows Phone 7 Application Contest for Startup Companies (Zain Naboulsi)
• Kinect Code Camp – We made a Kinect project in 24 hours. (Dennis Delimarsky)

Database

• Thoughts on Nexus in SQL Server PDW (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Solution – Puzzle – Statistics are not Updated but are Created Once and SQL SERVER – Selecting Domain from Email Address and SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper Using SharePoint List Data in PowerPivot (Pinal Dave)
• Prevent SQL Logins from using SSMS … or any other app (Eric Humphrey)
• SSMS Add-in for Analysis Services (James Serra)
• Instantly Find Size of Tables on Disk (Larry Leonard)

SharePoint

• Dynamic Authorization for FBA based WCM Applications (Sanjay Arora)

Miscellaneous

• Kinect- Caught between Community & MSFT support (Don Burnett)
• Building a MIDI Thru Box Part 2: Manufacturing a PCB (Pete Brown)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 17, 2011 and Interesting Finds: June 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 06.14 ~ 06.19 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #875 (Chris Alcock)
• Link dump for June 16th and Link dump for June 16th through June 17th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 06/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Kinect SDK – resources for developers (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Distributed Weekly 107 (Scott Banwart)
• Weekly Links– 2010_22 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Retrospective 37 – Customers, Skype, and Shoe Kanban (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for June 16, 2011 — #1108 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 12-June-2011 to 18-June-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim

• Microsoft to Acquire Skype (MS News)
• HTML5 Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update (Scott Guthrie)
• Resco releases full official version of MobileForms Toolkit 2011 for Android! (Resco)
• Come to the May LASLUG Meetup (LA Silverlight User Group) – Meeting on 5/25 in Culver City. Also available on LiveMeeting for those over 100 miles away. Victor Gaudioso and company are giving away over $12,000 in prizes to attendees.
• Runtime Intelligence for Windows Phone 7 Apps extended until further notice. (Gabriel Torok)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Remote Debugging in Visual Studio: Squashing Bugs in their Native Environment (Clive Tong)
• Coded UI Test (CUIT) using Visual Studio 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes: Low Latency Sound Effects (Mike Taulty)
• Using an IoC container to create WCF service instances (Pieter de Rycke)
• Code Metrics – Calculating Metrics (Zain Naboulsi)
• Optional argument corner cases, part one (Eric Lippert)
• JustDecompile – Free (well, reg-ware), for everyone, forever, stand-alone .Net Decompiler from Telerik (Greg Duncan)
• Bringing Windows Azure to more devices (Somasegar)
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS (Windows Azure Team)
• Xbox LIVE Indie Games: New Control Your Game Release Feature (XNA Team)
• Microsoft.Activities and Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting now available via NuGet (Ron Jacobs)

Web Development

• Building a relational data model in ASP.NET MVC 3 w/EF Code First (Rachel Appel)
• When you live on the bleeding edge, be prepared for a few nicks [Minor update to the Delay.Web.Helpers ASP.NET assembly download to avoid a NuGet packaging bug affecting Razor installs] (David Anson)
• Seriously WebForms like ASP.NET MVC (Deran Schilling)
• Compiling MVC Views In A Build Environment (Phil Haack)
• HTML 5: How to use the canvas (Sam)
• Using Session with in HTTPHandler (Abhijit Jana)
• Exposing WCF REST Service over HTTPS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• My thoughts on WebMatrix (Jef Claes)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 7: How to implement Thumbnail Toolbar Buttons (Jennifer Marsman)
• Getting Fiddler and the .NET Framework to Play (better) Together (Howard Dierking)
• May 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
• AsyncController v/s SessionLess Controller (Imran Baloch)
• Using NetAdvantage jQuery Grid in ASP.NET MVC (Murtaza Abdeali)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why I Still Love CQRS (and Messaging and Event Sourcing) (Jonathan Oliver)
• Some Thoughts on Agile Planning (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Scrum vs Continuous Deployment or why Scrum falls short for web applications (Matthias Marschall)
• How to Create a Burndown Chart in Google Docs (David J. Bland)
• PMI Agile Certification – The Race is On (Peter Saddington)
• Request for feedback: The Soft Side of Software Engineering (Devon Musgrave)
• The Ubiquitous Object (S. Lott)
• Article:Threat Modeling Express (Sahba Kazerooni & Rohit Sethi)
• Using Kinect for NUI Part 5 – Multiuser Scenarios (Deborah Hanamura)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Table Truncation Teardown (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Copying XAML from Expression Design to Expression Blend (Elliot Meacham)
• SilverWii – That is connecting a WiiMote to a Silverlight OOB app via NESL (Native Extensions For Microsoft Silverlight) (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft Announces Windows Azure Toolkits for iOS, Android and Windows Phone (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Tips: Concatenating strings in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using the Windows Phone Pivot Control (Paul Sheriff)
• Silverlight 5 Games: Best in Class (Sam)
• Telerik ToDoLists reference application (James Ashley)
• Hot and Cold Observables in Rx and Coming in Mango–Sql Server CE (Jesse Liberty)
• Analytics Show Developers Want More PreEmptive (Brandon Watson)
• Missing Method Exception w/ Caliburn.Micro when using INavigationService (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Correctly Terminate Multithreaded .NET Compact Framework Applications? (MS Podcasts)
• Defrag 005 – Sound card malfunction, App restrictions, Remote Access (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 100: HaloFest, Kinect you in Carbonite, Talking to the wall, Ping celebrates 100! (Laura Foy)
• Pluralcast 41 : Tiberiu Covaci on Asynchronous ASP.NET (David Starr)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 54 – BDDify and Mehdi Khalili (Richard Banks)
• Yet Another Podcast #34–MVC3 & NuGet (Jesse Liberty)
• Podcast- Jorge Gabuardi Gonzalez (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – May 9th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Presenting a Free Webinar w/ SharePoint Videos–Augmenting SPD2010 Workflows with VS2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Thoughts from ALT.NET Seattle (Ade Miller)
• US Kids – Remember to submit your game design to Kodu Cup! (Bradley G.)
• Microsoft slates ‘Mango’ VIP unveiling for May 24 in New York (Mary Jo Foley)
• Nate Muller: Microsoft’s Master Brewer (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Common Table Expression (CTE) and Few Observation and SQL SERVER – Resource Database ID – 32767 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 10 – SQL Server Reporting – Offload the reporting factor (Ted Krueger)
• Making our MongoDB Code Run Faster (Karl Seguin)
• TSQL-Tuesday # 18: Using a Recursive CTE to Create a Calendar Table (Joe Casella)

SharePoint

• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Office 365 – Enhance Productivity through SharePoint Online & Exchange Online (Lonnie Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Back to the Past: Bill Buxton Shows Off 35 Years of Tech Devices (MS News)
• Using WinDbg to inspect native dump files (Björn Carlsson)
• Coming Soon to MSDN Subscribers! (Mark Curphey)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 9th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for May 09, 2011 — #1086 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #848 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/09/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/10/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer) by Kalen Delaney

• Hypermedia and forms (Glenn Block)
• Coding4Fun WP7 ColorPicker in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• More Windows Phone 7.5 Mango consumer features revealed – Messenger in People Hub confirmed (damaster)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using dynamic WCF service routes (Maarten Balliauw)
• Updated Plans of Lokad.CQRS for Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Screen Conductor 101 (Rudi Grobler)
• Sparklines in WPF and Silverlight (Jimmy Schementi)
• New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.4.1 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 Xbox LIVE alternative already used by 28k+ gamers (Brody McKee)
• New Windows Phone Mango consumer features revealed (Kip Kniskern)
• Tips: Formatting Silverlight TextBlock Control (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Making the MS Adcontrol REALLY work on phone 7 (David Kelley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Introducing the Microsoft Sync Framework Powerpack for SQL Azure? (MS Podcasts)
• Technology & Friends Episode 155: Jennifer Marsman on Pinned Sites in IE9 (David Giard)
• Show 397: Brink, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean and Call of Duty Black Ops Escalation Game Add-on (Larry Hyrb)
• WP Dev Podcast Episode 015 – “Winning With Watson” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)

Database

• SQL Server: XML FLOWR Expression in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server Management Pack Guide for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Pinal Dave)
• Reclaim Space using DBCC CLEANTABLE (Larry Leonard)

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2011 05.01 ~ 05.09 (yuanjian)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 068 for 5/9/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #847 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #149 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn

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

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Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

• What I Learned Playing StarCraft (Christopher Bennage)
• Whose domain is it anyway? (Dan North)
• Natural User Interfaces (Martin Beeby)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Internal of Deferred or Lazy Execution in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C# for the iPhone: Monotouch is here to stay (Peter van Ooijen)
• Use “Obsolete” attributes to indicate Obsolete Methods (Abhijit Jana)
• Internals of Exception Handling (Abhishek Sur)
• DbUp: DataDude done right (Paul Stovell)
• Handling GUI Events in Dataflow Networks with Axum (Don Burnett)
• Spot the defect: Bad comparisons, part four (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Basic JavaScript Part 9: Reusing Methods of Other Objects (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Installing DotNetNuke using WebMatrix (Martin Beeby)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CQRS with Akka actors and functional domain models (Debasish Ghosh)
• Big Software Rewrites (Ray Houston)
• Great Engineering Quotes (K. Scott Allen)
• Technical User Stories – 3 Reasons NOT to Have Them (Peter Saddington)
• Thou Shalt Name Thy Parameter “command” (Davy Brion)
• Foundations of Programming 2 – Chapter 4 – Unit Testing (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Accessing Data in a Silverlight Application: EF (Deborah Kurata)
• Why switching from Android to Windows Phone 7 won’t be a problem (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using the AutoCompleteBox (Peter Kuhn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 386: Dead Space 2, Crysis 2 and COD Black Ops First Strike (Larry Hyrb)
• Technology & Friends Episode 134: Kevin Pilch-Bisson on Asynchronous Programming in the next versions of C# and VB (David Giard)
• VIDEO – Microsoft WebMatrix – Form Field Validation (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• DevWeek 2011 (Mike Taulty)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Data Collector Proof of Concept (Bill Ramos)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Importing Execution Plans (30/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – What is Fill Factor and What is the Best Value for Fill Factor (Pinal Dave)
• Backup file contents with SSIS – INSERT/UPDATE Decisions (Ted Krueger)

Miscellaneous

• Steve Jobs’ health is not a private matter (Joe Wilcox)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: iOS 4 Programming Cookbook – $17.99 (Save 50%) Code DD4PC (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2011 01.24 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #781 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #139 (David Vidmar)
• T-SQL and SQL Server Administration Articles Link List – January 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Silverlight Cream for January 30, 2011 — #1037 and Silverlight Cream for January 30, 2011 – 2 — #1038 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

LINQ to Objects Using C# 4.0: Using and Extending LINQ to Objects and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) by Troy Magennis

Top Links

• Kaizen: "Relentless", Rather than "Continuous" (Scott Bellware)
• Running an ASP.NET MVC 3 app on a web server that doesn’t have ASP.NET MVC 3 installed (Scott Guthrie)
• Server Side JavaScript (Kevin Hazzard)
• Why Does Culture Matter? (J.D. Meier)
• Jounce Part 10: Visual State Manager (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• It is the little things that trips you: Reducing RavenDB’s Map/Reduce cost (Oren Eini)
• CSLA 4 version 4.1 release (Rockford Lhotka)
• How do I Change Where MSMQ Messages are Stored or Persisted? (Steve Smith)
• What is the best way to report an IDE tools issue? (Alex Skorkin)

Web Development

• Filtering a Grid of Data in ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)
• How to pass ASP.NET server side array to client side and binding them with Html element? (Abhijit Jana)
• jQuery Presentation and Demo for HTML5 User Group (Doris Chen)
• Entity Framework Tutorials – ASP.NET (ASP.NET Team)
• Basic JavaScript Part 7: Static Properties and Methods (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Configurable Global Action Filters for ASP.NET MVC (K. Scott Allen)
• Celebrating the W3C and HTML5 with a New Logo Program (Ziad Ismail)
• MassTransit.js (Dru Sellers)
• A New Web for .NET (Ryan Riley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• I Use Inheritance And I’m Not Entirely Ashamed Of It. Should I Be? (Derick Bailey)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Setup Decorator (Giorgio Sironi)
• Characteristics of an Agile Organization (Vikas Hazrati)
• Scalable and Simple CQRS Views in the Cloud (Rinat Abdullin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Buuteeq: A Real-World Example for SketchFlow (Christian Schormann)
• Windows Phone 7 – Part #1: Getting Started (Andrea Boschin)
• Customizing Group Row Header of Silverlight DataGrid (Kunal Chowdhury)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 16 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• WP7 Tip: Always Encode Urls for the WebBrowserTask (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7, HTML5 and iPhone (Nigel Parker)
• WP7, Azure & Push Notifications Demo (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 102: Tim Caswell on Node.js (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• MSDEV Presents Video Series on Windows Azure Security (Bruce Kyle)
• Hot Apps: CarneyVale: Showtime, ArkWords, WordPress, Huffington Post, Photobucket (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• LIVE Interview with Derek Huether 1/22/2011 – 10:30am (Peter Saddington)
• Free professional software from Microsoft for students (Dennis Delimarsky)
• SPTechCon San Francisco is coming up FAST! (Joel Oleson)
• OpenKinect: Creating next-generation interfaces, Jan 20, Arlington, VA (Josh Blake)
• NYC .NET Developer User Group-Next Meeting (Stephen Forte)
• Looking for your Feedback (Lee Holmes)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• 31 Days of SSIS – SQL Server Configuration (18/31) (Jason Strate)
• Enabling Remote Errors in SSRS (Melissa Coates)
• Load Comma Delimited file (csv) in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Shrinking Database is Bad – Increases Fragmentation – Reduces Performance (Pinal Dave)
• Removing Gaps and Duplicates from a Numeric Column in Microsoft SQL Server (Scott Mitchell)
• Windows Azure and SQL Azure Use Cases (Buck Woody)
• Distincting an IN subquery (Gail Shaw)
• Getting Faster Writes with Riak (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Introduction to new series for BCS Error Debugging – SharePoint BCS Error and Social Squared January 2011 Release (Lightning Tools)
• Excerpt from upcoming title: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Step by Step (Rosemary Caperton)
• Enabling sorting in a JS Grid control (A.J. May)

Miscellaneous

• Beyond Kinect: Microsoft’s Vision for Next-Gen Interfaces (Dan Grabham)
• Will Microsoft Unify Their OSes? (Abel Avram)
• Cropping in Expression Design, Part III (Elliot Meacham)
• OneNote Mobile on your iPhone! (yes, an official OneNote app for the iPhone). And it’s even free for a limited time… (Greg Duncan)
• Powershell debugging (Martin Bell)
• Best of 2010 #Ebook Deal of the Day – SAVE 60% on Top 25 w/code DDT25 (O’Reilly Media)
• The TI Stellaris Evalbot Unboxing and Assembly (Pete Brown)
• Tools of the trade: Steve Clayton (Steve Clayton)
• Top Accessories For Windows Phone 7 (Luke)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #773 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 178 (Rhonda Tipton)
• SilverlightShow for Jan 10-16, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for January 18, 2011 — #1030 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 18 January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily News Digest 01/19/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

C# 4.0 Unleashed by Bart De Smet