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Top Links

• Strange times in the world of Microsoft developers (Josh Smith)
• A Drawback of Agile (John Sonmez)
• Creating a Data Access Layer using Dynamics in WebMatrix (Steve Lydford)
• Caliburn Micro conventions for Windows Phone (Nigel Sampson)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Internalizing Assemblies with ILMerge (Richard Carr)
• How to automatically edit source files of an entire Visual Studio solution using DXCore (Alex Skorkin)
• Community TFS 2010 Build Extensions – Stable Release (Mike Fourie)
• Progressive F# Tutorials August 2011 (Phillip Trelford)
• Lazy initialization of object in C# with Lazy class (Pranay Rana)
• C#: Check a number falls in which set of ranges (Raghav Khunger)
• Kinect – Calculator – Adjust Skeleton Movements To Mouse (Shai Raiten)
• Converting a LINQ query to PLINQ and View Internal CLR Details using the .NET SOS Debugger Extension (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Custom Field Templates On NuGet (Steve Naughton)
• Kinecting the Dots: Adding Buttons to your Kinect Application (Michael Crump)
• Managed Extensibility Framework – A Look (Abhishek Sur)
• Fluent Assertions 1.5 is done! Now it’s time for that summer. (Dennis Doomen)
• SkyDrive .Net API (Unofficial, but since there’s no official one available…) and Kinect Earth Move and SkyNet is here (not that one…) Skype + Netduino (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• CRUD Operation with ASP.NET MVC and EFCodeFirst Part-1 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• How to Create a Podcast RSS Feed in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Sencha Touch HTML5 Project Template for Visual Studio 2010 (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• ASP.NET: Disable autocomplete for a textbox (Raghav Khunger)
• What makes a successful blog? We ask the html5 doctor (Martin Beeby)
• Is WebMatrix a Threat to the Professional Developer? (Paul Stack)
• Did you miss the Google plus 1 for SEO? (Joel Oleson)
• Getting your NuGet Gallery Orchard Growing… (Greg Duncan)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Don’t Block The Event Loop (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• How to Use IIS Express for all new file based web sites and projects? and Could not load file or assembly ‘PresentationCore’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. : A solution (Abhijit Jana)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Structuring Your Personal Backlog to Make Things Happen (JD Meier)
• Please, no more Manifestos (Jim Bird)
• Fully Portable Scenario in Lokad.CQRS and Tape Storage in Lokad.CQRS for Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
• Article: Limiting Work in Progress and Scrum (Sean McHugh)
• Service Boundaries Aren’t Process Boundaries (Udi Dahan)
• Making Macto into an OSS project? Volunteers needed and Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part IV-IoC FTW and Macto: The boundaries of a prison (Oren Eini)
• A story about User Stories; Who writes them and how do you control the scope? (Dennis Doomen)
• The devil of regression testing (Malcolm)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Remove Assignments to Parameters and Testing JavaScript when the DOM gets in the way (Giorgio Sironi)
• 3 keys to dispersed team success (Georgina Laidlaw)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.4.5 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
• wp7 CollectionViewSource – sorting a listbox (Baba)
• XamlParseException from WP7 Mango and Caliburn.Micro (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Phone / SQL Server Compact resources (Erik EJ)
• Smooth…Springy…Scrunchy – WP7 List behavior (Erik Klimcz)
• Encrypting locally saved data on WP7/Mango with DPAPI (Greg Duncan)
• Document Toolkit July 2011 Update and Document Toolkit for LightSwitch RTM (Koen Zwikstra)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 26 – What is Input Scope? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Cinch news (Sacha Barber)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 1 – Passing the Smoke Test (András Velvárt)
• Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 5) (Peter Kuhn)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 163: Jason Farrell on Android Development (David Giard)
• Windows Weekly 215: Google Huggle (Paul Thurrott)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 61 – Malcolm Sheridan on Web Deploy Live From DDD Sydney 2011 (Richard Banks)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 21 (Richard Hay)
• .NET Rocks! – Mobile Development Panel Discussion from NDC! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 3 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 4 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 5 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Functions – CHARINDEX() (Vishal)
• Listing Stored Procedures From Every Database (Tim Radney)
• Select from a table with no rows returned. (Martin Catherall)
• Survey: do you use database snapshots? (Paul S. Randal)
• How to re-create database quickly (Jakub Dvorak)

 

SharePoint

• New version–Deliverpoint permissions management for sharepoint and new version – Lightning conductor 2010 web part (Brett Lonsdale)

 

Miscellaneous

• Early Content–Two Upcoming Press Books in Safari Books Online Rough Cuts (Kim Spilker)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Virtualization: A Manager’s Guide – Only $6.49 w/code DD4JN (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 3, 2011 and Interesting Finds: July 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• This week in the OTN Architect Center (7/4-8/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #886 and The Morning Brew #887 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #155 (David Vidmar)
• Daily News Digest 07/04/2011 and Daily News Digest 07/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 26-June-2011 to 02-July-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for July 02, 2011 — #1113 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 075 for 7/4/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting .NET Links – July 3 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Link dump for July 1st through July 2nd (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily Links 04/07/2011 (Jax)
• .NET Tips – Links on ASP.NET C# MVC Visual Studio Tips – June 2011 (Abhijit Jana)

 

The Geek Shelf

Essential Windows Azure: Architecting and Developing Applications for the Cloud (Developer’s Library) by Kevin Hoffman

 

 

Top Links

• Huge wave of official apps arrives at Windows Phone Marketplace; reaches 25,000 apps (damaster)
• From Silverlight To HTML5 (Colin Eberhardt)
• Web Workers in IE10: Background JavaScript Makes Web Apps Faster (Travis Leithead)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Video LINQ with SQL Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Entity Framework June 2011 CTP: TPT Inheritance Query Improvements and Entity Framework & WCF Data Services June 2011 CTP : Auto Compiled LINQ Queries and Entity Framework/WCF Data Services June 2011 CTP: Derived Entities with Related Data (Julie Lerman)
• Baby Steps in Windows Device Driver Development: Part 5, Monitoring Processes (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Microsoft makes the source available for the app that’s going to be used for Bing’s Streetside Wi-Fi/Cell Tower/GPS data gathering (i.e. see some of the code the Bing Streetside cars will be using as they [war]drive around your neighborhood) and XNA Game Development, from Beginner to Semi-Pro from the horse’s mouth (so to speak) (Greg Duncan)
• Quick Tip: Fixing those Stubborn References (Jeremy Likness)

 

Web Development

• News roundup: Paper.js, Fathom.js, test262 (Michael Kimsal)
• ASP.Net GridView with LinqDataSource (Dhananjay Kumar)
• MVC 3, "Third Times a Charm" references (Leon Bambrick)
• YUI and Loader changes for 3.4.0 (Dav Glass)
• Automatic ETag Management with Web API Message Handlers (Howard Dierking)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Web work: Not for the insecure? (Jessica Stillman)
• Feature Folly (Jim Highsmith)
• Ayende’s DDD Application: Macto (Oren Eini)
• OSS on Github – Tips and Tricks (Josh Arnold)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Convention Based View Model Location using Ninject in a MVVM/Silverlight Application (Derik Whittaker)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 116: Eric Lawrence on Fiddler, IE Internals, and HTTP (Jon Galloway)
• Engadget Podcast 246 – 07.01.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Flight Kintroller Using Kinect for Windows SDK (Zhiming Xue)
• Cloud Cover Episode 49 – Access Control in the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 (Steve Marx)
• The Office Show: Office 365 – Part One (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• TWC9: Office 365, Internet Explorer 10 PP2, Choosing the Right collection class, ToneCheck (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 023 – “NDAs of Our Lives” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Windows Phone Radio – 34 (Brian Seitz)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft scoops 7 IDEA awards for design excellence (Steve Clayton)
• 20+ Rubyists to Follow on Google+ (Satish Talim)
• It’s OK to Ask and Answer Your Own Questions (Jeff Atwood)

 

Database

• FileLinking Using SSIS (Brian K. McDonald)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 2 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Quiz–June 2011 (William Vaughn)
• SQL Functions – ROW_NUMBER() (Vishal)

 

SharePoint

• 10 Best Practices and Recommendations for SharePoint 2010 SP1 and June 2011 CU (Joel Oleson)
• Localizing the SharePoint User Interface by Using Resource Files (Sanjay Arora)

 

Miscellaneous

• First step for Xbox LIVE on Windows 8: Games for Windows Marketplace merging with Xbox.com (damaster)
• Service Pack 1 is available for OneNote (and Office) 2010 (John Guin)
• Developer API for Google+: It’s coming (Rafe Needleman)
• Windows Live Writer – blogging’s unsung hero (Andrew Spooner)
• The Engadget app for Windows Phone is here (Tim Stevens)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 1, 2011 and Interesting Finds: July 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 109 (Scott Banwart)
• Today’s Links (7/1/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• This Week’s Link List (July 1, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Retrospective 29 – Certs and Agile Walkthrough (Peter Saddington)
• Link dump for July 1st (Jeff Schoolcraft)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB by Bill Evjen

 

 

Top Links

• F# XAML Item Templates Now on Visual Studio Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
• Announcing the Microsoft Entity Framework June 2011 CTP (EF Team)
• How far can you take HTML5 and canvas? (Kevin Roast)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part I (Luca Bolognese)
• jPlayer – The jQuery HTML5 Audio / Video Library (jPlayer)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• A New MSDN Forum For All Topics Related to F# Programming (Don Syme)
• Executing build tasks without a build server – Design (Rory Primrose)
• Reading RSS and Atom Syndication Feeds (Richard Carr)
• WCF RIA Services support for EF 4.1 and Snippets (Colin Blair)
• Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries (Entity Framework June 2011 CTP) (EF Team)
• Walkthrough: Table-Valued Functions (June CTP) (Pedro Ardila)
• Walkthrough: Enums (June CTP) (Pawel Kadluczka)
• June 2011 release of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (aka v2.0… or double the download size from the Feb 2010 release, or now 1.8GB of offline training, labs, information, goodness) (Greg Duncan)
• Upgrading from TFS 2008 and WSS v3.0 with SfTSv2 to TFS 2010 and SF 2010 with SfTSv3 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows Azure Stuck in Initializing – Try Different VM Size (Rinat Abdullin)
• Getting the innermost .NET Exception (Rick Strahl)
• Ninject and binding to an existing Method (or Property) (Derik Whittaker)
• Get Started with Office 365 Using the New Developer Training Kit (Bruce Kyle)
• Rx 1.0 Solves the Problem of Asynchronous Data Access (Abel Avram)
• Garbage Collection in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Web Development

• What’s the Difference Between a Value Provider and Model Binder? (Phil Haack)
• test262: Industry JavaScript Standards Test Available (Alex Chi)
• Website check list – Part 1 ASP.NET – 4 essential steps before going live (Peter Gfader)
• More CSS3 Navigation in Expression Web 4 (Pad Gallagher)
• Self-Initializing Fakes in PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
• Creating shapes on the fly and So what are zones really? (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Simple Example That’s Incredibly Complex (Rob Conery)
• Designing For Android (Dan McKenzie)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part III–Abstraction is as abstraction does (Oren Eini)
• Following the pattern (Eric Lippert)
• Kanban and Quad Biking (Karl Scotland)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A better way to check your Windows Phone app submissions (Arian Kulp)
• WP7 Cascade Behavior (Erik Klimcz)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 25 – Learn about Database Connection String (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Excellent Physics tutorial using Phyiscs Helper (Surf4Fun)
• Turnkey with LightSwitch (Laila Lotfi)
• Dial phone numbers from IE on Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Learning Video Executing Stored Procedure in LINQ to SQL and Video Executing SQL Query in LINQ to SQL and Video Fetching Tables and Columns name in LINQ to SQL (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Introducing Keyvan.TV (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Let’s Play TDD #119: Comments Lie (James Shore)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #51: TDD with Keith Burnell (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Evan (Larry Larsen)
• This is my next Podcast 013 – 07.01.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)

 

Community / Events

• Save the date: SharePint @ the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA (Andrew Connell)
• Open Source Hackathon at Pablo’s Fiesta (Steve Donie)
• What happens when students create their own collaboration tools? (Terri Griffith)
• Microsoft to retire, refocus Windows Phone MVP program (Mary Jo Foley)
• Six Years of Blogging (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Oracle Technology Network Virtual Developer Day: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) (Oracle TechBlog)
• Mono Consultants (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Database

• FileLinking Using SSIS (Brian K. McDonald)
• SSRS Importing an Assembly (David Dye)
• SSIS OLEDB Command and procedure output params (Josef Richberg)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Complete Downloadable List – Day 0 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Introduction – Day 1 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Functions – NTILE() (Vishal)
• Why Does It Hurt When I Audit? (Tim Ford)
• What’s UNPIVOT good for? (Quassnoi)
• The difference between REVOKE and DENY (Steve Jones)
• Excel 2010 Data Source "From Microsoft Query" Missing DSNs (Jes Schultz Borland)

 

SharePoint

• Using jQuery Templates with SharePoint List Data (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• CODE Magazine: 2011 Jul/Aug (CODE Magazine)
• Instant email: how we made Hotmail 10x faster (Dick Craddock)
• MSDN & TechNet Subscriptions 2.0 Experience Preview (Mark Curphey)
• Developer API for Google+: It’s coming (Rafe Needleman)
• MediaMall’s PlayLater brings DVR to internet video (Sean Buckley)
• The Windows Phone 7 Apps Everyone Should Have June 2011 [Apps] (Casey Chan)
• Why Big Software Companies Fail at Hiring Good Talents (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 06.20 ~ 06.30 (yuanjian)
• T-SQL, SQL Server BI Articles Link List – June 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ASP.NET, MVC, Silverlight, SharePoint, WPF, VS 2010, LINQ Articles in May-June 2011 (Admin)
• The Morning Brew #885 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (6/30/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 07/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 30 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Head First jQuery by Ryan Benedetti