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Top Links

• SOLID JavaScript: The Open/Closed Principle (Derek Greer)
• Using the JavaScript Prototype Property to Structure and Extend Code (Dan Wahlin)
• What’s new in MEF 2 Preview 5? (Alok & Nick)
• Optimizing picture password security (Steven Sinofsky)
• Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie and his impact on Azure: A six month report card (Mary Jo Foley)
• No gaps for Windows Phone 7 with latest PhoneGap (Greg Duncan)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Obtaining the Week Number for a Date (Richard Carr)
• Windows 8 Metro App Tip of The Day – reading/writing files without CAP declarations (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
• F# Pattern Matching (Ganesan Senthilvel)
• The Road To LINQ-dom Part 3–Anonymous methods (Kyle Burns)
• CXXI: Briding the C++ and C# worlds. (Miguel de Icaza)
• Sharing with CompositionScopeDefinition in MEF 2 (Alok)
• Tpl Dataflow (IDataflowBlock) – Part 5 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Great Windows Azure announcements and fresh content! (Glen Gordon)
• MonoGame – Write Once, Play Everywhere and .NET Client Library for Google+ (Both in original binary form and decompiled/source version too) (Greg Duncan)
• What is the Lifecycle of Windows 8 Metro Style Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Bugs in System.Diagnostics.Process Class (Giorgi Dalakishvili)

 

Web Development

• Be Careful When Using The jQuery Proxy() Method Outside Of A jQuery Context (Ben Nadel)
• JavaScript for C# developers: calling functions and the ‘this’ variable (Julian M. Bucknall)
• CSS and mobile device orientation (Dave Mahon)
• Using CORS to access ASP.NET services across domains (Dave Ward)
• Solving Duplicate Content with Distinct URLs Issue in ASP.NET MVC (Imran Baloch)
• Experimental CSS3 Animations for Image Transitions (Pedro Botelho)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 1 – Introduction (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Creating an Awesome Search Box (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• 2012 Bing Maps Feature Wish List (Chris Pietschmann)
• Windows Azure Resource: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control, Second Edition – eBook Download and Windows Azure: Hands on Lab for Moving Applications to the Cloud (Avkash Chauhan)
• Displaying Feed Items On A Web Page: My Solution (Davy Brion)
• WebSocket servers on Windows Server (Nathan Evans)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are You A Unit Testing Ninja? Stuck with Legacy Code? (Avi Kaye)
• Can software succeed even if Agile failed? and 3 Signs That Tests Are Not Effective (Gil Zilberfeld)
• The Process of Change – The Agile Change Agent [Part 1/4] and The Process of Change – 3 Levels of Change-Implementation [Part 2/4] (Peter Saddington)
• Four cool colour tools (Paul Boag)
• 31 Days of Testing-Day 16: Testing Web Services (Jim Holmes)
• Management Models, Values & Principles? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Article: Succeeding with Dependency Injection (Mark Seemann)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• PAARC: Milestone Reached (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #1: Intro (Windows Phone Geek)
• Block Diagram on Windows Phone 7 Application Life Cycle Events (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Book Review: Window Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook (Matt Lacey)
• Is Windows Phone moving to the Windows org? (Kip Kniskern)
• 2000 WPF Things #454 – UseLayoutRounding vs. SnapsToDevicePixels (Sean Sexton)
• The Case of the ModelBinding Failure (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Trying To Put A Horseshoe On A Car (Michael Washington)
• Muted audio even when the playback rate is set to a supported audio playback rate (Nitya Ravi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kathy Malone is a Green Developer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• YOW! 2011: Mike Lee – The Road to Appsterdam (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 188: Paul Litwin on ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 34 (Richard Hay)
• Gweek 031: The Strange Talent of Luther Strode (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #127: Brad Feld on the Startup Marriage (Bob Walsh)

 

Community / Events

• A Revolution in My Lifestyle (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – A Quick Trick about SQL Server 2012 CONCAT function (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 19: Filtered Indexes (Denis Gobo)
• Update Available for SSDT CTP4 (Adam Mahood)
• SQL: Calculated Fields (Shannon Lowder)
• The Mythical MySQL DBA (Sean Hull)
• Why is RAID So Important for Databases? (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Where, Oh Where, Is My Mashup Running? (James Terwilliger)

 

SharePoint

• Information Architecture in a SharePoint Context | Architecture d’Information dans un contexte SharePoint (Alain Lord)

 

PowerShell

• Configure Git in PowerShell So You Don’t Have to Enter Your Password All the Damn Time (Phil Haack)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Metro Themed PowerPoint Template (Colin Eberhardt)
• Code Signing For Individual Developers (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Android: Watch out for XmlPullParser.nextText() (Tim Bray)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #777 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1006 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/19/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 12/19/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 12-18, 2011 and Daily News Digest 12/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 19-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Reading Notes #25 (Franky)
• Windows Dev News for December 19, 2011 – #0013 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 19 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Querying by Itzik Ben-Gan

 

Top Links

• Released: Project Silk Client-Side Web Development for Modern Browsers (Karl Shifflett)
• Using System.Reflection.Emit in a Windows 8 Metro style Application (Jason Bock)
• WinRT is your friend (Josh Smith)
• Demystifying the Windows 8 Grid Application (Bil Simser)
• PlayStation Suite SDK beta coming in November, offering new games in spring 2012 (Richard Lai)

 

Windows 8

• The 300+ Features We Weren’t Shown In Windows 8 (Robert Boland)
• Windows8 StartMenu v1.0.0 (CodePlex) – Win8 gadget to switch Metro start menu on/off.
• Microsoft to release Windows 8 Beta on September 30th? (Zac)
• Windows 8 Gives New Life to Older Hardware (Karl Shifflett)
• First look at Windows 8 application as a developer (Andrej Tozon)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Data Schema Comparison in Visual Studio 2010 (Atul Verma)
• F# Type Providers – Querying StackOverflow (Daniel Mohl)
• Queued WCF Services, MSMQ, IIS7 and NetMsmqActivator. Oh My. (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• TFS Azure: Set up Visual Studio 2010 to work with TFS Azure (Tarun Arora)
• Learning about the Visual Studio ALM Rangers and how they embrace products announced at //BUILD/ (Willy P. Schaub)
• WinRT and .NET and WinRT and business apps and CSLA on WinRT (project start) (Rockford Lhotka)
• Under the Covers of WinRT Using C++ and Metro .NET Framework Profile (“Windows Tailored”) and Improvements in the CLR Core in .NET Framework 4.5 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• New Versions of StyleCop have been released (Tatworth)
• Welcome to Zombieland, the Metro Style Land of WinRT and the Undead (Rene Schulte)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Merge and NHibernate Pitfalls: SELECT N + 1 and NHibernate Pitfalls: Fetch and Lazy (Ricardo Peres)
• Developing for WinRT and Windows8 – Basic Concepts (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Dependency Management in .Net (Derek Greer)
• ROSLYN: Complier as Service ? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Code Navigation and Search with Telerik Just Code (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Sort Generic List Using Lambda Expression For Dynamic Type And Dynamic Property (Jebarson Jebamony)
• Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part II) – Using NUI APIs with Camera and Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part III) – Adjusting the Kinect Camera Angle (Abhijit Jana)
• First example of a very simple type provider (Robert Pickering)
• Deep dive in Process template’s states and transitions (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Windows 8 Development Tip – ObservableCollection doesn’t work and Windows 8 Development Tip – Packaging and loading files (Avi P)
• Links to C++ AMP and other content (Daniel Moth)

 

Web Development

• Stability in Insertion Sort (Julian M. Bucknall)
• What about Metro JS Projects and jQuery? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Unobtrusive AJAX with Rails 3.1 (Samnang Chhun)
• Creating Gradients With Compass and SASS (Paul Cowan)
• todomvc – MVC Todo apps for JavaScriptMVC, SproutCore, Backbone.js, Spine.js, YUILibrary, Knockout.js and more (Addy Osmani)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Render unto Caeser the things which are Caeser’s and unto the Designer… (Daniela Panfili)
• Enterprise Service Buses, Brokers, Message Queues, Oh My! (Peter Ritchie)
• Announcing Gallio and MbUnit 3.3 (Yann Trevin)
• Connector: Simple, zero friction Github –> AppHarbor integration (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• How to Setup Sprint or Iterations in a Telerik TeamPulse Project? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Worst Code I Ever Wrote, And Why I’m Still Happy About It (Davy Brion)
• Observations on the Play! framework (James Gregory)
• The Little Things Add Up (Karl Seguin)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 2 : Improved WeakEventManager (Jonathan Antoine)
• How to use WPF controls in DXCore Tool Window plug-in (Alex Skorkin)
• Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone Application Performance analysis (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Binding Image, Brush or Color to Background property in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• HelloTiles – A Simple C# Xaml Application for WinRT/Windows8 to demonstrate Metro Tile Updates (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• 2000 WPF Things #389 – Wrap a Panel in A ScrollViewer to Provide Scrolling Support (Sean Sexton)
• Win8, Metro Apps and Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Phone7.Fx is now available on codeplex (Nicolas Humann)
• Why all the "WPF/SL is gone" claims make no sense (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Cross Document Messaging (xdm) and How Do I: Create Ribbon Controls (Part 1) and MSDN Radio: Exploring SharePoint and Silverlight with Paul Stubbs (MS Podcasts)
• Technology & Friends Episode 174: K Scott Allen on MVC3 (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 034 – “Live from BUILD 2011″ (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 411: Deus Ex, Gears of War 3 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• A Look At Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Weekly 226: Live From Anaheim and the BUILD Conference: Windows 8 Revealed (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft interns are the first Windows 8 developers (MS JobsBlog)
• This is my next Podcast 024 – 09.17.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• The GeekDads Episode #100: The First Internet Streamed Murder (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

 

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Camps (Boston, Burlington, New Paltz, and more!) (Jim O’Neil)
• All Good Things (John Papa) – Good luck, John!
• SharePoint Conference Party Best Practices #SPC11 (Joel Oleson)

 

Database

• Have end users who need an introduction to SQL Server book? (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – String Function – FORMAT() – A Quick Introduction and SQLAuthority News – Automation of Data Mining Using Integration Services and SQLAuthority News – Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse Using the Kimball Approach and SQL SERVER – Denali – Date and Time Functions – DATEFROMPARTS() – DATETIMEFROMPARTS() – DATETIME2FROMPARTS() – TIMEFROMPARTS() – SMALLDATETIMEFROMPARTS() – DATETIMEOFFSETFROMPARTS() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
• Delete all data from a database (Jamie Thomson)
• Find the largest tables in a database (II) (Jeffrey Yao)

 

SharePoint

• 10 Top Resources for SharePoint Developers (Avi Hein)
• Opening Files in the Browser with SharePoint and Adding Ratings and Comments to SharePoint Publishing Pages (Bil Simser)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Script To Traverse All Sites In SharePoint 2010 (or 2007) Farm (Brian Jackett)

 

Miscellaneous

• Paint.NET v3.5.9 Beta (build 4278) is now available (Rick Brewster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 17, 2011 and Interesting Finds: September 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #940 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading September 18, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 11-September-2011 to 17-September-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Double Shot #711 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 16th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 09/17/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 09/19/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/19/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook by Jason Dentler

 

 

Top Links

• 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