• 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

• 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

• 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

• Continuous Client: My first attempt at multi-device user experience transitions (Kelly Sommers)
• How to unsubscribe from an Event which is registered to an anonymous method (Derik Whittaker)
• Preventing Items from being analyzed in ReSharper and YouTrackSharp: A .NET Client for YouTrack (Hadi Hariri)
• SharpDevelop gets T4 support (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading and Writing CSV Files in C# (Jonathan Wood)
• Retrieve Drive, File and Folder Names (Richard Carr)
• Automatically Show the Output Window During Build in Visual Studio and Working with BigInteger in .NET 4.0 and Working with SortedSet in .NET 4.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• More Free TFS 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Webcasts available in June and July! (Angela Dugan)
• Inserting/Updating Record on related entities using LINQ and Logging in LINQ to SQL and Resolving Concurrency conflicts in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
• My Classic Cascading Filters and Field Templates on NuGet (Steve Naughton)
• Windows 8 will (probably) not deprecate C++ and .NET in favor of HTML5 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Some facts about Null in .NET (Abhishek Sur)
• Discover Amazing Open Source Code With the Freshmeat API (Allen Tipper)
• Refactoring to functional ActionResults in Figment (Mauricio Scheffer)
• Skeletal Tracking with the Kinect for Microsoft SDK (Don Burnett)
• "Hello World" in C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Internals : Visualizing ASP.NET Page Life Cycle using IntelliTrace (Abhijit Jana)
• Unit test your MVC views using Razor Generator (David Ebbo)
• Nancy 0.6.0 saw the light of day (Andreas Håkansson)
• Adding RSS to tags in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Tutorial: Making a Canvas Snake Game (Rey Bango)
• Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (Michael Crump)
• Client Express (Mark Nijhof)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD for unbelievers (Evgeny Goldin)
• TDD adapted for mere mortals (Kent Tong)
• CQRS Analogy with Relenta – Scaling Email Management in Company (Rinat Abdullin)
• Your Detail Orientated Mode. (Rajiv Popat)
• It’s a little bit funny…The Clean Coder and my Septimana horribilis (Scott Galloway)
• The Template Method pattern gone wrong (or how to stop your overridden methods getting called) (John Rayner)
• Article:Dependency Injection with Mark Seemann (Jonathan Allen)
• Bounded Rationality (Mark Needham)
• Learning the Stance of Reaction, Part 1: Tango (Brian Marick)
• Process Isolation in PHPUnit (Matthew Turland)
• Keeping Things Interesting (Or: Avoiding .NET At Home) (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.4.2 officially released with Mango support and more and #7 How to use AddressChooserTask in a Windows Phone Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
• Version 1.3.0.1 of the F# and C# Win Phone App (Silverlight) Project Template Released (Daniel Mohl)
• Hosting an HTML App in Windows Phone 7 Mango (Don Burnett)
• Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 4) (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 20 – Know about the Accelerometer Tool and Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 21 – Small Demo of Accelerometer Application (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight 4.0: Duplex Communication over Http using PollingDuplexHttpBinding (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Displaying PDF Files in Windows Phone 7 Mango (Michael Crump)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Testing and improving app before submission (Per Ola)
• Dell Venue Pro – Working with the native layer – intro, registry and work modes and Dell Venue Pro – Working with the native layer – SIM, SD card (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Betting The House On LightSwitch (Michael Washington)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 162: Mike Amundsen on node.js (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 403: UFC Personal Trainer, F.E.A.R. 3, COD Black Ops Annihilation Game Add-on (Larry Hyrb)
• SharePoint MCM, Top 3 mistakes, and User Profile Sync discussion with Spencer Harbar-Episode 63 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Windows Weekly 214: You Say MeeGo, I Say Mango (Paul Thurrott)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #29 with Guest Ben Dewey (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Funnect (Larry Larsen)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 20 (Richard Hay)
• Cloud Cover Episode 48 – Node.js, Ruby, and Python in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• TWC9: Kinect SDK Beta, HTML5 for VS, MVC Mini Profiler, XNA Socket Demo (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone Radio – 33 (Brian Seitz)
• NServiceBus Videos Online (Udi Dahan)
• Yet Another Podcast #40–Chris Bowen, Microsoft Evangelist (Jesse Liberty)

Database

• SQL Server Tutorials on Date Time (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Operations Guide and SQL SERVER – T-SQL Scripts to Find Maximum between Two Numbers and SQL SERVER – Puzzle Involving NULL – Resolve – Error – Operand data type void type is invalid for sum operator (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB Aggressive Caching Mode (Oren Eini)
• Replacing Cursors with Set-Based SQL Queries – Part 1 (Andrew Zwicker)

Miscellaneous

• First take reviews of the Mango release (Brian Seitz)
• Velocity 2011: The Performance Impact of Modernizing Internet Explorer (Jason Weber)
• The rumors were right: Google to phase out its Microsoft HealthVault competitor (Mary Jo Foley)
• Introducing the Consolidated Windows Azure Team Blog and Just Announced: June 2011 CTP of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java (Windows Azure Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 25, 2011 and Interesting Finds: June 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #881 (Chris Alcock)
• June 26th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET and NuGet (Scott Guthrie)
• Links of the week #154 (David Vidmar)
• Today’s Links (6/24/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily Links 24/06/2011 (Jax)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 19-June-2011 to 25-June-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Retrospective 38 – Agile, Scrum, Developers and Tutorials (Peter Saddington)
• Daily News Digest 06/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed by Stephen Walther

• From Tombstoning to Fast Application Switching (Rudi Grobler)
• Domain Oriented NLayered .NET 4.0 Architecture Guide (J.P. Hamilton)
• How Technical Recruiters Get It Wrong – Part 1 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• CORRECTED: Microsoft Strongly Denies VB 6 Open Source Rumors, Sources Retract Statement (Kathleen Richards)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Want to help improve Visual Studio Performance? (Bill Wagner)
• Using DebugView to catch debug output of .NET program (Gunnar Peipman)
• FuturePublish with the EasyNetQ RabbitMQ API (Mike Hadlow)
• Blog Post: PLINQO for NHibernate Overview Video (T. DuPont)
• Changing Signatures Refactorings – Convert to Tuple (Alex Skorkin)
• Optional argument corner cases, part four (Eric Lippert)
• Find Existing ODATA providers. (Joe Stagner)
• Shuffling an Array (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• AppFabric Service Bus – Things You Should Know – Part 1 of 3 (Naming Your Endpoints) (Keith Bauer)
• Microsoft readies ‘Austin,’ an Azure-hosted event-processing service (Mary Jo Foley)
• CodeDOM — generating an interface to a type (Steve Gilham)

Web Development

• Filter and Display Data with ASP.NET Web Forms (Part 3) (Christian Nagel)
• Using Task in ASP.NET MVC Today (Harry Pierson)
• Edit/Update with dapper ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Contoso Karate – Data Driven User Interface Widgets in an ASP.NET MVC 3 Design (Joe Stagner)
• Interesting jQuery Mobile Tutorials (Jorge Ramon)
• 6 PHP Optimization Tips (David Amador)
• More datajs on Twitter (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• OData Service Validation Tool Updated – JSON Payload Validation and new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• Building TweeterFall and TweeterFall – Notifications (Pete LePage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Agile Architecture and Hurricanes have in Common (Michael Stal)
• Your very first steps towards becoming a DI IoC Ninja (Johan Silfversparre)
• Working inefficiently in the test team (John Guin)
• Leaders are Made, Not Born (Nicholas Cardot)
• The 7 levels of continuous integration (Dror Helper)
• 6 Task List Hacks to Get More Done (Dawn Foster)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Making your Windows Phone applications power aware (Rudi Grobler)
• Update to Monday’s (5/16/2011) Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 Release, v1.2.1. Think "the Visual Basic and Bug Fix update" (Greg Duncan)
• WP7: What to expect next week at the Mango event (Owen Williams)
• Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 4 and PivotViewer Shorts Part 1: Hide Filter Pane Search Box and PivotViewer Shorts Part 2: Hide View and SortBy Buttons (xpert360)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 5 of n (Charles Torre)
• Bonus Episode – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal talking with Kirk Munro about PowerGui 3.0 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• jQuery Podcast 45 – jQuery UI Keynote (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Silverlight TV 73: What’s New in MVVM Light (John Papa)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Matt Tanase Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Let’s Play TDD #107: The Hidden Listener (James Shore)

Community / Events

• Philadelphia To Become Second City to Host GameLoop, Local Game Developers Organize Their Own Unconference (Eric Smith)
• Bring out the sun, bring on the sports (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• HOW TO: Hire (or Be Hired as) a Team of Devs (Jolie O’Dell)
• What Developers Say About API Documentation (Peter Gruenbaum)

Database

• Microsoft® SSIS Balanced Data Distributor (MS Downloads)
• Change SQL Servers Authentication Mode with PowerShell (Allen M. White)
• Troubleshoot Deadlocks using SQL Server Profiler 2005/2008 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Report Builder: Change Report Server Connection (Patrick LeBlanc)
• SQL SERVER – Management Studio and Browser in Same Application (Pinal Dave)
• Watch all the Tech·Ed North America 2011 SQL Server videos (Denis Gobo)
• How to extract day/month/year from a DateTime column – TSQL (Vishal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight Out-Of-Browser with COM Interop – Part IV (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 3 of 5 (Vivek Soni)

Miscellaneous

• Build Your Own WDS Discovery Image (Harry Pierson)
• Centers for Disease Control (US CDC) provides Zombie Apocalypse 101 Survival Tips (really…) – And Zombie badges too! and Blender 2.5 Fundamental Tutorials from 3DBuzz or "The Noob Video Guide to Blender" (Greg Duncan)
• My Top 5 Open Source software for May 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• A Bright Idea: Android Open Accessories (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 19 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #856 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2011 — #1092 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing W/CD by James A. Whittaker

Top Links

• Strategies for becoming a better programmer (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Entity Framework CTP 5 (MS Downloads)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #181: Using Metadata in your MEF Exports (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Determining if Values are Coprime (Richard Carr)
• Ways of Throwing an Exception in C# (Abhishek Sur)
• Comment and Uncomment in Web Pages (Zain Naboulsi)
• Beautiful Hack: Using Mono’s Profiler to find Hard Memory Leaks and Mono Introspect: Binding GObject-based APIs for use in Mono and Using Key-Value Coding with MonoMac (Miguel de Icaza)
• Dynamic Language Integration in a C# World (Zenon Ochal)
• DXCore Components – BigHint and CodeRush Pro visualization features (Alex Skorkin)
• Big head, long tail (Eric Lippert)
• NHibernate Mapping Explorer Preview 2 (Alessandro Giorgetti)
• Developer Angst on Microsoft Visual C++ Futures (James Vastbinder)
• Build-time dependency resolving coming to Entity Framework. Now, how about those BI tools too? (Jamie Thomson)
• Create an Entity Framework Model and Use it in Multiple Projects (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Lost finding information about Windows Azure? (Bill Zack)

Web Development

• RenderAction with ASP.NET MVC 3 Sessionless Controllers (Keith Dahlby)
• Making ASP.NET deployment easy with the Package/Publish Web tool (Rachel Appel)
• jQuery Datepicker: Disable specific dates (Raghav Khunger)
• DLL-s needed to run ASP.NET MVC 3 RC on Windows Azure (Gunnar Peipman)
• HTML5 Recipes: Geolocation (Romin Irani)
• HTML and Javascript injection (Skynet Code)
• What can developers do with 10k of code and HTML5? (Ziad Ismail)
• Introducing Apache Wave (Alex North)
• PHP 5.3 is quicker than PHP 5.2 (Rob Allen)
• How to install Drupal on Windows (Andy Robb)
• A review of Beginning Smartphone Web Development (Durward Pless)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ditching domain models for reads (Jimmy Bogard)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of App Performance Testing – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDPRT (O’Reilly Media)
• Balsamiq Weekly release: it’s the little things (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Double Dispatch: the next best thing with respect to Dependency Injection (Giorgio Sironi)
• Development Concerns Moving Away From The Controller (Rob Diana)
• Defying the Law of Repetitive Consequences with ORM (Stephen Forte)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Hash for the holidays [Managed implementation of CRC32 and MD5 algorithms updated; new release of ComputeFileHashes for Silverlight, WPF, and the command-line!] (David Anson)
• Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 2) (Mike Taulty)
• Just how productive is WP7 development compared to iOS, Android and mobile Web? (András Velvárt)
• Having fun with your webcam (Arian T. Kulp)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 133 – PowerScripting Podcast – Shane Hoey in Austrailia is Paging Dr. Scripto (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Let’s Play TDD #61: Questions of Design and Let’s Play TDD #62: Listening Carefully (James Shore)
• Pluralcast 30 : Developing for Distributed System with Scott Seely (David Starr)
• Windows-Weekly-185-W-H-S-R-I-P- (Paul Thurrott)
• Ping 85: The future of touchscreen, Top Bing searches, Kinect training, Photosynth & shop (Laura Foy)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 38 – Philip Laureano on Weaving IL Magic (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – December 6th, 2010 and CMAP Main Meeting and Atlanta/Raleigh Web Firestarters (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Get two SharePoint 2010 classes at once: development & SharePoint Designer (Andrew Connell)
• LeWeb & Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Speaking at NoVA Code Camp (Kevin Griffin)
• Lean Software & Systems Conference… Call for Papers & Registration Open (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Announcing the 2010 Encosia Holiday Giveaway (Dave Ward)
• Announcing the Caliburn.Micro Contest Winners! (Rob Eisenberg)

Database

• FOR XML a la Mode –a study on Modes, especially using For XML Path Mode to Concatenate Data (Julie Smith)
• Tip: Schema Qualify Objects in SPs (Jen McCown)

SharePoint

• Getting started with SharePoint Foundation 2010 (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 Publishing – NothingButSharePoint.com is LIVE (Joel Oleson)
• Introducing SharePoint Online and Workflows, Part 2. (Josh Topal)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010:10 Tips for OneNote Organization (Lonnie Webb)
• Review of Windows Phone 7–a closet iPhone lover’s confession (Joe Stagner)
• Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices (Abraham Murray)
• 20 Windows Keyboard Shortcuts You Might Not Know (How-To Geek)
• Where Will You Focus Your Mobile Development Efforts? (James Sugrue)
• From Photoshop to Photosynth (Steve Clayton)
• A running list of requests for the next Windows Live Writer (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 051 for 12/6/2010 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #745 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/06/2010 and Weekly Article Digest 12/06/2010 and Daily News Digest 12/07/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Leadership Blogs (J.D. Meier)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 6 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)

The Geek Shelf

C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0), The (4th Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Anders Hejlsberg

Top Links

• Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Development and Migrating a Silverlight Application to Windows Phone 7 (Dan Wahlin)
• Debugging the PhotoChooserTask and other Media Hub Related Tasks on WP7 (Daniel Vaughan)
• F# Math: Microsoft Solver Foundation 3.0 Released (Don Syme)
• Breaking the Web’s Cookie Jar (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Euclid’s Algorithm (Richard Carr)
• C# 5.0 vNext – Asynchrony in Synchronous flow style code (Abhishek Sur)
• Aysnc Read Challenge (Oren Eini)
• T4 – Good, Bad and Ugly (Kathleen Dollard)
• Building Extensible WCF Service Interfaces With DataContractResolver (Kelly)
• Creating a Class Diagram from Class View (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

How to create a jQuery rollover like the one on Dribbble.com (Martin Beeby)

Canvas Tag Rant (was too long for Twitter) (Shawn Wildermuth)

HTML5 Day 1: New tags work in older browser? Awesome! (Chris Pietschmann)

Making the Text in the DynamicData List Pages GridView Wrap. (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Visuals for Getting Results the Agile Way (J.D. Meier)
• Agile: Increasing team sizes (Mark Needham)
• Basic to Basics: What is Dependency Inversion? Is it IoC? Part 1 (John Sonmez)
• A Rulebook For Your Organization – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Zen and the Art of Software Craftsmanship (Steve Smith)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Linking to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace (Nigel Sampson)
• How to Use ASP.NET “Property Pages” to create or host a Silverlight application in ASP.NET Site ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Custom image cropping – a Windows Phone 7 solution and Custom image cropping in Windows Phone 7 – Part 2 of 2 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 182: So I Got That Going For Me (Paul Thurrott)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 377: Kinect Launch, COD Black Ops, Your Shape Fitness and NFS HP (Larry Hyrb)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 35 – Oren Eini – Part 2 (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• PASS Summit Day 2: The Aftermath (Chris Webb)

Database

• SQL Server Code-Named “Denali”–Getting Started with Availability Groups and Keyboard Customization (Bill Ramo)
• TSQL Enhancements in SQL11 (SQL Server 2011 / Denali) to support Server Side Paging (Jacob Sebastian)
• Convert an integer seconds value into words in VBScript : Reporting Services (Jamie Thomson)
• Full text search with MongoDB and Lucene analyzers (Johan Rask)
• Create Your Own SQL Server Server Roles (Mike Walsh)
• Find Column Default Value using T-SQL – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – ERROR – FIX – Msg 3702, Level 16, State 3, Line 1 Cannot drop database “MyDBName” because it is currently in use (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Review of my Windows Phone 7 (HTC HD7) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Small Basic (MS Downloads)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 14, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the week #134 (David Vidmar)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Where a Website Fits, Minimum Project Rate, Benefit-Driven, Broken Screens (Dave Burke)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 11.01 ~ 11.14 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for November 13, 2010 — #991 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life) by Chad Fowler

Top Links

• Moving containers beyond testability (Jimmy Bogard)
• Unity, Castle Windsor, StructureMap, Ninject – who has best performance? (Gunnar Peipman)
• Javascript Mocking – Damn, That’s Easy. (Karl Seguin)
• patterns & practices Prism v4 – Drop 8 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WPF / Windows Forms Named Colours and LINQ Set Operations (Richard Carr)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox – Extension #12 (Sara Ford)
• OData/WCF Data Services — Composite Keys and $expand URI Option Bug (Chris Woodruff)
• WinForms Checklist (Deborah Kurata)
• Point point one release for Windsor and Castle.Core (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Entity Framework Extensions (Multiple entity updates) – Release: v1.0.0.1 and COSMOS (C# Open Source Managed Operating System) – Release: v66698 (CodePlex)
• Introducing the NBehave text based scenario VS2010 runner (Naeem Khedarun)
• Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio and Navigate Task List Entries with the Keyboard (Zain Naboulsi)
• Analyzing historical data and playing with interactive extensions (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• OData’s DataServiceQuery and removing the .Expand(“MagicStrings”) (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Using the Chart Controls with ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)
• Sueetie Analytics Logging Upgrade: Filter Me Gently (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 – Global and Conditional Filters (Malcolm Sheridan)
• How to Create HTML5 Website and Page Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Rey Bango)
• Real World Monitoring and Tuning ASP.NET Caching Part 2 (Steve Smith)
• Developing Applications for the Cloud (Public Sector DPE Team)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming Google App Engine – Only $9.99. Use code DDPGA (O’Reilly Media)
• Write your own Twitter.com XSS exploit (Eran Kampf)
• Slow Rendering with Large Tables in IE 9 & 8 (Chris Love)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Quick Intro To BDD Style Table Syntax (Brett Schuchert)
• Mood Board (Dave Laribee)
• Key insights that you probably missed on DDD (Cyrille Martraire)
• Why a Pomodoro helps you getting in the zone (Giorgio Sironi)
• Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (Jonathan Oliver)
• Sprint Burndowns – Are We Measuring the Wrong Things? (Mark Levison)
• 4 essentials to writing quality code in the Cloud era (Eugenia Sawa)
• Clean Code, Saves Money or Is Art? (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Mahhala – WPF MediaKit and Try before you buy (Rudi Grobler)
• Windows Phone 7 Tutorials: Maps, GPS and Accelerometer (Nigel Sampson)
• Blend Bits 12: States, Groups, Transitions (Mike Taulty)
• An Introduction to the Windows Phone 7 Development Platform (Colin Melia)
• Panorama in Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight 4: Drag and Drop DataGrids with Access to the Data Being Dropped (Andy Schwam)
• There are lots of ways to ask for a date [Creating custom DatePicker/TimePicker experiences is easy with the Windows Phone Toolkit] (David Anson)
• How fast is the Windows Phone 7 Start up??? (Senthil Kumar)
• Multitouch Game Loop Inertia Processing (Dave)
• Great Silverlight Competency Test Part 4 (Answer) and iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Application LifeCycle and Tombstoning and Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Developers: Life Cycle (Jesse Liberty)
• Choices, choices… Windows Phone 7 and Twitter (Luke)
• Fast, lightweight full-text search engine for objects in WPF and Silverlight controls (Andrew Clancy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Allen Wirfs-Brock and Chris Wilson: EcmaScript, JavaScript and the Web (Charles Torre)
• Mike Barnett and Daryl Zuniga: Code Contracts Editor Extensions (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Let’s Play TDD #20: Getting Started on the UI and Let’s Play TDD Recap: Episodes 1-10 (James Shore)
• OpenTable on Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)

Community / Events

• F# in Education Workshop – Nov 5th, 2010 (Bob Familiar)

Database

• “The SQL Server DMV Start Pack” (eBook and T-SQL) from Red Gate and more Dynamic Management Views (DMV) stuff (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – UNION Not Allowed but OR Allowed in Index View – Limitation of the View 6 (Pinal Dave)
• Software Review: Idera’s Virtual Database (Wesley Brown)
• RavenDB: Replicating to a relational database (Oren Eini)
• Table Variables and Transactions (Steve Jones)
• Three Things to Watch with NoSQL (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Display VIEW definition using T-SQL code (3 different ways) (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Daily Dose – RC1 of MySQL 5.5 Adds InnoDB Default (Mitch Pronschinske)

SharePoint

• SharePoint – How to use the Inbuilt Data View Webpart to Display and Perform CRUD Operations on a List (Ravi Keshwani)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Bing adds Twitter recommendations to search (Todd Bishop)
• Betanews readers offer mixed reactions to IE9 (Joe Wilcox)
• PKI management with PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• OData Client for Objective-C v1.1 (CodePlex)
• The Real HTC HD7 Revealed ! (Awais Imran)
• 10 Things Apple Could Do to Make iPhone Development Perfect (John Blanco)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #691 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 21, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for September 21, 2010 — #953 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 4 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Scott Mitchell

Top Links

• This Developer’s Life 1.0.3: Problems (Rob Conery)
• Trust Your Instincts! Or how to stay interested in programming (Mike Hadlow)
• Patterns of Windows Phone Architecture Part III (James Ashley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tips on Debugging : Using DebuggerHidden attribute (Abhijit Jana)
• Marble Diagrams and Rx (Abhishek Sur)
• Find out how long your method runs (Gunnar Peipman)
• Replace in Files: Tagged Expressions (Zain Naboulsi)
• Chained null checks and the Maybe monad (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Relative Date Time Converter (Nigel Sampson)

Web Development

• Using TemplateHint and other Model Metadata features in MVC (Arun Mahendrakar)
• SpreadSheetGear Made My Life Easy Today For Creating Excel File In ASP.NET A Little Background (Peter Kellner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning: Study habits (Mark Needham)
• Dependency Injection (Richard Carr)
• Discussions On Software Development Are Good And So Is Programming. (Rajiv Popat)
• Estimates sucks, especially when I pay for them (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Direct Volume Licensing for Expression Encoder Pro Announced (Allan P.)
• Expression Encoder 4 Pro is getting GPU accelerated encoding (James Clarke)
• Google Weather API on Windows Phone 7 and GIF to JPEG for Windows Phone 7 – via a WCF service (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Step-by-Step Guide to Silverlight Shape Controls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WPF 4.0 Progress Bar Control using Dispatcher Thread (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Checking if a Remote (HTTP) File Exists (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Flash to Canvas Experiment: Bonsai Tree (Adam Kinney)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WebDevRadio Episode 81: indieconf, client-side image resizing, moral dilemmas (Michael Kimsal)
• Windows Weekly 173: The Fiddly Bits (Paul Thurrott)
• Let’s Play TDD #13: The TaxRate Class (James Shore)

Community / Events

• Go That Way, Really Fast (Jeff Atwood)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Soft Delete Conversation – Your Opinion Needed (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• "Masterminds of Programming" (Jason Bock)
• Configuring two wireless routers with one SSID (network name) at home for free roaming (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 09/12/2010 (Rick Minerich)

The Geek Shelf

WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities by Mike Liu

Top Links

• LightSwitch: Initial thoughts and Profiling LightSwitch using Entity Framework Profiler and Analyzing LightSwitch data access behavior and LightSwitch & Source Control and LightSwitch on the wire (Oren Eini)
• Dynamically Loading Silverlight Video Players using MEF (Michael Washington & Hisowa)
• Android Development, Part 0 of N: Introduction (Joel Ross)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF, NSubstitute, and Autofac (Jason Bock)
• Mindscape releases LightSpeed 3.11 ORM (John-Daniel Trask)
• Rangers shipped Visual Studio 2010 Database Guide (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Using the right tool for the job – introducing WebMatrix and LightSwitch (Mike Ormond)
• Find Symbol Results Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
• CodeRush Notifications (Rory Becker)

Web Development

• Internet Explorer Developer Tools: The CSS Tab (Pete LePage)
• Implementing the Store Locator Application Using ASP.NET MVC (Part 2) (Scott Mitchell)
• Using the SEO Feature in Expression Web 4 (Minal Agarwal)
• New MapQuest Directions API Built on Open Data (Adam DuVander)
• Redirect Tcp Connections in Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• Feels like a new day – implementing the MetaWeblog API (Josh Twist)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Your Agile isn’t my Agile! (Bob Hartman)
• An effective testing strategy (Jimmy Bogard)
• Day 24 – Bounce Back with Skill and Day 25 – Fix Time, Flex Scope (J.D. Meier)
• Should the Best Scrum Team Be Rewarded? (Mark Levison)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Implicit Lock (Giorgio Sironi)
• Commenting Methods Using Liskov Substitution Principle (Brendan Enrick)
• Read and Recommended: A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum (Stephen Forte)
• How To Do Large Scale Refactoring (Vikas Hazrati)
• Quality assurance is not testing (Jeffrey Palermo)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Working with CollectionView in WPF(Filter,Sort, Group, Navigate) (Abhishek Sur)
• WCF on the Windows Phone 7–The How to Guide (Simon Jackson)
• Sending tile push notifications on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Acceptable Windows Phone 7 Movie Sizes and How to Generate Them.. (Don Burnett)
• TimeZone patch to WPF Performance Profiling Tools for WPF 4 is now available (Jossef Goldberg)
• First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–II) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Stay away from Windows Phone 7, Blendtec! (Luke)
• Windows Phone Screen Stealing Status Bar (Rob Miles)
• Windows Phone 7′s short-term future includes phone-to-console gaming, Twitter? (Ross Miller)
• An easy sell… sneak preview of new Windows Phone 7 apps (Sara Allison)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – David Chappell on Effective IT Innovation (Bob Familiar)
• Sparkling Client Show 104: Windows Phone Dev Tools Nearing Release! (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• ASP.NET MVC in 4 minutes! (Jonathan McCracken)

Community / Events

• Looking Back (Nate Kohari)
• Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Event (Sara Ford)
• BI Immersion Event in Bellevue, WA in October! (Paul S. Randal)

Database

• Changing the size of a column in SQL Server Management Studio (Josh Twist)
• Change an Existing Index in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Does Order of Column in WHERE clause Matter? (Pinal Dave)
• Service Update to SQL Azure Now Supports Database Copy (Bruce Kyle)
• Searching for ranges when you have quarters and years (Denis Gobo)
• The Lazy DBA Series: Email me, I’m broke! and The Lazy DBA Series: High Availability (Ted Krueger)
• Use ReadOnlyVariables and ReadWriteVariables properties in Scripts (Todd McDermid)
• Property Owner is not available for Database (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates Office 2010 Web Apps (Blake Handler)
• I wanted to start my best-practices series… (Joel Bennett)
• Developer Survey: Challenges and New Technologies (Dave West)
• How to Make Money With Your API (Daniel Jacobson)
• How I Bonded with my Windows Phone – a cycling misadventure (Sara Ford)
• Daily Dose – Adobe’s McAllister Speaks Out Against Oracle (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Your Top 10 #Ebook Deal of the Day-Geek Beach Reads-Only $9.99 ea. Use code DDGRD (O’Reilly Media)
• Taking Docs back to school (Pat Kinsel)
• Windows 95 Turns 15 Years Old (Richard Hay)
• Inspecting Local Root Lifetime (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Adobe updates Photoshop.com, releases Express Editor, Organizer and Android app (Sebastian Anthony)
• Expression Is Hiring (Christian Schormann)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 24, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Windows 7 Animation Manager Resources and Windows 7 Sensors and Location Resources and Windows 7 Touch Resources (Don Burnett)
• Tech Tweets for 24-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #672 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2010 — #932 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Introducing Windows Azure (Expert’s Voice in .Net) by Henry Li