• The State of NuGet (Phil Haack)
• Windows Phone Marketplace Requests (Scott Dorman)
• Microsoft to launch Windows 8 Consumer Preview at MWC (Mary Jo Foley)
• Stack Exchange Keyboard Shortcuts (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–Proposed Solution #2–Cohesion (Oren Eini)
• TFS 2010 Grant Backup Plan Permissions Error (Bob Hardister)
• YaWhiteBoard – A Simple Whiteboard using C# (Rahul Rajat Singh)
• A new Gadgeteer blog – VB Magic (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Solve ‘Complex Data Restructuring’ Using the ‘List’ Operations in the Service Bus EAI/EDI Mapper (Ravi Bollapragada)
• The path-searching algorithm is not a backtracking algorithm (Raymond Chen)
• datatemplateselector winrt (babaandthepigman)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: AboditNLP (Jason Jarrett)
• Book review: Working with NHibernate 3.0 (Jef Claes)
• Using Fluent NHibernate for XML-Free Class Mapping (Joydip Kanjilal)

Web Development

• WebDev Playground: dabblet.com for HTML/CSS, jsfiddler.com for JS & HUrl.it for REST (Code Inside Team)
• jQuery Tip #2: Manipulating the DOM in a Loop (Dan Wahlin)
• Lighter Configuration Files and Better ASP.NET Support with WCF 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)
• The Decorator pattern, or its cousin, in JavaScript (Giorgio Sironi)
• Emerging Trends in Ruby on Rails Development in 2012 (Mich de Castro)
• SignalR : Best thing since slice bread? (Sacha Barber)
• Vendor Prefixes – about to go south (Remy Sharp)
• Book Giveaway: The Book of Ruby (Louis Lazaris)
• NEW! Wiki launched for Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure (Michele Hart)
• Getting Started with KendoUI and OpenAccess ORM (Joshua Holt)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• At a Single Glance – Interpreting and Acting Upon Agile Project Metrics (Joel Semeniuk)
• Test View Issue: An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame (Charles Sterling)
• Finding Out When Something Happened in Your Git Repo (Christopher Bennage)
• Avoiding Prescriptive Requirements (Jak Charlton)
• [Email] – Short Projects and Estimating Velocity (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #6 Layout (Windows Phone Geek)
• Treadmill Assistant Windows Phone 7 App Released (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #491 – Displaying a Hyperlink (Sean Sexton)
• APress Deal of the Day – 9/Feb/2012 – Introducing Silverlight 4 (Tatworth)
• Using RadDiagnostics for WP7 to receive error reports anonymously (Valentin Stoychev)
• Part 2: Developing for a multitude of clients: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check (Kevin Dockx)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen is Back on His SOPA Box (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 013 – 02.08.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Boagworld: Don’t limit your options when wireframing (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 104: The Future Of Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Computing: Start Smart – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows 7.5 Video: Fast Application Switching (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Visual Studio Live! – Las Vegas (Brian Peek)
• Professional Scrum.ORG courses being offered in China, India and Philippines (Charles Sterling)
• Win a free pass for Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas in SilverlightShow Contest (Silverlight Show)
• WPUG Talk: Developing cross-platform mobile applications with PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7 (Colin Eberhardt)
• Register for Telerik Webinars (Stephen Forte)
• A Coder Interview With Dave Ward (The Code Project)
• Philadelphia Star Trek Meetup: Sunday @ Hive 76 (Mikey Il)
• Free DevExpress Day – 25th February 2012 – Bad Ems, Germany (Oliver Sturm)
• Azure Update On February 15, 2012 @ NYC Windows Azure User Group (Peter Laudati)
• MADExpo Family Fun Feature #1 (Kevin Griffin)
• OSS Rules of Engagement (Jimmy Bogard)
• Isolating Code: A Quick Intro to Typemock Isolator (Avi Kaye)
• FREE Webcasts: Temptations That Lead to the 5 Deadly Sins of SharePoint #in the Enterprise and FREE Feb 9 Webcast: The State of Enterprise Social w/ SharePoint #spsocial #mspartner (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Upcoming Webinar – The iPad Invasion: Leveraging SharePoint for Mobile Enterprise Security (Joel Oleson)

Database

• It’s Hard To Be "Average": Mean, Median, and Mode in SQL Server (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – INNER JOIN Returning More Records than Exists in Table (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Is it better to have coding experience in the US or abroad? (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Is AppStore bad for gaming business? (Scott Barnes)
• Bliki: PresentationSmells (Martin Fowler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 9, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 02.01 ~ 02.08 (yuanjian)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 087 for 2/9/2012 and Maker Geek Roundup 007 for 2/8/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #814 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1040 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 2/9/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-08 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 08 – #0038 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Everything You Know about CSS Is Wrong! by Rachel Andrew

• Kinect for Windows is now Available! (Craig Eisler)
• One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell (Scott Hanselman)
• jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Learn jQuery in 30 Days (Jeffrey Way)
• Debugger Canvas 1.1 Released (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 UML Design Pattern Toolbox Items Extension (Giles Davies)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Face Recognation in C# (Amir Ahani)
• Dynamic Types and DynamicObject References in C# (Rick Strahl)
• Kinect for Windows – Code Migration from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) and Kinect for Windows – Details of API Changes from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) and Kinect for Windows Support Info Coming Soon (Rob Relyea)
• How to access a WCF Service behind ISA Server 2006 Forms Based Authentication (Stacy Vicknair)
• Enhancements to /GS in Visual Studio 11 (vcblog)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.9.3.4 Beta 2 (VS2010 Support) (Codeplex)
• Simplify Your Projections with AutoMapper (Patrick Steele)
• StyleCop 4.7.7.0 released (TATWORTH)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Enum Metadata Library (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Using jQuery Deferred To Chain Validation Rules In An Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Environment (Ben Nadel)
• 2 Great JavaScript Data-Binding Libraries (John Papa)
• Creating the Perfect ASP.NET UI with Web Parts and User Controls (Peter Vogel)
• On the Viability of HTML5 Games (Dave Mahon)
• How to create animated tooltips with CSS3 (Mary Lou)
• ASP.net MVC Awesome – jQuery Ajax Helpers 2.0 and ProDinner – ASP.NET MVC Sample (EF4, N-Tier, jQuery) – Release Seven (CodePlex)
• An Ultimate HTML5 Cheat Sheet for Developers (Amit)
• My five favorite "hidden" features in Rails 3.2 (José Valim)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 4 – Transformations (G. Andrew Duthie)
• psd.js: You Guessed It – A Photoshop Document Parser in CoffeeScript (Devon Govett)
• Authenticating & Working with the Salesforce REST API & OAuth (Andrew Connell)
• Why External Links Should Open in New Tabs (Anthony)
• Handling two known issues with Windows Azure node.js SDK 0.5.2 (Avkash Chauhan)
• Firebug 1.9.1 (Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko)
• Web Sites and a Plug-in Free Web (John Hrvatin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – Process (Karl Scotland)
• Hand Drawn UI Kit (Vladimir Carrer)
• The Open Group Releases ArchiMate 2.0 (Mike Walker)
• The top mistakes UX designers make: the writeup (Scott Berkun)
• Guidelines on improving performance of Coded UI Test playback (Tapas)
• Cleaning Out Git Remotes The Easy Way (Derick Bailey)
• Software engineering—what’s missing? (Eric Brechner)
• Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App (Julie Stanford)
• [Review] – Mike Cohn’s eLearning Agile Videos (Peter Saddington)
• Assert the order of expected calls over instances (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Resources (Dani Diaz)
• Code to send game invite to multiple user in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Displaying static maps on the Windows Phone for performance and scenario wins (Jeff Wilcox)
• Codeproject Windows Phone Application (Lakamraju Raghuram)
• Windows Phone Labyrinth (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• Event Handler Memory Leaks, Unwiring Events, and the WeakEventManager in WPF 4.5 (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #485 – Binding a ComboBox to an Enumerated Type’s List of Values (Sean Sexton)
• Top 10 Mango Features Article (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Memory Profiling for Application Performance (Pratap Lakshman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 81: Looking at the Next .NET Compilers AKA “Roslyn” Project (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 174 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Graeber using PowerShell in Infosec (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• HTML5 WebCamp Training VIDEO Available (Doris Chen)
• Let’s Play TDD #160: End of Week 1 (James Shore)
• The JavaScript Show – Backbone.js 0.9.0 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Yet Another Podcast #58–Julie Lerman and EF/CF (Jesse Liberty)
• The GeekDads Episode #108: Aliens on Broadway (Ken Denmead)
• Engadget HD Podcast 284 – 01.31.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Talking Cloud with ASP.NET/IIS MVP Eduardo Zabat Lorenzo (MVP Award Program)
• Agile .NET Conference in Dallas this month (Caleb Jenkins)
• Join the Conversation with Bill (The Gates Notes)
• Join Me for Lunch in Chicago on March 23rd (Brent Ozar)
• Call for Sessions for PowerShell Deep Dive 2012 – San Diego, CA – April 29 – May 2 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• February Technical Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
• February Meeting Announcement (Don Burnett)
• Windows Azure + Node.js at NY Alt.NET (Peter Laudati)

Database

• "Introducing SQL Server 2012" second draft of free eBook now available (6 of the 10 final chapters) (Greg Duncan)
• SQL Server – Send email using Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
• 6 ways to get free SQL Server 2012 Training (John Sterrett)
• SQL SERVER – What is Slowly Changing Dimension – Quiz – Puzzle – 31 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Embracing RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Your Road to Becoming a DBA: Laying a Strong Foundation (John Sansom)

SharePoint

• Mobile SharePoint: Infragistics Acquires SouthLabs for End-to-End iPad, Android & Blackberry SharePoint Experience (Jason Beres)

PowerShell

• Prompts and Directories – Even Better Git (and Mercurial) with PowerShell (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Announces 20th Anniversary of Microsoft Certifications (MS PressPass)
• The Microsoft Interview Process (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Using the Group Project Toolkit, Office Web Apps and SkyDrive to take some of the coordination nightmare out of group projects… (Greg Duncan)
• Great time to be a developer (Joshua Flanagan)
• Software Security Weekly (Mark Curphey)
• Microsoft’s Office 15: To Metro or not to Metro? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Tekpub Update: January 2012 (Rob Conery)
• Skype for Windows Phone app to begin beta testing soon, release imminent (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 01.20 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
• Monthly Summary – January 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Double Shot #808 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1034 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 2/1/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for January 31, 2012 – #0034 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 31 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK by Jarrett Webb

• Visual Studio Achievements – Remember Kids They’re Just For Fun (Bil Simser)
• Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta (Karsten Januszewski)
• Learning leadership from Congress (Seth Godin)
• Introducing ReSharper 6.1 SDK (Dmitri Nesteruk)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Don’t brag about your Visual Studio achievements! (yet?) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Ask Ayende: Life without repositories, are they worth living? (Oren Eini)
• [Special Edition] Achievement Unlocked! – Visual Studio Achievement Beta Released (Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Achievements Widget (Geoffrey K.)
• TFS11 Scrum board update remaining work without opening the work item… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Visual Studio Achievements Program Brings Gamification to Development (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Visual Studio Achievements FAQ (Karsten Januszewski)
• An introduction to NDepend (Nathan Gloyn)
• Don’t try to allocate memory until there is only x% free (Raymond Chen)
• Querying an Uninitialized Collection with NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
• P/Invoke Stack Imbalance MDA (Sasha Goldshtein)
• async / await, some reasoning (Bnaya Eshet)
• "Beginner’s Guide to Kinect Programming," from download to demo (Greg Duncan)
• Per Project Settings or How to have different naming styles for my test project (Hadi Hariri)
• Restful WCF / EF POCO / UnitOfWork / Repository / MEF article (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• jQuery Bootstrap 0.2 Brings ‘Beauty’ to Widgets (Christopher Smith)
• An analysis of SOPA and PIPA Protest "Blackout" HTML and CSS techniques (Scott Hanselman)
• 160 Music APIs (Wendell Santos)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 3 – Paths and Text (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Add Google Plus One Extension to BlogEngine.NET (Joseph Guadagno)
• Under the Covers: Let It Snow… (Bogdan Brinza)
• HTTP is not a transport protocol, HTTP is not RPC (Glenn Block)
• Format efficiency take 2: really clean JSON (Pablo Castro)
• Windows Azure application VM and (virtual) IP Address (Avkash Chauhan)
• Best Practices For HTTP API Evolvability (Dilip Krishnan)
• Easing Functions in CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Test or Integration Test and Why You Should Care (Steve Smith)
• The next big thing is extremely small (Jimmy Nilsson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get the Tapped Item in a MultiselectList control (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Toolkit ToggleSwitch Databinding Bug (Andy Wigley)
• wp7 skydrive upload (babaandthepigman)
• WP7 PhoneGap Backbutton Support Re-visited (Colin Eberhardt)
• How to simplify coding DependencyProperty in WPF and Silverlight (DawningTiger)
• How to Use the ConnectionSettings Task for Windows Phone and Code to Share Status or Links on Social Media sites in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Comfortably numb… MVVM’ing Enums in ComboBox (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #476 – Set ZIndex Values for Child Elements of Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• New Ebook by SilverlightShow and Andrea Boschin: Windows Phone 7.5 Fundamentals (SilverlightShow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Dev Radio Episode 95: Jeff Carouth at ZendCon 2011 (Michael Kimsal)
• The GeekDads Episode #107: And Anyone Who Says Otherwise Is Evil and Bad and Wrong (Ken Denmead)
• Defrag: Gov’s Nest, Bitlocker Q’s, Win7 Defrag, (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Bug Village, Hasta La Muerte, PixelTV, Make Way, WeatherDuck (Laura Foy)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 010 – 01.18.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio Achievements (Robert Green)
• New Videos Uploaded (Jesse Liberty)
• Phoenix Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• .NET Rocks! – Chris Sells Unplugged! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

• Microsoft-ComponentOne Hands-On-Workshops for Windows Phone Series – January 24th and 26th 2012 (MS Public Sector Team)
• Top 10 Reasons Why I Like Dating A Programmer (Lori Lalonde)
• I have been awarded as Telerik MVP (Dhananjay Kumar)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Importance of Resource Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 18 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Performance Tuning – optimizing for response time (Jack Vamvas)

Miscellaneous

• Translating Military Experience to Real World Jobs (Joe Wallis)
• Defeating SOPA and PIPA Isn’t Enough (Jeff Atwood)
• New: Presentation Zen (2nd Edition) (Garr Reynolds)
• Learning RegEx – Grouping and Backlinks and Lots-O-emote’s in WPCentral’s complete WP7 emoticons list (Greg Duncan)
• Whoa, that’s a superstar team at IEB (Xbox), what the heck are they building? (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft confirms Dave Cutler, father of Windows NT, now working on Xbox (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google Thinks OPEN Is a Rational Alternative to SOPA (Todd Wasserman)

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2012 01.10 ~ 01.19 (yuanjian)
• Daily News Digest 1/18/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/19/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1025 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-18 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 18, 2012 – #00029 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Entity Framework: Code First: Code First by Julia Lerman

• Be A Creator, Not a Consumer (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Introduction to jQuery Mobile (Joseph Guadagno)
• Announcing FsUnit 1.0 (Daniel Mohl)
• Windows Phone Challenges for Microsoft (John Papa)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Application review: Northwind Starter Kit (Oren Eini)
• Repository Pattern with Entity Framework 4.1 and Code First (Massimiliano Peluso)
• Optimizing Assembly References with ReSharper 6.1 (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Shortest String That Contains All Words (Chris Eargle)

Web Development

• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 9 – Using Interactive JavaScript for Data Visualization (Avkash Chauhan)
• APress Deal of the Day 3/Jan/2011 – Pro Internet Explorer 8 & 9 Development (Tatworth)
• Day 10 – Drawing rotated images into canvas (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Web Forms with HTML5 (Mark Michaelis)
• SoMvc – ASP.net MVC 3 Application Template 1.0 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft’s cloud roadmap for 2012: What’s on tap (Mary Jo Foley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Vs. Lean: Yeah Yeah, What’s the Difference? (Abby Fichtner)
• The Value is in the Change (J.D. Meier)
• [Tool Review] – Team Pulse – Full Enterprise Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• TDD for multithreaded applications (Giorgio Sironi)
• Article: Dialogue Sheets: A new tool for retrospectives (Allan Kelly)
• Notes on Scalability (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Formula for project success (Jimmy Bogard)
• Composition Of Responsibility vs. Interface Implementation (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Article Series by SilverlightShow and Gill Cleeren: Windows 8 and the future of XAML (Silverlight Show)
• Adding Cookies to a Windows Phone 7 HttpWebRequest (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #464 – ShowsPreview Property Delays Row/Column Size Change Using a GridSplitter (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7 (Subodhn Pushpak)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jim Holmes Tests Everything (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 170 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeffery Hicks Manages Windows Server with PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Legacy Refactoring Using Isolator (Avi Kaye)

Community / Events

• Check Out the Slides for Tomorrow’s Webinar "Azure for the Windows Phone Developer" (Silverlight Show)
• Looking forward to CodeMash: Inside and Outside (Bill Wagner)

Database

• SQL SERVER DISABLE INDEX (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL Server Login Auditing (Tim Radney)
• MongoDB’s Write Lock (Rick Copeland)

Miscellaneous

• Ten Things To Do to Secure an Important Person’s Computer (or even Ashton’s or a Kardashian’s) (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #787 (Mike Gunderloy)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 19-25 and Windows Dev News for January 02, 2011 – #0020 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 26, 2011 – January 01, 2012 and Daily News Digest 1/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1013 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know by Richard Monson-Haefel

• EF 4.2 Released (EF Team)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #2: DeviceStatus (Jeff Blankenburg)
• jQuery 1.7 RC2 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Getting started with convention-based part registration in MEF ‘version 2’ (Nick – BCL Team)
• Debugging Fun with the Async CTP (Mike Taulty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• IDisposable and Thread Safety (Richard Carr)
• F# Math – Numerical computing and F# PowerPack and F# Math (I.) – Numeric types in PowerPack (Tomas Petricek)
• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework November Sample Updates (Jialiang Ge)
• My article on Creating a User Interface with Mono for Android #Monodroid (Wally McClure)
• Devpad 4.6 (CodePlex)
• TODO: An EPUB Viewer for Windows 8 (Charles Petzold)
• Debugging Contracts using Windows Simulator (Cathy Sullivan)
• List valid Data Center Locations for a Subscription using Windows Azure Management API (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• Practical HTML5: Using It Today (Doris Chen)
• Javascript memory leaks (Jeff Krebsbach)
• Build Cross-Platform Apps with Standards (Joe Stagner)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Rename Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Creating a Windows Azure VM Role and Using Windows Azure table storage (Shervin Shakibi)
• My Experiment with Wolfram|Alpha Facts Windows Azure DataMarket to check world population and Everything you need to start with Windows Azure based Microsoft Codename "Social Analytics" (Avkash Chauhan)
• Remote Site Editing and Local Syncing with WebMatrix 2 (John Esposito)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: OpportunisticRefactoring (Martin Fowler)
• Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• TDD – Static Methods (Mark Pearl)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New features in NetAdvantage for Windows Phone Vol.11.2 (Mihail Mateev)
• XamTileManager – new control in the XAML Line of Business product shipped with the 11.2 release (Atanas Dyulgerov)
• Telerik XAML Q3’11 Beta – Walkthrough (Part 3 of 3): RadChartingKit (Evan Hutnick)
• Telerik XAML Q3’11 Beta – Walkthrough (Part 1 of 3) and Telerik XAML Q3’11 Beta – Walkthrough (Part 2 of 3) (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #421 – HorizontalAlignment, Margins and Column Widths in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone 7: Launcher and Choosers – Part 2 (Sudheer Kovalam)
• AgFx Windows Phone Application Data Caching Framework – November Update (CodePlex)
• Looking for great app ideas? Try Marketplace Extra (Michael Stroh)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: WCF Extensibility with Scott Reed (MS Podcasts)
• Engadget HD Podcast 272 – 11.01.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Phone Hackathon from Nokia World (Laura Foy)
• Screencast: Coding Conway’s Game of Life in Ruby the TDD Way with RSpec (Peter Cooper)
• Defrag: Readyboost, Virtual Machines, Printing at Distance (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• jQuery Conference 2012: United Kingdom Announced (Ralph Whitbeck)
• Free Upcoming Webinar – Enterprise Information Management with SharePoint 2010: Secrets to Success (Joel Oleson)
• Free online Prism 4.0 training (Bob Brumfield)
• AT&T Mobile App Hackathon–Orlando–I’ll be there (Dani Diaz)
• Windows Phone Event at Hull University (Rob Miles)
• What are you into? (Luke)
• 30 Day Boot Camp for Getting Results: Free Time Management Training for Achievers (JD Meier)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Import CSV into Database – Transferring File Content into a Database Table using CSVexpress (Pinal Dave)
• Over and under indexing – how bad is it out there? (Paul S. Randal)
• Publish Capabilities in Data Explorer (Data Explorer Team)
• How To Backup Your Postgres DB To Amazon Nightly (Rob Conery)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Azure Use Case: Supplementing Infrastructure (Buck Woody)
• Cross-Post: Photosynth Loves Windows Azure (Himanshu Singh)
• New Google Reader Layout | Not a Fan (Jeff Julian)
• Pogue Power: #Ebook Deal/Day – Save 50% on all @Pogue’s Missing Manuals + NEW Mac OS X Lion: TMM (O’Reilly Media)
• How Microsoft kills cool projects (Scott Berkun)
• Android 4.0 Graphics and Animations (Tim Bray)
• Nokia Maps Coming to ALL Windows Phones Soon and WP7 Xbox Live Game of the Week: Kinectimals (officially) (Antonio Hernandez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #972 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 2 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading November 1, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #743 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/1/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/01/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow for October 24 – 30, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for November 01, 2011 — #1160 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 by Dino Esposito

• New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5 – Implicit Data Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• Improving developer productivity with Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Visual Studio Team)
• SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 has been released (Denis Gobo)
• Modernizr.js (K. Scott Allen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Comparing Profiler Performance Reports in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Kinecting with F# (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Toolbox: Creating a "Safer" Task Dispose() (James Michael Hare)
• WCF REST tip 3: WebOperationContext (Pieter de Rycke)
• Additional Mime Types in Visual Studio 2010 Development Web Server (Shawn Cicoria)
• Authoring Type Providers with the TypeProviderDSL from FSharpx (Daniel Mohl)
• Windows 8 Metro declarations: Protocol (Andrej Tozon)
• Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh and Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0 Refresh (MS Downloads)
• Generic Types and Static Members (Abhishek Sur)
• WASABi scale groups (Grigori Melnik)
• Spatial Data Introduced to Entity Framework (Jenni Ripley)

Web Development

• Bundling and Minification in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• SEO And Accessibility With HTML5 PushState, Part 3: The Video (Derick Bailey)
• Pondering Amazon Silk (Chris Love)
• Integrating Facebook Authentication for your website using WebMatrix 2 Beta (Harish Ranganathan)
• A review of Crafting Rails Applications (Luca Pette)
• Debug command line scripts with PhpStorm 2.1 (Nikolay Matveev)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.4.0 (CodePlex)
• O Reilly – Deals of the day 7/Oct/2011 – 50% off HTML5 books and 2 free books (Tatworth)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Get a Free Chapter of The Art of Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Book review: The Art of Unit Testing (Jef Claes)
• Updates on the Latest Quince Release (Amy Quinn)
• How mocks can cut down on test maintenance (Brian Marick)
• How to make software development decisions based on facts (Laila Lotfi)
• Theories And Technologies Are Not Solutions (Rob Diana)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 9: The Repository Pattern + Source Code Is In! (Evan Hutnick)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Binding to HubTile Events using MVVM Light EventToCommand (Windows Phone Geek)
• Optimizing Windows Phone 7 Applications (Part 1) (Atanas Dyulgerov)
• Windows Phone 7.1(5) "Controls and Toolkits" cheat sheet (Greg Duncan)
• Migrating From WP7 To Mango–Getting Started (Jesse Liberty)
• MadProps.MvvmLight 2.0.0 (Matt Hamilton)
• Using screenshot and camera feed to create funny Windows Phone 7 pictures (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #403 – The Order of DockPanel Children Matters (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Silverlight Poor Man’s Double-Tap (Tim Murphy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Mahmoud Saleh – Advanced CRT (Charles Torre)
• Episode 161 – PowerScripting Podcast – Gaurav Mantri from Cerebrata and their Azure Management Cmdlets (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery Mobile 1.0rc1, JavaScript books, and new libraries (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Micah Baldwin Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 107 – 10.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #122: Mark Smith and Adam Wride, founders of DigMyData (Bob Walsh)
• Play by Play: Ryan Singer: UI Prototyping (Peepcode)
• Microsoft’s Bill Buxton on Risk and Innovation (The Takeaway)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Garage at Richmond Code Camp (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Reminder: RavenDB and NHibernate courses–New York coming up (Oren Eini)
• New England Code Camp–Sweet Sixteen (Jim O’Neil)
• Winnipeg Code Camp 2012 Date (D’Arcy Lussier)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP3 Reporting Services Report Builder and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Feature Pack (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Server Side Paging in SQL Server CE (Compact Edition) (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Views and Metadata (Ted Krueger)
• Sync SSMS Tools Pack Across Computers Using SyncToy (Eric Humphrey)
• Expiring Databases and Policy-Based Management (Jorge Segarra)

SharePoint

• New book: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• APress Deal of the Day – 7/Oct/2011 – Pro Project Management with SharePoint 2010 (Tatworth)
• Always pay attention to uniqueness to SQL Index (Gian Maria Ricci)

PowerShell

• Recordings from the First PowerShell Deep Dive (Travis Jones)

Miscellaneous

• Sharing Vim Configuration Between Machines (Ben Scheirman)
• Samsung Series 7 Slate now up for pre-orders, shipping date still MIA (Jesse Hicks)
• Setting procmon to put logs in the TEMP folder (John Guin)

More Link Collections

• Distributed Weekly 123 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #725 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #954 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 7 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 6, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily Links 06/10/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 10/06/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 5-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News 6 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Coding4fun: 10 .Net Programming Projects for Wiimote, Youtube, World of Warcraft, and More by Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek

• Feedback Request for using NuGet Without Committing Packages (Phil Haack)
• XNA RPG – Learning XNA while building a RPG, a 26 part tutorial series (Greg Duncan)
• Project Silk (Karl Shifflett)
• Why use the command processor pattern in the service layer (Ian Cooper)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Important counter sets for monitoring ASP.NET performance using Perfmon Tool (Abhijit Jana)
• Facebook C# SDK – Release: v5.0.10 (RC) (CodePlex)
• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #5 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows Azure Kit Adds WP7 Authentication, Traffic Manager, SQL Azure Reporting (Bruce Kyle)
• Programmatically calling validation in a rehosted Workflow 4 designer (Patrick D. Fletcher)
• Creating tag cloud using ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework (Gunnar Peipman)
• VS2010 SP1 New Features: Performance Wizard Support for Silverlight (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to create a WF4 WorkflowServiceHostFactory for AppFabric Auto-Start (Ron Jacobs)
• New Content: Code Quick Start: Capturing Diagnostics in your Windows Azure Application and Windows Azure SDK 1.4 Refresh Issue Resolved (Windows Azure Team)
• Dynamically Loading .NET Assemblies using Interfaces and Reflection (Scott Bentley)
• The Windows Native Ribbon Part 1.5: Laying out Controls and Groups (Michael Dunn)
• An Introduction to Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) – Part I (Niladri Biswas)
• Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1 (MS Downloads)

Web Development

• ContosoKarate (WM) – The HTML Theme and ASP.NET Web Pages Integration (Joe Stagner)
• Caching Data in ASP.NET Applications (Nathan Totten)
• An Introduction to CSS 3 in Expression Web (Pad Gallagher)
• CSS3 Media Queries Explained (Andrew Spooner)
• Editable lines in Google Maps using the Javascript v3 API (Tobias Södergren)
• WebDeploy tip for WebMatrix…watch out for port blocking (G. Andrew Duthie)
• IE9 Compat Inspector (Tony Ross)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 5: How to implement dynamic Jump List Categories (Jennifer Marsman)
• HTML 5: Specification news! Latest specifications released! Silverlight Impacted? (Sam)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 3 Ways to Maintain Quality in Your Unit Tests (Avi Kaye)
• Visualising quality: initial ideas (Gojko Adzic)
• BDD Antipattern: Specs with concealed intent (John Rayner)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Helper (Giorgio Sironi)
• Templates for SDL Practices (MS Downloads)
• Integration: Coupling (Paul Stovell)
• Using Kinect for NUI Part 4 – Buttons (Deborah Hanamura)
• Using Stubs (Richard Carr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Get a visual parent of an element in Silverlight and Windows Phone App – Where’s My Car (Arian Kulp)
• Silverlight 5 3D Housebuilder Project Shown at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Using Perspective Transforms inside ListBox ItemTemplate (Windows Phone Geek)
• An elegant ThreadLocal for Silverlight (Oren Eini)
• Application Bar for your Windows Phone 7 and Async support for Silverlight and WP7 (Abhishek Sur)
• Supporting Non-Supported Entities like IEnumerable in Sterling (Jeremy Likness)
• Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 Beta (Michael Crump)
• Fix: Calling WCF Methods with Parameters Synchronously on Windows Phone 7 (Nick Randolph)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Linked RichTextBoxes and Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Composition Thread? and Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Debugging Data-Binding (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Pat Hynds Plans for Disaster Recovery (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 4 of n (Charles Torre)
• Microsoft SDL Requirements Phase – Security Practices and Campus Tours: Fuse Labs with Lili Cheng (Larry Larsen)
• SE Podcast #02 (Alex Miller)

Community / Events

• XNA for Windows Phone 7: a 3-day Online Training Course (Svetla Stoycheva)
• Introducing the BarCamp Tour (Joey deVilla)
• Download Videos, Presentations from MIX11 (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft and Wintellect Present – Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter (Jeffrey Richter)

Database

• A Palindrome Program in SSIS using Copy Column, Derived Column, Character Map and Conditional Split Transformation. (Niladri Biswas)
• A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 27 (Glenn Berry)
• Sorting on Multiple Columns in SSRS (Luke Hayler)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets (Pinal Dave)
• How to find out when a DB recovery model was changed (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 2 – Server Configuration – Data/Log Files (Ted Krueger)
• SSMA for MySQL 5.0 and SSMA for Oracle 5.0 (MS Downloads)
• Daily Denali Delight – Day 5 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)

SharePoint

• How to Connect SharePoint 2010, Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Where are all the SharePoint Testers? (Joel Oleson)
• Design Workflow using SharePoint Designer 2010 and InfoPath Form 2010 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 cloud roaming options via Windows Live revealed (damaster)
• Get your interview skills in shape (Microsoft JobsBlog)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 27th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 04/27/2011 and Daily News Digest 04/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #842 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle by Michael Howard

• NuGet 1.3 Released (Phil Haack)
• ILSpy – Decompiler Architecture Overview (Daniel Grunwald)
• arealdeveloper.com (Jef Claes)
• Hulu Plus comes to Xbox 360 April 29th according to OXM (Richard Lawler)
• WP7 Animations in depth– Overview and Getting Started (Windows Phone Geek)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Register Mono / F# executables on Linux (2#4u)
• How to automate a command line utility like DiskPart (vbscript) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• Managing Talks: An F#/Office Love Story (Part 1) (Ted Neward)
• Generating a <machineKey> Element (Jonathan Wood)
• Upgrading to Entity Framework 4.1 RC (John Papa)
• New.NET Async Control Flow Explained (David Cooksey)
• Free upgrade to ReSharper 6 starts today + decompiler gets a name (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Solver Foundation on DevLabs (Somasegar)

Web Development

• Extending Your jQuery Application with Amplify.js (Elijah Manor & Andrew Wirick)
• How to Add MVC 3.01 Project Types to the Azure Cloud Service Wizard (Jason Haley)
• IIS Extensions on Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)
• Sorting Azure Table Entities by Timestamp with PHP (Brian Swan)
• Understanding Differences in Hardware Acceleration through Paintball (Seth McLaughlin)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 4: How to implement Jump List Tasks (Jennifer Marsman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Rabu Schedule Visualizations: Taking the Edge Off Hard Facts (James Shore)
• Select N+1 Is a Problem We Made For Ourselves (Rob Conery)
• Why drop the I if you’re going to just add an Impl? (Bobby Johnson)
• The Module Pattern (Kris Gray)
• The developer / DBA relationship. (Martin Catherall)
• Using Rx to Test CQRS App Engine Functionality (Rinat Abdullin)
• The Gang of Four patterns as everyday objects (Giorgio Sironi)
• Integration: Messaging (Paul Stovell)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A Purely XAML coded Animated Bezier Curve via WPF (logicchild)
• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 10 – UI Elements and Menus (Peter Kuhn)
• Creating a delete animation using Expression Blend (Nigel Sampson)
• Silverlight 5 Beta–Binding to Dynamic Properties and Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Trusted Apps In The Browser (Mike Taulty)
• Breakpoints on Xaml in Silverlight 5 (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Spy April 2011 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• What’s behind the Windows Phone text entry system? (Steve Clayton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 145 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeff Hicks Managing Active Directory with PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Ultimate Gaming Pod – OVEI (Tina Wood)
• The GeekDads Episode #90: Was There Celery Involved? (Ken Denmead)
• Applying SDL Requirements practices within Windows Azure and ‘Softie Builds 737 Cockpit In His House (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Star Wars Cantina, Paper Toss, TouchStudio, Wordament, Lie Detector (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Campus Jam (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• SharePoint Connections Coast-to-Coast San Diego, CA next week! (Andrew Connell)
• Windows Phone Accelerator Labs (Chris Koenig)
• No Longer A Freak? (Alan Stevens)
• .NET Open Source Community – CodePlex / GitHub Comparision (Jonathan Wanagel)
• MVP Mondays: A Look Back (Lonnie Webb)
• Speaking at the Dev Dinner (Frank La Vigne)

Database

• MSDB in FULL RECOVERY Model in SQL Server (Amit Bansal)
• SQL Server Filegroups: The What, The Why and The How (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL Server: String operations in XML document‏ (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Azure – Creating Database and Connecting Database (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 1 – Server Configuration – MAX Memory (Ted Krueger)
• Transforming SSIS’ sysssislog Entries Into Something More Readable (Todd McDermid)
• SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD waits and the LOCK_HASH spinlock (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Azure Use Case: Shared Storage Application (Buck Woody)
• Daily Denali Delight – Day 4 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)

Miscellaneous

• Communicate with your customers through Zune (Adam Nathan)
• Microsoft Sets Guinness World Record Using Kinect…. Again! (Austin Ritchie)
• Microsoft readies more retail stores: Houston and Los Angeles up next and Survey: Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 a distant third in developer interest (Mary Jo Foley)
• WP7 developer interest: Different perspectives, one set of data (Brody McKee)
• Windows Phone 7 Does Not Store Your Location History Like iPhone And Android Does (Oliver Haslam)
• Microsoft Increases Exam Pricing (Spy)
• Microsoft returning to its Windows versioning hell (Steven Hodson)
• Microsoft hints built-in Windows Live Messenger support in Windows Phone “Mango” (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Weekly Link Post 191 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 26th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• SilverlightShow for April 18 – 24, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2011 — #1079 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #841 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Windows Azure by Sriram Krishnan

• XNA is coming to Visual Basic! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Dual’ing Windows Phone 7 Emulators – Setting up your environment to deploy and debug in multiple WP7 emulators (Greg Duncan)
• Improved HTML Copy in the latest Productivity Power Tools (Kirill Osenkov)
• Jounce Part 14: Using MEF for Non-Shared Views and View Models (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio – Open a file into two tabs (Arian Kulp)
• Assembly Information (Richard Carr)
• Package Management for .NET developer: NuGet (Code Inside Team)
• Test Driving NHibernate 3.0, LINQ and the Entity Framework CTP 5 with the Abstract Factory Design Pattern (Mark J. Caplin)
• Multiple Line Editing in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• A Nuget Packaging Dilemma (Davy Brion)
• Improving CLRProfiler 4: Reducing SampleObject memory consumption by 58% (Feng Yuan)
• CSLA 4 version 4.2 alpha release and CSLA .NET and Windows Azure (Rockford Lhotka)

Web Development

• Rounding Corners using CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Three new Action Result Type in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Making Web Apps Sizzle with Bing Maps and HTML5’s Geolocation API (Jeff Prosise)
• Setting up custom ASP.NET Routing to an HttpHandler and ASP.NET Routing not working on IIS 7.0 (Rick Strahl)
• WebSharper 2.1 Professional RC2 released (Adam Granicz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Implementing dependency injection pattern in .NET (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Building An Awesome Organization – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test-Specific Subclass (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM# Episode 1 and MVVM# Episode 2 and MVVM# Episode 3 and MVVM# Episode 4 (Maxxx)
• Lessons Learned developing a Windows Phone 7 App (Cameron Skinner)
• Metro In Motion Part #2 – ‘Peel’ Animations (Colin Eberhardt)
• Metro Inspiration–Designing Better Looking Apps for Windows Phone 7 (Bil Simser)
• The real Windows Phone problem is with AT&T, not Microsoft (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft’s Belfiore sorry for appearing insensitive with Windows Phone statements (Steven Hodson)
• ListBox Paging in Silverlight 4 using DataPager control (Suprotim Agarwal)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save XML files using XmlSerializer and All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save XML files using XmlWriter (Windows Phone Geek)
• Application Bar Buttons Are Null (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 66: Getting a lesson about Technical Debt from Gary Short (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 392: Crysis 2, Shift 2, ME2 Game add on, Bulletstorm and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Technology & Friends – Episode 147: Brent Stineman on Azure Design Patterns (David Giard)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 49 – David Starr on BDD (Richard Banks)
• Chatting with the Kinect Team’s Alex Kipman, Kudo Tsunoda, and Darren Bennett (Tina Wood)
• Windows Weekly 201: The Kids’ll Love It! (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 009 – “Delay YOU, Delay ME, Delay it TOGETHER” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)

Community / Events

• Monads! European Virtual ALT.NET Tuesday 29th March (Mike Hadlow)
• Win amazing prizes by building a great WP7 app (Luke)

Database

• SQL Server: Count based on Condition and SQL Server: Delete Backup History to reduce MSDB database size (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 32 Bit – 64 Bit – HTML5 – Database Backup Restore and SQL SERVER – Denali – Improvement in Startup Options (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Ruby Syntax Highlighting Within The Console With Wirble And The RVM (Dan Watson)
• Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse, Reloaded (Chris Blunt)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2011 — #1066 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #821 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #146 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck

Top Links

• Moonlight 4 Preview Now Available (Silverlight Team)
• Windows Phone Silverlight Application Faster Load Time (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Delegates make great container components (Mike Hadlow)
• Unit of Work in Rich Clients (Paul Stovell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Transpose Commands and Controlling XML Serialization of Enumerations (Richard Carr)
• Virtual Brown Bag Sessions from Claudio Lassala (Zain Naboulsi)
• Even more Any and All (Alex James)
• A fun brain exercise: PexForFun (Bill Wagner)
• CSLA 4 on NuGet (Rockford Lhotka)
• datajs support for DataTime and DateTimeOffset (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• AppHarbor – Azure Done Right AKA Heroku for .NET (Rob Reynolds)

Web Development

• Focusing and Selecting the Text in ASP.NET TextBox Controls (Scott Mitchell)
• HTML5 Canvas Sample – Building a maze (Alosh Bennett)
• Mocking jQuery Ajax Calls with Random Templated Data (Elijah Manor)
• HTML 5 Markup that Gracefully Degrades and Check out 4 new Joomla Extensions for Microsoft Technologies. (Joe Stagner)
• Is ASP.NET MVC Inappropriate for User Interface Designers? (Jonathan Allen)
• Revisiting Charts: HTML5 Attributes (K. Scott Allen)
• HTML5 and CSS3 demos (Martin Beeby)
• Adding a Custom Button to TinyMCE (Stoimen Popov)
• Deleting Browser Cookies with Fiddler (Jim Holmes)
• Canvas Direct Pixel Manipulation (Leon Braginski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Unit Testing Framework In 44 Lines Of Ruby (Alan Skorkin)
• Effect Mapping: a game changing technique for agile product management (Gojko Adzic)
• Agile Startups – 5 Must-Have Characteristics for a Startup (Peter Saddington)
• Agile is Just a Piece of the Puzzle (Vikas Hazrati)
• The beauty of Evolutionary Design and Levelization (Patrick Smacchia)
• Building a CachedRepository via Strategy Pattern (Steve Smith)
• Launching "Portfolio" – For consultants, enterprises, communities (Andy Singleton)
• User Experiences – Listen, Learn, Refine (Jane Kim)
• Continuous Check-Ins with Mercurial (Jonathan Allen)
• Multiple asserts – done right (Dror Helper)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RTL (Arabic and Hebrew) Support for Windows Phone 7 (Daniel Moth)
• EB Guide Studio / Expression Blend Integration Tools from Elektrobit and What is Silverlight for Windows Embedded for C++? (Don Burnett)
• Windows Phone 7 – Part #5: Panorama and Pivot controls (Andrea Boschin)
• Free Books on Windows Phone 7 Development (Joey deVilla)
• Day 2: Working with BusyIndicator of Telerik Silverlight RadControls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using the TabControl on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone from Scratch: Getting Started With Linq and Linq with Objects and Linq to XML and Lambda–Not as weird as it sounds (Jesse Liberty)
• Long Time No See – WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.7.0 (Rene Schulte)
• WP7 Element Binding samples (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Xbox LIVE & Windows Phone 7 from Mobile World Congress (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #86: Pushing Down Methods (James Shore)
• The GeekDads Episode #85: It’s Hard Being Dungeon Master for my Wife (Ken Denmead)
• VIDEO – WebMatrix – Working with Images (Joe Stagner)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #188: WP7: Learning how to detect Themes (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Phone 7 New Multitasking UI Demonstration [VIDEO] (ICEMAN)

Community / Events

• MVP Summit After Party with Seattle Silverlight User Group and The Future of the Web is at MIX11 (Silverlight Show)
• Visual Studio Live! Conference in Las Vegas (Deborah Kurata)
• Last Call: JetBrains Community Night at BASTA! (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Controls, Analytics and Cash (for User Groups) (Ben Lower)
• Register for PowerShell Deep Dive (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Database

• Changing a SQL Server Database Owner (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Book Review: The Lazy Project Manager (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Jonathan Kehayias – Wait Type – Day 16 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Trapping errors when working with linked servers (Denis Gobo)
• Database Restores – Where’s my Transaction Log Backup? (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• SharePoint and Azure Development Primer (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Content Type Cheat Sheet (Bil Simser)
• Create External List in C# (Nick Swan)
• Creating a Web Part with Client-side Scripts (Anweshi Deverasetty)

Miscellaneous

• Regular Expressions: Positive/Negative Look-Ahead/Behind (Karl Seguin)
• Professionals Have Professional Looking Resumes (John Sonmez)
• Do not fear the command line (Giorgio Sironi)

More Link Collections

• Daily News Digest 02/16/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 15-Feb-2011 and Julian on JavaScript Series (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #793 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide: Building connected mobile applications with Microsoft Silverlight (Developer Series) by Dominic Betts