• Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture (Steven Sinofsky)
• EF 4.3 Released (EF Team)
• EF 4.3 Automatic Migrations Walkthrough and EF 4.3 Code-Based Migrations Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
• Windows 8: The Facts about ARM, Metro, and the Blue Stack (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Find/Replace in Visual Studio using Regular Expressions (David Amador)
• Microsoft Deprecates Legacy Workflow Foundation Libraries in New Beta Release (Richard Seroter)
• What is the effect of memory-mapped file access on GetLastError()? (Raymond Chen)
• Entity Framework 4.3 Released (Migrations) (Jarod Ferguson)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: StudioShell (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Google web fonts (Julian M. Bucknall)
• A Beginner’s Guide To jQuery-Based JSON API Clients (Ben Howdle)
• Asynchronously Load HTML Templates For Backbone Views (Derick Bailey)
• Using JavaScript’s Prototype with MVC (James Baker)
• Referencing JavaScript files from a CDN in a CRM 2011 form (Marc Schweigert)
• How many copies of your blob is stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Mobile Boilerplate v3.0 Released! (Shi Chuan)
• Vendor Prefixes – about to go south (Remy Sharp)
• CORS for XHR in IE10 (Tony Ross)
• Getting Started with KendoUI and OpenAccess ORM (Joshua Holt)
• Developing Mobile Dashboards for ComponentArt Dashboard Server (Milos Glisic)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Development Pendulum (John Sonmez)
• [Email] – Short Projects and Estimating Velocity (Peter Saddington)
• Moq Partial Mocks (Richard Carr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Design Resources (Dani Diaz)
• Developping an app for the Windows Phone platform (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #492 – Layout Can Change at Runtime (Sean Sexton)
• LightSwitch Screen Tips: Scrollbars and Splitters (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen is Back on His SOPA Box (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #163: Combinatorial Explosion (James Shore)
• RadioTFS – Yes We Kanban (Martin Woodward)
• Security, Security, Security! Helping the LIDNUG community build safer software (Troy Hunt)
• Peter Heldens – Creating Scripts with TouchDevelop (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 11: SignalR (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Free "Introduction to Reactive Extensions" on-demand video training available, with 8 sessions and growing (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Join the Belgian Experts and Microsoft Corp Product team for 12 hours of SQL Server 2012 (Katrien de Graeve)
• Learn About Windows Azure for Technical Decision Makers, Developers, Architects (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft Student Developers Showcase Their Work at the White House Science Fair (Chuck Lawton)
• Upcoming Webinar – The iPad Invasion: Leveraging SharePoint for Mobile Enterprise Security (Joel Oleson)
• ExpressionBlend.com is Live! (Daniel Vaughan)
• C# for Gaming: AltDevConf This Weekend (Miguel de Icaza)
• 2012 MVP Global Summit- Tour of the Neighborhood (MVP Award Program)

Database

• An open letter to anyone with “SQL Server” on their resume (Jen McCown)
• PBM for SSIS? What policies would you want? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Puzzle on JOIN and NULL – SQL Brain Teaser (Pinal Dave)
• Executing scripts with sp_addscriptexec (Brandon Williams)
• When you pit RavenDB & SQL Server against one another… (Oren Eini)
• Three Consulting Tools to Make You a Better DBA (Kendra Little)

SharePoint

• How to Programmatically Update an ODC File (Shubh Raj Singh)
• Social Squared version 6.1 release (Phill Duffy)

PowerShell

• Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets 2.2.1 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Kids are the future. Teach ‘em to code. (Cameron McEfee)
• Reinstaller: Install All Your Previously Downloaded Apps Automatically (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows 8 ARM edition will include built-in Office apps and access to the traditional desktop mode and Microsoft unveils Office 15 Metro design look and feel (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – February 9 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #815 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 2/9/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1041 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-09 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 9 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Shawn Wildermuth

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

PowerShell

• Powershell Emailing Strings as attachments (Mike Koerner)

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• Windows Phone 7.1(5) Emulator Skin Switcher v1.2 and source now available (Greg Duncan)
• The Learn to Code Movement and Software Security (Mark Curphey)
• Skype coming soon to Windows Phone (or is it?) – updated (Kip Kniskern)
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #3 Ideation and Concept (Arturo Toledo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• [Quick VS Tip] Using regular expressions do the find/replace in Visual Studio and WinRT People – A WinRT community effort and site (Greg Duncan)
• Autocorrecting unknown actions using the Levenshtein distance (Jef Claes)
• When Using EF CodeFirst With Visual Studio, How to Live With Cannot drop database because it is in use error. and EntityFramework CodeFirst and AutoKey Generation (Peter Kellner)
• Input Parameters in Fluent API (Mehdi Khalili)

Web Development

• Understanding CoffeeScript Comprehensions (Karl Seguin)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 4 (Jorge Ramon)
• Hosting A Node.js Site Through Apache (Davy Brion)
• NetBash Updated – Formatting Helpers Added (Luke Lowrey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Results for Time Management (J.D. Meier)
• Book Review and my thoughts on UX (User Centered Design) (Rohit Sharma)
• A meta post about negative code reviews (Oren Eini)
• Focused Retrospectives: things to watch for (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• One project, one declarative language, two platforms – A side-by-side XAML project on Silverlight 5 and WinRT (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #9 – Handling Orientation – Part 1 (Senthil Kumar)
• 12th Day of Silverlight: PivotViewer (Tony Champion)
• WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 4of Many (Vijaya Malla)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 37 (Richard Hay)
• Engadget Podcast 276: CES Finale – 01.14.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Announcing the GoingNative 2012 Full Schedule (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• CodeMash 2012 report and Coding in the style of Glee (Jon Skeet)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Cases When Stored Procedure RECOMPILE – Quiz – Puzzle – 14 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• How to connect to SQL Server when your default database is unavailable (Denis Gobo)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 08-January-2012 to 14-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning C++ Through Game Programming by Michael Dawson

• Caliburn Micro Part 1: Getting Started (Jason Fauchelle)
• EF 4.3 Beta 1 Released (EF Team)
• Scoping CQRS/ES Guidance Project (Grigori Melnik)
• JavaScript Pattern Collection (Shi Chuan)
• 101 Async Samples (Joe Mayo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Data Access review thoughts (Oren Eini)
• SSDT CTP4 and Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Adam Mahood)
• How to work with Custom Method in WCF Data Service? and Flyout control in Windows 8 HTML JavaScript Metro Application and Code analysis using Telerik JustCode (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Stopwatch Ticks are not TimeSpan Ticks (James Michael Hare)
• My Artilcle on the UITableView with MonoTouch and the iPhone/iOS is now online (Wally McClure)
• Garbage Collection in The Age of Smart Pointers (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentStack (Simon Cooper)
• 2012 Roadmap Revealed: 6 Major Releases (TeamPulse Team)
• Why does CreateEvent fail with ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND if I give it a name with a backslash? (Raymond Chen)
• DebuggerDisplay Attribute (Joseph Guadagno)
• Search in JustDecompile (JustDecompile Team)
• Reading and Writing text files in Windows 8 Metro (Morten Nielsen)
• Speaking of Speech Recognition… Check out Julius, the OSS high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder (Greg Duncan)
• EF 4.3 Configuration File Settings and EF 4.3 Beta 1: Automatic Migrations Walkthrough and EF 4.3 Beta 1: Code-Based Migrations Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
• Developing Apps for Windows 8 (Christopher Smith)
• ReSharper and code generation (Jeremy Alles)
• Unable to cast transparent proxy to type <type> (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• HTML5 Reference Poster and Bipin shows us that creating a tag cloud doesn’t have to be hard to do (in ASP.Net) (Greg Duncan)
• An approach to mobile support in ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
• Automatically numbering headings via CSS (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Understanding the Rails Asset Pipeline (Rob Conery)
• My top 3 improvements in Windows Azure from the December update (Eric Nelson)
• New API Lets You Show Three Alternative Routes on Bing Maps (Bruce Kyle)
• Access Amazon’s EC2 (and more) from within NodeJS (Dave Mahon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introducing the Android Design site (Tim Bray)
• New book: Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice (Valerie Woolley)
• 5 Things Every Mobile Design Should Have (Patrick Cox)
• small-scale software craftsmanship (Ariya Hidayat)
• Inclusive Design (Faruk Ateş)
• Article: Design for Testability – The True Story (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• UriMapper in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Working with animation in Expression Blend (Alex Mukora)
• Creating Cascading Drop Down Lists in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Beth Massi)
• A Windows Phone-CES Post Mortem (Andrew Brust)
• “Operation Not Permitted” On IsolatedStorageSettings in Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #472 – UniformGrid Defaults to Being Square (Sean Sexton)
• Capturing the transport data between Visual Studio and Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New RSS Starter Kit (Chris Koenig)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Verge Mobile Podcast 009: CES 2012 – 01.12.2012 and The Vergecast 011: CES 2012 Day 2 – 01.12.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• VIDEO: Windows Phone wins 88% of #smokedbywindowsphone challenges at CES 2012! (Ben Rudolph)
• Let’s Play TDD #158: writeFile() and readFile() (James Shore)
• Surface 2.0 at CES (Steve Clayton)
• RadioTFS – First Show of 2012 (Martin Woodward)
• Gweek 035: Interview with Robert Anton Wilson’s daughter (Mark Frauenfelder)
• MVP First Timers Webcast On Demand (Denny Cherry)
• Basic Ad Controls for Windows Phone Apps with David Kelley (Silverlight Show)

Community / Events

• Boston Area Geek Dinner: Thursday January 19, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• New Cities and New Courses (Shawn Wildermuth)
• F# courses and talks (Winter 2012 and beyond…) (Tomas Petricek)
• A New Coding Project Every Week at Code52 (Paul Betts)
• Charles Petzold on His 25 Years with MSDN Magazine (Michael Desmond)
• MVP Award Program at CES 2012 (Kari Finn)
• Nokia Lumia 900 collects the hardware at CES with numerous awards (PhoneArena Team)
• .NET Performance Diagnostics: How and Where to Start -User Group Meeting January 18th Eagan, MN (Charles Sterling)
• Next Week: Central Ohio Windows Phone User Group January Meetup (Silverlight Show)

Database

• Anatomy of the SQL Server Database: Settings and Secrets Video (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – DACPAC and SQL Azure – Quiz – Puzzle – 12 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Missing Indexes (Jason Brimhall)
• Have you tried the “Data Explorer” samples yet? (Data Explorer Team)

Miscellaneous

• How to Take Screen Shots From An Android Phone or Tablet (Chris Love)
• Learning Android: Roboguice – Injecting context into PreferenceManager (Mark Needham)
• Microsoft’s Ballmer: If I had it to do all over again… (Mary Jo Foley)
• Why Doesn’t Windows 8 Just Look Like THIS? (Paul Thurrott)
• Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign for Windows 0.96 Beta released (Ron)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1021 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for January 12, 2011 – #0026 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-12 and ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-13 (Bob Rhubart)
• Double Shot #795 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 1/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 12-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Wallace B. McClure

Top Links

• Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) v1.0.10621 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 1) and Part 2 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• SOLID JavaScript: The Liskov Substitution Principle (Derek Greer)
• A Windows Phone 7 behavior to show an image background for a search string (Joost van Schaik)
• Hanselminutiae-ten with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Application analysis: Northwind.NET (Oren Eini)
• AggregateException.WithoutCancellations Method (Richard Carr)
• Oracle Releases Provider with EF 4 Support (but not really EF 4.1 and EF4.2) (Julie Lerman)
• Rx – Window (Bnaya Eshet)
• Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Menu rearrangement (Raymond Chen)
• Resharper 6.1 – new nice features – 1 (Tatworth)
• On mutable state (Brian Marick)
• "Netduino – Getting Started with *" Series and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit December 2011 Release (Think "MVC3 VB and OData HOL Love" version) (Greg Duncan)
• New dotPeek Build: Base Types and Inheritors in Assembly Explorer and ReSharper 6.1.1 Early Access (Jura Gorohovsky)

Web Development

• Deploying independent web applications to Windows Azure using single web role and ASP.NET MVC: Helper method to display date ranges (Gunnar Peipman)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 – Creating a Simple Log-In Form (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Has the hash DoS patch been installed on your site? Check it right now with ASafaWeb! (Troy Hunt)
• Day 6 – Getting canvas in on the web fonts fun (Val Head)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 3 – Creating a Word Count Hadoop Job with a few twists and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 4- Remote Login to Hadoop node for MapReduce Job and HDFS administration and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 5 – Running 10GB Sort Hadoop Job with Teragen, TeraSort and TeraValidate Options and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 6 – Running 10GB Sort Hadoop Job with TeraSort Option and understanding MapReduce Job administration and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 7 – Writing your very own WordCount Hadoop Job in Java and deploying to Windows Azure Cluster (Avkash Chauhan)
• PHP can perform better than Node.js (Henri Bergius)
• This Week In REST (John Sheehan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How To: Get the Test Case associated with the unit test? (Gautam Goenka)
• Story in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
• API design challenge – builder (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Language of Risk and Yak Shaving: Tracking the yak stack (Mark Needham)
• Automating Daily Status Reports with Project Server and Team Foundation Server (Ryan Hayes)
• Problems Already Solved (Calvin Bottoms)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• From the All-in-One Framework team comes the Story Creator Sample Application for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #462 – Drawing a Better Looking GridSplitter (Sean Sexton)
• StatLight v1.6 is Out (Jason Jarrett)
• WPF Textbox with hints (Rohit Sharma)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Corey Haines Code Retreats Globally (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• YOW! 2011: Dave Thomas on YOW!, Technoculture, Modern Programming, and More and YOW! 2011: Tony Morris – Functional Programming and Functional Thinking (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 048 – “Crystal Balls” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 424: We look back at the year in gaming and choose our favorite titles (Larry Hyrb)
• Gillmor Gang Live 12.30.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.31.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Podcast 270 – 12.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• The JavaScript Show – A Tinge of Christmas (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Gweek 033: Jesse Thorn (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Video on How to work with AutoCompleteBox in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

• Farewell Most Valuable Professional Status (Alan Stevens)
• FUSE Labs: Year in Review (Lili Cheng)
• Top Ten Microspotting Profiles of 2011 (MS JobsBlog)
• The World’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional Is In Critical Condition (MSFT) (Dylan Love)

Database

• SSIS Community Tasks and Components (James Serra)
• SSRS vs SCVMM – The Kerberos token dispute (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The selected database contains foreign keys that create a cycle (Gunnar Peipman)
• RedGate SQL Index Manager BETA (Tim Radney)
• Estimated Completion Time for Backups and Restores (Jorge Segarra)
• SQL Azure to Developers: Some Basic Concepts (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Welcome to the Federation… SQL Azure Database Federation that is… (Or "Sharding for the New Year") (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Getting Your Notes Into OneNote (Jeff Cardon)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 30, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 135 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #1012 (Chris Alcock)
• 2011 Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
• Retrospective 65 – NOT Scrum and Insane Agile Teams (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 29 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #785 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: December 30, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Monthly Summary – December 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Top Official Microsoft Blog Posts of 2011 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Daily News Digest 12/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 27-Dec-2011 and 28-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Dev News for December 28, 2011 – #0018 and Windows Dev News for December 29, 2011 – #0019 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Pro WPF in C# 2010 by Matthew MacDonald

• Apps are too much like 1990′s CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web (Scott Hanselman)
• Apps Are Like the Web, When They Want to Be and More on Apps and Links (John Sheehan)
• Mozilla Labs Apps Developer Preview and documentation are here! (Ragavan Srinivasan)
• What’s new in CSS 4 selectors (Axel Rauschmayer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Formatting Enumeration Constants (Richard Carr)
• Cleaning Up Your Git Repository For NuGet 1.6 (Nick Berardi)
• Surround with a Code Snippet (C# Only) (Zain Naboulsi)
• C.B.R.: Comic Book Reader 0.4 (CodePlex)
• [Cool Tool] Checking Out VsVim (Roy Osherove)
• I Love the Validation Error Messages I Get From EntityFramework CodeFirst 4.1! (Peter Kellner)
• VMware Cloud Foundry cloud platform now supports .Net (Mary Jo Foley)
• ReSharper 6.1: The Finish Line (Jura Gorohovsky)
• The absolutely most important thing developers need to know about Windows 8 (Matt Lacey)
• Entity Framework Error–New Transaction is not allowed because there are other threads running in the session (Derik Whittaker)
• Where to get the latest news on ALM topics? (Charles Sterling)
• Possible pitfall when using EF Migrations (Per Ökvist)

Web Development

• Android – Ice Cream Sandwich: The HTML5 Developer Scorecard (Aditya Bansod)
• Some HTML5 Resources Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
• WebDriver: Getting it to play nicely with jQuery ColorBox (Mark Needham)
• Rails from the point of view of a PHP developer (Giorgio Sironi)
• Plugins Site Update: The Old Is New Again (Adam J. Sontag)
• Windows Azure SDK for Node.js Installation Walkthrough and MATLAB and Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• If and Else Statements in JS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Adding Tweet Buttons to a FunnelWeb Post (Michael Crump)
• One API for the Web, Oh the Possibilities (Shion Deysarkar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Leadership, Management, Transitioning to Agile (Johanna Rothmann)
• Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
• New programmer’s survival manual (John D. Cook)
• Performance Profiling your application is FTW (Derik Whittaker)
• Agile Process Reality Check (Ralf Westphal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Encrypting your Credentials on Windows Phone 7.5 (Rob Tiffany)
• Why do we have circles around icons in the Windows Phone app bar? (Arturo Toledo)
• Just Published on Codeplex SDNavigation WP7 + MVVM + Navigation Framework (Braulio Díez Botella)
• How to work with ToggleSwitch in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Getting started with the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 and WPF (Greg Duncan)
• FREE: 5 Professional WPF Themes (John-Daniel Trask)
• Mango’s live tiles get footloose and fancy free with Themes for Windows Phone 7 (video) (Joseph Volpe)
• 2000 WPF Things #450 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, part III (Sean Sexton)
• Using JSON.NET To Load Twitter Search Results In WP7 (Tim Murphy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Damian Edwards and David Fowler Persist Connections with SignalR (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Building on Azure: GigaSpaces – Cloudify Java Application Platform and Building on Azure: Sneaky Games (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 187: Charles Stacy Harris III the Microsoft Technology Center (part 2 of 2) (David Giard)
• Herding Code 129: Rob Reynolds on Chocolatey and the Chuck Norris Frameworks (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 168 – PowerScripting Podcast – Randy Roffey on MP Studio and a Bonus Interview (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Engadget HD Podcast 278 – 12.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Learn About the Windows Azure Access Control Service from Vittorio Bertocci (Vittorio Bertocci & Charles Torre)
• ALM Summit 2011 Content Now Live and available (Charles Sterling)
• Let’s Play TDD #150: Mulling Over the Persistence Design (James Shore)
• Learn About the Windows Azure Service Bus from Clemens Vasters (Clemens Vasters & Charles Torre)
• Interview with Glenn Block Talking About Node.js on Windows Azure (Glenn Block & Charles Torre)
• Video: Effectively Manage Enterprise Projects w/ #MSProject Server 2010 #in #pmot (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Learn About SQL Azure Federations from Cihan Biyikoglu (Cihan Biyikoglu & Scott Klein)

Community / Events

• OTN Architect Day Presentations – Phoenix, AZ – December 14, 2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Tom Warren moves to the Verge (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Announces 15 Imagine Cup Grants Finalists and Judging Panel (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Telerik! (Chris Sells)

Database

• My Thoughts on SQL Server 2012′s Licensing Changes (Brent Ozar)
• Codeplex: SSIS Community Tasks and Components (Jose Chinchilla)
• SQL SERVER – Explain Error:166 : does not allow specifying the database name as a prefix to the object name – Puzzle to Win SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers Book (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 13: DDL Triggers (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server FineBuild Version 3.0.1 (CodePlex)
• Fixing orphaned database users in 2005 to 2012 – T-SQL Tuesday #025 (Ted Krueger)
• Deleting Leading Zeros in a String (SQL) (Madhivanan)
• T-SQL Tuesday #25 – The Best Tool You’ve Never Used (Mark Broadbent)
• T-SQL Tuesday: What’s Currently Running? (John Sterrett)
• Zero-One-Some Testing (George Mastros)

PowerShell

• Better Git with PowerShell (Phil Haack)
• How to Generate an Exchange 2010 Room List Report with PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

Miscellaneous

• Scheduling TeamCity backups in Windows (Doug Rathbone)
• Searching for an answer has become clear with http://www.pluralsight-training.net (Allan Gagnon)
• New Apps now available for your Xbox 360 (Larry Hryb)
• Windows 8 Store and Music Beta App Screenshots Leaked! (Sagar Sawant)
• Portable tools rock–my current favorites and a great tool (Tim Heuer)
• Introducing SkyDrive for iPhone and Windows Phone (Mike Torres)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #772 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1002 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/13/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/14/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 5-11, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 12-Dec-2011 and 13-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Dev News for December 13, 2011 – #0011 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/13/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Head First jQuery by Ryan Benedetti

• Coming Soon: Visual Studio Achievements and Visual Studio Achievements API and FxCop For VS Achievements (Karsten Januszewski)
• Eduasync part 16: Example of composition: majority voting (Jon Skeet)
• Refactor “if” statements – functional programming style (Dror Helper)
• Kinect for Windows – Building the Future (Craig Eisler)
• Using the Roslyn Symbol API (Kevin Pilch-Bisson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Code Definition Window (Richard Carr)
• NHibernate vs. Entity Framework: Usage (Oren Eini)
• Small LINQ to JSON library (Guillaume Ranslant)
• F# Math (III.) – Defining custom numeric types (Tomas Petricek)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Predicate, Comparison, and Converter Generic Delegates (James Michael Hare)
• Preview of Visual Studio 11: New IDE Features (Jeff Martin)
• Always prompted for credentials in TFS 2010? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• What! C# could do that!! @ironshay demoing my ElasticObject implementation in @LIDNUG presentation (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Convert MP3 to AAC,FLAC to AAC (.NET/C#) FREE (Justin Oehlmann)
• If You’re Using “#if DEBUG”, You’re Doing it Wrong (Peter Ritchie)
• It is not unreasonable to expect uninitialized garbage to change at any time, you don’t need to ask for an explanation (Raymond Chen)
• Take care to unhook Anonymous Delegates (David Vallens)
• Stop premature email sending with NServiceBus (Jimmy Bogard)
• Rewriting an if (Jef Claes)
• Mono: Updated Documentation Site (Miguel de Icaza)

Web Development

• New Color Picker in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview for CSS and CSS Editor Hierarchical Indentation in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Binding to oData with jQuery Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Learning HTML5 – Sample Sites (Steve Albers)
• New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Call for jQuery 1.8 Ideas (Dave Methvin)
• Book review: Closure: the Definitive Guide (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Reducing JavaScript Code Using jsRender Templates in HTML5 Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Back to Basics – JavaScript onerror Event (Gil Fink)
• Getting Started with the Infragistics jQuery Combo (Jordan Tsankov)
• Download Free eBook: Razor View Engine in MVC 3 – by @itorian (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Hover and Click Trigger for Circular Elements with jQuery (Mary Lou)
• JavaScript Intellisense with Telerik in ASP.NET Master Page Project with VS 2010 (Otto Neff)
• How to Format HTML with Windows Live Writer (Peter Kellner)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Preserve Whole Object and PhoneGap: native applications written in HTML (Giorgio Sironi)
• Keyword parameters in JavaScript and ECMAScript.next (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Changing the Default Focus Styles (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Walking Dead: HTML/JavaScript (Ward Bell)
• Custom mime types with Cassini (Arian Kulp)
• Bing Spatial Data Services SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
• Knockout JS Pluralsight Course in the Works (John Papa)
• How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js (Zack Grossbart)
• Ranking – Part II and Ranking Part III (PointsToShare)
• Creating a Dynamic DataRow for easier DataRow Syntax (Rick Strahl)
• Backbone Persistence (Unknown Author)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 Beta (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Azure Diagnostics generate exception in SystemEventsListener::LoadXmlString when reading event log which includes exception as event data and Can you programmatically enable CDN within your Windows Azure Storage Account? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Packaging a Custom PHP Installation for Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Backbone vs Knockout (Derick Bailey)
• Evolving ECMAScript (Shanku Niyogi, Amanda Silver, John Montgomery, Luke Hoban & Steve Lucco)
• WebStorm your Node app! (Maxim Mossienko)
• Modernizr.js: Polyfills (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• RE: Clean Architecture (Simon Brown)
• Unit testing is… well, broken. (Dewald Galjaard)
• Gratitude Quotes (J.D. Meier)
• Invest in Your Team – Know Them (Peter Saddington)
• Importance of Good Domain Models (Rinat Abdullin)
• Solution Architecture Guidance and 13 Mobile Development Questions to Think About and Outline for an Executive Summary (Eric Johnson)
• Systems Thinking in a Bar (Jurgen Appelo)
• Organize Your Tests, Part II: Use Metadata! and Combinatorial / Pairwise Tools (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 13 : binding to types that Implement ICustomTypeProvider and How to bind an ItemsControl to an Enum with localized descriptions (Jonathan Antoine)
• Generic WPF/Silverlight Value Converter (Clifford Nelson)
• How to get user Input from a Popup in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• Building and Using Expression Blend Behaviors (David Kelley)
• Windows Phone 7.5 – Play with music (Andrea Boschin)
• OData caching in Windows Phone (Samidip Basu)
• Navigation in Windows Phone 7 apps and Creating a simple Media Player for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Lua for you’ah… Adding Lua scripting support to your .Net/WPF app or game (Greg Duncan)
• Leveraging Background Services and Agents in Windows Phone 7 (Mango) (Jon Galloway)
• What is the Future of Silverlight? Let’s Discuss… (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using MVVMLight, ItemsControl, Blend and behaviors to make a ‘heads up compass’ (Joost van Schaik)
• Windows Phone Marketplace: One Year In (Sarah Perez)
• 2000 WPF Things #436 – Using a Drop Shadow with a Border (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #23: Execution Model and 31 Days of Mango | Day #24: Performance Analysis (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cloud Panel Discussion at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SPLASH 2011: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt – JavaScript Modules and GoingNative 4: Jim Springfield on ATL, GoingNative Conference – Register Today! (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 127: Setting up your Computer and Work Area (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Let’s Play TDD #145: Displaying the FileDialog (James Shore)
• Video on How to create Flickr Photo viewer App for Windows Phone 7 and Video on How to work with Picture in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A Dozen Windows Phone Videos… And Counting (Jesse Liberty)
• SE Podcast #28 – Brent Ozar (Alex Miller)
• Defrag: Moving Page File, Recovering Encrypted Files, Missing User Account (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Fusion Sentient, PhotoVote, FaceArt, Action Potato, The Jumble (Laura Foy)
• What The Tech 94: I’ve Got A Deal For You! and Windows Weekly 236: The PC Plus Era (Paul Thurrott)
• Gillmor Gang 11.22.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget HD Podcast 275 – 11.22.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Marcus Whitney Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• SOA Made Simple – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• 2011 Virtual and Live Speaking Locations (John Papa)
• Announcing GoingNative 2012 Conference (Visual C++ Team)
• Getting more and more into the Microsoft Belgian community (Simone Chiaretta)
• 1 Year on Next at Microsoft: Tour the Microsoft HQ (Steve Clayton)
• Visiting MVPs Around the World (Nestor Portillo)
• Rock, Paper, Azure is back… (Brian Hitney)

Database

• 3 SQL Server Book Review Short Takes (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Query Performance Analysis using DMVs (Carl Nolan)
• SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 7 Released and SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 2 Released (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Data Tools CTP4 (SSDT) download available for all languages (Janet Yeilding)
• Monitoring SSRS Report Performance – Part 4 (John Pertell)
• Geting Started with SSRS – Part 1 – SQL Server Reporting Services Overview and Installing in Windows Server 2008 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Three Things That Rock About SQL Server (Kendra Little)
• SQL Server: Test Linked Server Connection (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – 2012 – Summary of All the Analytic Functions – MSDN and SQLAuthority and SQL SERVER – Solution to Puzzle – Simulate LEAD() and LAG() without Using SQL Server 2012 Analytic Function and SQL SERVER – DVM sys.dm_os_sys_info Column Name Changed in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB–Replication & Master <-> Master support (Oren Eini)
• Always set the SEQUENCE cache size (Denny Cherry)
• Getting Started with MongoDB (Matthew Setter)

SharePoint

• Firebird and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)
• Lightning conductor 2010 web part version 2.0.0.2 (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• JobsBlog Rewind: 3 tips for getting a job in the new year (MS JobsBlog)
• The Kinect knows no national boundaries, as shown by Chinese University students pushing the Kinect’s boundaries (Greg Duncan)
• SkyDrive – designing personal cloud storage for billions of people (Omar Shahine)
• Giving Thanks To Arcane Programming Languages (Rob Diana)
• Doom 3 GPL source code now available (Ross Miller)
• Computer Algorithms: Sequential Search (Stoimen Popov)
• Making Android Games that Play Nice (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 22, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 23, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 23 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #758 and Double Shot #759 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/22/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/23/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/24/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #987 and The Morning Brew #988 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/22/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 22 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 22 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 23 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 24 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for November 14 – 20, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2011 — #1172 and Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2011 — #1173 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed

• 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

• Microsoft Codename “Data Explorer” Walkthrough (Data Explorer Team)
• Marketplace comes to China & India; also improves search and 7.0 & 7.5 app update options (Todd Brix)
• Designing search for the Start screen (Steven Sinofsky)
• How We Talk about EF and its Future Versions (EF Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding Clone Codes in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Thoughts on JustDecompile compared to Reflector (Dennis Delimarsky)
• All-In-One Code Framework Sample Browser v4 (aka Metro version) now Visual Studio Extension’d (Don’t leave your Visual Studio without it…) (Greg Duncan)
• Exploring Visual Studio 11 IDE – Solution Explorer New Features Part 1 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• APress Deal of the Day – 19/Oct/2011 – Introducing .NET 4.0 With Visual Studio 2010 (Tatworth)
• Microsoft Biology Foundation Evolves into New Tool Kit: .NET Bio (Simon Mercer)
• Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat SDK (MS Downloads)
• Visual C++ and WinRT/Metro – Databinding Basics (Nishant Sivakumar)
• Template for generating POCO classes with Notify in Entity Framework 4.1 (David Sherwood)
• The Quick and Dirty EF 4.1 Code Generator (Colin Blair)
• "You are now up to date." [IfModifiedSinceWebClient makes it easy to keep a local file in sync with online content - and do so asynchronously] (David Anson)
• Capture, Transfer, and Rethrow Exceptions with ExceptionDispatchInfo [.NET 4.5] (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Naked Objects Release 4.0.110.0 (CodePlex)
• Things I love about .Net (Dru Sellers)

Web Development

• Facebook: Introducing HTML5 Resource Center (Matt Kelly)
• New! HTML 5 and CSS: Six Complete Lessons (Randy Guthrie)
• Optimize ASP.NET presentation (Mads Kristensen)
• A Web Standard for Notifications using JavaScript and HTML5 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Nested Conditionals with Guard Clauses (Giorgio Sironi)
• A JavaScript class pattern that starts with a function (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Drop Shadows in CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Handling PHP Sessions in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Site Pinning: Rotating Overlay Icons for Multiple Service Notifications (Rey Bango)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Respect is a Reflection and Personal Development Books Revisited (JD Meier)
• Which Program Team Are You Managing? (Johanna Rothman)
• How To Build An Agile UX Team: The Culture (Jeff Gothelf)
• Wrapping Up on the Feng Shui for Establishing a Culture of Innovation (Peter Saddington)
• Universal unit testing (browser, Node.js) with Jasmine (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Your ctor says that your code is headache inducing: Introduction (Oren Eini)
• Mocking Property Expectations with Moq (Richard Carr)
• Xbox Kinect Hub Remake – An Introduction To New User Interfaces (Doug Rathbone)
• Agile is for your WHOLE Business (Joel Semeniuk)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Implicit styles in Windows Phone 7 (Andreas Hammar)
• IoC for Windows Phone: Ninject (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• A New Library for Building HTML5 Widgets for Windows Phone (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Expression Blend: Designing for usability (Pam Keesey)
• 2000 WPF Things #411 – Use HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment to Position Child Elements within a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• Facebook Graph API and Silverlight (Lazar Nikolov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 022: The Fishbone Documentary (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Startup Success Podcast Show #123: Hal Ostrow, mistartuplawyer.com (Bob Walsh)
• Video on How to solve cross domain problem in Silverlight? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Engadget HD Podcast 270 – 10.18.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Shortcuts, Multimonitor setup, USB Wifi Extender (Larry Larsen)
• The GeekDads Episode #102: Causation Does Not Imply Causality (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• The Microsoft Cookbook: Good food, good stories, good cause (Zoe Goldring)
• Sold out Windows Phone camps help students and professional developers publish their own apps (Dave Isbitski)
• PASS Summit 2011: A Picture Book (Jes Schultz Borland)
• MVPs Take Top Honors in Kinect for Windows Application (MVP Award Program)

Database

• SQL Server Denali CTP3 Demo VHD (MS Downloads)
• Upcoming SQL Server Training Webcasts (Brent Ozar)
• Monitoring SSRS report performance: Part 1 (John Pertell)
• SQL SERVER – A Simple Quiz – T-SQL Brain Trick (Pinal Dave)
• What does a SQL Server DBA need to check for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly? (Denis Gobo)
• Using sys.dm_exec_requests to find a blocking chain (William Assaf)
• Creating Views in Another Database (Bob Pusateri)
• Dropping a database – such a simple thing! (Martin Catherall)
• Extended properties of database objects (J. Verheul)

SharePoint

• What “The Far Side” can teach us about SharePoint (Mark Rackley)

Miscellaneous

• New Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions (Dominic Mazzoni)
• Getting Inherited Config Settings (Howard Dierking)
• What is SkyDrive waiting for? (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft closes in on delivering its own Hadoop competitor (Mary Jo Foley)
• Ominous Post (Matt Warren)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Codermetrics – $16.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #962 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 19 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 18, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #732 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 18/10/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 10/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 17-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/18/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2011 — #1159 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Entity Framework 4 in Action by Stefano Mostarda

• Writing F# Type Providers with the F# 3.0 Developer Preview – An Introductory Guide and Samples (Don Syme)
• Using Entity Framework Code First with Stored Procedures that have Output Parameters (Dan Wahlin)
• Raising the right PropertyChanged with C# 5′s Caller Info Attributes (Rob Fonseca-Ensor)
• Are You a Software Developer — or a Leader? (Eric Spiegel)
• Why no ForEach method on IEnumerable interfaces (Mark Zhou)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Integrate Validation Block with WCF (Ercan Anlama)
• How to change Default Performance Report Name in Visual Studio 2010 ? and Setting Up Noise Reduction Option for Performance Reports in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler (Abhijit Jana)
• C# Runtime Compilation (Richard Carr)
• What’s new in C# 5.0 and VB.Net? (Samuel Jack)
• Dynamic Properties 1.0.0.0 (Tomáš Jecha)
• Setting the Initial Rotation in a C# Metro Applicatio​n and Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 1 and Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 2 (Derik Whittaker)
• FSharp for beginners : Finding Square of Range of Numbers in F# (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Working with Many-to-Many Relationships in OData via WCF Data Services (Nick)
• Installing TFS 11 Build Server from the BUILD Conference in Anaheim (Tim Elhajj)
• WCF in .NET 4.5/Visual Studio 11 (Sam Gentile)
• ReadOnlyDictionary in .net 4.5 and Solution Explorer gets new features in VS 2011 (Arun Mahendrakar)
• An example of inheritance gone wrong (Joh)
• Telerik OpenAccess ORM – What’s new in the latest internal build (OpenAccess ORM Team)
• Matching Records (Phillip Trelford)
• Bidirectional Entity Foreign Key Names in EF Code First (Steve Smith)
• Solution for “Tool makepri.exe cannot be found. Please install Windows Modern SDK” (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Dealing with types in WinRT and Detecting design mode in Windows 8/WinRT and Quick tip: Select the correct INotifyPropertyChanged in Windows 8 / WinRT and Quick tip: Killing a Metro-style app in Windows 8 and Breaking change: Raising PropertyChanged with string.Empty in WinRT / Windows 8 and Running unit tests in Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (WinRT) (Laurent Bugnion)
• LLBLGen Pro, Entity Framework 4.1, and the Repository Pattern (Matt J. Cowan)
• Internals of .NET Objects and Use of SOS (Abhishek Sur)
• Unintended Api Changes – .NET 4.0 Breaking Changes (Alois Kraus)

Web Development

• Consuming Cross-Domain WCF REST Services with jQuery using JSONP (Gary Stafford)
• Selecting and Installing JavaScript Developer Tools for Linux and The Difference between HTML DIV and HTML SPAN (Joe Stagner)
• jQuery: Collecting the results from a collection of asynchronous requests (Mark Needham)
• (Yet another) nHibernate sessionmanager for ASP.NET (MVC) (Peter van Ooijen)
• 10 articles on ASP.NET MVC Extensibility to land on Simple-Talk in the next months (Simone Chiaretta)
• ECMAScript.next: new details, reacting to Dart complaints (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Show raw Text Code from a URL with CodePaste.NET (Rick Strahl)
• Rail 3.1 CI setup with Jenkins, Test Unit & SimpleCov on OS X Lion. (Ryan Svihla)
• RFC: Web Platform Installer (WebPI) with an offline feed mode for bandwidth savings (Scott Hanselman)
• Facebook Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love (Daniel Andrés Torvisco)
• rails_best_practices 1.0.0 & 1.0.1 released (Richard Huang)
• Ruby 1.9.3 Release Candidate 1 Released (What’s new?) (Peter Cooper)
• JSON Stock Queries (Omar Shahine)
• WebForms MVP New Release 1.4.0.0 – Castle users *must* update (Tatham Oddie)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Type Code with Subclasses (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Even Backlogs Need Grooming (John Sonmez)
• A Kanban Visualisation TIP (Karl Scotland)
• "Strict" Unit Testing — Everything In Isolation Is Too Much Work (Steven Lott)
• Selling Features We Don’t Have (Mike Cottmeyer)
• JustMock Q2 2011 SP1 Internal Build (Chris Eargle)
• Adopting the Metro Style for Line of Business Apps (Bil Simser)
• NCrunch (William E. Kempf)
• In Retrospect: About Requirements Management (Dennis Doomen)
• Some Thoughts On Service Oriented Architecture (Mike Hadlow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 7 : Accessing collections on non-UI Threads and WPF 4.5 – Part 8 : No more airspace problems (Integrating WPF with win32) (Jonathan Antoine)
• Physics Helper XAML for Metro WinRT (Andy Beaulieu)
• Getting around the Caching in the Silverlight Image Control (Derik Whittaker)
• Fetching selected value from List Box in Silverlight and Local Database application for windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 2000 WPF Things #394 – Specify Canvas Child Element Position Using Two Properties (Sean Sexton)
• Drag and Drop in 30 Seconds (Jesse Liberty)
• XNA to SilverXNA-part 7 Breaking the mould (Simon Jackson)
• Visual State Manager and Coroutines (Nigel Sampson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 018: Joel gets an MBA in LEGO (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Coding QA Episode 65 – Testing Strategies for a Toaster (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• TWC9: Build Sessions, VS 11, MoXaml Power Toys, Sync Fx Toolkit (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Nic Fillingham)
• Herding Code 121: Sara Chipps updates us on Girl Develop It at one year (Jon Galloway)
• Technology & Friends Episode 175: Richard Campbell on Windows 8 and Build (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 035 – “Is That A Sea Ray In Your Pocket!?” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 412: Gears of War 3 launch (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 160 – PowerScripting Podcast – Boe Prox on PoshPAIG (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Gillmor Gang 9.24.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 105 – 09.24.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 59 – Using the Windows Push Notification Service with Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #121: Marc Köhlbrugge, founder Betali.st (Bob Walsh)
• The Engadget Show – 025: We ride an electric bike, check out the new Keepon and get serenaded by Jonathan Coulton (Brian Heater)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Ryan Dunn Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Windows Weekly 227: We’re Having Twins! (Paul Thurrott)
• This is my next Podcast 025 – 09.23.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Scaling with RavenDB video (Oren Eini)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 71 – Jake Ginnivan on the Intricacies of COM Interop and VSTO (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Tulsa Tech Fest – October 7th – Top 3 reasons you should go! (Caleb Jenkins)
• It’s that time of year again: CodeCamps! (John Petersen)
• The //Build Report–Thoughts on the Event (D’Arcy Lussier)
• Killer Build Interviews and XAML Sessions. (Michael Crump)
• Presenting “Taking Baby Steps with Node.js” at Agile.NET 2011 Europe (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Database

• SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2 Available at PASS 2011 Summit (Glenn Berry)
• Download all SQL Server DENALI CTP3 Demo VHD 36 files at once (Jose Chinchilla)
• PerformancePoint – Using SSAS Actions (Devin Knight)
• SQL Server Job Monitoring (OceanWanderer)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – Download CTP3 Demo VHD Including Fully Configured Services and Integration with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 and SQLAuthority News – Online Session – Ancient Trade of Performance Tuning – Index, Beyond Index and No Index (Pinal Dave)
• Aggregates with multiple tables (Naomi Nosonovsky)
• Reporting Key Errors can be time-consuming (Chris Webb)

SharePoint

• APress Deal of the Day – 26/Sept/2011 – Pro SharePoint 2010 Solution Development Combining .NET, SharePoint, and Office 2010 (Tatworth)
• Installing TFS 11 Extension for SharePoint from the BUILD Conference in Anaheim (Tim Elhajj)

Miscellaneous

• Building WebKit on Windows (Ashod Nakashian)
• Announcing BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed (Charles Young)
• Bounty Reasons and Post Notices (Jeff Atwood)
• Windows 8. “Don’t worry, nothing has changed for traditional desktop development” And that’s the problem (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Scala: Replacing a trait with a fake one for testing (Mark Needham)
• Yes, Google Drive Is Coming. For Real This Time. (MG Siegler)
• Running Windows Programs on Linux – a tutorial. (Joe Stagner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 24, 2011 and Interesting Finds: September 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 09.20 ~ 09.25 (yuanjian)
• Distributed Weekly 121 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #945 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading September 24, 2011 and Geek Reading September 25, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Links of the week #162 (David Vidmar)
• Pie in the Sky (September 23, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Link dump for September 24th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 082 for 9/26/2011 (Giant Post-Build Edition) and The Maker Geek Roundup 001 for 9/26/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #716 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 — #1148 and Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 – 2 — #1149 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 18-September-2011 to 24-September-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 51 – #Giveaway and #Agile #Videos (Peter Saddington)

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