• 10th Day of Silverlight : O/S Integration and 11th Day of Silverlight : 3D (Tony Champion)
• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module pattern (part 4) – debugging (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Comparing Strings in Unit Tests (Phil Haack)
• Fluent Assertions 1.7.0 has been released (Dennis Doomen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing IEqualityComparer (Richard Carr)
• Twitter Search JSON Deserialization (Tim Murphy)
• Contact Columns and other pieces of help info in Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
• How to read managed function parameter values from call stack when they read in WinDBG? (Sebastian Dau)
• Stylecop Suppress Message (Kazim Sardar Mehdi)
• Using async / await (Bnaya Eshet)
• Kinect’ing to Arduino with Visual Basic and The Kinect, Windows Azure Service Bus and SignalR together in Kinectonitor (Greg Duncan)
• Comparing Transparent Lazy Loading between NHibernate and Entity Framework (Henry He)

Web Development

• ASP.NET: Integrating Search and Help with Cross-Page Posting (Peter Vogel)
• Multi-column combo box – NetAdvantage for jQuery (Atanas Dyulgerov)
• ASP.Net MVC4 developer preview fails to build with Nuget package restore. (Kevin LaBranche)
• Javascript coding style recommendation: in return and throw statements use only simple variables (Michael Freidgeim)
• JavaScript Performance (Steve Souders)
• WebAPI Developer Preview 6: Self Hosted Mode Example (John V. Petersen)
• Troubleshooting “500 Internal Server Errors” in the Windows Azure Emulator when Working with Node.JS (Aaron Stannard)
• Using Symbolic links with local storage to store large amount of data in Windows Azure Application Drive and Setting Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv) as data source directly from Portal at Hadoop on Azure (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Run Lokad.CQRS code natively on Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• Physician, Heal Thyself–ScrumMaster, Master Thyself (Robert May)
• The evolution of a task board (Dror Helper)
• Huboard – Github issues made awesome (Ryan Rauh)
• 5 Skills for Tech Leads (Sergio Romano)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to hide the soft keyboard in a Windows Phone app (Windows Phone Geek)
• Telerik RadDatePicker control for Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A simple Windows Phone control for reading QR codes (Jeff Wilcox)
• Your path to a WP7 app in 30 days (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A Dynamic DataTemplate Generator for WPF (Matt Hamilton)
• Breakdown of Windows Phone App Download Statistics (Rene Schulte)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #8 – Retreive Device Information (Senthil Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Why work at Microsoft? International Microfilms Contest Shows Why (MS JobsBlog)
• TWC9: New Team Members, Win8, C++, SQL 2012, Cloud Numerics (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Rick Barraza)
• The JavaScript Show – Fluentconf, Scrollorama, Impress.JS (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Engadget Podcast 274: CES 2012 Day 4 – 01.12.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 121: CES 2012 – 01.12.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 282: CES 2012 – 01.13.2012 and The Vergecast at CES: Day Four (Trent Wolbe)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 37 (Richard Hay)
• Adron Hall Visual Studio AWS Toolkit & SDK Presentation Video (Bobby Johnson)
• Hands-on: Nokia Lumia 900, THE Windows Phone [video] (Tim Conneally)

Community / Events

• Critical Path Training SharePoint Developer Roadshow in Boston & SharePint! (Andrew Connell)
• Updates to the Coding4Fun Team! (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• CES 2012: what I learned, why I’m not going back (Ed Bott)
• TED2012 speaker lineup (Mark Frauenfelder)
• CodeMash 2012–what an awesome event! (Paul Stack)
• The Chat I Had With Stephen Elop as We Both Nearly Missed Final Ballmer-Note (Ina Fried)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Debate – Table Variables vs Temporary Tables – Quiz – Puzzle – 13 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• How to connect to SQL Server when your default database is unavailable (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Windows 8: What we learned this week (Mary Jo Foley)
• Rake. Huh? and Rake Fundamentals: tasks with prerequisites and Rake Fundamentals: rakefiles and tasks and Rake Fundamentals: file tasks and Rake Fundamentals: directory tasks and Rake Fundamentals: FileLists (Dale Smith)
• What I Use: Evernote and Microsoft Word for Writing (Paul Thurrott)
• The TED imperatives (Seth Godin)
• Skype to Come to Windows Phone as App First – Baked Into OS Later? (Coming Soon?) (Antonio Hernandez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 137 – CodeMash 2012 Edition (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 14 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Re-blog – January 6 – January 12 (Jason Strate)
• MVP Friday Five: January 13, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (1/13/2012) and Daily News Digest 1/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-13 (Bob Rhubart)
• Pie in the Sky (January 13, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• Windows Dev News for January 13, 2011 – #0027 (Dave Campbell)
• Retrospective 67 – PMI, Agile Emails, and Agile Country (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery: Novice to Ninja by Earle Castledine

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

• A Revolution in My Lifestyle (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

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

SharePoint

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

PowerShell

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• 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

• New ASP.NET website launched (Scott Hanselman)
• 31 Days of Mango | Now In eBook Format! (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Microsoft to provide details on Windows 8 app store on Dec 6 (Brad Sams)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure (MS Downloads)
• Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript (Rick Waldron)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Custom XML Serialization (Gian Maria Ricci)
• CSLA 4 version 4.2 released (Rockford Lhotka)
• Managing the unmanaged… as in 5 tips toward understanding .Net Managed/Unmanaged Interop (Greg Duncan)
• Setting up TeamCity as a native NuGet Server (Hadi Hariri)
• New book: Developer’s Guide to Collections in Microsoft .NET (Kim Spilker)
• Eager-loading RFC (Mark Rendle)
• .NET access to the GPU for compute purposes (Daniel Moth)
• log4net object renders (Dru Sellers)
• Agent Ralph Plug-In for ReSharper (Josh Buedel) – Find and eliminate duplicate code.

Web Development

• 5 Minute Intro to HTML5 Canvas (John Papa)
• Cascading jQuery Combo Boxes in ASP.NET MVC (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Building an ASP.NET MVC 4 Solution with F# and C# (Daniel Mohl)
• ASP.NET website redesign: Now with less Beta, more Live (Jon Galloway)
• Using MVCContrib 3 Test Helpers with ASP.Net MVC 4 (beta) (Kevin LaBranche)
• How to lint your JavaScript with JSLint in real time (Maxim Mossienko)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First HTML5 Programming – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress (Sameer Borate)
• Custom request methods in Nancy (Andreas Håkansson)
• Working with Binary Data using Typed Arrays (Luke Hoban)
• Kendo UI from Telerik (Jake Rutherford)
• Windows Azure Cloud Services: How you can choose what is needed and how much it will cost? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.6.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The TeamCity Database Migration Documenation Could Use Some Work (Peter Ritchie)
• Future mocking with #IgnoreInstance (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Sharing Code Between Platforms (Peter Kuhn)
• ListBox ContextMenu with MVVM in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to navigate to other page from a user control in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF Asynchronous Wait Cursor using Task Parralel Library (Jacob L. Adams)
• Unifying Hardware Access across Windows Phone, Android, and iOS (Jonathan Allen)
• 2000 WPF Things #442 – WrapPanel Child Elements Can Be Clipped (Sean Sexton)
• Reflector: How to Add a WP7 Assembly List (Jason Haley)
• Async tests in Silverlight (Oren Eini)
• Infragistics Motion Framework 101 (Akshay Luther)
• Windows Phone geocoding with Rx (Muhammad Afzal)
• Beginning LightSwitch: Getting Started (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cool Projects at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Boagworld: Treat stats as indicators not as the end goal (Paul Boag)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Telerik JustCode (Robert Green)
• Let’s Play TDD #147: Finding the Dialog (James Shore)
• A Dev’s Game Dev castroll… (Or Chris shares the Game Dev podcasts he listens too) (Greg Duncan)
• GitHub has a Vimeo Channel! (Matt Ganucheau)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Rocks The Canadian Technology Community (Miguel Carrasco)
• .net awards rundown (Paul Boag)
• A Coder Interview with Kenny Kerr (The Code Project)
• Three years at IdentityMine–and more to come! (Laurent Bugnion)

Database

• I love SQL Server and cultures… NOT ! (Jérémie Chassaing)
• SSMS Tools Pack 2.1.0 is out. Added support for SQL Server 2012 RC0. (Mladen Prajdić)
• SQL SERVER – Effect of SET NO COUNT on @@ROWCOUNT (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 2: system tables and catalog views (Denis Gobo)
• Database Mirroring In A Windows Workgroup (Kendal Van Dyke)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 public beta reportedly due in February (Andy Weir)
• Our code needs to run on multiple platforms with different rules, so we follow none of them! (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft Confirms No Carrier IQ on Windows Phone 7 Handsets (Richard Hay)
• A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (Eric Ries)
• Working Hard? Or HardlyWork.In? (Peter Saddington)
• 10 Books to Gift the Geeky Creative in Your Life (Jocelyn K. Glei)

PowerShell

• Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 3) (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week November 21-27, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 2 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #994 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #765 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/01/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily Links 01/12/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 12/1/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 30-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Distributed Weekly 131 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

31 Days of Mango by Jeff Blankenburg

Top Links

• Developing a Windows Phone 7 Jump List Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• Using HTML5 Web Storage for Interprocess Communication (Jeff Prosise)
• Using NuGet without committing packages (David Ebbo)
• .NET Reflector 7 Released (Paulo Morgado) – Winners in my Reflector contest have been selected and will be notified shortly.

.NET / Visual Studio

• YACE (Yet Another Comment Extension) for VS2010 – Small, big, bigger and Red! SharpComments and "Bart Simpson’s Guide to Windows Azure" [How can I beat that title?] (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Tuples and Tuple Factory Methods and ANTS Memory Profiler 7.0 (James Michael Hare)
• Installing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Uplevel NuGet (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• patterns & practices : Composite Services Guidance – CTP2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Introducing formlets for jQueryUI (Joel Bjornson)
• Revisiting Some (Old) Tags in HTML 5 (Kirupa)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes) (Abhishek Sur)
• I’m developing my own Foursquare client for the Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• Prism 4 Region Navigation with Silverlight Frame Navigation and Unity (Karl Shifflett)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – intro to Isolated Storage and All about Splash Screens in WP7 – Creating animated Splash Screen (Windows Phone Geek)
• Creating gradients using colors from other objects in Expression Design (Elliot Meacham)
• Phone updates: process and timing (Eric Hautala)
• Testing Network Availability (Jesse Liberty)
• Not your regular photo and video camera on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Talkin’ C++ with Kate Gregory (Charles Torre)
• Silverlight Essentials Video Training (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 65: 3D Graphics (John Papa)
• Developers: a new kind of IDE arrives in Cloud9 (First look!) (Robert Scoble)
• Saving energy with the .NET Micro Framework (Fabien Royer)

Community / Events

• More FREE Windows Phone 7 training events (Rudi Grobler)
• Do You Dig Design? Announcing the New UX Lightning Series at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Steve Ballmer + Imagine Cup + Governor of PA = BEST DAY EVER! (Lindsay Lindstrom)
• A Great Week with MVPs (Lonnie Webb)
• What we wish we could show you about Microsoft TechFest (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Free Training: Multicore Programming on the .NET Platform, 4/20/2011 and Join us in Washington DC: Free One-Day Course on Parallelism, 3/25/2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• WCF RIA Services Validation Webinar (Brian Noyes)
• GitHub on LinkedIn (Chris Wanstrath)
• Interview with SQL Server MVP Joe Webb (Brad M. McGehee)

Database

• SQL Server: SSMS 2008 Intellisense Stops Working after Installing VS 2010 SP1 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Latch Statistics (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint: Create Dashboards with KPI, Scorecard and Report using Excel Services (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Dynamics CRM 2011 and SharePoint 2010 (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

• CodePlex: Pull Request Conversations, Inline Diff Enhancements (Matt Hawley)
• Retro gaming on Windows Phone 7 (Luke)
• Safer and Faster Downloads in IE9 (Ritika Virmani,)
• The problem with calling legacy/native apps from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #810 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 10th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2011 — #1058 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

C# 4.0 Unleashed by Bart De Smet

Top Links

• MSDN Subscribers receive FREE Pluralsight On-Demand! Subscription (Aaron Skonnard)
• Goodbye "Oslo" (Jon Fancey)
• Windows Device Strategy for Enterprise Mobile Devices and Tablets start to take shape (Don Burnett)
• From C# to F# – Part 1 (Dejan Jelovic)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Interface Events (Richard Carr)
• Entity Framework: If you pass a connection to the context, you are responsible for disposing it (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio Setup & Deployment Projects declared dead & retired. VS2010 will be the last… (Greg Duncan)
• Create Keyboard Accelerators for External Tools (Zain Naboulsi)
• CodeRush Screenshot of the Week – Test Runner Goodness (Mark Miller)
• Explaining What Action<> And Func<> Are (John Sonmez)
• Progress Streamed File download and Upload with Resume facility (Abhishek Sur)

Web Development

• Select the entire html element or just its content (Arun Mahendrakar)
• How to do Audio in HTML5 (Sara Allison)
• Sholo.Web.Security and the EnhancedSecurityModule (Scott Holodak)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using asynchronous controller to call web services (Gunnar Peipman)
• Update on ASP.NET Vulnerability (Scott Guthrie)
• IIS Smooth Streaming Client (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Simple Design (James Shore)
• Separation of Concerns with Domain Events (Mike Hadlow)
• A Refactoring: Explicit Modeling And Reducing Duplication (Derick Bailey)
• Article:Using Coding Katas, BDD and VS2010 Project Templates: Part 1 (Jamie Phillips)
• Application Server and Integration Server: Growing Closer Together (Vishwas Lele)
• A Case for Singletasking: The One-Task-At-a-Time Method [Focus] (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Is Multitasking a Productivity Killer? (Dawn Foster)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Data Binding Panorama Control WP7 MVVM (Peter Daukintis)
• MonoTouch meet WindowsPhone7 (Craig Dunn)
• Service Pack for Expression Blend Improves Integration with Adobe Design Tools, Windows Phone 7 (Bruce Kyle)
• Teaching an old dog new tricks [Updated HtmlTextBlock implementation uses RichTextBox to support images and hyperlinks] (David Anson)
• IIS Live Smooth Streaming with Expression Encoder 4 (Silverlight Team)
• MVVM Home Grown Version (dfurshpan)
• Inside Windows Phone#08-Windows Phone Design Templates (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Consuming resources from external assemblies in Silverlight 4 (Josh Smith)
• Installing the Windows Phone 7 Tools In 3 Steps (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Events (Stephanie Reimann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint50…What’s up with that?-Episode 51 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Let’s Play TDD #23: Multiple Years and Fun Two-Minute Video on Agile (James Shore)
• TWC9: VB for Windows Phone 7, ASP.NET Vulnerability, WCF Services, String Formatting Cheat Sheet (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• Countdown to PDC: Meet Jeannine and Win a Limited Edition Shirt (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Announcing public source code repository with my blog samples (Gunnar Peipman)
• Where Are We Without Community? (Rob Bazinet)
• Why StackExchange will eventually fail – Control-Freak-ism (Roy Osherove)
• Loïc Le Meur Praises Microsoft’s BizSpark One Program (Milo Yiannopoulos)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Get Numeric Value From Alpha Numeric String – Get Numbers Only (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Lots of BizTalk 2010 (Pieter De Bruin)
• Because Everyone Needs a Router (Jeff Atwood)
• Git-Achievements on Windows (Jason Meridth)
• Adjusting Token Privileges in PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
• The Commodore 64c (Pete Brown)
• Internet Explorer 9 System Requirements Clarification (Richard Hay)
• Download the Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 69 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 24, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for September 24, 2010 — #954 (Dave Campbell)
• What I’m Reading – 2010-09-24 (Jeremiah Peschka)

The Geek Shelf

Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules by Steve McConnell

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Top Links

• 4 .NET 4.0 Libraries You *Should* Know Better – MEF, Reactive, Tasks and Dynamic (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Expression Studio 4 Launch on Jun 7th in NYC! (Adam Kinney)
• MEFedMVVM: Testability (Marlon Grech)
• “Controllerless” MVC with the MVCommand (Erik Peterson)
• SilverShader – Introduction to Silverlight and WPF Pixel Shaders (René Schulte)

.NET / Visual Studio

• VS 2010 productivity improvements – Part I (Somasegar)
• Video discussion about Visualization and Modeling in VS2010 Ultimate (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 Code Generation With Intellisense (Deepak Kapoor)
• On the use of frameworks. Good or bad? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Mapping Help in the EDM Designer (Julie Lerman)
• Visual Studio Managed Multi-Targeting: Part 2: Multi-Targeting in Action (Binu N. Chacko)
• EF4 Sample Provider for SQL Server now available (Faisal Mohamood)
• Programmatically adding/removing/querying VC++ Build Customizations (Pavan Adharapurapu)
• Is It Just Me Or Is .NET 4 Just Not That Special? (Davy Brion)
• VS2008 No Item Templates (Gil Fink)
• Using Binary Serialization and ViewState with Self-Tracking Entities (Jeff Derstadt)
• Managed Extensions for Internet Explorer (Jonathan Allen)
• SparkSense: Getting started – where’s a plumber when you need one? (Robert Greyling)

Web Development

• Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API (Part 2) (Scott Mitchell)
• Testing assumptions with preconditions (Jimmy Bogard)
• New Plugin Enables WordPress To Use Windows Azure Storage Services (Windows Azure Team)
• SquishIt – The Friendly ASP.NET JavaScript and CSS Squisher (Justin Etheredge)
• Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW – Available Now (Visual Web Developer Team)
• Privacy, Add-ons, and Cookie-less HTTP Requests (Eric Lawrence)
• How to use Google Data API in ASP.NET MVC. Part 2 – YouTube (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API (Scott Mitchell)
• TextBox AutoComplete with ASP.NET and jQuery UI (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Part 1 – A Cascading Hierarchical Field Template & Filter for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Walkthrough– Publishing a Custom Web Control (Part 1 of 2) (Martin Tracy)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: StoreController and Porting the MVC Music Store to Raven: ShoppingCart (Oren Eini)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simplify Your Unit Tests With Automocking: Part 2 – Establishing Context and The Dangers Of AutoMocking Containers (Derick Bailey)
• Effective root cause analysis techniques (Gojko Adzic)
• Why We Make Bad Decisions – Errors in Odds and Errors in Value and Lessons Learned from John Maxwell (J.D. Meier)
• Design Patterns In C# – Prototype Design Pattern and Design Patterns In C# – Factory Design Pattern (Richard McCutchen)
• Expected exceptions in unit tests (Dennis Delimarsky)
• JustMock and Moles – A short overview for TDD alpha geeks (Roy Osherove)
• Presentation: Bad Code, Craftsmanship, Engineering, and Certification (Robert C. Martin)
• Stephen Anderson on emotional design (Paul Boag)
• MSF-A+SDL Process Template for VS 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Typeface Selection Flowchart (Andre Vrignaud)
• Deals Well With Ambiguity (Phil Haack)
• The Psychology of Programmers (Asif Shahzad)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements (MS Downloads)
• Shuffleboard: A Windows Phone 7 Sample Game (Andy Beaulieu)
• Sample: Windows Phone 7 Example Application with Landscape Layout (Jason Zander)
• Out-Of-Browser Authentication for RIA Services (Jeff Barnes)
• Silverlight Out of Browser Dynamic Modules in Offline Mode (Jeremy Likness)
• WPFPerf Performance Profiling Tools for WPF 4 is now available! and Snoop for WPF 4 and WPF Visualizer in Visual Studio 2010 (Jossef Goldberg)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Hub event confirmed speakers (31 May) (Katrien De Graeve)
• An Extension Method to Dump Control Templates of WPF Controls (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #24 – Resolving Unknown Objects in VS (Mike Snow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 81: Simplicity, balance, and focus in teaching software development (Jon Galloway)
• The Making of Office 2010: Alex Simmons, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft One Note (Tina Wood)
• Video: ColdFusion & SharePoint Taste Great Together (Eric Hagan)
• Agile Tips and Advice – Index Cards – Wave of the Past, Present and Future (Bob Payne)
• Connected Show Podcast – You Don’t Find Skeet, Skeet Finds YOU! (Brian Johnson)
• E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 3 of n (Charles Torre)
• Community Megaphone Show #10 at CMAP Code Camp (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Conversations with David Chappell about Windows Azure and Cloud Computing (David Gristwood)
• Technology & Friends Episode 90: John McClelland on BizSpark and WebSiteSpark (David Giard)
• My VS 2010 and ASP.NET 4 Talks Online (Scott Guthrie)

Community / Events

• TechEd Israel 2010 may only accept speakers from sponsors (Roy Osherove)
• Git Training in DC – July (Scott Chacon)
• Site Collection administrators – permission management webinar (Brett Lonsdale)
• The Israeli software craftsmanship group is on its way (Dror Helper)

Database

• Intellisense does not work in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Transaction Log expanding on restore after shrink (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – DATE and TIME in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)
• Reporting Services – Building the first report (Steve Jones)
• NoSQL Basics for Database Administrators (Brent Ozar)
• How Much Space Am I Taking Up? (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• 5 Reasons Why SharePoint 2010 Will Revolutionize Your Organization (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint 2010 Books for Developers, Administrators, Designers, Project Managers and End Users (Joel Oleson)
• Social Squared 1.0.0.2 release (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• The Power of Regex in PowerShell (Joe Webb)
• Phase One, a Digital Photography Leader, Acquires Microsoft’s Expression Media Product (MS PressPass)
• F.A.Q.: How do I Install a PowerShell Module (Joel Bennett)
• A Roundup of New Features in Android 2.2 (Abel Avram)
• Looking in someone else’s Medicine Cabinet… err… I mean… their Development and Utility Toolbox… (Greg Duncan)
• Project Natal To Cost $149 By Itself, $299 With 360 Arcade, According To Latest Rumors (Isaac Steinberg)
• Gitosis and Gitweb – Part 3 – Gitweb (Jason Meridth)
• Your Refcardz WishList: What Cards Would You Like To Appear in the Series? (James Sugrue)
• Review and deliver dynamic presentations with PowerPoint Mobile 2010 (Office Team)
• Renaming Tabs in the PowerShell ISE (Refaat Issa)
• The results are in: Google’s Pac-Man homage cost the world $120,483,800 in just one day (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 25, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 26, 2010 and Interesting Finds: May 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 25, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – May 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 25-May-2010 and Tech Tweets for 26-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2010 — #869 and Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2010 – 2 — #870 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #608 and The Morning Brew #609 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight 4

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Top Links

• SOLID: Software That Works (Caleb Jenkins)
• Windows 8 to be “Completely Different” and “Mind-Blowing” (Stephen Chapman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, Second Edition — Only $9.99! Use code DDMAA (O’Reilly Media)
• Installing ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 on Visual Studio 2010 RC (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling SDK RC (Cameron Skinner)
• F# and the Dynamic Lookup Operator ala C# (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Iron Python 2.6.1 RC Now Available and IronRuby 1.0 Release Candidate 2 (Charlie Calvert)
• The WCF RIA Services Issue I am trying to solve currently: Entity Framework 4 with Composite Associations (Chris Woodruff)
• VS2010 RC: Much Faster than Beta 2 (Bill Wagner)
• Insert Documents to the Right of Existing Tabs — vstipEnv0001 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 RC Ready for General Download (Jason Zander)
• F#: Inline functions and statically resolved type parameters (Mark Needham)
• New beta exams for developers announced (Martijn Brant)
• Autofac 2.1 goes RC (the “me too!” release) (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Add References in VS 2010 (Oliver Sturm)
• Impact The Planning For EF/Astoria vNext (Jonathan Carter)
• Beware Self-Tracking Entities Conflict with Entity Framework CTP & VS2010 RC (Julie Lerman)
• Doc-To-Help 2010 Released (Eve Turzillo)
• Writing object to object mapper: moving to generics (Gunnar Peipman)

Web Development

• Trapping Intentional Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Attempts in ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Bundler Part 2 – ASP.NET Integration (Justin Etheredge)
• Compressing JavaScript and CSS on The Fly(Mike Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Working on a new product (Roy Osherove)
• Productive by Design (Scott Bellware)
• Book smarts vs. Street smarts (Scott Berkun)
• Testing in Production – It’s a living ecosystem, not a patient on a gurney (Ken Johnston)
• Agile: The New Era (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Introducing status.github.com (Kyle Neath)
• CodeBetter CI Server update, or “How to plead your case” (Kyle Baley)
• Professional Scrum Master Certification Disappears from Scrum.org (Patrick Kua)
• Cloud – what it means, and why it is important for software operations (Andy Singleton)
• “Survival Skills for Developers” (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Model of Cloud Computing and 10,000 Times the Productivity (J.D. Meier)
• Silverlight Test Driven Development – Part II (Jesse Liberty)
• Better User Experience With Storytelling, Part 2 (Francisco Inchauste)

Silverlight / WPF

• The Book of WPF (Pete Brown)
• Using Silverlight Media Framework for simple playback (Tim Heuer)
• Helpful Silverlight Snippets (Jeff Wilcox)
• What’s Wrong With This Code #24 (K. Scott Allen)
• The Ugly Duckling and Transforming an Ugly Duckling to a Graceful Swan with Expression Blend and Silverlight – Part I (András Velvárt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Bret Piatt and Josh Odom RackSpace Clouds (Carl Franklin)
• geekSpeak: BizTalk Server with SOA Architect and MVP Brian Loesgen (MS Podcasts)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 44: Soft Skills Every Developer Needs with Brian Prince (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #162: Learning how to use a Web Cam with Silverlight (Derik Whittaker)
• Agile 2009 – Aslak Hellesoy – Cucumber test framework (Bob Payne)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #83 (Jeff Atwood)
• 10-4 Episode 40: The New WCF Routing Service (Ron Jacobs)
• Anatomy of an Agile .NET project (Rune Grothaug)
• Pete at Reykjavik: Silverlight, Azure, RIA Services Event Site in 8 days (Pete Brown)
• Introducing the "Ignite Your Coding!" Podcast (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Misfit Geek Podcast on Zune Social (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 7: When and Where to use MEF (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Social Media Memes: The Benefits of Participation (Darrell Etherington)
• LIDNUG Online Chat with Me on Thursday Feb 11th (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft at TED2010 (Steve Clayton)
• Series of 8 SharePoint 2010 Developer Web Casts (Paul Andrew)
• 1,300+ Microsoft MVPs Make Their Mark at the 2010 MVP Global Summit in Bellevue and Redmond (Toby Richards)
• Lightning Tools Partner Program (Richard Young)

Database

• Start a SQL Server Agent Job using the SQL Server PowerShell Provider (Buck Woody)
• Using ROW_NUMBER in a where clause and Do you do backups? Do you test them? (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – ALTER DATABASE dbname SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Create Association Method for BCS Dot Net Assembly (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• Apple iPad Preview, Part 2: First Impressions (Paul Thurrott)
• TechNet 2.0 – Episode 3 – TechNet Search (Keith Combs)
• The 11th of Diduary: Did you know Windows 7 is network aware? (Jeff Blankenburg)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LXII (Charlie Calvert)
• New and Notable 402 (Sam Gentile)
• The Morning Brew #537 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 10, 2010 — #795 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Secure Code: Practical Strategies and Proven Techniques for Building Secure Applications in a Networked World

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.NET / Visual Studio

• F# Language Details (Gotchas) (Chris Smith)
• Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework (MS Downloads)
• Query Editor: Writing Queries, Part 1 (Jason Haley)
• Über Prof goes live (Oren Eini)
• Using Windows Touch Gestures with .NET (Part 1: Configuration) (Jason Ipock)
• The Wisdom of Crowds: Implementing a Smart Ranking Algorithm (Lee Dumond)
• Populating a TreeView Control from a List (Deborah Kurata)
• Teamprise: Enabling TFS collaboration across heterogeneous platforms (Somasegar)
• Telerik “M” Compare and “Repository” Migration Tool November CTP (Stephen Forte)
• Announcing the new Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform (Silverlight Team)
• Three Umpires (Eric Lippert)
• JNBridgePro 5.0 Bridges Java and .NET (Mitch Pronschinske)
• On being Culture Aware (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• Preventing Security Development Errors: Lessons Learned at Windows Live by Using ASP.NET MVC (MS Downloads)
• zen-coding: turn those CSS selectors upside down (Leon Bambrick)
• ASP.NET Authentication – Multiple Domains w/ Same Application (Dave M. Bush)
• Server Side Validation With ASP.NET MVC And Data Annotations (Malcolm Sheridan)
• $.fadeTo/fadeOut() operations on Table Rows in IE fail (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft sees a silver lining in the cloud (Steve Clayton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Security Considerations for Client and Cloud Applications (MS Downloads)
• Dependency Injection 101 (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Fields and virtual members (Jimmy Bogard)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Processing Requests (Davy Brion)
• Electronic Kanban Tools and WIP Limits: LeanKitKanban and AgileZen Get It! (Derick Bailey)
• You say Tomato, I say Pomodoro (Joel Cochran)
• The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming and The Bridge Pattern – When a single class hierarchy is not enough (David Cooksey)
• Trying Out Personal Kanban (Or At Least My Interpretation Of It) (Joel Ross)
• Getting started with BDD (Behavior Driven Development) in .NET (Tom Janssens)
• Legacy Code: Sensing (Mark Needham)
• Reuse Creates Bottlenecks (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Can Agile Be Combined with Offshore? 12 Lessons Learned. (Peter DeYoe)
• 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design (Whitney Hess)

Silverlight / WPF

• .NET RIA Services + Silverlight Behaviors Resources (Andy Beaulieu)
• XAML 2009 Features: Node Loop flexibility (Lester Lobo)
• Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released (Sunshine)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Live from DevReach, Sofia, Bulgaria (Carl Franklin)
• Pluralsight Training Videos on .Net Reflector (Jason Haley)
• Ping 37: SQL Server, Windows 7, Bing, Google, Bill Gates Birthday (Laura Foy)
• ASP.NET 4 / VS 2010 “Quick Hit” Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Talk: Stop Programming JavaScript by Luck (Sergio Pereira)
• SharePoint PodShow – A Conversation with Foxit Software Episode 37 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Thread Blocking Analysis in the VS2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – November 9th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Countdown to Microsoft PDC 2009 – part 2 (Lars Wilhemlsen)
• Party with Palermo: PDC ‘09 edition – 6 days and counting (Jeffrey Palermo)
• SQL Authority News – Training MS SQL Server 2005/2008 Query Optimization And Performance Tuning (Pinal Dave)
• Next "Oslo" CTP to be released in conjunction with PDC (Sam Gentile)
• PDC and Python (in that order) (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• Does the S in SQL stand for Scary? (Coding4Fun)
• Fuzzy Logic and Regex come to T-SQL in SQL Server 2008 R2 – available now! (Jamie Thomson)
• Always include precision and scale with decimal and numeric (George Mastros)
• SQL Azure & SQL Server playing together (Steve Clayton)

SharePoint

• Determining if MOSS is Standard or Enterprise (Tom Hearn)
• StructureMap and SharePoint (Tony Rasa)

Miscellaneous

• What I Use and Kindle for PC Now Available (Paul Thurrott)
• A Good URL Regular Expression? (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Mark Russinovich on Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Devon Musgrave)
• PowerPack Creation Manual (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Tortoise more than just version control (Jimmy Bosse)
• Recent UI updates to GitHub (Kyle Neath)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Rocks! (Jeffrey Snover)
• Verizon – Google Droid Review (Tim Boland)
• Happy 5th Birthday, Firefox! (Simon Mackie)
• Download Podcasts with Powershell (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft’s Top 3 advances in Exchange Server 2010 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/10 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• 7 Taskbar Tweaker Lets You Change Windows 7 Taskbar Functionality (Sarah Perez)
• Today in O’Reilly Answers – The Droid, Tip-of-the-Tongue Effect, Technology for Political Candidates, and more (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #474 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 09, 2009 — #727 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/9/2009 (Bill Zack)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Links and Azure Links and Workflow Links and New and Notable 388 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• The future of debugging is here! Visual Studio 2010 now supports stepping back in the debugger. (Habib Heydarian)
• IronPython and IronRuby CTPs for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 (Harry Pierson)
• Workflow Foundation Part III: Participating in persistence (Henning Krause)
• Visual Studio 2010 Training Course on Channel 9 (Jason Olson)
• Tutorial: Getting Started with TFS in VS2010 (Jason Zander)
• Force .NET application to run in 32bit process on 64bit OS (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – October Preview (G. Andrew Duthie)
• C# Static interfaces and Take 2 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 2 (Justin Van Patten)
• A tour of the new Channel 9 Learning Center and Download Visual Studio 2010 Express Editions (Dan Fernandez)
• Busting Visual Studio Myths – or How I learned to counter “that guy’s” anti-VS/.Net comments – or how I convinced my boss that Feature X doesn’t have Problem Y (Greg Duncan)
• New Visual Studio 2010 Built-in C# Snippets Cheat Sheet (John Sheehan)
• IronRuby and IronPython for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 (Jimmy Schementi)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates (Karl Shifflett)
• Interesting findings in the diff between .NET Fx v4 Beta1 and Beta2 (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• Lambdas aren’t just for managed code (Scott Seely)

Web Development

• Facebook Churning Out API Updates (Adam DuVander)
• ASP.NET Substitution Control and DotNetNuke – Collecting Profile at Registration (Dave M. Bush)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Web Tools Overview (Mike Snow)
• The Microsoft Ajax Library and Visual Studio Beta 2 (Stephen Walther)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• All the wonderful colors of code coverage (Dennis "D.C." Dietrich)
• Being Business Focused: Risk (Dru Sellers)
• 31 Days of Refactoring eBook (Simone Chiaretta)
• Testing Time – The Best of Both Worlds (Jonathan Oliver)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part III: Agree on Action (Patrick Kua)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Custom Properties and Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Mozilla and Microsoft work together on WPF\ClickOnce plugins (Brad Abrams)
• Two birds, one stone [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 2 and DataVisualizationDemos update] (David Anson)
• Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit October 2009 Release Update (Ning Zhang)
• Silverlight out-of-browser and initParams (Josh Twist)
• New WPF Features: TextFormattingMode for clear text (Lester Lobo)
• Uninstall Silverlight SDK RTM before installing VS 2010 Beta 2 (Mike Snow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Aaron Skonnard Builds a Real Cloud App (Carl Franklin)
• Pat Brenner: Visual Studio 2010 – MFC and Windows 7 (Charles Torre)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET 4 and Scott Hunter on The Big Picture and new Templates and Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET 4 and Phil Haack (and son!) (Scott Hanselman)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #71 (Jeff Atwood)
• Channel 9 makes you smart(er) – Channel 9 Learning Center opens with VS2010/.Net 4 and Windows 7 courses (free of course) (Greg Duncan)
• New Parallel Capabilities of the Visual Studio 2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)
• deCast – Patterns-Based Silverlight – Part II – The Repository Pattern (Rob Bagby)
• Functions and Classes in C# (Sam Stokes)
• Windows 7 and your Xbox 360 (Tina)
• Creating an External List in SharePoint by Using Business Data (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – October 21st, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 7 Launch Client Developer Track Content Available Here (Dave Bost)
• SharePoint Conference Notes on SharePoint 2010 – Day 3 (Greg Galipeau)
• PDC09: Application Deployment with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (Robert Hess)
• Live Webcast of Windows 7 Launch Event in NYC 10/22/09 (Zhiming Xue)
• StackOverflow DevDays (Steve Rowe)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Difference Between Candidate Keys and Primary Key (Pinal Dave)
• Wildcard – Match One Character using Underscore (_) (Patrick LeBlanc)

SharePoint

• #spc09 ECM for the Masses: How SharePoint 2010 Delivers On The Promise (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Expands Office 2010 Web Apps Technical Preview (Blake Handler)
• Bing is Bringing Twitter Search to You (Bing Team)
• RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my! (Marissa Mayer)
• Building an iPhone app (Aaron Jensen)
• FolderSize Displays What’s Eating Your Hard Drive Space (Adam Pash)
• Refactoring: Ruby Edition available. (Jay Fields)
• 7 Ways to Change the World (Jim O’Neil)
• Google Music Service: The Screenshots (Michael Arrington)
• Lightroom Beta 3 now available (Ryan Brenizer)
• How We Made GitHub Fast (Tom Preston-Werner)
• Burger King selling a Windows 7 Whopper in Japan (Vladislav Savov)
• SinkOverflow (Steve Tibbett)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 21, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #460 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 21, 2009 — #713 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #566 and Double Shot #567 (Mike Gunderloy)
• XAML/WPF Web News (2009-10-20) (Rob Relyea)
• CloudNews for 21st October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

Book of the Day