• Updated Win 8 Dev Platform diagram (Rockford Lhotka)
• SemVer, NuGet, and Nightly Builds (Phil Haack)
• Nokia’s First Two Windows Phones Are Here. And They’re Awesome. (Ben Rudolph)
• Windows Phone Tombstoning with PhoneGap and Knockout.js (Colin Eberhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to Build VB6 Apps with TFS Team Build 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• Using the ToggleSwitch in WinRT/Metro (for C#) (Derik Whittaker)
• Searching the Global Address List – C# Edition (Henning Krause)
• Building Visual Studio Extensions with Roslyn (Jonathan Allen)
• Kinect Speech Recognition – Introduction (Shai Raiten)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 – now available on Microsoft Update (Visual Studio Blog)
• Microsoft Speech Platform – Software Development Kit (SDK) (Version 11) (MS Downloads)
• Install Application as Service on Windows Server 2008 (Steve Smith)
• Code Documentation Generation with SandCastle (Stacy Vicknair)
• Packaging an Executable as a Windows Azure Application From the Command Line (Steve Marx)
• Query Methods in Roslyn Syntax API (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New refactorings in JustCode (Just* Team)
• FSharpChart minor release available (version 0.56) (Carl Nolan)

Web Development

• Connecting your WinPhone 7 app to an ASP.Net Razor page with a little REST and JSON (Greg Duncan)
• Building the Internet of Things: HTML5 for Microcontrollers (John Esposito)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Null Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Empty Charsets in IE 9 Causing JSON Parsing Errors (Rob Conery)
• Reuse in action: Bing Maps REST API and Community Megaphone (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Telerik AJAX Q3 2011 Beta – New Org Chart and Social Share controls, Metro skin and more (Stefan Rahnev)
• Windows Azure Use Case: Social Media (Buck Woody)
• Rebuilding My Backbone.js Plugins With Modules, SRP and More (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Questions when Measuring Agile Adoption (Craig Smith)
• Now Available: Getting Results the Agile Way on Kindle (JD Meier)
• Scrum with dev11 – Creating a new Team Project (Martin Hinshelwood)
• My Ideal Development Shop (Bobby Johnson)
• The broken window theory in the real world (Peter Gfader)
• Scrum Task Board Card Creator v2.5.0.0 (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Tip for Using HyperlinkButton or Hyperlink in Silverlight for Windows Phone (Cheryl Simmons)
• Expression Blend Step By Step Review (Don Burnett)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 3: securing your service calls. (Kevin Dockx)
• Visual Studio XAML Designer: New Grid Features (Erik Arthur & Jeffrey Ferman)
• Property change notifications when using SQL CE on Windows Phone 7.1 (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #416 – Setting Grid Rows and Columns to Autosize (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget HD Podcast 271 – 10.25.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Disable Show Desktop, Hide User Accounts, Accurate Energy Usage (Larry Larsen)
• The Engadget Show – 026: A visit from Intel, a trip to New York Comic Con, haunted houses and costume contests (Brian Heater)
• Video on Creating and Uploading Certificate for Windows Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

• HTML5 Game Camps Coming Soon (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – Book Signing Event – SQLPASS 2011 Event Log (Pinal Dave)
• Reflections on GiveCamp (Reed Copsey)
• Win 3 Free Licenses for InVision Prototyping Tool (Scott Hutcheson)

Database

• Verify a connection before using it [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• Wanna Get Good at SQL Server? (Thomas LaRock)
• CLR Sprocs Deployment (Ken Spencer)
• Multiple query plans for the same query? (Geniiius)
• Import MS Best Practice Policies (Ryan Adams)
• Inside the Oracle Database Cloud Service (Oracle TechBlog)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 5: Install Language Packs for SharePoint 2010 and SharePointFive: Move Site Collections Using PowerShell (Martin W. Angler)

Miscellaneous

• A Quick Introduction to Rack (Satish Talim)
• Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Become To The Video Industry What The iPod Was To The Music Industry (Dan Rayburn)
• Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Nokia Music and Nokia Pulse for Windows Phone announced (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 25, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #967 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #738 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily WP7 Development News 25 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 10/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 24-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher

• Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone (V1.3.1) is released (Avkash Chauhan)
• jQuery 1.7 RC1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Announcing The jQuery Standards Team (Addy Osmani)
• Using If This Then That to Automate Your Life (Steve Smith)
• Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Syntax Rewriting with Symbol Information (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Windows Phone design Grid – Love it! (Arturo Toledo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using MongoDB with the Official C# Driver (Ercan Anlama)
• Automatic Tag Update in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• C# As A Scripting Language In Your .NET Applications using Roslyn (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Designing Action and TryAction members (Rory Primrose)
• Entity Framework, The Five Years Plan, And Building Software on Future Features (Oren Eini)
• Continuation Tasks (Richard Carr)
• OpenRA = C# Red Alert/Command and Conquer Clone (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Complete Collection (James Michael Hare)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: New feature and rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• CodeRush Code Issues for interfaces (Alex Skorkin)
• Query Methods in Roslyn Syntax API and Conditional Reading of Windows Azure BLOB (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Window Manipulation with the Microsoft Touch Mouse – Window Touch v1.0 (CodePlex)
• APress Deal of the Day – 25/Oct/2011 – Beginning WF Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Tatworth)
• Calculating Distance In Bing Maps (Dani Diaz)
• Enterprise Library community extensions ported to v5, released via NuGet (Grigori Melnik)
• .Net Framework 4.0.2 Release Information Rollup (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Development Platform Clarified and Updated Code Mastery demo (Rockford Lhotka)
• If the shell is written in C++, why not just export its base classes? (Raymond Chen)
• Getting Started with the .NET Gadgeteer – Part 1: Background, Setup, and Hello World (Pete Brown)
• Displaying Lync Online Meeting Appointment Details using the EWS Managed API (Glen Scales)

Web Development

• Typemock: Better support for ASP.NET MVC (Avi Kaye)
• Magic: The Gathering in JavaScript and HTML5 (John Esposito)
• CSS3 Advanced Selectors (Pad Gallagher)
• A Fun Little JSON Murder Mystery With IE9 and Rails, Models and Business Logic (Rob Conery)
• Some More Thoughts On OAuth 2 Sample (Howard Dierking)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• ScrumPig 2 Backlog Filter Syntax (Howard Dierking)
• Scrum with dev11: Creating a Scrum team identity (Martin Hinshelwood)
• How to Design Content Filters for Better User Browsing (Anthony Tseng)
• Models for a view (some objects are more equal than others) (Peter van Ooijen)
• Retrospective: The 5 whys (Mark Needham)
• How to Setup New Stories and Tasks in a Telerik TeamPulse Project? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Command-Query Separation on Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• XAML Magic: Turning an Ugly Silverlight Duckling into a Beautiful Photoshopped Swan (Samuel Jack)
• The Windows Phone Inner Circle is coming to your city! (Brian Seitz)
• Tombstoning with PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7 (and KnockoutJS) (Colin Eberhardt)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 3 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• The Financial Face of RadChart for Windows Phone (Georgi Atanasov)
• Designing My First (Public) Windows Phone App (Glen Gailey)
• Build Scalable Mobile Apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone on Windows Azure (Himanshu Singh)
• 2000 WPF Things #415 – Setting Grid Row Height and Column Width Properties to Absolute Values (Sean Sexton)
• LOB Chronicles Episode 11: Bringing in the Controls (Evan Hutnick)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Alexander Groß Deals with Machine Specifications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 124: Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar on Glimpse (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 10: /dev/random (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 27 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 24th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft Idea Week for student developers (Dennis Delimarsky)
• I am Coming to Washington DC for 2 Classes (Shawn Wildermuth)
• SQLAuthority News – Meeting SQL Friends – SQLPASS 2011 Event Log (Pinal Dave)
• sharepoint saturday uk–12th november 2011 (Brett Lonsdale)
• Interview: Maarten Balliauw, Main Contributor to the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (and much more) (Brian Swan)
• Want to be a Microsoft Student Partner? (Chris Koenig)
• YUIConf 2011 Update: Announcing More Talks and a Free Workshop! (Jenny Donnelly)
• Upcoming events (Michael Eaton)

Database

• Dataflow mechanics [SSIS] and Thoughts on Data Explorer (Jamie Thomson)
• Monitoring SSRS Report Performance: Part 2 (John Pertell)
• Database space use (David Forck)
• When will you be able to start using "Data Explorer"? (Data Explorer Team)
• My 3 Favorite Connection String Tips (Brent Ozar)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the New Microsoft Press Exam Ref Series (Karen Szall)
• Ruby 2.0 Release Schedule Announced: Roll on 2013! (Peter Cooper)
• Nokia May Offer Windows 8 Tablets (Robert Boland)
• Reading more than ever: An analysis of four lazy years with an Amazon Kindle and no dead trees (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.18 ~ 10.24 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 25 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 24, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #966 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/24/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Double Shot #737 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 17 – 23, 2011 and Weekly article digest 10/24/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Rails 3 in Action by Ryan Bigg

• Inside the C++/CX Design (Jim Springfield)
• In bed with Roslyn (Ivan Towlson)
• F# String extension methods rather than using RegEx (Carl Nolan)
• Writing Software as a Kaizen Event (Stephen Forte)
• The Return of the CDC Zombies: The Zombie Pandemic Graphic Novel (Patricia Vollmer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Dynamic resolution rules joy (Oren Eini)
• WCF web api + developer APi keys (Baba)
• An update on Visual Studio performance (Visual Studio Blog)
• Regular Expressions with Timeout in .NET 4.5 (Abhishek Sur)
• More on Metro (Dennis Vroegop)
• Exploring NuGet (Tim Murphy)
• Some non-generic collections (Simon Cooper)

Web Development

• Adding data to jQuery UI autocomplete (John Whish)
• You have blank page when you run an asp.net mvc site in Azure Compute emulator (Nicolas Humann)
• Coordinating multiple ajax requests with jquery.when (Joshua Flanagan)
• ASP.NET vNext (Nigel Parker)
• Backbone Events and Aggregator Update (Michael Nichols)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming Amazon EC2 – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Questions About the Cloud? Learn from Windows Azure Partners And Accelerate Your Move to the Cloud (Himanshu Singh)
• Connect Your Web Site to Your Windows 8 App (Rahul Lalmalani)
• Mobile Development: Detecting Devices & Features (Christopher Bennage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: Retrospectives (John Rayner)
• Getting stuck and agile software teams (Mark Needham)
• Stop Thinking During Refactoring (Vikas Hazrati)
• Balsamiq Release: Custom Icons! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Test Studio’s R2 Release: Simplifying the Complex (Jim Holmes)
• Subversion 1.7 and the new workspace (Gian Maria Ricci)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Code to Search in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 2000 WPF Things #413 – Creating a Grid from the Visual Studio Designer (Sean Sexton)
• Dropbox for Windows Phone – DropboxClient rel.2 and Windows Phone 7 Skydrive Library – Skydrive WP7 rel. 1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Coding QA Episode 67 – Learning From Experience (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Patrick Elmore Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Ping 121: Kinect award, Bing Halloween, Hadoop, Windows 8 changes (Laura Foy)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 8: Code Bubbles (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Community / Events

• MicroChef creates culinary classics for a cause (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• I’m speaking at CodeMash in 2012 (Bill Wagner)
• Training on MonoTouch for the iPhone and Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
• RavenDB Course, January 2012, Sandusky, OH (Oren Eini)
• Spend the night with Windows Phone (Brian Seitz)
• Git and GitHub Revised Course (Satish Talim)
• MVPs Provide Great Advice During MVP Twitter Chat (MVP Award Program)
• MS Dev WNY – Buffalo Area Developers Group Kicks Off! (Jim O’Neil)
• Ten reasons to attend Web & Phone UX Tour on November 3rd (Katrien de Graeve)

Database

• Using SQL Server to Get the Column Names and Corresponding Datatypes in Particular Table (Christian D. Yellington)
• Setting up SSIS Auditing Part 2 (Mike Davis)
• SQL Server: LPAD and RPAD functions equivalent (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – DATEDIFF – Accuracy of Various Dateparts (Pinal Dave)
• Finding orphaned database users (Arthur Olcot)
• Self-service ETL with Data Explorer (Chris Webb)
• sp_configure OR sys.configurations? and do you back these up? (Martin Catherall)

SharePoint

• Announcing NetAdvantage for SharePoint (Jason Beres)

Miscellaneous

• A deeper dive into Windows 8: can Microsoft’s big bet pay off? (Ed Bott)
• Introducing the [Your App Here] Advertising Campaign (JC Cimetiere)
• 7 tips for people new to presenting at technical conferences (Mark Pearl)
• Paint.NET 4.0 “fine grained history” and other stuff (Rick Brewster)
• The Walking Dead – IT Pro style. (Scott Barnes)
• New Public APIs in ICS (Tim Bray)
• Open Letter To Whoever Designed the Turn-By-Turn Feature for Windows Phone (Kevin Griffin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 20, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #735 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/20/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 19-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/20/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #964 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 20 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Top Links

• Getting Started with Kinect Development (Jennifer Marsman)
• The mission to land a .NET developer on Jupiter. and Is Adobe’s new HTML5 Edge tool Expression Blends replacement? (Scott Barnes)
• Nokia Windows Phones to be announced on October 26? (damaster)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Visual Experience (Richard Carr)
• .NET StockTrader 5 Sample Application (MS Downloads)
• CodeRush Code Navigation inside Visual Studio – Tab to Next Reference (Alex Skorkin)
• Kinect SDK and F# – a standard library in a non-standard language (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Automated License Header Extension for Visual Studio (define the license once, let VS auto-magically add it to new files…) (Greg Duncan)
• Turning off Code First Database Initialization completely (Julie Lerman)
• Silverlight, HTML and the WebBrowser Control for Offline Apps (Mike Taulty)
• C# Light Syntax (Phillip Trelford)
• Microsoft Test Manager – Test Plan – Part 2 (Shai Raiten)
• Eduasync part 11: More sophisticated (but lossy) exception handling and Eduasync part 12: Observing all exceptions (Jon Skeet)
• More NuGet (Steve Naughton)
• Just Announced: Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP Now Available (Windows Azure Team)
• Sending Richly Formatted Emails with .NET (Jonathan Allen)
• 3 Incredibly Useful Projects to jump-start your Kinect Development. (Michael Crump)

Web Development

• Interfacing with dynamic JavaScript APIs in WebSharper (Joel Bjornson)
• HTML5 Web Camps Content Downloads! (Rachel Appel)
• Using the ASP.NET Membership API with SQL Server / SQL Azure: The new “System.Web.Providers” namespace (Harish Ranganathan)
• Rendering jQuery Templates With Backbone Views (Derick Bailey)
• 15 Amazing Free HTML5 Templates (DongDesign)
• Tap the Cloud for Your ASP.NET Apps (Kim Spilker)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using ActionMethodSelectorAttribute to Handle Multiple Submit Buttons (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Daily Dose: jQuery Mobile Beta 1 Released (R. Jernigan)
• Abhorred Calendar (Mithun Patel)
• Invalid View State error While expanding your Web Farm (Abhijit Jana)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Dispatch options 2 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Upsides of Scrum (Jimmy Bogard)
• Agile Estimation is Dead – Stop Estimating Stories? (Peter Saddington)
• Managing Application Resources with the Flyweight Pattern (Addy Osmani)
• Quick Tips on Work Breakdown Structures (JD Meier)
• Balsamiq Release: HUGE loading time improvement! (Peldi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Debug Helper (Visual Studio Add-in) and Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 3) (Peter Kuhn)
• CanResizeWithGrip seems does not work in WPF (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Three properties that I use for almost every Windows Phone application (Eugene)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 16 – How to Create a WP7 Alarm Application? and Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 17 – How to Create a WP7 Reminder Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Sort Data in Windows Phone using Collection View Source (Paul Sheriff)
• Drag and drop in WPF (and similar to Silverlight) (Surf4Fun)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stories from NDC! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 115: RESTravaganza with Darrel Miller, Glenn Block, and John Sheehan (Jon Galloway)
• Defrag: Tweaking for HTPC, SSD as a ReadyBoost, WiFi Antenna tuning and Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Chupacabra (Larry Larsen)
• Let’s Play TDD #116: You Gotta Know What You’re Doing (James Shore)
• AppFabric.tv – Announcing the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Windows 8: Sinofsky @ D9 Transcribed (Paul Thurrott)
• BUILD: Use what you know. Do what you’ve always imagined! (Katrien de Graeve)

Database

• Standard Deviation in SQL Server and Aggregation on Aggregates (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Solution – Generating Zero Without using Any Numbers in T-SQL and SQL SERVER – List of Article on Expressor Data Integration Platform and SQL SERVER – SSAS – Multidimensional Space Terms and Explanation (Pinal Dave)
• Copy a Table with data in SQL Server (Steve Smith)
• Nine Reasons Developers Should Learn SQL (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Data Compression in SQL Server (Steve Jones)
• Using the @ in SQL Azure Connections (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

• New xsl files for the lightning conductor 2010 web part (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

Ribbon Hero 2 (MS Downloads)

RavenDB in Practice, Part 2 – Using the Client API (Unknown Author)

How to verify validity of certificates with .NET (alejacma)

Why the Windows Azure VM Role is not necessary (most of the time) (Code Inside Team)

Mercurial Cheat Sheet and Visio Template Bonanza (Greg Duncan)

Adobe Flash Player 10.3: Hardware-Accelerated Rendering in IE9 (ieblog)

datajs 0.0.4 is out – very important release! (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Using PowerShell to automate setting CopyLocal to false (Naeem Khedarun)

Tired of manual deployments? (Peter Gfader)

Developers Will Not be Getting their Hands on Mango this Week (WP7GIRL)

How the free market is a complex puzzle for Windows Phone 7 team to grok. (Scott Barnes)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• SilverlightShow for June 13 – 19, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2011 — #1110 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Interesting .NET Links – June 21 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 198 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Link dump for June 20th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Today’s Links (6/20/2011) and Today’s Links (6/21/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #877 and The Morning Brew #878 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 06/21/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/22/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Analysis Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) by Scott Cameron

• Getting Started Using HTML5 Boilerplate (Dan Wahlin)
• Project Silk Drop 10 (Karl Shifflett)
• The Sterling NoSQL Database in a Mango World (Jeremy Likness)
• Fix the code, not the tooling (Oren Eini)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# Class Library Template (Carl Nolan)
• .NET and Distributed Concurrency (Alex Rønne Petersen)
• New Contexts in CodeRush 11.1 and New StringProviders in CodeRush 11.1 (Rory Becker)
• Here’s one for the developers – a trial offer for Windows Azure (Steven Hodson)
• Comicster Plug-Ins (Matt Hamilton)
• Professional Team Foundation Server 2010 – Review (Mike Fourie)

Web Development

• Filter and Display Data with ASP.NET MVC (Part 2)Partial Views and JQuery (Christian Nagel)
• Passing ASP.NET Session Variables to WCF Service (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Helpful Resources For Upgrading to Rails 3.1 (Jason Rudolph)
• Firefox 6: new features for developers (Axel Rauschmayer)
• New Release: SassAndCoffee 0.9 – now not glacially slow! (Paul Betts)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of REST APIs (George Reese)
• How to pin your site with IE9 on Windows (Andrew Spooner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Need Help Starting Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Test Track Pro and the case of the missing data (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Real life UX is still UX (Laurent Bugnion)
• The Importance of a Business Recovery Plan (K. Brian Kelley)
• Legacy code is not necessarily "ugly code" (Marco Tedone)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• AgFx makes writing data-heavy Windows Phone applications child’s play! (Rudi Grobler)
• Coding4Fun WP7 ColorHexagonPicker in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• Fetching Data from SQL Azure table in Windows 7.1 [Mango] Phone using WCF Data Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Working With Prism 4.0 (Hello World Sample with MVVM) and Step by Step Prism (Abhishek Sur)
• Achieving full motion body tracking with Kinect/WPF (Don Burnett)
• Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 1) (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 6 – Working with Navigation (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight games: Crayon Cannon still one of the best, but not for the reason you think (Surf4Fun)
• See Live Examples of LightSwitch In DotNetNuke and LightSwitch Tips Forum Has Been Launched (Michael Washington)
• WindowsPhoneMVP – Sending Events to the Presenter (Brendan Kowitz)
• Metro In Motion Part #6 – Rolling List Location Indicator (Colin Eberhardt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Think Like A Developer & Designer (Episode 05): Video (MS Podcasts)
• Technology & Friends Episode 159: Chander Dhal on SOLID (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 019 – “Live at XAPFest 2011” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 58 – Windows 8 Round Table (Richard Banks)

Database

• SQL SERVER – BI Quiz – Troubleshooting Cube Performance (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup starts and then disappears (Ted Krueger)
• Finding Duplicates – Interesting twist (Naomi Nosonovsky)
• Relating Master Data Services Hierarchies to Analysis Services Hierarchies (Melissa Coates)
• Column order can matter (Dave Ballantyne)
• Using Nightly Populated Tables For Faster SQL Queries (Andrew Zwicker)

SharePoint

• Office 365 and SharePoint Development Training (Paul J. Swider)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal/Day: App Inventor – Only $15.99 w/code DDVEN #Android (O’Reilly Media)
• Governance Might be the Most Misunderstood Term Consultants Use. (Paul J. Swider)
• The Future of Microprocessors—Must Read for Developers (Sasha Goldshtein)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #866 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 05, 2011 — #1101 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 and CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Pragmatic Programmers) by Brian P. Hogan

• Facelift for the Windows Phone 7 Social Viewer Template (Nick Randolph)
• WP7 Marketplace Hits 20,000 Apps!! (Hyde13)
• “Mango” from the trenches part 2: Starting a Bing Maps navigation #wp7dev (Laurent Bugnion)
• Eduasync part 8: generated code from a complex async method (Jon Skeet)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A Simple Windows Forms Template for F# (Don Syme)
• F# Async: Plays well with others? (Ian Voyce)
• Dijkstra’s Algorithm (Richard Carr)
• Into and let in LINQ ( Let vs Into) (Pranay Rana)
• DXCore – source code and source tree elements coordinate inside source files (Alex Skorkin)
• EF 4.1 Validation (Andriy Svyryd)
• If time zones infect your projects, and you’ve heard of the zoneinfo/tz/Olsen database, then this is .Net API for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Reactive Extensions v1.0.10425 Computation Expression Builder (Edmondo Pentangelo)
• AppFabric Cache – Compressing at the Client (James Podgorski)
• Log Method Name Helper (Steve Smith)

Web Development

• Chrome Developer Tools: Put JavaScript memory under control (Mikhail Naganov)
• “HTML5 & MVC3″ Debriefing (Gustaf Nilsson Kotte)
• Building a jQuery Plug-in to make an HTML Table scrollable (Rick Strahl)
• Distributed computing fallacies and REST (Jimmy Bogard)
• Getting to the OneNote API with Python (John Guin)
• IE9 Pinned Site Jump List Items Not Displaying Consistently Across Computers (Karl Shifflett)
• Light Up Your Website with Windows 7 and IE9 (Nigel Parker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Difference Between Unit Testing and Integration Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Time Changes What’s Important and 7 Steps for V-Teaming with Skill (J.D. Meier)
• Debugging NUnit Tests in C# Express (Richard Carr)
• Mobile UI Design ramblings… (Craig Dunn)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Mango – Silverlight and XNA integration (Peter Kuhn)
• WP7 – 7 Months Later (Andrew Connell)
• Windows Live on Windows Phone "Mango": The Past, Present, and Future (damaster)
• Monitor network connectivity in WP7 apps (Daniel Moth)
• Mango Update – Silverlight Box Scrolling (Deborah Hanamura)
• Windows Phone 7 Design/UI Cheat Sheet – One sheet, lots of shared knowledge… and Dev Dude’s Guide to Mango Series – "Windows Phone Mango–What’s New?" in 8 parts (Think "Code trucks filled with many Mango’s") (Greg Duncan)
• What’s New in Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WPF 4: DataForm User Control using Reflection (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Creating a WP7 project for the PinCodeKeeper app and Completing the Pin code list screen for the PinCodeKeeper WP7 app (Per Ola Sæther)
• Building a Navigation ListBox (Nigel Sampson)
• Walkthrough on Play Background Audio in Windows 7.1 [Mango] Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New Release: ReactiveUI 2.3.1 (Paul Betts)
• Alarms and Notifications in Mango (Peter Torr)
• Success of the PDC10 Player and Application (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Synchronize Multiple Threads? and How Do I: What is Azure? (MS Podcasts)
• Herding Code 113: Mark Russinovich on Zero Day and Computer Security (Jon Galloway)
• GDC 2011 – Xbox LIVE Best Practices for Windows Phone 7 (MS Downloads)
• Inside Windows Phone show is back (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Windows Weekly 210: Mow That Phone (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 018 – “Mango Down Under” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Engadget Podcast 241 – 05.27.2011 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• The value of open-source is the vision not the source code (Andreas Håkansson)

Database

• SQL Server: Calculate tempdb Space using DMV (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Notes on SQL Azure and SQL Azure – SQL Azure Throttling and Decoding Reason Codes (Pinal Dave)
• Book Review: Securing SQL Server By Denny Cherry (Denis Gobo)
• SQL University Troubleshooting Week: Having a Plan for Every Situation (David Levy)
• Different Database Editions in SQL Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Dynamic PIVOT on multiple columns (Naomi Nosonovsky)

Miscellaneous

• How to Fix Microsoft: Get The Swagger Back (Chris Love)
• MonoDevelop Wishlist (Dru Sellers)
• Real-time 3D design tool, MachStudio Pro, now free (as in free, not even reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• A Quartet of Book Reviews (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Social Media Distractions Are Costing Businesses Major Money [STUDY] (Jolie O’Dell)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 28, 2011 and Interesting Finds: May 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 27 , 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – May 29 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily Links 28/05/2011 (Jax)
• May 27th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• Daily News Digest 05/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• This Week’s Link List (May 27, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Links of the week #151 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 22-May-2011 to 28-May-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 34 – Product Ownership and Uber ScrumMasters (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Nick Randolph

• Free Xbox LIVE Weekend and be a part of a World Record Attempt (Larry Hryb)
• Update to the F# 2.0 Free Tools Release, Corresponding to Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (April 2011 CTP) (Don Syme)
• Working with SSL at Development Time is easier with IISExpress (Scott Hanselman)
• Should SQL Server Professionals Learn Oracle? (Ted Krueger)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Exporting Visual Studio 2010 Pinned DataTips (Richard Carr)
• Project Server 2010 and TFS 2010 Integration VM with Labs (Ed Blankenship)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Any() and All() (James Michael Hare)
• Using Kinect for NUI Part 2 – Gestures (Deborah Hanamura)

Web Development

• Musing on Simpler Migrations (Rob Conery)
• Sending Mail from an ASP.NET website. (Greg Gum)
• Restricting Input in HTML Textboxes to Numeric Values (Rick Strahl)
• Creating an Autocomplete Redirect Navigation Control using jQuery UI (Steve Smith)
• CSS3 vs. CSS: A Speed Benchmark (Trent Walton)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 2: Why Implement Pinned Sites? (Jennifer Marsman)
• Server-Side Form Validation with WebMatrix (Steve Lydford)
• Geographically distributing Windows Azure applications using Traffic Manager (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows Azure for Developers Task 11: Create X.509 certificate for Windows Azure Web Role (Dhananjay Kumar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Professional Scrum with TFS 2010 Released! (Aaron Bjork)
• How to Be Agile NOW! – With Tomatoes and [Infographic] Clean Code and Test Driven Development Cheat Sheets (Peter Saddington)
• Integration: Shared Database and Integration: Scenario (Paul Stovell)
• Lokad.CQRS for Windows Azure: Roadmap (Rinat Abdullin)
• Using O-MaSE Methodology for Goal Modeling (Billy McCafferty)
• Principles 5: End-to-End Development Process (for Large Projects) (Ivo Manolov)
• Communication Bandwidth on Successful Projects (James Kovacs)
• How You Help Us Improve IE’s Reliability (Herman Ng)
• When race conditions & unbounded result sets are actually the solution – the resolution (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Multi-Column Layouts and Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Markup Extensions (Peter Kuhn)
• Building WP7 Custom Validation Control – Custom Validation Rules (Windows Phone Geek)
• Things I am liking about the Blend for Silverlight 5.. (Don Burnett)
• Implicit Data Templates (Silverlight 5) (Jesse Liberty)
• Loving MMVM and asynchronous operations (Gian Maria Ricci)
• ViewModel INotifyPropertyChanged Code Generation (Colin Eberhardt)
• Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [6/6] (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Today’s toolkit time with the Extended WPF Toolkit (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Yuri Gurevich – Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity, 3 of 3 (Charles Torre)
• Vbandi at MIX Part 1–Interview with Nokia’s Wai Seto (vbandi)
• Silverlight TV 69: UX and Perceived Performance of WP7 Apps (John Papa)
• Blend SIG Podcast – April 2011: David Kelley (Joel Cochran)

Community / Events

• Blog Post: CodeSmith Tools Easter Sale (T. DuPont)
• Announcing a free Windows Phone 7 Workshop during Internet Week at Flash and the City (Dave Isbitski)
• A competition for kids: Kodu Cup (Devon Musgrave)
• Winners named for Microsoft Next global video competition (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Wrapping up MIX11 (Part 1) and Wrapping up MIX11 (Part 2) (Ariel Ben-Horesh)

Database

• A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 21 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Potential Bottlenecks for Performance (Pinal Dave)
• Connecting Microsoft Access to SQL Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Daily Denali Delight – Day 2 and Daily Denali Delight – Day 3 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)

SharePoint

• Silverlight Integration with SharePoint 2010 – Part I (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• How to get the package name or other names of SharePoint items (Phil Hoff)

Miscellaneous

• An email leads to a quick discussion on infinite page size in OneNote (John Guin)
• One Step Closer to the First Nokia Device built on Windows Phone (Jeffrey Meisner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 21, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Web Dev Tweets 21-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 21th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Geek Dad-Geek Dad(Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share)Paperback on May 04, 2010 by Ken Denmead

• Spec Explorer 2010 Release 3.5 now available! (Xiang Li)
• async 11: Control Flow and await (Bill Wagner)
• New April 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
• Office 365 Marketplace and the Open Beta (Joel Oleson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Default Extension methods and Dynamic query with Linq (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio 2010 and UML(Unified Modeling Language) Part-I (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Accessing ObjectContext Features from EF 4.1 DbContext (Julie Lerman)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)
• MSBuild Extension Pack April 2011 Release (Mike Fourie)
• Closures in CSharp (Abhishek Sur)
• Coding Helpers – Smart Parentheses and Smart Brackets (Alex Skorkin)
• ReSharper 6 Enhances Razor Support (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• Create user friendly date fields with ASP.NET MVC EditorTemplates & jQueryUI (Rachel Appel)
• Presentation Tips Learned From My (Many) Mistakes (Phil Haack)
• Get your FREE ASP.NET Razor Templates (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET MVC: Defining short URL-s for root level pages and ASP.NET MVC 3: Using controllers scaffolding (Gunnar Peipman)
• MVC Extension Method for Hosting Static Content on a CDN (Nathan Totten)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Testcase Class per Feature (Giorgio Sironi)
• Creating a Bot for the Rock Paper Azure Contest (Steve Smith)
• HTTP is great (Rob Ashton)
• Exploring ECMAScript 5 with a Simple Game of Poker (ieblog)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NUnit Type Assertions (Richard Carr)
• Developer Chronicle: Lasagna is not a good role model (Jimmy Nilsson)
• .gitconfig (Nick Berardi)
• "I’ll Whack Your Fingers"-Oriented Programming (Joh)
• Refactoring is Not About Reducing Code (Krishna)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What the new App Hub in Windows Phone Mango means for the Enterprise (Rob Tiffany)
• WriteableBitmapEx goes NuGet (Rene Schulte)
• New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.3.2 officially released and Coding4Fun WP7 Message Prompt in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• A Fast Loading Windows Phone 7 NavigationList Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• The WPF Renaissance (James Ashley)
• ReactiveUI posts now in PDF format (Paul Betts)
• Family.Show [Insert a Sixth Sense quote here] (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 7 Mango: My feedback as I peel it apart (Kelly Sommers)
• Working with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta and Issues with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Out of Box Experience – Windows Live ID and the Benefits to Having One For Your Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Multiple Window Support and LightTouch–Silverlight Touch Library from Wintellect (Mike Taulty)
• Social Viewer Template for Windows Phone 7 Published (Nick Randolph)
• Awesome Windows Phone Resource (PubSec)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio: Coding4Fun with Clint Rutkas (MS Podcasts)
• Technoloby & Friends Episode 152: Randy Pagels on Visual Studio Test Professional (David Giard)
• XNA: Game Development – The Game Loop (Tina Wood)
• Windows Weekly 204: I’m In A Cab (Paul Thurrott)
• Podcast- Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi- ASP.NET Tools Integration (Joe Stagner)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 51 – Xerxes Battiwalla talks Shouldly (Richard Banks)
• Deploying PHP Applications to Windows Azure without Visual Studio (Karsten Januszewski)
• Yet Another Podcast #31–Laurent Bugnion Live at Mix (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 6 – Windows Azure Role Security (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 012 – “MIX’n It Up” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The GeekDads Episode #89: Awesomest of Awesome Events Ever Awesomely Possible (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 18th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Mix 11 Videos – Download them all with RSS (Scott Hanselman)
• My Annual Arizona .NET Speaking Event this Friday (Scott Guthrie)
• Vote for your favorite love song playlist and win a fab Windows Phone and music package (Luke)
• MIX11 for the Silverlight Guy (Mike Taulty)
• MIX11 Session feedback: WCF Web APis: "There’s a URI for That" (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Thoughts on the MIX 11 announcements (Nigel Parker)
• Seacoast .NET Inaugural Meeting–Apr. 20th (Jim O’Neil)
• INETA Community Leadership Summit at TechEd 2011 and Help me go to Tech Ed 2011 (Chris Williams)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Making Database to Read Only – Changing Database to Read/Write and SQL SERVER – Appling NOLOCK Hint at Query Level – NOLOCK for whole Transaction (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS Tips & Tricks – Registered Server Groups (Seth Phelabaum)
• Why do we need error handling? (Kim Tessereau)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Health Score – Something to add to your SharePoint-based applications and SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Customization Deep Dive (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Office 365 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Windows PowerShell Language Specification Version 2.0 (MS Downloads)
• Office 365 Public Beta: Available Now! (Joey deVilla)
• Coding While You Commute (Leon Bambrick)
• Balancing work and kids: real advice for real life (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• PowerShell Language now licensed under the Community Promise (PowerShell Team)
• Paint.NET in 24 more languages?! tl;dr … Yes (Rick Brewster)
• My Top 10 Programming Quotes (Senthil Kumar)
• Photosynth Team releases iPhone App (Joe Stagner)
• Update progress for AT&T Windows Phones (Eric Hautala)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 16, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 — #1073 and SilverlightShow for April 4 – 10, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 – 2 — #1074 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 190 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links– 2010_15 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• The Morning Brew #836 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 18th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 04/18/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 04/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

LINQ Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O’Reilly)) by Joseph Albahari

• *Free to Choose* Deal/Day to Support #Japan Disaster Relief – Save 50% – Ebooks & Videos (O’Reilly Media)
• MEFing up John Papa’s MVVM code from Firestarter (Colin Blair)
• Using EntityFramework with ASP.NET MVC 3 (Rob Conery)
• Effective Tests: Test First (Derek Greer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A C# Command-Line Parser (Jonathan Wood)
• A Guide to Sandcastle – Part 1 – Introduction (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using WCF Data Services with Entity Framework 4.1 and Code First (Jeff Derstadt)
• Implementing the virtual method pattern in C#, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Book Review: C# in Depth–2nd Edition (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Setup Switches (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Azure and scaling: how? (.NET) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows Restart and Recovery Recipe (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Entity Framework 4.1 gets DbContext API – but no Database Evolution, SPs or Cached queries (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Code contracts – Is it only about argument validation? (Peter Gfader)
• Monad tutorial, Part 4 (Brian Marick)
• Profile a profiler using a profiler (Feng Yuan)

Web Development

• Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 1: Creating a Common Service Layer (Chris Love)
• In JavaScript, curly brace placement matters: An example (Dave Ward)
• Quick tip: Microsoft Expression Web 4 SP1 available, new SuperPreview online service for Safari (Katrien de Graeve)
• Facebook C# SDK Tutorial–ASP.NET MVC3 Website with Facebook Authentication (Nathan Totten)
• Bring your web sites to the desktop with IE 9 Pinned Sites (Rachel Appel)
• JSConsole Remote Debugging and JSBin Live Preview (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The wages of sin: Proper and improper usage of abstracting an OR/M (Oren Eini)
• Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone? (Vitaly Friedman)
• Lighthouse – Silverlight Unit Test Runner Project released (Slobodan Pavkov)
• Meet Microsoft’s Guru of ‘Design Matters’ (Sharon Pian Chan)
• User Experiences: An Insight into Our Design Process (Mirko Mandic)
• IQ Isnt Enough. Enterprise Architects Must Balance with EQ Driven Approaches (Mike Walker)
• Designing a Short Course on IoC: Day 2 (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Issue with RadioButtons and Binding for MVVM (Abhishek Sur)
• Creating “Cool” Buttons with Expression Blend (Alex Mukora)
• Windows Phone 7 – Part #8: Using Sensors (Andrea Boschin)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #8 (Jeff Prosise)
• NuGet Package of the Week #3 – PhoneyTools for Windows Phone 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Jeremy Likness on Unit Testing XAML Data-Bindings in Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
• WP7Contrib – Page Transitions and Navigation Service (Richard Griffin)
• I was joking about the penny, but how about some tombstoning sample code? (Peter Torr)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save Text files and Customizing WP7 Slider in different ways (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 Common Image Templates (as Paint.Net/PDN files) (Greg Duncan)
• Adding an Application Bar (Jesse Liberty)
• ApplicationIcon must be in root directory (Mike Ormond)
• Metro In Motion – Fluid List Animation (Colin Eberhardt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Adam Driscoll Does PowerShell with TFS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 142 – PowerScripting Podcast – Richard Giles from Idera on PowerShell Plus (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast 38 : Liam McLennan on JavaScript (David Starr)
• TWC9: Expression Web SP1 adds HTML5 support, New Events section, Task.Show (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Yet Another Podcast #29 Jon Galloway on MVC 3 (Jesse Liberty)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 48 – Tatham Oddie on What IE9 Means for Developers (Richard Banks)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 5 – Secure Networking using Windows Azure Connect (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Burn It All, Lunchbox, Urban Dictionary, Simon, Apict (Laura Foy)
• WP7′s IE9 implementation shown off on video (Brody McKee)

Community / Events

• Just Announced: First Set of Windows Azure Sessions at MIX11 (Windows Azure Team)
• Joel Oleson in Ireland for the 1st time with Microsoft and SharePoint User Group in Dublin (Joel Oleson)
• Events This Week – March 21st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Giveaway (Brendan Tompkins)
• Deeper in .NET 2011 in Review with Pictures (Chris Pietschmann)
• Windows Phone 7 Workshops–Register Now! (Mike Ormond)
• Xbox LIVE community patrolled by Enforcement Unicorn Ninja (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.1–Visual Guide of new features (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• SSRS Red-Yellow-Green Indicators: An Alternative Approach? (Jen Stirrup)
• SSIS Foreach File Enumerator returns more files than expected by appending a wildcard (*) to the file mask (Jose Chinchilla)
• SQL Server: Move Table to a new File Group (Madhivanan)
• SQLAuthority News – Solid Quality Journal – Importance of Statistics (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DENALI: Service Broker Troubleshooting made easy (Sankar Reddy)

Miscellaneous

• Review of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (Brian Bondy)
• Kindle info, links, blogs, tools, and more… (Think “One Boat Load of Kindle Links”) (Greg Duncan)
• Certification: Why Exam Development Is Separate from Training Development (Kim Spilker)
• Microsoft “Video Kinect” Chat Review – Video Chat on the Big Screen, The Good and The Bad (Scott Hanselman)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Syncing Outlook 2010 and Window Phone (Lonnie Webb)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 21, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #817 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 21th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Client Developer roundup 064 for 3/21/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily News Digest 03/21/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 03/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly Link Post 186 (Rhonda Tipton)

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

• Entity Framework 4.1 Release Candidate with Go-Live (with Final Release to follow in a month) (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Getting Up to BAT: Designing an Automation Framework (John Sonmez)
• New EF4 & EF4.1 content on MSDN (Julie Lerman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Controlling drawn shapes in C# (rld1971)
• Copy TFS queries between iterations (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Visual Studio Extension Sync Extension – ExtensionSync (Greg Duncan)
• Using the Recent Projects List (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tasks.Show Shows 7 Dev Tasks (Greg Duncan)
• Weak Event Handlers (Jeffrey Richter)
• LightSwitch Beta 2 Adds Support for Windows Azure (Abel Avram)
• Using in mappings without Iesi.Collections (.Net 4) (Jose Romaniello)
• Facebook C# SDK – Release: v5.0.6 (Beta) (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Foundations of Programming 2 – Appendix A – jQuery Basics (Karl Seguin)
• Free Video Training: MVC3 | Available Until March 18 and 15 Web Performance Tips: Getting things Right on the Client (Doris Chen)
• HTML5 Video Update—WebM for IE9 (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – “node_modules” Folders (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on UX ebooks from @RosenfeldMedia, our new pub partner (O’Reilly Media)
• Try Isolator 6.0.8 (Avi Kaye)
• Values and Beliefs (Michael Norton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New book: Microsoft Expression Blend 4 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Windows Phone 7 Beta Exam Coming Soon — Submit Your SME Profile Now! (Lisa Denbeste)
• Creating WP7 Custom Theme – Sample Theme Implementation and All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Store data in IsolatedStorageSettings (Windows Phone Geek)
• Playing media content on Windows Phone 7 with MediaElement and How VideoCamera/PhotoCamera content is saved on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jon Snook Takes CSS3 Seriously (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Talkin’ C++ with Alon, Marius, Bruno, and Jim and Checking In: Mike Sampson – Channel 9 Cloud and PEX4FUN WP7: A Mobile Game for Programmers (Charles Torre)
• Screencast: Creating a Metro-Style Combo Box in WP7 and Screencast: How to Debug a WP7 App Without the Debugger Attached (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The GeekDads Episode #87: The Big Hugfest (Ken Denmead)
• VIDEO – WebMatrix – Application State (Joe Stagner)
• Technology & Friends: Episode 144: Matt Groves on Monodroid (David Giard)
• endpoint.tv – WCF Web HTTP (REST) Test Tool Preview (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Reaching out to our MVPs in Japan (Lonnie Webb)
• Microsoft PDC 2011: Seattle or bust? (Mary Jo Foley)
• MSDN Events Presents SharePoint 2010 (Doris Chen)
• First Sessions for MIX11 Announced (Bruce Kyle)
• Ward Cunningham Interview (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Kodu Cup Contest (Stephen Coy)
• Mid Atlantic Developer Expo Call for Speakers is OPEN! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New Events Section Now Available on Channel 9! (Duncan Mackenzie)

Database

• SQL Server Denali CTP1 Diagnostic Information Queries (Glenn Berry)
• Agile: Creating an SSRS Burndown Chart Part 3 (Steve Novoselac)
• What Does Microsoft Mean By Scans? (Michael Swart)

SharePoint

• Unit Testing SharePoint with TypeMock (Part I) and Unit Testing with SharePoint (Part Two) (Avi Kaye)
• Lightning conductor 2010 web part–improved filtering (Lightning Tools)
• Google Sites Becomes A Real SharePoint Competitor (Rob Diana)

Miscellaneous

• XML Explorer – Portable app for spelunking large XML files (with source) (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 03/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #813 and The Morning Brew #814 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 185 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2011 — #1061 (Dave Campbell)
• IE9 on 9 – Some Interesting Links to Related Demos and Conversations (Charles Torre)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 15th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 16th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks