• Farewell Stack Exchange (Jeff Atwood)
• Farewell (Joel Spolsky)
• Implementing a Code Action using Roslyn (Brian Rasmussen)
• What is "binding" and what makes it late? (Eric Lippert)
• Backbone.js And PhoneGap Sample App (Ben Forta)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding solutions not covered by automated builds (Rory Primrose)
• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–Proposed Solution #1 (Oren Eini)
• KinectContrib 2.0 released – now supports Kinect for Windows SDK 1.0 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Gadgeteer Hello World (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 8 Composition and Content (Joe Mayo)
• Using JSON.net to consume the JSON Stack Overflow API (Jonathan Creamer)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Deleporter (Jason Jarrett)
• The Commodore 64 Emulator: Emulating Pointers in a sandbox when the real thing is not allowed (Pete Brown)
• Wrapping up Configuration Manager (Paul Sheriff)
• Pinpointing a Static GC Root with SOS (Sasha Goldshtein)
• JSON deserialization with JSON.net: class hierarchies (Joost van Schaik)
• How to Use the Azure npm Package Locally without the Azure Compute Emulator (Aaron Stannard)
• Using Entity Framework to Query Dynamic Types (David Barrett)
• WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please make sure the Windows Azure SDK v1.5 is installed. (Deepak Kapoor)
• Developing for a multitude of clients – Part 1: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check (Kevin Dockx)

Web Development

• jQuery.whenSync() Plugin For Chaining Asynchronous Callbacks Using Deferred Objects (Ben Nadel)
• JS1k is back! Awesome JavaScript demos in only 1KB (Devon Govett)
• Learning HTML5 & CSS3 (Martin Beeby)
• PDF.js: display PDF files in your browser, without native code (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Using the Battery API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
• Turbocharge your Website with Memcached (Nicolas Sebban)
• Pointer Lock API Brings FPS Games to the Browser (Ilmari Heikkinen)
• MSDN Article: Building a Massively Scalable Platform for Consumer Devices on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Speech Bubble Arrows that Inherit Parent Color (Chris Coyier)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Use Hand Coding Coded UI Test For Automated Vs2010 Test Scripting (Abhishek Lohani)
• Looking for the seam (Mark Needham)
• The Most Controversial Feature in Isolator V7 (Gil Zilberfeld)
• What can Enterprise Architects Learn from Steve Jobs? (Mike Walker)
• Mocking ITable<T> (Chris Skardon)
• Builder pattern with a twist (Uzi Landsmann)
• MSTest and Calling Exe with Sample Data Files (Johan Danforth)
• [Humor] – Business Roles and Designations – For a Baby (Peter Saddington)
• Constraints, expectations and real estate (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Programmatically changing Visual States of HubTile controls used as ListBox Items (Windows Phone Geek)
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | 15 Designing Windows Phone Icons (Arturo Toledo)
• A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring multiple UPDATEs and rowversion impact (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #489 – Using the InkCanvas to Recognize Gestures, part I (Sean Sexton)
• Silverlight ComboBoxItem IsEnabled, SL5 Style (Tony Champion)
• Introducing Rate Application Reminder for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
• Why Custom Controls are underrated (Morten Nielsen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 038: Puzzlejuice Pigs (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Episode 175 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Wells on SQL 2012 and SQLSpade (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Defrag: Change Pinned Sites Icons, Laptop WiFi Router, Full Path for File (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• CreativeJS workshops in UK and Amsterdam (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Join the Facebook Platform team at GDC in March (Namita Gupta)
• Meet Abdul Rafay – BizTalk Server MVP from Qatar (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Come Hear the STP Antarctica Crew at SPTechCon San Francisco – Feb 26 (Joel Oleson)
• I’m back, baby (get it? baby?) and Windows 8 resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• Azure Soup-to-Nuts Series (Jim O’Neil)
• Don’t Miss FREE MSDN Webcast, Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts (Part 1) “Get Started with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure”, Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 11 am PT (Himanshu Singh)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Data Quality Services (James Serra)
• SQL Server Certifications: What to Take and How to Prepare (Kendra Little)
• SQL Server 2012 Free Cook Book and Training (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Installation Log Summary File Location – 2012 – 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
• SEQUENCE… explain why and win a prize (Colin Stasiuk)
• Why Every DBA is a Clown (John Sansom)
• Check progress of DBCC CHECKDB (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Embracing guesswork with SQL Prompt partial matches (Troy Hunt)
• Code to list potential cluster key space savings per table (Paul S. Randal)
• How To Copy A Schema Container To Another SQL Azure Database (Herve Roggero)

PowerShell

• List failed SQL server Jobs with Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
• Announcing Windows PowerShell 3.0 Firstlook! (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• Android–Create a ListView with rounded corners (Bill Osuch)
• Looking at Office 365 Security Holistically (Mike Halsey)
• ASCII Table Reference Sheet (Richard Carr)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 6 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #5) (Himanshu Singh)
• Double Shot #812 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1038 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 6 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft’s New Command Shell by Lee Holmes

• 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

• Install-Package Roslyn (Kirill Osenkov)
• Amber.js (formerly SproutCore 2.0) is now Ember.js (Yehuda Katz)
• Improved Developer Experience, Interoperability, and Scalability on Windows Azure (Bob Kelly)
• What’s in (and missing from) Microsoft’s latest batch of Azure cloud updates (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Porting Bryan’s Erlang Function to F# (Daniel Mohl)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• New VB XNA Sample – showing Xbox, Windows and Phone targetting (VBTeam)
• Integrating with COM Components In C# (vijayksh111)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Code Clone Detection (aka Code Clone Analysis) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Converting FS project files to target Xbox 360 (Joh)
• How can I tell whether a window is modal? and What is the API for accessing content on SkyDrive? (Raymond Chen)
• EFProviders require MultipleActiveResultSets=True for System.Data.SqlClient connection strings (Harish Ranganathan)
• Hello Kinect for Windows Beta 2 NUI/VUI World (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Why I’m Excited about Names in JavaScript (Tab Atkins, Jr.)
• Composite JS Apps: Regions And Region Managers (Derick Bailey)
• New Pluralsight Course – Structuring JavaScript Code in HTML5 Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Building Apps with HTML5 – Desktop, Tablet, Phone ! (Joe Stagner)
• An Introduction To Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS) (Louis Lazaris)
• Your jQuery: Now With 67% Less Suck (Scott Kosman)
• Windows Azure December Update – What’s Important for OSS Developers (Larry Franks)
• YUI 3.5.0 PR1 Is Now Available (Allen Rabinovich)
• Create a JS builder with node.js (Andrea Giammarchi)
• App Framework Changes in YUI 3.5.0 (Ryan Grove)
• Espresso Tip: IHttpHandler and IsReusable (David Neal)
• WordPress 3.3 Released (Richard Hay)
• New Windows Azure Management Portal with updated SDK for Java, MongoDB, Node.js, Solr/Lucene, PHP and many more (Avkash Chauhan)
• New Windows Azure Guidance Topics Published (Glen Gailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• One-Piece Continuous Flow – an alternative to Kanban? (Anand Vishwanath)
• 4 Warning Signs that Agile Is Declining (Gil Zilberfeld)
• A short summary about DI and using Ninject not as a Service Locator (AngelEyes)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 11: Maintainable Functional Automation and 31 Days of Testing—Day 12: Functional Test 101 (Jim Holmes)
• Why Focus on Continuous Integration for Programs? (Johanna Rothmann)
• How to be an effective code coach (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Let’s explore Silverlight 5! (Anthony de Bruyn)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 10 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• My new Windows Phone Emulator theme–simple and sleek (Jeff Wilcox)
• Turning XAML into an image (jpg) in WP7 isolated storage and to the Phone Media Library (David Kelley)
• Silverlight huh, bit of a …hot topic..wouldn’t you say? (Scott Barnes)
• 2000 WPF Things #449 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, part II (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Storage (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Working with the Data Grid – Day 1 (Callum G.)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gillmor Gang 12.12.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 116 – 12.12.2011 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for December 12th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Critical Path Training SharePoint 2010 Developer Training in Europe in Early 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• 2011 In Retrospect: A Year of Writing F# Professionally (Rick Minerich)
• Want to win $25 worth of apps? Tweet us! (Michael Stroh)
• Winding Down 2011… Nearing Blog Post 400 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Happy 4th Birthday To Regular Geek (Rob Diana)
• Win Free Copies of NHibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide (Gabriel Schenker)

Database

• Power View and PowerPivot HelloWorldPicnic Samples for SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) (MS Downloads)
• Changes to SQL Server 2012 Execution Plans (Greg Low)
• Top SSAS white papers (James Serra)
• Getting Started with SSRS – Part 7 – User Roles and Permissions in SSRS Server (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Look at Performance – A Quick Look at Configuration (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 12: Table Value Constructor (Denis Gobo)
• Troubleshooting Merge Replication – Logging (Ted Krueger)
• Now Available: SQL Azure Q4 2011 Service Release (Gregory Leake)

SharePoint

• Best Description of Claims Based Security and a Great new SharePoint+Azure Book and Great Resource for SharePoint 2010 & Silverlight (Andrew Connell)
• What Is Included in Business Connectivity Services? (SharePoint Developer Team)

PowerShell

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

Miscellaneous

• Formatting JSON From Terminal (Ben Scheirman)
• Gifts for Geeks, 2011 Edition (Jeff Atwood)
• Back from a week of interviewing (John Guin)
• Microsoft Already Won The Battle For The Living Room When Nobody Was Looking (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• Add Voice Typing To Your IME (Tim Bray)
• Exclusive: Microsoft Replaces Lees as Head of Windows Phone Business (Ina Fried)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 12.01 ~ 12.12 (yuanjian)
• Double Shot #771 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Open Web Platform Weekly Summary – 2011-12-05 – 2011-12-11 (Karl Dubost)
• The Morning Brew #1001 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/12/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/12/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #24 (Franky)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/12/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for December 12, 2011 – #0010 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed by Ray Rankins

• RFC: New Beta.ASP.net website (Scott Hanselman)
• 60 days – déjà vu all over again? (Sebastian Holst)
• Steve Jobs & the art of focus (Garr Reynolds)
• Preventing CSRF With Ajax (Phil Haack)
• Windows 8 Metro apps in JavaScript (Ward Bell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Export Profiler Report Data in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Looking at .NET Source code from Visual Studio and Hashing in .NET (Abhishek Sur)
• BigInteger Square Root in F# (Rick Oden)
• Visual Studio IDE Navigator (Richard Carr)
• 3D C# D3D11 (As in 3D rendering with C# and DirectX 3D 11) and Start your gaming engines with the Delta Engine Public Beta (Think ".Net game dev everywhere…") (Greg Duncan)
• Simplifying Asynchronous Programming in C# (Mark Pearl)
• Naked Objects Release 4.0.93.0 and PowerTools for OpenXML 2.2 and Arduino for Visual Studio 10.10 (CodePlex)
• ReSharper 6 – Another clever feature! (Tatworth)
• Managed Extensibility Framework: What It is and Where It is Going (Jonathan Allen)
• ParallelLoopState and Parallel.ForEach (K. Scott Allen)
• Announcing Wrox’s Professional C++, 2nd Edition (Marc Gregoire)
• Windows 8 Metro declarations: File Type Associations (Andrej Tozon)
• Exploring WinRT: Storage.AccessCache (Andrei Marukovich)
• WinRT Transitions – Creating Fast and Fluid Metro UIs (Colin Eberhardt)
• Three simple steps to create Azure table (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• Help, my MVC Ajax requests are not rendering and there is no exception being displayed (Derik Whittaker)
• Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Loading jQuery Consistently in a .NET Web App (Rick Strahl)
• Ah Ha Moments – Handcrafted CSS Chapter 1 (Ryan Rauh)
• Google Dart – overview and comments (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTML5 Forms with ASP.NET MVC and MvcContrib.FluentHtml (Brandon Satrom)
• Quick Tip – jQuery Newbs: Stop Jumping in the Pool (Jeffrey Way)
• 410 Gone – Thoughts on Mark "diveintomark" Pilgrim’s and _why’s infosuicides (Scott Hanselman)
• Internet Explorer 10 User Agent Strings On Windows 8 64bit (Paulo Morgado)
• Using Site Pinning and Overlay Icons for Enhanced User Notifications and Engagement (Rey Bango)
• Web Workbench 2.0 – Faster, Minification and Pro (John-Daniel Trask)
• Being a New Kid on the Mobile Block (Christopher Bennage)
• Geo-Load Balancing with the Azure Traffic Manager (Brian Hitney)
• Building Rich Text-Centric Pages in IE10 (Christian Stockwell)
• Styling Links in CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• JSON MVC (Sacha Barber)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How To Apply Creativity to Your Specific Challenges (J.D. Meier)
• Layered Architecture Solution Guidance 1.0.0.3 (CodePlex)
• OpenWrap 2.0–Package locking (Sebastien Lambla)
• Modularity via Bottles – Continued (Josh Arnold)
• Agile planning: Your estimates suck (Nada Aldahleh)
• What’s Your Problem? (Janna Mansker)
• Iterating on Scrum to Improve Velocity & Overall Efficiency of Your Scrum Team (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Exam E-Book available (Peter Kuhn)
• Silverlight Code 2104 – Could not download the silverlight app error (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Phone 7 Guides for the IT Guys… (Greg Duncan)
• Port of Pandora Radio to Windows Phone Simple – Concept App Available (Antonio Hernandez)
• More guidance and tool for porting iPhone & Android apps to Windows Phone (JC Cimetiere)
• Windows 8 Metro XAML UI and Direct3D 11 Interop (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Windows Phone 7 Market Place Test Kit (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Page Navigation Framework – Basic Concept (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Troubleshooting Layout Problems in WPF (LearnWPF.com)
• 2000 WPF Things #405 – Default Values for Grid.Row and Grid.Column Properties (Sean Sexton)
• New FREE e-book: Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth (WindowsPhoneGeek Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 020: MAD’s Al Jaffee (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Rocky and Billy Introduce WinRT! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Sparkling Client Show 114: Thoughts on Windows 8 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – Why I am Going to Attend PASS Summit Unite 2011 – Seattle (Pinal Dave)
• MVPs on PASS Summit 2011 (Robert Pearl)

Database

• SSRS runs some crappy queries against the ReportServer Database (Denny Cherry)
• New and Improved DMVs in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware (Glenn Berry)
• Baselining SQL Server (Part 1) (Shaun Stuart)
• Oracle Dynamic SQL – Drop Table, Copy Table, Purge Tables (Rodney Vinyard)
• Sometimes temp tables can be your best friend (James Serra)

SharePoint

• Silverlight: Basic Integration with SharePoint 2010 WCF Data Services (Mahesh Sabnis)
• SharePoint Feature Administration and Clean Up Tool for SP2010 v2.2 (CodePlex)
• My ribbon samples from SPC11 (session with AC) + revisions to my ribbon articles (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Building a private IaaS Cloud with Windows Server 8 whitepaper (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Refresh and Reset (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using RenamingDelegatingContext to mock ContentResolver in Android (Tomas Nilsson)
• Windows Phone 7.5: Bing(o) on Mango (Ted Roduner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Kinect Resources and News (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Geek Reading October 10, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 083 for 10/10/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #727 (Mike Gunderloy)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 3-9, 2011 and Daily News Digest 10/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 10 Oct 2011. (Windows Phone Geek)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/10/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #956 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 02-October-2011 to 08-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development by Richard J. Dudley

• Automated installer for MVVM Light V3! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 is available! (Phil Haack)
• C# Async examples in F# – Part 1 (Chris Marinos)
• The LightSwitch Control Extension Makers Dilemma (Michael Washington)
• A comprehensive list of resources about JavaScript (Incandescent Software Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Co-Ordinated Thread Shutdown with and without using CancellationTokenSource and Use Visual Studio Server Explorer to Add New or Existing SQL Server CE Database (Abhijit Jana)
• New F# PowerPack Packages on NuGet Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• XNA 3D Primer Examples Updated, XNA 2D Example Added, Talks on Both at DevLINK (Michael C. Neel)
• Controlled Vocabulary 1.5.1 and MSBuild Explorer v2 — it does exist… and Community TFS Build Extensions — we’re at it again (Mike Fourie)
• Translating with Google Translate without API and C# Code (Rick Strahl)
• C#: Using IDictionaryEnumerator with HashTable (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Visual Studio Testing Tools–Two new hotfixes released (Terje Sandstrom)
• Invoke any Method on any Thread (Fredrik Olsson)
• Transactional File Manager Version 1.2 .1 Released (Chinh Do)
• How To Build A Simple Text Editor? A Tutorial (Forest House)

Web Development

• Review of The Book of CSS3 by Peter Gasston (Brian Bondy)
• Html 5 Controls for ASP.Net MVC (Saleth Prakash)
• Prototype for Google + similar Feedback-Module with Html2Canvas-Screenshots with Javascript für Beitrag eingeben (Code Inside Team)
• Mobile HTML5 Charts by Sencha (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Using the HTML5 Filesystem API – Only $9.49 w/code DD237 (O’Reilly Media)
• JavaScript: Prototype is not overriding the function/method (Raghav Khunger)
• JavaScript’s JSON API (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTTP Request Lifecycle Events in IIS Pipeline that every ASP.NET Developer Should Know (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Article: HTML 5 or Silverlight? (Daniel Jebaraj)
• Picking a Web Client Side Persistence Mechanism (Gil Fink)
• talkasaur.us – dirt simple conference calling (Aaron Lerch)
• Authoring SVG with a text editor (Bertrand Le Roy)
• What I Love About PHP (Dinuka Arseculeratne)
• Prevent User Navigating Away from Page with Unsaved Changes (Jonathan Wood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning the Agile Vocabulary (Ben Harden)
• Being honest vs Making excuses (Corey Haines)
• Considerations when choosing hardware for CI (Paul Stack)
• Surviving As A Guerilla Entrepreneur – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)
• 8 Principles of Continuous Delivery (James Betteley)
• Two Important Blogposts for Functional Test Writers (Jim Holmes)
• The Chaos Addiction (Roy Osherove)
• Thought Questions (Dru Sellers)
• Macto: The Main Screen (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• wp7 – custom control project template (Baba)
• Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View Part Two (Colin Eberhardt)
• Multi-Touch Behaviors updated: Windows Phone “Mango” support, Manipulation / Inertia Processors and more (Davide Zordan)
• Ringtones from existing content on WP7 – why can’t you do that? and Building a simple Isolated Storage explorer system in a Windows Phone 7 application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Setting the Start page in Windows Phone 7 application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Passing values between Windows Phone 7 pages: Current context of Application and Windows Phone 7 Serialization: DataContract JSON (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Rumors Of XAML’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (Jon Davis)
• Create Thematic Maps in Visual Studio LightSwitch with Infragistics Geospatial Map (Mihail Mateev)
• Removing Strings in INotifyPropertyChanged and OData Expands (Nick)
• 2000 WPF Things #359 – ToggleButton Basics (Sean Sexton)
• Looking at LightSwitch – Part 1 (Gill Cleeren)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 406: What we’re playing and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 220: SharePinters (Paul Thurrott)
• New Video – Windows Phone 7 Guide – Part 7 – Unlock apps in a locked emulator and Another new Windows Phone 7 Guide video – using your phone as a storage device (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Path to Agility 2011 – Ken Schwaber – Scrum and the Product Owner (Agile Toolkit)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 65 – Jim Pelletier and Lessons Learned with NServiceBus (Richard Banks)
• The GeekDads Episode #97: A Whole New World Behind the Grotto (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• Deep Dive video: Constrained PowerShell Endpoints – Aleksandar Nikolic (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

• I am now a DZone MVB (Most Valuable Blogger) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Considering Attending STARWEST? We have Discount Codes! (Jim Holmes)
• August Webcast Schedule: Microsoft Technologies (Kim Spilker)
• rubylang.info: A Solid 3rd Party Attempt at a Site for Ruby (Peter Cooper)

Database

• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.3–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server book from Pinal Dave (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL Server Migration Assistant for Denali CTP3 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Dirty Records and Table Hints – Day 7 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Data Warehousing with SSIS (Tim Radney)
• Download free SSMS Add-In to create custom folders for database objects (Jakub Dvorak)

Miscellaneous

• Why I Use Powershell (Daniel Moore)
• Forbes: Microsoft not as innovative as Apple and Google (Stefano Elia)
• C’mom Microsoft, how about fixing some of the stupidest Zune Desktop problems. (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 6, 2011 and Interesting Finds: August 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 08.01 ~ 08.07 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading August 6, 2011 and Geek Reading August 7, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #911 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 31-July-2011 to 06-August-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 44 – #Agile Requirements and Org Structure (Peter Saddington)
• Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 — #1125 and Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 – 2 — #1126 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 08/08/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 by Jon Galloway

• Great Free Video Training on ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC (Scott Guthrie)
• Eduasync part 4: Filling in AsyncTaskMethodBuilder (Jon Skeet)
• Using DataContracts with WCF Web API (Glenn Block)
• WindowsPhoneMvp Quickstart (Brendan Kowitz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using Advantage data providers to read DBF-files (Gunnar Peipman)
• TFS API Part 36 – Create Build Definitions (Shai Raiten)
• Using guid id in nhibernate, index fragmentation (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Aligning Numbers on the Decimal Separator (Ron Petrusha)
• Manning Deal of the Day: “Natural User Interfaces in .NET” MEAP and Paper Book for $25 (Joey deVilla)
• Using Lazy to Solve Deadlocks in Resource Caches (Rick Brewster)

Web Development

• Step by step instructions to deploy ASP.NET MVC 3 to Windows Azure (Bart Czernicki)
• What are jQuery Class Selectors and ID selectors Explain them? (Hima)
• Playing with dapper Micro ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3.0 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• ASP.NET MVC and Multiple Submit Buttons (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Timepicker–nice extension to jQuery UI Datepicker (Gunnar Peipman)
• WCF REST Service with JSON Data (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A Not Very Short Introduction To Node.js (Anders Janmyr)
• HowTo: migrate an established WebApp to Azure (Code Inside Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting up to BAT: Building a True DSL (John Sonmez)
• Richardson’s Maturity Model as a tool for understanding not measurement (Glenn Block)
• What is Domain Driven Design? (Jak Charlton)
• Time Management Checklist and How To Set Goals and Achieve Them (JD Meier)
• Effective Tests: Test Doubles (Derek Greer)
• Do What You Say You Are Going to Do (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Dependency Injection (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Upcoming Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone “Mango” and Advanced Silverlight Trainings in Redmond (Dave Campbell)
• “That’s a HUGE List!” – WP7 Jump List (Erik Klimczak)
• (YANCWP7AM) Yet Another No Code Windows Phone 7 App Maker – FollowMyFeed (Greg Duncan)
• What is Line Stacking Strategy in Silverlight TextBlock control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Display PDFs in your Windows Phone 7 application (Nick Randolph)
• Release an App for Windows Phone 7 in 7 Days for a Chance to Win a New HTC 7 Trophy Phone (Nigel Parker)
• Windows Phone Launchers (Paul Sheriff)
• Consider this when downloading large files on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 156: Jon Galloway and Jesse Liberty on Remote Pairing (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 398: We discuss our Brink experience, Gatling Gears and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 208: Fake Hustle (Paul Thurrott)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 16 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 016 – “More Mango Madness” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The GeekDads Episode #91: That Pause Was Air Quotes (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

• SQL SERVER – Attending MVP Open Day – May 2011 (Pinal Dave)
• The Microsoft week ahead: What’s on for TechEd 2011? (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

• SQL SERVER – SQL Server Compression Estimator – Codeplex (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 15 – SQL Server Agent – Job ownership (Ted Krueger)
• SQL CLR Stored Procedure using Visual Studio 2010 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 05.10 ~ 05.16 (yuanjian)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 069 for 5/15/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #852 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 08-May-2011 to 14-May-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2011 — #1089 (Dave Campbell)
• Android development resource links (Mendelt Siebenga)

The Geek Shelf

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Jez Humble

• WebSockets, RIA/JS and WCF Web API at MIX, a whole lotta love for the web (Glenn Block)
• Combining WCF Data Services, JSONP and jQuery and Making a JSONP Call to a WCF Data Service using datajs (Gil Fink)
• "The Ultimate List of Freely Available .NET Libraries" (Greg Duncan)
• MVC Bricks for ASP.NET (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Fix/Resolution: Unable to install Windows Server AppFabric through Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Abhijit Jana)
• Anonymous type equality follow-up: Equals() (Jef Claes)
• Revisiting C# – Published New Free Ebook (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Asynchronous Message Processing using Task Parallel Library and Reactive Extensions (Jonathan Allen)
• FxCop Integrator for Visual Studio 2010 – Release: v1.3.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Want to develop for Social Networking using ASP.Net 4.0? Then grab the book ASP.Net 4.0 Social Networking authored by Atul Gupta and Windows Azure for Developers Task 14 : Working with Windows Azure BLOB storage (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using jQuery for ASP.NET Styled DropDown (Joe Stagner)
• HTML5 Boilerplate Visual Studio 2010 Template (Jon Davis)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Testcase Superclass (Giorgio Sironi)
• Review of Programming Google App Engine (Brian Bondy)
• Sueetie Gets a Makeover (Dave Burke)
• When we can use HttpContext.Current.Items to stores data in ASP.NET ? and Different Versions of Integrated Web Server in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What’s new in Windsor 3: Service Locator usage detection and What’s new in Windsor 3: Container debugger diagnostics improvements (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• More on RavenDB structure and RavenDB: Let us write our own JSON Parser, NOT (Oren Eini)
• The Era of Usability (Peter Ritchie)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Trusted applications and Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Incremental Search (Peter Kuhn)
• How to use Application Bar in Windows Phone 7 Application ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Working with Isolated Storage for Windows Phone 7 (Abhishek Sur)
• How to launch the Maps application inside the Windows Phone emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 153: Randy Pagels on Lab Management (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 395: Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 205: Maybe It’s The Clown Nose (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 013 – “Ahead of Schedule” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 52 – Thomas Johansen gets SASSy with HTML5 and Rails (Richard Banks)
• Pluralcast 40 : JQuery with Dan Wahlin (David Starr)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – 1700th Blog Posts – Over 25 Millions of Views – A SQL Milestone (Pinal Dave)

Database

• A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 23 (Glenn Berry)
• SSAS – Creating and Using a Writeback Measure Group (Devin Knight)
• SQL Server Management Objects 2008 (SMO) New Features (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQL SERVER – How to ALTER CONSTRAINT (Pinal Dave)
• Does NEWSEQUENTIALID() function always generates sequential GUIDs? (Amit Bansal)

SharePoint

• Read SharePoint 2010 List in Silverlight using REST – Silverlight with SharePoint 2010 – Part II (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• How to download a document from SharePoint 2010 using Client Context Object Model ? (Abhijit Jana)

Miscellaneous

• Live Coding in Presentations – Don’t Waste my Time! (Roland Weigelt)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 17-April-2011 to 23-April-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2011 — #1077 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Entity Framework 4.0 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Larry Tenny

Top Links

• Announcing Silverlight 5 (Scott Guthrie)
• Silverlight 5 Announced, RIA Services Toolkit December 2010 Released (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 5 Plans Revealed (Tim Heuer)
• MonoTouch for iOS 4.2 is out. (Miguel de Icaza)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Toolbox: Generic Reversing Comparers (James Michael Hare)
• LINQ Secrets Revealed: Chaining and Debugging (Michael Sorens)
• Visual Studio Permissions Needed on Windows Vista or Later (Zain Naboulsi)
• New HiDef Education and Avatar Samples for XNA Game Studio 4.0 (Team XNA)
• How to use IssueProvider DXCore component (Alex Skorkin)
• Exploring Reactive Extensions (Rx) through Twitter and Bing Maps Mashups (Colin Eberhardt)
• New Book: Windows Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Merging CodeRush Templates (via Export and Import) (Rory Becker)
• Don’t Upgrade to Windows Azure SDK 1.3 Yet (Rinat Abdullin)
• Some NHibernate Best-Practices (Nick Harrison)
• Quick Tip: Right-click VS 2010 Command and Admin Command Prompt (Jeremy Likness)

Web Development

• Functional vs. Object-Oriented JavaScript Development (Dino Esposito)
• jQuery Templates, composite rendering, and remote loading (Dave Ward)
• Grouping Routes Part 1 (Phil Haack)
• WebGrid WebHelper in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC (Malcolm Sheridan)
• JavaScript Objects Coding Style Reviewed (Stoimen Popov)
• Different Routes for Different Hosts Using Constraints (Simon Ince)
• A Book Review of Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Azure Platform (Patterns & Practices) (Stephen Robillard)
• JSON Continues its Winning Streak Over XML (Romin Irani)
• The Problem Is Not JSON Or XML, It Is About Data Context (Rob Diana)
• An update to nuget support in OpenWrap (Sebastien Lambla)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Easy ways to maximize the value of TDD (Matt Hinze)
• [White Paper] – 3 Planning Stages in Agile and Code Inspections – Review Code with Two Developers (ScoutMaster)
• The case against Interfaces in TDD (Jimmy Bogard)
• The Three "R"s of Clean Code (Michael Norton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 5 cool things in Silverlight 5 (Rudi Grobler)
• Does Anyone Know What Silverlight Is? (Karl Seguin)
• WCF RIA Services Toolkit December 2010 (Silverlight Show)
• WPF MVVM and calculated properties (Al Kampfer)
• Monitoring Web Requests on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
• Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 1) (Mike Taulty)
• Why a 64-bit runtime for Silverlight 5 Matters (Bart Czernicki)
• Silverlight 5 (Christian Nagel)
• The validation story in Silverlight (Part 1) (Gill Cleeren)
• WPF Custom Chrome Library (gbahns)
• Silverlight 5 Timeline And Lots of Questions (James Vastbinder)
• From Silver to Gold in One Release: Silverlight 5 (Jeremy Likness)
• Chrome to Windows Phone 7 Pushes Links to Windows Phone 7 from Chrome [Downloads] (Kevin Purdy)
• New Features Announced for Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• I just Upgraded my WPF application from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4 and Now My Images Look Terrible–A Visual Guide to the BitmapScalingMode property. (LearnWPF)
• Hiding/Showing Windows Phone 7 Emulator Performance Count Numbers and Taking Screen Shots of Windows Phone 7 Panorama Apps (Markus Egger)
• Silverlight 5 – 5 Quick Things (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Connecting your Windows Phone 7 Device to PC (Zhiming Xue)
• My first WP7 application (published) (Derik Whittaker)
• Laurent Duveau on Morse Code Flash Light WP7 Application (Silverlight Show)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Orleans: A Framework for Scalable Client+Cloud Computing (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #60: Layout Managers (James Shore)
• Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie (John Papa & Nic Fillingham)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Xbox (Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon) – San Francisco, CA – March, 2011 (Wally McClure)
• 13 years at Microsoft. What’s Next (Steve Clayton)
• Come and join the F# Compiler & Tools team! (Don Syme)
• Why We Built the JSMentors.com JavaScript Mailing List (Rey Bango)
• system.data.objects dev guy becomes a compiler padawan (Danny Simmons)

Database

• Please allow us to cancel loading of log in SQL Server Management Studio Log Viewer (Simon Sabin)
• Do you know the difference between .mdf, .ndf and .ldf files? (Martin Bell)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of SQL – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDRSQ (O’Reilly Media)

SharePoint

• Cross web application roll up web part (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• XPS Essentials Pack Version 1.2 (MS Downloads)
• A OneNote 2010 powertoy to bulk erase ink (John Guin)
• Static type langagues (Louis Salin)
• Type systems and their advantages (Matt Hinze)
• The Power of WordPress (Richard Hay)
• Halo: Reach Art Inspiration Windows 7 Theme (Richard Hay)
• Woz’s tour through computing history (and his favorite iPhone apps) (Robert Scoble)
• Dipping into C (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Facebook Client for Your Desktop (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 79 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily News Digest 12/03/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #743 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of SQL by Stephane Faroult

Top Links

Importing Adobe Photoshop files in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)

Introduction to SSIS Projects in Denali (Jamie Thomson)

Jounce Part 6: Visual States and Multiple Views per ViewModel (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting the IE9 Beta to Play Well with Visual Studio 2010 (Dan Wahlin)
• Visual F# 100 Examples: Example 12 to 13 (Rey Dacoco)
• Visual Studio Logging (Zain Naboulsi)
• What happened to Lucene.Net? It got forked (Simone Chiaretta)
• New White Paper Details the Windows Azure Programming Model (Windows Azure Team)
• Concurrent programming: TCP relay server (Jon Harrop)
• Feature Builder power with drag and drop simplicity – Instant Feature Builder v1 (Think “Drag and Drop Map/Code files/Docs/Guidance in and vsix out”) (Greg Duncan)
• Book Review Programming Entity Framework Second Edition (Deepak Kapoor)
• EF FAQ Relocation and Overhaul (Danny Simmons)
• Raven MQ – Client API Design (Oren Eini)

Web Development

• Composition with jQuery Templates: Why and How (Dave Ward)
• Creating a Carousel with jQuery (Matthew David)
• How to Create an Awesome Scrolling Navigation using jQuery (Martin Beeby)
• ASP.NET Web Application: Publish/Package Tokenizing Parameters (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
• Twitter Goes JSON-Only With One API, More to Come? (Adam DuVander)
• How to take on the cloud – from Umbraco and Windows Azure (Andy Robb)
• Investigate Web Pages Using the IE9 Developer Tools (Rachel Appel)
• Azure@home Part 11: Worker Role Run Method (concluded) (Jim O’Neil)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture introduces control (Simon Brown)
• HBR as a Source of Insight and Customer-Connected Engineering (CCE) (J.D. Meier)
• Code as a Cause of Project Failure (Michael Norton)
• Local Version Control (James Iry)
• The Full Stack–Part 3 Building a Repository with TDD (Jesse Liberty)
• Distributed Agile: Communicating big design decisions (Mark Needham)
• It’s just like putting LEGO bricks together… Or not? (Giorgio Sironi)
• 9 Free Pomodoro Timers (Simon Mackie)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 5 minute Observable.FromAsyncPattern sample for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The taming of the phone [New SetterValueBindingHelper sample demonstrates its usefulness on Windows Phone 7 (and Silverlight 4)] (David Anson)
• Updating Dates with WPF DatePicker (Julie Lerman)
• WP7 UX Introduction: Part 2 (Jesse Freeman)
• Enable background audio for multiple pages in Windows Phone 7 – Take 2 (Håkan Reis)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #6 – Data Binding (Really) (Jesse Liberty)
• Accessing Local Database using Silverlight 4 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Mindscape Silverlight Controls + Free Mega Pack Contest (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight’s Bright Future (Ward Bell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Developers: Rise to the Challenge at RiSE4fun.com (Charles Torre)
• Announcing Project Crescent! (Silverlight Team)
• iPhone and Tdd: The Video Series Begins (Brett Schuchert)
• Yet Another Podcast #13–Corey Schuman (Jesse Liberty)
• endpoint.tv – WCF Contract First with WSCF.blue (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• NoVA Code Camp Call for Speakers is Open! and REMINDER: PDC Re-cap Event in Reston THIS FRIDAY, 11/12 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Speaking at and Announcing the Mississippi Coast .NET User Group November 23rd (Keith Elder)

Database

• SQL Server Denali: HADRON ROCKS. (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server 2011 (Denali) no DTS support (Devin Knight)
• Breaking Change for Windows Azure Drive Beta in Guest OS 1.8 and 2.0 (Azure Storage Team)
• Appending Date to End of Report Name in Reporting Services Subscription (Brian K. McDonald)
• Denali Paging–Is it win/win ? (Dave Ballantyne)
• Project Crescent (David Dye)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Online: SharePoint Online (Beta) Solution Development Overview Poster (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 publish plugin released (Jamie Lang)
• Web services and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Lightning Tools)
• BCS Meta Man November Beta (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Migrating from Communications Server 2007 R2 to Lync Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone 7 supports tethering (for Samsung Focus/Omnia 7 anyway) (damaster)
• WriteMonkey Version 2 Preview 1 is now out, with added pizzazz (Erez Zukerman)
• PowerShell url checker (Check if a list of url’s is valid) (Jason Jarrett)
• Get your app featured on CNET! (Jennifer Marsman)
• 35 Developer Learning Pain Points (Joe Stagner)
• Firefox 4.0 beta 7 brings faster JavaScript, WebGL, is now feature-complete (Lee Mathews)
• Cloud computing talent: What do we look for? (Part 3 of 5) (Sandeep Sood)
• The Inevitable Comparison: iPhone 4 vs Samsung Omnia 7 (Windows Phone 7) – Introduction (Taimur Asad)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Mobile Design and Development $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDDND (O’Reilly Media)
• Pro Android 2 (Pavel Rozenblioum)
• Getting a Windows Phone 7 to Work with a PrePaid AT&T Plan (Frank La Vigne)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 10, 2010 — #990 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Database Testing Links (Buck Woody)
• Denali Links (Richard Douglas)
• The Morning Brew #727 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/11/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Brian Knight

Top Links

• Woot! Silverlight 4 in Action is Out! (Pete Brown)
• Introduction to Shapes in Silverlight 4 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Introducing the Microsoft Web Farm Framework (Scott Guthrie)
• Overriding a .svc Request With Routing (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Power Commands for Visual Studio 2010 – Extension #8 (Sara Ford)
• At The End of the IO Road With C# (Wesley Brown)
• Insert spaces vs. Keep tabs (Zain Naboulsi)
• The .NET Micro Framework – Hardware for Software People (Scott Hanselman)
• Book Review – Julie Lerman’s "Programming Entity Framework" Second Edition (Wally McClure)
• Getting the Starting Day of the Week for Any Date (Chinh Do)

Web Development

• Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Rebinding Client-Side Events After a Partial Page Postback (Scott Mitchell)
• YUI 3.2.0 Released: SimpleYUI, Touch Event Support, Gestures, Transitions, CSS Grids, ScrollView, Uploader, and More (Eric Miraglia)
• How JSONP works (and some bits about implementing it in WCF) (Scott Seely)
• Removing properties from the model state the typed way and Adding errors to the model state the typed way (Daniel Fisher)
• Back to Basic – ASP.NET Runtime Impersonation (Gil Fink)
• Making asynchronous calls to web services during ASP.NET page processing (Gunnar Peipman)
• Getting Started with Node.js on Windows (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Posting Form Data to an ASP.NET ASMX AJAX Web Service with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
• Tags Everywhere! YetAnotherForum.NET Now With Tagging and Tags Everywhere! More Sueetie Tags In More Locations (Dave Burke)
• Perform Rolling Upgrade of Web Farm using Windows Network Load Balancer (Steve Smith)
• HTTP POST with PHP without cURL (Stoimen Popov)
• Where Does IE Spend Most Time When Loading a Page? (Abel Avram)
• Transitioning Existing Code to the ES5 Getter/Setter APIs (Allen Wirfs-Brock)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The role of an architect in an agile team (Tom Hollander)
• CQRS and MVC (Greg Young)
• Waste #4: Handoffs (Matt Stine)
• Simple Tools Preferred in the Agile Tools Space (Vikas Hazrati)
• Lean: Avoiding Waste in Software Development (Alberto Gutierrez)
• Selenium is not a panacea (Giorgio Sironi)
• ‘UX professional’ isn’t a real job? (Scott Berkun)
• Simplicity: A New Model (Jurgen Appelo)
• Code to the rhythm of the beat (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Taskbar with Window Maximized and WindowState to None in WPF (Abhishek Sur)
• Essential Windows Phone 7 Development Tools (Chris Koenig)
• File Upload Custom Control in WPF (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Silverlight Visual Effects (e.g. drop shadow, blur, and mirror images) (Sam Landstrom)
• Building OpenPOS: Part 11 – ClickOnce (Rudi Grobler)
• Blend Bits 6: Paths Are Your Friend (2) and PivotViewer–The Control and Silverlight on Windows Live Photos (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 4 of n (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #8: Cleaning Up Taxes (James Shore)
• Yet Another Podcast (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Events this Week – September, 7th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Los Angeles Web Camp (Scott Guthrie)
• The Experts Conference Europe – SharePoint Sessions Announced! (Joel Oleson)
• Microsoft interns discuss creativity, collaboration & Cirque du Soleil (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Details on the 2010 Diabetes Walk and a Thank You (Scott Hanselman)
• Web Camp LA – September 10th, 2010 with Phil Haack, James Senior and Jon Galloway (Dan Wahlin)
• CodeSmith Insight Launch Party (Tom DuPont)
• Windows Phone 7 Deep Dive Workshops (Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane) (Nick Randolph)

Database

• Auto Close – SQL Server (Gethyn Ellis)
• AFTER UPDATE Trigger in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Find Row Count in Table – Find Largest Table in Database – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Virtual Labs – A Great Resource for SQL Server (Steve Jones)
• RavenDB performance optimizations (Oren Eini)
• What is Normalization in SQL ? (Abhijit Desai)

SharePoint

• Are you planning on upgrading to SharePoint 2010? Permissions still a black hole? (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Google Scribe (Alex Chitu)
• A Brief History of Programming (Chad Myers)
• You Need To Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone (Davy Brion)
• The Paradox of Choice for a Programmer (James R. Eggers)
• The Migration to OneNote 2010 Guide and Adapx updates their pen software for 2010 (John Guin)
• Book Review: Pro Android 2 (John Sonmez)
• Thoughts on Application Logging (Michael Janke)
• Download our free Office 2010 migration guides (Office Team)
• WebOS 2.0 beta screenshot extravaganza (Ross Miller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #681 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 7, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 7-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for September 07, 2010 — #942 (Dave Campbell)
• MSDN Developer Centers at a Glance (J.D. Meier)

The Geek Shelf

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions by Gregor Hohpe