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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter

• F# XAML Item Templates Now on Visual Studio Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
• Announcing the Microsoft Entity Framework June 2011 CTP (EF Team)
• How far can you take HTML5 and canvas? (Kevin Roast)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part I (Luca Bolognese)
• jPlayer – The jQuery HTML5 Audio / Video Library (jPlayer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A New MSDN Forum For All Topics Related to F# Programming (Don Syme)
• Executing build tasks without a build server – Design (Rory Primrose)
• Reading RSS and Atom Syndication Feeds (Richard Carr)
• WCF RIA Services support for EF 4.1 and Snippets (Colin Blair)
• Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries (Entity Framework June 2011 CTP) (EF Team)
• Walkthrough: Table-Valued Functions (June CTP) (Pedro Ardila)
• Walkthrough: Enums (June CTP) (Pawel Kadluczka)
• June 2011 release of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (aka v2.0… or double the download size from the Feb 2010 release, or now 1.8GB of offline training, labs, information, goodness) (Greg Duncan)
• Upgrading from TFS 2008 and WSS v3.0 with SfTSv2 to TFS 2010 and SF 2010 with SfTSv3 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows Azure Stuck in Initializing – Try Different VM Size (Rinat Abdullin)
• Getting the innermost .NET Exception (Rick Strahl)
• Ninject and binding to an existing Method (or Property) (Derik Whittaker)
• Get Started with Office 365 Using the New Developer Training Kit (Bruce Kyle)
• Rx 1.0 Solves the Problem of Asynchronous Data Access (Abel Avram)
• Garbage Collection in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Web Development

• What’s the Difference Between a Value Provider and Model Binder? (Phil Haack)
• test262: Industry JavaScript Standards Test Available (Alex Chi)
• Website check list – Part 1 ASP.NET – 4 essential steps before going live (Peter Gfader)
• More CSS3 Navigation in Expression Web 4 (Pad Gallagher)
• Self-Initializing Fakes in PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
• Creating shapes on the fly and So what are zones really? (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Simple Example That’s Incredibly Complex (Rob Conery)
• Designing For Android (Dan McKenzie)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part III–Abstraction is as abstraction does (Oren Eini)
• Following the pattern (Eric Lippert)
• Kanban and Quad Biking (Karl Scotland)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A better way to check your Windows Phone app submissions (Arian Kulp)
• WP7 Cascade Behavior (Erik Klimcz)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 25 – Learn about Database Connection String (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Excellent Physics tutorial using Phyiscs Helper (Surf4Fun)
• Turnkey with LightSwitch (Laila Lotfi)
• Dial phone numbers from IE on Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Learning Video Executing Stored Procedure in LINQ to SQL and Video Executing SQL Query in LINQ to SQL and Video Fetching Tables and Columns name in LINQ to SQL (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Introducing Keyvan.TV (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Let’s Play TDD #119: Comments Lie (James Shore)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #51: TDD with Keith Burnell (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Evan (Larry Larsen)
• This is my next Podcast 013 – 07.01.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)

Community / Events

• Save the date: SharePint @ the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA (Andrew Connell)
• Open Source Hackathon at Pablo’s Fiesta (Steve Donie)
• What happens when students create their own collaboration tools? (Terri Griffith)
• Microsoft to retire, refocus Windows Phone MVP program (Mary Jo Foley)
• Six Years of Blogging (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Oracle Technology Network Virtual Developer Day: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) (Oracle TechBlog)
• Mono Consultants (Miguel de Icaza)

Database

• FileLinking Using SSIS (Brian K. McDonald)
• SSRS Importing an Assembly (David Dye)
• SSIS OLEDB Command and procedure output params (Josef Richberg)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Complete Downloadable List – Day 0 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Introduction – Day 1 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Functions – NTILE() (Vishal)
• Why Does It Hurt When I Audit? (Tim Ford)
• What’s UNPIVOT good for? (Quassnoi)
• The difference between REVOKE and DENY (Steve Jones)
• Excel 2010 Data Source "From Microsoft Query" Missing DSNs (Jes Schultz Borland)

SharePoint

• Using jQuery Templates with SharePoint List Data (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• CODE Magazine: 2011 Jul/Aug (CODE Magazine)
• Instant email: how we made Hotmail 10x faster (Dick Craddock)
• MSDN & TechNet Subscriptions 2.0 Experience Preview (Mark Curphey)
• Developer API for Google+: It’s coming (Rafe Needleman)
• MediaMall’s PlayLater brings DVR to internet video (Sean Buckley)
• The Windows Phone 7 Apps Everyone Should Have June 2011 [Apps] (Casey Chan)
• Why Big Software Companies Fail at Hiring Good Talents (Keyvan Nayyeri)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 06.20 ~ 06.30 (yuanjian)
• T-SQL, SQL Server BI Articles Link List – June 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ASP.NET, MVC, Silverlight, SharePoint, WPF, VS 2010, LINQ Articles in May-June 2011 (Admin)
• The Morning Brew #885 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (6/30/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 07/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 30 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Head First jQuery by Ryan Benedetti

• Introducing the Kinect WPF Toolkit (András Velvárt)
• How to Capture User Signatures on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Crawling the Windows Phone Marketplace (Brandon Watson)
• When Should a Method Be a Property? (Rob Conery)
• async Samples 6: Declaring async methods (Bill Wagner)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to update “Run only specified windows applications” GPO programmatically (VBScript) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• Trigger-Start Services Recipe (Yochay Kiriaty)
• New Training for Visual Studio 2010 and Notepad for Workitems: how to programmatically create workitems in Visual Basic for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• A Guide to Sandcastle – Part 3 – Customizing the build process [Help File] (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Implementing the virtual method pattern in C#, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
• Cloud Sync/Backup your Visual Studio settings with Pepper (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ToLookup() LINQ Extension Method (James Michael Hare)
• Improving CLRProfiler 3: Double the speed of profile loading (Feng Yuan)
• A Friendly DateTime Formatter (Jonathan Wood)

Web Development

• Getting Your Feet Wet with HTML 5 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Throwing Stars – a new HTML5 game (Adam Kinney)
• Want to work on datajs? (Phil Haack)
• IE9 and Network Capture for Diagnostics (Mike Taulty)
• IE9’s Document Modes and JavaScript (Gaurav Seth & Paul Chapman)
• Basic JavaScript Part 12: Function Hoisting (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Using jQuery UI DatePicker in an ASP.NET Application. (Joe Stagner)
• HTML 5 and CSS 3 Support for Expression Web (Jonathan Allen)
• Using Translation Services within ASP.NET MVC 3 and jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Web Workers, for a responsive JavaScript application (Giorgio Sironi)
• Windows Azure and scaling: how? (PHP) (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Write clearer Unit Tests (Gian Maria Ricci)
• 3 Scrum Types – Your Flavor of Scrum? and Kanban Elevator Pitch – Help Craft It (Peter Saddington)
• Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part III: Moving away from Scrum (Stephen Forte)
• Bus and Broker Pub/Sub Differences (Udi Dahan)
• The Essential Product Cookbook–The First Ingredient (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Designing a Short Course on IoC: Day 4 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Sharing An IE Instance Among Multiple Tests With WatiN And MS Test (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone: Touch (Jesse Liberty)
• Creating WP7 Custom Theme – Complex Theme (Windows Phone Geek)
• Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application (Part 1) (Michael Crump)
• Phone Tools v0.6 Released – Breaking Change! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Free “no code” WP7 App Dev and also Marketplace registration from AppMakr and Microsoft (limited time) (Think “App’ify your RSS feed in just a few clicks, with a good number of customization options too”) (Greg Duncan)
• Clean Design-Time Friendly ViewModels: A Walkthrough (Jeremy Likness)
• Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A Batch File for Closing Zune and Launching the WPConnect Tool (Daniel Vaughan)
• Getting Total Memory on Win7 Mobile Devices (Mike Snow)
• Designing hubs, being creative. (Alfred Astort)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Inside Entity Framework 4.1 CodeFirst with Jeff Derstadt and Tim Laverty (Scott Hanselman)
• geekSpeak: Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (MS Podcasts)
• Herding Code 108: Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Web Design (Jon Galloway)
• Webcast: Brief introduction to Windows Identity Foundation (Gunnar Peipman)
• Let’s Play TDD #97: Where the Rubber Meets the Road (James Shore)
• Silverlight TV 67: Bill Buxton Talks about Speed Dating at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Cloud Plumbing: Brian Noyes Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Defrag 002: Gov’s Probs, Media Center, Dropped WiFi (Larry Larsen)
• The Office Show – Finances (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• Innovate both technology and your own career at Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Trigger Started Services on Windows 7 (John Bristowe)
• Blend SIG Podcast: February 2011: Adam Kinney and March 2011: Frank LaVigne (Joel Cochran)
• endpoint.tv – AppFabric WCF HTTP Template (Ron Jacobs)
• Community Megaphone Show #26 FoxPro Reunion (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• Job Opportunities (Cameron Skinner)
• Webinar: Amplify JavaScript Library with Scott González (Elijah Manor)
• Come Demo your Cool Robotics, Microcontroller, or other Hardware Hacking at MADExpo (Pete Brown)
• IE is MIXing it up in Vegas! (Ziad Ismail)
• Russian GM speaks at MVP Organized MCP Meeting (Lonnie Webb)

Database

• PostgreSQL Row Storage Fundamentals (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Looking at the RavenDB structure (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Roundup (Avi Kaye)
• DeliverPoint versus well known Sharepoint administration tools (Lightning Tools)
• Microsoft: We’re adding 20,000 new SharePoint users a day (Mary Jo Foley)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit (MS Downloads)
• 20 percent time spent coding in the clouds (Dave Burke)
• Comparison: Xcode 3 vs. Xcode 4 (Austin Ritchie)
• Manifesto Manifesto: a recipe for manifestae (Cory Doctorow)
• Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop (Dirk Metzmacher)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 24th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Show: Daily News Digest 03/25/2011 (Svetla Stoycheva)
• The Morning Brew #820 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2011 — #1064 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Coding4fun: 10 .Net Programming Projects for Wiimote, Youtube, World of Warcraft, and More

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Top Links

• Web Tracking Protection: An Emerging Internet Standard that Helps Protect Consumers from Tracking (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 Application with UltraLight.mvvm (Jeremy Likness)
• C# Compiler as a Service Update (Miguel de Icaza)
• Tests are your airbag (Krzysztof Koźmic)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Code Snippets with Replacements (Richard Carr)
• Programmatically finding Binding Elements in WCF Binding and Cross machine communication between .Net Application using WCF (Dhananjay Kumar)
• "Quick Find" a better way using Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools and Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Converting Numbers to Ordinal Strings and Approximate String Comparisons Using Levenshtein Distance (Jonathan Wood)
• New Book: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-511): Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
• Windows Azure Storage Client Library Reference Documentation Updated with New Sample Code and Remarks (Windows Azure Team)
• Why we need better garbage collection on the Xbox (Joh.)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Rounded Corners with jQuery and ASP.NET DropShadow with jQuery. and Wanna deploy WordPress on Microsoft Azure ? (Joe Stagner)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1 is now available as a DRM-free PDF ebook (Simone Chiaretta)
• IE9′s ‘Do Not Track’ features could become Web standards (Tim Conneally)
• Microsoft Guidance for Silky Smooth Web Sites (Chris Love)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Problem with Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Kidzban – Kanban for Your Classroom (Peter Saddington)
• Scrat–Copy Quality Center Test Plan Structure To Microsoft Test Manager (Shai Raiten)
• Dependency Injection & IOC (Abhishek Sur)
• 10 of 10 – Aesthetics and alignment matter (Alfred Astort)
• Continuous Delivery (Anders Janmyr)
• The Benefits of a Flush Search Box (Anthony)
• Are you refining or rotting? (Paul Boag)
• Reuse is overrated, then came package management (Matt Hinze)
• Book Review – Driving Technical Change: Why People on Your Team Don’t Act on Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• The Ascendancy of Testers (Elizabeth Keogh)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Binding Events to Methods in the Silverlight MVVM View Models (Song Li)
• WPF Realtime Textbox Change Binding (Arian Kulp)
• All about ResourceDictionary in WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ASP.NET, MVC, jQuery, SharePoint, Silverlight and .NET Articles in February 2011 and Author of the Month (Suprotim Agarwal)
• MVVM + Broker + Castle Interceptor = FUN (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Silverlight: Wish List II (Deborah Kurata)
• Illustrator FXG and XAML export usage in Blend 4 (Bob Bartholomay)
• Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 7) (Gill Cleeren)
• Select Many: Reactive Extensions’ Mother Of All Operators [Chaining] (Jesse Liberty)
• Writing about Windows Phone 7 Development (Mike Ormond)
• Save the Date–Windows Phone 7 Tech.Days Online Conference (Mike Ormond)
• Introducing Phoney’s FadingMessage Class (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies for Windows Phone 7 arrive April 6 (Vlad Bobleanta)
• Who ate all the pies!! (Rich)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: The Opinionated Cloud – Learning about AppHarbor (Scott Hanselman)
• Building on Azure: Softronic (Charles Torre)
• What is a SharePoint Analyst? Episode 57 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Gillmor Gang 2.26.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• ASP.NET MVC Data Access Videos & Tutorials (17) and ASP.NET MVC App Building Videos (61) (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 63: Exploring National Instruments’ App Using Data and Business Features (John Papa)
• Windows Phone Radio 19 now available (Brian Seitz)
• The Full Stack, Part 8: Adding Search to the Windows Phone Client (Jon Galloway & Jesse Liberty)
• TWC9: Kinect SDK is coming, New VS Power Tools, & Profanities by programming language (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• 2011 MVP Summit Preview (Thomas LaRock)
• TechDays 2011 – Developer track sessions update (Katrien de Graeve)
• A Message to MVPs from Nestor Portillo (Lonnie Webb)
• Tech.Days Online Conference – Create.Design.Deliver | Windows Phone 7 (Andy Wigley)
• The Microsoft MVP Summit (Brent Ozar)

Database

• Access SQL Server Compact 4 with ASP Classic and VbScript (Erik EJ)
• Some Suggested SQL Server 2008 R2 Instance Configuration Settings (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server: Count Rows in Tables and its Size (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2011 – Wait Type – Day 25 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Glenn Berry – Wait Type – Day 26 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Best Reference – Wait Type – Day 27 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Agile: Creating an SSRS Burndown Chart Part 2 (Steve Novoselac)
• Come One, Come All to T-SQL Tuesday #016 : Aggregate Functions (grrlgeek)

SharePoint

• My Favourite SharePoint 2010 Scalability Articles (Paul Andrew)
• New Technical Article on SharePoint Architecture (Ricky Kirkham)

Miscellaneous

• Document: What a Microsoft employment contract looks like (Todd Bishop)
• Microsoft unveils redesigned WindowsEmbedded.com (Brad Sams)
• Chrome Developer Tools: Back to Basics (Christos)
• Landing Your Dream Job in a Networked World (Dawn Foster)
• Get add-ons right in Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• What if we made Wikipedia into game… Wait, there’s Wikipedia Maze! (Greg Duncan)
• Opening a OneNote page each day at the same time (John Guin)
• Windows Live Mesh Beta Ends 31 March 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Learning programming online – still possible (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 24, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 25, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 91 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 24th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News Feb 25th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for February 26, 2011 — #1052 (Dave Campbell)
• This Week’s Link List (February 25, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #800 (Chris Alcock)
• Week Retrospective 21 – PMI Certification and Pecha-Kuchas (Peter Saddington)
• Weekly Links– 2010_08 (Joe Stagner)
• Daily News Digest 02/24/2011 and Daily News Digest 02/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• 24-Feb-2011 and 25-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)

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

Top Links

• Scale-out computing on DevLabs (Somasegar)
• TPL (Task Parallel Library) Dataflow CTP Released (Greg Duncan)
• Keeping an application’s UI responsive with multi-threading (Jerry Joyce) – WP7 tip
• Customers Get Dryad, DryadLINQ (Douglas Gantenbein)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #25 – LINQ and Fluent Programming (Jesse Liberty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Code Metrics PowerTool 10.0 (MS Downloads)
• WCF 4.0 Features Part #1 and Learning WCF RIA Service Part #2: Adding Query Methods (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Enumerating resources from a native library via WinAPI (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Pasting a Single Selection Into a Box Selection vstipEdit0008 (Zain Naboulsi)
• VS Achievements (Scott Wiltamuth)
• MonoDroid on the Mac (Wally McClure)
• Code Metrics PowerTool (Pieter de Bruin)
• Date/Time Support in NHibernate (James Kovacs)
• Final Draft Chapters of Parallel Programming with C++ Online (Ade Miller)
• Code Providers – Remove Region Directives (Alex Skorkin)
• OpenNI + Kinect (getting set up on Windows) (Baba)
• .NET Tools that I would never want to part with.. (Don Burnett)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Validation Control with Images Notification (Abhijit Jana)
• HTML5 Blizzard: Full Hardware Acceleration in Action (Jason Weber)
• How to open jQuery UI Dialog from codebehind and Disable all input controls on a form with jQuery (Raghav Khunger)
• Creating a picture gallery with HTML5 canvas (Martin Beeby)
• Calling .NET Framework Classes from WebMatrix (Joe Stagner)
• Click’less WebPI … as in a command line WebPI (Web Platform Installer) (Greg Duncan)
• Python’s Yield (Anne Epstein)
• Is OpenID Living Up to Our Expectations? (Abel Avram)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Back to Basics: Mock Eliminating Patterns (John Sonmez)
• Measuring Quality in Agile (Mitch Ruebush)
• How to add RowTest support to MSTest (Dror Helper)
• Get a Better Word for Software “Craftsman” (Krishna Kumar)
• It’s Design (K. Scott Allen)
• Deliberate Discovery: The stuff I don’t know list (Mark Needham)
• Dipping Your Toes into Kanban (David J. Bland)
• Wasting Time as an Agile Developer? 5 Ways to Fix Time-Bandits at Work (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 4 in Action (Denis Gladkikh)
• Windows Phone 7 – Part #2: Your First Application (Andrea Boschin)
• Catel – WPF and Silverlight MVVM library – Release: v1.1 (CodePlex)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #1 (Jeff Prosise)
• Silverlight Spy 4 licensing (Koen Zwikstra)
• Step By Step: Bing Maps Silverlight and an Out Of Browser (OOB) Application (Chris Pietschmann)
• Building a personal website using Silverlight. (Michael Crump)
• Upcoming free Windows Phone 7 Webinar Series – Shawn Wildermuth and Mark Arteaga (Senthil Kumar)
• Quickly building a trial mode for a Windows Phone application (David Poll)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Doc Norton Sharpens His Saw and .NET Rocks! – Andrew Parsons and Alfred Thompson Educate Kids in Software! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Making an impact at Microsoft (Kelly Fife)
• Keynote Web Camps Belgium by Scott Hanselman (Liese Jespers)
• Johanna Rothman Interview, with Ian Dees (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – The Connector (Clint Rutkas, Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• SQL SERVER – What is a Technology Evangelist? (Pinal Dave)
• 10 Reasons Developers Should Blog. (Joe Stagner)
• My Top 10 Interaction Developer picks for MIX11 Open Call (Adam Kinney)

Database

• Microsoft Books Online for SQL Server Code-Named "Denali" CTP1 (MS Downloads)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Small Package, Big Win (26/31) (Jason Strate)
• Rename a SQL Server database (Madhivanan)
• SQL Server 2005 SP4 Released (Wes Yanaga)
• Ridiculously Unnormalized Database Schemas – Part Two (Michael Swart)
• SSAS Dimension Attribute Discretization Methods (Devin Knight)
• RavenDB vs MongoDB – Why I don’t usually bother (Rob Ashton)

SharePoint

• Deployment guide for SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• New Product Beta – Storage Maximizer for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK preview goes live (Chris Ziegler)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming iOS 4 – $17.99 (Save 50%) Code DDP4R (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 26 January 2011 – #11 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Morning Brew #779 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 01/26/2011 and Daily News Digest 01/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services: Problem, Design, Solution (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Erik Veerman

Top Links

• Using MEF to link view model locator and load assembly UIs dynamically (Rick Ratayczak)
• CodePlex: MVVM Light Toolkit – Release v3 SP1 (3) (Laurent Bugnion)
• Where Enterprise Architecture and Project Management Intersect (Bob McIlree)
• Database Deployment with the VS 2010 Package/Publish Database Tool (Rachel Appel)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Linqer – a nice tool for SQL to LINQ transition (Hajan Selmani)
• What to do when your Netduino locks up and Visual Studio won’t deploy to it (Pete Brown)
• Show All Settings with Web Development and Zero-Length Box Selection Video vstipEdit0009 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Password Generator – Release v2.2 (CodePlex)
• 14 Days Left to Submit XNA GS 3.1 Games on App Hub (Team XNA)
• Autofac 2.4 is here – come and “NuGet” it! (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• .NET 4 Coming to Server Core (Bruce Kyle)
• Using Dynamic Data with EF Code First and NuGet (David Ebbo)
• The Entity Framework DZone Refcard and FreeImage 3.15 out today… (Greg Duncan)
• Using a ToDo list more effectively (Hadi Hariri)
• Installing Nuget package with package manager console step by step overview. (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Spot the defect: Bad comparisons, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Code Issues – Try statement without catch or finally (Alex Skorkin)

Web Development

• Prefixing Input Elements Of Partial Views With ASP.NET MVC (Davy Brion)
• HTML5 Wish List for 2011: Interview with Michael Mullany (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
• ASP.NET MVC: Fun With Routes (Jeremiah Clark)
• Using the Dojo Toolkit with Microsoft’s WCF (SitePen)
• Dependency Injection in MVC 3–with Views (John V. Petersen)
• Excerpt from upcoming title: Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET 4 (Kim Spilker)
• And now instead, 5 things Java envies PHP for (Giorgio Sironi)
• My Blog is Now Running on Ruby in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Drupal 7 and New Support for Microsoft Technologies (Joe Stagner)
• Treeble with YUI 3 DataTable (John Lindal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Myths of Kanban (Dan Puckett)
• Asynchronous Control Updates In C#/.NET/WinForms (Derick Bailey)
• Functional Style BDD Step Definitions (Phillip Trelford)
• A good coach seeks first to understand (Michael ‘Doc’ Norton)
• The Language Divide (Gil Zilberfeld)
• How we systemically apply filters to our data access and A quick follow up about data restrictions (Joshua Flanagan)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• AutoComplete TextBox with WPF (Christian Nagel)
• Loading Data when the User Scrolls to the End of a List in Windows Phone 7 (Daniel Vaughan)
• Tasks: Launchers and Choosers–Windows Phone From Scratch #22 (Jesse Liberty)
• Integrating RadMap for Silverlight in ASP.NET – by @telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Integrating HTML into Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• $10,000 for your Windows Phone 7 app (Andrew Spooner)
• Making of – The first version of the presentation layer for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• “Create a Whimsical Animated Silverlight Background” (Mike Taulty)
• Developer Guidance – Onboarding Windows Phone 7 – Release: Fuel Tracker Source (CodePlex)
• WP7 TimeSpanPicker in depth (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 137 – PowerScripting Podcast – Adam Driscoll from Quest on the New vWorkspace PowerShell Module (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint Designer 2010 and the SharePoint Community-Episode 55 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Silverlight Training Course (Silverlight 4) – by @Ch9 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WP7 Minute Show Episode 7: Diagnostics (Richard Hay)
• Ping 89: OneNote on iPhone, Kinect Helicopter & Operation, Speller Contest, Atlanta (Laura Foy)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 3: Messaging (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• VIDEO SERIES – Microsoft WebMatrix (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – January 24th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Philly Tech Week now live, be a sponsor or event organizer today (Technically Philly)
• Philly Code Camp 2011.1 – Sponsors (Nick Berardi)
• My proposals for the #MIX11 open call (Laurent Bugnion)
• MIX11 BootCamps (Chris Koenig)
• A Note from Microsoft’s own Jennifer Marsman (Don Burnett)
• MIX11 Open Call Voting Started (Gil Fink)
• Coffee and Code at Cloud: Wednesday, January 26th (Joey deVilla)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – One Package, Unlimited Databases (24/31) (Jason Strate)
• Keeping Perspective: What Are You Building? (Joe Webb)
• SQL Server: Export Table to CSV (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – 2011 – Clipboard Ring – CTRL+SHIFT+V (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft SQL Server Licensing For Dummies.. (Robert Pearl)
• Backup file contents with SSIS – Defining the Design and Backup file contents with SSIS – Foreach Loop Container and file handling (Ted Krueger)
• SQL for Developers: Data Crunching (Tim Corey)
• Corrupting Databases for Dummies- Hex Editor Edition (Kendra Little)
• RTFM365, Week 7 (Jen McCown)

Miscellaneous

• Packtpub Microsoft Monday (Alec Whittington)
• Cursors in Powershell (Martin Bell)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming #Android – $17.99 (Save 50%) w/Code DDPAE (O’Reilly Media)
• Print from your phone with Gmail for mobile and Google Cloud Print (Tyler Odean)
• Manual Memory Management in Objective-C (Umair Saeed)

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup 056 for 1/24/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #777 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for January 24, 2011 — #1034 (Dave Campbell)
• SilverlightCream top picks for January 17-23, 2011 and Daily News Digest 01/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 24 January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

Non-Designer’s Design Book, The (3rd Edition) [Paperback] by Robin Williams (Author)

Top Links

• .Net Reflector 7 Beta released, with added Jason Haley Power Commands goodness right in the box! (Greg Duncan)
• Unit Test Naming Convention (Steve Smith)
• Exploring Ribbon Control for Silverlight (Part – 1) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Server and Tools chief Muglia to leave Microsoft in summer 2011 (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# agents with timeouts (Gordon Hogenson)
• Cannot obtain Metadata from https using WCF (Derik Whittaker)
• Video on Default EndPoint in WCF 4.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using F# 2.0 Powerpack ArgParser from C# (Steve Gilham)
• Allowing Access to HttpContext in WCF REST Services (Rick Strahl)
• Accessing the Menu Bar (Zain Naboulsi)
• Programmatically Reading Work Item Comments (Aaron Bjork)
• EF Feature CTP5: Pluggable Conventions (Rowan Miller)
• TFS API Part 33– Get Build Definitions and Build Details (Shai Raiten)

Web Development

• Namespacing in JavaScript (Angus Croll)
• Find odd and even rows using $.inArray() function when using jQuery Templates (Hajan)
• FubuMVC, Routing, and the Front Controller Pattern and FubuMVC’s Configuration Strategy (Jeremy Miller)
• HTML5 & CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Joey deVilla)
• Sueetie .NET 4.0 Upgrade Pack Available. Sueetie v3.0 Coming Soon. (Dave Burke)
• Bogus Windows Phone 7 User Agent String (Nick Randolph)
• goo.gl gets an official API (You hear that rapid typing? That’s a ton of dev’s already pounding out the code to use it…) (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Azure and the PaaS Context (Adron Hall)
• Adding Your Application To The Graph (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 12 Keys to Success with Agile and Blending Scrum and Kanban to Create an End-to-End Agile Enterprise and Tools for Disciplined Thinking (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Why use Test Driven Development (Amy Blankenship)
• How Discipline Can Save You! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Stardate 2011.10.1: Revenge of the Commons (Kyle Szklenski)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 comes to Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” and Media Center set-top boxes (damaster)
• Windows Phone 7 Design Tips: Navigation, Tombstoning, and Data Loading (Karl Erickson)
• Integrating IE9 Pinning with Microsoft Silverlight (Leon Braginski)
• Embedding a Sound File in Windows Phone 7 app (Silverlight) (Matthias Shapiro)
• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 0 – Why should I care? (Peter Kuhn)
• WP7: Background execution – really? (Håkan Reis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Boris Scheiman Waves His Hands at nKinect! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Office 2010 & Windows Phone at CES 2011 (Laura Foy)
• CES 2011: Kinect and Live Mesh (Tina)
• The Engadget Podcast Show 005: CES 2011 Part 5 – 01.10.2011 (video) (Trent Wolbe)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #185: WP7: Learning how to handle Tombstoning (Derik Whittaker)
• Pluralcast 33 : Catching up with Ken Schwaber (David Starr)
• A Look at Microsoft’s Surface Computer V.2 (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Register Now for a Free Day of Silverlight from the Experts! (John Papa)
• DevTeach/SQLTeach Montreal 2011 Registration is Now Open (Brad M. McGehee)
• Microsoft is Launching WebMatrix, Thursday, January 13th, 2011 (Public Sector DPE Team)
• WebMatrix will Release Thursday, Jan 13th (Doris Chen)

Database

• Reducing SQL Server Sync I/O Contention :: Tip 3 (Rob Tiffany)
• Fun with Extended Properties in SQL Server 2008 (Glenn Berry)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Pivot Transformation (10/31) (Jason Strate)
• Rollback Transaction in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Performance Tuning Resolution (Pinal Dave)
• SSAS – Hiding Unknown Member (Devin Knight)
• How to Identify Bad Queries in MySQL (Baron Schwartz)

Miscellaneous

• 12 MORE Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers (Jesse Liberty)
• Powertoys from the OneNote Test Team for 2010 (John Guin)
• Microsoft releases Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 (Microsoft Blog Admin)
• Is Avatar Kinect the Star Trek Holodeck in beta? (Steve Clayton)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Jan-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #767 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #136 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Link Post 177 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 01/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

IronPython in Action by Michael J. Foord

Top Links

• Not Really Interested In Lean (Phil Haack)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Interim Fix List (Jason Zander)
• Why are anonymous types generic? (Eric Lippert)
• Listen to your Phone – Getting User Feedback with System Information (Rene Schulte)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Mouse Clipping (Richard Carr)
• Answer: Your own ThreadLocal (Oren Eini)
• Finding a Relative Path in .NET (Rick Strahl)
• Bi-Directional SkipList in C# (David Jeske)
• WCF RIA Services DomainContext Abstraction Strategies–Say That 10 Times! (Dan Wahlin)
• Colorizing Source Code and A Convenient LogFile Class (Jonathan Wood)
• Problems with MSSCCI and VB6 (Shai Raiten)
• EF4 Code First Control Unicode and Decimal Precision, Scale with Attributes (Dane Morgridge)
• Use a Specific Port for the Development Server (Zain Naboulsi)
• Best Practices for Maximizing Scalability and Cost Effectiveness of Queue-Based Messaging Solutions on Windows Azure (Valery Mizonov)
• The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit December Update Available for Download (Maor David-Pur)
• Unbound Actions – Reopen last closed document (Alex Skorkin)

Web Development

• Basic JavaScript Part 4: Enforcing New on Constructor Functions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• ASP.NET: Including JavaScript libraries conditionally from CDN (Gunnar Peipman)
• 5 Ways to Let Users Customize Content (Anthony Tseng)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile’s Secret Ingredient (Gil Zilberfeld)
• [Agile Guide] – Writing Good User Stories and Santa and Kanban – A Story (Peter Saddington)
• Integrating JavaScript Unit Tests with Visual Studio (Stephen Walther)
• 4 Cross-Browser Testing Tools (Charles Hamilton)
• Foundations of Programming 2 – Chapter 1 – Quality and Efficiency (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 4 Training (MS Downloads)
• Bootloader mode on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight and Visual Studio 2010 (Deborah Kurata)
• Slides: Application Development for Windows Phone 7 (Andrej Tozon)
• WPF ListView with better touch support (Al Kampfer)
• Top 7 Christmas Windows Phone 7 apps (Andy Robb)
• "And she’d say, ‘Can you see … what I’m saying?’" [How to: Localize a Windows Phone 7 application that uses the Windows Phone Toolkit into different languages] (David Anson)
• Windows Phone 7 Applications Must-Have Apps! (Don Burnett)
• Authentication in Silverlight using WCF and ASP.NET Membership Provider (Mahesh Sabnis)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #7 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Custom Application Bar to Feature in Chapter (Daniel Vaughan)
• Closing the Virtual Keyboard (SIP) and forcing binding in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Miguel de Icaza Builds .NET Apps on the Mac with MonoMac (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Pluralcast 31 : Lessons in Performance and Scalability (David Starr)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #183: Load Testing WCF Services w/ VS2010 (Derik Whittaker)
• Ping 87: Paramount on Windows Phone, H264 & Firefox, P Diddy, neosaurs, Microsoft is cool! (Laura Foy)
• Agile Release Planning Video (James Shore)
• WP7 Minute Episode III : Camera Integration (Daniel Egan)
• The Engadget Show – 016: Mitsubishi’s Frank DeMartin, iRobot, Aldebaran’s NAO robot, Ubisoft Battle Tag, CES ’11 preview, and more! (Chad Mumm)

Community / Events

• Ready to MIX it up? (G. Andrew Duthie)
• March 2nd to 4th in Portland, Oregon: The Art of Agile Delivery (Training) and February 28th and March 1st in Portland, Oregon: The Art of Agile Planning (Training) (James Shore)
• Your Chance to Speak at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Upcoming Free Developer Training for Web, Windows and Cloud (Dave Bost)
• First thoughts from our WP7 competition winner (Andy Robb)
• Jeremiah Peschka & Buck Woody Talk Database Communities (Brent Ozar)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 5 Released (Glenn Berry)
• Required Parameters [SSIS Denali] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Observation of the View (Pinal Dave)
• Sitting on the couch (Giorgio Sironi)

SharePoint

• New book: Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSEWSS) v1.3 Released (Paul Andrew)
• New SharePoint Development Team Blog (Zain Naboulsi)

Miscellaneous

• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Using co-authoring features in Office 2010, Office Web Apps, and Office for Mac 2011 (Lonnie Webb)
• Microsoft Brings SBS into the Cloud (Paul Thurrott)
• Powershell, Me and the MCM part II (Jason Brimhall)
• A bulk image importer powertoy for OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
• Integration Between Zoho Apps: Part III (Raju Vegesna)
• Free calling in Gmail extended through 2011 (Robin Schriebman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 175 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 20 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #755 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/20/2010 and Weekly Article Digest 12/20/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0), The (4th Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Anders Hejlsberg

Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 3: Razor’s @: and syntax (Scott Guthrie)
• EF Feature CTP5: Validation (Pawel Kadluczka)
• Silverlight service release today – 4.0.51204 (Tim Heuer)
• What to Read to Get Up to Speed in JavaScript (Rey Bango)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Debugger Class (Richard Carr)
• WIF SDK and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK (MS Downloads)
• December update Of TFS and VS 2010 (Al Kampfer)
• Force VS to garbage collect (Cameron Skinner)
• Reporting in .NET and Building the Layout for a Report and Tie a Report to Data from the Database and Tie a Report to Data from Business Objects and Setting a Form as a Startup Form with Visual Studio (Deborah Kurata)
• Visual Studio’s Greatest Test Runner? Take a Look at CodeRush 10.2 (Mark Miller)
• Set as Start Page (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Azure Training Kit – December 2010 Update (Bill Zack)
• RavenDB – StackOverflow style voting with Live Projections (Rob Ashton)
• Historical Perspective of ORM and Alternatives (Ken Downs)
• HowTo: MSBuild & StyleCop (Code Inside Team)
• MSBuild Extension Pack December 2010 Release (Mike Fourie)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# developers: writing a library (part 1) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• jQuery Templates with ASP.NET MVC (Hajan Selmani)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Basics – Working with List Boxes (Pete Sutcliffe)
• JavaScript getAttribute method (Veera Sundar)
• WebSharper 2.0 Beta2 (2.0.63) released (Adam Granicz)
• Lessons Learned in Personal Web Page Part 3: Custom Panel and Listbox (Jeremy Likness)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban is Great for (n00bs) Beginning Agile Teams (Peter Saddington)
• Entity Framework Patterns: Select multiple entities (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Obtaining opt-in consent: The responsible way to collect application analytics (Brandon Siegel)
• WP7 Guides for IT Pros (MS Downloads)
• Silverlight Navigation And CinchV2 for Silverlight (Sacha Barber)
• Windows Phone 7 Refcard Review (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WordPress for Windows Phone 7 app RTW (Free and open source too!) and “Windows Phone Programming in C#,” the Curriculum (think “Stuff to help teach Windows Phone Dev… Code, Demo’s, Pptx’s, Labs, 152 page eBook, etc”) (Greg Duncan)
• Theme aware panorama background in windows phone 7 (Håkan Reis)
• Monitoring Memory Usage on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
• Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 5) (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Phone 7 Side Loading (James Ashley)
• Multitouch Part 3: Multitouch in managed code and WPF (Jennifer Marsman)
• Win a set of Infragistics Silverlight Controls with Data Visualization! (Michael Crump)
• A Free Webcam Photo Application in Silverlight (Michael S. Scherotter)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #4 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Win7 Mobile Application Bar – AG_E_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE (Mike Snow)
• PollingDuplex using MultipleMessagesPerPoll issue in latest SL4 GDRs (Silverlight WS Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mobility at Øredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Icon Overlay on the Windows 7 Taskbar (MS Podcasts)
• Episode 54-How to explain SharePoint Metadata to Organizations (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Let’s Play TDD #69: Train Wreck (James Shore)
• My “Business Impact of Cloud Computing” Session Video is Available! (David Lemphers)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Research Part 2 – Manual Deskterity (Larry Larsen, Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• Have you planned your SharePoint IT Conferences for 2011? (Joel Oleson)
• In The Brian Session: Intro to RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Agile Seminars in Pune, India this January (Stephen Forte)
• Bootcamps announced for Windows Azure and Windows 7 (Bill Wagner)
• Microsoft Community Tech Days – Hyderabad – 18th December 2010 (Abhijit Jana)

Database

• Remove Newline Tab Character in Data using SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Server Side Paging in SQL Server 2011 Performance Comparison (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Storage Internals Part 2 – Partitions and Allocation Units (Ramkumar)
• SQL Server PowerShell Extensions – Release: 2.3.1 Production (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Phone 7 "Mango" may add HTML5, Silverlight support to WP7′s browser (Erez Zukerman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 15 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 12/16/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #752 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

• I don’t want your stinkin’ code comments (Robert Greyling)
• Silverlight Open File Dialog Behavior (MVVM) (Michael Washington)
• Extended WPF Toolkit – New ColorPicker Control (Brian Lagunas)
• ReSharper Zencoding (David Ridgway)
• Customizing WP7 Push Notification Tiles (Chris Koenig)

.NET / Visual Studio

• On Fluent NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• 3 Free Useful Visual Studio 2010 Add-Ins (Ben March)
• Checking for Empty Strings (Deborah Kurata)
• Contracts (Sacha Barber)
• Using .Net WCF Syndication API to Read a Comments Feed (Gil Fink)
• Advanced Code Diff from within Visual Studio (Patrick Smacchia)
• Project Euler Problem 6 and 7 in F# (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Search in Class View and Synchronize Your Class View (Zain Naboulsi)
• MongoDb NoRM MonoDevelop on Ubuntu Linux (Peter Bromberg)
• ThinkGearNET 1.1 (Brian Peek)
• How method length Affects performance in .net (Russell Ball)
• 13 books for a .NET Summer reading list (Simone Chiaretta)

Web Development

• Social Media Html Helpers (Nigel Sampson)
• Performance tuning tricks for ASP.NET and IIS 7 – part 2 (Mads Kristensen)
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Using HttpNotFoundResult in controller tests and ASP.NET MVC meets HTML5 (Gunnar Peipman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Should Unit Testing Frameworks Handle Unhandled Exceptions? (Jason Bock)
• Day 15 – Achieve a Peaceful Calm State of Mind (J.D. Meier)
• Unit Testing Secure Controller Actions with Moq (Mike Ceranski)
• How to fake C++ objects with Isolator++ (Beta) (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Don’t let your code make-work for others (Maggie Longshore)
• Pushing, Pulling, and Lean-ing (Steven ‘Doc’ List)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Tutorial : Concept Binding (Abhishek Sur)
• WP7 Splash Screen Tips & Tricks (Rudi Grobler)
• Validating Data in Silverlight 4 Applications – IDataErrorInfo (Dan Wahlin)
• THIS is How You Do It: The USGA Golf Score App for Windows Phone 7 (Joey deVilla)
• Problem Resolution: Installing Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta (John Papa)
• Building a Search Text Box Control with WPF (Le Duc Anh)
• 7 things to consider when developing for Windows Phone 7 (at this point) and Operating with image files in a Windows Phone 7 application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 Beta: Go Back…. No I mean the other Back (Nick Randolph)
• Understanding Windows Phone Orientation in XNA (Rob Miles)
• Cinch + Latest Enhancements = I Am Finally Done (Sacha Barber)
• What I learned about Windows Phone 7 from Android (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Querying Netflix OData Service using Silverlight 4 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• XamlQuery – The Write Less, Do More, Silverlight Library – Release: v1.0 Documentation (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 365: Lara Croft, NPD’s etc. (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 122 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones With A Script Editor Shoot-Out And Much More (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Cloud Cover Episode 22 – Identity in Windows Azure (Ryan Dunn)
• Understanding MetroUI (Steven Hodson)
• Creativity – John Cleese (Mark Needham)
• Technology & Friends Episode 110: Jeremy Likness on MEF (David Giard)
• Behind The Curtain – Episode #1 (Michael Lehman)

Community / Events

• Open Source & .NET OpenCamp 2010 (Caleb Jenkins)
• More votes required for Visual Studio ALM on Area51 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Stack Exchange API Contest Winners (Jeff Atwood)
• Startup – Week 1 Recap (Justin Etheredge)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 and R2 Diagnostic Information Queries (Glenn Berry)
• SQLAuthority News – Bookmark Link for Sync Framework for SQL Azure and SQL SERVER – Finding the Occurrence of Character in String (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Highly Recommended Book: The Ruby Programming Language (Davy Brion)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Beautiful Security – Only $9.99. Use code DDBSY (O’Reilly Media)
• Around the World in Windows 7 Themes (Richard Hay)
• Detecting the STA Thread from GetToSTA (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Internet Explorer Turns 15 (Stan Schroeder)
• How to Get CineXPlayer for iPad on Your iPhone and iPod touch Right Now! , to Play Xvid AVI Videos (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 037 for 8/16/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #665 (Chris Alcock)
• Flagged Links #79 (Jason Bock)
• A Feed You Should Read #33 – The Silverlight Show (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight Cream for August 15, 2010 — #926 (Dave Campbell)

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