• Eduasync part 18: Changes between the Async CTP and the Visual Studio 11 Preview (Jon Skeet)
• Day 1 results from the #smokedbywindowsphone $100 challenge (Ben Rudolph)
• Windows Phone 2011 Retrospective (Brandon Watson)
• Adding your own callbacks to existing JavaScript functions (Dave Ward)
• “Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (Jan 16th) (Scott Guthrie)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge (Oren Eini)
• Basic Volume Control (Richard Carr)
• Benjamin Day slides us into “How to be a C# ninja in 10 easy steps" and BugAid – Enhanced C# Debugging tool (and free for non-commercial open source projects too) (Greg Duncan)
• Kicking off StructureMap 3 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How can I detect the language a run of text is written in? (Raymond Chen)
• Kinect Apps – ensuring Kinect Runtime is installed (Rob Relyea)
• With Azure SDK 1.6, Azure Diagnostics is enabled by default can cause thousands of daily transections to Azure Storage (Avkash Chauhan)
• async \ await and Exception Handling (Bnaya Eshet)
• A brief overview of type system metadata in various languages (Dru Sellers)
• VS hangs for 1 minute on start debugging? Check for dead symbol paths! (Kirill Osenkov)

Web Development

• Using jQuery Deferred To Create Compound Objects From Multiple Asynchronous Data Sources (Ben Nadel)
• NetAdvantage For jQuery Chart – An HTML5/jQuery Chart Designed for Performance! (Graham Murray)
• Controlling Selection with CSS user-select (Sharon Newman)
• jQuery Grid – Showing Row Selectors & Selection (Jordan Tsankov)
• JSON serialization problems and solution in MVC3 (Nuri Halperin)
• Why is there Flash in the HTML5 version of Cut the Rope? (Robby Ingebretsen)
• Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development (Michael J. Ross)
• CSS Buttons with Pseudo-elements (Sergio Camalich)
• Advanced Random Numbers in JS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• PhpStorm 3.0: New and Noteworthy in Database Realm (Alexey Korsun)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Experts advise growing Agile projects with feature teams (Anand Vishwanath)
• Agile Project Management—Driving Value or Where’s the Beef? (Bob Galen)
• How Great Leaders Inspire Action – Simon Sinek (Peter Saddington)
• Forrester: Developer Testing Lowers Costs & Increases Quality (Avi Kaye)
• Integration testing with Azure development storage (Rory Primrose)
• Open/Closed Principle on real world code (Giorgio Sironi)
• Do Tests Get Too Much Respect? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Getting started with Git and GitHub (Simone Chiaretta)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Extending XAML Applications with Custom Commands and Getting Started with Coding4Fun Button Controls (Windows Phone Geek)
• Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) and Windows Embedded Silverlight Tools (MS Downloads)
• HttpWebRequest (WebClient) And Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #471 – How FlowDirection Works with the Image Element (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #7 – Check for Network Connections (Senthil Kumar)
• Joe Belfiore interview: Windows Phone will compete on quality, not specs (Vlad Savov)
• A WPF Custom Control for Zooming and Panning (Ashley Davis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Geek Out About Electricity! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ACMQ Online Programming Competition: Jan 1- Feb 12, 2012 (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 050 – “Silent and Invisible” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Boagworld: Give users a sense of control (Paul Boag)
• Windows Weekly 243: Live From CES (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Podcast 273: CES 2012 Day 3 – 01.11.2012 and The Vergecast 010: CES 2012 Day 1 – 01.11.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 281: CES 2012 – 01.11.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Inside Windows Phone #30 | Arturo Toledo is back (Larry Lieberman)
• The Engadget Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop at CES 2012 (video) (Myriam Joire)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 1 (Robert Green)
• VIDEO: Watch a Galaxy Nexus get #smokedbywindowsphone (Ben Rudolph)
• Phoenix Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• Magenic celebrates a few of its internal OSS developers… (Greg Duncan)
• CES 2012: Two new Nokia apps for Windows Phone coming soon – Nokia Transport and Nokia City Lens (damaster)
• Meet Todd Anglin – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)

Database

• The SSIS Expression Way–Skipping an Unwanted File (Arthur Zubarev)
• SQL Server – Backup to NUL trick – read throughput (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL SERVER – Non-Clustered Index and Automatic Rebuild – Quiz – Puzzle – 11 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Join Hint in SQL – Guest Post by Joydeep Das (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Now accepting more users for the Data Explorer Cloud service! (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites Installer Error: KB976462 Could Not Be Installed (Martin W. Angler)
• On Site SharePoint Experience UI/UX Branding Class with Dustin Miller and Heather Solomon (Joel Oleson)
• SharePoint 2010 Fluent Ribbon API Release 1.4 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Creating a WordPress and Blogging New Year’s Resolutions List (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules For Startups (Mark Cuban)
• Book Excerpt: "To The Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise" (Pankaj Arora)
• Using MessageBox Control Outside UpdatePanel Control (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango Commercial Release 2: What’s inside (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 086 for 1/11/2012 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #1020 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for January 11, 2011 – #0025 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #794 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/11/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/12/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 10-Jan-2012 and 11-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-11 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 Jan 2012: (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Jennifer Kyrnin

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Top Links

• MVVM Coding by Convention (Convention over Configuration) (Jeremy Likness)
• Can I Do Perfect Scrum and Still Fail? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Integrating Twitter Into An ASP.NET Website Using OAuth (Scott Mitchell)
• Code contracts and inheritance (Gunnar Peipman)
• Visual Studio 2010: How to understand your code using Dependency Graphs, Sequence Diagrams, and the Architecture Explorer (Jennifer Marsman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Updated C# all-in-one file (Kirill Osenkov)
• Service Operations for Any and All (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Think .Net Cache = System.Web.Caching? .Net 4 has a present for you, System.Runtime.Caching. and Extra .Net 4 Parallel Extension goodness in the Parallel Extension Samples, with RTM updates and a few new Projects (Greg Duncan)
• Book Review – Essential C# 4.0 (Brandon Cannaday)
• Assembly Resolution in MSBuild and Visual Studio Series Introduction (Chris Mann)
• Break Multiple Processes (Zain Naboulsi)
• Entity Framework 4.0 POCO Classes and Data Services (Chris Sells)
• ADO.NET Survey Results (Luiz Fernando Santos)

Web Development

• F# in ASP.NET, mathematics and testing (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using the Sueetie Cross-Application Footer Menu Control (Dave Burke)
• Building a Data Grid in ASP.NET MVC (Ali Bastani)
• Becoming a Great Web Developer (Marc Grabanski)
• New book: Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• DOM Range and HTML5 Selection (Jon Seitel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Information is the Most Transient Form of Power and ASP.NET Security Scenarios on Azure and Application Scenarios and Solutions (J.D. Meier)
• Agile: Chasing a points total (Mark Needham)
• Responsibility And Disaster (Michael Nichols)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Updated Bing App for Windows Phone (Justin Jed)
• IIS Media Services 4 – Changing the Game (Nigel Parker)
• Event-based property changes in pure XAML (Dennis Delimarsky)
• We’ve secretly changed this control’s DataContext – let’s see if it notices! [Workaround for a Silverlight data binding bug affecting various scenarios - including DataGrid+ContextMenu] (David Anson)
• Embedding the Silverlight version of the Open Media Player (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #18 – Elastic Scrolling (Mike Snow)
• IIS Media Services to Include a Version of PlayReady DRM for HTTP Streaming (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Corrinne Yu – Principal Engine Architect, Halo Team Microsoft: Part One and Office Casual: OneNote – An all too brief introduction (Tina Wood)
• Webcast: NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB (Michael Kennedy)
• Video Interviews Part 2 – Nicholas Zakas, Principal Front-end Engineer at Yahoo! on jQuery Performance and Menno van Slooten on his Automated UI Testing Framework for jQuery (Rey Bango)
• Silverlight TV 25: No More Boxes! Exploring the PathListBox (John Papa)
• MSDN Radio: SharePoint 2010 for Developers (Emily Gibson)
• JP Boodhoo’s Introduction to Machine.Specifications (Bobby Johnson)
• Executive Thoughts on SharePoint 2010 (Eric Swift)
• Silverlight Week – How to Choose a Mobile Platform (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Kelly Cassidy: Effective Prototyping with SketchFlow (Eric Hagan)

Community / Events

• “Unplugged” Chat with Me this Thursday (Scott Guthrie)
• It’s time to Party like is SharePoint 2010 Launch Day! (Joel Oleson)
• Women In Web Design: Group Interview (Smashing Editorial)
• Microsoft’s greatest strength: people (Eugenia Sawa)
• Deep dive on Silverlight unit testing at Tech Ed next month (Jeff Wilcox)

Database

• SQL Azure vs. SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 (MS Downloads)
• 5 Things SQL Server Should Truncate (Brent Ozar)
• Five things SSIS should drop (Jamie Thomson)
• Trusting Database Engine Tuning Advisor for Query Tuning and Five things wouldn’t miss in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Understanding ALTER INDEX ALL REBUILD with Disabled Clustered Index (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Meme: Tagged: 5 things SQL Server should drop (Denis Gobo)
• Why LOB data makes shrink run slooooowly (T-SQL Tuesday #006) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• Using Filters in BCS Meta Man (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) 2.0 Released – New Cmdlets, PowerShell 2 and XCopy, oh my and “If you want users to RTFM, write a better FM” (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft and LG partner to release Xbox 360 3D gaming (Matt Blowes)
• Firefox 3.7 will become 4.0 — Firefox 4, with updated Gecko, confirmed for later this year (Sebastian Anthony)
• Snagit 10 Released With New Capture Tools (Simon Mackie)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 11-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #598 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 415 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2010 — #859 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Programming C# 4.0: Building Windows, Web, and RIA Applications for the .NET 4.0 Framework (Animal Guide)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing: Reflector Addin Toolkit on Codeplex (Jason Haley)
• .NET Projects: Versioning Builds (Grant Palin)
• Framework Multi-Targeting for VC++ Projects (Pavan Adharapurapu)
• Bye Bye .NET Services! Hello AppFabric (Bill Zack)
• Visual Studio Color Scheme (Mark Nijhof)
• Fixing Visual Studio 2010 and Blend Preview for .NET 4 integration (Tim Heuer)
• Command Line Parsing with Mono.Options (Rob Reynolds)
• Inter-process Mediator and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 1) and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 2) (Rudi Grobler)
• Combining NHibernate, NH Spatial and SQL Server 2008 Fulltext Queries (Jak Charlton)

Web Development

• Google Maps API v3 Now Includes Driving Directions (Adam DuVander)
• Building High Performance Web Applications (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simple site sanity testing with Cassini and friends (Aaron Jensen)
• TestApi v0.4 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• Patterns and Practices for Distributed Teams (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
• Book Review: Debug It! (Paul Butcher, Pragmatic Bookshelf) (Ted Neward)
• Pair Programming/Helping/Working Collaboratively and Requirements: The story points focus (Mark Needham)
• Leadership Tip: Every Time They Are Lost And Confused It Probably Is Your Fault. (Rajiv Popat)
• Applying Strategy Pattern Instead of Using Switch Statements (Gil Fink)

Silverlight / WPF

• CompositeTransform simplifies transforms in Silverlight 4 Beta (Adam Kinney)
• RIA Services: A DomainService IS A WCF Service – Add Service Reference (Brad Abrams)
• Caliburn Hello World (Christopher Bennage)
• From code-behind to MVVM in 90 Minutes – Jason Dolinger on MVVM (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight: Building a Grid and StackPanel in Code (Deborah Kurata)
• Fishbowl: A WPF Front-end for Facebook, with Full Source (Pete Brown)
• RIA Services templates not showing in Visual Studio 2010? and Silverlight 4 NotificationWindow and Queuing multiple notifications (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 4 and Asynchronous Validation with INotifyDataErrorInfo (Fredrik Normén)
• 10 Steps to Debug Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications without Attaching (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 131: PDC 2009 (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Cloud Computing is for Small Companies Too (Bob Familiar)
• A Feed You Should Read #12 – DimeCasts.Net (Greg Duncan)
• Recent Podcasts (Phil Haack)
• Major Nelson – A bonus show….with lollip0p and friends (Larry Hyrb)
• Herding Code 64: Phil Haack on MVC 2 (Jon Galloway)
• Life at Microsoft – The Truth Revealed…again! (Tina Wood)
• Episode 93 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeff Atwood from ServerFault and StackOverflow (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Phone Company CRM & Azure Demo (Girish Raja)

Community / Events

• Favorite Photos from PDC09 (Adam Kinney)
• My 65 Favorite Tweets of PDC09 (Dave Burke)
• Azure IT PAC Tour and Bring a Friend, Get a Book (Jim O’Neil)
• Scottish Area SQL Server User Group Meeting, Edinburgh – Thursday 26th November (Martin Bell)
• LIDNUG: Online chat with me Monday Nov 23rd (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• SQL Server Case Conversion Functions and SQL Server Trimming Functions (Richard Carr)
• Twitter Search Term Extraction (Jamie Thomson)
• Confused.bol? (Martin Bell)
• Testing backup compression in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Remove Bookmark Key Lookup – 4 Different Ideas and SQL SERVER – A Common Design Problem – Should the Primary Key Always be a Clustered Index (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Apple Releases Magic Mouse "multi-touch" Drivers for Windows and How to View RAW Camera Images in Windows 7? Download the Proper Driver and Microsoft Updates "Office Outlook Connector" for Outlook 2010 (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/23 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Keeping a Product Launch Secret (Stephen Forte)
• Microsoft Store visit (Steve Clayton)
• You Don’t Have to Be An Administrator to Run Remote PowerShell Commands (Jeffrey Snover)
• Five Best Screencasting Tools [Hive Five] (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Getting your OSS binaries with Horn (Hadi Hariri)
• Make working with open source a breeze with Hornget (Mike Hadlow)
• Manually Upgrading your Hudson CI Server (Derik Whittaker)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #482 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 11.17 ~ 11.22 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #80 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 — #738 and Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 – 2 — #739 and Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 – 3 — #740 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #98 (David Vidmar)
• Links (11/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Microsoft PDC09 and Silverlight Round-up (Tim Heuer)
• Weekly Link Post 120 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Discoveries This Week 11/22/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day