• The easy way to set up NuGet to restore packages (David Ebbo)
• Can Microsoft ‘fix’ JavaScript and make HTML5 applications viable? (Colin Eberhardt)
• "BECAUSE WE’RE ALL PERSONS": EMPATHY AND OPEN SOURCE (Mattt Thompson)
• I’m a phony. Are you? (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some special monads in F# – Part 5 of n – Application: Poker (Steffen Forkmann)
• Real World .NET 4 and C# (Christian Nagel)
• Manually set tag colours in TeamPulse (Telerik Team Pulse)
• MVVM your Kinect code (Greg Duncan)
• DXCore Expression Lab tool window for observing the parsed source code trees (Alex Skorkin)
• Clojure and the CLR (K. Scott Allen)
• Interactive IdP With SAML-P WIF Extension (Jimmy Larkin)
• Mono.Addins – Release: v0.6.2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm (Derek Johnson)
• Dealing with singular plural phrasing (Phil Haack)
• An Issue with Area in ASP.NET MVC 3 (VB.NET) (Imran Baloch)
• ASP.NET Password Strength Indicator with jQuery Plugin. (Joe Stagner)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Mobile: Up and Running – $11.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD246 (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Azure Storage Libraries in Many Languages and Lightweight Tracing to Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
• PHP: Fetch $_GET as String with http_build_query() (Stoimen Popov)
• CSS3: Animations vs. Transitions (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• How to execute/run a shell script as root from a PHP script? (Svetoslav Marinov)
• Video Manipulation with the Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Value to Reference (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: The process (John Rayner)
• Understanding Enterprise Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Agile Innovation Games (Peter Saddington)
• Are Workflows Really That Bad? (Hint: Maybe They Aren’t) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• A New Era in Application Development, Part I (Stephen Forte)
• Technical Debt (Charles Max Wood)
• Macto: Looking at warrants (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Beginners How to: Programmatically set common Control properties and How to port your WP7 custom application Theme to Windows Phone Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight testing framework support in the Unit Testing Service (Alex Skorkin)
• Windows 8 and the Death of Silverlight (Chris Eargle)
• Screen Orientations in Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
• RelativeSource Binding in Silverlight (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – OAuth client & basic infrastructure (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 2000 WPF Things #366 – Binding a Calendar Control’s SelectedDate Property to a Nullable DateTime (Sean Sexton)
• On a path to a generic About page (Andrej Tozon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 03 of 19): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2 (MS Podcasts)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 74: Mobile Web Is Not What The Other Guys Say It Is (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 158 – PowerScripting Podcast – Phil Haack and Andrew Nurse Talk NuGet and PSGet (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Engadget HD Podcast 261 – 08.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 1 – Pilot (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Community / Events

• Let Critical Path Training send you to the SharePoint Conference 2011! (Andrew Connell)
• Will Microsoft reveal a new IDE at the BUILD conference? (Daniel Fisher)
• Get Trained on Sweet, Sweet Mango! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Author news: Sign up for Mango Jump Start August 23-24 (Kim Spilker)
• Empathy and Open Source (Joe Mayo)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 2 (Glenn Berry)
• Deleting Data in Small Chunks on SQL Server (Jason Crider)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Sparse Data and Space Used by Sparse Data – Day 17 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – Copy Results with Headers – Management Studio (Vishal)
• T-SQL Enhancements: OVER clause (Henrik Sjang Davidse)
• Adding custom folders to your SSMS Object Explorer with this free addin… (Greg Duncan)
• Knowing what your doing with NOLOCK… (Greg Duncan)
• Calculate table size with existing data (Jack Vamvas)
• Top 5 Oracle Nuances I learned Today (Jason Brimhall)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to cut its low-end Windows Azure cloud pricing (Mary Jo Foley)
• The anatomy of Xcode’s project window (O’Reilly Media)
• Gamescom: New Xbox LIVE games and features coming to Windows Phone (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 206 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Today’s Links (8/16/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #918 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Links– 2010_29 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan

• Writing an ASP.NET MVC Controller Inspector (Phil Haack)
• C# Performance Pitfall – Interop Scenarios Change the Rules (Reed Copsey)
• NuGet Support for Visual Studio 2008 (Scott Hanselman)
• HTML5 Boilerplate hits 2.0! (Paul Irish)
• MonoCross – A cross-platform MVC pattern for mobile development in .NET/C# and Mono (Google Code)

.NET / Visual Studio

• nHibernate LINQ workaround for System.NotSupportedException (Jag Reehal)
• Enable Address Level Debugging in Visual Studio and What is the use of IsBackground property of Thread? (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio Automatic File Recovery (Richard Carr)
• Getting Started with the F# PowerPack (Daniel Mohl)
• Visual Studio and Orphan Child Window–How to Fix the Issue (Derik Whittaker)
• Dynamic in C# is Broken (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• How to get DTE from Visual Studio process ID? (Kirill Osenkov)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part VII (Luca Bolognese)
• Running Visual Studio (and Resharper) on a Mac (Peter van Ooijen)
• Configuring a TFS Environment with Test Controller, Test Agent, and Build Server (Kirk Evans)
• Code Metrics: Code Metrics Results Exporting (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tip: Access to modified variable in closures (Arian Kulp)
• Lambdas for Junior Developers and Building a Tree Class (Chris Eargle)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Beta 1 Released! (Eric Smith)
• Windows Server AppFabric adds Read-Through and Write-Behind Support (Jonathan Allen)
• Photo Mosaics Part 3: Blobs (Jim O’Neil)
• I Get NuGet. You Get NuGet? (Jeff Handley)
• A Wide Array of New Features in Windows Azure Tools 1.4 (Jenni Ripley)
• Total Commander SkyDrive File System Plugin 0.8.9b (CodePlex)

Web Development

• The Backbone.js Todo List Sample, Refactored – Part 1 (Rob Conery)
• A simple pattern for AJAX with MVC (Avi Pilosof)
• HTML5 WebCamp Lab Setup Instruction (Doris Chen)
• jWorldmaps: The Anatomy of a jQuery Mapping Plugin (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Developing Rich Applications for the Diverse Internet (Joe Stagner)
• How to Implement 2-Step Verification in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Making HTML tables easier on the eye- CSS Structural Pseudo-classes (Phil Factor)
• ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Universal Map of Resources (Rick Anderson)
• HTML 5 Updates for .NET 4 (Scott Hunter)
• Running ASP.NET MVC 3 Applications on Azure (Mark Berryman)
• Hardening PHP: SQL injection – Complete walkthrough (Krzysztof Kotowicz)
• IE Microsoft JScript runtime error: ‘JSON’ is undefined (Raghav Khunger)
• Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey (Sarah Perez)
• Video encoder and metadata reading by using Windows Media Foundation (Tamir Khason)
• Windows Azure Inter-Role Communication Using Service Bus (Valery Mizonov)
• A Simple Example For Backbone.ModelBinding (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Having Trouble Adopting Agile? (Phil Japikse)
• Creating a command line tool for source code metrics analysis (Alex Skorkin)
• Why is mercurial hanging during adding file changes? (Anne Epstein)
• The LOB Chronicles – Exploring User Experience (UX) (Evan Hutnick)
• Do yourself a favor… Trust No One (Paul S. Randal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MathConverter – How to Do Math in XAML (Ivan Krivyakov)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): [Index] attribute (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone Pivot and loading content (Andrej Tozon)
• TouchDevelop – Getting Started (Jonathan de Halleux)
• WPF: Dictionary Value Converter (Arik Poznanski)
• How can you detect Browser Information in Silverlight? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #362 – Changing the Text on a ToggleButton When a User Clicks On It and #363 – Calendar Control Basics (Sean Sexton)
• Using on View Ready in Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)
• FlickR Searching with Silverlight & Rx (Mike Taulty)
• Get List of all Control Types in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
• Detecting a Windows Phone physical drop – Part 1 – Intro and theory (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Show a minimized panorama application bar (Håkan Reis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Space Out! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 118: Paul Betts on SassAndCoffee (Jon Galloway)
• Ping 112: ESPN & Xbox LIVE, Foy works for Windows Phone, G mail man, IE Hoax (Laura Foy)
• SE Podcast #15 (Alex Miller)
• Thomas Fennel and Windows Phone Mango’s Push Notifications and Live Tile Support (Robert Hess)
• Silverlight TV 81: Four Great Windows Phone UX Tips (John Papa)
• Interview: Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• This Developer’s Life 2.0.4 Taste (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – David Kelley Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Boagworld – The big decisions about design and how to make them (Paul Boag)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 029 – “Aussie Kids Are Weet-Bix Kids” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Hot Apps: Cro-Mag Rally, Numerix, Wild West, Activity Roulette, HoloPhone 3D (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Someone is selling my Foundations of Programming ebook on Amazon.com (and it isn’t me) (Karl Seguin)
• FubuMVC Webinar: F102 – FubuMVC In Action (Josh Arnold)
• MVPs Bring Together Hundreds of Developers to Hack Kinect and Build Games in Sydney (Nick Ellery)
• Google + Hangouts (Grant Fritchey)
• I Blame Brent Ozar (Mike Hillwig)
• The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) Program Distilled (Mike Walker)

Database

• Viewing SQL statements created by Entity Framework with SQL Server Compact (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server “Denali”: Distributed Replay (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Advanced Aggregates with the Over Clause – Day 11 of 35 and SQL SERVER – SafePeak – The Plug and Play Immediate Acceleration Solution and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Ranking Functions – RANK( ), DENSE_RANK( ), and ROW_NUMBER( ) – Day 12 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tuesday #21 – A trigger can do that! (Ted Krueger)
• Query window custom colouring now works properly [SSMS] (Jamie Thomson)
• When was the Last Time You Removed an Index Because it was Never Used? (Brad M. McGehee)
• Reset Identity Column in SQL (Bradley Schacht)
• We Are TOTALLY Amused: A T-SQL Error (Jen McCown)

Miscellaneous

• Steal Ideas From These psake Scripts (Pete Seale)
• OneNote tip: getting OneNote to prompt you for where to store stuff (John Guin)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Functional Programming for Java Developers – Only $8.49 w/code DD241 (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 115 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for August 10, 2011 — #1129 and Silverlight Cream for August 11, 2011 — #1130 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Links– 2010_27 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) and Weekly Links– 2010_28 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Today’s Links (8/10/2011) and Today’s Links (8/11/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #914 and The Morning Brew #915 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 9-Aug-2011 and 10-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Geek Reading August 11, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Link dump for August 10th and Link dump for August 11th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily Links 11/08/2011 (Jax)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders & Pitfalls: The Complete Collection (so far…) (James Michael Hare)

The Geek Shelf

Head First Design Patterns by Elisabeth Freeman

• MonoTouch: Past, Present, and Future (Brent Schooley)
• And we are back: Mono 2.10.3 (Miguel de Icaza)
• A bit more details on compiler Roslyn plans… (Patrick Smacchia)
• Coding4Fun: Where’s My Car? (Arian Kulp)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 4 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A brighter TFS future? (Jimmy Bogard)
• New book: Microsoft Access 2010 VBA Programming Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part VI (Luca Bolognese)
• VS2010 – Debugging not working (Peter Gfader)
• How to use a WCF custom channel to implement client-side caching in a Windows Azure-hosted application (Paolo Salvatori)
• C#: DateTime to Midnight datetime (Raghav Khunger)
• RadControls for WinForms Step-by-step tutorial: Updated (Telerik WinForms Team)
• Entity Framework 4.1 Update 1, Backward Compatibility and Microsoft (Oren Eini)
• Robosapien, I Kinect you… (Greg Duncan)
• dotCover 1.1.1 and dotTrace Performance 4.5.1 Released (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• Metro Skin for ASP.NET AJAX is now available (Senthil Kumar)
• Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 (Brad Wilson)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Returns Garbage (Chris Eargle)
• Integrating MVC routes and Web API routes (Glenn Block)
• HTML5 Part 4: Using HTML5 while retaining support for older browsers (Jennifer Marsman)
• MVC Controls Toolkit 1.3.0 SP1 (CodePlex)
• Playing with the new Windows Azure Storage Analytics Features (Steve Marx)
• Multiple URL Binding with IIS Express (Abhijit Jana)
• Connecting Web Apps with Web Intents (Google Chrome Blog)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: SemanticConflict (Martin Fowler)
• Article: Agile Strategy Manifesto (Yogesh Kumar)
• Algorithmically Estimating Developer Time (Peter Saddington)
• Enterprise Architecture Goes To College, EA Becoming Academically Recognized and Offered (Mike Walker)
• Translating Code Smells in Server Smells (Patrick Debois)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to: Search for a Contact and get Contact Picture in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• Using the “Copy Xaml” feature in Expression Design to create HTML5 SVG Path Data. (Michael Crump)
• WP7 Contrib – Bing Maps Rest API Wrapper Part III Search (Richard Griffin)
• Bing Maps Task (Jesse Liberty)
• 2000 WPF Things #358 – Binding a RadioButton to an Enumerated Type (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone SDK 7.1 – A developer review and Invoke the Windows Phone emulator console window without using the registry and How to access blacklisted apps in the Windows Phone emulator ROM (with the locked BIN image) (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Rapid Business Application Development with Visual Studio LightSwitch (Jenni Ripley)
• How to Retrieve WPF Visual Tree Programmatically ? and Writing a Stretchable ContentControl in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
• Understanding NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch – Using Range Sliders (Part 2) (Mihail Mateev)
• Catel – WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 MVVM toolkit – Release v2.0 (CodePlex)
• Hey, why is my ViewModelLocator not being called when creating a view? (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Peter Torr and Application Multi-Tasking on Windows Phone "Mango" (Robert Hess)
• Silverlight TV 80: Reactive Extensions (John Papa)
• Video – What is Enterprise Architecture According to Industry Thought Leaders (Mike Walker)
• Deep Dive video: PowerShell Modules by Dan Harman (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Saturday in DC 8/11-8/13/2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• August 11th at Agile 2011: "Agile Tech Tree" Workshop and August 11th at Agile 2011: "Slackers and Debtors" Hands-On Session (James Shore)
• NRW Conf 2011 community conference: The doors are open (Daniel Fisher)
• Monospace, diary of an organizer (Louis Salin)
• Sample DBA Resumes (Brent Ozar)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server: Retreive all records between Two Rows of a Table without a Numeric Primary Key (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Finding un-matching Records – Day 5 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – ALTER COLUMN – Management Studio v. T-SQL (Vishal)
• "Select Top 1000 Rows" Doesn’t Show SPARSE Columns? (Larry Leonard)

SharePoint

• Continuous Integration for SharePoint 2010 (Mike Morton)

Miscellaneous

• How to Start Using VIM (Victor Savkin)
• Two New Free Xbox Live Games Next Week (August 10th) – Sudoku & Minesweeper (Antonio Hernandez)
• Thankyou Mr. Russinovich – Process Explorer 15 adds GPU monitoring (LearnWPF)
• How to publish your application to Android Installer (O’Reilly Media)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Google Power Search – Only $4.49 w/code DDWRS (O’Reilly Media)
• Paint.NET PSD Plugin – Release v2.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Windows Phone “Tango” to feature universal search? (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• SilverlightShow for July 25 – 31, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for August 04, 2011 — #1124 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #910 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (8/4/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 08/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 3-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Geek Reading August 4, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s "Hard Code": A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft by Eric Brechner

Top Links

• Get/Load Polymorphism in NHibernate 3 (James Kovacs)
• Three Months and Ten Days (Miguel de Icaza)
• Massive: 400 Lines of Data Access Happiness (Rob Conery)
• From Transportation to Pixels (Mike Kruzeniski)
• ICommand discovery with MEF (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Do you know about the Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects Guidance? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• TODO Comments in the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)
• Using Windows Azure AppFabric Cache (CTP) (Panagiotis Kefalidis)
• Restricting the types available in TypePresenter in WF designers (Rory Primrose)
• AwesomiumSharp! (Chris Cavanagh)
• EF Feature CTP5: Code First and WinForms Databinding (Julia Kornich)
• Using StructureMap with WCF in Azure (Peter von Lochow)

Web Development

• JavaScript: Using a constructor without new (Julian M. Bucknall)
• RTM’d today: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 (Devon Musgrave)
• Setting Input Field Focus from JavaScript Code and The Visual Studio SP1 Razor experience for WebMatrix Pages (Joe Stagner)
• Get Selected Row from ASP.NET MVC 3 WebGrid (Malcolm Sheridan)
• CSS: Innovative Techniques and Practical Solutions (Vitaly Friedman)
• Notes on Building Razor Views (K. Scott Allen)
• A Proposal for an HTTP Digital Signature Protocol and API (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Web Camp Labs are Available to Download (Doris Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Hardheaded View of TDD (James Shore)
• Where are the software architects of tomorrow? (Simon Brown)
• BDD: ATDD done well? (Elizabeth Keogh)
• MoreAgile Principles (Geert Bossuyt)
• Increasing team sizes: Collective unresponsibility (Mark Needham)
• The Art of Mental Judo (J.D. Meier)
• Examining the Current State of EA 2011 and Communication is Key for Enterprise Architects (Mike Walker)
• Reference Models, Reference Architectures, and Reference Implementations (JD Meier)
• New Release of Isolator++ for C++ developers and New Release of Isolator (Avi Kaye)
• Breaking up the Workday– Overcoming the Workaholic Syndrome (Dan Wahlin)
• HowToCode: Do we need UML? (Code Inside Team)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Experimenting with SVG Filter Effects (Christian Schormann)
• Moonlight 4 Preview 1 is out (Miguel de Icaza)
• Silverlight ListBox: Bold text for the selected item (Bob Bartholomay)
• The Engadget Interview: Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman talks Windows Phone 7 and Nokia (Chris Ziegler)
• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 3 + 4 – Animation (Peter Kuhn)
• sudo localize –crossplatform [Free PseudoLocalizer class makes it easy to identify localization issues in WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 applications!] (David Anson)
• Porting that Android App to Windows Phone 7 ? (Don Burnett)
• A few free WPF Controls from Mindscape (limited time offer, reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• More Books on Windows Phone 7 Development (Joey deVilla)
• How to use WCF services to access SQL Azure Database from Windows Phone 7 app – Part 3 (Per Ola Sæther)
• Silverlight 4 GDR3 now live (Silverlight Team)
• What I Learned In WP7–Issue 17 (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Rob Eisenberg MVVMs Us with Caliburn.Micro! and .NET Rocks! – Gael Fraiteur is Still PostSharp! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Yuri Gurevich – Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity, 2 of n (Charles Torre)
• Recording of webinar ‘Querying & Updating Data From Silverlight Clients with WCF RIA Services’ by Brian Noyes (Silverlight Team)
• Monads in C#-8. Video of my DDD9 Monad talk (Mike Hadlow)
• WP7 Podcasts (Rudi Grobler)
• Matt Bencke discusses news and Demos from Mobile World Congress (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• MSDN Presents: SharePoint – Our team is coming to a city near you in March! (Beth Massi)
• Dear .NET Community, You Blew It! (Rod Paddock)
• IT in your DNA? ‘Crack the code’ winners announced, share your IT story and win tickets for TechDays 2011 (Katrien de Graeve)
• A User Group Leaders Guide to the INETA Community Speakers Program (Kevin Griffin)
• Advanced .Net developer training at Headspring (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Straight Out of ADC 2011 (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Dreaming about #Mix11? Here’s your chance… (Cigdem Patlak)

Database

• What’s Up With Discovery Wizard for SQL Server? (Kevin E. Kline)
• SQL SERVER – WRITELOG – Wait Type – Day 17 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Introduction to Adaptive ETL Tool – How adaptive is your ETL? (Pinal Dave)
• Snap to object layout in SSIS (Simon Sabin)
• Did You Know: Where’s the Best Place to Get Started? (Kalen Delaney)
• Scaling up or scaling out? (Brent Ozar)
• Do Stored Procedures Protect Against SQL Injection? (Brian Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Service Pack 1 RTM Released to MSDN and TechNet Users (Imran Hussain)
• Signing Powershell scripts (Martin Bell)
• How to Record a Screencast with Expression Encoder 4 (Steve Smith)
• Automatically Surfacing Subproperties (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 16th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• WebDev Tweets 16-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #794 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

C# in Depth, Second Edition by Jon Skeet

Top Links

• On Reflector (Miguel de Icaza)
• Windows Azure Software Development Kit (SDK) Refresh Released (Windows Azure Team)
• Physical Wall Boards are King for Agile – Keep it Simple (Peter Saddington)
• If Writing An Object That Is IDisposable, Don’t Fail During Construction (Steve Smith)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Few Tips on Customizing Debugging Window View in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Changing the Desktop Wallpaper (Richard Carr)
• Conway’s Game of Life with F# and SDL.NET (Scott Philip Brown)
• How to Intercept a WCF Message to track message size (Derik Whittaker)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Useful But Overlooked Sets (James Michael Hare)
• Getting the "windows azure web role entry point has stopped working" when using Visual Studio 2010 and the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio (Jon Flanders)
• Do you know about the Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Guidance? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• AsmSpy: A little tool to help fix assembly version conflicts (Mike Hadlow)
• Middleware in the WCF Web APIs (Ryan Riley)
• How to view the XAML Code on the Intellisense popup in Visual Studio 2010 ? (Senthil Kumar)
• Helpful DateTime extension methods for dealing with Time Zones (Joshua Flanagan)
• Coding Helpers – Move to Region (Alex Skorkin)
• Creating Console apps that use the Server Profile (David Ebbo)
• System.Object : a look on mother of all managed classes (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• How to get list of all active HttpModules in ASP.NET? (Abhijit Jana)
• Curiosities in Microsoft.Web.Helpers: Video.Flash and Analytics.GetGoogleHtml and JSON Deserialization Made Simple With System.Web.Helpers and List (Karsten Januszewski)
• MVC Tip – An easy way to deal with those NotFound Errors (Mike Ceranski)
• An Open Letter To jQuery Plugin Authors (Richard Freedman)
• MvcSiteMapProvider 3.0.0 released (Maarten Balliauw)
• WebSharper 2.1 Beta 5 available (Adam Granicz)
• New York City Touts Its API on Subway Advertisements (Adam DuVander)
• JSON Toolkit – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 9: Optimistic Concurrency Patterns (Arthur Vickers)
• ‘Why’ often unhelpful (Mark Needham)
• Frustrating automation investigations (John Guin)
• Hex values for Crayola colors (Cory Doctorow)
• Things That Work: Download to Paper (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Animations — Alternatives, Performance (Jan Slodicka)
• A Pivot-Style Data Grid without the DataGrid (Jeremy Likness)
• Google Maps for Windows Phone 7 using Bing Map Control (Naveed Tejani)
• Animated WPF Panels (Fredrik Bornander)
• Blend Bits 21–Importing from Photoshop & Illustrator… (Mike Taulty)
• New book: Microsoft Silverlight Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 and New book: Microsoft XNA Framework Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 (Devon Musgrave)
• Silverlight Spy 4 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Some Useful WP7 Content for your Toolbag (Mike Ormond)
• Changing the border for a DatePicker control on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ListPicker FullScreen mode Background problem: workaround (Windows Phone Geek)
• Microsoft will release new WP7 developer tools, including CDMA updates (Phone Arena)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• John Platt: Introduction to Sho – A Playground for Data (Charles Torre)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Phil Haack, Ted Neward, Two Friends and Qdoba (Scott Hanselman)
• Let’s Play TDD #83: Parsing and Formatting (James Shore)
• Silverlight TV 60: Checking Out the Zero Gravity Game, Now on Windows Phone 7 (John Papa)
• WCF RIA Services Webinar – Querying and Updating Data (Brian Noyes)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #23 with guest Eric Kepes (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• Nerd Nite, February 10, 2011 (Philly Nerd Nite)
• Kathleen Dollard in Vermont and New Hampshire (Jim O’Neil)
• Join Us for WebCamps – Free Web Developer Training – Around the World (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• What is SQL Server Crescent? (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks and sys.dm_exec_requests – Wait Type – Day 4 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Prompts for Reporting Services (Chris Webb)

SharePoint

• Working with SharePoint 2010 Themes (Anweshi Deverasetty)

Miscellaneous

• How to Write Without Writing (Jeff Atwood)
• If Reflector needed money so badly, why didn’t they ask? (Joe White)
• Red Gate should have said… (Keith Dahlby)
• Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ Release Candidate (minus Drive Extender) goes to testers and What does it mean to be a Microsoft beta tester any more? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Ultimate PC, 5 months in (Pete Brown)
• Is Microsoft going to sell their own tablet? [VIDEO] (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 3th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 3 February 2011 – #19 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Morning Brew #785 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 02/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 3-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Distributed Weekly 88 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft XNA Framework Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold

Top Links

• From ArgumentException to CodeContracts using Resharper (Henning Krause)
• Windows Phone Recipes – Helping the Community and Solving Circular Navigation in Windows Phone Silverlight Applications (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Guidance Map v2.0 (J.D. Meier)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Debugging 64 bit application using IntelliTrace – Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta (Abhijit Jana)
• The @” syntax in Objective-C vs C# (Miguel de Icaza)
• Enable Debugging in Web.Config (Zain Naboulsi)
• Coding4Fun: Tron Disc with .NET Microframework (David Powell, Jeremy Ashinghurst, Paul King & Jason McMahon)
• RavenDB on Mono (Rob Ashton)
• NuGet feed has changed again, and broken OpenWrap again. (Sebastien Lambla)
• Visualization – Element Highlighting (Alex Skorkin)
• All your base do not belong to you (Eric Lippert)
• Azure@home Part 12: The Move to SDK 1.3 (Jim O’Neil)

Web Development

• Introduction to jQuery Templates (Hajan Selmani)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Embraces Dynamic Typing (Jonathan Allen)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 RC versions (Arun Mahendrakar)
• jQuery Datepicker: Display on image click (Raghav Khunger)
• HTML5 Recipes: More on Geolocation (Romin Irani)
• In the YUI 3 Gallery: The Carousel Module (Gopal Venkatesan & Fabian Frank)
• Programming in Python 3, second edition (Peter Backx)
• Break on UI and network events in Chrome Developer Tools (Pavel Podivilov)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Using Non-Standard Modules (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• OpenId With Forms Authentication (Sacha Barber)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An Observation Of Pair Programming vs. Not (Derick Bailey)
• Top 10 Confidence Boosters That Work (J.D. Meier)
• Parsing mathematical expressions using active patterns (Flying Frog)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Runner (Giorgio Sironi)
• Helpful Domain Logs of CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
• Six Ways to Refuel Your Energy Every Day (Mike Walker)
• Take a visual comp or prototype and turn it into an interactive UI, is that what you do? (Adam Kinney)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF–Copy UIElement to Clipboard as Multiple Formats (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows Phone 7 – Debugging on the phone is necessary and Getting the groove on – using the FM radio on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight Out of Browser Kit Allows Cool Windows 7 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• Working with the Silverlight Rich Text Box control (Kevin Dockx)
• How to find great apps for Windows Phone 7 from Mike Stroh of Windows Phone 7 Plain & Simple (Kim Spilker)
• Part 3 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers. (Michael Crump)
• GEICO Embraces Windows Phone 7 Smartphones and Rolls Out New “GEICO GloveBox” App (Microsoft Blog)
• CameraPanel: A Parallax Panel for Silverlight, WP7 or WPF (Robby Ingebretsen)
• Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 4) (Mike Taulty)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue #2 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• FTW! (For the Windows, that is…) (Denny Boynton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, HTML 5 ,oData and more! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 134 – PowerScripting Podcast – Trevor Sullivan on WMI Events and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Ping 86: Zuckerberg & Gates, Windows Phone App Stats, Kinect wins, Halo Wars stays (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #67: A Closure Would Be Helpful Right About Now (James Shore)
• Yet Another Podcast #18 – Joe Stagner (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Foundations of Programming 2 Will Need Your Help (Karl Seguin)
• Slides and code for my SOLID presentation at the .NET Bern User Group (Simone Chiaretta)
• Complimentary virtual training event on December 16th from T.E.N. and Wintellect (Kim Spilker)
• Report: Microsoft to show off new set of tablet PCs at CES (Todd Bishop)

Database

• URL Based Images using SSRS and Adding Existing Reports to Reporting Services Solution (Brian McDonald)
• SSIS Job Execution (Jason Brimhall)
• SSIS Denali Source and Destination Assistants (Devin Knight)
• Get Password Expiration Date in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• T-SQL Tuesday #13: What the Business Says Is Not What the Business Wants (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – What the Business Says Is Not What the Business Wants (Pinal Dave)
• Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 – a comprehensive checklist. (Robert Pearl)
• Windows Azure Learning Plan – SQL Azure (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

• SPDisposeCheck Updated for SharePoint 2007 & 2010 Projects (Andrew Connell)
• BCS : Access Denied. You do not have permission to access this content (Lightning Tools)
• Framed Office Web Apps SharePoint 2010 (Wesley Bakker)
• New SPDisposeCheck release available (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Profile Picture Thumbnails, Following Projects, and Fork Collaboration (Matt Hawley)
• 9 Programming Languages To Watch In 2011 (Rob Diana)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 052 for 12/13/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily News Digest 12/13/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #750 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 13, 2010 — #1010 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action, Second Edition by Bear Bibeault

Top Links

• Now Available: Windows 7 Phone Guide (J.D. Meier)
• Fluent Builders Part 2 (Peter Ritchie)
• Mono: What we are Cooking (Miguel de Icaza)
• A Burden Called Meetings (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Visual Studio Explosion! – VS2010 SP1 *BETA* Released and Context (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Ignoring Members During XML Serialization (Richard Carr)
• Rob Miles XNA 3.0 eBook at Half Price (Rob Miles)
• Getting MySQL to work with Entity Framework 4.0 (Gunnar Peipman)
• VS2010/TFS2010 VM Refresh Downloads now available (Greg Duncan)
• Fluent NHibernate Supports NHibernate 3 O/R Mapper (David Hayden)
• TFS Test Steps Editor – Multiline Support (Shai Raiten)
• DXCore Components – CodeMetricProvider and How to use CodeMetricProvider control to build you own code metric (Alex Skorkin)
• MonoReports: Report Designer and Reporting Engine (Miguel de Icaza)
• Creating a Domain Service Factory to Host POCO Entities (Beavis Killer)

Web Development

• Dynamic Page Menus in WebMatrix Templates with CSS and jQuery. (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET 4 Unleashed in Bookstores! (Stephen Walther)
• Class-Level Model Validation with EF Code First and ASP.NET MVC 3 (Scott Guthrie)
• Disable HTML, CSS, or JScript IntelliSense (Zain Naboulsi)
• How Microsoft is making PHP Development easier (Rafael Dohms)
• Foursquare API v2 is Public, v1 Deprecated (Daniel Luxemburg)
• Declaring Static Methods in PHP (Lorna Mitchell)
• Duplicate DOM elements with the same ID (Jason Jarrett)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Personal Development Books List (J.D. Meier)
• Developers and Change – Scare Tactics? and Agile #Failure = #Win (ScoutMaster)
• Test Attachment Cleaner (Shai Raiten)
• Aspect Oriented Programming in Python using Decorators (Dror Helper)
• 5 Ways to Reduce Workplace Stress (Chris Spagnuolo)
• Coverage with TeamCity and dotCover with MSTest, NUnit or MSpec (Hadi Hariri)
• There Is No Objective Management (Jurgen Appelo)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of Capacity Planning – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDACP (O’Reilly Media)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlighting Your PHP, Part 3: Bringing PHP Into Visual Studio (Justin Whitney)
• WPF – Copy UIElement as Image to Clipboard (Brian Lagunas)
• Gestures in Windows Phone 7 (Chris Koenig)
• Lessons Learned in Personal Web Page Part 1: Dynamic XAML (Jeremy Likness)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #10 – Visual State Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Top 10 Tips To Getting Help With Silverlight (Jesse Liberty)
• Writing Cross-Platform XAML Applications (Mike Ormond)
• WP7 Tip: disabling the Pivot Control swipe gesture (James Ashley)
• Helpful Windows Phone 7 Tips (Keith Ward)
• Requirements of and pitfalls in Windows Phone 7 serialization (Peter Kuhn)
• How to use T4 templates in WP7, Silverlight, Desktop or even MonoDroid apps (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Issue with the WP7 PictureDecoder and Workaround (Rene Schulte)
• Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser and WebBrowser Control Site Formatting (Nick Randolph)
• Silverlight basics. Validation (Denis Gladkikh)
• Windows Phone Unplugged – How to Detect the Zune Software (Rene Schulte)
• Windows Phone Marketplace payouts coming in January, reporting available now (Todd Brix)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Panel Discussion on Data Access in Silverlight at DevReach (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows 7 Feature: Explorer Browser (MS Podcasts)
• Silverlight TV 54: New Silverlight Training Series (John Papa)
• Let’s Play TDD #64: Integrating ApplicationModel (James Shore)
• Okapi, Endless Mural with HTML5 and IE9 (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Celebrating the second Computer Science Education Week (Maggie Johnson)
• Got Game: How to Keep Girls Interested in Computer Science (Bob Familiar)
• National Computer Science Education Week Highlights Need to Empower Students Early (Cameron Evans)
• Why am I working in India? (Mark Needham)
• MSDN Flash Poll #14: My First Computer was a… (Mike Ormond)
• Free Jump Start Course on Windows Azure Development next week – December 15-17, 2010 (Kim Spilker)
• Interview: Tamir Berliner of PrimeSense (Josh Blake)

Database

• Tools cooperation – Visual Assist X and IDE Tools (Alex Skorkin)
• Video: Data Modeling in the SQL Server Space (Kevin Kline)
• SQL SEVER – Finding Memory Pressure – External and Internal (Pinal Dave)
• Querying relative information with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Missing Values in IDENTITY Column (Mike Hillwig)
• SQL Indexing and Performance Part 4: Design Considerations (Lefteris Karafilis)
• Can You Dig It? – Parallelism in the Plan Cache (Jason Strate)
• SQL Server Compact 4.0 CTP2 released (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)

Miscellaneous

• Xbox 360 Takes No. 1 Spot in Console Sales for Sixth Month in a Row (Microsoft Blog)
• More Free Microsoft E-Books (Richard Hay)
• Kinect, with the magicians from MIT, fulfils its Minority Report destiny (Sebastian Anthony)
• How Can I View MSMQ Messages and Queues? (Steve Smith)
• Spoon Lets You Run Portable Desktop Apps From Your Browser (Whitson Gordon)
• Windows Phone Update In February Says Developer (Matt Rosoff)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 09, 2010 — #1006 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #748 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/10/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Distributed Weekly 80 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Microsoft LINQ in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 by Paolo Pialorsi

Top Links

• OData Support for Any and All (Alex James)
• Prism 4.0 – November 2010 (MS Downloads)
• A few quick ASP.NET MVC 3 Installation Notes (Scott Guthrie)
• Verify a List of URLs in C# Asynchronously (Steve Smith)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The F# compiler source release: making it easy to write cool Visual Studio extensions (Brian McNamara)
• A LINQ Style Operator to Combine Sequences (Richard Carr)
• Free EBook Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Bruce Kyle)
• Asynchrony in C# 5 Part Six: Whither async? (Eric Lippert)
• F# Goes Open Source and New Mono Log Profiler (Miguel de Icaza)
• Writing a Compiler in C#: Parsing, Part 3 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Book Review Programming Entity Framework Second Edition (Deepak Kapoor)
• Linked Items in Projects (Zain Naboulsi)
• Moncai – Cloud Computing Platform for .NET (Rinat Abdullin)

Web Development

• Getting ready to move to a jQuery / WCF based AJAX model. (Joe Stagner)
• Using HTML forms to collect user data (Pad Gallagher)
• Javascript prototype property (Ryan Sukale)
• Sueetie Calendar Properties Exposed (Dave Burke)
• Gave up ASP.NET MVC on IIS 5.1/6 (Sam Gentile)
• Web Designers VS. Web Developers: Infographic by Wix.com (Talya Wix)
• Facebook Best Practices Straight From The Source (Romin Irani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Cost vs. Risk In Testing (Derick Bailey)
• Typemock Isolator 6.0.6 is out! (Igal Tabachnik)
• Design Patterns used with Windows Azure App Fabric: The Service Bus (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Article:Book Review: The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management (Shane Hastie)
• Mighty Moose – Smart Continuous Unit Tests for .NET and Mono (Rinat Abdullin)
• Interview with Mary Gorman – Agile Requirements! (ScoutMaster)
• Favor Value Over Quality (Davy Brion)
• Mindjet takes Project Management to Next Level with Project Jetpack (Chance Brown)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Apps That Play Media (Dani Diaz)
• GeoCoordinateWatcher tips part1 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Pet Peeve: How to break the back button experience in Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7: Where to store that application key? NOT in the Application (Nick Randolph)
• WPF DatePicker That Allows KeyBoard Up/Down DatePicking (Sacha Barber)
• 2 of 10 – Make sure your buttons are visible, even when the keyboard is displayed. (Alfred Astort)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Concurrent Programming with Revisions (Charles Torre)
• New DevNugget: Pinned Sites in Internet Explorer 9 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• StartUp Success Podcast Show #88: Jeff Haynie of Appcelerator (Bob Walsh)
• Windows Phone 7 Themed Videos (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Community / Events

• Giveaway: Win Telerik RadControls for Silverlight worth $799 FREE (Kunal Chowdhury)
• John Jackson: from submarines to the Cloud (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Silverlight Firestarter – Future of Silverlight starts now!!! (Michael Sync)

Database

• Generate SQL Server Database From Entity Data Model (Deepak Kapoor)
• Parameters in SSIS in Denali (Jamie Thomson)
• New Uses for NoSQL (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Take a SQL Server Database Offline (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Get All the Information of Database using sys.databases (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• cross web application rollup web part (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Migrating from Communications Server 2007 R2 to Lync Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone 7 supports USB tethering for Samsung Focus/Omnia 7 and LG Optimus 7 (Updated) (damaster)
• How to Get More Plus out of Notepad++ [Coding] (Aaron Martin)
• Check Out PragPub, An Excellent Free Magazine (Davy Brion)
• Snippet manager in PowerGUI Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Adding Value to Ebooks – color figures (Jim Minatel)
• Mr. Ballmer, Please Step Back. Step Away from the Vehicle. (Joel Oleson)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Conversion Optimization $15.99 (Save 43%) Use code DDCVN (O’Reilly Media)
• Kinect Has Now Been Hacked To Run On Mac OS X ! UPDATE: Kinect Can Do Multitouch Too [VIDEO] (Uzair Ghani)
• Firefox 4.0 beta 7 brings faster JavaScript, WebGL, is now feature-complete (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 11/12/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #728 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) by Krzysztof Cwalina

Top Links

• Configuring processors, a sneak peak into WCF vNext (Glenn Block)
• Two Cool Resources for Visual Studio Developers–VSSnippets and VSTemplates on CodePlex (Joe Stagner)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #21: Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Shipping Smiles on the AppStore (Miguel de Icaza)
• Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part – 01) (Kunal Chowdhury)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# vs. C# (Derek Greer)
• Extension methods that add fluent elegance (Rory Primrose)
• NHibernate Linq provider: dynamic filtering using lambda expressions (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• TFS 2010 Work Item Seed: TFS Work Item system.id at a predefined number (Martin Hinshelwood)
• C# Enums – A bit of Extra Caution when working with Enums and Poor Man’s Singleton Methods via Dynamic Wrappers in C# (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Visual F# 100 Examples: Example Number 2 (Rey Dacoco)
• Server Explorer: SharePoint Servers — vstipTool0123 and Show All Settings (VB) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Server AppFabric Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Which Language VB or CSharp? (Dave M. Bush)
• How to track an object which is Out of Scope while Debugging ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Progress Software Releases New Entity Framework Provider (ADO.NET Team)
• Continuation Passing Style Revisited, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• RavenDB – The Image Gallery Project (XIV) – Implementing a real-time tag search (Rob Ashton)

Web Development

• Extending MVC Views with DynamicObject (Javier G. Lozano)
• A Powershell Script for Monitoring Web Site Status (Mike Hadlow)
• Using/developing web services – .NET Zone Stats (Dennis Delimarsky)
• What Makes Internet Explorer 9 Beta Fast? (James Pratt)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit test oriented mind (Al Kampfer)
• Tips for Release Planning with Distributed Scrum (Mark Levison)
• Distributed Agile: Physical story wall still useful (Mark Needham)
• Unit testing a workflow that relies on Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name (Rory Primrose)
• The Least Way: Pivoting Away from Agile Excess (Scott Bellware)
• Comments (Niki Kohari) – A nice update to AgileZen.
• Requirements are dead. Long live requirements. (Jon Archer)
• Have You Found Your Project In Technical Debt? (James Sugrue)
• Command pattern architecture, or “How to do it a little at a time” (Kyle Baley)
• Is Enum Evil? (Lorna Mitchell)
• The unknown acronym: GRASP (Giorgio Sironi)
• Technical Debt (Steven Lott)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: If at first you don’t succeed … (Rob Tiffany)
• Windows Phone 7: The SuperSite Review (Paul Thurrott)
• Curious about Windows Phone 7–Check out this extensive review (Bob Familiar)
• The Windows Phone 7 Launch Has Started (Brian Seitz)
• Simplest way to Create a Non-Movable Silverlight Child Window (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 7 is here! (almost) (Luke)
• Are we human, or are we Windows Phone 7 Timedancers…? (Sara Allison)
• Architecting WP7 – Part 6 of 10: Loosely Coupled Messaging (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Offline Data Cache in Windows Phone 7 (Simon Ince)
• More Windows Phone 7 apps I’m playing with today (Steve Clayton)
• Getting the WebOperationContext of a HTTP response in Silverlight (Yavor Georgiev)
• fingerpaint – a little wp7 paint app (Sigurd Snørteland)
• Simple textbox validation wp7 (Baba)
• WP7 Don’t give false impressions. (Mike Hole)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Brian Randell is Completely Virtual (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ARCast.TV: Simon Guest on Architecture at Microsoft (MS Podcasts)
• Web Camps TV #10 – WebMatrix Beta 2: Themes, Package Manager, NuPack, HTML 5 templates and more (James Senior)
• This Developer’s Life 1.0.6 Abstraction (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Countdown to PDC10: Trick-or-Treat (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Watch PDC10 via Live Broadcast for FREE (Marc Schweigert)
• Mayor Bloomberg, Steve Ballmer announce Imagine Cup 2011 (Bob Familiar)
• Free Software for the Un/Under Employed (William Vaughn)

Database

• Execute SQL Server Agent Job Task runs asynchronously (Jeremy Carter)
• Calculate Running Total and Row Total in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Beginning SQL Joes 2 Pros: The SQL Hands-On Guide for Beginners (Pinal Dave)
• How to downgrade Integration Services 2008 packages to 2005 (Simon Sabin)
• Tokenizing filenames in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server: How to insert million numbers to table fast? (Gunnar Peipman)
• RavenDB – Defining indexes (Oren Eini)
• How Often Do You Run CHECKDB Against Your Databases? (Brad M. McGehee)
• Reading the SQL Azure tea leaves (Jamie Thomson)
• Ground Zero Database Design: Part 2 (Jen McCown)
• How I fixed “Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.sqlserver.smo, version=10.0.0.0′” issue (Pradeep Adiga)

SharePoint

• Content API for Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 BCS model deploy errors (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Command Reference (MS Downloads)
• 15 Very Useful Mobile Apps for Conferences (Aliza Sherman)
• Book Review: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (David Starr)
• Learning: Writing about simple things (Mark Needham)
• Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today (MG Siegler)
• Missed Opportunities at Microsoft and Ray Ozzie Departure (Miguel de Icaza)
• To Go Native Or Not To Go Native… That Is The Question (Nick Berardi)
• On Demand Translation (Somasegar)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #712 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 20, 2010 — #973 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action by Jeffrey Palermo

Top Links

• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #16: The Panorama Control (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Combining Silverlight Navigation Framework and Prism to create MVVM Applications – Introduction (Slobodan Pavkov)
• TWC9 – Illustrator-to-Canvas, msPerformance, ExtensionMethod.net, (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Element Operators (Richard Carr)
• Hidden Facts of C# Structures in terms of MSIL (Abhishek Sur)
• LINQ Grouping with C# and Visual Basic (Christian Nagel)
• BOO! For Visual Studio 2010… (Alpha, but still a Boo!’able VS) (Greg Duncan)
• Actual *dynamic* dispatch through the DLR from C#? (Oliver Sturm)
• Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Monitoring Management Pack (Shai Raiten)
• Using Smart Tags from the Keyboard (Zain Naboulsi)
• 3 Gems in Mono for .NET Programmers – The hidden potential of Mono.CSharp, Mono.Cecil And Mono.TextTemplating (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• CodeRush Screenshot of the Week – Rotate 90 Degrees (Mark Miller)
• CSLA .NET branching and tagging strategy (Rockford Lhotka)
• Creating Desktop Applications with Messenger Connect (Archis Gore)
• Reactive Extensions in .NET – ConnectableObservable (Sankarsan Bose)

Web Development

• ASP.NET with F# and Mono (2#4U)
• ASP.NET MVC Controller Action Unit Test Extension Methods (Mike Hadlow)
• Book Review: jQuery in Action (2nd Edition) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• ASP.NET WebMatrix Beta 2 – Getting Started (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Simple image manipulations using WebImage helper (Gunnar Peipman)
• Adoption Program Insights: Sending Emails from Windows Azure (Part 2 of 2) (Norman Sequeira, Patrick Butler Monterde & Tom Hollander)
• DOMParser and XMLSerializer in IE9 Beta (Tony Ross)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Software Development in Regulated Environments (Bob Nadler)
• The Purpose of Unit Testing (John Sonmez)
• Requirement Analysis – Fact Finding Techniques (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Mock, Service Locator, Automocking container and the hard life of testers (Al Kampfer)
• Introduction to Static Analysis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• "No one uses the table of contents anymore" – is that really true? (Wolf Schmidt)
• The Planning Fallacy (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Systems Design: Making a New Feature (Nearly) Too Much Trouble (James Iry)
• Elegant Documentation Never Lies (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Composing away from friction (Naeem Khedarun)
• Understanding Genuine Geeks And Nerds – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)
• Zombie Projects (Derek Huether)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Moving your WCF REST + JSON Service to Windows Azure (Rob Tiffany)
• SqueakBox for Windows Phone 7 (Brian Hitney)
• MEF Powered Silverlight – a simple walkthrough and A Caliburn.Micro Recipe – Silverlight Navigation and A Horizontal List box (Greg Gum)
• Netflix Browser for Windows Phone 7 – Part 1 (Katka Vaughan)
• Book Review: Foundation Expression Blend 4 by Victor Gaudioso (Michael Crump)
• My Windows Phone 7 Applications in the Marketplace! (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WinExtra on Windows Ep 23: Microsoft gets something right. Seriously. (Steven Hodson)
• Cloud Cover Episode 30 – Coordinating Work and Load Testing (Ryan Dunn)
• Spaghetti Code – October 2010 – Show 1 (Jeff Brand)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: TechNet Gets Its Edge On (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• DreamSpark: Free Software And Tools for Tech Students (Richard Hay)
• From NERD to One to Watch (Ariel Meadow Stallings)

Database

• SQL SERVER – StreamInsight and SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL SERVER – System Stored Procedure sys.sp_tables (Pinal Dave)
• Return Indexes for a Particular Table using TSQL (Brian K. McDonald)
• Writing c# in custom code or reports and SQL Intellisense doesn’t work with CAST (Simon Sabin)
• RavenDB – The great simplification (Oren Eini)
• What exactly is Fragment_count? (Rami Reddy)
• Using sp_rename (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

• 99 Out Of 100 Programmers Can’t Program – I Call Bullshit! (Alan Skorkin)
• NoReplyAll Outlook Addin – Flips the bit to disable recipients from ReplyAll’ing (and also adds goof checks, like missing attachments, subject’s, etc) (Greg Duncan)
• Perks that make jobs better – The Flynny Sequel (Michelle Flynn)
• Ray Ozzie is back blogging (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 15, 2010 and Interesting Finds: October 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 15, 2010 — #968 and Silverlight Cream for October 16, 2010 — #969 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 15, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 16, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008 by Arlen Feldman