• PhoneThemeManager: allow your app to have the Light, Dark, or Inverted theme with 1 line of code (Jeff Wilcox)
• Is Programming Less Exciting Today? (Ted Neward)
• Avoid the volatile Modifier (Peter Ritchie)
• MVVM on MVC: HTML is not XAML (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Conclusion (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – A day in the life of … Plan, Code & Test (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows Forms Toolkit 0.3 and Json.NET 4.0 Release 7 (CodePlex)
• A Smarter Infrastructure: Automatically filtering an EF 4.1 DbSet (Matt Hidinger)
• "Building a large text file editor" Series – Part 1 of x (Greg Duncan)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: NFeature (Jason Jarrett)
• New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database (Glenn Gailey)
• Quick NLog Tip: Getting the Log Filename (Geoff Hudik)
• Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part 2 (Bill Osuch)

Web Development

• Exploring Client-Side MVC with Backbone.js (Christopher Smith)
• Binding UI controls using Fluent API (Yosif Yosifov)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First jQuery – $15.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Unit testing when Value Objects get in the way (Giorgio Sironi)
• Book Review: ASP.NET MVC 3 In Action (Chad Haney)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Blob Storage Stream Wrapper (Puja Pramudya)
• Templated Razor Delegates combined with Partial Views (Simon J. Ince)
• Windows Azure Service Bus Queues vs. Windows Azure Queues (Peter Laudati)
• Managed Dependencies vs. Dependency Injection In RequireJS (Ben Nadel)
• Node.js and Windows Azure: Creating a blog application using Node.JS and Windows Azure Table & Blob Storage Part 1 (Avkash Chauhan)
• Improving Performance by Batching Azure Table Storage Inserts (Brian Swan)
• Debugging IndexedDB Applications (Israel Hilerio)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 2 (Johanna Rothman)
• Finding with Git (Anders Janmyr)
• Software Release Management – Why You Can’t And Shouldn’t Force People to Use the Latest Version (Rob Reynolds)
• Programming & Barries to Entry (Cori Drew)
• An adoption strategy for testing with Visual Studio 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Shipped: xUnit.net 1.9 (Brad Wilson)
• How Do You Fix A Bug? (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Fresh WPF Elements 5 Features – DataGrid Grouping and Exporting! (Callum G.)
• Windows Phone: App Config Settings – Thinking Outside the Box (Geoff Hudik)
• "New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database" for Windows Phone 7.1(5) (Greg Duncan)
• Tutorial: Logging Into Facebook with Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight) (Matthias Shapiro)
• Using CSLA 4: Windows Phone ebook available (Rockford Lhotka)
• 2000 WPF Things #481 – You Can Draw On an InkCanvas Control with the Mouse (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen Talks About SOPA, Piracy, and Intellectual Property (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 2 (Robert Green)
• Visual Studio for Business Analysts (MS Podcasts)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 011 – 01.25.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hot Apps: Z0MB1ES, ARMED!, Groupon, NewEgg, Lumia Music (Laura Foy)
• Web Camps TV #12 – Vishal Joshi Talks about WebMatrix v2 (Drew Robbins & Brady Gaster)
• The Engadget Show 29: Red Cameras, MakerBot and the coolest gadgets of CES 2012 (Brian Heater)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – Interview with Book Authors after 2 Months of Book Released (Pinal Dave)
• Meet Andrey Korshikov – SQL Server MVP from Russia (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• A Coder Interview With Michael Dunn (The Code Project)

Database

• A early look at the "SQL Server 2012 Early Adoption Cook Book" (Think "Work in progress") (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Different Aspect of Policy Based Management – Quiz – Puzzle – 25 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Improving cube processing time (James Serra)
• Rebuild Your Indexes Online (When You Can) (Michael Swart)
• Thoughts on Test Driven Database Development (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Loading Reference Data from a SharePoint List using SSIS (Nick Haslam)

Miscellaneous

• The best way to list skills on your resume (Eugenia Sawa)
• Let Alice help you teach and learn programming… (Greg Duncan)
• Open WebOS 1.0 announced (Jason Kennedy)
• When are servers not servers? (Ted Neward)
• Installing and Configuring PeopleSoft Adapter for BizTalk Server 2010 (Vishal Mody)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 26, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Maker Geek Roundup 006 for 1/25/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #804 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1030 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-25 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 25 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming by Marijn Haverbeke

Top Links

• A holiday.js gift for Azure Node.js developers (Glenn Block)
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.10621 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• Codecademy Builds ‘Labs,’ A Web-Based Code Editor (Alexia Tsotsis)
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Unit Testing with Func<TResult> Generators (James Michael Hare)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 19: Refactoring a “Monster” Functional Test, Part 1 (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Generate Return Values Using Lambdas in Moq (Richard Carr)
• Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce (Carl Nolan)
• Want to give feedback for Visual Studio 11 etc and receive cool gifts? (Charles Sterling)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• Community TFS Build Extensions – December 2011 (Mike Fourie)
• Roslyn CTP: Three Introductory Projects (Whaeth)
• Preview of Visual Studio 11: DirectX and SharePoint Features (Jeff Martin)
• Rx – Buffer (Bnaya Eshet)
• LINQ Extensions Library 1.0.2.5 (CodePlex)
• Replacing the Team Foundation Server 2010 Data Tier–NOT (Bob Hardister)
• How do I determine programmatically whether a particular language is LTR or RTL? (Raymond Chen)
• XSLT 2.0 in .NET (Akram El Assas)
• Treat a plain string as URL and fetch query string values (Jyothikarthik_N)
• SqlMapperHelper – A Helper Class for Dapper-Dot-Net (Peter Bromberg)

Web Development

• CSS Filter Effects Landing in WebKit (Eric Bidelman)
• Typography effects with CSS3 (Leigh Howells)
• Async file upload with jquery and ASP.NET (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• ASP.NET MVC + Selenium + IISExpress (Stephen Walther)
• Knockout 2.0.0 is Available (John Papa)
• Changing the default HTML Templates to HTML5 in Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
• Facebook: Platform Updates for Games Developers (Namita Gupta)
• Adobe Muse Beta 5.1 released (Ron)
• Custom Events are Pretty Cool (Chris Coyier)
• Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP (For Beginners) (Daniel Pataki)
• Umbraco CMS 5.0 RC 1 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Visualising Kanban Dimensions with TIPs (Karl Scotland)
• The Process of Change – Complexities of Attitudinal Change – Axiology [Part 4/4] (Peter Saddington)
• Return-Oriented Programming (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Advice for Young Developers: Learn to Make Your Own Decisions (J. Boyer)
• Functional version of the visitor pattern (Akram El Assas)
• Getting Gilded Rose Under Test (Bobby Johnson)
• Dynamic binding for data-driven tests in MbUnit v3 (Yann Trevin)
• Get into the flow with Spinning (Ralf Westphal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #4 First Visual Studio project and How to Update Secondary and Application Tiles in Windows Phone apps and Microsoft releases WPDev Feedback app for developers (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to set the HTML string in the webbrowser control in Windows Phone in MVVM context (Nicolas Humann)
• How to consume WCF REST Service with JSON in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Mango Apps: Designspire Gets Huge Update (Functions Like Windows Phone) (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows Phone Mango Sample: Input Scope (Jerry Nixon)
• Silverlight 5: MVVM got more fun with Implicit Data Templates (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight security overview paper has been updated for Silverlight 5 (Nick Kramer)
• Color Reflector for WP7 and Silverlight (Punit Ganshani)
• 2000 WPF Things #457 – Use a GridSplitter to Let a User Change Row or Column Size in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• 8th Day of Silverlight : Vector Printing (Tony Champion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• YOW! 2011: Joe Albahari – LINQ, LINQPad, and .NET Async (and a little Rx, too) (Charles Torre)
• Making Learning More Interactive and Fun for Young Children (Sheridan Jones)
• Coming in 2012: The Geekadelphia Podcast (Jo Pincushion)
• Introducing the Cloud Fundamentals Video Series (Zhiming Xue)
• Let’s Play TDD #153: Push the Button (James Shore)
• Fever Pitched Episode 5: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 21 December 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Roman Karachinsky Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 4 webcast: 17 January (Simone Chiaretta)
• A Thing To Do in the New Year: Learn XAML on Silverlight 5, WP7, Win8 & WPF (London Training) (Silverlight Show)
• Call for C++ Community folks in Belgium – January 10th meeting and Join us for the first PHP & Windows Azure Hackthon in Belgium (Katrien de Graeve)
• 11 Things every Software Developer should be doing in 2012. (Michael Crump)
• Interview with Julie Lerman on Programming Entity Framework: Code First (Jean Lambert)
• Five years of Encosia (Dave Ward)
• Women Want to Hack! (Emily Smith)
• Kinect at Chippewa Valley Code Camp (Greg Duncan)
• “Earned a Stack Overflow gold badge” Badges! (Laura Dobrzynski)

Database

• 101 with the Interactive Feature of SQL Server Integration Services (Keshav Singh)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Script for Point in Time Recovery – Back Up and Restore (Pinal Dave)
• Replacing Cell Security with Dimension Security (Chris Webb)

PowerShell

• 2 PowerShell Cmdlet Updates (Josh T.)

Miscellaneous

• Gathering, viewing and understanding performance data with the new PerfView utility (Greg Duncan)
• Can Microsoft and Nokia win in indoor location services? (Kip Kniskern)
• 6 Crazy Tech Predictions for 2012 (Lance Ulanoff)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year (Simone Chiaretta)
• Double Shot #780 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/22/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/23/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1009 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/22/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 12 – 18, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 22 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# by Wallace B. McClure

• Apps are too much like 1990′s CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web (Scott Hanselman)
• Apps Are Like the Web, When They Want to Be and More on Apps and Links (John Sheehan)
• Mozilla Labs Apps Developer Preview and documentation are here! (Ragavan Srinivasan)
• What’s new in CSS 4 selectors (Axel Rauschmayer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Formatting Enumeration Constants (Richard Carr)
• Cleaning Up Your Git Repository For NuGet 1.6 (Nick Berardi)
• Surround with a Code Snippet (C# Only) (Zain Naboulsi)
• C.B.R.: Comic Book Reader 0.4 (CodePlex)
• [Cool Tool] Checking Out VsVim (Roy Osherove)
• I Love the Validation Error Messages I Get From EntityFramework CodeFirst 4.1! (Peter Kellner)
• VMware Cloud Foundry cloud platform now supports .Net (Mary Jo Foley)
• ReSharper 6.1: The Finish Line (Jura Gorohovsky)
• The absolutely most important thing developers need to know about Windows 8 (Matt Lacey)
• Entity Framework Error–New Transaction is not allowed because there are other threads running in the session (Derik Whittaker)
• Where to get the latest news on ALM topics? (Charles Sterling)
• Possible pitfall when using EF Migrations (Per Ökvist)

Web Development

• Android – Ice Cream Sandwich: The HTML5 Developer Scorecard (Aditya Bansod)
• Some HTML5 Resources Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
• WebDriver: Getting it to play nicely with jQuery ColorBox (Mark Needham)
• Rails from the point of view of a PHP developer (Giorgio Sironi)
• Plugins Site Update: The Old Is New Again (Adam J. Sontag)
• Windows Azure SDK for Node.js Installation Walkthrough and MATLAB and Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• If and Else Statements in JS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Adding Tweet Buttons to a FunnelWeb Post (Michael Crump)
• One API for the Web, Oh the Possibilities (Shion Deysarkar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Leadership, Management, Transitioning to Agile (Johanna Rothmann)
• Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
• New programmer’s survival manual (John D. Cook)
• Performance Profiling your application is FTW (Derik Whittaker)
• Agile Process Reality Check (Ralf Westphal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Encrypting your Credentials on Windows Phone 7.5 (Rob Tiffany)
• Why do we have circles around icons in the Windows Phone app bar? (Arturo Toledo)
• Just Published on Codeplex SDNavigation WP7 + MVVM + Navigation Framework (Braulio Díez Botella)
• How to work with ToggleSwitch in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Getting started with the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 and WPF (Greg Duncan)
• FREE: 5 Professional WPF Themes (John-Daniel Trask)
• Mango’s live tiles get footloose and fancy free with Themes for Windows Phone 7 (video) (Joseph Volpe)
• 2000 WPF Things #450 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, part III (Sean Sexton)
• Using JSON.NET To Load Twitter Search Results In WP7 (Tim Murphy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Damian Edwards and David Fowler Persist Connections with SignalR (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Building on Azure: GigaSpaces – Cloudify Java Application Platform and Building on Azure: Sneaky Games (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 187: Charles Stacy Harris III the Microsoft Technology Center (part 2 of 2) (David Giard)
• Herding Code 129: Rob Reynolds on Chocolatey and the Chuck Norris Frameworks (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 168 – PowerScripting Podcast – Randy Roffey on MP Studio and a Bonus Interview (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Engadget HD Podcast 278 – 12.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Learn About the Windows Azure Access Control Service from Vittorio Bertocci (Vittorio Bertocci & Charles Torre)
• ALM Summit 2011 Content Now Live and available (Charles Sterling)
• Let’s Play TDD #150: Mulling Over the Persistence Design (James Shore)
• Learn About the Windows Azure Service Bus from Clemens Vasters (Clemens Vasters & Charles Torre)
• Interview with Glenn Block Talking About Node.js on Windows Azure (Glenn Block & Charles Torre)
• Video: Effectively Manage Enterprise Projects w/ #MSProject Server 2010 #in #pmot (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Learn About SQL Azure Federations from Cihan Biyikoglu (Cihan Biyikoglu & Scott Klein)

Community / Events

• OTN Architect Day Presentations – Phoenix, AZ – December 14, 2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Tom Warren moves to the Verge (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Announces 15 Imagine Cup Grants Finalists and Judging Panel (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Telerik! (Chris Sells)

Database

• My Thoughts on SQL Server 2012′s Licensing Changes (Brent Ozar)
• Codeplex: SSIS Community Tasks and Components (Jose Chinchilla)
• SQL SERVER – Explain Error:166 : does not allow specifying the database name as a prefix to the object name – Puzzle to Win SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers Book (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 13: DDL Triggers (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server FineBuild Version 3.0.1 (CodePlex)
• Fixing orphaned database users in 2005 to 2012 – T-SQL Tuesday #025 (Ted Krueger)
• Deleting Leading Zeros in a String (SQL) (Madhivanan)
• T-SQL Tuesday #25 – The Best Tool You’ve Never Used (Mark Broadbent)
• T-SQL Tuesday: What’s Currently Running? (John Sterrett)
• Zero-One-Some Testing (George Mastros)

PowerShell

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

Miscellaneous

• Scheduling TeamCity backups in Windows (Doug Rathbone)
• Searching for an answer has become clear with http://www.pluralsight-training.net (Allan Gagnon)
• New Apps now available for your Xbox 360 (Larry Hryb)
• Windows 8 Store and Music Beta App Screenshots Leaked! (Sagar Sawant)
• Portable tools rock–my current favorites and a great tool (Tim Heuer)
• Introducing SkyDrive for iPhone and Windows Phone (Mike Torres)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #772 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1002 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/13/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/14/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 5-11, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 12-Dec-2011 and 13-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Dev News for December 13, 2011 – #0011 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/13/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Head First jQuery by Ryan Benedetti

• Beginning LightSwitch Part 2: Feel the Love – Defining Data Relationships (Beth Massi)
• Announcing Amber.js (Yehuda Katz)
• Facebook: Introducing the Subscribe Button for Websites (Stoyan Stefanov)
• What Is Happening To The jQuery Plugins Site? (Adam J. Sontag)
• Team Foundation Service December Update (Doug Neumann)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading and Writing INI Files (Richard Carr)
• WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 (MS Downloads)
• Compatibility Problem with Microsoft Test Manager 2010 and Visual Studio 2011 (Jakob Ehn)
• C# Fundamentals: Returning Zero or One Item As IEnumerable<T> (James Michael Hare)
• RTM’d Today: MCPD 70-518 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• What does it mean when my program exits with the message "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way"? (Raymond Chen)
• Tpl Dataflow – Part 2 (Bnaya Eshet)
• So many interfaces, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Messaging with queue in Azure Service being RESTful (Franky)
• MonoGame – Write Once, Play Everywhere – MonoGame 2.1 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Introducing CSSCop – FxCop for stylesheets (Mads Kristensen)
• Go To Definition for JavaScript Functions in Visual Studio 2011 (Abhijit Jana)
• Using auto-complete, match highlighting and filtering in the jQuery igCombo (Jordan Tsankov)
• ASP.NET MVC Routing Extensibility (Simone Chiaretta)
• Zooming & Panning with CSS in IE 10 and CSS3 Transitions and Animations (Mike Taulty)
• How To: Detect Mobile Device Users In Your Web Site – JavaScript (Shai Raiten)
• Visualizing Layout in HTML5 Canvas with Gridlines (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MSDeploy: Automatic Website Deployment and Sync (Jenni Konrad)
• CoffeeScript is for Closers (Brandon Satrom)
• WebMatrix – Publish Site via Web Deploy on Shared Hosting (Chris D.)
• Developing Applications for the Cloud – Hands on Labs (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Run nodeunit tests with WebStorm 3.0 (Sergey Simonchik)
• The joy of running daily builds (Tim Heuer)
• RTM’d Today: Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice (Valerie Woolley)
• Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Don’t be afraid to become management (Roy Osherove)
• Testing Web.config Transformations, Part 1 (Mads Troest)
• Is the Cost of Continuous Integration Worth the Value on Your Program?, Part 2 (Johanna Rothmann)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 8: Pay Attention to Your Tests’ Setup! (Jim Holmes)
• 25 Examples of Perfect Color Combinations in Web Design (Gisele Muller)
• Super Simple Versioning of Third Party Scripts (Chris Missal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Visual Studio vs. Expression Blend – Adding an ApplicationBar (Andrea Haubner)
• Composite charts in WPF Elements (Jason)
• Binding Enhancements in WPF 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)
• 2000 WPF Things #447 – You Can Use Layout Transforms Within a DockPanel (Sean Sexton)
• An Advanced Visual Studio LightSwitch Application (Michael Washington)
• MVVM Validation Helpers 1.0 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes Framework Series: Steve Smith from NimblePros on Anti-Patterns (Scott Hanselman)
• Let’s Play TDD #149: Polishing Off the Save As Dialog (James Shore)
• Video on How to work with ApplicationBar in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• YUI Theater — Allen Rabinovich: “YUI Calendar – A Case Study of Building Modules with Style” (47 min.) (Ryan Grove)
• SE Podcast #30 – Robert Cartaino & Rebecca Chernoff (Alex Miller)

Community / Events

• 64 SQL Server MVPs Contribute to Book and Spread Smiles around the World (MVP Award Program)
• Free OpenWrap workshop Saturday 10th December in Lier, Belgium (Sebastien Lambla)
• Central and West Region Developer Events (MS Pubic Sector Team)
• New Orchard User Group–Dec. 15th (Jim O’Neil)
• MVP Summit First Timers, I’ve got a webcast for you (Denny Cherry)

Database

• Find Last Run Query in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Bad Practice of Using Keywords as an Object Name – Avoid Using Keywords as an Object (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 9: Dynamic TOP (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server Integration Services tools to have – Expression Editor & Tester and Red Gate’s new SQL Index Manager (Ted Krueger)
• What the Users Want: Ad Hoc Reporting (Jeremiah Peschka)
• XQuery Lab 65 – Restructuring an XML document using FLWOR (Jacob Sebastian)
• Have You Found the Pony in Your Data? (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 – Boundaries and Limits (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

PowerShell

• Powershell Snapins with SQL 2012 (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

• Bill Gates to return as Microsoft’s white knight? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Sorry, Folks, Bill Gates Is Not Coming Back to Microsoft (Ina Fried)
• Microsoft issues take-down notice for our Xbox 360 dashboard review (Joe Wilcox)
• Christmas Gift Ideas For Software Developers (James Sugrue)
• You probably don’t need a Twitter client, just learn the hotkeys in New Twitter (Scott Hanselman)
• Out of the Box: 6 tricks for personalizing your Windows Phone (Juliette Guilbert)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 8, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 9 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 12/9/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #999 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/08/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for December 08, 2011 – #0008 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #3 (Devon Govett)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Shawn Wildermuth

• Scott Hanselman’s 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (Scott Hanselman)
• Enabling large disks and large sectors in Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• Code First Migrations: Beta 1 Released (EF Team)
• Web API preview 6 is out: how to get a RESTful mind (Simone Chiaretta)
• Web Essentials – the idea (Mads Kristensen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Setting up a Rhino Service Bus Application: Part I and Setting up a Rhino Service Bus Application: Part II–One way bus (Oren Eini)
• Parallel LINQ and Getting a Base Exception (Richard Carr)
• Building an Async WCF Service in .NET 4.5 (Howard Dierking)
• Downloads for Code First book are online (Julie Lerman)
• Greatest Hits: Using Visual Studio 2010 IntelliSense with Keywords (Zain Naboulsi)
• Working with the WCF NetMsmqBinding with WAS (Sam Gentile)
• Mono for Android Debugging Android.OS.Debug.StartMethodTracing(); (Wally McClure)
• Bringing Windows 8 UI to Windows 7 with RadPanorama for WinForms. Today. (Telerik WinForms Team)
• LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.22 (CodePlex)
• VS 2010 Build Customization: Custom Activity Invoke Process (Gouri Sohoni)
• If you protect a write with a critical section, you may also want to protect the read (Raymond Chen)
• November 2011 Update for MFCMAPI and MrMAPI (Think, "MFCMAPI, You’re looking kind of Metro" release) and SharpDX – A new Managed DirectX/Multimedia API Library (one with Win8/Metro in mind too!) and Adding Lua scripting to your .Net app or game (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 and WinRT development whitepaper (Rockford Lhotka)
• Mini Review: NHibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide (Samuel Jack)
• Submit your ideas for the next version of GhostDoc (Tatworth)
• Feedback Requested: Is there any valid usage for the ‘new’ keyword? (Dennis Doomen)
• Telerik OpenAccess ORM – Stored Procedure Editor essentials (OpenAccess ORM Team)
• Programming Windows 8: The Sublime To The Strange (K. Scott Allen)
• Macro-optimisations and Yes, Simple.Data protects against SQL Injection (Mark Rendle)
• Async CTP Support in ReSharper 6.1 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Code First Migrations: Beta 1 ‘With-Magic’ Walkthrough (Automatic Migrations) and Code First Migrations: Beta 1 ‘No-Magic’ Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
• What is a manifest file in Windows 8 Metro applications (Abhishek Sur)
• Arcticles on Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4.5 (MS Downloads)
• NetAdvantage Reporting in Windows Forms (Tom Puglisi)
• Using a state object to store object property values. and Custom XML Serialization (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Static Constructors Should Be Private (Chris Eargle)

Web Development

• Building an advent calendar for Mozilla in PHP/JS/CSS (part 2) (Chris Heilmann)
• Help me organize my posts about using jQuery with ASP.NET (Dave Ward)
• Is JavaScript’s “Global” Scope Really Just A Closure? (Derick Bailey)
• HTML5 for Applications: The Fourth IE10 Platform Preview (Rob Mauceri)
• Why Many Developers Hate ASP.NET… and Why They’re Wrong (Jeremy McPeak)
• Getting Intrinsic HTML5 Video Dimensions (K. Scott Allen)
• How to lint your JavaScript with JSLint in real time (Maxim Mossienko)
• CSS3 toolkit (Paul Boag)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Parameter Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 2 (Jorge Ramon)
• jQuery Time Entry with Time Navigation Keys (Rick Strahl)
• Easier ASP.NET MVC Routing (Steve Wilkes)
• Creating Falling Snow in HTML/JS and Clipping Content Using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers part 9: Insufficient Transport Layer Protection (Troy Hunt)
• HTML5 Form Input Enhancements: Form Validation, CSS3, and JavaScript (Michael Palermo)
• A Guide To PHP Error Messages For Designers (Rachel Andrew)
• S#arp Lite: S#arp Architecture Simplified To Its Essentials (Jenni Konrad)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Now Available: 30 Days of Getting Results Free eBook (J.D. Meier)
• Agile "Religion" Issues (S. Lott)
• Getting Setup for JavaScript Testing with Pavlov (Daniel Mohl)
• Sleeping Under Your Desk Doesn’t Make You A Success (Rob Conery)
• That’s not funny (Eric Brechner)
• Do you ponder what to name things in your code? (Evan Light)
• My Code Isn’t Fat, It’s Just Robust (Jeremiah Peschka)
• How *NOT* to win the hearts of developers, part 2 (Dawn Cannan)
• Another Case for Using Top Aligned Form Labels (Anthony)
• Overusing Interfaces and Injection (Brendan Enrick)
• Migrating from SVN to Git (Karl von Randow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Displaying Enum Values User Friendly in WPF (Henrik Jonsson)
• ListBox ContextMenu with MVVM in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• Using the xamGrid with Virtual Collections and MVVM (Radko Kolev)
• The Ultimate Windows Phone Design and UX Resource List (Arturo Toledo)
• Silverlight front end calling to WCF Service, all in one Windows Azure Web Role Sample (Avkash Chauhan)
• “Lost” your SkyDrive OneNote files on your Windows Phone? Here’s the workaround (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone (Mango) Contact Chooser Task (Luke Lowrey)
• Microsoft: No Silverlight 5 release in November (Mary Jo Foley)
• WPF 4.5: Binding and change notification for static properties (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #440 – How Alignment Properties Behave in a WrapPanel and #441 – Setting a Consistent Height/Width for Child Elements in a WrapPanel (Sean Sexton)
• The Microsoft sponsored service for WP7 ends – the PreEmptive sponsored service debuts (Sebastian Holst)
• Beautiful Page Transitions (Practically) Free and Context Menu (Jesse Liberty)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #30: Local Database and 31 Days of Mango | Day #31: Promoting Your App (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Fixing a WinPhone Phone Gap App: Those Darn Gray Box’s (David Kelley)
• Icons in the „Metro Look“ for free – Monochrom/Minimalist Icons (Code Inside Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cool Projects at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Graham Hutton – How To Be More Productive (Charles Torre)
• Recording of joint interview with Eric Evans (Udi Dahan)
• Let’s Play TDD #146: Race Condition and "Evolutionary Design Illustrated" Video (James Shore)
• Yet Another Podcast #54–Damian Edwards on ASP.NET (Jesse Liberty)
• Engadget HD Podcast 276 – 11.29.2011 and The Verge Mobile Podcast 004 – 11.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• SE Podcast #29 – Chris Poole (Alex Miller)
• State of the nation website (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 95: Heavenly Music (Paul Thurrott)
• The GeekDads Episode #104: The Greatest Podcast of All Time (Ken Denmead)
• Defrag – Unplayable Media Center files, Missing RAM, Closing Cores (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Let’s Golf 2, Kayak, Drummer, Find My Girlfriend, First Words – Learning Animals (Laura Foy)
• SOA Made Simple – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• April 11th and 12th in Philadelphia, PA: Emerging Technologies Conference (James Shore)
• ANN: Special 2-day SharePoint 2010 Development Roadshow in Boston, MA by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• What I’ve Been Doing… (Shawn Wildermuth)
• jQuery Conference 2012: UK – Training Workshops Announced (Ralph Whitbeck)
• Microsofties cultivate mustaches for mankind (MS JobsBlog)
• TED2012 Fellowship applications open (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Blue Beanie Day 2011: Three Cheers for Web Standards (Jason McConnell)

Database

• GO statement breaks SSIS Execute SQL Task (aedna)
• SQL Server Configuration timeouts – and a workaround [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: File cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see “get-help about_signing” for more details and SQL SERVER – Where Can YOU Get My Books – SQL Server Interview Question and Answers (Pinal Dave)
• Anecdotes about SQL AKA post 400 (Denis Gobo)
• Red Gate adds TSQL unit testing to SSMS (for free) (Greg Duncan)
• Using OFFSET and FETCH (Vinay Pugalia)

SharePoint

• Microsoft Visio 2010 for SharePoint Network Topology (MS Downloads)
• Avoiding bugs from cached JavaScript and CSS files in SharePoint (Chris O’Brien)
• How do I – Create a recursive escalation workflow in SharePoint using Visio 2010 Premium (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• What to SharePoint from your WP7 App? Check out the SharePoint 2010 Windows Phone 7 Toolkit (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Some new powertoys for OneNote (John Guin)
• Microsoft delivers new IE 10 preview for Windows 8 and Microsoft updates SkyDrive with HTML5 upload, PDF support and more (Mary Jo Foley)
• The New Essential Apps November 2011 (Roberto Baldwin)
• Windows Phone 7 needs a Christmas miracle (Joe Wilcox)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #992 and The Morning Brew #993 (Chris Alcock)
• WindowsDevNews for November 29, 2011 – #0002 and WindowsDevNews for November 30, 2011 – #0003 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 29 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 30 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/29/2011 and ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/30/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Things I’ve written that have amused other people, Episode 8 (Raymond Chen)
• Maker Geek Roundup 004 for 11/29/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #763 and Double Shot #764 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Monthly Summary – November 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily News Digest 11/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 29-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Monthly Report November 2011: Total Posts 22 (Dhananjay Kumar)

The Geek Shelf

CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• Coming Soon: Visual Studio Achievements and Visual Studio Achievements API and FxCop For VS Achievements (Karsten Januszewski)
• Eduasync part 16: Example of composition: majority voting (Jon Skeet)
• Refactor “if” statements – functional programming style (Dror Helper)
• Kinect for Windows – Building the Future (Craig Eisler)
• Using the Roslyn Symbol API (Kevin Pilch-Bisson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Code Definition Window (Richard Carr)
• NHibernate vs. Entity Framework: Usage (Oren Eini)
• Small LINQ to JSON library (Guillaume Ranslant)
• F# Math (III.) – Defining custom numeric types (Tomas Petricek)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Predicate, Comparison, and Converter Generic Delegates (James Michael Hare)
• Preview of Visual Studio 11: New IDE Features (Jeff Martin)
• Always prompted for credentials in TFS 2010? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• What! C# could do that!! @ironshay demoing my ElasticObject implementation in @LIDNUG presentation (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Convert MP3 to AAC,FLAC to AAC (.NET/C#) FREE (Justin Oehlmann)
• If You’re Using “#if DEBUG”, You’re Doing it Wrong (Peter Ritchie)
• It is not unreasonable to expect uninitialized garbage to change at any time, you don’t need to ask for an explanation (Raymond Chen)
• Take care to unhook Anonymous Delegates (David Vallens)
• Stop premature email sending with NServiceBus (Jimmy Bogard)
• Rewriting an if (Jef Claes)
• Mono: Updated Documentation Site (Miguel de Icaza)

Web Development

• New Color Picker in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview for CSS and CSS Editor Hierarchical Indentation in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Binding to oData with jQuery Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Learning HTML5 – Sample Sites (Steve Albers)
• New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Call for jQuery 1.8 Ideas (Dave Methvin)
• Book review: Closure: the Definitive Guide (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Reducing JavaScript Code Using jsRender Templates in HTML5 Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Back to Basics – JavaScript onerror Event (Gil Fink)
• Getting Started with the Infragistics jQuery Combo (Jordan Tsankov)
• Download Free eBook: Razor View Engine in MVC 3 – by @itorian (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Hover and Click Trigger for Circular Elements with jQuery (Mary Lou)
• JavaScript Intellisense with Telerik in ASP.NET Master Page Project with VS 2010 (Otto Neff)
• How to Format HTML with Windows Live Writer (Peter Kellner)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Preserve Whole Object and PhoneGap: native applications written in HTML (Giorgio Sironi)
• Keyword parameters in JavaScript and ECMAScript.next (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Changing the Default Focus Styles (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Walking Dead: HTML/JavaScript (Ward Bell)
• Custom mime types with Cassini (Arian Kulp)
• Bing Spatial Data Services SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
• Knockout JS Pluralsight Course in the Works (John Papa)
• How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js (Zack Grossbart)
• Ranking – Part II and Ranking Part III (PointsToShare)
• Creating a Dynamic DataRow for easier DataRow Syntax (Rick Strahl)
• Backbone Persistence (Unknown Author)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 Beta (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Azure Diagnostics generate exception in SystemEventsListener::LoadXmlString when reading event log which includes exception as event data and Can you programmatically enable CDN within your Windows Azure Storage Account? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Packaging a Custom PHP Installation for Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Backbone vs Knockout (Derick Bailey)
• Evolving ECMAScript (Shanku Niyogi, Amanda Silver, John Montgomery, Luke Hoban & Steve Lucco)
• WebStorm your Node app! (Maxim Mossienko)
• Modernizr.js: Polyfills (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• RE: Clean Architecture (Simon Brown)
• Unit testing is… well, broken. (Dewald Galjaard)
• Gratitude Quotes (J.D. Meier)
• Invest in Your Team – Know Them (Peter Saddington)
• Importance of Good Domain Models (Rinat Abdullin)
• Solution Architecture Guidance and 13 Mobile Development Questions to Think About and Outline for an Executive Summary (Eric Johnson)
• Systems Thinking in a Bar (Jurgen Appelo)
• Organize Your Tests, Part II: Use Metadata! and Combinatorial / Pairwise Tools (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 13 : binding to types that Implement ICustomTypeProvider and How to bind an ItemsControl to an Enum with localized descriptions (Jonathan Antoine)
• Generic WPF/Silverlight Value Converter (Clifford Nelson)
• How to get user Input from a Popup in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• Building and Using Expression Blend Behaviors (David Kelley)
• Windows Phone 7.5 – Play with music (Andrea Boschin)
• OData caching in Windows Phone (Samidip Basu)
• Navigation in Windows Phone 7 apps and Creating a simple Media Player for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Lua for you’ah… Adding Lua scripting support to your .Net/WPF app or game (Greg Duncan)
• Leveraging Background Services and Agents in Windows Phone 7 (Mango) (Jon Galloway)
• What is the Future of Silverlight? Let’s Discuss… (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using MVVMLight, ItemsControl, Blend and behaviors to make a ‘heads up compass’ (Joost van Schaik)
• Windows Phone Marketplace: One Year In (Sarah Perez)
• 2000 WPF Things #436 – Using a Drop Shadow with a Border (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #23: Execution Model and 31 Days of Mango | Day #24: Performance Analysis (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cloud Panel Discussion at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SPLASH 2011: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt – JavaScript Modules and GoingNative 4: Jim Springfield on ATL, GoingNative Conference – Register Today! (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 127: Setting up your Computer and Work Area (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Let’s Play TDD #145: Displaying the FileDialog (James Shore)
• Video on How to create Flickr Photo viewer App for Windows Phone 7 and Video on How to work with Picture in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A Dozen Windows Phone Videos… And Counting (Jesse Liberty)
• SE Podcast #28 – Brent Ozar (Alex Miller)
• Defrag: Moving Page File, Recovering Encrypted Files, Missing User Account (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Fusion Sentient, PhotoVote, FaceArt, Action Potato, The Jumble (Laura Foy)
• What The Tech 94: I’ve Got A Deal For You! and Windows Weekly 236: The PC Plus Era (Paul Thurrott)
• Gillmor Gang 11.22.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget HD Podcast 275 – 11.22.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Marcus Whitney Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• SOA Made Simple – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• 2011 Virtual and Live Speaking Locations (John Papa)
• Announcing GoingNative 2012 Conference (Visual C++ Team)
• Getting more and more into the Microsoft Belgian community (Simone Chiaretta)
• 1 Year on Next at Microsoft: Tour the Microsoft HQ (Steve Clayton)
• Visiting MVPs Around the World (Nestor Portillo)
• Rock, Paper, Azure is back… (Brian Hitney)

Database

• 3 SQL Server Book Review Short Takes (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Query Performance Analysis using DMVs (Carl Nolan)
• SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 7 Released and SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 2 Released (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Data Tools CTP4 (SSDT) download available for all languages (Janet Yeilding)
• Monitoring SSRS Report Performance – Part 4 (John Pertell)
• Geting Started with SSRS – Part 1 – SQL Server Reporting Services Overview and Installing in Windows Server 2008 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Three Things That Rock About SQL Server (Kendra Little)
• SQL Server: Test Linked Server Connection (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – 2012 – Summary of All the Analytic Functions – MSDN and SQLAuthority and SQL SERVER – Solution to Puzzle – Simulate LEAD() and LAG() without Using SQL Server 2012 Analytic Function and SQL SERVER – DVM sys.dm_os_sys_info Column Name Changed in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB–Replication & Master <-> Master support (Oren Eini)
• Always set the SEQUENCE cache size (Denny Cherry)
• Getting Started with MongoDB (Matthew Setter)

SharePoint

• Firebird and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)
• Lightning conductor 2010 web part version 2.0.0.2 (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• JobsBlog Rewind: 3 tips for getting a job in the new year (MS JobsBlog)
• The Kinect knows no national boundaries, as shown by Chinese University students pushing the Kinect’s boundaries (Greg Duncan)
• SkyDrive – designing personal cloud storage for billions of people (Omar Shahine)
• Giving Thanks To Arcane Programming Languages (Rob Diana)
• Doom 3 GPL source code now available (Ross Miller)
• Computer Algorithms: Sequential Search (Stoimen Popov)
• Making Android Games that Play Nice (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 22, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 23, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 23 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #758 and Double Shot #759 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/22/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/23/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/24/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #987 and The Morning Brew #988 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/22/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 22 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 22 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 23 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 24 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for November 14 – 20, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2011 — #1172 and Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2011 — #1173 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed

• Why IL? (Eric Lippert)
• Roslyn Syntax Visualizers (Shyam Namboodiripad)
• Using MVVM on the Web with KnockoutJS (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Using MVVM with the AutoCompleteTextBox in Silverlight 4 (Derik Whittaker)
• Working with Prism 4 Part 2: MVVM Basics and Commands (Brian Noyes)
• The Fundamentals, Primitives and History of HTML5 (Paul Irish)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting most of Kinect SDK in C# – part 1 of ?: Initialization (Jarek Kruza)
• Generic Variance in .NET 4.0 (Richard Carr)
• MD5 string hashing – via a WCF service (Dennis Delimarsky)
• RadControls for WinForms Q3 2011 suite is here introducing RadPanorama, full multi-touch support and a lot more (WinForms Team)
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.1.1 (Nathan Totten)
• Reduce debugging time using the .NET StackTrace class (Paolo Foti)
• I, Interface (Gary McLeanhall)
• QuickGraph as a portable class library (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Telerik OpenAccess ORM NuGet Packages for Code First Development (Joshua Holt)
• Getting closer… Castle Windsor 3 RC 1 (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• How to perform clean logout from your application which use Azure ACS & Identity Providers and What to do when your code could not find the certificate in Azure VM? and Windows Azure Libraries for .NET 1.6 (Where is Windows Azure App Fabric SDK?) (Avkash Chauhan)
• Using Windows Azure RoleEnvironment in a console app in .NET4 (Nicolas Humann)
• Scrum Task Board Card Creator 2.5.1.0 and Json.NET 4.0 Release 4 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• HTML5 Semantics (Bruce Lawson)
• KsigDo Task Pad – Real-Time UI View Model syncing across users with ASP.NET, SignalR, Knockout MVVM and EF (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• How To Invoke the JavaScript Console on Your iPad (Chris Love)
• Is There An Idiomatic Command Pattern Implementation For JavaScript? (Derick Bailey)
• Specs for Haacked.com (Phil Haack)
• Daydreaming about jQuery Mobile and the WebAPI (Jef Claes)
• Handy Generic JQuery Functions (Steve Wilkes)
• ASP.NET MVC Themes: 3 different theming methods (Chris Pietschmann)
• ASP.NET MVC: Simple view to display contents of DataTable (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Node.js v0.8 roadmap (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Creating and Publishing a Web Application to Windows Azure in 15 Minutes (Zhiming Xue)
• WebStorm & PhpStorm – New in 3.0: Recursive diff on synchronization of local and remote files (leneshka)
• Vendor Prefixes Are A Rousing Success (Alex Russell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Complexity versus Lean versus Agile versus Me (Jurgen Appelo)
• Are you doing Scrum? Really? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• How to test SSL based WCF services (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Dependency Injection Introduction (Mark Pearl)
• I Just Don’t Like Object Mappers (Karl Seguin)
• Scrum Master Daily Check List (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Delete data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Successful Windows Phone apps – a story for Microsoft Student Partners (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Announcing: Your Last Options Dialog (YLOD) (Peter Kuhn)
• Silverlight Has Had a Bumpy Road. Will It Have a Smooth Transition to WinRT? (Abel Avram)
• Speed up your Silverlight Debugging for large projects (Kevin Logan)
• WPF Converters v1.2.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Pushpin Clustering with the Windows Phone 7 Bing Map control (Colin Eberhardt)
• Silverlight’s Broken Promise (Davy Brion)
• Simulating GPS position changes using Reactive Extensions in Windows Phone environment and Build an RSS Reader for Windows Phone 7 and Injecting ViewModels to Views using a custom ViewModelLocator in Windows Phone (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Introducing Telerik Patterns & Practices for Silverlight and WPF (Evan Hutnick)
• Just how different, or similar, is Silverlight 5 and WinRT, on a type/method basis? The WinRT Genome Project… (Greg Duncan)
• Handling Extremely Large Data Sets in Silverlight (Jeremy Likness)
• Is Windows Phone the Best Mobile Platform You’re Not Using? (Lance Ulanoff)
• Fixing a broken toolbox (In Visual Studio 2010 SP1) (Michael Crump)
• Want to Decompile Silverlight XAP files? Try JustDecompile Beta! (Michael Crump)
• Inside WP7 Apps – Kindle and Cocktail Flow (Sara Allison)
• 2000 WPF Things #434 – Canvas Layout Mode in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #20: Creating Ringtones and 31 Days of Mango | Day #21: Sockets (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SPLASH 2011: William Cook – Objects, Orc, Hybrid Partial Evaluation, and More (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 183: Joe Kunk on Memory-Mapped Files (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 420: Xbox turns 10 (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 265 – 11.18.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 113 – 11.19.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• The Vergecast 003 – 11.18.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 65 – New Windows Azure SDK and Tools with Scott Guthrie (Wade Wegner)
• Gweek 027: We Are All Weird (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Windows Weekly 235: Embed This (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9: New Azure SDK, JLint, TFS, and guest host Martin Woodward (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Our .NET Micro Framework and .NET Gadgeteer Talk at CMAP Code Camp 2011 (Pete Brown)
• The GeekDads Episode #103: If You Can Make Something Light Up, Make It Light Up! (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• TCTV: The TechCrunch Gadgets Webcast (John Biggs)
• Video on Federated Authentication in Windows Azure Web Role using Windows Azure App Fabric Access Control Service and Video on How to consume ODATA in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The Engadget Show – 027: Nokia’s Stephen Elop, Qualcomm, NASA and more (Brian Heater)
• The Tablet Show – Tales of Tablet Development at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

• Three free live online Windows Phone Workshops coming in the coming, Nov 23rd,24th & Dec 5th (Greg Duncan)
• Suggest a Windows Phone Workshop (Daniel Egan)
• Juicy Bits (Mike Swanson)
• Microfilms challenge ‘Softies to focus (MS JobsBlog)
• Getting Board of jQuery (Adam J. Sontag)
• Looking back on 2011 (Dan North)
• Do You Have What it Takes to be the Big App on Campus? (Ben Lower)

Database

• SQL Server Data Tools CTP4 vs. VS2010 Database Projects and Uninstalling SQL Server Developer Tools CTP3 (Code-named “Juneau”) and What’s new in SQL Server Data Tools CTP4? and What is SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)? and Download Available: SQL Server Data Tools CTP4 (SSDT) (Adam Mahood)
• NoSQL for Windows Server, Azure & SQL Server with Apache Hadoop (Code Inside Team)
• SQL Server: Create Objects Automatically in New Databases (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – 2012 RC0 Various Resources and Downloads and SQL SERVER – Introduction to PERCENTILE_CONT() – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Puzzle to Win Print Book – Explain Value of PERCENTILE_CONT() Using Simple Example (Pinal Dave)
• What’s new for SQL Server 2012 courses from Microsoft (Steve Turner)
• SQL Server – When will my backup finish? (Vishal Gajjar)
• You cannot do cross joins in SQL Azure but there is a way around that…. (Sean Barlow)
• When should you use RavenDB? (Oren Eini)
• Workaround for datadude deployment bug – NullReferenceException (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• NetAdvantage for SharePoint Product Changes in 2011 Volume 2 (Kiril Iliev)
• How to Work with Managed Metadata Columns by Using the SharePoint Client Object Model (Kaushalendra Kumar)
• SP2010 Continuous Integration–pt 5: Deploy WSPs as part of build (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Nyan Cat RSpec Formatter (Matt Sears)
• Migrate All Of Your Model Classes When Using MiniRecord (Dan Watson)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview on Samsung Series 7 Slate (Brad Wilson)
• Telerik: Best tech support response ever (Chris Sells)
• Free [reg-ware] eBook "Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, Second Edition" (Updated for Windows Server 2008 R2) now available (Greg Duncan)
• Minecraft 1.0 released (Paul Miller)
• How to Install Firefox Mobile on the Amazon Kindle Fire (Joe Stagner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 18, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 19, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 129 (Scott Banwart)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/18/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Pie in the Sky (November 18, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #985 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 19 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #755 and Double Shot #756 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five November 18, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily News Digest 11/18/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/21/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 11/21/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (11/18/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 17-Nov-2011 and 16-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Reading Notes #21 (Franky)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 Nov 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 14-20 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2011 — #1169 and Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2011 – 2 — #1170 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman on the Social Networking Paradox, Gig Economy, No-Sales Syndrome, Peanut Butter Strategy (Dave Burke)
• Retrospective 59 – Agile Sucks… and the Answer? (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Silverlight 4 in Action by Pete Brown

• S#arp Lite: The Basics (Billy McCafferty)
• Using MEF 2 with ASP.NET MVC 3 (Nick)
• Eduasync part 15: implementing COMEFROM with a horrible hack (Jon Skeet)
• F# Dynamic Lookup Operator and Regex (Carl Nolan)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 78: Migrating Silverlight apps to Windows 8 Metro with Derik Whittaker (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using the Simplest Type Name in a Snippet and Child Tasks (Richard Carr)
• Information on upgrading Kinect Applications to MS SDK Beta 2. (Michael Crump)
• Kinect SDK – resources for developers and Hosting a WCF service on GoDaddy (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New Tool for Debugging Parallel Applications in Visual Studio 11 (Jenni Konrad)
• Hosting WCF Service in Windows Server AppFabric (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Implementing Chain of Responsibility Design Pattern in C# using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• With Visual Studio 2010 (and vs2011 preview) Fast Launch Not Helpful Often (Peter Kellner)
• TFS API Part 40–Build Service Host (Shai Raiten)
• Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK and Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.1.11111 (Experimental Release) (MS Downloads)
• Mounting a Microsoft Azure CloudDrive in a VMRole (Sean Barlow)
• .NET Gadgeteer Module Contest at GHI and Update to .NET Gadgeteer Larson Scanner (Pete Brown)
• Data breakpoints to find points where data gets broken (Timo Heinäpurola)
• Book Review – Developer’s Guide To Collections in Microsoft® .NET (Lori Lalonde)
• Interactive, free and just plain cool, .Net Tutorial (Greg Duncan)
• WinRT Wishlist: Live Tiles for “Classic” Apps (James Ashley)
• MsBuild finding directories if not given as parameter (Daniel Fisher)
• XPath Visualizer v1.3 Latest and MSBuild Extension Pack – November 2011 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• HTML5 is on a killer spree, Web Sockets May partially “kill” HTTP as well (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Separate Query from Modifier (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript in different browsers (PointsToShare)
• Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture (Martin Beeby)
• Build business apps in .NET – not HTML & JavaScript (Ward Bell)
• Test your App Fabric ACS v2 RPS Application to use actual REALM and Return URL in Cloud and localhost URL in Compute Emulator and Windows Azure Load Balancer Timeout Details (Avkash Chauhan)
• Creating an E-Mail Contact Form (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Solving the Shakespeare Million Monkeys Problem in Real-time with Parallelism and SignalR (Scott Hanselman)
• New Game 2011: HMTL5 Gaming FTW (Carter Rabasa)
• rails_best_practices 1.3.0 released (Huang Zhimin)
• Common Areas For Securing Web Services (DotNetBlocks)
• Better ASP MVC Select HtmlHelper (Sacha Barber)
• Web.config Transformations and XML Namespaces (Mads Troest)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Monthly Planning with Agile Results and Simplified Site and Knowledge Base for Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
• BDD XAF Project Released and Setup and Use SpecFlow BDD with DevExpress XAF (Patrick Liekhus)
• New Articles on Event Sourcing and CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
• Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010-Part 2 and Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010-Part 3 (Tarun Arora)
• New Article: Managing and Testing Topics, Queues and Relay Services with the Service Bus Explorer Tool (Paolo Salvatori)
• The 5 whys: Another attempt (Mark Needham)
• The Happiness Door, Another Great Feedback Method (Jurgen Appelo)
• Mitigate your merge issues (Mehdi Khalili)
• Merge Business Logic Handler Custom Conflict Resolver (Brandon Williams)
• What Good is a Pig? (Brent Ozar)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Death to banding: Windows Phone devs, please upgrade your apps to 32 BitsPerPixel (Windows Phone Geek)
• Is the Future of Silverlight Coming to an End? Do We Really Need to Worry About Silverlight 6 Yet? (Devin Jordan)
• Windows Phone 7.5 – Manipulating camera stream (Andrea Boschin)
• F# Silverlight Library Template in Visual Studio 11 (Dan Mohl)
• Windows Phone 7 Serialization: Binary Serialization (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• 2000 WPF Things #429 – Child Element Properties that Affect Layout (Sean Sexton)
• Developing Snowfight – Basic particle engine (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Improving CSLA 4 MobileFormatter behavior (Rockford Lhotka)
• TouchDevelop v2.4: push notifications, updates, discussions, … (Nikolai Tillmann)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #12: Beta Distribution and 31 Days of Mango | Day #13: Marketplace Test Kit and 31 Days of Mango | Day #14: Using OData (Jeff Blankenburg)
• xamGrid vs. xamDataGrid: Conceptual and Feature Comparison (Pamela Brasil)
• Visual State Manager (VSM) – part II (Alex Mukora)
• Have an Idea? Need an Idea? (Ben Lower)
• Storyboards in Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – History of HTTP and the World Wide Web with Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (Scott Hanselman)
• SPLASH 2011: Andrew Black and James Noble – The Grace Programming Language Project (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 182: Mark Minasi on Windows Server 8 (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 042 – “WOW, That’s a Big Phone” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 419: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (Larry Hyrb)
• Boagworld: The challenge of context in modern UX design (Paul Boag)
• Windows Weekly 234: Paul of Duty (Paul Thurrott)
• Virtualization and SAN Basics for DBAs Video and There’s Something About Nolock: Webcast Video (Brent Ozar)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Jeff Truman Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 76 – John Bristowe and Kendo UI (Richard Banks)
• Bill Gates Jumps Over Chair (Gillian)
• Vergecast 002 – 11.11.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Engadget Podcast 264 – 11.11.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 112 – 11.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• TWC9: VS11, HTML5, Debugging, and guest host Habib Heydarian (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• TDD Master class – Videos Available For Purchase at TekPub (Roy Osherove)
• Webinar: Tips and Tricks for Better Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• The Tablet Show – WinRT Panel Discussion from DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Getting Involved With Open-Source In 10 Minutes (Addy Osmani)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – A Real Story of Book Getting ‘Out of Stock’ to A 25% Discount Story Available (Pinal Dave)
• Windows Azure DevCamps in DC, Dec. 14, 2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• Workshop Agile + UX (Caleb Jenkins)
• My shift from WPF-XAML to Kinect for Windows (Rob Relyea)
• Upcoming jQuery Events (Addy Osmani)
• Ever Thought to Yourself “Wow, Angela has a FUN and AWESOME job in DPE”? Well, we are currently looking for a few good folks to join us! and Clint and Zain Return to the Midwest in December to WOW us with Visual Studio and TFS Goodness! (Angela Binkowski)
• A Conversation from the Trenches of Agility with David J Bland, Brad Murphy and Peter Saddington (Christopher Goldsbury)

Database

• Pinal Dave and Vinod Kumar‘s SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers: Book review (Dhananjay Kumar)
• An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors, Part 5: Incorrect Calculation Results, Miscellaneous and MDX Studio Errors (drweed)
• Parallel execution in SSIS (James Serra)
• SQLAuthority News – Various Microsoft SQL Server Documentations Available for Download and SQL SERVER – CSVExpress and Quick Data Load (Pinal Dave)
• Third Normal Form is Snake Oil (Brent Ozar)
• Sharding vs. Having multiple databases (Oren Eini)
• Synchronize Data from Cloud to Cloud (C2C) using SQL Azure Data Sync (Sudhesh Suresh)
• Some SQL Server Security Housekeeping (Chad Miller)

SharePoint

• #Ebook Deal/Day: SharePoint for Project Management – $17.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)

PowerShell

• Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 2) (Tobias Weltner)

Miscellaneous

• Google Reader Is Not About Reading News It Is About Curation (Rob Diana)
• Updated NDK for Android 4.0 (Xavier Ducrohet)
• Next-Gen Xbox codenamed "Loop" and will run Windows 9? (Zac)
• Developers’ Interest Growing in Windows Phone, Waning in BlackBerry (Ina Fried)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 12, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 12 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• This Week’s Ruby News: RSpec 2.8.0 RC1, Minitest 2.8.0, and What’s New in Bundler 1.1? (Peter Cooper)
• The Morning Brew #980 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/14/2011 and Weekly article digest 11/14/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (11/11/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Pie in the Sky (November 11th) (Larry Franks)
• Reading Notes # 20 (Franky)
• Double Shot #751 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: November 11, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Retrospective 58 – People Over Technology (Peter Saddington)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 06-November-2011 to 12-November-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 7-13 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

• Using Task Manager with 64+ logical processors (Steven Sinofsky)
• Unity 3.0 Preview for .NET 4.5 (Grigori Melnik)
• Getting Started with JavaScript… again (Christopher Bennage)
• Calling F# Libraries from Metro Style Apps (Daniel Mohl)
• Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Target and Tip/Trick when working with the Application Bar in WinRT/Metro (C#) (Derik Whittaker)
• What’s new in MEF ‘version 2’ Preview 4? (Alok & Nick)
• Phree Book Reader Now Available (Charles Petzold)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.8.5 Now Available (Rene Schulte)
• LINQ to XML in a Nutshell (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WCF Data Services October CTP Updates OData Libraries, Adds Spatial Data Types (Jenni Konrad)
• F# under the covers XIV — Match expressions : Does my complexity look big in this? and F# — where has our Roslyn been? (Steve Gilham)
• Inner Fields and Lazy Initialization in C# (Steve Smith)
• .NET Framework 4 Now Supports LocalDB (Abel Avram)
• MEF 101 – Part2 (Abhijeet Patel)
• Understanding basic WinRT Metro Applications and Application Capabilities and Layout adjustments Snapping and OrientationChanges in Metro Applications (Abhishek Sur)
• Windows Azure AppFabric ServiceBus Relay Load Balancing (Scale & Availability Feature) and Whats new in Windows Azure SDK 1.5 – Packages are no longer encrypted and How to upgrade only one specific role from your Windows Azure Application and Communication between Windows Azure Roles (Avkash Chauhan)
• VS11DP Microsoft Parallel Visualization Pack (Greg Duncan)
• OpenWrap 2.0.1–a better way to look at dependencies (Sebastien Lambla)
• Building a .NET Gadgeteer Compatible Hardware and Software Module: Der BlinkenLED (Pete Brown)
• Three .NET "tools" that I use every day and you want to know about (Dror Helper)
• Convention-based part registration available in a new MEF preview! (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Fluent Assertions is finally gaining some momentum (Dennis Doomen)
• 5 Tips and Techniques for Avoiding Automatic GC Collections (Michael McLaughlin)
• Enterprise Library Contrib – 5.0 (Oct 2011) (CodePlex)
• Reactive Extensions for .NET 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)

Web Development

• HTML5 Boilerplate for Rails Developers (Daniel Kehoe)
• ASP.NET MVC: Expression Trees as Parameter to Simplify Query (SummiG)
• HTML5 canvas – Creating Your Own Paint Program (Aramis GC)
• Update NuGet Docs in the Browser with Github (Phil Haack)
• Codeigniter + HTML5 Boilerplate = win (John Esposito)
• Razor and CSS in JustCode (Just* Team)
• Simple Membership MVC3 1.2 available on NuGet (Kevin LaBranche)
• Definition of Done in an MVC project (Mehdi Khalili)
• HTMLApplicationHost Framework Posted to Codeplex (David Kelley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual – $15.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Assertion (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript: Why the hatred for strict mode? (Acel Rauschmayer)
• Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developers (Vitaly Friedman)
• JavaScript YouTube Downloader–The Compact Edition (Shai Raiten)
• Adding Video Element on the Fly and Drawing it to a Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
• Embrace Authorship – The importance of rel=me and rel=author on your content’s SEO and Google (Scott Hanselman)
• Need To Get Static JSON File with POST verb on IIS 7.5? (Peter Kellner)
• New PHP formatting options in PhpStorm 3.0 (Rustam Vishnyakov)
• Deploying Node.js Applications to Windows Azure via Blobs or Git Sync (Steve Marx)
• Best Practices for Getting Started with SVG (Jennifer Yu)
• A Best Practice for Programming with Vendor Prefixes (John Hrvatin)
• Guide to Claims-based Identity and Access Control (2nd Edition) (Jimmy Larkin)
• CoffeeScript’s for loops don’t work on strings (despite appearances to the contrary) (Joe White)
• Piwik ≤ 1.5.1 multiple XSS vulnerabilities (Krzysztof Kotowicz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simple Design with Design Patterns (Cory Foy)
• Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party controls – the basics explained and Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party Windows Forms controls–How to? (Shubhra Maji)
• Getting Started with Getting Results Free eBook (JD Meier)
• The gift of legacy (Jef Claes)
• Software Development as Risk Management (Christopher Goldsbury)
• Are Project Managers Living a Lie? (Peter Saddington)
• A case study in responsive design (Dan Sheerman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Labyrinth (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• Commands in MVVM (Dave Kerr)
• Getting Started with Windows Phone Alarms (Windows Phone Geek)
• Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (1) (Anders Poulsen)
• Grouping & CheckBoxes in RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 (Deyan Ginev)
• Microsoft: Windows Phone Mango now being delivered to ’100 percent’ of compatible devices (Donald Melanson)
• HTML5 Mobile and Windows Phone 7 (Doris Chen)
• WPF 4: Changing DataGrid Cell Appearance on Mouse Events (Mahesh Sabnis)
• 2000 WPF Things #418 – Star Sizing Allows Setting Row and Column Sizes Relative to Each Other and #419 – How Cell Sizes are Calculated when Using Star Sizing (Sean Sexton)
• Custom Versioning Strategy on TFS 2010 for Windows Phone (Henry Lee)
• 31 Days of Mango (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 180: Brian Korzinski on Codeslingers (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 417: BF3, Kinect Sports Season 2, Goldeneye 007: Reloaded (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 164 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jim Hofer and Kirk Munro with Devfarm (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 91: Zendcon 2011 – Jeff Kibler interview (Michael Kimsal)
• Engadget Podcast 262 – 10.28.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 110 – 10.29.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Migrating to the Cloud – Part 3/3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 74 – Mahesh Krishnan on Azure (Richard Banks)
• Windows Weekly 232: Mango Is To Tango (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Robert Collazo Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Cloud Cover Episode 63 – Securely Sharing Files with Windows Azure (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
• This is my next Podcast 030 – 10.30.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Kinect to Kill: A Channel 9 Halloween Special (Laura Foy)
• Video on How to Start developing for Windows Phone 7 and Video on How to change Theme and Skin of Windows Phone 7 Emulator and Video on How to work with Orientation Changes in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – Online Webcast How to Identify Resource Bottlenecks – Wait Types and Queues (Pinal Dave)
• Announcing a new user group (Andrej Tozon)
• ALM Events in Redmond by Northwest Cadence and Agile Scrum and Kanban presentation by David Starr Nov 3rd at ODNC and free bonus sessions at DevTeach (Charles Sterling)
• Get in the game! Announcing a round of free, HTML5 game camps from Microsoft (Dave Isbitski)
• Silverlight in the Enterprise Training at MS NYC (Dani Diaz)
• WordPress Geeks Rejoice, WordCamp Philly 2011 Scheduled For November 6th (Joe Ross)
• KolkataGeeks Pleased to Announce Developer Conference 2011 (#DevConKol2011) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft holding Windows Phone press event in NYC Nov. 7 (John Callaham)
• November Tech Calendar (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• Updatable Subscriptions Deprecated in SQL Server 2012 (Brandon Williams)
• SQL SERVER – Fundamentals of Columnstore Index and SQL SERVER – How to Ignore Columnstore Index Usage in Query and SQL SERVER – Database Dynamic Caching by Automatic SQL Server Performance Acceleration (Pinal Dave)
• Add Client Name in SQL Profiler Results (Madhivanan)
• Creating a Table Report with Dynamic Columns (Paul Turley)
• Save a step: Using Computed Columns in a Table Variable (or Temp Table) (sognibene)
• Installing the AdventureWorks Community Sample Database content and Installing the AdventureWorks OLAP Sample Database (Enrique Lima)
• How To Estimate Data Utilization (Michelle Ufford)

SharePoint

• Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – About this Series… and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – How I do MVVM and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – My favorite MVVM toolkit : MVVM Light Toolkit and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Commands and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Messages and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Dialogs and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Testing the Business Logic and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Testing the User Interface and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Using Data Services (Andrew Connell)
• How do I – Resolve the Powershell New-SPConfigurationDatabase command error – The pipeline has been stopped, This SharePoint farm currently has pending upgrades (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• A follow up to installing a Dev SharePoint 2010 environment on Windows 7: Using the Farm Configuration Wizard Part 1 of 2 (Enrique Lima)
• New book: Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

• My Favorite PowerShell Script: Reading Log Files (Jes Schultz Borland)

Miscellaneous

• The Great Place to Work Institute Names Microsoft World’s Best Workplace (MS JobsBlog)
• Appraisal: find out what your gems are worth (Joe Ferris)
• RubyMine, Part 4. Editing Code (Victor Savkin)
• Control Your Vim Editor (Dalibor Nasevic)
• CodePlex Activity Stream (Jahmai OSullivan)
• Windows Azure Special offer for MSDN Subscribers (PubSec)
• Google TV gets generally more ‘Googly’ with Android apps, new YouTube (Tim Conneally)
• So what about Windows Phone 7 adoption rates? (Joost van Schaik)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 28, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 30, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 126 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 31 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Bi-Weekly Link Post 212 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Geek Reading October 28, 2011 and Geek Reading October 29, 2011 and Geek Reading October 30, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #740 and Double Shot #741 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: October 28, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Friday Links 2011-10-28 (JD Meier)
• The Morning Brew #969 and The Morning Brew #970 (Chris Alcock)
• Pie in the Sky (October 28, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Daily News Digest 10/28/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (10/28/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 23-October-2011 to 29-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Web Dev Tweets 26-Oct-2011 and 27-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Reading Notes #18 (Franky)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/28/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Retrospective 56 – #CTO #Blog and #SEO #Giveaway (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 28 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

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

• Reflecting on your comments on the Start screen (Steven Sinofsky)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Search Everywhere (Radhika Tadinada)
• Adding an Application Bar to your XAML Metro Applications. (Michael Crump)
• Windows 8 wish list: 10 Metro-style apps I want to see (Ed Bott)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Debugging Optimized Code in Visual Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 2 and What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 3 (Tarun Arora)
• FSharpChart new release available (version 0.55) (Carl Nolan)
• Large Object Heap And .NET GC Improvements (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Implementing Windows 8 Push Notifications – An Example (Peter von Lochow)
• The Cost of Async and Await (Jonathan Allen)
• Official release of “The Developer’s Guide to AppFabric" (Alan Smith)
• Creating a Distributed Computing System Using a Windows Azure Queue (Buck Woody)
• Devpad 4.4 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Few Nice features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview for ASP.NET Developers (Abhijit Jana)
• Essential jQuery Plugin Patterns (Addy Osmani)
• Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Consolidate Duplicate Conditional Fragments (Giorgio Sironi)
• KnockoutJS Custom Binding for Invoking an Action with Enter Key (Steve Michelotti)
• Share Your Windows Azure (Cloud Computing) Ideas (MS Public Sector Team)
• Backbone.js: Getting The Model For A Clicked Element (Derick Bailey)
• Modernizr.js : Feature Detection (K. Scott Allen)
• OAuth 2.0 in Web API (Howard Dierking)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Way of Success (J.D. Meier)
• Spiking RavenDB Design Decisions: Event Aggregation (Oren Eini)
• Event Sourcing as a strategic advantage (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New FREE e-book: Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• FSharpChart and WPF (Carl Nolan)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 1: Authorized navigation. (Kevin Dockx)
• 2000 WPF Things #406 – Creating New Controls by Layering One on Top of Another (Sean Sexton)
• Sending Windows Phone 7 Notifications from Ruby (Larry Franks)
• Quick Tip: Design-Time Views for Regions (Jeremy Likness)
• Accessing the Dispatcher Thread from your ViewModel (Mark Pearl)
• Background Audio (Jesse Liberty)
• A Touch-Scrolling Attached Behaviour for ScrollViewer (Matt Hamilton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET 4.5: Eric St. John – Reducing Reboots During Framework Installation (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 122: Bert Belder on porting Node.js to Windows (Jon Galloway)
• Engadget HD Podcast 269 – 10.11.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Ejecting USB devices, Game stopping Windows Button, Getting MKV File Thumbnails (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 120: Zune, Hotmail, Kinect, Steve Jobs and Office Show 911: The shortcut to keyboard shortcuts (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Some Great FREE Windows Phone and ALM Sessions coming to IL, IN and WI in November! (Angela Dugan)
• Project Lifecycle Management with EPM and TFS User Group MN Oct 21st (Charles Sterling)
• SQLAuthority News – SQLPASS – 100 SQL Wait Stats Book Print Copy Giveaway – A Book Every Minute for an Hour Tomorrow (Pinal Dave)
• PowerShell v3 at Deep Dive next week (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• My Silverlight, HTML5, OData and Kinect talks coming up. (Michael Crump)
• I’m Presenting at the New York City SharePoint Dev User Group Next Week (October 19th) (Andrew Connell)

Database

• Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server CTP3 (MS Downloads)
• Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server Code Name “Denali” (DRAFT Preview) (Devon Musgrave)
• Useful queries #3: Get SQL Server Edition, Version, Build and Last Update date and time. (Jose Chinchilla)
• Generate SQL Server Test Data (Rob Bowman)
• Remove All Foreign Keys (Sedat Salman)
• Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware (Glenn Berry)
• Using Custom Code Functions in Reporting Services Reports (Paul Turley)

SharePoint

• Deployment guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Profile synchronization guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• RTM’d today: Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

• Start Scheduled Task and Wait On Completion with PowerShell (Geoff Hudik)

Miscellaneous

• Three Reasons I Love Functional Programming (Alex Rønne Petersen)
• NoReplyAll Updated (Since I last installed it at least…) – Also see related the seven part "How it was built" series (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft and Oracle part ways over multitenancy in the cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
• Lessons From Steve Jobs (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 11, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #957 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/11/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 10/12/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 3-9, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Web Dev Tweets 10-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #728 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery by Dan Wellman