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Top Links

• Knockout 2.0.0 released (Steve Sanderson)
• Windows Phone Beats Out Blackberry World – Marketplace Now 4th Largest (Antonio Hernandez)
• Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro (Daniela Panfili)
• ReSharper 6.1, dotCover 1.2 and dotTrace 4.5.2 Performance Released (Hadi Hariri)
• OData: iOS Client Library goes Open Source (Arlo Belshee)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Stupid smart code: Solution (Oren Eini)
• Search in Tfs Work Items never was so easy (Gian Maria Ricci)
• TFS + NuGet =’s? TFS NuGetter of course! and Kinect + 3D = Fusion4D (Greg Duncan)
• The PacMan problem (Julian M. Bucknall)
• New CodeRush Plugin – CR_ImportNamespace (Rory Becker)
• Live Data and Source Code in JustTrace (Just* Team)
• New Book: Developing Microsoft Media Foundation Applications (Kim Spilker)
• Facebook C# SDK 5.4.1 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Model Binding with Dropdown List in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• WebStorm 3.0: The JavaScript IDE! (Alexey Korsun)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 3 (Jorge Ramon)
• Using jQuery’s .pushStack() for reusable DOM traversing methods (Karl Swedberg)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Exception with Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• The output element (Richard Clark)
• Espresso Tip: Changing those nasty constraint names in Code First (Jonathan Creamer)
• What’s been happening in the Web Workbench world (Ivan Towlson)
• My book is now available (HTML5 games) (Jacob Seidelin)
• An Introduction to EAI Bridges (Harish Agarwal)
• Important Announcements Regarding the Access Control Service (Himanshu Singh)
• Let It Snow… Faster! (Rob Mauceri)
• Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 2 (Dan Wellman)
• Use the W3C Geolocation API to create location aware web sites (Rachel Appel)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Isn’t the Answer to Bad Product Ownership (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Unit Testing MySQL-Bound Code (Omer van Kloeten)
• Metro: Typography trumps chrome–debunked. (Scott Barnes)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 17: Rules for Effective Data-Driven Tests (Jim Holmes)
• Final Designs are Always the Simplest and Most Practical (Anthony)
• The Process of Change – Handling Resistance to Change [Part 3/4] (Peter Saddington)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #2: Installing the Tools (Windows Phone Geek)
• TouchDevelop v2.5: new tutorial, artwork, forum, and more (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Windows Phone 7.5 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Updates to the Windows Phone docs (Cheryl Simmons)
• WP7 Saving To Isolated Storage (Daniel Egan)
• Stopping the WP7 Emulator Skin file copy/replace madness… Windows Phone 7 Emulator Skin Switcher 1.0 [Beta] (Greg Duncan)
• Finding the Unique Device ID in Windows Phone 7 (And Device Manufacturer And Anonymous Windows Live ID) (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #455 – Using ItemContainerStyle to Bind Data Elements in a Collection to a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• 7th Day of Silverlight : Ancestor Relative Source Binding (Tony Champion)
• Ways To Pass Time On Window Phone – TouchDevelop (Tim Murphy)
• WriteableBitmapEx 1.0 Coming Soon, Test it Now! (Rene Schulte)
• Beginning LightSwitch Part 5: May I? Controlling Access with User Permissions (Beth Massi)
• patterns & practices – Case Study: TailSpin Windows Phone 7 Survey Application – Mango Refresh Drop 2 (CodePlex)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• YOW! 2011: Damian Conway – Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming Made Easy (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #152: No-ckito (James Shore)
• Engadget HD Podcast 279 – 12.20.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video Tutorial PhoneGap for Windows Phone – Getting Started (Windows Phone Geek)
• New Video: Common Functional Testing Problems (Jim Holmes)
• SDU Show 48 with guest Roger Doherty (Greg Low)

 

Community / Events

• A day in the life of a Developer Evangelist! (Harish Ranganathan)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – A Quick Trick about SQL Server 2012 CONCAT Function – PRINT (Pinal Dave)
• All 15 SQLBits Training days have been announced (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server Audits: Introduction and SQL Server Auditing: Creating a Server Specification (SQLArcher)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 20: Indexes with Included Columns (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010, ALM and Continuous Integration Resources (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Apple is a patent troll now (Joe Wilcox)
• ‘Roswell’: Another key component of Microsoft’s cloud strategy (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microspeak: Offline (noun) (Raymond Chen)
• Out with the Old, In with the New: Bing Takes Stock of 2011 and The Year Ahead (Kari Dilloo)
• Is Windows Phone moving to the Windows org? (Kip Kniskern)
• RSS feed that can be filtered–would you use it? (Jason Haley)
• Microsoft forgets Windows Phone in Windows Live Messenger ad (Phone Arena Team)
• Face Swap For Windows Phone Swaps Faces Of Two People In A Photo – Download Now (Edward Marquez)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 20 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Link Post 215 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Dev News for December 19, 2011 – #0013 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #778 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/20/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew#1007 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/20/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 20-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

 

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis

 

Top Links

• jQuery 1.7 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Physics Games: Multi-targeting Windows 8 + Windows Phone 7 (Andy Beaulieu)
• My Secrets to Productivity (Jolie O’Dell)
• Using the Roslyn Syntax API (Kevin Pilch-Bisson)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Lazy Loading in C# (Suprabhat Paul)
• Using lambdas – C++ vs. C# vs. C++/CX vs. C++/CLI (Nishant Sivakumar)
• Track Changes and Advance Scroll Mode in Visual Studio 2010 (Christian D. Yellington)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Generic Action Delegates (James Michael Hare)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Alpha (CodePlex)
• DevForce Code First with AOP (Ward Bell)
• Be a Keyboard Ninja! (Just* Team)
• Project2NuGet (Greg Duncan)
• Source code for OneCal (John Guin)
• Overriding part registration conventions with the MEF attributes (Nick)
• Application State, Suspension and Termination of Apps in WinRT (Abhishek Sur)

 

Web Development

• Using the NetAdvantage jQuery Chart to Explore Over One Million Items of USGS Data (Graham Murray)
• Full-height app layouts: Navigation and History (Steve Sanderson)
• Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Controls – Check them out (John Petersen)
• Using a virtual machine to play with multiple versions of PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
• WebMatrix 2 Beta (Vishal R. Joshi)
• MetroBlog: Windows8 Metro Styled Blog (Justin Angel)
• Bing Webmaster Tools Fall Updates (Duane Forrester)
• Open Source Simple Twitter Client written in JavaScript (Titanium) (Michael Sync)
• How to read Windows Azure Application Endpont IP Address and Port values in the Startup Task (Avkash Chauhan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: ContextualValidation (Martin Fowler)
• Comparison extension method for unit testing (Denis Pitcher)
• Best and Most Up-to-date Agile/Lean Books (Jurgen Appelo)
• INF3720 – Interaction Design Chapter 5 Summary (Mark Pearl)
• Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples (MS Downloads)
• Mercurial 2.0 Released with LargeFiles extension (Alex Blewitt)
• Coded UI tests : AutomationId or how to find the chose one (control) ! (Jonathan Antoine)
• A Faster Way to File Bugs in BugTracker (Celina)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Announcing: Phone as a Remote Control (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone Toolkit MultiselectList in depth| Part2: Data Binding and “Top Windows Phone Dev Tools” section is now Live! and WP7Contrib, Caliburn Micro and AgFx added to the Top Windows Phone Dev Tools (Windows Phone Geek)
• Introduction to Resource Washing in NetAdvantage for Silverlight 11.2 (Damyan Petev)
• Thinking of Pinned Apps conceptually on Windows Phone (Adam Kinney)
• Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (4) – Displaying data from webservice (Anders Poulsen)
• 300 Windows Phone 7 Icons, Creative Commons (with *.XAML, *.Design and *.PNG) (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #423 – Setting Maximum Height and Width for Rows and Columns in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Design Tips #4 (Andrew Spooner)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #4: Compass (Jeff Blankenburg)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 12 : Looking at a (Rad)GridView (Evan Hutnick)
• XamMultiColumnComboEditor (Atanas Dyulgerov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Announcing Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Alpha (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 041 – “Kinect a Mole” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Reza Malekzadeh Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Check Out Steve Jobs In A Rare, Unedited Interview From 1990 (AAPL) (Dylan Love)
• Inside Microsoft Research: The Research Behind Kinect (Rob Knies)

 

Community / Events

• Baton Rouge Windows Phone User Group (Chris Koenig)
• Surface MVP Helps Develop Breakthrough Tool to Diagnose Autism (MVP Award Program)
• Salute to the MVPs and a Nod to MVP Wannabes (Joel Oleson)
• Five Questions: Imagine That (Mike Desmond)
• It’s big. It’s in NYC. It’s a secret (for now). (Michael Stroh)
• Touring Microsoft’s Technology Center Campus in Malvern (Daniel Olivieri)
• I work for Microsoft now (David Vidmar)
• JobsBlog roll call: Meet our team – and introduce yourself! (Gretchen Ledgard)
• A Coder Interview With Dan Mohl (The Code Project)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Edition and Licensing Revamp Round-up and SQL Kinection (Greg Duncan)
• SQL Server 2012: Business Intelligence Edition (Jorge Segarra)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Interview Questions And Answers Book Summary and SQL SERVER 2012 Editions – Highlights of The Cloud-Ready Information Platform (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS Interview questions – Answers (Ted Krueger)
• Book Review – Effective MySQL (Sean Hull)

 

Miscellaneous

• All Your Base Are Belong to Us: A Videogame History Book (Jonathan Liu)
• November Oracle Technology Network Offers (Oracle Technology Network)
• Profanity doesn’t work and Google+ Ripples brings something interesting to the table (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 3, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #745 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/3/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #974 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/03/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2011 — #1161 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Best of Blog Overflow: October 2011 (Alex Miller)

 

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours by Rob Eisenberg & Christopher Bennage

 

Top Links

• New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.4.8 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
• Launching PowerShell 2.0 into .net4 via F# Interactive or IronPython 2.7 (Steve Gilham)
• Dart: A language for structured web programming (Lars Bak)
• MetroGridHelper: A helpful debugging assistant for designers and developers alike (Jeff Wilcox)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Inspecting Tier Interaction Profiling (TIP) results in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler (Abhijit Jana)
• .NET Math Library (Richard Carr)
• F# Parallel Array Sorting (Carl Nolan)
• Teams in Visual Studio 11, the basics. and Teams in Visual Studio 11, feature teams and backlogs. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Code smell – LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… – Look from a bird’s eye view (Peter Gfader)
• An easy way to create Side by Side registrationless COM Manifests with Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
• Using Service Bus Topics and Subscriptions with WCF (Tom Hollander)
• Actions in OData (Alex James)
• How to Resolve the ‘Manifest Reference file ‘XYZ’ is not part of the payload in Metro and How to setup a clean error message when your Metro Application does not support Data Sharing (Derik Whittaker)
• Reading EXCEL FILE in a collection using Open XML SDK 2.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Web Development

• C#’s String.Format For JavaScript (Geek Daily)
• Cool stuff in FubuMVC No. 2: Action Conventions (Chad Myers)
• ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Mobile Template (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Consolidate Conditional Expression (Giorgio Sironi)
• Getting Your HTML5 Fix: HTML5 At DZone (Rob Diana)
• Viewport Meta Tag and Using HTML 5/CSS3/jQuery to Build Mobile Interfaces (Sam Gentile)
• 10 super useful PHP snippets (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Use Local Storage to Make Your Single Page Web Application Rock (Chris Love)
• DotNetNuke Community Edition 06.01.00 Beta (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Metrotastic– Palette Generator Preview. (Scott Barnes)
• Test Data Builder pattern with object initializers in .NET (Stacy Vicknair)
• Change the Environment, Not the People (Jurgen Appelo)
• How’s mentorship seen in Software Craftsmanship? (Sandro Mancuso)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Progress Bar using Threads (R. Carty)
• Extended WPF Toolkit–using the BusyIndicator (Brian Lagunas)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 1 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• Detecting System Information of WP7 Device (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Taking screenshots with Windows Phone 7 applications using a video feed (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #404 – A Grid Hosts Child Controls in Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Ringtones from existing content on WP7 – why can’t you do that? and Using system alerts with the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and Using Pandora’s Artist Explorer service to discover new music on Windows Phone 7 and Random Airplane Mode in Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using Visual States to Set Focus on a Control (Jeremy Likness)
• Isolated Storage for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 177: Jeremy Likness on Sterling database (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 414: Dragon Age II Mark Of The Assassin, Rocksmith, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster (Larry Hyrb)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 179: Cassandra with Jonathan Ellis (SE-Radio Team)
• Gillmor Gang 10.8.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Windows Weekly 229: What’s It Called And What’s It Cost? (Paul Thurrott)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 72 – CodeMania NZ and a Build Windows 8 Recap (Richard Banks)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 25 (Richard Hay)
• The GeekDads Episode #101: Han Shot First, Fahgettaboudit! (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• TWC9: C9 goes global, Fast App Switching, Geo AR Toolkit, MEF 2.0 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Radio – 45 (Brian Seitz)

 

Community / Events

• Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools Live Roadshow Double Feature: Managing Your Software Lifecycle and Agile Management using Visual Studio Team Foundation in a town near you (US) (Charles Sterling)
• Welcome to our First MVP Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Upcoming MSDN Webcasts on Windows Phone 7.5, Windows Azure, Orchard and VS Team Build (Katrien de Graeve)
• Want to Learn iOS or Android? (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Database

• Book Review – MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services: Cookbook (Darren Gosbell)
• SQL Server Temp Tables (J. Verheul)
• SSIS: Word-wrapping Annotations (Using Only Notepad) (Larry Leonard)
• SQLAuthority News – System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance (Pinal Dave)
• DBCC checktable (Jack Vamvas)
• Review of Redgate SQL Prompt (Tatworth)
• Search and Replace in MySQL (Tom Hearn)
• MIT introduces Oracle for Object-Oriented Programmers (Michael Stal)

 

Miscellaneous

• Personal Development Hub on Sources of Insight (JD Meier)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Early Release Edition of #Android Cookbook – $21.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Paint.NET v3.5.10 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Negative hiring decisions, Part II (Oren Eini)
• Silverlight to power apps on the new Xbox 360 dashboard update (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Pie in the Sky (October 7, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #955 (Chris Alcock)
• Retrospective 53 – #Agile Tool Reviews and #Giveaway #Contest (Peter Saddington)
• Double Shot #726 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/10/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 7-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 02-October-2011 to 08-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.01 ~ 10.10 (gOODiDEA)

 

The Geek Shelf

Head First HTML5 Programming: Building Web Apps with JavaScript by Eric T Freeman