• 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

• MassTransit v2.0.1 Available (Chris Patterson)
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.1 (Nathan Totten)
• Detecting HTML5/CSS3 Features using Modernizr (Dan Wahlin)
• Ajax Control Toolkit November 2011 Release (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

• StatFactory: FCore maths & statistics library, designed for use with F# (Don Syme)
• I shall call you… Mini…C# Course (Greg Duncan)
• DevForce Code First Walkthrough: From New Project to Running (John Lantz)
• How can I tell whether a COM pointer to a remote object is still valid? (Raymond Chen)
• Adding Compiled .ResX Resources To NuGet Packages (Jon Davis)
• Publishing symbol packages for a MyGet feed (Maarten Balliauw)
• Dynamic LINQ to NHibernate (Felice Pollano)

Web Development

• TreeList for ASP.NET AJAX Enhanced with Keyboard Navigation and Export to PDF in Q3 2011 (Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Team)
• Experiment: Building and Publishing an HTML5 Game for iPad and HTML5 vs. CSS3 vs…background-image? (John Esposito)
• ASP.NET 4.5 – New Model Binding Feature Keeps the Web Form and Model Separate (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Building Your Rails Box on OS X For Softies (Rob Conery)
• Running JavaScript… With Sneakers! (Sharon Cichelli)
• Simple Async HTTP Module for Appcelerator (Sean Biefeld)
• Calling the Windows Azure Service Management API with the New .publishsettings File (Steve Marx)
• The whole web is confused by mobile (Rob Borley)
• 6 Tips to Help You Build a Great Web Application (Greg & Adrian)
• Better UX Through INPUT Tags And Why They Are Important For Mobile (Chris Love)
• MVC Controls Toolkit 1.5.5 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: PolyglotPersistence (Martin Fowler)
• The Yin and Yang of Sources of Insight (J.D. Meier)
• Make a distinction: Errors vs. Alerts (Oren Eini)
• The Mojito Method (Jurgen Appelo)
• Assuming Leadership In Your Design Agency (Jeremy Girard)
• Design Decisions: Guided learning approach (Brent Schooley)
• Identify Risk Early (Andy Warren)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7 getting started (6) – Make your application come alive (Anders Poulsen)
• Hands On With New Breed Of Windows Phones (Chris Love)
• Introducing a new WP7 control: RadAutoCompleteBox (Deyan Ginev)
• Facebook Graph API and Silverlight Part 2 – Publishing data (Lazar Nikolov)
• RadControls for Windows Phone Q3 2011 – new SlideView, Auto-Complete plus more (Georgi Atanasov)
• PhoneGap on WP7 tip #1: Handling Orientation (Glen Gordon)
• Get a free and open source physics library in BEPUphysics (for Windows, XBox and WP7) (Greg Duncan)
• Databinding an Auto Complete Box in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
• Nokia Windows Phone Competition (Nick)
• It’s a wrap! I’ve completed writing Silverlight 5 in Action (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #432 – Height and Width vs. ActualHeight and ActualWidth (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone App Flow: Watching Video (Travis Pope)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #17: Using Windows Azure (Jeff Blankenburg)
• LightSwitch Tutorial – Adding Image to a LightSwitch Screen (Chris D.)
• CODE Framework v4.0.11115.0 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – WinRT Panel Discussion at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Roslyn Project – Meet the Design Team (Charles Torre)
• SE Podcast #27 – Dave Winer (Alex Miller)
• How StackOverflow Scales with SQL Server (Video) (Brent Ozar)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 002 – 11.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Online video tutorials for HTML 5 (Steve Albers)
• Defrag – Driver Store, Touch Tips, Defragging HDD (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Test ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC Web Applications (Avi Kaye)
• Silverlight In The Enterprise This Friday in NYC (Matt Van Horn)
• Want to party on with Ubelly at the .Net Awards? (Luke)
• Kinect at the Maker Faire (Greg Duncan)
• Mind Blown at Defrag (Dave Michels)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Puzzle to Win Print Book and Free 30 Days Online Training Material (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Triggers – An Introduction (Vivek Johari)
• Reviewing the New Oracle NoSQL Database (John Esposito)

SharePoint

• Redirect SharePoint Natively with a Content Editor Webpart (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Recruiter advice: How to navigate the in-between years (MS JobsBlog)
• Quick news: New survey on certification released (Devon Musgrave)
• Amazon Puts Kindle Fire Source Code Up for Download (Kyle Wagner)
• Microsoft drops Dryad; puts its big-data bets on Hadoop (Mary Jo Foley)
• MediaMonkey 4 now supports video (Nick Peers)
• MSFT v.Next: Clues to the Future at Microsoft’s Annual Shareholder Meeting (Paul Thurrott)
• Evernote Clearly Knows How To Make Web Reading, Clipping Easier (Robin Wauters)
• 60 Days as a Linux user by a recovering Windows Guy. (Joe Stagner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #754 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/16/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #983 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links– 2011_36 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for November 07 – 13, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for November 16, 2011 — #1167 (Dave Campbell)
• Web Dev Tweets 15-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily News Digest 11/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim

• Join us for the BUILD keynotes group liveblog: 13th & 14th September (Long Zheng)
• Dart – will Google make HTML5 applications viable? (Colin Eberhardt)
• New Book Brings Together More than a Dozen MVPs (MVP Award Program)
• Why I Prefer JavaScript Over CoffeeScript (Davy Brion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Volatile Fields (Richard Carr)
• New from Amazon, AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio (Think "If you do AWS from VS, get this ASAP…") (Greg Duncan)
• The Rise of F# (Phillip Trelford)
• Sync Framework v4 is now Open Source, and ready to Connect any Device to SQL Server and SQL Azure (Rob Tiffany)
• 7 books for a .NET Summer reading list (2011 version) (Simone Chiaretta)
• The Windows Native Ribbon Part 3: Buttons and Menus (Michael Dunn)
• RavenDB: Multi Maps / Reduce indexes (Oren Eini)
• Writing a Custom ConfigurationSection to handle a Collection (Abhishek Sur)
• Code Issues specific to partial methods (Alex Skorkin)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Entity Refresh and NHibernate Pitfalls: Lazy Properties and Closed Sessions (Ricardo Peres)
• Configure MySql .Net Connector with Entity Framework (Paul Petrov)
• Matrix Multiplication with C++ AMP and Scheduling thread tiles with C++ AMP and tile_static, tile_barrier, and tiled matrix multiplication with C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
• NH Mapping by code VS the Untouchable DB (Felice Pollano)
• ApplicationException – Should you derive from it? (Tatworth)

Web Development

• Announcing Formlets for jQuery Mobile (Ramon Snir)
• JavaScript: window.onbeforeunload Event – Show “Are you sure you want to leave this page?” Message (Chris Pietschmann)
• CouchDB jQuery Plugin Reference (Bradley Holt)
• Adding JQuery UI to MVC 3 Application causes a JScript Runtime exception (Derik Whittaker)
• jQuery 1.6.4 RC1 released (Dave Methvin)
• The XNA Platformer game ported to HTML5… as in wow (and you can get the source too. wow++) (Greg Duncan)
• Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript with “Promises” (Matt Podwysocki & Amanda Silver)
• How to create a simple jQuery plugin – jQuery Iconify (Andrea Salvadore)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Field (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using HTML 5 data attributes with ASP.NET MVC (Ægir Þorsteinsson)
• Foxy – CSS Framework (Vladimir Carrer)
• How to change selected date background color of current week in ASP.NET Calendar ? and Conditional Binding Expression with ASP.NET GridView (Abhijit Jana)
• An Introduction To LESS, And Comparison To Sass (Jeremy Hixon)
• Learning node.js: Step (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An Observation about TDD (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Scrum basics: The daily standup meeting (John Rayner)
• Cross-Cloud portability with Lokad.CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
• Listening to the team (Steve Rowe)
• Performance and Optimization Isn’t Evil (Reed Copsey)
• Commenting code is an anti-pattern (Mark Pearl)
• Support for git’s fast-import format in Veracity (Eric Sink)
• Repeated Failed Log-Ins: What’s Your Strategy? (Davy Brion)
• The Six Pillars of Complete Developer Documentation (Pamela Fox)
• One of the small costs of transparency (Howard Dierking)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 6 – Development Best Practices (Evan Hutnick)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 5 PInvoke fun – System Font Dialog (Peter Kuhn)
• Mapping a Route with Directions using the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) (Brian Lagunas)
• WP7 AccelerometerProxy in F# (Daniel Mohl)
• Simple Hand Tracking with MS Kinect SDK & WPF and Window Phone 7.5, ZXing and QR codes (Greg Duncan)
• Yet another Beeping P/Invoke Demo (SL5 RC) (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight Spy September 2011 Update (2) (Koen Zwikstra)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 4 – fighting with the ListPicker control (András Velvárt)
• Starting with Mango — Developer View (Jan Slodicka)
• 2000 WPF Things #384 – The Benefits of Flow-Based Layout (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 173: Steve Bohlen on Agile Methods (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 410: PAX Prime and COD XP recap (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 255 – 09.09.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 103 – 09.10.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 69 – Mitch Denny on BDD, TEE, Cloudy Infrastructure and more (Richard Banks)
• Gweek 016: The Postmortal (Mark Frauenfelder)
• First RavenDB webinar is now on YouTube (Oren Eini)
• Coding QA Episode 64 – What Do You Want To Hear? (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• This is my next Podcast 023 – 09.09.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 033 – “Send Me an Angel” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• TWC9 September 9th 2011 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Nic Fillingham)
• SQL SERVER – Denali CTP3 – Step by Step Installation Video – 200 Seconds (Pinal Dave)

Community / Events

• Mid-Atlantic Folks at BUILD? and Updated User Group Map (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Let’s Do A LightSwitch Hack-A-Thon (Michael Washington)
• Node.js Knockout 2011 Winners Revealed (Sarah Perez)
• #WPAppItUp Wrap-Up (Ben Lower)
• Windows Phone Camp – Malvern Pennsylvania on September 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Excitement BUILDs: Here Comes Windows 8 and BUILD: Live from Anaheim, CA (Paul Thurrott)
• I am proud to announce that I have joined Telerik. (Michael Crump)
• Women in Tech: I am my Own Worst Enemy (Becky Isserman)
• Microsoft Build: Developer topics to watch and Microsoft Build: Tools and technologies hot buttons (Mary Jo Foley)
• What I expect from Windows 8 (Ed Bott)
• Architects and Architecture at JavaOne (Bob Rhubart)
• BUILD: New Opportunities for Developers (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Windows 8 Gets Ready for Its Big Debut (Ina Fried)
• My last day at the evil empire – free from the borg collective ! (Joe Stagner)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Denali – Logical Function – IIF() – A Quick Introduction and SQL SERVER – Denali – Logical Function – CHOOSE() – A Quick Introduction and SQL SERVER – DBA Quiz 2011 – All was well few moments before all went wrong – Reasons and Resolutions (Pinal Dave)
• Use common table expressions to simplify your updates in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• New Release of SQL Azure (Shaun Xu)
• Earlier(), AddColumns() and row context (Chris Webb)
• SQL Azure Q2 2011 Service Release Now Deployed (Part I of II) and What’s New in SQL Azure Management Portal? (Part II of II) (Gregory Leake)
• Handling Flat File Headers and Errors in SSIS (Mike Davis)
• SQL Server: Display Query Execution Plans–Different ways (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• jQuery, SharePoint Picture Libraries, and automatic thumbnails (Bil Simser)
• Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: the Silverlight SharePoint Web Parts – part 1 and Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: the Silverlight SharePoint Web Parts – part 2 (Walter Ferrari)
• DB2 Stored Procedures and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

PowerShell

• Group Membership Unions and Intersections (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Bulk-Renaming Files (and other magic) (Tobias Weltner)

Miscellaneous

• VMware tackles task management with Strides (Derrick Harris)
• Internet 1996 vs. Internet 2011 [Infographic] (Richard Darell)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: September 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 09.07 ~ 09.12 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading September 9, 2011 and Geek Reading September 10, 2011 and Geek Reading September 11, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Distributed Weekly 119 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #706 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 9th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Web Dev Tweets 8-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Pie in the Sky (September 9, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #935 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #161 (David Vidmar)
• Today’s Links (9/9/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2011 — #1145 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 04-September-2011 to 10-September-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 9 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Retrospective 49 – #RageFace #Kanban and #Innovation (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Phone 7 Game Development by Adam Dawes

• Accessing data in ISO and VHD files (Steven Sinofsky)
• 3 Ways to update the Application Tile Content in Mango (Michael Crump)
• What is this thing you call a "type"? Part one (Eric Lippert)
• More on Updating Apps for Mango (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio (Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Working with AssemblyCatalog in MEF (Abhijit Jana)
• MVPs for Exchange Online: Calling Exchange Online PowerShell Cmdlets from C# (Mike Pfeiffer)
• Now Shipping! Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Visual Studio (Covers Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Debugging Security Exceptions (Oren Eini)
• Configurable Aspects for MEF (Gary H. Guo)
• Lazy Evaluation: Benefits, and costs too (Bill Wagner)
• Highlighting an identifier and its references using CodeRush and DXCore APIs related to the programming languages specification (Alex Skorkin)
• Use SQLite to test NH–DateDiff function (Gian Maria Ricci)
• .NET Extension Methods For Microsoft Translator API (Roopesh Shenoy)
• ORM: Should I go Micro? (Peter Gfader)
• Keep your code tidy with JustCode (JustCode Team)
• 1 page, 101 Office 2010 Code Samples and Depends4Net – Dependency Walker homage project… (or A kind of Dependency Walker for .Net, with source…) and KinectFusion (Greg Duncan)
• NHibernate 3 Beginners Guide published (Gabriel Schenker)

Web Development

• Spreading arrays into arguments in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• How to inspect css hover , active property using firebug (Sachin Khosla)
• Custom validation messages for HTML5 Input elements using the constraint validation API (Sagar H. Ganatra)
• Memcached in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Deploying Ruby (Java, Python, and Node.js) Applications to Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
• Creating a Windows Azure hosted service (Neil Mackenzie)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.1.3 released! (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Building a small microframework with PHP (Part 2). Command line interface (Gonzalo Ayuso)
• Optimize Images With HTML5 Canvas (Sergey Chikuyonok)
• HTML5 for the ASP.NET Developer (Wally McClure)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An Update on Agile for Families (David Starr)
• A Bucket of Criticism – Water, Sand, and Gold (J.D. Meier)
• 5 Steps to Introduce an Agile Tool (Marc Löffler)
• Distributed Team Evasion Tactic – Away or Offline (Roy Osherove)
• Backlog Management in TeamPulse (Yordan Dimitrov)
• The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture Version 3 (Mike Walker)
• The read-only database (Mark Needham)
• 25 Strategies for Getting Results (JD Meier)
• The Danger of Using Home Page Login Fields (Anthony Tseng)
• Let’s not forget what makes a good tester a good tester (Dawn Cannan)
• Dear Team Lead, You Are Not Doing Agile If… (Sasha Goldshtein)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Update the WPF UI now: how to wait for the rendering to finish ? (Jonathan Antoine)
• WPF Command Prompt (Clavius Maximus)
• Windows Phone MVVM Master – Details Navigation in 5 minutes and 5 Helpful Windows Phone Mango SketchFlow Tutorials and Windows Phone Toolkit PhoneTextBox in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• Introducing the IE9 on Windows Phone “Mango” User Agent String (Charles Morris)
• Tic Tac Toe Game for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Using the Bing Maps WPF control to build an, "OMG, was that an earthquake…?" app and AgFx = Developing Data Driven Windows Phone 7 App Joy (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #375 – Binding Something in a Tooltip to a Property on the Parent Control (Sean Sexton)
• What is the architecture of WPF? (Hima)
• Windows Phone Marketplace (free apps) in your pocket and [Weekend coding] MetroPack – Weekend report #1 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza Start Xamarin (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 409: PAX Prime 2011 Podcast (Larry Hyrb)
• Let’s Play TDD #132: Fresh Eyes on the Domain (James Shore)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 2: Mobile Software Development with .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Defrag: How to make a Win7 thumbdrive, Running old games on Win7, Imaging old laptop for XP Mode. (Larry Larsen)
• Video: Bruce Payette – Inside PowerShell Runtime (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Ping 115: Dilbert Challenge, Mango Apps, Smarter file copying, RenRen (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for August 29th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The (not so) secret lives of interns (MS JobsBlog)
• Women in Technology: A Quick Observation and a Quick Straw Poll (Kevin Kline)
• 27 Female Founders You Should Be Following On Twitter (Bianca Bosker)

Database

• When to use T-SQL or SSIS for ETL (James Serra)
• SSIS For Each Loop over files with Date in Name (Mike Davis)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – What is XML? – Day 30 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Inserting Records AND Getting The Identity in SSIS – Part 2 (Todd McDermid)
• T-SQL Enhancements: FIRST_VALUE() and LAST_VALUE() (Henrik Sjang Davidse)

SharePoint

• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Self-study Upgrade/Migration Guide (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• MSDN Magazine September Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Enterprise iOS Applications – Only $7.49 w/code DDDEA (O’Reilly Media)
• Paul’s Picks: Microsoft Touch Mouse and Apple iOS Developer Training (Paul Thurrott)
• Improvements in Windows Explorer (Steven Sinofsky)
• Nokia: What Should We Call Our Series of Windows Phones in the US? (Antonio Hernandez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 080 for 8/29/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Geek Reading August 29, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Silverlight Cream for August 29, 2011 — #1139 (Dave Campbell)
• Today’s Links (8/29/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #926 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/30/2011 and Silverlight Cream Top 5 News for August 22-29, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 29 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software (Theory in Practice)

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

Head First Design Patterns by Elisabeth Freeman

• Create Projects with JustDecompile (Chris Eargle)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 6 – Show Me the Goodies ! (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• How to Break Down a Backlog (John Sonmez)
• Looking at LightSwitch – Part 1 (Gill Cleeren)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Parallel Programming (Richard Carr)
• WCF RIA Service Learning Series (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Rx and Schedulers (Mike Taulty)
• Expression Tree Basics (Abul Kayes)
• How an OData quirk killed NuGet server perf (David Ebbo)
• Kinect Audio Positioning (Greg Duncan)
• Deprecating RIA Services "Live IntelliSense" (Jeff Handley)
• Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook (Neil Mackenzie)
• NHibernate 3.2 Released (Ricardo Peres)
• TFS Workbench – Release v2.2.0.7 and Facebook C# SDK – Release v5.1.1 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Fixing the JavaScript typeof operator (Angus Croll)
• AJAX Control Toolkit, NuGet Package Manager Console and the new HTMLEditorExtender Control (Harish Ranganathan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Local Extension and CoffeeScript: a TDD example (Giorgio Sironi)
• Restarting Node.js When Your Source Changes (Christopher Bennage)
• Debugging PHP In Eclipse (Eric Hogue)
• Picking a Web Client Side Persistence Mechanism (Gil Fink)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Can Agile Software Development Deliver a Great User Experience? (Peter Saddington)
• What Bruce Lee Can Teach Us About Design Patterns (Wille Faler)
• Embrace detail, and ignore detail at the same time (Bill Wagner)
• RavenDB implementation frustrations (Oren Eini)
• Look forward (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• When to use Aspect Oriented Architecture (AOA/AOD) (Todd Merritt)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Treeview : Styling and Template Binding using MVVM (Hiren Khirsaria)
• WPF Print Engine : Part I (Saraf Talukder)
• Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Starter Kits (Don Burnett)
• How to Close Browser Window from Silverlight Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight: Quick and Dirty UX Testing (Surf4Fun)
• How to Debug Network Traffic in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator? (Henry Lee)
• Meet RadPivotMap and RadTreeMap (SL/WPF) (Vladimir Milev)
• Silverlight and Synchronous Network Calls (Mike Taulty)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Arrives (Yes, I know it arrived a while ago!) (Steve Naughton)
• 2000 WPF Things #360 – Binding a ToggleButton’s IsChecked Property to a Boolean Variable (Sean Sexton)
• Dependency Properties (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Tatham Oddie Makes HTML 5 and Silverlight Play Nice Together (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 157 – PowerScripting Podcast – Steven Murawski on User Groups and CommandAssist (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Community Megaphone Show #30 with Guest Jason Follas (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Deep Dive video: Constrained PowerShell Endpoints – Aleksandar Nikolic (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for August 8th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Going to SharePoint Saturday “The Conference”? (Brett Lonsdale)
• Top JavaScript Developers You Should Follow on Google+ (Elijah Manor)
• NYC .NET Developers User Group->Next Meeting (Stephen Forte)
• Open Source Hardware Summit Sponsorship AND Early Bird Tickets (Phillip Torrone)
• August Webcast Schedule: Microsoft Technologies (Kim Spilker)
• The Evolving Face of the Hackathon (Kin Lane)

Database

• What SQL Server Books Do You Recommend? (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQL Server book from Pinal Dave (Jacob Sebastian)
• PowerShell and SQL Server Compact 4.0: A Happy Mix (Jeremiah Clark)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Overriding Identity Fields – Tricks and Tips of Identity Fields – Day 9 of 35 and SQL SERVER – The SQL Hands-On Guide for Beginners – Book Available for SQL Server Certification (Pinal Dave)
• Data Warehousing with SSIS (Tim Radney)
• SQL Server – How to cascade UPDATEs and DELETEs to related tables (Vishal)
• Red Gate SQL Toolbelt Review (David Forck)
• Two New SQL Azure Articles Now Available on TechNet Wiki (Windows Azure Team)
• Putting a Database into Single User Mode (Gethyn Ellis)

SharePoint

• User Profile Subsystem in SharePoint Server 2010 (Spencer Harbar)

Miscellaneous

• IE 9 Security Settings on Server 2008 (Jim Holmes)
• Using our test code repository to my (and OneNote’s) advantage (John Guin)
• Charlie Kindel to leave Microsoft after 21 years (Kip Kniskern)
• MVPs for Office 365: Establishing Calendar Sharing between Office 365 Customers (Lonnie Webb)
• What’s Microsoft’s Redmond campus like? (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 8, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 9 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 205 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Geek Reading August 8, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for August 1 – 7, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for August 08, 2011 — #1127 (Dave Campbell)
• Top 5 SilverlightCream News for August 1-7, 2011 and Daily News Digest 08/08/2011 and Daily News Digest 08/09/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Today’s Links (8/8/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Afternoon Tea – Monday 8th August and The Morning Brew #912 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Programming Joes 2 Pros: Programming & Development for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (SQL Exam Prep Series 70-433 Volume 4 of 5) by Rick A. Morelan & Pinal Dave

• Project Silk Drop 12 (Karl Shifflett)
• Why Software Development Will Never be Engineering (John Sonmez)
• IronPython – Release: v2.7.1 Beta 1 and Facebook C# SDK – Release: v5.0.40 (CodePlex)
• Eduasync part 13: first look at coroutines with async (Jon Skeet)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Reviewer’s Guide (MS Downloads)
• How to implement the Sync Edit feature from Delphi IDE inside Visual Studio IDE using DXCore (Alex Skorkin)
• Tracing in WCF: Understanding basic steps (Dhananjay Kumar)
• EF4 books and EF 4.1 (Julie Lerman)
• Configuring a PowerShell Adapter for the TFS Integration Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Kinect–How to Apply Smooths Frame Display Using TransformSmoothParameters and Kinect – Create Buttons (Shai Raiten)
• Filter NuGet Package updated (Steve Naughton)
• Using Fluent NHibernate ClassMaps? You’re Doing It Wrong. (Bobby Johnson)
• Source Code Available for the Kinect Mouse Cursor Project (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New version of FSharpChart now available and FSharpChart new features and code drop availability (Don Syme)
• Rangers Build Customization Guide — Available now. and Rangers Lab Management Guide — Available now (Mike Fourie)
• Configuring Log4net in code using Windsor Installers (Naeem Khedarun)
• ADO.NET EF 4.0: Working with Plain Old CLR Objects (POCO) Classes (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Advanced CodeRush Plug-ins: Converting an Object Initializer into a Constructor (Mark Miller)
• Learn ADO.Net Entity Framework: Performing basic CRUD Operation (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Ref returns and ref locals (Eric Lippert)
• Making a Reverse Geocoding to Find an Address (Gil Fink)
• Links to C++ documentation (Daniel Moth)

Web Development

• ComponentModel for ASP.NET MVC3 (Ray Liang)
• Precompile your MVC Razor views using RazorGenerator (David Ebbo)
• Rendering A Rails Partial As A jQuery Template (Derick Bailey)
• Adding Scale to ASP.NET Applications in the Cloud (Jenni Ripley)
• Cleaning up POSTs in ASP.NET MVC (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET: DropDownList with ComandName and CommandArgument and ASP.NET Repeater: Binding events to controls in header template (Raghav Khunger)
• HTML5 and its Impact on SEO (Rey Bango)
• Microsoft to make inbound data transfer free on Windows Azure cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Azure for PHP SDK v3 Final Release (Andy Robb)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: FlagArgument (Martin Fowler)
• When did Scrum start loving project managers? (Allan Kelly)
• Tech Leading: Keeping the passion (Mark Needham)
• Just Launched: Zoho BugTracker (with GitHub Integration!) (Rodrigo Vaca)
• 5 Dangerous Ideas for Designers (Scott Berkun)
• PowerMockup, A New Tool for Low Fidelity Mockups (David Bulkin)
• MOF Archive (MS Downloads)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Port your Android or iPhone apps to Windows Phone 7 (Jason Gaylord)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Introduction (Windows Phone Geek)
• Bouncy McFuzzin for Windows Phone 7 (Andy Beaulieu)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 18 – Know about various Phone Tasks (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WP7: Mango beta process detailed, delay explained, new unannounced features (News staff)
• Windows Phone Mango Push Notification Changes (Nick)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Adding Localization Support (Per Ola)
• PivotViewer Shorts Part 5: Invert Facet Category Selections (xpert360)
• Quick reminder on How-To map items of a list view to a VM command (Gian Maria Ricci)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dominick Baier Walks Us Through Claims-Based Security! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #117: setIcon() (James Shore)
• Ping 105: Xbox 360 takes the lead, Kinect Shop, Kodu Cup, Droid Devs called to Windows Phone (Laura Foy)
• ADPWest 2011 – Drew Thoeni – Techwell and the ADP/Better Software Conferences and ADPWest 2011 – Michael Spayd and Lyssa Adkins – Agile Coaching Institute (Agile Toolkit Team)
• SE Podcast #09 (Alex Miller)
• Montage by FUSE Labs (Larry Larsen)
• ReSharper Tips and Tricks Video from NDC (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Wijmo Quick Demo: Adding Tooltips to your Charts (Kevin Griffin)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Announces 2011 Partner of the Year Award Winners and Finalists (MS PressPass)
• Windows 8: Sinofsky @ D9 Transcribed, Part 2: The Demo (Paul Thurrott)
• Last call to register for free Next Generation UX event on June 28 in Brussels (Katrien de Graeve)
• Teachers, would you like to help Microsoft pilot a new XNA Game Development course (and get free stuff in the process)? (Greg Duncan)

Database

• "Build Secure Database Applications with Microsoft SQL Server" Series To Be – Post 0 of X (Greg Duncan)
• Red Gate’s SQL Source Control and better SQL objects organization (Jakub Dvorak)

SharePoint

• IUseSharePoint.com – How do you use SharePoint? (Andrew Connell)
• How to Open a List Form in a Modal Dialog Box (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Opportunity for innovation in healthcare – then and now (Bill Crounse)
• Box.net Ups The Ante Against Microsoft With In-Depth Google Docs Integration (Leena Rao)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Graphics and Animation on iOS – Only $6.49 w/code DDGRX (O’Reilly Media)
• Awesome Powershell Tutorial Series (Rhonda Tipton)
• PowerShell: Dealing With File Locks (Tobias Weltner)
• RTM’d Today: Windows 7 Inside Out, Deluxe Edition (Valerie Woolley)
• Why Big Software Companies Fail at Hiring Good Talents (Keyvan Nayyeri)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 22, 2011 and Interesting Finds: June 23, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 22, 2011 — #1111 (Dave Campbell)
• Today’s Links (6/22/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #879 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – June 23 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News 22 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 06/23/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 21-Jun-2011 and 20-Jun-2011 and 22-Jun-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Link dump for June 21st and Link dump for June 22nd (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide (5th Edition) by Jason Cranford Teague

• “Walshed” Phone Support Tool: official fix to get you back on track (Chris Walsh)
• Eduasync part 2: the shape of the caller / async method boundary and Eduasync part 3: the shape of the async method / awaitable boundary (Jon Skeet)
• Using Lazy to Solve Deadlocks in Resource Caches (Rick Brewster)
• jQuery 1.6 and .attr() (John Resig)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSDN Instant Answers (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 Image Optimizer Extension (Gil Fink)
• Model First, Database First or Code First–Update to Data Points Column (Julie Lerman)
• Adding Visual Studio Shortcut to Close currently opened File (Kunal Chowdhury)
• BitVector32 in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Developing Android Applications in .NET (Resco Team)
• Nhibernate BatchSize and massive insert (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Introducing Real World Windows Azure Guidance (Windows Azure Team)

Web Development

• Getting Started with Infragistics HTML5 Video Player (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Unlocking the power of HTML5 (Giorgio Sardo)
• My first jQuery plugin: jRoll (Jef Claes)
• Contoso Karate MVC – Migrating the Theme from WebMatrix (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.Net 4.0 Social Networking book – Authored by Atul Gupta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Two New HTML5 Tutorials (Martin Beeby)
• Hosting WCF REST Service in IIS with HTTPS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Pinify – The Site Pinning Plugin (Formerly ie9ify) (Don Burnett)
• Google Completes a Major To-Do with Tasks API (Romin Irani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How To Use Getting Results the Agile Way with Evernote (JD Meier)
• Determining How Many Task Hours an Agile Team Can Accomplish (Jim Magers)
• The 4 Stages of Learning Design Patterns (Steve Smith)
• From sprints to pull-based flow (Jimmy Bogard)
• ALM Practices Part 7: Refactoring (Dennis Doomen)
• Do You Really Need a Deadline? (Michael)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What is Character Spacing in Silverlight 5 Controls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Adding Buy Now Functionality (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 Context Menus with Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)
• There’s more than one way too…connect your Windows Phone 7 to Dropbox via SevenDrops (Greg Duncan)
• Page Layouts in Windows Phone 7 (Senthil Kumar)
• Be green with your Windows Phone (Luke)
• Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 2) (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight 5 Beta – Run Evaluated Trust Applications in Browser (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Free Silverlight 4 training kit and Build a Windows Phone 7 Game using Silverlight (Sam)
• Best Practices For Local Databases (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes on 9 – "Glimpse" at the Mix11 Open Source Fest (Scott Hanselman)
• Engadget Podcast 239 – 05.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 46 – Windows Azure Traffic Manager (Wade Wegner)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 55 – SDE vs. SDET, Scenario Focused Eng (Coding QA)
• jQuery Podcast 44 – jQuery 1.5 – 1.6.1 (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Windows Phone Radio 27 (Brian Seitz)
• "Technology and Friends” webcast on IE Pinned Sites (Jennifer Marsman)
• TWC9: Skype, HTML 5 Canvas, Python tools, & more (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Speaking at TechEd North America (Stephen Forte)
• The 5 Things You Need to Do While at TechEd in Atlanta (Eve T.)
• The MSDN Subscriptions Team Are Listening and Coming to Cities Around the World in May (Mark Curphey)
• Upcoming Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone “Mango” and Advanced Silverlight Trainings in Redmond (Dave Campbell)
• Get Prepared for HTML5 Web Camp | Software and Labs Available to Download (Doris Chen)
• Campus tours show off unique spaces (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Why the New Guy Can’t Code (Rob Miles)

Database

• Why is my SQL Server being slow… Top 10 PerfMon Counters for SQL Server Performance Monitoring (Greg Duncan)
• SQLAuthority News – Restart Remote Computer – Shutdown Remote Computer (Pinal Dave)
• How to check SQL Server version – TSQL and Undocumented Extended Stored Procedures – XPs (Vishal)
• Federation in SQL Azure and SQL Azure Architecture (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Losing your identity (Pete O’Hanlon)

SharePoint

• From the trenches with SharePoint unit testing and Typemock (Avi Kaye)

Miscellaneous

• First screenshot leaked for Windows Live SkyDrive Wave 5 (damaster)
• Would You Like to Download VM’s ? (Mark Curphey)
• Speech Technology Moves From Recognition to Understanding (Steve Clayton)
• TFS 2010 Java SDK Released (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 13, 2011 and Interesting Finds: May 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 102 (Scott Banwart)
• This Week’s Link List (May 13th, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Daily News Digest 05/13/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• 11-May-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Retrospective 32 – #RallyOn11 and #PMI Courses (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 13th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2011 — #1088 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links– 2010_17 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)

The Geek Shelf

Developer’s Guide to Microsoft® Prism 4: Building Modular MVVM Applications with Windows® Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight® (Patterns & Practices) by Bob Brumfield

Top Links

• Developers: Why You May Not Want To Listen To Robert Scoble (Brandon Watson)
• Using Mole 2010 to analyze collections (Josh Smith)
• cleancoders.com is live! (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Prism Template Pack 1.4: Now with MEF Support! (David Hill)
• MEF 2 Preview 3 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Inserting the Class Name in a Code Snippet (Richard Carr)
• Multiple Sort For Collection Using LINQ and LINQ and Nullable Values or SQL ISNULL with LINQ and Find duplicate with Linq and How to Sort Generic List Using Lambda Expression For Dynamic Type And Dynamic Property ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Code Issues – Nested code can be flattened (Alex Skorkin)
• Stored Procedure in WCF Data Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: ConcurrentBag and BlockingCollection (James Michael Hare)
• Performance Troubleshooting Article and VS2010 SP1 Change (Jason Zander)
• A simple approach to hydrating the C# MongoDB Driver Objects (John V. Petersen)
• The Case of Switch-Case in C# (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Installing NuGet on VS2010 (first blood) (Peter Kellner)
• "M"osetta Stone (Craig Dunn)
• Danger, Will Robinson! (Eric Lippert)
• Back to Basics – Reading a File into Memory Stream (Gil Fink)
• "Regular Expression Cheat Sheet (.NET)" from RegExLibrary and Netduino Green Squared (Greg Duncan)
• EF 4.1 Is Coming (DbContext API & Code First RTW) (EF Team)
• Book – Professional Team Foundation Server 2010 from Wrox (Ed Blankenship)
• Do you know how to move the Team Foundation Server cache (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Simple reads with Entity Framework (Matt Hinze)
• Custom IfThen activity (Rory Primrose)

Web Development

• A Self-Closing HtmlGenericControl (Jonathan Wood)
• ASP.NET: Building tree picker dialog using jQuery UI and TreeView control (Gunnar Peipman)
• IIS not starting: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process (Rick Strahl)
• Defining Default Content For A Razor Layout Section (Phil Haack)
• jQuery 1.5.1 Supports IE9 (Tony Ross)
• Web PI v3 (MS Downloads)
• Unobtrusive Client Side Validation with Dynamic Contents in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Imran Baloch)
• Basic JavaScript Part 11: Functional Initialization (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• ASP.NET Rounded Coreners AND DropShadow with jQuery. and Who to follow if your staying up to date with ASP.NET ! and Get in the Game–Orchard New Module Content ! and Dynamically Selecting WebMatrix Page Layouts & Styles (Joe Stagner)
• Using the ASP.NET Repeater Control (Mark Kendall)
• Highly Recommended Book: REST In Practice (Davy Brion)
• Using jQuery with CheckBox and ASP.NET GridView (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Use Custom Resize to Make The IE9 Mobile Experience (Chris Love)
• LightSwitch vs HTML 5 ? and HTML (including HTML 5) and LightSwitch at the same time? (Michael Washington)
• IndexedDB – The Store In Your Browser (Parasuraman Narasimhan)
• Effective NHibernate Session management for web apps (Jose Romaniello)
• Hosting The Same Windows Azure Web Project With Two Different Configurations (Peter Kellner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• ALM Practices Part 3: Unit Testing & TDD (Dennis Doomen)
• Simulating your way out of regression testing (Gojko Adzic)
• Book Review: Driving Technical Change (Jim Holmes)
• Want to Be an Quality Assurance Tester? – Learn to Code and Agile Software Development Doesn’t Create Secure Software (Peter Saddington)
• Entities, Transactions, and Broken Boundaries (Udi Dahan)
• WebStresser: A very simple web load testing tool (Mike Hadlow)
• What size icon am I supposed to use my for app/toolbar/menu/dialog/etc? The "Icon Reference Chart" might be just the icon cheatsheet you’ve been looking for… (Greg Duncan)
• Less Is More (JC Teague)
• Learning and games, games and learning (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Stardate 2011.63.1: Design stenches – Rigidity (Kyle Szklenski)
• xUnit.Net – Running the tests (RunAfterTestFailed Custom Attribute) (Maria Marcano)
• Thoughts On Developer Longevity (Davy Brion)
• The Power And Pain of Process–Part 1 (Andy Warren)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF: Advanced Jump Lists using a Single Instance Application (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Charting: Formatting the Axis and Silverlight Charting: Formatting the Tick Marks (Deborah Kurata)
• "Your feedback is important to us; please stay on the line…" [Improving Windows Phone 7 application performance is even easier with these LowProfileImageLoader and DeferredLoadListBox updates] (David Anson)
• What is XAP file in Silverlight? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Silverlight Animations Made Easy with Sv Fx (Greg Gum)
• A Numeric Input Control for Windows Phone 7 (Jeremy Likness)
• Highlights of XNA development on Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Tip Of The Day: Call resources by their absolute path and Windows Phone 7 Tip Of The Day: Know how app navigation works internally (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The Mobile Web and Windows Phone 7 (Joey deVilla)
• Changing the Default Windows Phone 7 Deployment Target In Visual Studio 2010 (Michael Crump)
• Importing Adobe Illustrator files in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)
• Phoney Tools Updated (WP7 Open Source Library) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Lync for Windows Phone 7 (Steven Bink)
• How I let the trees grow (Peter Kuhn)
• Using DockPanel in WP7 and Working with ItemsPanel in WP7 and New FREE XNA Jump Start mini-course by Microsoft and Getting data out of WP7 WMAppManifest is easy with Coding4Fun PhoneHelper (Windows Phone Geek)
• MonoDroid meet MonoTouch & WindowsPhone7 (Craig Dunn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: JavaScript and jQuery: Moving beyond Alert() (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp on HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 2 of n and Visual C++ to (re)support C++/CLI Intellisense (Charles Torre)
• Cloud Cover Episode 38 – VM Role with Corey and Cory (Wade Wegner)
• TWC9: Marketplace limit raised to 100, Automate Azure builds, TFS Power Tools (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone Radio 20 (Brian Seitz)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone [VIDEO]: Quick App for Push Notifications (Uses Windows Azure) (John Mulhausen)
• Silverlight TV 64: Dive into 64bit Support, App Model and Security (John Papa)
• WPF Developer Training Videos (108) and Windows 7 Specific Desktop Applications Videos (9) (Joe Stagner)
• Windows Phone 7 – Episode 5 – Pages (Dennis Delimarsky)
• This Developer’s Life 1.1.4 – Obsession (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Oredev Videos on Responsibility Driven Design and Internal DSL’s with C# (Jeremy Miller)
• Video: Zoom In or Out of the Text Editor (Zain Naboulsi)
• Let’s Play TDD #91: Rendering ValidDollars (James Shore)
• Windows Phone 7 Push Notification QuickApp / Web Service (With Azure Publishing Instructions!) (JoMul)
• Defrag 001: Startup Slow Downs, Can’t Boot, Blue Screens, Homegroup, IE Logins (Larry Larsen)
• The GeekDads Episode #86: Science Isn’t a Matter of Opinion (Ken Denmead)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #25 with guest Chad Green (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Installing Drupal 7 on Windows Azure with the Windows Azure App Companion Tool (Craig Kitterman)

Community / Events

• Philly Nerd Nite No. 4, March 10, 2011 (Nerd Nite)
• Code Project Mobile Virtual Conference with MonoDroid (Wally McClure)
• Bill Gates Talks About Knowledge Revolution at TED [LIVE BLOG] (Sarah Kessler)
• The State of Tekpub, 2011 (Rob Conery)
• Long term value of acceptance testing: Webinar, March 22nd (Gojko Adzic)
• Speaking at Cincinnati Day of Agile on 3/26 (Jim Holmes)
• I Give Up: What IS an MVP? (Jen McCown)
• MIX it up at the Open Source Fest at MIX11 (Greg Duncan)
• INETA NorAm Component Code Challenge (Chris Williams)

Database

• SSRS – Creating and Using Shared Schedules Part 3 (Brian McDonald)
• SQL Server: WAITFOR Statement (Dhananjay Kumar)
• SQL SERVER – Demo Script – Keeping CPU Busy and SQL SERVER – Concurrancy Problems and their Relationship with Isolation Level and SQLAuthority News – Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 Reference Guide (Pinal Dave)
• New Collection of SQL Server Videos on Channel 9 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Configuration connection properties for the External Content Type in BCS MetaMan (Lightning Tools)
• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools Overview Presentation (Mike Morton)
• US West Region MSDN Events Presents: SharePoint (Wes Yanaga)

Miscellaneous

• Intellisense patch for PowerGUI Script Editor 2.4 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Pastebin updated to V3, releases Windows app (Erez Zukerman)
• Ebooks: List of our free books (Kim Spilker)
• What is the best job search tip you’ve received? (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• A Few Deep Dive Abstracts (Travis Jones)
• Paint.NET v3.5.8 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• JetBrains market IDE to iPhone Devs (Tobin Harris)
• Microsoft begins work on IE9 RTM-Escrow build (Tzvi Friedman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 3, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 4, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Distributed Weekly 92 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2011 — #1053 (Dave Campbell)
• Week Retrospective 22 – Writing Better User Stories (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 2th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 3th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 4th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• 2-Mar-2011 and 3-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links– 2010_09 (Joe Stagner)
• This Week’s Link List (March 4, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #804 and The Morning Brew #805 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Eric Carter

Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

C# in Depth, Second Edition by Jon Skeet