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Top Links

• I moved on from WCF Web API, but Web API IS still moving (Glenn Block)
• 9th Day of Silverlight : Implicit Data Templates (Tony Champion)
• Backbone.js Is Not An MVC Framework (Derick Bailey)
• Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Express (Jan Van Ryswyck)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to order by multiple columns using Lambas and LINQ in C# (Senthil Kumar)
• How do I get the full path for the target of a shortcut file? (Raymond Chen)
• What’s New And Improved In JustCode Q3 2011 SP1 (Just* Team)
• Kinecting to PowerPoint (Greg Duncan)
• Consuming JSON in Windows 8 Metro style Application using WinJS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Lego KinNXT (Ashley Feniello)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 10 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• Rx – SP1 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Replacing the Team Foundation Server 2010 Data Tier–NOT (Bob Hardister)
• BugNET Issue Tracker 0.9.147 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Control level request validation in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• Configuring WCF for Multiple IIS Host Identities in Sueetie (Dave Burke)
• New Developer Tools in Firefox 11 Aurora (Kevin Dangoor)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today (Joel Semeniuk)
• Make Everything OK – Agile is Hard (Peter Saddington)
• Free Book – The Principles of Beautiful Web Design (Tatworth)
• Are You Intentional? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• AutoHotKey for quick Git access (Joe White)
• Software Architecture: Myth or Reality (Kerry Huguet)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft releases WPDev Feedback app for developers (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone 7 + IronRuby + Online Library Hosting + Auto Updating = LiveLibs (Greg Duncan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• YOW! 2011: Kevin O’Neill – Mobile App Development, PlayUp, Objective-C, Windows Phone and YOW! 2011: Steve Vinoski – Riak Core, Erlang and Frisbee Freestyle and Brian Beckman: Hidden Markov Models, Viterbi Algorithm, LINQ, Rx and Higgs Boson and Checking In: Larry Osterman – 26 Years of Programming at Microsoft and Counting and Simon Peyton-Jones and John Hughes – It’s Raining Haskell (Charles Torre)
• Gillmor Gang Live 12.23.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.24.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• TWC9: The Top 9 Developer Stories & Trends of 2011 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Engadget Podcast 269 – 12.23.2011 and The Vergecast 007 – 12.23.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 240: What’s Your Prestige Level? (Paul Thurrott)
• NeowinCast Gaming 003 – Dec. 23: End of 2011 Edition (John Callaham)
• Video on How to consume WCF REST Service with JSON in Windows Phone 7 and Video on How to Protect Password in Windows Phone 7 using Data Protection API (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft’s DigiGirlz Program Ends Year on High Note (MS JobsBlog)
• Stack Exchange Gives Back 2011 (Robert Cartaino)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): New Security Features (James Serra)
• Assign Result of Dynamic SQL to a Variable in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – A Simple Puzzle and Simple Solution of Datatype and Computed Column and SQL SERVER – Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays – Database Properties – Number of Users (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 23: OBJECT_DEFINITION and Upgrade Assistant for SQL Server 2012 available for download and SQL Advent 2011 Day 24: Index REBUILD and REORGANIZE and SQL Advent 2011 Recap (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – How to identify service pack installed (Vishal)

 

PowerShell

• Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP2 available (with Getting Started with PowerShell Workflows guide too) (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Building the one Install OS Flash Drive to rule them all…? (Windows 7 x86 & x64 and Live CDs and Rescue disks and…) (Greg Duncan)
• My Bests of 2011 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• What I’d do with my ‘Microsoft 20% time’ (Michael S. Kaplan)
• How Microsoft Can Fix Windows 8 in 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
• Amazon 2012: What the Future May Hold for the Web’s Largest Retailer (Peter Pachal)
• Introducing Aurora 11 with tons of new features and improvements (Robert Nyman)
• The two (and only two) ways Microsoft can survive the phone wars (David Aronchick)

 

More Link Collections

• Distributed Weekly 134 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #780 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Dev News for December 24, 2011 – #0015 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 12 – 18, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/23/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 12/23/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/23/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Retrospective 64 – The Process of Change 4 Part Series (Peter Saddington)
• MVP Friday Five: December 22, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year (Simone Chiaretta)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 28-December-2011 to 24-December-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

The Geek Shelf

Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript by Tom Hughes-Croucher

 

Top Links

• OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers part 10: Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards (Troy Hunt)
• Announcing the Release of Silverlight 5! (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 5 is released! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Fun With Big Data Using the Microsoft “Data Explorer” Pt. 1 (Don Burnett)
• VIDEO: The Art of Speaking – with Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman)
• Using QUnit with Razor Layouts (Phil Haack)
• Windows Azure SDK for node.js (Andre Rodrigues)
• The 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011 (Oleg Mokhov)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 and Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server – Windows Server 2003 Distributed Cache Client (MS Downloads)
• Mocking Internal Types with Moq (Richard Carr)
• Poll – do you reverse engineer .NET apps you didn’t write? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Metro Style Apps using Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (Developer Preview) (Mahesh Sabnis)
• TFS source control – Watch your application grow like a garden (Peter Gfader)
• In the async world – no one can hear you scream (Peter von Lochow)
• Sure, I’m supposed to pass WT_EXECUTELONGFUNCTION if my function takes a long time, but how long is long? (Raymond Chen)
• RTM’d today: MCPD 70-518 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• MicroTweet – Adding tweeting to your Netduino/.Net Micro Framework projects and Want some help making snippet deployment and sharing easier? Snippet to VSI! (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Store to allow for open source apps (John Callaham)
• Make your Windows 8 Video App use the PlayTo feature (Morten Nielsen)
• Tpl Dataflow – Part 3 (Bnaya Eshet)
• ImpromptuInterface: Static interface to dynamic implementation (duck casting). (Google Code)

 

Web Development

• Speed up writing CSS backgrounds (Richard Bradshaw)
• ELMAH MVC: Answering questions (Alexander Beletsky)
• On deploying ASP.NET MVC site as a desktop application (Andrei Marukovich)
• Animations in HTML5 (Florian Rappl)
• MVC3, Razor and MS Chart Controls in .NET 4 (Henrik Andersson)
• Using Classic ASP, PHP and WebForm Pages in ASP.NET MVC Views (Imran Baloch)
• Quick Tip: Create a Makeshift JavaScript Templating Solution (Jeffrey Way)
• JavaScript – Add Commas To Number (Shai Raiten)
• To Say Mobile is to Set A False Limit on Your Reach (Chris Love)
• NetBash – An Alternative to Endless Admin Pages in Asp.Net Web Applications (Luke Lowrey)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Constructor with Factory Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• HTML 5 Input Types on WebForms Controls and HTML 5 Input Types – How useful is this really going to be? and Hosting the Razor Engine for Templating in Non-Web Applications (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Table Storage- Partition or Row key length is limited to 256 characters in Storage Emulator and Handling issues with your startup task in Windows Azure Application and Exploring Windows Azure Package contents (Avkash Chauhan)
• Tutorial: Running the Mongoose Web Server in Windows Azure and Tutorial: Running a Python Web Application in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Media Capture API: Helping Web developers directly import image, video, and sound data into Web apps (Claudio Caldato)
• Transferable Objects: Lightning Fast! (Eric Bidelman)
• Keep Users Coming Back With Desktop Notifications for Web Apps Article (Gil Fink)
• Leveraging YetAnotherForum.NET for External Post Display (Dave Burke)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 18 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• WebStorm 3.0 RC (Alexey Gopachenko)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Unit Testing Death-Spiral of Doom (Gil Zilberfeld)
• TDD vs. BDD or why can’t we all just get along? (Dror Helper)
• Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
• How to Think About Estimating (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Nine Things I’ve Learned (Mike Kus)
• Enterprise Architecture Certifications Distilled (Mike Walker)
• Good UX in the Wild: A comic book geek returns after twenty years away to a brave new digital world (Scott Hanselman)
• Leadership Books Sweep and 30 Day Improvement Sprints Revisited (JD Meier)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 9: Readable Tests and 31 Days of Testing—Day 10: Mocking Out Dependencies and 31 Days of Testing—Day 11: Maintainable Functional Automation (Jim Holmes)
• Is the Cost of Continuous Integration Worth the Value on Your Program?, Part 3 (Johanna Rothmann)
• Super Simple Versioning of Third Party Scripts (Chris Missal)
• Acronyms and Ubiquitous Language (Derek Greer)
• Sunday Thought: Embracing the Type System (Dru Sellers)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Why Silverlight 5’s 3D is (almost) useless (Morten Nielsen)
• Updated all my Silverlight 5 posts (Peter Kuhn)
• Arrays in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Silverlight 5 has released! The docs are up and a .chm is available (Cheryl Simmons)
• Implementing MVVM Light with Structure Map (emardini)
• Detecting and simulating low memory devices in Windows Phone 7 applications (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Silverlight 5 Released: Myth vs. Fact (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight Spy December 2011 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• MVVM Light for Silverlight 5 is on Codeplex #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)
• Microsoft releases Silverlight 5 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone 8 and WinRT (Matt Lacey)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Batch INSERT performance (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #448 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, part I (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – User details & official project page (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Great Series — 31 Days of Mango (Rhonda Tipton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 186: Charles Stacy Harris III and David Sawyer on the Microsoft Technology Center (part 1 of 2) (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 045 – “Frat Night at Ben’s” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 422: Xbox 360 System Update and BF3 Back To Karkand (Larry Hyrb)
• Gweek 030: Supergods, Mutants, and Mystics (Mark)
• The Tablet Show – Rocky Lhotka, Sergey Barskiy and Stuart Williams Explore WinRT App Migration (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Start-Up Success Show #126: George Karavias and Dimitris Gkanatsios, Anlock (Bob Walsh)
• TWC9: Windows 8 Store, Azure Event, SignalR and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 79 – Extreme Performance with Patrick Cooney and Joel Pobar (Richard Banks)
• A Little Bit of My Soul Went Into This One (Rob Conery)
• Engadget Podcast 267 – 12.09.2011 and The Vergecast 005 – 12.10.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 67 – Technical Computing with Windows Azure and Wenming Ye (Wade Wegner)
• Windows Weekly 238: It’s All About The Gs (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft makes a movie: Ctrl+Alt+Compete (Zoe Goldring)

 

Community / Events

• Get Your Azure On! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – Virtual Presentation on Practical Tricks and Tips to Speed up Database Queries – December 15, 2011 (Pinal Dave)
• Just One More Week To Enter The Rock Paper Azure Fall Sweepstakes! (Dani Diaz)
• Author news: Q&A with author and consultant Don Reifer (Devon Musgrave)

 

Database

• Find Last Run Query in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2012 RC0: Fix Setup Error: File format is not valid and SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: Msg 1904, Level 16 The statistics on table has 33 column names in statistics key list. The maximum limit for index or statistics key column list is 32 (Pinal Dave)
• Search SSRS Subscriptions – LightSwitch Star Contest Submission (Royce Bacon)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 9: Dynamic TOP and SQL Advent 2011 Day 10: Upsert by using the Merge statement and SQL Advent 2011 Day 11: DML statements with the OUTPUT clause (Denis Gobo)
• Merge Replication – Parameterized Filters (Ted Krueger)
• SQL Database Status with sys.databases (Jack Vamvas)
• XQuery Lab 65 – Restructuring an XML document using FLWOR (Jacob Sebastian)
• Reduce heap table fragmentation (James Serra)
• Working With Web Data in Microsoft Codename "Data Explorer" (James Terwilliger)

 

SharePoint

• ExcelMashup.com debuts! (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

PowerShell

• How to use a Proxy Server with the EWS Managed API and PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

 

Miscellaneous

• Software: The most important Growth Industry (Bill Wagner)
• HP Opensources WebOS: My Quick Thoughts (Krishnan Subramanian)
• HP: WebOS Is Now an Open Source Project (Lance Ulanoff)
• The New MSDN Subscriber Portal is Live! (Mark Curphey)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 10, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 132 (Scott Banwart)
• Weekly Link Post 214 (Rhonda Tipton)
• MVP Friday Five: December 9, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #770 and Double Shot #771 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 10 Dec 2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 12/9/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/9/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Pie in the Sky (December 9, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #1000 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for December 11, 2011 – #0009 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/09/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Retrospective 62 – Books and Giveaways (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 Dec 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 5 – 11 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference by Joseph Albahari

 

No Dew Drop on Friday this week. I’ll be taking a long anniversary weekend with Stelene. See you Monday morning! 

Top Links

• Visual Studio 11 .NET Advances (Somasegar)
• Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Syntax Analysis and Flow Analysis (Sasha Goldshtein)
• OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 – v1 (Brian Keller)
• Designing your Windows Phone App – where to start and Windows Phone App Layouts with Expression Blend and Windows Phone App Styles (Sara Allison)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Kinect Speech Recognition – Introduction (Shai Raiten)
• Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 (MS Downloads)
• IBM Rational to Team Foundation Server Integration Tools – Training and Exploration Sandbox (Willy-P. Schaub)
• How can I get notified when some other window is destroyed? (Raymond Chen)
• OpenWrap 1.0.2 available (Sebastien Lambla)
• MSDN Magazine November Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
• FSharpChart release supporting Stacked Charts (version 0.60) (Carl Nolan)

 

Web Development

• MVC–Hooking up my randomizer (Chris Skardon)
• Creating Style Rules in HTML 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Installing MVC 3 for Visual Studio 2010 on Windows Developer Preview after installing MVC 4 (Harish Ranganathan)
• Tips and tricks: HTML5 video and audio on iOS (John Esposito)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Null Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Winter is coming! Get 50% OFF on WebStorm, PhpStorm and RubyMine (Alexey Korsun)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: REST API Design Rulebook – $4.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• RazorEngine Performance and Template Caching (Steve Smith)
• CodeLobster PHP Edition – An IDE for PHP Developers (Senthil Kumar)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Applied to Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• New Article on Software Development (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Learning Behavior Driven Development (Larry Franks)
• Introducing the New TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal (TeamPulse Team)
• Introducing Android WebDriver (Tim Bray)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A Reusable WPF Autocomplete TextBox (Part 2) (Unknown Author)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Update data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 3: securing your service calls. (Kevin Dockx)
• Telerik Windows Phone controls Q3 2011 Beta – New Context Menu, Chart Financial Series plus more (Georgi Atanasov)
• The Blue Book gets Mango’d! Rob Mile’s "Windows Phone Programming in C#" Blue Book updated for Windows Phone 7.1(5) And do do the lab’s and demo’s too! and Kinecting to Windows Phone 7.1(5) (Greg Duncan)
• Welcome Nokia Lumia WP7 Emulator Skin (Telerik)
• 2000 WPF Things #417 – Using Star Sizing to Distribute Space Evenly across Rows or Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Apps – Adding the glossy elements (Andrew Spooner)
• LightSwitch: Integrating The ComponentOne Scheduler (Michael Washington)
• Top 3 Memory Leak Inducing Pitfalls of WPF Programming (Omer Raviv)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building a Software Business at DevReach (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GoingNative 3: The C++/CX Episode with Marian Luparu (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 040 – “Nokia FTW, Skype FTL” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• SE Podcast #24 (Alex Miller)
• The Tablet Show – “Resist the Drama” (Dan Wahlin)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #62: Arduino and Netduino with a Couple of Microcontroller Geeks (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• What The Tech 90: So Much To Say (Paul Thurrott)
• Devices and news from Nokia World (Laura Foy)
• Audiocast on Developer + Tester Collaboration (Jim Holmes)

 

Community / Events

• Rich Community. Great Opportunities. (G. Andrew Duthie)
• A Coder Interview With Andreas Håkansson (The Code Project)
• Upstate New York Tech Events and Torn Between Two (Code) Camps (Jim O’Neil)
• App Hub Developer Talk Series – Upcoming and on Demand Dev Talks (Greg Duncan)
• 5 Questions: Development Is Design (Mike Desmond)

 

Database

• SSAS – Deployment Wizard (Devin Knight)
• How do I get a listing of all DB instances and table names where a column name occurs in MS SQL Server? (Paula DiTallo)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Wait Stats – eBook to Download on Kindle – Answer to FREE PDF Download Request (Pinal Dave)
• “Data Explorer” Mashup 101 (Data Explorer Team)
• All About Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) (Hima)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint API – Download \ Upload Documents (Tool) (Shai Raiten)

 

PowerShell

• Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 1) (Tobias Weltner)
• Windows PowerShell ISE add-ons, links, info and a bit more (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows HPC with Windows Azure burst training kit version 1.6 (Avkash Chauhan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 26, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #738 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 25-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/26/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #968 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 26 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle by Michael Howard