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Top Links

• Windows Phone Native Series – ExitApplication, PlaySystemSound, GetSystemInformation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Recognition Compensation (Phil Haack)
• SocialViewer gets Windows Phone Mango treatment (Nick Randolph)
• Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency (Steven Sinofsky)
• Metro WebView Source and HTML workarounds (Brent Schooley)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Refactoring Code using Visual Studio Extract Method (Abhishek Sur)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The DateTime TryParse() and ParseExact() Methods (James Michael Hare)
• LINQPad helps you learn LINQ (Jason Short)
• TFS 2010 Report Results are not up to date after installing Service Pack 1 (Sebastian Dau)
• GHI (non-beta) .NET Gadgeteer SDK released! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• List View Data Binding in Windows 8 JavaScript Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections (Simon Cooper)
• SolutionScripts – little scripts for the Nuget console (Matt Hinze)
• StyleCop 4.7 (CodePlex)
• New Refactorings in JustCode Q3 2011 (JustCode Team)
• Rx – Sample (Bnaya Eshet)
• Using the Kinect to build a NUI E-Book and F#, Kinect and a little LegoNXT (Greg Duncan)
• Global reach (Antoine Leblond)
• Parsing HTML in C# (Marlon Grech)

 

Web Development

• Comment and Uncomment for CSS Editor in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• JavaScript for C# developers: converting arguments into an array (Julian M.  Bucknall)
• CSS Lint v0.9.2 now available (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Adventures In The Third Dimension: CSS 3D Transforms (Peter Gasston)
• Things Still Missing From CSS (Trent Walton)
• Using ProudMonkey Controls with ASP.NET AJAX Update Panel (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• PHP Performance: Bitwise Division (Stoimen)
• Update: Deploying Ruby Applications to Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
• When APIs Play Spoilsport? (Romin Irani)
• Easy steps to a mobile-friendly responsive design with an embedded YouTube video and a fluid resize (Scott Hanselman)
• Our AJAX Conventions – The AjaxContinuation and Our Ajax Conventions–Clientside Continuations (Josh Arnold)
• Using the Cloud to Enable the Next Generation of Mobile Enterprise Applications (Chris Love)
• The digits of MUSIC.js (Dave Mahon)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Connecting to Windows Azure Storage from Hadoop Cluster and Using Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv://) for input data and storing results in Hadoop Map/Reduce Job on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Getting comfy with PhpStorm – one of the best IDEs so far! (Hasin Hayder)
• Understanding JavaScript OOP (Quildreen Motta)
• Photo Mosaics Part 9: Caching Analysis (Jim O’Neil)
• Programming Office 365 Jump Start 1 (Tanzim Saqib)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Contextualising just enough up front design (Simon Brown)
• No Class is an Island (John Sonmez)
• Announcing Lokad.CQRS vLean – SampleProject and Tools (Rinat Abdullin)
• 5 Do’s and Don’ts for Managing Distributed Teams – A Tech Lead Speaks (Adam Feber)
• test on real mobile devices without breaking the bank (Brad Frost)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Q3 2011 SP1 RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 now adds support for bindable Data Descriptor collections (Deyan Ginev)
• Free SilverlightShow Ebook: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Silverlight Show)
• The Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
• Framework Exceptions in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Let me out – Facebook Logout in a Windows Phone App and SLARToolkit Samples Updated (Rene Schulte)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone – Capitalization (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #467 – Use a UniformGrid for Evenly Spaced Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
• New Markets for Windows Phone Developers (Todd Brix)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Recording of yesterday’s webinar ‘Leveraging Azure for Windows Phone Devs’ now available (Silverlight Show)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #128: Predictions 2012 (Bob Walsh)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Harald Horgen Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Gillmor Gang Live 01.05.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• On Microsoft MVP Program (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Do community because you like it, not because of the incentives (Simone Chiaretta)
• A very few thoughts on the MVP program (Jeremy Miller)
• MVP Program, Award and my view on things (Dennis Vroegop)
• Windows 8 – First Apps Contest and Are you a Developer or Designer in the NY/NJ/PA area using Microsoft Software? (Dave Isbitski)
• Your Blog is The Engine of Community (Scott Hanselman)

 

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS in a PDF (Jason Strate)
• Reader Review: SQL Server 2008 Internals (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – Locking and Blocking – Important Aspect of Database and Effect on Performance – Quiz – Puzzle – 5 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• The Art of the Execution Plan (Brent Ozar)

 

PowerShell

• StudioShell 1.2 Released (Jim Christopher)

 

Miscellaneous

• Hot Topics: A Contest Formula that Works (Lauren Gundrum)
• Things We Wish Clients Would Say (Louis Lazaris)
• Programmers are born not made (Swizec Teller)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #790 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/5/2012 and Daily News Digest 01/06/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 04-Jan-2012 and 05-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News 5 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #1016 (Chris Alcock)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– December 2011 (Beth Massi)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 01/05/2012 (Bob Rhubart)
• Distributed Weekly 136 (Scott Banwart)

 

The Geek Shelf

CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

 

Top Links

• Invisible pixels are just as clickable as real pixels! [Tip: Use a Transparent brush to make "empty" parts of a XAML element respond to mouse and touch input] (David Anson)
• KnockoutJS Needs a Better Set of Tutorials (Rob Conery)
• Calling ASP.NET MVC Action Methods from JavaScript (Phil Haack)
• A Tale of Backgrounds, Absolutes, mouseleave, and mouseenter (K. Scott Allen)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use of SpinLock for ThreadLocking and Use of Interlocked in Race Condition and Barrier in .NET 4.0 and Not able to view all the running Worker Process in Visual Studio – Process Attach Window – Resolution (Abhijit Jana)
• Parallel ForEach Loop (Richard Carr)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ReferenceEquals() method (James Michael Hare)
• Adventure in parserland – parsing lambda expressions in F# – Part I (Luca Bolognese)
• Kinect Reception–Introduction (Shai Raiten)
• Unity Auto Registration (Jimmy Larkin)
• RavenDB Lazy Requests (Oren Eini)
• Declaring various properties using CodeRush code generation tools (Alex Skorkin)
• Do you want a faster File.Exists / FileInfo.Exists / Directory.Exists ? I do ! (Jonathan Antoine)
• Blog Post: How To: Activate & Deactivate (Autumn Wilkins)
• A gentle introduction to dependent types (Cédric Beust)
• Adding translation to your apps is a dot away with the "Bing Translator .NET Extension Methods" open source project (Greg Duncan)
• PropertyBagTextWriter (Stream into Dictionary) (James Curran)
• Going Asynchronous (Chris Eargle)
• Updated Course: Developing Windows Concurrent Applications (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Web Development

• The HTML5 Paradigm Shift–Don’t Miss The Next Wave (Chris Love)
• HTML5-Powered VNC Implementation noVNC Let’s You Access Remote Systems (Rey Bango)
• Bug and Fix: ASP.NET fails to detect IE10 causing _doPostBack is undefined JavaScript error or maintain FF5 scrollbar position (Scott Hanselman)
• Call ASP.NET Page Methods using your own AJAX (Abhijit Jana)
• Announcing YUI 3.4.0 and the new YUILibrary.com (George Puckett)
• A New Era in Application Development, Part II: Kendo UI (Stephen Forte)
• Powerful PHP: Less Known String Manipulation (Stoimen Popov)
• AJAX Series Part 1: Building a Web Applications with Third-party Controls in Real Time (Carl Bergenhem)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: The sprint (John Rayner)
• Compliance – Development Teams are Product-Oriented (Peter Saddington)
• A Brief Introduction of Fundamental OOP (Chris Eargle)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RadJumpList for Windows Phone extended: Support for Sticky Header (Deyan Ginev)
• Who says you can’t run Silverlight on Android ? (Don Burnett)
• Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone Design Tips #3 (Andrew Spooner)
• Brand new Mango release of Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
• 2000 WPF Things #368 – Specifying Blackout Dates in a Calendar Control (Sean Sexton)
• TouchDevelop v2.1: integrated script bazaar (Nikolai Tillmann)
• RadChart for Windows Phone – going to the pole (Georgi Atanasov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #129: Root Cause Analysis (James Shore)
• G4 TV’s Jessica Chobot tours Microsoft (Steve Clayton)
• Defrag: 4k Drive Backup, Office Add-on in IE, Forcing Aero Glass On (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Beards & Beaks, Kill The Duck, Fantastic Finger Fun, Angry Birds Scoop, Eventful (Laura Foy)
• A little PowerShell a day to keep the scripting doctor away… "PowerShell Cmdlet of the Day Podcast" (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Dev Pocast Episode 030 – “Phonies vs. Ninjas” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Charlie Wood Interview (Ryan Parsley)

 

Community / Events

• FREE Course On Ruby’s Cross Platform GUI App Toolkit Course (Satish Talim)
• HTML5 Web Camps – Special Guest Announcement (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Social Media Collective @ NERD (Jim O’Neil)
• Philly Geek Awards: The Sponsors (Michaelangelo Ilagan)
• Hire and Pay a Designer and Be Happy (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing the Speaking Lineup for Philly Day of Agile (Philip Japikse)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 9 (Glenn Berry)
• How to report a SQL Server performance problem (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL Server: Last Day Previous Month without DATEADD and DATEDIFF (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – The Clustered Index – Simple Understanding – Day 19 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – Using Analytic Function CUME_DIST() (Vishal)
• [SSIS] OnPipelineRowsSent event (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• SP2010 Continuous Integration – Installing TFS2010 (inc. Build and Test agents) (Chris O’Brien)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Tool Roundup: Small But Explosive, Just Like Dynamite (Pete Seale)
• Slides from PowerShell Deep Dive sessions (Dmitry Sotnikov)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading August 18, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #920 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (8/18/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 08/19/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly Links– 2010_30 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Link dump for August 18th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

 

The Geek Shelf

HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim

 

 

Happy 2010 everyone!

 

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Top Links

• An IoC-Agnostic Prism Bootstrapper (Ward Bell)
• Hello from 2020 (Rob Conery)
• Powershell and SQL Authentication (Martin Bell)
• Leveraging Windows 7 Boot to VHD to Test Visual Studio 2010 (Chris Patterson)
• DZone 2009: How many links promoted, buried, etc? (Rick Ross) – DZone has been hard at work keeping spam and other irrelevant content out of your way.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Essence of LINQ – MinLINQ (Bart de Smet)
• CciSharp, a post-compiler for .NET based on CCI (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Review: C# in Depth (Grant Palin)
• Language Envy – C# needs Ranges (Sergio Pereira)
• Sprache C# (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Show CodeRush Xpress 9.3 Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Two Major Milestones for RoundhousE and UppercuT (Rob Reynolds)
• With the new year we get a loved series sequel, Visual Studio Tips and Tricks v2 – Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks (Greg Duncan)
• It’s Easy to Forget (Christopher Bennage)

 

Web Development

• Death to confirmation dialogs with jquery.undoable (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC – Do I Really Need It? (Peter Bromberg)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Dunbar’s Number, Monkeyspheres and how to design for social (Ron George)
• Brown, Green, Refactor and RTM ready tests (Roy Osherove)
• Micro optimization decision process and Patterns for reducing memory usage (Oren Eini)
• One to one and many to many (Eric Brechner)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber, Cuke4Nuke and TeamCity (Gojko Adzic)
• Recovering from the depths of developer burn out – Some tips from the field (Greg Duncan)
• How To Change a Habit and Make It Stick (JD Meier)
• The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch and OOP: Behavioural and Structural Constraints (Mark Needham)
• Lazing Around with Autofac2 and Declarative Context Adapters in Autofac 2 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Entrepreneurship Tip: Shipping Mediocre Products Is Not An Option. (Rajiv Popat)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Magellan Diagnostics and Magellan Shared Layouts and Extending the WPF XML namespaces (Paul Stovell)
• Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Authentication/Authorization in an INavigationContentLoader (David Poll)
• Day #31: Geocoding and More Fun In Bing Maps for Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Polling Video – A Viable sub-second alternative? (Jesse Liberty)
• Saving Snapshots to PNG in Silverlight 4 and the WebCam (John Papa)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Huey and Wegner Migrate Us to SQL Azure (Carl Franklin)
• E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 1 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 71: Frank Zammetti on webOS (Michael Kimsal)
• This Week in Testing – New Year Resolutions (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Nikolaj Bjørner and Leonardo de Moura: The Z3 Constraint Solver (Jonathan de Halleux)

 

Community / Events

• Agile 2010, Nashville August 9-13 (Ade Miller)
• The Morning Brew – Review of the Year 2009 (Chris Alcock)
• Looking Ahead to 2010 – New Year’s Resolutions (Andrew Connell)
• Trends for 2010 (J.D. Meier)
• Goals for 2010 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Yet Another 2009 Year In Review (John Sheehan)
• It’s time to look ahead to 2010 (Bill Wagner)
• 2009 Blogged – Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
• 2009 Year in Review (Rob Bazinet)
• 2010 and Forevah (Rob Reynolds)
• Where Do You Want to Be In a Year? (Tim Barcz)
• Looking back at 2009, and forward to 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Click The Button – The Contest (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Best of "The Moth" 2009 (Daniel Moth)

 

Database

• SQL Server IF Conditions (Richard Carr)
• “SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide” – 486 pages of SQL Server 2008 upgrade guidance (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Find Location of Data File Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Using Variables in SSIS: Purpose review and functional examples (Ted Krueger)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Debugging Silverlight Client OM Apps in SharePoint and SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Trouble finding the CAML reference in the 2010 SDKs? (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Read and Recommended: Confessions of a Public Speaker (Brian Noyes)
• New Subversion Reference Site (Alex Coisman)
• IE8 64-bit Windows 7 and the Mobile Code Bug (Part 2) (William Stanek)
• Install OS X Snow Leopard in VMware Windows 7 (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft Talked About Windows Mobile 7 And We All Missed It (Paul Thurrott)
• Fairness is Highly Overrated (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Dec 31, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #508 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 1, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2009 — #767 and Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2009 – 2 — #768 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.21 ~ 12.31, bye 2009 (yuanjian)
• Everyman Links for January 1, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 31-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library (Expert’s Voice in .Net)