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Top Links

• Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture (Steven Sinofsky)
• EF 4.3 Released (EF Team)
• EF 4.3 Automatic Migrations Walkthrough and EF 4.3 Code-Based Migrations Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
• Windows 8: The Facts about ARM, Metro, and the Blue Stack (Jeremy Likness)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Find/Replace in Visual Studio using Regular Expressions (David Amador)
• Microsoft Deprecates Legacy Workflow Foundation Libraries in New Beta Release (Richard Seroter)
• What is the effect of memory-mapped file access on GetLastError()? (Raymond Chen)
• Entity Framework 4.3 Released (Migrations) (Jarod Ferguson)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: StudioShell (Jason Jarrett)

 

Web Development

• Google web fonts (Julian M. Bucknall)
• A Beginner’s Guide To jQuery-Based JSON API Clients (Ben Howdle)
• Asynchronously Load HTML Templates For Backbone Views (Derick Bailey)
• Using JavaScript’s Prototype with MVC (James Baker)
• Referencing JavaScript files from a CDN in a CRM 2011 form (Marc Schweigert)
• How many copies of your blob is stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Mobile Boilerplate v3.0 Released! (Shi Chuan)
• Vendor Prefixes – about to go south (Remy Sharp)
• CORS for XHR in IE10 (Tony Ross)
• Getting Started with KendoUI and OpenAccess ORM (Joshua Holt)
• Developing Mobile Dashboards for ComponentArt Dashboard Server (Milos Glisic)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Development Pendulum (John Sonmez)
• [Email] – Short Projects and Estimating Velocity (Peter Saddington)
• Moq Partial Mocks (Richard Carr)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Design Resources (Dani Diaz)
• Developping an app for the Windows Phone platform (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #492 – Layout Can Change at Runtime (Sean Sexton)
• LightSwitch Screen Tips: Scrollbars and Splitters (Beth Massi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen is Back on His SOPA Box (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #163: Combinatorial Explosion (James Shore)
• RadioTFS – Yes We Kanban (Martin Woodward)
• Security, Security, Security! Helping the LIDNUG community build safer software (Troy Hunt)
• Peter Heldens – Creating Scripts with TouchDevelop (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 11: SignalR (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Free "Introduction to Reactive Extensions" on-demand video training available, with 8 sessions and growing (Greg Duncan)

 

Community / Events

• Join the Belgian Experts and Microsoft Corp Product team for 12 hours of SQL Server 2012 (Katrien de Graeve)
• Learn About Windows Azure for Technical Decision Makers, Developers, Architects (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft Student Developers Showcase Their Work at the White House Science Fair (Chuck Lawton)
• Upcoming Webinar – The iPad Invasion: Leveraging SharePoint for Mobile Enterprise Security (Joel Oleson)
• ExpressionBlend.com is Live! (Daniel Vaughan)
• C# for Gaming: AltDevConf This Weekend (Miguel de Icaza)
• 2012 MVP Global Summit- Tour of the Neighborhood (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• An open letter to anyone with “SQL Server” on their resume (Jen McCown)
• PBM for SSIS? What policies would you want? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Puzzle on JOIN and NULL – SQL Brain Teaser (Pinal Dave)
• Executing scripts with sp_addscriptexec (Brandon Williams)
• When you pit RavenDB & SQL Server against one another… (Oren Eini)
• Three Consulting Tools to Make You a Better DBA (Kendra Little)

 

SharePoint

• How to Programmatically Update an ODC File (Shubh Raj Singh)
• Social Squared version 6.1 release (Phill Duffy)

 

PowerShell

• Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets 2.2.1 (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous

• Kids are the future. Teach ‘em to code. (Cameron McEfee)
• Reinstaller: Install All Your Previously Downloaded Apps Automatically (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows 8 ARM edition will include built-in Office apps and access to the traditional desktop mode and Microsoft unveils Office 15 Metro design look and feel (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – February 9 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #815 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 2/9/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1041 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-09 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 9 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

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

 

Top Links

• Farewell Stack Exchange (Jeff Atwood)
• Farewell (Joel Spolsky)
• Implementing a Code Action using Roslyn (Brian Rasmussen)
• What is "binding" and what makes it late? (Eric Lippert)
• Backbone.js And PhoneGap Sample App (Ben Forta)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding solutions not covered by automated builds (Rory Primrose)
• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–Proposed Solution #1 (Oren Eini)
• KinectContrib 2.0 released – now supports Kinect for Windows SDK 1.0 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Gadgeteer Hello World (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 8 Composition and Content (Joe Mayo)
• Using JSON.net to consume the JSON Stack Overflow API (Jonathan Creamer)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Deleporter (Jason Jarrett)
• The Commodore 64 Emulator: Emulating Pointers in a sandbox when the real thing is not allowed (Pete Brown)
• Wrapping up Configuration Manager (Paul Sheriff)
• Pinpointing a Static GC Root with SOS (Sasha Goldshtein)
• JSON deserialization with JSON.net: class hierarchies (Joost van Schaik)
• How to Use the Azure npm Package Locally without the Azure Compute Emulator (Aaron Stannard)
• Using Entity Framework to Query Dynamic Types (David Barrett)
• WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please make sure the Windows Azure SDK v1.5 is installed. (Deepak Kapoor)
• Developing for a multitude of clients – Part 1: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check (Kevin Dockx)

 

Web Development

• jQuery.whenSync() Plugin For Chaining Asynchronous Callbacks Using Deferred Objects (Ben Nadel)
• JS1k is back! Awesome JavaScript demos in only 1KB (Devon Govett)
• Learning HTML5 & CSS3 (Martin Beeby)
• PDF.js: display PDF files in your browser, without native code (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Using the Battery API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
• Turbocharge your Website with Memcached (Nicolas Sebban)
• Pointer Lock API Brings FPS Games to the Browser (Ilmari Heikkinen)
• MSDN Article: Building a Massively Scalable Platform for Consumer Devices on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Speech Bubble Arrows that Inherit Parent Color (Chris Coyier)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Use Hand Coding Coded UI Test For Automated Vs2010 Test Scripting (Abhishek Lohani)
• Looking for the seam (Mark Needham)
• The Most Controversial Feature in Isolator V7 (Gil Zilberfeld)
• What can Enterprise Architects Learn from Steve Jobs? (Mike Walker)
• Mocking ITable<T> (Chris Skardon)
• Builder pattern with a twist (Uzi Landsmann)
• MSTest and Calling Exe with Sample Data Files (Johan Danforth)
• [Humor] – Business Roles and Designations – For a Baby (Peter Saddington)
• Constraints, expectations and real estate (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Programmatically changing Visual States of HubTile controls used as ListBox Items (Windows Phone Geek)
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | 15 Designing Windows Phone Icons (Arturo Toledo)
• A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring multiple UPDATEs and rowversion impact (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #489 – Using the InkCanvas to Recognize Gestures, part I (Sean Sexton)
• Silverlight ComboBoxItem IsEnabled, SL5 Style (Tony Champion)
• Introducing Rate Application Reminder for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
• Why Custom Controls are underrated (Morten Nielsen)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 038: Puzzlejuice Pigs (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Episode 175 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Wells on SQL 2012 and SQLSpade (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Defrag: Change Pinned Sites Icons, Laptop WiFi Router, Full Path for File (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• CreativeJS workshops in UK and Amsterdam (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Join the Facebook Platform team at GDC in March (Namita Gupta)
• Meet Abdul Rafay – BizTalk Server MVP from Qatar (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Come Hear the STP Antarctica Crew at SPTechCon San Francisco – Feb 26 (Joel Oleson)
• I’m back, baby (get it? baby?) and Windows 8 resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• Azure Soup-to-Nuts Series (Jim O’Neil)
• Don’t Miss FREE MSDN Webcast, Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts (Part 1) “Get Started with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure”, Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 11 am PT (Himanshu Singh)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Data Quality Services (James Serra)
• SQL Server Certifications: What to Take and How to Prepare (Kendra Little)
• SQL Server 2012 Free Cook Book and Training (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Installation Log Summary File Location – 2012 – 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
• SEQUENCE… explain why and win a prize (Colin Stasiuk)
• Why Every DBA is a Clown (John Sansom)
• Check progress of DBCC CHECKDB (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Embracing guesswork with SQL Prompt partial matches (Troy Hunt)
• Code to list potential cluster key space savings per table (Paul S. Randal)
• How To Copy A Schema Container To Another SQL Azure Database (Herve Roggero)

 

PowerShell

• List failed SQL server Jobs with Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
• Announcing Windows PowerShell 3.0 Firstlook! (Adam Driscoll)

 

Miscellaneous

• Android–Create a ListView with rounded corners (Bill Osuch)
• Looking at Office 365 Security Holistically (Mike Halsey)
• ASCII Table Reference Sheet (Richard Carr)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 6 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #5) (Himanshu Singh)
• Double Shot #812 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1038 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 6 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft’s New Command Shell by Lee Holmes

 

Top Links

• C++ AMP Open Specification (S. Somasegar)
• Get A Model From A Backbone Collection Without Knowing If The Collection Is Loaded and 3 Stages Of A Backbone Application’s Startup (Derick Bailey)
• If you’re using Node.js, you’re doing life wrong (Toby DiPasquale)
• Another Way To Kick-start F# WPF Apps (Dan Mohl)
• Windows Phone developer lead leaves for Amazon’s Kindle team (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows 8 Secrets: What Windows Phone 8 Tells Us About Windows 8 (Paul Thurrott)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The System.Type Class (Richard Carr)
• Extending Visual Studio Part 1 – Creating Code Snippets and Extending Visual Studio Part 2 – Creating Addins (Dave Kerr)
• From C# to C++, the short guide that isn’t (all that short) and Making your app a better listener… Using multiple grammars to improve speech recognition and to allow for runtime, state based recognition configuration (Greg Duncan)
• LINQ Query and Lambda Expressions (Tom Stickel)
• The Microsoft C++ Compiler Turns 20! (Visual C++ Team)
• Implementing Team Foundation Server 2010 In A Mixed Development Environment (Tim Murphy)
• JSON Serialization / Deserialization of DateTime Not Equal (Rick Anderson)
• New book: MCPD 70-519 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK and Runtime Update (Luis Cabrera)
• Debugger Canvas 1.1 Adds Easy On/Off, Improved Navigation (Jenni Konrad)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: IntX (Jason Jarrett)
• Code Template in Telerik JustCode (Dhananjay Kumar)
• From 0 to doing solution builds w/ PSake–Part 1 of N (Derik Whittaker)
• RavenDB Tutorial, Part 1 – Introduction and Basic Operations and RavenDB Tutorial, Part 2 – Simple Querying (Piotr Kwapin)
• Introduction to the Infragistics Word Library (Atanas Dyulgerov)

 

Web Development

• Why You Should Build Your Website Using Static .html Files (Ryan Hayes)
• DataSets, TableAdapters, and Transient Retry Logic For SqlAzure (Dave M. Bush)
• Differences Between jQuery .bind() vs .live() vs .delegate() vs .on() (Elijah Manor)
• 3D Gallery with CSS3 and jQuery (Pedro Botelho)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Tease Apart Inheritance (Giorgio Sironi)
• jQuery "Pinify" Plugin Tutorial for Building App-Like Sites (sagar.sjg)
• HTML5 Web Workers: Classic Message Passing Concurrency (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Streaming results to web page using MSMQ/WCF/SignalR/JQuery (Sacha Barber)
• Getting Started with Knockout.js (John Papa)
• MVVM in the web world (Marlon Grech)
• Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers (Swizec)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.8.0 (CodePlex)
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Updates (Nathan Totten)
• MongoDB, Windows Azure (and Node.js) (Neil Mackenzie)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Hadoop: The Definitive Guide – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Backbone.js vs Ember.js (Chris Smitch)
• Adding ELMAH to an AppHarbor application (Jef Claes)
• Stack Exchange API V2.0 No Longer Beta (Kevin Montrose)
• Getting Started with IndexedDB Article (Gil Fink)
• Any port in the storm… Sailing Orchard into AppHarbor ("How to setup Orchard on AppHarbor") (Greg Duncan)
• Solving the upload progress bar problem–The History of Node.js (Jarod Ferguson)
• A convenient ‘super’ method for Backbone.js (Max Brunsfeld)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 3 (Johanna Rothman)
• A year in review with CQRS (John Teague)
• Mark Twain on Agile – He Knew What Was Up (Peter Saddington)
• Interview: The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Agile Adoption (Sanjiv Augustine & Arlen Bankston)
• Make Code Explicit and Stupid (Rinat Abdullin)
• Organizing Your Work With OneNote Page Templates (Tim Murphy)
• New Mocking Capabilities in JustMock Q3 2011 SP (JustMock Team)
• Drive Your Week with Skill (JD Meier)
• Testing DI bootstrappers (Jef Claes)
• Quick news: Microsoft Manual of Style ebook bundle on sale today (Devon Musgrave)
• Two phase release planning and Looking for information about composed refactorings (Brian Marick)
• Scope, Schedule, and Resources – You can’t have them all (TeamPulse Team)
• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–what about change? (Oren Eini)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• More Json With Windows Phone (Dani Diaz)
• PSake and building Silverlight solutions (Derik Whittaker)
• Accessing Pictures from Media Library in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: DynamicXaml (Jason Jarrett)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices – Project Separations (Lohith G N)
• Working with WP7 RadBusyIndicator control from Telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #488 – You Can Change Drawing Attributes of Existing Strokes in an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #12 – Take picture via Camera in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
• Clouds using Expression Design with Expression Blend & XAML for WP7! (Surf4Fun)
• A tale of re-usablity – refactoring MangoTree parts and GIF to JPEG for Windows Phone 7 – via a WCF service and Sending text messages from a Dell Venue Pro. Directly from the app and without SmsComposerTask. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• PivotViewer Basics: Custom Item Adorners (Tony Champion)
• Optimizing INPC Objects against memory leaks using WeakEvents (Abhishek Sur)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 133: Derick Bailey on Backbone.js (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 82: Going Beyond the Obvious in Innovation with Phil McKinney (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Technology & Friends Episode 195: Rich Dudley on Event Sponsorship (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 428: Shank 2, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and more (Larry Hyrb)
• TWC9: 4 Years of TWC9, Kinect SDK, C++, & more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Martin Woodward)
• The GeekDads Episode #108: Aliens on Broadway (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 40 (Richard Hay)
• Gillmor Gang Live 02.03.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Podcast 279 – 02.03.2012 and The Vergecast 016 – 02.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 69 – SQL Azure Federations with George Huey (Wade Wegner)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• The Tablet Show – Atley Hunter Talks Windows Phone 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Recording of Gill Cleeren’s ‘Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer’ webinar is now available (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Weekly 246: Helsinki Syndrome (Paul Thurrott)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming ASP.NET, HTML5 and Windows 8 Talks and Workshops at DevConnections 2012 (Dan Wahlin)
• RavenDB workshop in NDC, Oslo 4-5th June (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone camp in 6 cities of India from 17th Feb to 29th Feb (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 11, February 8, 2012 (Nerd Nite Team)
• Develop a Windows Phone Game, Win A Dell Alienware M18x Gaming Rig (Peter Laudati)
• Testing Dependencies and Legacy Code (Avi Kaye)

 

Database

• List SQL Server Instances using Powershell and Get-ItemProperty (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Count of Logical CPU using T-SQL Script – Identify Virtual Processors and SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Solutions Guide for High Availability and Disaster Recovery and SQL SERVER – ERROR: FIX – Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner (Pinal Dave)
• Convenient ad-hoc bcp table loading (Erik)
• NoSql and a life without Schema continued (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Let’s Build Something Using Amazon’s DynamoDB (Karl Seguin)

 

SharePoint

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

 

PowerShell

• Powershell: Selecting files that don’t contain specified content (Tobin Titus)

 

Miscellaneous

• DZone’s Different! (Austin Kowitz)
• Finding Content in Files With Git (Christopher Bennage)
• Unicode’s "Pile of Poo" character (Cory Doctorow)
• Xbox co-creator brings together Atari ‘dream team’ for mobile gaming startup (Donald Melanson)
• Pin a OneNote page to the desktop (John Guin)
• Expand Your Touch Apps Selection on the Windows 8 Developer Preview (Richard Hay)
• Note about being an Independent Consultant (Jason Haley)
• Windows Phone lacks developer experience first thinking. (Scott Barnes)
• Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 – and the future of syncing and sharing (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 4, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 5, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 140 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #1037 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 3, 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Pie in The Sky (February 3, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Double Shot #811 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #32 (Franky)
• Daily News Digest 2/3/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (2/3/2012) and Daily News Digest 2/6/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 29-January-2012 to 04-February-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Dev News for February 04, 2012 – #0036 (Dave Campbell)
• Re-blog – January 27 – February 2 (Jason Strate)
• Retrospective 70 – Online Agile Videos & Scrum Tools (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• MVP Friday Five: February 3, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-03 (Bob Rhubart)

 

The Geek Shelf

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