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Top Links

• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #2 The Design Process of a Windows Phone App (Arturo Toledo)
• Syncing Visual Studio Extensions and Settings with Dropbox (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• SOLID JavaScript: The Interface Segregation Principle (Derek Greer)
• The evolution of asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
• ASP.NET session hijacking with Google and ELMAH (Troy Hunt)
• Introducing ExpectThat: A CoffeeScript Assertion Library (Dan Mohl)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Static Field Initialisation Order (Richard Carr)
• string.format escape sequence in c# (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Working with the Search charm in Windows 8 (Peter von Lochow)

 

Web Development

• Practical PHP Refactoring: Push Down Field (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript inheritance by example (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Downloading Blob To Local Machine (Puja Pramudya)
• Textarea Auto Resize (Louis Lazaris)
• Dropbox REST API Part 2: API Requests (Christophe Geers)
• Our Ajax Conventions–Validation (Josh Arnold)
• What we still can’t do client-side (Lea Verou)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• My take on TDD & binary search (Morgan Persson)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• [WP7] Quick tip : how to set 32 bits per pixel for your app. (Jonathan Antoine)
• Windows Azure Storage Client Library for Windows Phone: Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7.5 – Using advanced tiles API (Andrea Boschin)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone–Marketing 101 (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #468 – FirstColumn Property Allows Blank Cells in a UniformGrid (Sean Sexton)
• WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 3of Many (Vijaya Malla)
• Fixing that darn AdControl when it won’t show up (Arian Kulp)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 242: Refreshing and Resetting (Paul Thurrott)
• The GeekDads Episode #106: Skylanders Farming (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

 

Community / Events

• Webcasts: Upcoming Sessions in January and February (Kim Spilker)

 

Database

• Relating Parameters & Filters in SQL Server Reporting Services (Melissa Coates)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.6–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• Restoring SQL Server Database: Points to Consider (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Using RANKING Functions Instead of SQL Looping Logic of Cursor – Quiz – Puzzle – 8 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• “New Index…” is greyed out in SSMS (Ben March)
• Set-Based Operations: They’re Not Just For Databases (Calvin Bottoms)
• Orders Search in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• Managing Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010 from a Single PowerShell Session and How to Enable Lync 2010 Client Presence Status: Appear Offline and Generating Delivery Reports and Tracking Messages from PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

 

Miscellaneous

• Getting Started with Python – A simple example with all basic stuff (Singaram Subramanian)
• Learning Android: Getting android-support jar/compatability package as a Maven dependency (Mark Needham)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 8, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 9, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 9 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #791 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #28 (Franky)
• The Morning Brew #1017 (Chris Alcock)

 

The Geek Shelf

CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development by Trevor Burnham

 

Top Links

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

 

.NET / Visual Studio

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

 

Web Development

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

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

 

Community / Events

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

 

Database

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

 

Miscellaneous

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

 

More Link Collections

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

 

The Geek Shelf

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

 

Top Links

• 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)