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Top Links

• Boxing Bots: An Overview (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Rick Barraza)
• WCF RIA Services is Dead, Long Live WCF RIA Services and Musings on WCF RIA Services #1: The DomainDataSource (Colin Blair)
• The Conversation Amongst MSFT, NOK, VZW, & ATT (Charlie Kindel)
• patterns & practices – Develop Windows Store apps using C++ & XAML: Hilo C++ October 4, 2012 Drop (CodePlex)
• Updating our built-in apps for Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)

 

Web Development

• Pedalboard.js: A JavaScript Guitar Effect Framework using the Web Audio API (Devon Govett)
• Using node.js To Show Our jQuery Chart in Older Browsers (Graham Murray)
• Build Your First JavaScript Library (Andrew Burgess)
• Building World-ready Applications in JavaScript Becoming a Reality (Suresh Jayabalan & Amanda Silver)
• ASP.NET Web API List Parameter Binding (Keith Dahlby)
• Upgrading an MVC4 Visual Studio 2010 Solution to Visual Studio 2012 and .Net 4.5 and EF 5. (Kevin LaBranche)
• Spell Checker extension for Visual Studio 2012 HTML, ASP.NET, CSS and other files (Mikhail Arkhipov)
• Core HTML5 Canvas Book Review (Matt Raible)
• Using TypeScript with AngularJS and Web API (Piotr Walat)
• ASP.NET Web API And Dependency Injection (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 3: Anonymous partial-trust consumer (Elton Stoneman)
• AppsWorld Demo– Windows 8 Music Player in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (Mike Taulty)
• The HTML5 Starting Template (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Thoughts on TypeScript (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Tangled Web – $15.97 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Working LESS with WebMatrix (Mark Berryman)

 

XAML

• Doing new Silverlight development? Don’t use RIA Services (Bill Reiss)
• 2000 WPF Things #662 – IsMouseOver Property (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Store Applications–Debugging Crashes (Mike Taulty)
• Stupid Question 57: Iris, what are your top 6 tips for getting started with Windows Store App development? (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Awesome indexing with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• NuGet 2.1 Release Notes (NuGet Team)
• Using Jump List Icons in Windows Desktop Applications (Dennis Delimarsky)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Static Char Methods (James Michael Hare)
• Marking Code as Deprecated in .NET (Jason Gaylord)
• Why does RegOpenKey sometimes (but not always) fail if I use two backslashes instead of one? (Raymond Chen)
• Here’s a BTree Library for .NET (Rodrigo De Castro)
• CSLA 4 version 4.5.3 Beta 2 online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Do I always have to call Dispose() on my DbContext objects? Nope (Jon Gallant)
• Project Austin Part 3 of 6: Ink Smoothing (Eric Brumer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• xunitcontrib-resharper for 7.1 EAP (build 3) (CodePlex)
• ALM Rangers ship the first version of Team Foundation Server Word Add-in (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Friday with Filip – Joining new projects (Filip Ekberg)
• The Code Side Of Color // Hex Colors (Ben Gremillion)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Setting up a chroot for Android platform development (Tomas Nilsson)
• How to make the height of a GridView wrap its content (László Urszuly)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: How to Plan, Manage and Control SharePoint Projects #pmidc and Video: Maximize Project 2010 w/ SharePoint 2010 for PM Success #pmidc #pmot (Dux Raymond Sy)
• IWP40: UX Designer Jon Bell talks Common App Design Problems | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• Axure, Fireworks, LESS and IFTTT (Paul Boag)
• WOWZAPP 2012 Hackathon for Windows (Larry Larsen & Andrew Parsons)

 

Community / Events

• Invitations to Windows 8 launch: 21 days and counting (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone 8 launch event to be held in San Francisco on October 29th (Tom Warren)
• Meet the Author: Yacine Khammal on Windows 8 Metro Connected Apps (Paul Ballard)
• Just when I thought I was out… (Sara Ford)
• GitHub Drinkup in Norfolk, VA (Jon Maddox)
• Web.NET Conference: find it on social media (Simone Chiaretta)
• Remix the Halo 4 Soundtrack and win! (Larry Hryb)
• .NET Rocks Road Trip–Northeast Stops (Jim O’Neil)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – 3 Online SQL Courses at Pluralsight and Free Learning Resources (Pinal Dave)
• Parent transaction ID in 2012 fn_dblog output (Paul S. Randal)

 

PowerShell

• Fixing TFS 2012 Power Tools PowerShell CmdLets in PowerShell x64 (John Robbins)

 

Miscellaneous

• Firefox Metro Preview Release – Status update 8 (Brian Bondy)
• Ps…Ping! PsPing v1.0 added to PsTools suite from Microsoft/Sysinternals (Greg Duncan)
• You can do better than the Windows 8 command line (Mike Williams)
• Jessica Alba looks pretty happy with her Nokia Lumia 900 (Seth Brodeur)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 4, 2012 and Interesting Finds: October 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 4, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #973 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1204 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-05 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 10/4/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Tools for Your Debugging Toolbox (rafarah)

 

The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

• 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

 

 

Top Links

• Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–Revealing Module Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
• Kinect Toolkit v1.1 (CodePlex)
• HTML5 Part 2: Canvas (Jennifer Marsman)
• 31 Days with WP7 – A Collection of Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorials You Must Read (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Monadic Parsing in F# (Frank Thomsen)
• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 3 and Revised Windows Azure Portal: 2nd August 2011 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Developing a “Real” Outlook Social Connector Provider (Greg Duncan)
• Surround with feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• WCF RIA Services Toolkit (August 2011) – And Updated NuGet Packages (Jeff Handley)
• C#: DateFormat separator issue with ToString() method (Raghav Khunger)
• TFS API Part 39 – Show Deleted Items in Source Control (Shai Raiten)
• PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension – Release: v1.4.1 (CodePlex)
• BugTracker.NET – Release: v3.5.2 (CodePlex)
• Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – August Update (MS Downloads)
• Using schema with NHibernate and SqlLite (Gian Maria Ricci)

 

Web Development

• Use ASP.NET’s HttpHandler to bridge the cross-domain gap (Dave Ward)
• HTML5 Periodic Table of Elements (as in HTML5 Tags… ) (Greg Duncan)
• Consuming a POX WebService in .NET and C# – Searching ISBN Numbers. (Joe Stagner)
• PHP 5.4 features poll: the results and Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Foreign Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript performance: Array.prototype versus [] (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 5 – Ranges, Loops and Comprehensions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Measuring Mobile Site Performance Using the W3C Navigation Timing API (Joe Marini)
• Improve PHP Performance with Phalanger for .NET and Mono (Jonathan Allen)
• Update Wijmo Charts in Real Time (Kevin Griffin)
• A client side Glimpse to your PHP application (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows Azure Security Review (Buck Woody)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: OverloadedGetterSetter (Martin Fowler)
• Challenge: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)
• Choosing the Correct CI Tool (Paul Stack)
• Which is easier, Scrum or Lean? (Matt Barcomb)
• An Agile Retrospective by Jeff Sutherland (Aaron Bjork)
• Sample Application for .NET 4.0 – Layered Architecture and DDD Patterns Sample Applications (JD Meier)
• TDD Or Not TDD Guest blog by @avi_kaye (Tal Druyan)
• Requirements-Driven Development For The Lose (Peter Saddington)
• Announcing Git Support for Google Code Project Hosting (Dave Borowitz)
• Is it worth it? (Joh)
• 5 Big Usability Mistakes Designers Make on Carousels (Anthony)
• Thoughts on MicroOrms (Chris Brandsma)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Writing a Multiplayer Game (in WPF) (Paulo Zemek)
• Building a Simple Windows Phone Dialer App (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone emulator keyboard shortcuts (Arian Kulp)
• WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers : From Core Data to LINQ to SQL (Kevin Hoffman)
• Using Custom Themes in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Jason Beres)
• Adding a system-wide keyboard hook to your WPF Application (LearnWPF)
• Understanding XAML Screen Layout (Paul Sheriff)
• 2000 WPF Things #356 – RadioButton Basics (Sean Sexton)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 2– The SystemTray (András Velvárt)
• What is Visual Tree and Logical Tree in WPF? (Abhijit Jana)
• Installing the RTM version of NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch (Pamela Brasil)
• Announcing TouchDevelop v2.0 beta: script sharing in the cloud (Nikolai Tillmann)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Channel 9 Exit Interview: Tina Moving to Xbox Team (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #128: 2^7 (James Shore)
• Run as Radio Podcast – A little Denali (Kevin Kline)
• Yet Another Podcast #45–Rey Bango (Jesse Liberty)
• Pranking Softies: The Faces of Microsoft campaign (Dan Fernandez & Tina Wood)

 

Community / Events

• SharePoint Saturday DC – The Conference (G. Andrew Duthie)
• I’m Speaking at the SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast 2011 Conference in Chicago (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Looking for Agile Authors (Johanna Rothman)
• Webcasts: Microsoft Press Author Presents Windows 7 Troubleshooting Series (Kim Spilker)
• BUILD Windows Conference Sells Out, Content Will Be Available Online (Bruce Kyle)

 

Database

• Report Authoring on the SSIS Catalog [link] (Jamie Thomson)
• Microsoft SQL Server Internals & Architecture Matter! (Kevin Kline)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Finding Apostrophes in String and Text – Day 3 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• TSQL Tip O’ the Week – 8/2/11 – Records Per Day (Andy Lohn)

 

Miscellaneous

• New Formats for Free Microsoft Press eBooks (Carl Diltz)
• Putting the “I” in Health IT (Bill Crounse)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Tap, Move, Shake: Early Release – Only $15.99 w/code DDSHK #iPhone #iPad (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 204 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Geek Reading August 2, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Link dump for August 2nd (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 08/03/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 1-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #908 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (8/2/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Just Published: July 1-31 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (Beck Andros)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices (Best Practices (Microsoft)) by Ed Wilson