• Windows Azure Toolkit for Devices: Now With Android! (Wade Wegner)
• HTML Editor Smart Tasks and Event Handler Generation (ASP.NET vNext Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Designing for Metro style and the desktop (Steven Sinofsky)
• Prism-fy the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) (Brian Lagunas)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TFS11 gets a new merge/diff tool (Rory Primrose)
• PartNotDiscoverable attribute in MEF (Abhijit Jana)
• C# 2010 Soup to Nuts Series (Emily Gibson)
• VS2010 Find In Solution Explorer Hotkey/Toolbar Button (Lance Robinson)
• The TeamPulse TFS Process Template – Why Does It Matter? (Joel Poiron)
• Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements (Zain Naboulsi)
• MiniBuss Updates (Johan Danforth)
• Downloading and saving a File from Windows Azure BLOB storage (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Beta 2 Released (Eric J. Smith)
• String.Format-specific refactorings shipped in Refactor! Pro (Alex Skorkin)
• concurrency::accelerator (Daniel Moth)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.9.3.2 Alpha (VS2010 Support) (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Adding Two-Factor Authentication to a ASP.NET MVC Application (Jimmy Larkin)
• Offline web applications: a working example (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using the HTML5 and jQuery UI Popup Calendar with ASP.NET MVC (Rick Anderson)
• Book Review: CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development (Michael J. Ross)
• Ruby and Windows Azure Local Storage (Larry Franks)
• Web Oriented Architecture is here to Stay, and Why Microsoft’s new WCF Stack is interesting. (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• FormsAuthentication Ignores web.config LoginUrl Settings (Joe Mayo)
• Browsing Without Plug-ins (John Hrvatin)
• AJAX Series Part 3: Advanced Techniques – Performance, Theming, Cloud Deployment (Carl Bergenhem)
• A Guide to Installing Rails 3.1 and Example Apps for Rails 3.1 (Daniel Kehoe)
• 10 Life-Saving PHP Snippets (JB)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: The product backlog (John Rayner)
• How GitHub Develops (PJ Hyett)
• Git Revisited (Mark Pearl)
• Balsamiq New Release: Font Adjustments and More (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Production is a mixed blessing (Eric Brechner)
• Best Practices: Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises (Devon Musgrave)
• A User, an Account and SaaS (Oren Eini)
• Why Developers Never Use State Machines (Alan Skorkin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A Simple ToDo List: Persisting Data with the Sterling NoSQL Database (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers – MVC and MVVM (Kevin Hoffman)
• Windows Phone 7.1 Isolated Storage Explorer Visual Studio Extension (Greg Duncan)
• WP7: Background execution – revisited! (Håkan Reis)
• Building a Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 3 of 3 (Jesse Liberty)
• Layout Tips and Tricks for WP7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Extracting a SQL CE DB from Isolated Storage in WP7 Mango. (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight 5: Remote control and MediaCommand Support (Pete Brown)
• Building Windows Phone Applications Using Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• 2000 WPF Things #377 – Reuse Tooltips by Defining Them as Resources (Sean Sexton)
• Introduction to XNA on Windows Phone 7 (Nick Ohrn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kerry Hammil Builds .NET Gadgets (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• UML with VS 2010 Part 3: Modeling the Business Domain (MS Podcasts)
• C++ and Beyond 2011: Benedict Gaster on C++11, C++ AMP, C++ Renaissance (Charles Torre)
• A for Architecture: Oracle’s Fusion Middleware A-Team – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 8: Let the games begin (MS JobsBlog)
• SE Podcast #16 (Alex Miller)
• Hot Apps: IonBallEx, Relaxify, Speed, NightStand Clock, Fastball 2 (Laura Foy)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #59: Building HTML5tx.com with FrogSlayer’s Sam Hooker (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Let’s Play TDD #134: Persistence! (James Shore)

Community / Events

• I’ll be presenting @ SharePoint Connections Fall 2011 in Las Vegas, NV (Andrew Connell)
• SQLAuthority News – Shaivi’s Birthday – SQL Wait Stats Joes 2 Pros Book Released Today – 30 Million Views Completed (Pinal Dave)
• Reserve the date! Developer Day 2011 (Christian Nagel)
• Come See Me At Roanoke .NET Thursday Night! (Kevin Griffin)
• Annoucing the Windows Phone Camps East Coast Fall 2011 Tour (Dave Isbitski)
• The unofficial BUILD precon (Guy Barrette)
• A Coder Interview With Sacha Barber (The Code Project)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Using Root With Auto XML Mode – Day 32 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Red Gate | SQL Compare Review (Jeff Julian)
• Microsoft is Aligning with ODBC for Native Relational Data Access (Rohan Lam)

Miscellaneous

• Office 365 is a happy PowerShell Camper (Greg Duncan)
• Powershell Text-To-Speech and fun with a 4yr old. (Jason Jarrett)
• Scala: A Better Java for Android (Mike Burns)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 08.23 ~ 08.31 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading August 31, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 1 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Link dump for August 31st (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Web Dev Tweets 30-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Today’s Links (8/31/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #928 (Chris Alcock)
• SilverlightShow for August 22 – 28, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2011 — #1140 (Dave Campbell)
• 31 Tips on ASP.NET, C#, WPF , MEF, MVC, Visual Studio – August 2011 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• 31 Tips for the month on Threading, WPF, MEF, ASP.NET (Abhishek Sur)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 31 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Documenting Your SharePoint Application Design – Part 2, The Process (Rob Foster)
• Discussion: OO 101 Solutions and the Open Close Principle at the Architecture Level (Oren Eini)
• The Injected Context (Jarod Ferguson)
• Teaching Someone to Test Using an Isolation Framework (Derik Whittaker)

Web Development

• Emulating Classical Inheritance in JavaScript Destroys the Purity of the Language (Brian Reindel)
• A Web Developer’s Responsibility (John Resig)
• jQuery Character Table (Sergio Pereira)
• Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 2) – ASP.NET MVC vs. ASP.NET Web Forms (Nick Berardi)
• The Benefit of Writing Mapping Files by Hand (Anne Epstein)
• Using ASP.NET and jQuery to Highlight a Row in GridView without a PostBack (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Looking at Oxite the "Glass Half-Full" Way (Simone Chiaretta)
• jQuery – Loading Partial Content (Dave M. Bush)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain – Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
• GUI Toolkits and Does the .NET Community Need an Eclipse? (Andrew Stopford)
• Using T4 Templates with GDR Database Projects (Patrick Sirr)
• VS 2010 for Web Developer Previews (Vishal R. Joshi)
• MSchema: An Example – Part 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Building IronRuby with Mono (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Oslo == 42 (Erik Wynne Stepp) – Link of the Day
• Introducing the New Task Type (Daniel Moth)
• Read and Use FM Radio (or Any Other USB HID Device) from C# (Tamir Khason)
• EF Designer Bug Workaround for 0..1 Associations to Derived Types (Error Code 3034) (Julie Lerman)

Silverlight

• HyperVideo Continuing the Dialog and HyperVideo – Getting Started (Jesse Liberty)

PowerShell

• PowerShell ISE Can Do a Lot More Than You Think and My PowerShell_ISE Profile (Jeffrey Snover)
• PowerShell 2 CTP3 – Custom Accelerators, Finally! (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Surprises in the Windows 7 License Agreement (Ed Bott)
• Convert PDF to Word for Free (Manish Agrawal)
• Software as a Service Is a Matter of Trust (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft Forum – Creating a New Community Anti-Pattern (Colin Jack)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #253 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 30, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• Tech Twitterings #9 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: December 30, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 30, 2008 — #471 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for December 30th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)

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