• 10th Day of Silverlight : O/S Integration and 11th Day of Silverlight : 3D (Tony Champion)
• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module pattern (part 4) – debugging (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Comparing Strings in Unit Tests (Phil Haack)
• Fluent Assertions 1.7.0 has been released (Dennis Doomen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing IEqualityComparer (Richard Carr)
• Twitter Search JSON Deserialization (Tim Murphy)
• Contact Columns and other pieces of help info in Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
• How to read managed function parameter values from call stack when they read in WinDBG? (Sebastian Dau)
• Stylecop Suppress Message (Kazim Sardar Mehdi)
• Using async / await (Bnaya Eshet)
• Kinect’ing to Arduino with Visual Basic and The Kinect, Windows Azure Service Bus and SignalR together in Kinectonitor (Greg Duncan)
• Comparing Transparent Lazy Loading between NHibernate and Entity Framework (Henry He)

Web Development

• ASP.NET: Integrating Search and Help with Cross-Page Posting (Peter Vogel)
• Multi-column combo box – NetAdvantage for jQuery (Atanas Dyulgerov)
• ASP.Net MVC4 developer preview fails to build with Nuget package restore. (Kevin LaBranche)
• Javascript coding style recommendation: in return and throw statements use only simple variables (Michael Freidgeim)
• JavaScript Performance (Steve Souders)
• WebAPI Developer Preview 6: Self Hosted Mode Example (John V. Petersen)
• Troubleshooting “500 Internal Server Errors” in the Windows Azure Emulator when Working with Node.JS (Aaron Stannard)
• Using Symbolic links with local storage to store large amount of data in Windows Azure Application Drive and Setting Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv) as data source directly from Portal at Hadoop on Azure (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Run Lokad.CQRS code natively on Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• Physician, Heal Thyself–ScrumMaster, Master Thyself (Robert May)
• The evolution of a task board (Dror Helper)
• Huboard – Github issues made awesome (Ryan Rauh)
• 5 Skills for Tech Leads (Sergio Romano)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to hide the soft keyboard in a Windows Phone app (Windows Phone Geek)
• Telerik RadDatePicker control for Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A simple Windows Phone control for reading QR codes (Jeff Wilcox)
• Your path to a WP7 app in 30 days (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A Dynamic DataTemplate Generator for WPF (Matt Hamilton)
• Breakdown of Windows Phone App Download Statistics (Rene Schulte)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #8 – Retreive Device Information (Senthil Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Why work at Microsoft? International Microfilms Contest Shows Why (MS JobsBlog)
• TWC9: New Team Members, Win8, C++, SQL 2012, Cloud Numerics (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Rick Barraza)
• The JavaScript Show – Fluentconf, Scrollorama, Impress.JS (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Engadget Podcast 274: CES 2012 Day 4 – 01.12.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 121: CES 2012 – 01.12.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 282: CES 2012 – 01.13.2012 and The Vergecast at CES: Day Four (Trent Wolbe)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 37 (Richard Hay)
• Adron Hall Visual Studio AWS Toolkit & SDK Presentation Video (Bobby Johnson)
• Hands-on: Nokia Lumia 900, THE Windows Phone [video] (Tim Conneally)

Community / Events

• Critical Path Training SharePoint Developer Roadshow in Boston & SharePint! (Andrew Connell)
• Updates to the Coding4Fun Team! (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• CES 2012: what I learned, why I’m not going back (Ed Bott)
• TED2012 speaker lineup (Mark Frauenfelder)
• CodeMash 2012–what an awesome event! (Paul Stack)
• The Chat I Had With Stephen Elop as We Both Nearly Missed Final Ballmer-Note (Ina Fried)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Debate – Table Variables vs Temporary Tables – Quiz – Puzzle – 13 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• How to connect to SQL Server when your default database is unavailable (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Windows 8: What we learned this week (Mary Jo Foley)
• Rake. Huh? and Rake Fundamentals: tasks with prerequisites and Rake Fundamentals: rakefiles and tasks and Rake Fundamentals: file tasks and Rake Fundamentals: directory tasks and Rake Fundamentals: FileLists (Dale Smith)
• What I Use: Evernote and Microsoft Word for Writing (Paul Thurrott)
• The TED imperatives (Seth Godin)
• Skype to Come to Windows Phone as App First – Baked Into OS Later? (Coming Soon?) (Antonio Hernandez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 137 – CodeMash 2012 Edition (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 14 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Re-blog – January 6 – January 12 (Jason Strate)
• MVP Friday Five: January 13, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (1/13/2012) and Daily News Digest 1/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-13 (Bob Rhubart)
• Pie in the Sky (January 13, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• Windows Dev News for January 13, 2011 – #0027 (Dave Campbell)
• Retrospective 67 – PMI, Agile Emails, and Agile Country (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery: Novice to Ninja by Earle Castledine

• Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone (V1.3.1) is released (Avkash Chauhan)
• jQuery 1.7 RC1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Announcing The jQuery Standards Team (Addy Osmani)
• Using If This Then That to Automate Your Life (Steve Smith)
• Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Syntax Rewriting with Symbol Information (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Windows Phone design Grid – Love it! (Arturo Toledo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using MongoDB with the Official C# Driver (Ercan Anlama)
• Automatic Tag Update in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• C# As A Scripting Language In Your .NET Applications using Roslyn (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Designing Action and TryAction members (Rory Primrose)
• Entity Framework, The Five Years Plan, And Building Software on Future Features (Oren Eini)
• Continuation Tasks (Richard Carr)
• OpenRA = C# Red Alert/Command and Conquer Clone (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Complete Collection (James Michael Hare)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: New feature and rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• CodeRush Code Issues for interfaces (Alex Skorkin)
• Query Methods in Roslyn Syntax API and Conditional Reading of Windows Azure BLOB (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Window Manipulation with the Microsoft Touch Mouse – Window Touch v1.0 (CodePlex)
• APress Deal of the Day – 25/Oct/2011 – Beginning WF Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Tatworth)
• Calculating Distance In Bing Maps (Dani Diaz)
• Enterprise Library community extensions ported to v5, released via NuGet (Grigori Melnik)
• .Net Framework 4.0.2 Release Information Rollup (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Development Platform Clarified and Updated Code Mastery demo (Rockford Lhotka)
• If the shell is written in C++, why not just export its base classes? (Raymond Chen)
• Getting Started with the .NET Gadgeteer – Part 1: Background, Setup, and Hello World (Pete Brown)
• Displaying Lync Online Meeting Appointment Details using the EWS Managed API (Glen Scales)

Web Development

• Typemock: Better support for ASP.NET MVC (Avi Kaye)
• Magic: The Gathering in JavaScript and HTML5 (John Esposito)
• CSS3 Advanced Selectors (Pad Gallagher)
• A Fun Little JSON Murder Mystery With IE9 and Rails, Models and Business Logic (Rob Conery)
• Some More Thoughts On OAuth 2 Sample (Howard Dierking)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• ScrumPig 2 Backlog Filter Syntax (Howard Dierking)
• Scrum with dev11: Creating a Scrum team identity (Martin Hinshelwood)
• How to Design Content Filters for Better User Browsing (Anthony Tseng)
• Models for a view (some objects are more equal than others) (Peter van Ooijen)
• Retrospective: The 5 whys (Mark Needham)
• How to Setup New Stories and Tasks in a Telerik TeamPulse Project? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Command-Query Separation on Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• XAML Magic: Turning an Ugly Silverlight Duckling into a Beautiful Photoshopped Swan (Samuel Jack)
• The Windows Phone Inner Circle is coming to your city! (Brian Seitz)
• Tombstoning with PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7 (and KnockoutJS) (Colin Eberhardt)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 3 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• The Financial Face of RadChart for Windows Phone (Georgi Atanasov)
• Designing My First (Public) Windows Phone App (Glen Gailey)
• Build Scalable Mobile Apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone on Windows Azure (Himanshu Singh)
• 2000 WPF Things #415 – Setting Grid Row Height and Column Width Properties to Absolute Values (Sean Sexton)
• LOB Chronicles Episode 11: Bringing in the Controls (Evan Hutnick)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Alexander Groß Deals with Machine Specifications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 124: Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar on Glimpse (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 10: /dev/random (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 27 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 24th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft Idea Week for student developers (Dennis Delimarsky)
• I am Coming to Washington DC for 2 Classes (Shawn Wildermuth)
• SQLAuthority News – Meeting SQL Friends – SQLPASS 2011 Event Log (Pinal Dave)
• sharepoint saturday uk–12th november 2011 (Brett Lonsdale)
• Interview: Maarten Balliauw, Main Contributor to the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (and much more) (Brian Swan)
• Want to be a Microsoft Student Partner? (Chris Koenig)
• YUIConf 2011 Update: Announcing More Talks and a Free Workshop! (Jenny Donnelly)
• Upcoming events (Michael Eaton)

Database

• Dataflow mechanics [SSIS] and Thoughts on Data Explorer (Jamie Thomson)
• Monitoring SSRS Report Performance: Part 2 (John Pertell)
• Database space use (David Forck)
• When will you be able to start using "Data Explorer"? (Data Explorer Team)
• My 3 Favorite Connection String Tips (Brent Ozar)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the New Microsoft Press Exam Ref Series (Karen Szall)
• Ruby 2.0 Release Schedule Announced: Roll on 2013! (Peter Cooper)
• Nokia May Offer Windows 8 Tablets (Robert Boland)
• Reading more than ever: An analysis of four lazy years with an Amazon Kindle and no dead trees (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.18 ~ 10.24 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 25 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 24, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #966 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/24/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Double Shot #737 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 17 – 23, 2011 and Weekly article digest 10/24/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Rails 3 in Action by Ryan Bigg

• The easy way to set up NuGet to restore packages (David Ebbo)
• Can Microsoft ‘fix’ JavaScript and make HTML5 applications viable? (Colin Eberhardt)
• "BECAUSE WE’RE ALL PERSONS": EMPATHY AND OPEN SOURCE (Mattt Thompson)
• I’m a phony. Are you? (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some special monads in F# – Part 5 of n – Application: Poker (Steffen Forkmann)
• Real World .NET 4 and C# (Christian Nagel)
• Manually set tag colours in TeamPulse (Telerik Team Pulse)
• MVVM your Kinect code (Greg Duncan)
• DXCore Expression Lab tool window for observing the parsed source code trees (Alex Skorkin)
• Clojure and the CLR (K. Scott Allen)
• Interactive IdP With SAML-P WIF Extension (Jimmy Larkin)
• Mono.Addins – Release: v0.6.2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm (Derek Johnson)
• Dealing with singular plural phrasing (Phil Haack)
• An Issue with Area in ASP.NET MVC 3 (VB.NET) (Imran Baloch)
• ASP.NET Password Strength Indicator with jQuery Plugin. (Joe Stagner)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Mobile: Up and Running – $11.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD246 (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Azure Storage Libraries in Many Languages and Lightweight Tracing to Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
• PHP: Fetch $_GET as String with http_build_query() (Stoimen Popov)
• CSS3: Animations vs. Transitions (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• How to execute/run a shell script as root from a PHP script? (Svetoslav Marinov)
• Video Manipulation with the Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Value to Reference (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: The process (John Rayner)
• Understanding Enterprise Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Agile Innovation Games (Peter Saddington)
• Are Workflows Really That Bad? (Hint: Maybe They Aren’t) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• A New Era in Application Development, Part I (Stephen Forte)
• Technical Debt (Charles Max Wood)
• Macto: Looking at warrants (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Beginners How to: Programmatically set common Control properties and How to port your WP7 custom application Theme to Windows Phone Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight testing framework support in the Unit Testing Service (Alex Skorkin)
• Windows 8 and the Death of Silverlight (Chris Eargle)
• Screen Orientations in Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
• RelativeSource Binding in Silverlight (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – OAuth client & basic infrastructure (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 2000 WPF Things #366 – Binding a Calendar Control’s SelectedDate Property to a Nullable DateTime (Sean Sexton)
• On a path to a generic About page (Andrej Tozon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 03 of 19): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2 (MS Podcasts)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 74: Mobile Web Is Not What The Other Guys Say It Is (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 158 – PowerScripting Podcast – Phil Haack and Andrew Nurse Talk NuGet and PSGet (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Engadget HD Podcast 261 – 08.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 1 – Pilot (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Community / Events

• Let Critical Path Training send you to the SharePoint Conference 2011! (Andrew Connell)
• Will Microsoft reveal a new IDE at the BUILD conference? (Daniel Fisher)
• Get Trained on Sweet, Sweet Mango! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Author news: Sign up for Mango Jump Start August 23-24 (Kim Spilker)
• Empathy and Open Source (Joe Mayo)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 2 (Glenn Berry)
• Deleting Data in Small Chunks on SQL Server (Jason Crider)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Sparse Data and Space Used by Sparse Data – Day 17 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – Copy Results with Headers – Management Studio (Vishal)
• T-SQL Enhancements: OVER clause (Henrik Sjang Davidse)
• Adding custom folders to your SSMS Object Explorer with this free addin… (Greg Duncan)
• Knowing what your doing with NOLOCK… (Greg Duncan)
• Calculate table size with existing data (Jack Vamvas)
• Top 5 Oracle Nuances I learned Today (Jason Brimhall)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to cut its low-end Windows Azure cloud pricing (Mary Jo Foley)
• The anatomy of Xcode’s project window (O’Reilly Media)
• Gamescom: New Xbox LIVE games and features coming to Windows Phone (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 206 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Today’s Links (8/16/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #918 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Links– 2010_29 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan

• 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

• Working with Live Tiles in WP7 Mango–Creating, Updating and Deleting them (Derik Whittaker)
• ILSpy v1.0 RTW’s – Stick a fork in it, it’s done… (Greg Duncan)
• Making Scrum Meetings Effective (John Sonmez)
• The Difficulty with Deadlocks (Jeremiah Peschka)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Unable to preserve pending changes on gated check in (Rory Primrose)
• How To Change TFS 2010 Attachment Size (Shai Raiten)
• Show Assemblies in the Add Reference Dialog Box (Richard Carr)
• Importing issues from Jira to database using C# (Gunnar Peipman)
• Task Parallel Library: How To Write a Simple Delay Task and An Action Cache (Mike Hadlow)
• ValueType and ReferenceType : Under the Hood Part 2 and ValueTypes and ReferenceTypes : Under the Hood (Abhishek Sur)
• Agatha 1.3 Is Out (Davy Brion)
• Pimping the content of a (Monotouch) iPhone app with a webview (Peter van Ooijen)
• New Open Source Project: OptionStrict.oEmbed (Richard Cirerol)
• COM ByteArray and Dynamic type issues in .NET (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• Building MVC Select Lists The Easy Way (Michael Ceranski)
• A little bit on Javascript magic inside C# code (Alexander Beletsky)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Move Field (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript: How to deep copy an object (Raghav Khunger)
• JavaScript properties: inheritance and enumerability (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Dynamically Change Chart Control Type in ASP.NET 4.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• Using Moq to mock ASP.NET MVC HttpContextBase (Gunnar Peipman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to return default(Type) in runtime – a TDD example in four unit tests (Dror Helper)
• Lokad.CQRS – Getting Simpler and Faster (Rinat Abdullin)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part IX–Not Invented Here is FUN (Oren Eini)
• Veracity 0.9.1 (Eric Sink)
• Clarification behind the message that properties are bad. What I learned was: Tell don’t ask (Kelly Sommers)
• Increase in Iteration Duration for benefit (Venkatesh Krishnamurthy)
• Self-Improvement Process (Rinat Abdullin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight JavaScript Integration – Part 1 (Al Rosan)
• A Simple WPF ComobBox based Brush Selector Control (Pete Barber)
• Calculating Correct Change on the Windows Phone with Genetic Algorithms (Windows Phone Geek)
• Consuming ODATA in Silverlight 4.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF Behaviors in the F# WPF Project Templates (Daniel Mohl)
• From design to delivery, a WP7 application development story – PinCodeKeeper (Greg Duncan)
• Functional WPF Part One and Functional WPF Part Two and Functional WPF Part Three and Functional WPF Part Four and Functional WPF Part Five (Simple example of how to use it) (Edmondo Pentangelo)
• Enriching Windows Phone 7.1 (“Mango”) Apps with Secondary Tiles (Jeff Prosise)
• 31 Days with WP7 – A Collection of Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorials You Must Read (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight 4.0: Applying TextChange behavior to the TextBox (Mahesh Sabnis)
• GUID Generator: My first Windows Phone application is available on the marketplace (Paulo Morgado)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 App – from Zero to Marketplace (Per Ola Sæther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deed Fried Bytes Episode 73: Developing Real World Applications with TDD with James Bender and Jeff McWherter (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Technology & Friends Episode 165: Matt Wilburn on Robotics Competition (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 22 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Weekly 217: A Baby Named Bing (Paul Thurrott)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 63 – Lachlan Heasman on Project Management and Developers (Richard Banks)
• Yet Another Podcast #43–Sean McKenna and Windows Phone Data (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 025 – “Pink and Waterproof” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• SharePoint Search–What you need to know-Episode 64 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)

Community / Events

• Why do people love Indy Hall? We asked. They told. (Alex Hillman)
• The new MSDN Forums Assistant (Paulo Morgado)
• Arguing About Developer Communities Doesn’t Make Sense (Davy Brion)
• ImagineCup 2011 – The competition is over, but the effects aren’t (Dennis Delimarsky)

Database

• SQL Server Denali FileTables Feature – The fruits of WinFS? (Think "A FileStream enabled table that you can access as a network file share and other standard File IO API’s" or "SQL Server File System in a Table") (Greg Duncan)
• Self Modifying Packages in SSIS? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle v5.1 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Handling ReportViewer Parameters (William Vaughn)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 16 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 17 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 18 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Columnstore Index FAQ wiki page published (Denis Gobo)
• End Of Month Function in Denali CTP 3 (Brian K. McDonald)
• New trace events in 2008R2 SP1 (Chris Webb)
• XQuery Lab 64 – Reading values from an XML column (Jacob Sebastian)

Miscellaneous

• Slightly modified “CD” Command for Powershell (Jason Jarrett)
• The impact of United States debt crisis on technology (John Petersen)
• Everybody jump for joy – Spotify coming to Windows Phone (Steven Hodson)
• Ruby 1.9.2-p290 Released: The Lowdown on Ruby’s Latest Production Release (Peter Cooper)
• My first PowerShell Script to Move Folders (Tim Radney)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 07.11 ~ 07.18 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Friday Links 07-15-2011 (JD Meier)
• Link dump for July 15th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 10-July-2011 to 16-July-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for July 17, 2011 — #1117 (Dave Campbell)
• This Week’s Link List (July 15, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #896 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 07/18/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 07/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 15-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #156 (David Vidmar)
• Retrospective 41 – #Android and #iPhone #Agile #Apps (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Brownfield Application Development in .Net by Donald Belcham

Top Links

• Getting Started with Kinect Development (Jennifer Marsman)
• The mission to land a .NET developer on Jupiter. and Is Adobe’s new HTML5 Edge tool Expression Blends replacement? (Scott Barnes)
• Nokia Windows Phones to be announced on October 26? (damaster)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Visual Experience (Richard Carr)
• .NET StockTrader 5 Sample Application (MS Downloads)
• CodeRush Code Navigation inside Visual Studio – Tab to Next Reference (Alex Skorkin)
• Kinect SDK and F# – a standard library in a non-standard language (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Automated License Header Extension for Visual Studio (define the license once, let VS auto-magically add it to new files…) (Greg Duncan)
• Turning off Code First Database Initialization completely (Julie Lerman)
• Silverlight, HTML and the WebBrowser Control for Offline Apps (Mike Taulty)
• C# Light Syntax (Phillip Trelford)
• Microsoft Test Manager – Test Plan – Part 2 (Shai Raiten)
• Eduasync part 11: More sophisticated (but lossy) exception handling and Eduasync part 12: Observing all exceptions (Jon Skeet)
• More NuGet (Steve Naughton)
• Just Announced: Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP Now Available (Windows Azure Team)
• Sending Richly Formatted Emails with .NET (Jonathan Allen)
• 3 Incredibly Useful Projects to jump-start your Kinect Development. (Michael Crump)

Web Development

• Interfacing with dynamic JavaScript APIs in WebSharper (Joel Bjornson)
• HTML5 Web Camps Content Downloads! (Rachel Appel)
• Using the ASP.NET Membership API with SQL Server / SQL Azure: The new “System.Web.Providers” namespace (Harish Ranganathan)
• Rendering jQuery Templates With Backbone Views (Derick Bailey)
• 15 Amazing Free HTML5 Templates (DongDesign)
• Tap the Cloud for Your ASP.NET Apps (Kim Spilker)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using ActionMethodSelectorAttribute to Handle Multiple Submit Buttons (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Daily Dose: jQuery Mobile Beta 1 Released (R. Jernigan)
• Abhorred Calendar (Mithun Patel)
• Invalid View State error While expanding your Web Farm (Abhijit Jana)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Dispatch options 2 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Upsides of Scrum (Jimmy Bogard)
• Agile Estimation is Dead – Stop Estimating Stories? (Peter Saddington)
• Managing Application Resources with the Flyweight Pattern (Addy Osmani)
• Quick Tips on Work Breakdown Structures (JD Meier)
• Balsamiq Release: HUGE loading time improvement! (Peldi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Debug Helper (Visual Studio Add-in) and Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 3) (Peter Kuhn)
• CanResizeWithGrip seems does not work in WPF (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Three properties that I use for almost every Windows Phone application (Eugene)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 16 – How to Create a WP7 Alarm Application? and Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 17 – How to Create a WP7 Reminder Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Sort Data in Windows Phone using Collection View Source (Paul Sheriff)
• Drag and drop in WPF (and similar to Silverlight) (Surf4Fun)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stories from NDC! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 115: RESTravaganza with Darrel Miller, Glenn Block, and John Sheehan (Jon Galloway)
• Defrag: Tweaking for HTPC, SSD as a ReadyBoost, WiFi Antenna tuning and Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Chupacabra (Larry Larsen)
• Let’s Play TDD #116: You Gotta Know What You’re Doing (James Shore)
• AppFabric.tv – Announcing the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Windows 8: Sinofsky @ D9 Transcribed (Paul Thurrott)
• BUILD: Use what you know. Do what you’ve always imagined! (Katrien de Graeve)

Database

• Standard Deviation in SQL Server and Aggregation on Aggregates (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Solution – Generating Zero Without using Any Numbers in T-SQL and SQL SERVER – List of Article on Expressor Data Integration Platform and SQL SERVER – SSAS – Multidimensional Space Terms and Explanation (Pinal Dave)
• Copy a Table with data in SQL Server (Steve Smith)
• Nine Reasons Developers Should Learn SQL (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Data Compression in SQL Server (Steve Jones)
• Using the @ in SQL Azure Connections (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

• New xsl files for the lightning conductor 2010 web part (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

Ribbon Hero 2 (MS Downloads)

RavenDB in Practice, Part 2 – Using the Client API (Unknown Author)

How to verify validity of certificates with .NET (alejacma)

Why the Windows Azure VM Role is not necessary (most of the time) (Code Inside Team)

Mercurial Cheat Sheet and Visio Template Bonanza (Greg Duncan)

Adobe Flash Player 10.3: Hardware-Accelerated Rendering in IE9 (ieblog)

datajs 0.0.4 is out – very important release! (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Using PowerShell to automate setting CopyLocal to false (Naeem Khedarun)

Tired of manual deployments? (Peter Gfader)

Developers Will Not be Getting their Hands on Mango this Week (WP7GIRL)

How the free market is a complex puzzle for Windows Phone 7 team to grok. (Scott Barnes)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• SilverlightShow for June 13 – 19, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2011 — #1110 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Interesting .NET Links – June 21 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 198 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Link dump for June 20th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Today’s Links (6/20/2011) and Today’s Links (6/21/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #877 and The Morning Brew #878 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 06/21/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/22/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Analysis Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) by Scott Cameron

• MVVM Light Toolkit patch for WP7 Mango Beta (Laurent Bugnion)
• The next version of Windows Phone has the sweet taste of “Mango” (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Multi-Targeting with Windows Phone 7 Mango tools (Simon Jackson)
• New Game Development Education on App Hub for the Windows Phone Mango Tools Release (XNA Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Projecting Indexes with LINQ (Richard Carr)
• Thoughts on installing and updating NuGet packages outside of Visual Studio (David Ebbo)
• Code Metrics – Class Coupling (Zain Naboulsi)
• Your Voice is Important (ADO.NET Team)
• LINQ to LDAP – Release v1.5 (CodePlex)
• Compress data in sql server 2008 standard thanks to FILESTREAM and NHibernate (Gian Maria Ricci)
• The Darkness Behind DateTime.Now (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Creating your NuGet enterprise server (Al Pascual)
• Getting Started with FSRepository 2.0 (Daniel Mohl)
• NuGet for the Enterprise: NuGet in a Continuous Integration Automated Build System (Scott Hanselman)
• Dealing with blob data in HealthVault XML (Eric Gunnerson)

Web Development

• HTML5 and Accessibility (Bruce Lawson & Steve Faulkner)
• Creating a Line Chart using the HTML 5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
• Creating a Data Access Layer using Dynamics in WebMatrix (Steve Lydford)
• NOW AVAILABLE: New Windows Azure Platform Pricing Calculator (Windows Azure Team)
• About Obsolete Features in HTML5 (Louis Lazaris)
• To the end of bloated code and broken websites – Nicole Sullivan on how CSS is evolving to meet performance and device needs. (Jenn Webb)
• Working with the $(this) object in jQuery (Joe Stagner)
• Desigining CSS3 Navigation in Expression Web 4 SP2 (Pad Gallagher)
• How to retrieve HTTPModule details from HttpModuleCollection ? and How to return 404 Http status code from ASP.NET MVC Application? (Abhijit Jana)
• Consuming OData via JSP in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Internet Explorer Mobile 9 is DOA Without Touch Support (Chris Love)
• Azure Throughput Analyzer from Microsoft Research (Hanu Kommalapati)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How Software Testers Scrum (David Starr)
• Microsoft Test Manager – Test Runner–Playback error with C:\fakepath (Clemens Reijnen)
• Running JustMock profiler outside of Visual Studio (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Don’t Do Role-Based Authorization Checks; Do Activity-Based Checks (Derick Bailey)
• Estimating our Work (Michael Norton)
• Chaos Monkey is your friend (Peter von Lochow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Mango – Sockets and Windows Phone 7 Mango – BingMapsTask and Windows Phone 7 Mango – BingMapsDirectionsTask and XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 11 – Tombstoning (Peter Kuhn)
• Mango, the Next Windows Phone, Is Packed with New Features (Abel Avram)
• Metro List View double line – from PSD to Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• wp7 pathlistbox (babaandthepigman)
• Microsoft says WP7 will have 4G devices this fall (Brad Sams)
• Windows Phone "Mango" finally supports multiple calendars, calendar subscriptions, and to-do lists (damaster)
• Bytes by MSDN Interview: Jason Jacobs talks about developing for Windows Phone 7 (Kim Spilker)
• Silverlight 5 Window : The things those I did not like (Kunal Chowdhury)
• “Mango” from the trenches part 1: Adding a new live tile to the start page #wp7dev (Laurent Bugnion)
• Augmented Mango – SLARToolkit for Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
• Powerful 3D in new British Airways Windows Phone 7 Application (Ubelly)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 (Beta) install (xpert360)
• Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) – Official feature set revealed. and New Windows Phone application types (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Use wildcards to include resource files in a project (Ward Bell)
• Managing the Back Stack and Full Stack #11–We’ve Been Busy (Jesse Liberty)
• Mango’s new GameStateManagement (Jo de Greef)
• The one where we gather up all the Mango news in one post (Kip Kniskern)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 112: Josh Arnold and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC (Jon Galloway)
• Joe Belfiore Announces Next Release of Windows Phone, Code-Named ‘Mango’ and Windows Phone "Mango" Developer Tools Release (Laura Foy)
• New Features in Windows Phone "Mango" – with Video! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Northwind Seating Company Demo with Kinect (Don Burnett)
• The GeekDads Episode #92: Bob, Are You a Cereal Masticator? (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• LASLUG – May meeting tomorrow: Awesome prizes + live streaming! (Cigdem Patlak)
• ImagineCup Wordwide Finalists Announced (USA) (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Upcoming Academy Live Sessions Cover Partner Solutions Powered by Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)

Database

• SQL Server CLR User Defined Function using Visual Studio 2010 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Benchmarking: Multiple data files on SSDs (plus the latest Fusion-io driver) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• ComponentOne Announces Launch of Software Development Kit for Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 (Eve Turzillo)
• Deciding Which SharePoint 2010 API to Use (Jim Crowley)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing The Techy Mobile App.. (Don Burnett)
• Building a MIDI Thru Box Part 1 (Pete Brown)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 24th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #859 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for May 24 2011 — #1094 (Dave Campbell)
• Quick Links for Windows Phone 7.1 Mango Developer Tools (John Papa)

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan

• Async 12: Expressions within await (Bill Wagner)
• NuGet Package of the Week #6 – Dynamic, Malleable, Enjoyable Expando Objects with Clay (Scott Hanselman)
• MVVM Light V3 on NuGet (now with WP7 support) (Laurent Bugnion)
• Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 1) (Michael Crump)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Zip Operator (Richard Carr)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox standalone – including all managed DLLs in a single .exe (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• MongoDB quickstart tutorial in C# and Linqpad (Lawrence Botley)
• Data Structures in C# (Rob Miles)
• Pushing Code to NuGet (Rob Conery)

Web Development

• Rethinking JavaScript Object Enumeration (Angus Croll)
• Getting Started with the HTML 5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
• ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook – Review (Hajan Selmani)
• Galactic: Building a 3D Solar System with HTML5 (ieblog)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting up to BAT: Scaling Out (John Sonmez)
• Guaranteed Success With Scrum (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Criteria for Success (Peter Ritchie)
• Discussing the Undiscussable: Book Review (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• TCommand: A WPF Compatible Command Pattern (L. Benini)
• What is AppManifest.xaml in Silverlight? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• More clarity and self-test help on our Content Policies and Technical Requirements (Todd Brix)
• TouchStudio – Script Your Phone on Your Phone Reloaded (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Blog Reader QA: A simple example of INotifyPropertyChanged. (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Answering Niners Questions about Jelly Bean—The Kinect Drivable Lounge Chair (Tina Wood)
• Episode 175: Game Development with Andrew Brownsword (SE-Radio Team)
• Engadget Podcast 238 – 05.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Devdays Sessions now on Channel 9 (Rob Miles)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast: Wally McClure Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Windows Weekly 207: You’ve Been Walshed (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• Local Mid-Atlantic Events YOU should attend! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Excellent List of FREE Webcasts around our new Visual Studio 2010 Testing Tools! (Angela Binkowski)
• Seattle/Redmond Drinkup on Sat, May 7 (S. Chacon)
• More Free State of .NET Events Coming Up! (Markus Egger)
• Announcing a Prism, Unity, WPF, MVVM Training Event (Karl Shifflett)

Database

• SQL Server Monitoring Management Pack (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – 2008 R2 – Create Script to Copy Database Schema and All The Objects – Data, Schema, Stored Procedure, Functions, Triggers, Tables, Views, Constraints and All Other Database Objects (Pinal Dave)
• Match your defaults with your trigger values to prevent horrible fragmentation on your indexes and tables (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 9 – SQL Server Monitoring – Default Trace (Ted Krueger)
• Removing OS Files Through a Stored Procedure (Kim Tessereau)
• Multiple Server Query Execution – Management Studio (Vishal)
• Which Database Is Right for Me? (Jeremiah Peschka)

Miscellaneous

• Installing a Fresh Windows OS to a New Bootable VHD with no Host OS for Boot to VHD (John Papa)
• Programming and Age (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows Phone 7 App Pick: Tasks At Last (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 6, 2011 and Interesting Finds: May 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Distributed Weekly 101 (Scott Banwart)
• Weekly Links– 2010_17 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2011 — #1085 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action by Wictor Wilen

• Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.10425 and Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.1.10425 (Experimental Release) (MS Downloads)
• Signature Series 40% off until May 15 (Martin Fowler)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 6: How to implement Overlay Icons (Jennifer Marsman)
• Dynamic Types to Simplify Property Change Notification in Silverlight 4 and 5 (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF Extensibility – IParameterInspector (Carlos Figueira)
• WCF 4.0 Features: Part #1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: ElementAt() and Last() (James Michael Hare)
• TFS – Fail a build when the warning count increases (Peter Gfader)
• Calling Roles.GetRolesForUser in a WCF service (Rockford Lhotka)
• Planning Mogade v2 (Karl Seguin)
• Table Compares Windows Azure Developer Offerings (Bruce Kyle)
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – April Update (Windows Azure Team)

Web Development

• Introduction to ASP.NET MVC 3 (ambilykk)
• Getting Started with Script# (Nikhil Kothari)
• Single Action Controllers with ASP.Net MVC (Derek Greer)
• How To Scroll To Validation Summary ? (Abhijit Jana)
• All you want to know about Web Storage (Giorgio Sironi)
• Modules and namespaces in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Fun With WebMatrix Helpers in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Steve Lydford)
• Walking Through the Orchard Part 2 – Conversion from Graffiti (John Papa)
• Recovering the admin password in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• JavaScript Events (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Long Feedback Loops (Patrick Kua)
• Reactive Extensibility of Lokad.CQRS App Engine (Rinat Abdullin)
• When to Use White Text on a Dark Background (Anthony T.)
• Performance from Day 1 (Paul Stovell)
• Agile or Scrum? (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Comparing the MVC and MVVM patterns along with their respective ViewModels. (Rachel Appel)
• Using Perspective Transforms inside ListBox ItemTemplate and WP7 Master – Detail Navigation with Repository Pattern (Windows Phone Geek)
• Loading data during WP7 Page navigation – the slow, the fast and the incremental (Andreas Hammar)
• Tooling in Mango and What’s Coming In Mango–Reminders (Jesse Liberty)
• XNA for Windows Phone 7: a 3-day Online Training Course (Svetla Stoycheva)
• The Case of the Confused ComboBox – A WPF/MVVM Bedtime Story (James Kovacs)
• The science behind the Windows Phone keyboard (Michael Stroh)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• End User Adoption of SharePoint 2010-Episode 59 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• jQuery Podcast 42 – jQuery Mobile Keynote (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Silverlight TV 70: Sockets Unplugged (John Papa)
• Windows Phone Radio 25 (Brian Seitz)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Rasesh Shah Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• Free “State of .NET” Events! (Chris Koenig)
• Dream.Build.Play Developer Twitter Chat on May 11 (XNA Team)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Feature Pack CTP Bring New Features and Tools (Abel Avram)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets (Pinal Dave)
• How to determine the current SSIS runtime environment (sognibene)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 3 – Server Configuration – Model Database (Ted Krueger)
• SQL University: SQL Azure & PowerShell (Grant Fritchey)
• Better Living Through Caching (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Daily Denali Delight – Day 6 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)

SharePoint

• Incrementing the feature version through MSBuild (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Bliki: CrossPlatformMobile (Martin Fowler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 04.20 ~ 04.29 (yuanjian)
• Daily News Digest 04/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 27-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 28th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server DMVs in Action: Better Queries with Dynamic Management Views by Ian W. Stirk

• Introducing the Kinect WPF Toolkit (András Velvárt)
• How to Capture User Signatures on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Crawling the Windows Phone Marketplace (Brandon Watson)
• When Should a Method Be a Property? (Rob Conery)
• async Samples 6: Declaring async methods (Bill Wagner)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to update “Run only specified windows applications” GPO programmatically (VBScript) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• Trigger-Start Services Recipe (Yochay Kiriaty)
• New Training for Visual Studio 2010 and Notepad for Workitems: how to programmatically create workitems in Visual Basic for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• A Guide to Sandcastle – Part 3 – Customizing the build process [Help File] (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Implementing the virtual method pattern in C#, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
• Cloud Sync/Backup your Visual Studio settings with Pepper (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ToLookup() LINQ Extension Method (James Michael Hare)
• Improving CLRProfiler 3: Double the speed of profile loading (Feng Yuan)
• A Friendly DateTime Formatter (Jonathan Wood)

Web Development

• Getting Your Feet Wet with HTML 5 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Throwing Stars – a new HTML5 game (Adam Kinney)
• Want to work on datajs? (Phil Haack)
• IE9 and Network Capture for Diagnostics (Mike Taulty)
• IE9’s Document Modes and JavaScript (Gaurav Seth & Paul Chapman)
• Basic JavaScript Part 12: Function Hoisting (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Using jQuery UI DatePicker in an ASP.NET Application. (Joe Stagner)
• HTML 5 and CSS 3 Support for Expression Web (Jonathan Allen)
• Using Translation Services within ASP.NET MVC 3 and jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Web Workers, for a responsive JavaScript application (Giorgio Sironi)
• Windows Azure and scaling: how? (PHP) (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Write clearer Unit Tests (Gian Maria Ricci)
• 3 Scrum Types – Your Flavor of Scrum? and Kanban Elevator Pitch – Help Craft It (Peter Saddington)
• Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part III: Moving away from Scrum (Stephen Forte)
• Bus and Broker Pub/Sub Differences (Udi Dahan)
• The Essential Product Cookbook–The First Ingredient (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Designing a Short Course on IoC: Day 4 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Sharing An IE Instance Among Multiple Tests With WatiN And MS Test (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone: Touch (Jesse Liberty)
• Creating WP7 Custom Theme – Complex Theme (Windows Phone Geek)
• Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application (Part 1) (Michael Crump)
• Phone Tools v0.6 Released – Breaking Change! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Free “no code” WP7 App Dev and also Marketplace registration from AppMakr and Microsoft (limited time) (Think “App’ify your RSS feed in just a few clicks, with a good number of customization options too”) (Greg Duncan)
• Clean Design-Time Friendly ViewModels: A Walkthrough (Jeremy Likness)
• Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A Batch File for Closing Zune and Launching the WPConnect Tool (Daniel Vaughan)
• Getting Total Memory on Win7 Mobile Devices (Mike Snow)
• Designing hubs, being creative. (Alfred Astort)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Inside Entity Framework 4.1 CodeFirst with Jeff Derstadt and Tim Laverty (Scott Hanselman)
• geekSpeak: Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (MS Podcasts)
• Herding Code 108: Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Web Design (Jon Galloway)
• Webcast: Brief introduction to Windows Identity Foundation (Gunnar Peipman)
• Let’s Play TDD #97: Where the Rubber Meets the Road (James Shore)
• Silverlight TV 67: Bill Buxton Talks about Speed Dating at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Cloud Plumbing: Brian Noyes Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Defrag 002: Gov’s Probs, Media Center, Dropped WiFi (Larry Larsen)
• The Office Show – Finances (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• Innovate both technology and your own career at Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Trigger Started Services on Windows 7 (John Bristowe)
• Blend SIG Podcast: February 2011: Adam Kinney and March 2011: Frank LaVigne (Joel Cochran)
• endpoint.tv – AppFabric WCF HTTP Template (Ron Jacobs)
• Community Megaphone Show #26 FoxPro Reunion (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• Job Opportunities (Cameron Skinner)
• Webinar: Amplify JavaScript Library with Scott González (Elijah Manor)
• Come Demo your Cool Robotics, Microcontroller, or other Hardware Hacking at MADExpo (Pete Brown)
• IE is MIXing it up in Vegas! (Ziad Ismail)
• Russian GM speaks at MVP Organized MCP Meeting (Lonnie Webb)

Database

• PostgreSQL Row Storage Fundamentals (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Looking at the RavenDB structure (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Roundup (Avi Kaye)
• DeliverPoint versus well known Sharepoint administration tools (Lightning Tools)
• Microsoft: We’re adding 20,000 new SharePoint users a day (Mary Jo Foley)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit (MS Downloads)
• 20 percent time spent coding in the clouds (Dave Burke)
• Comparison: Xcode 3 vs. Xcode 4 (Austin Ritchie)
• Manifesto Manifesto: a recipe for manifestae (Cory Doctorow)
• Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop (Dirk Metzmacher)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 24th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Show: Daily News Digest 03/25/2011 (Svetla Stoycheva)
• The Morning Brew #820 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2011 — #1064 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Coding4fun: 10 .Net Programming Projects for Wiimote, Youtube, World of Warcraft, and More