• 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

• The State of NuGet (Phil Haack)
• Windows Phone Marketplace Requests (Scott Dorman)
• Microsoft to launch Windows 8 Consumer Preview at MWC (Mary Jo Foley)
• Stack Exchange Keyboard Shortcuts (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–Proposed Solution #2–Cohesion (Oren Eini)
• TFS 2010 Grant Backup Plan Permissions Error (Bob Hardister)
• YaWhiteBoard – A Simple Whiteboard using C# (Rahul Rajat Singh)
• A new Gadgeteer blog – VB Magic (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Solve ‘Complex Data Restructuring’ Using the ‘List’ Operations in the Service Bus EAI/EDI Mapper (Ravi Bollapragada)
• The path-searching algorithm is not a backtracking algorithm (Raymond Chen)
• datatemplateselector winrt (babaandthepigman)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: AboditNLP (Jason Jarrett)
• Book review: Working with NHibernate 3.0 (Jef Claes)
• Using Fluent NHibernate for XML-Free Class Mapping (Joydip Kanjilal)

Web Development

• WebDev Playground: dabblet.com for HTML/CSS, jsfiddler.com for JS & HUrl.it for REST (Code Inside Team)
• jQuery Tip #2: Manipulating the DOM in a Loop (Dan Wahlin)
• Lighter Configuration Files and Better ASP.NET Support with WCF 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)
• The Decorator pattern, or its cousin, in JavaScript (Giorgio Sironi)
• Emerging Trends in Ruby on Rails Development in 2012 (Mich de Castro)
• SignalR : Best thing since slice bread? (Sacha Barber)
• Vendor Prefixes – about to go south (Remy Sharp)
• Book Giveaway: The Book of Ruby (Louis Lazaris)
• NEW! Wiki launched for Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure (Michele Hart)
• Getting Started with KendoUI and OpenAccess ORM (Joshua Holt)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• At a Single Glance – Interpreting and Acting Upon Agile Project Metrics (Joel Semeniuk)
• Test View Issue: An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame (Charles Sterling)
• Finding Out When Something Happened in Your Git Repo (Christopher Bennage)
• Avoiding Prescriptive Requirements (Jak Charlton)
• [Email] – Short Projects and Estimating Velocity (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #6 Layout (Windows Phone Geek)
• Treadmill Assistant Windows Phone 7 App Released (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #491 – Displaying a Hyperlink (Sean Sexton)
• APress Deal of the Day – 9/Feb/2012 – Introducing Silverlight 4 (Tatworth)
• Using RadDiagnostics for WP7 to receive error reports anonymously (Valentin Stoychev)
• Part 2: Developing for a multitude of clients: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check (Kevin Dockx)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen is Back on His SOPA Box (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 013 – 02.08.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Boagworld: Don’t limit your options when wireframing (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 104: The Future Of Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Computing: Start Smart – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows 7.5 Video: Fast Application Switching (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Visual Studio Live! – Las Vegas (Brian Peek)
• Professional Scrum.ORG courses being offered in China, India and Philippines (Charles Sterling)
• Win a free pass for Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas in SilverlightShow Contest (Silverlight Show)
• WPUG Talk: Developing cross-platform mobile applications with PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7 (Colin Eberhardt)
• Register for Telerik Webinars (Stephen Forte)
• A Coder Interview With Dave Ward (The Code Project)
• Philadelphia Star Trek Meetup: Sunday @ Hive 76 (Mikey Il)
• Free DevExpress Day – 25th February 2012 – Bad Ems, Germany (Oliver Sturm)
• Azure Update On February 15, 2012 @ NYC Windows Azure User Group (Peter Laudati)
• MADExpo Family Fun Feature #1 (Kevin Griffin)
• OSS Rules of Engagement (Jimmy Bogard)
• Isolating Code: A Quick Intro to Typemock Isolator (Avi Kaye)
• FREE Webcasts: Temptations That Lead to the 5 Deadly Sins of SharePoint #in the Enterprise and FREE Feb 9 Webcast: The State of Enterprise Social w/ SharePoint #spsocial #mspartner (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Upcoming Webinar – The iPad Invasion: Leveraging SharePoint for Mobile Enterprise Security (Joel Oleson)

Database

• It’s Hard To Be "Average": Mean, Median, and Mode in SQL Server (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – INNER JOIN Returning More Records than Exists in Table (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Is it better to have coding experience in the US or abroad? (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Is AppStore bad for gaming business? (Scott Barnes)
• Bliki: PresentationSmells (Martin Fowler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 9, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 02.01 ~ 02.08 (yuanjian)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 087 for 2/9/2012 and Maker Geek Roundup 007 for 2/8/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #814 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1040 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 2/9/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-08 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 08 – #0038 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Everything You Know about CSS Is Wrong! by Rachel Andrew

• Modern Web Development – Part 4 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The 5 best books on Innovation EVER (Scott Berkun)
• Improving power efficiency for applications (Steven Sinofsky)
• Modernizr 2.5: Supercharged for 2012 (Modernizr Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Send me a patch for that and Limiting your abstractions: Reflections on the Interface Segregation Principle (Oren Eini)
• IntelliTrace Moves Beyond Development in Visual Studio 11 (Mickey Gousset)
• A Simple implementation of the Proxy Design Pattern using C# (Asif Maniar)
• C# Needs Seqs (Chris Eargle)
• Facebook C# SDK Road Map (Nathan Totten)
• Creating a dynamic, extensible C# Expando Object (Rick Strahl)
• APress Deal of the Day – 8/Feb/2012 – Visual C# 2010 Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach (Tatworth)
• GIT-TFS Instruction: Add Directory to Your Path? (Cori Drew)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Northwind.Db (Jason Jarrett)
• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework 2012 January Sample Updates (Jialiang)
• Windows 8 Secrets: WinRT, the Windows Runtime (Paul Thurrott)

Web Development

• ASP.NET: Empowering Your Master Pages (Peter Vogel)
• A better way to view images in RadFileExplorer for ASP.NET AJAX – thumbnail view comes in Q1 2012 (Stoyan Stratev)
• Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role (Brian Swan)
• Rewriting My ‘Guaranteed Callbacks’ Code With jQuery Deferred (Derick Bailey)
• jQuery Tip #1 – Defining a Context When Using Selectors (Dan Wahlin)
• Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role (Eric Nelson)
• High performance HTML5 content in Metro-style Apps (Andy Zeigler)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Convert Procedural Design to Objects (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using the Battery API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0.2 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Backbone.js And PhoneGap Sample App (Ben Forta)
• It’s Curtains for Marital Strife Thanks to getUserMedia (Bruce Lawson)
• Application Lifecycle Management Overview for Windows Azure (Buck Woody)
• Regular Expressions in CoffeeScript are Awesome (Elijah Manor)
• Google+ developers page launched, is an API on the way? (Jamie Keene)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Proof of Unit Testing’s Time Savings (Keith Ward)
• Visual Studio Unit Testing Extensions v1.2.0.0 (Jeremiah Clark)
• The efficiency of Self-Organizing Teams (Bill Wagner)
• Kiss The Ring… (Rob Conery)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Capture Picture from Camera and Save in Media Library in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7 – Scott Hanselman’s A to Z resources (Lohith) – A nice round-up of links from Scott’s post on his WP7 app.
• Creating Big Silverlight Windows and Getting Monitor Resolutions and Positions with PInvoke (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #490 – Using the InkCanvas to Recognize Gestures, part II (Sean Sexton)
• Introducing Rate Application Reminder for Windows Phone and Implementing Trial Functionality for Windows Phone applications (Valentin Stoychev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Eric Sink Distributes His Source (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #132: Thomas Hessler, UFOStart.com (Bob Walsh)
• Let’s Play TDD #162: Wishing for Double Dispatch (James Shore)
• SE Radio becomes part of IEEE Software (SE-Radio Team)
• Engadget HD Podcast 285 – 02.07.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Boagworld – When it comes to colour, test (Paul Boag)
• Hot Apps: Krashlander, NFL Pro ’12, MixTapes, Weave, Network Dashboard (Laura Foy)
• Going Native 2012 sessions available for download and streaming (Michael B. McLaughlin)

Community / Events

• C-Sharpen Up (Dani Diaz)
• Meet Abdul Rafay – BizTalk Server MVP from Qatar (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Talking Cloud with SharePoint Server MVP Patrick Yong (MVP Award Program)
• SQLBits now publishing all SQLBits agendas as an iCalendar (Jamie Thomson)
• Azure Soup-to-Nuts Series (Jim O’Neil)
• IndyHall Hosting IDGA Philly Demo Session This Saturday to Show Off Global Game Jam Results (Joe Ross)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Convert Subquery to CTE – SQL in Sixty Seconds #001 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server and xp_cmdshell – The good, the bad and more ugly (Ted Krueger)
• The Minimalist Guide to Database Administration (Thomas LaRock)
• Check progress of DBCC CHECKDB (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Survey: memory configuration (Paul S. Randal)
• How to Test Your Backup Strategy: Five Simple Questions (Kendra Little)

Miscellaneous

• OneNote for Android released: features SkyDrive integration (Kip Kniskern)
• New in 3.0: More ‘Surround With’ actions for PHP (Nikolay Matveev)
• Microspeak: fit (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 8, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 02.01 ~ 02.08 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 7, 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #1039 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-07 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 07, 2012 – #0037 and SilverlightShowTop 5 News for January 30 – February 5, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 7 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #813 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• 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

• 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

• Windows Phone 8 Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Setting Up Git on Windows in Four Easy Steps (Adam Feber)
• A Handy Script For Compiling CoffeeScript On The Fly (Rob Conery)
• Clean Up NuGet Dependencies With Chewie (Ian Davis)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–the wrong way (Oren Eini)
• Retrieve and Update YouTube Content in C# (Amir Ahani)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Reporting & Process (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Visual Expression Builder for Dynamic Linq (Rabb Moshe Plotkin)
• 30+ Useful Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts (Rajiv Nishtala)
• How the Visual Studio ALM Rangers use Team Foundation Service to Get Ready for Visual Studio 11 (Willy-Peter Schaub)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Burro (Jason Jarrett)
• Naming Conventions in JustCode (JustCode Team)
• Reviewing 70-562 .NET Framework 3.5 Preparation Kit from uCertify (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0-Intellisense Improvements (Blake Niemyjski)
• Rx – DistinctUntilChanged (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

• Node.js, Require and Exports (Karl Seguin)
• The Telerik Q1 2012 MVC Beta is here with new Area chart and galore of charting features (Stefan Rahnev)
• HTML5 and the Web Audio API are BFFs! (Eric Bidelman)
• CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)
• Inside the CSS WG: A New Reality Series (Molly E. Holzschlag)
• HTML5 Media Queries, Tablet Verses Phone, Anything but Intuitive (Peter Kellner)
• Creating a Vertical CSS List Menu (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers (Swizec)
• Umbraco v5 released (The "OMG, it’s really fast now" version) (Greg Duncan)
• Using PHP to Add Content to Plain Text (Scott Eiler)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An introduction to Agile development with Team Foundation Server: But I’m not a .NET developer (Giles Davies)
• The Science of Kanban – Conclusions (Karl Scotland)
• Article: Your Brain on Scrum (Michael de la Maza)
• Mark Twain on Agile – He Knew What Was Up (Peter Saddington)
• Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests (Piotr Solnica)
• Talking to Customers: What a Concept (Patrick Foley)
• How To: Get all test points assigned to you? (Gautam Goenka)
• A Few Thoughts on the Economics of Software Product Development (Mike Cottmeyer)
• When you are looking for more information, it helps to say what you need the information for (Raymond Chen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Daddy, tell me a story of how VB, WP7, Azure and my photos can be combined in the cloud to create a video story… (Greg Duncan)
• Using Skydrive in your Windows Phone applications: part2 (Rabeb Othmani)
• 2000 WPF Things #487 – Specify DrawingAttributes When Drawing to an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
• How to Databind SelectedItems of the ListPicker and RecurringDaysPicker (Andy Wigley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 053 – “5.9″, QUAD CORE, NFC, 3D, LTE, 128GB Windows Phone” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Let’s Play TDD #161: The UserEnteredDollars Value Object (James Shore)
• Inside Windows Phone #31 | Windows Phone Partners (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere & Larry Lieberman)
• Slides, Notes and Recordings for Week 1 and 2 of #6weeksazure are all now available (Eric Nelson)

Community / Events

• MADExpo 2012 Call for Speakers is Open! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Meet Bill Wagner – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• I’m presenting at the International SharePoint Conference in London April 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• Listen to Your Community, But Don’t Let Them Tell You What to Do (Jeff Atwood)
• Sharpen your Ninja Skills with Telerik Webinars from Feb20 – Feb 22 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Database

• SQL Server – COPY TABLE from another SQL Server (Jack Vamvas)
• Learn about the new SQL Server Data Tools from the original DataDude (Richard Erwin)
• SQL Server NOLOCK (Tom Stickel)
• Don’t Splint Your Database Server To Death (Mike Walsh)
• Sniff that Parameter (Chris Yates)
• Ready for SQL Azure? New Service Tells You (David Ramel)
• Quick Review of Backup tools for SQL Azure (Herve Roggero)

SharePoint

• So it begins… SharePoint 15 & Office 15 Wave of Products – Happy Days (Joel Oleson)
• Using Twilio with SharePoint to send SMS messages (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 consumer preview (Beta) installation screenshots leaked (Ankur Mittal)
• The GeekDad Arduino Guide: Introduction (Brian McLaughlin)
• Microsoft, Apple, and Google: where does the money come from? (Ed Bott)
• I’m from the Cloud and I’m here to help… No really, trust me… Looking at Microsoft Codename "Trust Services" (Greg Duncan)
• New Social APIs in Android ICS (Tim Bray)
• Dear business people, an iOS app actually takes a lot of work! (Kent Nguyen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 2 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #810 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/3/2012 and Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for January, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1036 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-02 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 02, 2012 – #0035 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2012 (Beth Massi)

The Geek Shelf

Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus by Juval Lowy

• Learn jQuery in 30 Days (Jeffrey Way)
• [Special Edition] It’s Kinect day! The Kinect For Windows SDK v1 is out! (Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Installing and Using the Kinect Sensor and Setting up your Development Environment (Dan Fernandez)
• Caliburn Micro Part 4: The Event Aggregator (Jason)
• Consuming “Data Explorer” published data feeds in Visual Studio primer (Data Explorer Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Building Help Files with Sandcastle (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Architecture (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why doesn’t C# support lambdas for properties? (Nathan Evans)
• Dynamic Types and DynamicObject References in C# (Rick Strahl)
• Hands-On Labs for Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure (MS Downloads)
• Announcing Application Building Blocks for Metro applications (Valentin Stoychev)
• Windows 8 Touch Events Interactions (Charles Petzold)
• Kinect Service (Brian Peek)
• Bones, I’m just a Skeleton… A the full skeleton tutorial (Greg Duncan)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Chronic (Jason Jarrett)
• Insert Dynamic Images in Infragistics Reporting (Tom Puglisi)
• NHibernate Metadata (Ricardo Peres)
• Windows Workflow Foundation 4.5 Adds Versioning, Designer Improvements (Jenni Konrad)
• 30+ Useful Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts (Rajiv Nishtala)
• Kinect Toolbot 1.1.1.0 and Coding4Fun Kinect Toolkit 1.5 and Callisto 2.0.15 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• 5 Minutes with Data Binding and JavaScript using Knockout and JsViews (John Papa)
• JavaScript File & Folder Structures: Just Pick One (Derick Bailey)
• Star Ratings With Very Little CSS (Chris Coyier)
• On the Viability of HTML5 Games (Dave Mahon)
• Client-side Messaging in JavaScript – Part 2 (Postal.js) (Jim Cowart)
• Binding jQuery Grid to Remote Data using JSONP (jqwidgets)
• Book Review–HTML5 Cookbook (Lori Lalonde)
• How to create animated tooltips with CSS3 (Manoela Ilic)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Delegation with Inheritance (Giorgio Sironi)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Node for Front-End Developers – $3.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• * { box-sizing: border-box } FTW (Paul Irish)
• Get Started with Node.js + Windows Azure: Resources (Peter Laudati)
• Backbone.js by Example – Part 1 (Chaker Nakhli)
• Say hello to Bootstrap 2.0 (Mark Otto)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• New Tools in My TDD Arsenal (Alexander Beletsky)
• An introduction to Agile development with Team Foundation Server: TFS Support for Agile practices (Giles Davies)
• Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master (Johanna Rothman)
• The Science of Kanban – Economics (Karl Scotland)
• Limit your abstractions: Analyzing a DDD application (Oren Eini)
• The One Button Mystique (Jeff Atwood)
• Ability to Execute (JD Meier)
• Improving the Git Windows experience: Downloads (Jimmy Bogard)
• Architectural Principle – Focus on Simplicity (Rinat Abdullin)
• Article: Your Brain on Scrum (Michael de la Maza)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• wp7 Collectionviewsource filtering (babaandthepigman)
• MVVMLight Using Two Views (Barry Lapthorn)
• Windows Phone Design Guidelines on MSDN (Cheryl Simmons)
• Caliburn.Micro v1.3.1 and SliderPanel for WPF v2 (CodePlex)
• Missing Background Image on Panorama Control breaks ContextMenu and Causes Performance Issues in Windows Phone Applications (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #486 – InkCanvas Supports Different Editing Modes (Sean Sexton)
• Expression Design: Ellipse, Clone the Ellipse, Cut a Path using the ellipse (Surf4Fun)
• Behavior to force TextBox model update to prevent trouble with the ApplicationBar (Joost van Schaik)
• XAMLflix continues with RadBarCode for Silverlight and WPF (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Rob Labbe Gets Us Rolling on the Security Development Lifecycle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Deploying LightSwitch Applications to Windows Azure (Zhiming Xue)
• New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to make Sliding Panels all in Blend (Silverlight Show)
• Cloud Computing: Start Smart – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• What The Tech 103: You’re Not Steve Jobs (Paul Thurrott)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 012 – 02.01.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• New contest announced: “30 to Launch” Your Path to a Windows Phone App in 30 days (Dave Isbitski)
• February 9, 2012 Meeting – Asynchronous Programming (Philly alt.net)
• Meet Bill Wagner – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• These 20 tweeters just got cured of their #DroidRage (Ben Rudolph)
• Nothin’ But .NET Baby! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Register for Q1 Release Webinar by Telerik – Sharpen your .Net Ninja Skills (Kunal Chowdhury)

Database

• SQL SERVER – An Inspiring Personal Story – Movie from The Book – Video Course – SQL Server Questions and Answers – Pluralsight (Pinal Dave)
• Your Road to Becoming a DBA: Acquiring Experience is Key (John Sansom)
• Need to create a time dimension down to the millisecond? (James Serra)

SharePoint

• Using Autofac in SharePoint 2010 (Matt Cowan)

Miscellaneous

• The GeekDad Arduino Guide: Introduction (Brian McLaughlin)
• How “Metro” will Office 15 for Windows 8 be? (damaster)
• The Web is the new Terminal: Are you using the Web’s Keyboard Shortcuts and Hotkeys? (Scott Hanselman)
• An introduction to the R language (Giorgio Sironi)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 2, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 1 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #809 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Monthly Report January 2012: Total Posts 31 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 2/2/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1035 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-01 (Bob Rhubart)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #7 (Devon Govett)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 23-29, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 Cookbook by Andrew Zhu

• Kinect for Windows is now Available! (Craig Eisler)
• One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell (Scott Hanselman)
• jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Learn jQuery in 30 Days (Jeffrey Way)
• Debugger Canvas 1.1 Released (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 UML Design Pattern Toolbox Items Extension (Giles Davies)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Face Recognation in C# (Amir Ahani)
• Dynamic Types and DynamicObject References in C# (Rick Strahl)
• Kinect for Windows – Code Migration from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) and Kinect for Windows – Details of API Changes from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) and Kinect for Windows Support Info Coming Soon (Rob Relyea)
• How to access a WCF Service behind ISA Server 2006 Forms Based Authentication (Stacy Vicknair)
• Enhancements to /GS in Visual Studio 11 (vcblog)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.9.3.4 Beta 2 (VS2010 Support) (Codeplex)
• Simplify Your Projections with AutoMapper (Patrick Steele)
• StyleCop 4.7.7.0 released (TATWORTH)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Enum Metadata Library (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Using jQuery Deferred To Chain Validation Rules In An Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Environment (Ben Nadel)
• 2 Great JavaScript Data-Binding Libraries (John Papa)
• Creating the Perfect ASP.NET UI with Web Parts and User Controls (Peter Vogel)
• On the Viability of HTML5 Games (Dave Mahon)
• How to create animated tooltips with CSS3 (Mary Lou)
• ASP.net MVC Awesome – jQuery Ajax Helpers 2.0 and ProDinner – ASP.NET MVC Sample (EF4, N-Tier, jQuery) – Release Seven (CodePlex)
• An Ultimate HTML5 Cheat Sheet for Developers (Amit)
• My five favorite "hidden" features in Rails 3.2 (José Valim)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 4 – Transformations (G. Andrew Duthie)
• psd.js: You Guessed It – A Photoshop Document Parser in CoffeeScript (Devon Govett)
• Authenticating & Working with the Salesforce REST API & OAuth (Andrew Connell)
• Why External Links Should Open in New Tabs (Anthony)
• Handling two known issues with Windows Azure node.js SDK 0.5.2 (Avkash Chauhan)
• Firebug 1.9.1 (Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko)
• Web Sites and a Plug-in Free Web (John Hrvatin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – Process (Karl Scotland)
• Hand Drawn UI Kit (Vladimir Carrer)
• The Open Group Releases ArchiMate 2.0 (Mike Walker)
• The top mistakes UX designers make: the writeup (Scott Berkun)
• Guidelines on improving performance of Coded UI Test playback (Tapas)
• Cleaning Out Git Remotes The Easy Way (Derick Bailey)
• Software engineering—what’s missing? (Eric Brechner)
• Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App (Julie Stanford)
• [Review] – Mike Cohn’s eLearning Agile Videos (Peter Saddington)
• Assert the order of expected calls over instances (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Resources (Dani Diaz)
• Code to send game invite to multiple user in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Displaying static maps on the Windows Phone for performance and scenario wins (Jeff Wilcox)
• Codeproject Windows Phone Application (Lakamraju Raghuram)
• Windows Phone Labyrinth (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• Event Handler Memory Leaks, Unwiring Events, and the WeakEventManager in WPF 4.5 (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #485 – Binding a ComboBox to an Enumerated Type’s List of Values (Sean Sexton)
• Top 10 Mango Features Article (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Memory Profiling for Application Performance (Pratap Lakshman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 81: Looking at the Next .NET Compilers AKA “Roslyn” Project (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 174 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Graeber using PowerShell in Infosec (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• HTML5 WebCamp Training VIDEO Available (Doris Chen)
• Let’s Play TDD #160: End of Week 1 (James Shore)
• The JavaScript Show – Backbone.js 0.9.0 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Yet Another Podcast #58–Julie Lerman and EF/CF (Jesse Liberty)
• The GeekDads Episode #108: Aliens on Broadway (Ken Denmead)
• Engadget HD Podcast 284 – 01.31.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Talking Cloud with ASP.NET/IIS MVP Eduardo Zabat Lorenzo (MVP Award Program)
• Agile .NET Conference in Dallas this month (Caleb Jenkins)
• Join the Conversation with Bill (The Gates Notes)
• Join Me for Lunch in Chicago on March 23rd (Brent Ozar)
• Call for Sessions for PowerShell Deep Dive 2012 – San Diego, CA – April 29 – May 2 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• February Technical Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
• February Meeting Announcement (Don Burnett)
• Windows Azure + Node.js at NY Alt.NET (Peter Laudati)

Database

• "Introducing SQL Server 2012" second draft of free eBook now available (6 of the 10 final chapters) (Greg Duncan)
• SQL Server – Send email using Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
• 6 ways to get free SQL Server 2012 Training (John Sterrett)
• SQL SERVER – What is Slowly Changing Dimension – Quiz – Puzzle – 31 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Embracing RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Your Road to Becoming a DBA: Laying a Strong Foundation (John Sansom)

SharePoint

• Mobile SharePoint: Infragistics Acquires SouthLabs for End-to-End iPad, Android & Blackberry SharePoint Experience (Jason Beres)

PowerShell

• Prompts and Directories – Even Better Git (and Mercurial) with PowerShell (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Announces 20th Anniversary of Microsoft Certifications (MS PressPass)
• The Microsoft Interview Process (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Using the Group Project Toolkit, Office Web Apps and SkyDrive to take some of the coordination nightmare out of group projects… (Greg Duncan)
• Great time to be a developer (Joshua Flanagan)
• Software Security Weekly (Mark Curphey)
• Microsoft’s Office 15: To Metro or not to Metro? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Tekpub Update: January 2012 (Rob Conery)
• Skype for Windows Phone app to begin beta testing soon, release imminent (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 01.20 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
• Monthly Summary – January 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Double Shot #808 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1034 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 2/1/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for January 31, 2012 – #0034 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 31 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK by Jarrett Webb

• Modern Web Development – Part 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Acting on file management feedback (Steven Sinofsky)
• Anonymous Types Unify Within An Assembly, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Currying vs partial function application (Jon Skeet)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating a Useful Task List in Visual Studio (Peter Vogel)
• Ask Ayende: What about the QA env? (Oren Eini)
• Roslyn CTP Introduces Interactive Code for C# (Visual C# Team)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Code Management & Build and Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Microsoft Test Manager (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Building a Windows 8 Metro App, Part 2 (Eric Vogel)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 7 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• Entity Framework Membership Provider 2.0 (CodePlex)
• Metro Snack #2: What is WinRT? (Brent Schooley)
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 3, C++/CLI and Other Options and Analysis of a Mobile Redirection Framework and Obfuscated Regular Expressions (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Installing Mono on Windows (Paul Stack)
• What Code Comments are Not For. (Peter Ritchie)
• Entity Framework vs. LightSpeed (John-Daniel Trask)
• How to force Nuget not to update log4net to 1.2.11 (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The .NET Gadgeteer Diaper Alarm Part 1 (Moisture Sensor) (Pete Brown)
• More on the New OData T4 Template: Service Operations (Glenn Gailey)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: VerifyArgs (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• How to Access jQuery’s Internal Data (Elijah Manor)
• Translating JavaScript to Dart (Aaron Wheeler & Marcin Wichary)
• ASP.NET MVC DropDownList, MultiSelect and jQuery (Rick Anderson)
• Tag Cloud in ASP.NET MVC using Clickable HTML 5 Canvas Elements (Sumit Maitra)
• Trying out Underscore on Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
• jsfiddle Keyboard Shortcuts (Ryan Sukale)
• Scalable web apps: the complexity issue (Ariya Hidayat)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – People (Karl Scotland)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Designing Mobile Interfaces – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Code reviews in the 21st Century (Alex Staveley)
• QA: A Hillbilly Love Story (Kyle Baley)
• Getting started with a Mocking Framework (Filip Ekberg)
• Finding Files by Name With Git (Christopher Bennage)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Getting latest Tweets in Windows Phone apps using Twitter REST API and JSON.NET (Windows Phone Geek)
• MarketPlaceSearchTask in Windows Phone and WebBrowserTask and MediaPlayerLauncher in Windows Phone and Code to search location on Bing Map and Launchers related to MarketPlace in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 2: The Windows Runtime (WinRT) (Gill Cleeren)
• Refactoring Windows 8 Code-Behind to MVVM (Joe Mayo)
• Microsoft delivers developer kit for linking Amazon web services to Windows Phone (Mary Jo Foley)
• Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications (Michael Crump)
• HTML5 on Windows Phone: A Simple Boilerplate (Rob Tiffany)
• 2000 WPF Things #484 – InkCanvas Contains a Collection of Strokes (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jeremy Likness is all Silverlight 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ping 130: Xbox LIVE for Droids and iPhones, Where’s MIX, Microsoft points, SQL Server Party (Laura Foy)
• Boagworld: Tips for getting design signoff (Paul Boag)
• Quick news: Free Step by Step videos (Kim Spilker)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 30th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Part 2 of the Webinar ‘Metro and WinRT for Silverlight/WPF’ scheduled for Feb 9th (Silverlight Show)
• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16, 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows 8 Metro style app recap (Tony Verguldi Jr.)
• Android Developers on Google+ (Tim Bray)
• NYC’s Own Chevon Christie Named ‘Microsoft Tech Student of the Month’ (Peter Laudati)
• 3 Reasons to Attend Prairie Dev Con–West (D’Arcy Lussier)

Database

• SQL server – ISNUMERIC and checking for valid numeric tyopes (Jack Vamvas)
• Complex reporting off a SSAS cube (James Serra)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Merge Replication hotfixes (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Advantages of Partitioning – Quiz – Puzzle – 30 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Compact data and schema script utility – Version 3.5.2 (CodePlex)
• Crunching Big Data with “Data Explorer” and “Social Analytics” (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model Software Development Kit and Upgrade worksheet for SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)

PowerShell

• Invalid JSON results via Powershell 3 (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)

Miscellaneous

• Looking ahead to Windows 8: five big questions for Microsoft (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft Office 15 technical preview kicks off (Mary Jo Foley)
• Keeping Your Documents Safe (Debra Littlejohn Shinder)
• MIT brings Google App Inventor Back As Open-Source Project (Phillip Torrone)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #807 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 30 Jan 2012 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1033 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-30 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 30 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #4) (Himanshu Singh)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 23-29, 2012 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s Hard Code (Best Practices) by Eric Brechner

• From Concept to Code in 6 hours: Shipping my first Windows Phone App (Scott Hanselman)
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #5 Choosing between Panoramas, Pivots and/or Pages. (Arturo Toledo)
• Something’s Missing from the WebBrowser Control (Peter Kuhn)
• Testing a jQuery Plugin with ExpectThat and Mocha (Daniel Mohl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Bug Hunt: What made this blog slow? (Oren Eini)
• Enabling SSL for a WCF Service (Christophe Geers)
• Log4Net basics with a Console Application (c#) (Mark Pearl)
• Windows Phone 7 – Location Service and Bing Maps (Shai Raiten)
• Hazards of Converting Binary Data To A String (Phil Haack)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Guard (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Hidden Gems of HTML5: classList (Chris Heilmann)
• Find the jQuery Bug #3: Give Me Truth (Elijah Manor)
• Vimeo API in ASP.NET using C# (Fazlur Rahman)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Inheritance with Delegation (Giorgio Sironi)
• Page Transitions with CSS3 (Sergio Camalich)
• Customizing your Hadoop cluster running on your own Windows Azure Subscription (Avkash Chauhan)
• Backbone JS – Hello World tutorial (Veera Sundar)
• Naming via Class, ID, and Name (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Writing ASP.NET MVC bootstrapper with Autobox (Mehfuz Hossain)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – Introduction (Karl Scotland)
• 05. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – No Double, Triple Testing and 06. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – PBI Implementation Sequence (Clemens Reijnen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone apps, built out of “the 3 P’s”: Panoramas, Pivots, and Pages (Jeff Wilcox)
• GTasks Plus v1.0 – Open Source Windows Phone 7 Application (Max)
• 2000 WPF Things #483 – InkCanvas MinHeight and MinWidth (Sean Sexton)
• Calling Web Services to Validate Data in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Beth Massi)
• Windows Phone with modem access – sending SMS messages through a terminal emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Tablet Show – Andrew Glover Plugs the PhoneGap (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 123 – 01.29.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Red-Gate Webinars (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Ball Flow Recap: CodeMash Coding Dojo (Brendan Enrick)
• About Orchard Governance and Microsoft (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Sharing The Point Antarctica (Joel Oleson)
• Windows Azure Discovery Events (Zhiming Xue)
• The new OpenEverything organization (Sebastien Lambla)
• Webinar: Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• TechDays in Belgium and Netherlands (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle v5.2 and Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL v5.2 (MS Downloads)
• MongoDB: Embedded Documents vs Multiple Collections (Karl Seguin)
• Execution Plans, What Do I Look At? (Grant Fritchey)
• System Base Tables (Jason Brimhall)
• What are the impersonation rights for my database users? (Mark Broadbent)

Miscellaneous

• Vim for rails developers: browse Ruby, RSpec and Rails docs quickly (Luca Pette)
• The problem with virtual training: instructional design, not distance (Jessica Stillman)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Essential iOS Build and Release – $5.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Why does it take Task Manager longer to appear when you start it from the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog? (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 30, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 30 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #806 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1032 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #31 (Franky)
• Windows Dev News for January 29, 2012 – #0033 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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