Top Links

• Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) v1.0.10621 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 1) and Part 2 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• SOLID JavaScript: The Liskov Substitution Principle (Derek Greer)
• A Windows Phone 7 behavior to show an image background for a search string (Joost van Schaik)
• Hanselminutiae-ten with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Application analysis: Northwind.NET (Oren Eini)
• AggregateException.WithoutCancellations Method (Richard Carr)
• Oracle Releases Provider with EF 4 Support (but not really EF 4.1 and EF4.2) (Julie Lerman)
• Rx – Window (Bnaya Eshet)
• Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Menu rearrangement (Raymond Chen)
• Resharper 6.1 – new nice features – 1 (Tatworth)
• On mutable state (Brian Marick)
• "Netduino – Getting Started with *" Series and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit December 2011 Release (Think "MVC3 VB and OData HOL Love" version) (Greg Duncan)
• New dotPeek Build: Base Types and Inheritors in Assembly Explorer and ReSharper 6.1.1 Early Access (Jura Gorohovsky)

Web Development

• Deploying independent web applications to Windows Azure using single web role and ASP.NET MVC: Helper method to display date ranges (Gunnar Peipman)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 – Creating a Simple Log-In Form (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Has the hash DoS patch been installed on your site? Check it right now with ASafaWeb! (Troy Hunt)
• Day 6 – Getting canvas in on the web fonts fun (Val Head)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 3 – Creating a Word Count Hadoop Job with a few twists and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 4- Remote Login to Hadoop node for MapReduce Job and HDFS administration and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 5 – Running 10GB Sort Hadoop Job with Teragen, TeraSort and TeraValidate Options and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 6 – Running 10GB Sort Hadoop Job with TeraSort Option and understanding MapReduce Job administration and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 7 – Writing your very own WordCount Hadoop Job in Java and deploying to Windows Azure Cluster (Avkash Chauhan)
• PHP can perform better than Node.js (Henri Bergius)
• This Week In REST (John Sheehan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How To: Get the Test Case associated with the unit test? (Gautam Goenka)
• Story in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
• API design challenge – builder (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Language of Risk and Yak Shaving: Tracking the yak stack (Mark Needham)
• Automating Daily Status Reports with Project Server and Team Foundation Server (Ryan Hayes)
• Problems Already Solved (Calvin Bottoms)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• From the All-in-One Framework team comes the Story Creator Sample Application for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #462 – Drawing a Better Looking GridSplitter (Sean Sexton)
• StatLight v1.6 is Out (Jason Jarrett)
• WPF Textbox with hints (Rohit Sharma)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Corey Haines Code Retreats Globally (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• YOW! 2011: Dave Thomas on YOW!, Technoculture, Modern Programming, and More and YOW! 2011: Tony Morris – Functional Programming and Functional Thinking (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 048 – “Crystal Balls” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 424: We look back at the year in gaming and choose our favorite titles (Larry Hyrb)
• Gillmor Gang Live 12.30.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.31.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Podcast 270 – 12.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• The JavaScript Show – A Tinge of Christmas (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Gweek 033: Jesse Thorn (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Video on How to work with AutoCompleteBox in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

• Farewell Most Valuable Professional Status (Alan Stevens)
• FUSE Labs: Year in Review (Lili Cheng)
• Top Ten Microspotting Profiles of 2011 (MS JobsBlog)
• The World’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional Is In Critical Condition (MSFT) (Dylan Love)

Database

• SSIS Community Tasks and Components (James Serra)
• SSRS vs SCVMM – The Kerberos token dispute (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The selected database contains foreign keys that create a cycle (Gunnar Peipman)
• RedGate SQL Index Manager BETA (Tim Radney)
• Estimated Completion Time for Backups and Restores (Jorge Segarra)
• SQL Azure to Developers: Some Basic Concepts (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Welcome to the Federation… SQL Azure Database Federation that is… (Or "Sharding for the New Year") (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Getting Your Notes Into OneNote (Jeff Cardon)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 30, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 135 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #1012 (Chris Alcock)
• 2011 Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
• Retrospective 65 – NOT Scrum and Insane Agile Teams (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 29 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #785 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: December 30, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Monthly Summary – December 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Top Official Microsoft Blog Posts of 2011 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Daily News Digest 12/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 27-Dec-2011 and 28-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Dev News for December 28, 2011 – #0018 and Windows Dev News for December 29, 2011 – #0019 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Pro WPF in C# 2010 by Matthew MacDonald

Top Links

• Visual Studio 11 .NET Advances (Somasegar)
• Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Syntax Analysis and Flow Analysis (Sasha Goldshtein)
• OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 – v1 (Brian Keller)
• Designing your Windows Phone App – where to start and Windows Phone App Layouts with Expression Blend and Windows Phone App Styles (Sara Allison)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Kinect Speech Recognition – Introduction (Shai Raiten)
• Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 (MS Downloads)
• IBM Rational to Team Foundation Server Integration Tools – Training and Exploration Sandbox (Willy-P. Schaub)
• How can I get notified when some other window is destroyed? (Raymond Chen)
• OpenWrap 1.0.2 available (Sebastien Lambla)
• MSDN Magazine November Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
• FSharpChart release supporting Stacked Charts (version 0.60) (Carl Nolan)

Web Development

• MVC–Hooking up my randomizer (Chris Skardon)
• Creating Style Rules in HTML 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Installing MVC 3 for Visual Studio 2010 on Windows Developer Preview after installing MVC 4 (Harish Ranganathan)
• Tips and tricks: HTML5 video and audio on iOS (John Esposito)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Null Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Winter is coming! Get 50% OFF on WebStorm, PhpStorm and RubyMine (Alexey Korsun)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: REST API Design Rulebook – $4.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• RazorEngine Performance and Template Caching (Steve Smith)
• CodeLobster PHP Edition – An IDE for PHP Developers (Senthil Kumar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Applied to Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• New Article on Software Development (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Learning Behavior Driven Development (Larry Franks)
• Introducing the New TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal (TeamPulse Team)
• Introducing Android WebDriver (Tim Bray)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A Reusable WPF Autocomplete TextBox (Part 2) (Unknown Author)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Update data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 3: securing your service calls. (Kevin Dockx)
• Telerik Windows Phone controls Q3 2011 Beta – New Context Menu, Chart Financial Series plus more (Georgi Atanasov)
• The Blue Book gets Mango’d! Rob Mile’s "Windows Phone Programming in C#" Blue Book updated for Windows Phone 7.1(5) And do do the lab’s and demo’s too! and Kinecting to Windows Phone 7.1(5) (Greg Duncan)
• Welcome Nokia Lumia WP7 Emulator Skin (Telerik)
• 2000 WPF Things #417 – Using Star Sizing to Distribute Space Evenly across Rows or Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Apps – Adding the glossy elements (Andrew Spooner)
• LightSwitch: Integrating The ComponentOne Scheduler (Michael Washington)
• Top 3 Memory Leak Inducing Pitfalls of WPF Programming (Omer Raviv)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building a Software Business at DevReach (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GoingNative 3: The C++/CX Episode with Marian Luparu (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 040 – “Nokia FTW, Skype FTL” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• SE Podcast #24 (Alex Miller)
• The Tablet Show – “Resist the Drama” (Dan Wahlin)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #62: Arduino and Netduino with a Couple of Microcontroller Geeks (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• What The Tech 90: So Much To Say (Paul Thurrott)
• Devices and news from Nokia World (Laura Foy)
• Audiocast on Developer + Tester Collaboration (Jim Holmes)

Community / Events

• Rich Community. Great Opportunities. (G. Andrew Duthie)
• A Coder Interview With Andreas Håkansson (The Code Project)
• Upstate New York Tech Events and Torn Between Two (Code) Camps (Jim O’Neil)
• App Hub Developer Talk Series – Upcoming and on Demand Dev Talks (Greg Duncan)
• 5 Questions: Development Is Design (Mike Desmond)

Database

• SSAS – Deployment Wizard (Devin Knight)
• How do I get a listing of all DB instances and table names where a column name occurs in MS SQL Server? (Paula DiTallo)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Wait Stats – eBook to Download on Kindle – Answer to FREE PDF Download Request (Pinal Dave)
• “Data Explorer” Mashup 101 (Data Explorer Team)
• All About Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) (Hima)

SharePoint

• SharePoint API – Download \ Upload Documents (Tool) (Shai Raiten)

PowerShell

• Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 1) (Tobias Weltner)
• Windows PowerShell ISE add-ons, links, info and a bit more (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Windows HPC with Windows Azure burst training kit version 1.6 (Avkash Chauhan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 26, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #738 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 25-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/26/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #968 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 26 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle by Michael Howard

• 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

• Microsoft Codename “Data Explorer” Walkthrough (Data Explorer Team)
• Marketplace comes to China & India; also improves search and 7.0 & 7.5 app update options (Todd Brix)
• Designing search for the Start screen (Steven Sinofsky)
• How We Talk about EF and its Future Versions (EF Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding Clone Codes in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Thoughts on JustDecompile compared to Reflector (Dennis Delimarsky)
• All-In-One Code Framework Sample Browser v4 (aka Metro version) now Visual Studio Extension’d (Don’t leave your Visual Studio without it…) (Greg Duncan)
• Exploring Visual Studio 11 IDE – Solution Explorer New Features Part 1 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• APress Deal of the Day – 19/Oct/2011 – Introducing .NET 4.0 With Visual Studio 2010 (Tatworth)
• Microsoft Biology Foundation Evolves into New Tool Kit: .NET Bio (Simon Mercer)
• Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat SDK (MS Downloads)
• Visual C++ and WinRT/Metro – Databinding Basics (Nishant Sivakumar)
• Template for generating POCO classes with Notify in Entity Framework 4.1 (David Sherwood)
• The Quick and Dirty EF 4.1 Code Generator (Colin Blair)
• "You are now up to date." [IfModifiedSinceWebClient makes it easy to keep a local file in sync with online content - and do so asynchronously] (David Anson)
• Capture, Transfer, and Rethrow Exceptions with ExceptionDispatchInfo [.NET 4.5] (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Naked Objects Release 4.0.110.0 (CodePlex)
• Things I love about .Net (Dru Sellers)

Web Development

• Facebook: Introducing HTML5 Resource Center (Matt Kelly)
• New! HTML 5 and CSS: Six Complete Lessons (Randy Guthrie)
• Optimize ASP.NET presentation (Mads Kristensen)
• A Web Standard for Notifications using JavaScript and HTML5 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Nested Conditionals with Guard Clauses (Giorgio Sironi)
• A JavaScript class pattern that starts with a function (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Drop Shadows in CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Handling PHP Sessions in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Site Pinning: Rotating Overlay Icons for Multiple Service Notifications (Rey Bango)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Respect is a Reflection and Personal Development Books Revisited (JD Meier)
• Which Program Team Are You Managing? (Johanna Rothman)
• How To Build An Agile UX Team: The Culture (Jeff Gothelf)
• Wrapping Up on the Feng Shui for Establishing a Culture of Innovation (Peter Saddington)
• Universal unit testing (browser, Node.js) with Jasmine (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Your ctor says that your code is headache inducing: Introduction (Oren Eini)
• Mocking Property Expectations with Moq (Richard Carr)
• Xbox Kinect Hub Remake – An Introduction To New User Interfaces (Doug Rathbone)
• Agile is for your WHOLE Business (Joel Semeniuk)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Implicit styles in Windows Phone 7 (Andreas Hammar)
• IoC for Windows Phone: Ninject (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• A New Library for Building HTML5 Widgets for Windows Phone (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Expression Blend: Designing for usability (Pam Keesey)
• 2000 WPF Things #411 – Use HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment to Position Child Elements within a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• Facebook Graph API and Silverlight (Lazar Nikolov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 022: The Fishbone Documentary (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Startup Success Podcast Show #123: Hal Ostrow, mistartuplawyer.com (Bob Walsh)
• Video on How to solve cross domain problem in Silverlight? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Engadget HD Podcast 270 – 10.18.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Shortcuts, Multimonitor setup, USB Wifi Extender (Larry Larsen)
• The GeekDads Episode #102: Causation Does Not Imply Causality (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• The Microsoft Cookbook: Good food, good stories, good cause (Zoe Goldring)
• Sold out Windows Phone camps help students and professional developers publish their own apps (Dave Isbitski)
• PASS Summit 2011: A Picture Book (Jes Schultz Borland)
• MVPs Take Top Honors in Kinect for Windows Application (MVP Award Program)

Database

• SQL Server Denali CTP3 Demo VHD (MS Downloads)
• Upcoming SQL Server Training Webcasts (Brent Ozar)
• Monitoring SSRS report performance: Part 1 (John Pertell)
• SQL SERVER – A Simple Quiz – T-SQL Brain Trick (Pinal Dave)
• What does a SQL Server DBA need to check for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly? (Denis Gobo)
• Using sys.dm_exec_requests to find a blocking chain (William Assaf)
• Creating Views in Another Database (Bob Pusateri)
• Dropping a database – such a simple thing! (Martin Catherall)
• Extended properties of database objects (J. Verheul)

SharePoint

• What “The Far Side” can teach us about SharePoint (Mark Rackley)

Miscellaneous

• New Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions (Dominic Mazzoni)
• Getting Inherited Config Settings (Howard Dierking)
• What is SkyDrive waiting for? (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft closes in on delivering its own Hadoop competitor (Mary Jo Foley)
• Ominous Post (Matt Warren)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Codermetrics – $16.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #962 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 19 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 18, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #732 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 18/10/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 10/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 17-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/18/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2011 — #1159 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Entity Framework 4 in Action by Stefano Mostarda

• Let’s Get Chocolatey! Kind of like apt-get for Windows (Rob Reynolds)
• The Windows 8 Task Manager (Steven Sinofsky)
• Announcing The New SQL Azure Reporting CTP Release (Gregory Leake)
• The D in DVCS (Jimmy Bogard)
• ShoelaceMVC, My Newest Open Source Project – ASP.NET MVC 3 Starter Project for Building Fast AND Production Quality Webapps. (Ryan Hayes)
• jQuery 1.7 Beta 2 Released (Dave Methvin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Please submit, vote on and discuss F# and Visual Studio features (Don Syme)
• Build Service on Azure connected with Hosted TFS Service on Azure. (Clemens Reijnen)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Searching Strings With Contains(), StartsWith(), EndsWith(), and IndexOf() (James Michael Hare)
• New book: Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio (Kim Spilker)
• Sharing single Configuration in Multiple projects (Abhishek Sur)
• Announcing WCF Data Services Oct 2011 CTP for .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 (Abhiram Chivukula)
• On Not Using owner With the Azure AppFabric Service Bus (Neil Mackenzie)
• RadChart for Windows 8 WinRT – Taking its First Breath (Georgi Atanasov)
• Windows Azure Autoscaling Block BETA is out (Grigori Melnik)
• Await a void (Async CTP) (Mark Pearl)

Web Development

• Inside ASP.NET MVC: IDependencyResolver – Service locator in MVC (Alexander Beletsky)
• logo.js – JavaScript has a (semi-)official logo (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTML5 Video Support in IE9 Mobile (Rick Xu)
• Tekpub Update, October 2011 (Rob Conery)
• Intercepting onclick event in JavaScript using JQuery (Veera Sundark)
• ASP.NET 4.5 Preview: Using model binding to update data (Gunnar Peipman)
• Vocabularies in OData (Turker Keskinpala)
• Nancy: v0.8.1 just out the door (Andreas Håkansson)
• The Noob’s Guide to Open XML Dev (If you know how to spell OpenXML but that’s about it, this is your Getting Started guide…) and Microsoft Private Cloud Solution Hub (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Testament to an Agile Team and Agile is for your WHOLE Business and The Lure of Specialization (Joel Semeniuk)
• Git Beyond the D in DVCS (Keith Dahlby)
• Standup // Daily Scrum – Can You See a Potential Problem? (Peter Saddington)
• Design With Dissonance (Tad Fry)
• Using a gmail account as a production bug tracking server (Patrick Smacchia)
• Why Calculators Need a Better User Interface (Anthony)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 10: UI Consistency (Evan Hutnick)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• DesignSurface – WPF Designer Extension (vallarasus)
• SilverLight 5 and Kinect, via the magic of P-Invoke (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight Page Navigation Framework – Learn about UriMapper (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #408 – ShowGridLines Property Allows You to See Individual Cells in Grid (Sean Sexton)
• My New Silverlight Services Course is Live (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Bart De Smet: Rx Update – .NET 4.5, Async, WinRT (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 038 – “It’s So Frickin HUGE” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 108 – 10.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #61: Live from HTML5.tx: Drifting Creatives destroys the DeveloperSmackdown.com website (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• The JavaScript Show – Dart, JavaScript++, CoffeeScript (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Inside Windows Phone #26: Windows Phone LOVES Student Developers! (Larry Lieberman)

Community / Events

• Rest In Peace, Mr Ritchie (Ted Neward)
• Day four of Summit – Keynote 2 #sqlpass (Tim Radney)
• ThoughtWorks Agile East (ThoughtWorks Team)
• DevTeach Comes to Ottawa! (Peter Ritchie)
• PASS Summit Day 2 – Women in Technology Live Blog (Jen McCown)
• MVPs: Mark Your Calendars for the MVP Twitter Chat! (MVP Award Program)

Database

• Announcing Microsoft SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux (Raghu Ram)
• Uploading SSRS Reports with PowerShell (Geoff Hudik)
• SSIS: Script component debugging comes to SQL Server Integration Services 2012 (Jamie Thomson)
• SSRS 2008 R2: Implementing Row-level Security and SQL Server 2012 SSIS – Why is my toolbox empty? (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Whats your longest running query (Simon Sabin)
• How to move table to particular file in database (Vishal Gajjar)
• RowNumber in Select Query (Abhishek Sur)
• Just Announced at SQL PASS Summit 2011: Upcoming Increased Database Limits & SQL Azure Federation; Immediate Availability of Two New SQL Azure CTPs (Cameron Rogers)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model, Part 1 and SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model, Part 2 (Mark Nischalke)

Miscellaneous

• Appsites Is Now AppKickstand (Ben Scheirman)
• Tip: Quickly getting to Zoom commands in OneNote (John Guin)
• Skype is now officially part of Microsoft (Kip Kniskern)
• One button to Bing now means so much more (Luke)
• Getting started with Android NDK (Per-Erik Bergman)
• SnagIt Live Writer Plug-in Updated (Rick Strahl)
• Feature Detection in #MonoTouch / iPhone (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 13, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Weekly Link Post 211 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Double Shot #730 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #959 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 10/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/13/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Practical SQL Queries for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 by Art Tennick

• Join us for the BUILD keynotes group liveblog: 13th & 14th September (Long Zheng)
• Dart – will Google make HTML5 applications viable? (Colin Eberhardt)
• New Book Brings Together More than a Dozen MVPs (MVP Award Program)
• Why I Prefer JavaScript Over CoffeeScript (Davy Brion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Volatile Fields (Richard Carr)
• New from Amazon, AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio (Think "If you do AWS from VS, get this ASAP…") (Greg Duncan)
• The Rise of F# (Phillip Trelford)
• Sync Framework v4 is now Open Source, and ready to Connect any Device to SQL Server and SQL Azure (Rob Tiffany)
• 7 books for a .NET Summer reading list (2011 version) (Simone Chiaretta)
• The Windows Native Ribbon Part 3: Buttons and Menus (Michael Dunn)
• RavenDB: Multi Maps / Reduce indexes (Oren Eini)
• Writing a Custom ConfigurationSection to handle a Collection (Abhishek Sur)
• Code Issues specific to partial methods (Alex Skorkin)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Entity Refresh and NHibernate Pitfalls: Lazy Properties and Closed Sessions (Ricardo Peres)
• Configure MySql .Net Connector with Entity Framework (Paul Petrov)
• Matrix Multiplication with C++ AMP and Scheduling thread tiles with C++ AMP and tile_static, tile_barrier, and tiled matrix multiplication with C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
• NH Mapping by code VS the Untouchable DB (Felice Pollano)
• ApplicationException – Should you derive from it? (Tatworth)

Web Development

• Announcing Formlets for jQuery Mobile (Ramon Snir)
• JavaScript: window.onbeforeunload Event – Show “Are you sure you want to leave this page?” Message (Chris Pietschmann)
• CouchDB jQuery Plugin Reference (Bradley Holt)
• Adding JQuery UI to MVC 3 Application causes a JScript Runtime exception (Derik Whittaker)
• jQuery 1.6.4 RC1 released (Dave Methvin)
• The XNA Platformer game ported to HTML5… as in wow (and you can get the source too. wow++) (Greg Duncan)
• Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript with “Promises” (Matt Podwysocki & Amanda Silver)
• How to create a simple jQuery plugin – jQuery Iconify (Andrea Salvadore)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Field (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using HTML 5 data attributes with ASP.NET MVC (Ægir Þorsteinsson)
• Foxy – CSS Framework (Vladimir Carrer)
• How to change selected date background color of current week in ASP.NET Calendar ? and Conditional Binding Expression with ASP.NET GridView (Abhijit Jana)
• An Introduction To LESS, And Comparison To Sass (Jeremy Hixon)
• Learning node.js: Step (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An Observation about TDD (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Scrum basics: The daily standup meeting (John Rayner)
• Cross-Cloud portability with Lokad.CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
• Listening to the team (Steve Rowe)
• Performance and Optimization Isn’t Evil (Reed Copsey)
• Commenting code is an anti-pattern (Mark Pearl)
• Support for git’s fast-import format in Veracity (Eric Sink)
• Repeated Failed Log-Ins: What’s Your Strategy? (Davy Brion)
• The Six Pillars of Complete Developer Documentation (Pamela Fox)
• One of the small costs of transparency (Howard Dierking)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 6 – Development Best Practices (Evan Hutnick)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 5 PInvoke fun – System Font Dialog (Peter Kuhn)
• Mapping a Route with Directions using the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) (Brian Lagunas)
• WP7 AccelerometerProxy in F# (Daniel Mohl)
• Simple Hand Tracking with MS Kinect SDK & WPF and Window Phone 7.5, ZXing and QR codes (Greg Duncan)
• Yet another Beeping P/Invoke Demo (SL5 RC) (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight Spy September 2011 Update (2) (Koen Zwikstra)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 4 – fighting with the ListPicker control (András Velvárt)
• Starting with Mango — Developer View (Jan Slodicka)
• 2000 WPF Things #384 – The Benefits of Flow-Based Layout (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 173: Steve Bohlen on Agile Methods (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 410: PAX Prime and COD XP recap (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 255 – 09.09.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 103 – 09.10.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 69 – Mitch Denny on BDD, TEE, Cloudy Infrastructure and more (Richard Banks)
• Gweek 016: The Postmortal (Mark Frauenfelder)
• First RavenDB webinar is now on YouTube (Oren Eini)
• Coding QA Episode 64 – What Do You Want To Hear? (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• This is my next Podcast 023 – 09.09.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 033 – “Send Me an Angel” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• TWC9 September 9th 2011 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Nic Fillingham)
• SQL SERVER – Denali CTP3 – Step by Step Installation Video – 200 Seconds (Pinal Dave)

Community / Events

• Mid-Atlantic Folks at BUILD? and Updated User Group Map (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Let’s Do A LightSwitch Hack-A-Thon (Michael Washington)
• Node.js Knockout 2011 Winners Revealed (Sarah Perez)
• #WPAppItUp Wrap-Up (Ben Lower)
• Windows Phone Camp – Malvern Pennsylvania on September 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Excitement BUILDs: Here Comes Windows 8 and BUILD: Live from Anaheim, CA (Paul Thurrott)
• I am proud to announce that I have joined Telerik. (Michael Crump)
• Women in Tech: I am my Own Worst Enemy (Becky Isserman)
• Microsoft Build: Developer topics to watch and Microsoft Build: Tools and technologies hot buttons (Mary Jo Foley)
• What I expect from Windows 8 (Ed Bott)
• Architects and Architecture at JavaOne (Bob Rhubart)
• BUILD: New Opportunities for Developers (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Windows 8 Gets Ready for Its Big Debut (Ina Fried)
• My last day at the evil empire – free from the borg collective ! (Joe Stagner)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Denali – Logical Function – IIF() – A Quick Introduction and SQL SERVER – Denali – Logical Function – CHOOSE() – A Quick Introduction and SQL SERVER – DBA Quiz 2011 – All was well few moments before all went wrong – Reasons and Resolutions (Pinal Dave)
• Use common table expressions to simplify your updates in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• New Release of SQL Azure (Shaun Xu)
• Earlier(), AddColumns() and row context (Chris Webb)
• SQL Azure Q2 2011 Service Release Now Deployed (Part I of II) and What’s New in SQL Azure Management Portal? (Part II of II) (Gregory Leake)
• Handling Flat File Headers and Errors in SSIS (Mike Davis)
• SQL Server: Display Query Execution Plans–Different ways (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• jQuery, SharePoint Picture Libraries, and automatic thumbnails (Bil Simser)
• Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: the Silverlight SharePoint Web Parts – part 1 and Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: the Silverlight SharePoint Web Parts – part 2 (Walter Ferrari)
• DB2 Stored Procedures and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

PowerShell

• Group Membership Unions and Intersections (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Bulk-Renaming Files (and other magic) (Tobias Weltner)

Miscellaneous

• VMware tackles task management with Strides (Derrick Harris)
• Internet 1996 vs. Internet 2011 [Infographic] (Richard Darell)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: September 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 09.07 ~ 09.12 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading September 9, 2011 and Geek Reading September 10, 2011 and Geek Reading September 11, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Distributed Weekly 119 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #706 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 9th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Web Dev Tweets 8-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Pie in the Sky (September 9, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #935 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #161 (David Vidmar)
• Today’s Links (9/9/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2011 — #1145 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 04-September-2011 to 10-September-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 9 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Retrospective 49 – #RageFace #Kanban and #Innovation (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Phone 7 Game Development by Adam Dawes

• Knockout 1.3.0 Beta Available (Steve Sanderson)
• NuGet 1.5 Released! (Phil Haack)
• Windows 8, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and how Genius is non-transferable. (Scott Barnes)
• 29 Ways to make your wp7 app killer and make money (David Kelley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Working with DirectoryCatalog in MEF and Working with AggregateCatalog in MEF (Abhijit Jana)
• Moving Beyond Enums (Steve Smith)
• Why I don’t like the MVC Mini Profiler codebase (Oren Eini)
• .NET Micro Framework 4.2 RC2 Now Released (Pete Brown)
• Build Trigger Management in Team Foundation Build 2010 (Mike Fourie)
• Kinect, Unity 3D and University of Central Florida’s Interactive Systems & User Experience Lab brings us Kinect Football! (Greg Duncan)
• T4 Metadata and Data Annotations Template (Dan Wahlin)
• MiniBuss on Codeplex (Johan Danforth)
• First Look at the New C++ IDE Productivity Features in the Next Version of Visual Studio (Sumit Kumar)

Web Development

• Maqetta – Free Online HTML5 Editor for Developers and Designers (Senthil Kumar)
• 50 Outstanding CSS3 Tutorials (Dong Nguyen)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Unidirectional Association to Bidirectional (Giorgio Sironi)
• Optimize Images With HTML5 Canvas (Sergey Chikuyonok)
• Spin.js makes Animated Gifs Old School (Rey Bango)
• How to build your first Microsoft WebMatrix App (O’Reilly Media)
• Don’t Limit Your Backbone Apps To Backbone Constructs (Derick Bailey)
• Introducing the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)
• How-To: Build an app on Facebook with Fluid Canvas (Constantin Koumouzelis)
• Why should a .NET developer look into Ruby or Ruby on Rails? (Claudio Lassala)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Dear Team Lead, You Are Not Doing Agile If… (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Breaking Down Silos, Part 1: The Consequences Of Working In Isolation (Rian van der Merwe)
• Life After Pair Programming (Jay Fields)
• Coding: The value in finding the generic abstraction (Mark Needham)
• GIT Cheat Sheet (and some version control best practices too on page 2) (Greg Duncan)
• Properties or Fields? (Jeremy Likness)
• Modeling reference data in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• The Role of the Agile Architect (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Toolkit PhoneTextBox in depth and How to install MVVM Light Toolkit via NuGet (Windows Phone Geek)
• Mapping an Address with the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies: Web Services (Andrea Boschin)
• WP7Contrib – Bing Service Wrapper Part V Imagery (Rich Griffin)
• 2000 WPF Things #376 – Getting Text to Wrap in a Tooltip (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Rick Molloy: Actor-based Programming in C++ – Control Flow versus Data Flow (Charles Torre)
• Engadget HD Podcast 263 – 08.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Let’s Play TDD #133: Towards an Agile Architecture (James Shore)
• Boagworld – Web Accessibility in the real world (Paul Boag)
• The GeekDads Episode #99: Inciting a Nerd Storm (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• WOW, some great FREE Live Workshops on Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010. Sign up Today! (Angela Binkowski)
• The Build up to BUILD (James Ashley)
• Marsman V2.0 has shipped (and I’m now on maternity leave) (Jennifer Marsman)

Database

• An Introduction to SSIS Balanced Data Distributor Transformation Component (Niladri Biswas)
• Secret New SQL Server Denali Feature: Data Director (Brent Ozar)
• Using PowerShell to Monitor SQL Server (Gethyn Ellis)
• Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Using Root With Auto XML Mode – Day 31 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft SQL Server, codename "Denali", will be the last release to support OLE DB, ODBC is the new new thing (Denis Gobo)
• Shrinking Transaction Logs (Tim Radney)
• Computed Columns and UDFs (Steve Jones)
• TRUNCATE_ONLY is not a recognized BACKUP option (Jack Vamvas)

Miscellaneous

• Working with multiple versions of PowerShell Modules (Joel Bennett)
• Google +1 Extension for Chrome (Alex Chitu)
• Non-Admin Chrome Frame Reaches Stable Channel (Google Chrome Blog)
• AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 now available (Think "Way back machine entry" or "I miss my Amiga") (Greg Duncan)
• What’s new in Pictures + Camera for Mango (Juliette Guilbert)
• Subscriber Files on Azure and Using The Internet Explorer Download Manager (Mark Curphey)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First C – Only $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDHDC (O’Reilly Media)
• Download.com responds to angry devs, removes bloatware wrapper (Tim Conneally)
• Pinworthy: 5 essential photo apps for Windows Phone and Now available: Windows Phone 7 Connector 2.0 for Mac (Michael Stroh)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 31 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #927 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/31/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 29-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Today’s Links (8/30/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 30 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Geek Reading August 30, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Link dump for August 30th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming (Pragmatic Programmers) by Bill Karwin

• Invisible pixels are just as clickable as real pixels! [Tip: Use a Transparent brush to make "empty" parts of a XAML element respond to mouse and touch input] (David Anson)
• KnockoutJS Needs a Better Set of Tutorials (Rob Conery)
• Calling ASP.NET MVC Action Methods from JavaScript (Phil Haack)
• A Tale of Backgrounds, Absolutes, mouseleave, and mouseenter (K. Scott Allen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use of SpinLock for ThreadLocking and Use of Interlocked in Race Condition and Barrier in .NET 4.0 and Not able to view all the running Worker Process in Visual Studio – Process Attach Window – Resolution (Abhijit Jana)
• Parallel ForEach Loop (Richard Carr)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ReferenceEquals() method (James Michael Hare)
• Adventure in parserland – parsing lambda expressions in F# – Part I (Luca Bolognese)
• Kinect Reception–Introduction (Shai Raiten)
• Unity Auto Registration (Jimmy Larkin)
• RavenDB Lazy Requests (Oren Eini)
• Declaring various properties using CodeRush code generation tools (Alex Skorkin)
• Do you want a faster File.Exists / FileInfo.Exists / Directory.Exists ? I do ! (Jonathan Antoine)
• Blog Post: How To: Activate & Deactivate (Autumn Wilkins)
• A gentle introduction to dependent types (Cédric Beust)
• Adding translation to your apps is a dot away with the "Bing Translator .NET Extension Methods" open source project (Greg Duncan)
• PropertyBagTextWriter (Stream into Dictionary) (James Curran)
• Going Asynchronous (Chris Eargle)
• Updated Course: Developing Windows Concurrent Applications (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• The HTML5 Paradigm Shift–Don’t Miss The Next Wave (Chris Love)
• HTML5-Powered VNC Implementation noVNC Let’s You Access Remote Systems (Rey Bango)
• Bug and Fix: ASP.NET fails to detect IE10 causing _doPostBack is undefined JavaScript error or maintain FF5 scrollbar position (Scott Hanselman)
• Call ASP.NET Page Methods using your own AJAX (Abhijit Jana)
• Announcing YUI 3.4.0 and the new YUILibrary.com (George Puckett)
• A New Era in Application Development, Part II: Kendo UI (Stephen Forte)
• Powerful PHP: Less Known String Manipulation (Stoimen Popov)
• AJAX Series Part 1: Building a Web Applications with Third-party Controls in Real Time (Carl Bergenhem)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: The sprint (John Rayner)
• Compliance – Development Teams are Product-Oriented (Peter Saddington)
• A Brief Introduction of Fundamental OOP (Chris Eargle)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RadJumpList for Windows Phone extended: Support for Sticky Header (Deyan Ginev)
• Who says you can’t run Silverlight on Android ? (Don Burnett)
• Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone Design Tips #3 (Andrew Spooner)
• Brand new Mango release of Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
• 2000 WPF Things #368 – Specifying Blackout Dates in a Calendar Control (Sean Sexton)
• TouchDevelop v2.1: integrated script bazaar (Nikolai Tillmann)
• RadChart for Windows Phone – going to the pole (Georgi Atanasov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #129: Root Cause Analysis (James Shore)
• G4 TV’s Jessica Chobot tours Microsoft (Steve Clayton)
• Defrag: 4k Drive Backup, Office Add-on in IE, Forcing Aero Glass On (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Beards & Beaks, Kill The Duck, Fantastic Finger Fun, Angry Birds Scoop, Eventful (Laura Foy)
• A little PowerShell a day to keep the scripting doctor away… "PowerShell Cmdlet of the Day Podcast" (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Dev Pocast Episode 030 – “Phonies vs. Ninjas” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Charlie Wood Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• FREE Course On Ruby’s Cross Platform GUI App Toolkit Course (Satish Talim)
• HTML5 Web Camps – Special Guest Announcement (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Social Media Collective @ NERD (Jim O’Neil)
• Philly Geek Awards: The Sponsors (Michaelangelo Ilagan)
• Hire and Pay a Designer and Be Happy (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing the Speaking Lineup for Philly Day of Agile (Philip Japikse)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 9 (Glenn Berry)
• How to report a SQL Server performance problem (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL Server: Last Day Previous Month without DATEADD and DATEDIFF (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – The Clustered Index – Simple Understanding – Day 19 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – Using Analytic Function CUME_DIST() (Vishal)
• [SSIS] OnPipelineRowsSent event (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• SP2010 Continuous Integration – Installing TFS2010 (inc. Build and Test agents) (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Tool Roundup: Small But Explosive, Just Like Dynamite (Pete Seale)
• Slides from PowerShell Deep Dive sessions (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading August 18, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #920 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (8/18/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 08/19/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly Links– 2010_30 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Link dump for August 18th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim

• Automated installer for MVVM Light V3! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 is available! (Phil Haack)
• C# Async examples in F# – Part 1 (Chris Marinos)
• The LightSwitch Control Extension Makers Dilemma (Michael Washington)
• A comprehensive list of resources about JavaScript (Incandescent Software Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Co-Ordinated Thread Shutdown with and without using CancellationTokenSource and Use Visual Studio Server Explorer to Add New or Existing SQL Server CE Database (Abhijit Jana)
• New F# PowerPack Packages on NuGet Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• XNA 3D Primer Examples Updated, XNA 2D Example Added, Talks on Both at DevLINK (Michael C. Neel)
• Controlled Vocabulary 1.5.1 and MSBuild Explorer v2 — it does exist… and Community TFS Build Extensions — we’re at it again (Mike Fourie)
• Translating with Google Translate without API and C# Code (Rick Strahl)
• C#: Using IDictionaryEnumerator with HashTable (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Visual Studio Testing Tools–Two new hotfixes released (Terje Sandstrom)
• Invoke any Method on any Thread (Fredrik Olsson)
• Transactional File Manager Version 1.2 .1 Released (Chinh Do)
• How To Build A Simple Text Editor? A Tutorial (Forest House)

Web Development

• Review of The Book of CSS3 by Peter Gasston (Brian Bondy)
• Html 5 Controls for ASP.Net MVC (Saleth Prakash)
• Prototype for Google + similar Feedback-Module with Html2Canvas-Screenshots with Javascript für Beitrag eingeben (Code Inside Team)
• Mobile HTML5 Charts by Sencha (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Using the HTML5 Filesystem API – Only $9.49 w/code DD237 (O’Reilly Media)
• JavaScript: Prototype is not overriding the function/method (Raghav Khunger)
• JavaScript’s JSON API (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTTP Request Lifecycle Events in IIS Pipeline that every ASP.NET Developer Should Know (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Article: HTML 5 or Silverlight? (Daniel Jebaraj)
• Picking a Web Client Side Persistence Mechanism (Gil Fink)
• talkasaur.us – dirt simple conference calling (Aaron Lerch)
• Authoring SVG with a text editor (Bertrand Le Roy)
• What I Love About PHP (Dinuka Arseculeratne)
• Prevent User Navigating Away from Page with Unsaved Changes (Jonathan Wood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning the Agile Vocabulary (Ben Harden)
• Being honest vs Making excuses (Corey Haines)
• Considerations when choosing hardware for CI (Paul Stack)
• Surviving As A Guerilla Entrepreneur – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)
• 8 Principles of Continuous Delivery (James Betteley)
• Two Important Blogposts for Functional Test Writers (Jim Holmes)
• The Chaos Addiction (Roy Osherove)
• Thought Questions (Dru Sellers)
• Macto: The Main Screen (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• wp7 – custom control project template (Baba)
• Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View Part Two (Colin Eberhardt)
• Multi-Touch Behaviors updated: Windows Phone “Mango” support, Manipulation / Inertia Processors and more (Davide Zordan)
• Ringtones from existing content on WP7 – why can’t you do that? and Building a simple Isolated Storage explorer system in a Windows Phone 7 application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Setting the Start page in Windows Phone 7 application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Passing values between Windows Phone 7 pages: Current context of Application and Windows Phone 7 Serialization: DataContract JSON (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Rumors Of XAML’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (Jon Davis)
• Create Thematic Maps in Visual Studio LightSwitch with Infragistics Geospatial Map (Mihail Mateev)
• Removing Strings in INotifyPropertyChanged and OData Expands (Nick)
• 2000 WPF Things #359 – ToggleButton Basics (Sean Sexton)
• Looking at LightSwitch – Part 1 (Gill Cleeren)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 406: What we’re playing and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 220: SharePinters (Paul Thurrott)
• New Video – Windows Phone 7 Guide – Part 7 – Unlock apps in a locked emulator and Another new Windows Phone 7 Guide video – using your phone as a storage device (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Path to Agility 2011 – Ken Schwaber – Scrum and the Product Owner (Agile Toolkit)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 65 – Jim Pelletier and Lessons Learned with NServiceBus (Richard Banks)
• The GeekDads Episode #97: A Whole New World Behind the Grotto (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• Deep Dive video: Constrained PowerShell Endpoints – Aleksandar Nikolic (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

• I am now a DZone MVB (Most Valuable Blogger) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Considering Attending STARWEST? We have Discount Codes! (Jim Holmes)
• August Webcast Schedule: Microsoft Technologies (Kim Spilker)
• rubylang.info: A Solid 3rd Party Attempt at a Site for Ruby (Peter Cooper)

Database

• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.3–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server book from Pinal Dave (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL Server Migration Assistant for Denali CTP3 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Dirty Records and Table Hints – Day 7 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Data Warehousing with SSIS (Tim Radney)
• Download free SSMS Add-In to create custom folders for database objects (Jakub Dvorak)

Miscellaneous

• Why I Use Powershell (Daniel Moore)
• Forbes: Microsoft not as innovative as Apple and Google (Stefano Elia)
• C’mom Microsoft, how about fixing some of the stupidest Zune Desktop problems. (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 6, 2011 and Interesting Finds: August 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 08.01 ~ 08.07 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading August 6, 2011 and Geek Reading August 7, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #911 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 31-July-2011 to 06-August-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 44 – #Agile Requirements and Org Structure (Peter Saddington)
• Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 — #1125 and Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 – 2 — #1126 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 08/08/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 by Jon Galloway

• 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

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