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Top Links

• Windows Azure SDK 1.6 is released!! (Avkash Chauhan)
• Windows Phone Dev Ecosystem – One Year On (Brandon Watson)
• A .Net Dev’s journey creating his first Android app… (Greg Duncan)
• New Windows Phone 7 Content on MSDN Library (Mike Desmond)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Locking the Workstation Programmatically (Richard Carr)
• Search and Filters in Error List Window – Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Use the WinDbg Engine in Visual Studio User-Mode Debugging (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Preview Tab (Zain Naboulsi)
• Using ExtendedReflection To Manage Your .NET Code at Runtime (Jason Bock)
• Windows Azure SDK 1.6 (Build 1.6.41103.1601) installation Walkthrough and Windows Azure Training Kit November 2011 Update is available to download now!! (Avkash Chauhan)
• The challenges in changing the way Explorer hosts shell extensions (Raymond Chen)
• Guide to reduce TFS database growth using the Test Attachment Cleaner (Terje Sandstrom)
• Checking if an Unloaded Collection Contains Elements (Ricardo Peres)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Grids Unleashed – Flat Grid Architecture (JavaScript) (Angel Todorov)
• Installing NODE.js on Ubuntu Linux. (Joe Stagner)
• 15 Pragmatic JavaScript Tips for ASP.NET Developers (Jon Galloway)
• Compiling F# to JavaScript with Pit (Phillip Trelford)
• JQuery 1.7 Brings HTML5 To IE6-8, Gets Deprecation Policy (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Laying out HTML with CSS Grids (Mike Taulty)
• Add reCAPTCHA To ASP.NET MVC Web Application (Shai Raiten)
• Frictionless development: Web.config and connection strings (Oren Eini)
• Using Scala and the Play Framework in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Announcing YUI Compressor 2.4.7 (Satyen Desai)
• Introducing the Sueetie Wall (Dave Burke)
• The Untimely Demise of the Plugin (and how LOB developments will suffer) (Colin Eberhardt)
• Analysis Of Web API Versioning Options (Dilip Krishnan)
• Web.config Transformations and XML Namespaces (Mads Troest)
• Semantics in practice and mapping semantic value to its consumers (Paul Irish)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Monthly Planning with Agile Results (JD Meier)
• Velocity: Agile Killer or Unsuspecting Mark? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Should Developers Know the Business Customers? (Peter Saddington)
• Should Agile Coaches Have a Code of Ethics? (Todd Charron)
• Why We Need UX Designers (Tim Murphy)
• Why I love Test Driven Development (Wille Faler)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Localizing a Windows Phone app Step by Step (Windows Phone Geek)
• Get my first book… Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight (Caleb Jenkins)
• F# Silverlight Library Template in Visual Studio 11 (Daniel Mohl)
• Silverlight Cookbook: Switching to another IoC Framework (Dennis Doomen)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 6 of 10) and Information on upgrading Kinect Applications to MS SDK Beta 2. (Michael Crump)
• Sync’ing OData to Local Storage in Windows Phone (Part 1) (ggailey777)
• Developers’ Interest Growing in Windows Phone, Waning in BlackBerry (Ina Fried)
• Basis of Tactile Programming with WPF4 and Surface 2.0 SDK | Bases de la Programmation Tactile avec WPF4 et le SDK (Nicolas Calvi)
• 2000 WPF Things #430 – Setting Width and Height Using Different Units (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #15: The Progress Bar (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Spiking the Pomodoro Timer (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Web Development at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 126: Jeff Atwood on the overlap of Video Games and Learning (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Episode 165 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brandon Shell talks Splunk (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Gweek 026: A heavily medicated ren faire (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Kinectimals on Windows Phones from Nokia World (Laura Foy)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 30 (Richard Hay)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for November 14th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• LeadingAgile Welcomes Dennis Stevens and Peter Saddington (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The Baudboys: Kings of Geek A Cappella (MS JobsBlog)
• Win a Samsung Slate or Free Marketing for you Windows Phone Mango Apps (Dave Isbitski)
• More Windows Phone events this week! (Brian Seitz)
• Webcasts: Coming up this week (Kim Spilker)
• The Return of Oracle Wikis: Bigger and Better (Oracle TechNet)

 

Database

• Some SQL Server Security Housekeeping (Chad Miller)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to LEAD and LAG – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Create Sparklines in SSRS (Samuel Vanga)
• SQL Azure Data Sync Agent Preview (MS Downloads)
• DBCC CHECKDB (Jack Vamvas)
• Many-to-Many Dimensions (James Serra)

 

SharePoint

• Client Object Model Request Batching in SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• How To: Convert a PowerPoint Presentation from 4:3 ratio to 16:9 without distorted or stretched images and CSI: My Computer – What is netsession_win.exe from Akamai and how did it get on my system? (Scott Hanselman)
• Barnes & Noble Exposes Microsoft’s "Trivial" Patents and Strategy Against Android (Groklaw)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 11.08 ~ 11.15 (yuanjian)
• Daily WP7 Development News 14 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/14/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #981 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 15 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #752 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 14-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)

 

The Geek Shelf

Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn

 

Top Links

• Visual Studio Async CTP (Version 3) Released – Lots of compatibility added, bugs squashed, features added and the EULA updated to allow Production usage (not encouraged, but it IS allowed now) (Greg Duncan)
• Project Liike (Josh Twist)
• Drive your application’s navigation through templated HyperlinkButtons and smart data binding to app-wide URIs (Jeff Wilcox)
• BlobShare – A File Sharing Sample Solution Built on Windows Azure (Zhiming Xue)
• Using Node.js in an ASP.NET MVC application with iisnode (Jon Galloway)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #1: The New Windows Phone Emulator Tools (Jeff Blankenburg)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Halloween: VB Style! (Anthony D. Green)
• CSLA 4 version 4.2 beta 2 online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Try It Now: Use PPL to Produce Windows 8 Asynchronous Operations (Visual C++ Team)
• Mini Rx: Observable Extensions (Phillip Trelford)
• Wish you had a cool and colorful poster with a snapshot of what’s new in .Net 4.5? and The "Kinect Effect" and the Kinect for Windows to get a "commercial program" early next year (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Workflow Foundation: Microsoft.Activities v1.8.8 (CodePlex)
• My presentation on AOP in .NET with PostSharp (Zubair Ahmed)

 

Web Development

• Sneak Peek at NetAdvantage for jQuery 2011 Volume 2 (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Using Ninject.MVC for better ASP.NET MVC integration (Alexander Beletsky)
• New Mobile Application and Web Application Templates in ASP.NET MVC 4 (Christian D. Yellington)
• T4MVC with separate view and controller projects (Geoff Hudik)
• HTML5 History in IE10 (Tony Ross)
• Definition of Done in an MVC project (Mehdi Khalili)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Assertion and PHP on a Java application server (Giorgio Sironi)
• HTML5 – Clean Code for Front End Developers (Paul Stack)
• NuGet Package of Week #11 – ImageResizer enables clean, clear image resizing in ASP.NET (Scott Hanselman)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Rails 3 – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Node.js and PHP together: DNode in PHP (John Esposito)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Networked Kanban (Jurgen Appelo)
• Attempts at TDD–Testing Private Methods (Mark Pearl)
• Some myths of ‘Textbook-TDD’, and why they are wrong (Thomas Weller)
• Microsoft Test Manager – Test Run Window Position (Shai Raiten)
• Working with external identifiers (Mark Needham)
• Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• Destabilization (Eric Brechner)
• Why do TDD? (Jimmy Bogard)
• A relaxed attitude towards the pragmatic delivery of ‘okay’ software (Rob Ashton)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What’s New in NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 11.2 Release (Mihail Mateev)
• Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (2) – A simple application and Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (3) – Lifecycle management (Anders Poulsen)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 4 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• Pure XAML pre-loader/indeterminate progress indicator for WPF (LearnWPF.com)
• 2000 WPF Things #420 – You Can Use Floating Point Values for Star Sizing (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone 7: Launcher and Choosers – Part 2 (Sudheer Kovalam)
• Introducing the XamCalculationManager (Damyan Petev)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Tomasz Janczuk Builds Web Apps with node.js (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• .NET 4.5: Size-on-disk improvements (Charles Torre)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 28 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone Radio 47 @ gdgt (Brian Seitz)
• TWC9: New Windows Phones, WP7 and Azure tools, Node.JS, & a Kinect to a Kill… (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• GoingNative 3: Marian Luparu answers about C++/CX (Diego Dagum)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 31st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – History of the Database – 5 Years of Blogging at SQLAuthority and SQLAuthority News – 5th Anniversary Giveaways (Pinal Dave)
• DCWEEK Hackathon + Dev Days (Zhiming Xue)
• Miss SQLBits 9? No problem, all videos are online (James Serra)

 

Database

• SSMS Assembly Error – Microsoft.SqlServer.Sqm.dll and SSIS Test yourself with these interview questions (Ted Krueger)
• Being an Effective DBA Remotely (John Sansom)
• Custom assemblies for Reporting Services (Jeff Krebsbach)

 

SharePoint

• Business Connectivity Services High-Level Architecture in SharePoint (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

PowerShell

• Using Powershell to remove strings in files (Martin Bell)

 

Miscellaneous

• On Google’s 20% time (Chris Smith)
• 10 things that should scare you about Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
• Ask DZ: What Book Do You Think Every Programmer Should Read? (John Esposito)
• Kinect for Xbox 360 Celebrates A Year By Giving You Goose Bumps (Richard Hay)
• Nokia Maps Coming to ALL Windows Phones Soon (Antonio Hernandez)
• Can you hear… my new WebTone? Downloading and setting a Windows Phone 7.1(5) ringtones easily and quickly… (Greg Duncan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 31, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 1 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #742 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Monthly Summary – October 2011 – 19 Posts You May Want to Recall (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily News Digest 10/31/2011 and Weekly article digest 10/31/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/31/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #971 (Chris Alcock)
• Monthly Report October 2011: Total Posts 31 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News 31 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• 16 Tips on .NET, ASP.NET 4.5, Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview, Profiler – October 2011 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.25 ~ 10.31 (gOODiDEA)

 

The Geek Shelf

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Imar Spaanjaars

 

Top Links

• RoundhousE–Intelligent Database Migrations And Versioning and DropkicK–Deploy Fluently (Rob Reynolds)
• Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Introduction and Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Syntax Rewriting (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Dependencies Break Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Why if you have implemented or in the process of implementing Scrum and are considering adding Kanban, you will want to evaluate that decision carefully (John Petersen)
• New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5 – Using pInvoke (Dan Wahlin)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting the Processor Speed and Number of Cores (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft® Visual Studio® Agents 11 Developer Preview (ISO) (MS Downloads)
• Implementing Programming Languages using C# (Christopher Diggins)
• Steamlining RavenDB, Part II – Why RavenDB Lazy Requests are in the Advanced section? (Oren Eini)
• Tutorial: free and paid game versions in Visual Studio (John Esposito)
• Code First and DbContext are now “The Entity Framework” (Julie Lerman)
• Code smell – LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… – Refactoring work in progress (Peter Gfader)
• Microsoft To Add Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries to Entity Framework V.Next! (Peter Kellner)
• List of recommended books on TFS, Visual Studio, C# and C++ coding, Design and Development Process (Terje Sandstrom)
• Setting up Separate Visual Studio Instances and Opening Visual Studio From the Task Bar (Deborah Kurata)
• Times Tables (Phillip Trelford)
• LittleWife™ (Rudi Grobler)
• Editing a Local Windows Azure Project with the Emulator Running (Nathan Totten)
• Scripting and Code Analysis using Roslyn – And a first look at Roslyn CTP (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• The Non-Typical .NET Job (Davy Brion)
• WinRT/Metro–Problem with the data from error (Derik Whittaker)
• Publish Azure Project using Windows Azure SDK 1.5 Publish Setting wizard and Roslyn Syntax API: First Look and Conditional Reading of Windows Azure BLOB (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ObjectStorageHelper – A WinRT utility for Windows 8 (Jamie Thomson)
• WinRT and Windows Property System part 2: searching for files by metadata (Andrei Marukovich)
• State of .NET Image Resizing: how does imageresizer do? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Page Inspector Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• OpenRA = C# Red Alert/Command and Conquer Clone (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• JSON Serialization and Deserialization in ASP.NET (SummiG)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Conditional with Polymorphism (Giorgio Sironi)
• Entity Framework in Three-Layered Services Application Pattern, ASP.NET MVC and Firewalled Layers? (Sam Gentile)
• Make YouTube links Windows Phone 7 – compatible (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Simple XML to JSON with PHP (Sean Biefeld)
• Printing JSON data on Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Moving to Azure: Worker Roles for Nothing and Tasks for Free (Michael C. Neel)
• Running Memcached on Windows Azure for PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• How To Write JavaScript \ JQuery Plugins (Shai Raiten)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 3 Criteria for Agile Leadership Practices (Jurgen Appelo)
• Confusion As A Usability Defect (Rob Diana)
• Process Template Upgrade #3 – Destroy all Work Items and Import new ones (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Best Practices for Build and Release Management: Part 1 and Best Practices for Build and Release Management: Part 2 (James Betteley)
• UX guidelines for Metro style app development (Billy Chow)
• I Am Sold on Pair Programming (Bobby Johnson)
• Developers Need To Keep Challenging Themselves (Davy Brion)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Validation in WPF Toolkit’s DataGrid (Frank Augustin)
• Extended WPF Toolkit–the updated PropertyGrid (Brian Lagunas)
• Adding Error Bars to Visiblox Silverlight Charts (Colin Eberhardt)
• Block diagram for Push Notification in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• CODE Framework 4.0.11021.0 (CodePlex)
• A run at runtime stats for your Windows Phone 7 apps with Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework and Google Analytics (Greg Duncan)
• How to enable Windows Phone Application Tombstone in the Emulator when Debugging and Using the BingMapsDirectionsTask in Windows Phone Mango (Senthil Kumar)
• Using Jounce Navigation to Create OOB Child Windows in Silverlight 5 (Jeremy Likness)
• applicationbar opacity in mango (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #414 – Creating a Grid in Expression Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Telerik XAML controls – Q3 2011 Beta introduces new and empowered ChartingKit (Silverlight Team)
• Windows Phone 7 Design Considerations (Sudheer Kovalam)
• The XamPivotGrid gets slicers. Data analysis just got a little simpler (Atanas Dyulgerov)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #3: Alarms and Reminders (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Mango Live Tile Helper (Jay Kimble)
• Using the motion API to check what direction the camera is looking (Joost van Schaik)
• CollectionView.Count : Is my CollectionView empty after I apply a filter on it ? (Jonathan Antoine)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 023: Cool apps and websites (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 77: Project Silk and Open Web Standards (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Technology & Friends Episode 179: Bryan Hunter on Erlang (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 039 – “Hiding-er Keyboards” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Extensions with CodeRush (Robert Green)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 416: New Holiday Bundles, Deus Ex: Game add-on and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Cloud Cover Episode 62 – Marketplace with Christian Liensberger (Steve Marx)
• Engadget Podcast 261 – 10.21.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 109 – 10.23.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• TWC9: Roslyn, Angry Birds in Expression, VS 11 Training Kit, BUILD Hands-on Labs and a Holodesk (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 73 – Andrew Coates Lights it up (Richard Banks)
• Windows Weekly 231: Why Can’t We Just Shoot Things? (Paul Thurrott)
• This is my next Podcast 029 – 10.21.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• The GeekDads Episode #102: Causation Does Not Imply Causality (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• The JavaScript Show – JavaScript MVC, money.js, RequireJS (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)

 

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – Story of Seattle – SQLPASS 2011 Event Log (Pinal Dave)
• Fix the date and call for presenters: 7th UGIALT.net Conf, 21 January 2012 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Nerd Nite No. 8, November 9, 2011 (Philly Nerd Nite)
• indieconf – want to go? (Michael Eaton)
• MVP Friday Five: October 21, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• To Every Thing There Is a Season (Karl Shifflett)
• Moving away from the local .NET User Group Community (Don Burnett)
• Looking for Big Ideas! (Ben Lower)
• Los Techies at CodeMash 2.0.1.2 (Keith Dahlby)

 

Database

• Gaining SQL Server SysAdmin Access (Chad Miller)
• Pros & Cons of Using the OLE DB Provider for SSAS 10.0 when Reporting in SSRS (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Dedicated Access Control for SQL Server Express Edition – An error occurred while obtaining the dedicated administrator connection (DAC) port. (Pinal Dave)
• Entrance into mongoDB (Code Inside Team)
• A MongoDB Guy Learns CouchDB (Karl Seguin)
• Thoughts on Data Explorer (Jamie Thomson)
• Monitoring SSRS Report Performance: Part 2 (John Pertell)

 

SharePoint

• Technical reference for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Nice to have tools for the SharePoint IT Pro (Enrique Lima)
• Sharpoint 2010 deployment using Powershell (manibe2k5)

 

Miscellaneous

• Ruby/Rails centric Vim with support for Git, RVM and more! (Kris Leech)
• RubyMine, part 3. Shortcuts (Victor Savkin)
• Diablo III Collector’s Edition announced with lots of extras (John Callaham)
• Halloween Desktop Themes for Windows 7 (Richard Hay)
• Kindle Format 8: with HTML5 and CSS3 (John Esposito)
• Announcing the LiveSide Windows Phone Device Gallery: tables gone wild! (Kip Kniskern)
• we have A book cover! (Julie Lerman)
• Comfirmed: Skype Still Scheduled For Fall 2011 Release on Windows Phone (Antonio Hernandez)
• LCARS Lock Screen for WP7 (Scott Spradlin)
• Beginning Storyboards in iOS 5 Part 1 (Ray Wenderlich)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 21, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 22, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 23, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 125 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 22 , 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – October 23 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/21/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Pie in the Sky (October 21, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #965 (Chris Alcock)
• Web Dev Tweets 20-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Reading Notes #17 (Franky)
• Geek Reading October 21, 2011 and Geek Reading October 22, 2011 and Geek Reading October 23, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 16-October-2011 to 22-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 Oct 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 17-23 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (10/21/2011) and Daily News Digest 10/24/2011 and Weekly article digest 10/24/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Retrospective 55 – Winners and FengShui (Peter Saddington)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, October 20th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #736 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.18 ~ 10.24 (gOODiDEA)

 

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed by Ray Rankins