• 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

• Be A Creator, Not a Consumer (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Introduction to jQuery Mobile (Joseph Guadagno)
• Announcing FsUnit 1.0 (Daniel Mohl)
• Windows Phone Challenges for Microsoft (John Papa)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Application review: Northwind Starter Kit (Oren Eini)
• Repository Pattern with Entity Framework 4.1 and Code First (Massimiliano Peluso)
• Optimizing Assembly References with ReSharper 6.1 (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Shortest String That Contains All Words (Chris Eargle)

Web Development

• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 9 – Using Interactive JavaScript for Data Visualization (Avkash Chauhan)
• APress Deal of the Day 3/Jan/2011 – Pro Internet Explorer 8 & 9 Development (Tatworth)
• Day 10 – Drawing rotated images into canvas (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Web Forms with HTML5 (Mark Michaelis)
• SoMvc – ASP.net MVC 3 Application Template 1.0 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft’s cloud roadmap for 2012: What’s on tap (Mary Jo Foley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Vs. Lean: Yeah Yeah, What’s the Difference? (Abby Fichtner)
• The Value is in the Change (J.D. Meier)
• [Tool Review] – Team Pulse – Full Enterprise Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• TDD for multithreaded applications (Giorgio Sironi)
• Article: Dialogue Sheets: A new tool for retrospectives (Allan Kelly)
• Notes on Scalability (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Formula for project success (Jimmy Bogard)
• Composition Of Responsibility vs. Interface Implementation (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Article Series by SilverlightShow and Gill Cleeren: Windows 8 and the future of XAML (Silverlight Show)
• Adding Cookies to a Windows Phone 7 HttpWebRequest (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #464 – ShowsPreview Property Delays Row/Column Size Change Using a GridSplitter (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7 (Subodhn Pushpak)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jim Holmes Tests Everything (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 170 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeffery Hicks Manages Windows Server with PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Legacy Refactoring Using Isolator (Avi Kaye)

Community / Events

• Check Out the Slides for Tomorrow’s Webinar "Azure for the Windows Phone Developer" (Silverlight Show)
• Looking forward to CodeMash: Inside and Outside (Bill Wagner)

Database

• SQL SERVER DISABLE INDEX (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL Server Login Auditing (Tim Radney)
• MongoDB’s Write Lock (Rick Copeland)

Miscellaneous

• Ten Things To Do to Secure an Important Person’s Computer (or even Ashton’s or a Kardashian’s) (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #787 (Mike Gunderloy)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 19-25 and Windows Dev News for January 02, 2011 – #0020 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 26, 2011 – January 01, 2012 and Daily News Digest 1/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1013 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know by Richard Monson-Haefel

• 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

• 31 Days of Mango | Day #8: Contacts API (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Working with Prism 4 Part 1: Getting Started (Brian Noyes)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 1 (Jorge Ramon)
• Useful Visual Studio Extension – Web Essentials from Mads Kristensen (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• MonoDevelop User Voice: Vote for Full F# Support (Don Syme)
• An F# Web Server From Sockets and Up (Anton Tayanovskyy)
• A Generic Circular Buffer (Richard Carr)
• Asynchronous Processing in Windows 8 (Charles Petzold)
• F# Parallel Execution and Future Tasks (Carl Nolan)
• Visual Studio Tools and Tricks (Patrick Liekhus)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview – Project Backward Compatibility (Round-Tripping) (Zain Naboulsi)
• The Rx Framework By Example (Phil Martin)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 19 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• Windows Azure Drive Snapshot and Updating Azure Drive (Avkash Chauhan)
• Netduino Controlled LED Cube (Mark Stevens)
• Running StyleCop without an installation to empower continuous integration (Marko Apfel)
• Windows Azure for Social Applications (Larry Franks)
• The life story of the SwitchToThisWindow function (Raymond Chen)
• Improve HealthVault query efficiency with final transforms… (Eric Gunnerson)
• Breaking changes and named arguments (Eric Lippert)
• Real world feedback on a .Net to Mono migration (Patrick Smacchia)
• Azure: What is wrong with the Partition Key value? (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• jQuery mouseover expanding menu (John Whish)
• Auto wiring parts in ASP.NET MVC with MEF 2 (Per Ökvist)
• Bing Maps REST Services SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
• Introducing the pinning wizard – a more interactive website in 5 minutes (Justin Garrett)
• What’s your checklist for starting a new Rails application? (Daniel Kehoe)
• Rocking YUI on Node.js and Mobile (Dav Glass)
• SVG Tutorial: Rotating Wheel Interface (with Clipping Paths and Scalable 2D Motion Graphics) (John Esposito)
• GoogleMap Control 6.0 (CodePlex)
• 25 Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools (Andi Smith)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Me on TDD/BDD/Pairing and Jason Fried’s TED Talk and “why work isn’t done in the office…” (Adron Hall)
• Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 2: Typemock (Thomas Weller)
• How to improve your site using stakeholder interviews (Paul Boag)
• Carve Out Time for What’s Important (JD Meier)
• Troubleshooting Record and Playback issues in Coded UI Test (Mathew Aniyan)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Design Templates and Bewise Phone Controls Toolkit (Windows Phone Geek)
• iOS UIPickerView-like control in WPF (Mike Heydlauf)
• Windows Phone: Are you Game? Part 1 (Espen Harlinn)
• JavaScript, MVVM and Silverlight – Papa’s Perspective (John Papa)
• Achievement unlocked: Windows Phone 7 and WireShark combo (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Introducing The Podcast App Starter Kit for Windows Phone (Dani Diaz)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 5 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• How to Load Image that is set as Embedded Resource in BuildAction in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
• How to use PlaySoundAction Behavior in WP7 Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Could and should Microsoft change the heart of Windows Phone? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Inside Windows Phone Apps – Facebook and Inside Windows Phone Apps – Twitter (Sara Allison)
• 2000 WPF Things #425 – SharedSizeGroup Allows Sharing Column Sizes Across Different Grids (Sean Sexton)
• Introduction to Infragistics Geographic Map (Mihail Mateev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SPLASH 2011: Brendan Eich – JavaScript Today and Tomorrow (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 181: Joe Kunk on Windows 8 (David Giard)
• SQL SERVER – Video – Performance Improvement in Columnstore Index (Pinal Dave)
• The Tablet Show – Dan Hanan and Danny Warren Combine Kinect and Metro (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ping 123: Microsoft and the White House, New MS store, Holodesk, YouTube hacked and Spotify launches for Windows Phone TODAY (Laura Foy)
• 5 Minutes on The Verge: Microsoft’s Frank X. Shaw (Joshua Topolsky)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 75 – Sailing With This Ship of Tools (Richard Banks)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 13: Extending RadScheduleView (Evan Hutnick)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for November 7th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Critical Path Training – SharePoint 2010 Developer Training in Oslo, Norway! (Andrew Connell)
• Open Government Data: From the Cloud to the Phone–Dev Dinner Event Nov. 17, 2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• New Windows Phones hit U.S. stores; Revealing our big NYC surprise and Recap: Big Windows Phone wows New York City (Michael Stroh)
• Windows Phone Wants to Feature Your App!!! (Doug Holland)

Database

• Delegated SQL Server Administration with Powershell (Chad Miller)
• SQL Server 2012: New Certifications (James Serra)
• Amazon/Microsoft Deal Expanded to Include BizSpark and SQL Server 2012 (Jonathan Allen)
• SQL Server Denali CTP 3 – Dockable Windows! (Mike Parks)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.5–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server: Find Common Rows in Tables using INTERSECT (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to CUME_DIST – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 and SQLAuthority News – Updates on Contests, Books and SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB’s Reliability Questioned (Jonathan Allen)
• Add-In for searching object in SSMS without touching mouse (Jakub Dvorak)

SharePoint

• How do I solve – This view cannot be displayed because the number of lookup and workflow status columns it contains exceeds the threshold enforced by the administrator? (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

PowerShell

Miscellaneous

• The General Problem (xkcd.com)
• Poll: What is the Coolest Non-Gaming Use for the Kinect Technology? (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Use note tag colors to prioritize information on a OneNote page (John Guin)
• BizTalk 2010 Schema mapping issues (Jon Fancey)
• Nook Tablet vs Kindle Fire vs Nook Color vs iPad 2 comparison (Thomas Ricker)
• The Tweaker – The real genius of Steve Jobs. (Malcolm Gladwell)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 11.01 ~ 11.07 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Maker Geek Roundup 003 for 11/7/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #975 and The Morning Brew #976 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #746 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/7/2011 and Weekly article digest 11/7/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 07/11/2011 (Jax)
• Reading Notes #19 (Franky)
• Silverlight Cream for November 06, 2011 — #1163 and Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2011 — #1164 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 7 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 30-October-2011 to 05-November-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript for Programmers by Paul J. Deitel

• EF 4.2 Released (EF Team)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #2: DeviceStatus (Jeff Blankenburg)
• jQuery 1.7 RC2 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Getting started with convention-based part registration in MEF ‘version 2’ (Nick – BCL Team)
• Debugging Fun with the Async CTP (Mike Taulty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• IDisposable and Thread Safety (Richard Carr)
• F# Math – Numerical computing and F# PowerPack and F# Math (I.) – Numeric types in PowerPack (Tomas Petricek)
• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework November Sample Updates (Jialiang Ge)
• My article on Creating a User Interface with Mono for Android #Monodroid (Wally McClure)
• Devpad 4.6 (CodePlex)
• TODO: An EPUB Viewer for Windows 8 (Charles Petzold)
• Debugging Contracts using Windows Simulator (Cathy Sullivan)
• List valid Data Center Locations for a Subscription using Windows Azure Management API (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• Practical HTML5: Using It Today (Doris Chen)
• Javascript memory leaks (Jeff Krebsbach)
• Build Cross-Platform Apps with Standards (Joe Stagner)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Rename Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Creating a Windows Azure VM Role and Using Windows Azure table storage (Shervin Shakibi)
• My Experiment with Wolfram|Alpha Facts Windows Azure DataMarket to check world population and Everything you need to start with Windows Azure based Microsoft Codename "Social Analytics" (Avkash Chauhan)
• Remote Site Editing and Local Syncing with WebMatrix 2 (John Esposito)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: OpportunisticRefactoring (Martin Fowler)
• Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• TDD – Static Methods (Mark Pearl)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New features in NetAdvantage for Windows Phone Vol.11.2 (Mihail Mateev)
• XamTileManager – new control in the XAML Line of Business product shipped with the 11.2 release (Atanas Dyulgerov)
• Telerik XAML Q3’11 Beta – Walkthrough (Part 3 of 3): RadChartingKit (Evan Hutnick)
• Telerik XAML Q3’11 Beta – Walkthrough (Part 1 of 3) and Telerik XAML Q3’11 Beta – Walkthrough (Part 2 of 3) (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #421 – HorizontalAlignment, Margins and Column Widths in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone 7: Launcher and Choosers – Part 2 (Sudheer Kovalam)
• AgFx Windows Phone Application Data Caching Framework – November Update (CodePlex)
• Looking for great app ideas? Try Marketplace Extra (Michael Stroh)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: WCF Extensibility with Scott Reed (MS Podcasts)
• Engadget HD Podcast 272 – 11.01.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Phone Hackathon from Nokia World (Laura Foy)
• Screencast: Coding Conway’s Game of Life in Ruby the TDD Way with RSpec (Peter Cooper)
• Defrag: Readyboost, Virtual Machines, Printing at Distance (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• jQuery Conference 2012: United Kingdom Announced (Ralph Whitbeck)
• Free Upcoming Webinar – Enterprise Information Management with SharePoint 2010: Secrets to Success (Joel Oleson)
• Free online Prism 4.0 training (Bob Brumfield)
• AT&T Mobile App Hackathon–Orlando–I’ll be there (Dani Diaz)
• Windows Phone Event at Hull University (Rob Miles)
• What are you into? (Luke)
• 30 Day Boot Camp for Getting Results: Free Time Management Training for Achievers (JD Meier)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Import CSV into Database – Transferring File Content into a Database Table using CSVexpress (Pinal Dave)
• Over and under indexing – how bad is it out there? (Paul S. Randal)
• Publish Capabilities in Data Explorer (Data Explorer Team)
• How To Backup Your Postgres DB To Amazon Nightly (Rob Conery)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Azure Use Case: Supplementing Infrastructure (Buck Woody)
• Cross-Post: Photosynth Loves Windows Azure (Himanshu Singh)
• New Google Reader Layout | Not a Fan (Jeff Julian)
• Pogue Power: #Ebook Deal/Day – Save 50% on all @Pogue’s Missing Manuals + NEW Mac OS X Lion: TMM (O’Reilly Media)
• How Microsoft kills cool projects (Scott Berkun)
• Android 4.0 Graphics and Animations (Tim Bray)
• Nokia Maps Coming to ALL Windows Phones Soon and WP7 Xbox Live Game of the Week: Kinectimals (officially) (Antonio Hernandez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #972 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 2 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading November 1, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #743 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/1/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/01/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow for October 24 – 30, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for November 01, 2011 — #1160 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 by Dino Esposito

• 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

• Now Available: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – September 2011 Update and New Training Kit Web Installer Preview (James Conard)
• First look at Windows Simulator (Navneet Gupta)
• New Debugging Book – Windows Debugging Notebook: Essential User Space WinDbg Commands (Roberto Alexis Farah)
• Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap (Colin Eberhardt)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First jQuery – $15.99(Save 50%) and FINAL DAY: Back to School Special – *Free to Choose* – Save 50% All Ebooks & Videos – Use code: B2SDEAL (O’Reilly Media)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers (Abhishek Lohani)
• Visual C++ and WinRT/Metro – Some fundamentals (Nishant Sivakumar)
• AutoMapper 2.0 – Nested/Child Containers (Jimmy Bogard)
• Local workspaces (Gian Maria Ricci)
• A Simple AppSettings Type Provider (Daniel Mohl)
• Microsoft HealthVault SDK v2 released (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Metro-style application manifest (Andrej Tozon)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 3 for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (MS Downloads)
• VisualStudio 2010 JavaScript & CSS Outlining – Release: v2.0 (CodePlex)
• Getting Touch Support in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps Now (Carl Bergenhem)
• CSS3 text-shadow in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)
• Tips for Speeding Up Octopress Site Generation (Pavan Podila)
• A convention for using CoffeeScript in Rails (Marko Anastasov)
• Stack Exchange API Usage Stats and API 2.0 Plans (Jeff Atwood)
• How to prevent the user to post page twice, by using refresh (Jeroen Bourdeaud’hui)
• A PHP on Windows Azure Learning Plan (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pretotyping: a complete example (Giorgio Sironi)
• Document based modeling: Auctions & Bids (Oren Eini)
• Model-View-What? (Stacy Vicknair)
• Delegation Poker (Free Exercise) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Future mocking revisited (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: Updated all "Mango" posts (Peter Kuhn)
• Pinworthy: 5 apps to try with Windows Phone 7.5 (Andy Colley)
• New SilverlightShow Ebook: "Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies" (Silverlight Show)
• Why the Frame Rate Counter is not Available in my WP7 Emulator? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Behind the XAML of the Windows Phone Silverlight Game – Numbertap (Luke Lowrey)
• A word on WPF4 manipulations. (Luis Cabrera)
• 2000 WPF Things #398 – WrapPanel Element (Sean Sexton)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 5 – Getting email addresses for Beta testers and SurfCube on Mango Part 6 – Join SurfCube V4 Beta! Here’s what’s coming (András Velvárt)
• Taking a Tougher Stance on Bulk App Publishing (Todd Brix)
• New Extension Introduces Microsoft Office to LightSwitch (Jenni Ripley)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 8: Solving a MEF Dilemma (Evan Hutnick)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 019: Mail Order Mysteries (Mark Frauenfelder)
• How Do I: Internet Explorer 8 – Selectors API (MS Podcasts)
• GoingNative Live at BUILD: Herb Sutter, Joanna Mason, Tony Goodhew and GoingNative 2: C++ at BUILD, Windows Runtime Library(WRL), Meet Tarek and Sridhar (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #144: Cost vs. Benefit (James Shore)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.7 beta 1, Toggler, Face Detection (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• What The Tech 86: Topical Paul (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast: SendGrid Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• "Kinecting The Dots – Developing with the Kinect SDK" TechEd Session (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Announcing the Revival of the Blenders SIG (Don Burnett)
• FREE Software Process & Scrum On-line Event Series by Northwest Cadence in October and November! (Angela Dugan)
• MVP in Residence Helps with BUILD Demo (MVP Award Program)
• Meet Up With DZone @ JavaOne 2011 and Oracle Open World In San Francisco!! (Jim Moscater)

Database

• SQL Server: Removing Deprecated Code and Future Proofing your Queries (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_volume_stats – Information about operating system volume and SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_windows_info – Information about Operating System (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with SQL Azure Development (Zhiming Xue)

SharePoint

• SharePoint is NOT Dropbox: But User Beware! (Joel Oleson)
• New book: Deploying Cloud-Based Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

• Threading in PowerShell (Oliver Mantl)

Miscellaneous

• Code your own Mult-User Private Git Server (with ruby) (Richard Taylor)
• Time Off, Vacations and Sabbaticals for Programmers (Krishna Kumar)
• Zune expands to Canada, drops Zune Pass price in US (Michael Stroh)
• Android’s HTTP Clients (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 29, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 09.26 ~ 09.30 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 30 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #720 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 29th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• The Morning Brew #949 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 09/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 28-Sep-2011 and 29-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/29/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow for Sept 19 – 25, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2011 — #1152 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links– 2010_33 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Debugging Notebook: Essential User Space WinDbg Commands by Roberto Alexis Farah

• Recap: Windows Phone 7.5 “a breath of fresh air” (Michael Stroh)
• Exploring Windows Phone 7.5’s Web Marketplace. And a surprise new feature! (Ben Rudolph)
• Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update begins (Eric Hautala)
• September 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Compiling Unsafe Code in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Highlighting Execution Hot Path in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler Call Tree (Abhijit Jana)
• Background Transfer Download Sample For C# In Windows 8 (Karsten Januszewski)
• Day 2: Building a Metro App with Visual Studio 11 Express (Stephen Forte)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Quick Launch (Zain Naboulsi)
• Asynchronous Operations in Windows 8 with the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) (Visual C++ Team)
• Setting up a NuGet repository in seconds: MyGet public feeds (Maarten Balliauw)
• Keep it secret, keep it safe (Eric Lippert)
• Wiimote Kinecting Music with Holofunk (Greg Duncan)
• What’s happening on the NuGet feed (leveraging OData in an RSS reader) (Jason Jarrett)
• Environments for Windows Azure development (Tom Hollander)
• Announcement: Namespace Global (Lucian Wischik)

Web Development

• Building Offline Experiences with HTML5 AppCache and IndexedDB (Israel Hilerio)
• What’s New in HTML5 – Markup and More ! and A Useful Firefox Plugin for Web Developers – Firesizer (Joe Stagner)
• Massive’s Dynamic Query Syntax (Rob Conery)
• Large Ruby File Downloads Done Right! (Dan Watson)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP #108.1421 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• YUI 3.4.1 is now live (Allen Rabinovich)
• Adding A ‘has_image?’ Matcher To Capybara (Derick Bailey)
• Come Node With Me – The Working Man’s Introduction to Node.js (Drew Peterson)
• Search for code duplicates in PhpStorm (Eugene Kudelevsky)
• A Guide to Wijmo Theming (Kevin Griffin)
• Running Processes in Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)
• SassAndCoffee 1.1 issues with AppHarbor (Paul Betts)
• Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6 (Paul Irish)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Running unit tests in Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (WinRT) (Laurent Bugnion)
• NServiceBus Modelling Tools (Udi Dahan)
• Don’t give a chicken access to your schedule / feature set (Oren Eini)
• Scrum Sprint Monitor v1.1.0.292 (CodePlex)
• Good Collaboration: Bringing Devs and Testers Closer and Wrapping Performance Testing Introduction: What to Monitor (Plus Learning Resources) (Jim Holmes)
• Meddlers (Free Exercise) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Continuous Integration: Why You Don’t Really "Get It" (Mitch Pronschinske)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• pInvoke in Silverlight5 and .NET Framework (Alexandra Rusina)
• The Top 10 Over-Engineering Mistakes in Silverlight Applications (Jeremy Likness)
• Know About WP7 System Tray – Tips to Show or Hide it (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Enumerating Printers using PInvoke in Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #396 – Rich ListBox Content Using Data Binding, part II (Sean Sexton)
• RadMap for Silverlight – How To Consume Tiles from Local Server (Telerik Silverlight Team)
• Wiring up an AutoCompleteBox to a JSON Service in Silverlight (Steve Smith)
• Developers get MORE with Windows Phone 7.5 (Todd Brix)
• Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 3 – Adding wind effect (Lazar Nikolov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET 4.5: David Kean and Mircea Trofin – Portable Libraries (Charles Torre)
• End User Adoption and the SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide with Rob Bogue-Episode 67 and SharePoint Pod Show Road Trip and Chat with Latasha Battle-Episode 68 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Engadget HD Podcast 267 – 09.27.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Ping 118: Windows Phone wins people choice, Windows makes a difference, Clinton & Gates, Symbian developers (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #143: File → Save As… (James Shore)
• Boagworld: Working with WordPress (Paul Boag)
• Check It Out: Mouse Without Borders (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Attend a Windows Phone Camp…Win a New Phone! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming Free HTML5 Training in West Region (Doris Chen)
• Event: Meet Microsoft Press authors at Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 (Kim Spilker)
• October 4th to 6th–FREE Online Conferences on Phone, Azure and IE (Eric Nelson)
• The Magic Behind the Curtain: Celebrating Microsoft Research’s 20th Anniversary (Jeffrey Meisner)
• I’m speaking at the Northern Virginia Code Camp THIS WEEKEND! (Kevin Griffin)
• Moving Along (Michael Swanson)
• October Tech Calendar (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• SSIS Child Errors in Parent Package (Mike Davis)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV Enhancement – sys.dm_exec_query_stats – New Columns (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Implementing Claims-Based Authentication with SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• compare sharepoint site permissions and clone permissions (Brett Lonsdale)

PowerShell

• Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft and mindshare: can Mango be cool in the mall? (Kip Kniskern)
• MSDN Magazine: October Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
• How to update your Windows Phone (Luke)
• Windows Phone 7.5 Mango review (Brad Molen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 27, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/27/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #947 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 09/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 26-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for September 27, 2011 — #1151 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #718 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0), The (4th Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Anders Hejlsberg

• Metro Business Apps (Ward Bell)
• My Windows 8 slate has split personalities–and what Microsoft could do to improve that (Laurent Bugnion)
• Reengineering the Windows boot experience (Steven Sinofsky)
• Analyzing Windows 8 and WinRT (Steve Smith)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Deep Zoom Images through c# code and Adding message in a Windows Azure Queue (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Confirmed: Juneau is in the next version of Visual Studio (Jamie Thomson)
• TFS vNext – Falls Short of the Mark (Paul Stack)
• TFS Workbench v2.2.0.8 (CodePlex)
• Community Callout: CodePlugIn_INotifyPropertyChanged (Rory Becker)
• New HTML Editor feature in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Web Platform and Tools Team)
• Python Tools for VS (Mike Stall)
• Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Neil Mackenzie)
• GPU Debugging with VS 11 (Daniel Moth)
• Dependency Management in .Net: Get (Derek Greer)
• Windows 8 applications and JSON data (Andrej Tozon)
• Using the Windows Runtime from a Non-Metro Application and Core .NET Types Usable from a Metro Style Application (Jeffrey Richter)

Web Development

• Save a tree with TreeSaver.js (Think "JavaScript framework for creating magazine-style layouts using standards-compliant HTML and CSS") (Greg Duncan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Type Code with Class (Giorgio Sironi)
• Quasi-literals: embedded DSLs in ECMAScript.next (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Adding filters to your ELMAH installation (Doug Rathbone)
• Things the W3C Should Stop Doing (Alex Russell)
• A Visual History Of The Usefulness Of Ruby On Rails (Derick Bailey)
• SVG – an introduction (Josh Reuben)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 Early Access Program started (Alexey Gopachenko)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Premature Optimization (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Why would anyone use MSTest over NUnit? (Drew Peterson)
• Three Book Reviews (Jim Holmes)
• Why you should care about encapsulation (Greg Moeck)
• Touch Input for IE10 and Metro style Apps (Jacob Rossi)
• Scrum for Team System v3.0.4281.00 (CodePlex) – v3.0 is now open source.

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
• WPF 4.5 – Part 3 : New methods of the Dispatcher (Jonathan Antoine)
• Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data (Samidip Basu)
• Nokia Developers: learn Windows Phone even faster (JC Cimetiere)
• Enabling Frame Rate Counters for XAML Applications in Windows 8 (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Power Tools 1.1 (Oren Nachman)
• Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) – Tcp Socket acts differently on emulator and device (HTC Mozard) (Michael Sync)
• Enumerating MIDI Interfaces using Silverlight 5 PInvoke (Pete Brown)
• Build a GOVERNMENT Windows Phone App Today!!! (Joel Reyes)
• 2000 WPF Things #391 – Anti-Aliasing Can Lead to Fuzzy GUI Elements (Sean Sexton)
• Submit Windows Phone 7.5 Apps today; Update 7.0 Apps in October (Todd Brix)
• An Alternate Approach to a GridView (Paul Sheriff)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes: Manipulations and UML with VS 2010 Part 6: Designing a Project’s Physical Structure (MS Podcasts)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 23 (Richard Hay)
• Engadget HD Podcast 266 – 09.20.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Yet Another Podcast #49–Jon Galloway: What’s New In ASP.NET (Jesse Liberty)
• Let’s Play TDD #141: Domain-Specific Language (James Shore)
• Ping 117: Xbox gives back, Win 8 boots fast, Ballmer sees bright future, More MATH please! and Hot Apps: Fight Game Rivals, Bad Trip, Multi Browser, Showcase’d, Bulls n Cows (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Charlotte .NET User Group – Mono for Android #monodroid (Wally McClure)
• A few Mozillians to read and follow. (Joe Stagner)
• Just Added: HTML5 Training at jQuery Conference Boston! (Leah Silber)
• Agile .NET 2011 Europe happens in 3 weeks and discount code (Simone Chiaretta)
• Windows Phone Camps (Chris Koenig)
• Microsoft Employee Who Tweeted About Unreleased Nokia Windows Phone Now an Ex-Employee (Ina Fried)
• A good day: “Day of Caring” volunteering (Devon Musgrave)
• f8 is almost here! (Kathleen Loughlin)

Database

• Microsoft Releases Two Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – 14 New Functions – A Quick Guide (Pinal Dave)
• Query SQL Azure and On-Premise Data in One Codeset (Buck Woody)
• Roman Numerals to integers, and Vice Versa, in SQL: (Phil Factor)
• Stored Procedures – Common Security Practice (Jason Brimhall)

SharePoint

• 7 New Wonders of the SharePoint World (Joel Oleson)
• New book: Customizing My Site in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

• Applying NTFS Permissions (Tobias Weltner)
• Cross-Post: Announcing the Release of Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 (Windows Azure Team)
• PowerPack for non-Windows management in SCCM and SCOM (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Win7 SP1/Win2008 RC SP1 get some PowerShell 3 CTP love… Or PS gets WF (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Introducing App Sites (Ben Scheirman)
• NYC 2.0 on PBS (Becky Stern)

More Link Collections

• Tip on Writing Reflector Addins (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 21 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading September 20, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (9/20/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #942 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 20, 2011 — #1146 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #713 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 09/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 19-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Link dump for September 20th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

• O Reilly – 50% off ebooks and videos to Sept 28th (TATWORTH)
• One scary future for Windows 8 I hope we never see (Steven Hodson)
• WinRT demystified (Miguel de Icaza)
• Will XNA be available in Windows 8 Metro Apps? (Ryan Hayes)
• WebMatrix and node.js: The easiest way to get started with node on Windows (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / WinRT / Visual Studio

• Specifying Assembly Information in Visual Studio and How to Pass Command Line Arguments using Visual Studio ? (Abhijit Jana)
• How to configure a build controller against tfspreview (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Using WinRT from C# //build Demo (Harry Pierson)
• Teaching XNA with class with the "Game Development with XNA: Semester 1" class and Kinect SDK dev series with a runtime extension and more on buttons (with Hover Button Control too) and "What’s New in the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview" (and Yield is coming to VB.Net!) (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The String Remove() and Replace() Methods (James Michael Hare)
• Adventure in parserland – parsing lambda expressions in F# – Part V (Luca Bolognese)
• Setting useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy At Runtime (Reed Copsey)
• Back to Basics: Big O notation issues with older .NET code and improving for loops with LINQ deferred execution (Scott Hanselman)
• TFS Azure–Technical Access Preview Experience! (Tarun Arora)
• Installing the Advanced Configuration of TFS vNext from the BUILD Conference in Anaheim (Tim Elhajj)
• Announcing: Windows Azure SDK 1.5, Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and new Service Management Features (Vijay Rajagopalan)
• Modifying an IntelliTrace Collection Plan for the Stand-Alone Collector (Patrick)
• The Windows Runtime (Harry Pierson)
• Build day 2: WinRT and managed languages (Bill Wagner)
• Windows 8 : how to detect the orientation and the layout state of a metro app ? (Jonathan Antoine)
• Metro and WinRT: Too early to call, but I’m paying close attention (Pete Seale)
• Arrays of ValueTypes don’t like object.Equals (Chris Gardner)
• Windows 8 Remote Debugging + Setup (Andy Beaulieu)

Web Development

• Reviewing SignalR–Part I (Oren Eini)
• A more complete Simple Membership MVC 3 Sample and ASP.Net MVC4 Developer Preview install fails with web platform installer and ASP.NET MVC4 Developer Preview goodness! (Kevin LaBranche)
• New JavaScript editing features for Web development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Xinyang Qiu)
• Zombies! RUN! (Managing Page Transitions In Backbone Apps) (Derick Bailey)
• Site Ready WebSockets (ieblog)
• Free Book Chapter: Creating a User Account in Rails (Mitch Pronschinske)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Count Bug Fixes Towards Velocity? Depends … (Vikas Hazrati)
• Why some projects just go right (Paul Boag)
• Business Scenarios for the Cloud (JD Meier)
• Application Lifecycle Management in Team Foundation Server 11 and Designing Loosely Coupled Metro Applications with URIs (Jonathan Allen)
• Windows Azure Architecture Guide (MS Downloads)

XAML

• Silverlight Developers Have the Smoothest Road to Metro (Brian Noyes)
• WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 0 and WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 1 – XML Namespace (Morten Nielsen)
• Expand and Collapse ExpanderView inside data bound ListBox via code (Windows Phone Geek)
• Announcing Windows Phone Starter Kits (Chris Koenig)
• Upload Image from Silverlight to Azure BLOB using WCF (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF Elements 5 Beta – Grab it and enter the Xbox draw! (John-Daniel Trask)
• If Silverlight is Dead… (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight 5 in Action Book Update, and Announcing the Next Big Book (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #388 – Layout Containers Don’t Provide Scrolling Support (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio vNext: DirectX 11 Development Experience (Charles Torre)
• JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.6.4, Node 0.5.6 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Let’s Play TDD #140: Cleaning Up the Menu Code (James Shore)
• Xbox LIVE On Windows 8 Enables Gamers To Play Against PC, Windows Phone And Xbox 360 [VIDEO] (Ben Reid)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – William Shulman Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Windows 8 Running on ARM (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• My first few days at Mozilla (Joe Stagner)
• Download all the Build Videos with RSS (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone ‘Mango’ Developer Event, Cambridge MA (Bob Familiar)
• ASP.NET Training in San Diego on Saturday, September 24th (Scott Mitchell)
• BUILD Day #2 in Review According to MVPs (MVP Award Program)
• Join NW Ohio .NET User Group for Their 10th Anniversary! and Learn About Test Studio’s R2 Release via a Webinar on 9/29! (Jim Holmes)
• Microsoft Build: News from the Windows 8 sessions (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

• Scripts to Enable Microsoft Help Viewer for Microsoft SQL Server Code-Named “Denali” CTP3 (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – String Function – CONCAT() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• RTM’d today: Deploying Cloud-Based Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 – An OS of two halves. (Colin Eberhardt)
• Joe Belfiore: No Mango This Week (Still Might Land this Month) (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows To Go (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 5 deal-breaking flaws in Windows 8 (Sebastian Anthony)
• Protecting you from malware (Steven Sinofsky)
• Windows Azure Marketplace News from BUILD: Announcing NEW Data Offerings and International Availability (Sudhir Hasbe)
• iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8? A coder’s guide (Matthew Baxter-Reynolds)
• Xbox Live integration coming to Windows 8 (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #939 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 09/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 14-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Geek Reading September 15, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily Links 15/09/2011 (Jax)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan