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Top Links

• 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

 

Top Links

• MVVM Light V4 beta1 (Laurent Bugnion)
• jQuery 1.6.4 Released (John Resig)
• Project Silk – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
• Windows 8 to be Unveiled Tuesday 13th Sept, Watch it Live (Mike Halsey)
• Google & the Future of JavaScript (Alex Russell)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• My favorite tools to optimize Visual Studio for webdev (Katrien de Graeve)
• Restarting RabbitMQ With Running EasyNetQ Clients and Why Write a .NET API For RabbitMQ? (Mike Hadlow)
• Lambda Expression Parser – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
• TFS API: Using LINQpad to query TFS (Tarun Arora)
• The Windows Native Ribbon Part 3: Buttons and Menus (Michael Dunn)
• Maps Keys to a Collection of Values using Lookup Collection (Abhijit Jana)
• PInvoke Performance (Dave Kerr)
• Fundamentals of the Managed Extensibility Framework (Jeremy Likness)
• Announcing Windows Azure Autoscaling Block preview (Grigori Melnik)

 

Web Development

• Offline Web Apps – AppCaching and HTML5 (Luke)
• Using MVC as a REST Service that is Accessed by jQuery/JavaScript (John Petersen)
• Web Forms Model Binding Part 2: Filtering Data (ASP.NET vNext Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Trying out OpenWrap 2.0 (Sebastien Lambla)
• 7 Best Practices for Improving Your Website’s Usability (Jacob Gube)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The LOB Chronicles Episode 6 – Development Best Practices (Evan Hutnick)
• Achieve Cost-Effective Business Continuity (JD Meier)
• Article: Controlling and Steering Open Source Projects (Dirk Riehle)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to use PInvoke in Silverlight 5 (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Toolkit DateTime Converters (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight 5 Multi Column and Linked Text (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
• Create your first Windows Phone app in Expression Blend (Part III) (Pam Keesey)
• 2000 WPF Things #385 – You Can Nest Panel Controls (Sean Sexton)
• Improvements in Music & Video hub integration (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 120: Ryan Stewart on RIAs and All Things Adobe (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• MSNBC and Bill Buxton on making computers invisible (Steve Clayton)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 4: Economic Crisis and Software Industry (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Community / Events

• BUILD, publication schedules, and request for feedback (Larry Franks)
• Going to the //Build Conference in Anaheim this week? Me Neither. Join me in Chicago for a Live //Build Event Instead (Angela Binkowski)
• Speaking at HTML5 Dev Conference (Doris Chen)
• My Windows 8 Build Predictions (Jeremy Likness)
• Upcoming Web Design and Development Conferences in 2011-12 (Louis Lazaris)
• What Comes Next (Evan Hutnick)
• Telerik: Delivering More than Expected at //build/….in a Lamborghini Gallardo (Telerik Dev Community)
• Submit a Talk for YUIConf 2011 (Jenny Donnelly)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Denali – New Functions and Shorthand for CASE Statement (Pinal Dave)
• PostgreSQL 9.1 Released (PostgreSQL)

 

SharePoint

• RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• Claims Architecture for SharePoint 2010 Developers (Siew Moi Khor)

 

Miscellaneous

• Five unanswered Windows 8 questions (Ed Bott)
• Kinecting your Reception room with Kinect Reception (Greg Duncan)
• Some Basic Bash Commands I found useful for Git Bash (Mark Pearl)
• Xbox 360 won’t Auto Login to Live – Fixed due to RSTP and Spanning Tree setting in a NetGear Managed GS724TP Switch (Scott Hanselman)
• AT&T announces new Windows Phone lineup (Brian Seitz)
• Windows Phone “Tango1”, “Tango2”, and “Apollo” confirmed (damaster)
• If you don’t have pet projects, I don’t think I want you (Oren Eini)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 12, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #706 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly Article Digest 09/12/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/12/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Today’s Links (9/12/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #935 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 12 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky

 

 

Top Links

• 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