• 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

• 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

• 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

• About this blog and your comments and Introducing the team (Steven Sinofsky)
• The Future of the Living Room (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Exploring the August 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit for ‘Mango’ (Jeff Wilcox)
• New Ajax Grid Scaffolding NuGet Package for MVC 3 (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• New Book: FRIENDLY F# through Game Development and XNA (Don Syme)
• Getting Started with the F# PowerPack – Part 2 (Daniel Mohl)
• Code Metrics: Working with Columns (Zain Naboulsi)
• Try, try, try again… SQL Azure, Azure Storage, AppFrabric Service Bus Retry Article and Library and A passel of Parallel Programming samples and Back to basics with a Basic XNA and Kinect SDK sample (Greg Duncan)
• YouTrackSharp and YouTrackForReSharper on JetBrains GitHub and dotTrace: Profiling decompiled code (Hadi Hariri)
• Facebook C# SDK – 5.2 Beta and StyleCop – Release v4.6 (CodePlex)
• Upgrading Our ClickOnce App From .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0 (Pete Seale)
• RavenDB Multi GET support (Oren Eini)
• Dive into the summer with MSDN: The Windows Azure Platform (Katrien de Graeve)
• Android for .NET Developers – Creating Files (Dino Esposito)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Route Debugger: One handy tool (Bill Wagner)
• Beginning an HTML5 Application – The Requirements (Joe Stagner)
• PHP: Fetch $_GET as String with http_build_query() (Stoimen Popov)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Value to Reference (Giorgio Sironi)
• Adding the New HTML Editor Extender to a Web Forms Application using NuGet (Stephen Walther)
• Facebook: Simplifying the Developer App (Alan McConnell)
• An introduction to JSDoc (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Video Manipulation with the Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
• Underscore.js (K. Scott Allen)
• Now Available: Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles v1.1 (Windows Azure Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Effective Sketches (Simon Brown)
• Microsoft Patterns & Practices Books Offer Guidance on Adopting Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• Designing an API: Is JSON/JSONP an and/or decision? (Kyle Baley)
• Splitting Story Points is a Smell…Stop it! (Matthew Barcomb)
• Tales from the Engine Room: Bulk Updates (Patrick O’Keeffe)
• Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes (Anthony)
• Lockdown Pt. 3: Are Our Applications Secure Yet? (Tim Kulp)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Localizing the August 2011 Windows Phone Toolkit (Andrej Tozon)
• Windows Phone Toolkit August 2011: Overview and Getting Started (Windows Phone Geek)
• Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – PIN Authentication (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Book Review: Windows Phone 7 Game Development (lookitskris)
• ALL SilverlightShow ebooks now available in MOBI and EPUB format (Silverlight Show)
• The Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is now available for ‘Mango’ application development (Jeff Wilcox)
• Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch (Jesse Liberty)
• Working with Default FontSize in Windows Phone 7 Applications (Kunal Chowdhury)
• SilveOS, the Silverlight-based ‘operating system’ takes on Chrome OS (Tim Conneally)
• 2000 WPF Things #367 – You Can’t Bind to a Calendar Control’s SelectedDates Property (Sean Sexton)
• Brand new Mango release of Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – JD Meier Gets Results the Agile Way (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• How Do I: Authenticated RSS Feeds (MS Podcasts)
• Checking In: Rick Molloy – Gone Native (Charles Torre)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 6 (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• The GeekDads Episode #98: Chaotic Evil is the Best Kind of Evil (Ken Denmead)
• Women in IT Architecture – Part 1 of 2 (Bob Rhubart)
• Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Program Video (Mike Walker)
• The JavaScript Show – Programming discussion: JavaScript prototypes, understanding "this", extending native objects (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for August 17th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Social Media Collective @ NERD (Jim O’Neil)
• Full Day ASP.NET MVC 3 Training Event in Los Angeles on August 27th, 2011 (Scott Mitchell)
• At Microsoft’s Build conference, All Will Be Revealed (or will it?) (Kip Kniskern)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Geography Data Type – Calculating Distance Between Two Points on the Earth – Day 18 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – OVER ( … ROWS / RANGE … ) (Vishal)
• Adding an Index to Save Space (Tim Radney)

Miscellaneous

• Amazingly, Microsoft Might Not Miss The Boat On Tablets (MSFT) (Dan Frommer)
• Free eBook: Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime (Rosemary Caperton)
• The new book: Mindfire. What is it? (Scott Berkun)
• MSMQ and Cached DNS (Jimmy Bogard)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Geek Reading August 17, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (8/17/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #919 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• SilverlightShow for August 8 – 14, 2011 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

Top Links

• Windows Phone From Scratch #9 – Visual State (Jesse Liberty)
• Fluent Builders, Part 1 (Peter Ritchie)
• Algorithmia Source Code released on CodePlex (Frans Bouma)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide – Code Samples (MS Downloads)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NH Prof New Feature: Alert on bad ‘like’ query (Oren Eini)
• A few LINQ Queries (Christian Nagel)
• Pinning Watch Variables While Debugging Visual Studio 2010, Awesome Feature (Peter Kellner)
• Telerik Data Services Wizard Updates (Stephen Forte)
• Gtk# designer on OSX (Miguel de Icaza)
• How to create lightweight reusable source code with NuGet (Daniel Cazzulino)
• Does IntelliTrace support all the .NET Frameworks ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Fronting long-running WF Services with MSMQ, the right way (Emil Velinov)
• EF Feature CTP5: Raw SQL Query/Command Support (Gil Fink)
• Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack is now in Beta (Shai Raiten)

Web Development

• Replace Those Images with CSS: Rounded Corners (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Animating HTML5 Canvas Element (Leon Braginski)
• Efficient Paging with WebGrid Web Helper – ASP.NET MVC 3 RC (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Display HTML/CSS Warnings as Errors (Zain Naboulsi)
• How one decision can turn web services to hell (Gunnar Peipman)
• Retrieving Data from Google Analytics API using PHP (Lorna Mitchell)
• Building a Sample WebMatrix Application (Joe Stagner)
• ASP User Notification Update (John V. Petersen)
• Easy Setup for PHP On Azure Development (Josh Holmes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Web Development Stack In OSX (Derick Bailey)
• Lost in Translation – An Agile Game (Michael Norton)
• Agile is Always a Team-Involving Activity and Increase Your Velocity By Adding More People? (ScoutMaster)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of Lean Software Dev. – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDLEN (O’Reilly Media)
• Cleaning /removing attachments from Test Cases in TFS. (Charles Sterling)
• But, It Just Had to Get Done… Didn’t It!? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Are Better Business Architecture Abstractions the Key to Enterprise Architecture? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RadControls for Windows Phone vs. Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone (Rudi Grobler)
• Windows Phone 7 Charts (Luke Lowrey)
• Dynamically Generating Controls in WPF and Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• Announcing V2.5 of the Metro Web Browser: Save Pics, Reorder Faves, Perf & Bug Fixes (Adam Nathan)
• Resizing Images in Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
• Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 3) (Mike Taulty)
• Animating the Color of an Object (Mike Snow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #20 at Philly and Richmond Code Camps Take II (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Research Part 1 – The Anechoic Chamber (Larry Larsen & Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• Talkative and Precognitive Badges (Jeff Atwood)
• Spotlight: Jes Borland (Jen McCown)
• Windows Azure Q&A Discussion with Microsoft Azure Architect (Lonnie Webb)

Database

• SQL Server Compact 4.0 CTP2 for Windows Desktop (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Codename Atlanta Attempts to Help Out DBAs By Providing Basic Assistance (Brad M. McGehee)
• Introducing SSIS Reporting Pack for SQL Server code-named Denali (Jamie Thomson)
• SSRS: How to monitor report subscriptions (Paul Theriault)
• Dealing with The row value(s) updated or deleted either do not make the row unique or they alter multiple rows errors (Denis Gobo)
• HEAPs o’ Trouble With Multi-Column JOINs (Brad Schulz)
• Can You Dig It? – The Plan Cache (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

• Enhanced SharePoint 2010 Ribbon with JQuery (Greg Galipeau)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Verve – A Type-Safe Operating System (James Vastbinder)
• Microsoft’s WP7 Platform Guy Won’t Talk Sales Numbers Either (Le Web) (Robin Wauters)
• Microsoft’s Project Emporia–mining the web so you don’t have to and Microsoft’s Montage goes in public beta (Steve Clayton)
• BizTalk–The Road Ahead (Bill Zack)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 8 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 12/08/2010 and Daily News Digest 12/09/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #747 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 08, 2010 — #1005 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis

Top Links

• Announcing: Silverlight Reporting on CodePlex (Pete Brown)
• A Train of Thought: Innovation and .Net Edition (Jeremy D. Miller)
• What Executives at Microsoft Taught Me (J.D. Meier)
• Are daily stand-ups necessary? (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Windows Services in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Fixing RIA Services’s “An EntityKey value cannot be null” with a CodeProcessor (Ingo Rammer)
• MDA: Callback On Garbage Collected Delegate (Sasha Goldshtein)
• SOLID By [C#] Example Or “Stop talking about SOLID and show me the code…” (Greg Duncan)
• Show the Full File Path in the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tech Ed New Orleans– The Goods (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Model First in ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 (Wriju Ghosh)
• NHProfiler Integration (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Cache Layer (Gil Fink)
• .NET Framework Reference Enhancements Preview (Kimberly Wolk)
• Don’t repeat yourself; consts are already static (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)
• Same Markup: Explaining "@_jscript_version" and Styling New HTML5 Elements (Tony Ross)
• Creating a custom View Engine for ASP.NET MVC leveraging Text Template (T4) engine for rendering the view (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Browser Speed: It’s Not All About JavaScript and 20 Tips and Tricks For Writing Fast Web Applications (Pete LePage)
• Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring (John Dundon)
• jQuery Globalization Plugin from Microsoft (Scott Guthrie)
• Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework (Steve Sanderson)
• Using an iPhone with the Visual Studio development server (Dave Ward)
• Bing Health Map Shows Promise of Open Government Data (Adam DuVander)
• When can I use … is a great resource for browser compatibility advice (Erez Zukerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Energized Work" Now Online (James Shore)
• NCover 3.4.8: NUnit and IIS Improvements (Alan Johnson)
• Beyond Unit Testing => Specification of Intent (Bobby Johnson)
• You Need a Static Organizational Model (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Eric Evans: Domain driven design redefined and Udi Dahan: the biggest mistakes teams make when applying DDD and Evolution of DDD: CQRS and Event Sourcing (Gojko Adzic)
• Mockups 1.8: Editable Groups and much more (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Lokad.CQRS – Getting Started (Rinat Abdullin)
• Eric Evans: Folding Design into an Agile Process (Vladimir Gitlevich)
• Performance and Security (Pieter de Bruin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.12 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #30 – Sending Email from Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Microsoft releases Alpha version of IIS streaming for Silverlight and Apple devices (Steven Bink)
• Hosting cross-domain Silverlight applications (XAP) (Tim Heuer)
• IIS Media Services 4.0 – 32-bit and IIS Media Services 4.0 – 64-bit (MS Downloads)
• Tips and Tricks for INotifyPropertyChanged (Jeremy Likness)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using TFS for Source Control with InfoPath 2010 (Laura Har)
• Creating Rich Interactions Using Blend 4: Transition Effects, Fluid Layout, and Layout States (Silverlight TV #32) (John Papa)
• WebDev Radio Episode 78: Bob Silverberg on ColdFusion, ORM, testing and more (Michael Kimsal)
• Boagworld 214. When to hire a web designer (Paul Boag)
• New Videos in the Tailspin Spyworks series live. (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• Telerik Wins Best of TechEd! (Stephen Forte)
• Employee of the year…#Typemock (Tal Druyan)
• Wrox Wins 2010 Code Project Members Choice Award (Jim Minatel)

Database

• Log Shipping for cheap DR (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2 (Pinal Dave)
• What are events SQL profiler eventclass numbers 65527,65528,65533,65534 (Simon Sabin)
• Stored Procedure vs Parameterized Query (Joel Cochran)
• Determine Permission for all Users at Object Level (Suprotim Agarwal)
• PowerShell I Heart You (Jorge Segarra)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Three Free Outlook 2010 PST File Management Tools (Blake Handler)
• Aviary Launches Online Music Creation Tool (Barb Dybwad)
• Seeing Microsoft in the big picture (Cal Evans)
• Small Basic V0.9 is here! (Vijaye Raji)
• Multiple Default Printers in Windows 7 (Chris Koenig)
• Windows Live Sync beta blends the best of Sync and Mesh (David Treadwell)
• PowerGUI 2.1 is available (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Adobe releases AIR 2, standalone SDK download coming soon (Jay Hathaway)
• Apple and Microsoft will face off for June 24 retail showdown (Joe Wilcox)
• Box.net finally gets a desktop sync client (Lee Mathews)
• Daily Dose – iPad Owners Exposed to Spam and Hacks (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Hackers: 25th Anniversary Ed. Only $9.99 Use code DDHAC (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Small Basic is an ideal programming language and environment for small people and beginners (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #619 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 10, 2010 — #879 (Dave Campbell)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Announcing: Reflector Addin Toolkit on Codeplex (Jason Haley)
• .NET Projects: Versioning Builds (Grant Palin)
• Framework Multi-Targeting for VC++ Projects (Pavan Adharapurapu)
• Bye Bye .NET Services! Hello AppFabric (Bill Zack)
• Visual Studio Color Scheme (Mark Nijhof)
• Fixing Visual Studio 2010 and Blend Preview for .NET 4 integration (Tim Heuer)
• Command Line Parsing with Mono.Options (Rob Reynolds)
• Inter-process Mediator and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 1) and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 2) (Rudi Grobler)
• Combining NHibernate, NH Spatial and SQL Server 2008 Fulltext Queries (Jak Charlton)

Web Development

• Google Maps API v3 Now Includes Driving Directions (Adam DuVander)
• Building High Performance Web Applications (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simple site sanity testing with Cassini and friends (Aaron Jensen)
• TestApi v0.4 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• Patterns and Practices for Distributed Teams (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
• Book Review: Debug It! (Paul Butcher, Pragmatic Bookshelf) (Ted Neward)
• Pair Programming/Helping/Working Collaboratively and Requirements: The story points focus (Mark Needham)
• Leadership Tip: Every Time They Are Lost And Confused It Probably Is Your Fault. (Rajiv Popat)
• Applying Strategy Pattern Instead of Using Switch Statements (Gil Fink)

Silverlight / WPF

• CompositeTransform simplifies transforms in Silverlight 4 Beta (Adam Kinney)
• RIA Services: A DomainService IS A WCF Service – Add Service Reference (Brad Abrams)
• Caliburn Hello World (Christopher Bennage)
• From code-behind to MVVM in 90 Minutes – Jason Dolinger on MVVM (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight: Building a Grid and StackPanel in Code (Deborah Kurata)
• Fishbowl: A WPF Front-end for Facebook, with Full Source (Pete Brown)
• RIA Services templates not showing in Visual Studio 2010? and Silverlight 4 NotificationWindow and Queuing multiple notifications (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 4 and Asynchronous Validation with INotifyDataErrorInfo (Fredrik Normén)
• 10 Steps to Debug Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications without Attaching (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 131: PDC 2009 (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Cloud Computing is for Small Companies Too (Bob Familiar)
• A Feed You Should Read #12 – DimeCasts.Net (Greg Duncan)
• Recent Podcasts (Phil Haack)
• Major Nelson – A bonus show….with lollip0p and friends (Larry Hyrb)
• Herding Code 64: Phil Haack on MVC 2 (Jon Galloway)
• Life at Microsoft – The Truth Revealed…again! (Tina Wood)
• Episode 93 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeff Atwood from ServerFault and StackOverflow (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Phone Company CRM & Azure Demo (Girish Raja)

Community / Events

• Favorite Photos from PDC09 (Adam Kinney)
• My 65 Favorite Tweets of PDC09 (Dave Burke)
• Azure IT PAC Tour and Bring a Friend, Get a Book (Jim O’Neil)
• Scottish Area SQL Server User Group Meeting, Edinburgh – Thursday 26th November (Martin Bell)
• LIDNUG: Online chat with me Monday Nov 23rd (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• SQL Server Case Conversion Functions and SQL Server Trimming Functions (Richard Carr)
• Twitter Search Term Extraction (Jamie Thomson)
• Confused.bol? (Martin Bell)
• Testing backup compression in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Remove Bookmark Key Lookup – 4 Different Ideas and SQL SERVER – A Common Design Problem – Should the Primary Key Always be a Clustered Index (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Apple Releases Magic Mouse "multi-touch" Drivers for Windows and How to View RAW Camera Images in Windows 7? Download the Proper Driver and Microsoft Updates "Office Outlook Connector" for Outlook 2010 (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/23 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Keeping a Product Launch Secret (Stephen Forte)
• Microsoft Store visit (Steve Clayton)
• You Don’t Have to Be An Administrator to Run Remote PowerShell Commands (Jeffrey Snover)
• Five Best Screencasting Tools [Hive Five] (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Getting your OSS binaries with Horn (Hadi Hariri)
• Make working with open source a breeze with Hornget (Mike Hadlow)
• Manually Upgrading your Hudson CI Server (Derik Whittaker)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #482 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 11.17 ~ 11.22 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #80 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 — #738 and Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 – 2 — #739 and Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 – 3 — #740 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #98 (David Vidmar)
• Links (11/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Microsoft PDC09 and Silverlight Round-up (Tim Heuer)
• Weekly Link Post 120 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Discoveries This Week 11/22/2009 (Rick Minerich)

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