• Windows Phone 8 Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Setting Up Git on Windows in Four Easy Steps (Adam Feber)
• A Handy Script For Compiling CoffeeScript On The Fly (Rob Conery)
• Clean Up NuGet Dependencies With Chewie (Ian Davis)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–the wrong way (Oren Eini)
• Retrieve and Update YouTube Content in C# (Amir Ahani)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Reporting & Process (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Visual Expression Builder for Dynamic Linq (Rabb Moshe Plotkin)
• 30+ Useful Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts (Rajiv Nishtala)
• How the Visual Studio ALM Rangers use Team Foundation Service to Get Ready for Visual Studio 11 (Willy-Peter Schaub)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Burro (Jason Jarrett)
• Naming Conventions in JustCode (JustCode Team)
• Reviewing 70-562 .NET Framework 3.5 Preparation Kit from uCertify (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0-Intellisense Improvements (Blake Niemyjski)
• Rx – DistinctUntilChanged (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

• Node.js, Require and Exports (Karl Seguin)
• The Telerik Q1 2012 MVC Beta is here with new Area chart and galore of charting features (Stefan Rahnev)
• HTML5 and the Web Audio API are BFFs! (Eric Bidelman)
• CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)
• Inside the CSS WG: A New Reality Series (Molly E. Holzschlag)
• HTML5 Media Queries, Tablet Verses Phone, Anything but Intuitive (Peter Kellner)
• Creating a Vertical CSS List Menu (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers (Swizec)
• Umbraco v5 released (The "OMG, it’s really fast now" version) (Greg Duncan)
• Using PHP to Add Content to Plain Text (Scott Eiler)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An introduction to Agile development with Team Foundation Server: But I’m not a .NET developer (Giles Davies)
• The Science of Kanban – Conclusions (Karl Scotland)
• Article: Your Brain on Scrum (Michael de la Maza)
• Mark Twain on Agile – He Knew What Was Up (Peter Saddington)
• Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests (Piotr Solnica)
• Talking to Customers: What a Concept (Patrick Foley)
• How To: Get all test points assigned to you? (Gautam Goenka)
• A Few Thoughts on the Economics of Software Product Development (Mike Cottmeyer)
• When you are looking for more information, it helps to say what you need the information for (Raymond Chen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Daddy, tell me a story of how VB, WP7, Azure and my photos can be combined in the cloud to create a video story… (Greg Duncan)
• Using Skydrive in your Windows Phone applications: part2 (Rabeb Othmani)
• 2000 WPF Things #487 – Specify DrawingAttributes When Drawing to an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
• How to Databind SelectedItems of the ListPicker and RecurringDaysPicker (Andy Wigley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 053 – “5.9″, QUAD CORE, NFC, 3D, LTE, 128GB Windows Phone” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Let’s Play TDD #161: The UserEnteredDollars Value Object (James Shore)
• Inside Windows Phone #31 | Windows Phone Partners (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere & Larry Lieberman)
• Slides, Notes and Recordings for Week 1 and 2 of #6weeksazure are all now available (Eric Nelson)

Community / Events

• MADExpo 2012 Call for Speakers is Open! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Meet Bill Wagner – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• I’m presenting at the International SharePoint Conference in London April 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• Listen to Your Community, But Don’t Let Them Tell You What to Do (Jeff Atwood)
• Sharpen your Ninja Skills with Telerik Webinars from Feb20 – Feb 22 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Database

• SQL Server – COPY TABLE from another SQL Server (Jack Vamvas)
• Learn about the new SQL Server Data Tools from the original DataDude (Richard Erwin)
• SQL Server NOLOCK (Tom Stickel)
• Don’t Splint Your Database Server To Death (Mike Walsh)
• Sniff that Parameter (Chris Yates)
• Ready for SQL Azure? New Service Tells You (David Ramel)
• Quick Review of Backup tools for SQL Azure (Herve Roggero)

SharePoint

• So it begins… SharePoint 15 & Office 15 Wave of Products – Happy Days (Joel Oleson)
• Using Twilio with SharePoint to send SMS messages (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 consumer preview (Beta) installation screenshots leaked (Ankur Mittal)
• The GeekDad Arduino Guide: Introduction (Brian McLaughlin)
• Microsoft, Apple, and Google: where does the money come from? (Ed Bott)
• I’m from the Cloud and I’m here to help… No really, trust me… Looking at Microsoft Codename "Trust Services" (Greg Duncan)
• New Social APIs in Android ICS (Tim Bray)
• Dear business people, an iOS app actually takes a lot of work! (Kent Nguyen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 2 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #810 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/3/2012 and Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for January, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1036 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-02 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 02, 2012 – #0035 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2012 (Beth Massi)

The Geek Shelf

Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus by Juval Lowy

• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.2 Released (Nathan Totten)
• jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released (Todd Parker)
• Modularity And Security In Composite JavaScript Apps (Derick Bailey)
• Using LINQ to Twitter in Windows 8 Metro Apps (Joe Mayo)
• Infragistics Undo/Redo Framework CTP (Ambrose Little)

.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Reflection (Richard Carr)
• Bug Hunt: What made this blog slow? (Oren Eini)
• Undertone – Programmable music in F# (Robert Pickering)
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Implicit Zero To Enum Conversion (James Michael Hare)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – IntelliTrace and Test Impact Analysis (Martin Hinshelwood)
• F# vs. Scala, My Take at Year Two (Neil)
• Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part 3 (Bill Osuch)
• Changing Team Foundation Server 2010 Workspace Mappings (Tim Murphy)
• CSLA 4 version 4.3.0 alpha available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Most-Wanted Features in Entity Framework (Roopesh Shenoy)
• SqlBulkCopy for Generic List (useful for Entity Framework & NHibernate) (Jarod Ferguson)

Web Development

• Extending Classes In A Modular JavaScript Application Architecture Using RequireJS (Ben Nadel)
• Hiding Things using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• One reason why HTML5 gaming is limping along (Christian Heilmann)
• Skype-enabled JavaScript Restaurant (Elijah Manor)
• JavaScript Pattern Roundup – Issue 2 (Shi Chuan)
• Upgrading to Rails 3.2.0 from Rails 3.1.3 (maciej)
• Resumable.js, Open Source Android WebGL Implementation, Coderbyte (Alex Young)
• Rails v3.2.1 has been released (with minor fixes) and Read This Before Installing Rails 3.2 and Deploying Rails 3.2 with Ruby 1.9.3 on Heroku (Daniel Kehoe)
• Using the Vibration API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: MongoDB and PHP – $7.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Azure Service Bus Demo from Brian Loesgen (Peter Laudati)
• New Management API for Windows Azure Traffic Manager (Michael Washam)
• 24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development (Siddharth)
• Making the web speedier and safer with SPDY (Roberto Peon & Will Chan)
• Pattern matching and guards in Less stylesheets (Ivan Towlson)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Anna (Jason Jarrett)
• Animate to an Inline Style (Chris Coyier)
• Vibration API coming to Firefox 11 (Dave Mahon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Project Management – Engaging Your Customer! (Bob Galen)
• Seven Options for Handling Interruptions on Agile Teams (Craig Smith)
• ScrumMaster Manifesto? (Peter Saddington)
• Article: New Book: Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Pen and paper wireframing without the hassle (Paul Boag)
• The n00b filter: Bad UX at its Finest in Eagle PCB (Pete Brown)
• Assert the order of expected calls over instances (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Community Question: Synching Remote Locations (Tobin Titus)
• (Ab)Using Conventions To Enforce Good Practices (Davy Brion)
• The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love (Tomer Sharon)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App (Dave Bost)
• MetroSky – End to end Windows Phone 7 SkyDrive sample code and app (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #482 – You Can Include Other Controls Inside an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
• 5 Reasons to use Azure when designing your Windows Phone Game (Surf4Fun)
• How I ended up using WebBrowser instead of a TextBlock in a Windows Phone application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• How To Connect Window Phone 7 and Windows 8 app to Microsoft pubCenter (Shai Raiten)
• Beginning LightSwitch–Address Book Sample (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• A world of NUI: Steve Hodges (Steve Clayton)
• Video on How to work with Page State in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• RadioTFS: Backup on that (Martin Woodward)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Bruce Burke (Ryan Parsley)
• WHOIS: Danah Boyd, MSR Social Scientist (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• April 23rd to 27th in New York City: The Art of Agile (Training) (James Shore)
• My Daughter’s First User Group Meeting (Cori Drew)
• It’s Time For Another PowerShell Deep Dive! (Travis Jones)
• MVPs Provide Great Advice in 4th Official MVP Twitter Chat! (MVP Award Program)
• A Conversation with Charles Petzold (Michael Desmond)

Database

• SSRS – Custom Code with External Assemblies (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Common Gotcha’s Associated with Common Table Expressions (CTE) – Quiz – Puzzle – 26 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Collecting Index Usage Statistics (Bob Pusateri)
• Understanding SQL Azure Throttling and Implementing Retry Logic (Scott Klein)
• Understanding Database Choice (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Announcing SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Refresh (Gregory Leake)

Miscellaneous

• Powertoys from the test team for 2011 (John Guin)
• Leveraging the power of Microsoft… for Pizza! (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft, don’t forget about Desktop Player — we haven’t (Mike Williams)
• Why doesn’t the Windows 7 Start menu have a pushpin for pinning items? (Raymond Chen)
• Android: Say Goodbye to the Menu Button (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 139 (Scott Banwart)
• Collective #2 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #805 and Open Source Report #3 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1031 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/26/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-26 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 26, 2012 – #0032 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #6 (Devon Govett)
• Daily WP7 Development News 26 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# by Wallace B. McClure

• Supporting sensors in Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• Get involved in Open Source today – How to contribute a patch to a GitHub hosted Open Source project like Code 52 (Scott Hanselman)
• Now, more than ever, you need a designer (Pete Brown)
• 01. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – The Team and Activities and 02. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Regression Test Sets and 03. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Test Automation and 04. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Undone Backlog Item (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Team Foundation Server (TFS) in the Cloud – My Experience So Far (Buck Woody)
• LINQ to Twitter v2.0.23 Released (Joe Mayo)
• Rx – Aggregate vs. Scan (Bnaya Eshet)
• Sinister Bug is Sinister (Bobby Johnson)
• Preview of Visual Studio 11: Agile Support, Group Collaboration, and Clone Detection (Jeff Martin)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentQueue (Simon Cooper)
• Enumerations And The CStr Function (Jesse Taber)
• What’s New In The Latest JustCode Internal Build (JustCode Team)
• Review – ComponentOne Studio for Entity Framework (Brian Muirhead)

Web Development

• Resumable.js: Fault Tolerant Resumable File Uploads in JavaScript (Devon Govett)
• Add HTML5 Geolocation plus Bing Maps into ASP.NET MVC views (Rachel Appel)
• Using oData with jQuery Hierarchical Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
• JavaScript for C# developers: coercion (Julian M. Bucknall)
• More dynamic JavaScript value inspection (Christian Krebs)
• Some Thoughts On Functional JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
• Find the jQuery Bug #2: Point of No Return (Elijah Manor)
• Using HTML5, web sockets and some C# to build a multiplayer Space Shoot[er] (Greg Duncan)
• jQuery Grids in MVC with Wijmo (Kevin Griffin)
• Arctext.js – Curving Text with CSS3 and jQuery (Pedro Botelho)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Form Template Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript Performance: for vs. while (Stoimen Popov)
• Rant: That’s Not Rest. (Derick Bailey)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Blob Storage Stream Wrapper (Puja Pramudya)
• Server-Sent Events (Remy Sharp)
• Announcing Native Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing Using SendGrid for Windows Azure Customers (Brian Goldfarb)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: xizzle (Jason Jarrett)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to use Pex and Moles to generate unit tests for a project having external dependency(WCF Proxy) using Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Atul Verma)
• Coming Soon: A New Perspective in Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Picking a domain for CQRS Journey RI (Grigori Melnik)
• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• The Rise of the Front End Developers (Veera Sundar)
• Ask Ayende: Handling filtering (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned while Introducing a New Programming Language (Jay C. Fields)
• How Do You Fix A Bug? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Testing Ruby Applications on Windows Azure – part 3: Remote Desktop (Larry Franks)
• Developer machine automation: Dependencies (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Missing Silverlight Resources and ASP.Net security (Derik Whittaker)
• See the WPF Visual Tree with the VS 2010 WPF Visualizer (Gil Yoder)
• Bug fix: WPF4 project template for #MVVMLight V3 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Review of “Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook” (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #480 – ZIndex Values and Render Transforms (Sean Sexton)
• Catel – WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 MVVM toolkit – Release: v2.5 (CodePlex)
• PivotViewer Basics : Basic Item Adorners (Tony Champion)
• Caliburn Micro Part 3: More About Events and Parameters (Jason)
• Fixing the [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the entry assembly. (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Troy Hunt Secures ASP.NET (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview sessions and Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Introduction (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Boagworld: Does your labelling cause confusion? (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 102: What Would You Do? (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 182: Domain-Specific Languages with Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons (SE-Radio Team)
• Mike Downey on the HTML5 Player Framework (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• MVP Summit 2012 MVP 2 MVP Languages Sessions (Joseph Guadagno)
• My upcoming Talk: Introducing PRISM/MEF for the Agile Developer – February 2012 (Sam Abraham)
• First F# Seattle Meetup This Saturday, Redmond (Don Syme)
• Windows Azure User Groups in NYC and NJ (Peter Laudati)
• Philly Nerd Nite on the radio (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• GitHub Drinkup in Atlanta (Steve Smith)
• Talking Cloud with Windows Azure MVP Anton Staykov (MVP Award Program)
• Thinking About Developer Events (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Windows Azure and Cloud9 IDE at Node Summit (Glenn Block)
• Microsoft to replace Mix with a new developer conference (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Correct Value for Fillfactor – Quiz – Puzzle – 24 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Many-to-Many Relationships and Partition Slices (Chris Webb)
• Take advantage of Database Mirroring in your applications and Automating Index Statistics Collection (Ted Krueger)
• Cheatsheet: Relational Database Management Systems Comparison (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Announcing SQL Azure Import/Export Service Now in Production (Gregory Leake)

SharePoint

• Creating a custom XML indexing connector for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Hacking and Securing iOS Applications – $9.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• RedHawk to be part of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8, too? (Mary Jo Foley)
• New WPAppInfo web site by WindowsPhoneGeek (Windows Phone Geek)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 25, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #803 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1029 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/24/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/25/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 16-22, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-24 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 16-22, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan

• Beginning LightSwitch Part 6: I Feel Pretty! Customizing the "Look and Feel" with Themes (Beth Massi)
• Taking a look at the Windows Simulator in Visual Studio 11 (Michael Crump)
• JavaScript as a First Language (John Resig)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 18: Baseline Datasets (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Mixing Integrated Authentication and Anonymous Authentication with PreAuthenticated = true doesn’t work (Oren Eini)
• How to enable REST and SOAP both on the same WCF Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• How to Get Elevated Process Path in .Net (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• iSpy with my little… OSS security camera/audio software suite and Windows Forms Toolkit v0.2… A little WinForm love for the holidays… and A VB.Net and C# Side-by-side Syntax Comparison (Greg Duncan)
• TFS API Part 42 – Getting Started With Lab Management API (Shai Raiten)
• New book: MCPD 70-518 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• Mono in 2011 (Miguel de Icaza)

Web Development

• CSS3 2D and 3D Transform (Gil Fink)
• Building Apps and deploying them from GitHub (Joe Stagner)
• Developing Metro Style App using JavaScript and Visual Studio 2011 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• 3D experience in a browser with Three.js (Giorgio Sironi)
• Facebook: Deprecating the REST API (Doug Purdy)
• PHP 5.4 To Have A Built-In Development Web Server (John Sheehan)
• Introducing mod_spdy, a SPDY module for the Apache HTTP server (Bryan McQuade & Matthew Steele)
• It’s time for your site to play nicely with social media (Paul Boag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Spinning – Getting Agile at the Core (Ralf Westphal)
• Designing app-centric sharing for SkyDrive, part 1 of 2: Complexity of “simple” (Tony East)
• The Problem with Precision (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Testing item values in lists (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Book review: I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code,” Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• The Four Rules of Simple Design (Bobby Johnson)
• 10 Design Rules You MUST Follow If You Want Apple To Approve Your App (AAPL) (Dylan Love)
• Making APIs is hard (James Padolsey)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #3 Getting Help (Windows Phone Geek)
• A Festive and Fun Windows Phone 7 Maze Game (Colin Eberhardt)
• RadDate- & RadTimePicker for Windows Phone 7 extended to support custom selector intervals (Deyan Ginev)
• New Microsoft Press Book: XAML Developer Reference by Mamta D (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New Title Added to SilverlightShow Ebooks Shelf: Facebook Graph API and Silverlight (Silverlight Show)
• WPFSpark gets all V1.0! (Greg Duncan)
• Customize Tab Control in Silverlight (create tab control with side bar) (Hiren Khirsaria)
• WPF Diagrams: New tree layout algorithm (Jason)
• XAML Developer Reference–A Great Holiday Gift (Kim Spilker)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring INSERT performance–5 power tweaks (Erik EJ)
• WPFSpark: 5 of n: FluidPivotPanel and WPFSpark: 6 of n: FluidProgressBar and WPFSpark: 7 of n: FluidStatusBar and WPFSpark: 4 of n: SparkWindow (Ratish Philip)
• 2000 WPF Things #456 – An Element in a Grid Can Span Multiple Rows or Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Get Started with Silverlight 5 (Zhiming Xue)
• Announcing RadControls for WindowsPhone Q3.11 Service Pack1 release and Create beautiful and dynamic Live Tiles with Telerik LiveTileHelper (Valentin Stoychev)
• DecryptR Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Photo Mosaics Part 8: Caching (Jim O’Neil)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks!j – Startups and Cyborg Anthropology at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• YOW! 2011: Allen Wirfs-Brock and Rob Manson – Ambient Computing, Augmented Reality, and JavaScript (Charles Torre)
• videos: Learn Bugzilla (Paul Rouget)
• What The Tech 98: Worst Tech of 2011 (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – Influence over Enforce (Martin Woodward)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 007 – 12.21.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Apps for Kids 001: a new Boing Boing podcast (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Unwrapping Oracle WebLogic Server 12c – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Training Courses and Kits (Robert Green)

Community / Events

• vNext Global Vision Goes Live (David Kelley)
• 5 Minutes on The Verge: Robert Scoble (Thomas Houston)
• 2 Days 2 Kinect in Dallas (Jan 28 – 29 2012) (Greg Duncan)

Database

• Backing up SSRS Encryption Key with Powershell (John Pertell)
• SQL SERVER – Mastering the Basics – Igniting Learning – A Unique Learning Experience (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 21: TRY CATCH and SQL Advent 2011 Day 22: Dynamic Management Views (Denis Gobo)
• Analysis Services Stored Procedure Project 1.3.6 Release (CodePlex)
• Filtering in SSMS (Jason Brimhall)
• SQL Azure – Backup (Nicolas Humann)
• Replacing sysfiles With sys.database_files (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Querying RSS feed subscriber count on Google Reader using Data Explorer‏ (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Sharepoint and PowerPivot: Connections fail to refresh in SQL Server 2008 Denali CTP3 (Jen Stirrup)
• SharePoint Site Collection Administrator vs. Site Owner (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• MIT takes over Google App Inventor from Google (Don Burnett)
• Living a Microsoft lifestyle using Apple iOS products – Lync, OneNote, Xbox for iPhone and iPad and more, oh my (Scott Hanselman)
• Holiday In Tekpubland (Rob Conery)
• How Microsoft Can Fix Windows Phone In 2012 (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #779 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1008 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for December 21, 2011 – #0014 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #4 (Devon Govett)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Reading Notes #26 (Franky)
• Daily News Digest 12-22-2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets – 21-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 Games: Creating Fun with HTML5, CSS3, and WebGL by Jacob Seidelin

• Protecting your digital identity (Steven Sinofsky)
• Starting work on Prism 4.1 (Blaine Wastell)
• Beginning LightSwitch Part 3: Screen Templates, Which One Do I Choose? (Beth Massi)
• Some HTML5 Resources Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
• PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #4: The Application Bar (Glen Gordon)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Integrating RoboHelp with TFS Source Control (Shai Raiten)
• Surround with a Code Snippet (C# Only) (Zain Naboulsi)
• NuGet PowerShell Downloader Update – Adding Failed Download Retries, Better Paging Support (Jon Galloway)
• Manage Your Dependencies with Rake and NuGet (Josh Bush)
• Possible pitfall when using EF Migrations (Per Ökvist)
• I Love the Validation Error Messages I Get From EntityFramework CodeFirst 4.1! (Peter Kellner)
• Getting the most of the Kinect SDK (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• CSS3 Animations (Gil Fink)
• Interoperable HTML5 Quirks Mode in IE10 (Tony Ross)
• Debugging Application_Start and Module Initialization with IIS and Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
• Getting Started with SSRS – Part 8 -Show SSRS Report in ASP.NET Web Page (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Item Blur Effect with CSS3 and jQuery (Manoela Ilic)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Downcast (and Wrapping) and jQuery plugins with jsTestDriver (Giorgio Sironi)
• Decoding jQuery – OOP and jQuery part 6 (Shi Chuan)
• DotNetNuke Community Edition 06.01.02 (CodePlex)
• Good Summary of Bad Security Assumptions (S. Lott)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure CTP Availability (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Process Reality Check (Ralf Westphal)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 13: Functional Test 201 (Common Problems) and Test Studio Webinar on Functional Test 201 (Common Problems) (Jim Holmes)
• Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
• E is for Estimable (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Annotated Source Code As Documentation, With Docco (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Is there a future for Microsoft Expression Blend for XAML? (Andrei Marukovich)
• Windows Phone LINQ to SQL and Data Virtualization (Andy Wigley)
• Just Published on Codeplex SDNavigation WP7 + MVVM + Navigation Framework (Braulio Díez Botella)
• Windows Phone testing for sensors (Daniel Egan)
• 2000 WPF Things #451 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, Part IV (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Basic User Comparison (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Working with the Data Grid – Day 2 (Callum G.)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Communicating at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 187: Charles Stacy Harris III on the Microsoft Technology Center (part 2 of 2) (David Giard)
• Grantophone LIVE! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Performance Profiling (Robert Green)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 006 – 12.14.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• What The Tech 97: Best of 2011 (Paul Thurrott)
• A Look Behind the Art of Touch Site (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Dream.Build.Play 2012 – Adding Windows Phone (XNA Team)
• A Coder Interview With Phil Haack (The Code Project)

Database

• Codeplex: SSIS Community Tasks and Components (Jose Chinchilla)
• SQLAuthority News – Online Session Practical Tricks and Tips to Speed up Database Queries Today (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 14: EXCEPT and INTERSECT SET Operations (Denis Gobo)
• Troubleshooting Merge Replication Performance – Indexing Publications (Ted Krueger)
• Display Foreign Key Relationships and Name of the Constraint for Each Table in Database (Rodney Vinyard)
• Deleting Leading Zeros in a String (SQL) (Madhivanan)

SharePoint

• Installing SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2012 RC0 (Bradley Schacht)

PowerShell

• A short round-up of PowerShell Quick Reference Guides & Cheat Sheets (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• The best way to handle unrelated experience on your resume (Eugenia Sawa)
• Moving My Data To The Cloud: Stormy Weather (Chris Sells)
• Thoughts on ExcelMashup.com (and a rant) (Jamie Thomson)
• The peculiar cadence of executive mail messages (Raymond Chen)
• More Android Games that Play Nice (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 14, 2011 (#2,100 or so) (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 15 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #773 and Double Shot #774 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1003 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/14/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for December 13, 2011 – #0011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Dec 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 14 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Web Dev Tweets 14-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World by Estelle Weyl

• Improving the setup experience (Steven Sinofsky)
• jQuery 1.7.1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #2: Script interaction (Glen Gordon)
• The Fundamentals, Primitives and History of HTML5 (Paul Irish)

.NET / Visual Studio

• "Contour Analysis for Image Recognition in C#" (Greg Duncan)
• Programming Entity Framework: Code First edition is now available as an ebook! and Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition vs Code First Edition (Julie Lerman)
• VB Support for Microsoft Surface 2.0 (Spotty Bowles)
• ReSharper Settings in 6.1 (Hadi Hariri)
• Kinect for Windows SDK + XNA (Brian Peek)
• Using Team Foundation Server 2010 Build Service for Java Project using ANT (Subodh Sohoni)
• Initial review of Developer’s Guide to Collections in Microsoft® .NET (Tatworth)

Web Development

• Adding Personality with CSS3 Transitions and Animations (Ted Johnson)
• How to Create a Time Based CSS Style Sheet Switcher (Janet Wagner)
• Getting Query Parameters in Javascript (Phubar Baz)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods (Giorgio Sironi)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 12 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• Resources to run Open Source Stacks on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Windows Azure Storage: A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency (Brad Calder)
• PHP Yaf (Yet Another Framework) Is Very Fast (John Esposito)
• Using Templates to Display Boolean Values as Yes/No Options (Scott Mitchell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Whiteboard Notes on Happiness (J.D. Meier)
• Organizing Your Tests (Jim Holmes)
• Agile is a Cult – Follow the 5 Ways and Be Saved! (Peter Saddington)
• Understanding the Vertical Slice (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Improvements in the LongListSelector Selection with Nov `11 release of WP Toolkit (Windows Phone Geek)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 7 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• Determining license mode in Windows Phone 7 apps (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Inside WP7 Apps – Kindle and Inside Windows Phone Apps – Amazon.com (Sara Allison)
• 2000 WPF Things #435 – Use Border Element to Draw Border Around Elements (Sean Sexton)
• Wire Framing WP7 Apps With Cacoo (Tim Murphy)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #22: App Connect (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Data Visualization at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 183: Joe Kunk on Memory-Mapped Files (David Giard)
• Video: 4 Ways to Overcome Limited SharePoint Expertise #SPExpertise (Dux Raymond Sy)
• C# Fundamentals – Series Introduction – 01 (Clint Rutkas, Bob Tabor & Golnaz)
• Pluralsight helps shed a little light on LightSwitch with 1 1/2 hours of free, as in not even reg-ware, video training (Greg Duncan)
• Web Camp Training for HTML5 Now on Video (Bruce Kyle)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 31 (Richard Hay)
• YUI Theater — Dave Herman: “The Future of JavaScript” (48 min.) (Ryan Grove)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 77 – Code Reviews FTW (Richard Banks)
• Boagworld: How and when do you remind people you’re there? and Boagworld: Knowing your users is more than demographics (Paul Boag)
• Ping 124: Control Alt Compete, Salute to Vets, Halo Monument, Microsoft Translator (Laura Foy)
• Yet Another Podcast #53–Scott Hanselman on Blogging (Jesse Liberty)
• What! C# could do that!! From @ironshay ‘s @LIDNUG presentation (Anoop Madhusudanan)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Inner Circle Windows Phone Party @ RAW Sushi & Sake Lounge [Recap & Photos] (Daniel Olivieri)
• Windows Phone Hackathon NYC and Windows Phone Camp Pittsburgh (Dani Diaz)
• Sign Up For Railscasts Pro, Get a Free Tekpub Production (Rob Conery)
• Inside Red Gate – Experimenting In Public (Simon Cooper)
• Imagine Cup 2012 challenges (Steve Clayton)
• Imagine Cup 2012 Challenges Students to Change the World with Windows Azure (Himanshu Singh)
• Microsoft’s 2012 conference dance card filling up, minus Mix? (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® ODBC Driver for Linux (MS Downloads)
• Geting Started with SSRS – Part 1 – SQL Server Reporting Services Overview and Installing in Windows Server 2008 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to PERCENTILE_DISC() – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• When should you NOT use RavenDB? (Oren Eini)
• Workaround for datadude deployment bug – NullReferenceException (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• Official: Xbox 360 Fall 2011 dashboard update coming to all on December 6 (damaster)
• Wrox 24-Hour Trainer Videos Now in Safari (Jim Minatel)
• Developing iOS Apps Using Windows Azure Storage and Developing Android Apps Using Windows Azure Toolkit (Zhiming Xue)
• I Love Music…but not iTunes (Shawn Wildermuth)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 22 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #756 and Double Shot #757 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 21/11/2011 (Jax)
• The Monring Brew #986 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/21/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 11/21/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/22/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week November 14-20 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #21 (Franky)
• Silverlight Cream for November 21, 2011 — #1171 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Web browser, frontend and standards feeds to follow (Paul Irish)

The Geek Shelf

The Guru’s Guide to Transact-SQL by Ken Henderson

Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

PowerShell

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle by Michael Howard

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• Reflecting on your comments on the Start screen (Steven Sinofsky)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Search Everywhere (Radhika Tadinada)
• Adding an Application Bar to your XAML Metro Applications. (Michael Crump)
• Windows 8 wish list: 10 Metro-style apps I want to see (Ed Bott)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Debugging Optimized Code in Visual Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 2 and What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 3 (Tarun Arora)
• FSharpChart new release available (version 0.55) (Carl Nolan)
• Large Object Heap And .NET GC Improvements (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Implementing Windows 8 Push Notifications – An Example (Peter von Lochow)
• The Cost of Async and Await (Jonathan Allen)
• Official release of “The Developer’s Guide to AppFabric" (Alan Smith)
• Creating a Distributed Computing System Using a Windows Azure Queue (Buck Woody)
• Devpad 4.4 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Few Nice features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview for ASP.NET Developers (Abhijit Jana)
• Essential jQuery Plugin Patterns (Addy Osmani)
• Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Consolidate Duplicate Conditional Fragments (Giorgio Sironi)
• KnockoutJS Custom Binding for Invoking an Action with Enter Key (Steve Michelotti)
• Share Your Windows Azure (Cloud Computing) Ideas (MS Public Sector Team)
• Backbone.js: Getting The Model For A Clicked Element (Derick Bailey)
• Modernizr.js : Feature Detection (K. Scott Allen)
• OAuth 2.0 in Web API (Howard Dierking)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Way of Success (J.D. Meier)
• Spiking RavenDB Design Decisions: Event Aggregation (Oren Eini)
• Event Sourcing as a strategic advantage (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New FREE e-book: Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• FSharpChart and WPF (Carl Nolan)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 1: Authorized navigation. (Kevin Dockx)
• 2000 WPF Things #406 – Creating New Controls by Layering One on Top of Another (Sean Sexton)
• Sending Windows Phone 7 Notifications from Ruby (Larry Franks)
• Quick Tip: Design-Time Views for Regions (Jeremy Likness)
• Accessing the Dispatcher Thread from your ViewModel (Mark Pearl)
• Background Audio (Jesse Liberty)
• A Touch-Scrolling Attached Behaviour for ScrollViewer (Matt Hamilton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET 4.5: Eric St. John – Reducing Reboots During Framework Installation (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 122: Bert Belder on porting Node.js to Windows (Jon Galloway)
• Engadget HD Podcast 269 – 10.11.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Ejecting USB devices, Game stopping Windows Button, Getting MKV File Thumbnails (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 120: Zune, Hotmail, Kinect, Steve Jobs and Office Show 911: The shortcut to keyboard shortcuts (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Some Great FREE Windows Phone and ALM Sessions coming to IL, IN and WI in November! (Angela Dugan)
• Project Lifecycle Management with EPM and TFS User Group MN Oct 21st (Charles Sterling)
• SQLAuthority News – SQLPASS – 100 SQL Wait Stats Book Print Copy Giveaway – A Book Every Minute for an Hour Tomorrow (Pinal Dave)
• PowerShell v3 at Deep Dive next week (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• My Silverlight, HTML5, OData and Kinect talks coming up. (Michael Crump)
• I’m Presenting at the New York City SharePoint Dev User Group Next Week (October 19th) (Andrew Connell)

Database

• Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server CTP3 (MS Downloads)
• Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server Code Name “Denali” (DRAFT Preview) (Devon Musgrave)
• Useful queries #3: Get SQL Server Edition, Version, Build and Last Update date and time. (Jose Chinchilla)
• Generate SQL Server Test Data (Rob Bowman)
• Remove All Foreign Keys (Sedat Salman)
• Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware (Glenn Berry)
• Using Custom Code Functions in Reporting Services Reports (Paul Turley)

SharePoint

• Deployment guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Profile synchronization guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• RTM’d today: Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

• Start Scheduled Task and Wait On Completion with PowerShell (Geoff Hudik)

Miscellaneous

• Three Reasons I Love Functional Programming (Alex Rønne Petersen)
• NoReplyAll Updated (Since I last installed it at least…) – Also see related the seven part "How it was built" series (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft and Oracle part ways over multitenancy in the cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
• Lessons From Steve Jobs (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 11, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #957 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/11/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 10/12/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 3-9, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Web Dev Tweets 10-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #728 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery by Dan Wellman

• Designing the Start screen (Steven Sinofsky)
• Brain, Bytes, Back, Buns – The Programmer’s Priorities (Scott Hanselman)
• Prevent Forms Authentication Login Page Redirect When You Don’t Want It (Phil Haack)
• So what’s new in Orchard 1.3? (Bertrand Le Roy)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Waiting for Parallel Tasks to Complete (Richard Carr)
• TFSSCExplorerExtension for VS10 and 11 – Think "TFS Source Control Explorer Window Features++" or "zomg drag and drop in TFS Source Control Explorer Window!" (Greg Duncan)
• Macros Have Been Dropped from Visual Studio 11 (Jonathan Allen)
• Execute<T> With IronRuby (K. Scott Allen)
• That Tricky StackTrace (Mehdi Khalili)
• CSLA 4 version 4.2 beta 1 release (Rockford Lhotka)
• SignedXml.CheckSignature() can’t find the certificate for verification (Lars Wilhelmsen)

Web Development

• Use Visual Studio 2010 to Profile your ASP.NET Application which is hosted on IIS (Abhijit Jana)
• Is Node.cs a cure for cancer? (Oren Eini)
• A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript (Christian Heilmann)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.44 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Nancy takes another step forward (Andreas Håkansson)
• Support for Worker Roles in the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)
• Come Node With Me – Houston, We Have a Problem (Drew Peterson)
• Getting a Web Resource Url in non WebForms Applications (Rick Strahl)
• Lightbox Gallery Module for DotNetNuke 1.09.900 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Git: Getting the history of a deleted file (Mark Needham)
• Future mocking revisited (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• DataContract serialization on Windows Phone (Arian Kulp)
• Data Binding the Windows Phone Toolkit AutoCompleteBox and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Database Queries with LINQ (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7: Link in text with RichTextBox on mango (Håkan Reis)
• 2000 WPF Things #401 – DockPanel Element (Sean Sexton)
• Upgrading Windows Phone Projects To SDK 7.1 (Tim Murphy)
• Dynamic binding for your Silverlight applications (Vladimir Enchev)
• Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 7: Building control extensions with the extensibility toolkit (Gill Cleeren)
• patterns & practices – Case Study: TailSpin Windows Phone 7 Survey Application – Mango Refresh Drop 1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C&B 2011: C++11 Panel – Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu and Scott Meyers and GoingNative Live at BUILD 1 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• Engadget HD Podcast 268 – 10.04.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Ping 119: Bing Deals, Windows Phone 8 and you, Windows 8 syncs, Killing a botnet and Hot Apps: Burn The Rope, Puzzle Quest 2, Talking Alarm Clock, De-BUGS, Monkey Mini Golf (Laura Foy)
• The GeekDads Episode #101: Han Shot First, Fahgettaboudit! (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• 7 Reasons to go to Øredev 2011 (Anders Janmyr)
• PASS Summit Tips and Tricks (Brent Ozar)
• Series of webcasts about ASP.NET MVC 3 (in Italian) (Simone Chiaretta)
• More BUILD reflections: The touch language of Windows 8 (Steve Clayton)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Connector for Apache Hadoop RTW (Greg Duncan)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Wait Stats Book – Available as Kindle eBook – October Special (Pinal Dave)
• Oracle Joins the NoSQL Club (Abel Avram)
• Tip for Using SQLServer To Count By Alpha Names in a list (Peter Kellner)

SharePoint

• Guidance about Hybrid SharePoint Environments (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Enterprise iOS Applications – $7.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• How to give a perfect demo (Scott Berkun)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 5 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 4, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2011 — #1156 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #723 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #952 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 10/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework by Steven Sanderson