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Top Links

• Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Developer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) (Scott Hanselman)
• Expression Blend… for HTML (Christian Schormann)
• Build HTML 5 apps with Expression Blend for Windows Developer Preview (Pam Keesey)
• Welcome to Windows 8 – The Developer Preview (Steven Sinofsky)
• BUILDing the Future with Visual Studio (Somasegar)
• I_See_What_You_Did_There (Anonymous)

 

Windows 8 / BUILD

• Microsoft BUILD – Keynote summary (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The BUILD Report #1: Sinofsky keynote (Ward Bell)
• Friday at //BUILD/: Jeff Wilcox on Windows Phone Performance (Jeff Wilcox)
• Bullet Points from Build–Day 1 and my thoughts (Michael Crump)
• Experiencing Windows 8 touch on Windows 7 hardware (Grant & Jeff)
• Channel 9 Events / BUILD2011 RSS Feed Tip, Building your perfect, custom, filtered BUILD RSS feed (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Server: Screenshots + What’s new (Owen Williams)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview and Windows 8 Developer Preview Screenshot Gallery (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview Keyboard Shortcuts (Ron Fosner)
• Xbox LIVE and Windows 8 (Larry Hryb)
• Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI and Mike Angiulo Unboxes the Build Hardware With Us (Larry Larsen)
• //build conference in Anaheim: Keynote notes #bldwin (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows 8 Forces Some Compromises After All (Ina Fried)
• Windows 8 and Build Day 1 Keynote Thoughts (Jeremy Likness)
• BUILD Keynote Day 1 – Windows 8 Experience (Brent Schooley)
• The Windows 8 Developer Ecosystem (Chris Eargle)
• Microsoft demos Windows 8 apps for Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and Photos (damaster)
• BUILD apps that use C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
• Getting Hands On With Virtual Machine of Windows 8! (Matt Griffin)
• Windows 8–First thoughts and Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtual machine (Peter Kuhn)
• PreEmptive Provides More Application Intelligence to HTML5 Developers #bldwin (Josette Rigsby)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• What is the cost of try/catch (Oren Eini)
• Why Write a .NET API For RabbitMQ? (Mike Hadlow)
• TeamPulse TFS Sync Tips & Tricks (TeamPulse Team)
• WinRT: An Object Orientated Replacement for Win32 (Jonathan Allen)
• Programmatically Get Assembly Version and Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part I) – Installation and Development Environment Setup (Abhijit Jana)
• Using Custom Web.config Transformations in MSBUILD (Doug Rathbone)
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.5 – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
• Sync Framework Toolkit Connects Phones, Desktops, HTML5 to SQL Server, SQL Azure (Bruce Kyle)

 

Web Development

• Secure development of Metro style apps with HTML5 (MS Downloads)
• Advantages of CoffeeScript When Working with jQuery Templates (Daniel Mohl)
• Backbone.js: MVC in JavaScript and Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Collection (Giorgio Sironi)
• Thinking Like a Web Designer (Tim Bray)
• Getting Role Instance Information with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Command Line Tools (Brian Swan)
• Resources For, And How I Learned Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
• Windows Developer Preview: The Third IE10 Platform Preview (Dean Hachamovitch)
• The Guide To CSS Animation: Principles and Examples (Tom Waterhouse)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Four Basic Insights on Confidence (J.D. Meier)
• You are doing Scrum but the Scrum Master tells the team what to do! (Martin Hinshelwood)
• RTM’d today: Effective Time Management: Using Microsoft Outlook to Organize Your Work and Personal Life (Kim Spilker)
• TeamPulse – A Project Management Solution from Telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 9 Things Designers Can Learn from Target’s Checkout Form (Anthony)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Toolkit DateTime Converters (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
• Adding to MoXAML. (Pete O’Hanlon)
• 2000 WPF Things #386 – Layout = Panels + FrameworkElements + Alignment/Margins/Padding (Sean Sexton)
• Expression Blend for HTML (Somasegar)
• TouchDevelop v2.2: tutorial mode, improved code editor, events (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Prism 4 MEF Application (Danny Siew)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – James Dawson and Grace Mollison Bridge the Gap Between Developers and Operations (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #139: File → Close (James Shore)
• Engadget HD Podcast 265 – 09.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Pluralcast 48 : Jeffrey Palermo on Career and Management (David Starr)
• The GeekDads Episode #100: The First Internet Streamed Murder (Ken Denmead)

 

Community / Events

• Webcast: Office 365 & SharePoint Online (Kim Spilker)
• Take a Ruby on Rails course from Rails Rookies (Charles Max Wood)
• //BUILD/: What a great conference -celebrating this new era by starting a new ALM Team blog (Charles Sterling)
• Say “Hello” to BlendInsider (Kirupa)
• WindowsPhoneGeek Community Recognition Program is Live! (Windows Phone Geek)

 

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server OLEDB Provider Deprecation Announcement (Luiz Santos)
• SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: Four new useful DMV (Jakub Dvorak)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to expressor 3.4 Lookup Tables (Pinal Dave)
• Understanding SQL Azure Federations No-MARS Support and Entity Framework (James Podgorski)
• Backing up SQL Azure with Backup from Red-Gate (Eric Nelson)

 

SharePoint

• RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• Business Connectivity Service Associations using DB2 Stored Procedures in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

 

PowerShell

• First Glimpse at PowerShell v3 and Video: Richard Siddaway – WMI: Gems and Gotchas (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• The PowerShell Magazine launches… (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• 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 and Essential IFTTT (IfThisThenThat) – Programming Workflows for Humans using the Web’s Social Glue (Scott Hanselman)
• This is why OEMs in the Windows world get slapped with the Fugly Stamp (Steven Hodson)
• Windows Phone “Tango1”, “Tango2”, and “Apollo” confirmed (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #937 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 14 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Geek Reading September 13, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #708 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 12th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 09/13/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Today’s Links (9/13/2011) (Bob Rhubart)

 

The Geek Shelf

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Jez Humble

 

 

Silverlight / WPF

• The Influence of MVC on My WPF (Christopher Bennage) – Link of the Day
• More on Moonlight 2.0 Preview 1 (Chris Cavanagh)
• Silverlight – Navigating Data (Dave M. Bush)
• Recreating Frogger in Silverlight – Part 2 and Part 3 (Michael Ceranski)
• The New York Times Silverlight Kit (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Creating a MVVM “Hello World” Application in 30 seconds (Rudi Grobler)
• Document Toolkit: Customizing the document viewer (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft to turn .Net Micro Framework code, support over to the community (Mary Jo Foley)
• LINQ To SQL Very Slow Performance Without Compile (CompileQuery) (Peter Kellner)
• Pay attention to the difference between Expression.Lt & Expression.LtProperty (Derik Whittaker)
• Introduction to MapReduce for .NET Developers (Eran Kampf)
• A Developer’s Guide to Preparing for Windows 7 (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

• Google’s Latitude Apps Give a Glimpse of New Latitude API (Andres Ferrate)
• Tweetpoll – My first Windows Azure application is live (Jamie Thomson)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Webforms Enhancements (Mike Ormond)
• Querying SharePoint List Items using jQuery (Jan Tielens)
• GridView Plugin For JQuery (Justin)
• Dynamic Data Preview 4 Released (Scott Hunter)
• Smooth Cascading Effect with ASP.NET Panels using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Dynamic Data in Regular Websites/Web Applications (David Fowler)
• Cleaner, Faster Ajax in ASP.NET (Gil Shabat)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing “Where’s The Dollar?” and Understanding the Problem (Chris Missal)
• Yet another reason to love TestDriven.net (Sebastien Lambla)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 4 (Rajiv Popat)
• Who’s In Charge Of The Time? (Davy Brion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ted Neward on Oracle buying Sun (Carl Franklin)
• 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing (Brian Keller)
• E-VAN Videos Reminder (Colin Jack)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #52 (Jeff Atwood)
• Cannon PI Title Sequence (Frank La Vigne)
• Podcast: Meg Edwards – My Journey with GTD Lists (Meg Edwards)
• Andy Lester: Land the Tech Job you Love (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Incorporating Your Beta Feedback into RC and Windows 7 Taskbar: Advanced Features (Yochay Kiriaty)

Community / Events

• .NET’s Most Influential People in 2009 (Jay Kimble)
• See and Be Seen Among the Stars at the INETA Booth at Tech·Ed and 9Q w/ Kathleen Sanders (Chris G. Williams)
• Announcing Silverlight FireStarter DC: June 6 (Frank La Vigne)
• Announcing the Formation of the Lean Software & Systems Consortium (Karl Scotland)

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Step by Step: What’s new for 2008? (Ken Jones)

PowerShell

• Fun with Alerts (“‘a”) (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Tools and Programs I use in my everyday work (Agnes Molnar)
• It’s Not About the Tools, It’s About the Strategy (Celine Roque)
• 8 Essential Applications (Corey Schuman)
• Are You an Information Junkie? (Dawn Foster)
• 4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks (Samuel Dean)
• Interesting and Ignored Tags Now Support Wildcards (Jeff Atwood)
• Clearing The Confusion On Security And Clouds (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Recipe for Spark build/dev machine on Virtual PC (Louis DeJardin)
• Guess Who Owns Kindledx.com? Amazon. Guess Who Forgot To Set It Up? Amazon. (MG Siegler)
• Live Search PR push in anticipation of “Kumo” (Kip Kniskern)
• Marketing Ideas to Help Sell Your Ideas (Sam’s Club Cup Pt. 2) (Max Pool)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 6, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #342 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 06, 2009 — #588 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for May 6th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• RIA Services Contrib – Release 0.51 (CodePlex)
• Silverlight Animation Tip (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Star Wars Scroller in Silverlight 3 and A Quick Note on XAML Namespaces in Silverlight/WPF (Frank La Vigne)
• Validation. Hey! You’re Done! (Jesse Liberty)
• Download M-V-VM Project Template/Toolkit (Lester Lobo)
• WPF design flaw of the day: no initial focus (Joe White)
• Playing around with Syntax Highlighter (Pete Brown)
• WPF : Attached Commands (Sacha Barber)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – Demos of new features (Velvárt András)
• More Validation Fun – But Not Done Yet (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Did You Know? Silverlight Class Library Can’t Be Named with “.Resources” (Michael Sync)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Wanted: A kickass .NET API for CouchDB (Richard Dingwall)
• NHibernate Validator and NHibernate, the database query cache and parameter sizes and NHibernate Search and NHibernate Filters (Oren Eini)
• Chess Program in C# (Jacques Fournier)
• Introduction to Mixins For the C# Developer (Justin Etheredge)
• F#: Erlang style messaging passing and F#: Entry point of an application and F#: Stuff I get confused about (Mark Needham)
• Using IronRuby with RubyMine (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Projects, Assemblies, and Namespaces – oh my (Udi Dahan)
• A simple sample for C# 4.0 ‘dynamic’ feature (Kirill Osenkov)
• Functional Composition and Partial Application (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

• JavaScript book excerpt, discount and free shipping offer (Michael Kimsal)
• How to Set JavaScript Programmatically on a Page in ASP.NET with Parameters (Peter Kellner)
• jQuery Tabs Plugin with Images (Dave Schinkel)
• Using jQuery with Client-Side Data Binding Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• JavaScript Gotcha in IE7 (Christopher Bennage)
• yUML and jQuery for Large Diagrams (Tobin Harris)
• Swap images with user interaction in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical .NET Unit Testing – Free paper released (Jason Young)
• Agile Meets The Recession and The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part II (Bob McIlree)
• Artisanal Retro-Futurism ⊗ Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism (Brian Marick)
• How Many Bedrooms Did You Say? (Max Pool) - Link of the Day
• On Getting Rid Of Common Libraries… What About Don’t Repeat Yourself? (Davy Brion)
• A Culture of Microcomponents (Ben Scheirman)
• Pex 0.12.40430.3 : Exploration Tree View, Partial Stubs… and Stubs as Parameterized Models with Contracts (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Pair Programming: When your pair steps away (Mark Needham)
• The Hunt For Simplicity (Justin Etheredge)
• Mocking for IronRuby (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Remote Retrospectives with Twiddla (Jim Holmes)
• Your Application is a Rotting Old Shack, Now What? (Michael Janke)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 3 (Rajiv Popat)
• Can we avoid tooling to prevent spaghetti code? (Patrick Smacchia)
• Metadata Belongs With The Class, Not With Another Class (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Metadata Classes – A Force for Good or Evil? (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #178 – JavaFX and the Web’s Four Virtual Machines (Scott Hanselman)
• Jason Olson: Composing Programming Languages, F# and OO (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 64: CouchDB with Jan Lenhardt and Chris Anderson (Michael Kimsal)
• This week on C9: Windows 7 RC, Glimmer for jQuery, and ZOMG Ponies (Dan Fernandez)
• Recent Pluralsight On-Demand! library updates (Aaron Skonnard)
• 10-4 Episode 17: F# Intro (Jason Olson)
• Screencast: Windows Workflow Foundation workflow service context basics and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Creating Custom Context Bindings and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in .NET client applications and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in WF client applications (Matt Milner)
• Behaviors in Blend 3 – Podcast (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• FitNesse with Bob Martin – Part 2 (Stephen Wright)

Community / Events

• IT Samurai School coming soon… (Billy McCafferty)
• Best Practices Conference (William Vaughn)
• Devlicio.us Motto Contest Finals – Put your voice (Tuna Toksoz)
• Secure a Speaking Slot for Tech Ed North America 2010 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• On speaking, trolling, inciting and growing (Ted Neward)
• INETA Live – Call for Speakers (Steve Andrews)
• Axum, Reactive Framework and other Lang.net items (Matthew Podwysocki)
• What Should Microsoft Do For .NET Open Source? (Rob Conery)

Database

• Geek City: Controlling Lock Granularity (Kalen Delaney)
• Real World Perspectives on the Pros and Cons of Stored Procedures (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Doing my SQL myths session on Live meeting (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Example of DDL, DML, DCL and TCL Commands and SQL SERVER – Add or Remove Identity Property on Column and SQL SERVER – Roadmap of Microsoft Certifications – SQL Server Certifications (Pinal Dave)
• Create a new embedded Firebird database (DotNetFacts)

SharePoint

• Search and Natural User Interfaces – Part 2 (Nathan Treloar)
• SharePoint SDK 1.5 (April 2009) Released! (Randall Isenhour)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases “Sneak-Peek” Images of Upcoming Office 2010 and MSDN Blogger Recommends Free Windows 7 Federated Search Providers (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on devices, startups, IP and open source (Todd Bishop)
• Book: Growing Software (David Starr)
• Network Monitor (Netmon) 3.3 Overview (Will Gregg)
• Windows Virtual PC and the Microsoft Device Emulator (Brian Peek)
• Windows 7 setup secrets (Ed Bott)
• XP Mode in Windows 7 is no cop out (Lee Mathews)
• Top 10 Scenarios; ISVs Add Customer Value with Windows 7 Features (Bruce Kyle)
• Glimmering with effects (Coding4Fun)
• Interviewing the Interviewee (Dave Schinkel)
• Pablo’s Topic of the Month – May 2009 Edition (Gregory Long)
• A Little Bit of Personality (Denise Trabona & Samuel Moreau)
• Wolfram Alpha Search Engine On Video (Jesus Diaz)
• Windows 7 Blame Feature (Nick Berardi)
• Codesqueeze Charity Kickin – Room To Read (Max Pool)
• Tips for CodePlex Projects hosting multiple applications – #026 (Sara Ford)
• iBrowz: A New RSS Reader for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
• Test driving Windows 7 RC and PowerShellPlus 3.0 on Virtual PC (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #339 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 01, 2009 — #584 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2009 — #585 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links #51 (Grant Palin)
• New and Notable 317 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for May 1st, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (5/3/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Discoveries This Week 05/01/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day