• Visual Studio Achievements – Remember Kids They’re Just For Fun (Bil Simser)
• Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta (Karsten Januszewski)
• Learning leadership from Congress (Seth Godin)
• Introducing ReSharper 6.1 SDK (Dmitri Nesteruk)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Don’t brag about your Visual Studio achievements! (yet?) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Ask Ayende: Life without repositories, are they worth living? (Oren Eini)
• [Special Edition] Achievement Unlocked! – Visual Studio Achievement Beta Released (Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Achievements Widget (Geoffrey K.)
• TFS11 Scrum board update remaining work without opening the work item… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Visual Studio Achievements Program Brings Gamification to Development (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Visual Studio Achievements FAQ (Karsten Januszewski)
• An introduction to NDepend (Nathan Gloyn)
• Don’t try to allocate memory until there is only x% free (Raymond Chen)
• Querying an Uninitialized Collection with NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
• P/Invoke Stack Imbalance MDA (Sasha Goldshtein)
• async / await, some reasoning (Bnaya Eshet)
• "Beginner’s Guide to Kinect Programming," from download to demo (Greg Duncan)
• Per Project Settings or How to have different naming styles for my test project (Hadi Hariri)
• Restful WCF / EF POCO / UnitOfWork / Repository / MEF article (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• jQuery Bootstrap 0.2 Brings ‘Beauty’ to Widgets (Christopher Smith)
• An analysis of SOPA and PIPA Protest "Blackout" HTML and CSS techniques (Scott Hanselman)
• 160 Music APIs (Wendell Santos)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 3 – Paths and Text (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Add Google Plus One Extension to BlogEngine.NET (Joseph Guadagno)
• Under the Covers: Let It Snow… (Bogdan Brinza)
• HTTP is not a transport protocol, HTTP is not RPC (Glenn Block)
• Format efficiency take 2: really clean JSON (Pablo Castro)
• Windows Azure application VM and (virtual) IP Address (Avkash Chauhan)
• Best Practices For HTTP API Evolvability (Dilip Krishnan)
• Easing Functions in CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Test or Integration Test and Why You Should Care (Steve Smith)
• The next big thing is extremely small (Jimmy Nilsson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get the Tapped Item in a MultiselectList control (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Toolkit ToggleSwitch Databinding Bug (Andy Wigley)
• wp7 skydrive upload (babaandthepigman)
• WP7 PhoneGap Backbutton Support Re-visited (Colin Eberhardt)
• How to simplify coding DependencyProperty in WPF and Silverlight (DawningTiger)
• How to Use the ConnectionSettings Task for Windows Phone and Code to Share Status or Links on Social Media sites in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Comfortably numb… MVVM’ing Enums in ComboBox (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #476 – Set ZIndex Values for Child Elements of Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• New Ebook by SilverlightShow and Andrea Boschin: Windows Phone 7.5 Fundamentals (SilverlightShow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Dev Radio Episode 95: Jeff Carouth at ZendCon 2011 (Michael Kimsal)
• The GeekDads Episode #107: And Anyone Who Says Otherwise Is Evil and Bad and Wrong (Ken Denmead)
• Defrag: Gov’s Nest, Bitlocker Q’s, Win7 Defrag, (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Bug Village, Hasta La Muerte, PixelTV, Make Way, WeatherDuck (Laura Foy)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 010 – 01.18.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio Achievements (Robert Green)
• New Videos Uploaded (Jesse Liberty)
• Phoenix Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• .NET Rocks! – Chris Sells Unplugged! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

• Microsoft-ComponentOne Hands-On-Workshops for Windows Phone Series – January 24th and 26th 2012 (MS Public Sector Team)
• Top 10 Reasons Why I Like Dating A Programmer (Lori Lalonde)
• I have been awarded as Telerik MVP (Dhananjay Kumar)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Importance of Resource Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 18 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Performance Tuning – optimizing for response time (Jack Vamvas)

Miscellaneous

• Translating Military Experience to Real World Jobs (Joe Wallis)
• Defeating SOPA and PIPA Isn’t Enough (Jeff Atwood)
• New: Presentation Zen (2nd Edition) (Garr Reynolds)
• Learning RegEx – Grouping and Backlinks and Lots-O-emote’s in WPCentral’s complete WP7 emoticons list (Greg Duncan)
• Whoa, that’s a superstar team at IEB (Xbox), what the heck are they building? (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft confirms Dave Cutler, father of Windows NT, now working on Xbox (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google Thinks OPEN Is a Rational Alternative to SOPA (Todd Wasserman)

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2012 01.10 ~ 01.19 (yuanjian)
• Daily News Digest 1/18/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/19/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1025 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-18 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 18, 2012 – #00029 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Entity Framework: Code First: Code First by Julia Lerman

• Caliburn Micro Part 1: Getting Started (Jason Fauchelle)
• EF 4.3 Beta 1 Released (EF Team)
• Scoping CQRS/ES Guidance Project (Grigori Melnik)
• JavaScript Pattern Collection (Shi Chuan)
• 101 Async Samples (Joe Mayo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Data Access review thoughts (Oren Eini)
• SSDT CTP4 and Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Adam Mahood)
• How to work with Custom Method in WCF Data Service? and Flyout control in Windows 8 HTML JavaScript Metro Application and Code analysis using Telerik JustCode (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Stopwatch Ticks are not TimeSpan Ticks (James Michael Hare)
• My Artilcle on the UITableView with MonoTouch and the iPhone/iOS is now online (Wally McClure)
• Garbage Collection in The Age of Smart Pointers (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentStack (Simon Cooper)
• 2012 Roadmap Revealed: 6 Major Releases (TeamPulse Team)
• Why does CreateEvent fail with ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND if I give it a name with a backslash? (Raymond Chen)
• DebuggerDisplay Attribute (Joseph Guadagno)
• Search in JustDecompile (JustDecompile Team)
• Reading and Writing text files in Windows 8 Metro (Morten Nielsen)
• Speaking of Speech Recognition… Check out Julius, the OSS high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder (Greg Duncan)
• EF 4.3 Configuration File Settings and EF 4.3 Beta 1: Automatic Migrations Walkthrough and EF 4.3 Beta 1: Code-Based Migrations Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
• Developing Apps for Windows 8 (Christopher Smith)
• ReSharper and code generation (Jeremy Alles)
• Unable to cast transparent proxy to type <type> (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• HTML5 Reference Poster and Bipin shows us that creating a tag cloud doesn’t have to be hard to do (in ASP.Net) (Greg Duncan)
• An approach to mobile support in ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
• Automatically numbering headings via CSS (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Understanding the Rails Asset Pipeline (Rob Conery)
• My top 3 improvements in Windows Azure from the December update (Eric Nelson)
• New API Lets You Show Three Alternative Routes on Bing Maps (Bruce Kyle)
• Access Amazon’s EC2 (and more) from within NodeJS (Dave Mahon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introducing the Android Design site (Tim Bray)
• New book: Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice (Valerie Woolley)
• 5 Things Every Mobile Design Should Have (Patrick Cox)
• small-scale software craftsmanship (Ariya Hidayat)
• Inclusive Design (Faruk Ateş)
• Article: Design for Testability – The True Story (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• UriMapper in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Working with animation in Expression Blend (Alex Mukora)
• Creating Cascading Drop Down Lists in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Beth Massi)
• A Windows Phone-CES Post Mortem (Andrew Brust)
• “Operation Not Permitted” On IsolatedStorageSettings in Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #472 – UniformGrid Defaults to Being Square (Sean Sexton)
• Capturing the transport data between Visual Studio and Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New RSS Starter Kit (Chris Koenig)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Verge Mobile Podcast 009: CES 2012 – 01.12.2012 and The Vergecast 011: CES 2012 Day 2 – 01.12.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• VIDEO: Windows Phone wins 88% of #smokedbywindowsphone challenges at CES 2012! (Ben Rudolph)
• Let’s Play TDD #158: writeFile() and readFile() (James Shore)
• Surface 2.0 at CES (Steve Clayton)
• RadioTFS – First Show of 2012 (Martin Woodward)
• Gweek 035: Interview with Robert Anton Wilson’s daughter (Mark Frauenfelder)
• MVP First Timers Webcast On Demand (Denny Cherry)
• Basic Ad Controls for Windows Phone Apps with David Kelley (Silverlight Show)

Community / Events

• Boston Area Geek Dinner: Thursday January 19, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• New Cities and New Courses (Shawn Wildermuth)
• F# courses and talks (Winter 2012 and beyond…) (Tomas Petricek)
• A New Coding Project Every Week at Code52 (Paul Betts)
• Charles Petzold on His 25 Years with MSDN Magazine (Michael Desmond)
• MVP Award Program at CES 2012 (Kari Finn)
• Nokia Lumia 900 collects the hardware at CES with numerous awards (PhoneArena Team)
• .NET Performance Diagnostics: How and Where to Start -User Group Meeting January 18th Eagan, MN (Charles Sterling)
• Next Week: Central Ohio Windows Phone User Group January Meetup (Silverlight Show)

Database

• Anatomy of the SQL Server Database: Settings and Secrets Video (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – DACPAC and SQL Azure – Quiz – Puzzle – 12 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Missing Indexes (Jason Brimhall)
• Have you tried the “Data Explorer” samples yet? (Data Explorer Team)

Miscellaneous

• How to Take Screen Shots From An Android Phone or Tablet (Chris Love)
• Learning Android: Roboguice – Injecting context into PreferenceManager (Mark Needham)
• Microsoft’s Ballmer: If I had it to do all over again… (Mary Jo Foley)
• Why Doesn’t Windows 8 Just Look Like THIS? (Paul Thurrott)
• Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign for Windows 0.96 Beta released (Ron)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1021 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for January 12, 2011 – #0026 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-12 and ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-13 (Bob Rhubart)
• Double Shot #795 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 1/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 12-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Wallace B. McClure

• Learn Windows Azure Next Tuesday (Dec 13th) (Scott Guthrie)
• Hello GitHub! (Phil Haack)
• A Windows Phone 7 Slide View with Page Pips (Colin Eberhardt)
• MVVM Light template and WCF services (or any ASP.NET application for that matter) (Laurent Bugnion)
• NuGet: little known features (Peter Kuhn)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Preview Tab in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• MSSQL & NHibernate – mapping week numbers to properties (Gunnar Peipman)
• Use Projections and a Repository to Fake a Filtered Eager Load (Julie Lerman)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Beta 1 (CodePlex)
• Gibraltar 3.0 Beta 2 Available – More scalable, lighter weight agents, and real time data. (Kendall)
• Download .NET Reflector 7.5 EA Build 3 (RedGate)
• LINQ to Reports… As in transform your LINQ queries into reports, with extensible formats like Excel, PDF, CSV, HTML (Greg Duncan)
• A Key Code Checker for DOM Keyboard Events (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.0 (beta) Released (Nathan Totten)
• What is Package.appxmanifest File in Windows 8 Metro Style Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Group Chat SDK (Steve Jones)
• Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta 2 (MS Downloads)
• Using a bar code scanner in .NET (Chad Z. Hower)
• Setting up your first use of the Animation library in WinJS (Adam Kinney)
• The Road To LINQ-dom Part 2–Delegates (Kyle Burns)

Web Development

• The CSS profilers are coming! (Lennart Schoors)
• HTML Forms in HTML Emails (Chris Coyier)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Hide Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• IIS Tuner 1.1 and ProDinner ASP.net WebForms Awesome Sample Application (CodePlex)
• Set the AsyncTimeout attribute for your async controllers (Simone Chiaretta)
• Updated Live Connect API announced (Kip Kniskern)
• Moving to Standards-based Web Graphics in IE10 (Ted Johnson)
• MPNS module for Node: A simple push notification helper for the cloud (Jeff Wilcox)
• Running PHPUnit in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing with CRM 2011 (Mark Schweigert)
• Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox’s attention to detail on their download page (Scott Hanselman)
• Design It to Build It: What to Consider When Designing for the Web (Patrick Cox)
• It’s okay for your UI to know some business process (Kyle Szklenski)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 7: Automated Test Basics (Jim Holmes)
• A Manifesto For Sofware Team Leaders – Take 1 (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building WPF Applications with Self-Tracking Entity Generator – Project Setup (Weidong Shen)
• Building an Augmented Reality XAML control (Morten Nielsen)
• Syncing Windows Phone database with backend SQL Server (Andy Wigley)
• Have an idea for a Windows Phone Starter Kit? and Windows Phone Starter Kit for Schools v2.0 Released! (Chris Koenig)
• Debugging the Update Process for Windows Phone Apps (Doug Holland)
• Case Study: TailSpin Windows Phone Survey Application and Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7.5 (Francis K. Cheung)
• WPF Elements 5 Released! (John-Daniel Trask)
• 2000 WPF Things #446 – Default Docking for DockPanel Children (Sean Sexton)
• Calling WCF REST Service with Basic authentication from Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• How to add and remove Secondary Tiles in Windows Phone apps (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Development Practices at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 005 – 12.07.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Announcing the Learn Windows Azure Live Event! (Wade Wegner)
• Project Compatibility in Visual Studio 11 (Robert Green)
• Let’s Play TDD #148: Asynchronous Assertions (James Shore)
• Hot Apps: Farm Frenzy 2, Pocket Party Game, Archie, Race & Battle, Double Jumper (Laura Foy)
• A little responsive video demo (Leigh Howells)
• SOA Made Simple – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• Win Free Copies of Nhibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide (Oren Eini)
• Phil Haack is a GitHubber (Tim Clem)
• 5 Minutes on The Verge: Paul Thurrott (Thomas Houston)
• Nokia and T-Mobile USA making announcement on December 14th (Chris Ziegler)
• thatConference Announced! (Dave Bost)

Database

• SQL Server Storage: Files and Filegroups Video (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Error: Deleting Offline Database and Creating the Same Name (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 7: Crosstab with PIVOT and  SQL Advent 2011 Day 8: UNPIVOT (Denis Gobo)
• Dynamic Connections in SSIS – Extract, Transform and Load and SQL Server Integration Services tools to have – Expression Editor & Tester (Ted Krueger)
• Data Explorer Feedback part 1 (Jamie Thomson)
• Community created Forward Engineer Database Diagrams Addin for Visio 2010 (Think "Diagram to T-SQL," like in past versions, but with source) (Greg Duncan)
• The Day-to-Day Tasks of the Average DBA (Brad M McGehee)

SharePoint

• Renaming SharePoint Service Apps Databases (Brian Farnhill)

Miscellaneous

• Power Tools for Windows (Steve Jones)
• Ruby On REST: Introducing the Representer Pattern (Nick Sutterer)
• Get your app in the Store on opening day (Antoine Leblond)
• I’ve got my XBox Live Avatar, right here…. on my T-Shirt! and Getting Started with Scratch – A Programmer’s Guide (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing the official Xbox LIVE iOS App (Larry Hryb)
• Just how important is Desktop App support for Windows 8 ARM tablets? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Pinworthy: 7 apps for entertaining kids during the holidays (Michael Stroh)
• Windows 8 –Trust me, we got this covered this time I promise… (Scott Barnes)
• Xbox Companion App Available Now (Control Your Xbox From Your Windows Phone) (Antonio Hernandez)
• O’ Reilly Deals on Cookbooks to Jan 19th (Tatworth)
• Welcome to the New Xbox 360 Dashboard (XNA Team)
• Rumor: Amazon Retail Stores Coming & Predatory Pricing Channel Destruction (Jason Calacanis)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #769 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #998 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/07/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for November 28 – December 4, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 7 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 12/8/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting Finds: December 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul J. Deitel

• List of freely available programming books (Stack Overflow)
• November release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit (Jeff Wilcox)
• JavaScript Closures for Dummies (Morris Johns)
• “Explicit” Tests with Resharper (Peter Ritchie)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Actor Model Programming in C# (Chris Patterson)
• Guide to reduce TFS database growth using the Test Attachment Cleaner and Build Explorer version 1.1 for Visual Studio Team Explorer is released (Terje Sandstrom)
• Greatest Hits: Make IntelliSense Transparent (Zain Naboulsi)
• DevPad 4.7 and Fluent Validation 3.2 (CodePlex)
• Ninject and NLog with Multiple Loggers (Geoff Hudik)
• Skeletal Tracking Example (Greg Duncan)
• Partial Application (Chris Eargle)
• Robotium 3.0 – Stepping It Up! (Renas Reda)

Web Development

• Selenium 2 from PHP code and Practical PHP Refactoring: Parameterize Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 1 (Jorge Ramon)
• Visual Studio 2010 HTML5 (Renso Hollhumer)
• How you clear your HTML5 Canvas matters (Simon Sarris)
• Addressing Sueetie Wall Permalinks (Dave Burke)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP v4.0.4 (CodePlex)
• HTML5: Pushing and Popping with the History API (Mike Robinson)
• Multiple domains with HTTP and HTTPS endpoint and UCC SSL Certificate in Windows Azure Web Role (Avkash Chauhan)
• YUI 3.5.0 Roadmap and Timelines (Jenny Donnelly)
• A Pinch of CoffeeScript Sugar – Part 1 (Daniel Mohl)
• Making hashchange Work Better on Windows Phone (Chris Love)
• Using JsonValue and JsonArray in WCF Web API (Alexander Zeitler)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Should Developers Know the Business Customers? (Peter Saddington)
• Leveraging Microsoft Patterns and Practices (Tim Murphy)
• Hash Tables as an Efficient Means of Search (Andy)
• Writing stable code (Kyle Szklenski)
• The Data-Pixel Approach To Improving User Experience (Rian van der Merwe)
• Inside Red Gate – Exercises in Leanness (Simon Cooper)
• The required infrastructure frees you from infrastructure decisions (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Lync SDK: Lync controls for Wpf and Silverlight ! (Nicolas Humann)
• Windows Phone, The Xbox of today (Daniel Egan)
• Blend 4 + VS 2011 (Preview) = Problem? (Michael Sync)
• Updates to the Expression Blend User Guide (Pam Keesey)
• 2000 WPF Things #431 – Binding a Control’s Width to Its Height (Sean Sexton)
• Two Ways to Create a Database for Your Mango App (David Pell)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #16: Isolated Storage Explorer (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C&B 2011 Panel: Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu and Scott Meyers – Concurrency and Parallelism and SPLASH 2011: Mark Miller – Secure JavaScript (Charles Torre)
• ADP West 2011 – Ken Pugh – Acceptance Test Driven Development and Tips and Advice – Test Driven Development – Bob Payne and George Dinwiddie (Agile Toolkit)
• On The Verge, Episode 001: Matias Duarte (Verge Staff)
• Here’s What It’s Like To Use Nokia’s Stunning New Windows Phone [VIDEO REVIEW] (NOK, MSFT) (Ellis Hamburger)
• Gil Zilberfeld interviews Uncle Bob Martin (Avi Kaye)
• Hot Apps: Kinectimals, Monopoly, Find the Lady, INRIX traffic, PhotoBucket (Laura Foy)
• Engadget HD Podcast 274 – 11.15.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Boagworld: With Adobe backtracking on Flash, its time we did too (Paul Boag)
• The GeekDads Episode #103: If You Can Make Something Light Up, Make it Light Up! (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• Tonight at F#unctional Londoners: Byron Cook: Proving program termination with F# (Don Syme)
• FREE Windows Azure Developer Camps Coming to A City Near You; Sign up Now! (Himanshu Singh)
• Window Phone Marketing team really is hungry… Café Mango food truck roams the streets of NYC (Greg Duncan)
• Infographic: Freelancers On The Job (Richard Hay)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Puzzle to Win Print Book – Write T-SQL Self Join Without Using LEAD and LAG (Pinal Dave)
• List all stored procedures that run at startup in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• The Data Scientist (Buck Woody)
• Creating a Partitioned View in the BAM Archiving Database and Adventures in TSQL: Comma separated string from column values and Adventures in TSQL: Adding date and time values and Adventures in TSQL: Using CTEs when performing DELETE/UPDATE operations (Carl Nolan)
• The First Thing To Do After Creating Keys (Steve Jones)
• The CASE of the missing non-NULL T-SQL Error: None of the result expressions in a CASE specification can be NULL. (Jose Chinchilla)
• Quotename in SQL (Jack Vamvas)
• SQLCop is now available via chocolatey (Christiaan Baes)

SharePoint

• Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: a Silverlight menu for Sharepoint – Part 1 (Walter Ferrari)

Miscellaneous

• Kodu Game Lab (MS Downloads)
• First step with Ruby: Kindle Clipping Extractor (Franky)
• Windows 8 is NOT coming to Phones (Mike Halsey)
• Xbox – 10 years of epic (Steve Clayton)
• Inside Microsoft’s secret "Socl" network (Tyler Holman)
• Google Programming Language is Go for 2012 launch (Zach Honig)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #753 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 11/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #982 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/15/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 15 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week November 7-13 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code by Allen Holub

• Hands on Labs from //build/ Now Available (buildwindows)
• Windows Phone Mango users reporting disappearing keyboards (Mary Jo Foley) – I’m seeing it occasionally on my HTC Surround.
• Amazon’s Silk Browser: A Peeping Tom Or A Mona Lisa? (Rob Diana)
• Actions in WCF Data Services (Alex James)
• IronPython 2.7.1 RC (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to let other teams at Microsoft know how to support F# better (Don Syme)
• Neovolve.Toolkit 1.1 Released (Rory Primrose)
• System Users and Application Users (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit October 2011 Released and Helping others become Visual Studio Keyboard Ninja’s with the Code Ninja Spy (Greg Duncan)
• Automated Build-Deploy-Test using TFS 2010 (Anuj Chaudhary)
• New Field Notes and Real World Guidance added to the Windows Azure Technical Content (Molly Bostic)
• Fixing NLog’s Logging to a Web Service (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows 8 Metro declarations: User Tile Provider (Andrej Tozon)
• WinRT and Windows Property System part 1: storing and retrieving files metadata (Andrei Marukovich)
• Facebook C# SDK 5.3 (CodePlex)
• Azure Storage Client using Async API (Rohit Gupta)
• Using Geospatial Data (WCF Team)

Web Development

• How to Deploy Your ASP.NET MVC 3 with SQL CE 4.0 & Entity Framework (Christian D. Yellington)
• Tips For Using Backbone.js Routers With HTML5 PushState (Derick Bailey)
• RTM’d today: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• The many places to Dive into HTML5 (Greg Duncan)
• Using HTML5 Geolocation API in ASP.NET Application (Harish Ranganathan)
• Viewmodel extractors in ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
• HTML5 Gaming: animating sprites in Canvas with EaselJS and An introduction to CSS pseudo-element hacks (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A look at Dart from the eyes of an OO programmer (Giorgio Sironi)
• Ah Ha Moments – Handcrafted CSS (Ryan Rauh)
• JavaScript unit testing support (Sergey Simonchik)
• Ruby and Node on Windows Azure Learning Plan (Larry Franks)
• Challenging non-local session scope (session-per-request) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• RIA/JS: Deleting Entities (Josh Twist)
• Getting Started With PHP Templating (Krzysztof Rakowski)
• Azure Blob Storage – a simple example (Peter von Lochow)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Development is Broken (Avi Kaye)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – BDD Style Unit Tests with Jasmine and CoffeeScript (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Writing Software as a Kaizen Event (Stephen Forte)
• Product Owners are not a myth (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Effective Stand-ups (Robert May)
• Book Review “Cloud Computing Architected – Solution Design Handbook” by John Rhoton and Risto Haukioja (Kai Wähner)
• Blocks and Playsets (Christopher Bennage)
• How To Produce Bug-Free Software (Derek Greer)
• The Lure of Specialization (Joel Semeniuk)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Insert data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Code to Send SMS in Windows Phone 7 and Reading coordinate values using Accelerometer API in Windows Phone 7 and Debugging WCF Service from Silverlight: The Breakpoint will not currently be hit at WCF Service error (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 2: manipulating the UI (Kevin Dockx)
• ChevronWP7 Unlock Tool Coming Soon (Few Weeks Away) (Antonio Hernandez)
• A behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #409 – Child Elements in a Grid Size to Fit the Containing Cell and #410 – Default Grid Row and Column Sizes (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 21: I Go Pogo! (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Paul Lewis Sees 3D in HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Drawbridge: A new form of virtualization for application sandboxing and Tao Liu: F# Design Patterns (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 123: Andreas Håkansson and Steven Robbins on NancyFx (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Episode 162 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Pfeiffer from Interface Technical Training (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Short interview on C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 17th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Phone Hackathon draws in Pro Devs and Students (Bob Familiar)
• Quick training & conference announcements (Udi Dahan)
• YUIConf 2011 Preliminary Schedule Now Available (Jenny Donnelly)

Database

• SQL Server Developers Tools code-named “Juneau” becomes SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) (Gert Drapers)
• SQL SERVER – Next Version of SQL Server ‘Denali’ is Officially Named as SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Denali CTP3 – Semantic Search features (Trevor Dwyer)
• Simple XML exist performance enhancement (Arthur Olcot)

SharePoint

• Web Part Development Options in SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s plan for bringing its BI tools to iOS, Android, and Windows 8 devices (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows 8 “Isn’t Finished”, Microsoft Reminds us again! (Mike Halsey)
• Learn Ruby with the Edgecase Ruby Koans (Jim Weirich & Joe O’Brien)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.11 ~ 10.17 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Maker Geek Roundup 002 for 10/17/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Geek Reading October 17, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Web Dev Tweets 14-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/17/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #961 (Chris Alcock)
• SilverlightShow for October 10 – 16, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for October 17, 2011 — #1158 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• My Windows 8 Development Article Collection. (Michael Crump)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 10 – 16, 2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide (5th Edition) by Jason Cranford Teague

• 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

• Released: Project Silk Client-Side Web Development for Modern Browsers (Karl Shifflett)
• Using System.Reflection.Emit in a Windows 8 Metro style Application (Jason Bock)
• WinRT is your friend (Josh Smith)
• Demystifying the Windows 8 Grid Application (Bil Simser)
• PlayStation Suite SDK beta coming in November, offering new games in spring 2012 (Richard Lai)

Windows 8

• The 300+ Features We Weren’t Shown In Windows 8 (Robert Boland)
• Windows8 StartMenu v1.0.0 (CodePlex) – Win8 gadget to switch Metro start menu on/off.
• Microsoft to release Windows 8 Beta on September 30th? (Zac)
• Windows 8 Gives New Life to Older Hardware (Karl Shifflett)
• First look at Windows 8 application as a developer (Andrej Tozon)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Data Schema Comparison in Visual Studio 2010 (Atul Verma)
• F# Type Providers – Querying StackOverflow (Daniel Mohl)
• Queued WCF Services, MSMQ, IIS7 and NetMsmqActivator. Oh My. (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• TFS Azure: Set up Visual Studio 2010 to work with TFS Azure (Tarun Arora)
• Learning about the Visual Studio ALM Rangers and how they embrace products announced at //BUILD/ (Willy P. Schaub)
• WinRT and .NET and WinRT and business apps and CSLA on WinRT (project start) (Rockford Lhotka)
• Under the Covers of WinRT Using C++ and Metro .NET Framework Profile (“Windows Tailored”) and Improvements in the CLR Core in .NET Framework 4.5 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• New Versions of StyleCop have been released (Tatworth)
• Welcome to Zombieland, the Metro Style Land of WinRT and the Undead (Rene Schulte)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Merge and NHibernate Pitfalls: SELECT N + 1 and NHibernate Pitfalls: Fetch and Lazy (Ricardo Peres)
• Developing for WinRT and Windows8 – Basic Concepts (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Dependency Management in .Net (Derek Greer)
• ROSLYN: Complier as Service ? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Code Navigation and Search with Telerik Just Code (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Sort Generic List Using Lambda Expression For Dynamic Type And Dynamic Property (Jebarson Jebamony)
• Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part II) – Using NUI APIs with Camera and Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part III) – Adjusting the Kinect Camera Angle (Abhijit Jana)
• First example of a very simple type provider (Robert Pickering)
• Deep dive in Process template’s states and transitions (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Windows 8 Development Tip – ObservableCollection doesn’t work and Windows 8 Development Tip – Packaging and loading files (Avi P)
• Links to C++ AMP and other content (Daniel Moth)

Web Development

• Stability in Insertion Sort (Julian M. Bucknall)
• What about Metro JS Projects and jQuery? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Unobtrusive AJAX with Rails 3.1 (Samnang Chhun)
• Creating Gradients With Compass and SASS (Paul Cowan)
• todomvc – MVC Todo apps for JavaScriptMVC, SproutCore, Backbone.js, Spine.js, YUILibrary, Knockout.js and more (Addy Osmani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Render unto Caeser the things which are Caeser’s and unto the Designer… (Daniela Panfili)
• Enterprise Service Buses, Brokers, Message Queues, Oh My! (Peter Ritchie)
• Announcing Gallio and MbUnit 3.3 (Yann Trevin)
• Connector: Simple, zero friction Github –> AppHarbor integration (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• How to Setup Sprint or Iterations in a Telerik TeamPulse Project? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Worst Code I Ever Wrote, And Why I’m Still Happy About It (Davy Brion)
• Observations on the Play! framework (James Gregory)
• The Little Things Add Up (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 2 : Improved WeakEventManager (Jonathan Antoine)
• How to use WPF controls in DXCore Tool Window plug-in (Alex Skorkin)
• Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone Application Performance analysis (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Binding Image, Brush or Color to Background property in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• HelloTiles – A Simple C# Xaml Application for WinRT/Windows8 to demonstrate Metro Tile Updates (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• 2000 WPF Things #389 – Wrap a Panel in A ScrollViewer to Provide Scrolling Support (Sean Sexton)
• Win8, Metro Apps and Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Phone7.Fx is now available on codeplex (Nicolas Humann)
• Why all the "WPF/SL is gone" claims make no sense (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Cross Document Messaging (xdm) and How Do I: Create Ribbon Controls (Part 1) and MSDN Radio: Exploring SharePoint and Silverlight with Paul Stubbs (MS Podcasts)
• Technology & Friends Episode 174: K Scott Allen on MVC3 (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 034 – “Live from BUILD 2011″ (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 411: Deus Ex, Gears of War 3 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• A Look At Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Weekly 226: Live From Anaheim and the BUILD Conference: Windows 8 Revealed (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft interns are the first Windows 8 developers (MS JobsBlog)
• This is my next Podcast 024 – 09.17.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• The GeekDads Episode #100: The First Internet Streamed Murder (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Camps (Boston, Burlington, New Paltz, and more!) (Jim O’Neil)
• All Good Things (John Papa) – Good luck, John!
• SharePoint Conference Party Best Practices #SPC11 (Joel Oleson)

Database

• Have end users who need an introduction to SQL Server book? (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – String Function – FORMAT() – A Quick Introduction and SQLAuthority News – Automation of Data Mining Using Integration Services and SQLAuthority News – Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse Using the Kimball Approach and SQL SERVER – Denali – Date and Time Functions – DATEFROMPARTS() – DATETIMEFROMPARTS() – DATETIME2FROMPARTS() – TIMEFROMPARTS() – SMALLDATETIMEFROMPARTS() – DATETIMEOFFSETFROMPARTS() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
• Delete all data from a database (Jamie Thomson)
• Find the largest tables in a database (II) (Jeffrey Yao)

SharePoint

• 10 Top Resources for SharePoint Developers (Avi Hein)
• Opening Files in the Browser with SharePoint and Adding Ratings and Comments to SharePoint Publishing Pages (Bil Simser)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Script To Traverse All Sites In SharePoint 2010 (or 2007) Farm (Brian Jackett)

Miscellaneous

• Paint.NET v3.5.9 Beta (build 4278) is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 17, 2011 and Interesting Finds: September 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #940 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading September 18, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 11-September-2011 to 17-September-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Double Shot #711 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 16th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 09/17/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 09/19/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/19/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook by Jason Dentler

• MonoTouch: Past, Present, and Future (Brent Schooley)
• And we are back: Mono 2.10.3 (Miguel de Icaza)
• A bit more details on compiler Roslyn plans… (Patrick Smacchia)
• Coding4Fun: Where’s My Car? (Arian Kulp)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 4 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A brighter TFS future? (Jimmy Bogard)
• New book: Microsoft Access 2010 VBA Programming Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part VI (Luca Bolognese)
• VS2010 – Debugging not working (Peter Gfader)
• How to use a WCF custom channel to implement client-side caching in a Windows Azure-hosted application (Paolo Salvatori)
• C#: DateTime to Midnight datetime (Raghav Khunger)
• RadControls for WinForms Step-by-step tutorial: Updated (Telerik WinForms Team)
• Entity Framework 4.1 Update 1, Backward Compatibility and Microsoft (Oren Eini)
• Robosapien, I Kinect you… (Greg Duncan)
• dotCover 1.1.1 and dotTrace Performance 4.5.1 Released (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• Metro Skin for ASP.NET AJAX is now available (Senthil Kumar)
• Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 (Brad Wilson)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Returns Garbage (Chris Eargle)
• Integrating MVC routes and Web API routes (Glenn Block)
• HTML5 Part 4: Using HTML5 while retaining support for older browsers (Jennifer Marsman)
• MVC Controls Toolkit 1.3.0 SP1 (CodePlex)
• Playing with the new Windows Azure Storage Analytics Features (Steve Marx)
• Multiple URL Binding with IIS Express (Abhijit Jana)
• Connecting Web Apps with Web Intents (Google Chrome Blog)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: SemanticConflict (Martin Fowler)
• Article: Agile Strategy Manifesto (Yogesh Kumar)
• Algorithmically Estimating Developer Time (Peter Saddington)
• Enterprise Architecture Goes To College, EA Becoming Academically Recognized and Offered (Mike Walker)
• Translating Code Smells in Server Smells (Patrick Debois)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to: Search for a Contact and get Contact Picture in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• Using the “Copy Xaml” feature in Expression Design to create HTML5 SVG Path Data. (Michael Crump)
• WP7 Contrib – Bing Maps Rest API Wrapper Part III Search (Richard Griffin)
• Bing Maps Task (Jesse Liberty)
• 2000 WPF Things #358 – Binding a RadioButton to an Enumerated Type (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone SDK 7.1 – A developer review and Invoke the Windows Phone emulator console window without using the registry and How to access blacklisted apps in the Windows Phone emulator ROM (with the locked BIN image) (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Rapid Business Application Development with Visual Studio LightSwitch (Jenni Ripley)
• How to Retrieve WPF Visual Tree Programmatically ? and Writing a Stretchable ContentControl in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
• Understanding NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch – Using Range Sliders (Part 2) (Mihail Mateev)
• Catel – WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 MVVM toolkit – Release v2.0 (CodePlex)
• Hey, why is my ViewModelLocator not being called when creating a view? (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Peter Torr and Application Multi-Tasking on Windows Phone "Mango" (Robert Hess)
• Silverlight TV 80: Reactive Extensions (John Papa)
• Video – What is Enterprise Architecture According to Industry Thought Leaders (Mike Walker)
• Deep Dive video: PowerShell Modules by Dan Harman (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Saturday in DC 8/11-8/13/2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• August 11th at Agile 2011: "Agile Tech Tree" Workshop and August 11th at Agile 2011: "Slackers and Debtors" Hands-On Session (James Shore)
• NRW Conf 2011 community conference: The doors are open (Daniel Fisher)
• Monospace, diary of an organizer (Louis Salin)
• Sample DBA Resumes (Brent Ozar)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server: Retreive all records between Two Rows of a Table without a Numeric Primary Key (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Finding un-matching Records – Day 5 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – ALTER COLUMN – Management Studio v. T-SQL (Vishal)
• "Select Top 1000 Rows" Doesn’t Show SPARSE Columns? (Larry Leonard)

SharePoint

• Continuous Integration for SharePoint 2010 (Mike Morton)

Miscellaneous

• How to Start Using VIM (Victor Savkin)
• Two New Free Xbox Live Games Next Week (August 10th) – Sudoku & Minesweeper (Antonio Hernandez)
• Thankyou Mr. Russinovich – Process Explorer 15 adds GPU monitoring (LearnWPF)
• How to publish your application to Android Installer (O’Reilly Media)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Google Power Search – Only $4.49 w/code DDWRS (O’Reilly Media)
• Paint.NET PSD Plugin – Release v2.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Windows Phone “Tango” to feature universal search? (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• SilverlightShow for July 25 – 31, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for August 04, 2011 — #1124 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #910 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (8/4/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 08/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 3-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Geek Reading August 4, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s "Hard Code": A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft by Eric Brechner

• Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–Revealing Module Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
• Kinect Toolkit v1.1 (CodePlex)
• HTML5 Part 2: Canvas (Jennifer Marsman)
• 31 Days with WP7 – A Collection of Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorials You Must Read (Kunal Chowdhury)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Monadic Parsing in F# (Frank Thomsen)
• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 3 and Revised Windows Azure Portal: 2nd August 2011 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Developing a “Real” Outlook Social Connector Provider (Greg Duncan)
• Surround with feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• WCF RIA Services Toolkit (August 2011) – And Updated NuGet Packages (Jeff Handley)
• C#: DateFormat separator issue with ToString() method (Raghav Khunger)
• TFS API Part 39 – Show Deleted Items in Source Control (Shai Raiten)
• PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension – Release: v1.4.1 (CodePlex)
• BugTracker.NET – Release: v3.5.2 (CodePlex)
• Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – August Update (MS Downloads)
• Using schema with NHibernate and SqlLite (Gian Maria Ricci)

Web Development

• Use ASP.NET’s HttpHandler to bridge the cross-domain gap (Dave Ward)
• HTML5 Periodic Table of Elements (as in HTML5 Tags… ) (Greg Duncan)
• Consuming a POX WebService in .NET and C# – Searching ISBN Numbers. (Joe Stagner)
• PHP 5.4 features poll: the results and Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Foreign Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript performance: Array.prototype versus [] (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 5 – Ranges, Loops and Comprehensions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Measuring Mobile Site Performance Using the W3C Navigation Timing API (Joe Marini)
• Improve PHP Performance with Phalanger for .NET and Mono (Jonathan Allen)
• Update Wijmo Charts in Real Time (Kevin Griffin)
• A client side Glimpse to your PHP application (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows Azure Security Review (Buck Woody)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: OverloadedGetterSetter (Martin Fowler)
• Challenge: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)
• Choosing the Correct CI Tool (Paul Stack)
• Which is easier, Scrum or Lean? (Matt Barcomb)
• An Agile Retrospective by Jeff Sutherland (Aaron Bjork)
• Sample Application for .NET 4.0 – Layered Architecture and DDD Patterns Sample Applications (JD Meier)
• TDD Or Not TDD Guest blog by @avi_kaye (Tal Druyan)
• Requirements-Driven Development For The Lose (Peter Saddington)
• Announcing Git Support for Google Code Project Hosting (Dave Borowitz)
• Is it worth it? (Joh)
• 5 Big Usability Mistakes Designers Make on Carousels (Anthony)
• Thoughts on MicroOrms (Chris Brandsma)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Writing a Multiplayer Game (in WPF) (Paulo Zemek)
• Building a Simple Windows Phone Dialer App (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone emulator keyboard shortcuts (Arian Kulp)
• WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers : From Core Data to LINQ to SQL (Kevin Hoffman)
• Using Custom Themes in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Jason Beres)
• Adding a system-wide keyboard hook to your WPF Application (LearnWPF)
• Understanding XAML Screen Layout (Paul Sheriff)
• 2000 WPF Things #356 – RadioButton Basics (Sean Sexton)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 2– The SystemTray (András Velvárt)
• What is Visual Tree and Logical Tree in WPF? (Abhijit Jana)
• Installing the RTM version of NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch (Pamela Brasil)
• Announcing TouchDevelop v2.0 beta: script sharing in the cloud (Nikolai Tillmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Channel 9 Exit Interview: Tina Moving to Xbox Team (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #128: 2^7 (James Shore)
• Run as Radio Podcast – A little Denali (Kevin Kline)
• Yet Another Podcast #45–Rey Bango (Jesse Liberty)
• Pranking Softies: The Faces of Microsoft campaign (Dan Fernandez & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Saturday DC – The Conference (G. Andrew Duthie)
• I’m Speaking at the SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast 2011 Conference in Chicago (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Looking for Agile Authors (Johanna Rothman)
• Webcasts: Microsoft Press Author Presents Windows 7 Troubleshooting Series (Kim Spilker)
• BUILD Windows Conference Sells Out, Content Will Be Available Online (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• Report Authoring on the SSIS Catalog [link] (Jamie Thomson)
• Microsoft SQL Server Internals & Architecture Matter! (Kevin Kline)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Finding Apostrophes in String and Text – Day 3 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• TSQL Tip O’ the Week – 8/2/11 – Records Per Day (Andy Lohn)

Miscellaneous

• New Formats for Free Microsoft Press eBooks (Carl Diltz)
• Putting the “I” in Health IT (Bill Crounse)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Tap, Move, Shake: Early Release – Only $15.99 w/code DDSHK #iPhone #iPad (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 204 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Geek Reading August 2, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Link dump for August 2nd (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 08/03/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 1-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #908 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (8/2/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Just Published: July 1-31 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (Beck Andros)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices (Best Practices (Microsoft)) by Ed Wilson

• Balsamiq Mockups 2.1! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• 7 Chrome Tips Developers & Designers May Not Know (Elijah Manor)
• Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–The Prototype Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
• Text templating using Razor the easy way (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 1 and Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 2 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Surround with feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• How to initialize the initial state from an external source (Xiang Li)
• Creating a Many To Many Mapping Using Code First (Gil Fink)
• Can we get a little Unity? and Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Preview 2 Released and Baby NUI… Using the Kinect as a Baby Monitor (Greg Duncan)
• Custom Mail headers and EWS (Henning Krause)

Web Development

• Ruby 1.9.3 Preview 1 Released – What’s New? (Peter Cooper)
• Introduction to HTML5 : Part 1 (Samaj Shekhar)
• JavaScript: handy hint for jQuery document ready handlers (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Build Accessible web sites with Visual Studio – WCAG reporting (Doug Rathbone)
• Developers – introducing our GitHub code sample library with samples for iOS, PHP, ASP.NET and more (Dare Obasanjo)
• HTML5 Part 1: Semantic Markup and Page Layout (Jennifer Marsman)
• PHP 5.4 features poll: the results (Giorgio Sironi)
• Ajax Control Toolkit July 2011 Release and the New HTML Editor Extender (Stephen Walther)
• Streaming your music at home on the cheap… Using IIS to stream your music to your Windows Phone 7 (or iPhone/Android) (Greg Duncan)
• How to Deploy Web Roles Quick & Easy (Maor David-Pur)
• Welcome to Adobe Edge (Michael Chaize)
• New WebSocket Protocol: Secure and Extensible (Ian Fette)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 5 – Ranges, Loops and Comprehensions (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Sad Truth About Agile Planning (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Praveen on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
• What is a Team? (John Sonmez)
• No Organizational Charts in Agile? (Peter Saddington)
• Standup isn’t about what you say, it’s about what you hear (Bill Wagner)
• Why Another DVCS? (Eric Sink)
• Supercharge Isolate.Verify (Dror Helper)
• Disruptive versus iterative change (Jimmy Bogard)
• Challenge: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building a Simple Windows Phone Dialer App (Mike Gold)
• Windows Phone 7 Serialization: DataContract Serialization (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• There’s a new Windows Phone 7 project place in town… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Logo Refresh Fits A Square Peg In A Round Hole (Jordan Crook)
• Animating ViewBox for WPF (LearnWPF)
• Creating a Silverlight 5 Helper for ASP.NET MVC3 Razor (Pete Brown)
• Hosting a WPF control inside a Windows Form and Dealing with HWND in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
• 2000 WPF Things #355 – Implementing Three-State CheckBox Dependent Behavior (Sean Sexton)
• Be careful with phone navigation! (Arian Kulp)
• Location Services–Using the Emulator (Jesse Liberty)
• How to Prepare Your Class Library to Support Application Library Caching? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Julie Lerman Frames Our Entities (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 156 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brandon Shell on The Coud, Bunnies and VDI (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• New Windows Phone “How Do I” Video Series (Adam Kinney)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 4 (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Ping 111: Mango Refresh, Could Server Heat, Avatar Kinect, Microsoft donations (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Android Developer Labs 2011 (Tim Bray)
• Upcoming Events for August 1st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Agile 2011 Conference – Salt Lake City (Hadi Hariri)
• Microsoft Build conference for Windows 8 sells out (in spite of a dearth of details) (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone ads land Brandon Foy a job at Microsoft (Kip Kniskern)
• Paul Betts is a GitHubber (Chris Wanstrath)

Database

• SQL Server “Denali”: Project Apollo (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Wildcard – Querying Special Characters – Day 2 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Find Table/Column Usages Searches Database Schema (Alexey Korsun)
• Rolling your own index lookups (Dave Ballantyne)

SharePoint

• New SharePoint 2010 Implementers Courseware, Two Courses: Internet Sites Implementers and Enterprise Content Management Implementers (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Author news: Mark & Aaron discuss their just-published Sysinternals book (Devon Musgrave)
• August Oracle Technology Network Member Discounts (Oracle TechBlog)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading August 1, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 077 for 8/1/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Today’s Links (8/1/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #907 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #157 (David Vidmar)
• Daily News Digest 08/01/2011 and Daily News Digest 08/02/2011 (Silverlight Show)

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