Top Links

• Extending "Windows 8" apps to the cloud with SkyDrive (Steven Sinofsky)
• Have a new Windows Phone feature idea? Try Suggestion Box (Michael Stroh)
• Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Now Available! (Cliff Simpkins)
• jQuery 1.7 Beta 1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Kindle Fire as iPad killer? Yes. It’s the price, stupid. (Molly Wood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to enable Tier Interaction Profiling ( TIP ) in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio macro to group files (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Using the Settings Contract (Derik Whittaker)
• Nullable Types’ Subtlety (Mehdi Khalili)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Using LINQ to XML to Query Data on the Web (Robert Green)
• Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure: A Rangers dog fooding perspective (Willy-P. Schaub)
• NMigrate (Nicolas Dorier)
• Lambdas and events in C++ (Timo Heinäpurola)
• Migrating smart clients to WinRT (Rockford Lhotka)
• Good ol’ DebuggerDisplay attribute (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Avoid Parallel Hierarchies (Chris Eargle)
• F Sharp for beginners: Modules in F # (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 10 Great Questions to ask about the Windows Azure Platform (Eric Nelson)
• RadChart for Windows 8 WinRT – A Prelude (Georgi Atanasov)
• ILMerge get’s a rev… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Development Tip – Dispatching calls to the UI thread (Avi Pilosof)
• An example of a testable Azure Table Storage (Peter von Lochow)

Web Development

• Converting a .NET DateTime object to a JavaScript Date object (Jason Gaylord)
• filter.js – Client side search filtering using JSON and jQuery (Josh Software Team)
• Amazon Silk scares me…but in a good way (Cal Evans)
• HTML Encoded Expressions in ASP.NET4 (Hima)
• ASP.NET MVC Dictionary Binding (Sazzad Hossain)
• Mvc.ValidationTookit Alpha Release: Conditional Validation with MVC 3 (Simon J. Ince)
• APress Deal of the Day – 29/Sep/2011 – Pro HTML5 Programming (Tatworth)
• What’s the best Windows Azure role size for Ruby or Node.js applications? (Larry Franks)
• Bing Maps REST Services SDK (PDF) and Bing Maps AJAX Control SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
• Skipping Windows Azure Startup Tasks When Running in the Emulator (Steve Marx)
• An old guys guide to building modern websites (Paul Boag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CQRS is too complicated (Rob Ashton)
• T-shaped Agile (Lee Cunningham)
• Model-Driven Approach to Service-Oriented Enterprise (SOE) (Jeevak Kasarkod)
• Why you should care about information hiding (Gregory Moeck)
• Architectural Mirages (Boris Lublinsky)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 9 : binding to static properties (Jonathan Antoine)
• Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone (MS Downloads)
• Fix for Expression Blend 4 crashing on startup (Brent Schooley)
• What is Frame Rate Counter in WP7? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Enabling Frame Rate Counters for HTML Applications in Windows 8 (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #397 – Rich ListBox Content Using Data Binding, part III (Sean Sexton)
• Using Silverlight with an Apple Mac? Why? Give Expression Blend a try (Surf4Fun)
• Design and Deploy Visual Studio Light Switch 2011 Application in Windows Azure – Part 2 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Windows Phone Icons Maker v1.0 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Guy Smith-Ferrier Does Mind Control! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SE Podcast #20 (Alex Miller)
• Panel Discussion: Using Reference Architectures – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 12: Saying Goodbye (MS JobsBlog)
• Goodbye 9: Nic Fillingham Exit Interview (Charles Torre & Larry Larsen)
• Behind the Windows 8 Metro UI (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Implode!, Stub Hub, Collapse, Falling Skies, Pro Football Weekly (Laura Foy)
• Recording of yesterday’s webinar ‘WCF RIA POCO Domain Services’ available online (Silverlight Show)
• AppFabric.tv – How to Invoke a Child Workflow (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• A Coder Interview With Daniel Vaughan (The Code Project)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 7, October 5, 2011 (Michelle, Matt & Gina)
• FREE Web Workshops on Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ALM tools by Imaginet (Angela Binkowski)

Database

• Microsoft Drivers 3.0 for SQL Server for PHP CTP1 (MS Downloads)
• SQLAuthority News – Various Ways to Stay in Touch with SQLAuthority.com – Best Practices (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Table Columns Disappear in Access (Seth Phelabaum)
• Change Database Owner (Tim Radney)
• Handling Transient Connection Failures in SQL Azure (Neil Mackenzie)

PowerShell

• stupid powershell tricks #1 (Jim Christopher)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft and Amazon: Two browsers, two clouds and two different paths taken (Mary Jo Foley)
• Hiring Questions–The phone book (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone Mango release and we want your feedback! (Cheryl Simmons)
• Custom Ringtones on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Weekly Link Post 210 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Geek Reading September 28, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #719 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #948 (Chris Alcock)
• Web Dev Tweets 27-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/28/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 09/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 by Dino Esposito

Top Links

• Announcing Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Jason Zander)
• ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview Released (Phil Haack)
• Steven Sinofsky is the new Steve Jobs (Joe Wilcox)
• Microsoft’s New Mullet (Colin Blair)
• F# 3.0 Developer Preview Now Available! (F# Team)
• Announcing Microsoft Help Viewer 2.0 Developer Preview (Jeff Braaten)

Windows 8 / BUILD

• JUST ANNOUNCED @ BUILD: New Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8, Windows Azure SDK 1.5, Geo-Replication for Windows Azure Storage, and More (Windows Azure Team)
• Windows 8 and Firefox first looks (Brian Bondy)
• Windows 8 geolocation API: First run (Andrej Tozon)
• Best place to discuss Windows 8 and Metro style browsing: one engine, two experiences, no compromises and Metro style browsing and plug-in free HTML5 (Steven Sinofsky)
• Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview as bootable VHD (Peter Kuhn)
• How to Install Windows 8 on VMWare Workstation 8 (Ron Fosner)
• From Soup to Nuts: Using VirtualBox with Windows 8 Developer Preview (Michael Crump)
• Windows 8 thoughts after a day at BUILD 2011 (Marlon Grech)
• Windows 8 on Microsoft Surface 1.0 (video) (Josh Blake)
• ANNOUNCING the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 (Nick Harris)
• Mango Checks in At //Build (Matt Bencke)
• Xamarin and Mono at the BUILD Conference (Miguel de Icaza)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview, Your Questions Answered, Pt 1 (Mike Halsey)
• BUILD Day #1 in Review According to MVPs (MVP Award Program)
• Windows 8: What you Need to Know (Jeremy Likness)
• How to create a bootable USB flash drive to install Windows 8 Developer Preview (Habib Heydarian)
• Windows 8 on a Mac Using Boot Camp and Microsoft BUILD Windows 8 Server Keynote (Brent Schooley)
• Windows 8 Tablet: First Impressions [PICS] (Ben Parr)
• BUILD: New Windows Live SkyDrive Wave 5 features confirmed, with screenshots (damaster)
• BUILD Conference: the Jason Zander interview (Julian Bucknall)
• Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Matt Lacey)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Install a shared Assembly to the GAC as post build event from Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Want more info about Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and Team Foundation Server 11 Preview? (Esther Fan)
• TFS Log Substitution Policy (Jamie Thomson)
• The OneNote 2010 XML Schema Definition is now posted (John Guin)
• C++ Component Extensions: The New Face of COM and C# and Visual Basic on the WinRT API (Jonathan Allen)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview – Now Available for MSDN Subscribers (Mark Curphey)
• New Features for Web Development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Reshmi Mangalore)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Announced (Sean Laberee)
• Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure: A Preview is available! (Shai Raiten)
• APress Deal of the Day – 15/Sept/2011 – Pro LINQ Language Integrated Query in C# 2010 (Tatworth)
• Deploying ClickOnce to Multiple Environments (Eric Quist)
• ODF/OpenXML, an update on the story… (Greg Duncan)
• Installing the Standard Configuration of TFS vNext from the BUILD Conference in Los Angeles (Tim Elhajj)
• Best Practices for Leveraging Windows Azure Service Bus Brokered Messaging API (Valery Mizonov)
• Microsoft dev stack vNext from Build (Simone Chiaretta)
• Announcement for Windows Azure at Build : What is new ? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Software Downloads for the Team Foundation Service Preview and Learning about the Team Foundation Service Preview (Martin Woodward)

Web Development

• XNA Platformer, HTML5 Style (Greg Duncan)
• The Guide To CSS Animation: Principles and Examples (Tom Waterhouse)
• Using Active Record with SQL Azure (Larry Franks)
• Messenger Connect is now “Live Connect” – new APIs for SkyDrive and Hotmail Calendar (damaster)
• Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5.1 Express Beta (MS Downloads)
• Fixing combobox from ajax control toolkit (Peter Blum)
• Extending configuration in OpenRasta 2.1 (Sebastien Lambla)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Patterns for Continuous Delivery (Jonathan Allen)
• MSTest–Copy Assembly’s Directory set to output to the test run directory (Kazim Sardar Mehdi)
• How to Create a New Telerik TeamPulse Project? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Balsamiq Release: Prettier Icons, Cyrillic Glyphs, Confluence 4.0! (Peldi)
• Adjust Your Business to Meet Market Demands with Agile (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Creating the Database (Windows Phone Geek)
• Porting a Windows Phone 7 app to Windows 8 Metro UI app (Admin)
• Installing Windows 8 on the ExoPC Slate (Andy Beaulieu)
• What are Types of events in WPF or What is Event Routing or a Routed Event? (Hima)
• Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins (Jonathan Allen)
• MoXAML goes Codeplex (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Silverlight is dead, dead and dead. (Scott Barnes)
• 2000 WPF Things #387 – Set Background Color to See How Layout Works (Sean Sexton)
• Catel – WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 MVVM toolkit – Release 2.1 (CodePlex)
• Mango and System.Reflection.Emit – new optimizations in RadControls for Windows Phone (Georgi Atanasov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Return To Space! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hot Interviews Straight from the BUILD Venue (Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio vNext: Introducing Page Inspector (Charles Torre)
• SQLAuthority News – Uncut and Unedited – Interview of Pinal Dave on Book Authoring (Pinal Dave)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 10: Outtakes (MS JobsBlog)
• Real Life Responsive Design: Ethan Marcotte (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 84: Windows 8 Unveiled (Paul Thurrott)
• SE Podcast #18 (Alex Miller)
• A for Architecture: Oracle’s Fusion Middleware A-Team – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• Microsoft headed to high schools in a big way (Steven Hodson)
• Ebooks and SilverlightShow T-shirts given away at SilverlightShow upcoming WCF RIA POCO webinar by Brian Noyes (SilverlightShow)

Database

• SQL Server “Denali”: Installing on a Virtual Machine (James Serra)
• Configuring SQL Server in Amazon EC2: Training Video (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL Server Numeric Formatting (Richard Carr)
• When should you use NOLOCK? (Mark Broadbent)
• Table Size History (Matt Wollner)

SharePoint

• Register Today for SharePoint Conference (Bruce Kyle)
• New book: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-667): Configuring Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Karen Szall)
• BCS filters and DB2 Stored Procedures with Parameters in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

PowerShell

• Windows Server 8 Developer Preview and PowerShell v3 First Look (Mike Pfeiffer)
• Accessing BCDBoot.exe from PowerShell and Fully automated VHD install of Windows 8 Developer Preview using PowerShell (Naeem Khedarun)

Miscellaneous

• Bind Windows Azure Storage Data Using Java Persistence API (Bruce Kyle)
• Pet Projects and Hiring Decisions (Oren Eini)
• The Mac Is a Great Dev Box (Rob Conery)
• Ballmer on Windows Phone: "We Haven’t Sold Quite as Many as I Would Have Liked" (Ina Fried)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – Sptember 15 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 209 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Geek Reading September 14, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 14 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #709 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #938 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 09/14/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World by Estelle Weyl

• 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

Top Links

• Getting CSLA 4 to compile for WP7 (Rockford Lhotka)
• YouTrack for OSS Projects, or “How to broadcast your issues” (Kyle Baley)
• Caliburn 1.1 on Windows Phone 7 (Nigel Sampson)
• Dotfuscator 4.8.1000 with XAML obfuscation support (Michael Letterle)
• OData Workshop Screencast – Introduction to Protocol and OData Workshop Screencast–Producing OData Feeds (Chris Woodruff)

.NET / Visual Studio

• EF Prof and Code Only (Oren Eini)
• Database Development with Visual Studio 2010: Working with Database Projects (Gouri Sohoni)
• Easiest Way to Generate Connection String And Verify Database Connectivity (Deepak Kapoor)
• ILMerge to the Rescue? (Dru Sellers)
• Debugging Distributed Transactions: Additional Examples (Sasha Goldshtein)
• A Cool / Unexpected Refactoring around .Net C# Locking Issue (Peter Kellner)
• VS 2010 Web Deployment (Scott Guthrie)
• Customize Your Toolbars in Visual Studio 2008: Toolbars Tab (Zain Naboulsi)
• ReSharper 5 incompatible with OpenRasta… (Sebastien Lambla)
• More on Zip in .NET (Richard Lee)
• Graph Colouring, Part Five (Eric Lippert)
• AppFabric Extensions 0.1.0.0 (CodePlex)
• What are your thoughts on NoSQL with .NET? (Dane Morgridge)
• Delegates, Events and Confusion (Rob Miles)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Filters and Statefulness (Brad Wilson)
• Adaptive Streaming with Windows Azure Blobs and CDN (Steve Marx)
• Hosting IIS Smooth Streaming files on Windows Azure Blob Storage (James Clarke)
• Twitter Streams: a Glimpse of Future Realtime APIs? (Adam DuVander)
• WordPress 3.01 Released (Richard Hay)
• Wave UI: Making your gadgets look & feel Wave-y (Pamela Fox)
• Making Web Requests in Medium Trust (Brendan Enrick)
• Ask Satyam — and Be Eligible for a Free Copy of the New YUI 2.8 Book from Packt (Eric Miraglia)
• AspNetHostingPermission exception got you down? Unblock Your Assemblies. (Kevin Miller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Ten-Minute Build" Now Online (James Shore)
• The false myth of encapsulating data access in the DAL (Oren Eini)
• New Parallel Demo Showing Different Patterns (Ade Miller)
• The Best Way to Unit Test in Android: Part 2 (John Sonmez)
• Focus on One Platform, Contribute to Open Source, and Unit Test (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Practicing Agile at your shop? Microsoft research wants to hear from you. (Stephen Forte)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Version Control with Git – Only $9.99. Use code DDVCG (O’Reilly Media)
• The key to being a good programmer (Andy Gibson)
• Why Microsoft Makes Bad Programmers (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Challenges of the Code Documentation (Rinat Abdullin)
• Introduction to TestApi – Part 8: Object Comparison API (Ivo Manolov)
• Application Types (App Types) – The Early Years (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building Tapworthy Apps for Windows Phone 7 (Joey deVilla)
• Refactoring with MVVM is easy! (Joe White)
• Silverlight South Park Animation Prototype (CodePlex)
• Silverlight – Binding System uses Visual Tree (Kiran Kumar G)
• SketchFlow from a developer point of view – Part I – Basics (Braulio Diez)
• WPF: how to drag & drop a file in your window (Nikos Printezis)
• So you want to develop for Windows Phone 7? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Start Page – Part 1 and Part 2 (Adrian Collier)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Glenn Block is Still a MEF Head (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video of FubuMVC at MvcConf (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Creating Navigation Structures in Silverlight (Silverlight TV #38) (John Papa)
• Wizards of Smart #11 – Glenn Block part 2 (Jonathan Birkholz & Ryan Rile)

Community / Events

• Register Now for patterns & practices Symposium (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft Demos New Anti-Malware Tool at Black Hat (Sarah Perez)
• Jason Kergosien and Caleb Jenkins to Speak at OpenCamp (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• Creating a unique constraint on a column that allows nulls (Simon Sabin)
• The Killer Backslash in TSQL (Phil Factor)
• Just how permanent does that data need to be? (Buck Woody)
• MongoDB – Basic Querying (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• Network Access for Distributed Transaction Manager (MSDTC) has been disabled (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Mundie: Microsoft’s Research Depth Enabled Kinect (Nancy Gohring)
• PowerShell Scripting Best Practices: Prefix A (Joel Bennett)
• Bing Integration into Windows Live Messenger Beta (Kristin Meldahl)
• Secret links for Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 beta (Ed Bott)
• 12 Absolutely and Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers (Jesse Liberty)
• CodePlex: WYSIWYG Wiki Editor (Matt Hawley)
• Making music on Windows 7 – Microsoft Product Fair 2010 (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• Windows 7 NASA Spacescapes Theme Released (Richard Hay)
• Images of IE9′s interface leak, including Chrome-like ‘start’ tab and download manager (Sebastian Anthony)
• Say it with video and photos (Steven Abrahams)
• IE 9 Screenshots Leaked, Beta Dropping in September (Taimur Asad)
• Learn iPhone Programming for Free with Wrox, Novell, and McClure (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 30, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #654 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 29, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Distributed Weekly 61 (Scott Banwart)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for July 29, 2010 — #913 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Put Intellipad-like language editing features into your applications (Chris Sells)
• An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part VI) (Habib Heydarian)
• Windows Azure Management API and .NET Services Update (Hanu Kommalapati)
• The Azure Deployment and Management API is Here! (Bill Zack)
• Some Really Cool LINQ to Help Performance and Show Line Thickness (Peter Kellner)
• Create a SQL Azure CRUD Application with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• NHibernate, Inverse, and Object Associations (Jonathan Oliver)
• Hacking LINQ Expressions: Join With Comparer (Keith Dahlby)

Web Development

• Murach’s ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with C# 2008 (Dave M. Bush)
• Tab Navigation with Smooth Horizontal Sliding Using jQuery (Karl Swedberg)
• JavaScript and its love for zeroes (Sergio Pereira)
• Now Running on Behistun and ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Adding your logo to the page in an SEO optimized way. (Kris Gray)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MbUnit CsvDataAttribute (Charles Chen)
• MbUnit 3.1 (Andrew Stopford)
• UI Patterns (Daniela Panfili)
• StructureMap and Multiple AppDomains – Ensure you have loaded your components correctly (Derik Whittaker)
• Open Source development model and How to lead a convoy to safety (Oren Eini)
• Can’t See Recent Commits in Tortoise SVN Log and Do Not Return True/False on a Transaction Success/Fail (Dave Schinkel)
• Composed Events (Dru Sellers)
• Push to Multiple Git Repos (Mike Gunderloy)
• SOA Maturity Models and Open Group SOA Governance Framework (Mike Walker)
• Why is ‘Buy’ not always better than ‘Build’ (Mike Hadlow) – Link of the Day
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 10. (Rajiv Popat)
• The CSM Integrity Deficit (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Set Based Concurrent Engineering: A simple example and TDD: Keeping test intent when using test builders (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Glow Behavior (Andy Beaulieu)
• how to build an outlook style application – part 1 and how to apply a viewmodel to new windows (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• WPF App: Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight (Rob Relyea)
• Cinch Code Generated Is Out (Sacha Barber)
• Silverlight Spy documentation (Koen Zwikstra)
• Using WCF 3.5 REST Services and Consuming it in WPF 3.5 applications – An Application Development approach. (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes #198 – The Return of 3-Tier Architecture – RIA Services with Brad Abrams (Scott Hanselman)
• ARCast.TV: Steve Michelotti of e.imagination on High Performance Web Solutions (MS Podcasts)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard Part I (Me)
• The Coding4Fun Show: Advanced Rendering with Silverlight, Rick Barraza (Brian Peek)
• TWC9: Sven Groot, Beer taste test, Office Web, ASP.NET Auto-Starts, System.IO changes (Dan Fernandez)
• SharePoint Community Panel Discussion-Episode 30 (Rob, Nick, and Brett)
• PDC09 Workshop: Developing Microsoft BI Applications – The How and The Why (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

• Now with more forehead! (or, a happy shade of blue) (Pete Brown)

Database

• SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (BI) and SQL SERVER – Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries Depend Upon Expression Location (Pinal Dave)
• DBA’s & PowerShell? Yep, PowerShell is not just for your IT brethren, you can have PS fun too! (Greg Duncan)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP – Utility Control Point (UTP) (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Could not connect to computer ‘.’ – Debugging requires you to connect by name on windows 7 (Simon Sabin)
• Checking Foreign Keys (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

• Accessing SharePoint Document Libraries via Webdav with Windows 7 (Amanda Murphy)
• Easier Silverlight Development against SharePoint (Matthew McDermott)

Miscellaneous

• The Best Way To Interview A Developer (Alan Skorkin)
• A Closer Look at Office Web Apps in Windows Live (damaster)
• Office 15: Tentatively Planned for 2013 (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft’s AD cmdlets available for Win 2003 and later (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• How To Access And Try Microsoft Office Web Apps Tech Preview (Sunshine)
• Using a PS Session without having Administrative Permissions (Per Østergaard)
• Could Microsoft Tag augment Windows Mobile reality? (Joe Wilcox)
• At long last, GIMP v2.8 to finally implement single-window interface (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• Links for the Week 2009.09.20 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 18th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Interesting Post… 9/13/2009 through 9/20/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – SEP ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft Visual Basic Power Packs 10.0 (MS Downloads)
• Impersonation, WCF, and making updates to a database (Tom)
• Reading IPhone Text Messages using C# and SQLite (Tom Hearn)
• Call PowerShell Cmdlets from C# (Cody Batt)
• Bringing The Heat With Dynamic (Justin Etheredge)
• Open XML Format SDK 2.0 Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2008 – 52 C#/VB Code Snippets to help ease your Open XML coding (Greg Duncan)
• Understanding LINQ and LINQ to SQL (and EF) (Jason Young)

Web Development

• Designating Content Type (Chris Love)
• Google praises Microsoft’s HTML 5 thoughts (Tom Krazit)
• xVal v1.0 Now Available (Steve Sanderson)
• Create a SQL Azure CRUD Application with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard (Stephen Forte)
• Integrating OpenID in an ASP.NET MVC Application using DotNetOpenAuth (Rick Strahl)
• How to create a three state menu using Photoshop and Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• ASP.NET AJAX Add-ons (FireAtlas & FireCookie) for Firefox’s Firebug (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Who Owns Quality (Alan Page)
• SDL ‘Merged’ Process Template White Paper. (Clemens Reijnen)
• NCover and NUnit Can Play Nicely on x64 (Justin Etheredge)
• TDD: Testing with generic abstract classes (Mark Needham)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 9. (Rajiv Popat)
• Growing developers: Ask for solutions instead of giving them (Roy Osherove) – Link of the Day
• The case for two-way mapping in AutoMapper (Jimmy Bogard)
• How A .NET Developer Hacked Out A Rake Task and An Alternate Way To Handle Task Dependencies In Custom Rake Tasks and A Failed Opportunity To Coach, Teach, And Help Others Improve (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Data Binding with WPF: Binding to XML (Me)
• XAML Power Toys v5 Will Be Available Sunday at 7:00pm PST (Karl Shifflett)
• Tell the Debugger to Ignore Silverlight Validation Exceptions (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Mario Cardinal on Layer Module Injection (MS Podcasts)
• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Butler Lampson – Abstraction, Security and Embodiment (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #141: Learning Nant: Creating Token Driving Configuration Files (Derik Whittaker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #68 (Jeff Atwood)
• Pumping Iron: Dynamic Languages on .NET (Martin Esmann)
• Video of the Continuous Integration workshop (Eric Hexter)

Community / Events

• Take the ASP.NET Website Survey (ASP.NET News)
• Author news: Mark Russinovich virtual roundtable on September 24 (Devon Musgrave)
• The CodePlex Foundation: Cautiously Optimistic (Bill Wagner)
• To Take or Not To Take the Nothin’ But .Net Training…That is the Question (Russell Ball)

Database

• PowerShell 101 for the DBA: Querying Your Servers with PowerShell (Josh Jones)
• Interacticely sorting columns in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Joe Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Office Web Applications Tech Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Zune dreams: Microsoft’s refusal to say die (Carmi Levy)
• A Closer Look at Office Web Apps in Windows Live (damaster)
• DreamScreen: HP Beats Apple to the Punch With Sleek Tablet (Ben Parr)
• Batch Converting a Directory Tree of Videos Recursively with Handbrake for Streaming to an Xbox360 (Scott Hanselman) – No need to convert anything if you’re using PlayOn, TVersity or Nero MediaHome.
• Office Web Apps to be offered free to all Windows Live users (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• How To Access And Try Microsoft Office Web Apps Tech Preview (Sunshine)
• Reasons Why .NET Developers Love Their MacBook Pros (Elijah Manor)
• Microsoft’s AD cmdlets available for Win 2003 and later (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Office Web Applications First Look (David Tesar)
• Microsoft delivers a partial preview of its Office Web Apps (Ed Bott)
• These aren’t your father’s regexes (Morgan Kleene)
• Web Sandbox from Live Labs (Jim O’Neil)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #436 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: September 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 17, 2009 — #694 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (9/17/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for 17th September, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Tech Tweets for 17-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)

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