• Modern Web Development – Part 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Acting on file management feedback (Steven Sinofsky)
• Anonymous Types Unify Within An Assembly, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Currying vs partial function application (Jon Skeet)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating a Useful Task List in Visual Studio (Peter Vogel)
• Ask Ayende: What about the QA env? (Oren Eini)
• Roslyn CTP Introduces Interactive Code for C# (Visual C# Team)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Code Management & Build and Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Microsoft Test Manager (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Building a Windows 8 Metro App, Part 2 (Eric Vogel)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 7 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• Entity Framework Membership Provider 2.0 (CodePlex)
• Metro Snack #2: What is WinRT? (Brent Schooley)
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 3, C++/CLI and Other Options and Analysis of a Mobile Redirection Framework and Obfuscated Regular Expressions (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Installing Mono on Windows (Paul Stack)
• What Code Comments are Not For. (Peter Ritchie)
• Entity Framework vs. LightSpeed (John-Daniel Trask)
• How to force Nuget not to update log4net to 1.2.11 (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The .NET Gadgeteer Diaper Alarm Part 1 (Moisture Sensor) (Pete Brown)
• More on the New OData T4 Template: Service Operations (Glenn Gailey)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: VerifyArgs (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• How to Access jQuery’s Internal Data (Elijah Manor)
• Translating JavaScript to Dart (Aaron Wheeler & Marcin Wichary)
• ASP.NET MVC DropDownList, MultiSelect and jQuery (Rick Anderson)
• Tag Cloud in ASP.NET MVC using Clickable HTML 5 Canvas Elements (Sumit Maitra)
• Trying out Underscore on Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
• jsfiddle Keyboard Shortcuts (Ryan Sukale)
• Scalable web apps: the complexity issue (Ariya Hidayat)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – People (Karl Scotland)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Designing Mobile Interfaces – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Code reviews in the 21st Century (Alex Staveley)
• QA: A Hillbilly Love Story (Kyle Baley)
• Getting started with a Mocking Framework (Filip Ekberg)
• Finding Files by Name With Git (Christopher Bennage)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Getting latest Tweets in Windows Phone apps using Twitter REST API and JSON.NET (Windows Phone Geek)
• MarketPlaceSearchTask in Windows Phone and WebBrowserTask and MediaPlayerLauncher in Windows Phone and Code to search location on Bing Map and Launchers related to MarketPlace in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 2: The Windows Runtime (WinRT) (Gill Cleeren)
• Refactoring Windows 8 Code-Behind to MVVM (Joe Mayo)
• Microsoft delivers developer kit for linking Amazon web services to Windows Phone (Mary Jo Foley)
• Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications (Michael Crump)
• HTML5 on Windows Phone: A Simple Boilerplate (Rob Tiffany)
• 2000 WPF Things #484 – InkCanvas Contains a Collection of Strokes (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jeremy Likness is all Silverlight 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ping 130: Xbox LIVE for Droids and iPhones, Where’s MIX, Microsoft points, SQL Server Party (Laura Foy)
• Boagworld: Tips for getting design signoff (Paul Boag)
• Quick news: Free Step by Step videos (Kim Spilker)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 30th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Part 2 of the Webinar ‘Metro and WinRT for Silverlight/WPF’ scheduled for Feb 9th (Silverlight Show)
• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16, 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows 8 Metro style app recap (Tony Verguldi Jr.)
• Android Developers on Google+ (Tim Bray)
• NYC’s Own Chevon Christie Named ‘Microsoft Tech Student of the Month’ (Peter Laudati)
• 3 Reasons to Attend Prairie Dev Con–West (D’Arcy Lussier)

Database

• SQL server – ISNUMERIC and checking for valid numeric tyopes (Jack Vamvas)
• Complex reporting off a SSAS cube (James Serra)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Merge Replication hotfixes (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Advantages of Partitioning – Quiz – Puzzle – 30 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Compact data and schema script utility – Version 3.5.2 (CodePlex)
• Crunching Big Data with “Data Explorer” and “Social Analytics” (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model Software Development Kit and Upgrade worksheet for SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)

PowerShell

• Invalid JSON results via Powershell 3 (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)

Miscellaneous

• Looking ahead to Windows 8: five big questions for Microsoft (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft Office 15 technical preview kicks off (Mary Jo Foley)
• Keeping Your Documents Safe (Debra Littlejohn Shinder)
• MIT brings Google App Inventor Back As Open-Source Project (Phillip Torrone)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #807 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 30 Jan 2012 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1033 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-30 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 30 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #4) (Himanshu Singh)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 23-29, 2012 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s Hard Code (Best Practices) by Eric Brechner

• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone hits 1.0.0 (Den Delimarsky)
• The Big Dummies Guide for Windows Phone Developer Resources (Bil Simser)
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs of Software Development (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone “Tango” will support 120 languages, C++ development support coming soon (damaster)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How much do I love the yield statement? and Refreshing an expired STSTestCert WIF certificate (Rory Primrose)
• Building WebKit on Windows 7 with VS2010 (Ashod Nakashian)
• Results of the Windows 8 development poll (Dennis Delimarsky)
• PHP as a Scripting Language for C# (Jakub Misek)
• Attached Command for Windows 8 Metro Style in C# (Jarrey)
• Secure your REST-based WCF service with WIF, part 2 (Stefan Severin)
• Partial application in F# and C# and Why do we need partial application? – Part 1 of n – Fluent interfaces and piping (Steffen Forkmann)
• Windows 8 for ARM is stable, ready to be in hands of developers? (Ron)
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 2, P/Invoke – Unmanaged to Managed (Sasha Goldshtein)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Stimpack and NuGet Project Uncovered: NSpec and NuGet Project Uncovered: Guard (Jason Jarrett)
• Refactoring using Telerik Just Code (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Tpl Dataflow walkthrough – Part 5 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Kibloc – Real time, distance based object tracking and counting using Kinect (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Merging DLLs into Your Main Assembly for Easier Distribution (Red Gate Software)

Web Development

• HTML5 File Drag and Drop Upload With jQuery and ASP.NET (Prashant Khandelwal)
• Setting Amazon S3 Storage as data source (s3n://) in Hadoop on Azure (hadooponazure.com) portal and Windows Azure Troubleshooting – Taking specific Windows Azure Instance offline and Creating your own Hadoop cluster on Windows Azure by using your own Windows Azure Subscription account (Avkash Chauhan)
• How I Got Node.js Running On A Linux Micro Instance Using Amazon EC2 (Ben Nadel)
• Working with Inline Web Workers (Gil Fink)
• David Pallmann takes us on a fresh look at the Windows Azure development (Greg Duncan)
• Found: Windows Azure Document Treasure Trove! (Peter Laudati)
• Handling Big Data in Cloud (Rinat Abdullin)
• Creating A Custom Template For WebMatrix (Mike Brind)
• From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference (Jeffrey Way)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Writing an API Wrapper in Ruby with TDD (Claudio Ortolina)
• Agile Results with Evernote and Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Framework and ITIL Stages, Processes, and Sub-Processes (JD Meier)
• The Perils of Asynchrony (Frank Kelly)
• JavaScript Testing with Mocha (Attila Domokos)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to implement communication between Silverlight and the HTML host. (Ariel Ben Horesh)
• Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight (Christian Nagel)
• PhoneGap 1.4.0rc1 is commited (Jesse MacFadyen)
• Clipboard API in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Templating a XAML CheckBox to a thumbs-up/down control using Expression Blend (Joost van Schaik)
• WP7 – Changing Visuals Based on Phone Theme with ThemeToStateBehavior (András Velvárt)
• Accelerometer Sensor for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 – Location Service and Bing Maps (Shai Raiten)
• Part 3 of my Prism 4 Series is out (Brian Noyes)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 052 – “$99 Nokia Phones and Travis Barfs” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 427: Syndicate, The Darkness II (Larry Hyrb)
• Gweek 037: Donald Duck is High on Arrival (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Geekadelphia_ The Podcast Episode 2 – SOUTH fellini Interview.mp3 (Jo & Dan)
• TWC9: SQL Server 2012, Windows Phone, Async, Azure, HTML5 and more (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Gillmor Gang Live 01.27.12 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 01.28.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Cloud Cover Episode 68 – Throttling in SQL Azure with Scott Klein (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
• The Vergecast 015 – 01.28.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 123 – 01.29.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video on Web Storage in HTML5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Weekly 245: Microsoft Will Disappoint Millions (Paul Thurrott)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 39 (Richard Hay)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #131: David Feinleib: VC, Founder, Author (Bob Walsh)
• My first video for code refactoring in visual studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)

Community / Events

• Career vNext (Steve Marx)
• Windows Azure Powers Winning Solutions at Imagine Cup (Himanshu Singh)

Database

• SQL Server – Generate SQL INSERT from Excel (Jack Vamvas)
• Reinstalling & Slipstreaming SQL Server (Nick Haslam)
• SQL SERVER – Lots of Date Functions – Find Right One to Use – Quiz – Puzzle – 27 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Reclaiming Space Back from Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 28 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Data Collector Usage – Quiz – Puzzle – 29 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Problem with printing database diagrams (Tatworth)
• A SQL Server Leap Year Test Function (Richard Carr)

PowerShell

• Rich formatting for PowerShell help (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Roman Numerals Kata in Ruby, Take II (Calvin Bottoms)
• Ruby Class Hierarchy to DGML (C. Lovett)
• Quick news: Press release for Microsoft Manual of Style, Fourth Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Cast your vote in the Windows 8 release schedule prediction pool (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 28, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 29, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 29 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• MVP Friday Five: January 27, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily WP7 Development News 27 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (1/28/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• Retrospective 69 – #Agile Controversy Week (Peter Saddington)
• This Week in Ruby: Rails 3.2, Rails Tutorial, and Why You Should Learn Smalltalk (Peter Cooper)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Android by Zigurd Mednieks

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• Getting Started with Mobile Web Development Using HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4 (Rachel Appel)
• Upcoming T-SQL Toolbar and Context menu changes (Sam Hughes)
• Very handy utility – hurl.it (Eric Nelson)
• Making testing in Visual Studio demon hot… New RedGate ".NET Demon" Visual Studio Extension beta (Greg Duncan)
• 10 Things ASP.NET Developers Should Know About Web.config Inheritance and Overrides (Jon Galloway)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Top Visual Studio Extensions (Prashant Khandelwal)
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: If you won’t respect the database, there will be pain (Oren Eini)
• How to use INTERNET_OPTION_SERVER_CERT_CHAIN_CONTEXT with InternetQueryOption in C# (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• TFS11 on Azure January 2012 update – request feedback (Clemens Reijnen)
• New Article: Windows Azure Queues and Windows Azure Service Bus Queues – Compared and Contrasted (Valery Mizonov)
• Mapping and Location with Monotouch on DevProConnections web site (Wally McClure)
• How Nuget could improve (Paul Stack)
• Displaying a Map of the Current Location with MonoTouch (Bobby Johnson)

Web Development

• Trying To Mimic LET Functionality In JavaScript Using Self-Executing Functions (Ben Nadel)
• Working with HTML tables using CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)
• Style sheet strong arm: Reset.css versus Normalization.css (Eric Newton)
• Kinect, HTML5, WebSockets and Canvas (Greg Duncan)
• The All-New CSS3 Click Chart (Louis Lazaris)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Interface (Giorgio Sironi)
• What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 4: slides and demo are now online (Simone Chiaretta)
• URI segments, dots, REST, and a .NET bug (Christopher Smith)
• You Tube API – recall Video Meta files with .NET (Code Inside Team)
• jQ.Mobi: Less compatible, but better performance (Dave Mahon)
• New Web Workbench features (Ivan Towlson)
• The Principles of Web API Usage (Janet Wagner)
• How to Automatically Utilize Multicore Servers with Node on Windows Azure (Aaron Stannard)
• WebClient/WebRequest threading untangled (Andreas Hammar)
• One Azure Web Role, Multiple Websites (Brian Hitney)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• "Testing In An Agile World" Article Posted On Developer Fusion (Malcolm Anderson)
• What is the roll of the Project Manager in Scrum? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• True Value of Agile – Not Always Product-Centric – Agile Improves Work-Life Balance (Peter Saddington)
• Git Cheat Sheet (Mark Curphey)
• Open Group Publishes its First Cloud and International SOA Standards (Mike Walker)
• FAQ: What is the difference between “Assigned To” and “Tester” in MTM? (Gautam Goenka)
• An Important Time for Design (Cameron Koczon)
• Testing framework is not just for writing… tests (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 2000 WPF Things #475 – Child Elements in Canvas Can Overlap (Sean Sexton)
• Free ly: Using Expression Design with Expression Blend an XAML and Free Water Scroll Viewer for Expression (Surf4Fun)
• Building A Multi-Touch Photo Viewer Control (Morten Nielsen)
• Calling Navigate From The View Model (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gillmor Gang 01.17.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Let’s Play TDD #159: How Do We Store Data? (James Shore)
• Boagworld: Create a consistent user experience across all online channels (Paul Boag)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #130: Timo Rein, Cofounder of Pipedrive (Bob Walsh)

Community / Events

• Developing Windows Phone Apps Webcasts on Jan. 24 and Jan. 26, 2012 (Zhiming Xue)
• Thank you Nestor Portillo for your Years of Leadership and Service to the MVP Award Program (MVP Award Program)
• Welcome to My New Blog (Elijah Manor)
• Speaking at Hub City NUG Thursday Jan 19th 2012 (Keith Elder)

Database

• CTE command In Sql Server (Vivek Johari)
• Windows 8, ReFS and SQL Server (Denny Cherry)
• SQL SERVER – Various Ways to Create Constraints – Quiz – Puzzle – 17 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• ORAPOCO: ORM Light to work with Oracle (J. Torrecilla)

Miscellaneous

• IPv6: countdown to launch (Erik Kline)
• SkyDrive and Office: 7 tips for full-powered collaboration in the cloud across PCs and Macs (Anand Babu)
• New ReFS File System Will Debut in Windows Server 8, Not Windows 8 (Paul Thurrott)
• Microspeak: Walls and ladders (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1024 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #5 (Devon Govett)
• January 17th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• Double Shot #798 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Head First iPhone and iPad Development: A Learner’s Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone and iPad by Dan Pilone

• Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS (Steven Sinofsky)
• Eduasync part 19: ordering by completion, ahead of time… (Jon Skeet)
• What is the defining characteristic of a local variable? (Eric Lippert)
• Struct vs. Class, Safety vs. Speed (Bill Wagner)
• A quick look at MetroRadio: quick spacing, margin, and icon tips for Windows Phone devs (Jeff Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A Generic Equality Comparer for LINQ (Richard Carr)
• LINQ to SQL – Mapping Stored Procedure with Multiple Results (Hiren Khirsaria)
• Team Foundation Backup Plan Not Working in Administration Console (Shai Raiten)
• EF 4.3 Gets Code First Migrations But No Enum Support (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Shining a ray of light with Azure… Using Azure to create your own ray tracer (Greg Duncan)
• Getting values into a string (John Rayner)
• Getting Started Building iOS Applications with MonoTouch (Bobby Johnson)
• developerFusion Article: An Introduction to FSharpx (Daniel Mohl)
• StyleCop+ 1.6 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Refactoring Common API Functionality Into A Node.js Proxy (Karl Seguin)
• Dynamic ViewState in ASP.Net WebForms (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• HTML 5 Canvas Cheatsheet from DZone /Refcardz (Greg Duncan)
• Diving Deep: ASP.NET Membership and the new Universal Providers (Harish Ranganathan)
• Gate 0.2.1 implementation of OWIN online at NuGet (Louis DeJardin)
• The All-New CSS3 Click Chart (Louis Lazaris)
• jQuery Accordion Control Musings (Becky Isserman)
• Json serialization – RPC style in MVC (Nuri Halperin)
• AppEngine Thoughts, or “How to support a cloud” (Kyle Baley)
• jQ.Mobi: Less compatible, but better performance (Dave Mahon)
• On EventEmitter In node.js (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Resolution Independence With SVG (David Bushell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• True Value of Agile – Not Always Product-Centric – Agile Improves Work-Life Balance (Peter Saddington)
• Use tasks you have to do around the house to improve your development skills (John V. Petersen)
• DZone Top Article of 2011: 7 Tenets Of Framework Selection (Rob Diana)
• Adapting to Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection (Filip Ekberg)
• FAQ: Why are my tests not included in the test run? (Gautam Goenka)
• Origins of the Craft : Iterative / Incremental (David Starr)
• How Do You Pick Open Source Libraries? (Davy Brion)
• Our evolution of story cards (Mark Pearl)
• TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 3: In, Out, and Around (Michael Sorens)
• Approval testing – value for the money (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• An Important Time for Design (Cameron Koczon)
• Marines vs. Boy Scouts (Chris Brandsma)
• Arrange – Act – Assert: Intuitive Testing for .NET (Christopher Smith)
• Estimating Work Items by Hours–Idiotic You Say? (D’Arcy Lussier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to add Panorama to existing WP7 project (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPF Data Chart to PDF (Tom Puglisi)
• A WPF Spinner Custom Control (Barry Lapthorn)
• Highway To The Danger Zone (Pete Seale)
• Metro Snack #1: Choosing XAML or HTML5 for Windows Developer Preview apps (Brent Schooley)
• Windows Phone: 30 to Launch (Chris Koenig)
• 10 Laps Around Silverlight 5 e-Book available to download for FREE. (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7.5: Using sockets (Andrea Boschin)
• Getting your WP7 Desktop integration out of park with PAARC, the Phone as a Remote Control library (Greg Duncan)
• Generating a LINQ to SQL DataContext for VS Express for Windows Phone (Erik EJ)
• MVVM Series: Part I (Steve Adey)
• Windows Phone Native Series – Solving "Fatal error LNK1112: module machine type ‘ARM’ conflicts with target machine type ‘X86′" (Dennis Delimarsky)
• How to Create a LightSwitch Application that Works with SharePoint Data (Marat Bakirov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Willeke Does Reporting at DevConnections and The Tablet Show – John Sonmez Compares iOS and Android Tools (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 172 – PowerScripting Podcast – vCenter Orchestrator (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
• Ping 128: CES, Windows Phone Devs make $$, Kinect for Windows, Mango & Nokia news (Laura Foy)
• Free on-demand ASP.Net 4/Visual Studio 2010 training course (in 55 videos) (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 16th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Web Heroines Emerge Mini-Conference 2012 (Ubelly)
• Meet Marino Posadas – Visual C# MVP from Spain (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• My Adventures in HTML5 Gaming and Are you a student? Check out the Big App On Campus Contest! (Dave Isbitski)
• HTML5 Canvas Refcard – Meet the Author: Simon Sarris (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Webstock 2012 Less Than A Month Away (Nigel Parker)
• NuCon 2012, Irvine, CA (David Barrett)
• Webinar: Using Typemock Isolator Effectively (Avi Kaye)
• Good Science’s Shannon Loftis: Gaming as critical work (MS JobsBlog)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Difference between CHAR, VARCHAR, NVARCHAR and VARCHAR(MAX) – Quiz – Puzzle – 15 of 31 and SQL SERVER – CHECKPOINT Behavior and Database Recovery Models – Quiz – Puzzle – 16 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• DIRTY_PAGE_POLL wait type in SQL Server 2012 (Sankar Reddy)
• APress Deal of the Day – 17/Jan/2012 – Oracle PL/SQL Recipes (TATWORTH)
• DBDeploy.Net 2 (rakker)
• A Generic SQL Performance Test Harness (Ian Stirk)
• Is Your DBA Lying To You? (Thomas LaRock)
• Validating NPI (National Provider Identifier) numbers in SQL (Bill Osuch)
• “Data Explorer” meets Office 365 (Data Explorer Team)
• SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers – Book Review (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Implementation Checklist: Aligning People, Technology & Process (Dux Raymond Sy)

PowerShell

• Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets v2.2 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• An Xbox for the rest of us? (Kip Kniskern)
• Why was there a font just for drawing symbols on buttons? (Raymond Chen)
• KidsRuby 1.0 Released (Roy Wood)
• Stack Exchange Data Explorer 2.0 (Sam Saffron)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #796 and Double Shot #797 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #29 (Franky)
• Daily News Digest 1/16/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 9-15, 2012 and Daily News Digest 1/17/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1022 and The Morning Brew #1023 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-16 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 15, 2012 – #0028 and SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 9-15 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers: For All Database Developers and Developers Administrators by Pinal Dave

• Windows Phone 7.1(5) Emulator Skin Switcher v1.2 and source now available (Greg Duncan)
• The Learn to Code Movement and Software Security (Mark Curphey)
• Skype coming soon to Windows Phone (or is it?) – updated (Kip Kniskern)
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #3 Ideation and Concept (Arturo Toledo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• [Quick VS Tip] Using regular expressions do the find/replace in Visual Studio and WinRT People – A WinRT community effort and site (Greg Duncan)
• Autocorrecting unknown actions using the Levenshtein distance (Jef Claes)
• When Using EF CodeFirst With Visual Studio, How to Live With Cannot drop database because it is in use error. and EntityFramework CodeFirst and AutoKey Generation (Peter Kellner)
• Input Parameters in Fluent API (Mehdi Khalili)

Web Development

• Understanding CoffeeScript Comprehensions (Karl Seguin)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 4 (Jorge Ramon)
• Hosting A Node.js Site Through Apache (Davy Brion)
• NetBash Updated – Formatting Helpers Added (Luke Lowrey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Results for Time Management (J.D. Meier)
• Book Review and my thoughts on UX (User Centered Design) (Rohit Sharma)
• A meta post about negative code reviews (Oren Eini)
• Focused Retrospectives: things to watch for (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• One project, one declarative language, two platforms – A side-by-side XAML project on Silverlight 5 and WinRT (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #9 – Handling Orientation – Part 1 (Senthil Kumar)
• 12th Day of Silverlight: PivotViewer (Tony Champion)
• WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 4of Many (Vijaya Malla)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 37 (Richard Hay)
• Engadget Podcast 276: CES Finale – 01.14.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Announcing the GoingNative 2012 Full Schedule (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• CodeMash 2012 report and Coding in the style of Glee (Jon Skeet)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Cases When Stored Procedure RECOMPILE – Quiz – Puzzle – 14 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• How to connect to SQL Server when your default database is unavailable (Denis Gobo)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 08-January-2012 to 14-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning C++ Through Game Programming by Michael Dawson

• Eduasync part 18: Changes between the Async CTP and the Visual Studio 11 Preview (Jon Skeet)
• Day 1 results from the #smokedbywindowsphone $100 challenge (Ben Rudolph)
• Windows Phone 2011 Retrospective (Brandon Watson)
• Adding your own callbacks to existing JavaScript functions (Dave Ward)
• “Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (Jan 16th) (Scott Guthrie)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge (Oren Eini)
• Basic Volume Control (Richard Carr)
• Benjamin Day slides us into “How to be a C# ninja in 10 easy steps" and BugAid – Enhanced C# Debugging tool (and free for non-commercial open source projects too) (Greg Duncan)
• Kicking off StructureMap 3 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How can I detect the language a run of text is written in? (Raymond Chen)
• Kinect Apps – ensuring Kinect Runtime is installed (Rob Relyea)
• With Azure SDK 1.6, Azure Diagnostics is enabled by default can cause thousands of daily transections to Azure Storage (Avkash Chauhan)
• async \ await and Exception Handling (Bnaya Eshet)
• A brief overview of type system metadata in various languages (Dru Sellers)
• VS hangs for 1 minute on start debugging? Check for dead symbol paths! (Kirill Osenkov)

Web Development

• Using jQuery Deferred To Create Compound Objects From Multiple Asynchronous Data Sources (Ben Nadel)
• NetAdvantage For jQuery Chart – An HTML5/jQuery Chart Designed for Performance! (Graham Murray)
• Controlling Selection with CSS user-select (Sharon Newman)
• jQuery Grid – Showing Row Selectors & Selection (Jordan Tsankov)
• JSON serialization problems and solution in MVC3 (Nuri Halperin)
• Why is there Flash in the HTML5 version of Cut the Rope? (Robby Ingebretsen)
• Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development (Michael J. Ross)
• CSS Buttons with Pseudo-elements (Sergio Camalich)
• Advanced Random Numbers in JS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• PhpStorm 3.0: New and Noteworthy in Database Realm (Alexey Korsun)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Experts advise growing Agile projects with feature teams (Anand Vishwanath)
• Agile Project Management—Driving Value or Where’s the Beef? (Bob Galen)
• How Great Leaders Inspire Action – Simon Sinek (Peter Saddington)
• Forrester: Developer Testing Lowers Costs & Increases Quality (Avi Kaye)
• Integration testing with Azure development storage (Rory Primrose)
• Open/Closed Principle on real world code (Giorgio Sironi)
• Do Tests Get Too Much Respect? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Getting started with Git and GitHub (Simone Chiaretta)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Extending XAML Applications with Custom Commands and Getting Started with Coding4Fun Button Controls (Windows Phone Geek)
• Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) and Windows Embedded Silverlight Tools (MS Downloads)
• HttpWebRequest (WebClient) And Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #471 – How FlowDirection Works with the Image Element (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #7 – Check for Network Connections (Senthil Kumar)
• Joe Belfiore interview: Windows Phone will compete on quality, not specs (Vlad Savov)
• A WPF Custom Control for Zooming and Panning (Ashley Davis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Geek Out About Electricity! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ACMQ Online Programming Competition: Jan 1- Feb 12, 2012 (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 050 – “Silent and Invisible” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Boagworld: Give users a sense of control (Paul Boag)
• Windows Weekly 243: Live From CES (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Podcast 273: CES 2012 Day 3 – 01.11.2012 and The Vergecast 010: CES 2012 Day 1 – 01.11.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 281: CES 2012 – 01.11.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Inside Windows Phone #30 | Arturo Toledo is back (Larry Lieberman)
• The Engadget Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop at CES 2012 (video) (Myriam Joire)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 1 (Robert Green)
• VIDEO: Watch a Galaxy Nexus get #smokedbywindowsphone (Ben Rudolph)
• Phoenix Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• Magenic celebrates a few of its internal OSS developers… (Greg Duncan)
• CES 2012: Two new Nokia apps for Windows Phone coming soon – Nokia Transport and Nokia City Lens (damaster)
• Meet Todd Anglin – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)

Database

• The SSIS Expression Way–Skipping an Unwanted File (Arthur Zubarev)
• SQL Server – Backup to NUL trick – read throughput (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL SERVER – Non-Clustered Index and Automatic Rebuild – Quiz – Puzzle – 11 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Join Hint in SQL – Guest Post by Joydeep Das (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Now accepting more users for the Data Explorer Cloud service! (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites Installer Error: KB976462 Could Not Be Installed (Martin W. Angler)
• On Site SharePoint Experience UI/UX Branding Class with Dustin Miller and Heather Solomon (Joel Oleson)
• SharePoint 2010 Fluent Ribbon API Release 1.4 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Creating a WordPress and Blogging New Year’s Resolutions List (Lorelle VanFossen)
• Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules For Startups (Mark Cuban)
• Book Excerpt: "To The Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise" (Pankaj Arora)
• Using MessageBox Control Outside UpdatePanel Control (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango Commercial Release 2: What’s inside (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 086 for 1/11/2012 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #1020 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for January 11, 2011 – #0025 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #794 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/11/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/12/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 10-Jan-2012 and 11-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-11 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 Jan 2012: (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Jennifer Kyrnin

• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #2 The Design Process of a Windows Phone App (Arturo Toledo)
• Syncing Visual Studio Extensions and Settings with Dropbox (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• SOLID JavaScript: The Interface Segregation Principle (Derek Greer)
• The evolution of asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
• ASP.NET session hijacking with Google and ELMAH (Troy Hunt)
• Introducing ExpectThat: A CoffeeScript Assertion Library (Dan Mohl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Static Field Initialisation Order (Richard Carr)
• string.format escape sequence in c# (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Working with the Search charm in Windows 8 (Peter von Lochow)

Web Development

• Practical PHP Refactoring: Push Down Field (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript inheritance by example (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Downloading Blob To Local Machine (Puja Pramudya)
• Textarea Auto Resize (Louis Lazaris)
• Dropbox REST API Part 2: API Requests (Christophe Geers)
• Our Ajax Conventions–Validation (Josh Arnold)
• What we still can’t do client-side (Lea Verou)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• My take on TDD & binary search (Morgan Persson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• [WP7] Quick tip : how to set 32 bits per pixel for your app. (Jonathan Antoine)
• Windows Azure Storage Client Library for Windows Phone: Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7.5 – Using advanced tiles API (Andrea Boschin)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone–Marketing 101 (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #468 – FirstColumn Property Allows Blank Cells in a UniformGrid (Sean Sexton)
• WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 3of Many (Vijaya Malla)
• Fixing that darn AdControl when it won’t show up (Arian Kulp)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 242: Refreshing and Resetting (Paul Thurrott)
• The GeekDads Episode #106: Skylanders Farming (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

• Webcasts: Upcoming Sessions in January and February (Kim Spilker)

Database

• Relating Parameters & Filters in SQL Server Reporting Services (Melissa Coates)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.6–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• Restoring SQL Server Database: Points to Consider (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Using RANKING Functions Instead of SQL Looping Logic of Cursor – Quiz – Puzzle – 8 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• “New Index…” is greyed out in SSMS (Ben March)
• Set-Based Operations: They’re Not Just For Databases (Calvin Bottoms)
• Orders Search in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

• Managing Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010 from a Single PowerShell Session and How to Enable Lync 2010 Client Presence Status: Appear Offline and Generating Delivery Reports and Tracking Messages from PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

Miscellaneous

• Getting Started with Python – A simple example with all basic stuff (Singaram Subramanian)
• Learning Android: Getting android-support jar/compatability package as a Maven dependency (Mark Needham)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 8, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 9, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 9 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #791 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #28 (Franky)
• The Morning Brew #1017 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development by Trevor Burnham

• 31 Days of Mango | Day #11: Live Tiles (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Source (Derik Whittaker)
• A C# Reading List (Eric Lippert)
• HTML5 Player Framework 1.0 (CodePlex)
• An Introduction to Semantic Zoom in Windows 8 Metro (Colin Eberhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Docking External Document Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer Part 2: A Larson Scanner with Button, Potentiometer and Progress Display (Pete Brown)
• Entity Framework’s CodeFirst Automatically Generates Foreign Keys For you (Peter Kellner)
• How can I tell whether a DLL has been registered? (Raymond Chen)
• Dynamically creating a Generic Type at Runtime (Rick Strahl)
• Debugging .NET code called from X++ code in AX 2012 (Satya Srikant Mantha)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0–Status, Website and Future (Eric J. Smith)
• NetAdvantage 2011.2 – Available Immediately! (Jason Beres)
• MSBuild Extension Pack November 2011 Release (Mike Fourie)
• Extensions for Reactive Extensions (Rxx) v1.2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• JavaScript Create User Wizard for ASP.NET (S V Saichandra)
• JavaScript does not need classes (Axel Rauschmayer)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Python and AWS Cookbook – $6.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Want to Metro a web site? Check out the [mostly]free Metro Dynamis Web framework (Greg Duncan)
• Securing Your WordPress Website (Daniel Pataki)
• datajs version 1.0.2 released (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• New series book – Service Design Patterns (Martin Fowler)
• Jasmine-BDD: A Screencast On The Standalone Test Runner (Derick Bailey)
• 3 Keys to Agile Results (JD Meier)
• People, NOT Technology (Peter Saddington)
• Tech Leads will Rule the World (Andy Singleton)
• Innovative Navigation Techniques to Save You Header Space (Anthony)
• What Win8 Should Learn from Windows Phone (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What Good is a Pig? (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Sound vs. Valid Argument (Mark Pearl)
• Redesigning The Country Selector (Christian Holst)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: The kind of bug you don’t want to discover (Peter Kuhn)
• Blend 5 and Visual Studio 11 feedback – The Future of Windows 8 Development (Benjamin Laffont)
• WP7 app update and NeutralResourcesLanguage (Andreas Hammar)
• The Death of Flash and Silverlight (Chris Love)
• Code to disable hardware Back Button in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Reformatting All .xaml Files in Visual Studio Solution (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• Build Dependencies and Silverlight 4 (Kyle Burns)
• Toolset agnostic build server and Silverlight projects (Marko Apfel)
• WP7Contrib – FindaPad and the fastest list in the west (Rich Griffin)
• Inside Windows Phone Apps – Fandango (Sara Allison)
• 2000 WPF Things #428 – Setting Other Layout Properties from Within Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Styling Windows Phone Silverlight Applications (Tim Murphy)
• Upgrading your charting experience using XamDataChart (Kiril Matev)
• Those Darn Gray Box’s (David Kelley)
• Introduction to Infragistics Reporting (Mihail Mateev)
• CODE Framework v4.0.11110.0 (CodePlex)
• Building Microsoft Exchange client for Windows Phone – part 3/3 – displaying the data in Metro UI (Valentin Stoychev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SPLASH 2011: Dave Thomas – On Modern Application Development and Asynchronous Programming for C++ Developers: PPL Tasks and Windows 8 (Charles Torre)
• Video on How to work with Page Navigation and Back Button in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Microsoft: The Art of Touch (Steve Clayton)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: DevExpress CodeRush (Robert Green)
• When adding or changing elements on your site, test everything. (Paul Boag)
• Make: Live Ultimate Kit Episode 11/9/11 (video) (Matt Richardson)
• Nokia stores retail experience: Coming Soon! (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Exploring the Ocean in Our Brains with Jaron Lanier (MS JobsBlog)
• Training – US, Europe, and now Virtual! (Udi Dahan)
• Windows Phone Inner Circle–Try out the new Windows Phones (Bob Familiar)
• Upcoming SilverlightShow Webinar: Unit Testing for Windows Phone (Silverlight Show)
• RIT Game Camp–December 2-4 (Jim O’Neil)
• Global Day of Coderetreat in Indianapolis (Aaron Lerch)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Licensing and Hardware Considerations (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle to Win Print Book – Functions FIRST_VALUE and LAST_VALUE with OVER clause and ORDER BY (Pinal Dave)
• Book Review: Microsoft SQLServer 2008 R2 Master Data Services (Shane Willerton)
• Researching NoSQL Is No Different Than The Early RDBMS Market (Rob Diana)
• SQL Azure: REBUILD All Indexes in Database – Alternative to DBCC DBREINDEX (Chris Pietschmann)
• Stored Procedure Checklist (Jack Vamvas)
• Using Windows Azure Cmdlets to Delete old Windows Azure Diagnostics log from Windows Azure Storage (Avkash Chauhan)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Thoughts (Tim Murphy)

PowerShell

• The PowerShell Pay-it-Forward Award (Lee Holmes)
• Robocopy and PowerShell [Insert standard and very old, "two great tastes..." line here] (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Exclusive: Nokia, AT&T collaborating on Lumia 800 with LTE (Chris Ziegler)
• Xbox 360 Fall 2011 Dashboard update now available to beta testers, Xbox.com updated (damaster)
• Android – New Layout Widgets: Space and GridLayout (Tim Bray)
• View HTML Source of Email in GMail and Google Apps (Steve Smith)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 11 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #979 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #749 and Double Shot #750 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/10/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 10 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

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

• Profanity in Presentations–View From A Conference Organizer (D’Arcy Lussier)
• Using Ninject with MVVM Light (Michael Ceranski)
• Node-inspector just got easier for Windows and Using DNode for realtime communication in node.js on Windows (Glenn Block)
• Rob Relyea: Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 Released! (Dan Fernandez)
• Introducing S#arp Lite …S#arp Architecture’s pompous little sister (Billy McCafferty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 stops responding to keyboard – a workaround (Alexander Zeitler)
• Getting started with the Azure Hosted TFS (aka TFSPreview): Updates for Visual Studio 2010 Tools and such and Getting started with the Azure Hosted TFS (aka TFSPreview): Connecting Team Explorer and Visual Studio 2010 (Enrique Lima)
• Metro Style Toggle for Windows 8 Developer Preview (Bander Alsharfi)
• 5 Tips and Techniques for Avoiding Automatic Garbage Collections (Michael McLaughlin)
• Microsoft Windows Simulator Rotation and Resolution Emulation (Zebin Chen)
• Back to Basics: Daylight Savings Time bugs strike again with SetLastModified (Scott Hanselman)
• Introducing AutoBox – On the fly dependency injection and caching container. (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Creating a backup in Team Foundation Server 2010 using the Power Tools (Martin Hinshelwood)
• List executed code using PostSharp (Dror Helper)
• Getting Started with AVR Studio 5 (Pete Brown)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Querying a Collection Count (Ricardo Peres)
• Changes in Kinect SDK Beta 2 (James Ashley)
• MonoGame – Cross Platform, OpenGL based XNA Framework implementation (Think "XNA" [mostly] based games for MonoTouch, MonoDroid, Mac OS X, Windows…) (Greg Duncan)
• Could not load file or assembly exception and how to fix your builds when using nuget packages (Daniel Fisher)
• The Current Deployment Process for Simple.Data.Sqlite (Bobby Johnson)
• Use RavenDB as embedded Filebase (Code Inside Team)
• Kinect Toolbox v1.1.0.2 and Kinect Mouse Cursor 1.1 and Coding4Fun Kinect Toolkit 1.1 and Async Executor 1.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Using NetAdvantage jQuery Chart, Infragistics Motion Framework™ and SignalR to Display Live Twitter Rates (Graham Murray)
• Getting Started with Outlook GroupBy in jQuery Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
• HTML5 < time > element: returned! (John Esposito)
• Tracking Engagement Time Using 302-Moved Temporarily Redirects (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Evolution Of A Site’s Design (Derick Bailey)
• Bing Maps AJAX Control SDK 7.0 (PDF) (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The delivery mechanism is an annoying detail (Simon Brown)
• Agile with Children Update (David Starr)
• Is Velocity Killing Agile? (Michael Floyd)
• BDD and BizUnit 2 – Not as cool as combining BizUnit 4 & SpecFlow but still works ok (Michael Stephenson)
• Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 1 (Thomas Weller)
• Enabling and Sustaining High Performing Teams (Shane Hastie)
• 5 Questions for Capability and Capacity of High-Performing Teams (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Announcing: Your Last About Dialog (YLAD) (Peter Kuhn)
• Video on How to work with WCF Services in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Telerik XAML Q3’11 Beta—A Walkthrough Part 2: RadVirtualizingWrapPanel (Michael Crump)
• APPortunties for Mango WP7 App’s (David Kelley)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #5: Gyroscope and 31 Days of Mango | Day #6: Motion (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Using NetAdvantage for LightSwitch 11.2 (Damyan Petev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio: Game Building for Windows Phone 7 using XNA/Game Studio with Dan Waters (MS Podcasts)
• Technology & Friends Episode 181: Joe Kunk on Windows 8 (David Giard)
• Herding Code 125: Truffler with Joel Abrahamsson, Marcus Granstrom and Henrik Lindstrom (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Cloud Cover Episode 64 – Adding Push Notifications to Windows Phone Apps (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
• Windows Phone Push Notifications and Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.7, jQuery Conference 2012, Node Toolbox (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• TWC9: November 4th – Roborazzi, Building Metro, 31 Days of Mango, New Blue Book, What’s New in .Net 4.5 Poster, 100 VS/TFS Tools and TFS OData (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Vergecast 001 – 11.05.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Engadget Podcast 263 – 11.04.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 233: Kinect This (Paul Thurrott)
• New Mini-Tutorial Video Series (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• I UNLOCK JOY Program : Great opportunity for Developers and Students (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Taking the Cloud on the Road (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• Playing with SQL Server 2012 the easy way, via a Microsoft and Amazon partnership for SQL Server 2012 on AWS/EC2 (Think "5 Minutes to Denali") (Greg Duncan)
• Why SQL Server is using so LESS memory (Klaus Aschenbrenner)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS 2012 Reset Keyboard Shortcuts to Default and SQL SERVER – Updating Data in A Columnstore Index (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Data Sync- Synchronize Data across On-Premise and Cloud (E2C) (Sudhesh Suresh)
• Minimizing Connection Pool errors in SQL Azure (Luiz Fernando Santos)
• How Much Data Is In That Column? (Larry Leonard)

SharePoint

• Book Review: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7 (David Kelley)

Miscellaneous

• Learning Haskel For Fun (and profit?) (Derick Bailey)
• RiSE4Fun – Microsoft Research, Research in Software Engineering, "Fun" Dev, via web, site (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 4, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 127 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily News Digest 11/4/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (11/4/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 30-October-2011 to 05-November-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for November 04, 2011 — #1162 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 Nov 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 31Oct – 6 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/04/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Retrospective 57 – #LeanGiving and Faking Project Management (Peter Saddington)
• This Week’s Ruby News: Ruby 1.9.3p0, OmniAuth 1.0, MagLev 1.0 and More (Peter Cooper)

The Geek Shelf

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