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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• Morale has launched! (Jamie Wright)
• Bing™ Maps WPF Control available today! (Luis Cabrera)
• Azure Design Patterns (Buck Woody)
• Marketplace & Tools Open for Mango App Submission (Todd Brix)
• Fun With New Live Tile API (Shawn Wildermuth)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using Mutex to avoid deadlocks (Abhijit Jana)
• Wcf, IXmlSerializable and The XmlReader state should be EndOfFile after this operation. (Gian Maria Ricci)
• WCF Support Improved in Mono (Jonathan Allen)
• Using Infragistics Map control extensions with SQL Server 2008 via WCF (Mihail Mateev)
• Async Support in Telerik JustCode (Just* Team)
• Entrance into Git for .NET Developer (Code Inside Team)
• Getting Started with the F# PowerPack – Part 3 (Daniel Mohl)

Web Development

• HTML5 Web Camp Resources (G. Andrew Duthie)
• How to allow user to input html in ASP.NET MVC? (Abhijit Jana)
• Building an HTML App – Workout Timer – Clock Logic (Joe Stagner)
• A Magnifying Lens using Script and CSS (K. Scott Allen)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Array with Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Bulletproof CSS3 media queries (Vladimir Carrer)
• My article on HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers is now online (Wally McClure)
• Tips I got from the Umbraco community (Simone Chiaretta)
• Flickr API Photo Discovery Goes Real-time (Kin Lane)
• Autoscaling Windows Azure applications (Grigori Melnik)
• Building AutoMapper.org (Jimmy Bogard)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Some links on design patterns and their relevance to F# (Don Syme)
• Elegancy challenge: Cacheable Batches (Oren Eini)
• Code Smells and Other Problems (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Software Development is not a Jenga game (Mark Nijhof)
• Behind the Scenes with the TeamPulse Team – Part 1 (Joel Semeniuk)
• Using Frameworks Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Have To Know What You’re Doing (Davy Brion)
• ALM Practices Part 12: Reducing Technical Debt (Dennis Doomen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.4.6 officially released: cool new components and lots of fixes and Windows Phone HubTile in depth| Part2: Data Binding (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone 7 Iconography (Peter Kuhn)
• Page Orientation in Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• How to Convert a Rectangle to a Path Control using Expression Blend? and Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Release Candidate (RC) released – Download the Offline/Web Installer (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WPF: Using Task Library to Load Data (Mahesh Sabnis)
• WP7Contrib – Tombstoning Part II The View Model and WP7Contrib – Bing Service Wrapper Part IV Location Simplified (Rich Griffin)
• 2000 WPF Things #371 – Specifying a Default Date for a Calendar Control to Display (Sean Sexton)
• XNA to SilverXNA–Part 3–Baby steps and your first control (Simon Jackson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 159 – PowerScripting Podcast – Tome Tanasovski on Regular Expressions and More (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• TWiT 315: Cask Strength (Paul Thurrott)
• The Engadget Show – 024: We visit Ferrari, take over Times Square, check out the Grid 10, and talk patents with the EFF (Brian Heater)
• Video: How to Use the Denali Windowing Functions (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0 – Beta Overview Video (Blake Niemyjski)

Community / Events

• Life at the Mothership: an introspection (Tim Heuer)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Easy Introduction to CHECK Options – Day 24 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL 101 – The WHERE clause (Shannon Lowder)
• Computed Columns and CASE (Steve Jones)
• ORMs don’t kill databases. Developers do. (Jag Reehal)
• Replication Agent Logging (Brandon Williams)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 PowerShell enable/disable feature for all site collections (Greg Galipeau)
• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7 (Joel Oleson)
• Calling SharePoint workflow instances programmatically from other SharePoint workflows (Justin Joyce)
• Request for SharePoint code sample ideas (Frank Rice)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server 2011 Resources (MS Downloads)
• Zero to Maker: Project-Based Learning (David Lang)
• Samuel L. Ipsum (or: When Lorem Ipsum Goes Badass) (Joey deVilla)
• Three20 And Custom NIB TableViewCells (Nick Berardi)
• The Technical Friend’s Essential Maintenance Checklist for Non-Technical Friend’s Windows Computer (Scott Hanselman)
• Now available: Zune 4.8 (Matt Akers)
• Nobody Wants a Tablet! (Stephen Forte)
• Windows 8 to bring new file copy, delete, and move UI (Steven Hodson)
• Windows Phone Reaches 30,000 Apps, Opens Marketplace to Mango Submissions (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft confirms Windows Phone “Tango” to be the next update (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 23, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 207 (Rhonda Tipton)
• The Morning Brew #923 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (8/23/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Geek Reading August 23, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily News Digest 08/23/2011 and Daily News Digest 08/24/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly Links– 2010_31 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight Cream for August 23, 2011 — #1136 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 23 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 and CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Pragmatic Programmers) by Brian P. Hogan

• XNA is coming to Visual Basic! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Dual’ing Windows Phone 7 Emulators – Setting up your environment to deploy and debug in multiple WP7 emulators (Greg Duncan)
• Improved HTML Copy in the latest Productivity Power Tools (Kirill Osenkov)
• Jounce Part 14: Using MEF for Non-Shared Views and View Models (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio – Open a file into two tabs (Arian Kulp)
• Assembly Information (Richard Carr)
• Package Management for .NET developer: NuGet (Code Inside Team)
• Test Driving NHibernate 3.0, LINQ and the Entity Framework CTP 5 with the Abstract Factory Design Pattern (Mark J. Caplin)
• Multiple Line Editing in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• A Nuget Packaging Dilemma (Davy Brion)
• Improving CLRProfiler 4: Reducing SampleObject memory consumption by 58% (Feng Yuan)
• CSLA 4 version 4.2 alpha release and CSLA .NET and Windows Azure (Rockford Lhotka)

Web Development

• Rounding Corners using CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Three new Action Result Type in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Making Web Apps Sizzle with Bing Maps and HTML5’s Geolocation API (Jeff Prosise)
• Setting up custom ASP.NET Routing to an HttpHandler and ASP.NET Routing not working on IIS 7.0 (Rick Strahl)
• WebSharper 2.1 Professional RC2 released (Adam Granicz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Implementing dependency injection pattern in .NET (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Building An Awesome Organization – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test-Specific Subclass (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM# Episode 1 and MVVM# Episode 2 and MVVM# Episode 3 and MVVM# Episode 4 (Maxxx)
• Lessons Learned developing a Windows Phone 7 App (Cameron Skinner)
• Metro In Motion Part #2 – ‘Peel’ Animations (Colin Eberhardt)
• Metro Inspiration–Designing Better Looking Apps for Windows Phone 7 (Bil Simser)
• The real Windows Phone problem is with AT&T, not Microsoft (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft’s Belfiore sorry for appearing insensitive with Windows Phone statements (Steven Hodson)
• ListBox Paging in Silverlight 4 using DataPager control (Suprotim Agarwal)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save XML files using XmlSerializer and All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save XML files using XmlWriter (Windows Phone Geek)
• Application Bar Buttons Are Null (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 66: Getting a lesson about Technical Debt from Gary Short (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 392: Crysis 2, Shift 2, ME2 Game add on, Bulletstorm and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Technology & Friends – Episode 147: Brent Stineman on Azure Design Patterns (David Giard)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 49 – David Starr on BDD (Richard Banks)
• Chatting with the Kinect Team’s Alex Kipman, Kudo Tsunoda, and Darren Bennett (Tina Wood)
• Windows Weekly 201: The Kids’ll Love It! (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 009 – “Delay YOU, Delay ME, Delay it TOGETHER” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)

Community / Events

• Monads! European Virtual ALT.NET Tuesday 29th March (Mike Hadlow)
• Win amazing prizes by building a great WP7 app (Luke)

Database

• SQL Server: Count based on Condition and SQL Server: Delete Backup History to reduce MSDB database size (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 32 Bit – 64 Bit – HTML5 – Database Backup Restore and SQL SERVER – Denali – Improvement in Startup Options (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Ruby Syntax Highlighting Within The Console With Wirble And The RVM (Dan Watson)
• Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse, Reloaded (Chris Blunt)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2011 — #1066 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #821 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #146 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck

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Top Links

• Web Tracking Protection: An Emerging Internet Standard that Helps Protect Consumers from Tracking (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 Application with UltraLight.mvvm (Jeremy Likness)
• C# Compiler as a Service Update (Miguel de Icaza)
• Tests are your airbag (Krzysztof Koźmic)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Code Snippets with Replacements (Richard Carr)
• Programmatically finding Binding Elements in WCF Binding and Cross machine communication between .Net Application using WCF (Dhananjay Kumar)
• "Quick Find" a better way using Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools and Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Converting Numbers to Ordinal Strings and Approximate String Comparisons Using Levenshtein Distance (Jonathan Wood)
• New Book: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-511): Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
• Windows Azure Storage Client Library Reference Documentation Updated with New Sample Code and Remarks (Windows Azure Team)
• Why we need better garbage collection on the Xbox (Joh.)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Rounded Corners with jQuery and ASP.NET DropShadow with jQuery. and Wanna deploy WordPress on Microsoft Azure ? (Joe Stagner)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1 is now available as a DRM-free PDF ebook (Simone Chiaretta)
• IE9′s ‘Do Not Track’ features could become Web standards (Tim Conneally)
• Microsoft Guidance for Silky Smooth Web Sites (Chris Love)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Problem with Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Kidzban – Kanban for Your Classroom (Peter Saddington)
• Scrat–Copy Quality Center Test Plan Structure To Microsoft Test Manager (Shai Raiten)
• Dependency Injection & IOC (Abhishek Sur)
• 10 of 10 – Aesthetics and alignment matter (Alfred Astort)
• Continuous Delivery (Anders Janmyr)
• The Benefits of a Flush Search Box (Anthony)
• Are you refining or rotting? (Paul Boag)
• Reuse is overrated, then came package management (Matt Hinze)
• Book Review – Driving Technical Change: Why People on Your Team Don’t Act on Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• The Ascendancy of Testers (Elizabeth Keogh)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Binding Events to Methods in the Silverlight MVVM View Models (Song Li)
• WPF Realtime Textbox Change Binding (Arian Kulp)
• All about ResourceDictionary in WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ASP.NET, MVC, jQuery, SharePoint, Silverlight and .NET Articles in February 2011 and Author of the Month (Suprotim Agarwal)
• MVVM + Broker + Castle Interceptor = FUN (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Silverlight: Wish List II (Deborah Kurata)
• Illustrator FXG and XAML export usage in Blend 4 (Bob Bartholomay)
• Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 7) (Gill Cleeren)
• Select Many: Reactive Extensions’ Mother Of All Operators [Chaining] (Jesse Liberty)
• Writing about Windows Phone 7 Development (Mike Ormond)
• Save the Date–Windows Phone 7 Tech.Days Online Conference (Mike Ormond)
• Introducing Phoney’s FadingMessage Class (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies for Windows Phone 7 arrive April 6 (Vlad Bobleanta)
• Who ate all the pies!! (Rich)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: The Opinionated Cloud – Learning about AppHarbor (Scott Hanselman)
• Building on Azure: Softronic (Charles Torre)
• What is a SharePoint Analyst? Episode 57 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Gillmor Gang 2.26.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• ASP.NET MVC Data Access Videos & Tutorials (17) and ASP.NET MVC App Building Videos (61) (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 63: Exploring National Instruments’ App Using Data and Business Features (John Papa)
• Windows Phone Radio 19 now available (Brian Seitz)
• The Full Stack, Part 8: Adding Search to the Windows Phone Client (Jon Galloway & Jesse Liberty)
• TWC9: Kinect SDK is coming, New VS Power Tools, & Profanities by programming language (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• 2011 MVP Summit Preview (Thomas LaRock)
• TechDays 2011 – Developer track sessions update (Katrien de Graeve)
• A Message to MVPs from Nestor Portillo (Lonnie Webb)
• Tech.Days Online Conference – Create.Design.Deliver | Windows Phone 7 (Andy Wigley)
• The Microsoft MVP Summit (Brent Ozar)

Database

• Access SQL Server Compact 4 with ASP Classic and VbScript (Erik EJ)
• Some Suggested SQL Server 2008 R2 Instance Configuration Settings (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server: Count Rows in Tables and its Size (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2011 – Wait Type – Day 25 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Glenn Berry – Wait Type – Day 26 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Best Reference – Wait Type – Day 27 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Agile: Creating an SSRS Burndown Chart Part 2 (Steve Novoselac)
• Come One, Come All to T-SQL Tuesday #016 : Aggregate Functions (grrlgeek)

SharePoint

• My Favourite SharePoint 2010 Scalability Articles (Paul Andrew)
• New Technical Article on SharePoint Architecture (Ricky Kirkham)

Miscellaneous

• Document: What a Microsoft employment contract looks like (Todd Bishop)
• Microsoft unveils redesigned WindowsEmbedded.com (Brad Sams)
• Chrome Developer Tools: Back to Basics (Christos)
• Landing Your Dream Job in a Networked World (Dawn Foster)
• Get add-ons right in Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• What if we made Wikipedia into game… Wait, there’s Wikipedia Maze! (Greg Duncan)
• Opening a OneNote page each day at the same time (John Guin)
• Windows Live Mesh Beta Ends 31 March 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Learning programming online – still possible (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 24, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 25, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 91 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 24th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News Feb 25th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for February 26, 2011 — #1052 (Dave Campbell)
• This Week’s Link List (February 25, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #800 (Chris Alcock)
• Week Retrospective 21 – PMI Certification and Pecha-Kuchas (Peter Saddington)
• Weekly Links– 2010_08 (Joe Stagner)
• Daily News Digest 02/24/2011 and Daily News Digest 02/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• 24-Feb-2011 and 25-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Nick Randolph

Top Links

• Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
• Using T4 to Generate SQL Merge Scripts (Kevin Hazzard)
• New JavaScript library for OData and beyond (Alex James)
• Accessing RavenDB from Silverlight (Oren Eini)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Home-made Regular Expressions in F# (Anton Tayanovskyy)
• Implementing The TakeLast, TakeLastWhile, SkipLast And SkipLastWhile LINQ Operators and A Scrolling Status Control (Jonathan Wood)
• Expression Builder, DSL, Fluent Interfaces and C#, RPG (as in role playing game) Style (Greg Duncan)
• Writing a Compiler in C#: C Code Generation, Part 2 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Understanding Commands: The Extend Keyword (Zain Naboulsi)
• More Any and All (Alex James)
• You Want To Wrap OData Around What?!?! (Jonathan Carter)
• Autoprojecting LINQ queries (Jimmy Bogard)
• Windows Azure Use Case: New Development (Buck Woody)
• Windows Azure for Developers Task 1: Resolving Failed to initialize Windows Azure storage emulator Error (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Once More In Defense Of The var Keyword (K. Scott Allen)
• Real Apps, Real Code (Mark Hopkins)
• Just Released: New Version of the Windows Azure Service Management CmdLets (Windows Azure Team)
• Peer Review Pipeline Closed for New XNA GS 3.1 Games or Updates on App Hub (XNA Team)

Web Development

• Displaying a Sorted, Paged, and Filtered Grid of Data in ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)
• jQuery Mobile Form Validation (Elijah Manor)
• Stackoverflow Exceptions with Html.Action (K. Scott Allen)
• Bing Spatial Data Services SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Node Version Management with n (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article:Agile Contracts (Allan Kelly)
• New version of Cuke4Ninja book published (Gojko Adzic)
• My Arm’s Broke, Fix Me – Three Levels of Guidance in patterns & practices (JD Meier)
• [Agile Guide] – Agile User Stories and Estimating Spikes and Top Ten Essentials to Discovering and Inventing (Peter Saddington)
• Multiple mocks, asserts, and hidden results (Roy Osherove)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Guard Assertion (Giorgio Sironi)
• Strategies Against Architecture & Interactions Over Processes and Tools (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Book Review: The Passionate Programmer (Lorna Mitchell)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Productive Programmer – $15.99 (Save 50%) Code DDTPP (O’Reilly Media)
• Opportunity Cost versus Real Cost (Joe Webb)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What About Windows Phone 7? (Bill Wagner)
• WP7 ContextMenu: answers to popular questions (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #5 (Jeff Prosise)
• Day 1: Working with Telerik Silverlight RadControls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A guide to OData and Silverlight (Thomas Castøe Martinsen)
• Simple Error Reporting on WP7 REDUX (Rudi Grobler)
• Creating An Application Bar–Don’t Panic (Jesse Liberty)
• Use lightbox to show images whose paths are stored in database (Raghav Khunger)
• WP7 Contrib – When messaging becomes messy and services shine (Rich Griffin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Craig Symonds and Mohsen Agsen: C++ Renaissance (Charles Torre)
• Countdown to MIX11: Get the Goods (including a free pass) in 10 Minutes (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: De Blob Revolution, Quadra, Yelp, Designspiration, EndoMondo Sports Tracker (Laura Foy)
• Special 48-Hour Offer: Free ASP.NET MVC 3 Video Training (Scott Guthrie)

Community / Events

• Boston Area SharePoint Users Group meeting… I’ll be there! (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Visual Studio Is Hiring! (Sean Laberee)
• ImagineCup – Upcoming live sessions (Dennis Delimarsky)

Database

• SQL SERVER – PAGEIOLATCH_DT, PAGEIOLATCH_EX, PAGEIOLATCH_KP, PAGEIOLATCH_SH, PAGEIOLATCH_UP – Wait Type – Day 9 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server:Export query results to CSV (Raghav Khunger)
• Importance of network latency when using database mirroring (Paul S. Randal)
• T-SQL Tuesday#15 – Automation with PowerShell (Replace with RegEx) (Ted Krueger)
• How To Unpivot (and pivot) Like a Boss (thirster42)

SharePoint

• Minimizing the page weight in anonymous SharePoint 2010 Publishing Sites (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint: Writing a Custom Event Receiver (Sumit Maitra)
• Error: “The sandboxed code execution request was refused because the Sandboxed Code Host Service was too busy to handle the request” (Ricky Kirkham)

Miscellaneous

• Loving Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 (Don Burnett)
• What are a nice bunch of Microsoft Web services guys doing in Xbox land? and At last, it’s Windows 7 SP1, Server 2008 R2 day (Mary Jo Foley)
• Pass Results from One PowerShell Script To Another (Steve Smith)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 8, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 02.01 ~ 02.09 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #788 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #140 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 181 (Rhonda Tipton)
• WebDev Tweets 8-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily News Digest 02/09/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 8 February 2011 – #24 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 8th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell

Top Links

• On Reflector (Miguel de Icaza)
• Windows Azure Software Development Kit (SDK) Refresh Released (Windows Azure Team)
• Physical Wall Boards are King for Agile – Keep it Simple (Peter Saddington)
• If Writing An Object That Is IDisposable, Don’t Fail During Construction (Steve Smith)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Few Tips on Customizing Debugging Window View in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Changing the Desktop Wallpaper (Richard Carr)
• Conway’s Game of Life with F# and SDL.NET (Scott Philip Brown)
• How to Intercept a WCF Message to track message size (Derik Whittaker)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Useful But Overlooked Sets (James Michael Hare)
• Getting the "windows azure web role entry point has stopped working" when using Visual Studio 2010 and the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio (Jon Flanders)
• Do you know about the Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Guidance? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• AsmSpy: A little tool to help fix assembly version conflicts (Mike Hadlow)
• Middleware in the WCF Web APIs (Ryan Riley)
• How to view the XAML Code on the Intellisense popup in Visual Studio 2010 ? (Senthil Kumar)
• Helpful DateTime extension methods for dealing with Time Zones (Joshua Flanagan)
• Coding Helpers – Move to Region (Alex Skorkin)
• Creating Console apps that use the Server Profile (David Ebbo)
• System.Object : a look on mother of all managed classes (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• How to get list of all active HttpModules in ASP.NET? (Abhijit Jana)
• Curiosities in Microsoft.Web.Helpers: Video.Flash and Analytics.GetGoogleHtml and JSON Deserialization Made Simple With System.Web.Helpers and List (Karsten Januszewski)
• MVC Tip – An easy way to deal with those NotFound Errors (Mike Ceranski)
• An Open Letter To jQuery Plugin Authors (Richard Freedman)
• MvcSiteMapProvider 3.0.0 released (Maarten Balliauw)
• WebSharper 2.1 Beta 5 available (Adam Granicz)
• New York City Touts Its API on Subway Advertisements (Adam DuVander)
• JSON Toolkit – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 9: Optimistic Concurrency Patterns (Arthur Vickers)
• ‘Why’ often unhelpful (Mark Needham)
• Frustrating automation investigations (John Guin)
• Hex values for Crayola colors (Cory Doctorow)
• Things That Work: Download to Paper (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Animations — Alternatives, Performance (Jan Slodicka)
• A Pivot-Style Data Grid without the DataGrid (Jeremy Likness)
• Google Maps for Windows Phone 7 using Bing Map Control (Naveed Tejani)
• Animated WPF Panels (Fredrik Bornander)
• Blend Bits 21–Importing from Photoshop & Illustrator… (Mike Taulty)
• New book: Microsoft Silverlight Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 and New book: Microsoft XNA Framework Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 (Devon Musgrave)
• Silverlight Spy 4 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Some Useful WP7 Content for your Toolbag (Mike Ormond)
• Changing the border for a DatePicker control on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ListPicker FullScreen mode Background problem: workaround (Windows Phone Geek)
• Microsoft will release new WP7 developer tools, including CDMA updates (Phone Arena)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• John Platt: Introduction to Sho – A Playground for Data (Charles Torre)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Phil Haack, Ted Neward, Two Friends and Qdoba (Scott Hanselman)
• Let’s Play TDD #83: Parsing and Formatting (James Shore)
• Silverlight TV 60: Checking Out the Zero Gravity Game, Now on Windows Phone 7 (John Papa)
• WCF RIA Services Webinar – Querying and Updating Data (Brian Noyes)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #23 with guest Eric Kepes (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• Nerd Nite, February 10, 2011 (Philly Nerd Nite)
• Kathleen Dollard in Vermont and New Hampshire (Jim O’Neil)
• Join Us for WebCamps – Free Web Developer Training – Around the World (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• What is SQL Server Crescent? (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks and sys.dm_exec_requests – Wait Type – Day 4 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Prompts for Reporting Services (Chris Webb)

SharePoint

• Working with SharePoint 2010 Themes (Anweshi Deverasetty)

Miscellaneous

• How to Write Without Writing (Jeff Atwood)
• If Reflector needed money so badly, why didn’t they ask? (Joe White)
• Red Gate should have said… (Keith Dahlby)
• Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ Release Candidate (minus Drive Extender) goes to testers and What does it mean to be a Microsoft beta tester any more? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Ultimate PC, 5 months in (Pete Brown)
• Is Microsoft going to sell their own tablet? [VIDEO] (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 3th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 3 February 2011 – #19 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Morning Brew #785 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 02/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 3-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Distributed Weekly 88 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft XNA Framework Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold

Top Links

• Sketchflow To Final (Michael Washington)
• ConcurrentDictionary used with Lazy (Reed Copsey)
• CLR 4 Does Not Use LoadLibrary to Load Assemblies (Sasha Goldshtein)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learn WCF RIA Service Part #1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Monads in C#-5. Maybe (Mike Hadlow)
• Internals of Extension Methods (Abhishek Sur)
• Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 2 (Shai Raiten)
• Developing Snowfight – Basic particle engine (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Code Providers – Seal Class (Alex Skorkin)
• The Basics of EF Validation: IDataErrorInfo (Chris Sells)
• Asynchronous Programming Now and in the Future (Jason Rainwater)
• EasyHttp (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• EF Concurrency Mode Fixed + MVC (Chris Sells)
• Building a Self Updating Site Using NuGet (Phil Haack)
• Expression Web 4 SuperPreview – A closer look (Minal Agarwal)
• How to update controls which are outside of updatepanel during partial page rendering? (Abhijit Jana)
• Setting the Initial Sort Order – Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The art of Unit Testing with Examples in .NET (Denis Gladkikh)
• The passionate programmer (Code Inside Team)
• Testing: Behaviour-Driven Development with F# (Flying Frog)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Automapper and Silverlight 4? Yes Please! (Dave Swersky)
• Building a Silverlight LOB Application and Building a Multi-Page Silverlight LOB Application and Theming a Silverlight Application using Existing Themes and Theming a Silverlight Application using Custom Themes (Deborah Kurata)
• WP7 Saving to Media Library (Daniel Egan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 136 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jim Christopher on StudioShell and a Goodbye to Andy (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Engadget Podcast 229 – 01.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• CodeMash v2.0.1.1 (Chris Smith)
• Alt.Next (Ian Cooper)
• CodeMash Day 2 (Bill Wagner)
• A Train of Thought – Wrapping up CodeMash 2011 (Jeremy Miller)
• One Million Developers, Designers on Silverlight (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• Using SQL Server Profiler with EF (Chris Sells)
• Data Compression in SQL Server 2008 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Every Which Way Outputs (15/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper Download – Using Star Join and Few-Outer-Row Optimizations to Improve Data Warehousing Queries (Pinal Dave)
• Adventures in query tuning: non-seekable WHERE clause expressions (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Creative Commons Data Dump Jan ’11 (Jeff Atwood)
• My bookkeeping post for 2011 (Jeremy Miller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the week #137 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2011 — #1028 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed

Top Links

• Thoughts on WebMatrix (Rob Conery)
• Monads in C#-4. Linq loves Monads! (Mike Hadlow)
• Announcing release of ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrix (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, IIS Express and Orchard released – The Microsoft January Web Release in Context (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Variables and Function in F# (Dhananjay Kumar)
• SharpDevelop 4.0 Final (Christoph Wille)
• So you want to get that TFS-powered project from CodePlex… (Dennis Delimarsky)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Constraining Generics with Where Clause (James Michael Hare)
• Query to find methods with parameters having default values (Jason Haley)
• Fast String Sort in C# and F# (Stefan Savev)
• Customize the Debugging Windows : Change Debugging Window View as per your requirements (Abhijit Jana)
• Hey .NET Developers! Its Christmas All Over Again! (Mike Ceranski)
• Not as easy as it looks (Eric Lippert)
• Mono Releases Mono Packager for Mac (James Vastbinder)
• Phonetic String Comparison with Soundex (Jonathan Wood)
• Your Own Sandbox (Miguel de Icaza)
• UppercuT v1.0 and 1.1–Linux (Mono), Multi-targeting, SemVer, Nitriq and Obfuscation, oh my! (Rob Reynolds)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0: Learn Programming Now! (Valerie Woolley)

Web Development

• When we can use HttpContext.Current.Items to stores data in ASP.NET? (Abhijit Jana)
• MVC Music Store v2.0 (CodePlex)
• WebMatrix, Razor, MVC3 and Orchard Release Today! (Chris Koenig)
• Creating a Code 39 Barcode using HTML, CSS and Javascript (Connect Code)
• Book Review – HTML5: Up and Running (Gil Fink)
• WebMatrix and Web Deploy v2.0 (MS Downloads)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 and NuGet 1.0 Released (Including Source Code!) (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Razor Syntax – RenderBody, RenderPage and RenderSection (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Unobtrusive jQuery and HTML 5 MSDN Flash Article (Simon Ince)
• Scaffold your ASP.NET MVC 3 project with the MvcScaffolding package and MvcScaffolding: Standard Usage (Steve Sanderson)
• Table footer statistics for YUI 2 DataTable (Matt Parker)
• Gritty Technical Info on Windows Azure Web Roles (Part I) (Adron Hall)
• Orchard 1.0 – We’re ready for production ! (Joe Stagner)
• Getting Started with WebMatrix (Wes Yanaga)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mocks, Stubs and Unreadable Tests: Clearly I’m Doing This Wrong (Derick Bailey)
• Back to Basics: Unit Testing, Automated Blackbox Testing, and Conclusions! (John Sonmez)
• Challenges in Agile Adoption: Distributed Teams and Getting Left Behind (Mitch Pronschinske)
• How Developers Should ‘Read’ Exceptions (Davy Brion)
• Stardate 2011.14.1: Friday’s Book (Kyle Szklenski)
• The Product Owner and Governance? and The Adoption Side of the Story (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Keeping The Crowds Out For The First Couple Of Sprints. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Posting A Photo From Windows Phone 7 To A Web Service (Chris Love)
• 6 of 10 – Embedding web content should be done with extreme caution. (Alfred Astort)
• There’s a blob on your web page – but don’t wipe it off [New Delay.Web.Helpers assembly brings easy Amazon S3 blob access to ASP.NET web sites!] (David Anson)
• How to change the StartPage of the Windows Phone 7 Application in Visual Studio 2010? (isenthil)
• Silverlight TV 57: Performance Tuning Your Apps (John Papa)
• Kinect hand tracking with WPF 4 and Bing Maps 3-D (Josh Blake)
• Windows Phone 7 App Submission Checklist (Matthias Shapiro)
• Silverlight 4 receives InfoWorld’s 2011 Technology of the Year Award (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• On WebMatrix with Rob Conery (Scott Hanselman)
• New Home Page, Smooth Streaming added to Channel 9 today (Cara, Duncan Mackenzie & Geoffrey)
• E2E: Herb Sutter and Erik Meijer – Perspectives on C++ (Charles Torre)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 384: CES, Cruises, Ducks, M&M’s and Eminem (Larry Hyrb)
• Excel 25th Anniversary – Part Two (Tina Wood)
• The One Thing: Paul Swider and SharePoint 2010 (Paul J. Swider)
• CodeMash 2011 – WebMatrix Launch Keynote (James Senior & Nic Fillingham)
• Cloud Cover – Hard Hat Edition (Wade Wegner)
• The Office Show – Social Networking with Office (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone 7 and XBox 360 Game Camps in NY (Bob Familiar)
• Online YUI 3 Introductory Course Fri, Jan 21st (Luke Smith)
• Speaking at DC .NET on Jan 18th (Kevin Griffin)
• Last Call for Speakers 24 Hours of PASS (Jason Strate)
• CodeMash Day 0: Craft, Podcasts, music and games (Bill Wagner)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Create XML Document (13/31) and 31 Days of SSIS – Instant Excel Spreadsheet (14/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Quick Look at SQL Server Configuration for Performance Indications (Pinal Dave)
• Removing Time From A Datetime Value (Joe Webb)
• Identity Columns: Are You Nearing The Limits? (Michelle Ufford)

SharePoint

• How to pass InitParams to Silverlight Application which is hosted as SharePoint 2010 web parts? (Abhijit Jana)
• Using the Dialog Platform (Dallas Tester)

Miscellaneous

• Ballmer, Microsoft and the future (Todd Bishop)
• Steve Ballmer finally shows who’s in charge of Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
• The Amazing Life Of Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• It’s Official: 2010 the Biggest Year in Xbox History (Microsoft Blog Admin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2011 and Interesting Finds: January 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 85 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2011 — #1026 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #770 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 01/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford

Top Links

• ReSharper 5.1.2 Release Candidate (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Using Sterling in Windows Phone 7 Applications (Jeremy Likness)
• Taking a screenshot from within a Silverlight #WP7 application (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Phone Marketplace reaches 5,000 apps (Kip Kniskern)

.NET / Visual Studio

• What’s up with repositories? Basics. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• “Azure Blob Studio 2011” A standalone utility and/or Visual Studio 2010 extension for Azure blob management (with VB source too) and “Team for Word” hooks Word to Team Foundation Server for free (source available too, GPLv2) (Greg Duncan)
• DXCore plug-in Option Pages overview (Alex Skorkin)
• Server Explorer: Data Connections (Zain Naboulsi)
• Azure@home Part 13: Remote Desktop Configuration (Jim O’Neil)
• Converting Numbers to Words (Jonathan Wood)

Web Development

• Using COM Objects from ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• HTML5 Labs Launched and WebSocket Update (James Vastbinder)
• Convert ASP.NET DropDownList into Multi Select ListBox using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Reuse your closures with functors (Giorgio Sironi)
• Ext JS In Action (Ed Rought)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum Teams and a ScrumMaster’s Patience and [Agile Guide] – Story Mapping for Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Delegated Setup (Giorgio Sironi)
• Use Downtime Projects to Recharge, Try New Work Habits (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Getting the Customer Involved (Vikas Hazrati)
• How To: Fake an Abstract Class with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• My, How the Times Are a Changin’ (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Best Practices in Enterprise and Applications Architecture (Mike Walker)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• My “What’s new in Silverlight 4 demo” app (Andrej Tozon)
• WPF Tutorial (Abhishek Sur)
• Consistency from WPF and GDI+ in creating images from stream (Gian Maria Ricci)
• WPF Twitter client with Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern step by step (Kirill Lykov)
• Making a generic UpdateSourceTrigger for PropertyChanged in Silverlight (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight 4 Unleashed (Michael Crump)
• An RSS Reader For All Screens – Sharing your View Model and Code between Windows Phone 7, Silverlight, WPF, Surface (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Project templates for F# games on Windows Phone 7 using XNA (Joh)
• Silverlight: Reading from a File Contained in your XAP (Mike Snow)
• What I Learned In WP7 – #Issue 11 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Updated SMF Thumbnail Scrubbing Sample Code (Michael S. Scherotter)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #72: Starting to Look Like a Real Application (James Shore)
• Fantastic video on Software Engineering (Kris Gray)
• Bytes by MSDN: Dr. Ivan Sanabria and Tim Huckaby – Migrating VB6 apps to C# or .NET (MS Podcasts)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Meet Up – Tempe, AZ (Brian Seitz)

Database

• SSIS Multiple File Export (Jason Brimhall)
• SSMS Tools Pack 1.9.4 is out! Now with SQL Server 2011 (Denali) CTP1 support. (Mladen Prajdić)
• Filtered Index Vs. Indexed Views in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Running older compatibility levels in newer versions and Policy-Based Management for SQL Agent History (Ted Krueger)
• SSAS Understanding Multiple Security Roles (Devin Knight)
• Can You Dig It? – StmtCursor and StmtReceive Elements (Jason Strate)
• T-SQL: CASE Statement and RTFM365, Week 3 (Jen McCown)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Secure Store Service and Oracle (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Lifehacker Pack for Windows Phone 7: Our List of the Best WP7 Apps (Kevin Purdy)
• Baking Social Into the Experience (Steve Clayton)
• Application to install on a new development machine–revisited (Dror Helper)
• Seasons gifts from the MonoTouch (iPhone) treasure chest. Background (GPS) tasks and UIControl (Peter van Ooijen)
• Reviewing a Decade of Digital Life – The size and the direction of personal media (Scott Hanselman)
• Hurry Up Microsoft, It’s Make or Break Time For The Zune (Steven Hodson)
• 4 Reasons Why Virtual Router is Superior to Connectify (Chris Pietschmann)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 29 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #759 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/29/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for December 27, 2010 — #1016 and SilverlightShow for 20-26 Dec 2010 and Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2010 — #1017 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Silverlight 4 Unleashed by Laurent Bugnion

Top Links

• Architecture by Baseball: Conference on the mound (Larry Clarkin)
• StarFight (Paul Stovell)
• Making a generic UpdateSourceTrigger for PropertyChanged in Silverlight (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Remove and Sort – Namespaces using Shortcut in Visual Studio (Jonathan Wood)
• DXCore Services – LinkedIdentifiers and Clipboard Tools – Paste Replace Word (Alex Skorkin)
• MonoDevelop is the Third IDE for F# (Jonathan Allen)
• Create Web Application or Virtual Directory in IIS (Zain Naboulsi)
• IR Black Theme For Visual Studio (Rob Conery)
• [Book Review] “Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0” by Sachin Joshi from Packt Publishing (Greg Duncan)
• Immutable Array for .NET (Luigi Grilli)
• Rocket Framework for Windows – Release: v1.0.0 and FxCop Integrator for Visual Studio 2010 – Release: v1.1.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Format JavaScript with the IE9 developer tools (Jef Claes)
• New Book: Microsoft Expression Web 4 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Reuse your closures with functors (Giorgio Sironi)
• Stream.CopyTo() extension method and ASP.NET: Serializing and deserializing JSON objects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Calling a REST Based JSON Endpoint with HTTP POST and WCF (Wally McClure)
• 10 Predictions for Web Development in 2011 (Jolie O’Dell)
• Hosting the Razor Engine for Templating in Non-Web Applications (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• [Agile Guide] – Rotating Responsibility for Scrums and Retrospectives (Peter Saddington)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Inline Setup (Giorgio Sironi)
• How To Complete Stories Without Leaving Bugs Behind (Dan Puckett)
• 10 Interface Design Tips to Improve Your Business Application (Derek Singleton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Wpf tab control when you have photoshop images and Consistency from WPF and GDI+ in creating images from stream (Al Kampfer)
• Silverlight Spy Preview 2 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Pingback : A quick comparison of getting started on Windows Phone 7 Development and Android Development (Senthil Kumar)
• Help my Slider control does not work inside a Grid in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Shaun Walker on the state of DotNetNuke (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• WP7 Minute Show Episode 4: Search (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• Agile, .NET or C++ User Groups Can Win One Year of Sponsorship + Product Licenses and More (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Marissa Mayer: Here’s What It Was Like Being The Only Female Geek At Stanford And Google (GOOG) (Jay Yarow)

Database

• Filtered Index Vs Indexed Views in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Plan Cache and Data Cache in Memory (Pinal Dave)
• If the SQL Server install fails… and the uninstall as well (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Procedure expects parameter error from SqlCommand (Ted Krueger)
• Thoughts on schemas and schema proliferation (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Get Datepart in SharePoint Designer Workflow (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

• 10 Webapps that Add Great New Features to Gmail [Productivity] (Amit Agarwal)
• Silverlight Cream Monday WP7 App Review # 1 (Dave Campbell)
• 3 tips for getting a job in the new year (Eugenia Sawa)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Classic Shell Scripting – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDSKP (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft News of Note in 2010 (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman on State of the Web, One More Link, 25 Redesigns, Content Sharing Factors, China Blue (Dave Burke)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 28 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for December 27, 2010 — #1016 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 12/28/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities by Mike Liu