Top Links
- CLR Stack Explorer – Preview and Manual Stack Walking (Sasha Goldshtein)
 - LINQ Pad vs. Visual Studio for Learning LINQ (Jesse Liberty)
 - My Next Book: Silverlight 5 in Action 50% off for a limited time (Pete Brown)
 - Strings, immutability and persistence (Eric Lippert)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Creating a simple bootstrapper – Project template (Rory Primrose)
 - Installing Visual Studio Load Test Agents and Controllers (Steve Smith)
 - Opening the Internet Settings Dialog and using Windows Default Network Settings via Code (Rick Strahl)
 - Should my database calls be Asynchronous Part II (Rick Anderson)
 - Macto: Let’s CREATE an Inmate (Oren Eini)
 - How To Use a .NET 4 Based DLL From .NET 2 Based Application? (Arik Poznanski)
 - Display Kinect color image containing only players (aka background removal) (Greg Duncan)
 
Web Development
- ASP.NET MVC Model Binders (Gil Fink)
 - Create An HTML/CSS Mobile Web App Using Sencha Touch (Jen Gordon)
 - What new feature in PHP 5.4 is the most important to you? (Giorgio Sironi)
 - JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Part 2 – Madness or just Insanity? (Scott Hanselman)
 - CoffeeScript in Visual Studio 2010 with Web Workbench (David Hayden)
 - WordPress.com Provides Pinning to 20 Million Bloggers! (Roger Capriotti)
 - Razor Helpers Syntax (Gil Fink)
 - Implementing Master and Detail grids in Wijmo (Kevin Griffin)
 - First Steps With MongoDB, Mongoose and Jasmine-Node On Node.JS (Davy Brion)
 - References, Routing, And The Event Aggregator: Coordinating Views In Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- CodeRush Unit Testing Service overview (Alex Skorkin)
 - An Agile Approach to Building a Mac Application (Scott Densmore)
 - RoR Testing – One Thing To Do (I think) And One Thing Not To Do (I’m Sure) (Karl Seguin)
 - Are PMs worth more than game designers? (Scott Berkun)
 - Individuals Over People and The High-Level Test Whisperer (Jay Fields)
 - Misconceptions about Self-Organizing Teams (Esther Derby)
 - Continuous Delivery in Practice (James Betteley)
 - What would you give up to keep working remotely? (Jessica Stillman)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): [Table] attribute (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Using Isolated Storage to save/load files on Windows Phone 7 (David Amador)
 - Code sample to access SkyDrive Photos API from WP7 (or any REST/OAuth/JSON enabled device/OS) (Greg Duncan)
 - Presentation: Silverlight 5 for Line of Business Applications (Jeremy Likness)
 - Windows Phone 7 users sure are satisfied (Joe Wilcox)
 - The extent of ringtone integration in Windows Phone SDK 7.1 (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - “Hacking” through Prism regions (or when to cross the lines with Prism) (Ariel Ben Horesh)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Let’s Play TDD #124: Constraints (James Shore)
 - Video–Ed Jezierski on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
 - Ping 109: Microsoft Stores, Halo & Kinect, XP Countdown, Windows 8, Mango (Laura Foy)
 - The Office Show: Office 365 – Part Two (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
 
Community / Events
- Team Wins Imagine Cup 2011 in Software Design For Traffic Solution Built on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
 - RavenDB & NHibernate Training – August 15 – 16, Chattanooga, TN (Oren Eini)
 - MADExpo Additional Thanks (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - PowerShell Deep Dive Registration Info & Call for Session Proposals (Travis Jones)
 - ReMIX South 2011 (Jason Rainwater)
 
Database
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 5 Released (Glenn Berry)
 - SQL Server Denali Installation Change (Devin Knight)
 - SQL Server: Distinct Count across Multiple Tables (Suprotim Agarwal)
 - SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 20 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
 - TRY_CONVERT in SQL Server Denali CTP3 (Denis Gobo)
 - SQL Server – Denali – Management Studio – Restore Database (Vishal)
 - Windows Azure Storage – Creating a Hierarchy View (Buck Woody)
 - Denali–IIF and CHOOSE (Dave Ballantyne)
 
SharePoint
- SharePoint Developer Documentation Feed Reader App for the Windows Phone (Jim Crowley)
 - Working with the ECMAScript Client Object Model (JSOM) in SharePoint 2010–Part 3 (Nikhil Sachdeva)
 
Miscellaneous
- New book: Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference (Devon Musgrave)
 - Microsoft opens up new Garage offices (John Callaham)
 - Random Khan Exercises (John Resig)
 - #Ebook Deal/Day: Packet Guide to Core Network Protocols – Only $7.49 w/code DDJ5N (O’Reilly Media)
 - A Cloudy Future (André Vrignaud)
 - Books I’ve Enjoyed and Recommend to You (Pete Brown)
 - The Guide to Creating Quality Technical Screencasts (Scott Hanselman)
 - Microsoft talks more about Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango” (damaster)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: July 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - The Morning Brew #898 (Chris Alcock)
 - Today’s Links (7/19/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 19 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Daily News Digest 07/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 - Daily Links 19/07/2011 (Jax)
 - Link dump for July 18th and Link dump for July 19th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
 
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