Top Links
- Book Review: iOS Programming for .NET Developers (Colin Eberhardt)
- ReSharper 7 Ships with SharePoint and Lightswitch Support (James Kovacs)
- Why Would you Want to Write Applications for Windows 8 Now? (Michael Crump)
- Free Microsoft eBooks Available to Download: A Large Collection (Doris Chen)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Awesome RavenDB feature of the Day, Compression (Oren Eini)
- Accessing Field and Property Values with Reflection (Richard Carr)
- Extending WinRT: how to avoid constrains and expose C# objects hierarchy from WinMD library (Andrei Marukovich)
- Using AutoMapper to build base class for mappers between domain classes and models (Gunnar Peipman)
- ‘Stupid’ Question 11: Why isn’t there multiple inheritance in C#? (Iris Classon)
- A tale of equational reasoning in F# (Mauricio Scheffer)
- CSLA data portal changes in version 4.5 (Rockford Lhotka)
- Writing a Visual Studio 2012 Unit Test Adapter (Mathew Aniyan)
- Windows 8 Metro: Add settings to your application (Andrea Boschin)
- Entity Framework Schema Translations (Juri Strumpflohner)
- Developer promotion network AdDuplex now available for Windows 8 (Rich Edmonds)
Web Development
- Dynamically Generate Form with jQuery and ASP.NET MVC (Deran Schilling)
- Don’t Forget the CDN (Mark Berryman)
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0 Early Access Program started (Alexey Gopachenko)
- Predict the future with Google Prediction API (Ajay Ohri)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Continuous Feedback in Agile Teams (Anand Vishwanath)
- Becoming an Agile Coach – 5 Tips for Agile Workshops and Communication (Peter Saddington)
- Mini book: The 3 Pillars of Personal Effectiveness (Troels Richter)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Beautiful Security – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
- Focus On What To Leave Out (Rick Austin)
- Embrace the Effort and Expand What You’re Capable Of and Time Management Tips # 10 – Set Limits (JD Meier)
- Generic Repositories Part Deux (Matt Hamilton)
- No More Buts (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Some valuable testing guidance (Brian Harry)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Creating Pro Live Tiles for Windows Phone and Custom Styles and Templates in Windows Phone: HyperlinkButton and Understanding Custom Styles and Templates in Windows Phone: HyperlinkButton (Windows Phone Geek)
- MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide (Kunal Chowdhury)
- 2000 WPF Things #614 – Events that Fire When You Switch Between Windows (Sean Sexton)
- Control Implicit Styles or “Where is My ComboBox.xaml” of RadControls for Silverlight and WPF (Telerik XAML Team)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Andrew Arnott Logs In with DotNetOpenAuth (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Michael Fortin: Getting More Done in Less Time | Behind The Code (Charles Torre)
- Episode 195 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jim “Beefarino” Christopher on SeeShell and PowerShell Saturday #002 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- New Windows 8 How-Do-I Videos Released (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Mash This Podcast – IFTTT with Linden Tibbets (Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Dustin Davis & Lee Dumond)
- Cory Fowler Joins Webcamps TV and Introduces the Node. js CLI Tools | Web Camps TV (Brady Gaster)
- 021 JSJ Weapons of Choice (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
- Yet Another Podcast #71–Esteban Garcia (Jesse Liberty)
- Ping 148: Speech Recognition, Microsoft Reality, Easter Egg coding, Office 13 social | Ping! (Laura Foy & Paul Mestemaker)
- Engadget Mobile Podcast 147 – 07.31.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Series Introduction – 01 | HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners (Clint Rutkas, Bob Tabor & Golnaz)
- New Screencast: Accessing the camera in a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML and JavaScript (David Isbitski)
- Bob’s back and teaching us the HTML5/CSS3 with "HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners" (Greg Duncan)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for July 30th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- I am Joining the Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Team (David Starr)
- Author news: Free webcast on debugging heap memory corruptions (Devon Musgrave)
- LightSwitch Sessions at a Variety of Upcoming Events (Beth Massi)
- Azure Bootcamp at DevLink! (Chris Koenig)
- ReSharper 7 Webinar (Hadi Hariri)
Database
- Removing the SQL Server Management Data Warehouse (Aaron Bertrand)
- Data Privacy in SQL Server based on Hippocratic Database Principles (Jasmin Azemović)
- SQL SERVER – Beginning NuoDB – Who will Benefit and How to Start (Pinal Dave)
- Database Maintenance For Non-DBAs (Shaun Stuart)
- Improve DBA Operation Productivity – Part Two (Jeffrey Yao)
- Fault-tolerance in Windows Azure SQL Database (Himanshu Singh)
SharePoint
- SharePoint 2010 Metadata-Based Navigation in Publishing Sites – Series Overview and SharePoint 2010 MetaNav – Understanding the Virtues of MetaNav in SP2010 Publishing Sites and SharePoint 2010 MetaNav – How to Implement It (Andrew Connell)
PowerShell
- Inside PowerShell 3.0: Deep into the interpreter with .NET Reflector and Visual Studio 2012 (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Windows 8: My ‘disaster’ is not their ‘catastrophe’ (Mary Jo Foley)
- From the MVPs: Canuck Kinect conundrum (Devon Musgrave)
- Office and SkyDrive for Windows (Gray Knowlton)
- Why don’t any commands work after I run my batch file? I’m told that they are not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file. (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: July 31, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2012 07.19 ~ 07.31 (yuanjian)
- Geek Reading July 30, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Daily News Digest 7/31/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-31 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #1157 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Dev News for July 30, 2012 – #0110 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily Windows Phone Development News 30 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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