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• Visual Studio 11 Programming Language Advances (Somasegar)
• Analyzing SQL Server Compact queries using Visual Studio 2010 Premium/Ultimate (Erik EJ)
• Microsoft Windows Simulator Touch Emulation (Mynor Ivan Muralles)
• The Sweet Spot of Multiple Monitor Productivity: That Magical Third Monitor (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Sizeof Keyword (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 11 ALM VM (Enrique Lima)
• Why NuGet for Visual Studio 2010 is so useful! (Harish Ranganathan)
• Code smell – LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… (Peter Gfader)
• TFS SDK Get Groups Users Permissions using TFS API with Linqpad (Tarun Arora)
• Initial Review of APress "Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming" – ISBN13: 978-1-4302-3530-9 (Tatworth)
• 3 Tips to Improve Your Connection Strings and Working with Lazy Loading in Entity Framework Code First (Steve Smith)
• Metro Controls – Jump Viewer (Rich Griffin)
• CTP Version of The Developers Guide to AppFabric (Alan Smith)
• Moving to Azure: The Plan and Start and Moving to Azure: The Database (Michael C. Neel)
• Parsing Concerns–Part 2 (Jesse Taber)
• Check Windows Azure Roles instance running in Emulator? and .NET 4 for Enterprise Architects and Developers by Sudhanshu Hate (Dhananjay Kumar)
• MSDN Magazine Article: Authoring an F#/C# VSIX Project Template (Daniel Mohl)

Web Development

• MVC 3 HandleError Attribute and AJAX Forms (Jimmy Larkin)
• Client-Side Hierarchical DataBinding to OData with RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX (Veli Pehlivanov)
• Getting started with Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview with ASP.NET MVC4 (Bart Czernicki)
• New F#/C# ASP.NET MVC 3 Template (Daniel Mohl)
• Json.NET 4.0 Release 3 (CodePlex)
• JavaScript Has Built-In Mix-ins With ‘apply’ Or ‘call’ (Derick Bailey)
• HTML5 Dev Conference Presentation: Dive into HTML5: SVG and Canvas (Doris Chen)
• Keep your layouts DRY with Rails and jQuery Mobile (Jacob Orshalick)
• First Review of ASP. NET MVC 4.0 Developer Preview (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Ninjecting MVC3 (Jef Claes)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Subclass with Fields (Giorgio Sironi)
• HTML For Babies: Give Your Toddler A Head Start (Richard Darell)
• JavaScript Reference group Dedicated Worker (Xinyang Qiu)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Planning and Managing Drupal Projects – $6.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• WebStorm/PhpStorm – New in 3.0: Xdebug profiler integration (Nikolay Matveev)
• What I learned from transferring my blog from WordPress to Orchard (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MiniTest::Spec setup with Capybara in Rails 3.1 (Jared Ning)
• New SPL Features in PHP 5.3 (Matthew Turland)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Retrospectives – A picture is worth a thousand words (Jag Reehal)
• Are Scrum Masters agents for change? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why you should be using CQRS almost everywhere… (Udi Dahan)
• Three reasons not to have your own private office and Ten Things Distributed Team Leaders Should Do (Roy Osherove)
• The Specialist (Rob Conery)
• Three Virtual Sticky Note Boards, all free (mostly) (Greg Duncan)
• Master of your domain (Eric Brechner)
• Sharpening the sword (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• A post about software craftmanship (stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before) (Christian Jacobsen)
• The Competition-Innovation Relationship We All Benefit From (Davy Brion)
• Creative Design Process (Stuart Mayhew)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• System Tray ProgressIndicator in Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Expression Blend 4 does not start after installing the NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview (Rich Griffin)
• 2000 WPF Things #399 – WrapPanel Will Change Layout of its Children as its Size Changes (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Online Conference–Beyond the tools (Andrew Spooner)
• Detecting if Zune is Connected From Your NoDo/Mango App and The Fastest Way to Switch Free/Paid and NoDo/Mango App Build in Visual Studio (Nokola)
• Expression Design September 2011 Preview now available (Pam Keesey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 176: Kevin Griffin on jQuery Mobile (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 036 – “Champagne and Mango” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 413: Gears Horde Mode tips, Spider-Man: Edge Of Time and NBA 2K12 (Larry Hyrb)
• Cloud Cover Episode 60 – Introducing the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
• Engadget Podcast 258 – 09.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Phone Radio 44 (Brian Seitz)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 24 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Weekly 228: The Train Dance (Paul Thurrott)
• This is my next Podcast 026 – 10.02.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 7: Web Standards in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• TWC9 September 30th 2011 (Clint Rutkas, Duncan Mackenzie & Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for September 12th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Speaking at DevReach 2011 (Steve Smith)
• Congratulations New and Re-Awarded MVP Awardees! (MVP Award Program)
• YUIConf 2011 Early Bird Registration Is Now Open (Jenny Donnelly)

Database

• SSIS Variable and Expressions Followup (Bradley Schacht)
• SQL SERVER – CE – Samples Database for SQL CE 4.0 and SQL SERVER – CE – List of Information_Schema System Tables and SQL SERVER – SQL Backup and FTP – A Quick and Handy Tool (Pinal Dave)
• Troubleshooting SQL Server: A guide for the Accidental DBA and SQL Server Deep Dives Volume 2 (Ted Krueger)
• How to find out which Table is not having rows in SQL Server? (Vinay Pugalia)
• Dataset with Text or Stored Procedure (Brian McDonald)
• Sneak peek at the new RavenDB Studio (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• What’s wrong with Microsoft ? (Joe Stagner)
• Practical Foundations for Programming Languages [Working Draft] free eBook – Think "586 pages of if I wanted to create a programming language I’d want to read this book…" or "It’s making my brain hurt… ouch.. ouCH… OUCH!" (Greg Duncan)
• The Weaknesses of Training Strategies for Programmers (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Sources of Insight is Available on the Kindle (JD Meier)
• I’m giving up Google Chromebook (Joe Wilcox)
• Microsoft’s deals with Nokia and Skype: are we waiting for Godot? (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Makes A Movie (Miguel Carrasco)
• Three Great Books for Lego Robotics and general Lego Motion Builders (Pete Brown)
• Paint.NET v3.5.9 is now available and A small bug in Paint.NET v3.5.9 with Ctrl+0 (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 1, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 1 , 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – October 2 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 25-September-2011 to 01-October-2011 and Monthly Summary – September 2011 – 26 Posts You May Want to Read (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Geek Reading September 30, 2011 and Geek Reading October 1, 2011 and Geek Reading October 2, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (September 30, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #950 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/30/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Retrospective 52 – Art of #Agile and Developer Mythbusters (Peter Saddington)
• Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2011 — #1153 and Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2011 – 2 — #1154 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #721 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 30th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Roger Jennings