Top Links
- Inside the C++/CX Design (Jim Springfield)
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 - F# String extension methods rather than using RegEx (Carl Nolan)
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.NET / Visual Studio
- Dynamic resolution rules joy (Oren Eini)
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 - Regular Expressions with Timeout in .NET 4.5 (Abhishek Sur)
 - More on Metro (Dennis Vroegop)
 - Exploring NuGet (Tim Murphy)
 - Some non-generic collections (Simon Cooper)
 
Web Development
- Adding data to jQuery UI autocomplete (John Whish)
 - You have blank page when you run an asp.net mvc site in Azure Compute emulator (Nicolas Humann)
 - Coordinating multiple ajax requests with jquery.when (Joshua Flanagan)
 - ASP.NET vNext (Nigel Parker)
 - Backbone Events and Aggregator Update (Michael Nichols)
 - #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming Amazon EC2 – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
 - Questions About the Cloud? Learn from Windows Azure Partners And Accelerate Your Move to the Cloud (Himanshu Singh)
 - Connect Your Web Site to Your Windows 8 App (Rahul Lalmalani)
 - Mobile Development: Detecting Devices & Features (Christopher Bennage)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Scrum basics: Retrospectives (John Rayner)
 - Getting stuck and agile software teams (Mark Needham)
 - Stop Thinking During Refactoring (Vikas Hazrati)
 - Balsamiq Release: Custom Icons! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
 - Test Studio’s R2 Release: Simplifying the Complex (Jim Holmes)
 - Subversion 1.7 and the new workspace (Gian Maria Ricci)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Code to Search in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - 2000 WPF Things #413 – Creating a Grid from the Visual Studio Designer (Sean Sexton)
 - Dropbox for Windows Phone – DropboxClient rel.2 and Windows Phone 7 Skydrive Library – Skydrive WP7 rel. 1 (CodePlex)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Coding QA Episode 67 – Learning From Experience (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
 - Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Patrick Elmore Interview (Ryan Parsley)
 - Ping 121: Kinect award, Bing Halloween, Hadoop, Windows 8 changes (Laura Foy)
 - Keyvan.TV Episode 8: Code Bubbles (Keyvan Nayyeri)
 
Community / Events
- MicroChef creates culinary classics for a cause (Thomas Kohnstamm)
 - I’m speaking at CodeMash in 2012 (Bill Wagner)
 - Training on MonoTouch for the iPhone and Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
 - RavenDB Course, January 2012, Sandusky, OH (Oren Eini)
 - Spend the night with Windows Phone (Brian Seitz)
 - Git and GitHub Revised Course (Satish Talim)
 - MVPs Provide Great Advice During MVP Twitter Chat (MVP Award Program)
 - MS Dev WNY – Buffalo Area Developers Group Kicks Off! (Jim O’Neil)
 - Ten reasons to attend Web & Phone UX Tour on November 3rd (Katrien de Graeve)
 
Database
- Using SQL Server to Get the Column Names and Corresponding Datatypes in Particular Table (Christian D. Yellington)
 - Setting up SSIS Auditing Part 2 (Mike Davis)
 - SQL Server: LPAD and RPAD functions equivalent (Madhivanan)
 - SQL SERVER – DATEDIFF – Accuracy of Various Dateparts (Pinal Dave)
 - Finding orphaned database users (Arthur Olcot)
 - Self-service ETL with Data Explorer (Chris Webb)
 - sp_configure OR sys.configurations? and do you back these up? (Martin Catherall)
 
SharePoint
- Announcing NetAdvantage for SharePoint (Jason Beres)
 
Miscellaneous
- A deeper dive into Windows 8: can Microsoft’s big bet pay off? (Ed Bott)
 - Introducing the [Your App Here] Advertising Campaign (JC Cimetiere)
 - 7 tips for people new to presenting at technical conferences (Mark Pearl)
 - Paint.NET 4.0 “fine grained history” and other stuff (Rick Brewster)
 - The Walking Dead – IT Pro style. (Scott Barnes)
 - New Public APIs in ICS (Tim Bray)
 - Open Letter To Whoever Designed the Turn-By-Turn Feature for Windows Phone (Kevin Griffin)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Geek Reading October 20, 2011 (Rob Diana)
 - Double Shot #735 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily News Digest 10/20/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 - Web Dev Tweets 19-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
 - ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/20/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
 - The Morning Brew #964 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 20 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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