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Top Links
- Spark View Engine – Release v1.5 (CodePlex) – With MVC3 support.
 - jQuery 1.5 Released (John Resig)
 - Beware “the Meeting Guy” (Jim Holmes)
 - Easier Debugging with ReSharper and the Clipboard (James Kovacs)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- LINQ to RSS (Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya)
 - Controlling XML Serialization of Attributes (Richard Carr)
 - Customizable Output Directories for TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
 - New book: Programming Microsoft LINQ in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
 - Reactive FlickR Searching… (Mike Taulty)
 - Incorrect C++ compiler behavior in Visual Studio (Umair Saeed)
 - Accessing the Toolbars Using the Keyboard (Zain Naboulsi)
 - Hide Methods from debugger Using DebuggerHidden attribute (Abhijit Jana)
 - Now Available: January Update for The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (Windows Azure Team)
 - 7 Days Left to Submit XNA GS 3.1 Games on App Hub (XNA Game Studio Team)
 - Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 6: Loading Related Entities (Arthur Vickers)
 - Looking at the code for the sort pages powertoy (John Guin)
 
Web Development
- Elegant Image Mouse-Overs with jQuery (Joe Stagner)
 - HTML5 and CSS3 for Web Designers (Joey deVilla)
 - Where has XHTML gone? (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Select a textbox’s text on focus using jQuery (Scott Mitchell)
 - Mvc Controls Toolkit – Release v0.8 (CodePlex)
 - ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framewok on NuGet (Maarten Balliauw)
 - Simple Offline Application (Remy Sharp)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Three simple Mercurial rules (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Should the Product Owner Also Be the ScrumMaster? (Dan Puckett)
 - Agile Chronicles #1: Stressful (Jesse Warden)
 - [Tool Review] – Scrumy – Lightweight Scrum and Kanban (Peter Saddington)
 - xUnit.net – Release v1.7 (CodePlex)
 - Tales from QA: The “Re-Design” of the Dialog Box (Hadi Hariri)
 - Cycle time—the soothsayer of productivity (Eric Brechner)
 - HowTo: TeamCity & CodeCoverage with dotCover (Code Inside Team)
 - Book review: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Gunnar Peipman)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Image Button and All about Dependency Properties in Silverlight for WP7 and WP7 Dynamically Generating DataTemplate in code (Windows Phone Geek)
 - 8 of 10 – Understanding Pivots and Panoramic view controls (Alfred Astort)
 - Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight + WPF) (Colin Eberhardt)
 - Silverlight Tutorials: Silverlight Basic – SpinningCube (Einar Ingebrigtsen)
 - Silverlight and Prism: Communication between two Views of the same Module using IEventAggregator (Mahesh Sabnis)
 - Review of ComponentOne Silverlight Controls (Free License Giveaway). (Michael Crump)
 - Expression Encoder 4 with GPU acceleration (Silverlight Team)
 - OData and Windows Phone 7 Part 2 (Mike Ormond)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Grant Skinner Develops Apps in HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Episode 138 – PowerScripting Podcast – Parind Shah from EqualLogic (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
 - Spaghetti Code Podcast – January 2011 (Jeff Brand)
 - Ping 90: Microsoft Flash Mob, Swag for Jailbreaker, Quarterback Histories on Bing, Karaoke! (Laura Foy)
 - Talking Shop Down Under Episode 43 – Cows in the Dark, Functional Programming and MMO design (Richard Banks)
 - Pluralcast 35 : Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4 (David Starr)
 - Windows Phone 7 – Episode 3 – The Emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
 
Community / Events
- 24 Hours of PASS Sessions Announced (Jason Strate)
 - East coast MVPs, we need your help at the west coast SQL Saturday’s. (Denny Cherry)
 - People of Egypt We Hear You (Joel Oleson)
 - Microsoft Partners in Learning 2011 Innovative Education Forum (Don Burnett)
 - Art of Agile Training Returns February 28th (James Shore)
 - Announcing UI-Binders (Ariel Ben Horesh)
 
Database
- Merge Join component sorted outputs [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
 - 31 Days of SSIS – SSIS Naming Conventions (31/31) (Jason Strate)
 - SQL SERVER – Introduction to Wait Stats and Wait Types – Wait Type – Day 1 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
 - #Ebook Deal/Day: Scaling MongoDB – $8.49 (Save 50%) Code DDMNG (O’Reilly Media)
 - Importance of monitoring a database mirroring session (Paul S. Randal)
 - Amazon Will Offer Oracle Database 11g on RDS (Abel Avram)
 
SharePoint
- RTM’d Today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Step by Step (rcaper1)
 - Applying Quotas Across all My Sites (Bil Simser)
 
Miscellaneous
- VDI and PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
 - Powershell to Automate SQL Compare (Grant Fritchey)
 - Free Kindle Book of the Day “Beer is Proof God Loves Us: Reaching for the Soul of Beer and Brewing” (limited time offer) (Greg Duncan)
 - Google Docs update brings Collections, Priority Sort, and file previews (Lee Mathews)
 - MVPs for Office 365: Getting Ready for Office 365 (Lonnie Webb)
 - Windows Home Server Update Released (KB981089) (Richard Hay)
 - Internet Explorer 9 Reaches 23 Million Downloads and 1.82% Share on Windows 7 (Roger Capriotti)
 - Confessions now in Paperback (Scott Berkun)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Interesting .NET Links – January 31, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
 - Weekly Link Post 180 (Rhonda Tipton)
 - Windows Client Developer Roundup 057 for 1/31/2011 (Pete Brown)
 - Daily News Digest 02/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 - The Morning Brew #782 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily WP7 Development News Jan 31th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 31 January 2011 – #16 (Kunal Chowdhury)
 
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