Top Links
- Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone (V1.3.1) is released (Avkash Chauhan)
 - jQuery 1.7 RC1 Released (Dave Methvin)
 - Announcing The jQuery Standards Team (Addy Osmani)
 - Using If This Then That to Automate Your Life (Steve Smith)
 - Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Syntax Rewriting with Symbol Information (Sasha Goldshtein)
 - The Windows Phone design Grid – Love it! (Arturo Toledo)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Using MongoDB with the Official C# Driver (Ercan Anlama)
 - Automatic Tag Update in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
 - C# As A Scripting Language In Your .NET Applications using Roslyn (Anoop Madhusudanan)
 - Designing Action and TryAction members (Rory Primrose)
 - Entity Framework, The Five Years Plan, And Building Software on Future Features (Oren Eini)
 - Continuation Tasks (Richard Carr)
 - OpenRA = C# Red Alert/Command and Conquer Clone (Greg Duncan)
 - C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Complete Collection (James Michael Hare)
 - OData Service Validation Tool Update: New feature and rules (Turker Keskinpala)
 - CodeRush Code Issues for interfaces (Alex Skorkin)
 - Query Methods in Roslyn Syntax API and Conditional Reading of Windows Azure BLOB (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Window Manipulation with the Microsoft Touch Mouse – Window Touch v1.0 (CodePlex)
 - APress Deal of the Day – 25/Oct/2011 – Beginning WF Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Tatworth)
 - Calculating Distance In Bing Maps (Dani Diaz)
 - Enterprise Library community extensions ported to v5, released via NuGet (Grigori Melnik)
 - .Net Framework 4.0.2 Release Information Rollup (Greg Duncan)
 - Windows 8 Development Platform Clarified and Updated Code Mastery demo (Rockford Lhotka)
 - If the shell is written in C++, why not just export its base classes? (Raymond Chen)
 - Getting Started with the .NET Gadgeteer – Part 1: Background, Setup, and Hello World (Pete Brown)
 - Displaying Lync Online Meeting Appointment Details using the EWS Managed API (Glen Scales)
 
Web Development
- Typemock: Better support for ASP.NET MVC (Avi Kaye)
 - Magic: The Gathering in JavaScript and HTML5 (John Esposito)
 - CSS3 Advanced Selectors (Pad Gallagher)
 - A Fun Little JSON Murder Mystery With IE9 and Rails, Models and Business Logic (Rob Conery)
 - Some More Thoughts On OAuth 2 Sample (Howard Dierking)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- ScrumPig 2 Backlog Filter Syntax (Howard Dierking)
 - Scrum with dev11: Creating a Scrum team identity (Martin Hinshelwood)
 - How to Design Content Filters for Better User Browsing (Anthony Tseng)
 - Models for a view (some objects are more equal than others) (Peter van Ooijen)
 - Retrospective: The 5 whys (Mark Needham)
 - How to Setup New Stories and Tasks in a Telerik TeamPulse Project? (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Command-Query Separation on Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- XAML Magic: Turning an Ugly Silverlight Duckling into a Beautiful Photoshopped Swan (Samuel Jack)
 - The Windows Phone Inner Circle is coming to your city! (Brian Seitz)
 - Tombstoning with PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7 (and KnockoutJS) (Colin Eberhardt)
 - 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 3 of 10) (Michael Crump)
 - The Financial Face of RadChart for Windows Phone (Georgi Atanasov)
 - Designing My First (Public) Windows Phone App (Glen Gailey)
 - Build Scalable Mobile Apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone on Windows Azure (Himanshu Singh)
 - 2000 WPF Things #415 – Setting Grid Row Height and Column Width Properties to Absolute Values (Sean Sexton)
 - LOB Chronicles Episode 11: Bringing in the Controls (Evan Hutnick)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Alexander Groß Deals with Machine Specifications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Herding Code 124: Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar on Glimpse (Jon Galloway & Co.)
 - Distributed Podcast Episode 10: /dev/random (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
 - Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 27 (Richard Hay)
 
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for October 24th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Microsoft Idea Week for student developers (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - I am Coming to Washington DC for 2 Classes (Shawn Wildermuth)
 - SQLAuthority News – Meeting SQL Friends – SQLPASS 2011 Event Log (Pinal Dave)
 - sharepoint saturday uk–12th november 2011 (Brett Lonsdale)
 - Interview: Maarten Balliauw, Main Contributor to the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (and much more) (Brian Swan)
 - Want to be a Microsoft Student Partner? (Chris Koenig)
 - YUIConf 2011 Update: Announcing More Talks and a Free Workshop! (Jenny Donnelly)
 - Upcoming events (Michael Eaton)
 
Database
- Dataflow mechanics [SSIS] and Thoughts on Data Explorer (Jamie Thomson)
 - Monitoring SSRS Report Performance: Part 2 (John Pertell)
 - Database space use (David Forck)
 - When will you be able to start using "Data Explorer"? (Data Explorer Team)
 - My 3 Favorite Connection String Tips (Brent Ozar)
 
Miscellaneous
- Announcing the New Microsoft Press Exam Ref Series (Karen Szall)
 - Ruby 2.0 Release Schedule Announced: Roll on 2013! (Peter Cooper)
 - Nokia May Offer Windows 8 Tablets (Robert Boland)
 - Reading more than ever: An analysis of four lazy years with an Amazon Kindle and no dead trees (Scott Hanselman)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Cheatsheet: 2011 10.18 ~ 10.24 (yuanjian)
 - Interesting .NET Links – October 25 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
 - Geek Reading October 24, 2011 (Rob Diana)
 - The Morning Brew #966 (Chris Alcock)
 - ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/24/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
 - Double Shot #737 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 24 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 17 – 23, 2011 and Weekly article digest 10/24/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 
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