Top Links
- New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.4.8 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Launching PowerShell 2.0 into .net4 via F# Interactive or IronPython 2.7 (Steve Gilham)
 - Dart: A language for structured web programming (Lars Bak)
 - MetroGridHelper: A helpful debugging assistant for designers and developers alike (Jeff Wilcox)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Inspecting Tier Interaction Profiling (TIP) results in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler (Abhijit Jana)
 - .NET Math Library (Richard Carr)
 - F# Parallel Array Sorting (Carl Nolan)
 - Teams in Visual Studio 11, the basics. and Teams in Visual Studio 11, feature teams and backlogs. (Clemens Reijnen)
 - Code smell – LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… – Look from a bird’s eye view (Peter Gfader)
 - An easy way to create Side by Side registrationless COM Manifests with Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
 - Using Service Bus Topics and Subscriptions with WCF (Tom Hollander)
 - Actions in OData (Alex James)
 - How to Resolve the ‘Manifest Reference file ‘XYZ’ is not part of the payload in Metro and How to setup a clean error message when your Metro Application does not support Data Sharing (Derik Whittaker)
 - Reading EXCEL FILE in a collection using Open XML SDK 2.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
 
Web Development
- C#’s String.Format For JavaScript (Geek Daily)
 - Cool stuff in FubuMVC No. 2: Action Conventions (Chad Myers)
 - ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Mobile Template (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
 - Practical PHP Refactoring: Consolidate Conditional Expression (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Getting Your HTML5 Fix: HTML5 At DZone (Rob Diana)
 - Viewport Meta Tag and Using HTML 5/CSS3/jQuery to Build Mobile Interfaces (Sam Gentile)
 - 10 super useful PHP snippets (Mitch Pronschinske)
 - Use Local Storage to Make Your Single Page Web Application Rock (Chris Love)
 - DotNetNuke Community Edition 06.01.00 Beta (CodePlex)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Metrotastic– Palette Generator Preview. (Scott Barnes)
 - Test Data Builder pattern with object initializers in .NET (Stacy Vicknair)
 - Change the Environment, Not the People (Jurgen Appelo)
 - How’s mentorship seen in Software Craftsmanship? (Sandro Mancuso)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- WPF Progress Bar using Threads (R. Carty)
 - Extended WPF Toolkit–using the BusyIndicator (Brian Lagunas)
 - 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 1 of 10) (Michael Crump)
 - Detecting System Information of WP7 Device (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Taking screenshots with Windows Phone 7 applications using a video feed (Joost van Schaik)
 - 2000 WPF Things #404 – A Grid Hosts Child Controls in Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
 - Ringtones from existing content on WP7 – why can’t you do that? and Using system alerts with the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and Using Pandora’s Artist Explorer service to discover new music on Windows Phone 7 and Random Airplane Mode in Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - Using Visual States to Set Focus on a Control (Jeremy Likness)
 - Isolated Storage for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 177: Jeremy Likness on Sterling database (David Giard)
 - Major Nelson Podcast Show 414: Dragon Age II Mark Of The Assassin, Rocksmith, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster (Larry Hyrb)
 - Software Engineering Radio Episode 179: Cassandra with Jonathan Ellis (SE-Radio Team)
 - Gillmor Gang 10.8.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
 - Windows Weekly 229: What’s It Called And What’s It Cost? (Paul Thurrott)
 - Talking Shop Down Under Episode 72 – CodeMania NZ and a Build Windows 8 Recap (Richard Banks)
 - Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 25 (Richard Hay)
 - The GeekDads Episode #101: Han Shot First, Fahgettaboudit! (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
 - TWC9: C9 goes global, Fast App Switching, Geo AR Toolkit, MEF 2.0 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
 - Windows Phone Radio – 45 (Brian Seitz)
 
Community / Events
- Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools Live Roadshow Double Feature: Managing Your Software Lifecycle and Agile Management using Visual Studio Team Foundation in a town near you (US) (Charles Sterling)
 - Welcome to our First MVP Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
 - Upcoming MSDN Webcasts on Windows Phone 7.5, Windows Azure, Orchard and VS Team Build (Katrien de Graeve)
 - Want to Learn iOS or Android? (Shawn Wildermuth)
 
Database
- Book Review – MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services: Cookbook (Darren Gosbell)
 - SQL Server Temp Tables (J. Verheul)
 - SSIS: Word-wrapping Annotations (Using Only Notepad) (Larry Leonard)
 - SQLAuthority News – System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance (Pinal Dave)
 - DBCC checktable (Jack Vamvas)
 - Review of Redgate SQL Prompt (Tatworth)
 - Search and Replace in MySQL (Tom Hearn)
 - MIT introduces Oracle for Object-Oriented Programmers (Michael Stal)
 
Miscellaneous
- Personal Development Hub on Sources of Insight (JD Meier)
 - #Ebook Deal/Day: Early Release Edition of #Android Cookbook – $21.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
 - Paint.NET v3.5.10 is now available (Rick Brewster)
 - Negative hiring decisions, Part II (Oren Eini)
 - Silverlight to power apps on the new Xbox 360 dashboard update (damaster)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Interesting .NET Links – October 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
 - Pie in the Sky (October 7, 2011) (Brian Swan)
 - The Morning Brew #955 (Chris Alcock)
 - Retrospective 53 – #Agile Tool Reviews and #Giveaway #Contest (Peter Saddington)
 - Double Shot #726 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily News Digest 10/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/10/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 - Web Dev Tweets 7-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
 - Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 02-October-2011 to 08-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Cheatsheet: 2011 10.01 ~ 10.10 (gOODiDEA)
 
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