Top Links
- Novell/Xamarin Partnership around Mono (Miguel de Icaza)
 - Microsoft moves forward with ‘Roslyn’ compiler as a service project (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Sysinternals Process Explorer v15… Celebrating the 15th anniversary of Sysinternals (and the release of The Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference) (Greg Duncan)
 - Use ViewModels to manage data & organize code in ASP.NET MVC applications (Rachel Appel)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Microsoft® Visual Studio Team Foundation Server® 2010, Service Pack 1 (MS Downloads)
 - Pitfalls of cancelling a VSIX project template in an IWizard and Creating a simple bootstrapper – Introduction and Creating a simple bootstrapper – Proof of concept (Rory Primrose)
 - LINQ to XlsX… Using VB.Net, LINQ, the OpenXML SDK and a little C# helper, to query an Excel XlsX and Kinecting with Robots – Kinect Services for the Microsoft Robotic Development Studio (Greg Duncan)
 - Replying with attachments to an email message with EWS (Henning Krause)
 - Status of Monotouch and Mono for Android #monotouch #monodroid (Wally McClure)
 - Developing a Windows Azure AppFabric Application (Vikram Desai)
 - Configuring, Deploying, and Monitoring Applications using AppFabric Application Manager (Adam)
 - Get List of Active Directory Domains (Paul Sheriff)
 - Mapping the Memory Usage of .NET Applications: Part 2, VMMap and MemoryDisplay (Sasha Goldshtein)
 - Xamarin welcomes MonoTouch and MonoDroid "home" (Craig Dunn)
 - Vote on the stories for the EntLib Azure Integration Pack! (Grigori Melnik)
 - Windows Azure Platform Management Portal Updates Now Available (Bharat Ahluwalia)
 
Web Development
- RavenDB MVC Profiler Support (Oren Eini)
 - CSS Basics: The Box Model, Margin and Padding (Terrence Dorsey)
 - HTTP status code in WCF using error handling (Morten Faester)
 - So You Want to Be a jQuery AJAX Developer? Here are Some Must Read Books (Chris Love)
 - filterByData jQuery Plugin: Select by HTML5 Data Attr Value (Elijah Manor)
 - ASP.NET MVC Model Binders (Gil Fink)
 - Overoptimizing my JavaScript stack implementation for fun (Jef Claes)
 - Create An HTML/CSS Mobile Web App Using Sencha Touch (Jen Gordon)
 - PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.1.2 released! (Alexey Gopachenko)
 - PhpStorm: What makes a difference (Alexey Korsun)
 - Lucene.net is back on track (Simone Chiaretta)
 - MVC Controls Toolkit 1.2.0 RTW (CodePlex)
 - A Review of The Book of Ruby – Pleasant Prose Meets Car-Crash Code (Peter Cooper)
 - Using WCF and WIF to perform WS-Trust active claim requests (Alex Thissen)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Recreating Scrum using Kanban and Explicit Policies (Cory Foy)
 - RTM’d today: I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft, Second Edition (Valerie Woolley)
 - Elevator Pitches for Projects (JD Meier)
 - How to focus on the wrong thing when writing code (John Rayner)
 - Effective Tests: Avoiding Context Obscurity (Derek Greer)
 - Breaking the Laws of Nature (Gil Zilberfeld)
 - Why Your Form Help Tips Should Open on Mouse Hover (Anthony)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Getting started with Caliburn.Micro for Windows Phone Part 0 and Getting started with Caliburn.Micro for Windows Phone Part 1 and Getting started with Caliburn.Micro for Windows Phone Part 2 and Getting started with Caliburn.Micro for Windows Phone Part 3 (deanvmc)
 - Upload large file of size more than 5 MB from Silverlight to Server location using WCF (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Nokia’s WP7 Support Begins with "Bubble Level Silverlight v1.0" Tools (Senthil Kumar)
 - An interesting “small tiles” concept for Windows Phone (Steven Hodson)
 - Using the Isolated Storage Explorer tool on WP7 Mango to export your .sdf file (Derik Whittaker)
 - Mad King DataGrid (Jacob Proffitt)
 - The Visual Studio LightSwitch Economy (Michael Washington)
 - 31 Days of Mango Questions (Jeff Blankenburg)
 - Using Caliburn Micro as a Data Template Selector (Nigel Sampson)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Rey Bango is all about Javascript and .NET Rocks! – Brad Abrams Builds Platforms for Google (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Episode 154 – PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Heller From Cisco on PowerShell and UCS (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
 - Path to Agility 2011 – Kelly Allen – Deming then, now and for the foreseeable future (Agile Toolkit)
 - Ping 109: Microsoft Stores, Halo & Kinect, XP Countdown, Windows 8, Mango (Laura Foy)
 
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for July 18th, 2011 and MADExpo Wrap-Up and HTML5 Web Camps Coming to Mid-Atlantic (and elsewhere) (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Microsoft delays Mediaroom IPTV conference to 2012 (John Callaham)
 - Code Camp Times Two (Jim O’Neil)
 - We Work in Philly: A Community-Edited Guide to Philadelphia (David Goodman)
 - I’m doing the BUILD HIVE 2011 conference combo (Adam Kinney)
 - Client Technologies and the BUILD Conference (Mike Taulty)
 - Google+ Invite Form (Elijah Manor)
 - What’s new and cool in Drupal 7? (Angela Byron & Jeff Eaton)
 
Database
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 5 Released (Glenn Berry)
 - Configuring a VMWare clone for SSRS disaster recovery (John Pertell)
 - SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 19 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
 - SQL Server – Denali CTP3 – DATEFROMPARTS() and TIMEFROMPARTS() (Vishal)
 - Windows Azure Table Storage in detail (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
 - Denali SQLPS First Impressions (Chad Miller)
 
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Announces Simple Transfer of Health Data From Google Health Service to Microsoft HealthVault (MS PressPass)
 - Building a PC, Part VII: Rebooting (Jeff Atwood)
 - One Billion Dots and Beyond – the Viral Phenomenon of World’s Biggest PAC-MAN (Carter Rabasa)
 - #Video Deal/Day: OpenGL iPhone Games with Cocos2D – Only $9.99 w/code DDJ2N (O’Reilly Media)
 - New research shows Windows Phone is connecting with people (Brian Seitz)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: July 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Interesting .NET Links – July 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
 - SilverlightShow for July 11 – 17, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for July 18, 2011 — #1118 (Dave Campbell)
 - The Morning Brew #897 (Chris Alcock)
 - Today’s Links (7/18/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 18 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Daily News Digest 07/19/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 - Web Dev Tweets 18-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)
 
The Geek Shelf
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