Top Links
- Extended WPF Toolkit Release 1.5.0 (Brian Lagunas)
 - Project Silk Community Drop 14 – August 8, 2011 (CodePlex)
 - Introducing the Knockout.Unobtrusive Plugin (Brandon Satrom)
 - Should All Data Be Encrypted By Default? (Buck Woody)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- TFS As Your Build/CI Server: Only Positive Takeaways 2 of 2 (Pete Seale)
 - Tracking Out of Scope Objects using DataTips while debugging in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
 - Patch to speedup editing of TFS Build template (Gian Maria Ricci)
 - Creating F# FSX Script Files from FS Source Files (Carl Nolan)
 - You Win! An EF 4.1 Update to Programming Entity Framework is In the Works! (Julie Lerman)
 - Pro .NET 4 Parallel Programming in C# (Mike Taulty)
 - Code Metrics – Code Metrics Results Filtering (Zain Naboulsi)
 - KinecTunes (Greg Duncan)
 - PostSharp and JustMock side by side. (Mehfuz Hossain)
 - New Today: More Windows Azure Marketplace Content & Hands On Lab (Windows Azure Team)
 - NHibernate Pitfalls: Ghosts (Ricardo Peres)
 - Rx Contrib – new release (Bnaya Eshet)
 
Web Development
- Using The JQuery Tooltip Plugin in a GridView (junnark)
 - Massive and Complexity and The BackboneJS and Knockout Danceoff (Rob Conery)
 - jQuery Changes From 1.4.2 to 1.6 (Anders Janmyr)
 - 3 Reasons Why You Should Register for Our Special ASP.NET AJAX Webinar Series (Carl Bergenhem)
 - Find the jQuery Bug #1: Chicken or the Egg (Elijah Manor)
 - Practical PHP Refactoring: Self Encapsulate Field (Giorgio Sironi)
 - First Draft of HTML5: Edition for Web Authors Published (W3C Staff)
 - Migrating to OAuth 2.0 update: PHP SDK v.3.1.1 (Jerry Cain)
 - I like PHP (Cédric Beust)
 - Ajax Control Toolkit July 2011 Release – Now on NuGet (Scott Hanselman)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Run QUnit tests under Continuous Integration with NQUnit (Joshua Flanagan)
 - Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer (Jason Rudolph)
 - Macto: Getting Started, you never forget your first Inmate (Oren Eini)
 - Be Disruptive Without Making It Seem That Way (Rob Diana)
 - Reflections on “Talent is Overrated” (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- How to use Commands in WPF (Nadege Deroussen)
 - Creating a custom TimePicker control in WPF 4.0 (Sunny Oludayo Alli)
 - Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): [Association] attribute (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Working with a simple ViewModelLocator from MVVM-Lite (Mike Gold)
 - How to apply simple faded transparent effects on WPF controls ? (Abhijit Jana)
 - Windows Phone 7 MVVM #8 – RadCalendar (Evan Hutnick)
 - Writing Asynchronous Tests with Rx and Silverlight (Jonathan Allen)
 - Why Visual Studio Debugger is not working for my Silverlight Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Xbox Live Indie Game Devs Soon to Bring Quality Games To The WP7! Part II “Porting is easy..Right?” (MBGW)
 - RadDataBoundListBox goes Mango in terms of scrolling performance (video included) (Telerik WP Team)
 - Windows Phone Design Tips #1 (Andrew Spooner)
 - How to Debug Network Traffic in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator (Henry Lee)
 - 2000 WPF Things #361 – Creating a ToggleButton Whose Content Is an Image (Sean Sexton)
 - Changing the DataTemplate based on the Available Space – SizeBasedTemplateSelector (LearnWPF)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Tatham Oddie Makes HTML 5 and Silverlight Play Nice Together (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Episode 157 – PowerScripting Podcast – Steven Murawski on User Groups and CommandAssist (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
 - My Intern Life 3 – Episode 5 (Microsoft JobsBlog
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Community / Events
- Summer Courses on HTML5, Windows Phone7, ALM and Azure (Simone Chiaretta)
 - Microsoft cancels pre-conference sessions at Build Windows 8 event (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Agile 2011 Begins With Big Announcements From Thoughtworks, Tasktop (Jim Moscater)
 - And the (ORM) survey said … (Ward Bell)
 - Austin Code Camp Sessions (John Teague)
 
Database
- Server Side Paging with new OFFSET feature in SQL Server Denali (Geniiius)
 - SQL SERVER – Use INSERT INTO … SELECT instead of Cursor and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Aggregates with the Over Clause – Day 10 of 35 and SQL SERVER – Who needs ETL Version Control? (Pinal Dave)
 - SQL Server Code Name “Denali” CTP3 Product Guide available for download (Denis Gobo)
 - SQL Server – How to partition an existing table… (Vishal)
 - All about Execution Plans (Gail Shaw)
 - On the typeof() campaign trail (Jamie Thomson)
 - TSQL Tip O’ the Week – 8/9/11 – DDL Triggers for Extra Protection (Andy Lohn)
 - 25 Useful SQL Server Tutorials For .NET Developers (Suprotim Agarwal)
 
SharePoint
- Rough Cuts: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
 - Adding more than three filters in CQWP (Ricardo Loo)
 
Miscellaneous
- THE DVD IS DEAD: Here’s How To Carry Around Your Entire Movie Collection In Your Pocket (Ellis Hamburger)
 - #Ebook Deal/Day: Basic Sensors in iOS – Only $6.49 w/code DD238 (O’Reilly Media)
 - Announcing GitHub Issues for iPhone (Corey Johnson)
 - Windows Phone ‘Tango’ to be Microsoft’s lower price-point operating system? (Mary Jo Foley)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Interesting .NET Links – August 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
 - Geek Reading August 9, 2011 (Rob Diana)
 - Today’s Links (8/9/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
 - The Morning Brew #913 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily News Digest 08/09/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 - Web Dev Tweets 8-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
 - Link dump for August 9th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 9 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Silverlight Cream for August 09, 2011 — #1128 (Dave Campbell)
 
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