Top Links
- Recap: Windows Phone 7.5 “a breath of fresh air” (Michael Stroh)
 - Exploring Windows Phone 7.5’s Web Marketplace. And a surprise new feature! (Ben Rudolph)
 - Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update begins (Eric Hautala)
 - September 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Compiling Unsafe Code in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
 - Highlighting Execution Hot Path in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler Call Tree (Abhijit Jana)
 - Background Transfer Download Sample For C# In Windows 8 (Karsten Januszewski)
 - Day 2: Building a Metro App with Visual Studio 11 Express (Stephen Forte)
 - Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Quick Launch (Zain Naboulsi)
 - Asynchronous Operations in Windows 8 with the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) (Visual C++ Team)
 - Setting up a NuGet repository in seconds: MyGet public feeds (Maarten Balliauw)
 - Keep it secret, keep it safe (Eric Lippert)
 - Wiimote Kinecting Music with Holofunk (Greg Duncan)
 - What’s happening on the NuGet feed (leveraging OData in an RSS reader) (Jason Jarrett)
 - Environments for Windows Azure development (Tom Hollander)
 - Announcement: Namespace Global (Lucian Wischik)
 
Web Development
- Building Offline Experiences with HTML5 AppCache and IndexedDB (Israel Hilerio)
 - What’s New in HTML5 – Markup and More ! and A Useful Firefox Plugin for Web Developers – Firesizer (Joe Stagner)
 - Massive’s Dynamic Query Syntax (Rob Conery)
 - Large Ruby File Downloads Done Right! (Dan Watson)
 - PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP #108.1421 (Alexey Gopachenko)
 - YUI 3.4.1 is now live (Allen Rabinovich)
 - Adding A ‘has_image?’ Matcher To Capybara (Derick Bailey)
 - Come Node With Me – The Working Man’s Introduction to Node.js (Drew Peterson)
 - Search for code duplicates in PhpStorm (Eugene Kudelevsky)
 - A Guide to Wijmo Theming (Kevin Griffin)
 - Running Processes in Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)
 - SassAndCoffee 1.1 issues with AppHarbor (Paul Betts)
 - Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6 (Paul Irish)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Running unit tests in Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (WinRT) (Laurent Bugnion)
 - NServiceBus Modelling Tools (Udi Dahan)
 - Don’t give a chicken access to your schedule / feature set (Oren Eini)
 - Scrum Sprint Monitor v1.1.0.292 (CodePlex)
 - Good Collaboration: Bringing Devs and Testers Closer and Wrapping Performance Testing Introduction: What to Monitor (Plus Learning Resources) (Jim Holmes)
 - Meddlers (Free Exercise) (Jurgen Appelo)
 - Continuous Integration: Why You Don’t Really "Get It" (Mitch Pronschinske)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- pInvoke in Silverlight5 and .NET Framework (Alexandra Rusina)
 - The Top 10 Over-Engineering Mistakes in Silverlight Applications (Jeremy Likness)
 - Know About WP7 System Tray – Tips to Show or Hide it (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Enumerating Printers using PInvoke in Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
 - 2000 WPF Things #396 – Rich ListBox Content Using Data Binding, part II (Sean Sexton)
 - RadMap for Silverlight – How To Consume Tiles from Local Server (Telerik Silverlight Team)
 - Wiring up an AutoCompleteBox to a JSON Service in Silverlight (Steve Smith)
 - Developers get MORE with Windows Phone 7.5 (Todd Brix)
 - Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 3 – Adding wind effect (Lazar Nikolov)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET 4.5: David Kean and Mircea Trofin – Portable Libraries (Charles Torre)
 - End User Adoption and the SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide with Rob Bogue-Episode 67 and SharePoint Pod Show Road Trip and Chat with Latasha Battle-Episode 68 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
 - Engadget HD Podcast 267 – 09.27.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Ping 118: Windows Phone wins people choice, Windows makes a difference, Clinton & Gates, Symbian developers (Laura Foy)
 - Let’s Play TDD #143: File → Save As… (James Shore)
 - Boagworld: Working with WordPress (Paul Boag)
 - Check It Out: Mouse Without Borders (Larry Larsen)
 
Community / Events
- Attend a Windows Phone Camp…Win a New Phone! (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Upcoming Free HTML5 Training in West Region (Doris Chen)
 - Event: Meet Microsoft Press authors at Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 (Kim Spilker)
 - October 4th to 6th–FREE Online Conferences on Phone, Azure and IE (Eric Nelson)
 - The Magic Behind the Curtain: Celebrating Microsoft Research’s 20th Anniversary (Jeffrey Meisner)
 - I’m speaking at the Northern Virginia Code Camp THIS WEEKEND! (Kevin Griffin)
 - Moving Along (Michael Swanson)
 - October Tech Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
 
Database
- SSIS Child Errors in Parent Package (Mike Davis)
 - SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV Enhancement – sys.dm_exec_query_stats – New Columns (Pinal Dave)
 
SharePoint
- Implementing Claims-Based Authentication with SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
 - compare sharepoint site permissions and clone permissions (Brett Lonsdale)
 
PowerShell
- Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft and mindshare: can Mango be cool in the mall? (Kip Kniskern)
 - MSDN Magazine: October Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
 - How to update your Windows Phone (Luke)
 - Windows Phone 7.5 Mango review (Brad Molen)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: September 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Geek Reading September 27, 2011 (Rob Diana)
 - ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/27/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
 - The Morning Brew #947 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily News Digest 09/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 - Web Dev Tweets 26-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
 - Silverlight Cream for September 27, 2011 — #1151 (Dave Campbell)
 - Double Shot #718 (Mike Gunderloy)
 
The Geek Shelf
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