Top Links
- Rise and Fall of Classic OOP (K. Scott Allen)
- Steve Jobs (Bill Gates)
- Silverlight 5 Toolkit – September 2011 Released (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Xbox 360 Teams Up With Entertainment Leaders to Transform TV (Larry Hryb)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Changing the Number of Functions in Profiler Summary View in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
- Demo Scripts from the F# 3.0 BUILD talk and F# presentation – F# Eye for the C# Guy (Don Syme)
- .Net Micro Framework v4.2 RTW’s (Think "VB.Net + lots of community development effort results" version) (Greg Duncan)
- Microsoft’s Roslyn ‘compiler as a service’ support unlikely to be in Visual Studio 2012 (Mary Jo Foley)
- SortedDictionary and SortedList (Simon Cooper)
- Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0: Go To Definition and View Code Support (Blake Niemyjski)
- Reverse a String with No Loops (Bobby Johnson)
- Using ObservableCollection with WinRT (via a little shim!) (Colin Eberhardt)
- Setting the Homepage of an Exchange folder using the EWS Managed API (Henning Krause)
- IronPython 2.7.1 Beta 3 (CodePlex)
Web Development
- Need Accessibility in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps? You’re Already Covered (Carl Bergenhem)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Decompose Conditional (Giorgio Sironi)
- Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.30 (CodePlex)
- Full-height app layouts: A CSS trick to make it easier (Steve Sanderson)
- Resolving an iisnode “The service is unavailable” 503 error (Dave Ward)
- Don’t make the audience sit through all your typo-ing [Overview of implementing an extension for WebMatrix – and the complete source code for the Snippets sample] (David Anson)
- An Auto-Scaling Module for PHP Applications in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
- Resizing images to square, aspect-ratio friendly bits with Node, Express, and ImageMagick (Jeff Wilcox)
- RIA/JS: The barebones demo (Josh Twist)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- One design fits all? – Usability check for Ribbon interface (Miao Wang)
- Spiking RavenDB Management Studio: Design decisions (Oren Eini)
- Avoid Testing Implementation Details, Test Behaviours (Ian Cooper)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- WPF 4.5 – Part 10 : Live shaping (live filtering, grouping and sorting of collections) (Jonathan Antoine)
- WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 6 – Using Tasks and WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 7 – Making WebRequests (Morten Nielsen)
- Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Database Queries with LINQ and Working with the Windows Phone HubTile Events (Windows Phone Geek)
- Control Your Xbox with your Windows Phone Using the Xbox Companion App (Ben Rudolph)
- WP7 Getting Unique Device and User (Daniel Egan)
- Cheating at Tiles…with the Windows Phone 7.1 Live Tile cheat sheet (Greg Duncan)
- Document Toolkit October 2011 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
- Know About WP7 Page Orientation and Supported Orientations (Kunal Chowdhury)
- 2000 WPF Things #402 – Final Child of DockPanel Fills Remaining Space by Default (Sean Sexton)
- Windows Phone 7 and Making HTTPS REST API Calls with Basic Authentication (toetapz)
- Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 7: Building control extensions with the extensibility toolkit (Gill Cleeren)
- Background Agents (Jesse Liberty)
- Creating a Horizontal ListBox in Silverlight and Windows Phone (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Coding QA Episode 66 – Testing Strategies for a Toaster Pt.2 (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
- .NET Rocks! – Philip Laureano Programs In Nemerle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- .NET 4.5: Oleg Lvovitch and Kevin Ransom – Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) 2.0 (Charles Torre)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 037 – “It’s Staggeringly Incredible” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Using LINQ to XML to Write XML (Robert Green)
- SE Podcast #21 (Alex Miller)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for October 5th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Free event and 5 day TDD masterclass in Copenhagen this month (Roy Osherove)
- Webcast: Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio (Kim Spilker)
- CodeMastery This Weekend in Atlanta (Brian Hitney)
- A New Adventure: Tech On Tap (Jes Schultz Borland)
Database
- Guessing the SQL Server Denali Release Date (Brent Ozar)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise vs Standard, one Geek Girl’s view… (Greg Duncan)
- SQL SERVER – Detecting Database Case Sensitive Property using fn_helpcollations() (Pinal Dave)
- Basic Inner Joins – Basic Skill #4 (Steve Jones)
- Microsoft’s Data Warehouse offerings (James Serra)
- Always pay attention to uniqueness to SQL Index (Gian Maria Ricci)
SharePoint
- SharePoint, Apple, Google and Governance (Mark Schneider)
PowerShell
- Windows PowerShell Command Builder Getting Started Guide (MS Downloads)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft employee photographers’ book now available (Gretchen Ledgard)
- Chocolatey – The free and open source windows app store. (Jason Jarrett)
- Surprise! More Consumers Want Windows on a Tablet Than iOS or Android (Paul Thurrott)
- Xbox Live TV: What’s inside? Silverlight (Mary Jo Foley)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Geek Reading October 5, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- The Morning Brew #953 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting .NET Links – October 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Double Shot #724 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 10/05/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/06/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 4-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Daily WP7 Development News 5 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2011 — #1156 (Dave Campbell)
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