Top Links
- RoundhousE–Intelligent Database Migrations And Versioning and DropkicK–Deploy Fluently (Rob Reynolds)
- Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Introduction and Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Syntax Rewriting (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Dependencies Break Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Why if you have implemented or in the process of implementing Scrum and are considering adding Kanban, you will want to evaluate that decision carefully (John Petersen)
- New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5 – Using pInvoke (Dan Wahlin)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Getting the Processor Speed and Number of Cores (Richard Carr)
- Microsoft® Visual Studio® Agents 11 Developer Preview (ISO) (MS Downloads)
- Implementing Programming Languages using C# (Christopher Diggins)
- Steamlining RavenDB, Part II – Why RavenDB Lazy Requests are in the Advanced section? (Oren Eini)
- Tutorial: free and paid game versions in Visual Studio (John Esposito)
- Code First and DbContext are now “The Entity Framework” (Julie Lerman)
- Code smell – LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… – Refactoring work in progress (Peter Gfader)
- Microsoft To Add Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries to Entity Framework V.Next! (Peter Kellner)
- List of recommended books on TFS, Visual Studio, C# and C++ coding, Design and Development Process (Terje Sandstrom)
- Setting up Separate Visual Studio Instances and Opening Visual Studio From the Task Bar (Deborah Kurata)
- Times Tables (Phillip Trelford)
- LittleWife™ (Rudi Grobler)
- Editing a Local Windows Azure Project with the Emulator Running (Nathan Totten)
- Scripting and Code Analysis using Roslyn – And a first look at Roslyn CTP (Anoop Madhusudanan)
- The Non-Typical .NET Job (Davy Brion)
- WinRT/Metro–Problem with the data from error (Derik Whittaker)
- Publish Azure Project using Windows Azure SDK 1.5 Publish Setting wizard and Roslyn Syntax API: First Look and Conditional Reading of Windows Azure BLOB (Dhananjay Kumar)
- ObjectStorageHelper – A WinRT utility for Windows 8 (Jamie Thomson)
- WinRT and Windows Property System part 2: searching for files by metadata (Andrei Marukovich)
- State of .NET Image Resizing: how does imageresizer do? (Bertrand Le Roy)
- Page Inspector Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
- OpenRA = C# Red Alert/Command and Conquer Clone (Greg Duncan)
Web Development
- JSON Serialization and Deserialization in ASP.NET (SummiG)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Conditional with Polymorphism (Giorgio Sironi)
- Entity Framework in Three-Layered Services Application Pattern, ASP.NET MVC and Firewalled Layers? (Sam Gentile)
- Make YouTube links Windows Phone 7 – compatible (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Simple XML to JSON with PHP (Sean Biefeld)
- Printing JSON data on Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Moving to Azure: Worker Roles for Nothing and Tasks for Free (Michael C. Neel)
- Running Memcached on Windows Azure for PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
- How To Write JavaScript JQuery Plugins (Shai Raiten)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The 3 Criteria for Agile Leadership Practices (Jurgen Appelo)
- Confusion As A Usability Defect (Rob Diana)
- Process Template Upgrade #3 – Destroy all Work Items and Import new ones (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Best Practices for Build and Release Management: Part 1 and Best Practices for Build and Release Management: Part 2 (James Betteley)
- UX guidelines for Metro style app development (Billy Chow)
- I Am Sold on Pair Programming (Bobby Johnson)
- Developers Need To Keep Challenging Themselves (Davy Brion)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Validation in WPF Toolkit’s DataGrid (Frank Augustin)
- Extended WPF Toolkit–the updated PropertyGrid (Brian Lagunas)
- Adding Error Bars to Visiblox Silverlight Charts (Colin Eberhardt)
- Block diagram for Push Notification in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- CODE Framework 4.0.11021.0 (CodePlex)
- A run at runtime stats for your Windows Phone 7 apps with Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework and Google Analytics (Greg Duncan)
- How to enable Windows Phone Application Tombstone in the Emulator when Debugging and Using the BingMapsDirectionsTask in Windows Phone Mango (Senthil Kumar)
- Using Jounce Navigation to Create OOB Child Windows in Silverlight 5 (Jeremy Likness)
- applicationbar opacity in mango (Rudi Grobler)
- 2000 WPF Things #414 – Creating a Grid in Expression Blend (Sean Sexton)
- Telerik XAML controls – Q3 2011 Beta introduces new and empowered ChartingKit (Silverlight Team)
- Windows Phone 7 Design Considerations (Sudheer Kovalam)
- The XamPivotGrid gets slicers. Data analysis just got a little simpler (Atanas Dyulgerov)
- 31 Days of Mango | Day #3: Alarms and Reminders (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Mango Live Tile Helper (Jay Kimble)
- Using the motion API to check what direction the camera is looking (Joost van Schaik)
- CollectionView.Count : Is my CollectionView empty after I apply a filter on it ? (Jonathan Antoine)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 023: Cool apps and websites (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Deep Fried Bytes Episode 77: Project Silk and Open Web Standards (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
- Technology & Friends Episode 179: Bryan Hunter on Erlang (David Giard)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 039 – “Hiding-er Keyboards” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Extensions with CodeRush (Robert Green)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 416: New Holiday Bundles, Deus Ex: Game add-on and more (Larry Hyrb)
- Cloud Cover Episode 62 – Marketplace with Christian Liensberger (Steve Marx)
- Engadget Podcast 261 – 10.21.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 109 – 10.23.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- TWC9: Roslyn, Angry Birds in Expression, VS 11 Training Kit, BUILD Hands-on Labs and a Holodesk (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- Talking Shop Down Under Episode 73 – Andrew Coates Lights it up (Richard Banks)
- Windows Weekly 231: Why Can’t We Just Shoot Things? (Paul Thurrott)
- This is my next Podcast 029 – 10.21.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
- The GeekDads Episode #102: Causation Does Not Imply Causality (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
- The JavaScript Show – JavaScript MVC, money.js, RequireJS (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
Community / Events
- SQLAuthority News – Story of Seattle – SQLPASS 2011 Event Log (Pinal Dave)
- Fix the date and call for presenters: 7th UGIALT.net Conf, 21 January 2012 (Simone Chiaretta)
- Nerd Nite No. 8, November 9, 2011 (Philly Nerd Nite)
- indieconf – want to go? (Michael Eaton)
- MVP Friday Five: October 21, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
- To Every Thing There Is a Season (Karl Shifflett)
- Moving away from the local .NET User Group Community (Don Burnett)
- Looking for Big Ideas! (Ben Lower)
- Los Techies at CodeMash 2.0.1.2 (Keith Dahlby)
Database
- Gaining SQL Server SysAdmin Access (Chad Miller)
- Pros & Cons of Using the OLE DB Provider for SSAS 10.0 when Reporting in SSRS (Melissa Coates)
- SQL SERVER – Dedicated Access Control for SQL Server Express Edition – An error occurred while obtaining the dedicated administrator connection (DAC) port. (Pinal Dave)
- Entrance into mongoDB (Code Inside Team)
- A MongoDB Guy Learns CouchDB (Karl Seguin)
- Thoughts on Data Explorer (Jamie Thomson)
- Monitoring SSRS Report Performance: Part 2 (John Pertell)
SharePoint
- Technical reference for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
- Nice to have tools for the SharePoint IT Pro (Enrique Lima)
- Sharpoint 2010 deployment using Powershell (manibe2k5)
Miscellaneous
- Ruby/Rails centric Vim with support for Git, RVM and more! (Kris Leech)
- RubyMine, part 3. Shortcuts (Victor Savkin)
- Diablo III Collector’s Edition announced with lots of extras (John Callaham)
- Halloween Desktop Themes for Windows 7 (Richard Hay)
- Kindle Format 8: with HTML5 and CSS3 (John Esposito)
- Announcing the LiveSide Windows Phone Device Gallery: tables gone wild! (Kip Kniskern)
- we have A book cover! (Julie Lerman)
- Comfirmed: Skype Still Scheduled For Fall 2011 Release on Windows Phone (Antonio Hernandez)
- LCARS Lock Screen for WP7 (Scott Spradlin)
- Beginning Storyboards in iOS 5 Part 1 (Ray Wenderlich)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 21, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 22, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 23, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 125 (Scott Banwart)
- Interesting .NET Links – October 22 , 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – October 23 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/21/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- Pie in the Sky (October 21, 2011) (Brian Swan)
- The Morning Brew #965 (Chris Alcock)
- Web Dev Tweets 20-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Reading Notes #17 (Franky)
- Geek Reading October 21, 2011 and Geek Reading October 22, 2011 and Geek Reading October 23, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 16-October-2011 to 22-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Daily WP7 Development News 21 Oct 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 17-23 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (10/21/2011) and Daily News Digest 10/24/2011 and Weekly article digest 10/24/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Retrospective 55 – Winners and FengShui (Peter Saddington)
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, October 20th (Rob Caron)
- Double Shot #736 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 10.18 ~ 10.24 (gOODiDEA)
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