Top Links
- S#arp Lite: The Basics (Billy McCafferty)
- Using MEF 2 with ASP.NET MVC 3 (Nick)
- Eduasync part 15: implementing COMEFROM with a horrible hack (Jon Skeet)
- F# Dynamic Lookup Operator and Regex (Carl Nolan)
- Deep Fried Bytes Episode 78: Migrating Silverlight apps to Windows 8 Metro with Derik Whittaker (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Using the Simplest Type Name in a Snippet and Child Tasks (Richard Carr)
- Information on upgrading Kinect Applications to MS SDK Beta 2. (Michael Crump)
- Kinect SDK – resources for developers and Hosting a WCF service on GoDaddy (Dennis Delimarsky)
- New Tool for Debugging Parallel Applications in Visual Studio 11 (Jenni Konrad)
- Hosting WCF Service in Windows Server AppFabric (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Implementing Chain of Responsibility Design Pattern in C# using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) (Anoop Madhusudanan)
- With Visual Studio 2010 (and vs2011 preview) Fast Launch Not Helpful Often (Peter Kellner)
- TFS API Part 40–Build Service Host (Shai Raiten)
- Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK and Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.1.11111 (Experimental Release) (MS Downloads)
- Mounting a Microsoft Azure CloudDrive in a VMRole (Sean Barlow)
- .NET Gadgeteer Module Contest at GHI and Update to .NET Gadgeteer Larson Scanner (Pete Brown)
- Data breakpoints to find points where data gets broken (Timo Heinäpurola)
- Book Review – Developer’s Guide To Collections in Microsoft® .NET (Lori Lalonde)
- Interactive, free and just plain cool, .Net Tutorial (Greg Duncan)
- WinRT Wishlist: Live Tiles for “Classic” Apps (James Ashley)
- MsBuild finding directories if not given as parameter (Daniel Fisher)
- XPath Visualizer v1.3 Latest and MSBuild Extension Pack – November 2011 (CodePlex)
Web Development
- HTML5 is on a killer spree, Web Sockets May partially “kill” HTTP as well (Anoop Madhusudanan)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Separate Query from Modifier (Giorgio Sironi)
- JavaScript in different browsers (PointsToShare)
- Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture (Martin Beeby)
- Build business apps in .NET – not HTML & JavaScript (Ward Bell)
- Test your App Fabric ACS v2 RPS Application to use actual REALM and Return URL in Cloud and localhost URL in Compute Emulator and Windows Azure Load Balancer Timeout Details (Avkash Chauhan)
- Creating an E-Mail Contact Form (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Solving the Shakespeare Million Monkeys Problem in Real-time with Parallelism and SignalR (Scott Hanselman)
- New Game 2011: HMTL5 Gaming FTW (Carter Rabasa)
- rails_best_practices 1.3.0 released (Huang Zhimin)
- Common Areas For Securing Web Services (DotNetBlocks)
- Better ASP MVC Select HtmlHelper (Sacha Barber)
- Web.config Transformations and XML Namespaces (Mads Troest)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Monthly Planning with Agile Results and Simplified Site and Knowledge Base for Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
- BDD XAF Project Released and Setup and Use SpecFlow BDD with DevExpress XAF (Patrick Liekhus)
- New Articles on Event Sourcing and CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
- Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010-Part 2 and Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010-Part 3 (Tarun Arora)
- New Article: Managing and Testing Topics, Queues and Relay Services with the Service Bus Explorer Tool (Paolo Salvatori)
- The 5 whys: Another attempt (Mark Needham)
- The Happiness Door, Another Great Feedback Method (Jurgen Appelo)
- Mitigate your merge issues (Mehdi Khalili)
- Merge Business Logic Handler Custom Conflict Resolver (Brandon Williams)
- What Good is a Pig? (Brent Ozar)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Death to banding: Windows Phone devs, please upgrade your apps to 32 BitsPerPixel (Windows Phone Geek)
- Is the Future of Silverlight Coming to an End? Do We Really Need to Worry About Silverlight 6 Yet? (Devin Jordan)
- Windows Phone 7.5 – Manipulating camera stream (Andrea Boschin)
- F# Silverlight Library Template in Visual Studio 11 (Dan Mohl)
- Windows Phone 7 Serialization: Binary Serialization (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
- 2000 WPF Things #429 – Child Element Properties that Affect Layout (Sean Sexton)
- Developing Snowfight – Basic particle engine (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Improving CSLA 4 MobileFormatter behavior (Rockford Lhotka)
- TouchDevelop v2.4: push notifications, updates, discussions, … (Nikolai Tillmann)
- 31 Days of Mango | Day #12: Beta Distribution and 31 Days of Mango | Day #13: Marketplace Test Kit and 31 Days of Mango | Day #14: Using OData (Jeff Blankenburg)
- xamGrid vs. xamDataGrid: Conceptual and Feature Comparison (Pamela Brasil)
- Visual State Manager (VSM) – part II (Alex Mukora)
- Have an Idea? Need an Idea? (Ben Lower)
- Storyboards in Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Hanselminutes – History of HTTP and the World Wide Web with Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (Scott Hanselman)
- SPLASH 2011: Andrew Black and James Noble – The Grace Programming Language Project (Charles Torre)
- Technology & Friends Episode 182: Mark Minasi on Windows Server 8 (David Giard)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 042 – “WOW, That’s a Big Phone” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 419: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (Larry Hyrb)
- Boagworld: The challenge of context in modern UX design (Paul Boag)
- Windows Weekly 234: Paul of Duty (Paul Thurrott)
- Virtualization and SAN Basics for DBAs Video and There’s Something About Nolock: Webcast Video (Brent Ozar)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Jeff Truman Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- Talking Shop Down Under Episode 76 – John Bristowe and Kendo UI (Richard Banks)
- Bill Gates Jumps Over Chair (Gillian)
- Vergecast 002 – 11.11.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
- Engadget Podcast 264 – 11.11.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 112 – 11.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- TWC9: VS11, HTML5, Debugging, and guest host Habib Heydarian (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- TDD Master class – Videos Available For Purchase at TekPub (Roy Osherove)
- Webinar: Tips and Tricks for Better Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
- The Tablet Show – WinRT Panel Discussion from DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Getting Involved With Open-Source In 10 Minutes (Addy Osmani)
Community / Events
- SQLAuthority News – A Real Story of Book Getting ‘Out of Stock’ to A 25% Discount Story Available (Pinal Dave)
- Windows Azure DevCamps in DC, Dec. 14, 2011 (Zhiming Xue)
- Workshop Agile + UX (Caleb Jenkins)
- My shift from WPF-XAML to Kinect for Windows (Rob Relyea)
- Upcoming jQuery Events (Addy Osmani)
- Ever Thought to Yourself “Wow, Angela has a FUN and AWESOME job in DPE”? Well, we are currently looking for a few good folks to join us! and Clint and Zain Return to the Midwest in December to WOW us with Visual Studio and TFS Goodness! (Angela Binkowski)
- A Conversation from the Trenches of Agility with David J Bland, Brad Murphy and Peter Saddington (Christopher Goldsbury)
Database
- Pinal Dave and Vinod Kumar‘s SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers: Book review (Dhananjay Kumar)
- An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors, Part 5: Incorrect Calculation Results, Miscellaneous and MDX Studio Errors (drweed)
- Parallel execution in SSIS (James Serra)
- SQLAuthority News – Various Microsoft SQL Server Documentations Available for Download and SQL SERVER – CSVExpress and Quick Data Load (Pinal Dave)
- Third Normal Form is Snake Oil (Brent Ozar)
- Sharding vs. Having multiple databases (Oren Eini)
- Synchronize Data from Cloud to Cloud (C2C) using SQL Azure Data Sync (Sudhesh Suresh)
- Some SQL Server Security Housekeeping (Chad Miller)
SharePoint
PowerShell
- Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 2) (Tobias Weltner)
Miscellaneous
- Google Reader Is Not About Reading News It Is About Curation (Rob Diana)
- Updated NDK for Android 4.0 (Xavier Ducrohet)
- Next-Gen Xbox codenamed "Loop" and will run Windows 9? (Zac)
- Developers’ Interest Growing in Windows Phone, Waning in BlackBerry (Ina Fried)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: November 12, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – November 12 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- This Week’s Ruby News: RSpec 2.8.0 RC1, Minitest 2.8.0, and What’s New in Bundler 1.1? (Peter Cooper)
- The Morning Brew #980 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 11/14/2011 and Weekly article digest 11/14/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (11/11/2011) (Silverlight Show)
- Pie in the Sky (November 11th) (Larry Franks)
- Reading Notes # 20 (Franky)
- Double Shot #751 (Mike Gunderloy)
- MVP Friday Five: November 11, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
- Retrospective 58 – People Over Technology (Peter Saddington)
- Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 06-November-2011 to 12-November-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 7-13 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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