Top Links
- Beginning LightSwitch Part 2: Feel the Love – Defining Data Relationships (Beth Massi)
- Announcing Amber.js (Yehuda Katz)
- Facebook: Introducing the Subscribe Button for Websites (Stoyan Stefanov)
- What Is Happening To The jQuery Plugins Site? (Adam J. Sontag)
- Team Foundation Service December Update (Doug Neumann)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Reading and Writing INI Files (Richard Carr)
- WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 (MS Downloads)
- Compatibility Problem with Microsoft Test Manager 2010 and Visual Studio 2011 (Jakob Ehn)
- C# Fundamentals: Returning Zero or One Item As IEnumerable<T> (James Michael Hare)
- RTM’d Today: MCPD 70-518 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
- What does it mean when my program exits with the message "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way"? (Raymond Chen)
- Tpl Dataflow – Part 2 (Bnaya Eshet)
- So many interfaces, part two (Eric Lippert)
- Messaging with queue in Azure Service being RESTful (Franky)
- MonoGame – Write Once, Play Everywhere – MonoGame 2.1 (CodePlex)
Web Development
- Introducing CSSCop – FxCop for stylesheets (Mads Kristensen)
- Go To Definition for JavaScript Functions in Visual Studio 2011 (Abhijit Jana)
- Using auto-complete, match highlighting and filtering in the jQuery igCombo (Jordan Tsankov)
- ASP.NET MVC Routing Extensibility (Simone Chiaretta)
- Zooming & Panning with CSS in IE 10 and CSS3 Transitions and Animations (Mike Taulty)
- How To: Detect Mobile Device Users In Your Web Site – JavaScript (Shai Raiten)
- Visualizing Layout in HTML5 Canvas with Gridlines (G. Andrew Duthie)
- MSDeploy: Automatic Website Deployment and Sync (Jenni Konrad)
- CoffeeScript is for Closers (Brandon Satrom)
- WebMatrix – Publish Site via Web Deploy on Shared Hosting (Chris D.)
- Developing Applications for the Cloud – Hands on Labs (MS Downloads)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Run nodeunit tests with WebStorm 3.0 (Sergey Simonchik)
- The joy of running daily builds (Tim Heuer)
- RTM’d Today: Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice (Valerie Woolley)
- Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
- Don’t be afraid to become management (Roy Osherove)
- Testing Web.config Transformations, Part 1 (Mads Troest)
- Is the Cost of Continuous Integration Worth the Value on Your Program?, Part 2 (Johanna Rothmann)
- 31 Days of Testing—Day 8: Pay Attention to Your Tests’ Setup! (Jim Holmes)
- 25 Examples of Perfect Color Combinations in Web Design (Gisele Muller)
- Super Simple Versioning of Third Party Scripts (Chris Missal)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Visual Studio vs. Expression Blend – Adding an ApplicationBar (Andrea Haubner)
- Composite charts in WPF Elements (Jason)
- Binding Enhancements in WPF 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)
- 2000 WPF Things #447 – You Can Use Layout Transforms Within a DockPanel (Sean Sexton)
- An Advanced Visual Studio LightSwitch Application (Michael Washington)
- MVVM Validation Helpers 1.0 (CodePlex)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Hanselminutes Framework Series: Steve Smith from NimblePros on Anti-Patterns (Scott Hanselman)
- Let’s Play TDD #149: Polishing Off the Save As Dialog (James Shore)
- Video on How to work with ApplicationBar in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- YUI Theater — Allen Rabinovich: “YUI Calendar – A Case Study of Building Modules with Style” (47 min.) (Ryan Grove)
- SE Podcast #30 – Robert Cartaino & Rebecca Chernoff (Alex Miller)
Community / Events
- 64 SQL Server MVPs Contribute to Book and Spread Smiles around the World (MVP Award Program)
- Free OpenWrap workshop Saturday 10th December in Lier, Belgium (Sebastien Lambla)
- Central and West Region Developer Events (MS Pubic Sector Team)
- New Orchard User Group–Dec. 15th (Jim O’Neil)
- MVP Summit First Timers, I’ve got a webcast for you (Denny Cherry)
Database
- Find Last Run Query in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – Bad Practice of Using Keywords as an Object Name – Avoid Using Keywords as an Object (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Advent 2011 Day 9: Dynamic TOP (Denis Gobo)
- SQL Server Integration Services tools to have – Expression Editor & Tester and Red Gate’s new SQL Index Manager (Ted Krueger)
- What the Users Want: Ad Hoc Reporting (Jeremiah Peschka)
- XQuery Lab 65 – Restructuring an XML document using FLWOR (Jacob Sebastian)
- Have You Found the Pony in Your Data? (Data Explorer Team)
SharePoint
- SharePoint 2010 – Boundaries and Limits (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
PowerShell
- Powershell Snapins with SQL 2012 (Martin Bell)
Miscellaneous
- Bill Gates to return as Microsoft’s white knight? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Sorry, Folks, Bill Gates Is Not Coming Back to Microsoft (Ina Fried)
- Microsoft issues take-down notice for our Xbox 360 dashboard review (Joe Wilcox)
- Christmas Gift Ideas For Software Developers (James Sugrue)
- You probably don’t need a Twitter client, just learn the hotkeys in New Twitter (Scott Hanselman)
- Out of the Box: 6 tricks for personalizing your Windows Phone (Juliette Guilbert)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 8, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – December 9 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Daily News Digest 12/9/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #999 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/08/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- Windows Dev News for December 08, 2011 – #0008 (Dave Campbell)
- Weekly Badass JS Roundup #3 (Devon Govett)
- Daily WP7 Development News 8 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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