Top Links
- Stack Exchange API V2.0 Public Beta (Kevin Montrose)
 - GUI REPL for Roslyn (Chris Sells)
 - Windows Phone Marketplace Has Reached 50,000 Apps (Antonio Hernandez)
 - Charlie Kindel, ex-Microsoft, posts thoughts on Windows Phone’s successes and failures (Chris Ziegler)
 - Shadowcasting in C#, Part Five (Eric Lippert)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Cancelling Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
 - Renaming Project Files in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
 - Integrating Red Gate SmartAssembly Into TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
 - VSColorOutput – Visual Studio Output Coloring Extension (Think "Adding color to the Build/Debug Output window text") and Virtual Postcard with Kinect and The Android Eye for the .Net Guy… The Android for .NET Developers Series by Dino Esposito (Greg Duncan)
 - StyleCop 4.7.0.0. is out (Tatworth)
 - Extending Unity (Robert May)
 - Features Nuget Would Benefit From (Paul Stack)
 - Why is the file size reported incorrectly for files that are still being written to? and Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Dragging out (Raymond Chen)
 - Yield Operator Fun (Sebastian Dau)
 - ReSharper 6.1: Improvements in IntelliSense Options (Hadi Hariri)
 - TPL – Continuation (Bnaya Eshet)
 
Web Development
- Control level request validation in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
 - Deploying a simple ASP.NET MVC 3 to Azure with SQL Server Compact (Al Pascual)
 - Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.41 (CodePlex)
 - Get Value of CSS Rotation through JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
 - Working with the JavaScript “this” Keyword (Dan Wahlin)
 - CSS3 Images Pre-Last Call WD Published (Elika J. Etemad)
 - Little HTML5 Round-up (Greg Duncan)
 - CSS3 Lightbox (Manoela Ilic)
 - Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Field and Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Method (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Microsoft helps extend JavaScript (Sara Allison)
 - Performance testing with Selenium and javascript (JP Castro)
 - Packaging a JavaScript Library with Nuget (Sumit Maitra)
 - Microsoft Developers finally get a .NET Framework for HTML5 Mobile Applications (Webgui)
 - Binding And Handling JSON Field In jQuery Repeater and 30 Minutes To Grasp ASP. NET jQuery Repeater and Using jQuery Repeater to Mark a Multi-line EMail Message As Spam and Show Progress (zoyobar)
 - Day 2 – GPU accelerate your DOM elements (Seb Lee-Delisle)
 - Windows Azure Trial Account Spending Limit and The New, Improved No-Risk Windows Azure Trial (Jim O’Neil)
 - Knockout.js Observable Extensions (Josh Bush)
 - Orchard Hands-On Lab available (Greg Duncan)
 - Making the First Letter Stand Out (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
 - Introducing filer.js (Eric Bidelman)
 - Deployment of Applications with Infragistics Reporting in Windows Azure (Mihail Mateev)
 - knockoutjs: Uncaught Error: ko.applyBindings: first parameter should be your view model; second parameter should be a DOM node (Alexander Zeitler)
 - PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0.1 Beta (Alexey Gopachenko)
 - Automating Docco Generation And Deployment To Heroku And Github and The Responsibilities Of The Various Pieces Of Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
 - First Experience Building Something With Clojure (Gareth Rushgrove)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- 5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today (Joel Semeniuk)
 - Introduction to bddify and Method name conventions in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
 - NOT Doing Scrum – Back to the Basics and Teams Over Processes – Don’t Be Insane (Peter Saddington)
 - Example of Self-documenting Unit Test with Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
 - Introducing the for-if anti-pattern (Raymond Chen)
 - 31 Days of Testing—Day 20: Refactoring a Monster Test, Part 2 and 31 Days of Testing—Day 21: Data Driving Your Functional Tests (Jim Holmes)
 - Sample XPath utility for Coded UI Test (Gautam Goenka)
 - How-To: Returning a Class By Value with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
 - Expanding your horizons: Actions (Oren Eini)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Testing Windows Phone 7 Apps with Typemock (Avi Kaye)
 - Silverlight & XNA – A Tale of Two Cities (Simon Jackson)
 - Adding the “Pinch-to-zoom” feature to your pictures with RadSlideView for Windows Phone (Georgi Atanasov)
 - 23 skins and counting with v1.1 of the Windows Phone 7.1(5) Emulator Skin Switcher and Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.5.0 Now Available… (Greg Duncan)
 - Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #2 – Installing PhoneGap and Getting Started (Senthil Kumar)
 - Book Review: Fun with Silverlight 4 authored by Rajesh Lal (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Real World Windows Phone Dev Part 4: The Panorama (Matt Hidinger)
 - Adding an Easter Egg to your WP7 Application (Michael Crump)
 - My Top Frameworks for Windows Phone Development (Pieter de Rycke)
 - 2000 WPF Things #458 – Properties to Set When Using a Horizontal or Vertical GridSplitter and #459 – Using Two (or More) GridSplitter Elements in the Same Grid and #460 – A GridSplitter Can Share a Cell with Another Control (Sean Sexton)
 - Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Final notes before the beta and Addition to the Coding4Fun Toolkit – MetroFlow (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - Caliburn.Micro: RadTransitionControl custom convention (Mikael Koskinen)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Steve McConnell Studies Development Practices and The Tablet Show – Richard Griffin Programs in WinJS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Simon Peyton-Jones and John Hughes – It’s Raining Haskell and YOW! 2011: Martin Thompson – On Concurrent Programming and Concurrency Folklore and GoingNative 5: Inside the Visual C++ IDE, Meet Raul Pérez (Charles Torre)
 - Technology & Friends Episode 189: Paul Litwin and Suzanna Moran on Geeks Giving Back (David Giard)
 - What The Tech 99: Wishlists and Predictions For 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
 - Gillmor Gang Live 12.28.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
 - Engadget Mobile Podcast 118 – 12.26.2011 and Engadget HD Podcast 280 – 12.27.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Let’s Play TDD #154: Save and Cancel… Done! (James Shore)
 - Gweek 032: Bitter Seeds and the Game of Go (Mark Frauenfelder)
 
Community / Events
- Changes, changes, changes and CodeMash 2.0.1.2 (Ted Neward)
 - Webinar: Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
 - OSS and .NET Year In Review 2011 (Phil Haack)
 - Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators (Kinect for Windows Team)
 
Database
- Dynamic Sorting in SSRS (Unknown Author)
 - SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: 15138 – The database principal owns a schema in the database, and cannot be dropped and SQL SERVER – Target Recovery Time of a Database – Advance Option in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Effect of Compressed Backup Setting at Server Level on Database Backup (Pinal Dave)
 - SQL Server Auditing: Creating a Database Specification (SQLArcher)
 - Free O’Reilly eBook "Oracle Essentials, 4th Edition" (Tatworth)
 - Case Sensitive search with SQL (koolprasad2003)
 - Performance Impacts of Unicode, Equals vs LIKE, and Partially Filled Fixed Width (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
 - Why Management Studio forces you to know SQL (Gian Maria Ricci)
 
SharePoint
- Three Degrees of the SharePoint Community Challenge (Joel Oleson)
 - Understanding Business Connectivity Services (SharePoint Developer Team)
 
Miscellaneous
- 10 New Year’s Resolutions Every Web Developer Should Make (Andrew Burgess)
 - Here are three Ruby functions… (Brian Marick)
 - Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone? (Chris Velazco)
 - The Case For Developer Platforms (James Yu)
 - Moving to the Cloud Part 2: Mostly Sunny (Chris Sells)
 - Preliminary Internet Explorer 11 and Internet Explorer 12 Release Dates (Vygantas)
 - Windows 8 Slate Review (Jeremy Likness)
 - iOS Rich Text Editing : Sample Project (Josh Garnham)
 - Learning Android: WebView character encoding (Mark Needham)
 - How Microsoft Can Fix Windows 8 in 2012 and Kindel: Yes, Windows Phone is Superior, But Here’s Why It’s Not Selling (Paul Thurrott)
 - So, just what IS the problem with Windows Phone? (Kip Kniskern)
 - My next year TOP5 wishlist for Windows media, WP7 and XBox teams in Microsoft (Gunnar Peipman)
 - Results of the reverse engineering poll – people do it, whether you want it or not (Dennis Delimarsky)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 26, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 27, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Cheatsheet: 2011 12.20 ~ 12.28 (yuanjian)
 - Interesting .NET Links – December 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
 - Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – #0016 and Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – 2 – #0017 (Dave Campbell)
 - Double Shot #781 and Double Shot #782 and Double Shot #783 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - 2011 Yearly Link Roundup (Jeremiah Peschka)
 - Daily News Digest 12/27/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 - Web Dev Tweets 22-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
 - The Morning Brew #1010 (Chris Alcock)
 - Backbone Fundamentals, Three.js Boilerplate, zoom.js and Node Roundup: Clarinet, Sandbox, actionHero and jQuery Roundup: jQuery-inlog, -prefix-free, jquery.animate-enhanced (Alex Young)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 28 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Recently in Web Development (December Edition) (Siddharth)
 - MVP Mondays: Popular Posts from 2011 (MVP Award Program)
 
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