Top Links
- Exclusive: Microsoft’s LTE Plans for Windows Phone (Paul Thurrott)
 - ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Thursday, Dec 29th (Scott Guthrie)
 - Addition to the Coding4Fun Toolkit – MetroFlow (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - Shadowcasting in C#, Part Six (Eric Lippert)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework December Sample Updates (Jialiang)
 - New dotPeek Build: Base Types and Inheritors in Assembly Explorer (Jura Gorohovsky)
 - Free resources (audio, fonts, graphics, tools, etc) for Dev’s and your next app… and Education and Educational tools, open source style (Greg Duncan)
 - Dino Esposito: The O/RM and the chicken/egg dilemma (Devon Musgrave)
 - How To: Bulk edit action recording? (Gautam Goenka)
 - the concept of async await (Bnaya Eshet)
 - On mutable state (Brian Marick)
 - Practical Demonstration of Windows 8 Metro Style Application Lifecycle (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Dropping in (Raymond Chen)
 
Web Development
- Peer to Peer Chat Using HTML5 Web Socket and em-websocket and PubSub Chat Using HTML5 Web Socket and em-websocket (Amar Daxini)
 - JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 1) (Julian M. Bucknall)
 - Using PHP to HTML-ize Plain Text (Scott Eiler)
 - The async and defer Script Attributes in HTML5 (Gil Fink)
 - Subtyping JavaScript built-ins (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - HTTP Tools You Should Know About (John Sheehan)
 - Deploying independent web applications to Windows Azure using single web role (Gunnar Peipman)
 - Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 3 (Dan Wellman)
 - Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 1- Creating a new Windows Azure Cluster for Hadoop Job and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 2 – Creating a Pi Estimator Hadoop Job and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 3 – Creating a Word Count Hadoop Job with a few twists (Avkash Chauhan)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- From the All-in-One Framework team comes the Story Creator Sample Application for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure (Greg Duncan)
 - 2000 WPF Things #461 – Making a GridSplitter Look Three-Dimensional (Sean Sexton)
 - Binding Formatting (Jesse Liberty)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- GoingNative 5: Inside the Visual C++ IDE, Meet Raul Pérez and YOW! 2011: Dave Thomas on YOW!, Technoculture, Modern Programming, and More (Charles Torre)
 - Let’s Play TDD #155: Transitioning to SaveFile (James Shore)
 - Gillmor Gang 12.28.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang Live 12.29.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
 - Engadget Mobile Podcast 119 – 12.29.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
 - RavenDB videos on YouTube (Oren Eini)
 - Agile 2011 – Ward Cunningham – Agile Manifesto, 10 years later and the Federated Wiki (Agile Toolkit)
 - Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Auston Bunsen Interview (Ryan Parsley)
 
Community / Events
- There and Back Again – My Return to .Net Development (Scott C. Reynolds)
 - Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators (Kinect for Windows Team)
 
Database
- SSRS vs SCVMM – The Kerberos token dispute (Martin Hinshelwood)
 - SQL SERVER – Year End Brain Teaser – Disabled Login and Associated User Without Disabled User Red Arrow (Pinal Dave)
 - RedGate SQL Index Manager BETA (Tim Radney)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Research Cambridge: Year in Review (Andrew Blake)
 - Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone? (Chris Velazco)
 - Learning Android: Sharing with Twitter/the ‘share via’ dialog (Mark Needham)
 - Is the Windows Phone story “starting to come together”? (Kip Kniskern)
 - Windows Phone users: LTE models may be closer than you think (Mary Jo Foley)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Interesting .NET Links – December 29 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
 - 2011 Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
 - Fever Pitched Episode 6: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 28 December 2011 (Richard Hay)
 - Double Shot #784 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily News Digest 12/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 - The Morning Brew #1011 (Chris Alcock)
 - Windows Dev News for December 28, 2011 – #0018 (Dave Campbell)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 28 Dec 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 29 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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