Top Links
- Windows Phone Native Series – Enumerating drivers (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - Tech Predictions, 2012 Edition (Ted Neward)
 - 31 Days of Windows Phone Metro Design | #1 Metro Design Principles and Metro Design Language (Arturo Toledo)
 - Structuring Unit Tests (Phil Haack)
 - Structuring your Unit Tests, why? (Oren Eini)
 - New MVVM Light templates with bug fixes (Laurent Bugnion)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- AggregateException.WithoutCancellations Method and Attaching Continuation Tasks to the UI Thread (Richard Carr)
 - Regions and navigation bar for F# in Visual Studio (Tomas P.)
 - Be Hip in 2012 with Sublime Theme/Colors for Visual Studio (Ryan Lowdermilk)
 - A lazy evaluation of F# Seq.groupBy for sorted sequences and Hadoop Binary Streaming and PDF File Inclusion (Carl Nolan)
 - Moving UIElements around in Metro (Dave Campbell)
 - ESE C#/C++ Toolkit v1.2 for Microsoft Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) (ESE is the database engine that’s been in the box since Windows 2000) (Greg Duncan)
 - Start Here!™ Learn Microsoft® Visual C#® 2010 by John Paul Mueller; O’Reilly Media (Mark Pearl)
 - Your First Metro style App in JavaScript (Chris Sells)
 - XmlWriter and lower ASCII characters (Rick Strahl)
 - Implementing Custom TPL Dataflow Blocks (Jonathan Allen)
 - A generic repository (Nathan Gloyn)
 
Web Development
- Why Use jQuery for Simple JavaScript Tutorials? (Louis Lazaris)
 - Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Constructor Body (Giorgio Sironi)
 - HTML 5 Geo-Location in ASP.NET MVC Web Apps (Part 1) (Sumit Maitra)
 - Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 7 – Writing your very own WordCount Hadoop Job in Java and deploying to Windows Azure Cluster and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 8 – Hadoop Map/Reduce Administration from command line in Cluster (Avkash Chauhan)
 - Using the Geolocation API (Rob Larsen)
 - Day 8 – Photo fun with CamanJS (Paul Neave)
 - Reducing Backbone Routers To Nothing More Than Configuration (Derick Bailey)
 - Create Hosted Service using Windows Azure Management API (Dhananjay Kumar)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile’s Coming of Age (David Starr)
 - Best Time To Write Code – Not the Holidays (Peter Saddington)
 - Microsoft Test Manager stuck in "waiting for test controller" state (Gautam Goenka)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.5.1 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Windows Phone’s Achilles’ Heel (Peter Kuhn)
 - Building a Windows Phone 7 App with Phone Gap (Don Burnett)
 - Microsoft to quash homebrew on Windows Phone? Not so fast (Mary Jo Foley)
 - WPF Language Translator (Meshack Musundi)
 - Windows Phone Developers: Get Your Metro Design Hats On (Paul Thurrott)
 - WP7 updates are cumulative, really? (Rohit Sharma)
 - 2000 WPF Things #463 – Multiple Parallel GridSplitters (Sean Sexton)
 - 2011 in review for Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - StatLight v1.6 is Out (Jason Jarrett)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Herding Code 130: Dave Weaver on Loggr – a realtime analytics service built with MVC MongoDB and SignalR (Jon Galloway)
 - YOW! 2011: Aslak Hellesøy – Web Sockets and Webbit and YOW! 2011: Bjorn Freeman-Benson – Software Psychology (Charles Torre)
 - Deep Fried Bytes Episode 80: Learn What You Need to Know about WinRT (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
 - Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 048 – “Crystal Balls” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
 - Geekadelphia_ The Podcast Episode 1 – Eric Smith Interview.mp3 (Dan & Jo)
 - The Tablet Show – Ronan Cremin Detects Mobile Devices (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Gillmor Gang 12.31.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
 
Community / Events
- Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
 - Congratulations to the First New and Re-Awarded MVP Awardees of 2012! (MVP Award Program)
 
Database
- Implementing SQL Server solutions using Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects – a compendium of project experiences (Jamie Thomson)
 - January 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist (Jason Strate)
 - A Better Way to Work with SSIS Variable Expressions (Melissa Coates)
 - SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Perspectives of an Author and SQL SERVER – Importance of ANSI ISOLATION Levels in SQL Server Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 1 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Significance of Various Kinds of Triggers- Quiz – Puzzle – 2 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
 - SQL Server Auditing: Managing Your Audits (SQLArcher)
 - Scripting data in SQL Server 2012 (Denis Gobo)
 - Do You Make These 5 Database Design Mistakes? (Thomas LaRock)
 - Creating dynamic pivot reports on SQL Server (Gunnar Peipman)
 - Survey results: How cluster key size can lead to GBs of wasted space (Paul S. Randal)
 - Displaying and Saving Unicode data in Visual FoxPro desktop application (Naomi Nosonovsky)
 - SQL Index Fragmentation and sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (Jack Vamvas)
 
SharePoint
- Product Review: harmon.ie for SharePoint – Increase Adoption and Simplify User Experience (Joel Oleson)
 - HTML 5: Predictions for the Future of Silverlight in SharePoint (Becky Isserman)
 
Miscellaneous
- Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators and A magic means to exit Windows Explorer without using Task Manager (or command line) (Greg Duncan)
 - MAME ported to Google Chrome (Jamie Keene)
 - Building the same app for iOS and Android (Billy Coover)
 - Learning Android: ‘Unable to start service Intent not found’ and Learning Android: Authenticating with Twitter using OAuth (Mark Needham)
 - Rise of the Popped Collar Programmer (Aaron Stannard)
 - Why Should You Become A Software Engineer (Rob Diana)
 - 30 Free Programming Books (Tatworth)
 - Windows Phone Running on a 10 Inch Tablet (Antonio Hernandez)
 - Rails Has Turned Me Into a Cannibalizing Idiot (Rob Conery)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 1, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 2, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Cheatsheet: 2011 12.29 ~ 12.31 (yuanjian)
 - Double Shot #786 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Catch Up on a Full Year of MVP Mondays (MVP Award Program)
 - Daily News Digest 01/02/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - Reading Notes #27 (Franky)
 - Windows Dev News for December 29, 2011 – #0019 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 19-25 (Dave Campbell)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 2 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 25-December-2011 to 31-December-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
 
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