Top Links
- Getting Started with Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
- Run Your Unit Tests in Parallel to Maximize Performance (Steve Smith)
- Announcing OData T4 for C#, Preview 1 (Ahmed Moustafa)
- New Videos on CQRS/DDD and Practical CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
- What’s it like building apps for Windows 8? Developers speak out (Mary Jo Foley)
.NET / Visual Studio
- C# Puzzlers available for download (Bill Wagner)
- Northwind Starter Kit Review: From start to finishing–tracing a request (Oren Eini)
- Teams and TFS Groups in TFS11, the backlog, board and security settings. (Clemens Reijnen)
- .NET Demon Provides Continuous Compilation and Testing for Visual Studio (Jenni Konrad)
- C#, Async, Limits, oh my! (Peter Ritchie)
- Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview: Team Explorer My Work Page (Mickey Gousset)
- More on TPL Data Flow from Zlatko Michailov (Jonathan Allen)
- Building an English-Based Rules Engine in .NET with IronRuby Slides and Demo (Keith Elder)
- SkyDrive API Link Round-Up and A "Get right to work introduction to Lucene.Net" (Greg Duncan)
- Aggressive Inlining in the CLR 4.5 JIT (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Abusing the Microsoft Research’s Touch Mouse Sensor API SDK with a Console-based Heat-map (Scott Hanselman)
- Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent (Shawn Cicoria)
- Entity Framework 4.3 Gets Final Tune-Up — Enum Support Promised in 5.0 (David Ramel)
- Simple Microsoft™ CAB Sample (Tom Puglisi)
- Timeouts for long running operations… (Marlon Grech)
Web Development
- HTML5 and validation issues with this blog (Julian M. Bucknall)
- Facebook App using DotNetNuke (Dave M. Bush)
- How Wikipedia uses HTML5 to save bandwidth (Jef Claes)
- From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference (Jeffrey Way)
- CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 2 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- JavaScript Pattern Roundup – Issue 1 (Shi Chuan)
- How To Integrate Facebook, Twitter And Google+ In WordPress (Kevin Muldoon)
- Tracking API usage with Google Analytics (Maarten Balliauw)
- Retrieving a Logged On User ID (Bunch)
- Just published my first node.js Windows Azure application (Eric Nelson)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Bliki: AggregateOrientedDatabase (Martin Fowler)
- TDD/BDD as Architectural Tools (James Kovacs)
- Article: Interview and Book Excerpt: Service Design Patterns (Jeevak Kasarkod)
- Coded UI Test and Microsoft Test Manager Survey (Shubhra Maji)
- The quickest and easiest “Getting Started w/ GitHub” article you’ll ever read! (Ryan Lowdermilk)
- Faceted Minimization: Simplifying the Sidebar Navigation (Anthony)
- "Re: I have a question about proving code correctness" (Frans Bouma)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- PhoneGap on Windows Phone Adds Support For Facebook, Twitter, Bing Maps, and More (Eric Genesky)
- How to host a Silverlight Application using JavaScript? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- 2000 WPF Things #477 – Default ZIndex Value for Child Elements of Canvas (Sean Sexton)
- Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #10 – Beep sound (Senthil Kumar)
- Free Ly: Expression Design, XAML and Expression Blend, why bother? (Surf4Fun)
- “Metro Done Right” according to my tweeps (András Velvárt)
- WPFSpark 1.1 (CodePlex)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- SharePoint Pod Show – Building a SharePoint team-Episode 69 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
- Full Stack Resumes–MVVM Design (Jesse Liberty)
- Visual Studio Achievements in 60 seconds (Dan Fernandez, Karsten J. & Golnaz)
- [Humor] – What Project Managers Say and Talk Like (Peter Saddington)
- Architecting Applications for Multiple UIs video now available! (Paul Sheriff)
- Blog Post: New and Improved Generator Overview Video (Autumn Wilkins)
Community / Events
- Join me at the ALM & Test days in Italy (Jason Zander)
- “I Gotta Get Me Some of That [Azure]” (Jim O’Neil)
- Thoughts on the Latest PASS Fracas… (Audrey Hammonds)
- Meet Abhishek Sur – Client App Dev MVP from India (Ali Raza Shaikh)
- Microsoft International Development Centers (Anne Cheng)
Database
- Use VALUES clause to get the maximum value from some columns [SQL Server, T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)
- SSRS Tip: Hide a tablix if no rows returned (Jen McCown)
- SQL SERVER – MERGE or INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE – Quiz – Puzzle – 19 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- How I use PowerShell to generate table output for blog posts from query results (Denis Gobo)
- SQL Server – Powershell Excel to HTML (Jack Vamvas)
- Could not find stored procedure ‘sp_ExecuteSQL’ (Ted Krueger)
- SQL 2012 Database Engine Tuning Advisor: Now With More Plan Cache! (Thomas LaRock)
- RavenDB Sequential Number Generator (Nick Berardi)
SharePoint
- WebPartAdderExtension – a better way of deploying web parts (Chris O’Brien)
PowerShell
- Powershell Emailing Strings as attachments (Mike Koerner)
Miscellaneous
- Jobless rate for software developers: 4.4 percent (Greg Lamm)
- Microsoft has ‘perks galore’ but still lags behind Google (Jennifer Sokolowsky & Greg Lamm)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 138 (Scott Banwart)
- Double Shot #799 and Double Shot #800 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily Links 20 Jan 2012 (Jax)
- Daily News Digest 1/20/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily and Weekly Front-End Dev Resources (Elijah Manor)
- The Morning Brew #1026 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-19 (Bob Rhubart)
- Daily WP7 Development News 19 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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