Sorry for the formatting today. I don’t have my latest Live Writer plugin code on this machine yet.
Top Links
- 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #10: Toast Notifications and 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #11: Lock Screen Apps and 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #12: Background Tasks (Jeff Blankenburg)
 - It’s still essential! (Eric Lippert)
 - Code Formatting Improvements in ReSharper 7.1 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
 - Updates to our Azure Cross Platform tools (Glenn Block)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Obtaining the Last Inserted Identity in Any Session (Richard Carr)
 - C# Async Named Pipes (Nemo1966)
 - Visual Source Safe Upgrade Tool for Team Foundation Server (Zain Naboulsi)
 - OData Security Using The Command Table Pattern And Permission Elevation (Michael Washington)
 
Web Development
- Secure ASP.NET Applications with Identity and Access Tool (Anand Narayanaswamy)
 - HTML5 Windows 8 Training: Presentation, and Resources Available (Doris Chen)
 - jQuery-validate error messages in Twitter bootstrap tooltips (Jef Claes)
 - SimpleMembershipProvider in MVC4 for MySql, Oracle, and more with LLBLGen (Matt Cowan)
 - State Management in ASP.NET – Introduction (Sachin Gargava)
 - Azure Mobile Services, Part 3 (Eric Vogel)
 - 5 Rules For API Management (Alex Williams)
 - Baby Steps to Backbone.js: Model Validation (Alexander Beletsky)
 - Single Page Apps – Live at the LinkedIn .NET User Group (John Papa)
 - WebRequest.GetResponseAsync (with timeout) for PCL (Matt Hamilton)
 - 20 All Too Common Coding Pitfalls For Beginners (Patkos Csaba)
 - Code review of a Publish/Subscribe Architecture using SignalR in Home Automation – Part 4 (Eric Hexter)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How to manage unit tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 : Part 1–Using Traits in the Unit Test Explorer and New Visual Source Safe Upgrade Tool is Available! (Charles Sterling)
 - Midbook patterns crisis: Façade is and ain’t (Oren Eini)
 - How we handled our branches during our TFS to Git migration (Derik Whittaker)
 - Why do we do Continuous Integration? (James Betteley)
 - My comments about “20 controversial programming opinions” (Jeremy D. Miller)
 - White Paper: Getting Started with Test Automation (Jim Holmes)
 - Some foundational ideas for automated testing (Josh Arnold)
 - Friday with Filip – Know your tools (Filip Ekberg)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- What C++ Means to Windows Phone 8 (Keith Ward)
 - Implementing Coupons and Memberships using the Windows Phone 8 Wallet: Part2 Memberships (Windows Phone Geek)
 - WPF: Timers (Ilya Verbitskiy)
 - Building Location-Aware Apps for Your Surface RT and A CoverFlow Control for Windows 8 and Your Surface RT (Jeff Prosise)
 - A fix for the design time error in MVVM Light V4.1 (Laurent Bugnion)
 - Solving WinRT XAML GridView Performance Problems on RT Tablets (mikoskin)
 - Sometimes coding a solution is faster than finding one: Simple Webcam app in Silverlight 5 and Building quality Windows 8 apps: Important pre-submission checks for your Windows Store apps (Pete Brown)
 - 2000 WPF Things #688 – Moving an Element with the Mouse (Sean Sexton)
 - When Making Apps, It’s the Little Things That Matter… (Shayne Boyer)
 - Increase monetization by adding in-app purchase to your apps (Bernardo Zamora)
 - Azure Mobile Services Now Supports Windows 8 (Matteo Pagani)
 - Installing an application on Windows RT for testing is simple pimple (Eric Nelson)
 - Building Windows Store games with the Unity engine and Windows Store app development for iOS developers (Jaime Rodriguez)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 239: Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell on The .NET Rocks Road Trip (David Giard)
 - IWP46 | Intro to In-app Purchase on WP8 | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
 - Major Nelson Podcast Show 457: Halo 4 and Skyfall (Larry Hyrb)
 - What the Tech 140: In My Opinion and Windows Weekly #286: I Like It Differently (Paul Thurrott)
 - TWC9: Windows Phone 8 is GR8! Plus Windows 8, VS2012 Extensions and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Mark DeFalco)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Zach Braff and The Nerdist Podcast – Eric Idle, Eddie Izzard, Billy Connolly and Sophie Winkleman (Chris Hardwick)
 - The Tablet Show – Mark Miller Digs Deep on Modern UI Design (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - SE Podcast #36 – We Got Hit by a Hurricane (Alex Miller)
 - Integrating Windows Azure Web Sites with an On-Premises Database | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
 - The Vergecast 054 – November 8th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
 - SitePoint Podcast #187: Louis Goes to the Horse Race (Karn Broad)
 - Engadget Podcast 316 – 11.09.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 - On The Verge, Episode 010: Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley, Polygon’s Chris Plante and Russ Frushtick, and Paul’s trip to NASA (Ross Miller)
 
Community / Events
- SQL PASS Summit 2012 in Review (Tim Mitchell)
 - Stupid Question 78 (Öredev conference special): Does it matter that we don’t have so many female programmers? and Stupid Question 79 (Öredev conference special): What are the top ten things I learned from talking to over 100 junior developers? (Iris Classon)
 - Our 97-year-old Geek of the Week on his favorite apps — and his sudden fame (Todd Bishop)
 - On-line Windows Azure Conference–Nov 14th (Jim O’Neil)
 
Database
- Create SQL Server Analysis Services Partitions using AMO (Daniel Calbimonte)
 - Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Product Guide (MS Downloads)
 - What MAXDOP setting should be used for SQL Server (Matteo Lorini)
 - Why SQL Server Named Instance connect without specifying instance name ? (Rohit Garg)
 - SQL SERVER – Beginning New Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #002 and SQL SERVER – Changing Default Installation Path for SQL Server and SQL SERVER – Get Free Books on While Learning SQL Server 2012 Error Handling (Pinal Dave)
 
SharePoint
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- How outraged should you be about ads in Windows 8 apps? Not at all (Ed Bott)
 - From iPad to Surface – Day 9: Favorite Fridays >> Windows Phone App (Nick Landry)
 - Ray Wenderlich and My Adventures in iOS (Colin Eberhardt)
 - Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 preview coming tomorrow (damaster)
 - Small Basic Tutorial: Creating Your First Program (Ed Price)
 - Windows 8 on a multi-display desktop PC without a touch screen: the Logitech T650 touch pad and How-to: Name Start Page groups in Windows 8 (Pete Brown)
 - I Backed The Ruby 2.0 Walkthrough on Kickstarter and So Should You (Rob Bazinet)
 - Windows 8, Step 0 – Turn on continuous backups via File History and The Internet is not a black box. Look inside. (Scott Hanselman)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: November 10, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 11, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Distributed Weekly 180 (Scott Banwart)
 - Geek Reading November 9, 2012 (Rob Diana)
 - Double Shot #999 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Friday Five–November 9, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
 - Collective #37 (Mary Lou)
 - Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #44) (Himanshu Singh)
 - The Morning Brew #1230 (Chris Alcock)
 - Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-11-12 (Dan Rigby)
 - Pie in the Sky (November 9, 2012) (Brian Swan)
 - Daily Windows 8 Development News 9 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 9 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (11/9/2012) and Daily News Digest 11/9/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - Visual Studio ALM links week 45/2012 (Ricci Gian Maria)
 
The Geek Shelf
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Essential C# 5.0 (4th Edition) (Microsoft Windows Development Series): Mark Michaelis, Eric Lippert: 9780321877581: Books