Top Links
- NuGet Project Uncovered: Nukito and NuGet Project Uncovered: Disruptor-net and NuGet Project Uncovered: SpecsFor (Jason Jarrett)
 - Can Microsoft overcome the smartphone app gap? (Skip Ferderber)
 - The generalization of “NoSQL” (Kelly Sommers)
 - Find the jQuery Bug #4: Animations Gone Wild (Elijah Manor)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Reflecting Fields (Richard Carr)
 - Limit your abstractions: You only get six to a dozen in the entire app (Oren Eini)
 - Cross-platform .NET – try it! and How important is cross-platform development to you? (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - Using T4Scaffolding to Create DbContext and Repository from Domain Classes (Julie Lerman)
 - TF200035 Sync error for identity with TFS 2010 (MrHinsh)
 - Understanding and Implementing Abstract Factory Pattern in C# and Understanding and Implementing Factory Method in C# (Rahul Rajat Singh)
 - C# Performance: new vs Func vs Activator.CreateInstance() (Steve Wilkes)
 - Linq Challenge in C++ (Tom Hines)
 - Json.NET 4.0 Release 8 (CodePlex)
 - ReSharper live template for an INPC property (Andreas Hammar)
 - “Windows 8 Metro Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed” Book Available For Pre-order (Ali Raza Shaikh)
 - Basic Auditing for Dynamic Data with Entity Framework 4.x (Steve Naughton)
 - What’s Coming in JustCode Q1 2012 (JustCode Team)
 - The Rat-hole of Object-oriented Mapping (Peter Ritchie)
 - Coding4Fun Kinect Toolkit v1.5 for v1 and Walking through learning how to use Microsoft Translator via a console app (Greg Duncan)
 - Using Self Referencing Tables With Entity Framework (Mike Ceranski)
 
Web Development
- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) AJAX Requests Between jQuery And Node.js (Ben Nadel)
 - jQuery Grid’s GroupBy. Just add a little JavaScript or ASP.NET MVC to taste! (Damyan Petev)
 - A Beginner’s Guide To jQuery-Based JSON API Clients (Ben Howdle)
 - The Future of JavaScript – take a peek today! (Andreas Rossberg & Michael Starzinger)
 - No need to cheat with these HTML5 Cheat Sheets (Tags, Event Handler Attributes) (Greg Duncan)
 - A NOT Wrox HTML & CSS book (Jim Minatel)
 - Building A Sweet CSS3 Image Gallery (Niels Matthijs)
 - Telerik OpenAccess ORM – ASP.NET Web Forms Video Tutorials (OpenAccess ORM Team)
 - An Introduction to HTML 5 Web Workers (Gerard Gallant)
 - Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC – An Introduction (Sumit Maitra)
 - Do You Exclusively Use webkit Prefixes? (Jeffrey Way)
 - What is worth noting in WebMatrix 2 (Vishal R. Joshi)
 - Create an Awesome Contact Page (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
 - Introducing easy-to-use Web Scraper : WebHarvy (Sreejith S)
 - Lose the Wait: HTTP Compression (Billy Hoffman)
 - Easily Test jQuery Pre-Release Versions (Dan Heberden)
 - #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Mobile Web – $17.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
 - Progressive And Responsive Navigation (Jeremy Hixon)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Justifying TDD/BDD & Technical Debt (David Henner)
 - Three Keys to Lasting Change (J.D. Meier)
 - [Agile Coach] – Thoughts on Keeping Teams High Performing (Peter Saddington)
 - Getting Rid of CQRS View Rebuilds (Rinat Abdullin)
 - Udi & Greg Reach CQRS Agreement (Udi Dahan)
 - The economics of continuous deployment (Oren Eini)
 - Finding a Better Way for Management (Shane Hastie)
 - Sins of the Project Manager (Bob McIlree)
 - Stakeholders for Organizational Change (Jurgen Appelo)
 - Outgrowing rhetoric-heavy business-facing tests and If I were an architect (Brian Marick)
 - TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 4: Sharing Common Code (Michael Sorens)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- A Case Study for Building Advanced Windows Phone Applications – Code Samples and Building Testable Windows Phone Applications – Code Samples and Developing a Windows Phone Application using the MVVM Pattern – Code Samples (MS Downloads)
 - What’s New in Open Source? (Peter Kuhn)
 - The Gradual Decline in Silverlight Adoption (Colin Eberhardt)
 - How to download and save images in WP7 Media Library? (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Posting To The Facebook Wall in Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight) and Uploading an Image to Facebook in Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight) (Matthias Shapiro)
 - The feedback loop (Rudi Grobler)
 - 2000 WPF Things #493 – Setting the Visibility of a User Interface Element (Sean Sexton)
 - WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.2 and Your Last About Dialog (YLAD) Version 1.4 (CodePlex)
 - Aviary bringing photo-editing tech to Windows Phone apps (Todd Bishop)
 - Microsoft LightSwitch and SQL 2012 (Bud Aaron)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 196: Mark Rendle on Simple.Data (David Giard)
 - Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 054 – “It’s So Hard, To Say Goodbye” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
 - Major Nelson Podcast Show 429: Warp, Alex Garden on Security and a farewell (Larry Hyrb)
 - Agile Project Portfolio Management Video Posted (Johanna Rothman)
 - Mash This – Hello World (Nick Berardi, Dustin Davis, Keyvan Nayyeri & Lee Dumond)
 - The Tablet Show – Todd Anglin on Kendo UI (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Hello, NSScreencast (Ben Scheirman)
 - New EF Validations Video on Pluralsight (Julie Lerman)
 - The Vergecast 017 – 02.10.2012 and Engadget Podcast 280 – 02.10.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 125 – 02.11.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Cloud Cover Episode 70 – Windows Azure Demos with Steve Marx (Wade Wegner)
 - Gillmor Gang 02.10.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
 - Recording of Webinar ‘Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer: Part 2’ by Gill Cleeren (Gill Cleeren)
 - Boagworld – Time to improve your print stylesheet (Paul Boag)
 - Windows Weekly 247: WOA Nelly! (Paul Thurrott)
 - Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 41 (Richard Hay)
 - ShopTalk Episode 5 (Chris Coyier)
 - TWC9: Windows 8, C++ Amp, NuGet, Mouse Mischief and more (Dan Fernandez, Duncan Mackenzie & Greg Duncan)
 - The JavaScript Show – Embedding V8 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
 
Community / Events
- Join the Belgian Experts and Microsoft Corp Product team for 12 hours of SQL Server 2012 (Katrien de Graeve)
 - SharePoint 2010 Development 8 day deep dive training in Oslo (Erwin van Hunen)
 - International Development Center Series: London (Anne Cheng)
 - DevConnections Coming – Lots to Talk About (Brian Noyes)
 - Why Microsoft is one of the best places to work: Employees gift $100M to non-profits (Thomas Kohnstamm)
 - Inside Microsoft Research: Malvar Elected as Member of NAE (Rob Knies)
 - 2011 Stack Overflow User Survey Results (Alison Sperling)
 - Follow Stack Exchange’s Windows Phone Proposal, Help Launch a Q&A (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Microsoft Windows Phone (WP7) Camps Now in your City, WP7Dev Get Ready (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Upcoming SilverlightShow Webinar: Windows Phone Raw Camera Access (Silverlight Show)
 - MADExpo Family Fun Feature #2 – Busch Gardens (Kevin Griffin)
 - Upcoming Web Design And Development Conferences For 2012 (Louis Lazaris)
 - To the cloud! (Jeff Wilcox)
 - Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Vishwas Lele, CTO at Applied Information Sciences (Himanshu Singh)
 - NHibernate Training Course In Mechelen, Belgium – April 23/25 (Davy Brion)
 
Database
- SQL Server Data Tools does support required variables (Jamie Thomson)
 - SQL SERVER – Solution – A Quick Puzzle on JOIN and NULL – SQL Brain Teaser and SQLAuthority News – Business Intelligence features of SQL Server 2012 RC0 – Download Virtual Machine and SQL SERVER – Building Interactive Reports in Quick Moments – From CSV to Excel Pivot Table – A Conversation turned to Webinar (Pinal Dave)
 - Difference between a cross join and a full outer join (Denis Gobo)
 - Making unit tests in SQL Server a first class citizen with Red Gate’s SQL Test (Troy Hunt)
 - First touch of RavenDb HTTP API (Gian Maria Ricci)
 - MERGE bug when Foreign Key constraint is created on non-clustered index (2008RTM) (Niikola Ilijev)
 - Cannot Generate SSPI Context Error (Shaun Stuart)
 
SharePoint
- Developing Secure BCS Connections with WCF Services for SharePoint Online & Windows Azure (Andrew Connell)
 - SharePoint administration pages and SharePoint Powershell try catch gotcha (Norgean)
 
PowerShell
- Manage Client Access Settings through PowerShell (Divya Gunasekaran)
 
Miscellaneous
- Updates on the Windows Phone Marketplace Requests (Scott Dorman)
 - Does the world really need "official" apps? (Bil Simser)
 - How much online privacy do you really have? Less than you think (Ed Bott)
 - Reinstaller: Install All Your Previously Downloaded Apps Automatically (Antonio Hernandez)
 - Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – February 2012 (Rob Diana)
 - Careers at Magenic (Rockford Lhotka)
 - Microsoft Press Deal of the Day – 13/Feb/2012 – Beyond Bullet Points (Tatworth)
 - Two Books of Inspiration for Developers/Engineers, Hero’s, and Personal History (Sam Gentile)
 - Windows Phone Business Cards (Jeff Blankenburg)
 - Recap of what we know about Windows Phone “Tango” (damaster)
 - Windows Phone in 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 11, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 12, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Pie in the Sky (February 10, 2012) (Brian Swan)
 - The Morning Brew #1042 (Chris Alcock)
 - Distributed Weekly 141 (Scott Banwart)
 - Interesting .NET Links – February 10 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
 - Double Shot #816 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - MVP Friday Five: February 10, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
 - Daily News Digest 2/10/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (2/10/2012) (Silverlight Show)
 - Reading Notes #33 (Franky)
 - ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-10 (Bob Rhubart)
 - Windows Dev News for February 12, 2012 – #0039 (Dave Campbell)
 - Everyman on a Metro App Boon, Your Own Community, VR Contacts, Just One Customer (Dave Burke)
 - Retrospective 71- Agile Coach, Transformations, Biz Roles (Peter Saddington)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 10 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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