Top Links
- Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ 2011 is Available Today (Jason Zander)
- ScriptTD: Tower Defense Made Easy (Clint Rutkas)
- WP7: Developers to get Mango RTM before release [Update: Its true!] (Owen Williams)
- Nobody’s Going to Help You, and That’s Awesome (Jeff Atwood)
.NET / Visual Studio
- This is my Favorite… VS 2010 Favorites Menu Extension and NUI for PowerPoint (Greg Duncan)
- Add Automatic Exception Reporting To Your .Net Software – Allow End-Users To Report Bugs Easily (G. Himangi)
- Order in Chaos: .NET Collections (Arik Poznanski)
- Refactoring and Profiling Python with Visual Studio (Jonathan Allen)
Web Development
- Sueetie Activity Popup Notification jQuery Coexistence (Dave Burke)
- Profiling ASP.NET website in Visual Studio with Performance Wizard (Zubair Ahmed)
- Merge sorting in JavaScript (Jef Claes)
- Handlers – A useful FubuMVC Convention (Josh Arnold)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Hide Delegate (Giorgio Sironi)
- Google App Engine Gets Support for Go (Abel Avram)
- Windows Azure is still a science project *sad face* (Scott Barnes)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Publishers and 5 Characteristics of the Innovation Personae (Peter Saddington)
- TeamCity – When 1 build agent just isn’t enough (Doug Rathbone)
- Macto: Once more from the top, I swear I had a few more over there (Oren Eini)
- Automated UI Testing – Part 1 – WatiN (Paul Stack)
- A Good Guide for Proper Programming – “The Principles of Good Programming” (Greg Duncan)
- Software Architecture: Quality Attributes (Todd Merritt)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Coding4Fun Toolkit with 2 new Tile controls and 1 new property helper! (Windows Phone Geek)
- Infragistics Debuts NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch (Infragistics News)
- Visual Studio LightSwitch availability (Somasegar)
- Using XamRibbon ButtonTool in MVVM applications (Ivo Evtimov)
- Drawing objects in Expression Blend (Alex Mukora)
- Windows Phone Toolkit–Date and Time Pickers and Windows Phone Fast Application Switching–Don’t Panic! (Jesse Liberty)
- Windows Phone “Mango” – Released to Manufacturing (Terry Myerson)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- How Do I: Work Around LINQ to DataSet Limitations in Visual Basic Device Projects? (MS Podcasts)
- C9 Lectures: Greg Meredith – Monadic Design Patterns for the Web 4 of n (Charles Torre)
- Let’s Play TDD #126: Following Patterns (James Shore)
- Pluralcast 47 : MSBuild with David Starr (Matt Milner)
- Developer Smackdown Musing #54: Kinecting with the Cosmos with Jonathon Fay, Dr. Mark SubbaRao & Michelle Yehling (Part 1) (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
- Blind Ambition–an ImagineCup documentary (Dennis Delimarsky)
Community / Events
- Women in Technology (Krishna Kumar)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Guest Post by Rick Morelan – Day 27 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- Slipstreaming of updates in Denali (Simon Sabin)
- SQL Server – "Denali" – End of Month using EOMONTH() (Vishal)
- Using database snapshots (Paul S. Randal)
SharePoint
- Profile synchronization guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
- Managing Visual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010 and How Do Get Solutions Files From Existing SharePoint Farm? (Joel Oleson)
- Office 365 Integration with SharePoint Intranet (Lightning Tools)
- SharePoint 2010 database maintenance whitepaper (Paul S. Randal)
- RTM’d today: MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Word Expert, Excel Expert, Access, and SharePoint Exams (Rosemary Caperton)
- Rapid Application Development Using InfoPath and BCS – Part 2 (Anweshi Deverasetty)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Camera Codec Pack (think “1.97 bazillion custom camera codec’s, one download”) + Windows Photo Gallery gets RAW (support) (Greg Duncan)
- Developer: Xbox Live Indie Games is not "a viable platform" (John Callaham)
- Console output with a transparent background color (Josh Poley)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Android Development – $17.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDJ4E (O’Reilly Media)
- Updated for 2011 – McDonald’s WiFi Guide with updates for Mac OS X Lion and Windows 7 and How to write or burn a CD (CD-R) that includes CD-Text with ImgBurn (Scott Hanselman)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: July 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Weekly Link Post 203 (Rhonda Tipton)
- Today’s Links (7/26/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- The Morning Brew #903 (Chris Alcock)
- SilverlightShow for July 18 – 24, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for July 26, 2011 — #1120 (Dave Campbell)
- Silverlight Cream Top 5 News for July 18-24, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily WP7 Development News 26 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily Links 26/07/2011 (Jax)
- Link dump for July 25th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
- Daily News Digest 07/26/2011 and Daily News Digest 07/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 25-Jul-2011 (Elijah Manor)
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