Top Links
- TFS alerts for changes to NuGet packages (Rory Primrose)
 - Adding Design Time (Blend and Visual Studio 2012) Support to the Windows Store App Blog Reader Sample (Peter Kellner)
 - What is missing from Windows Phone 8? About 20 Xbox games that no longer work. (Paul Acevedo)
 - 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #29: Application Lifecycle (Jeff Blankenburg)
 
Web Development
- Messaging with KnockoutJs (Kevin Logan)
 - Create a Custom JavaScript Event Without jQuery (Chris Love)
 - Will HTML Ever Be Replaced? (Craig Buckler)
 - Tips and tricks for Windows 8 JavaScript developer: creating a local full text search index (David Catuhe)
 - Loading KnockoutJS View Models from ASP.Net MVC, for faster page loads (Eric Hexter)
 - JustCode JavaScript Templates for WinJS (Phil Japikse)
 - DNN (yes, that DNN) v7.0 has been released… (Greg Duncan)
 - Using excel to access your Mobile Services data (Josh Twist)
 
XAML
- A Lap Around the Windows Phone 8 SDK (Nick Randolph)
 - Coded UI Test Support for WPF (Michael Crump)
 - Background Agent Expiry in Windows Phone 8 (Matt Lacey)
 - 2000 WPF Things #701 – Dragging an Image Between WPF Applications (Sean Sexton)
 - Is The Ease Of Windows Phone Development Ruining Its Image (Tim Murphy)
 - Increase your app reach with Windows Phone 7.8 (Todd Brix)
 - CODE Framework 4.0.21128.0 (CodePlex)
 - Generating sound at runtime using XAudio2 in a Windows Store app (Pete Brown)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Debugger Source Symbol Improvements in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Charles Sterling)
 - DebuggerDisplay Attribute in C# (Senthil Kumar)
 - How to help yourself when NuGet goes down and MyGet tops Vanilla NuGet feeds with a Chocolatey flavor (Xavier Decoster)
 - Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: OData – Part 2 (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - LUA Buglight 2.2 with support for Windows 8 (Aaron Margosis)
 - Why are there both FIND and FINDSTR programs, with unrelated feature sets? (Raymond Chen)
 - How to await a storyboard, and other things (Lucian Wischik)
 - RadioButtons and Lambda Expressions (Markus Pope)
 - MonoGame For Windows 8 Step 0 (Bill Reiss)
 - Confirmed hiccup upgrading build agents with Update 1 (Brian Harry)
 - Book “Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter” published! (Jakob Ehn)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Code Coverage in Microsoft Test Manager in Visual Studio Update 1 (Charles Sterling)
 - Gartner Enterprise Architecture Tools Magic Quadrant 2012 (Mike Walker)
 - Guidelines for Automated Testing: Defining Test Inputs (Josh Arnold)
 - If You’re Afraid of Your To-Do List, It’s Not Working (JD Meier)
 - A Windows 8 App Design Worksheet (Eric Gregory)
 - Automatic issue tags in Git commit messages (Erik Ogenvik)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Drawing in Android (Serge Desmedt)
 - C# to Objective-C – Part 7 : Namespaces (Stephen Zaharuk)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Scott Ambler Optimizes Agile (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - GoingNative 12: C++ at BUILD 2012, Inside Profile Guided Optimization | C9::GoingNative (Charles Torre)
 - What the Tech 143: No Perfect Cloud (Paul Thurrott)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Maria Bamford returns! (Chris Hardwick)
 - The Verge Mobile Show 027 – November 27th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
 - Scaling Agile with Continuous Delivery and Subversion [Video] (Jon Friedman)
 - Diving deep into C++ /CX and WinRT | Build 2012 (Marian Luparu)
 - Defrag: Reporting Bugs, Upgrades and Keys, Boot from VHD | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
 - Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 69 (Richard Hay)
 
Community / Events
- Upcoming Windows 8 Workshops at the Tysons Microsoft Store (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - I’m Now a SQL Server 2008 MCM! (Jason Strate)
 - SQL Contest – Win USD 300 Worth Gift – Cartoon Contest is Back (Pinal Dave)
 - Free Windows 8 App Development Training for iOS Developers (Doris Chen)
 - Learnings from Agile testing days 2012 (Sigurdur Birgisson)
 - What are the best and worst things about working at Microsoft? (MS JobsBlog)
 - Live from the Amazon Web Services re:Invent Conference (Paul Ballard)
 - GitHub Drinkup in Las Vegas (Shay Frendt)
 - Registration Opens for W3Conf 2013, W3C’s Developer Conference (W3C Staff)
 - Microsoft Research, FUSE Labs Internship Opportunities (Andrés Monroy-Hernández)
 
Database
- Getting started with Tabular Model in SQL Server 2012 – Part 1 (Arshad Ali)
 - SQL Server Management Studio: More than Meets the Eye (Jes Schultz Borland)
 - Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysreferences (Jason Strate)
 
PowerShell
- Using Powershell to Get and Update the AssemblyVersion information in your AssemblyInfo.cs file (Derik Whittaker)
 
Miscellaneous
- Surface RT users: Microsoft wants to hear from you (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Store 3 for 8… Three Windows Store App’s that teach you Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts (Greg Duncan)
 - Intel Ultrabook–Wrapup (Jesse Liberty)
 - The SitePoint Christmas Sale is ON! (Ricky Onsman)
 - How many people actually want to talk to their phones? (Robert Nyman)
 - Top PowerPoint Tips – What I’ve learned thus far on the Mac PowerPoint Team (Sara Ford)
 - Windows Blue: Microsoft’s plan to release a new version of Windows every year (Sebastian Anthony)
 - On Knowledge (Ted Neward)
 - Don’t Get Scroogled: Bing Launches Campaign for Honest Search to Help Shoppers this Holiday Season (Mike Nichols)
 - Microsoft says Windows Phone 7.8 update coming in ‘early 2013’ (Chris Welch)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: November 29, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Geek Reading November 28, 2012 (Rob Diana)
 - The Morning Brew #1243 (Chris Alcock)
 - The Daily Six Pack: November 29, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Daily Windows 8 Development News 28 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 28 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
The Geek Shelf
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Agile Coaching: Rachel Davies, Liz Sedley: 9781934356432: Books
Professional ASP.NET MVC 4: Phil Haack,Jon Galloway,K. Scott Allen,Brad Wilson,Scott Hanselman: Kindle Store
C# 5.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference: Joseph Albahari,Ben Albahari: 9781449320102: Books