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Top Links

• Introducing Code Map in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP (Charles Sterling)
• Knockout 2.2.0 released (Steve Sanderson)
• Understanding the Microsoft Surface (a sort of Review) (Hal Berenson)
• Prepare for Hurricane Sandy with Google’s Crisis Map (Jeff Blagdon)
• Announcing Windows 8 on Channel 9! (Jeff Sandquist)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 4 for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2010 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• dhtmlxSpreadsheet 2.0 Released with New Features and Improvements (Unknown Author)
• Download Orchard 1.6 CMS – ASP.NET MVC 4 NHibernate 3 and MySQL and Stripe Integration with Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
• IgniteUI jQuery Grid Unbound Columns: Updating and Hierarchy (Damyan Petev)
• Telerik’s Major ASP.NET Data Visualization Controls in a New Sample App (Marin Bratanov)
• Using F# Records with ASP.NET Web API (Daniel Mohl)
• Adventures In JavaScript (Jesse Warden)
• Validating JavaScript code with JSDoc types annotations (Konstantin Ulitin)
• Client certificate authentication in ASP.NET Web API and Windows Store apps (Piotr Walat)
• ASP.NET Web Forms Application (2012) Templates on Visual Studio 2010 (Pranav Rastogi)
• Wrapping ASP.NET Client Callbacks (Ricardo Peres)
• Backbone.js – Creating a RESTful CRUD Application (Sagar H. Ganatra)
• Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript (Stephen Walther)
• MSDN article on jQuery Mobile (Wally McClure)
• Using Fiddler To Replay an AJAX (xmlhttp) Request (Peter Kellner)
• Going Long On Markdown (Alex Kessinger)
• Introducing TypeScript support for Ignite UI (Angel Todorov)
• Web Performance Optimization Resources (Chris Love)
• Essentials: Utilizing User Roles In WordPress (Daniel Pataki)
• ASPNET WebAPI REST Guidance (Josh Reuben)
• Meet Bower: A Package Manager For The Web (Andrew Burgess)

 

XAML

• Sacha Barber shares his WPF/RavenDB/MVVM Diagram Designer application and Some tips, information, libraries, and tools for building a video consumption app for Win8 (Greg Duncan)
• Example Windows Store App /WinRT: Adding and using Bing Map (Iris Classon)
• 2000 WPF Things #678 – Hide an Element from the Mouse with IsHitTestVisible Property (Sean Sexton)
• Know Your Users – Windows 8 Store App System Info (Rene Schulte)
• Windows Store App Development Snack: Don’t Ask for the SMS Code in Dashboard (Robert MacLean)
• Remote Debugging your Windows Store app on your Surface (Tim Heuer)
• Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 7) – Integrating Application Bar (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML – Full Source Chapters 1 – 10 for Windows 8 Fix 001 and Player Framework for Windows 8 (Preview 7) (CodePlex)
• Working with external storage devices from Windows 8 apps (Andrei Marukovich)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Decompile with a Bang! (JustDecompile Team)
• 8 things you probably didn’t know about C# (Damien Guard)
• Quick Response Sample – Command line utility to create TFS Branch Scenarios (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Configuring NLog , a learn curve flattening guide (Greg Duncan)
• Stupid Question 68: What do we use partial classes for? (Iris Classon)
• Useful WatiN Extension Methods (Steve Wilkes)
• Metadata file could not be found in a solution path with escaped spaces (Troy Hunt)
• Displaying Randomly Selected Images (Jonathan Wood)
• WMI cheat sheet and link to MSDN documentation (Osama Sajid)
• Modeling Several Boolean Attributes Using a Junk Dimension (Martin Mason)
• MSBuild Extension Pack – October 2012 (Mike Fourie)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Tests Don’t Find Bugs: the Death of QA (Shannon Behrens)
• A Single-Pass Sequence for Testing (Richard Carr)
• Design patterns in the test of time: Prototype (Oren Eini)
• Fighting the burn out (Josh Arnold)
• Retrospectives: An alternative safety check (Mark Needham)
• How to Test Your Windows 8 App Before Submitting to the Store (Jared Bienz)
• Initial thoughts on some new-fangled things part 1 (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Windows 8 App Development: Resources for iOS Developers (Bob Familiar)
• Data Paging using the Windows Azure Mobile Services iOS client SDK (Ralph Squillace)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 236: Samidip Basu on Moving between devices (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 455: NBA2K13, MOHW, NFSMW and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Podcast: Surface, iPad mini and Rover.com, with our cutest in-studio guest ever (Todd Bishop)
• Video: Test Your Unit Tests with Intellitrace (Paul Ballard)
• Part 1: Series Introduction | Windows Store apps for Absolute Beginners with C# (Dan Fernandez & Bob Tabor)
• C# Part 1: Create a Hello world app | Build your first Windows Store app (Dan Fernandez, Golnaz & Jim Walker)
• JavaScript Part 1: Create a Hello world app | Build your first Windows Store app (Dan Fernandez, Golnaz & Mike Jacobs)
• The Tablet Show – Billy Hollis on the UX of Tablets (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer and The Nerdist Podcast – Anthony Edwards (Chris Hardwick)
• The Vergecast 052 – October 26th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• TWC9: Windows 8 Launch Spectacular | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez, Duncan Mackenzie & Greg Duncan)
• SitePoint Podcast #185: CSRF is the New SQL Injection (Karn Broad)
• Windows Weekly 284: Unbox That Surface (Paul Thurrott)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 67 or the Compromised and Confused Product Show (Richard Hay)
• Engadget Podcast 315 – 10.26.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 156 – 10.27.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• How to watch our Windows Phone 8 event (Michael Stroh)
• Happy Birthday, Mr. Gates! (Christopher White)
• Top 3 Reasons Why You Need to Attend the Mashable Media Summit (Tania Kasongo)
• A Banner Year for Microsoft and MVPs: The View from Brazil (Mike Hickman)
• Web Unleashed 2012 Speaker Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ & LinkedIn Accounts (Jon Gallant)
• Philadelphia mayor launches Startup PHL: Should Seattle follow a similar path? (John Cook)
• So if you were at BUILD, what would you want to see/hear about/etc? Need a proxy BUILD dev geek? (Greg Duncan)
• DreamIt Ventures Partners With Microsoft To Offer BizSpark To All Of Its Startups (Frederic Lardinois)

 

Database

• Steps to Check the Host Name for a Clustered SQL Server Instance (Jugal Shah)
• SQL SERVER – Storing Variable Values in Temporary Array or Temporary List and SQL SERVER – Move Database Files MDF and LDF to Another Location and SQLAuthority News – Windows Efficiency Tricks and Tips – Personal Technology Tip (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Community Extensions 2.1 Production (CodePlex)
• WMI cheat sheet for PS users (Osama Sajid)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft releases Windows Phone tool for Windows 8 (Rich Edmonds)
• 24 Hours with Surface (Omar Shahine)
• The Windows Store is open (Antoine Leblond)
• Box: Building for Windows 8 (BJ Thompson)
• I Give The Microsoft Surface The Big Thumbs Up! (Chris Love)
• Stupid Question 67: What was the advice given to first year developers? (Iris Classon)
• MSDN Magazine November Issue Preview (Michael Desmond)
• Most useful developer tools: Notepad++ (ThisCouldBeUseful)
• How to get WinRT apps to run on Win7 (Rockford Lhotka)

 

More Link Collections

• Distributed Weekly 178 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading October 26, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #988 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #35 (Mary Lou)
• Reading Notes #68 (Frank)
• Pie in the Sky (October 26, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #1220 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-29 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 10/26/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (10/26/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for October 25, 2012 – #0137 (Dave Campbell)
• Visual Studio ALM Links week 43/2012 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Weekly Windows Phone Development News 22 Oct – 26 Oct 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 26 Oct 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #42) (Himanshu Singh)

 

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