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Top Links

• And The Winner Is, NuGet (Phil Haack)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #30: Gestures and 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #31: Charting Data (Jeff Blankenburg)
• More on Async Functions (Peter Ritchie)
• Pro and Con of Microsoft’s embracing HTML5 while ignoring Silverlight (Steven Hodson)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• PowerShell Inside of Visual Studio – NuGet (formerly known as NuPack) (Doug Finke)
• LINQ Quantifiers (Richard Carr)
• Queuing Systems and Distributed transactions with remote queuing system (Oren Eini)
• Sorting Lists with Null Values and Using the Call Stack Window and Setting Break Points in the Call Stack Window and Building a List of of Items with Child Items and SelectMany: Finding in a Child List (Deborah Kurata)
• App Stores, App Stores, App Stores… What if instead of selling to consumers I want to sell to Dev’s!? Wouldn’t it be interesting if there where a store for Dev’s in Visual Studio? A DevStore? There IS! (Or will be soon…) (Greg Duncan)
• How using AppFabric Auto-Start feature to avoid warm-up delays for IIS-hosted WCF Receive Locations (Paolo Salvatori)
• C# 5.0 Asynchrony – A Simple Intro and A Quick Look at async/await Concepts in the Async CTP (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• RavenDb Indexes : 1st Attempt (Mike Hadlow)
• Setting a Breakpoint with Code and Save Changes Before Building (Zain Naboulsi)
• Do not debug on daylight saving time switch (Daniel Fischer)
• Essential Books For Pretty Good .NET Developers (IN DEVELOPMENT, SUGGEST MORE!) (Scott Galloway)
• Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ (Ade Miller)
• PDC10: Mysteries of Windows Memory Management Revealed: Part Two (Tim Sneath)

 

Web Development

• Why is Microsoft suddenly so hot for HTML5? (Joe Wilcox)
• Using spark as a html/text rendering engine (Peter Eysermans)
• Windows Azure for PHP and Java (Jim O’Neil)
• Transparent CSS Sprites (Trevor Morris)
• Rendering beautiful graphs at http://rise4fun.com/agl (Jonathan de Halleux)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• SpiraPlan V3 Released – Updated Agile Tool (Peter Saddington)
• WCF Scenarios Map and ASP.NET Scenarios Map and Silverlight Scenarios Map and Microsoft Application Platform at a Glance and Windows Azure Scenarios Map (J.D. Meier)
• Time Spent Green (Steve Smith)
• Work Life Tip: The Decision Of Being Honest In Your Communication. (Rajiv Popat)
• How To: Run Coded UI Tests From Command Line (Shai Raiten)
• Experience Report: Feature Toggle over Feature Branch (Jay Fields)
• #region == Failcode (Code Inside Team)
• Should always we pay back Technical Debt? (Michael Norton)
• Composite Services Guidance – CTP1 (Francis Cheung)
• Hei Hei Grensesnitt (Greg Young)
• Getting Back to Basics: Introduction and Why (John Sonmez)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 App Submission Opens November 3 (Bruce Kyle)
• OData v2 and Windows Phone 7 (Chris Koenig)
• Microsoft Shifts From Silverlight to HTML5 (Christina Warren)
• Do You Still Believe In Silverlight? (Davy Brion)
• Flickr for Windows Phone 7 – prototype released (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Subclassing Silverlight Controls (Greg Gum)
• My position on the #Silverlight debate (Laurent Bugnion)
• Data Services on Windows Phone 7 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Adding Windows Phone Capability Detection to your Build Process (Michael S. Scherotter)
• A Small But Useful Tip (Sacha Barber)
• Visualizing InputScopes (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Is Silverlight Over? (The Good The Ok and The Bad) (Shai Raiten)
• That memory thing I promised you (Peter Torr)
• A Week with WP7 from an Android User’s Perspective and Post-PDC HTML5 v. Silverlight Debate (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Updated Version of Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements (Todd Brix)
• Live from PDC – Things You Need to Know before Building XNA Games for Windows Phone (Yochay Kiriaty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode #8 – Chris Longo (Dream.in.Code)
• Engadget Podcast 217 – 10.30.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 180: To The Cloud! (Paul Thurrott)
• WinExtra on Windows – Ozzie wanders off into the sunset. Wait who’s Ozzie? (Steven Hodson)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 13 (Richard Hay)
• Podcast: Panel discussion on mobile healthcare (Neil Versel)

 

Community / Events

• PDC 2010: Top 5 Reasons Why Microsoft Completely Screwed up their web strategy with HTML 5 (Bart Czernicki)
• Microsoft PDC 2010 Highlights (Day–1) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• PDC 2010 Day 2 (Christian Nagel)
• PDC 2010 – what was going on the last day? (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Database

• SQL Server on Power-Saving CPUs? Not So Fast. (Brent Ozar)
• T-SQL and SQL Server Administration Articles Link List – October 2010 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Minimum Maximum Memory – Server Memory Options (Pinal Dave)
• Half error message – Login failed for user ‘*’. Reason: Failed to open the explicitly specified database (Simon Sabin)
• Execute T-SQL Code Only on Certain Days (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Miscellaneous

• NYT: Microsoft buying chip firm (Todd Bishop)
• Dear Bob Muglia (Don Burnett)
• MSDN URL Cheatsheet – Locales, VS/.Net versions, Product Families, Devices and more… (Greg Duncan)
• Cloud computing talent: What is it? (Part 1 of 5) (Sandeep Sood)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 30, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 29, 2010 — #980 and Silverlight Cream for October 30, 2010 — #981 and Silverlight Cream for October 30, 2010 – 2 — #982 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 30, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Weekly Archive – From 3rd October 2010 to 31st October 2010 (Abhijit Jana)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development: Creating Games using XNA Game Studio 4 by Chris G. Williams