Top Links
- Microsoft Codename “Data Explorer” Walkthrough (Data Explorer Team)
- Marketplace comes to China & India; also improves search and 7.0 & 7.5 app update options (Todd Brix)
- Designing search for the Start screen (Steven Sinofsky)
- How We Talk about EF and its Future Versions (EF Team)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Finding Clone Codes in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
- Thoughts on JustDecompile compared to Reflector (Dennis Delimarsky)
- All-In-One Code Framework Sample Browser v4 (aka Metro version) now Visual Studio Extension’d (Don’t leave your Visual Studio without it…) (Greg Duncan)
- Exploring Visual Studio 11 IDE – Solution Explorer New Features Part 1 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
- APress Deal of the Day – 19/Oct/2011 – Introducing .NET 4.0 With Visual Studio 2010 (Tatworth)
- Microsoft Biology Foundation Evolves into New Tool Kit: .NET Bio (Simon Mercer)
- Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat SDK (MS Downloads)
- Visual C++ and WinRT/Metro – Databinding Basics (Nishant Sivakumar)
- Template for generating POCO classes with Notify in Entity Framework 4.1 (David Sherwood)
- The Quick and Dirty EF 4.1 Code Generator (Colin Blair)
- "You are now up to date." [IfModifiedSinceWebClient makes it easy to keep a local file in sync with online content – and do so asynchronously] (David Anson)
- Capture, Transfer, and Rethrow Exceptions with ExceptionDispatchInfo [.NET 4.5] (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Naked Objects Release 4.0.110.0 (CodePlex)
- Things I love about .Net (Dru Sellers)
Web Development
- Facebook: Introducing HTML5 Resource Center (Matt Kelly)
- New! HTML 5 and CSS: Six Complete Lessons (Randy Guthrie)
- Optimize ASP.NET presentation (Mads Kristensen)
- A Web Standard for Notifications using JavaScript and HTML5 (Mitch Pronschinske)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Nested Conditionals with Guard Clauses (Giorgio Sironi)
- A JavaScript class pattern that starts with a function (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Drop Shadows in CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Handling PHP Sessions in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
- Site Pinning: Rotating Overlay Icons for Multiple Service Notifications (Rey Bango)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Respect is a Reflection and Personal Development Books Revisited (JD Meier)
- Which Program Team Are You Managing? (Johanna Rothman)
- How To Build An Agile UX Team: The Culture (Jeff Gothelf)
- Wrapping Up on the Feng Shui for Establishing a Culture of Innovation (Peter Saddington)
- Universal unit testing (browser, Node.js) with Jasmine (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Your ctor says that your code is headache inducing: Introduction (Oren Eini)
- Mocking Property Expectations with Moq (Richard Carr)
- Xbox Kinect Hub Remake – An Introduction To New User Interfaces (Doug Rathbone)
- Agile is for your WHOLE Business (Joel Semeniuk)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Implicit styles in Windows Phone 7 (Andreas Hammar)
- IoC for Windows Phone: Ninject (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
- A New Library for Building HTML5 Widgets for Windows Phone (Mitch Pronschinske)
- Expression Blend: Designing for usability (Pam Keesey)
- 2000 WPF Things #411 – Use HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment to Position Child Elements within a Grid (Sean Sexton)
- Facebook Graph API and Silverlight (Lazar Nikolov)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 022: The Fishbone Documentary (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Startup Success Podcast Show #123: Hal Ostrow, mistartuplawyer.com (Bob Walsh)
- Video on How to solve cross domain problem in Silverlight? (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Engadget HD Podcast 270 – 10.18.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- Defrag: Shortcuts, Multimonitor setup, USB Wifi Extender (Larry Larsen)
- The GeekDads Episode #102: Causation Does Not Imply Causality (Ken Denmead)
Community / Events
- The Microsoft Cookbook: Good food, good stories, good cause (Zoe Goldring)
- Sold out Windows Phone camps help students and professional developers publish their own apps (Dave Isbitski)
- PASS Summit 2011: A Picture Book (Jes Schultz Borland)
- MVPs Take Top Honors in Kinect for Windows Application (MVP Award Program)
Database
- SQL Server Denali CTP3 Demo VHD (MS Downloads)
- Upcoming SQL Server Training Webcasts (Brent Ozar)
- Monitoring SSRS report performance: Part 1 (John Pertell)
- SQL SERVER – A Simple Quiz – T-SQL Brain Trick (Pinal Dave)
- What does a SQL Server DBA need to check for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly? (Denis Gobo)
- Using sys.dm_exec_requests to find a blocking chain (William Assaf)
- Creating Views in Another Database (Bob Pusateri)
- Dropping a database – such a simple thing! (Martin Catherall)
- Extended properties of database objects (J. Verheul)
SharePoint
- What “The Far Side” can teach us about SharePoint (Mark Rackley)
Miscellaneous
- New Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions (Dominic Mazzoni)
- Getting Inherited Config Settings (Howard Dierking)
- What is SkyDrive waiting for? (Kip Kniskern)
- Microsoft closes in on delivering its own Hadoop competitor (Mary Jo Foley)
- Ominous Post (Matt Warren)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Codermetrics – $16.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #962 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting .NET Links – October 19 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Geek Reading October 18, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #732 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily Links 18/10/2011 (Jax)
- Daily News Digest 10/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 17-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/18/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2011 — #1159 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 18 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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