Top Links
- Reactive Extensions 6/5/2011 release available (Rx team)
- Silverlight: The Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated! (Mike Brown)
- Building an HTML/HTML5… Based Application for Phone 7 (David Kelley)
- HTML 5 Host Application Framework for WP7 "MANGO” (Don Burnett)
.NET / Visual Studio
- OSX Style Checkboxes in C# (shelby67)
- Ordering data in LINQ Queries by more than one column (Abhijit Jana)
- Coded UI Test: Convert Normal CUIT to Data Driven CUIT using Visual Studio 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
- VS2010 Tip – How to Launch ILDASM from VS2010 IDE (Hima)
- Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010 – Review (Mike Fourie)
- Constructing a framework for the TFS Automation Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Wifi Network Backup Manager Utility (Shai Raiten)
- Implementing Storage Abstraction Layer to Support Very Large Messages in Windows Azure Queues (Valery Mizonov)
Web Development
- MyCollegeMyFriend – An Open Source Project developed using ASP.NET 2.0 – Dot Net logiX (Rahul Saxena)
- Keeping track of indexes while dragging in jQuery ui.sortable (Mats Lindh)
- Run “IIS Express” and “Cassini” simultaneously in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Abhijit Jana)
- Quick Tip: Entity Framework DB Initialization with ASP.NET Providers (Mike Brown)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Geolocation – Only $6.49 w/code DDGEC (O’Reilly Media)
- Object Auto Documentation – JavaScript (Vladimir Carrer)
- What you should know about HTTP pipelining (Brian Bondy)
- MVC3.1 Scaffolding Magic with Database (or Model) First , Not Just Code First (Julie Lerman)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Unit Testing for the Agile Developer (Avi Kaye)
- Focus with Skill and Focus is the Key to Success at Microsoft (JD Meier)
- Verifying the Number of Calls to a Mocked Method (Richard Carr)
- Learning and Growth (Dru Sellers)
- Out of calibration (Eric Brechner)
- Test Driven Development in PHP (Eric Hogue)
- Running NUnit in the Windows Azure Emulator (J.P. Hamilton)
- Content Chunking: Designing Clear, Memorable Web Pages (Anthony)
- Effective Tests: Custom Assertions (Derek Greer)
- The evil tricks of “It Works On My Machine”, in reverse (Oren Eini)
- Convention Based Filters (John Teague)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 11 – Application State Management (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Reading Data from WCF Data Service in Silverlight 4 (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 2) (Michael Crump)
- Silverlight 5: Vector and Bitmap Printing for Reports and more (Pete Brown)
- Silverlight 5: Extending the Trusted Application model to the browser and HTML 5 (Surf4Fun)
- LightSwitch Things For Sale and I Want To Make Cars Not Car Engines and Silverlight DataTrigger is the Answer to View Model / MVVM Issues (Michael Washington)
- Useful Mango Developer Resources (Jaime Rodriguez)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 160: Charles Petzold on History and Science (David Giard)
- Windows Weekly 212: You’re Just Wrong Leo (Paul Thurrott)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 020 – “Would You Like Xbox With That?” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- The GeekDads Episode #93: We Are Even Awesomer This Year (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
- 15 for 365 – 15 Videos Office 365 for IT Pros (Greg Duncan)
- TWC9: The Nic-&-Tina-Have-Nothing-Intelligent-To-Say Edition (Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 19 (Richard Hay)
Community / Events
- Agile2011 and Other Speaking Dates (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Velocity 2011 is underway (O’Reilly Media)
- FREE Windows Phone Development Webinar Series Starts in June and July (Windows Phone Geek)
- Windows Phone Garage – Greenville, SC on 6/17/2011 and DevExpress webinar series for Windows Phone (Chris G. Williams)
- Microsoft’s Silence is Infuriating .NET Developers (Jonathan Allen)
Database
- Should SQL Server Denali Run on Windows XP? (Brent Ozar)
- SELECT 101 FAQ’s FROM SQL Server Community INSERT INTO Free eBook (185 pages, PDF) (Greg Duncan)
- SQL Server–Partitioning FILESTREAM data with RANGE LEFT does not work (Jacob Sebastian)
- Concatenate Strings in SQL Server – Different ways (Madhivanan)
- SQL SERVER – Integration Services Balanced Data Distributor – SSIS Balanced Data Distributor and SQL SERVER – PHP on Windows and SQL Server Training Kit and SQL SERVER – Extending SQL Azure with Azure worker role – Guest Post by Paras Doshi (Pinal Dave)
- Don’t touch that Maintenance Plan Job (Adam Mikolaj)
- Non use of persisted data (Dave Ballantyne)
- Database Documentation with a Data Dictionary Part 2 (Andrew Zwicker)
Miscellaneous
- Mozilla is all set to release Firefox 5 on June 21 (Windows Valley)
- Sneak Peak at the UXMagic App for WP 7.1 (Don Burnett)
- Didn’t Microsoft already do that Wii U thing? (Steven Hodson)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #871 (Chris Alcock)
- Link dump for June 9th and Link dump for June 10th and Link dump for June 11th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
- Web Dev Tweets 9-Jun-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Links of the week #152 (David Vidmar)
- Everyman on Influencers, Gaming vs Reputation Systems, Trusting in Facebook, Alvin meets Orson (Dave Burke)
- Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 05-June-2011 to 11-June-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- My Picks This Week (weekly) (Krish)
- Silverlight Cream for June 12, 2011 — #1104 and Silverlight Cream for June 12, 2011 – 2 — #1105 (Dave Campbell)
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