Top Links
- MonoTouch: Past, Present, and Future (Brent Schooley)
- And we are back: Mono 2.10.3 (Miguel de Icaza)
- A bit more details on compiler Roslyn plans… (Patrick Smacchia)
- Coding4Fun: Where’s My Car? (Arian Kulp)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 4 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- A brighter TFS future? (Jimmy Bogard)
- New book: Microsoft Access 2010 VBA Programming Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
- Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part VI (Luca Bolognese)
- VS2010 – Debugging not working (Peter Gfader)
- How to use a WCF custom channel to implement client-side caching in a Windows Azure-hosted application (Paolo Salvatori)
- C#: DateTime to Midnight datetime (Raghav Khunger)
- RadControls for WinForms Step-by-step tutorial: Updated (Telerik WinForms Team)
- Entity Framework 4.1 Update 1, Backward Compatibility and Microsoft (Oren Eini)
- Robosapien, I Kinect you… (Greg Duncan)
- dotCover 1.1.1 and dotTrace Performance 4.5.1 Released (Hadi Hariri)
Web Development
- Metro Skin for ASP.NET AJAX is now available (Senthil Kumar)
- Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 (Brad Wilson)
- ASP.NET MVC 3 Returns Garbage (Chris Eargle)
- Integrating MVC routes and Web API routes (Glenn Block)
- HTML5 Part 4: Using HTML5 while retaining support for older browsers (Jennifer Marsman)
- MVC Controls Toolkit 1.3.0 SP1 (CodePlex)
- Playing with the new Windows Azure Storage Analytics Features (Steve Marx)
- Multiple URL Binding with IIS Express (Abhijit Jana)
- Connecting Web Apps with Web Intents (Google Chrome Blog)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Bliki: SemanticConflict (Martin Fowler)
- Article: Agile Strategy Manifesto (Yogesh Kumar)
- Algorithmically Estimating Developer Time (Peter Saddington)
- Enterprise Architecture Goes To College, EA Becoming Academically Recognized and Offered (Mike Walker)
- Translating Code Smells in Server Smells (Patrick Debois)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- How to: Search for a Contact and get Contact Picture in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
- Using the “Copy Xaml” feature in Expression Design to create HTML5 SVG Path Data. (Michael Crump)
- WP7 Contrib – Bing Maps Rest API Wrapper Part III Search (Richard Griffin)
- Bing Maps Task (Jesse Liberty)
- 2000 WPF Things #358 – Binding a RadioButton to an Enumerated Type (Sean Sexton)
- Windows Phone SDK 7.1 – A developer review and Invoke the Windows Phone emulator console window without using the registry and How to access blacklisted apps in the Windows Phone emulator ROM (with the locked BIN image) (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Rapid Business Application Development with Visual Studio LightSwitch (Jenni Ripley)
- How to Retrieve WPF Visual Tree Programmatically ? and Writing a Stretchable ContentControl in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
- Understanding NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch – Using Range Sliders (Part 2) (Mihail Mateev)
- Catel – WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 MVVM toolkit – Release v2.0 (CodePlex)
- Hey, why is my ViewModelLocator not being called when creating a view? (Derik Whittaker)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Peter Torr and Application Multi-Tasking on Windows Phone "Mango" (Robert Hess)
- Silverlight TV 80: Reactive Extensions (John Papa)
- Video – What is Enterprise Architecture According to Industry Thought Leaders (Mike Walker)
- Deep Dive video: PowerShell Modules by Dan Harman (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Community / Events
- SharePoint Saturday in DC 8/11-8/13/2011 (Zhiming Xue)
- August 11th at Agile 2011: "Agile Tech Tree" Workshop and August 11th at Agile 2011: "Slackers and Debtors" Hands-On Session (James Shore)
- NRW Conf 2011 community conference: The doors are open (Daniel Fisher)
- Monospace, diary of an organizer (Louis Salin)
- Sample DBA Resumes (Brent Ozar)
Database
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (MS Downloads)
- SQL Server: Retreive all records between Two Rows of a Table without a Numeric Primary Key (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Finding un-matching Records – Day 5 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Server – ALTER COLUMN – Management Studio v. T-SQL (Vishal)
- "Select Top 1000 Rows" Doesn’t Show SPARSE Columns? (Larry Leonard)
SharePoint
- Continuous Integration for SharePoint 2010 (Mike Morton)
Miscellaneous
- How to Start Using VIM (Victor Savkin)
- Two New Free Xbox Live Games Next Week (August 10th) – Sudoku & Minesweeper (Antonio Hernandez)
- Thankyou Mr. Russinovich – Process Explorer 15 adds GPU monitoring (LearnWPF)
- How to publish your application to Android Installer (O’Reilly Media)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Google Power Search – Only $4.49 w/code DDWRS (O’Reilly Media)
- Paint.NET PSD Plugin – Release v2.0.0 (CodePlex)
- Windows Phone “Tango” to feature universal search? (damaster)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- SilverlightShow for July 25 – 31, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for August 04, 2011 — #1124 (Dave Campbell)
- The Morning Brew #910 (Chris Alcock)
- Today’s Links (8/4/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- Daily News Digest 08/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 3-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Geek Reading August 4, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Daily WP7 Development News 4 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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