Top Links
- AutoMapper 2.0.0 released (Jimmy Bogard)
- Writing a Recipe for ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview (Phil Haack)
- Dependency Injection Is NOT The Same As The Dependency Inversion Principle (Derick Bailey)
- Code First Migrations: Alpha 3 Released (EF Team)
- Using Any Test Framework in VS11 (Jason Bock)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Creating Parallel Tasks (Richard Carr)
- Installing TFS 11 Developer Preview (Nicolas Humann)
- Working with Windows Azure on the Windows Developer Preview of Windows 8 (Eric Nelson)
- Kinect SDK Block for Cinder and other Kinect Experiments and Making Visual Studio 11 Dev Preview Help point to VS11 based MSDN content (and not VS10 content, as it does now) (Greg Duncan)
- Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Testing Documentation (Howie Hilliker)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: String Padding and Trimming – Not Just for Spaces! (James Michael Hare)
- JustCode Support for Visual Studio 11 (Just* Team)
- From the MSDN Library: Master WCF for More Advanced Applications (Mike Desmond)
- Community TFS 2010 Build Extensions – September 2011 (Mike Fourie)
- Convert NUnit To MSTest Unit Test (Shai Raiten)
- Code Review Workflow in Visual Studio vNext – Visual Studio 11 / TFS 11 (Subodh Sohoni)
- TFS 2011 Code review missing features! (Tarun Arora)
- Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Find & Replace (Visual Studio Team)
- TextAnalysisTool.NET to Windows 8: "Y U no run me under .NET 4?" [How to avoid the "please install .NET 3.5" dialog when running older .NET applications on the Windows 8 Developer Preview] (David Anson)
- XNA to SilverXNA-part 6 Adding a bit of Flash (Simon Jackson)
- WinRT and the Paradox of Choice (Steve Smith)
- Windows Forms Modular App using MEF (fmsalmeida)
- Scripting with Mono (Timo Heinäpurola)
- Using Logging Application Block with Windows Azure (Rohit Gupta)
- So, what’s new in the CLR 4.5 GC? (Maoni Stephens)
- Sync Framework Breaks Platform Barriers (Jenni Ripley & Roopesh Shenoy)
- Adding References To System Libraries In Windows 8 and Navigation Sample For Windows 8 Metro Style Apps Using .NET and .NET Metro Surface Area (Karsten Januszewski)
- SQL Server Compact Toolbox available for Visual Studio 11 (Erik EJ)
- Entity Framework 4 – When you can use Parameterized Constructors in Select (Jake Rutherford)
- Code First Migrations: Alpha 3 ‘With-Magic’ Walkthrough (Automatic Migrations) and Code First Migrations: Alpha 3 ‘No-Magic’ Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
- Empowering Enums (Chris Eargle)
- Kinect – First steps (Christian Jacobsen)
Web Development
- jQuery and the not selector (John Whish)
- Simple MVC 2 Pager (Doug Lampe)
- Phar: PHP libraries included with a single file (Giorgio Sironi)
- Scaling Windows Azure Roles using Ruby (Larry Franks)
- Some Updates to Waz-Cmd (Ruby Command-Line Tool for Windows Azure) and Extension Methods for the August 2011 Windows Azure Storage Features (Steve Marx)
- Page Inspector for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Jorge Gabuardi Gonzalez)
- CoffeeScript support in WebStorm/PHPStorm 3.0 (Alexey Gopachenko)
- An Alternate Approach to a GridView – Part 2 (Paul Sheriff)
- WebMatrix 2 Beta Adds PHP IntelliSense (Mitch Pronschinske)
- node.js: child_process.exec not returning all results (Mark Needham)
- YUI 3.4.1 PR1 Now Available On CDN (Jenny Donnelly)
- Short List of RESTful API Frameworks for PHP (Kin Lane)
- Article: Multi-Process Node.js: Motivations, Challenges and Solutions (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
- Sueetie Now Supports Authorize.Net Advanced Integration API (Dave Burke)
- f8: A New Class of Apps (Bret Taylor)
- How to Get Diagnostics Info for Azure/PHP Applications–Part 2 (Brian Swan)
- Create An Animated Bar Graph With HTML, CSS And jQuery (Derek Mack)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Tip #8 – Planning and Learning (Aaron Bjork)
- CQRS EventStore v3.0 (Jonathan Oliver)
- Scrum is hard to adopt and disruptive to your organisation (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Agile and Culture (Peter Saddington)
- Lightweight Documentation… Not Lightweight Thinking (Mike Cottmeyer)
- How Non-negotiable Features Kill Software Products (Matthias Marschall)
- Be Balanced When Deciding on Application Architecture (J. Boyer)
- Not Every Test Should be Automated! (Jim Holmes)
- Growing Ideas – How to Influence Creation and User Experience Prototyping – An Alternate View (Stuart Mayhew)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Fun with TouchDevelop, an IDE for Windows Phone 7 (Justin James)
- Windows Phone 7: UDP performance (Peter Kuhn)
- WPF 4.5 – Part 4 : the new Binding’s ‘Delay’ property and WPF 4.5 – Part 5 : the new BindingExpression information and WPF 4.5 – Part 6 : Markup Extensions for Events and WPF 4.5′s MarkupExtension : Invoke a method on the ViewModel / DataContext when an event is raised. (Jonathan Antoine)
- Differences between WP7 and WP7.1 (Mango) (Chris G. Williams)
- RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Mango and Q2 2011 (NoDo) SP1 are now available (Deyan Ginev)
- Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 7 : Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Windows Phone WCF OData Client and Adding Icons to the DateTime Picker (Jesse Liberty)
- Silverlight Diagram Editor (Michael Sync)
- Windows Phone eBook 1st Edition Published (Mike Ormond)
- 2000 WPF Things #392 – Use SnapsToDevicePixels Property to Prevent Anti-Aliasing and #393 – Canvas Element (Sean Sexton)
- Silverlight is dead. F****** dead (Vassil Terziev)
- LightSwitch: "There is a commitment to explore creation of apps other than Silverlight…" (Michael Washington)
- Azure and Phone … Better Together (Brian Hitney)
- IE9 Mobile Developer Overview (Charles Morris)
- How to Make a Microsoft Tag Application for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- CLR 4.5: Maoni Stephens – Server Background GC and Raman Sharma: Building Metro Style Apps with C++ and JavaScript and CLR 4.5: David Broman – Inside Re-JIT (Charles Torre)
- The JavaScript Show – V8 memory usage, Batman, jQuery plugins (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
- SE Podcast #19 (Alex Miller)
- Panel Discussion: Using Reference Architectures – Part 1 (Bob Rhubart)
- Let’s Play TDD #142: Good Enough (James Shore)
- My Intern Life 3 – Episode 11: Reflections (MS JobsBlog)
- Keyvan.TV Episode 6: Enterprise Social Software (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Video: Jeffrey Snover – Proxy Functions (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- Live at BUILD – interview with Rick Barraza (Dennis Delimarsky)
- A preview of Windows Live for Windows 8 (Chris Jones)
Community / Events
- My Upcoming Events : Virtual Tech Days and Developer Conference 2011 (Abhijit Jana)
- A List of Mozilla Blogs to Follow (additional) (Joe Stagner)
- Dallas event: AT&T Mobile App Hackathon (Bill Osuch)
- Code Camp NYC–October 1, 2011 (Jim O’Neil)
- Book ‘Your Kinect’ Experience Now (Luke)
- Post-BUILD – it was awesome (Dennis Delimarsky)
Database
- SSIS version in SQL Server (Jack Vamvas)
- SSRS – Dealing with truncating spaces (Devin Knight)
- SQL Server: Find Database File Path (Madhivanan)
- Add APPLY to Your TSQL Tool Belt (John Sonmez)
- SQLAuthority News – Latest expressor Data Integration Platform Posts and SQL SERVER – Learning SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services) Online in 6 Hours – Top Down Designing and Bottom Up Designing and SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Usage of New Index Hints for Denali – ForceSeek and ForceScan (Pinal Dave)
- Oracle Announces Paid MySQL Add-ons (Sean Hull)
- Replication DDL Triggers (Seth Phelabaum)
- SSMS Tools Pack 2.0 is out! With huge productivity booster features that will blow your mind and ease your job even more. (Mladen Prajdić)
- NoSQL with RavenDB (Niklas Lundberg)
- Using Unary Operators to control Analysis Services hierarchy aggregations (Jose Chinchilla)
- MVP Deep Dives 2… Pre-Order (Jason Strate)
SharePoint
- Daddy, tell me a story of how Amazon used their AWS to host their internal SharePoint 2010… "Once upon a time…" (Greg Duncan)
- Configuring Versioning of Assemblies in SharePoint Automated Build (Chris O’Brien)
- APress Deal of the Day – 23/Sept/2011 – Office and SharePoint 2010 User’s Guide (Tatworth)
PowerShell
- How to Remove Quotes and Replace the Delimiter in a File using PowerShell Preserving the Commas (Arthur Zubarev)
Miscellaneous
- Designing IE9 Mobile: Putting sites in the spotlight (Amin Lakhani)
- Microsoft’s Next Move, Split Metro and Classic Mode in Windows 8? (Bil Simser)
- New formats for our free Microsoft Office 365 ebook (Carl Diltz)
- Save 50% on all ebooks from Microsoft Press (Devon Musgrave)
- Where’s Mango? An update on timing (Eric Hautala)
- Updated source code for the Table Sum powertoy for OneNote (John Guin)
- The Metro Surfaces (Laila Lotfi)
- Feeding Back to Microsoft on Windows 8 (Mike Halsey)
- Protecting the pre-OS environment with UEFI (Steven Sinofsky)
- “Desktop” could be Win 8’s killer feature with consumers (Ward Bell)
- Negative hiring decisions, Part I (Oren Eini)
- Trying Linux for Windows Users – A visual tutorial. (Joe Stagner)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: September 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Web Dev Tweets 20-Sep-2011 and 21-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Daily Windows Phone Development News 21 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- The Morning Brew #943 and The Morning Brew #944 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting .NET Links – September 22 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Geek Reading September 21, 2011 and Geek Reading September 22, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Link dump for September 22nd (Jeff Schoolcraft)
- Double Shot #714 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Today’s Links (9/21/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- Learning Microsoft Cloud Computing (Zhiming Xue)
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