Top Links
- Visual Studio Async CTP (Version 3) Released – Lots of compatibility added, bugs squashed, features added and the EULA updated to allow Production usage (not encouraged, but it IS allowed now) (Greg Duncan)
- Project Liike (Josh Twist)
- Drive your application’s navigation through templated HyperlinkButtons and smart data binding to app-wide URIs (Jeff Wilcox)
- BlobShare – A File Sharing Sample Solution Built on Windows Azure (Zhiming Xue)
- Using Node.js in an ASP.NET MVC application with iisnode (Jon Galloway)
- 31 Days of Mango | Day #1: The New Windows Phone Emulator Tools (Jeff Blankenburg)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Halloween: VB Style! (Anthony D. Green)
- CSLA 4 version 4.2 beta 2 online (Rockford Lhotka)
- Try It Now: Use PPL to Produce Windows 8 Asynchronous Operations (Visual C++ Team)
- Mini Rx: Observable Extensions (Phillip Trelford)
- Wish you had a cool and colorful poster with a snapshot of what’s new in .Net 4.5? and The "Kinect Effect" and the Kinect for Windows to get a "commercial program" early next year (Greg Duncan)
- Windows Workflow Foundation: Microsoft.Activities v1.8.8 (CodePlex)
- My presentation on AOP in .NET with PostSharp (Zubair Ahmed)
Web Development
- Sneak Peek at NetAdvantage for jQuery 2011 Volume 2 (Murtaza Abdeali)
- Using Ninject.MVC for better ASP.NET MVC integration (Alexander Beletsky)
- New Mobile Application and Web Application Templates in ASP.NET MVC 4 (Christian D. Yellington)
- T4MVC with separate view and controller projects (Geoff Hudik)
- HTML5 History in IE10 (Tony Ross)
- Definition of Done in an MVC project (Mehdi Khalili)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Assertion and PHP on a Java application server (Giorgio Sironi)
- HTML5 – Clean Code for Front End Developers (Paul Stack)
- NuGet Package of Week #11 – ImageResizer enables clean, clear image resizing in ASP.NET (Scott Hanselman)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Rails 3 – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- Node.js and PHP together: DNode in PHP (John Esposito)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Networked Kanban (Jurgen Appelo)
- Attempts at TDD–Testing Private Methods (Mark Pearl)
- Some myths of ‘Textbook-TDD’, and why they are wrong (Thomas Weller)
- Microsoft Test Manager – Test Run Window Position (Shai Raiten)
- Working with external identifiers (Mark Needham)
- Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
- Destabilization (Eric Brechner)
- Why do TDD? (Jimmy Bogard)
- A relaxed attitude towards the pragmatic delivery of ‘okay’ software (Rob Ashton)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- What’s New in NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 11.2 Release (Mihail Mateev)
- Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (2) – A simple application and Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (3) – Lifecycle management (Anders Poulsen)
- 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 4 of 10) (Michael Crump)
- Pure XAML pre-loader/indeterminate progress indicator for WPF (LearnWPF.com)
- 2000 WPF Things #420 – You Can Use Floating Point Values for Star Sizing (Sean Sexton)
- Windows Phone 7: Launcher and Choosers – Part 2 (Sudheer Kovalam)
- Introducing the XamCalculationManager (Damyan Petev)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Tomasz Janczuk Builds Web Apps with node.js (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- .NET 4.5: Size-on-disk improvements (Charles Torre)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 28 (Richard Hay)
- Windows Phone Radio 47 @ gdgt (Brian Seitz)
- TWC9: New Windows Phones, WP7 and Azure tools, Node.JS, & a Kinect to a Kill… (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- GoingNative 3: Marian Luparu answers about C++/CX (Diego Dagum)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for October 31st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- SQLAuthority News – History of the Database – 5 Years of Blogging at SQLAuthority and SQLAuthority News – 5th Anniversary Giveaways (Pinal Dave)
- DCWEEK Hackathon + Dev Days (Zhiming Xue)
- Miss SQLBits 9? No problem, all videos are online (James Serra)
Database
- SSMS Assembly Error – Microsoft.SqlServer.Sqm.dll and SSIS Test yourself with these interview questions (Ted Krueger)
- Being an Effective DBA Remotely (John Sansom)
- Custom assemblies for Reporting Services (Jeff Krebsbach)
SharePoint
- Business Connectivity Services High-Level Architecture in SharePoint (SharePoint Developer Team)
PowerShell
- Using Powershell to remove strings in files (Martin Bell)
Miscellaneous
- On Google’s 20% time (Chris Smith)
- 10 things that should scare you about Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
- Ask DZ: What Book Do You Think Every Programmer Should Read? (John Esposito)
- Kinect for Xbox 360 Celebrates A Year By Giving You Goose Bumps (Richard Hay)
- Nokia Maps Coming to ALL Windows Phones Soon (Antonio Hernandez)
- Can you hear… my new WebTone? Downloading and setting a Windows Phone 7.1(5) ringtones easily and quickly… (Greg Duncan)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Geek Reading October 31, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Interesting .NET Links – November 1 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Double Shot #742 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Monthly Summary – October 2011 – 19 Posts You May Want to Recall (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Daily News Digest 10/31/2011 and Weekly article digest 10/31/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/31/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- The Morning Brew #971 (Chris Alcock)
- Monthly Report October 2011: Total Posts 31 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Daily WP7 Development News 31 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- 16 Tips on .NET, ASP.NET 4.5, Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview, Profiler – October 2011 Links (Abhijit Jana)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 10.25 ~ 10.31 (gOODiDEA)
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