Top Links
- Scott Hanselman’s 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (Scott Hanselman)
- Enabling large disks and large sectors in Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
- Code First Migrations: Beta 1 Released (EF Team)
- Web API preview 6 is out: how to get a RESTful mind (Simone Chiaretta)
- Web Essentials – the idea (Mads Kristensen)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Setting up a Rhino Service Bus Application: Part I and Setting up a Rhino Service Bus Application: Part II–One way bus (Oren Eini)
- Parallel LINQ and Getting a Base Exception (Richard Carr)
- Building an Async WCF Service in .NET 4.5 (Howard Dierking)
- Downloads for Code First book are online (Julie Lerman)
- Greatest Hits: Using Visual Studio 2010 IntelliSense with Keywords (Zain Naboulsi)
- Working with the WCF NetMsmqBinding with WAS (Sam Gentile)
- Mono for Android Debugging Android.OS.Debug.StartMethodTracing(); (Wally McClure)
- Bringing Windows 8 UI to Windows 7 with RadPanorama for WinForms. Today. (Telerik WinForms Team)
- LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.22 (CodePlex)
- VS 2010 Build Customization: Custom Activity Invoke Process (Gouri Sohoni)
- If you protect a write with a critical section, you may also want to protect the read (Raymond Chen)
- November 2011 Update for MFCMAPI and MrMAPI (Think, "MFCMAPI, You’re looking kind of Metro" release) and SharpDX – A new Managed DirectX/Multimedia API Library (one with Win8/Metro in mind too!) and Adding Lua scripting to your .Net app or game (Greg Duncan)
- Windows 8 and WinRT development whitepaper (Rockford Lhotka)
- Mini Review: NHibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide (Samuel Jack)
- Submit your ideas for the next version of GhostDoc (Tatworth)
- Feedback Requested: Is there any valid usage for the ‘new’ keyword? (Dennis Doomen)
- Telerik OpenAccess ORM – Stored Procedure Editor essentials (OpenAccess ORM Team)
- Programming Windows 8: The Sublime To The Strange (K. Scott Allen)
- Macro-optimisations and Yes, Simple.Data protects against SQL Injection (Mark Rendle)
- Async CTP Support in ReSharper 6.1 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
- Code First Migrations: Beta 1 ‘With-Magic’ Walkthrough (Automatic Migrations) and Code First Migrations: Beta 1 ‘No-Magic’ Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
- What is a manifest file in Windows 8 Metro applications (Abhishek Sur)
- Arcticles on Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4.5 (MS Downloads)
- NetAdvantage Reporting in Windows Forms (Tom Puglisi)
- Using a state object to store object property values. and Custom XML Serialization (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Static Constructors Should Be Private (Chris Eargle)
Web Development
- Building an advent calendar for Mozilla in PHP/JS/CSS (part 2) (Chris Heilmann)
- Help me organize my posts about using jQuery with ASP.NET (Dave Ward)
- Is JavaScript’s “Global” Scope Really Just A Closure? (Derick Bailey)
- HTML5 for Applications: The Fourth IE10 Platform Preview (Rob Mauceri)
- Why Many Developers Hate ASP.NET… and Why They’re Wrong (Jeremy McPeak)
- Getting Intrinsic HTML5 Video Dimensions (K. Scott Allen)
- How to lint your JavaScript with JSLint in real time (Maxim Mossienko)
- CSS3 toolkit (Paul Boag)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Parameter Object (Giorgio Sironi)
- Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 2 (Jorge Ramon)
- jQuery Time Entry with Time Navigation Keys (Rick Strahl)
- Easier ASP.NET MVC Routing (Steve Wilkes)
- Creating Falling Snow in HTML/JS and Clipping Content Using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers part 9: Insufficient Transport Layer Protection (Troy Hunt)
- HTML5 Form Input Enhancements: Form Validation, CSS3, and JavaScript (Michael Palermo)
- A Guide To PHP Error Messages For Designers (Rachel Andrew)
- S#arp Lite: S#arp Architecture Simplified To Its Essentials (Jenni Konrad)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Now Available: 30 Days of Getting Results Free eBook (J.D. Meier)
- Agile "Religion" Issues (S. Lott)
- Getting Setup for JavaScript Testing with Pavlov (Daniel Mohl)
- Sleeping Under Your Desk Doesn’t Make You A Success (Rob Conery)
- That’s not funny (Eric Brechner)
- Do you ponder what to name things in your code? (Evan Light)
- My Code Isn’t Fat, It’s Just Robust (Jeremiah Peschka)
- How *NOT* to win the hearts of developers, part 2 (Dawn Cannan)
- Another Case for Using Top Aligned Form Labels (Anthony)
- Overusing Interfaces and Injection (Brendan Enrick)
- Migrating from SVN to Git (Karl von Randow)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Displaying Enum Values User Friendly in WPF (Henrik Jonsson)
- ListBox ContextMenu with MVVM in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
- Using the xamGrid with Virtual Collections and MVVM (Radko Kolev)
- The Ultimate Windows Phone Design and UX Resource List (Arturo Toledo)
- Silverlight front end calling to WCF Service, all in one Windows Azure Web Role Sample (Avkash Chauhan)
- “Lost” your SkyDrive OneNote files on your Windows Phone? Here’s the workaround (Kip Kniskern)
- Windows Phone (Mango) Contact Chooser Task (Luke Lowrey)
- Microsoft: No Silverlight 5 release in November (Mary Jo Foley)
- WPF 4.5: Binding and change notification for static properties (Pete Brown)
- 2000 WPF Things #440 – How Alignment Properties Behave in a WrapPanel and #441 – Setting a Consistent Height/Width for Child Elements in a WrapPanel (Sean Sexton)
- The Microsoft sponsored service for WP7 ends – the PreEmptive sponsored service debuts (Sebastian Holst)
- Beautiful Page Transitions (Practically) Free and Context Menu (Jesse Liberty)
- 31 Days of Mango | Day #30: Local Database and 31 Days of Mango | Day #31: Promoting Your App (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Fixing a WinPhone Phone Gap App: Those Darn Gray Box’s (David Kelley)
- Icons in the „Metro Look“ for free – Monochrom/Minimalist Icons (Code Inside Team)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Cool Projects at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- C9 Lectures: Graham Hutton – How To Be More Productive (Charles Torre)
- Recording of joint interview with Eric Evans (Udi Dahan)
- Let’s Play TDD #146: Race Condition and "Evolutionary Design Illustrated" Video (James Shore)
- Yet Another Podcast #54–Damian Edwards on ASP.NET (Jesse Liberty)
- Engadget HD Podcast 276 – 11.29.2011 and The Verge Mobile Podcast 004 – 11.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- SE Podcast #29 – Chris Poole (Alex Miller)
- State of the nation website (Paul Boag)
- What The Tech 95: Heavenly Music (Paul Thurrott)
- The GeekDads Episode #104: The Greatest Podcast of All Time (Ken Denmead)
- Defrag – Unplayable Media Center files, Missing RAM, Closing Cores (Larry Larsen)
- Hot Apps: Let’s Golf 2, Kayak, Drummer, Find My Girlfriend, First Words – Learning Animals (Laura Foy)
- SOA Made Simple – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
Community / Events
- April 11th and 12th in Philadelphia, PA: Emerging Technologies Conference (James Shore)
- ANN: Special 2-day SharePoint 2010 Development Roadshow in Boston, MA by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
- What I’ve Been Doing… (Shawn Wildermuth)
- jQuery Conference 2012: UK – Training Workshops Announced (Ralph Whitbeck)
- Microsofties cultivate mustaches for mankind (MS JobsBlog)
- TED2012 Fellowship applications open (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Blue Beanie Day 2011: Three Cheers for Web Standards (Jason McConnell)
Database
- GO statement breaks SSIS Execute SQL Task (aedna)
- SQL Server Configuration timeouts – and a workaround [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
- SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: File cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see “get-help about_signing” for more details and SQL SERVER – Where Can YOU Get My Books – SQL Server Interview Question and Answers (Pinal Dave)
- Anecdotes about SQL AKA post 400 (Denis Gobo)
- Red Gate adds TSQL unit testing to SSMS (for free) (Greg Duncan)
- Using OFFSET and FETCH (Vinay Pugalia)
SharePoint
- Microsoft Visio 2010 for SharePoint Network Topology (MS Downloads)
- Avoiding bugs from cached JavaScript and CSS files in SharePoint (Chris O’Brien)
- How do I – Create a recursive escalation workflow in SharePoint using Visio 2010 Premium (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
- What to SharePoint from your WP7 App? Check out the SharePoint 2010 Windows Phone 7 Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
Miscellaneous
- Some new powertoys for OneNote (John Guin)
- Microsoft delivers new IE 10 preview for Windows 8 and Microsoft updates SkyDrive with HTML5 upload, PDF support and more (Mary Jo Foley)
- The New Essential Apps November 2011 (Roberto Baldwin)
- Windows Phone 7 needs a Christmas miracle (Joe Wilcox)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: November 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #992 and The Morning Brew #993 (Chris Alcock)
- WindowsDevNews for November 29, 2011 – #0002 and WindowsDevNews for November 30, 2011 – #0003 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 29 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 30 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/29/2011 and ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/30/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- Things I’ve written that have amused other people, Episode 8 (Raymond Chen)
- Maker Geek Roundup 004 for 11/29/2011 (Pete Brown)
- Double Shot #763 and Double Shot #764 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Monthly Summary – November 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Daily News Digest 11/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 29-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Monthly Report November 2011: Total Posts 22 (Dhananjay Kumar)
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