Top Links
- Farewell Stack Exchange (Jeff Atwood)
- Farewell (Joel Spolsky)
- Implementing a Code Action using Roslyn (Brian Rasmussen)
- What is "binding" and what makes it late? (Eric Lippert)
- Backbone.js And PhoneGap Sample App (Ben Forta)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Finding solutions not covered by automated builds (Rory Primrose)
- Limit your abstractions: Application Events–Proposed Solution #1 (Oren Eini)
- KinectContrib 2.0 released – now supports Kinect for Windows SDK 1.0 (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Gadgeteer Hello World (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Windows 8 Composition and Content (Joe Mayo)
- Using JSON.net to consume the JSON Stack Overflow API (Jonathan Creamer)
- NuGet Project Uncovered: Deleporter (Jason Jarrett)
- The Commodore 64 Emulator: Emulating Pointers in a sandbox when the real thing is not allowed (Pete Brown)
- Wrapping up Configuration Manager (Paul Sheriff)
- Pinpointing a Static GC Root with SOS (Sasha Goldshtein)
- JSON deserialization with JSON.net: class hierarchies (Joost van Schaik)
- How to Use the Azure npm Package Locally without the Azure Compute Emulator (Aaron Stannard)
- Using Entity Framework to Query Dynamic Types (David Barrett)
- WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please make sure the Windows Azure SDK v1.5 is installed. (Deepak Kapoor)
- Developing for a multitude of clients – Part 1: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check (Kevin Dockx)
Web Development
- jQuery.whenSync() Plugin For Chaining Asynchronous Callbacks Using Deferred Objects (Ben Nadel)
- JS1k is back! Awesome JavaScript demos in only 1KB (Devon Govett)
- Learning HTML5 & CSS3 (Martin Beeby)
- PDF.js: display PDF files in your browser, without native code (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Using the Battery API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
- Turbocharge your Website with Memcached (Nicolas Sebban)
- Pointer Lock API Brings FPS Games to the Browser (Ilmari Heikkinen)
- MSDN Article: Building a Massively Scalable Platform for Consumer Devices on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
- Speech Bubble Arrows that Inherit Parent Color (Chris Coyier)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Use Hand Coding Coded UI Test For Automated Vs2010 Test Scripting (Abhishek Lohani)
- Looking for the seam (Mark Needham)
- The Most Controversial Feature in Isolator V7 (Gil Zilberfeld)
- What can Enterprise Architects Learn from Steve Jobs? (Mike Walker)
- Mocking ITable<T> (Chris Skardon)
- Builder pattern with a twist (Uzi Landsmann)
- MSTest and Calling Exe with Sample Data Files (Johan Danforth)
- [Humor] – Business Roles and Designations – For a Baby (Peter Saddington)
- Constraints, expectations and real estate (Jimmy Bogard)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Programmatically changing Visual States of HubTile controls used as ListBox Items (Windows Phone Geek)
- 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | 15 Designing Windows Phone Icons (Arturo Toledo)
- A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
- Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring multiple UPDATEs and rowversion impact (Erik EJ)
- 2000 WPF Things #489 – Using the InkCanvas to Recognize Gestures, part I (Sean Sexton)
- Silverlight ComboBoxItem IsEnabled, SL5 Style (Tony Champion)
- Introducing Rate Application Reminder for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
- Why Custom Controls are underrated (Morten Nielsen)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 038: Puzzlejuice Pigs (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Episode 175 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Wells on SQL 2012 and SQLSpade (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Defrag: Change Pinned Sites Icons, Laptop WiFi Router, Full Path for File (Larry Larsen)
Community / Events
- CreativeJS workshops in UK and Amsterdam (Seb Lee-Delisle)
- Join the Facebook Platform team at GDC in March (Namita Gupta)
- Meet Abdul Rafay – BizTalk Server MVP from Qatar (Ali Raza Shaikh)
- Come Hear the STP Antarctica Crew at SPTechCon San Francisco – Feb 26 (Joel Oleson)
- I’m back, baby (get it? baby?) and Windows 8 resources (Jennifer Marsman)
- Azure Soup-to-Nuts Series (Jim O’Neil)
- Don’t Miss FREE MSDN Webcast, Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts (Part 1) “Get Started with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure”, Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 11 am PT (Himanshu Singh)
Database
- SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Data Quality Services (James Serra)
- SQL Server Certifications: What to Take and How to Prepare (Kendra Little)
- SQL Server 2012 Free Cook Book and Training (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – Installation Log Summary File Location – 2012 – 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
- SEQUENCE… explain why and win a prize (Colin Stasiuk)
- Why Every DBA is a Clown (John Sansom)
- Check progress of DBCC CHECKDB (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Embracing guesswork with SQL Prompt partial matches (Troy Hunt)
- Code to list potential cluster key space savings per table (Paul S. Randal)
- How To Copy A Schema Container To Another SQL Azure Database (Herve Roggero)
PowerShell
- List failed SQL server Jobs with Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
- Announcing Windows PowerShell 3.0 Firstlook! (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Android–Create a ListView with rounded corners (Bill Osuch)
- Looking at Office 365 Security Holistically (Mike Halsey)
- ASCII Table Reference Sheet (Richard Carr)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – February 6 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #5) (Himanshu Singh)
- Double Shot #812 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 2/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1038 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News 6 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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