Top Links
- SQL Server 2011 (Denali) CTP3 Released! (Brian McDonald)
- Small Basic 1.0 is here! (Sandra Aldana)
- Announcing the Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK Release (Pete Brown)
- Stacks and queues in JavaScript (Jef Claes)
.NET / Visual Studio
- ForEach Method for the collections (Abhijit Jana)
- Tracking Changes in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
- Parallel for loop in C# 4.0 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
- Switching Visual Studio Environment Tools with Powershell and SlightlyPosher (Naeem Khedarun)
- Detecting and Changing a File’s Internet Zone in .NET: Alternate Data Streams (Mike Hadlow)
- Refactorings specific to auto-implemented properties (Alex Skorkin)
- Entity Framework 4.1 managing relations (Gian Maria Ricci)
- What curious property does this string have? (Eric Lippert)
- Interactive WinForm Tag Cloud Control (Think “Cool, I can add a Word/Tag Cloud thing to my WinForm app!”) and Kinect Buttons (Greg Duncan)
Web Development
- HTML5 – Selectors API Level 1 (Gil Fink)
- When the Overlords Demand WebForms You Can Still Do MVC (J.P. Hamilton)
- A JavaScript Trick You Should Know (Stoimen Popov)
- NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Windows Azure Team)
- Lockdown Pt 2– Sanitization and Data Security (Tim Kulp)
- Cloud-based Development via Node.js and Cloud9 IDE Integration Coming Soon (Rey Bango)
- Getting Started with the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Nathan Totten)
- SassAndCoffee hits 1.0! (Paul Betts)
- Debugging Web Workers in IE10 (Jonathan Carter & Gaurav Seth)
- Exploring CoffeeScript Part 3 – More on Functions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles (Maarten Balliauw)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Move Method (Giorgio Sironi)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Patterns of Compositional Architecture: DSLs – Registries and Patterns of Compositional Architecture: DSLs – Conventions (Josh Arnold)
- Documenting Key End-to-End Deployment Scenarios (Vishal Joshi)
- Thinking of Enterprise Architecture as Vectors (Jeevak Kasarkod)
- Why Can’t Software Development Be More Like Sports? (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Distributed Version Control is a Disruptive Change (Bill Wagner)
- Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part VIII–CRUD is so 90s (Oren Eini)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Creating a Soundboard (Rudi Grobler)
- 12 "All about WP7 Isolated Storage" articles (Windows Phone Geek)
- How to Create a Different Circular Loader using XAML? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- A Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application : Part 1 of 2 (Understanding OAuth) (Sudheer Kovalam)
- Blog Post: Community Spotlight: Silverlight MVVM Templates (T. DuPont)
- Background Agents – Part 2 of 3 and Background Agents – Part 3 of 3 (Peter Torr)
- Extending a XamRibbon ButtonTool to execute ICommands (Devin Rader)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- How Do I: Efficiently Query a SQL Server Compact Database Using LINQ? (MS Podcasts)
- Boagworld – Helping users find content and take action (Paul Boag)
- Yet Another Podcast #42–Colin Blair and RIA Services (Jesse Liberty)
- Hot Apps: Angry Birds, Hungry Pigs, Mosaic, MTV News, Pirates Assault (Laura Foy)
Community / Events
- I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Conference 2011 (Andrew Connell)
- People’s choice award at the Imagine Cup: Vote early! Vote often! (Surf4Fun)
- PowerShell Deep Dive @ The Experts Conference Europe 2011 (Travis Jones)
- Steve Ballmer at WPC: the Zune Confusion (Kip Kniskern)
- Author news: Charles Petzold reading in Seattle on Thursday (Devon Musgrave)
- Top Students Descend on Microsoft Research Cambridge (Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche & Kenji Takeda)
Database
- CTP3 is Here! Five Things to Know About the Next Version of SQL Server (Brent Ozar)
- SQL Server Migration Assistant 5.1 Supports SQL Server v-Next (Brian Swan)
- Using PowerShell to manage SQL Server Compact database files (Erik EJ)
- SSIS enhancements in Denali CTP3 (Jamie Thomson)
- SQL Server Denali CTP3: Policy Based Management (Jorge Segarra)
- Automating Web App Deployments with SSIS (Jorge Segarra)
- SQL Server Codename “Denali” CTP3 Resources (Jose Chinchilla)
- SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 13 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Query to Find Duplicate Indexes – Script to Find Redundant Indexes (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1–new table hint options for FORCESEEK and FORECSCAN (Simon Sabin)
- SQL Server – TSQL – GROUP BY GROUPING SETS() (Vishal)
- SQLDIY: Index Usage Statistics (Wesley Brown)
- How to move the Model Database (Ryan Adams)
- Copying parent-child rows and SQL Dependency Tracker (Jakub Dvorak)
SharePoint
- SharePoint provision default WebParts for MySites (Greg Galipeau)
- Troubleshooting IIS and SharePoint When a Worker Process Goes Haywire (Joel Oleson)
- Chat Web Part for SharePoint 2010 (Nick Swan)
Miscellaneous
- FUSE Labs Releases CompanyCrowd (MS FUSE Labs)
- A New Android Market for Phones (Dirk Dougherty)
- Running Dropbox as a service on Windows Server 2008 (Peter von Lochow)
- Will the Xbox 720 run Windows 8? (Sebastian Anthony)
- Just Announced: Windows Azure Marketplace Expands Application Selling Capabilities In US Markets (Windows Azure Team)
- Check if your WP7 app is a Bing Instant Answer (Adam Kinney)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: July 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – July 13 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Daily WP7 Development News 12 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Today’s Links (7/12/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- The Morning Brew #893 (Chris Alcock)
- MS Surface: Links to SDK and Resources (Luis Cabrera)
- 70 Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tutorials You Must Read (Suprotim Agarwal)
- Daily News Digest 07/13/2011 (Silverlight Show)
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