Top Links
- Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS (Steven Sinofsky)
- Eduasync part 19: ordering by completion, ahead of time… (Jon Skeet)
- What is the defining characteristic of a local variable? (Eric Lippert)
- Struct vs. Class, Safety vs. Speed (Bill Wagner)
- A quick look at MetroRadio: quick spacing, margin, and icon tips for Windows Phone devs (Jeff Wilcox)
.NET / Visual Studio
- A Generic Equality Comparer for LINQ (Richard Carr)
- LINQ to SQL – Mapping Stored Procedure with Multiple Results (Hiren Khirsaria)
- Team Foundation Backup Plan Not Working in Administration Console (Shai Raiten)
- EF 4.3 Gets Code First Migrations But No Enum Support (Roopesh Shenoy)
- Shining a ray of light with Azure… Using Azure to create your own ray tracer (Greg Duncan)
- Getting values into a string (John Rayner)
- Getting Started Building iOS Applications with MonoTouch (Bobby Johnson)
- developerFusion Article: An Introduction to FSharpx (Daniel Mohl)
- StyleCop+ 1.6 (CodePlex)
Web Development
- Refactoring Common API Functionality Into A Node.js Proxy (Karl Seguin)
- Dynamic ViewState in ASP.Net WebForms (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
- HTML 5 Canvas Cheatsheet from DZone /Refcardz (Greg Duncan)
- Diving Deep: ASP.NET Membership and the new Universal Providers (Harish Ranganathan)
- Gate 0.2.1 implementation of OWIN online at NuGet (Louis DeJardin)
- The All-New CSS3 Click Chart (Louis Lazaris)
- jQuery Accordion Control Musings (Becky Isserman)
- Json serialization – RPC style in MVC (Nuri Halperin)
- AppEngine Thoughts, or “How to support a cloud” (Kyle Baley)
- jQ.Mobi: Less compatible, but better performance (Dave Mahon)
- On EventEmitter In node.js (Andrea Giammarchi)
- Resolution Independence With SVG (David Bushell)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- True Value of Agile – Not Always Product-Centric – Agile Improves Work-Life Balance (Peter Saddington)
- Use tasks you have to do around the house to improve your development skills (John V. Petersen)
- DZone Top Article of 2011: 7 Tenets Of Framework Selection (Rob Diana)
- Adapting to Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection (Filip Ekberg)
- FAQ: Why are my tests not included in the test run? (Gautam Goenka)
- Origins of the Craft : Iterative / Incremental (David Starr)
- How Do You Pick Open Source Libraries? (Davy Brion)
- Our evolution of story cards (Mark Pearl)
- TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 3: In, Out, and Around (Michael Sorens)
- Approval testing – value for the money (Krzysztof Koźmic)
- An Important Time for Design (Cameron Koczon)
- Marines vs. Boy Scouts (Chris Brandsma)
- Arrange – Act – Assert: Intuitive Testing for .NET (Christopher Smith)
- Estimating Work Items by Hours–Idiotic You Say? (D’Arcy Lussier)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- How to add Panorama to existing WP7 project (Windows Phone Geek)
- WPF Data Chart to PDF (Tom Puglisi)
- A WPF Spinner Custom Control (Barry Lapthorn)
- Highway To The Danger Zone (Pete Seale)
- Metro Snack #1: Choosing XAML or HTML5 for Windows Developer Preview apps (Brent Schooley)
- Windows Phone: 30 to Launch (Chris Koenig)
- 10 Laps Around Silverlight 5 e-Book available to download for FREE. (Michael Crump)
- Windows Phone 7.5: Using sockets (Andrea Boschin)
- Getting your WP7 Desktop integration out of park with PAARC, the Phone as a Remote Control library (Greg Duncan)
- Generating a LINQ to SQL DataContext for VS Express for Windows Phone (Erik EJ)
- MVVM Series: Part I (Steve Adey)
- Windows Phone Native Series – Solving "Fatal error LNK1112: module machine type ‘ARM’ conflicts with target machine type ‘X86’" (Dennis Delimarsky)
- How to Create a LightSwitch Application that Works with SharePoint Data (Marat Bakirov)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Scott Willeke Does Reporting at DevConnections and The Tablet Show – John Sonmez Compares iOS and Android Tools (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Episode 172 – PowerScripting Podcast – vCenter Orchestrator (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
- Ping 128: CES, Windows Phone Devs make $$, Kinect for Windows, Mango & Nokia news (Laura Foy)
- Free on-demand ASP.Net 4/Visual Studio 2010 training course (in 55 videos) (Greg Duncan)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for January 16th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Web Heroines Emerge Mini-Conference 2012 (Ubelly)
- Meet Marino Posadas – Visual C# MVP from Spain (Ali Raza Shaikh)
- My Adventures in HTML5 Gaming and Are you a student? Check out the Big App On Campus Contest! (Dave Isbitski)
- HTML5 Canvas Refcard – Meet the Author: Simon Sarris (Mitch Pronschinske)
- Webstock 2012 Less Than A Month Away (Nigel Parker)
- NuCon 2012, Irvine, CA (David Barrett)
- Webinar: Using Typemock Isolator Effectively (Avi Kaye)
- Good Science’s Shannon Loftis: Gaming as critical work (MS JobsBlog)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Difference between CHAR, VARCHAR, NVARCHAR and VARCHAR(MAX) – Quiz – Puzzle – 15 of 31 and SQL SERVER – CHECKPOINT Behavior and Database Recovery Models – Quiz – Puzzle – 16 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- DIRTY_PAGE_POLL wait type in SQL Server 2012 (Sankar Reddy)
- APress Deal of the Day – 17/Jan/2012 – Oracle PL/SQL Recipes (TATWORTH)
- DBDeploy.Net 2 (rakker)
- A Generic SQL Performance Test Harness (Ian Stirk)
- Is Your DBA Lying To You? (Thomas LaRock)
- Validating NPI (National Provider Identifier) numbers in SQL (Bill Osuch)
- “Data Explorer” meets Office 365 (Data Explorer Team)
- SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers – Book Review (Brent Ozar)
SharePoint
PowerShell
- Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets v2.2 (CodePlex)
Miscellaneous
- An Xbox for the rest of us? (Kip Kniskern)
- Why was there a font just for drawing symbols on buttons? (Raymond Chen)
- KidsRuby 1.0 Released (Roy Wood)
- Stack Exchange Data Explorer 2.0 (Sam Saffron)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 16, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #796 and Double Shot #797 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Reading Notes #29 (Franky)
- Daily News Digest 1/16/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 9-15, 2012 and Daily News Digest 1/17/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1022 and The Morning Brew #1023 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-16 (Bob Rhubart)
- Windows Dev News for January 15, 2012 – #0028 and SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 9-15 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 16 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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