Top Links
- Beginning LightSwitch Part 6: I Feel Pretty! Customizing the "Look and Feel" with Themes (Beth Massi)
- Taking a look at the Windows Simulator in Visual Studio 11 (Michael Crump)
- JavaScript as a First Language (John Resig)
- 31 Days of Testing—Day 18: Baseline Datasets (Jim Holmes)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Mixing Integrated Authentication and Anonymous Authentication with PreAuthenticated = true doesn’t work (Oren Eini)
- How to enable REST and SOAP both on the same WCF Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
- How to Get Elevated Process Path in .Net (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
- iSpy with my little… OSS security camera/audio software suite and Windows Forms Toolkit v0.2… A little WinForm love for the holidays… and A VB.Net and C# Side-by-side Syntax Comparison (Greg Duncan)
- TFS API Part 42 – Getting Started With Lab Management API (Shai Raiten)
- New book: MCPD 70-518 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
- Mono in 2011 (Miguel de Icaza)
Web Development
- CSS3 2D and 3D Transform (Gil Fink)
- Building Apps and deploying them from GitHub (Joe Stagner)
- Developing Metro Style App using JavaScript and Visual Studio 2011 (Mahesh Sabnis)
- 3D experience in a browser with Three.js (Giorgio Sironi)
- Facebook: Deprecating the REST API (Doug Purdy)
- PHP 5.4 To Have A Built-In Development Web Server (John Sheehan)
- Introducing mod_spdy, a SPDY module for the Apache HTTP server (Bryan McQuade & Matthew Steele)
- It’s time for your site to play nicely with social media (Paul Boag)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Spinning – Getting Agile at the Core (Ralf Westphal)
- Designing app-centric sharing for SkyDrive, part 1 of 2: Complexity of “simple” (Tony East)
- The Problem with Precision (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Testing item values in lists (Torkel Ödegaard)
- Book review: I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code,” Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
- The Four Rules of Simple Design (Bobby Johnson)
- 10 Design Rules You MUST Follow If You Want Apple To Approve Your App (AAPL) (Dylan Love)
- Making APIs is hard (James Padolsey)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #3 Getting Help (Windows Phone Geek)
- A Festive and Fun Windows Phone 7 Maze Game (Colin Eberhardt)
- RadDate- & RadTimePicker for Windows Phone 7 extended to support custom selector intervals (Deyan Ginev)
- New Microsoft Press Book: XAML Developer Reference by Mamta D (Dhananjay Kumar)
- New Title Added to SilverlightShow Ebooks Shelf: Facebook Graph API and Silverlight (Silverlight Show)
- WPFSpark gets all V1.0! (Greg Duncan)
- Customize Tab Control in Silverlight (create tab control with side bar) (Hiren Khirsaria)
- WPF Diagrams: New tree layout algorithm (Jason)
- XAML Developer Reference–A Great Holiday Gift (Kim Spilker)
- Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring INSERT performance–5 power tweaks (Erik EJ)
- WPFSpark: 5 of n: FluidPivotPanel and WPFSpark: 6 of n: FluidProgressBar and WPFSpark: 7 of n: FluidStatusBar and WPFSpark: 4 of n: SparkWindow (Ratish Philip)
- 2000 WPF Things #456 – An Element in a Grid Can Span Multiple Rows or Columns (Sean Sexton)
- Get Started with Silverlight 5 (Zhiming Xue)
- Announcing RadControls for WindowsPhone Q3.11 Service Pack1 release and Create beautiful and dynamic Live Tiles with Telerik LiveTileHelper (Valentin Stoychev)
- DecryptR Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
- Photo Mosaics Part 8: Caching (Jim O’Neil)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks!j – Startups and Cyborg Anthropology at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- YOW! 2011: Allen Wirfs-Brock and Rob Manson – Ambient Computing, Augmented Reality, and JavaScript (Charles Torre)
- videos: Learn Bugzilla (Paul Rouget)
- What The Tech 98: Worst Tech of 2011 (Paul Thurrott)
- Radio TFS – Influence over Enforce (Martin Woodward)
- The Verge Mobile Podcast 007 – 12.21.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- Apps for Kids 001: a new Boing Boing podcast (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Unwrapping Oracle WebLogic Server 12c – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Training Courses and Kits (Robert Green)
Community / Events
- vNext Global Vision Goes Live (David Kelley)
- 5 Minutes on The Verge: Robert Scoble (Thomas Houston)
- 2 Days 2 Kinect in Dallas (Jan 28 – 29 2012) (Greg Duncan)
Database
- Backing up SSRS Encryption Key with Powershell (John Pertell)
- SQL SERVER – Mastering the Basics – Igniting Learning – A Unique Learning Experience (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Advent 2011 Day 21: TRY CATCH and SQL Advent 2011 Day 22: Dynamic Management Views (Denis Gobo)
- Analysis Services Stored Procedure Project 1.3.6 Release (CodePlex)
- Filtering in SSMS (Jason Brimhall)
- SQL Azure – Backup (Nicolas Humann)
- Replacing sysfiles With sys.database_files (Jes Schultz Borland)
- Querying RSS feed subscriber count on Google Reader using Data Explorer (Jamie Thomson)
SharePoint
- Sharepoint and PowerPivot: Connections fail to refresh in SQL Server 2008 Denali CTP3 (Jen Stirrup)
- SharePoint Site Collection Administrator vs. Site Owner (Joel Oleson)
Miscellaneous
- MIT takes over Google App Inventor from Google (Don Burnett)
- Living a Microsoft lifestyle using Apple iOS products – Lync, OneNote, Xbox for iPhone and iPad and more, oh my (Scott Hanselman)
- Holiday In Tekpubland (Rob Conery)
- How Microsoft Can Fix Windows Phone In 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Daily WP7 Development News 21 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Double Shot #779 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1008 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Dev News for December 21, 2011 – #0014 (Dave Campbell)
- Weekly Badass JS Roundup #4 (Devon Govett)
- Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
- Reading Notes #26 (Franky)
- Daily News Digest 12-22-2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets – 21-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
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