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Top Links

• Automated installer for MVVM Light V3! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 is available! (Phil Haack)
• C# Async examples in F# – Part 1 (Chris Marinos)
• The LightSwitch Control Extension Makers Dilemma (Michael Washington)
• A comprehensive list of resources about JavaScript (Incandescent Software Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Co-Ordinated Thread Shutdown with and without using CancellationTokenSource and Use Visual Studio Server Explorer to Add New or Existing SQL Server CE Database (Abhijit Jana)
• New F# PowerPack Packages on NuGet Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• XNA 3D Primer Examples Updated, XNA 2D Example Added, Talks on Both at DevLINK (Michael C. Neel)
• Controlled Vocabulary 1.5.1 and MSBuild Explorer v2 — it does exist… and Community TFS Build Extensions — we’re at it again (Mike Fourie)
• Translating with Google Translate without API and C# Code (Rick Strahl)
• C#: Using IDictionaryEnumerator with HashTable (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Visual Studio Testing Tools–Two new hotfixes released (Terje Sandstrom)
• Invoke any Method on any Thread (Fredrik Olsson)
• Transactional File Manager Version 1.2 .1 Released (Chinh Do)
• How To Build A Simple Text Editor? A Tutorial (Forest House)

Web Development

• Review of The Book of CSS3 by Peter Gasston (Brian Bondy)
• Html 5 Controls for ASP.Net MVC (Saleth Prakash)
• Prototype for Google + similar Feedback-Module with Html2Canvas-Screenshots with Javascript für Beitrag eingeben (Code Inside Team)
• Mobile HTML5 Charts by Sencha (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Using the HTML5 Filesystem API – Only $9.49 w/code DD237 (O’Reilly Media)
• JavaScript: Prototype is not overriding the function/method (Raghav Khunger)
• JavaScript’s JSON API (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTTP Request Lifecycle Events in IIS Pipeline that every ASP.NET Developer Should Know (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Article: HTML 5 or Silverlight? (Daniel Jebaraj)
• Picking a Web Client Side Persistence Mechanism (Gil Fink)
• talkasaur.us – dirt simple conference calling (Aaron Lerch)
• Authoring SVG with a text editor (Bertrand Le Roy)
• What I Love About PHP (Dinuka Arseculeratne)
• Prevent User Navigating Away from Page with Unsaved Changes (Jonathan Wood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning the Agile Vocabulary (Ben Harden)
• Being honest vs Making excuses (Corey Haines)
• Considerations when choosing hardware for CI (Paul Stack)
• Surviving As A Guerilla Entrepreneur – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)
• 8 Principles of Continuous Delivery (James Betteley)
• Two Important Blogposts for Functional Test Writers (Jim Holmes)
• The Chaos Addiction (Roy Osherove)
• Thought Questions (Dru Sellers)
• Macto: The Main Screen (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• wp7 – custom control project template (Baba)
• Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View Part Two (Colin Eberhardt)
• Multi-Touch Behaviors updated: Windows Phone “Mango” support, Manipulation / Inertia Processors and more (Davide Zordan)
• Ringtones from existing content on WP7 – why can’t you do that? and Building a simple Isolated Storage explorer system in a Windows Phone 7 application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Setting the Start page in Windows Phone 7 application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Passing values between Windows Phone 7 pages: Current context of Application and Windows Phone 7 Serialization: DataContract JSON (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Rumors Of XAML’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (Jon Davis)
• Create Thematic Maps in Visual Studio LightSwitch with Infragistics Geospatial Map (Mihail Mateev)
• Removing Strings in INotifyPropertyChanged and OData Expands (Nick)
• 2000 WPF Things #359 – ToggleButton Basics (Sean Sexton)
• Looking at LightSwitch – Part 1 (Gill Cleeren)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 406: What we’re playing and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 220: SharePinters (Paul Thurrott)
• New Video – Windows Phone 7 Guide – Part 7 – Unlock apps in a locked emulator and Another new Windows Phone 7 Guide video – using your phone as a storage device (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Path to Agility 2011 – Ken Schwaber – Scrum and the Product Owner (Agile Toolkit)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 65 – Jim Pelletier and Lessons Learned with NServiceBus (Richard Banks)
• The GeekDads Episode #97: A Whole New World Behind the Grotto (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• Deep Dive video: Constrained PowerShell Endpoints – Aleksandar Nikolic (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

• I am now a DZone MVB (Most Valuable Blogger) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Considering Attending STARWEST? We have Discount Codes! (Jim Holmes)
• August Webcast Schedule: Microsoft Technologies (Kim Spilker)
• rubylang.info: A Solid 3rd Party Attempt at a Site for Ruby (Peter Cooper)

Database

• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.3–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server book from Pinal Dave (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL Server Migration Assistant for Denali CTP3 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Dirty Records and Table Hints – Day 7 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Data Warehousing with SSIS (Tim Radney)
• Download free SSMS Add-In to create custom folders for database objects (Jakub Dvorak)

Miscellaneous

• Why I Use Powershell (Daniel Moore)
• Forbes: Microsoft not as innovative as Apple and Google (Stefano Elia)
• C’mom Microsoft, how about fixing some of the stupidest Zune Desktop problems. (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 6, 2011 and Interesting Finds: August 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 08.01 ~ 08.07 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading August 6, 2011 and Geek Reading August 7, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #911 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 31-July-2011 to 06-August-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 44 – #Agile Requirements and Org Structure (Peter Saddington)
• Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 — #1125 and Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 – 2 — #1126 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 08/08/2011 (Silverlight Show)

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Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 by Jon Galloway