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Top Links

• Spec Explorer 2010 Release 3.4 now available! (Xiang Li)
• More on Microsoft ‘Jupiter’ and what it means for Windows 8 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Navigation in a #WP7 application with MVVM Light (Laurent Bugnion)
• SayIt, don’t spray it! [Free program (and source code) makes it easy to use text-to-speech from your own programs and scripts] (David Anson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to setup multiple startup projects in Visual Studio? and Exception Occurred ? – Get Troubleshooting tips from your favorite blogs (Abhijit Jana)
• The design of RavenDB’s attachments (Oren Eini)
• Complied Queries in LINQ and Remote and Local execution of Query in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET – Finding an Item’s Index in IEnumerable<T> (James Michael Hare)
• LINQ Lycanthropy: Transformations into LINQ (Michael Sorens)
• Managing Connections with SQL Azure and Entity Framework (EF Team)
• MonoDroid Bridges .NET with Android (Abel Avram)
• First NuGet Experience (Davy Brion)
• .NET Extensions – Extension Methods Library for C# and VB.NET – Release: v2011.03 and Json.NET 4.0 Release 1 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• WCF REST Service Activation Errors when AspNetCompatibility is enabled (Rick Strahl)
• Entity Framework with SQL Server Compact 4.0 and ASP.NET – Dynamic Data, OData, deployment (part two) (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• Razor Syntax Quick Reference (Phil Haack)
• Book review: Pro HTML5 Programming (Jef Claes)
• How to Bin Deploy SQL Compact Edition 4.0 and Razor web projects (Anh Phan)
• Customizing ELMAH’s Error Emails (Scott Mitchell)
• Razor Tip #1 (K. Scott Allen)
• I Think I Know What Web 3.0 Is, Its Not Semantic (Chris Love)
• Migrating World Maps To Azure (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Cloud Throw Down: Part 4 – Perspectives on PaaS (Adron Hall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Coming up next in OpenWrap… (Sebastien Lambla)
• Putting mocks in their place (Jimmy Bogard)
• Can You Really Create A Business Logic Layer? (Ken Downs)
• Automated Testing is Like Optimizing (Fredrik Olsson)
• Foundations of Programming 2 – Chapter 3 – IoC 180 (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Blend Bits 20–Group Into (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #18 – MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts 3 and Entity Framework Code-First, oData & Windows Phone Client (Jesse Liberty)
• Video Series: “Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners” (Joey deVilla)
• Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight) – by Colin E. (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Tools for the lazy: Templify and NuGet (Maarten Balliauw)
• WPF & Silverlight Grids – Faster Creation Using CodeRush Templates and a Custom Plug-in (Mark Miller)
• Prevent your Silverlight XAP file from caching in your browser. (Michael Crump)
• My wish list for Windows Phone 7 (Simone Chiaretta)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 14 (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• BenkoTips Live and On Demand: What’s New in ASP.NET Web Forms 4 (MS Podcasts)
• C9 Lectures: Greg Meredith – Monadic Design Patterns for the Web 3 of n (Charles Torre)
• The Engadget Podcast Show 002: CES 2011 Part 2 – 01.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Learning Umbraco from the Master (Martin Beeby)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Dining On Campus (Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
• Microsoft Touch Mouse (Larry Larsen)
• David Molnar and Margus Veanes – BEK – Domain Specific Language for String Manipulation Functions (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Silverlight TV 56: WCF RIA Services and Azure (John Papa)

Community / Events

• NYC Code Camp: Call for Sessions!! (Stephen Forte)
• Congratulations to the new and renewed Client App Dev MVPs! (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft CES 2011 – More on Kinect, Surface 2.0 and the Touch Mouse (Jeff Meisner)
• Microsoft and Samsung Unveil the Next Generation of Surface (Eric Havir)
• Mono at CES: More Games (Miguel de Icaza)
• Party with Palermo: MVP Summit 2011 – save the date (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• SQL Server Index Tuning for Mere Mortals (Glenn Berry)
• “Effective Clustered Indexes” (Think “Clustered Indexes in-depth from a real world, major SQL Server shop, DBA”) (Greg Duncan)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Recursive SSIS Package (6/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_exec_query_optimizer_info – Statistics of Optimizer (Pinal Dave)
• CHECKDB running every minute? Check Database Properties (Pradeep Adiga)
• Three Mistakes I Made With MongoDB (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME (Kendra Little)

SharePoint

• New SharePoint Developer Features in VS2010 SP1 – Unit Testing and IntelliTrace (Saaid Khan)

Miscellaneous

• Mobile Phones + Savings: A Powerful Pair (Bill Gates)
• Introducing Microsoft Surface 2.0—our vision for healthcare (Bill Crounse)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Building Wireless Sensor Networks – $13.99 (Save 50%) Code DDBWN (O’Reilly Media)
• Project Emporia available for Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)
• Evernote app for Windows Phone 7 to launch ‘this winter’ (Vlad Bobleanta)
• WMI Code Creator (Thomas LaRock)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – January 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• My 2010 Posts and Windows Client Developer Roundup 053 for 1/6/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Recent Knowledge Base Articles Posted (Richard Hay)
• Top 10 SilverlightShow Articles for Year 2010 and Daily News Digest 01/07/2011 and Daily News Digest 01/06/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #765 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (2nd Edition) (Effective Software Development Series) by Bill Wagner