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Top Links
- NuGet Action Plan – Upgrade to 1.1, Setup Automatic Updates, Get NuGet Package Explorer (Scott Hanselman)
- Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (Jason Zander)
- WCF Data Services March 2011 CTP 2 (MS Downloads)
- Async Samples Part 1 (Bill Wagner)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Use credential manager to use TFS shell extension in a workgroup or outside a domain (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Support dynamic fields with NHibernate and .NET 4.0 (Oren Eini)
- Visual Studio 2010 and HW acceleration on Windows XP… (Jeremy Alles)
- Visual Studio Find in Files Overwhelmed With External JavaScript (Kathleen Dollard)
- Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and More (Zain Naboulsi)
- Working with unmanaged and IDisposable resources in WF (Rory Primrose)
- IronPython – Release: v2.7 RC2 (CodePlex)
- New Book by Windows Azure MVP David Pallmann, "The Windows Azure Handbook, Volume 1: Strategy & Planning", Now Available (Windows Azure Team)
- Monad tutorial, part 2 (Brian Marick)
- Windows Azure Use Case: Infrastructure Limits (Buck Woody)
- "A Day of Multicore Programming on the .NET Platform" (Joe Hummel)
Web Development
- Creating PDF Documents with ASP.NET and iTextSharp (Scott Mitchell)
- ASP.NET Custom Repeater Control with EmptyTemplate, ShowHeaderWhenEmpty,ShowFooterWhenEmpty,ShowCount Properties (Abhijit Jana)
- TextBox Input Watermark using jQuery and Is it the end for the AJAX Control Toolkit ? (Joe Stagner)
- Comparing Hardware Accelerated SVG across Browsers with Santa’s Workshop (Seth McLaughlin)
- Improving User Experience: Preload Images (Jan Lehmann)
- datajs now available on NuGet (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Kanban, System Archetypes and Limits to Success (Karl Scotland)
- Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Spy (Giorgio Sironi)
- How to test a class member that is not public using Visual Studio 2010 ? (Abhijit Jana)
- Unit Testing (Richard Carr)
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Coding Convensions (Dror Helper)
- Productivity Tip: Dry Erase Markers and Mirrors (G. Andrew Duthie)
- How Can I Make This More Testable? (Howard Dierking)
- Lessons learnt from failure (Grigori Melnik)
- At Microsoft, NUI goes beyond fun and games (Mary Jo Foley)
- Testing conventions (Krzysztof Koźmic)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 Notification Control (Nigel Sampson)
- XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 6 – Input (accelerometer) (Peter Kuhn)
- Native Extensions further to blur the boundary between Silverlight and WPF (Jonathan Allen)
- Creating a Custom Markup Extension in WPF (and soon, Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
- Silverlight 4: SketchFlow for Prototyping UI using Expression Blend 4 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
- ChainedPropertyObserver (Sacha Barber)
- An Update on Windows Phone Marketplace; new tips, policies and regional access program (Todd Brix)
- WP7 PerformanceProgressBar in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 142: Matt Casto on Offline Applications (David Giard)
- DimeCasts.NET Episode #190: Rake: Learning to use Rake With MSBuild (Derik Whittaker)
- Let’s Play TDD #92: InvalidDollars Gets an Icon (James Shore)
- Hot Apps: Tiki Towers, Flickr, Bubblegum, Royalty, Word Tangle FREE and TechFest 2011: ShadowDraw and TechFest 2011: Mobile Photography- Capture, process and View (Laura Foy)
- Windows Client VS 2008 & .NET 3.5 Training Videos (23) and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Roles & Membership (Joe Stagner)
Community / Events
- SQLAuthority News – Stay Connected and Social Media (Pinal Dave)
- The official Xbox PAX East Schedule (Larry Hyrb)
- Get DevReady with MVVM (Dani Diaz)
- The need for participation, compassion, & community in the classroom (and lecture hall) (Garr Reynolds)
- Celebrating International Women’s Day (Microsoft JobsBlog
)
Database
- T-SQL Tuesday #016 – TOP N Percent for the group (Naomi)
- Geek City: What gets logged for index rebuild operations? (Kalen Delaney)
- Links to the Shard’s – Linking to Sharded SQL Azure Databases (Greg Duncan)
SharePoint
- Technical reference for SharePoint Foundation 2010 (MS Downloads)
- SharePoint 2010 – Starter Taxonomies Now Available (Andrew Connell)
- Create SQL Server Dashboard in SharePoint (Pravinkumar Dabade)
- Just Published: Feb. 14-Mar. 7 | 2010 SharePoint Dev content (SharePoint Developer Team)
Miscellaneous
- Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching (Dirk Metzmacher)
- Sale: Save 40 Percent on Books from Microsoft Press (Kim Spilker)
- IE9 final release due next week, will you use it? (Kip Kniskern)
- The & in Microsoft R&D (Steve Clayton)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 8, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #808 (Chris Alcock)
- SilverlightShow for Feb 28 – March 06, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2011 — #1056 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 8th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 03/09/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Community Curators, your one stop link shops (Greg Duncan)
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