Top Links
- Announcing Jounce 1.0 RTM – It’s here! (Jeremy Likness)
- Adding Runtime Intelligence to your Windows Phone 7 Application (Derik Whittaker)
- Preview Drop #3 of Enterprise Library Silverlight Integration Pack (Grigori Melnik)
- NuGet 1.2 Released (Phil Haack)
.NET / Visual Studio
- C# API Design: Type Inference, Named Parameters, and Generic Delegates (Jonathan Carter)
- TFS and WF4: The diff noise problem and Beware of lifetime manager policy locks in Unity (Rory Primrose)
- Blog Post: PLINQO for Entity Framework Templates, Beta 1 Released! (Blake Niemyjski)
- Microsoft NuGet Package Manager for Visual Studio & VWD (Joe Stagner)
- My Visual Studio snippets (Shawn Burke)
- I love R# because it reduce mouse usage (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Enabling Parallelism for Productivity Programmers (Ade Miller)
- I spy with my little eye… ILSpy (Greg Duncan)
- async 8: creating combinators (Bill Wagner)
Web Development
- JavaScript for C# developers: callbacks (part I) and JavaScript for C# developers: callbacks (part II) (Julian M. Bucknall)
- Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 5: Designing the Genre and Album Pages (Chris Love)
- HTML5: What Is It, Why Should I Care, and What’s Microsoft Doing About It? (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Authentication and Authorization with Windows Accounts in ASP.NET (Matteo Slaviero)
- Enabling dynamic compression (gzip, deflate) for WCF Data Feeds, OData and other custom services in IIS7 (Scott Hanselman)
- What Firefox 4 means to web developers? and The PHP frameworks poll results (Giorgio Sironi)
- RockPaperAzure Coding Challenge and Rock, Paper, Azure Deep Dive: Part 1 and Creating a Quick Progress Visual like UpdateProgress (Brian Hitney)
- YUI 2.9.0 Release Candidate Is Now Available (Jenny Han Donnelly)
- Composite C1 CMS 2.1 (2.1.4087.22991) and patterns & practices: Project Sile Community Drop 4 – 28 Mar 2011 (CodePlex)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- IT Turf Wars? Agile Can Help (Peter Saddington)
- One Real-Life Product Owner Team and Product Owner Team Design Considerations (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Improving Meetings (K. Brian Kelley)
- Effective Tests: How Faking It Can Help You (Derek Greer)
- Organising NUnit Tests (Richard Carr)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Add Facebook Like to your Silverlight Application and Nullable ComboBox for Silverlight and WPF (Mircea Deliu)
- A Year Later–The Windows Phone 7 Numbers That Matter (Brandon Watson)
- Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread (Mike Taulty)
- Getting control of your numbers (Pete O’Hanlon)
- Each one is the best – for different definitions of “best” [The BestFitPanel collection of layout containers provides flexible, easy-to-use options for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone applications] (David Anson)
- Make capturing Windows Phone 7 Marketplace app submission screenshots simple and easy with the “WP7 Simulator Cropper” (Greg Duncan)
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- Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread (Mike Taulty)
- Getting control of your numbers (Pete O’Hanlon)
- Each one is the best – for different definitions of “best” [The BestFitPanel collection of layout containers provides flexible, easy-to-use options for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone applications] (David Anson)
- Make capturing Windows Phone 7 Marketplace app submission screenshots simple and easy with the “WP7 Simulator Cropper” (Greg Duncan)
- Design/performance – WP7 in blend and code (Håkan Reis)
- Silverlight Scaling and Anti-Aliasing Issues (Jeremy Likness)
- Worth Reading: “Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development” by Wrox (Joey deVilla)
- Start-to-Finish Guidance for Windows Phone 7 Application Development (Karl Erickson)
- Capturing Screenshots on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
- WP7 TombstoneHelper (Rudi Grobler)
- How to install LightSwitch Beta 2? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- MVVM Light – what’s the Messenger? (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Adding WP7 Toolkit Controls to the Visual Studio Toolbox (Windows Phone Geek)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Ayende Does Transactions with RavenDB (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 3 of n (Charles Torre)
- Supercharged Spreadsheets – PowerPivot in Office 2010 and A Few Minutes with Nolan Bushnell – Creator of Pong and Atari (Tina Wood)
- PDC Sessions now published on Channel 9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
- Technology & Friends Episode 148: G Andrew Duthie on Community Megaphone (David Giard)
- endpoint.tv – Parent / Child Workflows (Ron Jacobs)
- Let’s Play TDD #98: One Beeellion Dollars (James Shore)
- Spaghetti Code – March 2011 (Jeff Brand)
- The GeekDads Episode #88: Moderately Misplaced Teen Pop Song (Ken Denmead)
- Countdown to MIX11: Get Your Science On (Larry Larsen)
Community / Events
- WP7 App Challenge competition – get a free ride to WPC 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Communities and Networks: What are you building? (Bill Wagner)
- Mono and Google Summer of Code (Miguel de Icaza)
- MSDN Virtual Lab: A Lap Around IE9 (Wes Yanaga)
- Lightning tools webcasts (Brett Lonsdale)
- Event: New Sessions Released, Learn from the Best at MIX11 (Kim Spilker)
- UX at MIX11: Full Speed Ahead (Jason Alderman)
- I’ve Written My Last Article for 4GuysFromRolla (Scott Mitchell)
Database
- Snapshot Synchronization with SQL Server Compact 4.0 (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
- T-SQL, SQL Administration and SSRS Articles Link List – March 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – TechEd 2011 – Random Question and Answers and SQL SERVER – ‘Denali’ – A Simple Example of Contained Databases (Pinal Dave)
- March Madness – SQL Server System Tables – syscomments (Thomas LaRock)
- MySQL: GROUP BY in UNION (Quassnoi)
- (Not a) CHECKDB error “Unable to deallocate a kept page” (Paul S. Randal)
- Building Our Own Federated Database (Jeremiah Peschka)
- Change SQL Startup Parameters with PowerShell (Eric Humphrey)
SharePoint
- Using the Builder Pattern To Create SharePoint Lists (Bil Simser)
- Connected Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 – an Architectural Framework (Mark Kendall)
- Update Taxonomy Field Values in a List Item using SharePoint Web Services (Sridhar Raghunathan)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Co-Founder Blasts Bill Gates in Memoir (Paul Thurrott)
- Careers 2.0 now does GitHub (Matt Sherman)
- New in Marketplace: ESPN ScoreCenter (Michael Stroh)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning #Android – Only $15.39 (Save 45%) w/code DDLAN (O’Reilly Media)
- Book Review: The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithm (asgard4)
- Announcing Group Plans for Tekpub (Rob Conery)
- Windows Phone Mobile Studio: A reincarnated (and de-hipsterized) Kin Studio? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Microsoft DreamSpark – now with a free Microsoft Certification Exam (Dennis Delimarsky)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – March 29 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- The Morning Brew #823 and The Morning Brew #824 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 29th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 30th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 03/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2011 — #1068 (Dave Campbell)
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