Top Links
- MVC 3 and EF 4.1 Code First: Here are my classes, now you do the rest, kthxbai (Julie Lerman)
- Happy 1st Birthday, Visual Studio 2010! (Somasegar)
- Native HTML5: First IE10 Platform Preview Available for Download (Dean Hachamovitch)
- Caliburn.Micro RTW, NuGet Support, Mix Open Source Festival! (Rob Eisenberg)
- EF 4.1 Released (EF Team)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Visual Studio 2010 Extensions Magic: Automatic Updates. and Want to learn more about Azure? Want to win prizes doing it? (Rachel Appel)
- OData Service for TFS 2010, try it out on CodePlex (Colin Thompkins)
- “Search Work Items” VS2010 Extension source now available (Greg Duncan)
- How to parse source code using the DXCore integrated code parsers (Alex Skorkin)
- Smarter DateTime.AddMinutes (Tim Hibbard)
- CodeRush Tip– Enhance Studio’s Find command. (Rory Becker)
- Microsoft rolls out new Azure cloud services and features and Microsoft readies new Surface 2.0 developer kit for summer 2011 (Mary Jo Foley)
Web Development
- IBM getting into the HTML5 authoring game with open source Maqetta (Greg Duncan)
- Introducing ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update (Phil Haack)
- A Little Something for Those Getting Started with CSS… (Joey deVilla)
- VS2010 SP1 New Features: HTML5 and CSS3 Support (Zain Naboulsi)
- Building Epic Win With Backbone.js (Justin Etheredge)
- InfoQ: Learning Ruby on Rails with Michael Hartl (Rob Bazinet)
- Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Some Node.js Goodies (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Patterns and Practice: Project Silk (Don Burnett)
- BDD Antipattern: The technical spec (or why geeks need to speak business) (John Rayner)
- Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: What about transactions? (Oren Eini)
- How IT deals with Test Automation … (Shrini Kulkarni)
- Why Repository SaveUpdate is a smell (Ian Cooper)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Building WP7 Custom Validation Control – Validation Logic (Windows Phone Geek)
- Becoming a Windows Phone 7 Developer (Joel Cochran)
- Tips: How to use Gradient Color Picker in Expression Blend? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Visual Studio 2010 Seattle Simulcast (Part 4 of 6): Windows Development with Visual Studio 2010 (MS Podcasts)
- Let’s Play TDD #102: Heresy, Revisited (James Shore)
- .NET Rocks! – Luca Passani Builds Mobile Web Pages with WURFL (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Hanselminutes: ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update with Phil Haack (Scott Hanselman)
- Episode 144 – PowerScripting Podcast – Kirk Munro on Automating Visio with PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- MIX11 Interviews: The appendTo Team (Rey Bango)
- First Look: Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview (Larry Larsen)
- Imagine Cup: The Redmond Judging and Hot Apps: Super Monkey Ball, You Got Served, Pinball League, Fantasia Painter, Soothr (Laura Foy)
- Distributed Podcast Episode 6: Interview with Jimmy Bogard (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
Community / Events
- Windows Azure News from MIX11 (Windows Azure Team)
- New SharePoint and Silverlight Training Course (SharePoint Developer Team)
- US Imagine Cup Finals Day 4–Final Presentations, Showcase and Awards (Bob Familiar)
- MIX 2011 – IE10 Platform Preview 1 Available Now (Shai Raiten)
- MIX 2011 Keynote – IE10 Platform Preview Announced (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Microsoft Research at MIX 2011 (Andrew Spooner)
- NYC .NET Developer User Group–> Next Meeting (Stephen Forte)
- Orchard demoed at Mix 11 (Don Burnett)
- 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation: Free Webinar (Steve McConnell)
- Monospace has a home! (Louis Salin)
- The MIX 2011 Tuesday 4/12 KeyNote Recap (Jeremy Likness)
- Microsoft debuts IE10, announces PDC 2011 dates (Joe Wilcox)
- ImageThink’s Renditions of MIX11’s Day 1 Keynotes (Joey deVilla)
- Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing (MICWIC) 2011 (Jennifer Marsman)
- INETA gets a new Board Member (James Johnson)
Database
- FORCESEEK hint in SQL Server 2008 – Part I (Amit Bansal)
- SQL SERVER – Query to Recent Query on Server with Execution Plan Function to Get SQL (Pinal Dave)
- Reporting Services 2.0 Tip – Pimp up your report with data bars (Peter Gfader)
SharePoint
- Using Features and Solutions to Deploy your SharePoint Customizations (Dave McMahon)
- SharePoint Foundation 2010 with ADO.NET Data Services (Pravinkumar Dabade)
Miscellaneous
- How-To: Implement Facebook Credits (Daniel Schultz)
- Updated OData Client for Objective-C (Abu Obeida Bakhach)
- Windows 8 Build 7850 Leaks! (Imran Hussain)
- Windows Azure Benefits for MSDN: New and improved (Jim O’Neil)
- Your Resume: Go Visual (Jim Holmes)
- Video is a poor medium for learning to program (Karl Seguin)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #832 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News April 12th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 04/12/2011 (Silverlight Show)
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