Top Links
- Windows Phone “Mango” to bring Private and Beta marketplace distribution options (damaster)
- MVVM Light V4 preview 3 (BL16, MIX11 edition!!) #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)
- Code First/Entity Framework 4.1 Videos and Articles on MSDN (Julie Lerman)
- WPF : Carousel Control (Sacha Barber)
- Creating a Markup Extension for MEF with Silverlight 5 (Jeremy Likness)
.NET / Visual Studio
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: First() and Single() – Similar Yet Different (James Michael Hare)
- Create a Windows Service in .NET That Can Also Run as Console Application (Steve Smith)
- The easy way to publish NuGet packages with sources (David Ebbo)
- Organizing source code and sorting class members using CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)
Web Development
- ASP.NET MVC 3 Sample Project Launched (Deran Schilling)
- MVC + Code-First + Azure Part 2: Deployment (EF Team)
- A Better Razor Foreach Loop (Phil Haack)
- IE10 Platform Preview and CSS Features for Adaptive Layouts (Chris Jones)
- Hacking jQuery-Validate in ASP.NET MVC (Matt Hamilton)
- WCF Support for jQuery – MIX 2011 Release and WCF Web API Preview 4 (CodePlex)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Article on Non-Determinism in Tests (Martin Fowler)
- Lazy Developers Hate Agile and Scrum (Peter Saddington)
- Pairing is a tool, not a mandate (Bill Wagner)
- Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Process Guidance – Version 5.1 (MS Downloads)
- Leveling up by doing (Steven "Doc" List)
- Traditional Software Development Methodologies (Stoimen Popov)
- 10 Tips for ensuring a better site design (Paul Boag)
- Planning-Domain Research Guidance (Billy McCafferty)
- Queries & Aggregates & DDD (Torkel Ödegaard)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Using ICustomTypeProvider in Silverlight 5 (Damon Payne)
- Basic XNA (Windows Phone Geek)
- "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." [WebBrowserExtensions.StringSource attached dependency property makes Silverlight/Windows Phone/WPF’s WebBrowser control more XAML- and binding-friendly] (David Anson)
- Working with User Names and Roles in Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
- Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
- WPF TimeSpinner Control (Tim Hibbard)
- Microsoft’s latest WP7 chassis spec includes second-gen Snapdragon, optional gyroscope (Vlad Savov)
- Implicit DataTemplates for Control in Silverlight 5 Beta and Binding in Style Setters – SilverLight 5 Beta and RichTextBoxOverflow Control in SilverLight 5 (Abhijit Jana)
- Silverlight 5 Beta – Lets deal with its features (Abhishek Sur)
- What WP7 improvements mean for developers (Dennis Delimarsky)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Let’s Play TDD #102: Heresy, Revisited (James Shore)
- MIX11 Interviews: Mike Taylor, Robert Nyman, Andrew Duthie, and John Bristowe (Rey Bango)
- Hulu Plus, Kinect updates for Xbox 360 caught on camera (update: video!) (Richard Lawler)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast: Kevin Hale Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- Joe Belfiore caught in a corner by Laura Foy, epic video of WP7’s Mango update ensues (Phone Arena)
- Silverlight 5: Get the latest beta and watch the video! (Sam)
Community / Events
- Over $100,000 Awaits in Developer Contests (Adam DuVander)
- MIX11 Session feedback: Analyzing and Improving Windows Phone Application Performance and Awesome MIX11. Awesome time for a Microsoft Student Insider. (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Mix, Silverlight and Windows Phone (Jesse Liberty)
- FREE WEBCAST May 13, 2011: Windows Azure Deep Dive on Windows Azure Data Storage and Compute Services (Windows Azure Team)
- Windows Azure News from MIX11 (Katrien de Graeve)
- MVP Hosts Hot Kids CodeCamp (Lonnie Webb)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Finding Location of Log File when Primary Datafile is Crashed (Pinal Dave)
- Performance Tuning: Start to Finish (Grant Fritchey)
- SQL Server Compact will be available for developers in upcoming Windows Phone “Mango” update (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
SharePoint
- Optimising SQL Server for Sharepoint 2010 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
- BCS Meta Man–Using a SharePoint List as an External Content Type and BCS Meta Man 4.0.0.1 Beta released (Phill Duffy)
- Using the JavaScript Object Model in a Content Editor Web Part (Kumar Abhishek Verma)
- Reducing the amount of markup in ASCX files (SharePoint Developer Team)
Miscellaneous
- Send IM from PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- New book: Microsoft Visio 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
- Open Source, Adoption And Whatever (Krishnan Subramanian)
- Using Get-WinEvent –FilterXml to process Windows Events (James Wei)
- Windows 8 to feature USB-runnable Portable Workspaces, sales of 16GB thumb drives set to soar (Tim Stevens)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #835 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 04/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Interesting .NET Links – April 14, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Daily WP7 Development News April 14th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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