Top Links
- Spec Explorer 2010 Release 3.5 now available! (Xiang Li)
- async 11: Control Flow and await (Bill Wagner)
- New April 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
- Office 365 Marketplace and the Open Beta (Joel Oleson)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Default Extension methods and Dynamic query with Linq (Abhijit Jana)
- Visual Studio 2010 and UML(Unified Modeling Language) Part-I (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
- Accessing ObjectContext Features from EF 4.1 DbContext (Julie Lerman)
- Python Tools for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)
- MSBuild Extension Pack April 2011 Release (Mike Fourie)
- Closures in CSharp (Abhishek Sur)
- Coding Helpers – Smart Parentheses and Smart Brackets (Alex Skorkin)
- ReSharper 6 Enhances Razor Support (Hadi Hariri)
Web Development
- Create user friendly date fields with ASP.NET MVC EditorTemplates & jQueryUI (Rachel Appel)
- Presentation Tips Learned From My (Many) Mistakes (Phil Haack)
- Get your FREE ASP.NET Razor Templates (Joe Stagner)
- ASP.NET MVC: Defining short URL-s for root level pages and ASP.NET MVC 3: Using controllers scaffolding (Gunnar Peipman)
- MVC Extension Method for Hosting Static Content on a CDN (Nathan Totten)
- Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Testcase Class per Feature (Giorgio Sironi)
- Creating a Bot for the Rock Paper Azure Contest (Steve Smith)
- HTTP is great (Rob Ashton)
- Exploring ECMAScript 5 with a Simple Game of Poker (ieblog)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- NUnit Type Assertions (Richard Carr)
- Developer Chronicle: Lasagna is not a good role model (Jimmy Nilsson)
- .gitconfig (Nick Berardi)
- "I’ll Whack Your Fingers"-Oriented Programming (Joh)
- Refactoring is Not About Reducing Code (Krishna)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- What the new App Hub in Windows Phone Mango means for the Enterprise (Rob Tiffany)
- WriteableBitmapEx goes NuGet (Rene Schulte)
- New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.3.2 officially released and Coding4Fun WP7 Message Prompt in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
- A Fast Loading Windows Phone 7 NavigationList Control (Colin Eberhardt)
- The WPF Renaissance (James Ashley)
- ReactiveUI posts now in PDF format (Paul Betts)
- Family.Show [Insert a Sixth Sense quote here] (Greg Duncan)
- Windows Phone 7 Mango: My feedback as I peel it apart (Kelly Sommers)
- Working with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta and Issues with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
- MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Out of Box Experience – Windows Live ID and the Benefits to Having One For Your Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
- Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Multiple Window Support and LightTouch–Silverlight Touch Library from Wintellect (Mike Taulty)
- Social Viewer Template for Windows Phone 7 Published (Nick Randolph)
- Awesome Windows Phone Resource (PubSec)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- MSDN Radio: Coding4Fun with Clint Rutkas (MS Podcasts)
- Technoloby & Friends Episode 152: Randy Pagels on Visual Studio Test Professional (David Giard)
- XNA: Game Development – The Game Loop (Tina Wood)
- Windows Weekly 204: I’m In A Cab (Paul Thurrott)
- Podcast- Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi- ASP.NET Tools Integration (Joe Stagner)
- Talking Shop Down Under Episode 51 – Xerxes Battiwalla talks Shouldly (Richard Banks)
- Deploying PHP Applications to Windows Azure without Visual Studio (Karsten Januszewski)
- Yet Another Podcast #31–Laurent Bugnion Live at Mix (Jesse Liberty)
- Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 6 – Windows Azure Role Security (Larry Larsen)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 012 – “MIX’n It Up” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- The GeekDads Episode #89: Awesomest of Awesome Events Ever Awesomely Possible (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
Community / Events
- Events This Week – April 18th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Mix 11 Videos – Download them all with RSS (Scott Hanselman)
- My Annual Arizona .NET Speaking Event this Friday (Scott Guthrie)
- Vote for your favorite love song playlist and win a fab Windows Phone and music package (Luke)
- MIX11 for the Silverlight Guy (Mike Taulty)
- MIX11 Session feedback: WCF Web APis: "There’s a URI for That" (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Thoughts on the MIX 11 announcements (Nigel Parker)
- Seacoast .NET Inaugural Meeting–Apr. 20th (Jim O’Neil)
- INETA Community Leadership Summit at TechEd 2011 and Help me go to Tech Ed 2011 (Chris Williams)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Making Database to Read Only – Changing Database to Read/Write and SQL SERVER – Appling NOLOCK Hint at Query Level – NOLOCK for whole Transaction (Pinal Dave)
- SSMS Tips & Tricks – Registered Server Groups (Seth Phelabaum)
- Why do we need error handling? (Kim Tessereau)
SharePoint
- SharePoint Health Score – Something to add to your SharePoint-based applications and SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Customization Deep Dive (Andrew Connell)
Miscellaneous
- Office 365 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
- Windows PowerShell Language Specification Version 2.0 (MS Downloads)
- Office 365 Public Beta: Available Now! (Joey deVilla)
- Coding While You Commute (Leon Bambrick)
- Balancing work and kids: real advice for real life (Microsoft JobsBlog
) - PowerShell Language now licensed under the Community Promise (PowerShell Team)
- Paint.NET in 24 more languages?! tl;dr … Yes (Rick Brewster)
- My Top 10 Programming Quotes (Senthil Kumar)
- Photosynth Team releases iPhone App (Joe Stagner)
- Update progress for AT&T Windows Phones (Eric Hautala)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 16, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 — #1073 and SilverlightShow for April 4 – 10, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 – 2 — #1074 (Dave Campbell)
- Weekly Link Post 190 (Rhonda Tipton)
- Weekly Links– 2010_15 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
- The Morning Brew #836 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News April 18th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 04/18/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 04/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
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