Top Links
- Prism 4.1 – February 2012 (MS Downloads)
- ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta Released! (Jon Galloway)
- Web API is now part of ASP.NET (and you can get it today) (Dave Ward)
- ILSpy 2.0 Beta 1 (Daniel Grunwald)
- Got great app ideas? (Arian Kulp)
- Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners – Volume 1.5 (Addy Osmani) – Free web-based eBook. ePub/PDF coming soon.
.NET / Visual Studio
- Visual Studio Async CTP (Version 3) Installation Issues (Brent Schooley)
- ReSharper 6.1.1: New Maintenance Release Available (Jura Gorohovsky)
- TFS Checkout, Search and Replace with PowerShell (Geoff Hudik)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: The SequenceEqual() Method (James Michael Hare)
- Using EF 4.3 Code First Migrations with an Existing Database (Julie Lerman)
- Book Review – .NET 4.0 Generics Beginner’s Guide (Vincent Maverick Durano)
- How Understanding Assembly Language Helps Debug .NET Applications [CodeProject] (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Why does the DrawIcon function draw at the default icon size? (Raymond Chen)
- NuGet Project Uncovered: JsValidator (Jason Jarrett)
- All in One Unity Demo and Information Series (Greg Duncan)
- Red Gate Releases The Next Version of Their Performance Profiling Tool (Jeff Julian)
- TryJoinads (II.): Task-based parallelism (Tomas Petricek)
- NDepend Evaluation: Part 1 (Anthony Trudeau)
Web Development
- ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta Released and Using HTML 5 Geolocation, Google Maps to Generate Driving Distance (Jason Gaylord)
- JavaScript Closures Explained (Derek Greer)
- The Enemy of My Friend Writes Bad MVC Controller Actions (Microsoft) (Doug Lampe)
- jQuery Tip #3 – Using the data() Function (Dan Wahlin)
- Escapes.js – Retro ANSI art in JavaScript (Paul Neave)
- HTML5 Context Menu and FullScreen (Paul Rouget)
- ASP.NET MVC: Add HTML5 Microdata to your applications using Metadata Providers (Rui Jarimba)
- Javascript, node.js and for loops (Mikito Takada)
- Detect DOM changes with Mutation Observers (Ernest Delgado)
- Tech preview of Chromium with Dart engine now available (Anton Muhin, Vijay Menon & Pavel Podivilov) – Available for Mac and Linux. Coming soon for Windows.
- Client-Side MVC frameworks compared (Paul Hammant)
- Viewport, Device, and Document Size (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Revisiting dragging, dropping, and sorting observableArrays (Ryan Niemeyer)
- Http Caching is complicated for everyone, even @ayende (Sebastien Lambla)
- Internet Explorer Performance Lab: reliably measuring browser performance (Steven Sinofsky)
- New recommended Ruby version: Ruby 1.9.3-p125 is released (Daniel Kehoe)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Pushing Through the Pain (John Sonmez)
- Let’s Scale Out CQRS Sample Project (Rinat Abdullin)
- Improve Team Dynamics with the xView People Status Dashboard (Steve Porter)
- A Decade of SDL (Michael Desmond)
- SOLIDify your software design concepts through SOLID (Mahmud Hasan)
- Stop Writing Project Proposals (Jonathan Wold)
- When the Test Agent Fails on the Build Server (Eric Quist)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Data Binding between Elements using the Designer (Windows Phone Geek)
- Announcing RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2012 (Deyan Ginev)
- Phone Gap Tutorial #2–Looking Around (Daniel Egan)
- Background Agents Overview for Windows Phone (dt008)
- New SilverlightShow Ebook "WP7 for iPhone and Android Devs" (Silverlight Show)
- Top 10 Tips for Building a Windows Phone App (Hong Choing)
- Master WPF on your iPhone (Josh Smith)
- XAMLflix Episode 4 with RadDiagram for Silverlight and WPF (Michael Crump)
- 2000 WPF Things #497 – Use a UniformGrid to Make a Group of Buttons the Same Size (Sean Sexton)
- IdeaBlade Cocktail v0.2 (CodePlex)
- MVPChat : A PivotViewer Use Case (Tony Champion)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Let’s Play TDD #165: Eliminating the Double Dispatch Problem (James Shore)
- Developer Diaries: Mangesh Deshpande (Laura Foy)
- Team Foundation Service Preview–Updated videos are available (Gregg Boer)
- Developer Smackdown Musing #64: Good Bye Brandon Satrom, Hello Brandon Satrom (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
Community / Events
- Scrum-damentals Webcast on 17th February 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)
- The 2012 KalamazooX Conference (Michael J. Eaton)
- Getting Ready for the 2012 MVP Global Summit (MVP Award Program)
- Effective Aggregate Design Part III – DDD Denver Meetup (Paul Rayner)
- Event: Meet Microsoft Press authors at SPTechCon 2012 in San Francisco Feb 26-29, 2012 (Kim Spilker)
- Learn Simple.Data & Nancy at SkillsMatter (Mark Rendle)
- Becoming a "Make Web, Not War" Warrior… Free day of cloud, mobile, design and web webinars. Attend one or attend them all…. (Greg Duncan)
Database
- SQL Server – read only database status (Jack Vamvas)
- SQL SERVER – Solution Part 2 – A Quick Puzzle on JOIN and NULL – SQL Brain Teaser (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Server Installation Error – Consistency validation for SQL Server Registry keys (Ted Krueger)
- RavenDB: Index Boosting (Oren Eini)
- Group By in MongoDB (Jonathan Allen)
- System Center Monitoring Pack for SQL Azure – CTP (MS Downloads)
Miscellaneous
- How to Customize Your Command Prompt (Andrew Burgess)
- Code Hero Is A Game That Teaches You To Make Games (John Biggs)
- Three Things You Should Never Say in a Technical Interview (Kendra Little)
- Microsoft’s Windows Azure Active Directory plans takes shape (Mary Jo Foley)
- This Is The Computer Setup Most Of Google’s Engineers Use (GOOG) (Matt Lynley)
- Windows 8 Coming in Q4 2012 According to Fujitsu (Robert Boland)
- Google Drive in the wild? Screenshot and possible logo (Todd Bishop)
- Open Source and Open Source Software Are Not The Same Things (Phil Haack)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – February 16, 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
- Double Shot #820 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1046 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 2/17/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (2/17/2012) (Silverlight Show)
- Daily WP7 Development News 16 Feb 201 (Windows Phone Geek)
- SilverlightShowTop 5 News for February 06 – 12, 2012 and Windows Dev News for February 16, 2012 – #0041 (Dave Campbell)
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