Top Links
- Diff File made easy with VisualStudio 11 (Patrick Smacchia)
 - Available Now: NetAdvantage Service Release for Visual Studio 11 Beta (Jason Beres)
 - Windows 8 and enterprise app dev strategy (Rockford Lhotka)
 - Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out! Ready to write an app? (Dave Isbitski)
 - Windows 8 Developer Camps – Coming Soon! (G. Andrew Duthie)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Death Of Visual Studio Installer Projects After Visual Studio 2010 And NSIS & Inno Setup Installers (Prashant Khandelwal)
 - What’s New in Visual Studio 2012 Dependency Graph Features (C. Lovett)
 - Consuming “Data Explorer” published data feeds in Visual Studio primer (Part 2: Consuming an authenticated feed) (Data Explorer Team)
 - JustCode formatter versus Visual Studio formatter (Just* Team)
 - Operations in action–Marking WCF interface as down for maintenance (Nuri Halperin)
 - TFSPreview: Creating an Account & Projects (Punit Ganshani)
 - Team Foundation Server Process Template Customization Guide BETA has shipped! (Willy-P. Schaub)
 - An EF Code First Tutorial (Sam Nasr)
 - The Purple Book… "Using Kinect for Windows with XNA" (Greg Duncan)
 - Day 3 of Windows 8 training… JavaScript OMG 🙂 (Eric Nelson)
 - Tabs versus spaces: Spaces won (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Found my 1000th bug in Roslyn! (Kirill Osenkov)
 - RabbitMQ for Windows: Building Your First Application (Derek Greer)
 
Web Development
- Consuming ASP.NET Web API Service using HttpClient: Part2 of Many (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Shared View Management for ASP.NET MVC (Jonathan Allen)
 - Structure and Organization of CSS (K. Scott Allen)
 - CSS: The Bad Parts (Louis Lazaris)
 - jQuery events contributes to clean Javascript (Marco Franssen)
 - 9 Ways Your Brand New ASP.NET MVC Project Can Be Better (Michael Kennedy)
 - Everything you need to know about Python exceptions (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Adobe releases ‘Shadow’ for live Web debugging on Android and iOS devices (Tim Conneally)
 - Using the Fullscreen API in web browsers (Robert Nyman)
 - New features in Web Workbench (Ivan Towlson)
 - Learn How Hackers Can Run Their Scripts On Your Website (Paul Ballard)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- NUnit’s new Action Attributes is AOP to your unit tests (Dror Helper)
 - On Writing Unit Tests for C# (Patrick Smacchia)
 - Watch the Microsoft TFS Agile Team Eat Their Own Dogfood! (Paul Ballard)
 - What’s New in Visual Studio 11 Beta Unit Testing (Peter Provost)
 - Writing Unit Tests For WordPress Plugins (Zack Grossbart)
 - Taking a look at S#arp Lite–final thoughts (Oren Eini)
 - Designing Engaging And Enjoyable Long-Form Reading Experiences (Martha Rotter)
 - The problem with metro is it’s hard to differentiate (Scott Barnes)
 - Simplify Subversion with this EasySVN for Windows release (Andy Singleton)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 Sockets: How to Send a Message (Mikael Koskinen)
 - 2000 WPF Things #510 – The Header of an Expander Can Be Anything (Sean Sexton)
 - Building a deployable custom control for XAML Metro style apps (Tim Heuer)
 - Known Issue: XAML Designer in Visual Studio 11 Beta Crashes on Launch (Unni Ravindranathan)
 - Optimizing Apps for Lower Cost Devices (Mike Battista)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Tim Huckaby Waves His Hands at Kinect for Windows (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - New Videos: Upgrading to Team Foundation Server 11 (Brian Keller)
 - Defrag: Sleeping media server, Random Restarts, Kinect Chats (Larry Larsen)
 - Stir Up Some SOA – Part 1 of 2 (Bob Rhubart)
 - TechFest 2012: 3D Facial Animation (Laura Foy)
 - The Verge Mobile Podcast 018 – 03.07.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Visual Studio Toolbox: Dependency Graphs (Robert Green)
 - What The Tech 107: Talking To My TV (Paul Thurrott)
 - [Podcast] Know Thy Customer – Part 1 with Pete Brown and Rachel Appel (Phil Japikse)
 
Community / Events
- International Women’s Day: Top women in IT and computing (MS JobsBlog)
 - Sessions and Speakers for the PowerShell Deep Dive have been posted! (Adam Driscoll)
 - Nerd Nite No. 12, March 14, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
 - Microsoft MVP of the Year, 2011 (Troy Hunt)
 - I’ll be speaking at Philly Dot Net User Group on 3/21 (John Petersen)
 - Free webcast: Introduction to Windows Media Architecture (Kim Spilker)
 - Congratulations MVPs of the Year—Two for the Third Time! (MVP Award Program)
 - RavenDB US Tour (Oren Eini)
 - Meet the Author: Clemens Vasters on Elements of Distributed Architecture (Paul Ballard)
 
Database
- Force Sql server index usage in query (Gian Maria Ricci)
 - Setting up Kerberos authentication between SQL Servers (David Forck)
 - SQL Server – Learning SQL Server Performance: Indexing Basics – Video (Pinal Dave)
 - Using SSMS keyboard mappings in SSDT (Janet Yeilding)
 - Moving SQL Azure Servers Between Subscriptions (R Syam Kumar)
 - Something Borrowed, Something New (Rob Conery)
 
SharePoint
PowerShell
- Introducing Windows PowerShell Web Access in Windows Server 8 Beta (Mike Emard)
 - Ed Wilson: Windows PowerShell for the busy admin (Ed Wilson)
 
Miscellaneous
- Printable "Windows 8 Consumer Preview – Ultimate Shortcuts Guide" (hosted on Docs.com too) (Greg Duncan)
 - Why do program files go into the Program Files directory? (Raymond Chen)
 - Windows 8 on a laptop (Rockford Lhotka)
 - How to Write Your First Developer Resume (Steve Rowe)
 - Windows Phone “Tango” 256MB RAM device limitations and new features officially confirmed (damaster)
 - Ask Ziggy: Siri Like Windows Phone App Gets Major Update (Antonio Hernandez)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 8, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Interesting .NET Links – March 7 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
 - Double Shot #834 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily Links 08 Mar 2012 (Jax)
 - The Morning Brew #1060 (Chris Alcock)
 - Windows Dev News for March 07, 2012 – #0046 (Dave Campbell)
 - LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–February 2012 (Beth Massi)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 7 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Daily News Digest 3/8/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 
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