Top Links
- LLBLGen Pro v3.5 has been released! (Frans Bouma)
- Introducing Expression Blend for Visual Studio Part 1 (Don Burnett)
- Model-View-ViewMode (MVVM) Applications: General Introduction (Ivo Manolov)
- What else is new in C# 5? (Ivan Towlson)
- node.js Version 0.6.13 (stable) (Isaac Schlueter)
- Alt.Tekpub: Consuming The API (Rob Conery)
- Backbone.js And JavaScript Garbage Collection (Derick Bailey)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Generating Random Pronounceable Passwords (Richard Carr)
- dotTrace 5.0 Performance is Live (Jura Gorohovsky)
- Workaround for Azure SDK Invalid access to memory location error (Rory Primrose)
- metro background audio c# (consumer preview) and skydrive upload c# metro (babaandthepigman)
- How to Speed up the Visual Studio IDE (Merrick Chaffer)
- Test First Development Walk Through with Visual Studio 2011 Preview (Peter Kellner)
- Does Windows 8 programming lack creativity? (Chris Boss)
- Caller Info Attributes in C# 5 (Zubair Ahmed)
- Entity Framework Code First: Get Entities From Local Cache or the Database (Ricardo Peres)
- Dynamic JSON Parsing in .NET with JsonValue (Rick Strahl)
- Weak Events in .Net, the easy way (Samuel Jack)
- Asynchronous Thread Calls With Delegates (Selim Sertaç)
- Stylecop 4.7.14.0 has been released (Tatworth)
- Navigating code without Resharper (Merrick Chaffer)
- OrmLite Blobbing done with NHibernate and Serialized JSON… (Phillip Haydon)
- Quick Guide to moving from the Kinect SDK beta 2 to v1 (James Ashley)
- RabbitMQ for Windows: Hello World Review (Derek Greer)
- Running IntelliTrace on Applications in Production (Esther Fan)
Web Development
- Making this blog work as an app on the iPhone (part 3) (Julian M. Bucknall)
- Drawing transparent glyphs on the HTML canvas (Bertrand Le Roy)
- ASP.NET Web API – Screencast series with downloadable sample code – Part 1 and ASP.NET Web API – Screencast series Part 2: Getting Data and ASP.NET Web API – Screencast series Part 3: Delete and Update and ASP.NET Web API – Screencast series Part 4: Paging and Querying (Jon Galloway)
- New in 4.0: Smarter ordering of JavaScript completion options (Konstantin Ulitin)
- Fix a jQuery/HTML5 dynamic content issue by upgrading jQuery (Steve Albers)
- A Postback Modal jQuery Popup Message (Geoff)
- How to write low garbage real-time Javascript (Ashley Gullen)
- It’s time to start using JavaScript strict mode (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- ASP.NET MVC 4: Short syntax for script and style bundling (Gunnar Peipman)
- Dropbox REST API Part 6: OAuth Callback (Christophe Geers)
- 3D Tetris with Three.js tutorial – Part 2 (Sebastian Poręba)
- Media Capture Prototype: Improved Support for Real World Web Apps (Adalberto Foresti & Travis Leithead)
- Array.prototype.concat is not generic (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Presentation – CoffeeScript: Good, Bold, and with Sugar (Daniel Mohl)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Lean tools: Seeing Waste (Giorgio Sironi)
- Find Your Strengths Path to Accelerate Learning and Growth (JD Meier)
- Coding: Wait for the abstractions to emerge (Mark Needham)
- Mirroring git and mercurial repos the lazy way (Greg Malcolm)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Download for Windows Phone button (MS Downloads)
- TCP-based sockets on Windows Phone with support for large amounts of data (Den Delimarsky)
- VS11 gives you a fantastic XAML Editor (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Accessing the Accelerometer from HTML5 and Javascript with Windows Phone 7 and Integrating HTML5 and Javascript with Windows Phone 7 (Christian Helle)
- WPF TabControl focus behavior with invisible tabs (MVVM) (HeWillem)
- Insider’s view: Authoring XAML-based Metro style apps in Blend Beta (Joanna Mason)
- Telerik XAML Controls and the VS11 Beta Release (Michael Crump)
- Writing a Multiplayer Game (in WPF) (Paulo Zemek)
- 2000 WPF Things #517 – XAML Output when Drawing with the Pen Tool (Sean Sexton)
- Double Wide Tiles in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
- Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch (Beth Massi)
- could I have a device for testing? (Joel Reyes)
- How to use the PhotoChooserTask to Launch the Media Library? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Surveillance Camera App Using Nokia’s Notifications API (Chris J. Smith)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 201: Michael Crump on Silverlight 5 (David Giard)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 059 – “Wicked Good Time” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 432: COD Content Drops and how to get into Game Journalism (Larry Hyrb)
- Episode 179 – PowerScripting Podcast – Trevor Sullivan on DevOps and PowerEvents (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Engadget Mobile Podcast 130 – 03.18.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Cloud Cover Episode 72 – New Tools for Windows Identify Foundation and ACS (Wade Wegner)
- The Tablet Show – James Williams Builds Games in HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Video Online: Who Needs a Service Bus Anyway? (Udi Dahan)
- Boagworld – How your website can help you rebrand (Paul Boag)
- Windows Weekly 252: Is There An Easier Way To Explain This? (Paul Thurrott)
- TWC9: Windows 8 and Azure, Rx v2, Metro Advertising SDK, Portable libs and more (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- Robert Scoble Talks Startups And The Changing Face Of SXSW [TCTV] (Colleen Taylor)
- GeekDad Interview: Neil deGrasse Tyson (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) and The GeekDads Episode #111: If We Just Could Have Kept the Internet to Ourselves (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (Ken Denmead)
- [watching] Creating responsive HTML5 touch interfaces (Christian Heilmann)
- Video: Tobias Weltner – Regular Expressions in 5 Minutes (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Community / Events
- SQL SERVER – TechEd India 2012 – Content, Speakers and a Lots of Fun and SQLAuthority News – #TechEDIn – TechEd India 2012 – Things to Do and Explore for SQL Enthusiast (Pinal Dave)
- Reflections on the online community administrator position (Den Delimarsky)
- Windows 8 Developer Camp at Reston (3/27) and DC (3/29) (Zhiming Xue)
- It’s International PowerShell User Group Day! (Jim O’Neil)
- Holly Bertoncini – Community Manager, Telerik – Uncut & Unedited (Lohith G N)
- Speaking at TechED India this week (Stephen Forte)
- Mono and Google Summer of Code (Miguel de Icaza)
Database
- Activity Monitor in SQL Server 2012: an Improved Embedded Optimisation Gizmo for the Thrifty DBA (Hugo Shebbeare)
- SQL SERVER – Finding Shortest Distance between Two Shapes using Spatial Data Classes – Ramsetu or Adam’s Bridge (Pinal Dave)
- RavenDB Sharding – Blind sharding (Oren Eini)
- SQL Azure Federation Poster (MS Downloads)
- Using Mongo Database to store Log4Net logs (Gian Maria Ricci)
- The World of SQL Database Deployment (Bud Aaron)
SharePoint
- SharePoint 2010 MSDN Labs (Kelly Jones)
PowerShell
- Install PowerShell Web Access on non-English machines (Kriti Jindal)
- When Windows PowerShell Met Workflow (Mir Rosenberg)
Miscellaneous
- Gitara – A Ruby DSL for generating Lilypond guitar tablatures (George Mendoza)
- Microsoft is getting ready for next version of Office Web Apps preview for SkyDrive (damaster)
- Just Say No to SSNs (Ted Neward)
- Here’s what’s right with Windows 8 (Kathleen Dollard)
- Why we Rehire “Boomerangers.” (Rick Sanders)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 17, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 18, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 19, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – March 17 , 2012 and Interesting .NET Links – March 18 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
- Double Shot #841 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 3/16/2012 and Daily News Digest 03/19/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (3/16/2012) (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1067 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Dev News for March 17, 2012 – #0052 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for March 05 – 11, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
- Everyman on Metro in the Real World, Ted Talk in 2023, Social Media on Ice, Banned with Style, Dear Graphene (Dave Burke)
- Re-blog – March 9 – March 15 (Jason Strate)
- Retrospective 76 – Billionaires, Backlogs, and QA (Peter Saddington)
- Daily WP7 Development News 16 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- MVP Friday Five: March 16, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #10) (Himanshu Singh)
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