Top Links
- Features NO ONE NOTICED in Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web (Scott Hanselman)
 - Metro: Introduction to CSS 3 Grid Layout (Stephen Walther)
 - Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance Part #3 (Larry Sullivan)
 - Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Updates in March, 2012 (Jialiang Ge)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: Of LINQ and Lambdas – A Presentation (James Michael Hare)
 - A Simple MapReduce with MongoDB and C# (K. Scott Allen)
 - Mono for Android Book has been Released!!!!! (Wally McClure)
 - Ninject: Auto-registration is changing in version 3 (John Rayner)
 - LOLCode Parser (Chris Cavanagh)
 - How not to join tables in LightSpeed (Ivan Towlson)
 
Web Development
- JavaScript code coverage and Esprima (Ariya Hidayat)
 - Foursquare Autocomplete jQuery Plugin (Joseph Guadagno)
 - Client-side messaging in JavaScript – Part 3 (anti-patterns) (Jim Cowart)
 - Make External Links Open in a New Window With This jQuery Plugin (Michael Kennedy)
 - Learning HTML5 – Getting Started with WebSharper (Cameron Taggart)
 - PHP objects in MongoDB with Doctrine (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Introducing Peter’s Business Driven Logic UI and DES 5.0 and How BLD differs from ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Peter Blum)
 - What Are the Most Popular JavaScript Keywords? and What This Means for ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - Using HTML5 Today part 3– Using Polyfills (Steve Albers)
 - Lessons learned building a multiplayer game in NodeJS and WebGL (Rob Ashton)
 - Introduction to HTML (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
 - Make IIS Express the Default for VS2010 Web Projects (Steve Smith)
 - New in WebStorm/PhpStorm 4.0: Easier debugging of remote PHP command line scripts (Nikolay Matveev)
 - @home with Windows Azure : Can I Deploy Multiple Instances? (Peter Laudati)
 - The Zen Of Python (Deepak Kapoor)
 - Build Facebook style infinite scroll with knockout.js and Last.fm API (Filip W.)
 - WebSockets in Windows Consumer Preview (Brian Raymor)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- On Writing Unit Tests for C# (Patrick Smacchia)
 - Should code contracts be tested? (Rory Primrose)
 - Good Teams Focus on the Team (Brendan Enrick)
 - Why do we (really) program to interfaces? (Kyle Burns)
 - Is Threat Modeling Overrated ? (Mark Curphey)
 - Integrating and isolating the container in tests (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Collaboration: Let’s Start Focusing on the How-To’s (Jacob Morgan)
 - Embracing GitHub (Keyvan Nayyeri)
 - Configurable Dependency (Alistair Cockburn)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Correcting the Invisible Events Tab Issue in the Properties Window for Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
 - Silverlight Document Toolkit March 2012 Update and Document Toolkit for LightSwitch 1.5 (Koen Zwikstra)
 - Flexible Metro-style icons in WPF with Embedded Fonts (LearnWPF)
 - Unit Testing Your Windows Phone Mango App (Rabeb Othmani)
 - 2000 WPF Things #518 – Change Points in a Path Using the Direct Selection Tool (Sean Sexton)
 - TCP-based sockets on Windows Phone with support for large amounts of data (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - LightSwitch Cosmopolitan Shell and Theme for VS 11 Beta (Beth Massi)
 - Part 4: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check. (Kevin Dockx)
 - LongListSelector walkthrough (JustAnotherAppDeveloper)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 044: Sarah Vowell interviewed about her book Unfamiliar Fishes (Mark Frauenfelder)
 - .NET Rocks! – Mike Diehl Fixes Us Up with Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - C9 Lectures: Donna Malayeri – F# 3.0 – Information Rich Programming, 1 of 1 (Charles Torre)
 - SharePoint 2010 Application Lifecycle Management-Episode 70 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
 
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for March 19th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - F# as a Platform for Quantitative Finance: Thursday, March 22, SkillsMatter, London (Don Syme)
 - Join us online on April 24 for the patterns & practices Symposium 2012 (Pete Brown)
 - Tour of Windows 8 Consumer preview, Visual Studio 11 beta at Microsoft Gulf, 31st March 2012 (Zubair Ahmed)
 - Meet the Author: Scott Seely on Windows Azure AppFabric (Paul Ballard)
 - Meet Telerik at TechEd India Live and win exciting prizes (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Free Introducing Windows 8/Metro Event for Developers and Designers (Doris Chen)
 - Philly Phorum 2012: A Conference On Cloud Technology (Eric Smith)
 
Database
- SQL Server 2012: xVelocity (James Serra)
 - Where are the Data Sources and Data Source Views in SSIS 2012? and Here are my SSIS 2012 Data Sources (Axel Achten)
 - T-SQL Improvements in SQL Server 2012 (Jonathan Allen)
 - Video: Not All Queries Are Created Equal – Using Having and Where Clauses in SQL Server (Paul Ballard)
 - Database Backups ~ Good or Bad? (Chris Yates)
 - RavenDB Sharding–Data Driven Sharding (Oren Eini)
 - How to Succeed in Database Development Without Really Trying (Jeremiah Peschka)
 
SharePoint
- SharePoint Development and Application Lifecycle Management (Jeremy Thake)
 
PowerShell
- Executing timer jobs from Powershell (Reidar Husmo)
 - Powershell – Working with Cluster Resources – Byte Arrays (Kyle Neier)
 - Scheduling Background Jobs in Windows PowerShell 3.0 (Travis Jones)
 - Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (Jonathan Allen)
 
Miscellaneous
- Windows Azure App Platform: We’re hiring strong developers! (Jeff Wilcox)
 - Report: Five Windows 8 ARM devices for October launch (John Callaham)
 - Whatever happened to the Microsoft Office 15 Moorea app? and A Windows 8 e-reader: If someone builds it, will they come? (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Microsoft Lining Up Windows 8 For October 2012 Release (Robert Boland)
 
More Link Collections
- Reading Notes #38 (Frank)
 - The Morning Brew #1068 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 19 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Windows Phone / SQL Server Compact resources (Erik EJ)
 
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