Top Links
- Managing app lifecycle so your apps feel "always alive" (Adam Barrus)
- Task Parallel Library and Servers, Part 1: Introduction and Task Parallel Library and Servers, Part 2: SynchronizationContext (Brad Wilson)
- Trying Out JavaScript v.Next (K. Scott Allen)
- Rx: Controlling frequency of events (John Rayner)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Actions in WCF Data Services – Part 1: Service Author Code (Alex James)
- Ternary Operator in VB.NET (Jalpesh Vadgama)
- WinJS Promises #1 and WinJS Promises #2 and WinJS Promises #3 and WinJS Promises #4 and WinJS Promises #5 and WinJS Promises #6 and Windows 8 Metro Style Apps–Process Lifecycle Management (Mike Taulty)
- Copy Source As Html-Visual Studio 11 and Windows 8 – Icons (Shai Raiten)
- Metro app development hidden gem: anonymous type binding (Tim Heuer)
- Introduction to Business Rules on individual DataFields (Peter Blum)
- Running Migrations At Application Startup (Joel Ross)
- Entity Framework Code-First Migrations (Sam Nasr)
Web Development
- New in ASP.NET MVC4: Razor changes (Alexander Beletsky)
- Whitespace in CSS Calculations (Eric Meyer)
- Using Forks with ASP.NET Web Stack Source on CodePlex (Henrik F. Nielsen)
- Alternative Units for CSS3 Rotation Transforms (Louis Lazaris)
- Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Lite, Building a TextReformatter With JsonResult (Peter Kellner)
- JavaScript Debugging Enhancements (Visual Studio Blog)
- Using LESS and CoffeeScript with System.Web.Optimization (Philip Proplesch)
- Switching Orchard Theme Styles and Colors (David Hayden)
- Building Twitter Bootstrap with Web Workbench (Ivan Towlson)
- Announcing YUI 3.5.0 (Jenny Donnelly)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- On Conflict Resolution – The Cost of Conflict (Peter Saddington)
- Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability (Oren Eini)
- Lean tools: Iterations (Giorgio Sironi)
- The Command Pattern in .NET (Eric Vogel)
- What Refactoring is, and what it isn’t (Swizec Teller)
- Automatic requirement traceability with Exploratory Testing (Nivedita Bawa)
- Creating robust tests with Isolator V7 (Dror Helper)
- Weekly Outcomes: The Simple Weekly Planner (JD Meier)
- Looking for a Free .NET Mocking Framework? (Chris Eargle)
- Let’s Talk About Logging (Karl Seguin)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: part 2 (Peter Kuhn)
- 2000 WPF Things #534 – Drawing Shapes with the Shape Tools in Blend (Sean Sexton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 047: Drop Dead Healthy (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode 185: Dwight Merriman on Replication (SE-Radio Team)
- Engadget HD Podcast 294 – 04.10.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Client Centric Web Design on Sitepoint Podcast (Paul Boag)
- Let’s Play TDD #180: There’s That Race Condition Again (James Shore)
- [Podcast] Agile Q&A Panel – Part 1 with Joel Semeniuk and Steve Porter (Zero to Agile Podcast Series)
- The GeekDads Episode #112: Eating Santa Claus’s Brain (Ken Denmead)
- Start Up Success Podcast Show #136: Kelly Kim, Cofounder of Twylah (Bob Walsh)
- HackReady.Phone Episode 3 of 7: Understanding Windows Phone’s Application Lifecycle and State Management (Lindsay Lindstrom)
Community / Events
- Talking Cloud with Connected System Developer MVP Alan Smith and Talking Cloud with Windows Azure MVP Yves Goeleven (MVP Award Program)
- Ex-Silverlighters and how they influence the vNext (Scott Barnes)
Database
- Simple Tips To Speed Up Your SSIS Data Flow (Sam Vangas)
- Hash Partitioning, SQL Server, and Scaling Writes (Jeremiah Peschka)
- SQL SERVER – Installing AdventureWorks Sample Database – SQL in Sixty Seconds #010 – Video (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Azure Database Query Usage (CPU) Graph in the Management Portal (Wayne Berry)
- Columnstore Index – Index Statistics (Ted Krueger)
- Microsoft: Hey, we’re an in-memory database player, too (Mary Jo Foley)
- Northwind now available on SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)
SharePoint
- How to display Sharepoint Data in a Windows Forms Application (Michael M. Bangoy)
- How to Create SharePoint List and Insert List Item programmatically from a Windows Forms Application. (Michael M. Bangoy)
- Built a cool webpart… Now what? (Joel Oleson)
PowerShell
- Shorten Path Names (and using Low Level API functions) (Tobias Weltner)
- Powershell progress dialogs (Reidar Husmo)
- PowerGUI VSX 1.6 Alpha – Visual Studio 2011 Support (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Have Win8 and a high resolution screen? Want to tweak the number of tiles per row on the Start Screen tile? Here’s how… (Greg Duncan)
- My car ships with crapware (Scott Hanselman)
- Using ifttt to put stuff in the right boxes (Tim Hibbard)
- How to set up and use Facebook Chat and Messenger for Windows Phone (Rich Edmonds)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 11, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #856 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1082 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 4/11/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows Dev News for April 10, 2012 – #0065 (Dave Campbell)
- Blogs to follow (Windows Phone MVPs) (Rudi Grobler)
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