Top Links
- null is not false, part three (Eric Lippert)
- Free 1-Month Subscription to the ASP.NET MVC with EF Code First, HTML5, and jQuery Course (Dan Wahlin)
- Managing "BYO" PCs in the enterprise (including WOA) (Steven Sinofsky)
- XNA on Windows 8 Metro (Miguel de Icaza)
- Wanted!! Great Windows 8 Metro style apps (Jaime Rodriguez)
.NET / Visual Studio
- PlayStationSuite Open Beta means seeing the Vita sharply, C#.. (Greg Duncan)
- JustTrace and JustMock in Visual Studio 11 and Does JustDecompile Contain Bundled Software? (Just* Team)
- Programmatically create a branch with the TFS 2010 API (Tim Huffam)
- Exploring Code Canvas (Kael Rowan)
- List of 6 things that can get you started with Game Design (Surf4Fun)
- Preparing to Develop Metro style Device Apps for Mobile Broadband (MS Downloads)
- Running .NET CouchDB applications on AppHarbor (Michael Friis)
Web Development
- HTML5 Bing Maps JavaScript API (Jim Jackson II & Ian Gilman)
- A Match Made in Http Heaven – ASP.NET Web Forms and WebAPI (Joshua Holt)
- ASP.NET MVC3 Razor With jQuery For Beginners (Jovan Popovic)
- Knockout anonymous templates and css3pie don’t get along. (Kevin LaBranche)
- How Numbers are Encoded in JavaScript and Handing Variables to eval (Axel Rauschmayer)
- ASP.NET MVC Postbacks and HtmlHelper Controls ignoring Model Changes (Rick Strahl)
- ASP.NET Web API: Extending content negotiation with new formats (Gunnar Peipman)
- A Kaleidoscope in Canvas (Neven Mrgan)
- Building a website for your game company (Surf4Fun)
- Triangle With Shadow (Chris Coyier)
- Random Redirection In WordPress (Goce Mitevski)
- Single Page Application and why is it becoming more and more popular (Harish Ranganathan)
- Retro rippling reflections with lake.js (Paul Neave)
- JuiceUI has a new flavor, Wijmo (Kevin Griffin)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Keeping Your Agile Team Safe (Aaron Bjork)
- Leadership in the Moment (J.D. Meier)
- My API Design Mantras (Morten Nielsen)
- Review of “Version Control with Git” by Jon Loeliger (A. Jesse Jiryu Davis)
- Announcing Keyword-Driving Testing Integration from LogiGear (Charles Sterling)
- It’s Not About The Number Of Hours You Put In (Davy Brion)
- Some verifications for the optimize test (John Guin)
- Lean tools: synchronization (Giorgio Sironi)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" [An alternate implementation of HTTP gzip decompression for Windows Phone] (David Anson)
- EvenTiles and 256-MB Windows Phone Devices (Maarten Struys)
- 2000 WPF Things #541 – Adding Elements from The Assets Panel in Blend (Sean Sexton)
- APress Deal of the Day – 20/April/2012 – Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight (TATWORTH)
- Memory Profiling – Launching, Graphs and Markers (Pratap Lakshman)
- Mysteries of XDesProc–Revealed! (Joanna Mason)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 048: A Startling Look Into the World That’s Coming! (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Let’s Play TDD #183: Extract Class (James Shore)
- Jason Bock – The Ramen Challenge (Phil Wilson & Jason Bock)
- Office 365 Goes to the Movies (Laura Foy)
- Walter Bright: The D Programming Language (Walter Bright)
- Radio TFS – The Not Lost Show (Martin Woodward)
- Video: Brandon Shell – Module Design for IT Pro (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- Start Up Success Podcast Show #137: Melanie Plageman, JOBS bill and Motaavi (Bob Walsh)
- Lightning Fast Folder and File Creation in Sublime Text 2 (Jeffrey Way)
- The Metro Developer Show Episode 064 – “What’s Japanese For Cowboy Hat Full Of Barf?” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Community / Events
- LeadingAgile is Speaking at Agile2012 (Mike Cottmeyer)
- SilverlightShow Interview with Brian Noyes – Presenter of 4 Sessions at Visual Studio Live!New York 4-day Conference (Silverlight Show)
- Stockholm, Friday 27th April: Hybrid Applications with Clemens Vasters + Win a Hot Air Balloon Ride! (Alan Smith)
Database
- SQL Server: Measuring The Index Fragmentation (Unknown Author)
- Working with SQL Server LocalDB in LightSwitch Projects in Visual Studio 11 (Beth Massi)
- SQL SERVER – Performance Tuning – Part 2 of 2 – Analysis, Detection, Tuning and Optimizing (Pinal Dave)
- FREE! ‘Essential Guide to SQL Server Storage’ whitepaper (RedGate)
- Using EXECUTE AS OWNER (Ted Krueger)
- MERGE ahead… Comparing MERGE performance to standard Inserts/Updates/etc (Greg Duncan)
- Migrating a Database to SQL Azure using SSDT (Bill Gibson)
SharePoint
- Changing SharePoint with – CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery (Kunaal Kapoor)
- SharePoint Developer Tools in Visual Studio 11 Beta – Part III: Tips and Tricks in SharePoint List Designer (Xiaoying Guo)
PowerShell
- Mastering my machine repaves with Git and PowerShell (Peter Provost)
- PowerShell for the Redditor (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Could Light Table get in trouble with Microsoft? (John Sheehan)
- Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Service Pack 6 Cumulative Update (MS Downloads)
- Google’s chief Java architect: it’s ‘likely’ I copied Sun code found in Android (Bryan Bishop)
- Windows: Still Not Dead Yet (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
- Win a Free Prototyping License from Pidoco (Pidoco)
- 10 graphic examples of the abomination that is iTunes on Windows (Troy Hunt)
- Verizon vows to back Windows Phone as ‘third ecosystem’ (Todd Bishop)
- Windows Phone 8 Features Leaked? (Antonio Hernandez)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #1089 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-20 (Dan Rigby)
- Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
- SilverlightShow Top 5 for April 9 – 15, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily News Digest 4/20/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Double Shot #863 (Mike Gunderloy)
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