Top Links
- Microsoft: Here are the four editions of Windows 8 (Mary Jo Foley)
- ILSpy v2 4 U – ILSpy v2 RTW’s (Greg Duncan)
- Creating a great tile experience (part 1) (Kevin Michael Woley)
- Announcing Windows Azure Media Services (Scott Guthrie)
- Windows 8 Enterprise Monkey Edition …Why not just “Windows”.. (Scott Barnes)
- Going Deeper with Project Roslyn: Exposing the C# and VB compiler’s code analysis (Dustin Campbell)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Visual Studio 11 Fakes Part 1 – Stubs (Unknown Author)
- Understanding Visual Studio’s Default Namespaces (Richard Carr)
- RavenDB & FreeDB: An optimization story (Oren Eini)
- My First and Second Thoughts on Visual Studio 11 (Beta) (Andrew Schwam)
- Acceptance Testing UI using Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft Test Manager and Fit style tables (Charles Sterling)
- Upgrading WCF Data Services Projects to WCF Data Services 5.0 (Glenn Gailey)
- Visual Studio 10 crashed when tried to open one of solutions (Michael Freidgeim)
- Video: Send Your Debugger Back In Time With Visual Studio Intellitrace (Paul Ballard)
- LINQ vs Loop (using C#) (Shahin Khorshidnia)
- Windows 8 JavaScript–Change Lock Screen Image (Shai Raiten)
- Auto-Vectorization (Jim Hogg)
- Where to get .NET Gadgeteer and Netduino GO compatible 10 pin IDC sockets, and how to solder them (Pete Brown)
- Why do we need IsDialogMessage at all? (Raymond Chen)
- How to share your Metro style application for Windows 8 with another developer (Matt Harrington)
- Your Feedback about the Roslyn CTP NuGet Package? (Kirill Osenkov)
- MSMQ Studio 1.0.1 (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
- Writing functional code in C++ III – Performance of different allocation schemes (Luca Bolognese)
- Using oData with the NuGet API (John Petersen)
- Unity IoC container: tips, tricks and dirty hacks (Marcin Kaluza)
- Coding Signing Internal Applications and a Gotcha (Karl Shifflett)
- Well, that code won’t work the way I want (John Guin)
- Win 8 Page Navigation (Jesse Liberty)
- Announcing Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Browser v5 – A Big Refresh with Expansion to 3500+ code samples, Favorite Searches, Flexibilities & More (Jialiang Ge)
- Working with Image Paths in WinRT–Something odd here (Derik Whittaker)
- Data Serializer updated for Windows Metro (Joel Ivory Johnson)
- Decompiling Async/Await (Daniel Grunwald)
- Farseer tutorial for the absolute beginners (Bil Simser)
- Accessing files on local machine in Windows 8 Metro Style Apps using JavaScript and HTML5 (nmarun)
- Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Branching and Merging Guide v2 – For Visual Studio 11 and Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.9.4.0 with Visual Studio Package (CodePlex)
Web Development
- Full screen Bing Maps with HTML5 Full screen API (Filip W)
- The Real Pain of Software Development [part 2] (Phil Haack)
- Linking to jQuery: Always Reference a Specific Version (Louis Lazaris)
- Introducing Windows Azure – Creating your first ASP.NET Web Role Project (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Rotating Words with CSS Animations (Mary Lou)
- Translate jQuery UI Datepicker format to .Net Date format (Michael Freidgeim)
- The standard PHP setup (Giorgio Sironi)
- Visual Studio 11 Express for Web for Front End Development – JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3 (Scott Hanselman)
- Creating an HTML Metro style app that references C# and C++ code (Steven Yackel)
- For Loops in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Using Backbone to improve multiselects (Swizec Teller)
- 5 interesting security trends from Verizon’s 2012 data breach report (Troy Hunt)
- How WebAPI does Parameter Binding (Mike Stall)
- How to Create a Sencha Touch 2 App, Part 4 (Jorge Ramon)
- Editing CoffeeScript with Sublime Text 2 (Joe White)
- Announcing Windows Azure Media Services (Cameron Rogers)
- How to Build a Real-Time Chat Service with Socket.IO, Express, and the Azure SDK–Part 1 (Aaron Stannard)
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0 RC2 (117.211) (Alexey Gopachenko)
- Calling Web Services Using AJAX (Jonathan Wood)
- ECMAScript.next: arrow functions and method definitions (Axel Rauchmayer)
- Understanding MVVM – A Guide For JavaScript Developers (Addy Osmani)
- JavaScript language a- z cheat sheet (Alex Staveley)
- A Simple But Powerful Backbone View Model Binder : Javascript Weekly April 13th. (Bart Wood)
- Managing A Modal Dialog With Backbone And Marionette (Derick Bailey)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Principles — Continuous Delivery and The Why of Scrum — The Standup (Jonathan Mills)
- Validate User Input, Not Developer Input (John Sonmez)
- Agile at the Speed of Trust – Self Trust (Peter Callies)
- DDD: From Reality to Implementation (Rinat Abdullin)
- Command Pattern In .NET (Roopesh Shenoy)
- What is Capability? (Karl Scotland)
- Value is the Short-Cut for Building Better Products (JD Meier)
- Test Scribe for MTM 11 Beta is out (Gautam Goenka)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.5.6 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
- Converting Windows Phone to Windows 8 (Nick Randolph)
- Home Security System Using Kinect, Azure, Windows Phone and Windows 8 (Abhijit Jana)
- Copying and moving styles using Expression Blend for HTML (Corrado Cavalli)
- Behind the Tiles with Windows Phone (Cigdem Patlak)
- Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 5: More contracts in WinRT/Windows 8 (Gill Cleeren)
- Get that off the screen… Using HAP (HTML Agility Pack) on WP7 to webscrape (Greg Duncan)
- How to Display Suggestions in ‘On-Screen Keyboard’ for a Textbox in Windows Phone App (Senthil Kumar)
- Hacking for fun: porting a Silverlight Windows Phone app to WinRT in 9hours (Jeremy Alles)
- How To Play with the Search Task in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
- Multitouch in Windows Phone 7 (Andrew Conlisk)
- How to Save Email Address in WP7 using the SaveEmailAddressTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Working with third party libraries and JSON (6 of 12) (Peter von Lochow)
- 2000 WPF Things #537 – Changing a Layout Panel to a Different Type and #538 – XAML End Tags Are Automatically Added as Needed in Blend (Sean Sexton)
- DELORDSON Releases 6 Exciting New Shells (Michael Washington)
- Changes To The Dropbox API – Upload Files The New Way From a Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Part 5: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check. (Kevin Dockx)
- PhoneGap 1.6 Released (Steve)
- Catel – WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 MVVM toolkit – Release: 3.1 beta 1 (CodePlex)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – RavenDB on MSNBC! and The Tablet Show – Peter Kuhn Teaches Silverlight Developers to Build XNA Apps on WP7 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Mads Torgersen and Kim Bruce – Grace Programming Language (Charles Torre)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 063 – “Hugs, Not Drugs” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- HackReady.Phone, Episode 4: Working with Windows Phone Sensors and Other APIs and The Campus Coder: Episode #1 with Chevon Christie (MS Podcasts)
- The GeekDads Episode #112: Eating Santa Claus’s Brain (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (Ken Denmead)
- Ping 137: Kinect illusionist, Kintext, R.I.P. XP, Lumias! (Laura Foy & Paul Mestemaker)
- Cloud Cover Episode 76 – Meet our new additions to the Windows Azure Technical Evangelist Team (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
- Boagworld – A different approach to web design education (Paul Boag)
- Engadget Mobile Podcast 134 – 04.16.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- TWC9: WCF Data Services v5, Performance Killers, Project Detroit and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 48 (Richard Hay)
- Let’s Play TDD #182: Grab Bag (James Shore)
- 9 for 8… Official Channel 9 Videos Metro Style app now available for Windows 8 (Greg Duncan)
- Herb Sutter: (Not Your Father’s) C++ (Herb Sutter)
- Dart: A Well Structured Web Programming Language (Gilad Bracha)
- Jon Galloway Helps Introduce Web Camps 2012 (Brady Gaster)
- 011 JSJ Can HTML5 and JavaScript Really Replace Flash? (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ ONeal & Jamison Dance)
- A Deeper Dive into the Page Flip in Canvas/HTML5 (Rick Barraza)
Community / Events
- Meet the Author: Yacine Khammal on Building Windows Phone Applications with Azure (Paul Ballard)
- Announcing the Web.NET Conference Europe, this fall in Italy (Simone Chiaretta)
- Contributing to Mono 4.5 Support (Miguel de Icaza)
- ElegantCode Design Contest (Jarod Ferguson)
- Register now for the global Dart hackathon (Seth Ladd)
- One Engine Two Tools MSDN Webcast (Chris Eargle)
- Great Place to Work: Late Nights, App Hack-a-thon & Plenty of Tech Talk at Experience Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
- Launch of Macedonia SharePoint User Group and Balkan User Groups on Fire! (Joel Oleson)
- Upcoming Events for April 9th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Database
- Pivot and Unpivot table in SQL SERVER (Vivek Johari)
- Folders in SQL Server Data Tools (Jamie Thomson)
- SQL SERVER – Working with FileTables in SQL Server 2012 – Part 1 – Setting Up Environment and SQL SERVER – Working with FileTables in SQL Server 2012 – Part 2 – Methods to Insert Data Into Table and SQL SERVER – Cheatsheet – Released for SQL Server 2012 Edition (Pinal Dave)
- SSDT – Installation confusion (James Serra)
- Creating a User without a Login – Contained Databases (Steve Jones)
- How to build a database from source control (David Atkinson)
- How to use Report Builder 3.0 (Mike Davis)
- Where Have all the DBAs and DB DEVs Gone? (John Sansom)
- Massively Parallel Processing and the Parallel Data Warehouse (Garrett Edmondson)
SharePoint
- Programmatically Create a Managed Metadata List Column (Mohammed Faizan)
PowerShell
- PowerGUI VSX 1.6.1 and PowerShell Developer Tip: Debugging COM Objects (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Learn to Read the Source, Luke (Jeff Atwood)
- Have VMware images? Want to convert them to Hyper-V? Microsoft now has a beta conversation tool for you… MVMC (Greg Duncan)
- Why I’m moving away from Apple, and specifically, the iPhone and going to the store (John Petersen)
- Microsoft Office 15: What’s an Agave? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Facebook’s privacy settings are too complex for ANYONE to use – Change these settings today (Scott Hanselman)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 14, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 16, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #1085 and The Morning Brew #1086 (Chris Alcock)
- April 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API and Visual Studio (Scott Guthrie)
- Interesting Windows 8 Links – 2012-04-14 and Interesting Windows 8 Links – 2012-04-16 and Interesting Windows 8 Links – 2012-04-17 (Dan Rigby)
- Double Shot #859 and Double Shot #860 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily Links 15 Apr 2012 (Jax)
- Daily News Digest 04/16/2012 and Daily News Digest 4/17/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Reading Notes #42 (Frank)
- Windows Dev News for April 16, 2012 – #0067 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 16 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Everyman on More Than a Game, A Real Head Turner, Surrounded by Notifications, Happy Cows (Dave Burke)
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