Top Links
- Using async/await with WebClient in Windows Phone 8 (or: TaskCompletionSource saves the day) (Laurent Bugnion)
- Moq with F# 3 (Phillip Trelford)
- Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about HTTP in 6 pages or less (Think "DZone HTTP Refcardz") (Greg Duncan)
- Tip to become a successful software engineer. (Eric Hexter)
- Beginner HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, Backbone, and CSS3 Resources (Elijah Manor)
Web Development
- PhpStorm 6 EAP build 126.36 (Alexey Gopachenko)
- More on DRM in HTML5 (Bruce Lawson)
- Getting started with Knockout.js (Dhananjay Kumar)
- How to copy blobs or VHDs between different Windows Azure subscription (Frank)
- Stupid Question 134: What is semantic Html? and Stupid Question 135: What are vendor-specific CSS property prefixes? (Iris Classon)
- Publishing a Web App to Windows Azure (John Papa)
- 50 Ways to Avoid, Find and Fix ASP.NET Performance Issues (Kevin Griffin)
- Making Use of jQuery UI’s Widget Factory (Pavan Podila)
- Using HTML 5.1 (Steve Faulkner)
- ASP.NET MVC, Data Access, and Deployment Content Maps Published (Tom Dykstra)
- My experiences with Knockout (Gunnar Peipman)
- Team Foundation Server 2012 build notification using ASP.Net Web API (Fredrik Normen)
- The Good and the Bad of OAuth 2.0 Authorization Implementations (John Sheehan)
- Microsoft’s Cloud OS Play–A Logical Converged Cloud Offering (Ben Kepes)
- QuickTip – Marking and Selecting Traffic in Fiddler (Eric Lawrence)
- Dispatching to different query functions in Mobile Services and Debugging your Mobile Service scripts (Josh Twist)
- Arrow function expressions in TypeScript (Piotr Walat)
- A Log4Net Ducksboard Appender (Brendan Tompkins)
XAML
- Send Email with attachments without using EmailComposeTask with MailMessage (Windows Phone Geek)
- How to use the Accelerometer in Windows 8 C#/XAML Applications and Handling Resuming in your Windows 8 Applications (Derik Whittaker)
- WinRT comparison JS/Html and C#/XAML: Using a grid for app layout (Iris Classon)
- Tips and tricks when using voice recognition in a Windows Phone 8 app (Jeremy Alles)
- Building High Performance Windows Phone Apps (Jonathan Lyons)
- Accessing a UI control’s method using MVVM Light Messenger (Juan Harrington)
- Handling unhandled exceptions with async/await on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Keith Patton)
- Using an AdControl in a Trial App (Windows Phone) (Matthias Shapiro)
- 2000 WPF Things #743 – Using Touch Manipulation Events to Scale an Element (Sean Sexton)
- Creating a Keyboard Buffer in Windows Store Apps (Chris Gardner)
- Exploring Raw Notifications in Windows Store apps (Andrea Boschin)
- Windows 8 Drone… as in "AR.Drone 2.0 API for Windows Store Apps" (Greg Duncan)
- CatelR# – a niche plugin for the Catel framework (Matt Ellis)
Miscellaneous .NET
- SvcPerf – Trace Analysis Tool for WCF Released (Anand Narayanaswamy)
- Sorting C# collections that have no collating sequence (Andreas Gieriet)
- Using Visual Studio database projects in real life (Gunnar Peipman)
- Undoing a change will now undo a check-out in Visual Studio 2012 (Jamie Thomson)
- Mono Improves Aync Support and MonoDevelop Adds NuGet (Jeff Martin)
- Attaching an MDF Database to LocalDb in Visual Studio the Easier Way (Julie Lerman)
- Quick Overview Video of MonoTouch for C# Devs (Roger Peters)
- Use Intel Perceptual Computing SDK with VS2012 (Vikas Vermano)
- Building a Game (Guest Post) (John Sonmez)
- C++ Generics: Meta-Programming and Variadic Templates (Diego Dagum)
- Paint.NET PSD Plugin 2.3.0 (CodePlex)
- 2000 C# Things #767 – A struct Is Implicitly Sealed (Sean Sexton)
- Integrating a Windows 8 Store Game with Azure Mobile Services a.k.a Zumo (Sumit Maitra)
- OData for Team Foundation Service (Brian Harry)
- Adventures in Debugging: The NHibernate “don’t flush the Session” Error (Derek Greer)
- Speeding up your Netduino project (a view from a Desktop dev) (Greg Duncan)
- Beware Singletons that Raise Events (Jesse Taber)
- When you have a SAFEARRAY, you need to know what it is a SAFEARRAY *of* (Raymond Chen)
- NHibernate Pitfalls: Flush Mode (Ricardo Peres)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Article: Interview and Book Review: A practical approach to large-scale Agile development (Ben Linders)
- Book Review: It’s Already Inside: Nurturing Your Innate Leadership for Business and Life Success (J.D. Meier)
- 5 Tips on How to Use Metrics in an Agile Project (Venkatesh Krishnamurthy)
- Managing Parallel Team Development–Using NuGet (Dylan Smith)
- Designing file names – improving user experience for file downloads (Rob Relyea)
- Iterative Software Development, Part 3 and Iterative Software Development, Part 4 (Scott Leber)
- What Is A UX Consultant? (DevToolsGuy)
- Organizing commands and queries (Jef Claes)
- Effectively Planning UX Design Projects (Jesmond Allen & James Chudley)
- Using Data Driving Wisely and Data Driven Testing: What’s a Good Dataset Size? (Jim Holmes)
- Automation as inoculations (John Guin)
- Article: Interview and Book Review: Continuous Delivery and DevOps – A Quickstart Guide (Manuel Pais)
Other Mobile Platforms
- CryptoLicensing v2013 for .Net with Activation Console, Mono for Android Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
- Test Studio for iOS 2.0 – Annotations Delay (Anthony Rinaldi)
- Stupid Question 136: Does iOS have metatags for connecting apps to the store like Windows Store Apps? (Iris Classon)
- Building The Prototype: iOS Prototyping With TAP And Adobe Fireworks (Part 2) (Shlomo Goltz)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 250: Peter Ritchie on Distributed Computing (David Giard)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 464: The lost show and what we are playing (Larry Hyrb)
- Windows Weekly 296: Microsoft’s Secret Power Broker (Paul Thurrott)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Peter Farrelly and The Nerdist Podcast – Mark Hamill (Chris Hardwick)
- The Tablet Show – Atley Hunter Built 40 Win 8 Apps in 10 Days (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- The Vergecast 062 – January 24th, 2013 (Brendan Murphy)
- Engadget Mobile Podcast 167 – 01.22.13 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 167 – 01.23.13 and Engadget Podcast 328 – 01.24.13 (Joe Pollicino)
- Video: Do You Have An Education Strategy? (Paul Ballard)
- Podcast: Windows 8, Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, and computer scientist Yaw Anokwa (Todd Bishop)
- TWC9: Fall Fury, Azure push, Windows Phone 7.8 SDK, CHEEVOS! | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- Episode 99 – Windows Azure Media Services General Availibility | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Mingfeiy, Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
Community / Events
- More on "Craftsmanship" (Ted Neward)
- Speaking at North Dallas .NET Users Group on ASP.NET SignalR (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Geekspace: The Technically Philly HQ (Colleen T. Reese)
Database
- SQLAuthority News – Developing Multi-tenant Applications for the Cloud, 3rd Edition – Book Download and SQL SERVER – Basic Explanation of SET LOCK_TIMEOUT – How to Not Wait on Locked Query (Pinal Dave)
- MongoDB: How to include and exclude the fields you want in results and How do you manage SQL Agent Jobs when using mirroring? and MongoDB: How to limit results and how to page through results (Denis Gobo)
- RavenDB on the Cloud (Oren Eini)
- Continuous deployment of SSDT database projects to Windows Azure using Team Foundation Service (Jamie Thomson)
- Day 21 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Who Deleted That Data? and Day 22 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Which DBCC CHECK Commands Update Last Known Good DBCC (Robert Davis)
SharePoint
PowerShell
- Announcing PowerShell Cookbook Online Access (Lee Holmes)
- PoshInternals – Move-FileOnReboot, Remove-FileOnReboot and Get-PendingFileRenameOperation and PoshInternals – Install-BlueScreenSaver (Adam Driscoll)
- PowerShell Cmdlet Help Editor 1.0 (initial release) (CodePlex)
- StudioShell Update and a Related Effort (Jim Christopher)
- Batch Updating/Changing Visual Studio Projects with PowerShell (John Robbins)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft earnings cheat sheet: Windows is back to cash cow number one and Microsoft said to be testing an Outlook client for Windows RT (Mary Jo Foley)
- Effective Writing guidelines from Scott Meyers (Bill Wagner)
- Lucasfilm confirms J.J. Abrams will direct ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ (Bryan Bishop)
- Nokia announces Music+ subscription service: unlimited downloads, higher quality, lower price (Daniel Rubino)
- Bill Gates says you should read these 5 books in 2013 (Taylor Soper)
- Big O Notation Basics (Richard Carr)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 26, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 27, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 28, 2013 (Jason Haley)
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, January 24th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, January 25th (Rob Caron)
- Double Shot #1053 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Geek Reading January 25, 2013 (Rob Diana)
- Pie in the Sky (January 25, 2013) (Larry Franks)
- Recommended reading from mrdenny for January 25, 2013 (Denny Cherry)
- The Daily Six Pack: January 26, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: January 28, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
- Daily News Digest 1/25/2013 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (1/25/2013) (Silverlight Show)
- Reading Notes #79 (Frank)
- The Morning Brew #1282 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-01-28 (Dan Rigby)
- Reblog: January 18 to January 24 (Jason Strate)
- Visual Studio ALM Links- Week 4/2013 (Ricci Gian Maria)
- Daily Windows Phone Development News 25 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #52) (Craig Kitterman)
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