Top Links
- Microsoft’s Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop and Xamarin opens its Test Cloud beta; buys Calabash framework maker (Mary Jo Foley)
 - The beginners guide to breaking website security with nothing more than a Pineapple (Troy Hunt)
 - Glimpse 1.3 released with a new glimpse.axd page & N+1 detection (Anthony van der Hoorn)
 - All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Static Tiles and Tile Icons (Geek Champ)
 
Web Development
- PhpStorm 6.0.1 released (Mikhail Vink)
 - Hack Raspberry Pi – How To Build Apps In C#, WinForms and ASP.NET Using Mono In Pi (Anoop Madhusudanan)
 - Creating Unit Testable Applications in ASP.NET MVC – A Beginner’s Tutorial (Rahul Rajat Singh)
 - Integrate Tumblr into C#.NET Website (Nupur S. Tiwari)
 - Services and Dependency Injection in AngularJS (Ingo Rammer)
 - Twitter API v1.0 Deprecation and Blackout Schedule (Joe Mayo)
 - How to Forward a GoDaddy Domain to Azure (M. Lang)
 
XAML
- Smart Navigation in Windows Phone (Geek Champ)
 - Controlling a hardware prototype with your Windows Phone (Adam Denning)
 - Android to Windows Phone 8 Part 4: Running the Windows Phone Application (Adam Grocholski)
 - Using CSS Grid Layout and Blend 5 to Build a Game (David Rousset)
 - Building Windows Phone 8 Apps on a Mac (Mark Arteaga)
 - Windows Phone App Manager (Nick Randolph)
 - 2000 WPF Things #800 – Transforms Do Not Affect ActualWidth and ActualHeight (Sean Sexton)
 - Does licensechanged first when an expiration date passes? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
 - Launching PDF Documents (Peter Foot)
 - Three Steps to work with RadDataGrid in XAML based Windows Store Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 ALM Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts Now Available (Brian Keller)
 - Using GridFS in MongoDb from C# (K. Scott Allen)
 - 2000 C# Things #824 – A Copy Constructor Makes a Copy of an Existing Object (Sean Sexton)
 - Building great-looking apps for Office using the new project templates (Michael Zlatkovsky)
 - [Sample Of Apr 16th] A basic Windows service in C++ (Philip Fu)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Software Architecture Sketches and NoUML (Simon Brown)
 - A Merge Tool that Understands Functions (Jonathan Allen)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Build beautiful Android apps with our Iguana UI controls (DevToolsGuy)
 - Animations, Actions And Particle Systems: Creating Realistic iPhone Games With Cocos2D (Zack Grossbart)
 - Update on Tablet App Guidelines and Screenshots (Ellie Powers)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Web Dev Radio Episode 109: Typescript and a bit more… (Michael Kimsal)
 - Engadget HD Podcast 345 – 04.16.13 (James Trew)
 
Community / Events
- Windows Phone Developer Workshop (Nick Randolph)
 - 7 Reasons to Hack – Hackathons help you build your network (MS JobsBlog)
 - Philly Startup Weekend @ Two Liberty Place: Ticket Giveaway! (Eric Smith)
 - GeekWire Awards: Vote for Young Entrepreneur of the Year (John Cook)
 - Brazilian MVPs Deliver During Virtual Conference (JP Clementi)
 - Nerd Nite Takes on the Philadelphia Science Festival April 18-28 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
 - Agile Interview with Stephen Forte (Vesselina Tasheva)
 - New CreativeJS Workshop in New York (Val Head)
 
Database
- Easy automation of SQL Server database maintenance (Paul Randal)
 - SQL SERVER – Remove Cached Login from SSMS Connect Dialog – SQL in Sixty Seconds #049 (Pinal Dave)
 - SQL Server NOLOCK Hint (Richard Carr)
 - Data Warehouse modeling deliberations – foreign keys and unknown members (Jamie Thomson)
 
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- First real-world usage figures suggest Chromebooks are struggling (Ed Bott)
 - CISPA vote means companies can’t promise to protect privacy (Declan McCullagh)
 - Why I love Windows 8 (Ian Barker)
 - Adding arithmetic operators to our OData parser (Rob Ashton)
 - How to disable the On-Screen Touch Keyboard in Windows 8 (Scott Hanselman)
 - Windows Blue build 9369 leaks: Windows nerds, rejoice! (Stephen Chapman)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 17, 2013 (Jason Haley)
 - Cheatsheet: 2013 04.01 ~ 04.16 (yuanjian)
 - Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, April 16th (Rob Caron)
 - Double Shot #1108 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - The Morning Brew #1337 (Chris Alcock)
 - The Daily Six Pack: April 17, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Daily News Digest 4/17/2013 (Silverlight Show)
 - Weekly Digest 8 (Jakub Chodounsky)
 - Daily Windows Phone Development News 16 April 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 16 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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