Top Links
- Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC: Windows Phone 8.1 Tools, Shared Projects and Universal Windows Apps (S.Somasegar)
 - Bringing WinJS cross-platform and open source (Maria Kang)
 - Announcing TypeScript 1.0 (Jonathan Turner)
 - About Windows Phone 8.1 and universal apps and Building a Universal Application for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 with MVVM Light (Laurent Bugnion)
 - Caliburn.Micro 2.0 Beta 2 (Rob Eisenberg)
 
Web Development
- State of the Microsoft Security: ASP.NET Identity 2.0 (Don Kiely)
 - F12 Refresh – The JavaScript Debugger and F12 Refresh – The JavaScript Console and F12 Refresh – CSS editor (Aaron Powell)
 - Announcing an updated version of Internet Explorer 11 – available on Windows 8.1, Windows 7, and Windows Phone 8.1 (Sam George)
 - The New Internet Explorer Enterprise Mode or Why You Should Never Use IE 8 Anymore and What Standards Does Internet Explorer Support and Are They Planning to Support a Specification? (Chris Love)
 - Stay up to date with Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11 (Kevin Miller & Fred Pullen)
 - Consensus: Bringing it all together (Nick Berardi)
 - Available Now: Preview of Project “Orleans” – Cloud Services at Scale (Niklas Gustafsson)
 
XAML
- Comparing Windows Phone APIs (Koen Zwikstra)
 - First Look at Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 Universal Apps with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC (Josh Morales)
 - Features coming in Windows Phone 8.1 (Windows Phone UK Team)
 - EntranceThemeTransitionBehavior Behavior for WPF (Jeremiah Morrill)
 - [Sample Of Apr 2nd] How to use multi-touch events to manipulate a 3D scene in WPF applications (Philip Fu)
 - 2000 WPF Things #1,043 – Using a DockPanel as the Items Panel for a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
 - Caliburn.Micro and Universal Apps (Nigel Sampson)
 - Transitioning your app from the Panorama control to the Hub control (Shawn Kendrot)
 - Extending platform commonality through universal Windows apps (Kevin Gallo)
 - Windows 8 side loading improvements (Rockford Lhotka)
 - Windows Store universal Windows app opportunity (Todd Brix)
 - Link your app to search results with new Bing feature (Windows Apps Team)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Devs Blast Microsoft Turnaround on WCF Data Services and OData (David Ramel)
 - Announcing new web features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC (Xinyang Qiu)
 - TFS 2013.2 (Update 2) Released (Brian Harry)
 - Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Release Candidate now available (Charles Sterling)
 - Diagnosing memory issues with the new Memory Usage Tool in Visual Studio (Harikrishna Menon)
 - What’s to love about Seq 1.2? (Nicholas Blumhardt)
 - 2000 C# Things #1,067 – Covariance and Generic Interfaces (Sean Sexton)
 - Announcing .NET Native Preview (Subramanian Ramaswamy & Andrew Pardoe)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Scalable and Available Cloud Architectures (Jonathan Allen)
 - Microsoft’s Trunk Based Development (Paul Hammant)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Android/iOS Testing with Devices as a Service (Jonathan Allen)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek podcast 140: Understanding Bitcoin (Mark Frauenfelder)
 - .NET Rocks! – EU Data Protection Laws with Hugh Jones (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Inside .NET Native | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
 - Engadget HD Podcast 392 – 4.2.14 (Jon Turi)
 - 102 JSJ Angular and Open Source Projects with Brad Green (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
 
Community / Events
- Philly Tech Week 2014 Spotlight: Blog, Brand, Biz, Buzz Panel (Andrea Kiliany Thatcher)
 - Detailed notes and news: BUILD 2014 Keynote (Iris Classon)
 - Philly Tech Week 2014 Spotlight: Machining for Makers (Justin Mummert)
 - Key takeaways from the Build Day One keynote (Kip Kniskern)
 
Database
- Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (Kim Spilker)
 - SQL SERVER – Say No to DB Data Roles – SQL Security – Notes from the Field #022 (Pinal Dave)
 - RavenDB 3.0 milestone (Oren Eini)
 
PowerShell
- Pushing Hadoop Cluster Configuration Changes using PowerShell (Carl Nolan)
 - Blog Post: PowerShell GUI Tool – Network Ping – Version 2 (Prashanth Yayaram)
 - Is native Windows PowerShell support coming to Visual Studio? (Ravikanth C)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft to bring back Start menu, windowed apps to Windows (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Visual Basic 6: The Looming Crisis (Jonathan Allen)
 - How to dress for a tech interview (Michelle Feder)
 - Windows 8.1 Update for Windows RT Available via MSDN (Richard Hay)
 
More Link Collections
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, April 2, 2014 (Rob Caron)
 - Double Shot #1328 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - The Morning Brew #1582 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily News Digest 4/3/2014 (Silverlight Show)
 - Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-03 (Dan Rigby)
 - Community Update 2014-04-02 – #bldwin special including my picks for Day 1 with some #winjs, #ef6, #typescript and more (Maxime Rouiller)
 
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