Top Links
- The .NET Foundation and .NET Platform Innovation (S.Somasegar)
- The Next Generation of .NET (The .NET Team)
- Taking a tour of Roslyn (Matt & the Managed Languages Team)
- Xamarin and Microsoft Launch the .NET Foundation (Miguel de Icaza)
- Visual Studio Online “General Availability” and Visual Studio Online Integration in the Azure portal (Brian Harry)
Web Development
- I’m throwing in the towel in FubuMVC (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Internet Explorer F12 Developer Tools Update (Chris Love)
- YUI 3.16.0 Release Candidate 1 (Andrew Wooldridge)
- Awesome IE11 News, in case you missed it (Eric Lawrence)
- Sublime is Sublime 12 (Greg Young)
XAML
- Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers-Choose your weapons (Alexander Persson)
- Delight and engage your users with these new Windows Phone 8.1 capabilities (Cliff Simpkins)
- Developer preview build of Windows Phone 8.1 expected April 14 (Derek Kessler)
- Windows App Studio Beta: Build a Windows Phone AND Windows app in one session, no code required (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
- Performance Profiling on Windows Phone 8.1 with Visual Studio (Haseeb Ah)
- A WPF Q&A and A Q&A with the XAML Performance Leadership Team (Jonathan Allen)
- DataBinding Features in WPF 4.5 (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Windows/Phone 8.1–Class Libraries, Portable Class Libraries, WinRT Components (Mike Taulty)
- Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers–Converging the App Models (Peter Bryntesson)
- 2000 WPF Things #1,044 – Placing More than One Element in a Grid Cell (Sean Sexton)
- Behind the scenes of “Universal Apps” (Morten Nielsen)
- Windows Store app development announced for Kinect for Windows (Suzanne Choney)
- New features for side-loaded apps in Windows 8.1 update (Windows Apps Team)
- Tapping into your phone’s sensors: Nokia SensorCore (Adam Fraser)
- Nokia Imaging SDK Lets Devs Enrich Camera Apps (Eric Zeman)
- Universal Apps Q and A from BUILD 2014 Day 1 (Iris Classon)
Miscellaneous .NET
- C# and VB are open sourced (Eric Lippert)
- Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler (Filip Ekberg)
- Should I upgrade to TFS 2013 Update 2? (Martin Hinshelwood)
- F#14 : Recursion (Sacha Barber)
- Free book from Syncfusion on Visual Studio 2013 Succinctly (Tatworth)
- Facilitating Open Contributions for the F# Compiler, Library and Visual F# Tools (Visual Studio F# Team)
- Roslyn End-User Preview – What is it and what is possible? – #build2014 #bldwin version (Maxime Rouiller)
- Build 2014: Enabling Developers to Embrace Cloud First/Mobile First experiences (Steve Guggenheimer)
- Using AutoMapper to prevent SELECT N+1 problems (Jimmy Bogard)
- 2000 C# Things #1,068 – Generic IEnumerable Interface Is Covariant (Sean Sexton)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Code Hoarders (“Uncle Bob” Martin)
- Releasing Update 5 for Indigo Studio (George Abraham)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Custom IGChartView Labelling (Objective – C) (Darrell Kress)
- Fire TV Remote Support In Unity (Jesse Freeman)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- The Alton Browncast – Michael Ruhlman (Alton Brown)
- Video Tutorial and Screenshots: Windows 8.1 Update 1 (Scott Hanselman)
Community / Events
- Philly Tech Week 2014 Spotlight: Exhibiting Technology, Adapting Analog Space for Digital Art (Andrea Kiliany Thatcher)
- CppCon – The C++ Conference (Eric Battalio)
- .NET Foundation Established to Foster Open Development (Jean Paoli)
- 2014 MVPs and vExperts, get free training from Pluralsight (Manya Susoev)
- Build day 2: It’s all about Azure (Paul Ballard)
Database
- Microsoft® SQL Server® Backup to Microsoft Windows® Azure®Tool (MS Downloads)
- SQL Server 2014 Licensing Changes (Jeremiah Peschka)
- SQL SERVER – Finding Last Backup Time for All Database – Last Full, Differential and Log Backup (Pinal Dave)
PowerShell
- Configuring an Azure VM using PowerShell DSC (PowerShell Team)
- Windows Management Framework 5.0 preview is here! (Ravikanth C)
Miscellaneous
- Nokia Lumia 930 to feature world’s first Dolby Digital Plus audio recording in a phone (Daniel Rubino)
- How To Get Started Programming (John Sonmez)
- Easily Update to Windows 8.1 Update 1 without Installing all the MSUs Manually (Michael Crump)
- The sad realisation about Windows 8.1 Update 1 (Matt Lacey)
- Hiring for a job you never did or can’t do (Steven Sinofsky)
- Look Sharp in a Xamarin C# Shirt (Jo Ann Buckner)
More Link Collections
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, April 3, 2014 (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading April 3, 2014 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1329 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 4/4/2014 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1583 (Chris Alcock)
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