Top Links
- Phoney Tools 1.0 Released! (Shawn Wildermuth)
- TouchStudio – Script Your Phone ON Your Phone! (Jonathan de Halleux)
- BDD Antipattern: The technical spec (or why geeks need to speak business) (John Rayner)
- 12 Behavior Anti Patterns You Will Face As a Software Team Leader (Roy Osherove)
.NET / Visual Studio
- OData Service for TFS 2010, try it out on CodePlex (Colin Thompkins)
- Using C# keywords as variables (Jef Claes)
- Message Queue Shootout! (Mike Hadlow)
- VS2010 SP1 New Features: Unit Tests for Framework 3.5 (Zain Naboulsi)
- CodeRush Tip – How to locate key bindings and CodeRush Tip – Where are my CodeRush settings stored? (Rory Becker)
- Converting Between Integers and Strings Using Any Base and Generating and Parsing Roman Numerals and Converting Between Integers and Spreadsheet Column Labels (Jonathan Wood)
- How to parse source code using the DXCore integrated code parsers (Alex Skorkin)
- Testing a RockPaperAzure Bot in a Winform (Brian Hitney)
- "Multi-Targeting Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1" (with an official State Machine support for WF4) (Greg Duncan)
- 5 Cool Hacks And Prototypes For .NET devs – Node.js in Azure, Kinect as Windows 7 controller, WCF web sockets, WPF over Web and more (Anoop Madhusudanan)
Web Development
- IBM getting into the HTML5 authoring game with open source Maqetta (Greg Duncan)
- A Little Something for Those Getting Started with CSS… (Joey deVilla)
- Toggling Enabled Controls with jQuery (Matt Hamilton)
- Rounded Corners and Shadows – Dialogs with CSS (Rick Strahl)
- Silverlight vs. HTML5: Both are important to our future (Bill Wagner)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Rabu Workflow: How Do We Get Customers to Participate? (James Shore)
- Effective Tests: A Test-First Example – Part 3 (Derek Greer)
- Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Parameterized Test (Giorgio Sironi)
- NUnit Identity Assertions (Richard Carr)
- Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: Getting rid of globals (Oren Eini)
- STRIPS for Classical Plan Representation and Planning (Billy McCafferty)
- 5 Reasons Why You Should Stop Estimating User Stories (Michael)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Installing Silverlight OOB application using a Setup project (After2050)
- Generic Multi-Select MVVM ListBox Drag and Drop Helper with Custom Feedback for Silverlight 4.0 (Graeme Grant)
- All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save Captured Image (Windows Phone Geek)
- XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 9 – Navigation and structure (Peter Kuhn)
- Jesse Liberty’s "Windows Phone From Scratch" Tutorials (Greg Duncan)
- Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono VI: File Access and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono VII: Database (Nick Randolph)
- Azure For App Developers (Dani Diaz)
- Giving Microsoft a Passing Grade from a Failed Certification. (Michael Crump)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Visual Studio 2010 Seattle Simulcast (Part 4 of 6): Windows Development with Visual Studio 2010 (MS Podcasts)
- Technology & Friends Episode 151: Justin Etheridge on LINQ (David Giard)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 011 – “Go Ahead, Be Phoney!” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Imagine Cup: The Redmond Judging and Ping 97: Azure & Toyota, Kinect Window, ICE, WP7 Challenge (Laura Foy)
Community / Events
- Headed to MIX11 – Stay up-to-date (Dennis Delimarsky)
- MIX’11 Live Blogging Tuesday and Wednesday, Lots of Google News, Steve Jobs Biography, More (Paul Thurrott)
- Rock, Paper, Azure Tournament Information (Brian Hitney)
- Imagine Cup Day 3–Workshops, Showcase and Round 2 Finalists (Bob Familiar)
- One bus ride at a time: a novel approach to career and creativity (Microsoft JobsBlog
) - Philly Code Camp 2011.1 (Joel Cochran)
- Microsoft Silent as Xbox Indies Marketplace Exploited (Michael C. Neel)
- Rube Goldberg and the Micro Framework at Mix (Rob Miles)
- 10 Reasons I Love MIX (Steve Clayton)
- MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Blogging While on the Move with a Windows Phone (Lonnie Webb)
- UX Sketch Club returns (Michelle Flynn)
- Windows Phone 7 Hackfests in Vancouver and Toronto This Saturday! (Joey deVilla)
- MIX11 announcements for Windows Phone 7 [Rumors] – by Daniel Rubino (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Student Developers – Win with Windows Phone 7! (Luke)
Database
- DataLength function in SQL Server (Amit Bansal)
- SSIS Job Ownership (Jason Brimhall)
- How to examine IO subsystem latencies from within SQL Server (Paul S. Randal)
- SQL SERVER – expressor Studio Includes Powerful Scripting Capabilities (Pinal Dave)
- When changing column data types use ALTER TABLE TableName ALTER Column syntax, don’t drop and recreate column (Denis Gobo)
- Getting Session ID in SQL Azure programmatically (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Get weekly transactions showing Monday’s date (Naomi)
SharePoint
- Adding jQuery to Every Page in a SharePoint (Andrew Connell)
Miscellaneous
- Book Review: DSLs in Action (Stephen Harrison)
- Understanding Windows Azure CDN Billing (Windows Azure Team)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Daily WP7 Development News April 11th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- The Morning Brew #831 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 04/11/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 04/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Interesting .NET Links – April 11, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Windows Azure Whitepapers Roundup (JD Meier)
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