Top Links
- Creating a great tile experience (part 2) (Kevin Michael Woley)
- Play to win! How to make a kick ass mobile game (Joel Willans)
- Consolidating jQuery Ajax Calls (Dan Wahlin)
- Women in IT: fighting to increase numbers of women in technology (Angela Romei)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Solarized Colors for Visual Studio 11 (Peter Provost)
- Blog Post: Announcing Visual Studio 11 Integration (Blake Niemyjski) – Announcement about CodeSmith Generator 6.5 beta, coming soon.
- Work Item Only View in TFS 11 (Ricci Gian Maria)
- APress Deal of the Day – 19/Apr/2012 – Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform and Microsoft Press Deal of the Day – 19/Apr/2012 – CLR via C#, 3rd Edition (Tatworth)
- 10 illustrated examples of Visual Studio 11 (Troy Hunt)
- Target Windows XP in Visual Studio 11 Beta using the Visual Studio 2010 compiler and libraries (Amit Mohindra)
- New gesture toolkit available for Kinect for Windows developers (Mary Jo Foley)
- Internal Constructors for Read Only Classes? (Matt Hamilton)
- Executing MSBuild Targets in Parallel – Part 2 (Mike Fourie)
- Developer Tools for Creating Client, Cloud and Phone Apps on Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Zhiming Xue)
- MEF 2 Preview Beginners Guide (Dean Oliver)
- Scheduled Tasks Using Quartz and AppHarbor Background Workers (John Sheehan)
- Entity Framework Code First Migrations: Where have you been all my life? (Andrew Schwam)
- Windows Store expanding to new markets (Antoine Leblond)
- Build a WinRT Metro App to Access the Windows 8 File System published in DevProConnections (Michael Crump)
Web Development
- jQuery + CSS3 Media Queries = Dynamic UX (Michael Ceranski)
- The Future of ASP.NET Web Forms (Anthony Grace)
- Most Popular JavaScript Statements (Ariya Hidayat)
- Saving the Day with Scoped CSS (Arley McBlain)
- ASP.NET MVC Authentication – Global Authentication and Allow Anonymous (Jon Galloway)
- MVC Style parameter binding for WebAPI (Mike Stall)
- The Weekend With NodeJS (Rob Conery)
- Let’s Talk about Semantics (Mike Robinson)
- ASP.NET Web API: How content negotiation works? (Gunnar Peipman)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Most Influential People in Agile (Craig Smith)
- Branching by Abstraction (Keith Brown)
- Software Professional Code of Ethics (David Starr)
- Don’t write boring code (Balazs Nagy)
- Arrays and Memory, Part 2 (Karl Seguin)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Create a Custom Prism RegionAdapter (Brian Lagunas)
- How to Send Email in WP7 using the EmailComposeTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Cache and working with storage (7 of 12) (Peter von Lochow)
- 2000 WPF Things #540 – Adding Common Controls in Blend (Sean Sexton)
- Using ItemContainerStyle to manage individual items of a bound CheckListBox (Tim Hibbard)
- Shape Your LightSwitch OData Using WCF RIA Services (Michael Washington)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Memory Management with Ricky Leeks (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Oracle IT Architect Certification – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
- Defrag: CMD Line Wifi, Autologin Method, Bugcheck Troubleshooting (Larry Larsen)
- The Verge Mobile Podcast 024 – 04.18.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 295 – 04.18.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Application Compatibility: The Inside Scoop (Robert Hess)
- What The Tech 113: Windows IROC (Paul Thurrott)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Blend and HTML-flavored Metro Style Apps (Robert Green)
- HTML5 Community Night 4/10/2012 Presentation and LiveStream Recording Available (Doris Chen)
- Recording of Webinar ‘Advanced MVVM for Windows Phone’ by Peter Kuhn (Peter Kuhn)
- Luke Hoban: ECMAScript 6 (Luke Hoban)
Community / Events
- Windows Developer Event – Club Nokia, Los Angeles, CA (Doug Holland)
- I’ve joined the Windows Azure technical evangelist team (Jon Galloway)
- A Coder Interview With Kate Gregory (The Code Project)
- Geek(s) of the Week: Kishwer & Gino from Talkadelphia (Mikey Il)
- Nerd Nite No. 13, April 26, 2012: Philadelphia Science Festival edition (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
- Meet the Author: Dustin Davis on T4 Templates (Paul Ballard)
- Inside Microsoft Research: Bolstering Windows Phone Translation (Rob Knies)
- Windows Phone Dare to Live tour hits the UK streets (Liam)
Database
- SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) (Valentino Vranken)
- SQL Server 2012 Performance Test: Gap Detection (Paul White)
- Need a SQL Server Database Schema Diff tool and would really like an open source one? Check out Open DBDiff (Greg Duncan)
- SQL SERVER – Performance Tuning – Part 1 of 2 – Getting Started and Configuration (Pinal Dave)
- Max server memory configuration survey results (Paul S. Randal)
- Why Isn’t There A Deployment Server Edition For SSIS Projects? (Sam Vanga)
SharePoint
- 25 New Features of SharePoint 2010 (Kunaal Kapoor)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Writing Better Conference Abstracts and Presentations (Brent Ozar)
- Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app! (Duncan Mackenzie)
- Introducing the fourth(‘ish) Windows 8 SKU, Windows 8 Enterprise (Greg Duncan)
- Microsoft to integrate carrier operated services directly into Windows Phone 8 (Tom Warren)
- Microsoft reportedly briefing partners on Windows Phone Apollo during summit (Daniel Rubino)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 19, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #862 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1088 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-19 (Dan Rigby)
- Windows Dev News for April 18, 2012 – #0069 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily News Digest 4/19/2012 (Silverlight Show)
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