Top Links
- My Focus-themed Windows Phone emulator theme (Jeff Wilcox)
- Of memory and strings (Jon Skeet)
- Silverlight coming to Xbox, bringing WP7 games along with it? (Tim Stevens)
- Standards-based web, plug-ins, and Silverlight (Walid Abu-Hadba, Scott Guthrie & S. Somasegar)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Getting the CLR Version (Richard Carr)
- How to use a WCF custom channel to implement client-side caching (Paolo Salvatori)
- DBX vs. Visual Studio and WinDbg: Part 1, Calling Functions and DBX vs. Visual Studio and WinDbg: Part 2A, Configuring Multiple Breakpoints (Sasha Goldshtein)
- IronPython Fully Implements Python 2.7 (Roopesh Shenoy)
- Productivity Power Tools – Enhanced Scroll Bar (Arian Kulp)
- MEF Logger – Creating plugins using MEF (fmsalmeida)
- Reference Architecture Framework for Discrete Manufacturing (MS Downloads)
- BizTalk Best Practices & Coding Guidelines for the IT Services Industry (Ambar Ray)
- Building a Nuget Server with gold plating (Mike Ceranski)
- Executing SQL queries on SQL CE 4 through Entity Framework (Arun Mahendrakar)
- Getting Started with Azure AppFabric Service Bus: Creating Namespace (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Automatically map similar schemas in BizTalk 2009 (and earlier!) (David Vidmar)
Web Development
- Convert HTML to Text (Jonathan Wood)
- ASP.NET MVC ActionResults explained (Rachel Appel)
- ASP.NET Deployment Needs To Be Fixed (Rob Conery)
- Image Manipulation With jQuery and PHP GD (Andy Croxall)
- Running JavaScript when the Web Page loads. (Joe Stagner)
- Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Utility Method (Giorgio Sironi)
- jQuery.unbind() (Stoimen Popov)
- What Is New in EcmaScript 5? (Anders Janmyr)
- Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Pumping Data Between Streams (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Tracking JavaScript Events using Google Analytics (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Getting up to BAT: Adding Smoke Tests to Your Build (John Sonmez)
- CQRS: Out of Sequence Messages and Read Models (Jonathan Oliver)
- Long Feedback Cycle on a 4 Year Old Project (Patrick Kua)
- [Guide] – Create the Perfect Agile Workshop (Peter Saddington)
- Agile with a Little Bit of Lean (sciske)
- Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: The baseline (Oren Eini)
- "Necessary" Refactoring (Michael ‘Doc’ Norton)
- Mocks and Tell Don’t Ask (Ian Cooper)
- Code Management versus Project Management (Andy Singleton)
- Updating another automation test to increase stability (John Guin)
- It Takes Complexity to Handle Complexity (Jurgen Appelo)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Resharper 6 WPF binding validation (Daniel Fisher)
- All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save Images and Building WP7 Custom Validation Control – Architecture & Basic Prototype (Windows Phone Geek)
- Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [4/6] and Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [5/6] and Using Pandora’s Artist Explorer service to discover new music on Windows Phone 7 and Pandora – hidden endpoints (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Windows Phone 7 – Creating Trial Applications (Pencho Popadiyn)
- Silverlight 5 Beta Here, HTML 5, Sterling Feedback and More (Jeremy Likness)
- Silverlight, HTML5, The Web, The Phone and All That (Joey deVilla)
- MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Building Location Service Applications in Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
- Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application (Part 3) and A Silverlight Developer’s look at TFS 2010 Remote Hosting. (Michael Crump)
- Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono I: Getting Started and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono II: Basic Navigation and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono III: Shared Libraries (Nick Randolph)
- HTML vs. Silverlight vs. WPF (Paul Stovell)
- Windows Phone 7 XNA Game Tutorial For Ya (snoutholder)
- New Book: Building Enterprise Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and the Model View ViewModel Pattern (Kim Spilker)
- How to design a Custom Control by editing the Part Template? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Cory Fowler Runs PHP on Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Technology & Friends Episode 150: Darcy Lussier on WP7 Offline Storage (David Giard)
- Episode 143 – PowerScripting Podcast – Chris Harris from Microsoft on SCOM 2012 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Windows Weekly 202: Opera Not Oprah (Paul Thurrott)
- Let’s Play TDD #100: Twenty-Five Hours (James Shore)
- Lyssa Adkins – Coaching Agile Teams Agile 2010 (Agile Toolkit Podcast)
- Yet Another Podcast #30 Abby Fichtner–Microsoft Evangelist (Jesse Liberty)
- Defrag 003 – Win7 Shutdown Slowdowns, Prob Step Recorder, MSI Failures (Larry Larsen)
- Hot Apps: Parachute Panic, Dog-A-Pedia, Hairdo For You, Chicks’n’Vixens, Soundtrckr (Laura Foy)
- The Thirsty Developer 100: The Meta Episode (Dave Bost)
- Talking Shop Down Under Episode 50 – David Tchepak and Richard Banks (Richard Banks)
Community / Events
- Announcing Conshohocken.rb (Dane Morgridge)
- 14 Free SharePoint 2010 Webinars by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
- Speaking at SharePoint Connections 2011 in Boston (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
- ImagineCup 2011 Finals coming to Redmond (Dennis Delimarsky)
- MSDN Events Presents: WebMatrix to ASP.NET MVC Web Camp (Angela Binkowski)
- Windows Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter: Explore the Benefits of Windows Azure Data Storage and Compute Services (Jeffrey Richter)
- Learning Opportunities to Embrace the Cloud (Jim O’Neil)
- NUI at MIX11 (Josh Blake)
- Behind the Scenes in Japan, Windows Azure MVPs Help Drive Vital Communications (Lonnie Webb)
Database
- Developing with SQL Server: Three ways to get at data (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
- SQL Server: First and Last Day of Year, Quarter, Month and Week (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL University – Performance Week (Ted Krueger)
- SQLAuthority News – Win Windows Phone from Idera in 140 Characters – A Cartoon Challenge of SQL (Pinal Dave)
- Use a database how it was intended to be used (Denis Gobo)
- Announcing the Metro Early Adoption Program for SQL Server Code Name “Denali” (Wes Yanaga)
- SQL Azure Use Case: Shared Data Hub (Buck Woody)
- To TOP or not to TOP an EXISTS (GilaMonster)
- Is ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN NOT NULL to NULL always expensive? (Sankar Reddy)
- How I Avoid Two-Phase Commit (Jonathan Oliver)
SharePoint
- SharePoint 2010 SDK Offline SDK (*.CHM) Updated (Andrew Connell)
- New Book: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer Reference (Kim Spilker)
Miscellaneous
- Windows Home Server 2011, Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Now on MSDN, TechNet (Paul Thurrott)
- Calling Excel Math Functions From PowerShell (Doug Finke)
- Tekpub Download Upgrade Low-down (Rob Conery)
- Jetbrains announced appCode (CIDR) EAP – an Objective-C IDE for Mac and iOS development (Michael Hunger)
- Scaling and Queuing PowerShell Background Jobs (Travis Jones)
- Microsoft Customers Abandoned Again: SharedView No Longer Supported (William Vaughn)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #827 and The Morning Brew #828 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting .NET Links – April 5, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Daily News Digest 04/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- WebDev Tweets: 4-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Silverlight Cream for April 04, 2011 — #1070 and SilverlightShow for March 28-April 3, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 05, 2011 — #1071 (Dave Campbell)
- SilverlightCream Top 5 Picks for March 28 – April 3, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily WP7 Development News April 5th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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