Top Links
- Mini Hawraman Goes Open Source (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Pinned Sites in Windows 8 (Rahul Lalmalani)
- The Top 10 Features Windows 8 Metro Developers Will Love (Jeremy Likness)
- "April 2012 Updates to Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta (x86 and x64)" available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads (from VS 11.0.50214.1 BETAREL to 11.0.50323.1 QRELB) (Greg Duncan)
.NET / Visual Studio
- EF5: Where are my DataAnnotations? and Update to EF5 and DbLocal Default in Config (Julie Lerman)
- What AnyCPU Really Means As Of .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
- How to improve performance in your Metro style app (David Tepper)
- JSON.NET Strong Naming And NuGet Woes (Nick Berardi)
- Microsoft seeks more programming language support for Windows 8 (Mary Jo Foley)
- Here’s Why Developers Should be Interested in Windows Azure (Michael Collier)
- Windows 8 Metro: Create your apps with simplicity in mind (Andrea Boschin)
- WiX v3.6 RC0 (CodePlex) – Adds VS11 support.
Web Development
- You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors (Karl Seguin)
- What is new in NetAdvantage for jQuery 2012 Vol.1 (Mihail Mateev)
- Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know (Brandon Satrom)
- Build a JavaScript Mocking framework in 10 minutes (Brendan Kowitz)
- HTML5 Gaming: How to Animate Sprites in Canvas with EaselJS and Introduction to HTML5 Web Workers: The JavaScript Multi-Threading Approach (David Rousset)
- Pure CSS Tool Tips Revisited (Louis Lazaris)
- Browser URL encoding and website request validation black magic (Troy Hunt)
- Revisiting The Backbone Event Aggregator: Lessons Learned (Derick Bailey)
- Using Node.js as an accelerator for WCF REST services (Elton Stoneman)
- Drag and Drop and Automatically Send to the Server (Remy Sharp)
- Getting Started With node.js on Windows (Kevin Griffin)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Virtual Scrum – Scrum Wing 3D – Open Source Agile Tool (Peter Saddington)
- Lokad.CQRS – Code Preview for "Anatomy of Distributed Systems" (Rinat Abdullin)
- Use Faker.NET To Fake Your Data (Roopesh Shenoy)
- Using github behind a firewall (Simone Chiaretta)
- Introducing the unrolled-switch anti-pattern (Raymond Chen)
- Slack Is for Optional Stuff, Not for Important Stuff (Jurgen Appelo)
- In defense of reinventing wheels (Lea Verou)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Installing and Using WP7 Tool Kit for Silverlight (Karthik Anbarasan)
- How to Search for a Contact in WP7 using the Contacts class? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Quick Tip: Show WinRT XAML Binding Errors (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Automatic Version Increment for Windows Phone Apps (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Flipping the Light(Switch) Fantastic in Visual Studio 11 (David Ramel)
- HackReady.Phone Episode 1 of 7: Introduction to the Windows Phone Platform (Level 100) – http://aka.ms/HackReadyPhone1 (Lindsay Lindstrom)
- Optimize Startup Time (Mike Battista)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Engadget HD Podcast 293 – 04.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- ASP.NET Open Sourcing Discussion with Scott Hanselman (Brady Gaster)
- Windows Phone Proposal- The Ultimate in Romance (Laura Foy)
- Let’s Play TDD #178: I Can’t Believe That Worked (James Shore)
Community / Events
- Meet the Author: John Papa on Building HTML5 and JavaScript Apps with MVVM and Knockout (Paul Ballard)
- Join Me for ‘An Evening on Azure’ in Bellevue, WA (Steve Marx)
- That Conference (Chris Koenig)
- Windows Phone 101 series kicking off in Atlanta (Glen Gordon)
- Get your apps up: upcoming Windows 8 Metro Apps activities and Write up on the first Windows 8 Developer and Hackathon event in Belgium (Katrien de Graeve)
- Talking Cloud with Exchange Server MVP Jorge Diaz (MVP Award Program)
Database
- How Fast Does Your SAN Need to Be for SQL Server? (Brent Ozar)
- Working with packed dates in SSIS (Jim Giercyk)
- SQL SERVER – Cleaning Up SQL Server Indexes – Defragmentation, Fillfactor – Video (Pinal Dave)
- Dammit people, get to know check constraints and use them! and Downloading SQL Server Sample Databases much improved with new CodePlex changes (Denis Gobo)
- SQL Azure Labs Codename "Data Explorer" Client (Labs Release) and Microsoft Connectors v2.0 for Oracle and Teradata and Microsoft® Connectors v1.2 for Oracle and Teradata (MS Downloads)
- 11 Important Database designing rules which I follow (Shivprasad koirala)
- SSDT – What’s in a name? (Jamie Thomson)
- Dealing with the "The text, ntext, or image pointer value conflicts with the column name specified." error from Visual Foxpro (Naomi Nosonovsky)
- Announcing SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Update (Gregory Leake)
SharePoint
- How to retrieve Sharepoint data from a Windows Forms Application. (Michael M. Bangoy)
PowerShell
- Powershell – Validating an IP Address (Kyle Neier)
- Improved WMI experience in PowerShell 3.0 (Osama Sajid)
Miscellaneous
- Jobs in IT: Three common interview mistakes (Thomas Kohnstamm)
- NetAdvantage for iOS: Native iPad & iPhone Controls for Apps (Jason Beres)
- Introducing – Standards Based Management in Windows Server "8" (Osama Sajid)
- Windows 8 RC to Get Flatter Explorer UI, Other Changes (Paul Thurrott)
- Nokia Lumia 900 Review Roundup (Richard Hay)
More Link Collections
- Daily News Digest 4/3/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week March 26 – April 1, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1079 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Dev News for April 03, 2012 – #0064 (Dave Campbell)
- LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–March 2012 (Beth Massi)
- Daily WP7 Development News 3 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Some JavaScript Resources for Web App Developers (Louis Lazaris)
- Interesting Finds: April 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #851 (Mike Gunderloy)
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