Top Links
- NuGet package for Sharp Architecture (Alec Whittington)
- 7 things Microsoft should do at MIX11 and probably won’t (Joe Wilcox)
- Introducing LLBLGen Pro QuerySpec: a new fluent query API (Frans Bouma)
- How Microsoft IT Does Cloud Computing and Cloud Scenarios Hub on TechNet (JD Meier)
.NET / Visual Studio
- ditto : with regard to AutoMapper (Michael Nichols)
- Historical Debugging (Intellitrace) on Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Part-2 and View Call Hierarchy window in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
- Improving the Visual Studio 2010 UI Menu System – Part 4 (mikefourie)
- Message Queue Shootout! (Mike Hadlow)
- C# Yield Return Fun (Rob Miles)
- [Book Review] NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook (Alec Whittington)
- OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 and Known Issue with OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 (beta) Dependency Checker (Brian Keller)
- NHibernate Examples (Davy Brion)
Web Development
- HTML Brain Teaser: When Divs and Headings Collide (Rob Conery)
- Getting Constructive On ASP.NET Deployment (Rob Conery)
- A jQuery Combo Box for ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
- Scott Guthrie on Microsoft WebMatrix (Devon Musgrave)
- ASP.NET MVC: Using NonActionAttribute to restrict access to public methods of controller (Gunnar Peipman)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- On Product Design And Expectations (Rob Diana)
- CodePlex: Pull Request Diff Notes, Adding Changesets, and a Vertical Splitter (Matt Hawley)
- NUnit Comparison Assertions (Richard Carr)
- Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: A broken home (controller) and Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: The case for the view model (Oren Eini)
- Why Sign Up and Sign In Should Never Go Together (Anthony)
- ALM Practices Part 4: Common Code Layout (Dennis Doomen)
- On deprecation (Grigori Melnik)
- It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be (Jef Claes)
- Software Craftsmanship promotes Competence Culture (Michael Sahota)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Creating a Nullable WPF ComboBox (seesharper)
- Extended WPF Toolkit Release 1.4.0 (Brian Lagunas)
- Building Caliburn.Micro’s NuGet Package (Rob Eisenberg)
- Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 6: Making a WP7 Application Bar (Chris Love)
- The Making Of An Windows Phone 7 App (Dani Diaz)
- Jounce Part 15: Asynchronous Sequential Workflows (Jeremy Likness)
- Null Reference from Simple Container in Caliburn Micro (Derik Whittaker)
- Windows Phone 7, XNA and Farseer Physics. And source… and a game… and… (Greg Duncan)
- Announcing TouchStudio (Nikolai Tillmann)
- So what’s the difference between Custom Control and User Control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Introducing MIX11 Outsider for Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
- Windows Phone 7 Template for Social Reading Applications and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono IV: Content and Resource Files and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono VI: File Access (Nick Randolph)
- Wpf Over Websockets (WoW) – How to Pump WPF windows & animations to browsers over HTML5 Websockets And Canvas (Anoop Madhusudanan)
- Hidden tricks of Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)
- Webcam Support in Silverlight 4 to capture Video (Suprotim Agarwal)
- WPF–Show Dialog with backdrop (Tim Hibbard)
- Dependency Properties Made Easy (David Kelley)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- How Do I: Get Started With the Azure Service Bus? (MS Podcasts)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 394: Michael Jackson Experince for Kinect and more (Larry Hyrb)
- Engadget Podcast 235 – 04.08.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- Cloud Cover Episode 43 – Scalable Counters with Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
- Windows Phone Radio 22 (Brian Seitz)
- TWC9: Happy Birthday Ch9, MIX11, The Nineys & Channel 9 Live (Laura Foy & Nic Fillingham)
- Windows Weekly 203: The ROMs Are Out There (Paul Thurrott)
Community / Events
- Viva Las Vegas – Team IE @ MIX11 (Scott Armstrong)
- Stack Overflow World-Wide MeetUps – Success! (Rebecca Chernoff)
- Tech Ed North America 2011 (Cameron Skinner)
- MVPs at Microsoft India TechEd 2011 (Lonnie Webb)
- Mix 2011: Silverlight 5, Windows Phone, IE9, HTML5, and a liveblog! (Kip Kniskern)
- A Geek’s Guide to Camping (Jim O’Neil)
- Imagine Cup US Finals Day 2–Be The Change! (Bob Familiar)
- What Am I Doing on the Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Team (JD Meier)
Database
- SQL Server: Monitor Long SQL Agent Jobs (Madhivanan)
- Bulk loading data into a merge replicated table and Compress Data Partition Snapshots with SSIS – SQL University (Ted Krueger)
- SQL SERVER – Add New Column With Default Value and SQL SERVER – TempDB in RAM for Performance (Pinal Dave)
- Be careful when passing around parameters, make sure they are the same size and type (Denis Gobo)
- Observing – Optimize for Ad Hoc Workload server option (Kim Tessereau)
- Find Table Heaps Using Policy-Based Management (Jorge Segarra)
- I’m a DBA, what do I need those tools for! Oh, yeah… for that… and that… and that… and… (Greg Duncan)
SharePoint
- Download Guide for SharePoint Online Development (Bruce Kyle)
Miscellaneous
- [Book Review] "Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6" by Augusto Alvarez (Greg Duncan)
- Is Microsoft dead meat without a tablet? (Joe Wilcox)
- Quiz: How well do you know your Microsoft Empire? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Is JetBrains appCode a Solution Looking for a Problem? (Rob Bazinet)
- ChevronWP7 updater pulled, places phones into ‘non-serviceable state’ of mind (Tim Stevens)
- RTM’d Today: Beyond Bullet Points, 3rd Edition: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Valerie Woolley)
- Bing turns on HTML5 UI (Kip Kniskern)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 8, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 04.01 ~ 04.10 (yuanjian)
- Interesting .NET Links – April 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Distributed Weekly 97 (Scott Banwart)
- Daily WP7 Development News April 8th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- WebDev Tweets 7-Apr-2011 and 8-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Week Retrospective 27 – Podcast and Perfect Workshop Crafting (Peter Saddington)
- Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 03-April-2011 to 09-April-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Weekly Links– 2010_14 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
- Links of the week #148 (David Vidmar)
- Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2011 — #1072 (Dave Campbell)
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