Top Links
- Modern Web Development – Part 8 (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Designing UX for apps (Windows Dev Center)
- Activating Windows 8 contracts in your app (Derek Gebhard)
- My Top 5 Visual Studio 11 Designer Improvements for ASP.NET 4.5 Development (Carl Bergenhem)
- Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Npm Police (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Knockout.js bindings for Kendo UI (Ryan Niemeyer)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Identifying .NET 4.0 Special Folders (Richard Carr)
- RavenDB: Self optimizing Ids (Oren Eini)
- Source Code Versioning with Git in Visual Studio (Ayobami Adewole)
- metro c# webapi client (babaandthepigman)
- SQLinq: Use LINQ to generate Ad-Hoc, strongly typed SQL queries (Chris Pietschmann)
- Porting Visual Studio Achievements for WP to Windows 8 – Serialization and Storage and Looking at Windows 8 Metro app internals? The path has changed in the Consumer Preview. (Den Delimarsky)
- C# Value Type Table (Mark Treadwell)
- Deploying a Windows/SQL Azure Solution with Visual Studio Team Build (Michael Collier)
- Microsoft Press Deal of the Day – 26/March/2012 -Getting More Productive with Microsoft® Visual Studio® (Tatworth)
- Using the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 8 Consumer Preview with Visual Studio 2010 (Alex Thaman)
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Wally McClure)
- C++11 Concurrency – Part 1 : Start Threads (Baptiste Wicht)
- Team Explorer Everywhere 11 – First Look (Subodh Sohoni)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming Entity Framework: DbContext – $7.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- NuGet File Locks (Jonathan Oliver)
- AsyncCTP installation problems (and VS11) (Lucian Wischik)
- Need a portable "What version of .Net do you have installed?" utility that you can even redistribute? Check out the .NET Version Detector XI and Automating the consumption of Windows Dev Center Developer Dashboard Reports (Greg Duncan)
- CSharp.Target errors when using a Developer Preview version of a Metro Library (Derik Whittaker)
- Statically typed access to JSON and XML by using schema inference (Steffen Forkmann)
- New option for positioning newly declared types (Alex Skorkin)
- Using Push Notifications in Windows 8 (Eric Vogel)
Web Development
- Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) v1.0.10621 SP1 (MS Downloads)
- CSS3 Animated Gears (Andrey Prikaznov)
- HTML5 Form Validation with Style (Raymond Camden)
- Taming that client-side javascript mess with Backbone.js–Boise Code Camp session materials (Jarod Ferguson)
- ASP.NET Web API – Screencast series Part 5: Custom Validation and ASP.NET Web API – Screencast series Part 6: Authorization (Jon Galloway)
- Security vulnerabilities with HTML5 (WebSockets)? (Mark Little)
- Responsive Content Navigator with CSS3 (Mary Lou)
- Securing your ASP.NET MVC 4 App and the new AllowAnonymous Attribute (Rick Anderson)
- The Privacy Chain – Your Site’s Privacy Policy as the 3rd Party services pile up (Scott Hanselman)
- Attaching the sources of Node.js core modules (Sergey Simonchik)
- For Modernizr, Don’t Stop with NuGet (Steve Albers)
- Review of the book Node for Front-End Developers by Garann Means (Brian Bondy)
- Sublime Text 2 Tips and Tricks (Updated) (Jeffrey Way)
- JavaScript design patterns – Part 1: Singleton, composite, and façade (Joseph Zimmerman)
- We work at Microsoft and we use node.js (Elad Ben-Israel)
- Saving the values of dynamically populated dropdown on back button (Mark Needham)
- More Examples of Fresh Effects in Web Design (Manoela Ilic)
- How a web application can download and store over 2GB without you even knowing it (Jef Claes)
- Converting to System.Net.Http (John Petersen)
- Invented Elements (Eric Meyer)
- Understanding Enhanced Protected Mode (Eric Law)
- Speed and Mobility: An Approach for HTTP 2.0 to Make Mobile Apps and the Web Faster (Rob Mauceri)
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0 EAP 117.65 (Alexey Gopachenko)
- Create Instagram Filters With PHP (Dejan Marjanovic)
- Sueetie Roadmap Updated for Version 4.1 (Dave Burke)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Are You Really Sure You Want to Make a Cancel Button? (John Sonmez)
- The Launch Queen Speaks (Series 3 of 4) (Peter Saddington)
- A New Game for Learning Agile (Shane Hastie)
- What You Can’t See You Can’t Get (Jeff Atwood)
- Designer’s power (Michael Sync)
- Changing the default filter for exploratory testing (Nivedita Bawa)
- What happens when DDD meets Lean approach… (Krzysiek Kowalik)
- 10 Best Practices of Code Commenting & Formatting (Cagdas Basaraner)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Pushing the limits of the Windows Phone SDK and sending files via EmailComposeTask (Den Delimarsky)
- Coding4Fun Toolkit with ChatBubble and ChatBubbleTextBox controls: official release coming soon (Windows Phone Geek)
- A Nice Addition to the Empty WPF F# Template (Daniel Mohl)
- Calcium framework for Windows Phone available (Davide Zordan)
- Nokia Lumia 900 on AT&T to support Visual Voicemail, but other Windows Phone users may not get it (Dieter Bohn)
- Build p2p chat application with WPF and ASP.NET Web API (filek)
- WP7 performance tip: translate transforms and MVVM framework explorer updated ! (Jeremy Alles)
- Microsoft reveals winners of Windows Phone student app contest (John Callaham)
- How to Specify a Target Version for Windows Phone and 101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #4 – Change Language Settings in Windows Phone Emulator (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
- Instant language update in a Windows Phone 7 application using MVVM (Joost van Schaik)
- 2000 WPF Things #522 – Keyboard Shortcuts in Blend (Sean Sexton)
- Deploying LightSwitch Applications to IIS6 & Automating Deployment Packages (Beth Massi)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 045: Extra Super Grab Bag of Cool Movies, Sites, Apps, Gadgets, and Other Neat Stuff (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Technology & Friends Episode 202: Michael Crump on 11 Things Every Developer Should Do in 2012 (David Giard)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 060 – “DutchFlow” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 433: Xbox LIVE Arcade Next, MW3 Collection 1 and more (Larry Hyrb)
- GeekWire Radio: Nerd rock, comic books and Angry Birds (Todd Bishop)
- The Vergecast 023 – 03.23.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 131 – 03.25.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- SSW TV: Protecting your web apps from the tyranny of evil with OWASP (Troy Hunt)
- Cloud Cover Episode 73 – Nick Harris on Push Notifications for Windows 8 (Wade Wegner)
- TWC9: TFS11 Beta Power Tools, VS11 Speed, XAML, CodePlex Git and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Patricia Beitler (Ryan Parsley)
- Windows Weekly 253: The Secret Life of Windows (Paul Thurrott)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 45 (Richard Hay)
Community / Events
- SQL Saturday #122 (Chris Yates)
- Public Workshop, Transitioning to Agile, in Stockholm, May 28-29 (Johanna Rothman)
- Patterns & Practices Symposium Online – April 24, 2012 (Paulo Morgado)
- The Road to Windows 8! (Dani Diaz)
- Schedule for the upcoming PowerShell Deep Dive and a few videos from Frankfurt (Travis Jones)
Database
- LLBLGen Pro 3.5 Adds OData and SQL Server 2012 Support, Designer Improvements (Jenni Konrad)
- SQL SERVER – Transcript of Learning SQL Server Performance: Indexing Basics – Interview of Vinod Kumar by Pinal Dave and SQL SERVER – Download Free eBook – Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Partition Parallelism Support in expressor 3.6 (Pinal Dave)
- What’s new in Analysis Services 2012 Multidimensional? (Chris Webb)
- Keep your Mongo log database small deleting old logs (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Schema Compare Improvements (Bill Gibson)
- Managing your filegroups (David Forck)
- Generate DROP statements for all extended properties and Move a SQL Azure server between subscriptions (Jamie Thomson)
Miscellaneous
- An exciting, but not very glamorous change coming in Ruby 2.0… (Pat Shaughnessy)
- AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 gets unboxing treatment for the world to see (Daniel Rubino)
- Nokia Lumia 800 Review and Pictures (Michael Crump)
- My must have (short) list programs/extensions etc (Phillip Haydon)
- [Rumor]Windows 8 Release Candidate Build To Be Released in May ! (sagar)
- Nokia Prodigy with Windows Phone 8 Apollo supposed to be "unbelievable" (Phone Arena Team)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 24, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 25, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 26, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Reading Notes #39 (Frank)
- The Morning Brew #1072 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Dev News for March 23, 2012 – #0056 and Windows Dev News for March 25, 2012 – #0057 and Windows Dev News for March 25, 2012 – 2 – #0058 (Dave Campbell)
- Everyman on App Parity, Retina Malaise, Overnight Success, Content Enablers, Walking ASCII Man (Dave Burke)
- Retrospective 77 – Leadership, March Madness, and Assysting Others (Peter Saddington)
- Daily WP7 Development News 23 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Azure Cloud – A Summary of Posts (George Garza)
- Double Shot #846 (Mike Gunderloy)
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