Top Links
- Free Xbox LIVE Weekend and be a part of a World Record Attempt (Larry Hryb)
- Update to the F# 2.0 Free Tools Release, Corresponding to Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (April 2011 CTP) (Don Syme)
- Working with SSL at Development Time is easier with IISExpress (Scott Hanselman)
- Should SQL Server Professionals Learn Oracle? (Ted Krueger)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Exporting Visual Studio 2010 Pinned DataTips (Richard Carr)
- Project Server 2010 and TFS 2010 Integration VM with Labs (Ed Blankenship)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: Any() and All() (James Michael Hare)
- Using Kinect for NUI Part 2 – Gestures (Deborah Hanamura)
Web Development
- Musing on Simpler Migrations (Rob Conery)
- Sending Mail from an ASP.NET website. (Greg Gum)
- Restricting Input in HTML Textboxes to Numeric Values (Rick Strahl)
- Creating an Autocomplete Redirect Navigation Control using jQuery UI (Steve Smith)
- CSS3 vs. CSS: A Speed Benchmark (Trent Walton)
- IE Pinned Sites Part 2: Why Implement Pinned Sites? (Jennifer Marsman)
- Server-Side Form Validation with WebMatrix (Steve Lydford)
- Geographically distributing Windows Azure applications using Traffic Manager (Maarten Balliauw)
- Windows Azure for Developers Task 11: Create X.509 certificate for Windows Azure Web Role (Dhananjay Kumar)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Professional Scrum with TFS 2010 Released! (Aaron Bjork)
- How to Be Agile NOW! – With Tomatoes and [Infographic] Clean Code and Test Driven Development Cheat Sheets (Peter Saddington)
- Integration: Shared Database and Integration: Scenario (Paul Stovell)
- Lokad.CQRS for Windows Azure: Roadmap (Rinat Abdullin)
- Using O-MaSE Methodology for Goal Modeling (Billy McCafferty)
- Principles 5: End-to-End Development Process (for Large Projects) (Ivo Manolov)
- Communication Bandwidth on Successful Projects (James Kovacs)
- How You Help Us Improve IE’s Reliability (Herman Ng)
- When race conditions & unbounded result sets are actually the solution – the resolution (Oren Eini)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Multi-Column Layouts and Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Markup Extensions (Peter Kuhn)
- Building WP7 Custom Validation Control – Custom Validation Rules (Windows Phone Geek)
- Things I am liking about the Blend for Silverlight 5.. (Don Burnett)
- Implicit Data Templates (Silverlight 5) (Jesse Liberty)
- Loving MMVM and asynchronous operations (Gian Maria Ricci)
- ViewModel INotifyPropertyChanged Code Generation (Colin Eberhardt)
- Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [6/6] (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Today’s toolkit time with the Extended WPF Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- C9 Lectures: Yuri Gurevich – Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity, 3 of 3 (Charles Torre)
- Vbandi at MIX Part 1–Interview with Nokia’s Wai Seto (vbandi)
- Silverlight TV 69: UX and Perceived Performance of WP7 Apps (John Papa)
- Blend SIG Podcast – April 2011: David Kelley (Joel Cochran)
Community / Events
- Blog Post: CodeSmith Tools Easter Sale (T. DuPont)
- Announcing a free Windows Phone 7 Workshop during Internet Week at Flash and the City (Dave Isbitski)
- A competition for kids: Kodu Cup (Devon Musgrave)
- Winners named for Microsoft Next global video competition (Microsoft JobsBlog
) - Wrapping up MIX11 (Part 1) and Wrapping up MIX11 (Part 2) (Ariel Ben-Horesh)
Database
- A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 21 (Glenn Berry)
- SQL SERVER – Potential Bottlenecks for Performance (Pinal Dave)
- Connecting Microsoft Access to SQL Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Daily Denali Delight – Day 2 and Daily Denali Delight – Day 3 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
SharePoint
- Silverlight Integration with SharePoint 2010 – Part I (Pravinkumar Dabade)
- How to get the package name or other names of SharePoint items (Phil Hoff)
Miscellaneous
- An email leads to a quick discussion on infinite page size in OneNote (John Guin)
- One Step Closer to the First Nokia Device built on Windows Phone (Jeffrey Meisner)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – April 21, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Web Dev Tweets 21-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Daily WP7 Development News April 21th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Geek Shelf
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