Top Links
- Welcome to the Windows 8 app developer blog (Windows 8 Team)
- Welcome to Windows 8 – The Consumer Preview and Running the Consumer Preview: system recommendations (Steven Sinofsky)
- Meet Windows 8 and Windows 8 Consumer Preview Demo (Brandon LeBlanc)
- Visual Studio 11 Beta Available Now! (Visual Studio Team)
- Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5 Beta Available Now! (S. Somasegar)
- Welcome to the Beta of Visual Studio 11 and .NET Framework 4.5 (Jason Zander)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Thread-Safety with the Interlocked Class (Richard Carr)
- Visual F# 3.0 Beta now available in Visual Studio 11! (Don Syme)
- IntelliTrace Collector for Visual Studio 11 Beta and Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta Visualization & Modeling SDK (MS Downloads)
- Pimp my Visual Studio 2010 (Ariel Ben Horesh)
- Visual Studio 11 ALM Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs/Demo Scripts updated for beta (Brian Keller)
- Visual Studio 11 Beta Is Here! (Alex Turner)
- The C# 5.0 beta release is now available (Eric Lippert)
- That Controversial Visual Studio 11 Beta UI Isn’t So Bad After All (Filip Ekberg)
- Take care with EF 4.3 AddOrUpdate Method (Julie Lerman)
- Visual Studio ALM Rangers BETA content is live (Mike Fourie)
- Upgrading from TFS2010 to Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Server in production and Installing Visual Studio 11 on Windows 7 (Martin Hinshelwood)
- What’s new for Microsoft Test Manager in Visual Studio 11 Beta (Nivedita Bawa)
- Visual Studio 11 Beta in Context (Scott Hanselman)
- Windows 8 JavaScript Metro Application–Getting Started and Windows 8 JavaScript – Settings (Shai Raiten)
- What’s New in Visual Studio 11 Beta for C++ Developers (Visual C++ Team)
- New Features for Web Development in Visual Studio 11 Beta (Web Dev Tools Team)
- Welcome to Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness Beta “Wave” (Willy-P. Schaub)
- Using SalesForce and Dynamics CRM with Visual Studio LightSwitch (xpert360)
- How do I make it so that users can copy static text on a dialog box to the clipboard easily? (Raymond Chen)
- Windows8 Consumer Preview and VisualStudio11 Beta – Process Lifetime Management (Part 11/11) (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Entity Framework 4.1 Code First- Use MSSQLSERVER instead of EXPRESS (Magnus Karlsson)
- The .NET Framework 4.5 Beta is Exciting, Too (Keith Ward)
- Using Roslyn ScriptEngine for a ValueConverter to process user input (Clifford Nelson)
- What’s New in the Beta Metro/JS Templates for VS11 (Chris Sells)
- EF4.3.1 and EF5 Beta 1 Available on NuGet (dpblogs)
- Fixing memory leaks in RavenDB Management Studio–BindableCollection (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)
Web Development
- SharpDevelop 4.2: Now with Improved ASP.NET MVC 3 Support (Jonathan Allen)
- JustCode and QUnit means easy JavaScript unit testing in Visual Studio (JustCode Team)
- New in 4.0: JavaScript.next syntax support (Konstantin Ulitin)
- CoffeePhysics: A Fast New Physics Engine Written in CoffeeScript (Devon Govett)
- Orchard 1.4 (CodePlex)
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0 EAP 114.282 (Alexey Gopachenko)
- Taking a look at S#arp Lite, Part I (Oren Eini)
- Responsive web design in 3 minutes 42 seconds (Martin Beeby)
- dotTrace 5.0 Performance Beta Available (Jura Gorohovsky)
- Popcorn.js (K. Scott Allen)
- Starting a project with Express, node.js and Stylus (Peter)
- Hadoop .Net HDFS File Access (Carl Nolan)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- v1 of the book is published (Simon Brown)
- Get All the Agile Books You Want. For FREE. (TeamPulse Agile Blog)
- Visual Studio 11 Beta – Unit Testing Plugins List (Peter Provost)
- Patterns in weakness in approaches about testing (Shrini Kulkarni)
- What are you in for? (Oren Eini)
- Subtleties in API design – member placement (Jon Skeet)
- Less is More (Rinat Abdullin)
- The open-source maturity model (Andreas Håkansson)
- Out of focus (Eric Brechner)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Implement Sharing to Facebook, Twitter in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
- Using WCF RIA Services With LightSwitch 11 and Accessing Your Visual Studio 2011 LightSwitch Application Using OData (Michael Washington)
- Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update CTP (Cheryl Simmons)
- Visual Authoring for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview with Blend and Visual Studio (Christian Schormann)
- Blend Beta Known Issue: Menus do not render correctly when Windows 8 Basic theme is applied (Pam Keesey)
- 2000 WPF Things #505 – The Header of a GroupBox Can Be Anything (Sean Sexton)
- Looking to Apollo (Daniel Vaughan)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Juan Campa Programs with XNA (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Mash This Podcast – API Tools (Lee Dumond, Nick Berardi, Keyvan Nayyeri & Dustin Davis)
- SE Podcast #31 – Goodbye Jeff (Alex Miller)
- Engadget HD Podcast 288 – 02.28.2012 and The Verge Mobile Podcast 017: MWC 2012 – 02.29.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 11 Beta with Jason Zander (Robert Green)
- Hot Apps: Chickens Can’t Fly, Friend Central, Gorilla Gondola, Face Swap, Rock Gods (Laura Foy)
- Boagworld: How to make terms and conditions useful (Paul Boag)
- Java EE Development Debate – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
- Community Megaphone Podcast Show #33 with Guest Michael Crump (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
Community / Events
- Save The Date: SharePoint Saturday NYC 2012 Coming July 28, 2012 (Peter Laudati)
- Vote for CodeStock 2012 Content (Jim Christopher)
- Getting Started with HTML5 (Zhiming Xue)
- A Coder Interview With John D. Cook (The Code Project)
- Beta Time at the MVP Global Summit (MVP Award Program)
- GitHub at the Game Developers Conference (Lee Reilly)
- Leaving the Evil Empire (Bertrand Le Roy)
- INETA Board of Directors (Kevin Griffin)
- Looking back at Six Week of Windows Azure – raw data and Mini retrospective on Six Weeks of Windows Azure and FREE events covering Windows 8 for Application Developers start 30th March (Eric Nelson)
Database
- Find out Long Running query using sp_who2 with Dynamic Management Views (DMV) (Madhivanan)
- MICROSOFT REPORT VIEWER 2012 RUNTIME – BETA (MS Downloads)
- Stuff in the FROM Clause: Interfaces (Stuart Ainsworth)
- Report Builder 3.0 – Chart Wizard (Jes Schultz Borland)
SharePoint
- SharePoint Developer Tools in Visual Studio 11 – Part I: What’s New in SharePoint Developer Tools for Visual Studio 11 Beta (SharePoint Developer Team)
PowerShell
- PowerGUI 3.2 Released! (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Windows 8, Larousse and “proud to be a developer” ! (Jonathan Antoine)
- How are software testing careers at Microsoft different from software testing careers at other companies? (MS JobsBlog)
- How to Design a Better UX Resume (Damian Rees)
- Coolest Download of the Day, no not Win8 CP, not VS11, but Microsoft Flight! (Free to play) (Greg Duncan)
- Developer content Build of Materials for Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Hong Choing)
- Windows Consumer Preview: The Fifth IE10 Platform Preview (ieblog)
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview 101 (Jeremy Likness)
- Official Windows 8 app developer blog launched (John Callaham)
- How To Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Consumer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) (Scott Hanselman)
- How to Install Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Virtual Box (snehal)
- Android Design V2: Now with stencils (Tim Bray)
- Windows 8 for keyboard users (Tim Heuer)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 29, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2012 02.09 ~ 02.29 (yuanjian)
- Interesting .NET Links – February 29 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
- Software news – February 2012 (Dror Helper)
- Double Shot #828 and Double Shot #829 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Monthly Summary – February 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Daily News Digest 2/29/2012 and Daily News Digest 3/1/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1054 and The Morning Brew #1055 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News 29 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Interesting links for Visual Studio 11 and TFS 11 (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Recently in Web Development (February ’12 Edition) (Siddharth)
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