Top Links
- Reactive Extensions (Rx) v2.0 Beta (MS Downloads)
- Why are local variables definitely assigned in unreachable statements? (Eric Lippert)
- Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance Part #1 (Larry Sullivan)
- The gestures of Windows 8 (Consumer preview): part 1 (Laurent Bugnion)
- On the nightmare that is JSON Dates. Plus, JSON.NET and ASP.NET Web API (Scott Hanselman)
- Introduction to the ASP.NET Web API (Stephen Walther)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Basic Folder Operations (Richard Carr)
- Visualizing Code with Visual Studio 11 Beta (Esther Fan)
- Microsoft Test Manager 11 – What’s New? (Shai Raiten)
- What’s up with MFC in Visual Studio 2011 Beta (Pat Brenner)
- Visual Studio Coded UI for Word Add-In Sample Solution has shipped! (Willy-P. Schaub)
- Autofac update 2.6.1 published (Nicholas Blumhardt)
- Give us back colors in VS! (Patrick Smacchia)
- Amazon coupon: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Developer’s Handbook (Kim Spilker)
- Using IDisposable to write cleaner code (Mehdi Khalili)
- Phalanger’s PHP on Mono/.NET Updates and Gtk+ and MacOS X and Working With SGen (Miguel de Icaza)
- Creating a Telerik JustCode Code Marker Extension (Chris Eargle)
Web Development
- CSS3 Background Gradients (John Papa)
- ASP.NET Web API and RavenDb (Alexander Zeitler)
- Free webook, "Learning JavaScript Design Patterns" (168 pages) (Greg Duncan)
- Managing Cumbersome Shared Views Folder for Large Projects in MVC (Michael C. Kennedy)
- Know Javascript..use node.js server-side (Harish Palaniappan)
- CSS Specificity Should Be Irrelevant (Louis Lazaris)
- CSS: the cascade, specificity, and inheritance (Nicolas Gallagher)
- Asynchronous and negative testing (Giorgio Sironi)
- Using the HTML5 <input type="file" multiple="multiple"> Tag in ASP.NET (Rick Strahl)
- Visual Studio 11 Beta Page Inspector Tutorial live in asp.net (Xinyang Qiu)
- Ruby on REST 4: Using Representers in Rails (Nick Sutterer)
- Sueetie Version 4.0 Released (Dave Burke)
- Modern Web Development – Part 7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Using Microsoft WebAPI from a Windows and WinRT Client Application (Sumit Maitra)
- Enabling gzip compression with Windows Azure CDN through Web Role (Avkash Chauhan)
- New in 4.0: Custom code folding regions (Rustam Vishnyakov) – WebStorm/PhpStorm
- ESPN Developer Center Launches, Opens Sports APIs to App Builders (Sam Laird)
- Vendor prefixes are not developer-friendly (Paul Irish)
- The mystery of the rotating sidebar (Christian Heilmann)
- PHP 5.4 is Here! What You Must Know (Dejan Marjanovic)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- New pattern in the Design Patterns Library: Composite (Megan Russell)
- New Case Study on CQRSGuide.com (Rinat Abdullin)
- Gary (Greg Young)
- 4.5 Tips for Working With Tests in Tables (Jim Holmes)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Using LINQ to Twitter with Windows Phone (Joe Mayo)
- Windows 8 and the Windows Phone SDK (Larry Lieberman)
- Porting a Silverlight App to a Metro-Style App published on Visual Studio Magazine (Michael Crump)
- Filtering Custom Types with RadGridView for Silverlight / WPF (Rossen Hristov)
- 2000 WPF Things #508 – Displaying a Spinning Busy Indicator (Sean Sexton)
- XAML AppBar Button Styles for Windows 8 (Tim Heuer)
- What’s New in the RichTextBox for Silverlight/WPF? (Telerik XAML Team)
- Windows 8 AppBarButtonStyles enumerated and visualized (Adam Kinney)
- Working with Behaviors (Alex Mukora)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 042: Man vs. Mycotoxin (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Scott Hunter Talks Visual Studio 11 and ASP.NET MVC 4 (Brady Gaster)
- Ping 134: Flying robots, Windows Phone, Microsoft Flight, Win 8 hits a million (Laura Foy)
- ShopTalk Episode 8 (Chris Coyier)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for March 5th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Recap of the MVP Summit (Jim Christopher)
- Async Goodness at Tech Valley .NET User Group (Brian Peek)
- Visual Studio Live! Returning to NYC: May 14-17, 2012 (Peter Laudati)
- SQLAuthority News – TechED India 2012 – Bangalore – March 21-23, 2012 (Pinal Dave)
- The Most Epic MVP Attendee Party EVAR in Three Acts! (D’Arcy Lussier)
- From the MVPs: One more report from the MVP Global Summit (Devon Musgrave)
- Dream.Build.Play 2012 Registration Now Open! (Michael B. McLaughlin)
- Now I’m an INETA Speaker! (Michael Kennedy)
- The myth of the ‘introverted engineer’ (Bill Wagner)
Database
- SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Details on the next version of SSRS (James Serra)
- Automated backups using PowerShell and the SQL Server Agent (Cathy Dumas)
- Top 10+ SSIS 2012 Improvements (Arthur Zubarev)
- APress Deal of the Day – 6/March/2012 – Pro Oracle SQL (Tatworth)
- Move a SQL Azure Server From One Subscription to Another (Scott Klein)
SharePoint
- SharePoint 2010 set ‘Start this workflow to approve publishing a major version of an item’ with Powershell (Steve Clements)
- Excel Services REST Interface (SharePoint Developer Team)
Miscellaneous
- Developer Impacts 2012 (John Papa)
- W8WIL #1: Friendly Names for AppBar Icons (G. Andrew Duthie)
- How to Hire a Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
- "Metro Survival Guide for IT Pros" Wiki Page (Greg Duncan)
- Customizing Your Messages With Dialog Sheets (MVP Award Program)
- Why doesn’t the Maximize button maximize across all monitors? (Raymond Chen)
- PluralSight videos: How to change the playback speed (Sharon Cichelli)
- MIT opens App Inventor to all, launches public Beta (Terrence O’Brien)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #1058 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #832 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 3/6/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows Dev News for March 05, 2012 – #0045 (Dave Campbell)
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview: The Ultimate Link List (Zain Naboulsi)
- Daily WP7 Development News 5 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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