Top Links
- SQL Server 2012 RTM Day Download Link Round-up (Greg Duncan)
- Single Page Application packages and samples (Steve Sanderson)
- Going behind the scenes building Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
- Creating Metro Style Icons with Metro Studio (Dan Wahlin)
- What’s changed for app developers since //build/ (part 2) (Jake Sabulsky)
.NET / Visual Studio / WinRT
- How not to use LINQ (Nigel Sampson)
- Visual Studio 11 Beta Testing Documentation (Howie Hilliker)
- LINQ for F# (Jonathan Allen)
- New EF Code First Migrations Video on Pluralsight (Julie Lerman)
- Window 8 JavaScript–Asynchronous Programming & App Storage (Shai Raiten)
- Visual Studio 11 Beta Razor editor issue workaround (Xinyang Qiu)
- Caching done right (Jérémie Chassaing)
- Building a good app settings experience in XAML and Use Bing Maps in your Windows 8 XAML applications (Tim Heuer)
- Windows 8 App Store – the APPX download API is secure (Den Delimarsky)
- WinJS – Navigate in a ListView using mouse wheel is easy ! (Jonathan Antoine)
- Build Bing Maps into your Windows 8 Metro style app with new SDK (Kip Kniskern)
- A simple scheme to implement Design by Contract in C++ (Luca Bolognese)
- Windows 8 Icons: Segoe UI Symbol (Jeremy Likness)
Web Development
- Micro ORM Data Mapping with PetaPoco and ASP.NET MVC 4 (Greg Arroyo)
- Taking a look at S#arp Lite– The MVC parts (Oren Eini)
- SQL.js: SQLite Compiled to JavaScript via Emscripten (Devon Govett)
- Announcing the jQuery Foundation (Adam J. Sontag)
- WCF or ASP.NET Web APIs? My two cents on the subject (Ido Flatow)
- CSS3 Box Shadow Syntax Breakdown (Louis Lazaris)
- Another CSS image replacement technique (Nicolas Gallagher)
- Put Your jQuery Scripts In The Fast Lane and Meet the Author: Joe Eames on jQuery Advanced Topics (Paul Ballard)
- All the mouse events in JavaScript (Giorgio Sironi)
- HTML5 standardisation and Facebook (Martin Beeby)
- Sencha Touch 2.0—Built for Amazing Apps (Jamie Avins)
- Microsoft to add another preview build, more testers for Hadoop on Azure (Mary Jo Foley)
- Blog Series — Windows Azure Security Best Practices (Bruce Kyle)
- Understanding and Using Type Categories in Web Design (Carrie Cousins)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How To Focus (JD Meier)
- Running Tests as Part of a Build (Chris O’Brien)
- Myths about Coding Craftsmanship part 1 (Thomas Pepe)
- A Culture of YAGNI (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Social coding and collaboration with tinker.io (Luke)
- Sexy Code Snippet Management With Gists (Jeffrey Way)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- How to Launch the WP7 Marketplace Hub using the MarketplaceHubTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- 2000 WPF Things #509 – Displaying a Busy Indicator in a Data Template (Sean Sexton)
- Fix: Installing Extensions In LightSwitch When You Also Have LightSwitch Beta 2011 (Michael Washington)
- Nokia’s top-12 tips on building apps for WP 256MB (Joel Reyes)
- Introduction to the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern – Part 2 (Anand Raja)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Rob Mensching Does Installations with the WiX Toolset (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- SQL SERVER – T-SQL Errors and Reactions – Demo – SQL in Sixty Seconds #005 – Video (Pinal Dave)
- Let’s Play TDD #170: Back to SaveFile (James Shore)
- Hot Apps: Splinter Cell, BattleWagon, Anything Tracker, Stack the States, Dash 3D and TechFest 2012: Cliplets (Laura Foy)
- Engadget HD Podcast 289 – 03.06.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- SE Podcast #32 – Jarrod Dixon and Josh Heyer (Alex Miller)
Community / Events
- Talking Cloud with SharePoint Server MVP Jeong Woo Choi (MVP Award Program)
- How To Survive A Hackathon (Boonsri Dickinson)
- March .NET Dev Meeting in Geneva Final Date (Daniel Vaughan)
- Free Webinar on Team Explorer Everywhere from Black Marble (Giles Davies)
- MAKE at SXSW (Sabrina Merlo)
- Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (Scott Hanselman)
Database
- Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft® Office® 2010 (MS Downloads)
- SQL Server 2012 RTM Today (Gethyn Ellis)
- SQL Server Data Tools Released, Available Today! (Gert Drapers)
- Lots of offerings to celebrate the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 launch (Kim Spilker)
- Microsoft releases to manufacturing SQL Server 2012 (Mary Jo Foley)
- SQL Azure – Requiring Encrypt=True (Buck Woody)
- Merge Replication – COM Based Resolver throws Buffer too small Error (Ted Krueger)
- How To Decide if You Should Use Table Partitioning (Kendra Little)
- Learn about the Data Explorer weekly release process (Ben Martens)
SharePoint
- Cross-post: The Windows Azure Claim Provider for SharePoint Project (Three Part Series) (Himanshu Singh)
- 10 Virtues of a SharePoint Peep (Joel Oleson)
PowerShell
- Inside PowerShell 3: The New Parser and Compiler (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Introducing Google Play (Dirk Dougherty)
- An Afternoon with Sinatra and Heroku (Howard Dierking)
- OneNote Tip: setting ink recognition to the correct text for a single word (John Guin)
- Snagit 11 review (Mark Wilson)
- Microsoft outlines roadmap for Windows Embedded 8 (Mary Jo Foley)
- Adobe releases Photoshop Lightroom 4, cuts price by half (Nick Peers)
- New Office 15 Features Leak In Their Full Metro Glory [SCREENSHOTS] (Paul Paliath)
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview: A Call for Common Sense (Paul Thurrott)
- March OTN Member Discounts (Oracle Tech Network)
- Why does Explorer ignore seconds when sorting by Date Modified? (Raymond Chen)
- Dr. Sinofsky or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Windows 8 (Sebastian Anthony)
- Exclusive: Microsoft Office 15 features and improvements (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #1059 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting .NET Links – March 6 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
- Double Shot #833 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 3/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily WP7 Development News 6 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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