Top Links
- Features NO ONE NOTICED in Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web (Scott Hanselman)
- Metro: Introduction to CSS 3 Grid Layout (Stephen Walther)
- Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance Part #3 (Larry Sullivan)
- Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Updates in March, 2012 (Jialiang Ge)
.NET / Visual Studio
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: Of LINQ and Lambdas – A Presentation (James Michael Hare)
- A Simple MapReduce with MongoDB and C# (K. Scott Allen)
- Mono for Android Book has been Released!!!!! (Wally McClure)
- Ninject: Auto-registration is changing in version 3 (John Rayner)
- LOLCode Parser (Chris Cavanagh)
- How not to join tables in LightSpeed (Ivan Towlson)
Web Development
- JavaScript code coverage and Esprima (Ariya Hidayat)
- Foursquare Autocomplete jQuery Plugin (Joseph Guadagno)
- Client-side messaging in JavaScript – Part 3 (anti-patterns) (Jim Cowart)
- Make External Links Open in a New Window With This jQuery Plugin (Michael Kennedy)
- Learning HTML5 – Getting Started with WebSharper (Cameron Taggart)
- PHP objects in MongoDB with Doctrine (Giorgio Sironi)
- Introducing Peter’s Business Driven Logic UI and DES 5.0 and How BLD differs from ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Peter Blum)
- What Are the Most Popular JavaScript Keywords? and What This Means for ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Using HTML5 Today part 3– Using Polyfills (Steve Albers)
- Lessons learned building a multiplayer game in NodeJS and WebGL (Rob Ashton)
- Introduction to HTML (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Make IIS Express the Default for VS2010 Web Projects (Steve Smith)
- New in WebStorm/PhpStorm 4.0: Easier debugging of remote PHP command line scripts (Nikolay Matveev)
- @home with Windows Azure : Can I Deploy Multiple Instances? (Peter Laudati)
- The Zen Of Python (Deepak Kapoor)
- Build Facebook style infinite scroll with knockout.js and Last.fm API (Filip W.)
- WebSockets in Windows Consumer Preview (Brian Raymor)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- On Writing Unit Tests for C# (Patrick Smacchia)
- Should code contracts be tested? (Rory Primrose)
- Good Teams Focus on the Team (Brendan Enrick)
- Why do we (really) program to interfaces? (Kyle Burns)
- Is Threat Modeling Overrated ? (Mark Curphey)
- Integrating and isolating the container in tests (Jimmy Bogard)
- Collaboration: Let’s Start Focusing on the How-To’s (Jacob Morgan)
- Embracing GitHub (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Configurable Dependency (Alistair Cockburn)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Correcting the Invisible Events Tab Issue in the Properties Window for Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
- Silverlight Document Toolkit March 2012 Update and Document Toolkit for LightSwitch 1.5 (Koen Zwikstra)
- Flexible Metro-style icons in WPF with Embedded Fonts (LearnWPF)
- Unit Testing Your Windows Phone Mango App (Rabeb Othmani)
- 2000 WPF Things #518 – Change Points in a Path Using the Direct Selection Tool (Sean Sexton)
- TCP-based sockets on Windows Phone with support for large amounts of data (Dennis Delimarsky)
- LightSwitch Cosmopolitan Shell and Theme for VS 11 Beta (Beth Massi)
- Part 4: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check. (Kevin Dockx)
- LongListSelector walkthrough (JustAnotherAppDeveloper)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 044: Sarah Vowell interviewed about her book Unfamiliar Fishes (Mark Frauenfelder)
- .NET Rocks! – Mike Diehl Fixes Us Up with Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- C9 Lectures: Donna Malayeri – F# 3.0 – Information Rich Programming, 1 of 1 (Charles Torre)
- SharePoint 2010 Application Lifecycle Management-Episode 70 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for March 19th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- F# as a Platform for Quantitative Finance: Thursday, March 22, SkillsMatter, London (Don Syme)
- Join us online on April 24 for the patterns & practices Symposium 2012 (Pete Brown)
- Tour of Windows 8 Consumer preview, Visual Studio 11 beta at Microsoft Gulf, 31st March 2012 (Zubair Ahmed)
- Meet the Author: Scott Seely on Windows Azure AppFabric (Paul Ballard)
- Meet Telerik at TechEd India Live and win exciting prizes (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Free Introducing Windows 8/Metro Event for Developers and Designers (Doris Chen)
- Philly Phorum 2012: A Conference On Cloud Technology (Eric Smith)
Database
- SQL Server 2012: xVelocity (James Serra)
- Where are the Data Sources and Data Source Views in SSIS 2012? and Here are my SSIS 2012 Data Sources (Axel Achten)
- T-SQL Improvements in SQL Server 2012 (Jonathan Allen)
- Video: Not All Queries Are Created Equal – Using Having and Where Clauses in SQL Server (Paul Ballard)
- Database Backups ~ Good or Bad? (Chris Yates)
- RavenDB Sharding–Data Driven Sharding (Oren Eini)
- How to Succeed in Database Development Without Really Trying (Jeremiah Peschka)
SharePoint
- SharePoint Development and Application Lifecycle Management (Jeremy Thake)
PowerShell
- Executing timer jobs from Powershell (Reidar Husmo)
- Powershell – Working with Cluster Resources – Byte Arrays (Kyle Neier)
- Scheduling Background Jobs in Windows PowerShell 3.0 (Travis Jones)
- Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (Jonathan Allen)
Miscellaneous
- Windows Azure App Platform: We’re hiring strong developers! (Jeff Wilcox)
- Report: Five Windows 8 ARM devices for October launch (John Callaham)
- Whatever happened to the Microsoft Office 15 Moorea app? and A Windows 8 e-reader: If someone builds it, will they come? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Microsoft Lining Up Windows 8 For October 2012 Release (Robert Boland)
More Link Collections
- Reading Notes #38 (Frank)
- The Morning Brew #1068 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News 19 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Windows Phone / SQL Server Compact resources (Erik EJ)
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