Top Links
- Back to Basics: Dynamic Image Generation, ASP.NET Controllers, Routing, IHttpHandlers, and runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests (Scott Hanselman)
- Type initializer circular dependencies (Jon Skeet)
- Improving how we update Visual Studio (Dave Lubash & David Guyer)
- Victor Gaudioso–Preserving his Contributions (Brian Lagunas)
- Make Async Your Buddy With Reactive Extensions (Phil Haack)
- Marking a Major Milestone in an Eventful Year (Jeffrey Meisner)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Using the DebuggerDisplay Attribute (Richard Carr)
- Launch Internet Explorer from HyperlinkButton in Windows 8 Metro app (Zubair Ahmed)
- Hiding values, API keys and other fun stuff (Oren Eini)
- Dirt Simple Web and Database Deployment in Visual Studio 11 (Brady Gaster)
- Asynchronous Programming using C# 4.5 and Visual Studio 2011 (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Windows 8 JavaScript – FlipView Control (Shai Raiten)
- April 2012 Update for Visual Studio 11 Beta (Xinyang Qiu)
- Getting Started with Kinect for Windows. (Vishal Mody)
- NUnit 2.6.0 has been released. (Tatworth)
- .NET 4.5 Compatibility And Multi-Targeting (Roopesh Shenoy)
- First Experiences with the new Netduino GO, and how it relates to .NET Gadgeteer (Pete Brown)
- Gaining Some Control Back From Microsoft’s Entity Framework Code First, Name Your Own Foreign Keys! (Peter Kellner)
- Asynchronous Batch Logging without Blocking Threads (Jeffrey Richter)
- WinRT, Projections, and COM (John D. Cook)
- How to remove the last character from Stringbuilder (hmloo)
- Win 8 exploration: Simple Databinding (Bill Wagner)
- What Are SCARY Iterators? (Diego Dagum)
Web Development
- Quick and Easy Method to Remove Html Tags (Jonathan Wood)
- HTML5 Cookbook Book Review (David Hayden)
- New High Performance jQuery Templating Engine (Damyan Petev)
- JavaScript: It’s a Language, Not a Community (David Flanagan)
- CSS Refreshers: Borders (Jeffrey Way)
- Installing and Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Application (Karthik Anbarasan)
- Should the Standard Property Be Omitted for Some CSS3 Features? (Louis Lazaris)
- Webcast: Building Rich Input Forms in ASP.NET MVC Tuesday April 10 (Michael Kennedy)
- MVC Portable Areas (Mike Moser)
- The Page Object pattern (Giorgio Sironi)
- jQuery Mobile 1.1.0 RC2 Released (Todd Parker)
- Using the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (Maarten Balliauw)
- Folding@home with the SMP Client in Windows Azure (Brian Hitney)
- Trying out Hadoop on Azure Screencast Series (Lynn Langit)
- Writing a Node Module (Anders Janmyr)
- Object-orientation and inheritance in JavaScript: a comprehensive explanation (Manuel Kiessling)
- Extending JavaScript – The Right Way (websanova)
- What is the meaning of this? (Douglas Crockford)
- Announcing Remote Debugging Protocol v1.0 (Pavel Feldman)
- Knockout.js Performance Gotcha #2–manipulating observableArrays (Ryan Niemeyer)
- The translate attribute (Jack Osborne)
- Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Express Error Handling (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Breadcrumbs in WebMatrix Web Pages (Gianmaria Gregori)
- On Responsive Images (Chris Coyier)
- Testing Mobile Websites with Adobe Shadow (Dan Wahlin)
- Your own sports news site with ESPN API and Knockout.js (Filip W)
- If I built a physics engine… (Brandon Jones)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile in its Second Decade (Dave Rooney)
- Continuous Deployment, Versioning and Git (Mattias Severson)
- Seeing the Team in the Code (David Starr)
- MbUnit 101: Attributes (Andy Stopford)
- xUnit.net Moving to Git (Brad Wilson)
- Compression Experiments In the Build and Deployment Process (Geoff Hudik)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- The beginnings of Windows Phone Control Kit – TapMenu and TapMenuItem and Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – Getting The Public Timeline (Dennis Delimarsky)
- New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.5.5 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
- Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Setting up the project (3 of 12) (Andreas Hammar)
- What happens to network calls when your WP7 app goes dormant? (Andy Wigley)
- Windows Phone and HTML5: A Match Made in Heaven? (Christian Helle)
- .Net Gadgeteer, REST, Cameras, Servos and Windows Phone 7 (Greg Duncan)
- Windows Phone 8: What’s Microsoft’s developer story? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Timeout of HttpWebrequest and WCF service calls on Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
- Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring DELETE performance and a “Bug Alert” (Erik EJ)
- 2000 WPF Things #532 – Using the Gradient Tool to Move Gradient Stops (Sean Sexton)
- Does Silverlight Matter to Windows Phone 8? (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Communicating With LightSwitch Using Android App Inventor (Michael Washington)
- Adding Database Synchronization to Your PhoneGap Project (Raymond Camden)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 046: How to See the Fourth Dimension (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Episode 204: Mads Torgersen on CSharp 5 (David Giard)
- Major Nelson Podcast – PAX East 2012 (Larry Hyrb)
- The Tablet Show – Steve Souders Improves Mobile Web Performance (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Bytes by MSDN: Boris Jabes and Jerry Nixon discuss New Visual Studio 11 Improvements (Bytes by MSDN)
- The JavaScript Show – JavaScript Arrow Function Syntax (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
- Windows Phone Minute: Back it on up! and Check out the new Windows Phones! (Laura Foy)
- Engadget Podcast 288 – 04.05.2012 and The Vergecast 025 – 04.06.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Video: Issue a Debugging SOS in Visual Studio 2010 (Paul Ballard)
- TWC9: PowerShell Scripting Games, Sideloading Win8 Metro Apps, VS11 Beta Update and more… (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- ShopTalk Episode 13 (Chris Coyier)
- 010 JSJ Node.js (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Larry Port (Ryan Parsley)
- Tune in to Lang.NEXT Videos Online (Jason Zander)
- Live on Telerik TV: iOS Launch Webinar! (Jim Holmes)
- Cloud Cover Episode 75 – Building Windows 8 Metro Apps using Windows Azure Service Bus (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
- Windows Weekly 255: I Miss Narnia (Paul Thurrott)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 47 (Richard Hay)
- .NET Gadgeteer and MIDI: Meet the MeeBlipiator (G. Andrew Duthie)
Community / Events
- Interview with Braulio Diez on the new book ‘Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action’ (by Packt Publishing) (Silverlight Show)
- Meet the Author: Steve Smith on Kanban Fundamentals (Paul Ballard)
Database
- SQL Server 2012: Installing on a Virtual Machine (James Serra)
- Why shrink sql server data file failed? (James Xu)
- SQL server failed to start the system cannot find the path specified (Muthukkumaran Kaliyamoorthy)
- Temporary Tables – SQL Server vs MySQL (Madhivanan)
- SQLAuthority News – Download SQL Azure Labs Codename “Data Explorer” Client (Pinal Dave)
- Standing up a SQL Server for free on Amazon EC2 (Tim Hibbard)
SharePoint
- FREE WhitePaper: Proven Practices for SharePoint Requirements Development #in #pmot (Dux Raymond Sy)
- WSS 3.0 to SharePoint 2010: Tips for delaying the Visual Upgrade (Kelly Jones)
PowerShell
- ODBC gets some love in Windows 8 & Windows Server 8 (Improved UI and PowerShell support) (Greg Duncan)
Miscellaneous
- The Hello World of genetic algorithms (Josh Smith)
- New features for Paint.NET 4.0 (Rick Brewster)
- Windows 8, Start Screen, Multi-Monitor Usability (Rockford Lhotka)
- Free Course: An Introduction to JRuby (Satish Talim)
- Can Microsoft change the Windows Phone app conversation? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Nokia Windows Phone with 41MP PureView camera render leaks, flaunting high-end specs (Phone Arena Team)
- Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone Unboxing and Activating the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone (John Papa)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 7, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 8, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 9, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 149 (Scott Banwart)
- Double Shot #853 and Double Shot #854 (Mike Gunderloy)
- MVP Friday Five: April 6, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
- Daily News Digest 4/6/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (4/6/2012) and Daily News Digest 4/9/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Pie in the Sky (April 6, 2012) (Brian Swan)
- Daily WP7 Development News 6 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Retrospective 79 – #Agile University and Guaranteed Success (Peter Saddington)
- Top Blogs Lists (JD Meier)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Friday, 13th Edition) (Himanshu Singh)
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