Back after a few days. I found out yesterday that I have been awarded as a Visual C# MVP for the 3rd time (4th MVP award overall). Thanks to the MVP Award program & C# Team and congrats to the other new and renewed MVPs out there!
Top Links
- Touch hardware and Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
- Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, and ASP.NET Web Pages (Razor) open source announcements (Jon Galloway)
- Knockout.js Performance Gotcha #1–if/with bindings are not always cheap (Ryan Niemeyer)
- TWC9: VS Ultimate Roadmap, MVC/Web API/Razor Open Source, WP SDK 7.1.1 and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Compare and contrast: Performance implications of method signatures (Oren Eini)
- A LINQ Style Range Generator (Richard Carr)
- Session summary: New Features in Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 beta (Zubair Ahmed)
- Using the Implicit Operator in C# for Maximum Nerdy Good Times (Bobby Johnson)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: Skip() and Take() (James Michael Hare)
- A Simpler MapReduce with MongoDB and C# (K. Scott Allen)
- And One More Thing About 1.5… (Kinect for Windows Team)
- Writing functional code in C++ II – Function composition (Luca Bolognese)
- Talk: Async Part 1 – the message-loop, and the Task type and Talk: What’s new in VB11 (VS11 Beta) (Lucian Wischik)
- TFS Service Credential Viewer and TFS Field Annotator (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Windows 8: flickR searching demo in .NET and JS (Mike Taulty)
- Team Foundation Server (TFS) 11 – Exploring Local Workspace Concept in TEE 11 (Subodh Sohoni)
- How to get distinct values from the List<T> with LINQ (Vincent Maverick Durano)
- Moles – Troubleshooting in Visual Studio 11 / .NET 4.5 (MS Research)
- LINQ Extensions Library 1.0.2.7 and JSON Toolkit 3.1 (CodePlex)
- WebSocket Support In Windows 8 and Is IQueryable A Bad Choice For APIs? (Roopesh Shenoy)
- A Quick Overview of .NET Reflector (Adam Driscoll)
- .NET and Metro: The Windows Runtime and the CLR on Windows 8 (Jeremy Likness)
- CoreImage with MonoTouch (example) (Craig Dunn)
- INotifyPropertyChanged, The .NET 4.5 Way – Revisited (Dan Rigby)
- RabbitMQ for Windows: Exchange Types and RabbitMQ for Windows: Direct Exchanges (Derek Greer)
- Migrating VSIX Extensions To Dev11 (Karsten Januszewski)
- Teaching .NET Gadgeteering and Missing Macros in VS11 getting you down? John Robbins shows us how to use NuGet and PowerShell as an replacement (Greg Duncan)
- Transform app.config and web.config (Mehdi Khalili)
- Date Issue in Excel Export (Michael Sync)
- JustCode Extension Improvements in 2012 Q1 SP (JustCode Team)
Web Development
- Fluent Security – Getting Started (Kristoffer Ahl)
- 3 Quick JavaScript Tips for .NET Developers (John Papa)
- Implementing an XML-RPC Service with ASP.NET MVC (Charles Cook)
- CSS layout gets smarter with calc() (Alex Danilo)
- The JavaScript “Ah ha!” Moment (Chris Coyier)
- People of HTML5: Andrew Betts on building the FT.com HTML5 app (Chris Heilmann)
- HTML 5 Games, Tooling & 3D (Code Inside Team)
- Proxies And Decorators In JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
- Fun with ASP.NET Web API – push-like messaging from one application to multiple subscriber applications (Filip W)
- Building your first HTML Metro Style app with the Style Smooth Streaming Player walk through (Greg Duncan)
- ASP.NET MVC Now Accepting Pull Requests (Phil Haack)
- Adding AjaxOnly Filter in ASP.NET Web API (Imran Baloch)
- JavascriptHelper–Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC (James Curran)
- Phaxio integration using HttpClient & ASP.NET MVC (Jarod Ferguson)
- How to fork the ASP.NET Web Stack to GitHub (Jimmy Bogard)
- New in 4.0: Easier JavaScript Library Scope Configuration (Konstantin Ulitin)
- The AT&T API Platform SDK for HTML5 (Michael Mullany)
- Building ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages source code (Michael Sync)
- ASP.Net WebAPI (Mike Stall)
- CSS: fast to load, easy to maintain (Scott Knaster)
- Introducing Grunt (Ben Alman)
- ZenGallery: a minimalist image gallery for Orchard and Overriding the Pager rendering in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
- Web API Design Book – Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love (Bienvenido David III)
- Moving Applications to the Cloud, 2nd Edition – Book Download and Project Silk – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
- JavaScript’s two zeros (Axel Rauchmayer)
- Service logging in JSON with Bunyan (Trent Mick)
- Detecting Touch Hardware in IE 10 (Steve Lydford)
- Redesigning my blog for adaptive layout (Tim Heuer)
- OAuth 2.0 Playground: new features (Scott Knaster)
- Getting Cozy With Underscore.js (Siddharth)
- firstImpression.js: A micro-library for detecting new visitors (Rob Flaherty)
- Codename Antares: A new Microsoft hosting platform for Web apps (Mary Jo Foley)
- Defining Dynamic Assets – PHP Project pt. I and Constructing Dynamic Assets – PHP Project pt. I (Josh Adell)
- Node.js – The objective is absolutely fast I/O (J. Vaughan)
- Web Workbench and your automated build process (Ivan Towlson)
- Just release: Azure User Management Console – AUMC (Frank)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- My Rants on Scrum (Ankush Bansal)
- Learn How to Start Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
- TDD Best Practices: Don’t Mock Others (Derek Greer)
- Unit Testing against the Team Foundation Server 11 API (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Is Agile Stifling Introverts? (Todd Charron)
- A CQRS Journey – with and without Microsoft and P&P CQRS Journey Post Clarification (Udi Dahan)
- Inversion Of Control: An Architect’s Version of Global Variables (Rob Conery)
- “Done”. “Done Done”. When is a feature really done? (Vassil Terziev)
- Visualizing Code to Fail Faster (Jeff Atwood)
- The confusion around QA: why doesn’t the industry agree? (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Don’t be a tool (Eric Brechner)
- Practice Code Kata’s And Learn (Gregor Suttie)
- Design is Resize (Alex Giron)
- Continuous Testing (Greg Young)
- Gmail as an issue tracking system (Davor Crnomat)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Working with the Windows Phone Application Bar (Nick Randolph)
- Porting a Windows Phone application to Windows 8 – A Look from 10,000 Feet Above and Fixing a Streaming Issue in ShoutStreamSource on Windows Phone and Using the Coding4Fun ChatBubble and ChatBubbleTextBox in a Windows Phone Application and Porting Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone to Windows 8 Article Series (Den Delimarsky)
- Things I Missed So You Won’t Have To – WP7 SDK (Doug Rathbone)
- MVVM and Animations in Silverlight (Kevin Logan)
- Displaying Large Text Files in Windows Phone Apps (Bil Simser)
- The Animated Pie Slice in Windows 8 (Charles Petzold)
- Lives Tiles in XAML based Windows 8 Metro Application and Isolated Storage Helper For C# and XAML based Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
- PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #7: Marketplace tricks (Glen Gordon)
- Make Your Windows Phone Vibrate with PhoneGap (Senthil Kumar)
- How to Retrieve Contact Information in WP7 using the AddressChooserTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- MVVM Light V4b1 for Windows 8 Consumer Preview (with installer) (Laurent Bugnion)
- Windows Phone 7/7.5 + Phonegap = ???? (Michael Sync)
- Attached behaviors for Windows 8 Metro Style XAML and Porting the DragFlickBehavior from Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 Metro Style (Joost van Schaik)
- Released: New Version of Expression Blend for Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
- Handling Authenticated Zip Files in Windows Phone (samidip)
- 2000 WPF Things #526 – Use Adobe Kuler to Create Color Themes and #527 – Colorful Expression Add-in Connects to Adobe Kuler (Sean Sexton)
- Extended WPF Toolkit – 1.6.0 (CodePlex)
- Marketplace now open in 13 new markets. Are your apps available? (Todd Brix)
- Optimize Startup Time (Mike Battista)
- LightSwitch IIS Deployment Enhancements in Visual Studio 11 (Beth Massi)
- Working with Tiles for Windows Metro Applications (Derik Whittaker)
- Difference between Application created using Metro UI guidelines and Real Windows 8 Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Geek Out on Solar Power (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Lucian Wischik: What’s New in VB11 (Charles Torre)
- Technology & Friends Episode 203: Malcolm Sheridan on MVC Lessons Learnt From Being Burnt (David Giard)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 061 – “Students Support Magenta Phones” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Herding Code 137 – Mass Assignment, New New iPad, JavaScript libraries, Windows 8, Visual Studio, and Sad Trombones (Jon Galloway)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 434: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, Battlefield 3 and PAX East (Larry Hyrb)
- Bytes by MSDN: Peter Isensee and Jerry Nixon on Windows 8 and Xbox Live (MS Podcasts)
- Let’s Play TDD #177: The Time is Worthwhile (James Shore)
- Agile2011 – Adam Sroka – Jokes, JavaScript and My first Employee (Agile Toolkit)
- Inside Windows Phone # 35 | Ali Heron from Microsoft Advertising talks Ads (Larry Lieberman)
- Windows Phone Minute: Group your pals (Laura Foy)
- Jeff Sandquist Shows off Project Detroit (Don Burnett)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Chad Miller (Ryan Parsley)
- Distributed Podcast Episode 12: LMAX (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
- Defrag: Moving My Docs, BluRay Troubleshooting, Change Default File Type in Paint. (Larry Larsen)
- Windows Weekly 254: The SKU Spew (Paul Thurrott)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 46 (Richard Hay)
- The Verge Mobile Podcast 021 – 03.28.2012 and Engadget Podcast 287 – 03.29.2012 and The Vergecast 024 – 03.30.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 132 – 03.31.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Cloud Cover Episode 74 – Autoscaling and Endpoint Protection in Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
- C++: A Language for Modern Times (Robert Hess)
- On The Verge, Episode 004: Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Nilay Patel)
- Nokia Lumia 900 advert (Steve Clayton)
Community / Events
- Great Places to Work: Microsoft Employees Always First to Use New Software (MS JobsBlog)
- What you need to know about the Microsoft MVP Award (Rachel Appel)
- Indy Hall 3.0 – The Future of Indy Hall (Alex Hillman)
- The HackReady.Phone WebCast Series (Bob Familiar)
- eLearning event on HTML5 for Mobile with jQuery Mobile (Wally McClure)
- Code Academy: the student developers building the Windows Phone ecosystem (Tom Warren)
- Build apps with the experts at Windows 8 Dev Camps (Neil Hutson)
- Get (Hack)Ready to Develop for Windows Phone (Jim O’Neil)
Database
- SQL Server Monitoring Management Pack (MS Downloads)
- SQL SERVER – Difference between DATABASEPROPERTY and DATABASEPROPERTYEX and SQL SERVER – Online Index Rebuilding Index Improvement in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – sp_describe_first_result_set New System Stored Procedure in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – A Puzzle – Illusion – Confusion – April Fools’ Day and SQL SERVER – Use ROLL UP Clause instead of COMPUTE BY (Pinal Dave)
- You don’t need to shrink a database to get a smaller backup (Denis Gobo)
- Automated SSRS deployment with the RS utility (Stacy Vicknair)
- Improve SQL Performance – Know Your Statistics (Ian Stirk)
- Truncating Tables in SQL Server (Richard Carr)
- Let’s Talk About Joins (Jeremiah Peschka)
SharePoint
- Introducing SharePointR (Bil Simser)
- SharePoint 2010 Upgrade – Important Updates (Joel Oleson)
- SharePoint 2010: Connecting to SQL Server Using the External Content Type Feature (Mahesh Sabnis)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Skills Cloud Résumé (Derek Greer)
- Don’t cry for me, Steve Ballmer (Joe Wilcox)
- Sneak Preview – New CodePlex UI (Mark Groves)
- The Windows 8 Power Users Guide Now Available for Pre-Order on Amazon (Mike Halsey)
- If your software matters, you will write it in C++ (Chris Smith)
- Software is not epic (Scott Berkun)
- Who and What makes a Good Customer? (Wally McClure)
- How to Avoid the Common Pitfalls of Mobile App Development (Christine Erickson)
- Why Arrays Normally Start At Zero (Karl Seguin)
- Microsoft Looks to Create App-parity Between Windows Phone and iOS (Jason Lefevers)
- Official and unofficial apps in the iOS, WP7, and Android marketplaces (Bil Simser)
- How to control access to apps on your kid’s Windows Phone (Jac Fitzgerald)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 29, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 30, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 31, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 1, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 2, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2012 03.23 ~ 03.31 (yuanjian)
- Distributed Weekly 148 (Scott Banwart)
- Maker Geek Roundup 010 for 4/1/2012 (Pete Brown)
- Double Shot #847 and Double Shot #848 and Double Shot #849 (Mike Gunderloy)
- MVP Friday Five: March 30, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
- Monthly Summary – March 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Pie in the Sky (March 30, 2012) (Larry Franks)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #12) (Himanshu Singh)
- Daily News Digest 3/29/2012 and Daily News Digest 3/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1075 and The Morning Brew #1076 and The Morning Brew #1077 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Dev News for March 28, 2012 – #0060 and Windows Dev News for March 29, 2012 – #0061 and Windows Dev News for March 30, 2012 – #0062 (Dave Campbell)
- Re-blog – March 23 – March 29 (Jason Strate)
- Retrospective 78 – CAO, Certified Agile, Tester, RIP (Peter Saddington)
- Daily WP7 Development News 30 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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