Top Links
- First look at the ASP.NET Web API (John V. Petersen)
- F# and ASP.NET Web API (Daniel Mohl)
- Caller information – New API in .net 4.5 (Rohit Sharma)
- Introducing MEF Lightweight Composition and an Updated Composition Provider for ASP.NET MVC (Nick)
- Matthew Podwysocki and Bart J. F. De Smet: RxJS Today and Tomorrow (Charles Torre)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview – improving the developer and user experiences (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Do you want Visual Studio Ultimate for free? Do you have MSDN? (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview–Blend for Visual Studio 11 Beta (Mike Taulty)
- Developing With Visual Studio 2011 and the Windows 8 Consumer Build With Metro and Two (multiple) Monitors (Peter Kellner)
- Windows 8 JavaScript–Splash Screen and Windows 8 JavaScript – Pinch (Shai Raiten)
- Metro apps – a lot of icons are available out of the box ! (Jonathan Antoine)
- Fahrenheit to Celsius in the Win8 Weather app, a story of change… and Windows 8 AppBarIcons enumerated and visualized (Adam Kinney)
- [WinDbg Script] Displaying the COM object referenced by an RCW object (rafarah)
- CSLA 4 version 4.3 release (Rockford Lhotka)
- Something new in Win8 you might not have heard about… Win8 comes with a new rich edit control, RichEdit8 (Greg Duncan)
- Create an ActionLink without Magic Strings (Deran Schilling)
- MSBuild Multi-Targeting in SharpDevelop (Daniel Grunwald)
Web Development
- Replacing JQuery With Angular (Paul Hammant)
- Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Controls Support Visual Studio 11 Beta from Day One! (Stoyan Stratev)
- Creating First HTTP Service using ASP.NET Web API: Part1 of Many (Dhananjay Kumar)
- New Pluralsight Course: Building ASP.NET MVC Apps with EF Code First, HTML5, and jQuery and Looking Forward: Single Page Apps, Client-Side Databinding, Entity Change Tracking, and Windows 8 (Dan Wahlin)
- Working with Telerik Kendo UI Widgets: Calendar (Dhananjay Kumar)
- choosing template engines (Garann Means)
- Async Mashups using ASP.NET Web API (Henrik F. Nielsen)
- Going Simple with JavaScript (Jonathan Snook)
- Introducing the FubuMVC.Coffee transforms (Josh Arnold)
- Zooming and Panning with CSS and Script (BYOSP Part 9) (K. Scott Allen)
- Mass Assignment Vulnerability in ASP.NET MVC (Josh Bush)
- An HTML 5 Navigation Screen (Paul Sheriff)
- REST and Urls (Oren Eini)
- Don’t build the best REST API, build the best HTTP API. (John Sheehan)
- Building a RESTful API – A Followup to John Sheehan (Sean Fao)
- Fixing an Element’s Position in CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Alt.Tekpub REST (Rob Eisenberg)
- Carriage Return / new line in Textareas (Code Inside Team)
- Github Pages with Jekyll – Local Development on Windows (Nathan Totten)
- Web Platform Features in Windows Consumer Preview (Ted Johnson)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- TFS 11 and Kanban and Running NUnit and xUnit tests in TFS11 build (Gian Maria Ricci)
- TDD Best Practices: Write Assertions First (Derek Greer)
- NUnit’s Action Attributes Simplify Unit Test Writing (Harry Brumleve)
- When to Break Apart your Application (Jay Fields)
- 30 Days of Getting Results Revisited and Agile Methodology in Microsoft patterns & practices (JD Meier)
- Small Refactorings are OK (John Sonmez)
- Do NOT Have Agile Open Offices? (Peter Saddington)
- Leveling up “DDD” (Ted Neward)
- How do you track your bugs & issues? (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Handling playback failures in Coded UI Test due to stale UI controls (Tapas)
- Test-Driven Development (Pete Seale)
- How to Change the World (download the book!) (Jurgen Appelo)
- An Open Letter To Ian Davis and Pair Programming Harmful? (Greg Young)
- Multiton Design Pattern (Richard Carr)
- Visual Studio 11 Beta – What is new in Coded UI Test? (Mathew Aniyan)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- TiltEffect for Windows 8 Metro XAML (Morten Nielsen)
- Start working with INFRAGISTICS NETADVANTAGE for WPF : Part 1 of Many (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Introducing the PivotIndicator control for Windows Phone (Jeremy Alles)
- How to search in the WP7 Marketplace using the MarketplaceSearchTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- turn TouchDevelop scripts into apps on the Windows Phone Marketplace (Nikolai Tillmann)
- 2000 WPF Things #507 – Expander Control Lets you Expand/Collapse a Set of Controls (Sean Sexton)
- Introduction to XNA on Windows Phone 7 (Nick Ohrn)
- Don’t Forget the WP Marketplace Test Kit (Joel Reyes)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 199: Mike and Toni Feltman on FoxPro (David Giard)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 057 – “I Feel Violated” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Episode 177A – PowerScripting Podcast – Bonus Episode with Don Jones on v3 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Geekadelphia: The Podcast Episode 3 – Chipocrite Interview.mp3 (Jo Pincushion & Dan Tabor)
- The Tablet Show – Chris Love Does Enterprise Mobility (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- The GeekDads Episode #110: To All Our Listeners, Neener, Neener (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (Ken Denmead)
- Boagworld: Satisfying our desire for risk and reward (Paul Boag)
- What The Tech 106: Fact Or Rumor and Windows Weekly 250: The Windows 8 Era (Paul Thurrott)
- Engadget Podcast 283 – 03.02.2012 and The Vergecast 020 – 03.02.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- An Interview With Alessandro Del Sole (Author of LightSwitch Unleashed) (Michael Washington)
- TWC9: Win8, VS11, Metro, Windows Phone SDK v7.1.1, TouchDevelop and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Martin Woodward)
- Web Dev Radio Episode 96: Group announcements and a bit more (Michael Kimsal)
- Async 101 with Jon Skeet (Rohit Sharma)
Community / Events
- Goodbye Microsoft, Hello World (Robert Davis)
- Why You Should Leave Microsoft, Too (Daniel Doubrovkine)
- SilverlightShow Interview with Tim Huckaby – Keynote Speaker at Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 5-day Conference (Silverlight Show)
- The State of My Microsoft MVP Status (Dennis Delimarsky)
- My girls built Lego furniture for their Barbie dolls (Kathleen Dollard)
- Get Juiced with me and 10,000 friends at Prairie Dev Con West (Bil Simser)
- Windows 8 Developer Camp (Chris Koenig)
- From the MVPs: My 2012 Global Summit experience (Kim Spilker)
- 2012 MVP Global Summit (Mike Fourie)
- MVP Summit 2012–the day after (Joost van Schaik)
Database
- SQL Server – How to troubleshoot query timeouts (Jack Vamvas)
- Decisions: PowerPivot, SSAS Tabular, or SSAS Multidimensional Model in SQL Server 2012 (Melissa Coates)
- SQL SERVER – Various Leap Year Logics and SQL SERVER – Technical Reference Guides for Designing Mission-Critical Solutions – A Must Read and SQL SERVER – Top 10 “Ease of Use” Features of expressor Studio (Pinal Dave)
- SQL 2012 Books Available Soon (Thomas LaRock)
- Want to write for Microsoft? (Jen McCown)
- Introduction to SQL Azure Federations (Neil Mackenzie)
PowerShell
- Inside PowerShell: Script Parsing and Node Execution (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- DevOps DNS for Developers – Now There’s No Excuse Not To Know (Doug Rathbone)
- Enterprise vs Consumer: Product Development at Careers 2.0 (Demis Bellot)
- RabbitMQ for Windows: Introduction (Derek Greer)
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview has some hidden tricks (John Callaham)
- My Unofficial Tips for Remoting into a Windows 8 Machine from Windows 7 (plus: Microsoft Account tips) (Pete Brown)
- Panoramic Windows 8 Desktop Theme for Consumer and Developer Previews (Richard Hay)
- Microsoft: Apple deliberately makes iPhones unusably slow (Tyler Holman)
- Creative Block (Rob Conery)
- Windows Phone marketshare on a continued steady increase (Rich Edmonds)
- Homebrew Windows Phone Marketplace comes to all custom ROMs [Video] (Daniel Rubino)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 3, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 4, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- MVP Friday Five- MVP Summit 2012 Edition (MVP Award Program)
- Double Shot #831 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Reading Notes #36 (Frank)
- Monthly Report February 2012: Total Posts 19 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- The Morning Brew #1057 (Chris Alcock)
- Retrospective 74 – #Kanban Week (Peter Saddington)
- Daily WP7 Development News 2 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 3/5/2012 (Silverlight Show)
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