Top Links
- Now Available: Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (S.Somasegar)
- Windows Azure Updates: Android Support, SQL Reporting Services, Active Directory, More… (Scott Guthrie)
- CTP4 (March) of VS/TFS 2012 Update 2 is available (Brian Harry)
- Monads, part four (Eric Lippert)
Web Development
- Windows Azure, now with more enterprise access management! (Alex Simons)
- How to Build a Better Button in CSS3 (Craig Buckler)
- Creating a Line Chart using the HTML5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
- Learn CSS Layout (Greg Smith)
- Announcing a New Preview of the LightSwitch HTML Client (John Stallo)
- HTML5 offline MVC: Part 1 (Sebastiaan Meijerink)
- ASP.NET 4.5 – FAQs on SignalR Script Exceptions (Vincent Maverick Durano)
- Horizontal Drop-Down Menu and Vertical Icon Menu (Mary Lou)
XAML
- Dynamic columns in the Silverlight DataGrid (Jimmy Larkin)
- Advanced MVVM concepts using Contoso Cookbook: An analysis of a complete MVVM application: Part 3 (Gill Cleeren)
- Chatting up your Windows Phone 8 Apps (Greg Duncan)
- Editable WPF controls (Jon Harrop)
- A better WPF Browser Control (Robert Köpferl)
- 2000 WPF Things #769 – Rotation Transforms (Sean Sexton)
- APress Deal of the Day 5/Mar/2013 – Applied WPF 4 in Context (Tatworth)
- What Windows Azure Mobile Services can do for an app and Alive with activity, part 2: Writing and debugging services for live tiles (Kraig Brockschmidt)
- LightSwitch Succinctly – Free eBook by Jan Van (Kunal Chowdhury)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Getting Started with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP4 (Beth Massi)
- March CTP (“CTP4”) of Visual Studio Update 2 now available (Charles Sterling)
- Understanding IntelliTrace Part VI: Working with IntelliTrace Logs (Zain Naboulsi)
- 2000 C# Things #793 – Being Notified When an Object’s Properties Change, Part II (Sean Sexton)
- Connecting to Live with the C++ REST SDK (Andy Rich)
- Team Foundation Service Update – Mar 4 (Brian Harry)
- Extending the OData Async Extensions to DataServiceCollection<T> Methods (Glenn Gailey)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- TFS Kanban board Swim lane customization walk through (Charles Sterling)
- Kanban customizable columns, “under the hood” (Gregg Boer)
- Coders, Musicians and Cooks (Mike Hadlow)
- Test Better (Phil Haack)
- 8 Tips Toward A Better Deployment Process (Andy Schwam)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Native RTL support in Android 4.2 (Fabrice Di Meglio)
- iOS Tips and Tricks: Associate a File Type with your App – Part 1 (Stephen Zaharuk)
- MS Open Tech develops the open source Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services (Olivier Bloch)
- PhoneGap 2.5 Enables Application Cache and InAppBrowser Geolocation (Anand Narayanaswamy)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Tomas Petricek: How F# Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data (Charles Torre)
- Episode 217 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ed Wilson talks about his new PowerShell books (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Microsoft DevRadio: Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps (Part 2) (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Video: Gather Testing Intel on Your JavaScript with Jasmine Spies (Paul Ballard)
- Yet Another Podcast #92–Jeremy Likness on Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
- Defrag Tools: #30 – MCTS Windows Internals | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for March 4th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- That Thing They Call "Unemployment" (Ted Neward)
- The Week Ahead – March 4, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
- Ultimate Coder – Week 3: Blog posting (Pete O’Hanlon)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Exporting Query Results to CSV using SQLCMD (Pinal Dave)
- Giving only insert permissions to a table for a new login (Denis Gobo)
- Introduction to the SQL BCP Utility (Brady Upton)
- Building Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with PowerPivot (Adam & Jennifer Salvo)
- Writing a transaction manager on top of LevelDB (Rob Ashton)
- Standardize Table Aliases (Sam Vanga)
- SSMS – Enabling Ctrl+R Shortcut to show or hide query results/messages pane (Kevin Conan)
SharePoint
- ASP.NET Training Videos Delivered via SharePoint (Bil Simser)
- Save 50% off SharePoint ebooks through March 6, 2013 (Kim Spilker)
- Retrieving User Name and MetaData through WCF Web Services for SharePoint 2010 (Tom Hearn)
Miscellaneous
- Jobs in IT: Microsoft is often misunderstood (MS JobsBlog)
- Memo to Microsoft – If you want Windows 8 to succeed, among other things, get apps in the store that people want (John Petersen)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading March 4, 2013 (Rob Diana)
- The Morning Brew #1308 (Chris Alcock)
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, March 4th (Rob Caron)
- Double Shot #1079 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-03-05 (Dan Rigby)
- The Daily Six Pack: March 5, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
- Daily News Digest 3/5/2013 (Silverlight Show)
- Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #22 (Jason Strate)
- Daily Windows 8 Development News 4 March 2013 (Geek Champ)
- Daily Windows Phone Development News 4 March 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
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