Top Links
- Diving deep with WinRT and await (Stephen Toub)
- GUID Guide, part one (Eric Lippert)
- Accessing the Camera in a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML and JavaScript (Dave Isbitski)
- Working with Images and Animation on the iPhone and iPad with .NET and C#: Part 1 (Wally McClure)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Lazy’s Man comprehensive search with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- Article: From C# to Objective-C with Somya Jain (Somya Jain)
- The .NET Command Pattern, Part 2 (Eric Vogel)
- Automatic migrations with Entity Framework 4.3 (Michael Friis)
- Json.NET 4.5 Release 4 and Paint.NET PSD Plugin 2.1.0 (CodePlex)
- Building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ Windows camp (Vikas Bhatia)
- NHibernate 3.3.0.GA released (Oskar Berggren)
- Get Fast Access to 3500+ Code Samples (Paul Ballard)
- ICommand issue in Windows 8: Correction! (Laurent Bugnion)
- Insidious ByRef Legacy Code Issue (Karl Shifflett)
- Don’t use non indexed “Item” CLR property in binding (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
- Developer Tools for Creating Client, Cloud and Phone Apps on Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Zhiming Xue)
Web Development
- Live data – starring the jQuery Grid, WebSockets and KnockoutJS (Damyan Petev)
- Replacing Tags and Custom Code Analysis in HTML (Hadi Hariri)
- Unit-Testing JavaScript with QUnit, Sinon, Phantom and TeamCity (Ingo Rammer)
- Introducing AQuery: jQuery for Android (Jonathan Allen)
- FubuMVC Hijacking Behaviors (Kevin Miller)
- Windows Azure: Working with Blob Storage in an ASP.NET Application (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Testing PHP scripts (Giorgio Sironi)
- CSS Tilt (Simon Madine)
- APress deal of the day – 25/Apr/2012 – Beginning ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010 (TATWORTH)
- 5 things they told you not to use in JavaScript (Thomas Fuchs)
- Reducing Database Round Trips in Sueetie With SQL Profiler (Dave Burke)
- WebMatrix: Add Contact Us Page with Email to your Orchard Website (Zhiming Xue)
- Composite C1 – Open Source ASP.NET CMS 3.2 RC2 (CodePlex)
- Saving View State in Cache (Ricardo Peres)
- Getting a ‘base’ Domain from a Domain (Rick Strahl)
- Advanced Web Debugging with Fiddler (Mehdi Khalili)
- Moobile 0.1 Released (Jean-Philippe Déry)
- Fun with the Service Bus (Part 1) (Jim O’Neil)
- Executing A Project-Specific Node/NPM Package A-la “bundle exec” (Derick Bailey)
- Ext JS 4.1 Final Released (Don Griffin)
- PhpStorm 4.0: Do It Right From The First Time (Alexey Korsun)
- Type Effects in Web Design: It’s All About Moderation (Carrie Cousins)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Drilling Down Into Agile Success Factors (Christopher Goldsbury)
- Equal Rights for Non-Functional Requirement (Gil Zilberfeld)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Page Navigation with Windows Phone and Windows 8 (Unknown Author)
- Cause for Concern – Piracy on Windows Phone 7 (Doug Rathbone)
- How to Share Status from WP7 using the ShareStatusTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Two Marketplace changes; An update on 9 new markets (Todd Brix)
- Respond to User Input (Mike Battista)
- 2000 WPF Things #544 – Objects and Timeline Panel Shows the Logical Tree (Sean Sexton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- MashThis Podcast – State of the API Ecosystem with Adam DuVander (Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Lee Dumond & Dustin Davis)
- Let’s Play TDD #184: This is Why We Have Tests (James Shore)
- Video Demo: Overview of the HTML Authoring Features in Blend (Kirupa)
- Ping 138: Halo 4, Surface 2.0, New Microsoft store, Best way to resign- EVER! (Larry Larsen & Laura Foy)
- Hot Apps: Monster Island, DODONPACHI MAXIMUM, Crazy Kitties, Keymon Goes Fishing, Starbucks Finder (Laura Foy)
- Video: Get Strict with Android Async Programming (Paul Ballard)
Community / Events
- We Want YOUR Windows 8 Metro style Apps! (G. Andrew Duthie)
- On ImagineCup, US Finals in Redmond and Microsoft Student Partners (Den Delimarsky)
- Requirements Collaboration-TFS & inteGREAT Webcast April 25th 1:00PM EDT (Charles Sterling)
- Cross Posted: Online Training Course for F# (Don Syme)
- Windows Azure Insider (Magnus Mårtensson)
- Rumor: Next Microsoft Build conference in October? (John Callaham)
- Join Women’s Communities Meetup at O’Reilly Conference (Doris Chen)
- Are you a Windows Phone dev who is interested in Windows 8 development? (Jennifer Marsman)
Database
- SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups in AWS (Jeremiah Peschka)
- SQL SERVER – Introduction to Basics of a Query Hint – A Primer (Pinal Dave)
- Drop and Create Databases ~ SQLCMD Style (Chris Yates)
- Database continuous integration step by step (David Atkinson)
SharePoint
- SharePoint 2010: How to insert multiple person/group field contents into CC portion of workflow email (Melanie Draves)
Miscellaneous
- OneNote 2010 Sort Utility (Tim Edwards)
- Introducing Google Drive… yes, really (Sundar Pichai)
- Google Drive takes on Microsoft SkyDrive, but at a higher price (Frank Catalano)
- Introducing Google Drive, the newest member of Google Apps (Lauren Kolodny)
- Is Microsoft’s Live Mesh on its way to the graveyard? (Mary Jo Foley)
- BizTalk Anti Pattern – Don’t over complicate your maps (Michael Stephenson)
- A world of pretty cloud drive icons – SkyDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, BitBucket and GitHub (Scott Hanselman)
- “Type www.” – “Ok, w-w-w-d-o-t”; antagonising call centre scammers (Troy Hunt)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 25, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #1092 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-25 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily WP7 Development News 24 April 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 24 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- SilverlightShow Top 5 for April 16 – 22, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
- Double Shot #866 (Mike Gunderloy)
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