Top Links
- Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 CTP 1 (MS Downloads)
 - ReSharper’s Web Path Mapping Explained (Dmitri Nesteruk)
 - Tip 2 expanded: Remove unused View Engines (Kevin Griffin)
 - Thoughts On Going Mobile With An Existing Web Site (K. Scott Allen)
 - The Tablet Show – Chris Love Talks Surface Pro, Mobile Development and More (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 
Web Development
- Use Backbone.js to make a structured web application (Devanand7)
 - How to get started with MySQL and ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework (Jon Gallant)
 - Trying out PHP Refactoring Browser (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Testing Orchard drivers (Bertrand Le Roy)
 
XAML
- Speed your Phone App Dev with the Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
 - 2000 WPF Things #799 – How Transforms Are Combined (Sean Sexton)
 - Testing on a Microsoft Surface and other ARM devices (Kraig Brockschmidt)
 - Add or Remove Context Menu Group in Telerik RadRichTextBox (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Using the LightSwitch ServerApplicationContext API (Matt Evans)
 - All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Intro and Considerations (Geek Champ)
 - The final final definitive (for now) answer for Windows 8 and ClickOnce (Greg Duncan)
 - WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.3.6 (CodePlex)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Four Steps to create first WCF Service: Beginners Series (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - 2000 C# Things #823 – A Nested Factory Class Implemented as a Singleton (Sean Sexton)
 - Using opportunistic locks to get out of the way if somebody wants the file (Raymond Chen)
 - NHibernate Pitfalls: Collections of Elements and Inverse (Ricardo Peres)
 - Classification Using Perceptrons (James McCaffrey)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- New course: Advanced Unit Testing (Megan Russell)
 - Agile Product Planning: Vision, Strategy, and Tactics (Roman Pichler)
 - DZone Refcardz: Preparing for Continuous Delivery (Benjamin Wootton)
 - Requirements: Whose Job are They Anyway? (Allan Kelly)
 - Estimating for Software Development, Delivery, and Deadlines (David Starr)
 - Project startup difficulties – The usual suspects (Filip Ekberg)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Animations, Actions And Particle Systems: Creating Realistic iPhone Games With Cocos2D (Zack Grossbart)
 - Hello Sencha Touch 2.2 (Aditya Bansod)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Dominick Baier Updates Our Security in .NET 4.5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 5) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Adding Push Notifications (Brian Hitney, Peter Laudati & G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Defrag Tools: #36 – CLR GC – Part 4 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
 - Ping 174: Build conference, Xbox music streams, Farewell XP, Microsoft in Utah | Ping! (Laura Foy)
 
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for April 15th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Philadelphia Science Festival Spotlight: The Science of the Living Dead [Ticket Giveaway!] (Eric Smith)
 - Kotlin: A Conversation with JetBrains’ Andrey Breslav (Janice J. Heiss)
 - Xamarin Evolve conference brings cross-platform mobile development to the enterprise (Jeffrey Palermo)
 - The Week Ahead: April 15, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
 
Database
- Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 (Ian Stirk)
 - How to create a nightly backup of your SQL Azure database using the new Azure Mobile Services (Preview) (Ben Barreth)
 - Monitoring SQL Server Agent job run times and Restoring databases to a set drive and directory (Steve Simon)
 - SQL SERVER – Get High Availability with SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
 - SQL Azure Log Space Errors 40552 (Ted Krueger)
 - XQuery Lab 68-Merging two XML documents in TSQL using XQuery (Jacob Sebastian)
 - RavenDB Books Update (Oren Eini)
 - RavenDB – Exporting and Importing using Smuggler (Gregor Suttie)
 
Miscellaneous
- Introducing our Careers 2.0 Employer Resource Center (Bethany Marzewski)
 - Why I love Windows 8 (Ian Barker)
 - Bing News App a Google Reader replacement? Not yet, but it’s a start (Kip Kniskern)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 16, 2013 (Jason Haley)
 - Cheatsheet: 2013 04.01 ~ 04.16 (yuanjian)
 - Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, April 15th (Rob Caron)
 - Double Shot #1108 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Reading Notes #90 (Frank)
 - The Morning Brew #1336 (Chris Alcock)
 - Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-04-16 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Daily Six Pack: April 16, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Daily News Digest 4/16/2013 (Silverlight Show)
 - Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 April 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 15 April 2013: (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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