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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