Top Links
- Windows Store for Metro style apps – How do I get invited? (G. Andrew Duthie)
- jQuery Documentation Resources to Speed Up Your Development (Dan Wahlin)
- Everything you wanted to know about databinding in WPF, Silverlight and WP7 (Part Two) (Colin Eberhardt)
- Simple Metro Style Panorama Control For WPF (Sacha Barber)
- Class Warfare (Alex Russell)
- F#, MSTest, and FsUnit 1.1.0.0 (Dan Mohl)
- Microsoft and Roslyn – An Example of How It Will Impact .NET Developers (Den Delimarsky)
.NET / Visual Studio
- RavenDB 1.2 work has started (and a road map) and The RavenDB indexing process: Optimization–Getting documents from disk (Oren Eini)
- Use The Bit.Ly API From a C# Application – Authentication (Christopher Geers)
- WCF Data Services 5.1.0-rc Prerelease (WCF Team)
- Asynchronous method using C#: Part II (Himanshu Manjarawala)
- Fast Image Scrolling in C# (Tarsem Mittal)
- Simple Windows 8 Metro style ‘Maps App’ and Background Downloads in a Windows 8 Metro style app (Mike Taulty)
- Getting FetchXML from LINQPad (Marc Schweigert)
- “World of C#-craft”: an Achievement-Based Classroom? and World of C#-craft part 2: What Does the Audience Think? and Using Delegates, Func and Lambdas: A Tutorial With Soldiers (Tim Dams)
- What does INIT_ONCE_CTX_RESERVED_BITS mean? (Raymond Chen)
- Limitations of the WebView in Windows 8 Metro Apps (Nick Randolph)
- Declaring an ICommand in Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Laurent Bugnion)
- RestSharp and Windows Metro (Joel Ivory Johnson)
- MEF Review OR If you’re building your own custom plug-in frameworks and not using MEF, you might be a … (Greg Duncan)
- Getting started with Windows 8 application development (Andrew Spooner)
- Attention Developers– Here’s how to get an invite to the Windows Store (Dave Isbitski)
- The MetroPad Project: Designing and Building for Win 8 (Don Burnett)
- Using SqlDataReader’s new async methods in .Net 4.5 Beta (Daniel Paoliello)
- Electronics for developers with Netduino Go (Bertrand Le Roy)
- Metro App Developers receive your invitation to the Windows Store (Bob Familiar)
- Hidden Improvements in Visual Basic 11 (Joe Kunk)
Web Development
- Using Ajax.BeginForm() with ASP.NET MVC (Jonathan Wood)
- Simple CRUD using Backbone.js in ASP.NET MVC Razor (Baliah Senthilkumar)
- Click highlights with CSS transitions (Chris Heilmann)
- RSS & Atom MediaTypeFormatter for ASP.NET WebAPI (Filip W)
- ASP.NET MVC 4 NUnit template (Geoff Hudik)
- References vs. Pointers in Javascript (Hans Schmucker)
- ASP.NET Web API Content Negotiation and Accept-Charset (Henrik F. Nielsen)
- 18 Months of HTML5 – Will this work for me? and On the Love for JavaScript (Ingo Rammer)
- Decoupling HTML From CSS (Jonathan Snook)
- How to bind to custom objects in action signatures in MVC/WebAPI (Mike Stall)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Maintainable JavaScript – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- The Importance of Design-Mode for Client-Side MVC (Paul Hammant)
- how to remove CSS outlines in an accessible manner? (Steve Faulkner)
- Supershape.js (Sebastian Sadowski)
- Ws.js – A ws-* Implementation of Node.js (Yaron Naveh)
- ASP.NET Web API: Query string based content formatting (Gunnar Peipman)
- Using Sencha Architect and Previewing a JSON feed For Inclusion In The App and Details On The ExtJS Application to Build Simple CRUD operation Using Models and Stores (Peter Kellner)
- Create an Animated 3D Bar Chart/Graph (Kendra Schaefer & Ken Breeden)
- KnockoutJS Value Converter to Deal with JSON Dates (Steve Michelotti)
- Send email from your Windows Azure (Nicolas Humann)
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.1 RC (117.257) (Alexey Gopachenko)
- The Big Opportunities in the Cloud (Ben Kepes)
- Demo of Handlebars, and Why You Should Consider a Templating Engine (Raymond Camden)
- The 10 Biggest Mistakes Made With Amazon Web Services (Zev Laderman)
- 2D Canvas Transforms: Wow, these things are fast (Hans Schmucker)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Looking Back at Looking Ahead, Gloom for Agile in 2012? (David Bulkin)
- Quantation: How to Present Numbers with Skill and 10 Ways to Make Information More Useful (JD Meier)
- Guidelines for Building Touch-friendly Sites (Jacob Rossi)
- Linking Flow, Value and Capability (Karl Scotland)
- DDD: Evolving Business Processes a la Lokad (Rinat Abdullin)
- Sunday Thought: Patient / Fast (Dru Sellers)
- Rules of the Road (Redux) (Peter Provost)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Navigation (8 of 12) (Andreas Hammar)
- Using the Windows Phone 7 Turnstyle Control (Chris Smith)
- Official SkyDrive app for Windows Phone gets updated to version 2.0 (Daniel Rubino)
- Get You Some Azure, Windows Phone, and Windows 8 Sample Apps (Zhiming Xue)
- [Windows 8] CSharp targets not found in Blend 5 after Windows Phone SDK (Håkan Reis)
- Adding touch support to WP7 Apache Cordova and Metro SplashScreen animation in WP7 Apache Cordova (Jesse MacFadyen)
- XAML Spy Preview available (Koen Zwikstra)
- How to Retrieve Email Address in WP7 using the EmailAddressChooserTask? and How to Compose SMS in WP7 using the SmsComposeTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- #mvvmlight V4RC available on #nuget (Laurent Bugnion)
- Getting Rid of the “Plug-in Not Responding” Message when Debugging Silverlight Applications in Chrome (Michael Crump)
- EvenTiles from Start to Finish: 256-MB Windows Phone Devices – Part 18 (Maarten Struys)
- 10 Quick Real-World Windows Phone Developer Performance Tuning Tips (Samidip Basu)
- 2000 WPF Things #542 – Most Recently Used Asset (Sean Sexton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Major Nelson Podcast – Trials Evolution Interview (Larry Hyrb)
- The Tablet Show – Billy Hollis Digs Into UI Design, Metro and Beyond (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- [Podcast] Agile Q&A Panel – Part 2 with Joel Semeniuk and Steve Porter (Zero to Agile Podcast Series)
- Video: Get To Know the Windows Phone 7.5 Contacts Data Model (Paul Ballard)
- TWC9: Azure Media Services, C9 for Win8, MAVIS and more (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- The JavaScript Show – Semicolons (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Arian Kulp (Ryan Parsley)
- Windows Weekly 257: Pocket Paul (Paul Thurrott)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 49 (Richard Hay)
- GeekWire Radio: Paul Allen’s sub, Ray Ozzie’s legacy, and more from our live events (Todd Bishop)
- Engadget Podcast 290 – 04.20.2012 and The Vergecast 027 – 04.20.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Community / Events
- Imagine Cup USA People’s Choice Awards (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Please join us for the MoDev Developer TechCast on April 24, 2012: Resources overview for porting your iPhone/Android government apps (Joel Reyes)
- Hack for Good! Join us at the VIP Hackathon on April 30, 2012 – DC – Register today! (Nandita)
- What is Wilder Minds? (Shawn Wildermuth)
- ImagineCup US Finals in Redmond – What’s happening? (Dennis Delimarsky)
- patterns & practices Global Online Symposium 2012 (Grigori Melnik)
- MoDev Developer TechCast on April 24, 2012 – Port iPhone/Android Apps to Windows Phone (PubSec)
- Developer Interview: Pratik Kothari of Techark Solutions (Rich Edmonds)
- FREE VIP Windows8 Developer Event – 4/23/2012 – Club Nokia @ LA Live… or you can attend the event online if you can’t make it! (Surf4Fun)
- From the MVPs: Meet the “Paulovich Brothers”! (Devon Musgrave)
- Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Introduction To Raven DB (Paul Ballard)
Database
- SQL Server 2012 Management Studio – Darker Shades of Blue Theme and SQL Server 2012 – SQLCLR .NET Framework Version (Doug Holland)
- SQL SERVER – Working with FileTables in SQL Server 2012 – Part 3 – Retrieving Various FileTable Properties and SQLAuthority News – Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Guide for SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server Security – A Primer (Pinal Dave)
- Reporting Services Migration Tool (MS Downloads)
- Setup database mirroring and log shipping together (James Xu)
- Run SSMS as different Windows user (Vishal Gajjar)
- SQL Server Transaction Savepoints (Richard Carr)
- Scripting your SQL database (using SMO and the command line) (Matt J. Cowan)
SharePoint
- Little Trick for Building/Opening SharePoint Projects in Client OS’ w/o Installing SharePoint (Andrew Connell)
- SharePoint 2010 and unit tests (from Visual Studio 2010/MSTest.exe) (Chris O’Brien)
- Two Best SharePoint Utility Methods Ever Written (Doug Lampe)
PowerShell
- PowerShell Deep Dive 2012 – PowerShell Module (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Android in Practice: Implementing User Stories as Functional Tests (Charlie Collins, Michael D. Galpin & Matthias Kaeppler)
- The latest on Firefox for Windows 8 Metro, status update 4 (Brian Bondy)
- Now in Marketplace: Skype 1.0 (Michael Stroh)
- The Need for a Third Mobile Ecosystem: The Need for Windows Phone (Nick Landry)
- Windows Phone will gain serious market share this year (Mike Feibus)
- Windows Phone holds back Nokia? (Joe Wilcox)
- Windows Phone 8 devices confirmed for Verizon (Andy Weir)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 21, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 23, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #1090 (Chris Alcock)
- Maker Geek Roundup 011 for 4/21/2012 (Pete Brown)
- Double Shot #864 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Friday Five: April 20, 2012. (MVP Award Program)
- Pie in the Sky (April 20, 2012) (Larry Franks)
- Collective #8 (Mary Lou)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #15) (Himanshu Singh)
- Daily News Digest 4/23/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-23 (Dan Rigby)
- Windows Dev News for April 22, 2012 – #0070 (Dave Campbell)
- Retrospective 81 – Publishing an Agile Book and CSI (Peter Saddington)
- Daily WP7 Development News 20 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Geek Shelf
 |
Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 4 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Scott Mitchell |
del.icio.us Tags: vs11,roslyn,powershell,sharepoint,sql server,raven db,css,html5,javascript,webstorm,wpf,silverlight,windows 8,windows phone,winrt,xaml,metro. visual studio,f#,vb,c#
