Top Links
- Reclaiming memory from Metro style apps (Steven Sinofsky)
- Prince of Persia Source Code — Posted! (Jordan Mechner)
- Windows 8 Metro: Starting your first App from scratch (Andrea Boschin)
- Shrinking Kinect for Mobile: Q&A with Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research (Katie Scott)
.NET / Visual Studio
- The RavenDB indexing process: Optimization (Oren Eini)
- Reflecting Inherited Member Information (Richard Carr)
- Building Expression Evaluator with Expression Trees in C# – Improving the Api (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
- Better Together: TFS 2010 and System Center 2012 (Jason Zander)
- String Matching in LINQ (Telerik OpenAccess Team)
- Getting started with Background Workers: Error Handling and Output Capturing and Compile .NET in your browser using Compilify by Justin Rusbatch (John Sheehan)
- Windows 8 Background Networking Whitepaper and Wondering what the .Net in a Metro world story is? Here’s a chapter… (Greg Duncan)
- Using Parallel.ForEach To Aggregate Results From JSON Files Stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage (Karsten Januszewski)
- Go with the dataflow (Ivan Towlson)
- Windows Portable Devices: Transfer Content To A Device (Christophe Geers)
- JSON Light Sample Payloads (Mark)
Web Development
- Sencha Architect 2: A WYSIWYG IDE for Building Desktop and Mobile HTML5 App (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
- Using Cassette to minify assets in an MVC3 app (Jonathan Creamer)
- Hexagonal architecture in JavaScript (Giorgio Sironi)
- Is Javascript code always so full of bugs? (Don Syme)
- Leaving Your Mark (Rob Conery)
- WebStorm 4.0: HTML5 Boilerplate and other Web Application Templates (Sergey Simonchik)
- Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D (Tom Giannattasio)
- How to use WCF DS 5.0 in a Web Site project and JSON Light Sample Payloads (WCF Team)
- Simple music player (Stoyan Stefanov)
- Appcelerator Now Offers Cloud Services and Mobile Web SDK (Romin Irani)
- Add SPDY support to your Apache server with mod_spdy (Scott Knaster)
- Thinking about the offline web (Pete LePage)
- Setting Values In a Form Using the Sencha Architect 2.0 (ExtJS 4.0) (Peter Kellner)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Daily Standup/Scrum is not for the Scrum Master (Anand Vishwanath)
- Management Skills Replaces Kanban – Is Kanban Failing Japan? (Peter Saddington)
- Learning Is More Important Than Knowing (Karl Seguin)
- Pro Tip: Don’t Push Binaries To Source Control, Use NuGet Wisely Instead (Itamar Syn-hershko)
- APress Deal of the Day 18/Apr/2012 – Design Driven Testing (Tatworth)
- Communication struggles at a small company (Stephen Forte)
- Spend $100 to Prioritize Your Opportunities (JD Meier)
- Some Servicelocator pattern stinks (Jef Claes)
- Isolator V7 for …. free? Get rid of your legacy software. (Avi Kaye)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Invoking through the Dispatcher on Windows Phone and Metro and Compiling Same Code on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 Metro (Joel Ivory Johnson)
- Flurry Phone Fun… Flurry Analytics on WP7 (Greg Duncan)
- Workaround for CA0055 Error with Silverlight Projects in Visual Studio 2010 (Pete Brown)
- Building Secure GOV-LOB Windows Phone Apps. Part II, Session I and Building Secure GOV-LOB Windows Phone Apps. Part II, Session II (Joel Reyes)
- WPF: A Simple Color Picker With Preview (Sacha Barber)
- 2000 WPF Things #539 – Adding Text-Based Elements in Blend (Sean Sexton)
- WPF ComboBox initial selection (Tim Hibbard)
- Slides and source code for my past talks this year (Laurent Bugnion)
- Handle Feature Reductions (Mike Battista)
- LightSwitch Companion Client Examples using OData (Beth Massi)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Episode 182 – PowerScripting Podcast – Joel Bennett on PowerShell v3 and PoshCode (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Countdown to TechEd Europe 2012: Tulips and TechExpo (Mark DeFalco)
- Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 165: HTC One V (Gareth Myles & James Richardson)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for April 17th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- UI for Geeks at Dallas ASP.NET (Chris Koenig)
- Azure, Mobility, and the Enterprise: NYC Windows Azure User Group 4-18-2012 (Peter Laudati)
- Nokia Bounty Hunter Challenge May 10 through June 12 at 13 Locations (MS Public Sector Team)
- Code Warriors being unleashed onto the Marketplace to build missing apps (Rich Edmonds)
- Talking Cloud Tuesday: Windows Azure MVP Ming Chung Chu (MVP Award Program)
Database
- SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6 Released (Glenn Berry)
- SQLAuthority News – Select the Best SQL in Sixty Seconds Episode – Help us Improve (Pinal Dave)
- Listing SQL Instances on a machine (or list of machines) (Martin Catherall)
- Bug: reverting from a database snapshot shrinks the transaction log to 0.5MB (Paul S. Randal)
SharePoint
- SharePoint Multilingual Sites – Determine Top 10 Languages to Deploy (Joel Oleson)
- Install Sharepoint Foundation on Workstation error: the user does not exists or is not unique (Gian Maria Ricci)
Miscellaneous
- Happy Birthday Apple ][ (David Pollak)
- Amazon shows developers how to obscure code to avoid cloning (Andrew Webster)
- Thoughts on name collision (Brent Schooley)
- What exactly do you get with Windows 8 Pro? (Ed Bott)
- Windows Phone 8 coming to all current phones, says evangelist and Windows Phone 8 to all current Windows Phones? Not so fast (Kip Kniskern)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #861 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1087 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-18 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily News Digest 4/18/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week April 9-15, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily WP7 Development News 17 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Windows Dev News for April 17, 2012 – #0068 (Dave Campbell)
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