No Dew Drop post tomorrow. I’m taking the day off for my birthday.
Top Links
- Visual Studio Ultimate Roadmap (Jason Zander)
- ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source (Scott Guthrie)
- ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) now all open source with contributions (Scott Hanselman)
- Announcing a Build Service for Team Foundation Service (Brian Harry)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Updated Visual Studio 2010 ALM Virtual Machine (Brian Keller)
- Difference Between Microsoft Test Manager and Visual Studio Test Professional (Ed Blankenship)
- 5 1/2 F# features every C# programmer should lust after (Ivan Towlson)
- The Entity class(es) and Descriptor objects : Exposing the structure and business logic to consumers and Customizing Business Rules at runtime (Peter Blum)
- Team Foundation Service – Build in the cloud! (Richard Erwin)
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- Simplified UI Development with MonoTouch.SQLite (Jonathan Allen)
Web Development
- Custom Slider Value Display with jQuery UI (K. Scott Allen)
- The return of Vim (Giorgio Sironi)
- Some points to consider while working on ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Rahul Bandopadhyaya)
- Using Modernizr to detect HTML5 features and provide fallbacks (Tom Leadbetter)
- REST Resources (Howard Dierking)
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- Asset packaging in browser-based games (Rob Ashton)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Testing on Mobile devices (Ryan Seddon)
- The End of Pagination (Jeff Atwood)
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- What’s in a burndown? (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Code Simply (Jim Cooper)
- Testing: Trying not to overdo it (Mark Needham)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Homebrew: The new Samsung Diagnostics app appears to be blocking GPRS profile switching (Den Delimarsky)
- WPF Hierarchy MVVM Application (DevLake)
- New Html Editor Control in Silverlight Elements (Jason)
- How to Save Contact in WP7 using the SaveContactTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Tip: Binding an Image element’s Source property to a Uri in WinRT XAML (Pete Brown)
- 2000 WPF Things #524 – Using the Zoom Tool to Zoom on the Artboard (Sean Sexton)
- LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 Beta Resources (Beth Massi)
- Hacking PivotViewer : Pan (Tony Champion)
- INotifyPropertyChanged with Compile Time Checking (Michael Ceranski)
- LightSwitching to StakeOverflow’s OData data (Greg Duncan)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- GoingNative 7: VC11 Auto-Vectorizer, C++ NOW, Lang.NEXT (Charles Torre)
- Neowin Gaming Podcast 012 – 03.27.2012 (John Callaham)
- Office 911: Get your Office Game on and Hot Apps: Toy Soldiers Booot Camp, Flashlight-X Pro, BuildDown, MealTimer, Puzzle Time (Laura Foy)
- Engadget HD Podcast 292 – 03.27.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Introducing Xaml TV (Brian Lagunas)
- Let’s Play TDD #176: Combustible Lemons (James Shore)
- Todd Anglin – HTML5 WEB & Mobile VP, Telerik – Uncut & Unedited (Lohith G N)
Community / Events
- Top Jobs in IT: Why I left Google – and returned to Microsoft (Microspotting)
- Microsoft and the open source community (Charles Young)
- Windows Developer Camps (Jennifer Marsman)
- Philly .NET Win 8 and VS 11 Recap (Tony Verguldi)
- New Virginia INETA Mentor (Kevin Griffin)
- Talking Cloud with Office 365 MVP David Greve (MVP Award Program)
- Real World Azure: April 4th, 2012 @ the NJ Windows Azure User Group (Peter Laudati)
Database
- SQL Server Database Mirroring Tips and Tricks, Part 3 (Glenn Berry)
- SQL SERVER – T-SQL Constructs – *= and += – SQL in Sixty Seconds #009 – Video (Pinal Dave)
- Contained Databases, Temporary Tables and Collations (Axel Achten)
- SQL Azure and Trust Services (Buck Woody)
- Accessing RavenDB Studio when using Embedded Mode (Gregor Suttie)
- AdventureWorks2012 now available for all on SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)
PowerShell
- Powershell – Adding accounts to Local Security Policy (Kyle Neier)
- What Compiled PowerShell Might Look Like (Adam Driscoll)
- "An Omega Geek’s Guide to Learning PowerShell" (Greg Duncan)
Miscellaneous
- The Hybrid Tablet from Microsoft (George Garza)
- All Wrox.com Wrox e-books DRM-free in 3 formats: PDF, Mobi, ePub (Jim Minatel)
- How to hire a product manager (Ken Norton)
- What’s coming in Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5 (Mary Jo Foley)
- 10 Things you Probably Didn’t know about Windows 8 (Michael Crump)
- Why Windows 8 Should Not Abandon the START button (Peter Kellner)
- Nodeload Metrics (Rick Olson)
- Consuming The Netflix OData Service Using App Inventor (Michael Washington)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 27, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 28, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – March 27 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
- The Morning Brew #1074 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 3/27/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week March 19-25, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows Dev News for March 27, 2012 – #0059 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 27 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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