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Top Links
- Web Tracking Protection: An Emerging Internet Standard that Helps Protect Consumers from Tracking (Dean Hachamovitch)
- Building a Windows Phone 7 Application with UltraLight.mvvm (Jeremy Likness)
- C# Compiler as a Service Update (Miguel de Icaza)
- Tests are your airbag (Krzysztof Koźmic)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Creating Code Snippets with Replacements (Richard Carr)
- Programmatically finding Binding Elements in WCF Binding and Cross machine communication between .Net Application using WCF (Dhananjay Kumar)
- "Quick Find" a better way using Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools and Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Converting Numbers to Ordinal Strings and Approximate String Comparisons Using Levenshtein Distance (Jonathan Wood)
- New Book: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-511): Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
- Windows Azure Storage Client Library Reference Documentation Updated with New Sample Code and Remarks (Windows Azure Team)
- Why we need better garbage collection on the Xbox (Joh.)
Web Development
- ASP.NET Rounded Corners with jQuery and ASP.NET DropShadow with jQuery. and Wanna deploy WordPress on Microsoft Azure ? (Joe Stagner)
- Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1 is now available as a DRM-free PDF ebook (Simone Chiaretta)
- IE9’s ‘Do Not Track’ features could become Web standards (Tim Conneally)
- Microsoft Guidance for Silky Smooth Web Sites (Chris Love)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Problem with Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
- Kidzban – Kanban for Your Classroom (Peter Saddington)
- Scrat–Copy Quality Center Test Plan Structure To Microsoft Test Manager (Shai Raiten)
- Dependency Injection & IOC (Abhishek Sur)
- 10 of 10 – Aesthetics and alignment matter (Alfred Astort)
- Continuous Delivery (Anders Janmyr)
- The Benefits of a Flush Search Box (Anthony)
- Are you refining or rotting? (Paul Boag)
- Reuse is overrated, then came package management (Matt Hinze)
- Book Review – Driving Technical Change: Why People on Your Team Don’t Act on Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- The Ascendancy of Testers (Elizabeth Keogh)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Binding Events to Methods in the Silverlight MVVM View Models (Song Li)
- WPF Realtime Textbox Change Binding (Arian Kulp)
- All about ResourceDictionary in WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)
- ASP.NET, MVC, jQuery, SharePoint, Silverlight and .NET Articles in February 2011 and Author of the Month (Suprotim Agarwal)
- MVVM + Broker + Castle Interceptor = FUN (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Silverlight: Wish List II (Deborah Kurata)
- Illustrator FXG and XAML export usage in Blend 4 (Bob Bartholomay)
- Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 7) (Gill Cleeren)
- Select Many: Reactive Extensions’ Mother Of All Operators [Chaining] (Jesse Liberty)
- Writing about Windows Phone 7 Development (Mike Ormond)
- Save the Date–Windows Phone 7 Tech.Days Online Conference (Mike Ormond)
- Introducing Phoney’s FadingMessage Class (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies for Windows Phone 7 arrive April 6 (Vlad Bobleanta)
- Who ate all the pies!! (Rich)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Hanselminutes: The Opinionated Cloud – Learning about AppHarbor (Scott Hanselman)
- Building on Azure: Softronic (Charles Torre)
- What is a SharePoint Analyst? Episode 57 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
- Gillmor Gang 2.26.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
- ASP.NET MVC Data Access Videos & Tutorials (17) and ASP.NET MVC App Building Videos (61) (Joe Stagner)
- Silverlight TV 63: Exploring National Instruments’ App Using Data and Business Features (John Papa)
- Windows Phone Radio 19 now available (Brian Seitz)
- The Full Stack, Part 8: Adding Search to the Windows Phone Client (Jon Galloway & Jesse Liberty)
- TWC9: Kinect SDK is coming, New VS Power Tools, & Profanities by programming language (Dan Fernandez)
Community / Events
- 2011 MVP Summit Preview (Thomas LaRock)
- TechDays 2011 – Developer track sessions update (Katrien de Graeve)
- A Message to MVPs from Nestor Portillo (Lonnie Webb)
- Tech.Days Online Conference – Create.Design.Deliver | Windows Phone 7 (Andy Wigley)
- The Microsoft MVP Summit (Brent Ozar)
Database
- Access SQL Server Compact 4 with ASP Classic and VbScript (Erik EJ)
- Some Suggested SQL Server 2008 R2 Instance Configuration Settings (Glenn Berry)
- SQL Server: Count Rows in Tables and its Size (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – 2011 – Wait Type – Day 25 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Glenn Berry – Wait Type – Day 26 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Best Reference – Wait Type – Day 27 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
- Agile: Creating an SSRS Burndown Chart Part 2 (Steve Novoselac)
- Come One, Come All to T-SQL Tuesday #016 : Aggregate Functions (grrlgeek)
SharePoint
- My Favourite SharePoint 2010 Scalability Articles (Paul Andrew)
- New Technical Article on SharePoint Architecture (Ricky Kirkham)
Miscellaneous
- Document: What a Microsoft employment contract looks like (Todd Bishop)
- Microsoft unveils redesigned WindowsEmbedded.com (Brad Sams)
- Chrome Developer Tools: Back to Basics (Christos)
- Landing Your Dream Job in a Networked World (Dawn Foster)
- Get add-ons right in Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- What if we made Wikipedia into game… Wait, there’s Wikipedia Maze! (Greg Duncan)
- Opening a OneNote page each day at the same time (John Guin)
- Windows Live Mesh Beta Ends 31 March 2011 (Richard Hay)
- Learning programming online – still possible (Dennis Delimarsky)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 24, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 25, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 91 (Scott Banwart)
- Interesting .NET Links – February 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Daily WP7 Development News Feb 24th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News Feb 25th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Silverlight Cream for February 26, 2011 — #1052 (Dave Campbell)
- This Week’s Link List (February 25, 2011) (Brian Swan)
- The Morning Brew #800 (Chris Alcock)
- Week Retrospective 21 – PMI Certification and Pecha-Kuchas (Peter Saddington)
- Weekly Links– 2010_08 (Joe Stagner)
- Daily News Digest 02/24/2011 and Daily News Digest 02/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- 24-Feb-2011 and 25-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
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