Links of the Month–April 2012

• Free Microsoft Technologies Training:

Want to learn latest Microsoft technologies…check the following website:

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/home.aspx 

• Free eBook: Practical Performance Profiling :

Get up to speed with a free copy of Practical Performance Profiling by Jean-Philippe Gouigoux  sponsored by RedGate

Covers the theory and practical skills necessary to analyze and improve the performance of .NET code.

Guides you through using a profiler and explains how to identify and correct performance bottlenecks.

http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-performance-profiler/entrypage/practical-performance-profiling-b 

• 11 Important Database designing rules:

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/shivprasadk/11-important-database-designing-rules/

• What AnyCPU Really Means As Of .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 11

http://dotnet.dzone.com/articles/what-anycpu-really-means-net

• Future of Cloud Computing

• SQL Server Storage Basics

‘must-read’ resources for every SQL Server developer and DBA.

http://beyondrelational.com/modules/2/blogs/28/posts/13299/sql-server-storage-basics.aspx 

• .NET Versioning and Multi-Targeting – .NET 4.5 is an in-place upgrade to .NET 4.0

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/NETVersioningAndMultiTargetingNET45IsAnInplaceUpgradeToNET40.aspx

• Make a Flashy HTML5 Website Without Coding or Plug-Ins

http://mashable.com/2012/03/26/free-html5-website-builder/