Links of the day – 11 September 2012

.NET / Visual Studio/Web Development

• Introducing ASP.NET FriendlyUrls – cleaner URLs, easier Routing, and Mobile Views for ASP.NET Web Forms

• From the MVPs: Visual Studio 2012 meets PowerPoint

• Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2012

• Single Page Apps – Part 10 – Saving, Change Tracking, Commanding, and Validation

• The new .NET 4.5 feature every XAML developer will love

• HTML5, JavaScript, Knockout, JQuery, Guide for Recovering Silverlight/WPF/C# Addicts. Part 1 – JavaScript and DOM.

• XSS Trends and Internet Explorer

• A C# SMTP server (receiver)

• Setup and Deployment Options Abandoned in Visual Studio 2012

• Updated Windows Azure Reference Architecture

• Episode 200 – PowerScripting Podcast – Doug Finke on Windows PowerShell for Developers [PODCAST]

• .NET Rocks! – Jon Rozenblit Explores Azure’s New Features [PODCAST]

• TFS 2010 workitem tracking part 5

• Looking at Windows Azure Mobile Services with Fiddler

• 10 lessons for uncultured web developers

• WinRT: Creating an Image Collage in C#

• The new .NET 4.5 feature every XAML developer will love

• RSS in JSON, for real?

Inspirational

• Start Up Success Podcast #152 – Show #84 Rob Walling; Start Small, Stay Small

• 8 Lessons From Mama About Success In Life and Business

• Put A Ding In Blogging Universe: 4 Unmissable Blogging Lessons From Steve Jobs

• 5 Powerful Steps To Achieving Anything You Want

• The Habit of Starting

Quotes/Dictionary

• cerise: moderate to deep red.

• “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

• primrose: pale yellow.

• “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

• “It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.”