Alexander Schmidt Mathematical methods, programming

.NET API subset for Windows Store Apps is considerable smaller than the full .NET Framework 4.5. Particularly, Reflection.Emit is not available and most members in the System.Type class have been moved to the System.Reflection.TypeInfo class.

http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/08/reflection-windows-store-apps

Also, check out complete source code:

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/netframework.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/08/20/free-ebook-programming-windows-8-apps-with-html-css-and-javascript-second-preview.aspx

Just came accross a few posts made recently which seems extremely useful:

http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/10-tips-to-better-grant-writing

http://imechanica.org/node/588

http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory

http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2012/05/Programming-Windows-6th-Edition-Preview-Ebook-Coming.html

Programming Windows 6th edition e-book preview for $10.

If you need to rollback TFS changeset, and getting this error:

C:\>tfpt rollback
Unrecognized command: rollback.

Its because rollback command was moved to TF command-line utility, which can be fount at:

<drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE and is available from the Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt.

More information is avaliable at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z51z7zy0.aspx

Get all ASP.NET components (platform-independent pieces) at http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/

Read on how to debug VS extensions easily: http://donovanbrown.com/post/How-to-debug-a-Visual-Studio-Extension.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163791.aspx