Coffee break

• How To Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Consumer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) : Scott Hanselman runs you through the steps involved in installing and booting Windows 8 Consumer Preview off a VHD. As always, very informative
• Develop Hybrid Native and Mobile Web Apps : Shane Church discusses how we can develop mobile web applications that takes advantage of native application shell to provide the best user experience
• Entity Framework Code First and DbContext FAQs : Julie Lerman addresses some of the frequent asked questions on Code First and DbContext in Entity Framework 4.2
• Jean-Paul Boodhoo on Demystifying Design Patterns Part 1 : An old video but still informative, Jean-Paul Boodhoo talks about Factory and Singleton patterns in depth
• Listen up, Google: Here’s what Windows 8 can teach you about tablets : Devindra Hardawar says “Windows 8 is certain to make a huge splash with consumers — not just because it’s the next version of Windows, but because Microsoft has finally managed to crack the code for putting Windows on tablets”. Read more…