As always, BUILD 2014 videos might not be there when you click on them today. They should be there as soon as possible.

As a sidenote, Roslyn is open source. My jaw is on the floor. Wow. Impressive.

Enjoy.

BUILD 2014

BUILD: Day 1 Keynote Summary (blogs.msdn.com) – If you still haven’t watched it, I would. However, if you’d rather have the summary, here it is.

Building Enterprise and SaaS Web Apps and Web APIs using Azure Active Directory for Sign In (channel9.msdn.com)

Visual Studio and .NET Overview (channel9.msdn.com)

The Present and Future of .NET in a World of Devices and Services (channel9.msdn.com)

Thinking for Programmers (channel9.msdn.com)

Building Web APIs for Mobile Apps Using ASP.NET Web API 2.1 (channel9.msdn.com)

Puppet and Azure: Bringing DevOps to the Enterprise (channel9.msdn.com)

Powerful Mobile Apps with Mobile Services and ASP.NET Web API (channel9.msdn.com)

.NET Community & Open Source (channel9.msdn.com)

Web Development

Querying An In-Memory Array Of JavaScript Objects In NodeJS (derickbailey.com)

.NET

Announcing new web features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC (blogs.msdn.com)

Announcing .NET Native Preview (blogs.msdn.com) – Compiling .NET to native? HERESY (dipped in chocolate)!

.NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) - Home (roslyn.codeplex.com) – Roslyn. C# compiler? Open-source? Get me a chicken with teeth!

Microsoft “Roslyn” CTP (msdn.microsoft.com)

Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC Downloads - Release Candidates (RC), Betas, and Previews (www.visualstudio.com)

Using AutoMapper to prevent SELECT N+1 problems | Jimmy Bogard’s Blog (lostechies.com)

ASP.NET

Denis Huvelle: Tips for ASP.NET MVC 4: lowercase URLs (www.dhuvelle.com)

State of Microsoft Security: ASP.NET Identity 2.0 (devproconnections.com)

I’m throwing in the towel in FubuMVC | The Shade Tree Developer on WordPress.com (jeremydmiller.com)

Windows Azure

Available Now: Preview of Project “Orleans” – Cloud Services at Scale (blogs.msdn.com)

Adapting The Azure Queue API For Node.js (odetocode.com)

Packages, tools and more

Mexedge Stylesheet Extension (visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com) – Allows you to visualize your CSS files as a tree view

Voice Commands extension (visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com) – Voice commands for Visual Studio

Architecture and Methodology

The end of ORM - Gumtree Dev Team (www.gumtree.com)

Must have books

Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET: Glenn Block, Pablo Cibraro, Pedro Felix, Howard Dierking, Darrel Miller: 9781449337711: Amazon.com: Books (www.amazon.com)