Most Popular Stories for 2012

1. What's new in Razor v2? (17 kicks)
2. A few principles for writing blazing fast code in .NET (15 kicks)
3. ASP.NET MVC4, WebAPI, and Razor are now all open source! (15 kicks)
4. A recipe for Dev to Production with ASP.NET MVC and RavenDB (14 kicks)
5. Take your ASP.NET Controls to the Gym (13 kicks)
6. Essential guide to ASP.NET MVC3 performance (12 kicks)
7. How To Build a Modern Website in 2011 (12 kicks)
8. 10 Things ASP.NET Developers Should Know About Web.config Inheritance (12 kicks)
9. ASP.NET session hijacking with Google and ELMAH (11 kicks)
10. Lucene.net - Ultra-fast search for MVC or Webforms (11 kicks)

Most Commented On Stories for 2012

1. Agile is a Sham (12 comments)
2. 10 Things ASP.NET Developers Should Know About Web.config Inheritance (5 comments)
3. Dynamic Wpf DataGrid Columns using PropertyDescriptors (4 comments)
4. Phil Haack, Keith Dahlby and Paul Betts on Git for Windows (4 comments)
5. What’s new in WCF 4.5? UDP transport support (4 comments)
6. Up and running with Less (ASP.NET MVC) (4 comments)
7. Suddenly Microsoft is the Hippest Tech Company Around (4 comments)
8. Touch Pad Free for Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (4 comments)
9. EF5 Release Candidate Now Available (4 comments)
10. Herding Code 130: Dave Weaver on Loggr – a realtime analytics service (3 comments)

Most Popular Tags for 2012

1. ASP.NET (174 tags)
2. C# (165 tags)
3. MVC (77 tags)
4. windows8 (53 tags)
5. Phone (47 tags)
6. Windows (47 tags)
7. jQuery (42 tags)
8. Database (40 tags)
9. VisualStudio (35 tags)
10. Testing (33 tags)

Most Published Users for 2012

1. dpeterson (49 stories)
2. pwhe23 (15 stories)
3. bsenoff (15 stories)
4. KodefuGuru (12 stories)
5. BlackWasp (12 stories)
6. jalpesh (10 stories)
7. fdub (10 stories)
8. elijahmanor (10 stories)
9. KMillerr (9 stories)
10. mcnamaragio (8 stories)

Most Popular Domains for 2012

1. blogs.telerik.com (111 story kicks)
2. blogs.microsoft.co.il (83 story kicks)
3. www.strathweb.com (67 story kicks)
4. www.blackwasp.co.uk (49 story kicks)
5. www.silverlightshow.net (47 story kicks)
6. www.troyhunt.com (42 story kicks)
7. www.csharpaspnetarticles.com (42 story kicks)
8. blogs.dotnetkicks.com (42 story kicks)
9. leoncullens.nl (41 story kicks)
10. devdirective.com (41 story kicks)

Most Published Domains for 2012

1. blogs.microsoft.co.il (16 stories)
2. blogs.telerik.com (15 stories)
3. www.blackwasp.co.uk (12 stories)
4. www.strathweb.com (12 stories)
5. www.dotnetjalps.com (10 stories)
6. www.silverlightshow.net (9 stories)
7. www.elijahmanor.com (9 stories)
8. blogs.msdn.com (9 stories)
9. www.aboutmycode.com (8 stories)
10. www.codeproject.com (8 stories)

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