Top Links
- Modern Web Development – Part 9 (Shawn Wildermuth)
 - Introducing the jQuery Mobile Metro Theme (Colin Eberhardt)
 - Windows 8 and ASP.NET Web API – Part 1 – Getting Started (Jon Galloway)
 - PhoneGap – migrating iOS applications to Android (Part 1) (Davy De Waele)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Relational searching sucks, don’t try to replicate it (Oren Eini)
 - Reflecting Nested Type Information and An Extensible Appointment Scheduling Library (Richard Carr)
 - Open Tabs to the Right in Visual Studio 2011 Beta (Anthony Grace)
 - Getting feedback on your Visual Studio 11 Storyboards (Rich Erwin)
 - Code Analysis with Project Roslyn (Jeff Martin)
 - Using Shims in Visual Studio 11 to test untestable code. (Ricci Gian Maria)
 - Installing TFS 2011 Beta in a Virtual Machine (Ryan Abrahamson)
 - Visual Studio 11 – Awesome New Features for Web Developers (Sumit Maitra)
 - Entity Framework 4.1: Expert’s Cookbook (Zain Naboulsi)
 - i got mono (Mo Khan)
 - Metro RSS Reader: Free and open source Metro Application for Windows 8 (Zubair Ahmed)
 - NDepend Evaluation: Conclusion (Anthony Trudeau)
 - Task Parallel Library and Servers, Part 4: TaskHelpers (Brad Wilson)
 - Getting Started with the Live SDK: Authorization (Christopher Geers)
 - OData on Windows 8: Part 2—The OData Client Library for Metro (Glenn Gailey)
 - Controlling a .NET Gadgeteer Device with your mind… (Greg Duncan)
 - Michael’s .NET Suggested Reading List (Michael Kennedy)
 
Web Development
- Overcoming Asynchronous Anxiety By Testing JavaScript’s Event Loop (Ben Nadel)
 - JavaScript on the XBox 360 (Dominic Szablewski)
 - Different MediaTypeFormatters for same MediaHeaderValue in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
 - ASP.NET MVC3 Using Code First Entity Framework Without Database Generation (Phil Fresle)
 - KineticJS – An HTML5 Canvas JavaScript Library (Hirvesh Munogee)
 - Using Razor V2 in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Imran Baloch)
 - Zerg rush in JavaScript (James Padolsey)
 - Infinite Scrolling In ASP.NET With jQuery (Prashant Khandelwal)
 - GZip/Deflate Compression in ASP.NET MVC (Rick Strahl)
 - Fluid CSS3 Slideshow with Parallax Effect (Ring Wing)
 - The Essentials of Zepto.js (Siddharth)
 - Introduction to JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
 - How to Create a Sencha Touch 2 App: Part 4 (Jorge Ramon)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- What Agile or Lean Process Do You Use: Poll Results (Giles Davies)
 - Design and UX assets for Windows 8 (Andrew Spooner)
 - Huboard – New feature overview (Ryan Rauh)
 - Dependency Injection vs. Service Locator (Kyle Burns)
 - Metro design inspiration (Laurent Bugnion)
 - Building a Team to Last (Matt Van Horn)
 - Check out the new Exploratory Tool! (Jim Holmes)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Introduction to the Infragistics Undo / Redo Framework for XAML applications (Damyan Petev)
 - Using Visual Studio LightSwitch To Orchestrate A Unity 3D Game (Michael Washington)
 - WinRT XAML Toolkit available on CodePlex (Davide Zordan)
 - Using WPF Elements from F# (Ivan Towlson)
 - Eye Dropper control in WPF (Jawahar Suresh Babu)
 - 101 How to on Windows Phone #11 – Web Browser Task in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
 - How to Share Links from WP7 to Social Networking Sites using the ShareLinkTask? and How to Save Ringtones in WP7 using the SaveRingtoneTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Managing Data and Media in Silverlight (David Kelley)
 - 2000 WPF Things #547 – Specifying Colors by Name in Blend (Sean Sexton)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 049: "I’m the son of Tinkerbell" (Mark Frauenfelder)
 - Windows Phone Minute: Custom Focusing (Laura Foy)
 - Major Nelson Podcast Show 437: Ken Levine and more (Larry Hyrb)
 - The Metro Developer Show Episode 065 – “I’m Going to Take My Clothes Off Too” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
 - Video recording of my talk about my open source app Metro RSS Reader (Zubair Ahmed)
 - ShopTalk Episode 15 and ShopTalk Episode 16 (Chris Coyier)
 - TWC9: Windows 8 Release Preview, SkyDrive, PhoneGap Build and more (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Golnaz)
 - WPCentral 141 – Stormtroopers and the Cloud (Daniel Rubino)
 - The GeekDads Episode #113: The Avengers Is Not a Failure (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
 - The Tablet Show – Thomas Gravgaard Ports Unity 3D Games to WP7 with FFWD (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Windows Weekly 258: Now With Better Remediation (Paul Thurrott)
 - Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 50 (Richard Hay)
 - GeekWire Radio: Mining asteroids in space, and finding the best food on Earth (Todd Bishop)
 - Engadget Podcast 291 – 04.27.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 - The Campus Coder Show #1: Chevon Christie (Glen Gordon)
 
Community / Events
- Meet the Author: Andrew Brust on Understanding NoSQL (Paul Ballard)
 - Anthony Borton and ALM Training releases two new Visual Studio 11 courses (Charles Sterling)
 - TFS 2010 and Visual Studio 11 Training Courses in June & July (Giles Davies)
 - Free Jump Start: May 15-16, 2012–What can you do about the "consumerization" of IT? (Kim Spilker)
 - Celebration! 120’000 downloads for #mvvmlight, 2 copies of Expression Studio to win (Laurent Bugnion)
 
Database
- How to Connect to SQL Azure through SQL Server Management Studio 2008 (SSMS 2008) (Rachel Appel)
 - SSIS Data Flow Tuning (Jose Frichberg)
 - SQL Server – Four-part object names (Vishal)
 - SQL Server source control from Visual Studio (David Atkinson)
 - SQLAuthority News – Migration Guide: Migrating to SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering and Availability Groups from Prior Clustering and Mirroring Deployments – Part 1 and SQL SERVER – Microsoft Certification – SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – A Brief Introduction to expressor Studio 3.6 (Pinal Dave)
 - Appending New Rows Only (Chad Miller)
 
SharePoint
- SharePoint Profile Cleanup and the My Site Cleanup (Joel Oleson)
 
Miscellaneous
- How To Live Your Values at Microsoft (JD Meier)
 - If one had to choose which group at Microsoft should spontaneously combust… (Michael S. Kaplan)
 - Dear Tim Cook: Apple is not the world’s tech inventor (Molly Wood)
 - A process shutdown puzzle, Episode 2 (Raymond Chen)
 - When I first came to the Microsoft community in 2007, I was (Scott Barnes)
 - Barnes & Noble to spin off digital Nook business, Microsoft will invest $300 million into it (Vlad Savov)
 - That thing about upgrading current Windows Phones to Windows Phone 8, continued… (Kip Kniskern)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 28, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 29, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Distributed Weekly 152 (Scott Banwart)
 - Friday Five: April 27, 2012. (MVP Award Program)
 - Double Shot #868 and Double Shot #869 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - The Morning Brew #1094 and The Morning Brew #1095 (Chris Alcock)
 - April 27th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
 - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-27 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-30 (Dan Rigby)
 - Daily News Digest 4/27/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - Everyman on First Visit, At Social Business Core, Better than Everyone, To Apollo and Beyond (Dave Burke)
 - Windows Dev News for April 27, 2012 – #0074 and Windows Dev News for April 28, 2012 – #0075 (Dave Campbell)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 27 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (4/27/2012) (Silverlight Show)
 - Retrospective 82 – Agile Product Marketing Series & SEO (Peter Saddington)
 - Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #16) (Himanshu Singh)
 
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