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- .NET 4.5 Improvements for Cloud and Server Applications (S.Somasegar)
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 - RabbitMQ for Windows: Fanout Exchanges (Derek Greer)
 
Web Development
- Implementing message handlers to track your ASP.NET Web API usage (Filip W)
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Design / Methodology / Testing
- Code to Interfaces. Right. What’s an Interface? (Bil Simser)
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 - Load and Performance Testing; what’s the Difference? (Phil Sams)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Building a Belt Clock in WPF (No, not a clock for your belt, but a clock made of belts…) (Greg Duncan)
 - WP7 Launchers and Choosers – A WP7Dev should know (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - 2000 WPF Things #560 – Using a Radial Gradient to Create a 3D Effect (Sean Sexton)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Mister Franklin Goes to Washington (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
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 - Lessons Learned: Lint and Javascript (James Shore)
 - Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 52 (Richard Hay)
 - Roundtable Part 1: Agility vs. Architecture (Bob Rhubart)
 - The Verge Mobile Podcast 028 – 05.16.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
 - Defrag: WPA2, Virtual Desktops, Cool KB’s | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
 - The new Bing…your questions answered (Laura Foy)
 
Community / Events
- Social meet up on Twitter for MEET Windows Azure on June 7th (Maarten Balliauw)
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 - Windows Phone designer is named one of country’s most creative (Michael Stroh)
 - Come to the Agile Buffet Table to Fill Your Plate (Telerik Agile Blog)
 - Interview With Ward Cunningham (Andrew Binstock)
 - Register Now to Attend a May 24th Windows 8 Developer Camp in Chevy Chase, MD! (MS Public Sector Team)
 - Workshop and hackaton with Glenn Block: Node.js in the cloud with Azure (Einar Otto Stangvik)
 - that CONFERENCE (Brian Harry)
 - Social meet up on Twitter for MEET Windows Azure on June 7th (Magnus Martensson)
 - Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block (Paul Ballard)
 - How I Open Source (Jay C. Fields)
 
Database
- Securing SQL Server with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) (Jonathan Gardner)
 - Upgrading Packages to SSIS 2012 (Devin Knight)
 - "SQL Server Performance Survival Guide" a fairly massive link round-up on all things SQL Server performance related (Greg Duncan)
 - Adventure Works Database for SQL Server 2012 (Suprotim Agarwal)
 - SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide – A Comprehensive Whitepaper – (454 pages – 9 MB) (Pinal Dave)
 
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Facebook App Center Best Practices (Emil Hesslow)
 - Screenshots of new Windows 8 Photos app revealed (damaster)
 - Channel 9: Announcing MSDN Profile Integration (Geoffrey K., Karsten Januszewski & Mike Sampson)
 - Windows Phone sales nearly double in the US passing RIM, according to Kantar Worldpanel (Daniel Rubino)
 - Why I Taught My Daughter To Code (A Little) (Jon Galloway)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - The Morning Brew #1107 (Chris Alcock)
 - Double Shot #882 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily News Digest 5/16/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-17 (Dan Rigby)
 - Windows Dev News for May 16, 2012 – #0083 (Dave Campbell)
 - Daily Windows 8 Development News 16 May 2012 and Daily WP7 Development News 16 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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