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Top Links
- LINQ Koans – Learn LINQ by doing LINQ (Greg Duncan)
- Visual Studio 11 Performance: Improvements in Typing and Editing Responsiveness (Eric Knox)
- Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud – Book Download (MS Downloads)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express changes anger developers (John Callaham)
- Developing and Deploying Node.js Express Web App on Windows Azure (Shiju Varghese)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Microsoft`s F#: 10 Reasons Why It`s a Hot Programming Language for Developers (Darryl K. Taft)
- Reflecting Enumeration Information (Richard Carr)
- How to create WCF Data Service with $JSONP format (Dhananjay Kumar)
- TaskCancelledException vs OperationCancelledException (Kathleen Dollard)
- Bank OCR kata in F#: user story 1 (Mark Seemann)
- Get Last N Records Using Linq-to-SQL (Pranay Rana)
- Troubleshoot logout from TFS Service when using multiple live Id and Query untyped object inside a Mongo Db (log4net mongoappender) (Ricci Gian Maria)
- How to: grant “Manage Build Resources” Privilege to users with tfssecurity.exe (Sebastian Dau)
- TFS API Part 47 (VS11) – Manage Iterations Dates (Shai Raiten)
- The Magic of Visual Studio 11 Page Inspector (Sumit Maitra)
- DotNet Reflector / decompiler free tools (Tatworth)
- Using a Predicate as a key to a Dictionary (Tom Hines)
- Microsoft Posts Windows 8 App Porting Guides (Paul Thurrott)
- Globalization, Localization And Why My Application Stopped Launching (Paulo Morgado)
- Loading WinRT Types via Reflection in Windows 8 (Peter Torr)
- Full-fidelity history and data migration are mutually exclusive (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Emulating Multiple Inheritance with Extension Methods (Anders Abel)
- Clearing the page cache in Windows 8 Metro apps (Andreas Hammar)
- NDepend 4.0 Released (Anthony Trudeau)
- Porting apps to Windows 8 Metro (Jennifer Marsman)
- Sample Browser v5.3 Feature Update (Jialiang Ge)
Web Development
- Building an Offline HTML5 Application (Jim Jackson II & Ian Gilman)
- Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for iOS Book Review (David Hayden)
- Awesome use of AND operator (Julian M. Bucknall)
- A Study Using The HTML5 Geolocation API (Chris Love)
- Develop A One-Of-A-Kind CSS/JS-Based Game Portfolio (Daniel Sternlicht)
- Using Ninject with the latest ASP.NET Web API source (Filip W)
- Modernizr Rocks HTML5 (Laila Lotfi)
- The CSS Clip Property (Louis Lazaris)
- Cleaning Up HTML, Part 1: When Mixins Become Skins (Niels Matthijs)
- Deploy to AppHarbor using GitHub for Windows (AppHarbor)
- JavaScript for the C# Guy: The confusion about ‘this’ (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Creating a Tabbed Entity Template using Wijmo Open for Juice UI (Steve Naughton)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Power of Thought and How To Build Your Creative Confidence and Project Management Quotes (J.D. Meier)
- Types of Duplication in Code (John Sonmez)
- Office Space Shrinking… Good for Agility? (Peter Saddington)
- Abstraction Creep (Magnus Holm)
- Are you a Rockstar developer? (Tony Verguldi, Jr.)
- Using DRY: Between Code Duplication and High-Coupling (Abel Avram)
- Automated Testing Isn’t Just for Business Logic (Peter Ritchie)
- Comparing the Flavors of Config Managment: Chef, Puppet, etc. (Ranjib Dey)
- When Will It Be Done? (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Memory Lane (Michael Norton)
- Measure What Really Matters (Bob McIlree)
- The open plan fallacy testimonials (Jef Claes)
- A Study in Good UX and Developer UX with FourSquare (Chris Love)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Book Review: Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration (Brian Noyes)
- Earth Quake – A Composite WPF disaster monitoring application (db7uk)
- A case study in moving a Windows Phone app to a Windows 8 Metro app (Eric Nelson)
- HTML5 Platformer game PhoneGap’ed onto Windows Phone 7.1(5) (Greg Duncan)
- How-To: Get Mobile Operator details in Windows Phone and Test Developed Apps in Both 512MB RAM and 256MB RAM Emulators in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
- Comparison of RadControls for Windows Phone and the Windows Phone Toolkit. (Michael Crump)
- Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration (Neil Mackenzie)
- Offline Browser for Windows Phone is released (Slobodan Pavkov)
- 2000 WPF Things #567 – Setting Layout Related Properties in Blend and #568 – Setting Text-Related Properties in Blend (Sean Sexton)
- Move Your WP7 Apps Links to the Marketplace (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Windows Phone ListBox empty template – Using visual states (part 1) (Toni Petrina)
- Pushing the Limits of the Windows Phone SDK and Sending Files via EmailComposeTask and “What Time Is It” explained and ported to Windows Phone and Windows Phone Emulator In the 7.1.1 SDK – Quick Insights (Den Delimarsky)
- Part 1: Be pushy with Push Notification in your game: Background and Be pushy with Push Notification in your game: Application Manifest File and Be pushy with Push Notification in your Game: Class scope variables and HttpNotificationChannel (Surf4Fun)
- Making Money With WindowsPhone (Matt Lacey)
- Announcing TouchDevelop v2.8: structured datatypes, tags, pages+buttons, better api search, featured screenshots, and more! (Nikolai Tillmann)
- CODE Framework 4.0.20524.0 (CodePlex)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Joel Semeniuk Talks Agile and Lean and The Tablet Show – Diederik Krols Builds Metro UIs in Windows 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- TWC9: 200! Kinect SDK v1.5, GitHub for Windows, Visual Studio 11 lineup and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez, Dennis Delimarsky, Greg Duncan & Golnaz)
- Technology & Friends Episode 214: Elijah Manor on AmplifyJS (David Giard)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 440: E3 2012 is coming (Larry Hyrb)
- Episode 187 – PowerScripting Podcast – The Scripting Wife and Hal’s Wife (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- The Metro Developer Podcast Episode 068 – “Amazing Amy” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- The Campus Coder: Episode #4 and Bytes by MSDN: Scott Hanselman and Tim Huckaby discuss ASP.NET and Open Source Software (MS Podcasts)
- The Vergecast 031 – 05.24.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
- 015 JSJ Open Discussion (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
- Episode 81 – Windows Azure Media Services | Cloud Cover (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
- What The Tech 118: Not Red Hat 6 and Windows Weekly 262: The Dumbening (Paul Thurrott)
- Async made simple with C++ PPL | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Rahul V. Patil & Genevieve Fernandes)
- GeekWire Radio: Inside the world of pinball (Todd Bishop)
- Engadget Podcast 295 – 05.25.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 139 – 05.26.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for May 29th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Giveaway: Telerik Ultimate Collection License worth $1999 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- 30 To Launch Windows 8 (Doug Holland)
- Announcing the first NServiceBus Hackathon (Udi Dahan)
Database
- Private deployment of SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 (Erik EJ)
- SQL Server 2012 LEAD and LAG (Madhivanan)
- SQL SERVER – A Puzzle Part 2 – Fun with SEQUENCE in SQL Server 2012 – Guess the Next Value and Developer Training – Importance and Significance – Part 1 and Developer Training – Employee Morals and Ethics – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
- OUTPUT Clause and @@identity, scope_identity() (Denis Gobo)
- NVARCHAR(n) Vrs NVARCHAR(max) (Ezekiel)
- DBCC CHECKDB (geniiius)
- Denali – Day 29: Resource Governor Enhancements (Database Engine) (Vinay Thakur)
Miscellaneous
- So You Want to be a Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
- Today I Learned: You Cannot Transfer Ownership of iOS Applications (Bobby Johnson)
- Smart Software – The Future of Software World (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Microsoft is serious about open source: 10 proof points (Mary Jo Foley)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 27, 2012 and Interesting Finds: May 28, 2012 and Interesting Finds: May 29, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 156 (Scott Banwart)
- Geek Reading May 25, 2012 and Geek Reading May 26, 2012 and Geek Reading May 28, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #887 and Double Shot #888 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Collective #13 (Mary Lou)
- Daily Links 27 May 2012 (Jax)
- Daily News Digest 5/28/2012 and Daily News Digest 5/29/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week May 21-27, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Reading Notes #48 (Frank)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #20) (Himanshu Singh)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-28 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-29 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #1114 and The Morning Brew #1115 (Chris Alcock)
- Pie in the Sky (May 25, 2012) (Brian Swan)
- Everyman on Sinofsky does Windows 8, Your Brain on Facebook, Interruption Technology, a Toy Yoda (Dave Burke)
- Retrospective 86 – Agile Publishing and Agile 2012 Speaking (Peter Saddington)
- Daily WP7 Development News 25 May 2012 and Daily WP7 Development News 28 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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