Top Links
- Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop (S.Somasegar)
- SignalR 0.5.1 Released (David Fowler)
- We Need Developer Tools, Not Platform Development Tools (Doug Seven)
- Visual Basic 6, Ruby and Getting Off My Lawn (Scott Hanselman)
- Persistence, Facades and Roslyn’s Red-Green Trees (Eric Lippert)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Checking the Mouse Status (Richard Carr)
- Building WinRT Components with C++/CX (Harry Pierson)
- Code crimes, because even the Law needs to be broken (Oren Eini)
- Upgrading the DevDiv dogfood server to TFS 11 and Update for VS 2008 and TFS 11 and TeamDevCentral and hosted Lab Management (Brian Harry)
- Updated: Visual Studio 2012 RC ALM Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts (Brian Keller)
- The New Tuple Feature in C# 4.0 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
- Dependency Injection, Debugging added to T4 for Visual Studio 2012 (Jonathan Allen)
- C# tip: do not use “is” type, if you will need cast “as” later (Michael Freidgeim)
- Presenting Visual Studio ALM and upgrading TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 in production – Done (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Free (partial!) eBook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML,CSS & JS and Windows 8 Metro Style App – Simple WNS Push Notification (Mike Taulty)
- WCF HTTP User Agent Message Adapter On GitHub And Nuget (Paulo Morgado)
- The Windows 8 Dev Center: Everything you need to design, build, and sell a Metro style app (Marzena Makuta)
- Kinect Based Game: Getting started video mysteries (Surf4Fun)
- How Can I View MSMQ Messages and Queues? (Steve Smith)
- How can I determine the underlying cause of a EXCEPTION_IN_PAGE_ERROR exception? (Raymond Chen)
- Resources On Async Tasks (Roopesh Shenoy)
- Hosting Web API in Windows service (Piotr Walat)
- Get dotCover 2.0 Beta (Jura Gorohovsky)
- Book review: Inside Windows Debugging – Practical Debugging and Tracing Strategies by Tarik Soulami (Kim Spilker)
- Book Review: Practical Performance Improving the efficiency of .NET code (Gregor Suttie)
Web Development
- Small Mistake When Simultaneously Binding Multiple Events With jQuery (Ben Nadel)
- ELMAH.MVC v2.0 is coming (Alexander Beletsky)
- Control the execution order of your filters in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
- clippy.js – bringing clippy back from the dead via javascript (Luke)
- Async ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms and Web API (Rick Anderson)
- Log message Request and Response in ASP.NET WebAPI (Fredrik Normen)
- Announcing WebMatrix 2 RC (Vishal R. Joshi)
- Building and Deploying Windows Azure Web Sites using Git and GitHub for Windows (Shiju Varghese)
- Managing Your Windows Azure Services from OS X, Linux, or Windows Using the Command Line Interface (CLI) (Aaron Stannard)
- Setting up a webfarm using Windows Azure Virtual Machines (Maarten Balliauw)
- Sueetie Gamification Feature Complete and Ready for Kick-off in Version 4.1 (Dave Burke)
- Asynchronous Storage For All Browsers (Andrea Giammarchi)
- Introducing Locally Redundant Storage for Windows Azure Storage (Brad Calder)
- More on yesterday’s Azure announcements (Brian Harry)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Node – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
- Three more Things about Windows Azure Web Sites (Nathan Totten)
- Affinity Groups in Windows Azure (Neil Mackenzie)
- Highlight.js Highlights Syntax for 51 Languages with 20 Style Themes (Hirvesh Munogee)
- RestBugs Ported to Node (Howard Dierking)
- High Quality Visuals for Pinned Sites in Windows 8 (Rahul Lalmalani)
- Introducing Kudu: the Open Source engine behind ‘git push azure master’ (David Ebbo)
- First look of New Windows Azure Portal (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Azure, don’t give me multiple VMs, give me one elastic VM (Frans Bouma)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Book review: The Art of Agile Development (Jef Claes)
- Visual Hierarchy in Mobile Design (Patrick Cox)
- What’s new for Microsoft Test Manager in VS 2012 RC (Nivedita Bawa)
- Code review recommendations and Code Smells (Michael Freidgeim)
- How To Mock C Functions with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
- "Git Succinctly" Free/reg-ware PDF/Mobi ebook) (Greg Duncan)
- DevExpress releases DXperience 12.1 with Coded UI Test support (Charles Sterling)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Understanding the Windows Phone Location Service: How to Get Current GPS coordinates (Windows Phone Geek)
- 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #8 Designing Panoramas (Arturo Toledo)
- Windows Phone Application Life Cycle and Fast Application Switching (Dhananjay Kumar)
- How to: Create Application Bar at Runtime in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
- Silverlight 4 based Platformer level designer using Azure (Surf4Fun)
- LightSwitch IIS Deployment Enhancements in Visual Studio 2012 – Updated (Beth Massi)
- 2000 WPF Things #577 – You Can Change DockPanel.Dock Property at Runtime (Sean Sexton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- The Metro Developer Podcast Episode 070 – “MetroOcho” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Video: Learn To Debug CSS On The Fly (Paul Ballard)
- Bring Your Windows 8 Metro Style Apps to Life with Tiles and Notifications (MS Podcasts)
- Major Nelson’s highlights from E3 2012 | E3 2012 (Larry Hyrb)
- The Tablet Show – Uf Tukel Talks the Business of Mobile and Tablet Applications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Show #139: Edwin Siebesma, MeetingKing (Bob Walsh)
- The Vergecast 033 – 06.08.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
- TWC9: Meet Windows Azure, 100,000 apps, Windows 8 eBooks, Big Data and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- 016 JSJ SQL and NoSQL (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
- Episode 83 – Windows Azure June 2012 Release | Cloud Cover (Michael Washam, Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
- Windows Weekly 264: When Will Then Be Now? (Paul Thurrott)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 55 (Richard Hay)
Community / Events
- SilverlightShow Webinar: 10 Things Silverlight Developers Should Know About Windows 8 (Silverlight Show)
- Join us for a Tech.Days Visual Studio 2012 Online Event and Partner Event: Leveraging Agile to Hit Your Budget & Timeline Every Time (Richard Erwin)
- PASS 2012 Summit: November 6-9 (Paul Turley)
- Watch ‘Learn Windows Azure’ Live from TechEd North America, June 11 (Amy Conklin)
- Windows on the Bay – Let’s Party! (Brian Doll)
- As Apple, Google and Microsoft Kick Off Developer Events, Momentum Still With the iPhone (Ina Fried)
- TechEd North America starts next week (Jason Zander)
- organizing a speakerconf (Jay Fields)
- Schedule of Microsoft Press authors at TechEd North America in Orlando–June 11-14, 2012 (Kim Spilker)
- Grady Booch Receives 2012 Lovelace Medal from British Computing Society (Michael Stal)
- Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Enterprise Library Exception Handling Application Block (Paul Ballard)
- Nerd Nite No. 15, June 12, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite)
- “Introduction to Windows 8 and the Windows Store” webcast (Jennifer Marsman)
- The #SPC12 BUZZ has begun… and it’s all about SharePoint 15! (Joel Oleson)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Service Broker and CAP_CPU_PERCENT – Limiting SQL Server Instances to CPU Usage and SQL SERVER – Finding Size of a Columnstore Index Using DMVs (Pinal Dave)
- Get database details with VIEW ANY DEFINITION and Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
- SQL Database Federations Poster (MS Downloads)
- Bitmask data insertions in SSDT Post-Deployment scripts (Jamie Thomson)
SharePoint
PowerShell
- PowerShell Scripting Game (Jim Christopher)
- Windows PowerShell 3.0 and Server Manager Quick Reference Guides (MS Downloads)
- Using Hash Tables and Select-Object (Tobias Weltner)
Miscellaneous
- Gartner Recognizes Microsoft as an ALM Leader (Jason Zander)
- GrapeCity & ComponentOne Merger (Jim Duffy)
- The Little Introduction To Programming (Karl Seguin)
- I’m boycotting Apple (Joe Wilcox)
- Malcolm Gladwell: In 50 years, Bill Gates will be revered and Steve Jobs will be forgotten (John Cook)
- Building a rich and extensible media platform (Steven Sinofsky)
- Introducing the Windows Phone Gear Store (KC Lemson)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: June 9, 2012 and Interesting Finds: June 10, 2012 and Interesting Finds: June 11, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2012 06.01 ~ 06.11 (yuanjian)
- Afternoon Tea – Sunday 10th June 2012 and The Morning Brew #1121 (Chris Alcock)
- Geek Reading June 8, 2012 and Geek Reading June 9, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #895 (Mike Gunderloy)
- MVP–Friday Five June 8, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
- Collective #15 (Mary Lou)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup – #MeetAzure Edition (#22) (Himanshu Singh)
- Reading Notes #50 (Frank)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-11 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily News Digest 6/8/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (6/8/2012) and Daily News Digest 6/11/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows Dev News for June 10, 2012 – #0094 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for May 28 – June 3, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
- Pie in the Sky (June 8, 2012) (Brian Swan)
- SQL SERVER – Developer Training Resources and Summary Roundup (Pinal Dave)
- Retrospective 88 – #Agile #Scrum Tool Launches – Catalyst + More (Peter Saddington)
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