Top Links
- Announcing Windows Phone 8 (Joe Belfiore)
 - A Developer Perspective on Windows Phone 8 (Colin Eberhardt)
 - Reactive Extensions v2.0 Release Candidate available now! (Bart J.F. De Smet)
 - Batching Handler for ASP.NET Web API (Brad Wilson)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- The System.Uri Class (Richard Carr)
 - Geo Location & Spatial Searches with RavenDB–Part IV-Searching (Oren Eini)
 - Converting PDF to Text in C# (Dan Letecky)
 - Installing the TFS Plug-in through the Eclipse Marketplace (Martin Woodward)
 - Wrapping Begin/End Asynchronous API into C#5 Tasks (Toni Petrina)
 - Visual Studio 2012 New Features: Solution Explorer (Zain Naboulsi)
 - Basic Spatial Data with SQL Server and Entity Framework 5.0 (Rick Strahl)
 - Developing a Windows 8 Metro App Part 3: Metro Design (Jennifer Marsman)
 - Improved Navigation in JustCode (JustCode Team)
 - Using NuGet doesn’t mean you have to give it away… "Distributing .NET Licensed components using NuGet" (Greg Duncan)
 - CRAP Score with NCover 4…. (Bryn Brutosky)
 - Ambiguous ExtensionAttribute Errors (Harry Pierson)
 
Web Development
- Web Sites Series: Experience Windows Azure Web Sites from beyond Windows (Glenn Block)
 - ASP.NET Web API vs. ASP.NET MVC “APIs” (Dave Ward)
 - Rendering Linear Gradients using the HTML5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
 - Using controllers from an external assembly in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
 - Behind the Scenes the Interactive Music Video Game Built in HTML5 (Giorgio Sardo)
 - The amazing powers of CSS (Ilmari Heikkinen)
 - Key Principles of Maintainable JavaScript (Jonathan Creamer)
 - JavaScript: Sparse Arrays vs. Dense Arrays (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - Castle Windsor Dependency Injection with MVC4: No component for supporting the service (Renso Hollhumer)
 - Forget what your Mother told you, IIS and Apache CAN be Friends (Doug Rathbone)
 - PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.3 EAP 117.609 (Alexey Gopachenko)
 - FIX: Sitecore and .NET Framework 4.5 (Cori Drew)
 - Download logs for git push Azure master and Git Deployment Credentials & Adding more users to Git repos on Azure (Vishal R. Joshi)
 - Where Will Your Styles Live? and Shuffling an Array in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
 - Managing the Cloud from the Command Line (Scott Hanselman)
 - Getting Started with Lucene.net (Ricci Gian Maria)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Hindsight Bias – Be Agile – Learn and Re-Learn (Karol McCloskey)
 - Nimble Game Development: Another Kind Of Agile (Gil Zilberfeld)
 - Assume you are wrong (Roy Osherove)
 - Automated UI Testing Done Right (Mehdi Khalili)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Mixing themes in XAML Metro apps (Andrei Marukovich)
 - Apply Styles Using Theme Resources in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
 - 2000 WPF Things #585 – Tunneling Events Propagate Down the Logical Tree (Sean Sexton)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Paul Betts and Tim Clem Use GitHub with Windows (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Visual Studio Toolbox: What’s New in the Windows Azure June 2012 Release | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
 - Video Demo: Working with the XAML AppBar in Blend and VS 2012 (Harikrishna Menon Ajith Kumar)
 - The Verge Mobile Show 004 – June 19th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
 - Video: The Top 10, er, 11 Features Developers will Love about Windows 8 (Jeremy Likness)
 - Boagworld: The podcast is going weekly (Paul Boag)
 - Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Lance Vick (Ryan Parsley)
 
Community / Events
- Dear JobsBlog: 3 Tips on How to Bounce Back After Being Rejected for a Job (Colleen)
 - Countdown to I/O: Falling in love with Google products and celebrating at I/O (Scott Knaster)
 - Windows Phone 8 – What they didn’t reveal at the Summit (damaster)
 - Full Windows Phone Summit presentation now available for viewing (Daniel Rubino)
 - Windows Phone Summit: the quick summary (Kip Kniskern)
 - The future of Windows Phone: Complete Notes with Screenshots from the Windows Phone Summit (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Head of Microsoft Research, Rick Rashid, on Alan Turing’s Legacy (Nate Lanxon)
 - Geek of the Week: Cuteologist & Illustrator Amanda Chronister (Chris Urie)
 - Free Windows 8 Developer Events: Mini Camps | Register Now (Doris Chen)
 - Vancouver Mini Maker Faire is This Weekend! June 23rd-24th (Emily Smith)
 - Announcing One Year of Windows Azure FREE with WebsiteSpark (Himanshu Singh)
 - Talking Cloud with Internet Explorer MVP Hans Le Roy (MVP Award Program)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – ColumnStore Index – Batch Mode vs Row Mode (Pinal Dave)
 - How we got rid of the database–part 4 (Gabriel Schenker)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Surface gets a positive response from this Windows developer (Chris Boss)
 - Microsoft Surface – Just what the doctor ordered? (Bill Crounse)
 - GitHub Pages Update (Jason Costello)
 - PixelSense – Now Microsoft’s New Name For The Surface Project (Robert Boland)
 - Handling Trailing Delimiters in HL7 Messages (Thomas Canter)
 - Lumia 900 owner vents Windows Phone 8 frustrations, Stephen Elop responds (Tim Stevens)
 - Nokia Maps, and the whole Nokia Location platform, including Nokia Drive, coming to all of Windows Phone 8 (not just Nokia) (Kip Kniskern)
 - What’s New in Windows Phone 8? (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Windows Phone 8 Is A Great Big, Crazy, Beautiful Mess (Matt Burns)
 - Windows Phone 8 won’t be available on anything out today, but that’s okay, right? (Tim Conneally)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: June 21, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Double Shot #900 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily News Digest 6/21/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-21 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Morning Brew #1129 (Chris Alcock)
 - Windows Dev News for June 20, 2012 – #0097 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for June 11 – 17, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
 
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