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Dew Drop – August 17, 2012 (#1,384)

Top Links

Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 now available! (S.Somasegar)
Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released to the web! (Jason Zander)
Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 is RELEASED – Here’s 5 minute videos to get you up to speed quick (Scott Hanselman)
Windows 8 RTM is available for developers (Windows 8 Team)
Reactive Extensions v2.0 has arrived! (Rx team)

.NET / Visual Studio

WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 (MS Downloads)
Unit Testing WinJS: First Steps (Christopher Bennage)
“Programming Windows” 6th Edition Release Preview Now Available! (Charles Petzold)
RavenDB Awesome Feature of the Day, Formatted Indexes (Oren Eini)
Getting Started with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 (Beth Massi)
Showing files with pending changes or files that are open in Visual Studio 2012 Solution Explorer and Test Attachment, Version Control and Database sizes in Team Foundation server (Charles Sterling)
Telerik Loves Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 RTMs! (Chris Sells)
WCF Data Services 5.0.2-rc Prerelease (WCF Team)
Available Now: Blend for Visual Studio 2012 (Christian Schormann)
Out parameters and LINQ do not mix (Eric Lippert)
Mono incorporates the Open-Sourced Entity Framework and VS2012 RTM: EF Designer New Look Since RC (Julie Lerman)
VS2012 EDMX Defaults Now Align with EF Team Guidance re DbContext Usage (Julie Lerman)
It Just Works in Visual Studio 2012 (Just* Team)
Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2012 (Rahul V. Patil)
Entity Framework and Stored Procedures Issue – Unable to determine a valid ordering for dependent operations. Dependencies may exist due to foreign key constraints, model requirements, or store-generated values (Rob Reynolds)
More info on publish links in Visual Studio 2012 (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
Using JSHint inside Visual Studio – the basics (Steve Sanderson)
Test Studio’s Love for Visual Studio 2012 (RTM) (Stoil Stoichev)
Welcome to Visual Studio 2012 ALM Rangers Readiness “Wave” (Willy-P. Schaub)
Announcing Blend + SketchFlow Preview for Visual Studio 2012 (Erik Arthur)
So You Want To Build Apps? (David Kelley)
Building a Camera App in Mono for Android (Greg Shackles)
Async await. Wait them All! (Samuel Jack)
Windows 8 Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! (samidip)
Few tips on implementing a Coded UI Test Plugin Extension (Tapas)
Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard (Part 2) and Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard (Peter Kellner)
Data Binding In Windows 8. Part 3–Element Binding and Windows 8 & Data Binding. Part 4–Data Conversion (Jesse Liberty)
Sample Browser 5.4 Feature Update (Jialiang Ge)
EF5 Released (EF Team)
What’s New in Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls Beta 2, Compatible with Windows 8 RTM (Georgi Atanasov)
Windows 8 App Dev For The PhoneGap Developer–Location (Glen Gordon)
FlickrNet v3.5 Released (Greg Duncan)
‘Stupid’ Question 23: What is a thread? And what is multithreading? and ‘Stupid’ Question 24: Can you give me an easy to remember example of what the different access modifiers do? (Iris Classon)
Second Preview of Kraig Brockschmidt’s free ebook is coming on Monday (Devon Musgrave)
Contract Annotations in ReSharper 7 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
Source Code for .NET 4.5 Released (Chris Eargle)
Implementing the IDisposable pattern using CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)
Using dependency properties to create reusable Windows 8 app components (Andreas Hammar)
ReSharper hidden features – Generate Delegating Members (Andrei Rinea)
Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 1: What’s in a Table? Describing Your Data and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 2: Feel the Love – Defining Data Relationships and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 3: Screen Templates, Which One Do I Choose? and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 4: Too much information! Sorting and Filtering Data with Queries and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 5: May I? Controlling Access with User Permissions and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 6: Go beyond the box. Customizing LightSwitch Apps with Extensions (Beth Massi)
Visual Rx – Part 4 (Bnaya Eshet)
Live SDK v5.2 (MS Downloads)
Entity Framework Peeves? Code it Yourself! (David Ramel)
Up Log Creek Without a Paddle – Part 1: Windows Audit Logs (Doug Rathbone)

Web Development

Orchard CMS running on ASP.NET MVC 4 (David Hayden)
Let’s Talk about CSS Variables (Tab Atkins Jr.)
Custom schemas in VS2012 CSS editor and Web Essentials 2012 released (Mads Kristensen)
Visual Studio Extensions for the Windows Library for JavaScript (MS Downloads)
ELMAH.MVC 2.0.1 Update is Out (Alexander Beletsky)
IIS Express Error: "Could not determine which version of ASP.NET Web Pages to use" (Chris Love)
jQuery 1.8 box-sizing: width(), css(“width”), and outerWidth() (Dave Methvin)
Building Beautiful and Interactive Windows 8 apps with JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS3: Presentation|Demo|Video Soon (Doris Chen)
ASP.NET Web API is released! What’s new in Web API RTM and how to use it! (Filip W)
CSS Variables, why we drop the $foo notation (glazou)
Full-page Animations Using CSS (Charilaos “Harris” Papadopoulos)
ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web Pages 2, and Visual Studio 2012 for web developers: Part 1 (Jon Galloway)
Levels Of Abstraction In An MVC View (K. Scott Allen)
How to Add WebSharper JavaScript to an ASP.NET MVC Web App (Cameron Taggart)
Nintendo 64 emulator becomes available via JavaScript (Paul Ferson)
jQuery UI 1.8.23 (Scott González)
Backbone.js: Internals Summary (Alex Young)
Version 0.8.7 (stable) (node.js Team)
Migration for user accounts from the SqlMembershipProvider to the Universal Providers (Xiaohong Tang)
Adding Bundling and Minification to Web Forms and Adding Web Optimization to a Web Pages Site (Rick Anderson)
Working with elements before the DOM is ready (Keith Clark)
Using the Cloudant Data Layer for Windows Azure (Doug Mahugh)
Using CNAME With Azure (Chris Missal)
Bing APIs: the Empire Strikes Back (Ajay Ohri)
Migrating Drupal to Windows Azure Web Sites (Brian Swan)
Extending Knockout.js Session From ThatConference (Ryan Niemeyer)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Is TDD a Silver Bullet? (Jim Cooper)
Top 100 Agile Books (Edition 2012) (Jurgen Appelo)
Using TFS 2012 and SCRUM to Run the Sprint (Subodh Sohoni)
Effective Shelfsets: A Primer (Pete Seale)
Time Management Tips #21 – Create an Achievements List (JD Meier)
Entities, Models, and Architecture (Chris Eargle)
Why type-first development matters (Tomas P.)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Getting Started with the Coding4Fun toolkit ImageTile Control (Windows Phone Geek)
Windows Phone 8 and Continuous Location Tracking and Windows Phone 8 and Continuous Location Tracking in the Background (Pt.2) (Adam Benoit)
Windows Phone 8 Battery API (Sébastien Lachance)
24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #19 Tips for Designing Tiles (Arturo Toledo)
Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 7: The application lifecycle of Windows 8 applications (Gill Cleeren)
Data virtualization in Silverlight and Implementing a VirtualizingWrapPanel (Samuel Jack)
2000 WPF Things #624 – Information Available to Key Up/Down Events and #625 – Converting a Keypress Timestamp to a DateTime and #626 – Key Up/Down Sequence When Using CTRL Key and #627 – Detecting Whether The Ctrl Key Is Pressed In a KeyDown Event Handler (Sean Sexton)
Getting Started With Windows Phone and MVVM Light – Part 2 of 2 (spboyer)
Free! Building Games: Data Structures in C++ Presentation in XAML or HTML 5! Free yourself! (Surf4Fun)
Using NUnit to test Windows Phone 7 applications Part 3: ViewModels and MVVM Light Toolkit (András Velvárt)
Memory Profiling: The Types View (pratapl)
WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.7 and Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.6.1 and Self-Tracking Entity Generator v 2.0.0 for VS11 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 064: Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine (Mark Frauenfelder)
Inside Windows Phone #39 | What’s new on the Windows Phone Developer Center | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
Ping 150: BUILD, Office 13, Windows Phone dev portal, NFL & Microsoft | Ping! (Laura Foy)
Bart De Smet: Rx 2.0 RTM and RTW | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
Episode 197 – PowerScripting Podcast – Vaibhav Bhandari on Microsoft Health Vault and HVPosh (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
The Windows Developer Show Episode 080 – that Conference 2012 (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Agile 2012 – Diana Larsen and James Shore – Agile Fluency (Bob Payne)
Visual Studio Ultimate 2012: Managing lab environments for testing | Visual Studio 2012 Premium and Ultimate Overview and Visual Studio Ultimate 2012: Understand your code dependencies through visualization | Visual Studio 2012 Premium and Ultimate Overview (Alvin Ho)
SDU Show 50 with guest Louis Davidson (Greg Low)
Designing Windows 8 Apps | Windows 8 Developer Camp – Redmond (Chris Mayo)
Edge Show 33 Windows Final Code Available | Edge (David Tesar & Joey Snow)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Antony Francis (Ryan Parsley)
[Podcast] Phil Japikse and Lee Brandt on Collaboration (Phil Japikse)
Windows 8 Tips 1: Shortcuts | Windows 8 Tips and Windows 8 Tips 2: Charms | Windows 8 Tips (Larry Larsen)
Hot new Windows 8 content hits Channel 9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
Introducing the Windows 8 platform | Windows 8 Developer Camp – Redmond (John Lam)
SOA, Cloud, and Service Technologies – Part 4 of 4 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

Meet the Author: Stephen Forte on Agile Estimation and Meet the Author: Dominick Baier on Introduction to Identity and Access Control in .NET 4.5 (Paul Ballard)
Geek Graduates: Top 3 tips for getting the most out of your internship (MS JobsBlog)
Virtual Hackathon for Windows 8 (Doris Chen)
Philly Geek Awards: The Official After Party @ National Mechanics (Eric Smith)
Question 25: Am I too stupid to ask and answer questions? (Iris Classon)
Richmond Code Camp 2012 Call For Speakers (Kevin Griffin)

Database

Using nmap to scan for SQL Servers on a network (K. Brian Kelley)
SSIS Reporting Pack update (Jamie Thomson)
SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 Released To Web (Erik EJ)
SQL Server 2012 – Binding Sequence to a Column‏ (Madhivanan)
Ease your Visual Studio development with a SQL Server alias (Peter Gfader)
SQL SERVER – Curious Case of Disappearing Rows – ON UPDATE CASCADE and ON DELETE CASCADE – Part 1 of 2 and SQL SERVER – Curious Case of Disappearing Rows – ON UPDATE CASCADE and ON DELETE CASCADE – T-SQL Example – Part 2 of 2 (Pinal Dave)
Windows Azure Database (SQL Azure) Development Tip (Buck Woody)
Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database (Part 1) (Basit Farooq)

SharePoint

Troubleshooting Publishing & Executing Workflows in SharePoint 2013 Beta 2 (Andrew Connell)
New with SharePoint 2013 Series (Kunaal Kapoor)
A Sample Approval Workflow Which can be Recalled by the Initiator (JongHwa Lim)

PowerShell

Drive Size – PowerShell Script (Vinoth NM)

Miscellaneous

Get your Windows 8 up to speed fast (Maarten Balliauw)
Dear JobsBlog: Which role at Microsoft is the best for me (MS Jobsblog)
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Service Pack 6 Cumulative Update (MS Downloads)
My next book (Adam Nathan)
Quick Tip: Activating your Windows 8 Installation (Jeremy Likness)
Turns Out Windows 8 is “The Most Secure OS” on The Planet. (Jerry Nixon)
Windows Server 2012 Now Available in the Windows Azure Virtual Machine Gallery (Mike Neil)
Windows 8 RTM Reviews Collection (Richard Hay)
Introducing Bing on Windows 8 (The Bing Team)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: August 14, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 15, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 16, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Distributed Weekly 168 (Scott Banwart)
Geek Reading August 14, 2012 and Geek Reading August 15, 2012 and Geek Reading August 16, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Double Shot #935 and Double Shot #936 and Double Shot #937 and Double Shot #938 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 8/14/2012 and Daily News Digest 8/15/2012 and Daily News Digest 8/16/2012 and Daily News Digest 8/17/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for August 6 – 12, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-14 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-15 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-16 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-17 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #1167 and The Morning Brew #1168 and The Morning Brew #1169 and The Morning Brew #1170 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Dev News for August 13, 2012 – #0114 (Dave Campbell)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 14 Aug 201 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Aug 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 16 Aug 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
Links to ASP.NET WebAPI blog posts and Data Access blog posts (Web Development Tools Microsoft)
Cheatsheet: 2012 08.01 ~ 08.16 (juanjian)

The Geek Shelf

Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques: Michael Michalko: Kindle Store

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Dew Drop – August 16, 2011

Top Links

Welcome to Building Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
NHibernate Work-Around is not really a Work-Around… (Phillip Haydon)
Book Reviews: CoffeeScript and JavaScript Web Applications (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Silverlight 5 Incompatibility: Play by the Rules (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

Some special monads in F# – Part 1 of n – InfinityMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 2 of n – UndoMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 3 of n – DistributionMonad and Some special monads in F# – Part 4 of n – Application: The Monty Hall problem (Steffen Forkmann)
Parallel For Loop (Richard Carr)
Downloading file as byte array from AZURE BLOB storage in WCF Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
Code Metrics – Creating Work Items from Code Metrics Results (Zain Naboulsi)
Tip #109 Did you know … How to speed up build time by *only* building the currently selected project in a multi-project solution? (Mark Berryman)
Baby Steps in Windows Device Driver Development: Part 6, Hiding Processes (Sasha Goldshtein)
Answer: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)
DXCore standard string providers list and How to specify the CodeRush user information and use it inside text expansions (Alex Skorkin)
Code Kata Answers to Calculating averages (Mal)
Photo Mosaics Part 4: Tables (Jim O’Neil)
What’s Wrong With This Code? (#28) (K. Scott Allen)
Lego my Robotics Developer Studio… "Robot Development Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio" book now available for purchase and Along came a spider… a .NET Gadgeteer FEZ Spider! and NUI Racing – Using Kinect (and C++) to drive TrackMaina (Greg Duncan)
Annual SQL Connectivity Survey (Raghu Ram)
Interactive IdP With SAML-P WIF Extension (Jimmy Larkin)

Web Development

Building the Account at a Glance HTML5/jQuery Application (Dan Wahlin)
What is the correct media type for JavaScript source code? (Axel Rauschmayer)
Running ClamAV (Antivirus Software) in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Rails 3 – Only $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD271 (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

IT projects; if you can’t beat them, change the game (Simon Brown)
Think of Yourself as a Thinker (J.D. Meier)
Creatively Thrashing With TDD (Rob Conery)
Inversion of Control Course Published on Pluralsight (John Sonmez)
Monsters Built Using Kanban (Peter Saddington)
Rails Misapprehensions: The Dependency Injection Pattern (Nick Sutterer)
How Microsoft Is Changing Version Control for Images (Rowan Puttergill)
Thoughts on Mocking (Part 1 of 2) and (Part 2 of 2) (Gregory Brown)
New book: I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft, Second Edition (Valerie Woolley)
Technical Debt and Open Source (Joe Mayo)
One Year since TeamPulse V1 (Joel Semeniuk)
Planning for a new level of verifications in automation (John Guin)
Use, Reuse, and Architectures (Kyle Szklenski)
Microsoft Visio 2010 Template: Application Architecture Pivot Diagrams (MS Downloads)
Advantages Of Being A Polyglot Programmer (Davy Brion)
Lessons in Software Reliability (Jim Bird)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone Mango Custom application Theme Step by Step (Windows Phone Geek)
Screen Orientations in Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
Fetching Picasa Images through RSS in WP7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
HTML 5 or Silverlight 5, which will Microsoft choose for the next O/S (Surf4Fun)
What happens when I publish a Windows Phone ‘Mango’ application update? (Todd Brix)
Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – OAuth client & basic infrastructure (Dennis Delimarsky)
2000 WPF Things #365 – SelectedDate and SelectedDates Properties of Calendar Control (Sean Sexton)
System.Threading.Tasks and updating the UI thread (Geoff Hudik)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Shaun Walker Talks A Little DNN 6 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Building Web Parts-Episode 65 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
Surface 2.0 Stress Test Robot – PaTTY (Nic Fillingham)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 66 – A Chat About ALM (Richard Banks)
Ping 113: 3D Human face, Windows 7, Microsoft Fashion, Excel Challenge (Laura Foy)
New Async Programming Videos (Spotty)

Community / Events

Coffee Talk: Introduction to Scrum – webcast event this Friday! (Martin Hinshelwood)
SQLAuthority News – Pluralsight Giving Away Free Subscription to Quiz Participants (Pinal Dave)
GirlDevelopIt Brings Affordable Programming Classes to Philly (Nicole Kline)
Cricket brought me back to Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

Major update to SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 available (Erik EJ)
Using SSIS lookup transformation editor with millions of rows (James Serra)
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – System and Time Data Types – Day 16 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
How I Scrapped MySQL for MongoDB in Three Hours (Mike Borozdin)

Miscellaneous

Gorilla vs. Shark (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: August 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2011 08.08 ~ 08.16 (yuanjian)
Interesting .NET Links – August 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Geek Reading August 15, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Today’s Links (8/15/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
The Morning Brew #917 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Client Developer Roundup 078 for 8/15/2011 (Pete Brown)
Daily News Digest 08/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Link dump for August 15th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
Links of the week #158 (David Vidmar)
Daily WP7 Development News 15 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life! by Chris Bernard

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Dew Drop – June 1, 2011

Top Links

MyGet now supports pushing from the command line (Maarten Balliauw)
Atomicity, volatility and immutability are different, part two (Eric Lippert)
Quality is in the eye of the customer (Eric Brechner)
The mystery of Windows 8’s new ‘Protogon’ file system and Could E3 be Microsoft’s launch pad for Project ‘Orapa’? (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

“Not able to view the solution file in Visual Studio” – Hide and Show solution file in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
A Simple Windows Service Template for F# (Don Syme)
Coded UI Test (CUIT) – Variations and Editing with Visual Studio 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
What is the Tfs Automation Platform and What about hosting the Tfs Automation Platform and How might we implement the Change Iteration Automation for the Tfs Automation Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
Change Visual Studio Compare Tool To WinMerge (Shai Raiten)
Virtual properties – they’re just dumb (Kyle Szklenski)
A Broker Pipeline Component for End-To-End Ordered Delivery (Paolo Salvatori)
Performance of Non-Zero lower bound Single Dimensional Array (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC 3 + Entity Framework + Infragistics jQuery Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
Using the jQuery Template Plugin for Consistant User Notifications (Bobby Johnson)
The Orchard CMS Gazette (Jason Gaylord)
jQuery ASP.NET MVC Controls – Release: v1.4.0.0 (CodePlex)
Content Update: New Guidance Available on Using SSL Certificates with Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
Windows Azure SDK for PHP features Open Source Libraries (Bruce Kyle)
Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 2: Extension Methods (Chad Myers)
Record Visual Studio Web Test Using Fiddler (Steve Smith)
Which .Net Web Framework? Let’s at least ask the question. (Jeremy Miller)
Build Canvas-based Heatmaps with Heatmap.js (Rey Bango)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Derived Value (Giorgio Sironi)
Start All Your Meetings in Pole Position (John Sansom)
Mindmapping Today is About More Than a Visual Diagram (Chance Brown)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Using Microsoft Expression Blend 4.0 to implement MVVM (Gildon Opao)
IE9 for Windows Phone Mango in the Spotlight (Joe Marini)
Where is RichTextBox in the Mango beta? (Jaime Rodriguez)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

How Do I: Create .NET Compact Framework controls with a Gradient Background? (MS Podcasts)
.NET Rocks! – Stories from Tech Ed US! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Episode 148 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Hester and Sarah Dutkiewicz (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
SharePoint Implementation at United Airlines-Episode 61 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
Let’s Play TDD #110: Create a Beautiful, Simple Result (James Shore)
Hot Apps: Hydro Thunder GO, DNA Roulette, Easy Animator, Apple Bin, Grandma’s Secrets (Laura Foy)
Podcast- Don Smith on Project Silk (Joe Stagner)
The Thirsty Developer 101: Oh JavaScript, My JavaScript (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

Three-time intern Tessa Palmer on how to rock your Microsoft internship (Microsoft JobsBlog)
Announcing – CodeRush Feature Workshop (Rory Becker)

Database

Top 10 Keys to Deploying SQL Server on VMware (Brent Ozar)
SQL SERVER – Creating All New Database with Full Recovery Model (Pinal Dave)
Generate a GUID/newid() in SSIS 2008 (Scott Herbert)
My head hurts from hitting it against a wall–SSMS log viewer and Do you use schemas? would you like keyboard shortcuts in SSMS to work with them (Simon Sabin)
Data Quality and Master Data Management with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 book available as a free download (Denis Gobo)
SQL Server Quiz June 2011 (William Vaughn)
Identity Reseeding (Steve Jones)
SQL Exercise During Candidate Interview Process (aszwickart)

SharePoint

Creating client applications with Microsoft.SharePoint libraries (Arian Kulp)
MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Debugging Techniques for SharePoint Online Applications (Lonnie Webb)

Miscellaneous

Xbox: Now That’s Entertainment (Jeffrey Meisner)
Microsoft Teases New Device — Could It Be A TV Box? (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
Windows Phone "Mango" concepts that never made the cut (damaster)
The Kindle is ready for programmers (Giorgio Sironi)
My First Experience with Windows Azure Support (Keyvan Nayyeri)
On the road again… with TFS On the Road. A free WP7 TFS App (using the TFS OData Services) (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: May 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #863 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 05/31/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Interesting .NET Links – May 31 , 2011 (admin)
Daily WP7 Development News May 31st 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
SilverlightShow for May 23-29, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for May 31, 2011 — #1097 (Dave Campbell)
Monthly News Digest @SilverlightZone – May 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
.NET Tips – Links on ASP.NET C# MVC Visual Studio Tips – May 2011 (Abhijit Jana)
Weekly Links– 2010_19 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
Top 9 posts from 6 months of microsoft.com/next (Steve Clayton)

The Geek Shelf

Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider

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