Top Links
- Visual Studio Dark Theme (Monty Hammontree)
- Using GitHub for Windows with non-GitHub repositories (Phil Haack)
- Miguel de Icaza on ASP.NET MVC, Moonlight, and the Android Lawsuit (Jonathan Allen)
- My Favorite Features: Managing Projects with the Backlog, Sprint Planning and Taskboard Features in Team Foundation Server 11 (Jason Zander)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Writing a WCF 4.5 WebSocket Service (Peter Vogel)
- Windows Explorer Preview Pane for .vb files (Kirill Osenkov)
- How does it work in C#? – Part 3 (C# LINQ in detail) (Mohammad A Rahman)
- Visual Studio Express–Alive and Well (Talbott Crowell)
- Mighty Metro Morphing! – Design case study of morphing a HTML5 page into a Windows 8 Metro app (Greg Duncan)
- Making a different view the Root Navigation Controller and Hiding the back button in a Navigation Controller with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)
- CSLA 4 version 4.3.11 beta available (Rockford Lhotka)
- Team Building your windows 8 Metro style Applications. (Shady Youssef)
- My take on Win8/Metro (John Petersen)
- In Case You Missed It: Async and Streaming for ADO.NET 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)
- Design case study: iPad to Windows 8 Metro style app (downloadable version) (MS Downloads)
- IsNullOrEmpty generic method for Array to avoid Re-Sharper warning (Michael Freidgeim)
- RabbitMQ for Windows: Headers Exchanges (Derek Greer)
- How many ways are there to create a File Watcher? Well, here’s three at least… (Greg Duncan)
- Upgrade to NuGet 1.8 to speed up builds (AppHarbor)
Web Development
- Extending WordPress with C# Plugins (Miloslav Beno)
- Develop A One-Of-A-Kind CSS/JS-Based Game Portfolio (Daniel Sternlicht)
- The CSS Clip Property (Louis Lazaris)
- Rendering ASP.NET MVC Views to String (Rick Strahl)
- Naked JavaScript – Function Scopes, Hoisting And Other Quirks (Ryan Sukale)
- Using KO’s native PubSub for decoupled synchronization (Ryan Niemeyer)
- Objects and Classes in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Challenges Faced when Migrating Applications to the Cloud (Abel Avram)
- Search DOM Nodes with Opera Dragonfly Developer tool (Karl Dubost)
- #nodejs, why I’m basically porting EVERYTHING to it… (Adron Hall)
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.2 (Alexey Gopachenko)
- Why your site graphics look crap on the iPhone (Paul Boag)
- Fun With the Service Bus (Part 3) (Jim O’Neil)
- Microsoft to take the wraps off ‘Antares’ hosting, Linux VM for Windows Azure (Mary Jo Foley)
- Serving web resources (AXDs) with HTTP Compression through Windows Azure CDN (Avkash Chauhan)
- Windows Azure End to End Examples (Buck Woody)
- Bing Maps AJAX Control SDK 7.0 (PDF) (MS Downloads)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- 10. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – the Definition of Done (Clemens Reijnen)
- Agile Scrum Tools – A Tool that Helps Teams Grow? (Peter Saddington)
- Performance Testing Part I – Modeling, Implementing, and Executing Performance Tests (Phil Sams)
- Book review: Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice (Devon Musgrave)
- How to Make Progress Bars Feel Faster to Users (Anthony)
- Why one startup prefers coworking to remote collaboration (Jessica Stillman)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Xamarin abandons its Silverlight for Linux technology (Mary Jo Foley)
- Silverlight 5 in Action printed book is now in (Pete Brown)
- 2000 WPF Things #569 – Setting Transforms from within Blend (Sean Sexton)
- The PhoneGap/Cordova Misconception (Matt Lacey)
- LightSwitch Tips & Tricks on Query Performance (Beth Massi)
- Silverlight – Testing the untestable (Peter Gfader)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Let’s Play TDD #193: Turning the Application Inside Out (James Shore)
- Howard Dierking Shows You How to Optimize Your ASP.NET Sites | Web Camps TV (Brady Gaster)
- Yet Another Podcast #66–Chris Sells (Jesse Liberty)
- Ping 143: So.cl, Imagine Cup, Win 8 Boot Speed, Minecraft refund | Ping! (Laura Foy)
Community / Events
- Windows 8: 30 to Launch (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Free One Day F# Workshop (Giles Davies)
- Windows 8 Day by the beach in Carlsbad California and See Windows 8 at the Microsoft Store! (Surf4Fun)
- I’m Speaking at SP Tech Con in Boston this July (Andrew Connell)
- My Tech Ed North America Preview – Content Edition (Chris Gardner)
- Talking Cloud Tuesday with Windows Imbedded MVP Gianni Rosa Gallina (MVP Award Program)
- She let me take the computer home. – How did you get started in computers and programming? (Scott Hanselman)
Database
- Building a SQL Server Inventory – Part 1 (Colleen Morrow)
- Developer Training – Difficult Questions and Alternative Perspective – Part 3 (Pinal Dave)
- Oracle Date issues with PowerPivot (Mike Davis)
- Denali – Day 30: Deprecated Features (Vinay Thakur)
PowerShell
- Using PowerShell to Manage Windows Azure Applications (Brian Hitney)
Miscellaneous
- Jobs in IT: Five Tips for a Successful Design Portfolio (MS JobsBlog)
- Xbox Beyond the Box (Jeffrey Meisner)
- Meet Samsung Series 3 Chromebox and Is Samsung Chromebook Series 5 550 worth spending $549? (Joe Wilcox)
- Photosynth for Windows Phone (finally) released (Kip Kniskern)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 30, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Geek Reading May 29, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #889 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1116 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-30 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily WP7 Development News 29 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week May 21-27, 2012 and Daily News Digest 5/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows Dev News for May 29, 2012 – #0090 (Dave Campbell)
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