There are rumors of the release of Windows 8 Release Preview and VS11 RC coming today. Fingers crossed…
Top Links
- Does Your Daily Stand-up Meeting Suck? This Is Probably Why… (Mike Cottmeyer)
 - Is Productivity Killing Your Creativity? (Jay Fields)
 - Cross-Platform Development With Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
 - Everything You Need to Start Writing Windows 8 Metro Applications Today (Jeremy Likness)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- WCF Data Services 5.0 for OData V3 (MS Downloads)
 - WCF REST Error Handler (Elton Stoneman)
 - How does it work in C#? – Part 3 (C# LINQ in detail) (Mohammad A Rahman)
 - Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Tips and Tricks–Part 1: Extensions (ToStringTheory)
 - C++ Pointers Get Smart (Diego Dagum)
 - Performance Tips For Metro Style XAML Apps (Roopesh Shenoy)
 - Creating an IntelliSense Compatible Enum-Based Dependency Property (Tim Dams)
 - Workflow 4.5 is Awesome, cant wait for 5.0! (Josh Reuben)
 
Web Development
- Client-Side vs. Server-Side Rendering (Karl Seguin)
 - JavaScript Strict Mode Explained (Rachel Appel)
 - ASP.NET MVC CRUD Validation (Ricardo Peres)
 - Introducing ConsolR (AppHarbor)
 - Challenges Faced when Migrating Applications to the Cloud (Abel Avram)
 - Serving web resources (AXDs) with HTTP Compression through Windows Azure CDN (Avkash Chauhan)
 - There are no clouds when raytracing with Azure (Greg Duncan)
 - IIS 7.5 Express kills IIS 8.0 Express (James Johnson)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How To Solve “Not Enough Time” (Gojko Adzic)
 - API Design: Sharding Status for failure scenarios–explicit failure management doesn’t work (Oren Eini)
 - Lean tools: Pull systems (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Plans for CQRS Journey V3 (MS patterns & practices)
 - Natural Language Generation system architectures (Swizec Teller)
 - Book review: Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice (Devon Musgrave)
 - Design Process In The Responsive Age (Drew Clemens)
 - Situational Leadership and Coaching (Greg Young)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- WPF Elements 5.1 Released! (John-Daniel Trask)
 - Silverlight – Testing the untestable (Peter Gfader)
 - 2000 WPF Things #570 – Use Blend to Search for Properties (Sean Sexton)
 - Building IG Outlook Part 2 – Creating the Shell (Brian Lagunas)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Dominick Baier Updates Us on Identity in .NET 4.5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - SharePoint Pod Show – 5 Pillars of SharePoint with Ant Clay-Episode 72 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
 - The Verge Mobile Show 001 – 05.29.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
 - C++ and DirectX for Metro Style Games | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Chas Boyd & Matt Sandy)
 - Defrag: Corrupted MFCM80.DLL, HDD Not Appearing, Sharp Keys | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
 - Engadget HD Podcast 301 – 05.30.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Video: Strengthen Your CoffeeScript with Regular Expressions (Paul Ballard)
 
Community / Events
- I’m speaking at TechEd North America, June 11-14 (Chris O’Brien)
 - Welcome to the new blog design (Jason Zander)
 - Welcome to the Developer Tools Blog Network (Lisa Feigenbaum)
 - Meet the Author: Steve Evans on TCP/IP Networking for Developers (Paul Ballard)
 - June 5th, 2012 Meeting – RavenDB (Philly alt.net)
 - Seattle Dates Announced for the 30 to Launch Windows 8 Event (Wes Yanaga)
 
Database
- Developer Training – Various Options for Maximum Benefit – Part 4 (Pinal Dave)
 - Denali – Day 30: Deprecated Features (Vinay Thakur)
 - MERGE Statement Generator (Michael Swart)
 - Smart defaults [SSDT] (Jamie Thomson)
 
SharePoint
- How do I – Resolve the issue where I cannot upload files to SharePoint that are larger than 50 MB through Explorer View or WebDAV (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
 - Lightning conductor v3 beta (Brett Lonsdale)
 
Miscellaneous
- Rumor: SkyDrive to get Android app, Recycle Bin in next update, coming in July (damaster)
 - Where’s Hadoop for Microsoft’s Windows Server? and Microsoft rolls out Office 365 for Government (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Microsoft Photosynth arrives, and Marketplace continues its roll (Michael Stroh)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 31, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - The Morning Brew #1117 (Chris Alcock)
 - Geek Reading May 30, 2012 (Rob Diana)
 - Software news – May 2012 (Dror Helper)
 - Double Shot #890 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily News Digest 5/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-31 (Dan Rigby)
 - Windows Dev News for May 30, 2012 – #0091 (Dave Campbell)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 30 May 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 30 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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