Top Links
- #mvvmlight V4 for Windows 8 RP is available (Laurent Bugnion)
 - The Tablet Show – Miguel de Icaza Ported Android to C# (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Web browsing in Windows 8 Release Preview with IE10 (Steven Sinofsky)
 - ReSharper 7 EAP Now Compatible with Visual Studio 2012 RC (Hadi Hariri)
 - Asus announces Tablet 810: 11.6-inch Windows 8 tablet with Intel Atom processor (update: video) (Tom Warren)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Installation Guide (MS Downloads)
 - After upgrading to TFS 2012: Updating licensing and enabling async checkout for server workspaces (Buck Hodges)
 - Assembly Versioning in a TFS Team Build (Eric Quist)
 - Installing Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 8 and Installing Eclipse on Windows 8 and connecting to TFS 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)
 - My impressions after developing with Visual Studio 2012 for a few weeks (Емил Табаков)
 - Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate on Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Richard Erwin)
 - Convert VS 11 Beta Metro Projects To VS 2012 RC and Upgrade Metro App From Beta To RC (Shai Raiten)
 - W8WIL #2: Declaratively Specifying an ItemTemplate in a Fragment (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - MICROSOFT REPORT VIEWER 2012 RUNTIME – BETA (MS Downloads)
 - Porting a desktop app to a Metro style app | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Sridhar Madhugiri)
 - How do I prefetch data into my memory-mapped file? (Raymond Chen)
 - Simple .NET Database Programming using SQL Azure (Mahesh Sabnis)
 - Updated Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework for Windows 8 RP Released (Greg Duncan)
 - Introducing RabbitBus (Derek Greer)
 - Windows 8 Metro: Asynchrony made easy (Andrea Boschin)
 - ORM Profiler v1.1 has been released! (Frans Bouma)
 - Hadoop .Net HDFS File Access – Revisited (Carl Nolan)
 - Exceptional Async Handling (Patrick Steele)
 - Building an Image and Video Viewer for Microsoft Surface 2.0 in No Time At All (Doug Rathbone)
 
Web Development
- Powerful JavaScript With Upshot and Knockout (Peter Vogel)
 - Get latest CSS 3 support in Visual Studio 2010 (Mads Kristensen)
 - Explaining JavaScript VMs in JavaScript (Mr. Aleph)
 - Extending your ASP.NET Web API responses with useful metadata (Filip W)
 - Functional JavaScript with Underscore.js (Giorgio Sironi)
 - ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages RC NuGet Packages (Henrik F. Nielsen)
 - ASP.NET Web API Basics (Jalpesh Vadgama)
 - Useful jQuery Function Demos For Your Projects (Sam Deering)
 - Flotr2 – my favorite javascript graph library (Swizec Teller)
 - Looking at Windows 8 Web API Endpoints – Xbox Live (HTTP) and Windows 8 App Store – The APPX Download API is Secure (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - Building a new blog engine with node.js, geddy and github gists (Liam McLennan)
 - Firebug 1.10a10 (Jan Odvarko)
 - Kendo UI ASP.NET Sample Applications (2012-06-01) (CodePlex)
 - Subtyping Functions Without Poking Your Eyes Out (Nick Santos)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Designing Metro style: Being the Best on Windows 8 (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Review: Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web (Peter Gasston)
 - Migrating from Mercurial to Git (Mehdi Khalili)
 - Save 15% on one of Microsoft Press’s most popular books–Code Complete, 2nd Ed. (Kim Spilker)
 - GitHub for Windows – first Impression (Code Inside Team)
 - SubSpec (David Starr)
 - Economics of Software Quality (Steve Smith)
 - Microsoft Platform Ready Test Tool 3.0 (MPR Test Tool) (MS Downloads)
 - Code Quality Process/Guidelines for Development Team (Ankur Kumar)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone and PhoneGap; The Beep Sound (Senthil Kumar)
 - Character Map in WPF (Jawahar Suresh Babu)
 - Capturing Transport Data Between Visual Studio and Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - Developer Guide: Working with Windows Phone and the Cloud (Michael Desmond)
 - 2000 WPF Things #572 – You Can Move Windows Outside of the Blend GUI (Sean Sexton)
 - Bridging the PhoneGap Published in Visual Studio Magazine (June 2012) (Michael Crump)
 - OData and LightSwitch Book Excerpt – Chapter 1: What Is This Book About? (Michael Washington)
 - Building IG Outlook Part 4 – Creating Custom Region Adapters (Brian Lagunas)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 053: Fitness for Geeks (Mark Frauenfelder)
 - The Metro Developer Podcast Episode 069 – “A Little Slice of Heaven” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
 - Software Engineering Radio Episode 186: Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage on Agile Database Development (SE-Radio Team)
 - TWC9: Windows 8 Release Preview, Visual Studio 2012 RC, Storyboards, HTML5 and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Greg Duncan & Rick Barraza)
 - Radio TFS – Visual Studio 2012 RC (Martin Woodward)
 - The Vergecast 032 – 06.01.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
 - Video: Master Component Activation with Intents in Android (Paul Ballard)
 - Windows Weekly 263: Clippy Lives and What The Tech Ep. 119 – Take Your Guess (Paul Thurrott)
 - Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 54 (Richard Hay)
 - Countdown to TechEd North America 2012: What’s in Rick’s Suitcase? | The Countdown Show (Rick Claus & Joey Snow)
 - GeekWire Radio: Windows 8 rant, Facebook revisited, and the story behind the JoeyBra (Todd Bishop)
 - Engadget Podcast 296 – 06.01.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 140 – 06.02.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 - The Campus Coder Show #4: The Clemson Crew (Glen Gordon)
 
Community / Events
- Microsoft Smart Glass coming at E3, AirPlay-style streaming from iOS, Android and Windows Phone? (Tim Stevens)
 - Upcoming Events for June 4th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - An Evening With Scott Hanselman (Tony Verguldi, Jr.)
 - Join the CodePlex community on Geeklist (Mark Groves)
 - TeamPulse and Test Studio Joint Webinar on 19 June (Jim Holmes)
 - Azure Kick Start in Dallas (Chris Koenig)
 - Athlete balances Microsoft internship with training (MS JobsBlog)
 
Database
- SQL Server 2008 Security Best Practices (Basit Farooq)
 - SQL SERVER – A Puzzle Part 4 – Fun with SEQUENCE in SQL Server 2012 – Guess the Next Value and SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: 147 An aggregate may not appear in the WHERE clause unless it is in a subquery contained in a HAVING clause or a select list, and the column being aggregated is an outer reference and SQL SERVER – Simple Example to Configure Resource Governor – Introduction to Resource Governor (Pinal Dave)
 - “Green” Database Administration (Jeffrey Yao)
 - Database Synchronization with the Microsoft Sync Framework (Joe Kunk)
 
PowerShell
- PowerShell Try Catch Finally (Dov Trietsch)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Open Specifications Poster and Win8 RP – How do you get the desktop Media Player and Media Center? Here’s the key… (Greg Duncan)
 - On Computer Science Education (Keyvan Nayyeri)
 - iOS, blocks and HTTP requests (Josh Twist)
 - Acer announces 11.6-inch Iconia W700 Windows 8 tablet (update: hands-on video) and Acer unveils 10.1-inch Iconia W510 Windows 8 convertible tablet (update: hands-on video) (Laura June)
 - Love The New Windows 8 Delete Dialog (Nick Berardi)
 - Windows 8, live.com, and computer names (Rockford Lhotka)
 - Windows 8: Why I’m struggling with Microsoft’s new thing (Todd Bishop)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: June 2, 2012 and Interesting Finds: June 3, 2012 and Interesting Finds: June 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Distributed Weekly 157 (Scott Banwart)
 - Geek Reading June 1, 2012 and Geek Reading June 2, 2012 (Rob Diana)
 - Collective #14 (Mary Lou)
 - Double Shot #892 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - MVP Friday Five: June 1, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
 - Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #21) (Himanshu Singh)
 - Daily News Digest 6/1/2012 and Daily News Digest 6/4/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (6/1/2012) (Silverlight Show)
 - Reading Notes #49 (Frank)
 - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-04 (Dan Rigby)
 - Windows Dev News for June 03, 2012 – #0092 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for May 21 – 27, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
 - Retrospective 87 – Scrum Tool Evolution & Testing Code & Culture (Peter Saddington)
 - Daily Windows 8 Development News 1 June 2012 and Daily WP7 Development News 1 June 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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