Top Links
- Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Developer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) (Scott Hanselman)
 - Expression Blend… for HTML (Christian Schormann)
 - Build HTML 5 apps with Expression Blend for Windows Developer Preview (Pam Keesey)
 - Welcome to Windows 8 – The Developer Preview (Steven Sinofsky)
 - BUILDing the Future with Visual Studio (Somasegar)
 - I_See_What_You_Did_There (Anonymous)
 
Windows 8 / BUILD
- Microsoft BUILD – Keynote summary (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - The BUILD Report #1: Sinofsky keynote (Ward Bell)
 - Friday at //BUILD/: Jeff Wilcox on Windows Phone Performance (Jeff Wilcox)
 - Bullet Points from Build–Day 1 and my thoughts (Michael Crump)
 - Experiencing Windows 8 touch on Windows 7 hardware (Grant & Jeff)
 - Channel 9 Events / BUILD2011 RSS Feed Tip, Building your perfect, custom, filtered BUILD RSS feed (Greg Duncan)
 - Windows 8 Server: Screenshots + What’s new (Owen Williams)
 - Windows 8 Developer Preview and Windows 8 Developer Preview Screenshot Gallery (Paul Thurrott)
 - Windows 8 Developer Preview Keyboard Shortcuts (Ron Fosner)
 - Xbox LIVE and Windows 8 (Larry Hryb)
 - Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI and Mike Angiulo Unboxes the Build Hardware With Us (Larry Larsen)
 - //build conference in Anaheim: Keynote notes #bldwin (Laurent Bugnion)
 - Windows 8 Forces Some Compromises After All (Ina Fried)
 - Windows 8 and Build Day 1 Keynote Thoughts (Jeremy Likness)
 - BUILD Keynote Day 1 – Windows 8 Experience (Brent Schooley)
 - The Windows 8 Developer Ecosystem (Chris Eargle)
 - Microsoft demos Windows 8 apps for Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and Photos (damaster)
 - BUILD apps that use C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
 - Getting Hands On With Virtual Machine of Windows 8! (Matt Griffin)
 - Windows 8–First thoughts and Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtual machine (Peter Kuhn)
 - PreEmptive Provides More Application Intelligence to HTML5 Developers #bldwin (Josette Rigsby)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- What is the cost of try/catch (Oren Eini)
 - Why Write a .NET API For RabbitMQ? (Mike Hadlow)
 - TeamPulse TFS Sync Tips & Tricks (TeamPulse Team)
 - WinRT: An Object Orientated Replacement for Win32 (Jonathan Allen)
 - Programmatically Get Assembly Version and Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part I) – Installation and Development Environment Setup (Abhijit Jana)
 - Using Custom Web.config Transformations in MSBUILD (Doug Rathbone)
 - Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.5 – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
 - Sync Framework Toolkit Connects Phones, Desktops, HTML5 to SQL Server, SQL Azure (Bruce Kyle)
 
Web Development
- Secure development of Metro style apps with HTML5 (MS Downloads)
 - Advantages of CoffeeScript When Working with jQuery Templates (Daniel Mohl)
 - Backbone.js: MVC in JavaScript and Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Collection (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Thinking Like a Web Designer (Tim Bray)
 - Getting Role Instance Information with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Command Line Tools (Brian Swan)
 - Resources For, And How I Learned Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
 - Windows Developer Preview: The Third IE10 Platform Preview (Dean Hachamovitch)
 - The Guide To CSS Animation: Principles and Examples (Tom Waterhouse)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Four Basic Insights on Confidence (J.D. Meier)
 - You are doing Scrum but the Scrum Master tells the team what to do! (Martin Hinshelwood)
 - RTM’d today: Effective Time Management: Using Microsoft Outlook to Organize Your Work and Personal Life (Kim Spilker)
 - TeamPulse – A Project Management Solution from Telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - 9 Things Designers Can Learn from Target’s Checkout Form (Anthony)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Toolkit DateTime Converters (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
 - Adding to MoXAML. (Pete O’Hanlon)
 - 2000 WPF Things #386 – Layout = Panels + FrameworkElements + Alignment/Margins/Padding (Sean Sexton)
 - Expression Blend for HTML (Somasegar)
 - TouchDevelop v2.2: tutorial mode, improved code editor, events (Nikolai Tillmann)
 - Prism 4 MEF Application (Danny Siew)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – James Dawson and Grace Mollison Bridge the Gap Between Developers and Operations (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Let’s Play TDD #139: File → Close (James Shore)
 - Engadget HD Podcast 265 – 09.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Pluralcast 48 : Jeffrey Palermo on Career and Management (David Starr)
 - The GeekDads Episode #100: The First Internet Streamed Murder (Ken Denmead)
 
Community / Events
- Webcast: Office 365 & SharePoint Online (Kim Spilker)
 - Take a Ruby on Rails course from Rails Rookies (Charles Max Wood)
 - //BUILD/: What a great conference -celebrating this new era by starting a new ALM Team blog (Charles Sterling)
 - Say “Hello” to BlendInsider (Kirupa)
 - WindowsPhoneGeek Community Recognition Program is Live! (Windows Phone Geek)
 
Database
- Microsoft SQL Server OLEDB Provider Deprecation Announcement (Luiz Santos)
 - SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: Four new useful DMV (Jakub Dvorak)
 - SQL SERVER – Introduction to expressor 3.4 Lookup Tables (Pinal Dave)
 - Understanding SQL Azure Federations No-MARS Support and Entity Framework (James Podgorski)
 - Backing up SQL Azure with Backup from Red-Gate (Eric Nelson)
 
SharePoint
- RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
 - Business Connectivity Service Associations using DB2 Stored Procedures in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)
 
PowerShell
- First Glimpse at PowerShell v3 and Video: Richard Siddaway – WMI: Gems and Gotchas (Dmitry Sotnikov)
 - The PowerShell Magazine launches… (Greg Duncan)
 
Miscellaneous
- Some Basic Bash Commands I found useful for Git Bash (Mark Pearl)
 - Xbox 360 won’t Auto Login to Live – Fixed due to RSTP and Spanning Tree setting in a NetGear Managed GS724TP Switch and Essential IFTTT (IfThisThenThat) – Programming Workflows for Humans using the Web’s Social Glue (Scott Hanselman)
 - This is why OEMs in the Windows world get slapped with the Fugly Stamp (Steven Hodson)
 - Windows Phone “Tango1”, “Tango2”, and “Apollo” confirmed (damaster)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: September 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - The Morning Brew #937 (Chris Alcock)
 - Interesting .NET Links – September 14 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
 - Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Geek Reading September 13, 2011 (Rob Diana)
 - Double Shot #708 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Link dump for September 12th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
 - Daily News Digest 09/13/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 - Today’s Links (9/13/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
 
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