Top Links
- Fast and fluid animations in your Metro style app (Angelina Gambo & Hamid Mahmood)
- Develop HTML5 Windows Phone Apps with Apache Cordova (Colin Eberhardt)
- .NET Rocks! – Glenn Block Does node.js on Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- E2E: Erik Meijer and Jeroens Frijters – IKVM.NET (Java VM implemented in .NET) (Charles Torre)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Visual Studio Exceptions dialogs (Daniel Moth)
- Android Ported to C# (Really, the Xamarin team has done a test/experimental/research port of Android to C#) (Greg Duncan)
- Building a WebServer using C# (rockdino)
- Introducing Workspace Reloader – A Visual Studio AddIn to save your open files across project reloads (Scott Hanselman)
- Lights, Camera, Action with Mono for Android Article in Visual Studio Magazine and Playing, Recording, and Editing Video in the iPhone with MonoTouch Article (Wally McClure)
- Stylecop 4.7.18.0 has been released (Tatworth)
- Four Different Ways to Get Windows Azure Accounts and Services (Zhiming Xue)
- Setting Up an Offline Production Debugging Environment (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Problems with portable libraries and object-oriented APIs (Joh.)
- IDisposable for Dummies #1 – Why? What? (Paul Ballard)
- Filling in the UX Gaps in Metro Style apps (Brent Schooley)
- What System Center Can Do for Developers (Andrew J. Brust)
- Isolating Integration Tests with EF4.x, Code First & MSTest (Andrew Connell)
- Etching sketches with a Netduino Go (Bertrand Le Roy)
Web Development
- New Course on JsRender Templating Fundamentals with JavaScript (John Papa)
- Changes Large and Small: WCF 4.5 and the ASP.NET Web API (Peter Vogel)
- .NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4 in Windows Azure (Nicolas Humann)
- CSS: The Good Parts (Louis Lazaris)
- How Are You Scaling ASP.NET? (Michael Kennedy)
- Decoding jQuery – domManip: DOM Manipulation (Shi Chuan)
- HTML5 Accessibility Chops: hidden and aria-hidden (Steve Faulkner)
- Getting started with HTML 5 and JavaScript (Surf4Fun)
- Ajax Control Toolkit May 2012 Release (Stephen Walther)
- Starting out with CoffeeScript (Chad Lung)
- Google App Engine 1.6.5 Release Sees Datastore, Images and Location Enhancements (Romin Irani)
- Multicast Communication in Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Bliki: TestPyramid (Martin Fowler)
- The Zen of python should be the zen of good unit testing and What should a good code review look and feel like? (Roy Osherove)
- Lean tools: Options thinking (Giorgio Sironi)
- Effective Typography-Driven Web Design (Carrie Cousins)
- Metro style applications – designing for the user (Lazar Nikolov)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- “What Time Is It” explained and ported to Windows Phone (Den Delimarsky)
- Windows Phone: Background Agents Pitfall (4 of n) (Peter Kuhn)
- 2000 WPF Things #549 – More Colors Than You Know What to Do With (Sean Sexton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- SQL SERVER – Video – Step by Step Installation of SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
- Hot Apps: Civilization Revolution, Baconit, Symmetry, Wikitude, Falling Birds (Laura Foy)
- Ping 139: System Center Advisor, Real Life Phaser, Skydrive, DigiGirlz (Laura Foy & Paul Mestemaker)
- Video: Using NHibernate to Pluck Data Into Orchard CMS (Paul Ballard)
- Symposium Session: Gadgeteering and the .NET Micro Framework (Pete Brown)
- Engadget HD Podcast 297 – 05.01.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Let’s Play TDD #185: Disentangling our Test (James Shore)
- Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 167: Blackberry World (Gareth)
- Diagnosing Application Issues – 01 (Golnaz & Brad L.)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for May 1st, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Windows 8, Windows Phone and Windows Azure Events in May and June 2012 (Zhiming Xue)
- Free XNA Game Programming and Windows Phone 7 Events in Arizona in May (Dan Wahlin)
- Introducing our "Women in IT" Series (Angela Romei)
- The GitHub Data Challenge (Brian Doll)
- The Verge team expands: say hello to our newest writers! (Joshua Topolsky)
- PowerHour Webcast on 5/23/2012: Managing Office 365 with PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)
- Talking Cloud Tuesday with Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole (MVP Award Program)
- Virtual Developer Day: Hands-on Database App Development (May 15) – with Big Data and Cloud Sessions (Oracle TechNet)
- Join us on May 8th for a Microsoft TechCast: Using Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 to Create Rich User Experience Apps! (MS Public Sector Team)
Database
- Are You Using the Right SQL Server Performance Metrics? (Thomas LaRock)
- How to execute a package from another package? (Sam Vangas)
PowerShell
- Don’t Waste Speed – How To Activate The PowerShell Turbo Mode (Tobias Weltner)
Miscellaneous
- Trust Me, I’m Lying (Jeff Atwood)
- The ReactOS team wants your money (Alfonso Maruccia)
- “Native applications are catching up to Web applications” (Anders M. Andersen)
- Microsoft Research is looking at ways for you can talk to toast (voice enabling notifications) with SpeechToast (Greg Duncan)
- One week only: Save 50% on Windows 7 ebooks from Microsoft Press (Kim Spilker)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 2, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #871 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1096 and The Morning Brew #1097 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-02 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily News Digest 05/01/2012 and Daily News Digest 5/2/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows Dev News for May 01, 2012 – #0077 (Dave Campbell)
- LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–April 2012 (Beth Massi)
- Daily WP7 Development News 1 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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