Top Links
- Delivering the Windows 8 Release Preview (Steven Sinofsky)
 - Visual Studio/TFS 2012 Release Candidate Available Today (Brian Harry)
 - Announcing the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 (Jason Zander)
 - Designing Metro style Apps in Blend and VS: What’s New in the RC? (Christian Schormann)
 - Windows Release Preview: The Sixth IE10 Platform Preview (Dean Hachamovitch)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Adding Code Examples to Documentation Comments (Richard Carr)
 - Announcing Windows Installer XML v3.6 Release Candidate (Heath Stewart)
 - TFS Power Tools for the RC (Brian Harry)
 - My C# Wish List (Chris Missal)
 - Stop the screaming! Are the Visual Studio 2012 ALL CAPS menus bugging you? Here’s a Reg Hack to fix it! (Greg Duncan)
 - Installing TFS 2012 on Server 2012 with SQL 2012 and Installing Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 8 (Martin Hinshelwood)
 - What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview (Jake Sabulsky)
 - Windows 8 Release Preview and Visual Studio 2012 RC (Pete Brown)
 - Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Release Candidates available now! (S.Somasegar)
 - What’s New for Parallelism in Visual Studio 2012 RC and Performance consideration for Async/Await and MarshalByRefObject (Stephen Toub)
 - PostSharp, Obfuscation, and IL (Simon Cooper)
 - Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now! (Visual Studio Team)
 - Welcome to Visual Studio 2012 ALM Rangers Readiness RC “Wave” (Willy-P. Schaub)
 - Callisto: A toolkit for XAML Metro style apps (Tim Heuer)
 - The Nitty Gritty—Detailed List of what’s new in Blend for Visual Studio 2012 RC (Blend Insider)
 - Writing functional code in C++ V – Miscellaneous and conclusions (Luca Bolognese)
 - How to Configure Features for dozens of team projects (Ewald Hofman)
 - Deep Dive on Configure Features (Ewald Hofman)
 - Visualizing recursion (Brian Marick)
 - Dual Arity Operators (Chris Eargle)
 - Past performance is no guarantee of future results (Eric Lippert)
 - Introducing the .NET Framework 4.5 RC (Brandon Bray)
 - A Community for Storyboard Shapes (Brian Harry)
 
Web Development
- Documenting JavaScript with YUIDoc (Andrew Burgess)
 - Visual Studio 2012 RC is released – The Big Web Rollup (Scott Hanselman)
 - New Features for Web Development in Visual Studio 2012 RC (Angle Brackets Team)
 - Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC and the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC (Carl Bergenhem)
 - Using Nightly ASP.NET Web Stack NuGet Packages with VS 2012 RC (Henrik F. Nielsen)
 - JavascriptHelper (Redux) – Now with Bundling & Compression! (James Curran)
 - Working with files in JavaScript, Part 4: Object URLs (Nicholas C. Zakas)
 - Useful jQuery Function Demos For Your Projects (Sam Deering)
 - Review: Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web (Peter Gasston)
 - Accessibility and developers (Paul Irish)
 - Hey Pinterest, When Will a Public API be Available? (Janet Wagner)
 - Microsoft Smooth Streaming Client 2.0 RTW and Live SDK v5.2 Preview (MS Downloads)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- BDD is like TDD if… (Dan North)
 - Work Hard (J.D. Meier)
 - API Design: Sharding Status for failure scenarios–Solving at the right granularity (Oren Eini)
 - How fully distributed teams can become more efficient and popular (Marta Jasinska)
 - Situational Leadership and Coaching (Greg Young)
 - Permanently high plateau (Eric Brechner)
 - The Clean Coder Review (Brendan Enrick)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Today`s Tip: Setting RichTextBox Xaml via code in Windows Phone: Solution (Windows Phone Geek)
 - 2000 WPF Things #571 – Moving Windows Around in Blend (Sean Sexton)
 - A WP7 Databound Graph Control (Tim Dams)
 - Windows Phone Performance – Part 5 of many: A Developer’s look at the Nokia Lumia 610 (András Velvárt)
 - What’s New in LightSwitch for Visual Studio 2012 RC? (John Stallo)
 - Building IG Outlook Part 3 – Creating the Mail Module (Brian Lagunas)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer: What is a database, really? (Charles Torre)
 - Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate | Visual Studio Toolbox (Jason Zander & Robert Green)
 - Video: Get a Diagnostics View on Your Microsoft StreamInsight Queries (Paul Ballard)
 - Xamarin Designer for Android Webinar – Recording (Wally McClure)
 
Community / Events
- Women in IT: Life Skills Translate to Business Success (MS JobsBlog)
 - Learn Windows Azure LIVE at TechEd North America, June 11, 2012 (Himanshu Singh)
 - Random Hacks of Kindness 6 is this Weekend (MS Public Sector Team)
 - Volunteering your Technical Expertise to Address Global Challenges (Zhiming Xue)
 - Registration is open for aspConf (Eric Hexter)
 
Database
- Developer Training – A Conclusive Summary- Part 5 (Pinal Dave)
 - SQL Injection – Beyond the Basics – A good article (Tatworth)
 
SharePoint
- 10 Requirements for SharePoint Mobile (Joel Oleson)
 - Migrating the SharePoint 2007 “FAB 40” templates to SharePoint 2010 (Surya Kiran)
 
PowerShell
- Windows Management Framework 3.0 – RC (MS Downloads)
 
Miscellaneous
- How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead (Jeff Atwood)
 - Windows Store for Release Preview (Antoine Leblond)
 - Windows Server 2012 RC now available for download (Greg Duncan)
 - Vaya con iOS, Entry #2: A New Challenger — JetBrains’ AppCode — Appears! (Joey deVilla)
 - MSDN Magazine June Issue Preview (Michael Desmond)
 - If Windows 8 Is Too Radical For Your Desktop, Which OS Would You Switch To? (Paul Ballard)
 - Windows 8 Release Preview: The Ultimate Delta Guide (Paul Thurrott)
 - Bing Announces News, Sports and Travel apps for the Windows 8 Release Preview (Brian MacDonald)
 - Social Meets Search with the Latest Version of Bing, Available to Everyone in US Today (The Bing Team)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: June 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Cheatsheet: 2012 05.16 ~ 05.31 (yuanjian)
 - Geek Reading May 31, 2012 (Rob Diana)
 - Double Shot #891 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - The Morning Brew #1118 (Chris Alcock)
 - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-01 – Windows 8 Release Preview Edition (Dan Rigby)
 - Daily News Digest 6/1/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 31 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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