Top Links
- Please welcome the XAML platform team to Windows! (Scott Barnes)
 - ReSharper 6.0 Release Candidate (Jura Gorohovsky)
 - EntLib vNext teaser (Grigori Melnik)
 - Windows Phone "Mango" ROM revealed more juicy details (damaster)
 - Windows 8 for software developers: the Longhorn dream reborn? (Peter Bright)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Basic of TFS Process Template customization (Gian Maria Ricci)
 - NLog 2.0 Release Candidate and SkyDrive .Net API Client 2.0.1b (RELOADED) (CodePlex)
 - Connection string in LINQ and DataContext in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - C#: Generate n digit random alphanumeric string (Raghav Khunger)
 - Code Issues specific for static classes (Alex Skorkin)
 - Azure Team Introduces Windows Azure AppFabric Applications (Bruce Kyle)
 - Adding fluent interfaces to .NET framework classes and A few extension methods that I have loved (J.P. Hamilton)
 - Tips for building Nuget packages (Joshua Flanagan)
 - NBuilder is fantastic for generating object graphs (Naeem Khedarun)
 
Web Development
- Cool stuff in FubuMVC No. 1: Behaviors (Chad Myers)
 - PetaPoco with parameterised stored procedure and Asp.Net MVC (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
 - Model binding XML in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Calling Cross Domain WCF service using Jquery/Javascript (Pranay Rana)
 - Introducing Microsoft WebMatrix Book Review (David Hayden)
 - Microsoft’s smart move in helping to port Node.js (Steven Hodson)
 - Transcending the POST, Validate, Redirect Pattern and Browser-side View Model Templates (Jonathan Oliver)
 - YUI 3.4.0 Preview Release 2 (George Puckett)
 - Internet Explorer 9 Security Part 4: Protecting Consumers from Malicious Mixed Content (ieblog)
 - HOW TO: Choose a PHP Framework for Your Next Project (Kelli Shaver)
 - Windows Azure CDN Helpers (Nathan Totten)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Two different approaches to testing a server (John Guin)
 - Running Tests Under Another User in Gallio/MbUnit v3.3 (Yann Trevin)
 - Effective Tests: Expected Objects (Derek Greer)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Fixing the Housebuilder sample (Peter Kuhn)
 - Windows Phone Mango Tasks: New Launchers and Choosers and Featured AppWall Apps Now Shown on All Pages in the WindowsPhoneGeek AppHub (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Help RIA Services is NOT returning my entire object graph (Derik Whittaker)
 - Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 19 – What is WP7 Accelerometer? (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Threading bugs in ReactiveUI in Silverlight (Paul Betts)
 - WP7 Contrib – Bing Service Wrapper Part I – Location (Rich)
 - How to handle 5.2 Performance and Resource Management issue on WP7 (toetapz)
 - Silverlight WebBrowser Control for Offline Apps (Part 2) (Mike Taulty)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Hanselminutes: Basics of Web Security with Barry Dorrans (Scott Hanselman)
 - ICSE 2011: Dieter Rombach – Software Engineering Process Methodology (Charles Torre)
 - Engadget Podcast 245 – 06.24.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
 - This is my next Podcast 012 – 06.24.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller)
 - Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 022 – “It’s ALLLLLIVE” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
 - Video: Kinect-enabled MADExpo Session Finder (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - ORACLENERD on the air (Bob Rhubart)
 - Silverlight TV 77: Exploring 3D (John Papa)
 - The Full Stack, Part 13: Synchronizing the Windows Phone Client with the WCF Service (Jon Galloway & Jesse Liberty)
 - I’ve been working on the Frank syntax l… (panesofglass)
 
Community / Events
- Big News on Day #3 of OS Bridge (Adron Hall)
 - Windows 8: Sinofsky @ D9 Transcribed, Part 3: Q & A (Paul Thurrott)
 - Stack Exchange Gets In The Conference Game With Stack Overflow DevDays (Alexia Tsotsis)
 - Visiblox MVP Giveaway (Colin Eberhardt)
 - Team SIMPLEX (Romania) – ImagineCup 2011 Finalists (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - Imagine Cup 2011 Worldwide Finals (Rene Schulte)
 - Blog Overflow (Rebecca Chernoff)
 - Speaking at the Kansas City Developer Conference This Weekend! (Kevin Griffin)
 
Database
- SQL Server “Denali” (James Serra)
 - SQL Server: Calculate Summary and Column Summary (Madhivanan)
 - SQL SERVER – BI Quiz Hint – Performance Tuning Cubes – Hints (Pinal Dave)
 - SQL Azure Database Scalability with Federations (David Cooksey)
 - Export SQL Server Error Messages from Event Viewer As HTML (Sedat Salman)
 - Disaster recovery 101: dealing with negative SPIDS (-2 and -3) (Paul S. Randal)
 - Scripting references for User-defined Table Types and Scripting dependencies of User-defined Table Types (Jakub Dvorak)
 - Configuration Manager for Sqldiag (James Serra)
 - Setting a Unique Index on a Bit Field (Steve Jones)
 
SharePoint
- New SharePoint Book: Developing SharePoint Applications Using Windows Azure (Andrew Connell)
 - Update User Personal Settings with the SharePoint Object Model (Guru Pratap Ketepalli)
 
Miscellaneous
- A different way to run your web design business (Anna)
 - New, app-like Outlook features added to Hotmail (Dick Craddock)
 - PowerGUI 2.4 gets a great review by Windows IT Pro magazine (Dmitry Sotnikov)
 - Arduino Cookbook – A Review (I82Much)
 - Organizational Awareness with PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
 - #Video Deal/Day: An Introduction to iOS Programming – Only $14.99 w/code DDYFA (O’Reilly Media)
 - Upping our game: What’s new in the Games Hub for Mango (Shirlene Lim)
 - A Deep Dive Into Location (Tim Bray)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: June 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
 - Today’s Links (6/23/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
 - Distributed Weekly 108 (Scott Banwart)
 - The Morning Brew #880 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily News Digest 06/24/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 
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