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- Windows Store details announced and a contest (Tim Heuer)
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.NET / Visual Studio
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Web Development
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Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 8 – What other people are blogging (Morten Nielsen)
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- Rumor: Microsoft to bring “beaming” file transfers across Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox in the future? (damaster)
- SkyDrive APIs for Docs and Photos—now ready to cloud enable apps on Windows 8, Windows Phone and more (Dare Obasanjo)
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- Here’s Why Android’s UI Will Never Be As Smooth As iOS Or Windows Phone 7 (Awais Imran)
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Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
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- Defrag: Reset Zoom in IE, Display Properties via CL, AppData Compression (Larry Larsen)
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- A DBA is a Data Professional (Grant Fritchey)
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- How does Remote Desktop works in Windows Azure? (Avkash Chauhan)
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- Ruby News and Releases in 2011: A Retrospective (Peter Cooper)
- Metro dashboard makes Xbox 360 feel like a brand new console (Travis Brown)
- How do you get the Virtual Keyboard (aka Soft Keyboard) in the Android 4.0 Emulator? (Wally McClure)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 6, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – December 7 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Double Shot #768 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 12/7/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #997 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/06/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- Windows Dev News for December 06, 2011 – #0007 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 6 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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Silverlight 5 in Action by Pete Brown |
I think the “SkyDrive APIs for Docs and Photos—now ready to cloud enable apps on Windows 8, Windows Phone and more (Dare Obasanjo)” post got deleted.
I saw that in my stream yesterday too and have been trying to hit the post since, but have been getting 404’s… Maybe he jumped the gun or something.
Never mind. Looks like the link is live now… I’m still betting he jumped the gun…
He must have. Thanks for the heads-up!