Top Links
- DevLabs: C++, Cloud Services, and You (S.Somasegar)
- GUID guide, part two (Eric Lippert)
- Filling in the UX Gaps in Metro style Apps – TechBash Edition (Brent Schooley)
- A New Look for CodePlex (Mark Groves)
.NET / Visual Studio
- And sometimes Things Just Works (Oren Eini)
- TFSPreview update (Brian Harry)
- Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 6: Tiles, toasts and badges (Gill Cleeren)
- Run Your Own Group Chat with AppHarbor and JabbR (AppHarbor)
- Making Mayhem with Volume Control (Eli White)
- Announcing Casablanca, a native library to access the cloud from C++ (Casablanca Team)
- Announcing Casablanca, a Native Library to Access the Cloud From C++ (Vikas Bhatia)
- Marshaling native arrays back as managed arrays without copying (Rick Brewster)
- Entity Framework 4.3.1 Migrations and non English locale (Simone Chiaretta)
- Context-Aware Dialogue with Kinect: Part 2 of our Q&A with Leland Holmquest (Michael Desmond)
- Development Based on C + + Runtime in the Windows 8 Metro Interface News Reader (Cheng Yin)
- Knowing your Metro Style App package details (Arun Mahendrakar)
- RavenDB CRUD – How To (Gregor Suttie)
Web Development
- Simple JavaScript Notifications with toastr (John Papa)
- Learning HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery interactively via WebGrid (Greg Duncan)
- Fluid CSS3 Slideshow with Parallax Effect (Ring Wing)
- Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.49 (CodePlex)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Backbone.js Applications – $11.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- node.js Version 0.6.16 (stable) (Isaac Schlueter)
- Dissecting 3.5.0 DataTable, Part 1 (Luke Smith)
- Google Drive API: It’s Kind of a Big Deal (Curtis C. Chen)
- Web Performance Tip: Make Sure You Have a FavIcon (Chris Love)
- Render Action (Christopher Bennage)
- Why you should care about CSS page performance (Doug Stewart)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Building Better UX Using Patterns (Ambrose Little)
- Achievements: An Agile Whitepaper (Peter Saddington)
- The architect as a leader, and other specialists and You’re not self organizing if you have a go-to architect and Grow your "feature teams" into just "teams" and Do new startup leaders need to grow their teams? (Roy Osherove)
- Hired help (Eric Brechner)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Need get a GW-Basic fix? Here’s GW-Basic running in Silverlight (Greg Duncan)
- 2000 WPF Things #548 – Change the Offset of a Gradient Stop in Blend (Sean Sexton)
- Building A Test Texting System On Windows Phone With TextBelt API and Getting The Flights Above You, And Much More, On Windows Phone, With WolframAlpha (Den Delimarsky)
- WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.4 (CodePlex)
- Four ways we’re improving Marketplace (Todd Brix)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- GoingNative 8: Introducing Casablanca – A Modern C++ API for Connected Computing (Charles Torre)
- Video Demo: Overview of XAML authoring features in Blend and Visual Studio (Joanna Mason)
- Video: Chaining Down Unruly JavaScript (Paul Ballard)
- Firefox work week Windows 8 talk (Brian Bondy)
- Project Mayhem – an overview (Clint Rutkas)
- Project Mayhem – Creating a module (Clint Rutkas & Eli White)
- On The Verge, Episode 005: Tony Fadell and Chris Grant (Creighton DeSimone)
Community / Events
- Free Windows Phone Game Training in Portland – 5/11 (Kelly White)
- Best of Luck to Derek! (Robby Ingebretsen)
- Vote for the Imagine Cup People’s Choice Award (Peter Laudati)
- May Tech Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
- Upcoming Web Camps (Jon Galloway)
- Great Place to Work: turning ideas into technology at "The Garage" (Liz)
Database
- Thank God I Chose SQL Server part II: How to Improperly Install Oracle 11gR2 (Stevan Bolton)
- SQL Server source control from Visual Studio (David Atkinson)
- SQL Server 2012: Biggest Little Core-house (Jorge Segarra)
- SQL SERVER – Maximum Allowable Length of Characters for Temp Objects is 116 – Guest Post by Balmukund Lakhani (Pinal Dave)
- You need to run DBCC CheckDB regularly and Creating a Sequence in SQL Server 2012 (Steve Jones)
- How to Configure Database mail (geniiius)
- The most unappreciated feature in Sql Server 2008? (Emil Tabakov)
SharePoint
- Product Review: Real Time Collaboration on SharePoint with Sazneo (Joel Oleson)
- How to: Hide the Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 (Rajeswari Mohandas)
Miscellaneous
- Making Animations over the Canvas for Android (Carlos Sessa)
- Generalizing Code Through Functional Programming (John Lindal)
- Barnes & Noble to spin off digital Nook business, Microsoft will invest $300 million into it (Vlad Savov)
More Link Collections
- Daily WP7 Development News 30 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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Interesting Finds: May 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #870 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Reading Notes #44 (Frank)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-01 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily News Digest 04/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows Dev News for April 29, 2012 – #0076 (Dave Campbell)
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