Top Links
- Creating the Windows 8 user experience (Steven Sinofsky)
- A look ahead at the Visual Studio 11 product lineup and platform support (Visual Studio Blog)
- 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #6 Information Architecture for a Windows Phone App (Arturo Toledo)
- TWC9: C9 Gets MSDN, VS11 SDK Beta, Win8 Camp in a Box, Faces for WP7 and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Golnaz)
.NET / Visual Studio
- What’s New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 (MS Podcasts)
- Reflecting Type Hierarchy Information and Visual Studio 2010 Parallel Tasks Window (Richard Carr)
- WCF Data Services 5.0.1 Released (WCF Data Services Team)
- Extracting Tar archives with C# (Karsten Januszewski)
- Developer productivity tools and Visual Studio extensions (Mehdi Khalili)
- TFS API Part 44 (VS11) – Teams and Team Members (Shai Raiten)
- TFS API Find out who deleted your build? (Tarun Arora)
- EntityCollection or EntityReferece error in EF when using .ToList() (Derik Whittaker)
- The Import Project from TFS Wizard in TeamPulse (TeamPulse Team)
- Find, Forgive and Forget Your Coding Indiscretions With NDepend (Doug Rathbone)
- Useful .NET Delegate Internals (Alois Kraus)
- Metro: Introduction to the WinJS ListView Control and Metro: Grouping Items in a ListView Control (Stephen Walther)
- Using SQLite in a Metro style app (Tim Heuer)
- Accessing QuickBooks with Entity Framework (dataintegration)
- RabbitMQ for Windows: Topic Exchanges (Derek Greer)
- How to Debug a Windows 8 Metro Secondary Tile (Jeremy Likness)
- Cross-platform mobile packaging made easy with VSNomad (Kyle Burns)
- A triple dose of the .NET Micro Framework. Netduino, .NET Gadgeteer and a FEZ Hydra Basic Kit and .Net 4.5 Gets Zippy… Zip support is baked into the .Net 4.5 Framework (Greg Duncan)
- Set the current iteration in your queries (Ewald Hofman)
Web Development
- Infragistics jQuery Mobile Controls (Damyan Petev)
- Pure CSS Highlight for Link :target (Aaron T. Grogg)
- Learn jQuery Part 2: How to Select Elements or Nodes in jQuery (Dhananjay Kumar)
- A Foot On The Bottom Rung: First Forays Into Responsive Web Development (Gavyn McKenzie)
- Implement Live Web Chat With ASP.NET MVC 4, Pusher and jQuery (Piotr Kwapin)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Power of Lists and 10 Ways to Use Evernote More Effectively (JD Meier)
- The most important agile practice? (Michael Norton)
- Building an API: Test Harness UI (Mark Needham)
- Code Reviews (Boris Lipschitz)
- How to prioritize tasks based on their value (Marta Jasinska)
- Should Agile Increase Customer Satisfaction? (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Is Beautiful Usable, or Is It the Other Way Around? (Abel Avram)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- RTM’d today: Windows Phone 7 Development Internals (Kim Spilker)
- Book review of XAML Developer Reference by Mamta D, Ashish Ghoda; O’Reilly Media (Mark Pearl)
- Retrieve System Information in Silverlight (Paul Sheriff)
- Radial gradients + Mini-path geometry sprites + infinite-scrolling inertial canvas = 🙂 (Jose Fajardo)
- AdControl, Animations and the Back Key (Maarten Struys)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Charles Torre)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 439: Halo 4, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and more (Larry Hyrb)
- Screencast: Automatic migrations with Entity Framework 4.3 (Michael Friis)
- Geekadelpia Podcast: Episode 4, Operation Nice (Jo Pincushion & Dan Tabor)
- The JavaScript Show – Ecmascript 6 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
- Load Testing Webinar is Live on Telerik TV! (Jim Holmes)
- Windows Weekly 261: Don’t Nudge Me (Paul Thurrott)
- GeekWire Radio: Facebook’s IPO, as viewed by a skeptic (Todd Bishop)
- Engadget Podcast 294 – 05.18.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Community / Events
- Windows 8 Dev Camp: Slides, Hands-on Labs, etc. (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Windows Azure Dev Camps Soon! (Brian Hitney)
- Google I/O 2012 schedule released (Phone Arena Team)
- DDD Summit 2012 Summary – #DDDesign (Rinat Abdullin)
- Last Day With OrcsWeb (Scott Forsyth)
- Meet the Author: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework Code First Migrations (Paul Ballard)
- Xamarin Designer for Android Webinar – Webinar via AppDev May 23 (Wally McClure)
- GeekDad and GeekMom at Maker Faire! (Ken Denmead)
Database
- Microsoft® OLEDB Provider for DB2 v4.0 for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 (MS Downloads)
- SQL SERVER – Saturday Fun Puzzle with SQL Server DATETIME2 and CAST and SQL SERVER – Renaming Index – Index Naming Conventions (Pinal Dave)
- Painless database logging with mongoDB (Jef Claes)
SharePoint
- SharePoint 2010 Class Registration Form (Greg Galipeau)
- [Run, don’t walk] CAML Designer (formerly known as CAML Builder) is Updated (Andrew Connell)
Miscellaneous
- Pragmatic Metaprogramming (Donald Ball)
- USB Programming with Ruby (Patrick Kua)
- The Eternal Lorem Ipsum (Jeff Atwood)
- Tips and tricks for using SkyDrive on Windows Phone (George Ponder)
- Windows 8 Release Preview (Build 8400) Has Reportedly Been Compiled And Is Now Ready For Distribution (Ben Reid)
- Progress on CodePlex pull requests (Brian Harry)
- The Book That Every Programmer Should Read (Grigory Javadyan)
- Microsoft’s shifting priorities: It’s about time (Mary Jo Foley)
- Five things I’ve learned from Diablo III (Matthew Murray)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: May 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 155 (Scott Banwart)
- Daily WP7 Development News 18 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- SilverlightShow Top 5 for May 7-13, 2012 and Windows Dev News for May 18, 2012 – #0085 (Dave Campbell)
- Retrospective 85 – Personality Profiles, Retention of Employees, and Learning (Peter Saddington)
- End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (5/18/2012) and Daily News Digest 5/18/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Double Shot #883 (Mike Gunderloy)
- MVP Friday Five: May 18, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
- Pie in the Sky (May 18, 2012) (Larry Franks)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #19) (Himanshu Singh)
- Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
- Everyman on Mobile and Web as One, Optimized Community UX, Narrating the Project, Telehumans, Nothing but Kale (Dave Burke)
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