Top Links
- Visual Studio 2012 and the Windows Azure SDK for .NET (S.Somasegar)
- Meet the New Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
- Announcing the June 2012 Release of Windows Azure SDK for .NET – Now with Support for Visual Studio 2012 RC (Jason Zander)
- Windows Azure – No Kidding (Scott Hanselman)
- Windows Azure just got a lot friendlier to node.js developers (Glenn Block)
.NET / Visual Studio
- The HIGH cost of ConcurrentBag in .NET 4.0 and Why I LOVE ReSharper (Oren Eini)
- Installing TFS 2012 and SQL Server 2008 – with brute force! (Andrew Schwam)
- Compatibility patch for VS 2008 SP1 to work with Team Foundation Service Preview and TFS 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 features enabled by using a TFS 2012 server (Buck Hodges)
- How to improve the performance of the first connect to TFS (Ewald Hofman)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: Use Cast() and TypeOf() to Change Sequence Type (James Michael Hare)
- Free (partial!) eBook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML,CSS & JS (Mike Taulty)
- Visual Studio 2012 and WinDbg Integration (Mario Hewardt)
- ALM Rangers – Quick Reference Guidance Downloads for Visual Studio 2012 RC refreshed (Willy-P. Schaub)
- Visual Studio 2012: Improving User Stories and Requirements with PowerPoint Storyboarding (Zain Naboulsi)
- Windows 8 XAML in Action: Here Comes the MEAP! (and limited time 40% discount code) (Pete Brown)
- Changing the default size of a UIDatePicker with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)
- Choosing a Collection Is a Matter of Cache, Too (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.5 Beta 1 and LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.26 (CodePlex)
- Eventually the window manager simply says that enough is enough (Raymond Chen)
- Creating an Entity Framework connection from another and Automating Retry on Exception (James Curran)
- Differences Between NHibernate and Entity Framework (Ricardo Peres)
- CSLA 4 version 4.3.12 release and CSLA 4 version 4.5 alpha available (Rockford Lhotka)
- .NET 4.5 Improves to the Base Class Library (Jonathan Allen)
- Compressing Data in Windows 8 Metro Applications (Jeremy Likness)
- .Net 4.0 vs .Net 4.5? Mono 4.5 vs .Net 4.5? Mono 4.0 vs .Net 4.0? Mono Class Status Pages… (Greg Duncan)
- Rich Data Visualization and Slick Interactivity with New Windows 8 Metro Toolset (Eric Genesky)
- LLBLGen Pro feature highlights: automatic element name construction (Frans Bouma)
- Announcing Continuous Deployment to Azure with Team Foundation Service (Brian Harry)
- Modularized Startup Tasks (Chris Eargle)
- Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.5: Standalone Template Editor (Blake Niemyjski)
Web Development
- Building a JavaScript WebSockets Client (Peter Vogel)
- How I Built an HTML5 Comic Book Reader (Raymond Camden)
- Free JavaScript Training Day: Coding with Confident II Available (Doris Chen)
- New Book – How to Build a jQuery Mobile Application (Jorge Ramon)
- Preview Release of "Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript" now available! (Kraig Brockschmidt)
- clippy.js – bringing clippy back from the dead via javascript (Luke)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Introducing HTML5 Game Development – $6.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
- Naked JavaScript – Defining Classes and Function Instances (Ryan Sukale)
- Understanding Routing in ASP.NET MVC (Sumit Maitra)
- Book Download: Building Elastic and Resilient Cloud Applications – Developer’s Guide to the Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure (MS Downloads)
- Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC and Web API and Mobile Development with Firefox 15 and Responsive Mode and Installing Orchard CMS as an Azure Web Site (David Hayden)
- Asynchronous Storage For All Browsers (+ node.js) (Andrea Giammarchi)
- Announcing WebMatrix 2 RC (Vishal R. Joshi)
- Preparing for Node 0.8 (Alex Young)
- Growing quality apps with the App Center (Bruce Rogers)
- GitHub for Windows Azure Websites and Use NuGet Package Restore to avoid pushing assemblies to Windows Azure Websites (Maarten Balliauw)
- Announcing New Windows Azure Services to Deliver “Hybrid Cloud” (Bill Laing)
- How to Serve a Static File from toto (Sharon Cichelli)
- Autoscaling in a modern world…. Part 3 (Steve Loethen)
- Announcing New Windows Azure Services to Deliver “Hybrid Cloud” (Steven Bink)
- Windows Azure spring update and OSS (Larry Franks)
- Prototype.js vs. underscore.js showdown (Thomas Fuchs)
- 10 Things about Windows Azure Web Sites (Nathan Totten)
- Why Aren’t You Using SVG? (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Windows Azure Virtual Machines and other Capabilities Announced! and Sign-up Process for Azure Virtual Machines Preview and Generating SSH key pair for Linux VM deployment on Windows Azure (Hanu Kommalapati)
- Getting Started with NodeJS – Migrating RestBugs (Howard Dierking)
- Azure, don’t give me multiple VMs, give me one elastic VM (Frans Bouma)
- Sketching A New Mobile Web (Dennis Kardys)
- Advanced CodeIgniter Techniques and Tricks (Carlos Cessa)
- Now Available: New Services and Enhancements to Windows Azure (Bob Kelly)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Testing the Untestable – Unit Testing Dependencies and Legacy Code (in C++) (Avi Kaye)
- Article: A Look At Elemental Design Patterns (Jeff Martin)
- Favor Privileges over Role Checks (Steve Smith)
- Infragistics Releases TestAdvantage for Windows Forms 2012 Volume 1 (Infragistics)
- Book Review: How Google Tests Software (Mass Dosage)
- Technology Demons (Rinat Abdullin)
- Team Leader Manifesto – Take #4 (Roy Osherove)
- Designing GitHub for Windows (Tim Clem)
- What’s new with Isolator++? (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Manual Testing Of Windows 8 Metro Style Applications (Brian Keller)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone device registration no longer limited to one account [Developers] (George Ponder)
- 2000 WPF Things #575 – PropertyMetadata vs. FrameworkPropertyMetadata and #576 – How (Traditional CLR) Events Work (Sean Sexton)
- Creating Custom Fonts (With Outline) For WP7 and XNA (Toni Petrina)
- Get Rid of the “Gray Box” in PhoneGap for Windows Phone (Andrew Trice)
- Publishing LightSwitch Apps to Azure with Visual Studio 2012 (Brian Moore)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Stephen Bohlen Talks About the Evolution of the Architect (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Let’s Play TDD #196: I Don’t Know If This is a Good Idea (James Shore)
- South Park: Trey Parker & Matt Stone talk about "The Stick of Truth" | E3 2012 and SmartGlass at E3 2012 | E3 2012 (Channel 9)
- Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds – Part 1 of 4 (Bob Rhubart)
- TechEd Quick Shot – Mark Russinovich (Charles Torre & Robert Hess)
- Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++: Expert Panel | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Chas Boyd, Rahul V. Patil, Jim Hogg, Sridhar Madhugiri, Jesse Bishop, Genevieve Fernandes & Lukasz Chodorski)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Larry Lebofsky (Ryan Parsley)
- Office 911: Unify Domains with Office 365 | Office 911 (Laura Foy)
- Video: Sharpen Your Refactoring Skills With ReSharper (Paul Ballard)
- Engadget Podcast 297: E3 Hotel Party Edition – 06.07.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Community / Events
- SilverlightShow Webinar: 10 Things Silverlight Developers Should Know About Windows 8 (Silverlight Show)
- TechEd 2012– Silverlight MVP Michael Crump Shares Excitement and TechEd 2012–Exchange MVP J. Peter Bruzzese Talks Sessions and Deloreans (MVP Award Program)
- Looking for hands-on & in-depth SharePoint 2010 Developer Training? Join me in Boston in June! (Andrew Connell)
- Women in IT: Three Tips for Success in Technology – and One Key Advantage (MS JobsBlog)
- Schedule of Microsoft Press authors at TechEd North America in Orlando–June 11-14, 2012 (Kim Spilker)
- Microsoft “BUILD IT TO WIN IT” Sweepstakes Official Rules (Jennifer Marsman)
- June, 2012, Florida: Best TechEd Ever! (Chris Sells)
Database
- Microsoft Driver for Node.JS for SQL Server Preview and SQL Azure Data Sync Agent Preview (MS Downloads)
- SQL SERVER – Load Generator – Free Tool From CodePlex and SQL SERVER – A Puzzle – Swap Value of Column Without Case Statement (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint
- Goodbye Ribbon–Going Full Screen Metro Style with SharePoint (Bil Simser)
- Enable Multilingual SharePoint 2010 UI Without A Drop of Code (Joel Oleson)
- New book: Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services (Kim Spilker)
- Validating and binding PeopleEditor and custom SharePoint Editor/Picker controls (Matt Cowan)
PowerShell
- Powershell Add-Type – Where’s That Assembly! (Kyle Neier)
- DevOps With PowerShell 3 (Roopesh Shenoy)
Miscellaneous
- Google Gives Sneak Peek Of Metro Chrome For Windows 8 (Ben Reid)
- Windows 8 needs a little more work (Chris Boss)
- Exclusive: Metro-style Hotmail UI revealed via new Microsoft account login screen (damaster)
- Who needs all that Azure news when there’s a Process Explorer update! (Greg Duncan)
- As Apple, Google and Microsoft Kick Off Developer Events, Momentum Still With the iPhone (Ina Fried)
- Malcolm Gladwell: In 50 years, Bill Gates will be revered and Steve Jobs will be forgotten (John Cook)
- Introducing Winsitter (Kevin Griffin)
- I’d like to share my LinkedIn password with you – here’s why (Troy Hunt)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: June 7, 2012 and Interesting Finds: June 8, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 158 (Scott Banwart)
- Geek Reading June 7, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- The Morning Brew #1120 and The Morning Brew #1121 (Chris Alcock)
- Maker Geek Roundup 013 for 6/6/2012 (Pete Brown)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-07 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-08 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily News Digest 6/7/2012 and Daily News Digest 6/8/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week May 28 – June 3, 2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (6/8/2012) (Silverlight Show)
- Daily WP7 Development News 7 June 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup – May 2012 (Beth Massi)
- 27 Must have iOS Design Resources to Bookmark (Daniel Bramhall)
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