Top Links
- Testing Rx Queries using Virtual Time Scheduling (Bart J.F. De Smet)
- The People app: the complete, cloud-powered address book for Windows 8 and Building the Mail app (Steven Sinofsky)
- Interesting details on IE10′s JavaScript performance tweaks (Dave Ward)
- Exposing .NET tasks as WinRT asynchronous operations (Stephen Toub)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Batched Gated Builds in Visual Studio 2012 TFS (Mickey Gousset)
- Tertiary includes in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- Using TPL and PLINQ to raise performance of feed aggregator (Gunnar Peipman)
- Calling C# 4/3/2…. Using the new C# 5 Caller Information with C# 2,3,4… and No rest for WinRT (on the Desktop) – One example of using WinRT on the Desktop to list installed Metro app’s. and Understanding the Windows 8 Metro Grid XAML Project Template (Think "I’ve created a Metro Grid App and now how do I get the data into it?" information) (Greg Duncan)
- Refactoring Halfwit’s Coroutines to C# 5 (Matt Hamilton)
- Turn Off the Uppercase Menu in Visual Studio 2012 (Zain Naboulsi)
- NavigationService for WinRT (Joost van Schaik)
- Hash Function Added To The PredicateEqualityComparer (Paulo Morgado)
- Introduction to Background Tasks (MS Downloads)
- Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.5: Schema Explorer Improvements and Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.5: Template Explorer Improvements (Blake Niemyjski)
- NDepend 4 – First Steps (Ricardo Peres)
- How to Get a Developer License for Windows 8 App Development (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Salt and hash a password in .NET (Jon Canning)
- MEF for Windows 8 Metro and TPL Data Flow Moved to NuGet (Jonathan Allen)
- Many to Many Relationships with EF and Evolution of the Entity Framework: Lesson 1 (K. Scott Allen)
- The NC4 Paradigm (John Fleisher)
- Migrate HTML5 WinJS Metro Application project to VS2012 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Web Development
- How To Create a Pinterest Inspired Shuffling Effect With jQuery (Ben Holland)
- ASP.NET MVC: How to Mock Session State (Christopher Geers)
- Advances in JavaScript Performance in IE10 and Windows 8 (Andrew Miadowicz)
- ASP.NET Bundling and Minification (Rick Anderson)
- ASP.NET providers and SQL Azure and VS Publish dialog Update Database dialog disabled and Database settings in the VS Publish dialog (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
- Creating an HTTP Service with Web API (Sam Nasr)
- Under the Hood: Bubbles (Andrew Miadowicz)
- Windows Azure Websites: Node.js (Larry Franks)
- Markdown: The Ins and Outs (Dan Harper)
- Why Should I Use Backbone.Marionette Instead Of … ? (Derick Bailey)
- YUI 3.6.0 PR2 Is Now Available (Allen Rabinovich)
- Windows Azure – Write, Run or Use Software (Buck Woody)
- Download WebMatrix for Easy Web Development & Great New Features (Chris Love)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Refactoring without unit tests (Boris Lipschitz)
- The Agile Engineering Rules of Test Code (Malcolm Anderson)
- Using ConventionTests (Krzysztof Koźmic)
- Lean tools: Cost of delay (Giorgio Sironi)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Drawing Custom Pushpins on Bing Map in Windows Phone: What options do we have (Windows Phone Geek)
- An Error You May Run Into When Using Blend For Windows Phone (Caleb Jenkins)
- How to Set Clipboard Text Programmatically in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
- People+ For Windows Phone (Paulo Morgado)
- It’s Alive! – WriteableBitmapEx 1.0 for WinRT Metro Style, WPF, Windows Phone and Silverlight (Rene Schulte)
- 2000 WPF Things #580 – Events in WPF are Routed and #581 – An Example of a Routed Event (Sean Sexton)
- Conversation View for Windows Phone – new in Q2 2012 (Telerik Windows Phone Team)
- Publishing wait times decline, new unlock option (Todd Brix)
- Behavior to make Bing Maps view area bindable (Joost van Schaik)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – The State of Development Methodology at DevTeach (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Hanselminutes: On Empathy with Leon Gersing the Ruby Buddha (Scott Hanselman)
- SDU Show 49 with guest Gadi Peleg (Richard Banks)
- Keynote – Antoine Leblond: Windows 8 | TechEd North America 2012 (Antoine Leblond)
- Video Demo: Editing GroupStyles in Blend and VS 2012 (Harikrishna Menon Ajith Kumar)
- Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds – Part 2 of 4 (Bob Rhubart)
- The Vergecast 034 – June 14th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
- Telerik Interview Series – three new interviews on hottest topics at TechEd 2012 (Telerik Team)
- Defrag: Disk Thrashing, Boot from DVD, | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
- Inside Windows Azure with Mark Russinovich | Channel 9 Live at Tech Ed North America 2012 (Mark Russinovich & Joey Snow)
- Video: Combine Powershell and WMI for Better Scripting and Video: Implementing MapReduce Asynchronously using the Task Parallel Library (Paul Ballard)
- Engadget Mobile Podcast 141 – 06.12.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Uncle Bob on Agile Craftsmanship (Avi Kaye)
- Visual Studio Toolbox:Portable Class Libraries | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- C++ AMP core API introduction… from scratch (Daniel Moth)
Community / Events
- TechEd North America–First Impressions (Brent Stineman)
- Meet the Author: Aaron Powell on JavaScript Design Patterns (Paul Ballard)
- Geek of the Week: Jerome Cathaud of NewQuest (Chris Urie)
Database
- Visualizing Transaction Isolations For SQL Server (Michael Swart)
- Using Table-Valued Parameters in SQL Server (Jesse Taber)
- Reporting Services Upgrade from SSRS 2008 to SSRS 2012 Lessons Learned (Joel Oleson)
- Demystifying Benchmarking: How to Measure Performance in SQL Server Video (Kendra Little)
- SQL SERVER – Solution of Puzzle – Swap Value of Column Without Case Statement and SQL SERVER – Free eBook Download – EPUB, MOBI, PDF Format (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Server Derived Tables (Richard Carr)
- Everything You Know About Clustering is Wrong (Brent Ozar)
- How we got rid of the database–part 2 (Gabriel Schenker)
- Indexed view deadlocking (Dave Ballantyne)
SharePoint
- Display Charts in SharePoint 2010 using Excel Services and Chart Web Parts (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Product Review: MetaVis Migrator for Office 365 (Joel Oleson)
PowerShell
- PowerShell AST Modification (Adam Driscoll)
- New V3 Language Features (Jason Shirk)
- Author highlight: Ed Wilson, PowerShell guru (Kim Spilker)
- How to Convert Microsoft Word Format to HTML using Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
Miscellaneous
- Learn Functional Programming With Me – Moving The Square (Rob Ashton)
- How to Talk to Human Beings (Jeff Atwood)
- Windows 8 lacks true spirit [review] (Itamar Even-Zohar)
- Why don’t all of my folder customizations roam with my profile? (Raymond Chen)
- Computer Algorithms: Linked List (Stoimen Popov)
- O’Reilly deal of the Week on Early Release Books to 19/June/2012 23:39 PT (Tatworth)
- AutoHotkey–my new snippet tool (Tim Heuer)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: June 14, 2012 and Interesting Finds: June 15, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 159 (Scott Banwart)
- Geek Reading June 13, 2012 and Geek Reading June 14, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Daily News Digest 6/14/2012 and Daily News Digest 6/15/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (6/15/2012) (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1124 and The Morning Brew #1125 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-14 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-15 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily WP7 Development News 13 June 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 14 June 2012 and Daily WP7 Development News 14 June 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- SilverlightShow Top 5 for June 4 – 10, 2012 and Windows Dev News for June 13, 2012 – #0096 (Dave Campbell)
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