Top Links
- Announcing Windows Phone 8 (Joe Belfiore)
- A Developer Perspective on Windows Phone 8 (Colin Eberhardt)
- Reactive Extensions v2.0 Release Candidate available now! (Bart J.F. De Smet)
- Batching Handler for ASP.NET Web API (Brad Wilson)
.NET / Visual Studio
- The System.Uri Class (Richard Carr)
- Geo Location & Spatial Searches with RavenDB–Part IV-Searching (Oren Eini)
- Converting PDF to Text in C# (Dan Letecky)
- Installing the TFS Plug-in through the Eclipse Marketplace (Martin Woodward)
- Wrapping Begin/End Asynchronous API into C#5 Tasks (Toni Petrina)
- Visual Studio 2012 New Features: Solution Explorer (Zain Naboulsi)
- Basic Spatial Data with SQL Server and Entity Framework 5.0 (Rick Strahl)
- Developing a Windows 8 Metro App Part 3: Metro Design (Jennifer Marsman)
- Improved Navigation in JustCode (JustCode Team)
- Using NuGet doesn’t mean you have to give it away… "Distributing .NET Licensed components using NuGet" (Greg Duncan)
- CRAP Score with NCover 4…. (Bryn Brutosky)
- Ambiguous ExtensionAttribute Errors (Harry Pierson)
Web Development
- Web Sites Series: Experience Windows Azure Web Sites from beyond Windows (Glenn Block)
- ASP.NET Web API vs. ASP.NET MVC “APIs” (Dave Ward)
- Rendering Linear Gradients using the HTML5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
- Using controllers from an external assembly in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
- Behind the Scenes the Interactive Music Video Game Built in HTML5 (Giorgio Sardo)
- The amazing powers of CSS (Ilmari Heikkinen)
- Key Principles of Maintainable JavaScript (Jonathan Creamer)
- JavaScript: Sparse Arrays vs. Dense Arrays (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Castle Windsor Dependency Injection with MVC4: No component for supporting the service (Renso Hollhumer)
- Forget what your Mother told you, IIS and Apache CAN be Friends (Doug Rathbone)
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.3 EAP 117.609 (Alexey Gopachenko)
- FIX: Sitecore and .NET Framework 4.5 (Cori Drew)
- Download logs for git push Azure master and Git Deployment Credentials & Adding more users to Git repos on Azure (Vishal R. Joshi)
- Where Will Your Styles Live? and Shuffling an Array in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Managing the Cloud from the Command Line (Scott Hanselman)
- Getting Started with Lucene.net (Ricci Gian Maria)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Hindsight Bias – Be Agile – Learn and Re-Learn (Karol McCloskey)
- Nimble Game Development: Another Kind Of Agile (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Assume you are wrong (Roy Osherove)
- Automated UI Testing Done Right (Mehdi Khalili)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Mixing themes in XAML Metro apps (Andrei Marukovich)
- Apply Styles Using Theme Resources in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
- 2000 WPF Things #585 – Tunneling Events Propagate Down the Logical Tree (Sean Sexton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Paul Betts and Tim Clem Use GitHub with Windows (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: What’s New in the Windows Azure June 2012 Release | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- Video Demo: Working with the XAML AppBar in Blend and VS 2012 (Harikrishna Menon Ajith Kumar)
- The Verge Mobile Show 004 – June 19th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
- Video: The Top 10, er, 11 Features Developers will Love about Windows 8 (Jeremy Likness)
- Boagworld: The podcast is going weekly (Paul Boag)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Lance Vick (Ryan Parsley)
Community / Events
- Dear JobsBlog: 3 Tips on How to Bounce Back After Being Rejected for a Job (Colleen)
- Countdown to I/O: Falling in love with Google products and celebrating at I/O (Scott Knaster)
- Windows Phone 8 – What they didn’t reveal at the Summit (damaster)
- Full Windows Phone Summit presentation now available for viewing (Daniel Rubino)
- Windows Phone Summit: the quick summary (Kip Kniskern)
- The future of Windows Phone: Complete Notes with Screenshots from the Windows Phone Summit (Windows Phone Geek)
- Head of Microsoft Research, Rick Rashid, on Alan Turing’s Legacy (Nate Lanxon)
- Geek of the Week: Cuteologist & Illustrator Amanda Chronister (Chris Urie)
- Free Windows 8 Developer Events: Mini Camps | Register Now (Doris Chen)
- Vancouver Mini Maker Faire is This Weekend! June 23rd-24th (Emily Smith)
- Announcing One Year of Windows Azure FREE with WebsiteSpark (Himanshu Singh)
- Talking Cloud with Internet Explorer MVP Hans Le Roy (MVP Award Program)
Database
- SQL SERVER – ColumnStore Index – Batch Mode vs Row Mode (Pinal Dave)
- How we got rid of the database–part 4 (Gabriel Schenker)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Surface gets a positive response from this Windows developer (Chris Boss)
- Microsoft Surface – Just what the doctor ordered? (Bill Crounse)
- GitHub Pages Update (Jason Costello)
- PixelSense – Now Microsoft’s New Name For The Surface Project (Robert Boland)
- Handling Trailing Delimiters in HL7 Messages (Thomas Canter)
- Lumia 900 owner vents Windows Phone 8 frustrations, Stephen Elop responds (Tim Stevens)
- Nokia Maps, and the whole Nokia Location platform, including Nokia Drive, coming to all of Windows Phone 8 (not just Nokia) (Kip Kniskern)
- What’s New in Windows Phone 8? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Windows Phone 8 Is A Great Big, Crazy, Beautiful Mess (Matt Burns)
- Windows Phone 8 won’t be available on anything out today, but that’s okay, right? (Tim Conneally)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: June 21, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #900 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 6/21/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-21 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #1129 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Dev News for June 20, 2012 – #0097 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for June 11 – 17, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
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