Top Links
- The Case for Metro Style Line of Business (LOB) Apps (Ambrose Little)
- EF5 Release Candidate Available on NuGet (EF Team)
- Microsoft Face SDK (MS Research) – SDK is for Windows Phone
- Windows 8 Camp in a Box download (Windows 8 CP) – C#/Js Resources, HOL’s, Samples and Presentations from the Windows 8 Dev Camps (Greg Duncan)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Reviewing RavenDB app: ReleaseCandidateTracker (Oren Eini)
- Creating Type Aliases in C# (Richard Carr)
- Another Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application (nycnet)
- Team Foundation Service Updates – 5/15 and Team Explorer Everywhere in the Eclipse Marketplace (Brian Harry)
- Post-increment Operator and Precedence (Chris Eargle)
- Mech Commander, could it be rebuilt for Windows 8? (Surf4Fun)
- What Metro style app packages are installed? (Mike Ormond)
- Metro on Windows 8 – Illegal characters in path (Nick Berardi)
- Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Updates in May, 2012 (Jialiang Ge)
- IQueryable Dynamic Expressions (Jon Canning)
Web Development
- Ten Features I Like About CoffeeScript (Karl Seguin)
- Approaching Beta: What’s changing in JsRender and JsViews (Boris Moore)
- Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 3, Logging, and Depency Injection (Bil Simser)
- HTML5 adaptive images: end of round one (Bruce Lawson)
- Why REST Keeps Me Up At Night (Daniel Jacobson)
- node.js Version 0.6.18 (stable) (Isaac Schlueter)
- Mobile responsive site design in Expression Web (I. Haynes)
- Some Random JavaScript Coding Tidbits (Louis Lazaris)
- Working with files in JavaScript, Part 2: FileReader (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Self Hosting ASP.NET Web API and Understanding the Routing Conventions (Anoop Madhusudanan)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning JavaScript Design Patterns – $11.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- A crash course for the MongoDB console (Giorgio Sironi)
- DropDownList and SelectListItem Array Item Updates in MVC (Rick Strahl)
- HTML5’s Value for Mobile Event Apps (Rob Diana)
- Naked JavaScript – Constructor Functions (Ryan Sukale)
- Sass vs Less (Renso Hollhumer)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Is VM size an architectural smell? (Simon Brown)
- Book Review (Book 11) – Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform (Buck Woody)
- Agile in Hardware Projects – When Issues Arise (Peter Saddington)
- Plans for CQRS V2 (Microsoft patterns & practices)
- 100% Resource Utilization Does Not Equal 100% Productivity (Paul Ballard)
- @aldos response. (‘Uncle Bob’ Martin)
- Test Naming Conventions With Unit of Work (Roy Osherove)
- Design Thinking and Culture of Radical Collaboration (Srini Penchikala)
- Got a Bug? File a Report (Jim Holmes)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Kendo UI ListView Control and OData in Windows Phone Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
- PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #8: Alarms and Reminders (Glen Gordon)
- Windows Phone A-Z Resources (Lohith Nagaraj)
- Learn about RadDiagnostics for retrieving Exception Details using the Telerik Controls for WP7 and Part 90 – WP – Background File Transfers – by @SumitDutta21 and Part 91 – WP – Indeterminate PerformanceProgressBar – by @SumitDutta21 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- TcpClient – Making Windows Phone Sockets Easy (Mikael Koskinen)
- 2000 WPF Things #559 – Drawing a Masked Gradient in Blend (Sean Sexton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- ShopTalk Episode 18 (Chris Coyier)
- The Campus Coder Show #3: Ben Snyder and Zach Hoefler (Glen Gordon)
- Ping 141: The new Bing, Disney Kinect, Soundwave, 360’s on sale (Laura Foy, Paul Mestemaker & Golnaz)
- Engadget HD Podcast 299 – 05.15.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Community / Events
- Accelerate Your Windows 8 App Development (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Being a SharePoint Premier Field Engineer (Chris O’Brien)
- I’m joining ifttt (John Sheehan)
- Announcing: Test-Driven Javascript Screencast (James Shore)
- Windows Azure, Scott Guthrie, 22nd June, London (Mike Taulty)
- Hold The Dates! June 26-28: Getting Started with Web Automated Testing (Jim Holmes)
- Let’s MEET Windows Azure (Shaun Xu)
- Wining with Palermo on the beach… Learning about developing for Windows 8 with Michael Palermo on the beach (Carlsbad, CA) and win stuff too… (Greg Duncan)
- Calling all social coders: Xamarin is hiring Developer Evangelists (Xamarin Team)
Database
- Messages do not always appear in [catalog].[event_messages] in the order that they occur [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
- SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.0–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
- SQL SERVER – SQL in Sixty Seconds – 5 Videos from Joes 2 Pros Series – SQL Exam Prep Series 70-433 (Pinal Dave)
SharePoint
- RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services (Kim Spilker)
- Integrating SharePoint with Fruity Products (Becky Isserman)
PowerShell
- Calling Oracle Stored procedures using Powershell (Gary Sherman)
Miscellaneous
- Whitelisting Domains in Cordova (PhoneGap) Android (Chris Love)
- On Learning to Code. Or Not. (Michael Krakovskiy)
- Microsoft "Data Hub," a private, self-service DataMarket for your internal data and users, but in the cloud… (Greg Duncan)
- Now in Marketplace: the AboutOne family organizer (Michael Stroh)
- Inside a Google onsite interview (Swizec Teller)
- Windows Phone sales nearly double in the US passing RIM, according to Kantar Worldpanel (Daniel Rubino)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 16, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #881 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-16 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily News Digest 5/16/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1106 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Dev News for May 15, 2012 – #0082 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 15 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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