Top Links
- Announcing NetAdvantage 12.1–Available for Download (Jason Beres)
- O’Reilly Deal of the Day – 4/May/2012 – 50% off all E-books and Videos! (Tatworth)
- Windows 8 Metro Style Apps: How to build a great app (Anthony de Bruyn & Katrien De Graeve)
- Xamarin’s port of Android to Microsoft’s C#: Five questions (and answers) (Mary Jo Foley)
.NET / Visual Studio
- LINQ on the command-line (CodingBruce)
- Create Games for Windows 8 using Physamajig! (Andy Beaulieu)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Enumerable.Repeat() Static Method (James Michael Hare)
- How Do I Detect When A Client Thread Exits? Make The Client Tell You. (Mike Hadlow)
- Pinpointing Memory Leaks with CLR Profiler Heap Graphs (Sasha Goldshtein)
- METRO APP DIARY–this is a must follow… (Joel Reyes)
- Kinect’ing to a Rocket Launcher? Oh yeah… and The first step in gestating a Metro app… Cocoon and From Zero to MEF’tastic… (Or Dummies Guide To MEF Or Learn to MEF in 21 [or less] Pages) (Greg Duncan)
- Unity: Passing Constructor Parameters to Resolve and WinRT: XAML Image Binding Compared to Windows Phone 7 (Mikael Koskinen)
Web Development
- Scripting NuGet Package Updates (ASP.NET MVC 4) (Geoff Hudik)
- Request Filtering, URLScan With Windows Azure Web Role (Avkash Chauhan)
- Tweet Package for Sublime Text 2 (Elijah Manor)
- Autofill City & State from Zip Code with Ziptastic (Chris Coyier)
- Adding Twilio’s Voice and Messaging Services to your Windows Azure Apps (Zhiming Xue)
- CSS for the XAML Guy – Positional Selectors (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Amazon Product Advertising API SOAP Namespace Changes (Rick Strahl)
- Removing Stumbling Blocks In Mobile Forms (Robert Brauer)
- What Is The Best Browser for Developers? (Paul Ballard)
- Infragistics Announces Reduced Pricing for Mobile & Web Products (Nick Landry)
- Integrating Twilio with @Home with Windows Azure (Jim O’Neil)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Nancy : Now with Mono builds on every commit (Andreas Håkansson)
- Annual Poll: Which Isolation framework do you use if any? (Roy Osherove)
- Listening to users with Iterative Design (Marshal Datkowitz)
- The Forward-Looking Development Organization (Gabriel Torok)
- Limits of performance optimization (Jimmy Bogard)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Porting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Background agents (11 of 12) (Andreas Hammar)
- From Code-Behind to MVVM, a three part series… (Greg Duncan)
- XAML Spy Preview 2 (Koen Zwikstra)
- Bonus Surprises in NetAdvantage for WPF, Silverlight and Ultimate (Nick Landry)
- 2000 WPF Things #551 – Resources Are Listed under the Resources Tab in Blend (Sean Sexton)
- WPF Sliding Controls Collection – Part 1: Sliding Image Control (Tefik Becirovic)
- Adding Storage Capability to your Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac Apps using Microsoft SkyDrive APIs (Zhiming Xue)
- Silverlight Double Animation Helper (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Let’s Play TDD #186: Finishing SaveAsDialog Extraction (James Shore)
- The JavaScript Show – jQuery UK 2012, CoffeeScript bang methods, Cubism (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
- Yet Another Podcast #64–John Papa & Javascript (Jesse Liberty)
- Inside Windows Phone #37 | Anatomy of a Successful WP Game – Taptitude (Larry Lieberman)
- Video: Make Your Windows 8 Metro App Data Zoom (Paul Ballard)
- Boagworld – Making web forms conversational (Paul Boag)
- RadioTFS – What Was The Question? (Martin Woodward)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Ryan Dorrell (Ryan Parsley)
- Countdown to TechEd Europe 2012: Schedule Builder (Mark DeFalco)
Community / Events
- Just Added: Training at SF jQuery Conference! (Leah Silber)
- Upcoming Events in Arizona (Joseph Guadagno)
- Highlights from Stack Overflow Worldwide Meetups (Laura Dobrzynski)
- I’ll be at GOTO CPH and QCON NYC spreading the node.js love (Glenn Block)
- The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is Back For a Spring Fling! (Himanshu Singh)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Identify Columnstore Index Usage from Execution Plan (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Azure How To Rebuild A Clustered Index (Denis Gobo)
- Free book "Expert Oracle Database Architecture, 2nd Edition" (Tatworth)
- New version of SSDT Power Tools are available – but with a caveat (Jamie Thomson)
Miscellaneous
- Displaying an Android Device’s Screen on your Desktop (Chris Love)
- Free ebooks: Great content from Microsoft Press that won’t cost you a penny (Kim Spilker)
- Microsoft Advertising rebrands, too, and Xbox drops “Inside Xbox” (What a week we’re having!) and So what about Windows Live Writer? (Kip Kniskern)
- Getting Started with Windows Azure for Java (Kris Ragh)
- Making Windows Media Center available in Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
- New Windows 8 screenshots leak, reveal new Activate Windows and tutorial screens (Zac)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #873 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-04 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily News Digest 5/4/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (5/4/2012) (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1099 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News 3 May 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 3 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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