Top Links
- Microsoft Surface vs. Apple iPad – a Visual Comparison (Colin Eberhardt)
- Microsoft Surface tablets: Reading the fine print (Mary Jo Foley)
- NuGet 2 2 U – NuGet v2.0 Released (Greg Duncan)
- Microsoft’s new Surface tablets make a solid first impression (Ed Bott)
- Scratching the Surface With Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky (Ina Fried)
.NET / Visual Studio
- The theory behind covariance and contravariance in C# 4 (Tomas P.)
- Geo Location & Spatial Searches with RavenDB–Part III-Importing (Oren Eini)
- Some History: 2001 "GC#" research project draft, from the MSR Cambridge team and The F# Survival Guide (archived edition) (Don Syme)
- A Gentle Reintroduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript Part 1 (Matthew Podwysocki)
- Installing TFS 2012 with Lab Management 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Use AutoResetEvent To Unit Test Multi-Threaded Code (Mike Hadlow)
- Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012 RC (Paulo Morgado)
- O’Reilly deal of the Week on C# 5.0 Books to 26/June/2012 23:39 PT (TATWORTH)
- Visual Studio 2012 New Features: Preview Tab (Zain Naboulsi)
- Using Lambda Expressions for Shorter, More Readable C++ Code (Diego Dagum)
- Kinect Hover Buttons Explained (Surf4Fun)
- What State is my StateMachine in? (Ron Jacobs)
- [Cool Tool] Chocolatey for windows is what you will not live without in two years (Roy Osherove)
- NCover 4 Desktop: First Coverage Project (Russell)
- What is the history of the GetRandomRgn function? and When embedding a dialog inside another, make sure you don’t accidentally create duplicate control IDs (Raymond Chen)
- Implementing an Interceptor Using NHibernate’s Built In Dynamic Proxy Generator (Ricardo Peres)
- Why your WinJS app may navigate back when a textbox is in focus and you hit enter (Adam Kinney)
- Red Gate ANTS Performance Profiler (Adam Driscoll)
- Built in .NET CSV Parser (Anders Abel)
- Reflection in WinRT: DeclaredProperties vs GetRuntimeProperties caveat and Reflection in WinRT: use Rx Extensions for dynamically adding event handlers (Joost van Schaik)
- Kinect for Windows: Developer Toolkit Update (v1.5.1) (Rob Relyea)
- dotCover 2.0 is Released (Jura Gorohovsky)
- Evolution of the Entity Framework: Lesson 2 (K. Scott Allen)
- Developing a Windows 8 Metro App Part 1: Why Would You Want to Develop a Metro Application for Windows 8? and Developing a Windows 8 Metro App Part 2: Getting Started (Jennifer Marsman)
- Windows Camp Demo, Part One (Harry Pierson)
- Recursive Methods in Expression Trees (Chris Cavanagh)
- Implementation-defined behaviour (Eric Lippert)
- LLBLGen Pro feature highlights: grouping model elements (Frans Bouma)
- Portable Libraries and the Windows App Certification Kit RC [Nick] (BCL Team)
- Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.5: Schema Providers (Blake Niemyjski)
- Working with Advanced Live Tiles in Windows 8 (Eric Vogel)
- P&P Paper on Continuous Delivery with VS 2012 (Brian Harry)
Web Development
- Domain based routing with ASP.NET Web API (Maarten Balliauw)
- CSS Object Model (Divya Manian)
- Consuming ASP.NET Web API services from PHP script (Gunnar Peipman)
- Using Git to deploy an ASP.NET website shows Windows Azure Blob Storage list at Windows Azure Websites (Avkash Chauhan)
- LightSwitch HTML Client Resources – Countdown to the preview release! (Beth Massi)
- Rendering Text with the HTML5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
- iOS 6 Beta 1: HTML5 new APIs, Remote Debugging and native apps integration (firt)
- Parallel Work in Async MVC Actions (K. Scott Allen)
- Creating Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)
- Lean Tools: Self-Determination (Giorgio Sironi)
- Integers and Shift Operators in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Windows Azure Training Kit – June 2012 Available (Zhiming Xue)
- !!16 TIPS FOR RUNNING A SUCCESFULL PHISHING SCAM! (Troy Hunt)
- Infrastructure as a Service Series: An Overview of Windows Azure Virtual Network (Venkat Gattamneni)
- Couchbase on Azure: A Tour of New Windows Azure Features and Couchbase on Azure: Creating a Virtual Network and Couchbase on Azure: Creating Virtual Machines and Couchbase on Azure: Installing Couchbase and Couchbase on Azure: Deploying TapMap and Couchbase on Azure: Configuring Admin Access to the Couchbase Cluster (Jim O’Neil)
- Difference between Windows Azure Cache(Preview) and Windows Azure Shared Cache and Installing and Running vsftpd in CentOS Gallery image available at Windows Azure Virtual Machines for Linux (Avkash Chauhan)
- Node.js It’s Not Just for Websites (Bobby Johnson)
- The “New” Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)
- New Azure Training Kit (Chris Koenig)
- Classes? Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Classes! (Heydon Pickering)
- Adapting Your Site to Different Window Sizes (Matt Rakow)
- WebMatrix Supports CoffeeScript and Creating Orchard Themes and Modules in WebMatrix 2 (David Hayden)
- Adding Ninject to Web API (Peter Provost)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Building the Creative Habit (J.D. Meier)
- Scrum Plus: Agile Heresy No More! (Peter Saddington)
- Test Studio for iOS is Out of Beta! Download It from the App Store. (Telerik)
- How I Explained Dependency Injection to My Team (Siva Prasad)
- The Value Impact (Karl Scotland)
- Isolator 7.0.7 is out (Avi Kaye)
- Single Responsibility Principle (Brendan Enrick)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Pushpin Custom Tooltip using Customized ContextMenu and Getting Started with the Coding4Fun Toolkit ChatBubbleTextBox Control for Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
- Do I need to Install Silverlight Tools if I Install Visual Studio 2012? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Developing Apps for Microsoft Surface, Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone (Nick Landry)
- Windows Phone 8 announced by Microsoft: new Start screen, shared core with Windows 8, release this fall (Nilay Patel)
- 2000 WPF Things #583 – Interrupting the Routing Process and #584 – Handling an Event That Has Already Been Handled (Sean Sexton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Venkat Subramaniam Thinks Functionally (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Jim Radigan: Inside Auto-Vectorization, 1 of n | C9 Lectures: Jim Radigan – Inside Auto-Vectorization (Charles Torre)
- Episode 189 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell MVP Kirk Munro on WMIX (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Moving from the SharePoint Product Group to the Real World-Episode 73 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
- Let’s Play TDD #198: Removing Getters and Setters (James Shore)
- Mash This Podcast – Should APIs Be Copyrightable? (Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Dustin Davis & Lee Dumond)
- ShopTalk Episode 21 (Chris Coyier)
- Windows PowerShell Crash Course | TechEd North America 2012 (Don Jones & Jeffrey Snover)
- Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 173: Wampon Fever (Gareth)
- Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks | TechEd North America 2012 (Mark Russinovich)
- Boagworld: Every Click Counts (Paul Boag)
- What The Tech 121: On The Surface (Paul Thurrott)
- Engadget HD Podcast 304 – 06.19.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Community / Events
- Great Place to Work: Balancing a Microsoft Career and a Child with Special Needs (MS JobsBlog)
- Zombie Beach Party @ the Troc this Saturday: Ticket Giveaway! (Eric)
- Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Enterprise Library Caching Application Block (Paul Ballard)
- Moving on (Rene Schulte)
- Article: An Interview with Rebecca Parsons – ThoughtWorks CTO (Shane Hastie)
- ReSharper and Express.js Workshop at GOTO Aarhus (Hadi Hariri)
Database
- SQL SERVER 2012 tutorial (Katie & Emil)
- SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB – How to get started (Kris Lankford)
- HOW TO: Connect to SQL Server Compact from F# (Erik EJ)
- The CONCAT function in SQL Server 2012 is Simple Yet Powerful (Madhivanan)
- SQL SERVER – Solution – User Not Able to See Any User Created Object in Tables – Security and Permissions Issue and SQL SERVER – Importing CSV File Into Database – SQL in Sixty Seconds #018 – Video (Pinal Dave)
- Balanced Data Distributor for SSIS 2012 Released (Ted Krueger)
- Hierarchies: Convert Adjacency List to Nested Sets (Jeff Moden)
- How we got rid of the database–part 3 (Gabriel Schenker)
SharePoint
PowerShell
- High Level Architecture of Windows PowerShell Workflow (Part 2) (Narayanan Lakshmanan)
Miscellaneous
- IFTTT Blog: The New IFTTT (John Sheehan)
- Create a Remote Git Repository from an Existing XCode Repository (Don Huff)
- Surface – The Microsoft Tablet is Out (George Garza)
- Steve Ballmer Rallies Troops With Memo After Surface Announcement (Antonio Hernandez)
- Reimagining Active Directory for the Social Enterprise (Part 2) (John Shewchuk)
- Using AutoHotkey to make Demos More Awesome (and more reliable) (Pete Brown)
- Windows 8 Surface Tablet Tech Review (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Microsoft Sync. Framework with Azure on iOS (Richard Jones)
- Microsoft Tablets: Surface Windows RT vs Surface Windows 8 Pro (Robert Boland)
- 3 Reasons You Need To Know Something About Every Technology (Tim Murphy)
- Thoughts on the new Surface/Windows8/WindowsRT devices (Wally McClure)
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