Top Links
- DevLabs: C++, Cloud Services, and You (S.Somasegar)
 - GUID guide, part two (Eric Lippert)
 - Filling in the UX Gaps in Metro style Apps – TechBash Edition (Brent Schooley)
 - A New Look for CodePlex (Mark Groves)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- And sometimes Things Just Works (Oren Eini)
 - TFSPreview update (Brian Harry)
 - Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 6: Tiles, toasts and badges (Gill Cleeren)
 - Run Your Own Group Chat with AppHarbor and JabbR (AppHarbor)
 - Making Mayhem with Volume Control (Eli White)
 - Announcing Casablanca, a native library to access the cloud from C++ (Casablanca Team)
 - Announcing Casablanca, a Native Library to Access the Cloud From C++ (Vikas Bhatia)
 - Marshaling native arrays back as managed arrays without copying (Rick Brewster)
 - Entity Framework 4.3.1 Migrations and non English locale (Simone Chiaretta)
 - Context-Aware Dialogue with Kinect: Part 2 of our Q&A with Leland Holmquest (Michael Desmond)
 - Development Based on C + + Runtime in the Windows 8 Metro Interface News Reader (Cheng Yin)
 - Knowing your Metro Style App package details (Arun Mahendrakar)
 - RavenDB CRUD – How To (Gregor Suttie)
 
Web Development
- Simple JavaScript Notifications with toastr (John Papa)
 - Learning HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery interactively via WebGrid (Greg Duncan)
 - Fluid CSS3 Slideshow with Parallax Effect (Ring Wing)
 - Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.49 (CodePlex)
 - #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Backbone.js Applications – $11.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
 - node.js Version 0.6.16 (stable) (Isaac Schlueter)
 - Dissecting 3.5.0 DataTable, Part 1 (Luke Smith)
 - Google Drive API: It’s Kind of a Big Deal (Curtis C. Chen)
 - Web Performance Tip: Make Sure You Have a FavIcon (Chris Love)
 - Render Action (Christopher Bennage)
 - Why you should care about CSS page performance (Doug Stewart)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Building Better UX Using Patterns (Ambrose Little)
 - Achievements: An Agile Whitepaper (Peter Saddington)
 - The architect as a leader, and other specialists and You’re not self organizing if you have a go-to architect and Grow your "feature teams" into just "teams" and Do new startup leaders need to grow their teams? (Roy Osherove)
 - Hired help (Eric Brechner)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Need get a GW-Basic fix? Here’s GW-Basic running in Silverlight (Greg Duncan)
 - 2000 WPF Things #548 – Change the Offset of a Gradient Stop in Blend (Sean Sexton)
 - Building A Test Texting System On Windows Phone With TextBelt API and Getting The Flights Above You, And Much More, On Windows Phone, With WolframAlpha (Den Delimarsky)
 - WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.4 (CodePlex)
 - Four ways we’re improving Marketplace (Todd Brix)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- GoingNative 8: Introducing Casablanca – A Modern C++ API for Connected Computing (Charles Torre)
 - Video Demo: Overview of XAML authoring features in Blend and Visual Studio (Joanna Mason)
 - Video: Chaining Down Unruly JavaScript (Paul Ballard)
 - Firefox work week Windows 8 talk (Brian Bondy)
 - Project Mayhem – an overview (Clint Rutkas)
 - Project Mayhem – Creating a module (Clint Rutkas & Eli White)
 - On The Verge, Episode 005: Tony Fadell and Chris Grant (Creighton DeSimone)
 
Community / Events
- Free Windows Phone Game Training in Portland – 5/11 (Kelly White)
 - Best of Luck to Derek! (Robby Ingebretsen)
 - Vote for the Imagine Cup People’s Choice Award (Peter Laudati)
 - May Tech Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
 - Upcoming Web Camps (Jon Galloway)
 - Great Place to Work: turning ideas into technology at "The Garage" (Liz)
 
Database
- Thank God I Chose SQL Server part II: How to Improperly Install Oracle 11gR2 (Stevan Bolton)
 - SQL Server source control from Visual Studio (David Atkinson)
 - SQL Server 2012: Biggest Little Core-house (Jorge Segarra)
 - SQL SERVER – Maximum Allowable Length of Characters for Temp Objects is 116 – Guest Post by Balmukund Lakhani (Pinal Dave)
 - You need to run DBCC CheckDB regularly and Creating a Sequence in SQL Server 2012 (Steve Jones)
 - How to Configure Database mail (geniiius)
 - The most unappreciated feature in Sql Server 2008? (Emil Tabakov)
 
SharePoint
- Product Review: Real Time Collaboration on SharePoint with Sazneo (Joel Oleson)
 - How to: Hide the Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 (Rajeswari Mohandas)
 
Miscellaneous
- Making Animations over the Canvas for Android (Carlos Sessa)
 - Generalizing Code Through Functional Programming (John Lindal)
 - Barnes & Noble to spin off digital Nook business, Microsoft will invest $300 million into it (Vlad Savov)
 
More Link Collections
- Daily WP7 Development News 30 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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Interesting Finds: May 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Double Shot #870 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Reading Notes #44 (Frank)
 - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-01 (Dan Rigby)
 - Daily News Digest 04/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - Windows Dev News for April 29, 2012 – #0076 (Dave Campbell)
 
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