• Visual Studio Dark Theme (Monty Hammontree)
• Using GitHub for Windows with non-GitHub repositories (Phil Haack)
• Miguel de Icaza on ASP.NET MVC, Moonlight, and the Android Lawsuit (Jonathan Allen)
• My Favorite Features: Managing Projects with the Backlog, Sprint Planning and Taskboard Features in Team Foundation Server 11 (Jason Zander)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing a WCF 4.5 WebSocket Service (Peter Vogel)
• Windows Explorer Preview Pane for .vb files (Kirill Osenkov)
• How does it work in C#? – Part 3 (C# LINQ in detail) (Mohammad A Rahman)
• Visual Studio Express–Alive and Well (Talbott Crowell)
• Mighty Metro Morphing! – Design case study of morphing a HTML5 page into a Windows 8 Metro app (Greg Duncan)
• Making a different view the Root Navigation Controller and Hiding the back button in a Navigation Controller with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)
• CSLA 4 version 4.3.11 beta available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Team Building your windows 8 Metro style Applications. (Shady Youssef)
• My take on Win8/Metro (John Petersen)
• In Case You Missed It: Async and Streaming for ADO.NET 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)
• Design case study: iPad to Windows 8 Metro style app (downloadable version) (MS Downloads)
• IsNullOrEmpty generic method for Array to avoid Re-Sharper warning (Michael Freidgeim)
• RabbitMQ for Windows: Headers Exchanges (Derek Greer)
• How many ways are there to create a File Watcher? Well, here’s three at least… (Greg Duncan)
• Upgrade to NuGet 1.8 to speed up builds (AppHarbor)

Web Development

• Extending WordPress with C# Plugins (Miloslav Beno)
• Develop A One-Of-A-Kind CSS/JS-Based Game Portfolio (Daniel Sternlicht)
• The CSS Clip Property (Louis Lazaris)
• Rendering ASP.NET MVC Views to String (Rick Strahl)
• Naked JavaScript – Function Scopes, Hoisting And Other Quirks (Ryan Sukale)
• Using KO’s native PubSub for decoupled synchronization (Ryan Niemeyer)
• Objects and Classes in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Challenges Faced when Migrating Applications to the Cloud (Abel Avram)
• Search DOM Nodes with Opera Dragonfly Developer tool (Karl Dubost)
• #nodejs, why I’m basically porting EVERYTHING to it… (Adron Hall)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.2 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Why your site graphics look crap on the iPhone (Paul Boag)
• Fun With the Service Bus (Part 3) (Jim O’Neil)
• Microsoft to take the wraps off ‘Antares’ hosting, Linux VM for Windows Azure (Mary Jo Foley)
• Serving web resources (AXDs) with HTTP Compression through Windows Azure CDN (Avkash Chauhan)
• Windows Azure End to End Examples (Buck Woody)
• Bing Maps AJAX Control SDK 7.0 (PDF) (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – the Definition of Done (Clemens Reijnen)
• Agile Scrum Tools – A Tool that Helps Teams Grow? (Peter Saddington)
• Performance Testing Part I – Modeling, Implementing, and Executing Performance Tests (Phil Sams)
• Book review: Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice (Devon Musgrave)
• How to Make Progress Bars Feel Faster to Users (Anthony)
• Why one startup prefers coworking to remote collaboration (Jessica Stillman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Xamarin abandons its Silverlight for Linux technology (Mary Jo Foley)
• Silverlight 5 in Action printed book is now in (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #569 – Setting Transforms from within Blend (Sean Sexton)
• The PhoneGap/Cordova Misconception (Matt Lacey)
• LightSwitch Tips & Tricks on Query Performance (Beth Massi)
• Silverlight – Testing the untestable (Peter Gfader)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #193: Turning the Application Inside Out (James Shore)
• Howard Dierking Shows You How to Optimize Your ASP.NET Sites | Web Camps TV (Brady Gaster)
• Yet Another Podcast #66–Chris Sells (Jesse Liberty)
• Ping 143: So.cl, Imagine Cup, Win 8 Boot Speed, Minecraft refund | Ping! (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Windows 8: 30 to Launch (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Free One Day F# Workshop (Giles Davies)
• Windows 8 Day by the beach in Carlsbad California and See Windows 8 at the Microsoft Store! (Surf4Fun)
• I’m Speaking at SP Tech Con in Boston this July (Andrew Connell)
• My Tech Ed North America Preview – Content Edition (Chris Gardner)
• Talking Cloud Tuesday with Windows Imbedded MVP Gianni Rosa Gallina (MVP Award Program)
• She let me take the computer home. – How did you get started in computers and programming? (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• Building a SQL Server Inventory – Part 1 (Colleen Morrow)
• Developer Training – Difficult Questions and Alternative Perspective – Part 3 (Pinal Dave)
• Oracle Date issues with PowerPivot (Mike Davis)
• Denali – Day 30: Deprecated Features (Vinay Thakur)

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell to Manage Windows Azure Applications (Brian Hitney)

Miscellaneous

• Jobs in IT: Five Tips for a Successful Design Portfolio (MS JobsBlog)
• Xbox Beyond the Box (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Meet Samsung Series 3 Chromebox and Is Samsung Chromebook Series 5 550 worth spending $549? (Joe Wilcox)
• Photosynth for Windows Phone (finally) released (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading May 29, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #889 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1116 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-30 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily WP7 Development News 29 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week May 21-27, 2012 and Daily News Digest 5/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for May 29, 2012 – #0090 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Fitness for Geeks: Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health by Bruce W. Perry

Top Links

• LINQ Koans – Learn LINQ by doing LINQ (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio 11 Performance: Improvements in Typing and Editing Responsiveness (Eric Knox)
• Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud – Book Download (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express changes anger developers (John Callaham)
• Developing and Deploying Node.js Express Web App on Windows Azure (Shiju Varghese)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft`s F#: 10 Reasons Why It`s a Hot Programming Language for Developers (Darryl K. Taft)
• Reflecting Enumeration Information (Richard Carr)
• How to create WCF Data Service with $JSONP format (Dhananjay Kumar)
• TaskCancelledException vs OperationCancelledException (Kathleen Dollard)
• Bank OCR kata in F#: user story 1 (Mark Seemann)
• Get Last N Records Using Linq-to-SQL (Pranay Rana)
• Troubleshoot logout from TFS Service when using multiple live Id and Query untyped object inside a Mongo Db (log4net mongoappender) (Ricci Gian Maria)
• How to: grant “Manage Build Resources” Privilege to users with tfssecurity.exe (Sebastian Dau)
• TFS API Part 47 (VS11) – Manage Iterations Dates (Shai Raiten)
• The Magic of Visual Studio 11 Page Inspector (Sumit Maitra)
• DotNet Reflector / decompiler free tools (Tatworth)
• Using a Predicate as a key to a Dictionary (Tom Hines)
• Microsoft Posts Windows 8 App Porting Guides (Paul Thurrott)
• Globalization, Localization And Why My Application Stopped Launching (Paulo Morgado)
• Loading WinRT Types via Reflection in Windows 8 (Peter Torr)
• Full-fidelity history and data migration are mutually exclusive (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Emulating Multiple Inheritance with Extension Methods (Anders Abel)
• Clearing the page cache in Windows 8 Metro apps (Andreas Hammar)
• NDepend 4.0 Released (Anthony Trudeau)
• Porting apps to Windows 8 Metro (Jennifer Marsman)
• Sample Browser v5.3 Feature Update (Jialiang Ge)

Web Development

• Building an Offline HTML5 Application (Jim Jackson II & Ian Gilman)
• Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for iOS Book Review (David Hayden)
• Awesome use of AND operator (Julian M. Bucknall)
• A Study Using The HTML5 Geolocation API (Chris Love)
• Develop A One-Of-A-Kind CSS/JS-Based Game Portfolio (Daniel Sternlicht)
• Using Ninject with the latest ASP.NET Web API source (Filip W)
• Modernizr Rocks HTML5 (Laila Lotfi)
• The CSS Clip Property (Louis Lazaris)
• Cleaning Up HTML, Part 1: When Mixins Become Skins (Niels Matthijs)
• Deploy to AppHarbor using GitHub for Windows (AppHarbor)
• JavaScript for the C# Guy: The confusion about ‘this’ (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Creating a Tabbed Entity Template using Wijmo Open for Juice UI (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Power of Thought and How To Build Your Creative Confidence and Project Management Quotes (J.D. Meier)
• Types of Duplication in Code (John Sonmez)
• Office Space Shrinking… Good for Agility? (Peter Saddington)
• Abstraction Creep (Magnus Holm)
• Are you a Rockstar developer? (Tony Verguldi, Jr.)
• Using DRY: Between Code Duplication and High-Coupling (Abel Avram)
• Automated Testing Isn’t Just for Business Logic (Peter Ritchie)
• Comparing the Flavors of Config Managment: Chef, Puppet, etc. (Ranjib Dey)
• When Will It Be Done? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Memory Lane (Michael Norton)
• Measure What Really Matters (Bob McIlree)
• The open plan fallacy testimonials (Jef Claes)
• A Study in Good UX and Developer UX with FourSquare (Chris Love)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Book Review: Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration (Brian Noyes)
• Earth Quake – A Composite WPF disaster monitoring application (db7uk)
• A case study in moving a Windows Phone app to a Windows 8 Metro app (Eric Nelson)
• HTML5 Platformer game PhoneGap’ed onto Windows Phone 7.1(5) (Greg Duncan)
• How-To: Get Mobile Operator details in Windows Phone and Test Developed Apps in Both 512MB RAM and 256MB RAM Emulators in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
• Comparison of RadControls for Windows Phone and the Windows Phone Toolkit. (Michael Crump)
• Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration (Neil Mackenzie)
• Offline Browser for Windows Phone is released (Slobodan Pavkov)
• 2000 WPF Things #567 – Setting Layout Related Properties in Blend and #568 – Setting Text-Related Properties in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Move Your WP7 Apps Links to the Marketplace (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows Phone ListBox empty template – Using visual states (part 1) (Toni Petrina)
• Pushing the Limits of the Windows Phone SDK and Sending Files via EmailComposeTask and “What Time Is It” explained and ported to Windows Phone and Windows Phone Emulator In the 7.1.1 SDK – Quick Insights (Den Delimarsky)
• Part 1: Be pushy with Push Notification in your game: Background and Be pushy with Push Notification in your game: Application Manifest File and Be pushy with Push Notification in your Game: Class scope variables and HttpNotificationChannel (Surf4Fun)
• Making Money With WindowsPhone (Matt Lacey)
• Announcing TouchDevelop v2.8: structured datatypes, tags, pages+buttons, better api search, featured screenshots, and more! (Nikolai Tillmann)
• CODE Framework 4.0.20524.0 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Joel Semeniuk Talks Agile and Lean and The Tablet Show – Diederik Krols Builds Metro UIs in Windows 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• TWC9: 200! Kinect SDK v1.5, GitHub for Windows, Visual Studio 11 lineup and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez, Dennis Delimarsky, Greg Duncan & Golnaz)
• Technology & Friends Episode 214: Elijah Manor on AmplifyJS (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 440: E3 2012 is coming (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 187 – PowerScripting Podcast – The Scripting Wife and Hal’s Wife (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Metro Developer Podcast Episode 068 – “Amazing Amy” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Campus Coder: Episode #4 and Bytes by MSDN: Scott Hanselman and Tim Huckaby discuss ASP.NET and Open Source Software (MS Podcasts)
• The Vergecast 031 – 05.24.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• 015 JSJ Open Discussion (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
• Episode 81 – Windows Azure Media Services | Cloud Cover (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• What The Tech 118: Not Red Hat 6 and Windows Weekly 262: The Dumbening (Paul Thurrott)
• Async made simple with C++ PPL | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Rahul V. Patil & Genevieve Fernandes)
• GeekWire Radio: Inside the world of pinball (Todd Bishop)
• Engadget Podcast 295 – 05.25.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 139 – 05.26.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for May 29th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Giveaway: Telerik Ultimate Collection License worth $1999 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 30 To Launch Windows 8 (Doug Holland)
• Announcing the first NServiceBus Hackathon (Udi Dahan)

Database

• Private deployment of SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server 2012 LEAD and LAG (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – A Puzzle Part 2 – Fun with SEQUENCE in SQL Server 2012 – Guess the Next Value and Developer Training – Importance and Significance – Part 1 and Developer Training – Employee Morals and Ethics – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• OUTPUT Clause and @@identity, scope_identity() (Denis Gobo)
• NVARCHAR(n) Vrs NVARCHAR(max) (Ezekiel)
• DBCC CHECKDB (geniiius)
• Denali – Day 29: Resource Governor Enhancements (Database Engine) (Vinay Thakur)

Miscellaneous

• So You Want to be a Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Today I Learned: You Cannot Transfer Ownership of iOS Applications (Bobby Johnson)
• Smart Software – The Future of Software World (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Microsoft is serious about open source: 10 proof points (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 27, 2012 and Interesting Finds: May 28, 2012 and Interesting Finds: May 29, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 156 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading May 25, 2012 and Geek Reading May 26, 2012 and Geek Reading May 28, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #887 and Double Shot #888 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #13 (Mary Lou)
• Daily Links 27 May 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 5/28/2012 and Daily News Digest 5/29/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week May 21-27, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #48 (Frank)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #20) (Himanshu Singh)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-28 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-29 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1114 and The Morning Brew #1115 (Chris Alcock)
• Pie in the Sky (May 25, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• Everyman on Sinofsky does Windows 8, Your Brain on Facebook, Interruption Technology, a Toy Yoda (Dave Burke)
• Retrospective 86 – Agile Publishing and Agile 2012 Speaking (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 25 May 2012 and Daily WP7 Development News 28 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Mobile Applications by Theresa Neil

• OData submitted to OASIS for standardization (Alex James & Pablo)
• Being productive in the background – background tasks (Hari Pulapaka)
• Metro Walkthrough: Creating a Task List with a ListView and IndexedDB (Stephen Walther)
• Hybrid Mobile Applications with HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 (Sam Gentile)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Extract to User Control in visual studio11 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Object Pipelines (Richard Carr)
• What would you like to know about "how we do language design for VB and C#" ? (Lucian Wischik)
• VS2010 Large Solution Bottle Neck (Mark Pearl)
• Code Query and Rule over LINQ (Patrick Smacchia)
• Deeply Nested Null Checking in C# verses Assert with no nesting (Peter Kellner)
• Performance Gains with Data Parallelism: Using SIMD Instructions from C# (Sasha Goldshtein)
• C++ Build Throughput: Visual Studio 11 Pre-Release Compared to Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Li Shao)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming Entity Framework: Code First – $7.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL(O’Reilly Media)
• How do I prevent unchecked checkboxes in my listview control from disappearing? (Raymond Chen)
• My Favorite Features: Creating Storyboards with PowerPoint (Jason Zander)
• Do you want the Contoso Cookbook (and other Windows Dev Camp content)? (Jennifer Marsman)
• Coded UI Test – New Extensibility QFE (Shubhra Maji)
• Sigh. Writing XML DOM code (John Guin)
• Windows 8 Game Development resources (Glen Gordon)

Web Development

• Getting Started on Line-of-Business HTML5 App – Part 2 Setting Up Your Development Environment (Bruce Kyle)
• Injecting Custom HTML Attributes in ASP.NET MVC (Simon J. Ince)
• Dynamic Menus in ASP.NET MVC 4 using EF Code First and jQuery (Sumit Maitra)
• Adding MSCHART to your Windows azure Web Role and WCF service could cause exception (Avkash Chauhan)
• Getting Started with Socket.IO and Node.js (Chad Lung)
• Plugging into Azure with the Azure Plugin Library (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: ServiceCustodian (Martin Fowler)
• TDD test suites should run in 10 seconds or less (Mark Seemann)
• Design patterns across paradigms (Mark Seemann)
• The Agile Pocket Guide – Peter Saddington – Now on Amazon for Pre-Order! (Peter Saddington)
• A Sense of Ownership (Jurgen Appelo)
• Mercurial for a small team series–Mercurial or Git (Kevin LaBranche)
• Collaboration in the Workplace: Where do You Start? (Jacob Morgan)
• Metro design principles for developers (Anders Poulsen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 2000 WPF Things #566 – Setting Properties of an Effect in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Opinion: XAML vs. HTML5 and What Do You Want From Tombstone Helper? (William Soprano)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch: Will it emerge from sleeper status? (Mary Jo Foley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: Mix Up Some Databinding with Expression Blend (Paul Ballard)
• Windows Phone Central 143 – Samsung returns, new apps & Skype (Daniel Rubino)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 53 (Richard Hay)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Guru Pangal (Ryan Parsley)
• Let’s Play TDD #192: A Tricky Little Refactoring (James Shore)
• Combining XAML and DirectX in Metro style apps | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Jesse Bishop)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Conference Registration Now Open – Get Early Bird $400 Off Discount! (Joel Oleson)
• The First Smashing Conference Is Coming: A Community Event For Web Designers (Vitaly Friedman)
• Canadian Open Day Brings out the Geeks and the Tweets (MVP Award Program)
• Geek Pride Day Survey 2012 (Nathan Barry)
• St. Louis Days of .NET 2012 (Scott Spradlin)
• Coworking makes room for larger startups (Jessica Stillman)
• Dani Does Phone–Western New York User Group Tour (Jim O’Neil)
• Metro Fridays Office Hours in Mountain View, CA (Doris Chen)
• Indy Hall V3 Relaunch Party! (Alex Hillman)
• Jobs in IT: The Hottest New Careers in Tech – PART II of II (Eugenia Sawa)
• Geek Out to Win Free Passes to Wizard World (Chris Cummins)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 LEAD and LAG (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – A Puzzle – Fun with SEQUENCE in SQL Server 2012 – Guess the Next Value (Pinal Dave)
• Recently Used Tables and Databases (William Assaf)

SharePoint

• SSRS Performance in SharePoint Integrated Mode (Paul Turley)

Miscellaneous

• A 30 year sorting algorithm saga: from 250k to 14GB in one minute (Rachel Appel)
• How I Would Design a Programming Degree (Chris Eargle)
• From the MVPs: Windows Intune 101 (Devon Musgrave)
• MSDN gets a new look… (Greg Duncan)
• Total Commander 8 goes 64-bit, but old plugins won’t work (Mike Williams)
• Steve Ballmer Has An 80-Inch Windows 8 Tablet Hanging In His Office (MSFT) (Steve Kovach)
• Adobe Gives Flash Source Code To Microsoft, Bundles With IE10 (Vygantas)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 25, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1113 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-25 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for May 24, 2012 – #0089 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for May 14 – 20, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life! by Chris Bernard

• Continuous Value Delivery with Visual Studio 11 ALM (Jason Zander)
• XAML vs. HTML5 – A Discussion (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Cheerio: A faster, Windows-friendly alternative to jsdom (Dave Ward)
• 3 Key Software Principles You Must Understand (Chris Peters)

.NET / Visual Studio

• 09. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Test Tasks on the Board (Clemens Reijnen)
• Windows 8, .NET, Async, Await, What’s Going On? (Mike Taulty)
• Fog 0.1.3.0 Released (Dan Mohl)
• GUIDs are designed to be unique, not random (Raymond Chen)
• Performance tips for Metro style XAML apps (MS Downloads)
• Getting Started with Gadgeteer (Rob Miles)
• Kinect Studio can’t connect to my app! (fix your elevation levels) (Rob Relyea)
• Metro: Dynamically Switching Templates with a WinJS ListView (Stephen Walther)
• Encryption and Decryption in the .NET Framework (hmloo)
• Windows 8 Metro Style Apps Background Audio with XAML/C# (Keith Patton)

Web Development

• Programming JavaScript Applications (Early Release) By Eric Elliott (Ben Nadel)
• Bookreviews: SL5 LOB, Node JS, JavaScript Step by Step (David J. Kelley)
• An HTML5 Item Template for VS2010 (Sam Gentile)
• MVC Strongly-Typed Action Helpers (Chris Cavanagh)
• Attribute based routing in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• Implementing HTML5 Drag & Drop Based File Upload in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Pieter de Rycke)
• Two ways to work with HTTP responses in ApiController, HttpResponseMessage and HttpResponseException (Glenn Block)
• Typesetting Paragraphs on Web Pages (Louis Lazaris)
• Naked JavaScript – Closure Dynamics (Ryan Sukale)
• Dynamic Menus in ASP.NET MVC 4 using EF Code First and jQuery (Sumit Maitra)
• Form Saving JS Library (Patrick Kua)
• How to calculate what to move to the Windows Azure cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.2 EAP 117.468 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Debugging Windows Azure Web Role Application_Start() method in Global.asax.cs (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• If a Customer/User Doesn’t Understand: It’s Your Fault Not Their Problem (Matt Lacey)
• Application Development Glass Ceilings (Paul Hammant)
• Understanding the Rule of Thirds in Web Design (Carrie Cousins)
• A story on composable systems (Dru Sellers)
• If doctors would work like software engineers, no-one would consult them (Frans Bouma)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4 WebBrowser Update (Chris Cavanagh)
• How-To: Use Application Deployment Tool in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
• Client-Side Logging in Silverlight (Paul Sheriff)
• 2000 WPF Things #565 – Workaround for Inability to Scroll ScrollViewer in Design Mode in Blend (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard are Back in Space! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Kickstarter Needs Test-Driven Development (James Shore)
• Building Metro style apps with XAML and C++ | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Tim Heuer)
• Mash This Podcast – Turning Your API Into a Business (Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Lee Dumond & Dustin Davis)
• Roundtable Part 2: Architecture and the Cloud (Bob Rhubart)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 029 – 05.22.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Debugger Canvas on Channel9 (Kael Rowan)
• The GeekDads Episode #115: The Big Purple Elephant in the Room (Ken Denmead)
• Defrag: WHS+MC, Error 1325, Using Onboard VGA+PCI Video | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Mindscape video: Sh*t Developers DON’T Say (Hilary)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone/Windows 8 Event–London, June 16th and 17th (Mike Taulty)
• It’s (Azure) Camping Time! (Jim O’Neil)
• Follow Up: PowerHour Webcast on Managing Office 365 with PowerShell and Other Resources (Mike Pfeiffer)

Database

• Find the database free space sql server The transaction log for database is full (Muthukkumaran Kaliyamoorthy)
• The SQL Server Performance Checkup from a Consultant’s Perspective (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – A Puzzle – Fun with NULL – Fix Error 8117 (Pinal Dave)
• The View of Foreign Keys That I Wanted (Michael Swart)
• SQL Data Decimation by Date Range and Nth Record (Greg Arroyo)

SharePoint

• SSRS Performance in SharePoint Integrated Mode (Paul Turley)
• BCS Item Picker foreign key Column Name in SharePoint External List (Dmitry Kaloshin)

Miscellaneous

• $49 Android PC from Via (Adam Flaherty)
• Microsoft Reportedly Bringing Its Office Suite To iPad And Android Tablets This November (Ben Reid)
• NetBeans IDE 7.2: Smarter & Faster (Geertjan)
• A Beginner’s Guide to Ruby (Marc Gayle)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 24, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• New article and the latest list of articles published by the ALM Rangers (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Windows Dev News for May 23, 2012 – #0088 (Dave Campbell)
• Maker Geek Roundup 012 for 5/23/2012 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #1112 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #886 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 5/23/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-24 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide by Aaron Cure

• Designing for PCs that boot faster than ever before (Steven Sinofsky)
• My Favorite Features: Unit Testing Enhancements in Visual Studio 11 (Jason Zander)
• Using async and await in Silverlight 5 and .NET 4 in Visual Studio 11 with the async targeting pack (Pete Brown)
• Getting Started with CSS Media Queries (Dan Wahlin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 UML Design Pattern Toolbox Items Extension – Updated for Visual Studio 11 Beta (Giles Davies)
• TFS API Part 46 (VS11) – Team Settings (Shai Raiten)
• NServiceBus 3.2 Released (Udi Dahan)
• Use Capped collection on MongoAppender for Log4Net (Ricci Gian Maria)
• When Debug isn’t enough with your Windows 8 Metro Applications. (Michael Crump)
• The feeling of excitement is tangible… with the release of the tangible T4 Editor 2.0! (Greg Duncan)
• Metro Answers: Can I use the Serial Port? (Jerry Nixon)

Web Development

• Automated Testing of ASP.NET MVC Applications (Avi Kaye)
• Creating an Animated 3D Bouncing Ball with CSS3 (Daniel Sternlicht)
• QUnit Composite Addon: Running Multiple jQuery Test Files (Elijah Manor)
• Working with files in JavaScript, Part 3: Progress events and errors (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• HTML 5 Game Design: EaselJS, SpriteAnimation made easy (Surf4Fun)
• Orchard 1.4.2 (CodePlex)
• $(function(){…}) vs (function($){…})($) or DOMReady vs The Module Pattern (Derick Bailey)
• Windows Azure Myths (Buck Woody)
• Understanding the Rule of Thirds in Web Design (Carrie Cousins)
• Replicating MySQL AES Encryption Methods With PHP (Chad Smith & Derek Woods)
• More Fun with the Windows Azure Service Bus (Jim O’Neil)
• Typesetting Paragraphs on Web Pages (Louis Lazaris)
• Separate mobile site vs. responsive design (Paul Boag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD/CQRS Challenge – Integrating Distributed Systems (Rinat Abdullin)
• Assembla SVN With Local Backup (Brian Peek)
• Lean tools: Making decisions (Giorgio Sironi)
• Double-loop learning in retrospectives and the Lean Startup (Anand Vishwanath)
• SOLID Code for SOLID Reasons (Jim Cooper)
• Deep Dive With Microsoft Fakes – Shims (Roopesh Shenoy)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WindowsPhoneGeek launches Marketplace for Windows Phone app development components (Windows Phone Geek)
• Small but beautifully functional data – Windows Phone Sparkline (Brent Schooley)
• XAML Spy Preview 3 (Koen Zwikstra)
• 54 Visual Studio LightSwitch Themes (Michael Washington)
• Windows Phone Development Tips and Tricks Helping You Make Apps. (Matt Lacey)
• 2000 WPF Things #564 – Other Places to Get Third Party Effects (Sean Sexton)
• AdControl, Animations and the Back Key (Maarten Struys)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #191: The Cheat (James Shore)
• ShopTalk Episode 19 (Chris Coyier)
• The GeekDads Episode #115: The Big Purple Elephant in the Room (Ken Denmead)
• Engadget HD Podcast 300 – 05.22.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Yet Another Podcast #65–Windows 8 with Michael Crump (Jesse Liberty)
• Getting the most out of the C++ compiler | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Jim Hogg)

Community / Events

• Jobs in IT: The Top Three Hottest New Majors for a Career in Tech – PART I of II (Eugenia Sawa)
• My new role at Microsoft (Pete Brown)
• TouchDevelop a Hit with Students (Arjmand Samuel)
• Webinar Series: Getting Started With Web UI Automation (Jim Holmes)
• It’s (Azure) Camping Time! (Jim O’Neil)
• Stephen Hawking to speak at Seattle Science Festival (John Cook)
• Geek Pride Day is Friday, May 25th! (Raevyn)

Database

• Basic SSIS Equivalents to T-SQL’s LIKE (Todd McDermid)
• SSIS Reporting Pack v0.4 – Execution Report updated (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Standard Reports from SQL Server Management Studio – SQL in Sixty Seconds #016 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• How to change the SA password in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• How do I – Add an Approval Workflow to my SharePoint list (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

PowerShell

• Setting Up A GitHub Specific PowerShell Profile (Nick Berardi)

Miscellaneous

• $49 Android PC from Via (Adam Flaherty)
• Objectivist C: a selfish programming language (Cory Doctorow)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 23, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 22 May 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 22 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week May 14-20, 2012 and Daily News Digest 5/22/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #885 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1111 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-23 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for May 22, 2012 – #0087 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman on Second Screening, Trader Joe Takeaways, More Friction, Website to Metro (Dave Burke)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed by Alessandro Del Sole

• Creating a fast and fluid app launch experience (Justin Cooperman) – For Windows 8 Metro apps
• Introducing GitHub For Windows (Phil Haack)
• GitHub for Windows (Tim Clem)
• How to design a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Part 2 (Telerik WP Team)
• Kinect for Windows: SDK and Runtime version 1.5 Released (Craig Eisler)

.NET / Visual Studio

• If you put tripwires in my paths, you won’t get my money and RavenHQ goes out of beta (Oren Eini)
• Under the covers of the async modifier and await operator in .NET 4.5 and C# Metro style applications (Pete Brown)
• Windows 8 C# – Capture Media (Shai Raiten)
• Get started with Windows 8 Metro style app development using JavaScript and HTML5 (Rachel Appel)
• Fixing the certifications issues for the Windows 8 App Store and #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)
• MonoDevelop 3.0 – Better Code Completion, Performance, Quick-Fix Suggestions (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Metro: Creating a Master/Detail View with a WinJS ListView Control (Stephen Walther)
• Keep Localizable Strings Close To Your Users (Jesse Taber)
• Sample Browser v5.2 Update (Jialiang Ge)
• Getting Started with Windows 8 Development (Jim O’Neil)
• File system places accessible through WinRT API (Andrei Marukovich)
• LLBLGen Pro feature highlights: assigning attributes based on rules to properties in generated code. (Frans Bouma)

Web Development

• A Gentle Reintroduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Creating an Animated 3D Bouncing Ball with CSS3 (Daniel Sternlicht)
• File Icons using CSS Selectors (Deran Schilling)
• Espresso Tip: Get an element’s entire Html string with jQuery (Jonathan Creamer)
• ASP.NET MVC Beta and RC Upgrades – Confirm your Expectations and Version Numbers in Production Environments (Scott Hanselman)
• APress deal of the day 22/May/2012 – Pro HTML5 Programming (TATWORTH)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 6 – Managing Animated Shapes (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset feature (Troy Hunt)
• Build Starter Apps with Rails Apps Composer version 1.5.0 (Daniel Kehoe)
• About.me Releases Public API, SDK At Disrupt, Now Integrates With Reputation, Smarterer, Forkly, Kred And Showyou (Matt Burns)
• Embedded Excel Services on your Website (Zack Barresse)
• Separate mobile site vs. responsive design (Paul Boag)
• Fun with the Service Bus (Part 2) (Jim O’Neil)
• More Fun with the Windows Azure Service Bus (Brian Oneill)
• Replicating MySQL AES Encryption Methods With PHP (Chad Smith & Derek Woods)
• Diving into CanJS (Curtis Cummings)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD/CQRS Challenge – Integrating Distributed Systems (Rinat Abdullin)
• The surgery metaphor (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using Git Bash in Console2 (Nick Berardi)
• Double-loop learning in retrospectives and the Lean Startup (Anand Vishwanath)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Only One Dialog Box is Allowed in Silverlight (Jason Gaylord)
• Windows Phone 8 concept shows serious potential (Brad Sams)
• The correct AdventureWorks database to use for Silverlight 5 in Action (and Silverlight 4 in Action) book examples (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #563 – Additional Effects in Expression SDK (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Beth Massi Builds Apps with LightSwitch in Studio 11 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 86: Announcing GitHub for Windows (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Technology & Friends Episode 213: Max Trinidad on Powershell (David Giard)
• Episode 186 – PowerScripting Podcast – The Scripting Games Winners with Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Metro Developer Podcast Episode 067 – “that SHOW Pho Sure” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Tablet Show – Greg Shackles Does Cross Platform Mobile Development with C# (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Inside Windows Phone #38 | Nikola Mihaylov, the Developer Behind Fantasia Painter | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• Walkthrough: Designing Metro style apps with XAML Designer in VS and Blend | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Navit Saxena)
• Project Detroit: Lighting System (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 – Face Tracking, Seated Skeletal Tracking, Kinect Studio, & More (Dan Fernandez)
• Building Windows Runtime Components with C++ | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Harry Pierson)
• Herb Sutter: Visual C++ for Windows 8 | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Herb Sutter)
• Getting the most out of the C++ compiler | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Jim Hogg)
• Ping 142: Siri speaks, Xbox in the den, E3, Microsoft at the races | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Video: Using Caching Policies in the Enterprise Library Caching Application Block (Paul Ballard)

Community / Events

• More Windows 8 Developer Camps! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Spec by Example mentoring programme (Gojko Adzic)
• Announcing the 90 regional finalists of the Google Science Fair 2012 (Sam Peter)
• Build the Next Great App at AngelHack June 23-24, 2012 (Amy Conklin)
• Meet the Author: John Sonmez on MonoTouch with XCode 4 and iOS 5 (Paul Ballard)
• Disrupt NYC Day 1: Your Startup Battlefield Companies (Elin Blesener)
• node.js in the cloud with Windows Azure activities in Oslo (Glenn Block)

Database

• What happens when a SSAS Tabular model exceeds memory? (James Serra)
• SQL Server 2008 SP3 Cumulative Update 5 Released (Glenn Berry)
• SSIS Reporting Pack v0.4 – Execution Report updated (Jamie Thomson)
• Using Sequence in SQL Server 2012 (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – SmallDateTime and Precision – A Continuous Confusion (Pinal Dave)
• ‘Fastest Consistent Database’ Claims MVVM Affinity (David Ramel)
• BIxPress 3.5–Now With More Awesome! (Jorge Segarra)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft adCenter Desktop (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft Launched the So.cl Social Media Program (George Garza)
• Windows Server 2012′s Data Deduplication – What is it, how will it help you and why you should care… and How to Excel with the Azure Data Hub (Greg Duncan)
• Computer Algorithms: Minimum and Maximum (Stoimen Popov)
• DuckDuckGo Zero-Click Info Adds Instant Answers to Google [Chrome Extensions] (Thorin Klosowski)
• New official wallpapers for your Windows Phone (Michael Stroh)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #885 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: May 22, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1110 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-22 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 5/21/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 May 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 21 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Reading Notes #47 (Frank)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 A Beginners Guide 5/E (Beginner’s Guides) by Dusan Petkovic

• Creating the Windows 8 user experience (Steven Sinofsky)
• A look ahead at the Visual Studio 11 product lineup and platform support (Visual Studio Blog)
• 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #6 Information Architecture for a Windows Phone App (Arturo Toledo)
• TWC9: C9 Gets MSDN, VS11 SDK Beta, Win8 Camp in a Box, Faces for WP7 and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Golnaz)

.NET / Visual Studio

• What’s New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 (MS Podcasts)
• Reflecting Type Hierarchy Information and Visual Studio 2010 Parallel Tasks Window (Richard Carr)
• WCF Data Services 5.0.1 Released (WCF Data Services Team)
• Extracting Tar archives with C# (Karsten Januszewski)
• Developer productivity tools and Visual Studio extensions (Mehdi Khalili)
• TFS API Part 44 (VS11) – Teams and Team Members (Shai Raiten)
• TFS API Find out who deleted your build? (Tarun Arora)
• EntityCollection or EntityReferece error in EF when using .ToList() (Derik Whittaker)
• The Import Project from TFS Wizard in TeamPulse (TeamPulse Team)
• Find, Forgive and Forget Your Coding Indiscretions With NDepend (Doug Rathbone)
• Useful .NET Delegate Internals (Alois Kraus)
• Metro: Introduction to the WinJS ListView Control and Metro: Grouping Items in a ListView Control (Stephen Walther)
• Using SQLite in a Metro style app (Tim Heuer)
• Accessing QuickBooks with Entity Framework (dataintegration)
• RabbitMQ for Windows: Topic Exchanges (Derek Greer)
• How to Debug a Windows 8 Metro Secondary Tile (Jeremy Likness)
• Cross-platform mobile packaging made easy with VSNomad (Kyle Burns)
• A triple dose of the .NET Micro Framework. Netduino, .NET Gadgeteer and a FEZ Hydra Basic Kit and .Net 4.5 Gets Zippy… Zip support is baked into the .Net 4.5 Framework (Greg Duncan)
• Set the current iteration in your queries (Ewald Hofman)

Web Development

• Infragistics jQuery Mobile Controls (Damyan Petev)
• Pure CSS Highlight for Link :target (Aaron T. Grogg)
• Learn jQuery Part 2: How to Select Elements or Nodes in jQuery (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A Foot On The Bottom Rung: First Forays Into Responsive Web Development (Gavyn McKenzie)
• Implement Live Web Chat With ASP.NET MVC 4, Pusher and jQuery (Piotr Kwapin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Power of Lists and 10 Ways to Use Evernote More Effectively (JD Meier)
• The most important agile practice? (Michael Norton)
• Building an API: Test Harness UI (Mark Needham)
• Code Reviews (Boris Lipschitz)
• How to prioritize tasks based on their value (Marta Jasinska)
• Should Agile Increase Customer Satisfaction? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Is Beautiful Usable, or Is It the Other Way Around? (Abel Avram)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RTM’d today: Windows Phone 7 Development Internals (Kim Spilker)
• Book review of XAML Developer Reference by Mamta D, Ashish Ghoda; O’Reilly Media (Mark Pearl)
• Retrieve System Information in Silverlight (Paul Sheriff)
• Radial gradients + Mini-path geometry sprites + infinite-scrolling inertial canvas = (Jose Fajardo)
• AdControl, Animations and the Back Key (Maarten Struys)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Charles Torre)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 439: Halo 4, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Screencast: Automatic migrations with Entity Framework 4.3 (Michael Friis)
• Geekadelpia Podcast: Episode 4, Operation Nice (Jo Pincushion & Dan Tabor)
• The JavaScript Show – Ecmascript 6 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Load Testing Webinar is Live on Telerik TV! (Jim Holmes)
• Windows Weekly 261: Don’t Nudge Me (Paul Thurrott)
• GeekWire Radio: Facebook’s IPO, as viewed by a skeptic (Todd Bishop)
• Engadget Podcast 294 – 05.18.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Windows 8 Dev Camp: Slides, Hands-on Labs, etc. (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Azure Dev Camps Soon! (Brian Hitney)
• Google I/O 2012 schedule released (Phone Arena Team)
• DDD Summit 2012 Summary – #DDDesign (Rinat Abdullin)
• Last Day With OrcsWeb (Scott Forsyth)
• Meet the Author: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework Code First Migrations (Paul Ballard)
• Xamarin Designer for Android Webinar – Webinar via AppDev May 23 (Wally McClure)
• GeekDad and GeekMom at Maker Faire! (Ken Denmead)

Database

• Microsoft® OLEDB Provider for DB2 v4.0 for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Saturday Fun Puzzle with SQL Server DATETIME2 and CAST and SQL SERVER – Renaming Index – Index Naming Conventions (Pinal Dave)
• Painless database logging with mongoDB (Jef Claes)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Class Registration Form (Greg Galipeau)
• [Run, don’t walk] CAML Designer (formerly known as CAML Builder) is Updated (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Pragmatic Metaprogramming (Donald Ball)
• USB Programming with Ruby (Patrick Kua)
• The Eternal Lorem Ipsum (Jeff Atwood)
• Tips and tricks for using SkyDrive on Windows Phone (George Ponder)
• Windows 8 Release Preview (Build 8400) Has Reportedly Been Compiled And Is Now Ready For Distribution (Ben Reid)
• Progress on CodePlex pull requests (Brian Harry)
• The Book That Every Programmer Should Read (Grigory Javadyan)
• Microsoft’s shifting priorities: It’s about time (Mary Jo Foley)
• Five things I’ve learned from Diablo III (Matthew Murray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: May 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 155 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for May 7-13, 2012 and Windows Dev News for May 18, 2012 – #0085 (Dave Campbell)
• Retrospective 85 – Personality Profiles, Retention of Employees, and Learning (Peter Saddington)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (5/18/2012) and Daily News Digest 5/18/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #883 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: May 18, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (May 18, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #19) (Himanshu Singh)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Everyman on Mobile and Web as One, Optimized Community UX, Narrating the Project, Telehumans, Nothing but Kale (Dave Burke)

The Geek Shelf

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

• Delivering reliable and trustworthy Metro style apps (Steven Sinofsky)
• Programming Windows 6th Edition Preview Ebook Is Here! (Charles Petzold)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Select() and Where() with Indexes (James Michael Hare)
• NuGet and Bin Deploy (WCF Data Services Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• When using the Task Parallel Library, Wait() is a BAD warning sign (Oren Eini)
• Disabling the Screensaver Programmatically (Richard Carr)
• How to view the stack of threads that were terminated as part of process teardown from the kernel debugger (Raymond Chen)
• Enum helper for values specified in attributes (Scott Wojan)
• Introduction to Redis on Windows & Redis usage with .NET (Code Inside Team)
• EntityCollection or EntityReferece error in EF when using .ToList() (Derik Whittaker)
• Free set Windows Performance analysis tools. From boot perf analysis, to power use, memory leaks, CPU hogs, app crashes and many more… (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing “dotPeek” – A free .NET Decompiler by JetBrains (Kunal Chowdhury)

Web Development

• Backbone.Syphon: Serialize Form Inputs To JavaScript Objects (Derick Bailey)
• jQuery find function (Jay C. Fields)
• jQuery/JavaScript Tools and Plugins Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
• Node.js vs. ASP.NET Web API (Mikael Koskinen)
• jQuery UI 1.9 Milestone 8 – Position (Scott González)
• Diving Into CSS Regions (Umar Hansa)
• The EU Cookie Law – what to do now (Chris Scott)
• 20 Things That May Be Clouding Your Choice About the Cloud, But Shouldn’t (Zhiming Xue)
• The Bing Search API on Windows Azure Marketplace is Here! (Peter Horsman)
• CoffeeScript Style Guide (Chris Smith)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why I Hate Unit Testing (Chris Eargle)
• "TIONTITITQ" ("To interface, or not to interface, that is the question") (Greg Duncan)
• How to prioritize tasks based on their value (Marta Jasinska)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RTM’d today: Windows Phone 7 Development Internals (Kim Spilker)
• AdDuplex launches referral program for Windows Phone developers (Rich Edmonds)
• 2000 WPF Things #561 – Drawing a 3D Donut Using a Radial Gradient (Sean Sexton)
• A LightSwitch Role Administration Web Page (JQueryUI/JuiceUI/Wijmo) (Michael Washington)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 052: Mystery in Space (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Video: Using a Security Token Service with an ASP.NET Application (Paul Ballard)
• my NPR interview about great speeches (Scott Berkun)

Community / Events

• Jobs in IT: Three reasons why it’s ideal to be a Program Manager at Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
• Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++: Live Streaming at 0900 PDT, May 18 (Charles Torre)
• Hangouts Hackathon: 1 API, 5 developers, 2 weeks (Scott Knaster)
• GeekDad and GeekMom at Maker Faire! (Ken Denmead)

Database

• SQL Server Tricks: How Can I Restore a Subset of My Tables to A Prior Point in Time? (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Thinking about Deprecated, Discontinued Features and Breaking Changes while Upgrading to SQL Server 2012 – Guest Post by Nakul Vachhrajani (Pinal Dave)
• Don’t put a return statement in a stored procedure inside a transaction (Denis Gobo)
• Managing Structured Data using Windows Azure Table Service (Mahesh Sabnis)

SharePoint

• Choosing the right site template – SharePoint 2010 (Kunaal Kapoor)
• Two MVPs Open Doors to a FAST World (MVP Award Program)

Miscellaneous

• More details on Windows 8 Release Preview bundled apps revealed (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #883 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 5/18/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-18 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for May 17, 2012 – #0084 (Dave Campbell)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1108 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Charles Petzold

Top Links

• .NET 4.5 Improvements for Cloud and Server Applications (S.Somasegar)
• Please Learn to Think about Abstractions (Scott Hanselman)
• Why Developers Should Care About Design, and How Metro Helps (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Using Absolute Positioning to Create Flexible Mobile Layouts (Chris Love)

.NET / Visual Studio

• When using the Task Parallel Library, Wait() is a BAD warning sign (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta SDK now available (Greg Duncan)
• TMap 4 TFS WP7 App – Connect 2 TFS video explanation (Clemens Reijnen)
• Troubleshoot WCF The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Get Detailed Build Test Results using the TFS API (Tarun Arora)
• Talking cloud: Not all .NET roads lead to Microsoft (Troy Hunt)
• Being productive when your app is offscreen (Hari Pulapaka)
• High accuracy DateTime.UtcNow (Kirill Osenkov)
• Going Beyond async and await On WinRT (Jeff Martin)
• RabbitMQ for Windows: Fanout Exchanges (Derek Greer)

Web Development

• Implementing message handlers to track your ASP.NET Web API usage (Filip W)
• jQuery/JavaScript Tools and Plugins Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
• Quick Tip: Telling Knockout to skip binding part of a page (Ryan Niemeyer)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.2 EAP 117.414 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Meet Crockford’s JSCheck (Andrew Burgess)
• SASS vs. LESS (Chris Coyier)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Code to Interfaces. Right. What’s an Interface? (Bil Simser)
• The Importance of unleashing your own creativity (Bill Wagner)
• Microsoft Test Manager–Test Cases Not in a Test Plan (Bob Hardister)
• People are Messy (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Load and Performance Testing; what’s the Difference? (Phil Sams)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building a Belt Clock in WPF (No, not a clock for your belt, but a clock made of belts…) (Greg Duncan)
• WP7 Launchers and Choosers – A WP7Dev should know (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #560 – Using a Radial Gradient to Create a 3D Effect (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mister Franklin Goes to Washington (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Stephan T. Lavavej: Core C++, 1 of n | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Lessons Learned: Lint and Javascript (James Shore)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 52 (Richard Hay)
• Roundtable Part 1: Agility vs. Architecture (Bob Rhubart)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 028 – 05.16.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Defrag: WPA2, Virtual Desktops, Cool KB’s | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• The new Bing…your questions answered (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Social meet up on Twitter for MEET Windows Azure on June 7th (Maarten Balliauw)
• Philly.NET: Scott Hanselman: The Future of ASP.NET (Nick Berardi) – Mr. Hanselman goes to Philadelphia.
• Windows Phone designer is named one of country’s most creative (Michael Stroh)
• Come to the Agile Buffet Table to Fill Your Plate (Telerik Agile Blog)
• Interview With Ward Cunningham (Andrew Binstock)
• Register Now to Attend a May 24th Windows 8 Developer Camp in Chevy Chase, MD! (MS Public Sector Team)
• Workshop and hackaton with Glenn Block: Node.js in the cloud with Azure (Einar Otto Stangvik)
• that CONFERENCE (Brian Harry)
• Social meet up on Twitter for MEET Windows Azure on June 7th (Magnus Martensson)
• Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block (Paul Ballard)
• How I Open Source (Jay C. Fields)

Database

• Securing SQL Server with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) (Jonathan Gardner)
• Upgrading Packages to SSIS 2012 (Devin Knight)
• "SQL Server Performance Survival Guide" a fairly massive link round-up on all things SQL Server performance related (Greg Duncan)
• Adventure Works Database for SQL Server 2012 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide – A Comprehensive Whitepaper – (454 pages – 9 MB) (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• Converting all your non-MP3 files to MP3’s with VLC, PowerShell & TagLib# (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Facebook App Center Best Practices (Emil Hesslow)
• Screenshots of new Windows 8 Photos app revealed (damaster)
• Channel 9: Announcing MSDN Profile Integration (Geoffrey K., Karsten Januszewski & Mike Sampson)
• Windows Phone sales nearly double in the US passing RIM, according to Kantar Worldpanel (Daniel Rubino)
• Why I Taught My Daughter To Code (A Little) (Jon Galloway)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1107 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #882 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 5/16/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-17 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for May 16, 2012 – #0083 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 16 May 2012 and Daily WP7 Development News 16 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action by Jeffrey Palermo

• 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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