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• RegEx Pixie (Jon von Gillern)
• The Unofficial Windows 8 Developer FAQ (Scott Barnes)
• MEF and TPL Dataflow NuGet Packages for .NET Framework 4.5 (Immo Landwerth)
• WinJS: Unpacking Promises (Christopher Bennage)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Develop Faster with Customized Visual Studio Templates (Joe Kunk)
• Improving Map/Reduce performance in RavenDB and My absolute favorite feature in VS 2012 (Oren Eini)
• Updating a Windows 8 JavaScript app from RC to RTM (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 8–Getting started with ListView binding (Brian H. Madsen)
• Looping Through an Entire Integer Range (Richard Carr)
• Namespace Alias Qualifier in C# (Senthil Kumar)
• Introducing an Integrated Work Item Field Reference for Visual Studio ALM and TFS (Kathryn E.)
• Using Git with TFS projects (Mark Groves)
• Debugging NuGet Package Restore (Xavier Decoster)
• Where are my backlog management and sprint planning features in TFS 2012? (Richard Erwin)
• Visual Studio project compatibility and VisualStudioVersion (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Testing Windows 8 apps using Visual Studio 2012 (Rui Sun & Andre Hamilton)
• Metro Paint (CodePlex)
• Prototyping Desktop Deblector (Rob)
• Inside the DLR – Invoking methods (Simon Cooper)
• Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 1 – Introduction and Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 2 – Setting up Data (Andy Kung)
• Creating a Bar Chart with RadCartesianChart, part of Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls and Windows 8 & Data Binding. Part 5–Binding to Lists (Jesse Liberty)
• AppFabric Server (Jurgen Willis)
• WinRT app guide: Step 1: The idea and Example Metro app /WinRT: Change/switch styles or datatemplates at runtime using code behind (Iris Classon)
• Is serialization really that expensive? (Jef Claes)
• Transient Fault Handling Application Block (Topaz) updates (Grigori Melnik)
• Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 2: Working with REST, oData and RSS from Windows 8 applications (Gill Cleeren)
• Applicative functors: definition and syntax (Tomas Petricek)
• MyGet Build Services – Join the private beta! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Jumping in feet first: Setup, Resources and Fundamentals #Win8Dev (Adam Kinney)
• View Models, Collections and Threads (Bill)
• Visual Rx – Backward Compatibility (Bnaya Eshet)
• 5 things you should know about developing Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 (Martin Beeby)

 

Web Development

• How to add annotations with JavaScript and HTML in Infragistics jQuery Chart (Mihail Mateev)
• Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Second Preview) (Devon Musgrave)
• Building an ASP.NET MVC4 Application with EF and WebAPI (Jonathan Creamer)
• Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms (Kthnwmn)
• Basic HTTP authentication in ASP.NET Web API using message handlers (Piotr Walat)
• Releasing Microsoft ASP.NET Universal Providers Core 1.2 (Pranav Rastogi)
• I Gave Up My jQuery Security Blanket and Lived to Tell the Tale (Rebecca Murphy)
• An Introduction to ASP.NET Web API (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Media Services and the London 2012 Olympics (Scott Guthrie)
• Windows Azure Training Kit – August 2012 Available for Download (Zhiming Xue)
• Bootstrap 2.1.0 released (Twitter Bootstrap Team)
• Profile specific web.config transforms and transform preview (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Towards A Retina Web // Resolution Independence In Web Design (Reda Lemeden)
• What’s holding up .NET 4.5 support on AppHarbor? (AppHarbor Team)
• Questions You Should Ask Before Moving Your App to the Cloud (Jeremy Morgan)
• ‘Stupid’ Question 28: Can devs refuse to create a web app that works in IE for clients? (Iris Classon)
• Migrating Drupal to a Windows Azure VM and Cloud Services Management via the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)
• Adventures with node.js, Geddy and node.js hosting on Windows Azure (Piotr K.)
• Reload a web browser when a file changes (Node.js, Grunt, Safari/Mac) (Axel Rauschmayer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How do you start unit testing/TDD when it hasn’t been done before (Avi Kaye)
• A WinJS SpecRunner: Automating Script Tag Insertion For Unit Tests (Derick Bailey)
• Book Review: The Leader’s Pocket Guide (J.D. Meier)
• The Two Faces of Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Bandwidth, Priority, and Service Contracts (Udi Dahan)
• Blackbox Testing node.js Apps (Swizec Teller)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Think Like a Programmer – $13.97 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Refactor Your Code and Revise and Refactor (Chris Eargle)
• A messages durability and reliability requirements come from the business (Kelly Sommers)
• Transparency as a Customer Builds a Relationship (Karol McCloskey)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Displaying Message Box on a Popup while Virtual Keyboard is Displayed will lead to App Certification Failure (Windows Phone Geek)
• Communicating Between Views in WPF and Prism (Peter Vogel)
• Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 will support the Unity game engine (Sam Byford)
• 2000 WPF Things #629 – Some Controls May Swallow Keypress Events and #630 – PreviewTextInput and TextInput Events (Sean Sexton)
• NUnitLite for Silverlight (Charlie Poole)
• Using ImageTile Control From Coding4Fun v1.6 (Toni Petrina)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 065: Super Tight (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Herding Code 147 – Jakob Bradford on Organizing NDC Oslo (Jon Galloway)
• Alexandrescu, Meyers, Sutter: On Static If, C++11 in 2012, Modern Libraries, and Metaprogramming | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Episode 198 – PowerScripting Podcast – Kirk Freiheit from Symantec on Backup Exec 2012 and their PowerShell module (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Video: Master Continuous Deployment in TFS 2010 (Paul Ballard)
• SDU Show 51 with guest Conor Cunningham (Greg Low)
• ShopTalk Episode 30 & New Design (Chris Coyier)
• Yet Another Podcast #73–Dan Wahlin on Windows 8 Programming (Jesse Liberty)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 13: Lucky Episode (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Defrag Tools: #4 – Process Monitor – Examples | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
• Ping 151: Gaming wars, Lumia News, SkyDrive, Outlook, Predictwise | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Engadget HD Podcast 312 – 08.21.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Scott Hunter Introduces New ASP.NET Features | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)

 

Community / Events

• Richmond Code Camp – Date and Call for Speakers and Upcoming Events for August 20th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Work @ Channel9 During Summer 2012 – Social Conclusions and Imagine Cup US 2013 – Pre-register now (Den Delimarsky)
• Geek Graduates: Internships at Microsoft – Why come here? (MS JobsBlog)
• Philly Drinkup (Yossef Mendelssohn)
• Looking for a User Group? (Chris Koenig)
• Portland, Oregon, October 2012–Let’s Meet at PNSQC! (Jim Holmes)
• Central Texas GiveCamp needs volunteers (Jimmy Bogard)
• Xbox PAX Prime Meet up (Larry Hryb)
• Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Enterprise Library Security and Cryptography Application Blocks (Paul Ballard)
• Windows 8 Hands-on Labs open for registration (Andrew Stevenson)

 

Database

• Importing and reporting physical database file size for a SQL Server database using SSIS and SSRS (Dale Kelly)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server 2012 – Running total with SUM function‏ (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Installing Data Quality Services (DQS) on SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Color Coding SQL Server Management Studio Status Bar – SQL in Sixty Seconds #023 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Monitoring using EVENTDATA() Function (Vinoth NM)
• Amazon Glacier looks like a hot choice for archival data storage (Greg Duncan)

 

SharePoint

• Apps for Office and SharePoint Preview SDK and SharePoint 2013 Preview SDK (MS Downloads)

 

PowerShell

• Parsing all the files in a directory using PowerShell (K. Brian Kelley)
• PowerShell for Developers (John D. Cook)

 

Miscellaneous

• Exclusive: Recycle Bin feature confirmed coming to SkyDrive.com (damaster)
• The TechNet Wiki isn’t just for IT types, there’s a good deal of Dev stuff there too, like these great curated book lists… (And being a wiki, you can add/edit it too) and Adding a Windows 8 "All Apps" shortcut to your desktop/taskbar (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 sports a spunky new UI, while Chrome OS gets an apps list (Joe Wilcox)
• Stack Exchange Machine Learning Contest (Kevin Montrose)
• That elusive Surface pricing: what price would you subscribe to? (Kip Kniskern)
• Wow! SkyDrive is Really Colorful! (Glenna Shaw)
• 5 Days of Windows 8: Day 1 – Intro and Installation and 5 Days of Windows 8: Day 2 – Poking at Mines (Paul Ballard)
• The silencing of hate (Phil Plait)
• Windows 8 Pro to be priced at $199 following $69.99 promotional pricing (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 21, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 22, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1172 and The Morning Brew #1173 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading August 21, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #940 and Double Shot #941 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 21 Aug 2012 (Jax)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-21 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-22 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 8/21/2012 and Daily News Digest 8/22/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for August 20, 2012 – #0115 and Windows Dev News for August 21, 2012 – #0116 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 20 Aug 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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