• 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)

The Geek Shelf

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference by Joseph Albahari

• Keeping your family safer with Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• Exclusive first look at the new Aviary photo tools & SDK for Windows Phone [Video] (Daniel Rubino)
• CQRS Journey – first pseudo-production release (Grigori Melnik)
• Using NuGet PowerShell to Replace Missing Macros in Dev 11 (John Robbins)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting an App in the Windows Store: What, Why, and How (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Task: Async and Await in a Windows Runtime World (Jeremy Likness)
• WinRT Sample: A quick look at Semantic Zoom (Bill Wagner)
• Xamarin’s Mono for Android Now Includes a Visual Designer (Abel Avram)
• From Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 Metro, one app’s journey (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• JavaScript Identifier Length Distribution (Ariya Hidayat)
• Making an HTML5 version of the Game Pente: Part 3 Placing Stones, Accounting for Resizing & Refactoring (Chris Love)
• Instant HTML/CSS Updating (Hadi Hariri)
• Annotation Overlay Effect with CSS3 (Manoela Ilic)
• Introducing Testing Domain – localtest.me (Scott Forsyth)
• Azure Real World: Optimizing PHP Applications for the Cloud (Brian Swan)
• Converting WordPress blog into statically generated site with help of Pretzel (Andrei Marukovich)
• Sharing Links from IE10 on Windows 8 (Alex Feldman)
• Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Passport (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• The Web Developer Toolbox: Raphaël (Jeremie Patonnier)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Lightweight agile test documentation (Fjodor Ekström)
• Leadership is Who You Are (J.D. Meier)
• Business Optimization and Human Potential (Peter Saddington)
• Specing out end-to-end scenarios (Microsoft patterns & practices)
• Build Automation Part 4: Database and Report Deployments (Geoff Hudik)
• Mock Expectations in .NET vs Ruby (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to use the Infragistics Color Tuner in XAML Applications (Jordan Tsankov)
• 2000 WPF Things #558 – Reversing a Gradient Using Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Comparison of Mobile Framework Solutions – Spring 2012 (Paul Ballard)
• How to use the Infragistics Barcode Reader (Damyan Petev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Micheal Learned Tours Us Around Studio 11 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• E2E: Donna Malayeri, Gilad Bracha, Luke Hoban – Web Programming and More and Dare Obasanjo: SkyDrive – Personal Storage in the Cloud (Charles Torre)
• Episode 185 – PowerScripting Podcast – Steven Murawski on v3 and the Jeffrey Snover Keynote from the 2012 Deep Dive (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• "What’s New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11" Recording Available (Beth Massi)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe 2012: The Center of IT (Mark DeFalco)
• Video: Logging Made Simple With The Enterprise Library Logging Application Block (Paul Ballard)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Tina Fey (Chris Hardwick)
• Project Detroit: An Overview (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone Minute- Rocking the Lock Screen (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for May 14th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming Free SharePoint + Social Webinars from NewsGator (Joel Oleson)
• Women in IT: Happy Mother’s Day to the thousands of working moms at Microsoft (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• Visual Studio Live! NY Community Night – Wednesday 5/16/2012 and Java on Azure @ The NYC Windows Azure User Group – 5/16/2012: Cloudify: The PaaS Jailbreaker (Peter Laudati)
• Join us on May 29th and May 31st for the Let’s Build Something Mobile Webcast Series! (MS Public Sector Team)
• Meet the Author: Howard Dierking on REST Fundamentals (Paul Ballard)
• And… That’s All Folks (Davy Brion)
• Webinar–Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Community Technology Preview (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Get Schema Name from Object ID using OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME (Pinal Dave)
• Be careful which node you install a clustered instance from (Denny Cherry)
• Data Warehouse vs Data Mart (James Serra)

SharePoint

• New book: Working with Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (Kim Spilker)
• SharePoint projects need software architecture too (Simon Brown)

PowerShell

• Test-Driving PowerShell v3: How To Install And Run CTPv2 (Tobias Weltner)

Miscellaneous

• Amazon hiring 1,000 new tech workers for Seattle offices (Emily Parkhurst)
• Please Don’t Learn to Code (Jeff Atwood)
• Adding a file to a OneNote page via extensibility (John Guin)
• A list of common HRESULT error codes (Kirill Osenkov)
• Windows Phone Marketplace up to 90,000 apps (Phone Arena Team)
• Programmer Competency Matrix (Sijin Joseph)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 05.04 ~ 05.15 (yuanjian)
• Smashing Daily #1: Mobile Device Lab, Browsers and Animated GIFs (Smashing Editorial)
• Double Shot #880 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1105 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-15 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 5/14/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #46 (Frank)
• Windows Dev News for May 14, 2012 – #0081 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 14 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily Big Data Feed – May 14, 2012 (CloudFeed)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services 4/E by Brian Larson

• Azure SDK for node 0.5.4 is out! More secure and now with less angle brackets (Glenn Block)
• Creating First Windows Phone Application using Kendo UI mobile and PhoneGap or Cordova (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Time To Consider Node.js? (Mike Hadlow)
• Introducing Fog: A Library for Interacting with Azure from F# (Daniel Mohl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Fluent Interfaces (Richard Carr)
• Extension method for outputting formatted JSON in LINQPad (Elton Stoneman)
• A Simple Search by Image Engine in F# (Francesco De Vittori)
• .DumpJson() – LINQPad Extension Fun… and The Regular Expression Skidmarklet (Prepare for much boy poo humor as you learn RegEx) and tangible T4 For VS11 Beta (Greg Duncan)
• C# Tutorial for log4net (huwyss)
• TMap for TFS Windows Phone 7 App available in the marketplace. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Test Scribe for Visual Studio 11 Beta (Shai Raiten)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.5 Alpha (CodePlex)
• Set rich text into RichTextBlock control (Rockford Lhotka)
• Windows 8 – UX Case Studies (Andrew Spooner)
• ZLIB Compression in .NET and BigDecimal type in .NET (Nick Berardi)
• The Task: Events, Asynchronous Calls, Async and Await (Jeremy Likness)
• Pre-Processing Directives for Multi-Platform Support (Joe Mayo)
• OData V3 demo services (Vitek Karas)
• One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application (nycdotnet)
• First Look: Hubble (Nigel Sampson)
• Using System.Threading.Tasks On MonoTouch (Bobby Johnson)

Web Development

• Client Side Keyword Search with jQuery UI Autocomplete and MVC 4 (Greg Arroyo)
• Going Native in HTML5 Resources (Chris Love)
• Using TPL to access Async WCF Endpoints in ASP.net MVC (Derik Whittaker)
• ASP.NET Web API Updates – May 14 (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• PHP 5.4 by examples (Giorgio Sironi)
• HTML5’s Value For Mobile Event Apps (Rob Diana)
• RavenHQ and ASP.NET MVC – Moving your Data to the Cloud using AppHarbor (Sumit Maitra)
• My First Experience with ASP.NET Web API 101 (Sam Gentile)
• BrowserID: Logging in with BrowserID, Passport and NodeJS (Alexander Yuen)
• App Harbor and RavenDB (Gustaf Nilsson Kotte)
• OOP in JavaScript: Objects (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Per-controller configuration in WebAPI (Mike Stall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban: The Secret of High-Performing Teams at Microsoft and Monthly Burn Rate (JD Meier)
• How Kanban Can Change Your Life (Matt Simpson)
• Business Optimization and Human Potential (Peter Saddington)
• Saga SOA Pattern (Amon Rotem-Gal-Oz, Eric Bruno & Udi Dahan)
• Easy Credential Caching for Git (Mark Groves)
• “Fitting” Performance into the Software Development Lifecycle (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The open plan fallacy (Jef Claes)
• Doing Your First Mock (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Email Notifications for New Pushes on GitHub (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• The Three Little Pigs (Redux) (Mark Rendle)
• Why Things Don’t Work In Your World (Davy Brion)
• Process Template Upgrade #7 – Overwrite retaining history with limited migration (Martin Hinshelwood)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: part 4 (Peter Kuhn)
• Array Visualizer – VS 2010 Debugging array visualizer and WinForm/WPF control you can use too… (Greg Duncan)
• I reduced my cloud bill 9% this month by favoring my most active Windows Phone app users (Live Tiles, Leaderboards, Toasts) (Jeff Wilcox)
• Play with Address Chooser Task in Windows Phone and Messin’ with Bing Maps Directions Task in Windows Phone and Play with Media Player Task in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
• 2000 WPF Things #557 – Using an Image As an Opacity Mask (Sean Sexton)
• Display item count in WPF ListBox and reorder using ButtonSpinner (Tim Hibbard)
• Use Built-In Application Icon Resources on Windows Phone and Adjusting The Player Size In a 2D RPG Built with XNA on Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 051: Blair Butler of G4′s Fresh Ink (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Technology & Friends Episode 212: Sarah Dutkiewicz on Powershell (David Giard)
• Herding Code 143 – Paul Stack on Continuous Delivery (Jon Galloway)
• The Metro Developer Podcast Episode 066 – “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• GeekWire Radio: Seattle and Silicon Valley, the inside view from the startup world (Todd Bishop)
• The Vergecast 030 – 05.11.2012 and Engadget Podcast 293 – 05.11.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video: Unleash Your Mobile UI Voodoo with jQuery Mobile (Paul Ballard)
• The Tablet Show – Jeff Wilcox Locates us with 4th and Mayor (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 013 JSJ Knockout.js with Steven Sanderson (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
• TWC9: VS11 RC UI Updates, Portable Library v2 Beta, Hilo for Win 8 and more (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The GeekDads Episode #114: Beard Sharing (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (Ken Denmead)
• Cloud Cover Episode 80 – Getting Started with SQL Azure Data Sync Preview (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• Windows Weekly 260: ARMed and Dangerous (Paul Thurrott)
• WPCentral 142 – Samsung gets a sequel & Nokia gets more apps (Daniel Rubino)

Community / Events

• Windows 8 at Night (G. Andrew Duthie)
• eLearning event on HTML5 for Mobile with jQuery Mobile – May 17 (Wally McClure)
• Men In Tech (Rob Conery)
• Meet the Author: Jon Flanders on Building Hybrid Mobile Apps with HTML 5 (Paul Ballard)
• Webinar–Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Announcing the Virtual Blogger Hub! (Staff of Geeks)
• Leading BOF Session on Building SenchaTouch 2.0 App Coming to Mountain View May 25, 2012 (Peter Kellner)
• TechEd Quick Shot – Enabling the Consumerization of IT (Robert Hess)
• Interview with Fritz Onion, Editor in Chief (Aaron Skonnard)
• Load Testing and Performance Webinar 5/16 (Jim Holmes)
• NYC Metro Area Community Dinner (Becky Isserman)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Developer Training Kit for SQL Server 2012 and SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – Choosing a Tabular or Multidimensional Modeling Experience in SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services and SQL SERVER – Columnstore Index and sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats (Pinal Dave)
• Report Builder 3.0 – Report Parts (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Choosing the cloud for your database (Емил Табаков)
• Understanding data vs log usage for spills in tempdb (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• How do I – Add a User Account to the Local Administrators security group of a Domain Controller (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

PowerShell

• Use Powershell script to verify backup files (James Xu)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 12, 2012 and Interesting Finds: May 13, 2012 and Interesting Finds: May 14, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 154 (Scott Banwart)
• Collective #11 (Mary Lou)
• Pie in the Sky (May 11, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #1104 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #879 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #18) (Himanshu Singh)
• Daily News Digest 5/14/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (5/11/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-14 (Dan Rigby)
• Everyman on Future Social, The People Widget, Mobile Preparedness, Likeable Hangars, 145 Inches (Dave Burke)
• Retrospective 84 – Servant Leader #Fail & History of #Agile (Peter Saddington)
• MVP Friday Five: May 11, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 May 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 11 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB by Scott Hanselman

• My Favorite Features: Improved Tooling in Visual Studio 11 for JavaScript Developers (Jason Zander)
• dotPeek 1.0 is Released (Jura Gorohovsky)
• ReSharper 7 EAP now available for all VS versions (Hadi Hariri)
• Microsoft is to Monopolist as Apple is to…. (Ted Neward)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Create and access global variables in Windows 8 C# Metro app (Zubair Ahmed)
• Programming Windows 6th Edition Preview Ebook Coming! (Charles Petzold)
• Preparing to Develop Metro style Device Apps for Mobile Broadband (MS Downloads)
• Visual Studio 11: Colorful Metaphors Return in the Release Candidate (Jeff Martin)
• Fluent Interface Design in .NET (Eric Vogel)
• One Way to Work Around the .NET Setup Project’s Picky Version Number Behavior (NYCdotNet)
• Trending forum topics: Answering your questions (Aaron Wroblewski)
• MongoDB Overview (Doug Mahugh)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.5 Release Candidate (Eric Smith)

Web Development

• New Features in the jQuery WYSIWYG HTML Editor (Damyan Petev)
• WebAPI Parameter binding under the hood (Mike Stall)
• How to Include Views in ASP.NET MVC & WebMatrix Razor (Chris Love)
• Modeling Explicit Workflow With Code, In JavaScript And Backbone Apps (Derick Bailey)
• Creating Service Objects And Value Objects In A Dependency Injection (DI) Framework (Ben Nadel)
• "It’s expensive getting hardware to test on" is not an excuse for web devs on a Mac to avoid IE testing (Den Delimarsky)
• Learn jQuery Part1: Introduction to jQuery (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Output caching in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• jQuery Succinctly – Free eBook (reg-ware, PDF and/or Mobi) (Greg Duncan)
• HTML5 Server-Sent Events (Gustaf Nilsson Kotte)
• Diagnosing JavaScript Errors Faster with Error.stack (Rob Paveza)
• Naked JavaScript – Function Access And Invocation (Ryan Sukale)
• HTML 5 and JavaScript: MathJax the follow on to jsMath, game idea (Surf4Fun)
• Box V2 API makes Simple Things Simpler and Google App Engine Finally Debuts the Search API (Romin Irani)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: PayPal APIs: Up and Running – $11.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• YUI 3.6.0 PR1 Is Now Available (Jenny Donnelly)
• Aspect-Oriented Programming in PHP (Chris Peters)
• Downloading Windows Azure Publish Settings (Subscription Configuration) file (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio & TFS: Downloadable Course (Giles Davies)
• Interaction Design In The Cloud (Erik Perotti)
• Making customer-focused decisions with Adoption reports (Antoine Leblond)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How satisfied are you as a Windows Phone developer? [Survey] (Rich Edmonds)
• 2000 WPF Things #556 – Clipping to a Border Using an Opacity Mask (Sean Sexton)
• Memory Profiling – The Heap Summary View (Pratap Lakshman)
• Converting a dynamic web site to a PhoneGap application (Raymond Camden)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #188: How Saving Works from End to End (James Shore)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Jeff Baird (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• My Speaking Schedule – 2012 Edition (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Why we need to keep talking about women in tech (Molly Wood)
• Coming to a Screen Near You—the New MVP Award Web Site! (MVP Award Program)
• MSDN Webcast series on building Metro style apps (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Jobs in IT: passion, process & positive stress at Microsoft Silicon Valley (MS JobsBlog)
• Giving Back to the OSS Community (Ian Davis)
• Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, and Brady Gaster in Phoenix 6/19/2012 (Dave Campbell)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Format Function (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Quiz and Video – Introduction to Discovering XML Data Type Methods (Pinal Dave)
• “Query cost (relative to the batch)” <> Query cost relative to batch (Dave Ballantyne)
• The Difference Between Change Tracking and Change Data Capture (Steve Jones)

SharePoint

• White Paper-2010 Office and SharePoint-Good, Better, Best (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

PowerShell

• Management OData and PowerShell (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• Advocating for the Software Industry, My Trip to Washington (Bill Wagner)
• What Makes a Good Enterprise Mobile App Store? (Chris Love)
• Update to Onetastic powertoy for OneNote (John Guin)
• One week only: Save 50% on ebooks on Microsoft Access 2010 (Kim Spilker)
• Free E-book from O’Reilly – 11/May/2012 – What is Dart? (Tatworth)
• Introducing the New Bing: Spend Less Time Searching, More Time Doing (Derrick Connell)
• Firefox objects to Internet Explorer ‘lock-in’ on Windows 8 for ARM devices (Todd Bishop)
• Microsoft to bring full Internet Explorer browsing to Xbox 360 with Kinect controls (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 10, 2012 and Interesting Finds: May 11, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #878 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1103 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-11 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for May 10, 2012 – #0080 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 10 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

How Google Tests Software by James A. Whittaker

• Redesigning chkdsk and the new NTFS health model (Steven Sinofsky)
• How to get your app into the Windows Store (Matt Harrington)
• ReSharper 7 EAP now available for all VS versions (Hadi Hariri)
• Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Design Case Study Part 1 (Telerik Windows Phone Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reviewing Xenta and wishing I hadn’t (Oren Eini)
• Testing Mobile devices with Visual Studio using SeeTest plugin (Charles Sterling)
• GDI+ in a Windows 8 C# Metro Application – Experimenting for Fun (Georgi Atanasov)
• An Introduction to NuGet (Anthony Grace)
• Visual Studio 2010 is now ever more portable (No, not that kind of portable)… As in the release of the Portable Library Tools 2 Beta for Visual Studio 2010 (Greg Duncan)
• LINQ to Twitter for Windows 8 Metro Style Apps (Joe Mayo)
• EasyNetQ: A Breaking Change, IPublishChannel (Mike Hadlow)
• Preparing your app for Windows 8 Launch (Surf4Fun)
• How do I hide a window without blocking on it? (Raymond Chen)

Web Development

• Interview: Addy Osmani on JavaScript, Debugging and Testing (Addy Osmani)
• Automated Security Analyser for ASP.NET websites (Code Inside Team)
• Prototypes in JavaScript (Leigh Kaszick)
• CSS/HTML Tools and Resources Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
• Download Files in ASP.NET MVC 3 using Controller Action (Mahesh Sabnis)
• How to Create a Fast Hover Slideshow with CSS3 (Mary Lou)
• How To Build A Real-Time Commenting System (Phil Leggetter)
• Help Me Improve The Marionette Wiki (Derick Bailey)
• YUIDoc 0.3.0 is Official! (Dav Glass)
• Introducing the App Center (Aaron Brady) – The new Facebook App Center

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How much up front design is just enough? and How do you design software? (Simon Brown)
• Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Mobile Applications (Chris Love)
• Document Your APIs (Tim Murphy)
• Testing for StructureMap Default Instances (Deran Schilling)
• Good APIs Are Transparent In Their Expectations And Dependencies (Ben Nadel)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Registration Issue Fixed For Devices Registered With a Different AppHub ID (Den Delimarsky)
• Silverlight 5.1.10411.0 Released Today (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #555 – Creating a Radial Opacity Mask (Sean Sexton)
• Metropolis by Bee Mobile (Maciej Grabek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Rob Conery Codes in CoffeeScript (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Stake Your Claim and Then Authenticate It With SharePoint 2010 (Paul Ballard)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #138: This is going to be the podcast… (Bob Walsh)
• Defrag: PAE, SkyDrive, VHDs, Arsenal of Halo 4 (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Gerbil Physics, Home Depot, iStunt 2, WeeMee, SniperBoy (Laura Foy)
• What The Tech 116: The 10 Year Game (Paul Thurrott)
• [Video] Vimming – Natural Selection in Visual Mode (Roy Osherove)
• The Thirsty Developer 103: Season 2 Pilot (Dave Bost)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 027, Galaxy S III edition – 05.09.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 137 – 05.09.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• The JavaScript Show – JavaScript Style Guidelines (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)

Community / Events

• Windows Azure Camps – To the Cloud! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Steampunk World’s Fair: May 18th – 20th in Piscataway (David Goodman)
• Geek of the Week: Tara Bennett, Author (Mary E. Brickthrower)
• Meet the Author: Kate Gregory on C++ Advanced Topics (Paul Ballard)
• Windows Azure Dev Camps – Spring 2012 Series – 5/24, 30, & 31 (Peter Laudati)
• Agile 2012 Conference Program Announced (Shane Hastie)
• Going to TechEd? Join Us to Build a Solution on Windows PowerShell 3.0 (Travis Jones)
• Introducing Team Mentions (Rob Sanheim) – New from GitHub
• Software architecture training in Jersey, June 2012 (Simon Brown)

Database

• Your SQL Server database just failed, can you restore the backup? (Marlon Ribunal)
• SQL SERVER – Quiz and Video – Introduction to SQL Error Actions (Pinal Dave)
• DATEFROMPARTS (Jamie Thomson)
• Survey: most prevalent latch waits (code to run) (Paul S. Randal)
• “Query cost (relative to the batch)” <> Query cost relative to batch (Dave Ballantyne)

Miscellaneous

• Ruby Under a Microscope (Pat Shaughnessy)
• What will the Windows 8 Metro UI look and feel like? (Brian Bondy) – Firefox for Metro
• Microsoft to block browser choice in Windows RT, says Mozilla (Bryan Bishop)
• Say Hello to Octicons (Jon Rohan)
• The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don’t make sense anymore (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 9, 2012 and Interesting Finds: May 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #877 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 5/9/2012 and Daily News Digest 05/10/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1102 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-10 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for May 09, 2012 – #0079 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman on a Post PC Era, Nutty Nook NFC, Business of Sharing, Annoying Websites (Dave Burke)
• Daily WP7 Development News 9 May 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 9 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

.NET 4 Wrox eBook Bundle: Professional ASP.NET 4, Professional C# 4, VB 2010 Programmer’s Reference, WPF Programmer’s Reference, Professional Visual Studio 2010, and Professional SQL Server 2008 by Scott Hanselman

• Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in RC (Monty Hammontree)
• Knockout 2.1.0 released (Steve Sanderson)
• Windows Phone Developers Can Start Prepping for Windows 8 (Dave Bost)
• Making an HTML5 version of the Game Pente: Part 2 Drawing Stones (Chris Love)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The best multi threading debugging tool is Microsoft Excel (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 11 gets some color back, now let’s move on (Andrew Schwam)
• Consolidating Duplicate Code in Visual Studio – Easy with CodeRush (Mark Miller)
• How to instantiate WCF host class with MEF and Getting the list of Type associated to a given export in MEF (Ricci Gian Maria)
• HttpVerbs as string in the .net framework (Nicolas Humann)
• EF5 Sample Provider Published (Pawel Kadluczka)
• Json.NET 4.5 Release 5 (CodePlex)
• Modernize Apps Look & Feel with Metro Studio and the Cosmopolitan Shell (Beth Massi)
• Windows Azure ServiceBus EAI & EDI Labs SDK – April 2012 CTP (Daniel Hester)

Web Development

• jQuery HTML5 :dataAttr Pseudo Selector (Elijah Manor)
• Is Expression Web Moribund? – a response (I. Haynes)
• CSS/HTML Tools and Resources Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
• HTML5 Audio — The State of Play (Mark Boas)
• Working with files in JavaScript, Part 1 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Mobile: Up and Running – $11.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Passing multiple POST parameters to Web API Controller Methods (Rick Strahl)
• Build improvements (AppHarbor Team)
• There’s a Tool for That: 13 Essential Tools for the Ninja Web Developer (Joshua Holt)
• How To Add Paging With a Filter Using Sencha Architect with ExtJS4 (Peter Kellner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is the cost of avoiding unit testing and the cost of software bugs? (Avi Kaye)
• Redefining software quality (Gojko Adzic)
• Setting up a CI server using Jenkins, MSBuild and GitHub on a Windows Server (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Unit Testing Star Wars Style (Gil Zilberfeld)
• History of Agile – The Influencers and Drivers of the Agile Movement (Peter Saddington)
• Why Does Management Care About Velocity? (Johanna Rothman)
• Build Automation Part 2: Building and Packaging (Geoff Hudik)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Storing Windows Phone User Settings (Nick Randolph)
• “Hello World “Windows Phone Application using PhoneGap or Cordova (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Behind the Tiles with Windows Phone (Kelly White)
• 2000 WPF Things #554 – Using an Opacity Mask (Sean Sexton)
• ArgumentException with Windows Phone Mango SQLCE Decimal (ToStringTheory)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Brian Noyes Builds Single Page Applications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Mash This Podcast – Building a Better API with Neil Mansilla (Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Dustin Davis & Lee Dumond)
• Speaking about ASP.NET security on the OWASP podcast (Troy Hunt)
• Let’s Play TDD #187: __Invocation (James Shore)
• Ping 140: Hyper-V on Technet, Wordament, Nook, Windows Phone Marketplace (Laura Foy & Paul Mestemaker)
• The GeekDads Episode #114: Beard Sharing (Ken Denmead)
• Video: Dialog with Your iOS Users with MonoTouch (Paul Ballard)
• Boagworld: The undeniable power of collaboration (Paul Boag)
• [Video] Vimming – All about change (Roy Osherove)
• Polymorphic Podcast 2012.05.08 Twitter Bootstrap (Craig Shoemaker)
• Engadget HD Podcast 298 – 05.08.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Help students with So.Cl research (Den Delimarsky)
• Interview with Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx on their new book ‘Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook’ (by Packt Publishing) (Silverlight Show)
• Smoked by Windows Phone by the numbers (and new ads!) (Ben Rudolph)
• Windows 8 App Excellence Labs (Chris Koenig)
• Ready.Set() {Code} (Doug Holland)
• Want to Learn More About Test Studio for iOS? (Jim Holmes)
• SQL Saturday Double Header (Jim O’Neil)
• Austin Code Camp Schedule (John Teague)
• SF Drinkup #37 (Kami)
• REGISTER TO ATTEND – Microsoft Public Sector Windows 8 Developer Events!! (Nandita)
• Experience Google I/O 2012 anywhere (Scott Knaster)
• Learn to create Windows 8 apps with HTML and JS (Luke)

Database

• How To Use T-SQL TIMESTAMP (ROWVERSION) in SSIS (Todd McDermid)
• Publish Profile Files in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Quiz and Video – Introduction to Basics of a Query Hint (Pinal Dave)
• List of resources for database continuous integration (David Atkinson)

SharePoint

• Kill SharePoint 2010 Mobile Interface (Joel Oleson)

PowerShell

• Managing Child Processes (Tobias Weltner)
• Compare two files with Powershell (Jack Vamvas)

Miscellaneous

• Swÿp vs. Swype: This could get really confusing (John Cook)
• MSDN Magazine on your Kindle (Liam Westley)
• Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine in IE (Rey Bango)
• Android: Using DialogFragments (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #876 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 8 May 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 5/9/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1101 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-09 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for May 08, 2012 – #0078 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery Mobile: Up and Running: Up and Running by Maximiliano Firtman

• A XAML Guy digs into ASP.NET MVC4 (Part 2 of ?) (Michael Crump)
• Using the MVVM pattern requires a framework (Rockford Lhotka)
• GUID guide, part three (Eric Lippert)
• Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Looking back–what would we do differently (12 of 12) (Andreas Hammar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Point-free programming style in F# (Christian Jacobsen)
• WCF Data Services, now with more releases! (Mark Stafford)
• Functional programming in C# (Jovan Popovic)
• TFS Integration Tools – What is the difference between cloaking and scoping branches? (Willy-P. Schaub)
• SharpDevelop 4.2 (CodePlex)
• Babel Obfuscator 5.5 Released (Alberto Ferrazzoli)
• One Bitmap to Rule Them All – WriteableBitmapEx for WinRT Metro Style (Rene Schulte)
• Convert number to its equivalent word (Sankar Subramanian)
• Updated Better Grid Application template (Brent Schooley)
• Microsoft Renames Azure Services (Martin Brinkmann)

Web Development

• 14 Reasons Why Nobody Used Your jQuery Plugin (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Decoding jQuery – Callbacks Object (Shi Chuan)
• API Improvements made in SignalR 0.5 (David Fowler)
• Announcing YUI 3.5.1 (Jenny Donnelly)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.2 EAP 117.369 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• HTTP Server Security Vulnerability: Please upgrade to node.js 0.6.17 (Isaac Schlueter)
• Dynamic Images and Performance Implications (Joel Ross)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 5 Levels to Communicating More Effectively and 10 Free Leadership Tools for Work and Life (JD Meier)
• What does a good test case look like? (Phil Sams)
• Nancy : 0.11, more than the sum of its parts (Andreas Håkansson)
• Running MSTest in SharpDevelop (Jonathan Allen)
• Agile adoption changes organizations policies and facilities (Shane Hastie)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone (Greg Duncan)
• Working with Consuming an ODATA Service in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
• Pinterest blocks API and breaks third-party Windows Phone apps (Rich Edmonds)
• 2000 WPF Things #553 – Setting an Alpha Value in Blend (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 184 – PowerScripting Podcast – Michiel Wories from Microsoft talks SQL 2012 and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 51 (Richard Hay)
• Countdown to TechEd North America 2012: Certification at TechEd (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• [Video] Vimming – Hello World with vim (Roy Osherove)
• Video: Never Be Late Again with Android 4.0 Calendaring APIs (Paul Ballard)

Community / Events

• Announcing Metro Friday Hackathons! and Upcoming Events for May 7th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Thank You Microsoft! (Arturo Toledo)
• Philly Startup Weekend 3.0 (Tim Lytle)
• Interview with the man behind Comantra, the “cold call virus scammers” (Troy Hunt)
• Windows Azure and NODE.JS Meetup on 5/17 at Reston (Zhiming Xue)
• Upcoming Events : Speaking and Attending (Michael Crump)
• Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Introduction to PhoneGap (Paul Ballard)
• Webinar Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world (Silverlight Show)
• Nokia Coding Challenge coming to Atlanta on May 15 (Glen Gordon)
• Telerik Testing Summit Wrapup (Jim Holmes)

Database

• Retrieve Column Names From Temporary Table in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Quiz and Video – Introduction to Hierarchical Query using a Recursive CTE (Pinal Dave)
• Which SELECT * Is Better? (Grant Fritchey)
• Getting Started with Apache Cassandra (Eric Genesky)

PowerShell

• Changing SQL Server Port with Powershell (Martin Bell)
• Using PowerShell to Publish a NuGet Package (Michael Ceranski)
• posh-git v0.4 (Keith Dahlby)

Miscellaneous

• Dear JobsBlog: Top Three Reasons to Work for Bing (Eugenia Sawa)
• "We’re unable to find the SkyDrive folder" Because You Have Too Many Files (Chris Love)
• 3 ways to get middle managers on board with flexible working (Jessica Stillman)
• New Git Homepage (Scott Chacon)
• The Nerd Parent’s Guide: When and how to introduce your kids to Star Wars (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 8, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1100 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #875 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #45 (Frank)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-08 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 5/7/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week April 30 – May 6, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 7 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn

• The perils of conditional mutability (Jon Skeet)
• Develop Mobile Applications using PhoneGap and Kendo UI: Part 1 of Many (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Updated NUnit Plugin for VS11 Released (Peter Provost)
• Improve Mobile User Experience With an HTML5 Metro UI Tiles (Chris Love)
• Snoop, the WPF Spy Utility – Release: v2.7.1 (CodePlex)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Robert Griesemer – Going Go (Charles Torre)
• Visual Studio 11 beta – Tooling for SQL Server Compact (Erik EJ)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing WebSockets in WCF 4.5 (Peter Vogel)
• Creating Parallel Tasks with TaskFactory and Detecting Power Events (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010: Version and update information tool (Terje Sandstrom)
• Pinpointing Memory Leaks with CLR Profiler Heap Graphs (Sasha Goldshtein)
• JSON deserialization with JSON.net: caching results (Joost van Schaik)
• Sample Browser v5.1–a small refresh with support of Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Jialiang Ge)
• Windows 8 Metro: Layout, view states and navigation (Andrea Boschin)
• A look at the CLR 4.5, Improved Large Object Heap Allocator, Server GC Background Mode and Auto NGen (Greg Duncan)
• Porting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Background agents (11 of 12) (Andreas Hammar)

Web Development

• Object Calisthenics In JavaScript – An Introduction (Ben Nadel)
• Native HTML5 push notifications with ASP.NET Web API and Knockout.js (Filip W)
• ASP.NET MVC Authentication – Customizing Authentication and Authorization The Right Way (Jon Galloway)
• Using RavenDB and ASP.NET MVC 4 to create a Twitter Clone Chirpy (Sumit Maitra)
• APress Deal of the Day – 7/May/2012 – Applied ASP.NET 4 in Context (Tatworth)
• What the requestAnimationFrame API Should Have Looked Like (Dominic Szablewski)
• Orchard 1.4.1 (CodePlex)
• JavaScript for the C# Guy: The Global Object (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Variables in JavaScript and Introduction to JavaScript and Functions in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Introducing Windows Azure Media Services (Sam Ng)
• Experimental Page Layout Inspired by Flipboard (Pedro Botelho)
• node.js Version 0.6.17 (stable) (Isaac Schlueter)
• Move that parenthesis! (James Padolsey)
• Top Benefits of Running Node.js on Windows Azure (Hanu Kommalapati)
• How to Create a Sencha Touch 2 App, Part 5 (Jorge Ramon)
• Wrapping $.ajax In A Thin “Command” Framework For Backbone Apps (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Management View of Agile – Unaware or Unwilling? (Craig Smith)
• 10 Ways to Defeat Decision Fatigue (J.D. Meier)
• User Stories Help Build Sales’ Stuff (Peter Saddington)
• Logically Distributed, Physically Centralized (Udi Dahan)
• Move Forward by Discarding Complex Tech (Rinat Abdullin)
• TechEd Quick Shot – ALM: It’s A Team Sport (Robert Hess)
• A brief introduction of Test Automation… (Shrini Kulkarni)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Mobile Design Pattern Gallery – $9.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Reshaping Our Perception of Success (Jeffrey Way)
• There’s a Kanga in my Model… Using KangaModel to easily and painlessly create,share and display sequence diagrams (Greg Duncan)
• This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details (Jeff Atwood)
• Three Strikes And You Refactor (Davy Brion)
• You should invest in Code Reading skills (Samnang Chhun)
• Testing Rhino Service Bus applications (Oren Eini)
• The Configuration Complexity Clock (Mike Hadlow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Double Animation Helper (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• Learn about RadPhoneApplicationFrame for Page Animations using the Telerik Controls for WP7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Add the Error Diagnostics Control to Your Windows Phone App with 3 Lines of Code (Telerik Marketing Team)
• Windows Phone Apps – Code, But Don’t Hardcode and Create A Moving Background In A XNA Game on Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 2000 WPF Things #552 – Setting a Property to Use an Existing Resource (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Sliding Controls Collection – Part 1: Sliding Image Control (Tefik Becirovic)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch and Windows Phone 7 OData Full CRUD Example (Michael Washington)
• Installing Visual Studio 11 and Visual Studio 2010 with Lightswitch (xpert360)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 050: Robot movies, Stupid Fun, and Zombie Boobs (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Cloud Cover Episode 79 – Adding Push Notifications to Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps using Windows Azure (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• Technology & Friends Episode 211: Jennifer Marsman on the Windows 8 App Store (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 438: E3 is coming (Larry Hyrb)
• SharePoint Pod Show – What’s involved with getting a SharePoint MCM/MCA certification?-Episode 71 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• The Tablet Show – Josh Clark Touches On Next Generation Interfaces (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Geekadelphia The Podcast Episode 4 – Operation Nice Interview (Jo Pincushion & Dan Tabor)
• TWC9: CodePlex Facelift, a little Mayhem, Targeting Async, GUIDs and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Golnaz)
• ShopTalk Show #17 (Chris Coyier)
• Office 911: Lync (Laura Foy)
• Windows Weekly 259: Live is Dead (Paul Thurrott)
• The Vergecast 029 – 05.04.2012 and Engadget Podcast 292 – 05.04.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Coder Society Seattle, Inaugural Report! (Adron Hall)
• Article: Rob Eisenberg on Caliburn.Micro and MVVM (Jonathan Allen)
• Meet me at Code Camp for Freebies (Chris Eargle)
• I’ll be at GOTO CPH and QCON NYC spreading the node.js love (Glenn Block)
• Building Metro style apps with C++ event is now a live webcast (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Meet the Author: Todd Ropog on Mercurial Fundamentals (Paul Ballard)
• Nerd Nite No. 14, May 9th, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• Inside Red Gate – Ricky Leeks (Simon Cooper)
• Cloud Reality: Improving Efficiency & Scaling in the Cloud Environment With TechinMotionPhilly (Jon Santos)
• I’m Speaking Next Week on What’s New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 (Beth Massi)

Database

• Why is my SSAS Query Log Table Empty? (Melissa Coates)
• Installing SSAS 2012 (Garrett Edmondson)
• Amazon updates their SQL Server 2012 AWS AMI’s (SQL Server 2012 RTM, Web Edition and more Instance types) (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Migrate a SQL Server Reports from one server to another server and SQL SERVER – Four Tutorial for SQL Server 2012 New Features and SQL SERVER – Quiz and Video – Introduction to SQL Server Security (Pinal Dave)
• Can You Dig It? – Determining Index Plan Usage (Jason Strate)
• Denali — Day 6: indirect Checkpoint (Vinay Thakur)
• SQL 101: Sub Queries (Shannon Lowder)
• Implementing a replication agent progess bar (Brandon Williams)

SharePoint

• Building a Web API in SharePoint 2010 with ServiceStack (Matt Cowan)

PowerShell

• Export-CSV Powershell (Jack Vamvas)

Miscellaneous

• GIMP 2.8.0 (RTW) for Windows now available (Greg Duncan)
• The Windows Phone Predictions that IDC, Gartner and Pyramid Research Probably Hope You’ve Forgotten (Joey deVilla)
• Free ebooks: Great content from Microsoft Press that won’t cost you a penny (Kim Spilker)
• BizTalk Anti-Pattern: Chuck it in the config file because its an easy place to put it (Michael Stephenson)
• Teaching kids electronics, electricity, and logic using littleBits (Pete Brown)
• Updates to Windows Azure Marketplace Offer More Flexibility and Opportunity (Peter Horsman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 153 (Scott Banwart)
• Collective #10 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #873 and Double Shot #874 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 5/7/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (5/4/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #45 (Frank)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-07 (Dan Rigby)
• Everyman on Competition For One, Sony’s Fall, Glass in Your Future, the Screenularity (Dave Burke)
• Retrospective 83 – Agile Gamification, Giveaway, More Agile Lists (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for April 23 – 29, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #17) (Himanshu Singh)

The Geek Shelf

Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Shawn Wildermuth

• 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)

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed

• More fun with DateTime (Jon Skeet)
• Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined (Steven Sinofsky)
• Delivering Rich Mobile Web Experiences in Windows Phone 7.5 (ESPN.com Case Study) (Amin Lakhani)
• Windows Phone ‘Developer Summit’ June 20th… Details on Windows Phone 8? (Antonio Hernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How Visual Studio 2010 toolbox works (Alexander Vezenkov)
• Connecting to WCF RIA Services in a Windows 8 Metro Style App using Upshot.js and Knockout.js (Dave Isbitski)
• An Uncertain Future for Visual Studio Express (Jonathan Allen)
• EasyNetQ: Topic Based Routing (Mike Hadlow)
• Auto-Vectorizer – New Posts (Jim)
• Custom events in WinJS (Gustaf Nilsson Kotte)

Web Development

• Making an HTML5 version of the Game Pente: Part 1 (Chris Love)
• Article: HTML5 offline web applications using ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
• Enhance Required Form Fields with CSS3 (Mary Lou)
• Behind the Sencha Command Utility and the Build Process (Jacky Nguyen)
• Announcing Native Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing using Twilio for Windows Azure Customers (Brian Goldfarb)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kata – The only way to learn TDD (Peter Provost)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 sports application with Apache Cordova, jQuery Mobile Metro and ESPN API (Filip W)
• Wave hello to WAF – WPF Application Framework (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #550 – Converting a Brush into a Resource in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Creating Windows Phone, iPhone and Android Apps with iFactr in Visual Studio 2010 (Zhiming Xue)
• The web Marketplace launches in 22 new countries (Mazhar Mohammed)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Catching Up with Ted Neward (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Oracle IT Architect Certification – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Defrag: Return of Gov, Removing Network Drives, Security Essentials 4 (Larry Larsen)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 026 – 05.02.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video: Put the Wraps on Your Exceptions with Enterprise Library Exception Handling Application Block (Paul Ballard)

Community / Events

• Registration Details… “SharePoint 15” Inside info at #SPC12 (Joel Oleson)
• Meet the Author: Pinal Dave and Vinod Kumar on SQL Server Performance: Indexing Basics (Paul Ballard)
• Inside Microsoft Research: Start Spreading the News … Announcing Microsoft Research New York City! (Jennifer Chayes)

Database

• SQL SERVER – A Tricky Question and Even Trickier Answer – Index Intersection – Partition Function (Pinal Dave)
• How to search for data with underscores or brackets in SQL Server? and A couple of things to be aware of when working with tables in SQL Azure (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Interested in the dirty depths of Windows 8? Check out this 83 page Windows 8 Forensic Guide (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Metro Firefox mockups revealed (John Callaham)
• Microsoft Advertising rebrands, too, and Xbox drops “Inside Xbox” (What a week we’re having!) (Kip Kniskern)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Node: Up and Running – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• How to get paid to speak (Scott Berkun)
• Is there hope for Windows Phone? (Joe Wilcox)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #872 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1098 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: May 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 5/2/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 May 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 2 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 04.25 ~ 05.03 (gOODiDEA.NET)

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