Top Links
- 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)
 
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