Top Links
- Puppet–Making Windows Awesome Since 2011 (Rob Reynolds)
- Windows Phone and Windows 8.x: Designing Once for Both with XAML (Nick Randolph)
- Leveraging existing code across .NET platforms (The .NET Team)
- Episode 280 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Block and Oisin Grehan on Asynchronous Programming (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Web Development
- Kendo Exception During MVC Model Binding of DataSourceRequest (Adam Anderson)
- WebStorm 9 EAP is Open! (Ekaterina Prigara)
- React.js plays nicely with other tools and other thoughts (Jeremy D. Miller)
- AngularJS + TypeScript: how to implement validation (Joost van Schaik)
- Understanding and Working with Content Types in WordPress (Rachel McCollin)
- Ten Groovy Little JavaScript Tips (Troy Miles)
- Live Edit Updates in WebStorm 9 — What’s New? (Vladimir Krivosheev)
- “Microsoft Azure [VM] 101” (Or How do I use all those MSDN Azure Credits? Or VS “14” CTP Azure VM in minutes… ) (Greg Duncan)
- Features Of ES6 Part 2 : const (K. Scott Allen)
XAML
- 2000 WPF Things #1,131 – Localization XII – Set NeutralLanguageResources Attribute (Sean Sexton)
- Store Tidbits #3: Listing information for first release and amending in-app purchases (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Survey for You 🙂 (Eric Battalio)
- 2000 C# Things #1,155 – Return Value Compatibility when Assigning to Delegate Types (Sean Sexton)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How to Avoid Three Big Estimation Traps Posted (Johanna Rothman)
- Avoid the Bug as Task anti-pattern in TFS (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Announcing Sencha Architect 3.1 (Aaron Conran)
- Restrict Team Foundation Build permissions (Andy Lewis)
- The Perfect Code Coverage Score (Kerry Meade)
- Upgrading to Microsoft Test Manager 2012 (MTM) and Upgrading to Microsoft Test Manager 2013 (MTM) (Mike Fourie)
- Test Attribute #8 – Truthiness (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Leading A Culture Of Effective Testing (Wes McClure)
Other Mobile Platforms
- New Article Published about How to Gather Meaningful Feedback in your iOS Apps (Michael Crump)
- Exploring Image Filters in Xamarin iOS (Patrick Dunn)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Internet of Things on Windows with Dan Rosenstein (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Devnology Podcast 047 – John Cook (Daan van Berkel)
- Extreme Office 365 Mobility and Off-Road Rally Challenge using iPhone, Android, and Windows Devices | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
- Windows Weekly 374: Cover Your Ears Isabella (Paul Thurrott)
- RiYL Episode 065: Julie Klausner (Brian Heater)
- SSW TV – Taking other people’s money: The state of payments in Australia – Ben Cull | DDD Melbourne (SSW Team)
- Edge Show 114 – Log Management and Other Intelligence Packs in System Center Advisor | Edge (Symon Perriman)
- 120 JSJ Google Polymer with Rob Dodson and Eric Bidelman (woody2shoes)
Community / Events
- What to Expect from Halo at gamescom 2014 (Xbox Wire)
- Geek of the Week: Chris Davidson aka DJ CUTMAN (Chris Urie)
- In Review: The 2014 Imagine Cup World Finals (John Scott Tynes)
Database
- SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial (Armando Prato)
- Usage of DBCC OPTIMIZER_WHATIF for SQL Server Query Tuning (Daniel Farina)
- SQL SERVER – SSIS Parameters in Parent-Child ETL Architectures – Notes from the Field #040 (Pinal Dave)
- 6 Rules of Thumb for MongoDB Schema Design: Part 1 (Francesca Krihely)
- Blog Post: So What the Heck is Power BI? (Paul Turley)
PowerShell
- Powershell Script to open IIS applicationHost.config (Daniel Fisher)
Miscellaneous
- Small Basic Comments (Ed Price)
- Microsoft’s second Windows 8.1 update isn’t a major one after all (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, August 6, 2014 (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading August 6, 2014 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1394 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1668 (Chris Alcock)
- Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (7/28-8/3) (Dara Monasch)
- The Daily Six Pack: August 7, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
- Daily News Digest 8/7/2014 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-07 (Dan Rigby)
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