Top Links
- Getting a sense of the upcoming language features in C# (Mads Torgersen)
 - Destiny Beta now open for Xbox Owners (Larry Hryb)
 - Tips and tricks for using XAML controls in your universal Windows apps (Rohan Thakkar)
 - How Pairing & Swarming Work & Why They Will Improve Your Products (Johanna Rothman)
 
Web Development
- Node.js Transform Streams vs. Through2 Streams (Ben Nadel)
 - Tips for Best Practices in WordPress Development (Damian Logghe)
 - Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Replacing form helpers (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Create test data for mongoose.js backed MEAN stack applications (John Teague)
 - How to fake session object / HttpContext for integration tests (Radenko Zec)
 - TypeScript Gets Faster Compiler (Roopesh Shenoy)
 
XAML
- App development guide for UICC based NFC card emulation for Windows Phone 8.1 (MS Downloads)
 - How to create watermark Textbox in Windows Phone 8 (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Windows/Phone 8.1: Watch for MRT When Naming/Structuring Your XAML Files (Mike Taulty)
 - 2000 WPF Things #1,120 – Getting a List of All Supported Cultures (Sean Sexton)
 - WPF Menu Controls Class Hierarchy (Richard Carr)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Visual Studio Online updates include enabling Azure Active Directory support and self-service account deletion (Athima Chansanchai)
 - Absolute beginner’s guide to C# (DevToolsGuy)
 - Coding for High-DPI Displays in Windows (Gastón Hillar)
 - Capitalization Conventions in .NET (Brian Mullen)
 - 2000 C# Things #1,144 – Getting Type Information about a Generic Type (Sean Sexton)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How To Arouse People to Extraordinary Achievement (J.D. Meier)
 - Kanban Thinking and the Kanban Method (Karl Scotland)
 - Just Let Me Code (Andrew Binstock)
 - Microspeak: Tell Mode / Ask Mode (Raymond Chen)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Swift from an Objective-C Developer’s Perspective (Kon_Soulianidis)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Making Money on Mobile with Atley Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - The Amp Hour #208 – An Interview With Nadya Peek – Gallant Gcode Gerontology (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
 - Nerds At Play 070: Playing In The Sandbox (Melisa Snyder)
 - RiYL Episode 063: Peter Kuper (Brian Heater)
 
Community / Events
- I’ll be speaking at Xamarin Evolve 2014 (Jesse Liberty)
 - Xamarin Evolve 2014: Announcing Training Classes & 39 Conference Sessions and Announcing the Xammy Awards (Joseph Hill)
 - Dev of the Week: Pierre-Hugues Charbonneau (Alec Noller)
 - Third Annual GitHub Data Challenge (Derek Greentree)
 
Database
- SSRS report subscription: Fire Event from SSIS package (Rayis Imayev)
 - SQL SERVER – Finding Object Dependencies in SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #071 (Pinal Dave)
 - Geo distribution and high availability in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
 - Blog Post: Difference Between LEN and DATALENGTH (Dinesh Asanka)
 - Azure Databases – Restore Local Database To Azure (Dirk Strauss)
 
PowerShell
- Automating deployments in Configuration Manager with PowerShell (Deepak Dhami)
 - Deploying using PowerShell Desired State Configuration in Release Management (Roopesh Nair)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Confirms Decision To Kill The Surface Mini (Alex Wilhelm)
 - paint.net 4.0.3 is now available (Rick Brewster)
 - Nokia Lumia Icon Windows Phone goes to Comic-Con (Joe Wilcox)
 
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading July 22, 2014 (Robert Diana)
 - Double Shot #1388 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - The Daily Six Pack: July 23, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Daily News Digest 7/23/2014 (Silverlight Show)
 - The Morning Brew #1657 (Chris Alcock)
 - Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-23 (Dan Rigby)
 
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