Top Links
- Windows Azure July Updates: SQL Database, Traffic Manager, AutoScale, Virtual Machines (Scott Guthrie)
 - Scriptcs and multiline REPL! (Filip W)
 - Katana License Lifts Windows-only Restriction (Howard Dierking)
 - The Nokia Lumia 1020: It’s All About the Camera (Christina Warren)
 
Web Development
- Adding OWIN to an empty ASP.Net MVC app (Wes McClure)
 - Async Actions in ASP.NET MVC 4 (Eric Vogel)
 - Windows Azure Traffic Manager Explained (Maarten Balliauw)
 - Windows Azure Traffic Manager – High Performance, Availability & Resiliency (Alexandre Brisebois)
 - Tracking Down Performance Issues in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
 - Super Useful Tools for CSS (I. Haynes)
 - Configuring ASP.NET MVC 5 Login Options (Imran Baloch)
 - Consensus: SignalR + AngularJS (Nick Berardi)
 - jQuery is not a framework but I avoid using it too (Rob Ashton)
 - Data Visualization With d3.js (K. Scott Allen)
 - Publish HTML/JS website to Linux/Apache using Visual Studio (Xinyang Qiu)
 - Lazy Loading Image With AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
 - Getting Started with RequireJS Library (Gil Fink)
 - Speed up LightSwitch Development with “Edit & Refresh” (Sudhanshu Kulkarni)
 - Using ExtJS with WebAPI CheckBoxList Setting Defaults Correctly (Peter Kellner)
 - Glitch and Distort Images (Val Head)
 
XAML
- Windows Phone 8 App Development: Using Voice Commands (Gaston Hillar)
 - Unity Game Contest for Windows and Windows Phone (Bob Familiar)
 - Using Buddy with Windows Phone 8 (JC Cimetiere)
 - Your First Telerik Windows 8 Program–A step-by-step guide to building your first Windows 8 XAML app using RadControls (Jesse Liberty)
 - Introducing Windows Phone Developer Magazine (Nick Landry)
 - 2000 WPF Things #870 – Popup Is a ContentControl (Sean Sexton)
 - Renew your Windows 8 Developer License before it expires. (Michael Crump)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- A Generic Object Pool (Richard Carr)
 - Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: going deeper (Oren Eini)
 - Multi Lingual LINQ and Rx (Jim Wooley)
 - Get started with some basic TFBuild Scripts (Andy Lewis)
 - dotTrace 5.5 Performance is Released! (Daria Dovzhikova)
 - Kinect PowerPoint Mapper – A fresh look at Kinect’ing to PowerPoint (Greg Duncan)
 - Team Foundation Server 2013 is production ready (Martin Hinshelwood)
 - Assign a keyboard shortcut to collapse all projects in Solution Explorer (Pascal Arnould)
 - 2000 C# Things #894 – Creating a Custom Exception Type with Custom Data (Sean Sexton)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Bliki: UserDefinedField (Martin Fowler)
 - Product Owner Survival Camp 2: Bigger and Better (Gojko Adzic)
 - Agile Winter Is Coming (Gil Zilberfeld)
 - 10 Design trends 2013 – Where did all the gradients go? (Megan Isaak)
 - Fixie’s Elevator Pitch (Patrick Lioi)
 - Spreading the Word on Software Testing (Peter Varhol)
 - Top 5 Reasons to Use a Mocking Framework (Phil Japikse)
 - How to make smart project decisions: the checklist (Scott Berkun)
 - Quality enablement to achieve predictable delivery (Martin Hinshelwood)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- New Features in Visual Studio 2013 for Web Developers | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
 - The Verge Mobile Show 055 – July 23rd, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
 - Video: The Chuck Norris & Rotten Tomatoes API Starter Kits for Windows Store Apps (Bob Familiar)
 
Community / Events
- Live Webinar ‘What’s New in ReSharper 8′ on Friday, July 26 (Robert Demmer)
 - Become a Microsoft Student Partner: Earlybird bonus! (Susan Ibach)
 - Dev of the Week: Anders Abel (Allen Coin)
 - Philadelphia Podcast Fest: Come Listen to Story Shuffle & The Pincushions (Eric Smith)
 - First State .NET UG Meeting 7/25 – Build Windows 8 Apps with the APIMASH Starter Kits (First State (DE) .NET)
 
Database
- SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 CU5 (Glenn Berry)
 - SQL SERVER – Installing SQL Server Data Tools and SSRS (Pinal Dave)
 - NoSQL Database Adoption Trends (Srini Penchikala)
 
Miscellaneous
- How Game Creators are Using the Power of Xbox One (Xbox Wire)
 - The father of Microsoft’s Singularity OS moves on (Mary Jo Foley)
 - The Small Basic Environment (Ed Price)
 - Analyst: Xbox One could outship PS4 three-to-one in 2013 (John Callaham)
 - Why the customer experience is the next big thing (MS JobsBlog)
 
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading July 23, 2013 (Robert Diana)
 - Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, July 23rd (Rob Caron)
 - Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-24 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Daily Six Pack: July 24, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Daily News Digest 7/24/2013 (Silverlight Show)
 - Windows Dev News for July 23, 2013 – #0175 (Dave Campbell)
 
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