Top Links
- Introducing NuGet Concierge (Jaspreet Bagga, Jeremiah Jekich & Melissa McNeill)
 - The Magic of using Asynchronous Methods in ASP.NET 4.5 plus an important gotcha (Scott Hanselman)
 - Why is Microsoft keeping the final release of Windows 8.1 secret? (Ed Bott)
 - Potential first photo of the Nokia Lumia 1520 phablet revealed, dwarfs the Lumia 1020 (Daniel Rubino)
 - SkyDrive renaming and Windows 8.1 “delay” – are they related? (Kip Kniskern)
 
Web Development
- ASP.NET Web API + Attribute based Routing (Bnaya Eshet)
 - The HTML5 progress Element (Chris Coyier)
 - PhpStorm 7 EAP build 131.8 (Mikhail Vink)
 - Adding a simple BootstrapMenu to Dynamic Data With Bootstrap (Steve Naughton)
 - Video and History support in HTML5 with Internet Explorer 10 – Article on MSDN and HTML5 Threading with Web Workers and Data Storage with IndexedDB – MSDN Article (Wally McClure)
 - Windows Azure Infographics (Wes Yanaga)
 - WordPress Boilerplate Theme Upgrade (4.4, and 4.4.1): Now Live! (Aaron T. Grogg)
 - Storyboard setup with Navigation Controller (Craig)
 - Transitions for Off-Canvas Navigations (Mary Lou)
 
XAML
- No excuses developers: Microsoft extends $19 registration fee for Windows Phone Dev Center indefinitely (Daniel Rubino)
 - 2000 WPF Things #895 – Adding a Watermark to a GroupBox (Sean Sexton)
 - Protocol Activation: What Is It, What Apps Offer It, and How Can I use It in My Apps? (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Windows 8.1, Visual Studio 2013 Preview–Grid Template on PRISM (Mike Taulty)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Visual Studio 2013: Working in the Breakpoints Window (Zain Naboulsi)
 - Ability to debug Optimized Code (Optimized Debugging) (Ankit Asthana)
 - Bring Your Reports to Life with Telerik Report Designer (Carey Payette)
 - Do you know that you can easily shift code lines in #VisualStudio 2013? (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - The format of data and custom resources (Raymond Chen)
 - Entity Framework Pitfalls – Concrete Table Inheritance and Identity Keys (Ricardo Peres)
 - 2000 C# Things #919 – Think Twice about Handling Corrupted State Exceptions (Sean Sexton)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How to Use Feedback with Performance Appraisals for Agile Enterprises (Ben Linders)
 - XP Values: Courage (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Are You Really Doing BDD? (Rob Conery)
 - What Really Matters in Developer Testing (Peter Provost)
 - Principles of Reactive Programming (Rohit Sharma)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Platform Updates: Facebook SDK for iOS 7 and Promotions Updates (Jason Clark)
 - Shrinking an image in iOS with Xamarin.iOS and C# (Wally McClure)
 - Connect Unity gamers across platforms with Facebook’s new SDK (Aaron Brady)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – NodeBots and RobotsConf with Chris Williams (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Visual Studio 2013 IDE | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
 - Episode 112 – Portal Enhancements, Monitoring, AutoScale, SDK 2.1, and More New Features | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten, Nick Harris)
 - Defrag: CEO Changes, Pinning Sites, Form Factor Via CMD | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)
 - Recording of Grant Fritchey’s Database Deployment Best Practices Webinar (Andrew Denty)
 
Community / Events
- Dev of the Week: Scott Westfall (Allen Coin)
 - Join Us for ModUX in Amsterdam Sept. 18-20 (Donovan Erba)
 - Unity: Free Add on for Windows 8 | Start Learning Presentation/Tutorials | Over $100,000 Contest (Doris Chen)
 - Ask the bug guys (Eric Lippert)
 
Database
- Deployment Manager 2.2.6 with SQL Azure Support (Andrew Denty)
 - SQL SERVER – Creating A Stored Procedure for a Select statement with Optional Parameters (Michael Alison Alviar)
 - SQL SERVER – Tips for SQL Query Optimization by Analyzing Query Plan and SQL SERVER – SQL Basics Video: Database Datafiles and Logfiles – SQL in Sixty Seconds #063 (Pinal Dave)
 - APress Deal of the Day 29/Aug/2013 – Beginning T-SQL 2012 (Tatworth)
 - Query Plans: What Happens when Row Estimates Get High (Kendra Little)
 - [Sample Of Aug 28th] Dynamic TableServiceEntity for Azure Table storage (Philip Fu)
 
SharePoint
- Free Tool: SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard (Peter Vogel)
 
Miscellaneous
- What is new in Windows 8.1 for file access: SkyDrive integration (Andrei Marukovich)
 - SkyDrive.com gets text extraction feature using Bing-powered OCR (damaster)
 - Should Microsoft Give Windows 8.1 To Developers Early? (Paul Ballard)
 - A Quick Look at the Go Programming Language (Rachel Roumeliotis)
 - Surface RT hopefully has a future (Rockford Lhotka)
 - The importance of comments (Oren Eini)
 - Halo: Spartan Assault adds 5 new missions, supports more Windows Phones (Michael Stroh)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 29, 2013 (Jason Haley)
 - The Morning Brew #1430 (Chris Alcock)
 - Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, August 28th (Rob Caron)
 - Geek Reading August 28, 2013 (Robert Diana)
 - Double Shot #1190 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily News Digest 8/29/2013 (Silverlight Show)
 - Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-29 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Daily Six Pack: August 29, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 1936420228  | 
Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 11: Frank Luna: 9781936420223: Books
I. M. Wright's "Hard Code": A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft (Best Practices (Microsoft)) (9780735661707): Eric Brechner: Books
Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web (Voices That Matter): Tim Kadlec, Aaron Gustafson: 9780321821683: Books