Top Links
- Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download (S.Somasegar)
 - Visual Studio 2015 Released plus ASP.NET 5 Roadmap (Scott Hanselman)
 - Released Today: Visual Studio 2015, ASP.NET 4.6, ASP.NET 5 & EF 7 Previews (Scott Guthrie)
 - Performance and Diagnostic Tools in Visual Studio 2015 (Dan Taylor)
 - Code Maps improvements in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM: Code maps now have simpler menus, more intuitive icons, and independent group layout (Jean-Marc Prieur)
 - A fun surprise for Windows Insiders… (Gabe Aul)
 
Web Development
- Using Module.decorator() In AngularJS 1.4 and Managing Conditional Links And Route Changes In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
 - What are your favorite JavaScript ES6 features? (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - Visual Studio 2015 and .NET Framework 4.6 released today–behind the scenes goodies, t-shirts, and lots of open development (Beth Massi)
 - Not romantically binding [promise-ring wraps Node.js callbacks with native ES6 Promises] (David Anson)
 - Announcing ASP.NET 4.6 and ASP.NET 5 beta 5 in Visual Studio 2015 Release (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
 - Build an Angular 2 App – Data Binding Syntax (Josh Carroll)
 - JavaScript for VBA Developers: A Short History (Cindy Meister)
 - Set the asterisk in project.json version numbers (Nicholas Blumhardt)
 - Synchronize Node.JS Install Version with Visual Studio 2015 (Ryan Hayes)
 - How To Get Visual Studio LightSwitch For Free (Michael Washington)
 - Upgrading ASP.NET 5 Beta4 to Beta5 (Shawn Wildermuth)
 - Go 1.5 In Beta (Alex Denham)
 - Freebie: Cinema Icon Set (SVG) (Icons8)
 - Getting Started With the Instagram API: Media Endpoints (Jeff Reifman)
 - Announcing TypeScript 1.5 (Jonathan Turner)
 - Announcing SupUrlative – Hypermedia Url and Template Generators for WebAPI (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
 - Announcing the latest improvements for the F12 developer tools in Windows 10 (Ruben Rios)
 
XAML
- A Comprehensive Guide to Creating a Xamarin.Forms App with MvvmCross (Part 5 of 5) (Brent Edwards)
 - Peek Definition Everywhere – Using it with CSHTML, XAML, ASPX … along with C# in Visual Studio 2015 (Abhijit Jana)
 - XAML Tools for Visual Studio 2015 (Jonathan Allen)
 - Implementing custom navigation in FreshMvvm for Xamarin.Forms (Michael Ridland)
 - Windows Phone 8.1, Microsoft Lumia 640XL and the case of the Virtual Hardware Buttons (Nick Randolph)
 - Obtaining the Mouse Pointer Screen Co-ordinates (Richard Carr)
 - UWP: New Controls (part 3 – Maps) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Service Oriented Solutions using MSMQ and WCF (Ahmed Ilyas)
 - Finding swallowed and async exceptions using IntelliTrace in VS2015 (Angelos Petropoulos)
 - Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code has surpassed 500,000 downloads (Brad Sams)
 - Visual Studio Online Update – July 17 and Licensing and packaging changes for TFS 2015 and Visual Studio 2012 Update 5 RC Available (Brian Harry)
 - Application Insights Tools in Visual Studio 2015 RTM (Dimah Zaidalkilani)
 - PerfTips – Visual Studio 2015 New Features In The Spotlight and Visual Studio 2015 Light Bulb – Lighting Your Path To Great Code (Dirk Strauss)
 - ASP.NET 5 and CSS bundling: Fixing image paths (Gunnar Peipman)
 - Response from Postsharp.net is not a Valid Nuget v2 Service Response (James Chambers)
 - ReSharper 9.1.2 for Visual Studio 2015 RTM (Jura Gorohovsky)
 - Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 (Rich Lander)
 - C# Yellow Book Code Samples (Rob Miles)
 - Announcing the RTM of Visual F# 4.0 (Visual F# Team)
 - Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Released (John Montgomery)
 - Visual Studio 2015 RTM: What’s New in the IDE (Ji Eun Kwon & Tarek Madkour)
 - Profiling SQL Server in .NET (Ricardo Peres)
 - Source now available for GDB/LLDB debug engine (Andrew B. Hall)
 - Announcing the Azure SDK 2.7 for .NET (Brady Gaster)
 - Choosing a Responsive Framework for Your Next .NET App (Ed Charbeneau)
 - CodeRush for Roslyn v1.0.4 (Mark Miller)
 - Roslyn and Mono (Miguel de Icaza)
 - .NET Strings are immutable … except that they’re not (Rick Brewster)
 - Is that image a photo? (Robin Osborne)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- A Critical Look at CQRS (Jan Stenberg)
 - The most important TDD rule (Vladimir Khorikov)
 - Semantic Versioning in a nutshell (Robert Muehsig)
 - How Testers Can Add Value Earlier in the Development Lifecycle (Antoin Boerboom)
 - Moving to xUnit.net (Maxime Lemaitre)
 - How To Make The Most Of Failure (Gil Zilberfeld)
 - Know exactly what you’re about to deploy with Git, TeamCity and Octopus and Know exactly what you’ve deployed with Git, TeamCity and Octopus (Edward Ridge)
 - There is no such thing as technical debt (Ralf Westphal)
 - Version Control Guidance – Visuals to decorate your office wall or hide cracks in the wall resembling complex branches (Willy-P. Schaub)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Xamarin.Forms Typographic Scale and Xamarin.Forms Nugget – Card Shadows (Adam J. Wolf)
 - Visual Studio Emulator for Android in VS2015 RTM (John Kemnetz)
 - Using the Visual Studio Emulator for Android from Eclipse or ADT (John Kemnetz)
 - Azure Mobile Service deployment with Team City part 4. Deploying Azure Mobile Services (Ruslan Albu)
 - Try the new HERE Mobile SDK for free (Lori Castle)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Devnology Podcast 050 – Scott Wlaschin (Freek Leemhuis & Daan van Berkel)
 - Simple Programmer Podcast 031: Some Conflicting Advice On Working Hard (John Sonmez)
 - The Agile Revolution – Episode 91 (Simon Brown)
 - SSW TV – C# Is The Future – Filip Ekberg and SSW TV – No More Deadlocks – Filip Ekberg (SSW Team)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Sir Ian McKellen (Chris Hardwick)
 - AAWP Insight #147: Windows 10 Mobile upgrade, IAPs, and more (Rafe Blandford)
 - Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 087 | Catching up with Paul Schaeflein on Azure AD Improvements (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
 - Defrag Tools: #134 – Microsoft Symbol Proxy (SymProxy) | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
 - RunAs Radio – ITIL in the Cloud with Carroll Moon (Richard Campbell)
 - The Married Gamers Episode 370: Turning Heel (Chris Brown)
 - Carl Franklin – Just Be Awesome (Dave Rael)
 - Ping 247: Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition, Giant Fighting Robots and the Commodore is back | Ping! (Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
 - CodeChat 032 – Henry and George Show How Beagle Uses React to Sniff the Fine Print | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
 - Talk Python to Me #17 Python on bare metal with MicroPython (Michael Kennedy)
 - Away From the Keyboard Episode 13: Dmitry Lyalin is a Product Manager not a Marketing Suit (Richie Rump)
 - Tuesdays with Corey: Linux Announcements and MOAR ARM | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
 - 54 – Kelvin Leak Keg | Patch And Switch (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
 - Introducing the new Power BI | Office Mechanics (formerly Garage Series) (Jeremy Chapman)
 
Community / Events
- Join Microsoft Stores to Celebrate Windows 10 with Special Events, Guest Appearances, Workshops and More (The Windows Team)
 - Continuously Improving .NET Developers (Vicky)
 
Database
- Freeze Excel Column Header for SQL Server Reporting Services Report (Ghanesh Prasad)
 - Using Bit Values In COALESCE() In MySQL Results In Binary Values (Ben Nadel)
 - SQL SERVER – FIX – Server principal ‘Login Name’ has granted one or more permission(s). Revoke the permission(s) before dropping the server principal and SQL SERVER – Generating Meaningful Test Data with dbForge Data Generator for SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
 - Inside RavenDB–Chapter 10 (Map/Reduce) is done (Oren Eini)
 - SqlSmash V2: Faster and Better (Latish Sehgal)
 - Hadoop: The Definitive Guide (4th ed) (Ian Stirk)
 - DOWNLOAD: Power BI Starter Kit (Kurt Shintaku)
 
SharePoint
- SharePoint Pitfalls: GUID Formats (Ricardo Peres)
 - JSLink List View asynchronous field in SharePoint 2013 (Greg Galipeau)
 
PowerShell
- Welcoming the new home of PowerShell (Joey Aiello)
 - Introducing Azure Resource Manager cmdlets for Azure PowerShell DSC Extension and Azure DSC Extension v2.1 released (PowerShell Team)
 
Miscellaneous
- Why I got the MCSD: Azure Solutions Architect Certification (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 RT Update 3 said to include smaller Start menu – but not much else (Andy Weir)
 
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading July 20, 2015 and Geek Reading July 21, 2015 (Robert Diana)
 - Double Shot #1526 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - The Morning Brew #1907 and The Morning Brew #1909 (Chris Alcock)
 - Reading Notes #194 (Frank Boucher)
 - Daily Links 20 Jul 2015 (Jax)
 - The Daily Six Pack: July 21, 2015 and The Daily Six Pack: July 22, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Last Week on Channel 9: July 13th – July 19th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
 - Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-21 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-22 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-21 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-22 (Dan Rigby)
 - Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 21st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 193435659X  | 
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers): Bruce A. Tate: 9781934356593: Books
Beginning iPhone Development with Swift: Exploring the iOS SDK (9781484204108): David Mark, Jack Nutting, Kim Topley, Fredrik Olsson, Jeff LaMarche: Books
Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices (Microsoft)): Karl Wiegers: Kindle Store