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• Now Available: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit - September 2011 Update and New Training Kit Web Installer Preview - James Conard highlights announces the release of the September 2011 release of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit which updates the content to the Azure SDK / Tools 1.5 release, along with new content on the Service bus MEssage Queues. The team have also updated the mechanism of obtaining the training kit content, introducing a new web installer which allows you to download just the bits you are interested in from the SDK.
• Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) Configuration Editor v2.0 - MonkeyTennis announces the release of the Windows Identity Foundation Configuration Editor v2. This tooling provides an editor for the <microsoft.identityModel> configuration section

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• Cloud Identity Stories for Developers - Application Architecture Scenarios - Alik Levin shares a PDF version of ‘Cloud Identity Scenarios and Solutions for Developers’ which takes a look at a number of different authentication scenarios outlining the architecture to handle them and highlighting how-to and other resources to help implement the solution.
• Free Programming Book - Practical Foundations for Programming Languages - Tatworth highlights the availability of a draft edition of ‘Practical Foundations for Programming Languages’ from Robert Harper of Carnegie Mellon University. This 550+ page book discusses all aspects of the formal computer science that goes into programming langauges.
• Just a quick note about Tests - Mark Rendle discusses the importance of having a good range of tests for your projects, discussing how his suite of tests for Simple.Data give him certainty about the software he is delivering.
• AutoMapper 2.0 - Nested/Child Containers - Jimmy Bogard shares a look at one of the new features of AutoMapper 2.0, support for nested / child containers for service location.
• Mvc.ValidationTookit Alpha Release: Conditional Validation with MVC 3 - Simon Ince shares an alpha release of his ASP.NET MVC validation toolkit for ASP.NET MVC 3 which provides conditional validation support, dependency validation and validation groups answering some of the common requirements for more advanced validation.
• NHibernate Built-in Code Based Mapping instead of using Fluent NHibernate - Kazi Manzur Rashid takes a look at the new built in Code Based Mapping which is provided in NHibernate 3. This built in functionality is similar in nature to that offered by Fluent NHibernate, and this post illustrates the conversion between the two with worked examples.
• CSS3 text-shadow in IE10 - Jennifer Yu discusses the implementation of CSS3 Text-Shadow support in Internet Explorer 10, sharing a number of examples which illustrate the visual possibilities that this feature enables.
• Avoid Parallel Hierarchies - Chris Eargle discusses a potentially troublesome object oriented situation as highlighted by Kent Beck in his book ‘Implementation Patterns’, discussing the scenario and how Generics can help restructure this relationship into a more manageable form.
• Massive (The Micro-ORM), winforms and VB.Net - Christiaan Baes takes an introductory look at the use of the Massive Micro ORM from Rob , walking through a getting started from installation to retrieving data.

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• jQuery 1.7 Beta 1 Released - dmethvin and the jQuery Team announce the release of the first beta release of jQuery 1.7. Beta 1 is intended for early adopters to try using in their existing applications to help test the compatibility of the new version, and features a number of significant changes including new APIs for events, changes to form submission behaviour in older Internet Explorer versions, and much much more.
• Final version of Windows Phone SDK 7.1 now available for download - Aaron Stebner highlights the release of the final edition of te Windows Phone SDK 7.1, linking to the official announcements along with the download links for both the English and non-English versions, along with highlighting some good resources for the SDK and discussing the installation and what to do if installation fails.
• Windows Phone Mango release and we want your feedback! - Cheryl Simmons highlights the updated documentation and samples for the release of the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK and also directs feedback on these items to the team’s UserVoice site.
• ILMerge get’s a rev - Greg Duncan highlights an update to the ILMerge tool released on Microsoft Downloads. As yet there appear to be no details of what has changed, but Greg has a link to the likely place where it will be announced.
• NMigrate - Nicolas Dorier takes the wraps off the NMigrate Project, a framework for migrating various aspects of your application to future versions. The project is hosted on CodePlex, and this CodeProject article walks through the various aspects of its use.

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• Task Exception Handling in .NET 4.5 - Stephen Toub discusses some of the improvements in exception handling in the latest release of the Task Parallel Library in the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview, discussing how they have strived for a high degree of backward compatibility along with some significant improvements.
• Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Using the Settings Contract - Derik Whittaker continues his series of posts looking at the different features of Windows 8 which you can plug into your applications via the provided contracts, exploring the integration into this System Settings panel
• CQRS is too complicated - Rob Ashton takes a look into one of the common issues people have with CQRS, the notion that it is too complicated, discussing how i doesn’t have to be that complex or difficult to implement with a look at a number of different scenarios.
• Is SQL the barrier to continuous deployment? - Paul Stack discusses the complexities of working with database changes in a continuous deployment environment, discussing the use of tooling to help, and the practice of skipping automatic deployments of versions with database changes, as well as musing about how NoSql may change these types of problem.
• Code Katas: Kicking off With a Little JavaScript - Adron shares his experience working on a Roman Numeral based Kata problem in JavaScript, discussing how he worked through the Kata, including the use of QUnit for the tests, sharing the full source of his solution.
• Nullable Types’ Subtlety - Mehdi Khalili takes a look at an interesting problem involving Nullable types including a discussion of how the is operator works as a part of the solution (explored at the IL level)

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• JetBrains Tour - Essex, Cambridge, Manchester & Coventry - Hadi Hariri is on tour on behalf of JetBrains in the UK taking in a number of NxtGenUG groups between 14th and 17th November where he will be talking on the subject of mouseless driven development in ReSharper and how this tooling can help accelerate your development.
• October 4th to 6th - FREE Online Conferences on Phone, Azure and IE - Eric Nelson highlights 3 days containing a couple of hours of online conference at the beginning of next month addressing Azure, Windows Phone and Internet Explorer. The events are organised as a part of the TechDays Online and are free to virtually attend.
• Speed War (Operation"Jungle Cheetah") - WPO @ The Times (November) - The London Web Performance Group welcome Mehdi Ali, who is the Optimisation Manager for the Times websites for a session on the optimisation of heavily dynamic websites as well as opportunity to network and discuss on the evening of Wednesday 16th November,
• Backbone.js Screencast - Introduction and Views - Joey Beninghove shares a re-recording of his webinar session originally presented for the Develop With Passion Webinar, giving an introduction to the creation of a backbone.js application, with a focus on the views aspect of the framework.

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• September 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit - Stephen Walther announces the release of the September 2011 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit. This update, available from NuGet or the project’s CodePlex site brings start and end date restrictions to the Calendar, a control for displaying Twitter content, and a Gravitar control to retrieve User images.
• Updated TPL Dataflow CTP - Stephen Toub announces the standalone release of the latest CTP release of the Task Parallel Dataflow library in addition to the library’s inclusion as a part of the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview. This version of the library works against .NET 4 and brings a number of improvements over the previous CTP releases.
• NServiceBus Modelling Tools - Udi Dahan announces the availability of the first version of tooling for Modeling NServiceBus, allowing you to design NServiceBus solutions from within the Visual Studio IDE
• YUI 3.4.1 is now live - Allen Rabinovich announces the release of version 3.4.1 of the YUI JavaScript user interface library. This minor release includes over 150 bugfixes across a wide range project areas along with improvements to documentation and samples.
• Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" update begins - Eric Hautala announces the official launch of Windows Phone 7.5 AKA Mango which is now actively being pushed out by networks, with most existing customers receiving it within 4 weeks.

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• Keep it secret, keep it safe - Eric Lippert discusses cryptography, its difference from security, and discusses some of the different types of cryptography using the Bob and Alice (and a few extras) scenarios to explain how the different types work.
• Hanselminutes.com: Rewriting a 5 year old VB.NET WebForms application as an ASP.NET Web Pages application with Razor - Scott Hanselman discusses the steps he took to upgrade a simple old WebForms application to a more modern ASP.NET Web Pages application using Razor and Rob Conery’s Massive data access library.
• Massive’s Dynamic Query Syntax - Rob Conery picks up on Scott’s early attempts to use Massive, showing some better ways of creating queries using Massive
• Is OR/M an anti pattern? - Ayende discusses an article which suggests that Object Relational Mapping is an anti-pattern, discussing the different types of application and how ORM in the right circumstances is the right choice.
• What’s happening on the NuGet feed (leveraging OData in an RSS reader) - Jason Jarrett discusses consuming the NuGet OData feed in your RSS reader as a way of monitoring the release of packages, building URLs which allow you to keep saved searches in your RSS reader, providing an alternative to NuGetFeed.Org for when your NuGet feed is more private.
• MSDN Magazine: October Issue Preview - Michael Desmond gives a preview of the next edition of MSDN Magazine, due out early next month, highlighting all the significant articles and technologies which will feature.
• Blob Download Bug in Windows Azure SDK 1.5 - Windows Azure Storage Team highlight a known issue with Synchronous blob downloads using the Windows Azure SDK 1.5 which can result in partial blob downloads being seen as a download of the full blob. A SDK hotfix will be available to resolve this issue shortly, and the team share a workaround for the meantime.
• A Look at F# from C#’s corner - Demis Bellot takes a look at the F# language from the point of view of a C# developer, discussing some of the key features of the F# language and how it differs from C#
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Quick Launch - Zain Naboulsi takes a look at the new Quick Launch functionality included in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview looking at the different features it provides quick access to.
• Doing Crazy Things with ASP.NET MVC 4’s Display Modes - Eric B Sowell takes a look at the ASP.NET MVC 4 DisplayMode functionality, discussing how it can be used to present different views to different types of devices, looking at how you can extend this functionality to present different views depending on the UserAgent.

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• NxtGenUG - Event: Visual Studio LightSwitch - The Manchester / Warrington NxtGenUG group is meeting on Wednesday 19th October for a session from Rob Martin looking at the Visual Studio LightSwitch tooling which provides a self service way of building applications for the desktop and cloud.
• WPUG 25th Oct 2011 - Windows Phone 7 - WP7Dev - The London based Windows Phone User Group are meeting on Tuesday 25th October at Juno Bar. The agenda for the event is yet to be confirmed, but will hopefully consist of a speaker (or two) along with a chance to network with your fellow WP developers and an opportunity to demo and show what you have been creating.

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• SEO And Accessibility With HTML5 PushState, Part 1: Introducing PushState & Part 2: Progressive Enhancement With Backbone.js - Derick Bailey discusses the complexities of building rich stateful JavaScript based applications and keeping them accessible and Search Engine Friendly exploring the use of HashBang Urls, and HTML5 PushState Urls, taking a look at progressive enhancement, and how you can make use of these techniques when working with Backbone.js
• Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search - Part 3 - Derik Whittaker rounds out this mini series looking at integrating your applications content with the Windows 8 system search, looking in this part at how you can get suggestions in your search.
• Compatibility of .NET Framework 4.5 - Brandon Bray discusses the in place update nature of the .NET 4.5 release where by it replaces your currently installed .NET 4, discussing the compatibility requirements that this introduces, and the types of compatibility issues which may be encountered.
• WinRT and Mono - Miguel de Icaza discusses how WinRT fits in with the big picture for the Mono Project, discussing why the Mono team won’t be producing their own WinRT stack, and how Win RT fits in with their current policy of using native UI toolkit platforms.
• Dependency Management in .Net: install2 - Derek Greer shares a NuGet Extension for retrieving application level build time external dependencies and transitive dependencies, neatly illustrating how extensions can be added to NuGet to extend the tool.
• (Yet another) nHibernate sessionmanager for ASP.NET (MVC) - Peter van Ooijen takes fresh look at the creation and management of the NHibernate Session, discussing the requirements and sharing a solution which uses FluentNHibernate and supports use both in web applications and in unit tests, along with discussion of the design decisions - also check out the comments for more discussion.
• Effective Xml Part 2: How to kill the performance of an app with XPath, Part 3: Didn’t you say XslCompiledTransform was fast?, Part 4: Let me project this (Xml file) for you & Part 5: Something went really wrong - OutOfMemoryException and StackOverflowException thrown when using XslCompiledTransform - Pawel Kadluczka continues this series of posts looking at the Microsoft XML Stack, discussing some of the performance penalties that can be encountered with XPath, sharing tips to avoid them, discussing the performance of compiled Xsl Transforms, working with large XML Documents and looking at the causes of two common exceptions which can occur.
• Internals of .NET Objects and Use of SOS - Abhishek Sur continues his internals series with a look at how objects are created and exist in memory, looking at how you can debug and explore this type of thing using the SOS WinDBG Extension.
• The Ordered Jobs Kata - Martin Rue shares a new Kata exercise derived from a real world problem he encountered about the ordering of jobs which have dependencies on other jobs
• NuGet Feed - NuGet Feed is a new website which enables developers to track release of the NuGet Packages they make use of via RSS feeds, Google Chrome plugin. The team behind the site have made it easy for you to start tracking the packages you use via a Visual Studio Extension which will pick up your projects references and import them into the NuGetFeed site.
• Simple, fast and useful MiniProfiler for ASP.NET MVC - Hajan Selmani walks through the use of the MiniProfiler for ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC websites which allows you to diagnose performance issues and see what is going on inside your web application.
• Writing F# Type Providers with the F# 3.0 Developer Preview - An Introductory Guide and Samples - Don Syme highlights a new guide from the F# team which discusses the creation of F# Type Providers using F#3.0 and the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, including three example implementations.

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• An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Extensibility - Simone Chiaretta kicks off a series of posts looking at how you can extend the ASP.NET MVC framework to achieve your aims, looking initially at the extension of the pipeline via routing extensions
• RFC: Web Platform Installer (WebPI) with an offline feed mode for bandwidth savings - Scott Hanselman takes a look at some early previews of the Offline Mode for the Web Platform Installer, based upon daily builds from the developers machines, and asks the community for feedback about this new aspect to the Web Platform Installer.
• Internals of Interface and its Implementation - Abhishek Sur continues with his Internals series with a post taking a look at the internals of Interface implementation in .NET focusing specifically on explicit interface implementations and explaining the theory and looking at how that is manifested at the IL level.
• NuGet push… to Windows Azure - Maarten Balliauw shares a prototype of an Azure NuGetRole which allows you to push NuGet packages to the cloud as a means of deployment - neat stuff, and a good demonstration of how NuGet can be consumed in code.
• Pluggable Model Conventions - Stuart Leeks is also taking a look at the extensibility of ASP.NET , showing how a custom ModelMetadataProvider can be created allowing you to use your own conventions in your models to have certain behaviours applied.
• What’s new with T4 in the Developer Preview of Visual Studio 11? - Gareth Jones takes a look at some of the new features for T4 Templating in Visual Studio 11 including better error processing at design time, improved inheritance and LINQ support out of the box.
• Native WinRT Inheritance - Ian Griffiths continues his exploration of WinRT at a low level using C++ taking a look at how WinRT and Inheritance actually work at the COM Level in order to allow you to derive from the WinRT Application class.
• Setting the Initial Rotation in a C# Metro Application, Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search Part 1 & Part 2 - Derik Whittaker discusses how you can control the orientation of your Windows 8 Metro Applications, and looks at how you can integrate your applications with the System wide search functionality
• Running unit tests in Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (WinRT), Dealing with types in WinRT, Detecting design mode in Windows 8/WinRT,Quick tip: Killing a Metro-style app in Windows 8 & Breaking change: Raising PropertyChanged with string.Empty in WinRT / Windows 8 - Laurent Bugnion has been taking a look at various aspects of Windows 8 / WinRT, sharing tips on creating tests for your WinRT applications, killing a misbehaving Metro Style Application, detecting the design mode for Windows 8 / WinRT applications and looking at the use of the TypeInfo class.

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• Web Performance Testing and Continuous Integration @Mozilla (October) - The London Web Performance Group welcome David Burns, a Test Lead Developer at Mozilla, for a session on testing the performance of your web applications using tools like Selenium and FireBug on the evening of Wednesday 19th October
• "The Happy Developer" - Is it a Myth? - Scottish Developers welcome Andy Gibson for a discussion session on Tuesday 1st November in Glasgow where Andy will discuss the pitfalls of being a developer in these difficult times, and look at some ways you can make your developer life better.
• In The Brain of Robert Pickering - Skills Matter welcome Rob Pickering for an ‘In the brain of…’ session on Tuesday 1st November where Rob will take a look at combinators and discuss their use in building Internal DSLs, discussing their use in industrial problems.

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• AutoMapper 2.0 Released - Jimmy Bogard announces the release of AutoMapper 2.0. his new version targets .NET 4 and supports its use in Silverlight 4, improved support for mapping inheritance structures, along with enhancing many of the existing features too.
• Code First Migrations: Alpha 3 Released - The ADO.NET Entity Framework Team announce the release of their 3rd preview release of the Entity Framework Code First Migrations project. This release focuses again on the development time features, and makes some progress in the deployment stories they hope to implement. As always, the team are keen to hear your feedback.

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• Writing a Recipe for ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview - Phil Haack introduces the concept of Recipes in ASP.NET MVC4, as a GUI implementation of the kinds of commands that NuGet packages can add, taking a look at creating your own recipes to help automate tasks
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: String Padding and Trimming - Not Just for Spaces! - James Michael Hare continues his Little Wonders series with a look at some more of the string functions which allow you to pad and trim strings, and looks at some of the less well known overloads which support more complex cases.
• Dependency Injection Is NOT The Same As The Dependency Inversion Principle - Derick Bailey discusses the often missed difference between the Dependency Injection and Dependency Inversion, drawing on some content from an article he wrote for CODE magazine.
• Windows Phone eBook 1st Edition Published - Mike Ormond announces the publication of the community written E-Book he has produced with help fro the Windows Phone Developer community. The ebook is available for free in PDF format and can be cheaply purchased in print format and features content from over 10 developers.
• Page Inspector for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview - Jorge Gabuardi Gonzalez takes a look at the features of the new Page Inspector included in the Developer Preview of Visual Studio 11 which provides improved capabilities for decomposing web pages and helping you diagnose problems in your web applications.
• Debugging Tools Survival Guide - Sebastian Dau shares a nice overview of the various debugging tools available for debugging .NET applications, looking at the different scenarios each is suitable for.
• Using Any Test Framework in VS11 - Jason Bock discusses the support for different test frameworks in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, highlighting some work by Brad Wilson on a Prototype xUnit.net Visual Studio 11 Unit Testing Plugin which brings xUnit.NET tests into the Visual Studio IDE.
• TFS 2011 Code review missing features! - Tarun Arora takes a look at the Code Review support in TFS 11 Developer Preview, highlighting some of the areas where there are possible gaps in the product.
• [Humor] Geek Guide to Geeks - Greg Duncan highlights an amusing spotters guide to the 56 types of geek - which one(s) best summarise you and your colleagues?

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• SSMS Tools Pack 2.0 is out! With huge productivity booster features that will blow your mind and ease your job even more. - Mladen Prajdić announces the release of the SSMS Tools Pack 2.0, a great collection of extensions to SQL Server Management Studio including Session Auto Save, Session restore and e new Execution Plan Analyzer.
• Scrum for Team System v3 Open Sourced - Giles Davis highlights the open sourcing and continued maintenance of Scrum for Team System v3 by Crispin Parker.
• Announcing PostSharp 2.1 RC 2 - Gael Fraiteur announces the second Release Candidate release of the PostSharp 2.1 Aspect Oriented Programming Framework. This release, available via NuGet and a direct download, contains a number of bugfixes and improvements over the previous release candidate.
• Lucene.Net.Contrib - Itamar Syn-hershko highlights the Lucene.Contrib project he has started on GitHub to collect together various Lucene.NET extensions in one place, and is looking for contributions from the community

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• Hook Up Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and Visual Studio Express for Windows Developer Preview to Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview content on MSDN - Paul ORear explains why the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview looks up online help against VS2010, and shows how you can make your installation look to the now available Dev11 query service.
• Optimizing the website Performance using ASP.NET 4.5 - Kalyan Bandarupalli takes a look at the ASP.NET 4.5 support for bundling together static CSS and JavaScript resources to improve website performance.
• WPF 4.5- Part 4 : the new Binding’s ‘Delay’ property - Jonathan Antoine continues his exploration of WPF 4.5 released as a part of the Developer Previews at //Build/ . In this 4th part in the series he takes a look at the new ability to delay the updating of a Binding so the value displayed is update after a specified timespan, allowing for a more responsive UI by not overwhelming the system with updates.
• Empowering Enums - Chris Eargle takes a look at adding some useful functionality to your existing uses of Enums by using Extension methods and some of the concepts from the Enum Class pattern.
• WCF in Win8 Metro styled apps? Absolutely supported - Piyush Joshi takes a look at consuming Services through WCF in the new Windows 8 Metro Style applications, showing where it is similar and where there are differences, such as configuration, walking through a simple example.
• Why no ForEach method on IEnumerable interfaces - Mark Zhou discusses the reasons why there is no ForEach method available as a part of the IEnumerable interface, discussing how the C# foreach keyword is actually implemented against IEnumerable.
• Raising the right PropertyChanged with C# ’s Caller Info Attributes - Rob Fonseca-Ensor discusses a part of C#5 which did not make it into the //Build/ released Developer Previews, a useful feature allowing the calling member name to be automatically passed as a parameter, which will make implementing things like RaisePropertyChanged much easier.
• Core .NET Types Usable from a Metro Style Application - Jeffrey Richter shares a list of all the Core .NET types that are available in the new Windows 8 Metro Style Applications
• Premature Optimization - Keyvan Nayyeri discusses the meaning of the often used phrase ‘Premature Optimisation’, looking abck at the orignins and original meaning of the phrase and discussing how it can affect the software being delivered.

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• Europe Virtual ALT.NET: Recording of Mike Murray on Compositional and Convention-based Web Development With FubuMVC @ E-VAN 20 September 2011 - Jan Van Ryswyck shares the recording of Mike Murray’s session for the European Virtual Alt.Net UserGroup from Tuesday this week. Mike explored the various aspects of the FubuMVC project, along with the concepts and design goals, and took a nice route (no pun intended) through the project, starting with a nice getting started guide.
• HTML5 WebSockets with Brad Drysdale - The ‘London Web’ user group are meeting on the evening of Thursday 20th October where Brad Drysdale will be giving a session on the WebSockets API in HTML5.

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• Windows Phone Power Tools 1.1 - Oren Nachman announces the second release of the Windows Phone Power Tools, taking the version number to 1.1. This release includes an updated UI with a Metro look and feel, and addresses issues with uploads into isolated storage.
• Cmdlet Help Editor is now released on CodePlex - Wassim Fayed announces the release of the source code on CodePlex for the Cmdlet Help Editor, a tool which helps you build help content for your PowerShell Cmdlets in the format which PowerShell can read.
• Python Tools for VS - Mike Stall highlights the Python Tools for Visual Studio, a free download which adds support for CPython development to the Visual Studio 2010 IDE.

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• Touch Input for IE10 and Metro style Apps - Jacob Rossi discusses the introduction of touch input mechanisms for Internet Explorer 10 and the Metro Applications as a part of the Windows 8 Developer Preview, taking a look at the JavaScript code you can use to handle these touch events.
• Dependency Management in .Net: Get - Derek Greer follows on from his previous post on making use of NuGet without using Visual Studio, sharing a simple tool that can be used from any build process to easily fetch specific NuGet Packages.
• WPF 4.5 - Part 1 : Asynchronous data validation, Part 2 : Improved WeakEventManager & Part 3 : New methods of the Dispatcher - Jonathan Antoine takes a look a tthe new features of WPF 4.5 released last week as a part of the Developer Preview release of .NET 4.5 in this new series of posts taking a looka t the new INotifyDataErrorInfo interface, the generic WeakEventManager class, and the introduction of a number of new methods on the Dispatcher, including support for Async
• Reengineering the Windows boot experience - Steven Sinofsky returns to blogging after the //Build/ conference with a discussion of how the Windows 8 team have re-engineered the boot process for Windows 8, speeding up the process and improving the user experience.
• Git workflows with git-tfs - Jimmy Bogard highlights git-tfs, a bridge which allows you to work with TFS based repositories using Git locally, discussing reasons to use it, and taking a look at it in use.
• Multi-Platform Apps with HTML5 and IE9 - Susan Ibach shares an article from David Wesst looking at designing and developing applications using HTML5 and Internet Explorer 9 which target use on the web and also as a desktop application using OS integrations with the task bar, and discusses taking this to the next level with mobile devices.
• Building your first Windows Metro style app using C#, C++, or Visual Basic - The Windows DevCenter has a number of new tutorials helping you get to grips with development against all the new features of Windows 8 including this nice one on building your first Metro application using a variety of different languages.
• Regex engine updated to allow timeouts in .NET 4.5. - Ahmad Mageed takes a look at some fo the new functionality in the .NET Framework 4.5 with a look at some new features of the Regular Expression engine which allows you to add timeouts to your regular expressions.

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• Plug for our Windows Phone Online Conference - Mike Ormond highlights and reminds us about the free Online conference on Windows Phone Development being held on October 5th and focusing on Design from a User Perspective.
• What to expect at the up-coming Windows Azure Bootcamp? - Paul Lo discusses the Windows Azure boot camp events wihch are runing at a number of venues across the UK over the next few weeks, with the first in Manchester this week, discussing what you can expect at the event and highlighting the pre-work you should do before the event to get the most out of it.

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