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• Up Close And Personal With Microsoft’s Surface 2 And Surface Pro 2 – The second editions of the Surface and Surface Pro are on their way and TechCrunch have a nice overview of the devices. Paul Thurrott of ‘Super Site for Windows’ also looks at the Surface 2 Pricing

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• IE11 Changes – Eric Lawrence shares the start of his feature list of new features included in Internet Explorer 11, this time with the difference being that he is an outsider to the project (although still as an MVP). As usual good links to details about each of the new features are included.
• Unicode and JavaScript – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer discusses every developers favourite topic, character encoding, with a look at the handling of UniCode in JavaScript – highly recommended reading.
• Sustainable Web Design – A List Apart feature an article from James Christie discussing the ecological impact of the internet, and looking at how web developers can think more ecologically about the website implementations
• Web Deploy command line (msdeploy.exe) Scenario bash – Jask2002 shares a useful scenario based look at the use of msdeploy from the command line giving recipes for performing common tasks using msdeploy.
• EasyNetQ: IConsumerDispatcher – Mike Hadlow discusses a new feature for EasyNetQ allowing the implementation of custom dispatchers, starting out y discussing the original implementation, and looking at how you can implement your own strategy.

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• 10 Online Sessions for Windows Phone 8 Development – Mohamed Yamama is running 10 online 2 hour sessions looking at all aspects of Windows Phone 8 development over the coming weeks, with the first part starting today (25th). The sessions are free, and all you need is the Lync meeting client to attend,

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• PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio Beta v0.5 – Adam Driscoll highlights the beta release of the PowerShell tools for Visual Studio, bringing enhanced PowerShell support to Visual Studio 2013 RC. In the post Adam gives a run down of some of the useful features these tools add.
• Announcing Code Health Metrics for CodeLens – A DevLabs Project – David Starr announces the release of an experimental extension for the Visual Studio CodeLens feature which adds a code health level indicator to the Codelens giving an indication of how good or bad the method’s implementation is .

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• Math from scratch, part three: natural addition – Eric Lippert continues his series looking at the implementation of mathematics using little more then booleans and objects with a look at implementing addition
• Attribute Routing changes for ASP.NET Web Stack shipped in VS2013 RC – Xinyang Qiu gives an overview of the much awaited Attribute Based Routing for ASP.NET WebAPI included as a part of ASP.NET WebAPI2
• 30 Days of TDD: Day Seven – Software Factories and DI Frameworks – James Bender continues his 30 days of Test Driven Development series with a further look at the use of Dependency injection, exploring in this post the concepts of managing dependencies using DI and factories
• Hosting SignalR under SSL/https – Rick Strahl runs through the complications of self hosting SignalR inside your own executable (or service) when you want to communicate over SSL.
• Windows Azure Notification Hubs: Getting Started – Ahmed Sabbour kicks off a 3 part series looking at the use of Windows Azure Notification Hubs, looking at how they provide a solution for push notification and running through their use.

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• Simple.Web 0.10 release – Ian Battersby announces the release of Simple.Web 0.10 featuring a number of enhancements sourced from the Simple.Web community including support for multiple query string parameters with the same key, Windsor IOC support and much more.

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• 30 Days of TDD: Day Six – What Is Dependency Injection? – James Bender continues with his series looking at the basics of Test Driven Development and in this part looks at applying some of the SOLID principles in the form of Dependency Injection, and how this concept lends itself towards supporting a TDD workflow.
• Understanding Security Features in the SPA Template for VS2013 RC – Hongye Sun discusses in detail the various changes in the completely re-written Single Page Application template included in Visual Studio 2013 RC and the various security related improvements.
• MSBuild, Web Deploy (MSDeploy), ASP.NET – How to extend the web publish process without modifying project contents – Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi explores how you can use additional MSBuild files to create and extend the publishing process without having to make changes to your Visual Studio Project files.
• OWIN Startup Class Detection – Praburaj Thiagarajan discusses how the OWIN Startup class is detected in the various OWIN based hosts, looking at the configuration settings which control the startup class detection and supporting multiple startup classes.
• The Secret to RESTful Services is RESTful Clients – Howard Dierking discusses the often forgotten about aspect of RESTful interfaces, the consuming client, discussing how developers often focus too much on the server side, forgetting the consumer of the services.
• Upgrading your car with .NET Micro Framework – Nicolas Dorier takes a look at bringing .NET to the real world with the .NET Micro Framework, and using it to add features to a car dashboard.
• MSDN Subscribers: Windows Azure Aston Martin Sweepstakes through Sept 30th – Scott Guthrie shares a reminder of the great Windows Azure benefits included in MSDN Subscriptions, and also the chance to win an Aston Martin by taking advantage of them.

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