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Software

• ODataLib 6.4.0 Release – ‘LeoHu1’ and the OData Team announce the release of ODataLib 6.4.0 including new features for querying, paging on the client, writer performance, and much more.
• .NET Framework setup verification tool, cleanup tool and detection sample code now support .NET Framework 4.5.2 – Aaron Stebner shares an update version of his .NET Framework Setup Verification Tool, Clean Up Tool and detection code samples which take into account Version 4.5.2 of the .NET Framework.
• paint.net 4.0 is now available! – Rick Brewster.announces the release of the free and excellent Paint.NET 4.0 image editor, written and using the .NET Framework. This new release takes advantage of a number of new framework features, and is a great showcase of what is possible on the platform
• Announced today: Nokia Imaging SDK 1.2 and Lumia SensorCore SDK – The Windows Apps Team highlight the announcement of two new SDK releases, with the Nokia Imaging SDK 1.2 seeing its official release, and a public beta release of the Lumia SensorCore SDK.

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• .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") for the Rest of Us – Beth Massi shares an interview with Dustin Campbell, Program Manager on the Managed Languages Team and discusses what Roslyn means to the developers who are not hacking on the compiler.
• ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Extending and Modifying Roles – John Atten continues his series of CodeProject articles looking at the ASP.NET Identity Framework included in ASP.NET MVC5, exploring how you can extend the framework support for roles.
• Monodevelop and VB.Net and Ubuntu: how to install & Monodevelop and Nancy and VB.Net – Christiaan Baes takes a look at getting up and running with the MonoDevelop IDE on a Linux Platform, and looks at spinning up your first ASP.NET site using Nancy and VB.NET developed in the MonoDevelop environment.
• Windows Azure Migration Tips and Tracks – ‘rakhiguha’ shares some tricks, tips, and things to watch out for on performing migration of existing applications onto the Microsoft Azure Platform

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Mostly links only today as I’m racing against my laptop battery running out this morning

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• PerfMatters.Flush Goes 1.0! – Nik Molnar releases PerfMatters.Flush a library to help you to flush http responses early for performance reasons.
• iOS 8 support – Miguel de Icaza announces Xarmarin’s Support for iOS8

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• Cascading Failures vs Robust Code: How SignalLeaf Survived Multiple Crashes And Still Served Podcasts – Derick Bailey
• Why was this or that API placed in this or that namespace? – Kraig Brockschmidt
• VB Universal Windows App: downloads – The Visual Basic Team / Lucian Wischik
• Software Teams, a Basketball Analogy – Tim Barcz
• Visual Studio Database Project + Web Project Into One Web Package. YES. FOR REAL. – Matt Sampson
• Exploring cross-browser math equations using MathML or LaTeX with MathJax – Scott Hanselman
• AngularJS’s Controller As and the vm Variable – John Papa
• Advanced logging with NodeJs – Ugo Lattanzi
• Enhanced Chrome Emulation Tools – Elijah Manor
• Advantages of Making Your Methods Idempotent and Static in C# – Rob Kraft
• How To Refactor for Dependency Injection, Part 2: Composition Root – Ondrej Balas
• Passwords in IE11 – Amy Adams

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• EF 6.1.1 RTM Available – Rowan Miller highlights the release of Entity Framework 6.1.1’s RTM Release, available via Nuget, with a separate tooling download also available for Visual Studio.
• Important update to Web Essentials 2013 – Mads Kristensen highlights a necessary update to the Web Essentials Visual Studio Extension required to support the application of Update 3 on Visual Studio 2013
• Would you like a MultiDictionary? – Immo Landwerth highlights the latest preview release of the Immutable Collections Library from he .NET Team which adds in a new type ‘MultiDictionary’ into the library. The preview is available as a NuGet Package

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• ASP.NET vNext Routing Overview – .NET Web Development and Tools Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Mugdha Kulkarni takes a look at the role and use of Routing in the ASP.NET vNext plarform, explaining some of the history of its existence and looking at the new features introduced in the vNext timeframe.
• Your Editor should Encourage You – Phil Haack shares the genesis of a fun Visual Studio IDE extension which makes the Editor encourage you as you write code
• (Video) Learn Edge.JS part 3: Calling node from .Net – Iris Classon shares the third video instalment of a series taking a look at the magic of EdgeJS, exploring how you are able to call Node code from within your .NET code
• It Is Time to Learn JavaScript – Shawn Wildermuth discusses the meteoric rise of JavaScript into being arguably the most important programming language at the moment
• Rule of Thumb: Preconditions Should be Public – Craig Gidney discusses the use of Exceptions in code where the failure is expected, and also looks at why you should expose preconditions to success so that calling code can be better informed and aware of what is necessary to consume it.
• Reduce CPU core count to improve Lucene.NET index building performance – Michael Li discusses a performance investigation of slow indexing of documents in Lucene.NET hosted in a Web process

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