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• Aurelia Update with Decorators, IE9 and More – Rob Eisenberg announces the latest release of Aurelia which adds support for ECMAScript 7 and TypeScript Decorators, support for IE9 using two polyfils, improvements to the design of HTML Behaviours which allow you to plug into the HTML Compiler along with some performance improvements and much more.

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• What is the unchecked keyword good for? Part one – Eric Lippert returns to blogging with a the start of a discussion on the unchecked keyword and its role in integer arithmetic
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Exception Filtering in C# 6 – James Michael Hare shares another instalment of his Little Wonders series taking a look at the new exception filtering capabilities of C#6 which allow you to catch particular types of exceptions when a condition is true.
• Code Review: FirstOrDefault() – Colin Angus Mackay shares an all too common gotcha that appears in code which can and will result in null reference exceptions in your application if left unchecked.
• How to get your SSL for free on a Shared Azure website with CloudFlare – Troy Hunt takes a look at how using CloudFlare you can get an SSL secured website running on the free or shared tier of Azure Websites, walking through the setup required to achieve this.
• Proper collection implementation in .net – Cellfish discusses the ways of creating your own collection classes, and enabling it for collection initializers.
• A Succinct Look at Windows 10 Tools for Developers – Michael Crump gives an overview of the developer tools for building applications on the Windows 10 platform
• Protecting ASP.NET Applications Against CSRF Attacks – Paul Mooney takes a look at Cross Site Request Forgery, discussing the attack, and the patterns for dealing with it, discussing in depth the Encrypted Token Pattern.
• ASP.NET MVC HttpVerbs.Delete/Put Routes not firing – Rick Strahl shares a tip to fix issues with routes not firing for certain HTTP Verbs, involving changes to the applications web.config
• Microsoft Announces New Container Technologies for the Next Generation Cloud & Microsoft Announces Nano Server for Modern Apps and Cloud – Mike Neil, Jeffrey Snove, Andrew Mason & Alan Back highlight new container and server technologies being deployed to Azure to more efficiently run Cloud Apps

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