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• Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available – John Montgomery announces the release of the 5th Community Technology Preview release of Visual Studio 2015, featuring improved Debugging and Diagnostics features, updates to ASP.NET and more
• Announcing TypeScript 1.4 – Jonathan Turner announces the release of TypeScript 1.4, a release which adds further ECMAScript 6 feature support, along with Type Aliases, and Const Enums
• Making It Better: Updates for ASP.NET 5 in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 – Jeffrey T. Fritz announces the Beta 2 release of ASP.NET 5 as a part of the Visual Studio 2015 CTP5 release, giving an overview of some of the key improvements.
• Diagnostic Tools debugger window in Visual Studio 2015 – Dan J Taylor shares a detailed look at the Diagnostics Debugger Windows in Visual Studio 2015 CTP5, and what information they can reveal to you.
• New UI Performance Analysis Tool for WPF Applications – Harikrishna Menon shares a look at the new WPF performance analysis tools in the Visual Studio 2015 CTP5 release, looking at the process of performing profiling activities within the IDE.

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• Can Restrictive Coding Standards Make Us More Productive? – Jason Gorman discusses some of the benefits of having strict and ridged code standards, and how it can make your code better and ensure you keep productivity by having well defined ways of solving problems.
• Revisiting Partial View Rendering in ASP.NET MVC – Dino Esposito discusses different ways of achieving partial page post back, and explores some ‘lighter touch’ ways of achieving this which don’t involve a full Single Page Application (SPA) framework
• Sharing Data in an Angular Controller or an Angular Service – John Papa looks at a couple of different scenarios for sharing data between controllers in Angular applications, caching the data and refreshing it should it change
• HTTPS In 2015 – Eric Lawrence highlights a recent conference talk on the current state of HTTPS, as well as discussing the privacy issues and some interesting behaviour which can impact on privacy.
• Code Analysis Survey – Eric Battalio shares another survey from the Visual C++ Team on the code analysis experiences, so if you have 10 minutes and some interest or knowledge of these features help them out in making things even better.
• JSON# – Tutorial #5: Deserialising Complex Objects – Paul Mooney continues his seriese looking at his JSON# library moving on t look at deserialisation of complex object types

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• Angular Cloud Data Connector – David Catuhe highlights the release of the Angular Cloud Data Connector, a library for Angular which brings a provider based approach to providing data to Angular from a variety of sources, including support for all CRUD operations, along with offline support

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• Combating the lava-layer anti-pattern with rolling refactoring – Jimmy Bogard follows on from Mike Hadlow’s pre-Christmas post on the lava-layer anti-pattern, discussing how different implementations of concepts in codebases is a problem for the code base and how we can get out of this kind of situation in long lived applications
• Long Lived Codebases: The Challenges | The Shade Tree Developer – Jeremy D Miller also shares thoughts on long lived codebases, kicking off a new series of lessons learned from his maintenance of the StructureMap codebase
• Using JSON Web Tokens with Katana and WebAPI – K.Scott Allen explores how to implement JSON Web Token support to ASP.NET WebAPI through OWIN Middleware
• Deployments in .NET 2014/2015 Report – David Whitney shares the results and analysis from his recent developer survey on .NET Deployment
• Azure Data Services: SQL in the Cloud (Part 2) – Adarsha Datta shares the second part of this tutorial series on Azure Data Services, exploring the options for SQL on the cloud platform.
• Taking the Web App Template Cross-Platform – John Shew highlights the Web Application Template for building Cross Platform mobile applications, for building applications for iOS,Android, Windows Phone and Windows Store.

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• Web API Design Jumpstart – Jeremy Likness highlights a free all day (PST) online course from Jeremy and Christopher Harrison looking at all aspects of Web API service design

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• Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio 2015 Preview is Released – The OneCode Team announce the release of a version of the Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio 2015 Preview, along with a new feature added

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• Running ASP.NET 5 applications in Linux Containers with Docker – Ahmet Alp Balkan shares a detailed look at deploying an ASP.NET application on Linux using the ASP.NET Docker container
• Announcing SQL Parameterization in DocumentDB – Ryan CrawCour discusses the new support for parameterised queries using SQL in Azure DocumentDB via the REST API and SDKs
• Part two of the story around Leap Seconds and Windows: #NotY2K – M3 Sweatt discusses this year’s leap second, highlighting some of the discussion of the impact of this and what it means in practice.
• Not All That Returns JSON is RESTful: Understanding HATEOAS – Rahul P Nath discusses what makes fully RESTful services, and looks at some of the factors people often forget
• C# Performance Mistakes – Andreas Grabner discusses a few common performance mistakes that are all too often made, and some next steps to help address these issues should you encounter them
• Exploring One-Time Bindings In AngularJS 1.3 – Ben Nadel takes a look at the use of One-Time Bindings
• Task and Await: Basic Cancellation – Jeremy Clark takes a look at the techniques for cancelling Asynchronous methods of various types, highlighting the places where the process is a little less obvious.
• My small contribution to ASP .NET 5
  – Kevin Logan discusses how he contributed to ASP.NET in a very simple way, and highlights the process of making contributions to the official repository

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• Registration for Build 2015 opens Jan. 22 – Steve Guggenheimer highlights the opening of registrations for the 2015 //Build conference

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• Visual F# has moved to GitHub – The Visual F# Team announce the completion of their move of project hosting from CodePlex to GitHub
• Out of hibernation [A new home and a bunch of updates for TextAnalysisTool.NET] – David Anson announces a new release of TextAnalysis.NET with a fresh batch of contributions, and some re-structuring of the project to make contribution easier for anyone who wishes to.

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• Generic variance in DI containers – Jimmy Bogard takes a look at the support for Generics and Variance in the most common Dependency Injection container implementations
• Iterators in ES6 – K Scott Allen kicks off a series of posts looking at the implementation of iterators in ECMAScript 6, kicking off with a look at the basics of iterators which will progress into looking at the more advanced techniques with them,
• How to map an Insert Key on your Surface Pro 3 Keyboard – Scott Hanselman discusses techniques to allow you to customise your keyboard, including highlighting a particular favourite tool (SharpKeys) which I make use of for this purpose.
• ChessTDD 24: Cleaning Up for Acceptance Testing – Erik Dietrich gets back to his Test Driven Development tutorial series looking at the construction of a Chess game
• Automating Windows environments – setup with Boxstarter and Chocolatey packages – Cesar de la Torre discusses using a number of great tools to automate the setup of your Windows Environments on new machines.
• Why Developers Need to Understand Execution Plans – Grant Fritchey discusses the importance of understanding what the database behind your applications is doing, and takes a look at how to read SQL Server Execution Plans

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• C# 7 feature request – extension attributes – Jon Skeet outlines some thoughts on a feature he would like to see in C# allowing you to assign attributes to existing methods
• NuGet Package of the Week: Polly wanna fluently express transient exception handling policies in .NET? – Scott Hanselman highlights Polly, a library from Michael Wolfenden which provides common transient exception handling policy implementations
• Your Job Is Not To Write Code – Ted Neward shares some thoughts on what software developers should actually be focusing on, and its not the code (directly).
• Dependency Injection, Angular and Node – Steve Wilkes takes a look at the concepts of dependency injection, exploring the different ways of achieving DI that Node and Angular use
• SQL Server 2014 Upgrade Technical Guide – Dejan Sarka highlights a comprehensive upgrade guide for SQL Server 2014 available as a free download
• <main> HTML5 Tag not working in Internet Explorer 9/10/11 – Rick Strahl discusses some of the pain in getting HTML5 elements to behave consistently across the different versions of Internet Explorer.
• ASP.NET: Understanding OWIN, Katana, and the Middleware Pipeline – John Atten takes a look at the future of ASP.NET and how OWIN and Katana together with the concepts of a ‘middleware pipeline’ make up a powerful evolution of the framework.
• Serve up Debug Symbols for your NuGet packages? Heck yeah! – BC3Tech takes a look at how you can share symbols for your NuGet libraries allowing users of your packages to receive better debug time information.

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• Tech Days online 5th of February 2015 3 days of online training – Lee Stott highlights the UK Tech Days Online event taking place 3rd to 5th February wiht the developer day being the 5th February, with a series of great talks being broadcast live

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• We’re moving to GitHub! – Kasey Uhlenhuth highlights the move from CodePlex to GitHub for the Roslyn compilers
• Writing an Angular JS application end-2-end – Part 2 – Gabriel Schenker continues his series looking at building an application with AngularJS. This second part builds on the first and looks at improving the domain model as well as storing the events raised in the GetEventStore repository
• A Case Study in JavaScript Code Improvement – Raymond Camden discusses a number of tools that help support JavaScript Coding best practices
• Anti Forgery Tokens with AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API – Phil Fresle shares a nice tip to give you anti-forgery token support in ASP.NET WebAPI and Angular JS applications.
• Teaching Functional Programming to Professional .NET Developers – Tomas Petricek and Don Syme share their current paper on how the F# language and libraries deal with the uncertainty of remote network services, and also share a recording of a talk on ‘Doing web based data analytics with F#’
• JSON# – Tutorial #4: Deserialising Simple Objects – Paul Mooney shares the next part in his series looking at the JSON# library, exploring in this par the deserialisation of simple objects
• The Azure Portal A to Z – Bruno Terkaly takes the opportunity to spin through all the aspects of the Microsoft Azure platform using the Portal as a guide to what is available.
• Hibernate: Performance Traps in Hibernate – Part 1, Hibernate: Performance Traps in Hibernate – Part 2 & Hibernate: Performance Traps in Hibernate – Part 3 – Ivan Korhner shares three short articles looking at features and performance of Hibernate (equally applicable to NHibernate) based code.
• How to consume SQL Spatial Data with Web API V2.2 for OData V4 – Sam_Xu takes a detailed look at the consumption of Spatial Data when working with OData Based services in ASP.NET WebAPI

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• .NET Code Contracts are now OSS & GitHub:CodeContractsDotNet/CodeContracts – Greg Duncan highlights the news that thr Code Contracts tooling for .NET are now open source with the source hosted on GitHub
• Microsoft is Open‐Sourcing WorldWide Telescope in 2015 – Another interesting announcement of an interesting project moving to an open source model.
• Largest VM in the Cloud – Drew McDaniel announces the launch of the largest Cloud Virtual Machines currently available, with 32 processors almost 0.5TB RAM and over 6TB of SSD backed local storage on the Azure Platform.
• [Announcement] RESTier – A turn-key solution to build OData services – Yi Ding of the OData Team announce the release of RESTier, a library which makes the process of implementing an OData Service even shorter and simpler

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• API review process for .NET Core – Immo Landwerth shares the now formalised and agreed API review process for the .NET Core libraries in their new Open Source development state.
• Protecting against the SSL 3.0 vulnerability – Perry Skountrianos of the Azure Storage Team shares an update on plans to disable SSL3.0 on the Azure Storage platform to help mitigate the POODLE vulnerability
• The I have no idea what I’m testing anti-pattern. – Cellfish rallies against the use of service locators in tests, urging use of constructors to make it obvious what is being tested
• Is This Problem Worth Solving? – Erik Dietrich discusses solving the common case, and getting software released over shipping with all the possible complexities addressed in the first release.
• Barbaric Tip of the Week: Improve Your Code Typing Skills with Typing.io – Jaime González García highlights a useful service to help you practice, improve and monitor your typing skills which will directly help improve your ability to express yourself through code
• Why you should learn F# in 2015 (and how)? – Tomas Petricek shares his thoughts on why you should pick F# as your language to learn for 2015
• Naming Things is Hard: Keeping Context in Mind – Steve Wilkes continues his series looking at the complexities of naming things in code discussing the concept of context and how it should influence your naming of things.

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• ASP.NET MVC 6 attribute routing – the [controller] and [action] tokens – Filip W takes a look at how the [controller] and [action] replacement tokens help make attribute routing more reliable and resilient to refactoring.
• Roslyn in a Nutshell – Michael Crump shares a short introduction to the use of Roslyn to dynamically compile code on the fly, process source code through syntax visualizers, and represent code.
• 14 Top Features of Visual Basic 14: The Q&A – Michael Desmond highlights Lucian Wischik’s article for MSDN Magazine on the top features of Visual Basic .NET 14 and shares an interview with Lucian.
• How GitHub uses GitHub to document GitHub – ‘gjtorikian’ shares a look at how the GitHub Team use GitHub to manage their documentation, discussing how their old workflow worked, before looking at how they improved it
• Application Insights and Azure WebSites – VladJ takes a look at getting deep performance analysis information from your Azure Websites using Application Insights and the Application Insights Azure WebSite extension.
• [JavaScript] Should I have to cache my array’s length? – David Catuhe takes a look at a performance optimisation for looping code in JavaScript.
• Yoooman! 5 Awesome Yeoman Generators You Should Use Now (Part 3) – Rami Sayar continues hist series on Yeoman, exploring its setup and use on Windows, and in this part highlights 5 different generators which you may find useful.

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