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• NCrunch 1.37b Released! – Remco Mulder announces the release of NCrunch 1.37b, containing a raft of fixes for reported issues, along with some interesting new features regarding debugging, performance metrics, code coverage, keyboard shortcuts and much more.
• Fluqi – Ease using jQuery UI with ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC – Fluqi is an interesting library which straddles the server and client, providing APIs for applying jQuery UI widgets to your application in a fluent manner. The library is open source, and hosted over on GitHub
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Burro – Jason Jarrett is continuing his series of posts looking at some of the hidden gems of the NuGet packages feed. Today’s post looks at Burro, a project to parse build output. Be sure to check back through Jason’s posts for the rest of his hidden gems.
• Rename Visual Studio Window Title extension for Visual Studio 2010 – The ‘Visual Studio add-ins, extensions and tools’ blog highlights a useful looking Visual Studio Extension for anyone who, like me, often has more than one copy of a project open in different Visual Studio Instances – this extension adds more path information to the window title allowing you to beterr distinguish between IDE instances.

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• [Special Edition] It’s Kinect day! The Kinect For Windows SDK v1 is out – Dan Fernandez and Greg Duncan highlight the release Kinect For Windows and the 1.0 release of the SDK, before Dan goes on to walk through Installing and Using the Kinect Sensor and discusses Setting up your Development Environment, both in video
• Kinect for Windows now available! Information and resources for you. – Eric Ligman shares a nice collection of links relating to resources about the Kinect for Windows product and SDK.
• Await, SynchronizationContext, and Console Apps: Part 3 – Stepjhen Toub continues his series looking at SynchronizationContext and its use with async methods, in this part looking at using it to run async methods which return void rather than Task
• Coding in Marble – Rico Mariani looks at the coding style of code which uses Promises, exploring different ways of representing such code to make it more elegant.
• Rx – DistinctUntilChanged – Bnaya Eshet continues his series of posts looking at the various methods of the Reactive Extensions. This post explores the DistinctUntilChanged operator
• WP7: CLR Managed Object overhead – Abhinaba Basu discusses the memory overhead of objects on the Windows Phone platform looking at the structure of objects in memory and looking at how different types of object are stored.
• New Tools in My TDD Arsenal – Alexander Beletsky highlights some of the recent additions to his tools used for Test Driven Development, highlighting NCrunch, NSubstitute and FluentAssertions.
• CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10 – Jennifer Yu of the Internet Explorer team discusses 3d Transformations in CSS3, discussing how the effects are implemented in IE10, and highlighting some demos.
• JavaScript File & Folder Structures: Just Pick One – Derick Bailey takes a look at the various different approaches to managing the files that make up your JavaScript, discussin a few and showing how he structures his client side MV* code.
• Node.js, Require and Exports – Karl Seguin is also discussing the organisation of JavaScript, in this case how you structure code in Node.js, and its module per file approach, looking at the use of Require and Exports.
• Slides, Notes and Recordings for Week 1 and 2 of #6weeksazure are all now available – Eric Nelson highlights the availability of recordings, slides and notes for the first two weeks of 6 weeks of Azure, a series of virual events for UK ISVs to gett them up and running on the Windows Azure Platform.

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