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• Design Patterns UML Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2012 – Giles Davies has updates his Design Patterns UML Toolbox Visual Studio Extension to be compatible with Visual Studio 2012 RTM, providing UML implementations of the common Design Patterns
• Introducing Code Map for Visual Studio 2012 September CTP – Kris Lankford highlights the new CodeMap functionality included in the Visual Studio 2012 Update CTP for September. This tooling gives call stack / usage of the methods in your code in a DGML window along side your code.
• Nuget 2.1 – The Nuget Team have released the release notes for NuGet 2.1 which now includes a hierarchical configuration, the ability to specify the packages folder, support for portable Libraries, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 and more.
• "Visual Studio 2012 and MSDN Licensing White Paper" – Greg Duncan highlights the ‘Visual Studio 2012 and MSDN Licensing White Paper’ a must read document for anyone who needs to work out if their licensing will cover their upgrade to Visual Studio 2012.

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• How do I cancel non-cancelable async operations? – Stephen Toub takes a look at how you can handle cancellation requests of an async operation when the operation itself does not support cancellation, looking at three different scenarios for how this request might work.
• Announcing: Improvements to the Windows Azure Portal – Soctt Guthrie announces the release of a bunch of new features for the Windows Azure Management Portal, including management and monitoring of the Service Bus, Import Export for SQL Databases, Media Services Monitoring, Storage Container Creation and ACL support, along with improvements to co-administrator support, virtual machines, and Cloud Services Status notifications.
• Extending Objects in Underscore – Chris Missal continues his object extension in JavaScript series with a look at how you can extend objects using the Underscore library, which provides the basis of Backbone JS
• JavaScript Mixins: Beyond Simple Object Extension – Derick Bailey takes a look at an alternative approach for adding features to JavaScript objects, discussing the use and implementation of Mixins in JavaScript.
• Getting Started With TypeScript ( Superset of JavaScript ) – Shemeer NS takes an introductory look at the TypeScript language in this CodeProject article, looking at obtaining and getting started with the language in Visual Studio
• Use Web API as a dynamic runtime Typescript compiler – Filip W takes a look at using WebAPI to dynamically compile TypeScript Code on request, removing the need to pre-compile your TypeScript code down to JavaScript.
• Servicestack CredentialsAuthentication and easyhtpp of course: Part 3, Using servicestack for the easyhttp integration tests & Easyhttp and servicestack, making the mspec tests better – Christiaan Baes continues his exploration of using EasyHttp and ServiceStack to implement an Http Service, also taking a look at using ServiceStack to make the tests for EasyHttp easier to run
• Small Basic – The 50 Line Challenge & Small Basic Program Gallery – Ed Price highlights a 50 line code challenge for Small Basic where you attempt to build something exciting, clever, creative or entertaining in just 50 lines of readable Small Basic Code. Ed has also started collecting together a gallery of Small Basic code in his second post.

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• New: PsPing v1.0; Updates: DebugView v4.8, Process Explorer v15.23, Sigcheck v1.81 – The Sysinternals team announce the release of PsPing 1.0 a new tool in the SysInternals tools suite which allows you to measure network performance in a variety of ways. Also the team announce updates to DebugView, Process Explorer and SigCheck.

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• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Static Char Methods – James Michael Hare continues his ongoing series looking at some of the less well know areas of the .NET framework and C# language looking at the performance gains that can be made by working with single characters rather than full blown strings when all you need is a character.
• Tools for Your Debugging Toolbox – ‘rafarah’ takes us on a tour of the must have debugging tools, as recommended by the Microsoft Premier Support Team, giving a summary of the tool and its use, along with a download link for each of the tools.
• Windows Store Applications – Debugging Crashes – Mike Taulty discusses the process of debugging deployed Windows Store applications, looking at the information provided in the Store for the developer, and how you can work with that information – this post has lots of stack traces, so not for the faint hearted.
• Building World-ready Applications in JavaScript Becoming a Reality – Suresh Jayabalan & Amanda Silver of the JavaScript team discuss the proposed JavaScript Internationalization API, and emerging proposal the help developers build real world applications in JavaScript for consumption across the world.
• Using TypeScript with AngularJS and Web API – Piotr Walat takes a look at a real world use of TypeScript, combining it with the use of AngularJS and the ASP.NET Web API to create a CRUD application which consumers WebAPI services from TypeScript using strongly typed AngularJS Controllers
• Introduction to Fakes and migration from Moles – Jan Fajfr takes an introductory look at the Fakes test isolation framework from Microsoft, comparing it and looking at the migration from its predecessor Moles in this CodeProject article.
• Servicestack CredentialsAuthentication and easyhtpp of course: Part 1 & Part 2 – Christiaan Baes takes a look at the creation of an authenticated service using Service Stack and EasyHttp, working from the ‘File > New Project’ getting the Service Stack part up and running in part 1 and looking at the use of EasyHttp in part 2.

Community

• "TypeScript" with Mark Rendle – Mark Rendle will be visiting the .NET Developer Network just outside Bristol on Tuesday 22nd January for a session exploring the TypeScript language, and extension of the JavaScript language.

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• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.2.0 Final – The jQuery Mobile team announce the official release of jQuery Mobile 1.2. This release has been through various preview releases, and the team now feel it is ready to be classed as a final release including new controls, over 100 enhancements, all from a contribution team of almost 200 people!
• Announcing! Windows 8 Bing Maps SDK is Available! – Jerry Nixon highlights the release of the Bing Maps SDK for Windows Store applications, allowing your Windows Store (nee Metro) applications built using JavaScript, C#, C++ and Visual Basic to include mapping functionality.

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• Part 1 of 4: Introduction to Consuming Azure Mobile Services from Android , Part 2 of 4 , Part 3 of 4 & Part 4 of 4 – BrunoTerkaly shares another 4 part series looking at consuming Windows Azure Mobile Services from native Android applications, running through the server setup and creating an application to consume the exposed services.
• Extending Objects in Dojo – Chris Missal continues this series looking at the extending of JavaScript Objects using a variety of JavaScript frameworks, In this post Chris takes a look at the use of the Dojo framework which takes a different approach to object extension.
• Using Source Maps with TypeScript & PubSub in TypeScript – Aaron Powell discusses the purpose and use of Source Maps to help when working with obfuscated and minified JavaScript code, looking at the support for Source Maps built in to the TypeScript Compiler. Aaron also shares a short TypeScript Example of Publish/Subscribe, which he considers to be his ‘Hello World’ example.
• MSDN Magazine: October 2012 – The October Edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online, featuring articles on iOS and Windows Phone Development, Task Parallel Libarary, OData, Cloud Numerics, along with the usual columns.
• Multilingual App Toolkit for developing Windows Store apps using Visual Studio 2012 – Sara Thomas takes a look at the Multilingual App Toolkit for Windows Store applications, and extension for Visual Studio 2012 for Windows 8 (which includes the Express Edition) and provides easy mechanisms to assist you in the translation of your application using Machine Translation Services and localizers.
• Scripting Web API self host with Roslyn CTP – Part 2 – Filip W returns with the second aprt of this series looking at combining WebAPI with Roslyn to provide scriptable use of WebAPI.
• Advanced Options of ASP.NET Bundling and Minification – Imran Baloch takes a look at some of the more advanced features and configuration of the ASP.NET Bundling and Minification features

Community

• NxtGenUG – Event: Lions and tigers and hackers, – Phil Winstanley visits the Manchester / Warrington / Daresbury NxtGenUG for a session looking at a variety of ‘cyber threats’ on the evening of Monday 15th October 2012
• Event: Umbraco UK Festival 2012 – 26th October 2012 – Sarah Lamb highlights third annual Umbraco UK Festival, being held on Friday the 26th October 2012 in London. Registration is required for this event, and there is a very small charge (£13.50) tpo register, but the event has a great speaker lineup and is sure to be well worth a visit if you do anything Umbraco.
• NxtGenUG – Event: Using Intellitrace to Fix Prod – Tarun Arora visits the Birmingham NxtGenUG for a session looking at performance problem debugging in the production environment on the evening of Tuesday 23rd October 2012.

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