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• Windows Azure: Major Updates for Mobile Backend Development – Scott Guthrie announces the latest batch of improvements to the Windows Azure Mobile Services, including a .NET API available via NuGet, Android push notifications, free database and websites and much more
• Glimpse 1.4.2 released – Anthony van der Hoorn announces another minor update to address some reported issues in Glimpse 1.4, with a handful of issues addressed in the Glimpse.Core module.
• Announcement: Employee Info Starter Kit (v6.0-ASP.NET MVC Edition) is Released – Ashraful Alam Joy highlights the release of the 6th version of the Employee Info Starter Kit, a fully formed application running on ASP.NET MVC4, Entity Framework 4.3 and SQL Compact, a great learning tool, and also a starting point for your own applications of this nature.

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• Overriding filters in ASP.NET Web API vNext – Filip W takes a look at the next release of Web API and explores how you can override filters, addressing one of the things which is currently very difficult to achieve.
• Logging: The Most Important Part of Any Application – NSProgrammer discusses the importance of good logging in your applications, looking the top 10 features that logging must provide to be useful
• Using Raygun for Logging in Windows Phone Applications – Tendulkar takes a look at integrating the Raygun.Io logging service/framework into a Windows Phone application to help gather information about your applications issues.
• Stop Doing Internet Wrong – Scott Hanselman discusses a bunch of things that we as web developers are still getting wrong when developing sites, ranging from bad linking to mobile sites to not marking up checkboxes correctly.

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• Architecture Tools in ReSharper 8 – The JetBrains team show off some of their new Architecture related features for exploring inter project dependencies and relationships.
• !Exploitable crash analyzer version 1.6 – The Security Development Lifecycle – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Andy Renk of the Microsoft SDL Team highlights the release last month of the !Exploitable crash analyzer version 1.6, a WinDbg extension which provides crash analysis and security risk assessment

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• What’s the difference? sizeof and Marshal.SizeOf – Eric Lippert discusses why these two seemingly similar methods give different values, one dealing with the managed memory requirements of the type and the other dealing with the unmanaged memory size.
• System.BadImageFormatException: Bad IL Range – what it is going on! – Carmelo Pulvirent discusses an interesting problem as a result of a BadImageFormatException being thrown due to bad IL in an assembly
• Plan Operator Tuesday round-up – Rob Farley rounds up all the SQL Plan Operator related posts from Tuesday, linking to them all from a fake execution plan – nice idea, and some really geat content there too.
• SQL Injection: What’s That? – The Daily WTF reminds that not all developers are as enlightened as we would like regarding security concepts such as SQL Injection.
• How my company uses Windows Azure in development process – Gunnar Peipman discusses the why and how of his companies use of Windows Azure, the various benefits its gives them, and some of the impacts on their architecture from using Azure.

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• Upcoming Speaking events: Aberdeen and Edinburgh – Bill Wagner is visiting Scotland this summer, and as part of his golfing holiday will be giving two talks, one in Aberdeen on 4th July and one in Glasgow on 13th July where he will discuss C# and async.

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• Announcing the Unit Test Generator Visual Studio Extension BETA – Willy Peter Schaub highlights the beta release of the ALM Rangers Unit Test Generator Extension for Visual Studio. The team are very keen for people to try it out and to give feedback
• Glimpse 1.4.1 Released – Glimpse gets a minor update to address a couple of reported issues with Glimpse 1.4. There are updated packages for Glimpse.Core and Glimpse.MVC*
• Getting a Fix on Fixie – Sharon Cichelli highlights Fixie a new testing framework from Patrick Lioi, giving a brief overview of its use, and suggesting how you can get involved in the project.

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• NuGet Package Restore Issues – Immo Landwerth discusses some problems people are running into with the Microsoft.Bcl.Build and Microsoft.Bcl.Compression pacakges and the NuGet Package Restore caused by its custom build targets. This post discusses the issues in depth and shares some workarounds.
• Replacing jQuery.live() with jQuery.on() – Rick Strahl looks at one of the more significant changes between jQuery 1.9 and 1.10, the removal of the jQuery,live() function, and looks at migrating to the newer jQuery.on().
• SQL Is Hard – Eli Weinstock-Herman discusses some of the difficulties people have in learning SQL properly, and highlights the launch of SQLisHard.com, a new learning resource to help people get up to speed.
• Painless management of a logging table in SQL Server – Hugo Kornelis discusses techniques for managing and removing records from logging tables, along the way discussing some best practices for design, and highlighting some of the difficulties encountered when working with tables with billions of rows.

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