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• EF6 RTM Available – In all the flurry of .NET , Visual Studio and Windows 8.1 release this one got a little lost – Rowan Miller announces the release of Entity Framework 6 as a part of the RTM release of Visual Studio 2013.

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• Math from scratch, part nine: integer arithmetic – Eric Lippert continues his series exploring the implementation of mathematics in C# using only the most basic of types. In this part Eric explores the standard math operators for integer arithmetic
• AngularJS vs Knockout – Final Thoughts (9 of 9) – Eli Weinstock-Herman rounds out his comparison of these two very successful client side JavaScript frameworks with a summary, and a look at making a decision between the two.
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 15 – “Simple” Does Not Always Mean “Obvious” Pt. 2 – James Bender reaches the halfway point in his series looking at test driven development from first principles, in this part continuing the discussion of ‘doing the simplest thing’
• Generating complex math visualizations in SVG using C# and ILNumerics – Scott Hanselman takes a look at the ILNumerics library, a high performance math library for .NET, and combines it with some SVG graphics to create some nice visualisations
• Make a Windows 8.1 Pinned Live Tile for YOUR website in minutes – Scott Hanselman also takes a look at the Internet Explorer 11 / Windows 8.1 pinned tile support for websites which lets you put your website on a more equal footing with applications on the start screen.
• xUnit.net Cheat Sheet – Jason Roberts shares a nice simple looking xUnit.NET cheat sheet which covers the key patterns and methods to use when using xUnit.NET
• Durandal’sEdge – .NET – Rob Eisenberg shares a look at some of the benefits that his Durandal JavaScript Single Page Application framework brings to the table.

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