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• Ajax Control Toolkit Now Supports jQuery – Stephen Walther announces the latest release of the Ajax Toolkit which now supports building Ajax Toolkit controls using jQuery.
• The Multilingual App Toolkit v2.1 has been released! – Cameron Lerum and Palle Petersen announce The Multilingual App Toolkit v2.1 a great looking bit of tooling for working with all aspects of application translation

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• Fix and OWIN and Simple.Web – Mark Rendle discusses some of his latest changes to Simple.Web and Fix (formerly CRack) his non-task API dependent implementation of OWIN interfaces, discussing how it can self host Simple.Web.
• Your corporate network is already compromised: are your internal web apps ready for attackers? – Troy Hunt gives us a concerning dose of reality regarding the probably security of our internal networks, and discusses why web application security is just as important for internal applications as external.
• PaaP: Windows PowerShell as a Platform – Part 1 – Indhu Sivaramakrishnan of the Windows PowerShell team starts off a new series looking at the hosting of PowerShell within your applications, exploring how you configure what is available to the shell.
• Challenges & solutions – Architecture of a Modern Web Application – Mobile App – Part 3 – Syed Rafey Husain returns with his 3rd part of this series looking at the technology choices of modern web applications, this time exploring the world of mobile web applications.

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• Math from scratch, part four: natural multiplication – Eric Lippert continues his Math from Scratch series looking at building up basic mathematics support in C# without using any of the built-in number types with a look at multiplication
• RyuJIT: The next-generation JIT compiler – The .NET Framework Team announce RyuJIT, their much improved 64bit .NET Just In Time Compiler which performs significantly better than the previous .NET JIT compiler, available for you to try out on Windows 8.1 as a CTP Release
• 30 Days of TDD – Day Ten – More Refactoring and NUnit Features – James Bender continues his 30 days of Test Driven Development with a further look at the process of refactoring your code as you go
• OWIN Middleware in the IIS Integrated Pipeline : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site – Rick Anderson, Chris Ross, Praburaj Thiagarajan, and Howard Dierking share a tutorial on the use of OWIN Middleware with the standard IIS integrated pipeline looking at how your code can be run as part of the process
• Custom Serialization with JSON.NET, WebAPI, and BsonDocument – K. Scott Allen looks at extending JSON.NET’s ability to serialise objects using a custom JSON Convertor to help convert BSON objects for use in MongoDB.
• Performance Monitor Averages, the Right Way and the Wrong Way – The Ntdebugging Blog has a post on how to best record averages using performance counters
• Service Bus Explorer 2.1 adds support for Notification Hubs and Service Bus 1.1 – Paolo Salvatori highlights some of the new features of Service Bus Explorer which adds the ability to view Notification Hubs and to work with Service Bus 1.1 in its 2.1 release
• Windows 8.1 Preview: Web Authentication Broker – & Windows 8.1 Preview: Declarative Polling of Tiles – Mike Taulty explores two more of the features available to developers in the Windows 8.1 preview
• Tips for using window in JavaScript – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer shares a number of best practices for working with the global Window object in JavaScript

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