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• Release Candidates for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, Web API 2.1 and Web Page 3.1. – Pranav Rastogi announces the release candidate release of the latest batch of ASP.NET based web frameworks, all now available as pre-release packages on NuGet, each has a number of excellent new features, including attribute routing in ASP.NET MVC, Global Error handling in WebAPI and much more.
• ASP.NET December 2013 Security Updates – Levi Broderick announces the release of two security updates from the ASP.NET team, one for an XSS attack in SignalR and the other addressing an insecure configuration issues in WebForms.
• TraceEvent NuGet package moves from Beta to Release Candidate (RC) status – Vance Morrison announces the relase candidate of TraceEvent, a NuGet package which allows for easy parsing of Event Tracing For Windows information

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• Probable C# 6.0 features illustrated – Damien Guard draws on posts and content from Adam Ralph and Mads Torgersen looking at 9 possible features for C#6 and how they would look in your code.
• ASP.NET Web API 2.1 RC is out – what’s new? – Filip W takes a look at some of the new features of the ASP.NET Web API 2.1 Release Candidate release.
• AngularJS – Part 3, Inheritance – Gabriel Schenker continues his series looking at AngularJS, exploring how inheritance works for Angular Controllers
• NGEN Primer – Abhinaba Basu shares a useful overview of NGEN aimed at managed code developers who are not yet familiar, and to set the scene for some further posts on NGEN and the GAC.
• 3 Surprising Things to Do with the Console in C# – Jason Roberts takes a look at the Console class in .NET and shows that there is a lot more possible than simply writing lines.
• Ways to Remove Those Pesky console.log Statements – Elijah Manor is also talking consoles, but in JavaScript, looking at a few techniques to remove the Console.log calls from within your code.

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• Visual Studio 2013.1 RC is Available – Brian Harry announces the release candidate release of Update 1 for Visual Studio 2013 with fixes to improve support for earlier versions of Internet Explorer and other key bugfixes.
• The .NET Framework 4.5.1 is available on Windows Update and WSUS – The .NET Team highlight the release of .NET 4.5.1 on Windows Update, also highlighting the supported OS versions, how to block the update should you need to, and support for Developers on VS 2012.
• PerfView version 1.5 has been released – Vance Morrison highlights a new release of PrefView which adds a few new features, along with some performance improvements for the viewer.

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• A Baker’s Dozen of Dots to Connect – Kathleen Dollard shares some interesting insight to what the .NET, Visual Studio and C#/VB.NET teams are up to with regards to future releases
• Minty: Conveying an API – Rob Conery continues his series looking at the writing of a Blogging Engine in Node.JS. In this post Rob responds to feedback received, and looks at the eventing model he is using, along with some of the interesting thread safety issues that using Node circumvents.
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 28 – Reader Question #4 – James Bender continues wrapping up his Test Driven Development from first principles series with another reader question, looking today at the idea of writing the smallest implementation that makes your test pass.
• Application settings in Azure Mobile Services – Carlos Figueira takes a look at a relatively new Azure Mobile Services feature which provides a configuration settings API (for programatic access) and interface in the portal making it easier to apply configuration to your Mobile Services implementations.
• Browser Link – Tracking Unused CSS – David Paquette takes a look at one of the Browser Link features which is provided by the Web Essentials Extension which allows you to identify CSS Rules which are not being utilised in your applications.
• AngularJS – Part 2, the controller – Gabriel Schenker continues his series looking at Angular JS with a look at the role and creation of the controller within an Angular Application.
• Re-examining ASP.NET and Helios Performance Tests – Rick Strahl shares some updated performance figures for basic requests through various ASP.NET Frameworks.
• Fetch performance of various .NET ORM / Data-access frameworks – Frans Bouma is also in a performance testing mood and shares a set of results for data loading performance of various Object Relational Mappers.
• Protect Glimpse.axd with your custom runtime policy – Christophe Gijbels discusses the implementation of custom runtime policies for Glimpse to allow you to apply custom rules to restrict access to Glimpse Functionality when in production.

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• What’s new in Git 1.8.5 – Nicola Paolucci takes a look at some of the new features in the latest release of Git, summarising the release notes and highlighting the most useful features from a developers point of view.
• A Few Other Template Additions and Changes of Interest – Daniel Mohl highlights the latest additions to the F# Templates project which brings F# project templates for a variety of application types, now including 9 templates for Nancy FX Projects.

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• 30 Days of TDD – Day 27 – Reader Question #3 – James Bender continunes with the wrap up of this series by answering another reader question on the encapsulation of DateTime.Now for the purposes of testing.
• Minty: Refactor 1 – Moving To a Document DB – Rob Conery continues his series of post on the development of Minty, a blogging engine, in Node.JS. In this post Rob takes a look at migrating from relational based database storage to document database using NeDB, a small simple document database.
• Easier Redis development with scriptcs and ServiceStack.Redis powered C# REPL` – Filip W takes a look at using scriptcs to provide a REPL for working with Redis for .NET Developers making use of Redis
• Immutable collections performance, take II – Ayende takes a look under the covers of the Immutable Collections to see why he got the performance results he experienced when testing them against the standard collection classes.
• .NET: Figuring out if your application is exception heavy – Abhinaba Basu discusses applications which use modules which throw lots of exceptions, and looks at some techniques to help track down the source of the exceptions.
• AngularJS – Part 1, Feedback – Gabriel Schenker responds to feedback on his initial post looking at Angular JS, and outlines some of the principles of learning behind the post.

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• Recap: #AzureChat – Virtual Machines and Autoscaling – Cameron Rogers shares a transcript of the questions from the recent #AzureChat event with Corey Sanders and Stephen Siciliano looking at autoscale.

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