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• RyuJIT CTP2: Getting Ready for Prime-time – Mani Ramaswamy announces the second preview release of the RyuJIT 64 it Just-In-Time compiler for .NET, which adds support for ‘opportunistic’ tail calls, and Edit and Continue, along with a bunch of other features to bring parity with JIT64 and performance improvements from the previous CTP

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• Some Basic Azure Table Storage Abstractions – K.Scott Allen takes a look at the WindowsAzure.Storeage package and how you can use it to structure your code and keep infrastructure code separate from the business logic when working with table storage
• Windows Azure Evolves Features – Bryan Group highlights tome of the recent Windows Azure platform improvements that he deems worthy of mention
• Reducing NServiceBus Saga load – Jimmy Bogard takes a look at managing NServiceBus Sagas and concurrency, looknig at the process manager pattern and the introduction of shared state
• Cross-Platform SQLite Support – Part 1 – Nicholas Cipollina shares the first part of a series looking at using Portable Class Libraries for working with SQLite datastores across applications on a number of platforms.
• Baby Steps with Xamarin – Part 3 – Mike Taulty presses on with his series looking at cross platform mobile development using Xamarin, exploring Android emulation and making progress with his application.
• Entity Framework projections to Immutable Types (IEnumerable vs IQueryable) – Dan shares a look at IQueryable projections, the queries the generate, and look at applying them to his Immutable AutoMapper project
• Mixing Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC – Dino Esposito discusses combining ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC in a single project ot make use of the strengths of each
• Clippy is back … in JavaScript – ‘The-Oliver’ highlights a fun JavaScript implementation of the Microsoft Office Agents, including Clippy.

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• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 – Part 4 – Web API Help Pages, BSON, and Global Error Handling – Jon Galloway continues on with his series looking at the latest new features in the ASP.NET Stack, exploring Web API Help Pages, BSON support and Error Handling, with detailed discussion of each, examples, and downloadable code.
• Biggy Basics, Part 1: Documents – Rob Conery gives some more information about Biggy, discussing why he’s building it (fast writes, LINQ support and simplicity) and looking at its document data storage.
• Angular JS – Part 13, Services – Gabriel Schenker continues his series looking at the use of AngularJS, exploring the notion of Services in Angular and looking at how you can create and test them
• More Angular Inside SVG Inside HTML – Paul Hammant has been looking at the use of SVG with AngularJS, giving rise to some very powerful concepts. Be sure to check out his previous post on this too
• Resources vs exceptions – Eric Lippert and the team at Coverity shares another instalment of ‘Ask The Bug Guys’, with an interesting discussion of the use of using with multiple resources, and what happens if constructors throw exceptions.
• A C# Feature I’d Really Like to See in a Future Version – Roland Weigelt shares a look at a feature he would like to see make it into the C# language, restricting member variables to particular property instances.
• ? for C#? (aka C# might be getting a object hierarchy Safe Navigation Operator) – Greg Duncan highlights a post from Jerry Nixon highlighting a positive reception from the C# team to the possibility of adding an object hierarchy Safe Navigation operator to the language.
• NHibernate Fluent Validation – Ricardo Peres shares an implementation of Fluent Validation on NHibernate

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• Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2, Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 RC and TypeScript 1.0 RC – Somasegar announce a collection of release candidate and CTP release covering Visual Studio 2013, TFS and TypeScript1.0.
• Try the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP 2 – The Visual Studio Team highlight their CTP Release of Update 2 to Visual Studio 2013, linking to the various announcements, Knowledge base articles, and downloads, along with providing the information for giving feedback on the release.
• Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 – Xinyang Qiu focuses on the Web Development features in VS 2013 Update 2 CTP2, including project level SASS Support, JSON Item and Editor, enhanced Azure support, and update to LESS and MVC/SPA tempaltes, Knockout Intellisense, along with the inclusion of the latest bits of the ASP.NET framework.
• Announcing TypeScript 1.0RC – Jonathan Turner announces the Release Candidate of TypeScript 1.0, including the new simplified tye system, improved ordering and merging of overloads and updated out of the box typings.
• Announcing Windows Azure Japan Geo General Availability – Steve Martin announce the general availability of two new Windows Azure regions, Japan West and Japan East

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• A new look for .NET Reference Source – Alok Shriram shares a detailed look at the new .NET Reference Source Browser, including a short vidoe, and discussion of the source’s use in debugging, as well as outlining the future for reference source.
• Exploring the new .Net Reference Source Code & Dissecting the new .Net Reference Source Browser – ‘SLaks’ discusses the new Reference Source based upon Roslyn, looking at the browser, the integration in to Visual Studio, and some of the key features.
• Baby Steps on Android with Xamarin – Part 2 – Mike Taulty continues his series looking at migrating a .NET Windows Store application over to Android using Xamarin. In this post Mike goes over the setup of the Xamarin / Android development environment.
• Define An API By Consuming It – Erik Dietrich discusses the process of defining an API, and how it can be a difficult thing to define, looking at a technique based on trying to use an API to help define it.
• Setting Up GitHub to work with Visual Studio 2013 Step-by-Step – Michael Crump steps through the setup of the Visual Studio Source Control integration for Git with GitHub
• F# Eye for the VB Guy – Phil Trelford shares another of his translation tables to help VB.NET Developers migrate their development skills to F# easily.

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