TypeScript 1.0 Released and Open for Contributions – Polita Paulus shares an official update on the TypeScript project, discussing the 1.0 release and the opensourcing and accepting of community contributions to the TypeScript project.
Unity 3.5 RTW: Now with more Peace, Love, and Rock ‘n’ Roll – Grigori Melnik announces the release of version 3.5 of the Unity Dependency injection framework which as well as having had significant performance improvements made is now also a true portable class library making it easier to use Unity across a range of .NET platforms.
Prism 5.0 for WPF just shipped – Francis K. Cheung highlights the release of Prism 5.0 for WPF, highlighting the official announcement and the 6 packages which make up the framework.
Download PowerShell Script Browser 1.0 – Jialiang Ge highlights the release of the PowerShell Script Browser, a tooling product which plugs into the PowerShell ISE making it ever easier to find samples to automate Microsoft Products.
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Visualizing Roslyn Syntax Trees – Shyam Namboodiripad recaps the recent news about the Roslyn Project, and moves on to look at some of the syntax visualisers provided in the Roslyn SDK
.NET Developer Tooling: The Roslyn Revolution – Patrick Smacchia discusses the opportunities presented by the Roslyn Project for tools vendors, and discusses why it is a significant decision for them regarding what to do next.
On accessing chains of potentially null properties – Bertrand Le Roy looks at Law of Demeter violations, and explores how accessing property chains can be fraught with dangers of Null Reference Exceptions, looking at possible future C# syntax to work around this, and sharing a solution which you can use now to safely access properties using lambdas and expression trees.
F#19 : Exceptions – Sacha Barber continues his series looking at the F# language and programming style, exploring the handling and working with exceptions in his latest part.
Find a Designer for your Open Source Project – Jason Robert shares his latest project, a service to help connect open source projects with designers to help them achieve things of beauty.
Azure Web Sites New Basic Pricing Tier – Yochay Kirtiaty gives an update on pricing of Microsoft Azure Websites services, and the introduction of a new basic tier of pricing.