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• FeatureToggle 2.1 Released – Jason Roberts announces the latest release of FeatureToggle, his library which implements the Feature Toggle pattern. This new release adds support for Random toggling of features, along with toggling on a specific day
• Announcing Internet Explorer Developer Channel – The Internet Explorer Team are following through on their promise of being more open about what is coming in the product, and in this post announce the release of a Developer Channel of the Internet Explorer Browser providing early access to features coming in the next releases

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• Real world async/await defects – Eric Lippert discusses and highlights some of the potential pitfalls of the Async / Await Continuation Passing style , and appeals to the reader to let him know of instances of such problems encountered in real world situations.
• How to get notifications from a Windows Azure website – Ugo Lattanzi shows how to configure notifications when developers push to Azure for deployment
• Shedding Tiers: Stop Thinking in Terms of Layers – Peter Vogel discusses how innovations like Entity Framework have effectively replaced our Data Access layer, and urges us to think more widely than just architecture in layers in this Visual Studio Magazine article.
• When should you think about multiplatform? – Tobiah Marks shares thoughts on when you should think about going cross platform in your mobile application development strategy in this post, the start of a new series.
• Ideas to Keep in Mind When Designing User Interfaces – Nikita Semenov shares some excellent advice to remember when ever you are attempting to come up with a user interface for an application
• Thinktecture.IdentityManager as a replacement for the ASP.NET WebSite Administration tool – Scott Hanselman takes a look at the ThinkTecture Identity Manager as a tool to replace the now ageing (and not included any more) ASP.NET Website Administration Tool.
• Create a push notification system with SignalR and Toastr – Kyle shares a succinct step by step guide to creating toast notifications in your web applications which can be signalled from the server side using SignalR.

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• Knockout.js 3.2 Preview : Components – Knock Me Out – Ryan Niemeyer discusses the contents of Knockout.JS 3.2, including a new Web Component inspired Components implementation, which he walks through the use of in this post.
• ASP.NET MVC Bundling/minification with angularjs and Typescript – ‘P@Yogesh’ takes a look at how you can minifiy your Angular Code, and introduce type safety using TypeScript, along with sharing some of the common gotchas which cause problems
• Is TDD Dead – Martin Fowler shares the links to recordings and summaries of the last few sessions between himself, Kent Beck and David Heinemeier Hansson discussing the use and future for TDD practices.
• Thoughts on Unit Testing And TDD: Test Behavior, Not Implementation – Jaime González García shares a real story about Test Driven Development and unit testing in general, including lots of learned best practices.
• Are Bad Tests Better Than No Tests? BLEEEEP NO! – Jim Holmes shares thoughts on Bad Unit Tests, and if they still offer value over having no unit tests
• .NET Native Deep Dive: Debugging into Interop Code – Yi Zhang takes a look at how the .NET Native functionality makes it ever easier for .NET Developers to get to see and understand the actual interop with things like P/Invoke, WinRT and COM and be able to debug it easier.
• RFCs for HTTP/1.1 Updated – Eric Lawrence highlights updates to the HTTP 1.1 specification, which has now been decomposed into a number of separate specifications with a lot less ambiguity, depreciation of problem features, and changes as a result of implementations.
• URL Rewrite- Part 2(Inbound Rules) & URL Rewrite- Part 3(Outbound Rules & Rewrite Maps) – Chiranth Ramaswamy continues this series of posts looking at the use of Rewriting of URLs in IIS and exploring the use of rules for both inbound and outbound rules which allow modifications of the response header.
• TIP: Business Objects != Data Contracts – Terrence Sheflin shares some worthy advice about keeping your data contracts simple and decoupling them from the implementation of your business objects.

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• Announcing Telerik NativeScript – cross-platform framework for building native mobile applications – Telerik announce the launch of the new cross platform mobile applications framework with native UI, called NativeScript this brings JavaScript Development of native applications on Apple iOS, Google Android and Windows Universal.

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• TDD Chess Game Part 7: Cleaning up the Bishop – Erik Dietrich picks up his Test Driven Development series looking at building out a chess game with another video instalment looking this time at improvements to test coverage and refactoring of some methods on the Bishop
• Pools: So You Think You’re Smarter Than Your GC – Karl Seguin reminds us that when ever we start trying to manage memory in our own applications by pooling resources manually we have to remember that the Garbage Collector won’t be able to help us in the same way
• New Memory Usage Tool for WPF and Win32 Applications – Harikrishna Menon discusses the improvements to the performance and diagnostics hub in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 CTP2 which bring the new features to working with WPF and Win32 applications
• (Video) Learn Edge.JS part 1 : What is it? & (Video) Learn Edge.JS part 2: Get started with Hello World and compression – Iris Classon takes a look at the magical world of Edge.JS which brings togehter the CLR and JavaScript V8 worlds inside a single process providing interoperability between the two languages / runtimes
• X things every JavaScript developer should know: use strict – Maurice De Beijer discusses the role of ‘use strict’ in JavaScript looking at both the pros and cons of making use of strict mode JavaScript
• Using SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machine? Then you need to read this – Bob Ward of the Microsoft Customer Service and Support SQL Server team highlights and discusses the updated recommendations for configuration if you are running SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
• Code Challenge: Make the assertion fire – Ayende shares an interesting code puzzle to help you while away your Friday
• UInt128: Addition/Subtraction, UInt128: Multiplication/Squaring, UInt128: Bit Operations & UInt128: Division/Modulus – Jacob F. W. shares a series of posts looking at the implementation of a 128 bit Unsigned Integer data type, looking at the code to perform the standard mathematical operations on the type in these CodeProject articles

Community

• dotnetConf – The .NET Community Virtual Conference – dotnetConf returns on the 25th and 26th June 2014 for two days full of online sessions covering the full range of .NET Development, with a slight web bias, from a range of excellent and and well known speakers.

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