Update:The observant among you noticed that this edition should actually have been number 1709, so I’ve corrected the title, but the URL will remain the same
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- Confusing errors for a confusing feature, part three – Eric Lippert concludes this series of posts looking discussing the improvements being made to the language in Roslyn, not just by the addition of new features but the correcting of design issues with earlier features.
- HTTP 206 Partial Content In ASP.NET Web API – Video File Streaming – Robert Vandenberg Huang takes an interesting look at the serving of video content using ASP.NET WebAPI, and implementing ‘Partial Content’ to provide streaming of the video content.
- Can you trust your browser extensions? Exploring an ad-injecting chrome extension – Scott Hanselman discusses the dangers of accepting 3rd party extensions to things like your browser, and the significant permissions which they can end up running code with.
- Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Dealing with Dependencies – David Paquette continues his series looking at the modernisation of a legacy ASP.NET application, in this part looking at modernising the way in which the applications dependencies are handled.
- WinJS 3 – Windows, Phone and now Web too – Scott Kuhl highlights the release og WinJS 3.0 last month and takes a look at the new cross platform capabilities of the library, making it a feasible choice for applications across multiple platforms.
- The importance of useless Micro-optimization – Maxime Lemaitre discusses the concept of Micro-optimization and how it can both be a benefit or a hindrance to code.
- Favorite Visual Studio Extensions
– Scott Dorman shares his list of favourite Visual Studio Extensions - Custom Login Scopes, Single Sign-On, new ASP.NET Web API – updates to the Azure Mobile Services .NET backend – Carlos Figueira highlights a number of improvements to the Azure Mobile Services .NET Backend