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- MAT v4.0 Technical Preview Update 1 with Xamarin support – Cameron Lerum announces the availability of the latest preview of the Multilingual App Toolkit which now supports Xamarin
- Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview November 2014 is now available – The Windows PowerShell team announce the release of Windows Management Framework 5.0 in Preview release form.
- Updated Service Bus and EventProcessorHost Assemblies Released – Dan Rosanova announces the release of updates assemblies for the Azure Service Bus client and EventProcessorHost
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- TypeScript 1.4 sneak peek: union types, type guards, and more – Ryan Cavanaugh of the TypeScript team gives a peek at some of the features the team have planned for version 1.4, including Type Guards, improvements to Generics support and type inference.
- C# 6 Features – Private Auto Properties – Derik Whittaker shares a look at how you will no longer need private setters for auto properties as the set will be available regardless inside the class
- The Future of .NET – Sam Basu shares his throughts on the future of the .NET Platform, inclujding thoughts on the open sourcing of the platform, new features coming and the road ahead.
- Dependency Injection: Inject Your Dependencies, Period! – Tugberk Ugurlu discusses his preference for injecting all dependencies into classes via constructor arguments rather than making use of static accessors or service location.
- Mario5 with TypeScript – Florian Rappl builds on a previous CodeProject article on recreating Mario with web technologies, in this article now exploring the use of TypeScript to improve the code base of existing JavaScript.
- Leveraging Reactive Extensions for Asynchronous Processing – Peter Vogel explores the use of the Reactive Extensions for processing results of long running processes as they take place in this Visual Studio Magazine article
- Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture – Toby Clemson and Martin Fowler share a look at the ways of testing a Microserivces architecture
- Adventures in Angular Podcast and an AngularJS Oslo Meetup – K.Scott Allen shares a PodCast Interview and recent presentation on Angular JS, and particularly using the next version of JavaScript (ES6) wih Angular.