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• November 2014 .NET Security Updates – The .NET Framework team highlight the latest security patch for he framework to address and Escalation of Privilege issue

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• Features of ES6 Part 10: Behind The Class – K. Scott Allen continues his series exploring the EcmaScript 6 standard with a look at the benefits and capabilities of the new Class keyword
• Azure Service Bus Performance – Http Batch send – Sharad Cornejo Altuzar takes a look at getting good performance from the Azure Service Bus using batch sending over HTTP to improve throughput of your queue based applications
• Announcing improvements to the Enterprise Mode Site List – Nicole Berdy of the Internet Explorer Team announces the latest batch of improvements to the Enterprise Mode in Internet Explorer 11’s November update
• The ‘Synthesize the Experts’ Anti-Pattern – Erik Dietrich shares some sage advice on attempting to ‘borrow’ knowledge and practice from a range of sources – something to bear in mind.
• Avoid async void methods – Phil Haack discusses the danger of methods which are ‘async void’, looking at the problems they cause and also how to find them in your code base.
• IDisposable: What Your Mother Never Told You About Resource Deallocation – An old article here from Stephen Cleary which I cam across again yesterday – well worth reading to better understand the IDisposable pattern.
• Angular 1.3 and Breaking Change for Controllers – Shawn Wildermuth highlights a potential gotcha for people upgrading to Angular 1.3 due to a breaking change to how some people create their controllers.

Community

• Save the date! Connect(November 12 & 13); is almost here – The Visual Studio Team highlight their Connect event being held over the next two days, with keynotes from Scott Guthrie, S. Somasegar, Brian Harry, and Scott Hanselman today.

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• Graph traversal, part four – Eric Lippert continues his fabulous adventures exploring graph data structures, outlining a problem, the solution of which will be the topic of his next few posts.
• ChessTDD 21: False Starts and The Knight Problem – Erik Dietrich continues his video series looking at Test Driven Development working on a sample based around chess. In this episode Erik shares more learning on the practices of TDD and looks at the implementation of the Knights moves.
• An Alternative to SQLite in Windows Store Apps – Jason Roberts takes a look at BrightstarDB, an alternative embedded database which works well in Windows Phone applications, providing a familiar LINQ style interface onto its RDF based storage.
• Kicking around a function that formats stuff – Raymond Chen takes a look at a tricky little problem involving a common string formatting method which works on a number of different types who do not share a common base.
• My Universal Performance Problem Advice – Rico Mariani shares a short post which distills the core of performance.
• Design and Implementation Mistakes – Mostly .NET – Paulo Zemek shares a number of common design and implementation mistakes that developers make in their code
• Boo appSettings! Yay applicationSettings! – Doug Lampe discusses the use of applicationSettings over appSettings to provide strongly typed configuration access.
• Playing with Roslyn and VSIX – Tomas Restrepo shares some sample code which makes use of Roslyn in a Visual Studio 2014 Extension to colur uses of parameter and field variables.

Community

• Don’t miss Connect(); a virtual conference about Visual Studio vNext – Simone Chiaretta highlights the Virtual Visual Studio vNext Event ‘Connect’ being held tomorrow (Wednesday 12th) and Thursday this week, where you can hear about the next version of the Visual Studio and .NET Platform.

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• [Announcement] OData V4 Client Code Generator 2.1.0 Release – Layla Liu of the OData Team shares the announcement of the latest release of the OData V4 Client Code Generator, a release which adds a couple of new feature along with bug fixes

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• When is a string not a string? – Jon Skeet looks at an interesting C# Torture Test from Vladimiir Reshetnikov which delves deep into the implementation of Strings
• Exciting Things About ASP.NET vNext Series: Middlewares and Per Request Dependency Injection – Tugberk Ugurlu continues his series of posts looking at the new ASP.NET vNext platform, exploring the capabilities around dependency injection for MiddleWare components
• A/B Testing with Azure Websites – Tom Hollander takes a look at how you can use Azure websites to implement A/B Testing using the production testing capabilities
• New Clean C# eBook – Jason Roberts shares the early version of his latest Lean Pub publication, available now for free (or a pay what you like if you enjoy it)
• How We Do Strong Typed Configuration – Jeremy D Miller shares his thoughts on configuration, and how he prefers strongly typed configuration classes for returning configuration over the traditional string based versions in the framework.
• Using telemetry to reveal, prevent, and act on real problems in the wild – Rico Mariani discusses the use of telemetry to help uncover problems in a code bas, sharing a tale from his work on Internet Explorer.
• ETW Logging in IIS 8.5 (2) – Tomas Restrepo shares some more code looking at Event Tracing for Windows in IIS8.5, and pushing the events onto the Azure Event Hub.
• Happy 10th Birthday, Selenium – I’m slightly late with this one, but 2 weeks ago Selenium celebrated its 10th Birthday, and here Paul Hammant discusses its history
• eBook – Perspectives on Agile Testing – In further celebration of Selenium’s birthday the ThoughtWorks team share a registration-ware eBook on Software Testing Perspectives

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