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• Update to XML Notepad – Chris Lovett shares an update to the 2007 XML Notepad, bringing it up to .NET 4

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• EF7 – Priorities, Focus, and Initial Release – Rowan Miller shares the latest update from the Entity Framework team, discussing their priorities and progress with an initial release of Entity Framework 7.
• Toward a Visual F# 4.0 release – The Visual F# Team are also on the march for a V4 release of Visual F#, and in this post outline their roadmap schedule for the release.
• Some Thoughts on the new .Net – Jeremy D Miller shares his thoughts on the new style ASP.NET Runtime, and the new ways of working now that much of the framework is open sourced.
• Analyze This, Analyze That, Writing .NET Code Analyzers and Fixers – Greg Duncan highlights some of the run things that can be achieved using the Roslyn Compiler Platform, sharing posts from Dave Fancher and Bill Wagner
• Transactions are a figment of your imagination – Ayende responds to comments on his previous post to discuss how transactions actually occur in the real world, and looking at how our computer model for them isn’t a good fit.
• Creating multi-target NuGet Packages with vNext – Rick Strahl takes a look at creating multi targeted NuGet Packages, using the new features of vNext which allow for direct compilation packaging of code.
• Windows containers – package your apps and bootstrap your chef nodes with spoon.net! – Matt Wrock takes a look at the Spoon.net platform, and at how you can use this to start packaging applications into containers which run Windows.

Community

• Don’t miss out! Talk with Scott Guthrie tomorrow!! – Inbar G. highlights the LIDNUG Q&A session with Scott Guthrie – his 18th event of this nature. The event is a webcast taking place 11:30-12:30 PST today (3rd Dec)
• Software Development in the 21st century – Martin Fowler shares his sessions from the XCONF development event, covering Agile Software development, Microservices and Continuous Delivery

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• When is an identifier not an identifier? (Attack of the Mongolian Vowel Separator) – Jon Skeet discusses another instance of complexity caused by text encoding, discussing unicode identifiers in C#, with a look at how it should work, and how it actually does in the various C# compilers.
• Lies, Service Level Agreements, Trust and failure mores – Ayende shares a discussion he has been having with Kelly Sommers regardin reliability and service levels for distributed systems – an interesting read
• The ConditionalWeakTable in .NET – Jason Roberts takes a look at the ConditionalWeakTable type in the .NET Framework, discussing its use
• Working with Non-Compliant OWIN Middleware – ‘panesofglass’ discusses non-compliant OWIN middleware and shares some techniques for dealing with them in your code base.
• Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture – Martin Fowler shares the next part of the series from Toby Clemson looking at the test architecture for systems implementing microservices.
• 5 Incredible Features in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview – Michael Crump shares his thoughs on 5 (actually 6) of the most significant features in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview
• The Top 5 Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make Part 2: Abusing $watch – Jeremy Likness shares the second part of his 5 part series looking at common Angular JS mistakes, taking a look at the misuse of $watch and its ability to monitor for changes
• Visual Studio 2013.2+ and 2015 Child Process Debugging Power Tool – Greg Duncan highlights the Child Process Debugging Power Tool from the ALM team which allows you to easily debug into child processes of your main debugee.
• .NET Foundation: Advisory Council – Miguel de Icaza highlights discussions on the .NET Foundation’s advisory council

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• AutoMapper 3.3 released – Jimmy Bogard announces the release of AutoMapper 3.3, possibly the last 3.x release, which adds a number of new features including Explicit LINQ expansion, open Generics support, Parameterized LINQ queries and much more

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• Updating Assembly Redirects with NuGet – Rick Strahl highlights a useful NuGet commandline feature which makes it re-write assembly redirects back into your .config files
• F# Advent Calendar in English 2014 – Sergey Tihon highlights the F# Advent Calendar, a series of posts throughout December looking at various aspects of F# from recognised members of the F# Community.
• JSON# – Tutorial #2: Serialising Simple Objects – Paul Mooney takes a look at using the JSON# library to perform object serialisation
• Get Up and Running With Node and Visual Studio – John Papa gives a nice overview of the setup, configuration and developer support available for Node.JS development in Visual Studio
• Visual Studio 2015 and pricing of VM’s – All things must PaaS – ‘petsablog’ takes a look at using Azure to run your development environment, exploring the costs of doing so
• Managing Azure VMs with Azure PowerShell-Part 1 – Satish Pandita takes a look at how you can script the management of Virtual Machines on the Azure Platform using PowerShell.
• Use Remote PowerShell to Manage Your Azure PaaS Compute Instances – Similarly, Greg Oliver also highlights some scripts which allow you to manage PAAS Virtual Machine instances.
• Lock free parallel programming: transactions, snapshots, and change descriptions – Eugene Lepekhin takes a look at some techniques for parallel programming and managing state

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