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• Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available – John Montgomery announces the release of the 5th Community Technology Preview release of Visual Studio 2015, featuring improved Debugging and Diagnostics features, updates to ASP.NET and more
• Announcing TypeScript 1.4 – Jonathan Turner announces the release of TypeScript 1.4, a release which adds further ECMAScript 6 feature support, along with Type Aliases, and Const Enums
• Making It Better: Updates for ASP.NET 5 in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 – Jeffrey T. Fritz announces the Beta 2 release of ASP.NET 5 as a part of the Visual Studio 2015 CTP5 release, giving an overview of some of the key improvements.
• Diagnostic Tools debugger window in Visual Studio 2015 – Dan J Taylor shares a detailed look at the Diagnostics Debugger Windows in Visual Studio 2015 CTP5, and what information they can reveal to you.
• New UI Performance Analysis Tool for WPF Applications – Harikrishna Menon shares a look at the new WPF performance analysis tools in the Visual Studio 2015 CTP5 release, looking at the process of performing profiling activities within the IDE.

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• Can Restrictive Coding Standards Make Us More Productive? – Jason Gorman discusses some of the benefits of having strict and ridged code standards, and how it can make your code better and ensure you keep productivity by having well defined ways of solving problems.
• Revisiting Partial View Rendering in ASP.NET MVC – Dino Esposito discusses different ways of achieving partial page post back, and explores some ‘lighter touch’ ways of achieving this which don’t involve a full Single Page Application (SPA) framework
• Sharing Data in an Angular Controller or an Angular Service – John Papa looks at a couple of different scenarios for sharing data between controllers in Angular applications, caching the data and refreshing it should it change
• HTTPS In 2015 – Eric Lawrence highlights a recent conference talk on the current state of HTTPS, as well as discussing the privacy issues and some interesting behaviour which can impact on privacy.
• Code Analysis Survey – Eric Battalio shares another survey from the Visual C++ Team on the code analysis experiences, so if you have 10 minutes and some interest or knowledge of these features help them out in making things even better.
• JSON# – Tutorial #5: Deserialising Complex Objects – Paul Mooney continues his seriese looking at his JSON# library moving on t look at deserialisation of complex object types

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