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- TouchDevelop – TouchDevelop goes open-source – MichaÅ‚ Moskal announces the news that the Microsoft Research Project ‘TouchDevelop’ is now an open source project
- Microsoft Research makes Touch Develop open source – Susan Ibach also shares the news of the further opening up of this tool
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- Improve performance by optimizing queries for ASP.NET Identity and other Membership Providers – Pranav Rastogi shares two database indexing suggestions to help improve the performance of ASP.NET Identity and ASP.NET Universal Providers
- To Repository Or NOT – Sacha Barber takes a look at unit testing of code which makes use of Reporitories versus code that directly uses Entity Framework
- Some considerations on asynchronous execution – Paulo Zemek delves down below the different implementations behind asynchronous execution and looks at some of the common truths in async programming
- 9 New Visual Studio 2013 Extensions – Terrence Dorsey highlights 9 new or nearly new Visual Studio 2013 extensions which provide useful functionality within the IDE in this Visual Studio Magazine article.
- 11 Things About JavaScript Functions that .NET Developers Should Know: Part 1 – Dhananjay Kumar kicks off a series looking at similarities and differences between JavaScript Development and C# Development
- GitHub Language Correlation for Jan 1 2014 – Feb 1 2015 – Matt Sampson takes a look at some statistics for Programming Language use from GitHub