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- MSBuild Engine is now Open Source on GitHub – Rich Lander announces the news that the MSBuild Engine is the latest project to move to an open source model with code hosting on GitHub
- Windows driver frameworks source on GitHub – J M Rossy also announces another project moving to having source on GitHub – the Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF) joins the party over there, although at this time the team aren’t making use of pull requests for contributions.
- introducing Obvs, the observable µService* bus – Christopher Read shares a new project which has come out of his commercial work. Obs provides a wrapper round a service bus implementation providing a observable interface and abstraction from the underlying implementation.
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- Rendering engine updates in March for the Windows 10 Technical Preview – Kyle Pflug discusses the latest changes to the Internet Explorer Rendering engine in a new update pushed out to Insiders to help the team more rapidly iterate.
- Naming Things Is Hard: Using Object Pattern Names – Steve Wilkes discusses the naming of objects,a nd how sometimes the patterns we implement with the objects provide a good starting point for names.
- Waiting for gulp Tasks To Finish in Visual Studio – David Paquette takes a look at using Gulp tasks in Visual Studio and fixing an error caused by the IDE not waiting for the tasks to complete before the build process kicks off.
- Integrating Gulp into your TFS builds and Web Deploy – Steve Cadwallader takes a look at getting Gulp integrated into your TFS build and Web Deploy processes, working step by step through the process
- HttpConnection Limit in .NET – Tom DuPont shares a useful tip to help increase the number of concurrent HTTP connections issued from .NET applications.
- .NET Fringe, defining the future | Glenn Block – Glenn Block highlights the .NET Fringe event being hosted in Portland between 12 and 14th April, and talks about the ever growing importance of open source projects to the .NET Ecosystem
- Which Angular Version Should You Learn? – the ‘Angular First’ blog takes a look at an important consideration for anyone thinking about adoption of the AngularJS framework – which version should you start using?