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• Roslyn ships v1.0-rc2 with "Go-Live" license – Anthony D. Green of the Languages team announces the release of Roslyn 1.0 Release Candidate 2 which includes a Go-Live license allowing you to use it in real projects.
• Introducing Visual Studio’s Network tool – Ruben Rios shares a look at a new feature of Visual Studio 2015 RC which can be found in the Performance and Diagnostics hub.
• Gain understanding and insights into projects in Visual Studio Online with Power BI – Jeff Levinson gives a taste of the Visual Studio Online content pack for Power BI

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• Wizards and warriors, part three – Eric Lippert continues his tale of strong typing and object modelling, looking at where to site methods in this particular problem
• Little Puzzlers – Positive Integer to Roman Numerals – James Michael Hare share another of his ‘Little Puzzlers’ problems, this time a problem about representing numbers as Roman Numerals is the challenge.
• Restival Part 2: All Aboard The Routemaster – Dylan Beattie continues his series looking at comparing and contrasting multiple REST frameworks – taking a look at routing in this part.
• MSDN Magazine – May 2015 Issue – The May 2015 Edition of MSDN Magazine is available now, with a bumper crop of articles on aspects of Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10 and the various frameworks announced / released at Build, along with the usual columns.
• Build 2015 and Vorlon.js & Debugging web apps with Vorlon JS – John Shewchuk & Dave Voyles both highlight Vorlon.js, a new framework which is open source and provides a browser agnostic tool for remote debugging of JavaScript.
• Akka – A peak into the parallel cloud – Malisa Ncube gives an introduction to the Actor framework Akka.NET and its use in building applications which run in parallel in the cloud.
• From the MVPs: Application Design: Going Stateless on Azure – Microsoft Press – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Kim Spilker of Microsoft Press shares a guest post from Punit Gashani looking at building stateless applications and services on the Azure platform
• Start Your Transpilers – K.Scott Allen discusses the evolution of the ECMAScript specifications, and the features in the languages, and recommends that people consider working with Transpilers which take ECMAScript to browser compatible ECMAScript or compilers such as TypeScript to develop applications
• Setting up Windows 10 for IoT on your Raspberry Pi 2 – Scott Hanselman takes a look at installing Windows 10 for IoT, released as the first preview last week at Build, on a Raspbery Pi 2 device

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