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• Save the Date: Visual Studio 2015 RTM on July 20th – S.Somasegar announces the official RTM release of Visual Studio 2015 which will be taking place on 20th July, when the download will become available, with the release event taking place online on 20th July 20 at 3:30 pm UTC (8:30 am PDT).
• SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.1 has been released – Koen Verbeeck highlights the release of the SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.1 which includes improvements to Stretch Database, Query Store, Temporal – and Columnstore Indexes.

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• Understanding HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) and preloading it into the browser – Troy Hunt takes a detailed look at HTTP Strict Transport Security, and how he has implemented it on the Have I Been Pwned site.
• Your questions on the upcoming leap second – M3 Sweatt shares answers to common questions regarding the leap second being added in at midnight UTC 30th June / 1st July (aka tonight)
• Even Better Data Typing with TypeScript 1.4 – Peter Vogel takes a look at the improved type safety features in TypeScript 1.4 in this Visual Studio Magazine article
• Using Bower and Gulp with ASP.net 5.0 – Martin Kearn takes a look at the use of Bower a package manager for with ASP.NET 5.0 which has increasing importance for ASP.NET Developers in ASP.NET 5 as packages previously compiled from Bower into NuGet will cease to be used.
• Top New Features of C# 6.0 – Imran Abdul Ghani gives an overview of the new features included in the C# 6.0 language
• What’s New in C# 6.0: Auto-Property Initializers – Joe Mayo takes a deeper look at one of those new C# features exploring the use of Auto-Property Initializers
• Web App Performance : Are you listening to your logs? – Reed Robison discusses the benefit of monitoring web applications via the IIS logs, showing some of the useful things you can learn about your application performance by keeping an eye on the logs.
• Interoperable Web Development – David Voyles highlights a new series of labs from David Catuhe which look at ‘interoperable web development’, the building of web applications which ‘just work’ across multiple browser platforms.
• Git Alias To Migrate Commits To A Branch – Phil Haack takes a look at fixing up a mistake with Git here you have committed work to the wrong branch

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• Announcing Atom 1.0 – The Team at GitHub announce the release of Atom 1.0, their light weight text editor for developers, available across platforms,
• Announcing the 1.0.0 release of Application Insights Windows SDKs – Joshua Weber announces the 1.0.0 release of the Application Insights Windows SDKs, giving a stability of the API such that breaking changes are unlikely in the future
• Docker and Microsoft announce more innovation to cross platforms and win hearts – Corey Sanders gives an update on Microsoft’s partnership with Docker, including Windows Server Containers, and deploying .NET applications to Docker containers.
• Container Apps now available in the Azure Marketplace – Vybava Ramadoss highlights the release of Docker Container based applications in the Azure Marketplace

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• Angular2 Databinding is Fast! – Josh Carroll shares a simple example which demonstrates the performance of the Angular 2 Databinding
• UWP: New features of Visual State Manager (part 1) – Sergiy Baydachnyy takes a look at the Windows 10 Visual State Manager, and ho it can be used to help create adaprive interfaces
• .NET versioning and multi-targeting on C# application and component – ‘Southmountain’ takes a look at multi-targeting on the .NET Framework and versioning of the framework
• Hanselman.Forms – James Montemagno shares a cross platform application sample for Xamarin which draws inspiration from Scott Hanselman for content, and targets Android, Windows Phone, Windows Store Android Wear, iOS phones and watches.

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Short and links only again today as I’m very pressed for time.

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• New Azure Billing APIs Available – Scott Guthrie
• Refactoring with Loops and Collection Pipelines – Martin Fowler
• .NET Hotfix Rollups for June – Jeff Lambert
• Chess TDD 39: Dipping a Toe into Complex Piece Movement – Erik Dietrich
• Angular Team Provides Roadmap, Demos Integration with React Native – David Iffland
• Agile methodologies are just tools – Nathan Gloyn
• Fixing Coding Mistakes On The Fly in Visual Studio 2015 – Robert Green & Mark Wilson Thomas

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