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• Gutting FubuMVC and Rebooting as "Jasper" – Jeremy D Miller announces plans to create a new project, ‘Jasper’, from some aspects of the previous FubuMVC project , to run on the new DNX platform.
• Intel just open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system and it’s a .NET 4.5 WinForms app that you can try for yourself – Mansib Rahman highlights the open sourcing of Intel’s ACAT (Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit) used to allow users with disabilities to communicate.

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• Azure websites SSL goes ‘A’ grade – Troy Hunt discusses the recent change to Azure’s SSL Termination which brings it up to ‘A’ Grade
• Make WPA Simple – Garbage Collection and JIT Times – Alois Kraus shares a Windows Performance Analyser profile which focuses on the metrics that User mode developers need (rather than Kernel mode developers), and discusses the various things it displays.
• Windows 10 UWP – Migrating a Windows 8.1 App (Part 7 of N) – Mike Taulty continues his series on migrating applications from Windows 8.1 to the new Universal Windows Platform, looking at options for control of the camera in this part.
• Roadmap for Visual Studio Online – Ranjith Pallath highlights the product roadmap / timeline for Visual Studio and Visual Studio online
• Debugging Optimized Code – Andrew B Hall discusses the differences between Debug and Release mode builds and highlights some of the features of Visual Studio to help if you need to debug a release mode build.
• Consuming ASP.NET 5 Web API with CRUD functions in Windows 10 native application – Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan explores the use of ASP.NET 5 and Web API to provide backend services for CRUD operations ina Universal Windows Application.

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• Microservices in C# Part 3: Queue Pool Sizing – Paul Mooney continues his series looking at implementing a Microservices architecture in C#
• Hassle-free immutable type updates in C# – Dan Roberts continues discussion of his Functional Parsing of TypeScript taking a closer look at making his immutable type implementation simpler.
• Experiences from using existing projects within VS2015 – Mike James shares a useful tip about upgrading web projects to Visual Studio 2015 which make use of additional mime types
• Announcing Geospatial support in Azure DocumentDB! – Aravind Ramachandran announces the release of an update to Azure DocumentDB which brings support for geospatial indexing and quering
• .NET Hotfix Rollup for August 2015 – Jeff Lambert highlights the August .NET hotfix rollup which addresses two issues with WPF applications.
• ASP.NET Self Host Static File Server – Derek Comartin takes a look at serving static files using OWIN
• If we stand still, we go backwards – Jake Archibald responds to a post which questions if we should stop advancing web technologies to allow them to stablise – make sure you read the original post as well as this one for a rounded discussion.

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• Introducing FunSharp – Phillip Trelford

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• What’s new in IIS 10.0 – Tomas Restrepo
• Gen2 free list changes in CLR 4.6 GC – Maoni Stephens
• New CDN features – country filtering, compression and analytics – Manling Zhang
• What is the ASP.NET 5 Reverse Package Search Tool? – Scott Ge
• Behaviour Driven Development Part 3 – Benefits of using BDD Programming Methodology – Sunil Pardasani
• How to use JetBrains Annotations to improve ReSharper inspections – Matt Ellis
• .NET compiler platform (Roslyn) analyzer packages – Anders Lybecker
• An analysis of the ISIS "hit list" of hacked personal data – Troy Hunt

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