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• Visual Studio Code 0.9.2 (or, how many squares do you see?) – Johannes Rieken announces the release of Visual Studio Code 0.9.2, a bugfix release which corrects a defect which caused quadratic time to be taken performing operations
• ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit – v15.1.4 – Maintenance update available – Mehul Harry announces the latest maintenance update to the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit including a raft of bug fixes and a couple of new features / improvements

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• Diving Into ASP.NET 5 Beta 8? Don’t forget the web tools! – Julie Lerman highlights the importance of updating the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2015 when you attempt to work with new beta releases of ASP.NET 5 to avoid mismatches with templates.
• ASP.NET 5 Middleware Pipeline and Startup Class – David Hayden gives a brief look at dependency injection in Razor using the inject keyword, and also shares a short look at the ASP.NET 5 middleware and specifically the startup class for your application.
• 15 features I love in Visual Studio 2015 – part 1 editor features – Tess Ferrandez highlights a few less well known productivity enhancements in the Visual Studio editor
• Visual Studio Time Saver – Setting and creating themes – Susan Ibach shares a short video tutorial on customising your Visual Studio editor experience
• Choosing a Front End Framework: Angular vs. Ember vs. React – Zach Kuhn shares a look at three of the leading front end web frameworks, sharing his thoughts on which of the three win out
• How to Use Modernizr Responsibly – Jérémy Heleine shares a look at the Modernizr library, looking at how it should be used, and why you should care about how it is included.
• Recording available: Architecture Tower of Babel & Recording available – Highly Available & Scalable Solutions with RavenDB – Ayende shares two recordings of sessions he delivered, the first looking atadding in complexity to existing systems, and reasons for a drive for simplicity, and the second discussing how RavenDB scales under load

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• Peasy.NET – Aaron Hanusa shares Peasy.NET an open source (MIT licensed) Middle Tier solution for .NET
• Azure Billing Alert – Wriju Ghosh highlights a new much awaited preview feature of Azure

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• Mastering The Arcane Art of JavaScriptmancy for C# Developers: ES6 Destructuring – Jaime González García continues his JavaScript Series with a look at the ECMAScript 6 feature ‘Destructuring’ which allows you to more easily break apart objects into variables.
• The traversal order of object properties in ES6 – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer discusses the ECMAScript 6 specifications handling of object properties and the order in which they are returned in operations which require them
• The Front-end Developer Handbook offers a handy field guide to resources – Michael Morisy highlights the Front-end Developer Handbook, available for free in a variety of formats and a great repository for learning about all the various skills and techniques for front end web development
• An open letter about the terms "F#" and "Visual F#" – Don Syme sets about clearing up confusion regarding ‘Visual F#’ and the F# language
• ccdschool/fsharpdaybyday – GitHub – Ralf Westphal shares fsharpdaybyday, a series of daily lessons to teach the various aspects of the F# language
• Using DataAnnotations and Localization in ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 – damienbod continues his look at localisation in ASP.NET 5 / MVC 6 with a look at how DataAnnotations and Localization can be handled together
• So You Need to Expose JSON Endpoints – Dino Esposito shares a real world problem he encountered in production returning JSON from an MVC Controller, highlighting some of the side effects and best practices along the way.
• Have a Moment(.js)? – Wojciech Hildebrandt discusses time manipulation in JavaScript and takes a look at the moment.js library
• VS2015 Remote Debugging JavaScript – Prakash Patel discusses and walks through the capabilities for debugging JavaScript remotely
• How to deploy an online Vorlon.js server with authentication – Etienne Margraff takes a look at securely deploying Vorlon.js remote debugging of Javascript.

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• Inferring from "is", part two – Eric Lippert continues his discussion of the need for casting after testing with the is operator, discussing how the compiler is unable to infer the type discussing some proposed solutions
• It’s happening – OpenSSH for Windows…from Microsoft – Scott Hanselman highlights the first release of OpenSSH for Windows from the Windows PowerShell Team, discussing how its progressing and getting involved in the community project by reporting issues.
• MSDN Magazine: Special Windows 10 Issue – Clint Rutkas highlights a special edition of MSDN Magazine entirely focusing on windows 10 Development, with development topics ranging from Visual Studio tooling through to game development
• 12 Rules for Professional JavaScript in 2015 – Cory House shares 12 ‘rules’ for JavaScript development from his point of view
• Know your Node.js (and VS Code) – Greg Duncan highlights three Node.js development topics when working with the Visual Studio Code lightweight cross platform IDE.
• Chrome Devtools Tips & Tricks – ‘molsson’ shares some useful tips for working with the Chrom Developer Tools, revealing the power of this browser tooling.
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) – Gautham Prabhu K shares an introduction to the use of the Reactive Extensions in reactive programming using observation to handle streams of events,
• Troy’s UK (and a bit of Norway) tour dates – Troy Hunt is coming to the UK (and Norway) in January, and is sharing dates looking for any potential User Group or meet and greet opportunities while he is here

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