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• Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC – John Montgomery announces the release of the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 Release Candidate build which adds further bug fixes, along with some new features for source control plugins, support for Textmate snippets and improvements to application insights.
• .NET Framework Compatibility Diagnostics – Taylor Southwick shares a look at the .NET Compatibility Diagnostics, new tooling which helps you to understand the changes required by different versions o the framework
• Announcing ASP.NET WebHooks Release Candidate 1 – Henrik F Nielsen announces the release of the ASP.NET WebHooks Release Candidate 1, a library which makes it easier to interact with WebHooks both receiving and sending

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• Guidance for Identity Management in Multitenant Applications – Mike Wasson gives some guidance on the use of Azure Active Directory for identity management in multi-tenant applications
• ASP.NET 5 on Nano Server – Sourabh Shirhatti explores the use of ASP.NET 5 on the Nano Server, using the Windows Server Technical Preview, looking at the setup and deployment to a machine running this system.
• Using the Project Oxford Emotion API in C# and JavaScript – Martin Kearn takes a look at the Project Oxford Emotion API which detects emotion sentiments from faces in pictures
• Week Three: A Microsoft Developer’s Introduction to Xamarin and Cross-Platform Development – Jason Hunt shares a short update on next part of his series looking at development using the Xamarin platform targeting multiple platforms
• It’s Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings – Jason Yip shares a revised version of an earlier article on the adoption of stand-up meetings as a ritual for agile teams
• Agile Anarchy – Is Agile dead? – Seb Lambla also discusses the rituals involved in ‘doing Agile’ as the start of a series which will share his experiences with the death of the actual agile processes and the adoption of ‘Agile with a big A’, and how to go about undoing the damage
• Forest edge – Eric Lippert continues his exploration of OCaml using the Zork Game engine as a project – looking in this part at the implementation of the virtual machine and the instructions that make up the game code.

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• The week in .NET – 3/1/2016 – Bertrand Le Roy shares the latest goings on in the .NET world, including a look at SKiaSharp the 2D drawing API based on Googles Skia library, and Docfx a documentation generation tool
• Introduction to ASP.NET Core 1.0 video – Simone Chiaretta shares a video tutorial looking at ASP.NET Core 1.0, discussing installation, creation of command line tools and websites using the new technology stack.
• Localization in ASP.NET Core 1.0: Pluralization Syntax – Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya continues this series of posts looking at the Localization capabilities of ASP.NET Core 1.0, in this part discussing pluralization, a feature which isn’t in the framework, but looks at how to achieve some support using the framework as is.
• Lean UX, Atomic Design and Angular – A Flexible Front-end Architecture for Developing Web Applications: Part IV – Jaime González García continues this series, kicking off the development of the sample application using the traditional way of building an Angular JS application
• Better single-page apps with ASP.NET MVC 6 – Steve Sanderson NDC2016 – Kevin Logan highlights a conference session from NDC 2016 where Steve Sanderson discusses building better single page applications in ASP.NET MVC 6, and Kevin adds his thoughts in this post.
• "The Goal" and "The Phoenix Project" – Eric Gunnerson shares two book recommendations for learning more about lean practices in software development. I read (and enjoyed) "The Phoenix Project" a couple of years ago,so can highly recommend that one, and I’ll have to check out "The Goal"
• Who Needs GitHub? Run GitLab on a USB Stick with Docker – Elton Stoneman takes a look at running your own private Git ‘Server’ on your machine running from a USB stick giving you portability and backup of your repository with local storage performance.
• CQRS with Decoupled Messaging – Part I, CQRS with Decoupled Messaging – Part II, CQRS with Decoupled Messaging – Part III, CQRS with Decoupled Messaging – Part IV & CQRS with Decoupled Messaging Part V – Rishabh S Ajmera shares a series of posts looking at the theory and application behind Command Query Responsibility Separation using messaging.
• Altar – Eric Lippert continues his look at implementing the Zork game engine with Ocaml, exploring lists in this post.

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• C# 7 Feature Proposal: Local Functions – Bill Wagner reviews another proposed feature of C#7 with a look at the concepts behind local functions, functions which are defined inside other functions
• Roslyn… Succinctly… – Greg Duncan highlights a registration required free ebook on Roslyn from Alessandro Del Sole and the Syncfusion team
• Code Magazine Article: Flexing your HTML Layout Muscles with Flexbox – Rick Strahl shares the link to hist latest article for Code Magazine on flex box, and discusses his adoption of this standard
• Use IdentityServer in SwaggerUI to consume a secured ASP.Net WebAPI – Daniel Wertheim takes a look at the use of identity server with Web API based services, and explores the use of Swagger to document such an API.
• VeST Redux – Semantic persistence – Seb Lambla continues discussion of the Vertical Slice Technologies architecture and discusses in this part the implementation of persistence and audit trail functionality
• The Monsters Weekly – Episode 11 – ‘Yeomon Generators for ASP.NET Core and MVC’ & a href=”http://aspnetmonsters.com/2016/03/monsters-weekly%5Cep12/”>The Monsters Weekly – Episode 12 – ‘Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core’ – The ASP.NET Monsters return with another two episodes exploring the use of Yeomon generators to create projects and files, and explore concepts of dependency injection
• Making Your Code More Loosely Coupled – Peter Vogel discusses coupling in code in this Visual Studio Magazine article.
• Multilingual App Toolkit v4.0 Update 1 is available – Cameron Lerum announces the release of Update 1 for the Multilingual App Toolkit 4.0, featuring significant performance improvements in the IDE and at build

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