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• SQL Server 2014 RTM Cumulative Update #9 is available! & SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update #2 is available! – Aaron Bertrand highlights the availability of the latest two cumulative updates for SQL Server 2014 RTm and SQL Server 2014 SP1
• SonicFileFinder 3.0 Released – Roland Weigelt highlights the latest version of Jens Schaller’s SonicFileFinder Visual Studio extension which now supports VS2015

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• Free Xamarin For Windows Phone Developers – James Quick highlights the offer of a free license for Xamarin for Windows Phone developers who have an existing phone application in the store.
• Containers: Docker, Windows and Trends – Mark Russinovich gives an overview of containers, and the overall Microsoft container vision
• Turning bugs into features – Ayende shares a neat little trick for tracking where you are up to when working with ReSharper’s Find Usage results.
• Nancy, Get, Post, Bind and javascript – Christiaan Baes takes a look at the use of Bind in Nancy with different types of request.
• "Getting" Functional Programming – Steve Gilham shares his steps of smaller ‘ah-ha’ moments in getting to grips with Functional Programming
• Converting ES6 Maps to and from JSON – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer shares a look at how you go about converting from JSON to ECMAScript 6 Maps, and back again
• Make WPA Simple – Symbol Loading Is Not Slow – Alois Kraus continues discussion of the Windows Performance Analyser and looks at how it goes about getting the symbols to aid your analysis, and shares tips to improve the speed of symbol loading.

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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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