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• Azure Redis Cache: Public preview of premium tier – Pranav Rastogi announce the public preview of the Azure Redis serivce
• Announcing Visual Studio Debug Engine Extensibility Samples – Patrick Nelson highlights a suite of new debugging extensibility samples, along with documentation of the Concord debugging engine used for both unmanaged and managed debugging in VS2015

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• Introducing ASP.NET WebHooks Receivers – WebHooks made easy – Scott Hanselman talks about the exciting developments still being made on the ASP.NET 4.6 platform, and explores the new ASP.NET WebHooks recently released as a preview release.
• Null-Conditional Operators – Day 2, nameof – Day 3 – VS 2015 Series & Auto Property Initializers – Day 4 – Visual Studio 2015 – The team at Falafel Software kick on with their month long series with articles from Josh Eastburn on Null Condiditional Operators, Tillman Dickson explores the nameof function and Steve Smith looks at Auto Proprerty Initializers
• Improving Message Throughput in Akka.NET with Routers – Jason Roberts continues his series of posts looking at the Akka.NET actor framework, exploring a little of the theory of Routers and Routing and illustrating with an example.
• The Roslyn Academy Community – The Roslyn Academy is an initiative from a group of MVPs which is dedicated to the writing of components on the .NET Roslyn Compiler Platform.
• Augmenting Types in Javascript – Abhi Jain takes a look at how JavaScript allows for types to be extended, meaning you can easily add new methods and members to objects at runtime.
• Support for Open Source technologies on Azure – Hanne Wulff continues a series looking at the Microsoft Open Source Strategy
• The Genius of Template Strings in ES6 – Chris Heilmann discusses the some of the recent improvements in string handling in JavaScript which are usable today

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• Announcing Tools for Apache Cordova (aka TACO) v1.0.0 – Subhag Oak announces the 1.0.0 release of the Tools for Apache Cordova a suite of utilities and tools for Windows and Mac users to aid creation of Cordova based applications
• Code Completion Improvements in ReSharper 9 – The ReSharper team share a look at some of the latest improvements to the code completion in ReSharper 9 including Completion Filters, relevance based sorting and improved matching.

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• 31 Days of Visual Studio 2015 Tricks and Treats & Index Initializers – Day 1 – VS 2015 Series – Steve Smith kicks off a new series of posts throughout October looking at various aspects of Visual Studio 2015 and the latest .NET Framework and languages
• Prediction Markets for Software Estimates – Erik Dietrich discusses estimates in software development and the ‘No Estimates’ movement
• JavaScript Promises and Error Handling – K.Scott Allen continues his look at JavaScript Promises exploring error handling in this post.
• Concatenating Typed Arrays & ES6: methods versus callbacks – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer shares a useful tip for forkin with typed arrays and also looks at the differences between objects with methods and objects with call backs.
• Why did my package download count suddenly go up – Maarten Balliauw explains why package download counts may have dramatically increased with the latest updates to the NuGet Gallery.
• Windows 10 development for absolute beginners – Clint Rutkas highlights some resources which will help you get up to speed with building Applications for Windows 10
• Implementing Adaptive Toast with Actions in Windows 10 Universal Apps – Arun Kumar takes a look at some of the improvements in toasts and tile notifications in Windows 10

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• AzureCon 2015 – Sessions – Hema Senthilkumar shares a useful list of links to the session recordings from the AzureCon 2015 event which took place earlier in the week.

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• Announcing General Availability of HDInsight on Linux + new Data Lake Services and Language & AzureCon Keynote Announcements: India Regions, GPU Support, IoT Suite, Container Service, and Security Center – Scott Guthrie shares the details of announcements made at AzureCone, and also news of the General Availability of HDInsight on Linux
• AzureCon 2015: Azure Storage Announcements – Perry Skountrianos shares details of the various AzureCon announcements from the Azure Storage Team including support for SMB 3.0, improved support for Shared Access Signatures, as well as a host of preview releases / announcements
• Azure File Storage, now generally available – Jason Tang shares more details of the Azure File Storage General Availability
• Microsoft announces general availability of HDInsight on Linux – Oliver Chiu goes into more detail on the General Availability release of HDInsight for Linux.
• SQL Server Data Tools Preview update for September 2015 – Eric S. Kang announces the release of a new preview of the SQL Server Data Tools

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• ASP.NET 5 Exception Filters and Resource Filters – damienbod takes a look building exception and resource filters in ASP.NET 5
• IntelliTest for .NET – Test More with Less (effort) – Pratap Lakshman shares a look at hos IntelliTest for .NET can generate more tests for your code with less effort than manual test creation.
• F# Compiler Technical Overview – The F# Core Engineering Group shares an interesting technical overview of the F# Compiler
• More on MiniDumper: Getting the Right Memory Pages for .NET Analysis – Sasha Goldshtein discusses some of the details of how MiniDumper works out which memory pages are important for heap analysis.
• ETW – Overview – Where are we going, and what’s with the handbasket? – Doug E. Cook discusses some of the details of the Event Tracing for Windows event routing.
• JavaScript goes to Asynchronous city – David Catuhe takes a look at the newer ECMAScript Asynchronous code capabilities included in Edge.
• JavaScript Promise API – K.Scott Allen continues with a look at the API for Promises in JavaScript, illustrating by way of an example.
• Customizing ES6 via well-known symbols – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer takes a look at a ‘work in progress’ feature of ECMAScript 6
• Expressive ES6 features that shine in Node.js 4.0 – Ryan Paul takes a look at some of the ECMAScript 6 features which work well in the latest version of Node.js
• Entity Framework Pitfalls: Lazy Loading and Proxy Creation & Entity Framework Pitfalls: Using Stored Procedures for Basic Operations – Ricardo Peres continues his series looking at pitfalls of Entity Framework, exploring Lazy Loading and the use of dynamic proxies, and the use of stored procedures.

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