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Wildcard Host Header Support
New in IIS 10 - IIS can now handle wild card host headers. This allows your app to do subdomain routing itself.
Apple's Boot Camp now officially supports Windows 10 on Macs
With Boot Camp support you can upgrade your Mac Books to Windows 10 today!
RyuJIT Bug Advisory in the .NET Framework 4.6
Microsoft has released a fix for the RyuJIT bug earlier reported by Nick Craver and Marc Gravell over at Stack overflow in this blog post.
This is a great turn around for what was obviously a critical and complicated issue. Also Microsoft's communication and transparency around it should be commended.
iOS App Development Comes to Windows With Some Controversy
The Windows Bridge for iOS provides Windows developers with a fully-fledged Objective-C development environment for Windows using Visual Studio. However, it also provides some security concerns and unattributed code.
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Program entirely in C# using only static methods
This radical post is really about how one can move to a more functional programming style and remove the need for much of the apparatus of object-oriented programming, like classes and interfaces.
C# Advanced Topics course on Udemy by Programming Mosh
A full-fledge course on C# more advance constructs, like lambda expressions, extensions methods, nullable types, and async/await. Free for a limited time, so, get cracking!
Develop Universal Windows apps
Want to start writing Windows Apps? Microsoft has samples and apis you can explore for days.
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Apt-Get for Windows: OneGet and Chocolatey on Windows 10
Package managers finally coming to Windows! If you've used apt-get, homebrew and the like on other platforms you've likely wondered why Windows does not have a similar package manager. OneGet and Chocolatey combine to bring that functionality to Windows 10.