News
The next generation of Windows: Windows 10
The latest on Windows 10 - finally some details, screenshots and holograms!
Project Spartan and the Windows 10 January Preview Build
Interesting details on the new Project Spartan browser that is coming in Windows 10
Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available
Live on the bleeding edge - Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 is available now!
Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 can be tested using an Azure VM!
Want to try out the Visual Studio 2015 CTP without impacting your current dev setup? There's an Azure VM for that.
Code
Making It Better: Updates for ASP.NET 5 in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5
ASP.NET 5 gets some updates in the latest Visual Studio 2015 CTP.
Polly: handling transient exceptions
Improve your exception handling by using Polly. Polly is a .NET library that allows developers to express transient exception handling policies retry, circuit breaker and exponential back-off.
Community Projects
Up For Grabs
Want to get involved in an open source project? No idea where to start? up-for-grabs.net lists projects looking for contributors in all languages.
An open-source solution for on-the-fly processing of images using .NET :: ImageProcessor
ImageProcessor is a collection of lightweight libraries written in C# that allows you to manipulate images on-the-fly using .NET 4.5+
ymx/RefExplorer
The .NET Reference Explorer (in short RefExplorer) is a Windows software to display dependencies between .NET assemblies. Dependencies to legacy DLLs (via P/Invoke) are also displayed.
In Other News...
5 things you need to know about Microsoft HoloLens
Of course we have to include some details about the recently announced HoloLens. CNET runs down all you need to know.