Dear Readers,

The recently held Microsoft Build Developer Conference in June commenced with a very clear message to developers - Microsoft has created a powerful ecosystem in terms of the tools and platform to create modern Windows 8 apps. Keeping that in mind, this month we’ve put together two special articles on Windows 8.1 by Sumit.

We welcome Mayur Tendulkar as our newest contributor. Mayur shows us what it takes to make marketplace ready Wihdows Phone apps!

Gouri Sohoni discusses Agile Testing principles, along with some challenges faced while implementing Agile principles and resolving them using the tools provided as part of Visual Studio 2012

For our web developer audiences, Suprotim and Sumit have some exclusive stuff for you, which includes a FAQ that WebForm Developers ask about MVC, Async and Web API performance and a Task Calendar project using KnockoutJS & Web API

In the Interview section, we are privileged to talk to the Principal Program Manager of the ASP.NET Team, Scott Hunter (in his personal capacity). Scott talks about some exciting new stuff for Web Developers, the idea behind 'One ASP.NET', going Open Source, some power packed advice for web devs and his journey with Microsoft so far. Do not miss this one!

Once again, we thank our fabulous contributors Gouri Sohoni, Mayur Tendulkar, Sumit and Suprotim without whose time and efforts this issue wouldn't have been possible.

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