The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP – Charles Sterling gives the details of the September CTP Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, which will be released as a RTM update in November. In this post Charles highlights the various improvements and new features in both Visual Studio and TFS.
• Json.NET 4.5 Release 10 – Portable Class Library on NuGet – James Newton-King announces an updated release of JSON.NET 4.5, which takes advantage of the new Portable Class Library support in NuGet
• dotCover 2.2: Early Access Program is Open – The JetBrains team announce the opening of the dotCover 2.2 Early Access Program, giving you a chance to try out and feedback on the new features which the team will be including in the next release.
• Prism for .NET 4.5 Released Today – Brian Lagunas highlights the release of the .NET 4.5 Build of Prism

Information

• Web Platform Docs Debuts with Developer Resources & W3C’s Web Platform Docs – Your "Go To" for All Things Web Development – Eliot Graff of the Internet Explorer Team and Jean Paoli, President of Microsoft Open Technologies highlights the announcement of a new W3C release. Web Platform Documents is a new community resource for developer and designers for all things web.
• Writing a ContinueAfter method for Rx – Phil Haack takes a look at creating additional methods for the Reactive Extensions to allow sequences to be evaluated after other sequences, discussing some of the intracies of working with the Reactive Extensions.
• Favor query objects over repositories – Jimmy Bogard discusses his preference for query objects over the use of repositories with specific methods, highlighting the benefits in terms of maintainability and testability.
• What are the 14 Keywords of Small Basic? – Ed Price discusses 14 of the keywords in the Small Basic language giving examples of their use.
• A Single Page App with Knockout.js, ASP.NET Web API, and F# – Daniel Mohl shares an example of a Single Page web application which has been built using F#, WebAPI and Knockout.JS

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