The Morning Brew

Bumper Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 edition today!

Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1

• Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP Released – John Montgomery announces the release of Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 along with the first CTP release of Team Foundation Server 2015
• VS 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1 shipped today – Brian Harry shares in the announcements, detailing some of the improvements and enhancements to Team Foundation Server
• ASP.NET 5 Updates and other improvements for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 – Jeffrey T. Fritz gives an overview of the major changes, and improvements to the ASP.NET 5 tooling in the latest CTP release, including project templates, System References, improvements to the Project properties page, command line tools improvements, and much more
• EnC Improvements for .NET Debugging in Visual Studio 2015 – Andrew B Hall takes a look at the Edit and Continue improvements in Visual Studio 2015 CPT6 and Kasey Uhlenhuth looks at its implementation in C# (Edit & Continue and Make Object ID Improvements in CTP 6) and VB.NET (Edit & Continue and Make Object ID Improvements in CTP 6))
• Performance Improvement When Debugging .NET Code With Visual Studio 2015 – Andrew B Hall also discusses some of the improvements to the debugger whcih have had a significant impact on performance
• The New Exception Settings Window in Visual Studio 2015 – Kaycee Anderson shares a look at the new Exception Settings Debugger Window which makes it easier to control debugger behaviour when encountering specific exceptions
• Code Map improvements in Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 – Jean-Marc Prieur of The Code Insights team shares a look at the improvements and enhancements made to Code Maps, including better performance, styling and dependency handling and representation
• The Visual Studio Emulator for Android in VS2015 CTP6 – John Kemnetz highlights the update to the Android Emulator which brings targeting for Lollipop, OpenGL ES support, multi-touch input, and advanced camera simulation features.

Software

• Introducing ASP.NET 5 – Scott Guthrie give ASP.NET vNext its official Name, and shares an in depth look at the re-architected framework for modern web application development.
• NuGet 3.0 Beta Released – The Nuget Team announce the beta relase of Nuget 3.0 for Visual Studio 2013 and 2015, with a preview release for VS2012 coming soon.

Information

• Binding with Value Converters in Aurelia – Rob Eisenberg shares a post from Jeremy Danyow of the Aurelia team, who specialises in binding. The post takes a look at the use of value converters in Aurelia
• Dynamic types in Web API & Dynamic schema in Web API – Rory Primrose takes a look at the use of Dynamic features with WebAPI in the messages echanged between client and server
• .NET Packaging mess – Ayende highlights some of the pain of having so many .NET Framework platforms
• Autoscaling Azure-Cloud Services – Kirk Evans discusses and looks at a sample illustrating how Azure Queues allow cloud services to be more easily scaled.
• Running the Ruby Middleman Static Site Generator on Microsoft Azure – Scott Hanselman takes a look at getting the Middleman Static Site Generator running using Ruby on Windows Azure, highlighting how you can build Native Ruby Gems, and looking at the deployment using version control.

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Software

• Umbraco 7.2.2 and 6.2.5 released – Umbraco Team
• Open sourcing and releasing ASP.NET Identity 2.2.0 – Pranav Rastogi

Information

• It’s Time To Get Over That Stored Procedure Aversion You Have – Rob Conery
• Visual Studio Web Packages fixing the path in the generated web package – Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
• Using Entity Framework within an Owin-hosted Web API with Unity – Simone Chiaretta
• Time conversions in PowerShell (and .NET in general) – Sergey Babkin
• Autoscaling Azure-Virtual Machines – Kirk Evans
• Deploying F# Web Job to Azure – DrCrook
• Reshaping Arrays in .NET – Natallie Baikevich
• No bugs journey episode 2: It’s a matter of values… – Eric Gunnerson
• First impressions with DiffSharp, an F# autodiff library – Mathias Brandewinder
• ReSharper Jasmine and RequireJS – Rory Primrose
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Optimizing Compare – The circle of life (a post-mortem) – Federico Andres Lois via Ayende
• Introducing Module Browser – A World of Reusable PowerShell Modules at your Fingertips – Jialiang
• MVC 6 aspnet50 full text search with Elasticsearch – Damienbod
• Code Sharing Strategies for iOS & Mac – Michael James

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Software

• Knockout.js 3.3 Released – Ryan Niemeyer
• Dash.js v1.3 released – Eric Mitt
• Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview February 2015 is now available – Krishna C Vutukuri

Information

• Roslyn Code Gems – Counting Bits – K.Scott Allen
• Proper benchmarking to diagnose and solve a .NET serialization bottleneck – Scott Hanselman
• ChessTDD 26: At Last, Acceptance Tests – Erik Dietrich
• AngularJS – Best Practices – John Ptacek
• Introducing the Visual Studio 2015 Extension for ASP.NET Project Templates – Pranav Rastogi
• Reliable database tests with Respawn – Jimmy Bogard
• Simplicity Principles and Anti-Patterns – Timothy Klenke
• Visual Studio Online, Git, and Eclipse – Kirk Evans
• Coffee Break | Windows PowerShell and Piping – Lars Lohndorf-Larsen

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