The Morning Brew

Software

• Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.2 Beta Released – Steve Dower shares a look at the latest beta release of the Python Tools for Visual Studio
• New Features in Bing Developer Assistant March Release – Jialiang highlights the new features added in the March release of the Bing Developer Assistant, tooling which brings various help with coding from how to guides to sample code
• MAT v4.0 Technical Preview Update 2 with Xamarin support – Cameron Lerum announces the release of the Multilingual App Toolkit v4.0 Technical Preview Update 2, with continued support for the Xamarin platform, in addition to core .NET platforms

Information

• My new free eBook is out: OWIN Succinctly by Syncfusion & OWIN Succinctly: free ebook – Simone Chiaretta & Ugo Lattanzi announce the release of their free e-book on the OWIN (Open Web Server Interface for .NET) specification, available via SyncFusion (registration required)
• Xamarin & Caliburn.Micro – The Caliburn.Micro outline their roadmap for adding support for Xamarin to the framework.
• Aurelia & Angular 2.0 Code Side by Side – Rob Eisenberg shares a short comparision of code written against AngularJS 2.0 with the same functionality expressed in Aurelia.
• What is New in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 – Nikolaos Kantzelis shares his thoughts on the ASP.NET 5 and ASP.NET MVC 6
• Hosting HTTP Resources – Ricardo Peres takes a look at some of the pure .NET ways of hosting HTTP based services
• Taking full dumps for big IIS apps – Ayende discusses some of the benefits of hosting applications inside IIS, and discusses taking a memory dump of an IIS hosted application, and a trick which stops the application restarting when you do.
• Forcing $q .notify() To Execute With A No-Op In AngularJS – Ben Nadal discusses working with cached data in AngularJS and the use of deferred values
• AngularJS and $scope.$apply() best practices – Kamil Lelonek discusses interaction with the Anugular $scope from outside Angular, and how to use $apply calls to make things work
• Something Razor Should Learn From JSX – Nik Molnar shares some thoughts on view templating looking at how React works, and thinking about improvements in the View – View Model interaction in ASP.NET MVC Razor views.
• Visual Studio Time Saver – Faster HTML Coding – Susan Ibach shares a look at the Zen Coding extension which makes writing HTML quicker and easier in Visual Studio.

Community

• dotnetConf is back, this Wednesday – The .NET Team highlight dotnetConf, an online conference taking place over two days, startng tomorrow (Wednesday), with the first day having 10 sessions from the ,NET Product Teams, and the second day having 9 talks from community members

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