The Morning Brew

Software

• Windows 10 Launching This Summer in 190 Countries and 111 Languages – Terry Myerson highligths some of the rollout plans for Windows 10, and some of the opportunities it presents.
• Introducing NGraphics – Frank A. Krueger shares NGraphics, a cross platform vector graphics library available as a Portable Class Library on NuGet

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• Diagnosing dependency issues with ASP.NET 5 – David Fowler shares some thoughts on debugging and addressing dependency issues on ASP.NET 5, sharing some of the techniques that the team have learnt while working on the platform.
• Announcing Enterprise Site Discovery support on IE8, IE9, IE10 and new privacy enhancements – Deen King-Smith of the Internet Explorer Team shares an announcement of some improvements to IE8, 9 ,10 and 11 in Corporate environments which are being shipped in the latest update to IE.
• ProfBugging – How to find leaks with allocation profiling – Alois Kraus discusses further performance debugging techniques using Event Tracing for Windows to help diagnose issues with allocations in applications
• Creating an Angular application end-2-end – Part 3 – Gabriel Schenker shares the 3rd part of this series looking at building an application using AngularJS and CQRS + Event Sourcing as the software architecture.
• Storing Your Secrets in Azure Websites App Settings – Jonathan Rozenblit shares a guest post from Dave White looking at securing your applications settings when you are running and managing your application through Azure
• How to handle big repositories with git – Nicola Paolucci discusses handling large git based repositories, discussing the two ways in which repositories get large, and discussing some techniques to work with such repositories.

Community

• dotnetConf 2015 – Channel 9 – Channel 9 have all the session recordings from DotNetConf available for you to watch on demand, offering a great range of learning opportunities

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A short links only edition today as very shortly there will be a 95+% solar eclipse to observe (hopefully the clouds will play)

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• Prism grows up – Christopher Bennage
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Auto-property initialization in C# 6 – James Michael Hare
• Premature Scalability and the Root of All Evil – Dino Esposito
• Large JavaScript Frameworks Are Like Fast Food Restaurants – Chris Love
• Simulating Network Latency In AngularJS With $http Interceptors And $timeout – Ben Nadel
• Why you (as an HTML developer) should start to think of the DOM as a travelling salesman problem – Mikael Svenson
• Reference foo.dll could not be resolved because indirect dependency on System.Runtime 1.5.11.0 – Dan Hounshell
• Get Ready for Global Azure Bootcamp – Jonathan Rozenblit
• Look, No Mocks! Functional TDD with F# – Mark Seemann

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Software

• MSBuild Engine is now Open Source on GitHub – Rich Lander announces the news that the MSBuild Engine is the latest project to move to an open source model with code hosting on GitHub
• Windows driver frameworks source on GitHub – J M Rossy also announces another project moving to having source on GitHub – the Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF) joins the party over there, although at this time the team aren’t making use of pull requests for contributions.
• introducing Obvs, the observable µService* bus – Christopher Read shares a new project which has come out of his commercial work. Obs provides a wrapper round a service bus implementation providing a observable interface and abstraction from the underlying implementation.

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• Rendering engine updates in March for the Windows 10 Technical Preview – Kyle Pflug discusses the latest changes to the Internet Explorer Rendering engine in a new update pushed out to Insiders to help the team more rapidly iterate.
• Naming Things Is Hard: Using Object Pattern Names – Steve Wilkes discusses the naming of objects,a nd how sometimes the patterns we implement with the objects provide a good starting point for names.
• Waiting for gulp Tasks To Finish in Visual Studio – David Paquette takes a look at using Gulp tasks in Visual Studio and fixing an error caused by the IDE not waiting for the tasks to complete before the build process kicks off.
• Integrating Gulp into your TFS builds and Web Deploy – Steve Cadwallader takes a look at getting Gulp integrated into your TFS build and Web Deploy processes, working step by step through the process
• HttpConnection Limit in .NET – Tom DuPont shares a useful tip to help increase the number of concurrent HTTP connections issued from .NET applications.
• .NET Fringe, defining the future | Glenn Block – Glenn Block highlights the .NET Fringe event being hosted in Portland between 12 and 14th April, and talks about the ever growing importance of open source projects to the .NET Ecosystem
• Which Angular Version Should You Learn? – the ‘Angular First’ blog takes a look at an important consideration for anyone thinking about adoption of the AngularJS framework – which version should you start using?

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