The Morning Brew

I both love and hate the Build conference – on one hand lots of exciting new announcments, on the other it takes me an age to put together monster editons of The Morning Brew like today’s….

Build Conference – General

• Build 2015 Keynote Day 1 Summary – Jennifer Marsman gives an summary of the Keynote from Day 1 of the Build conference
• BUILD 2015: Day 1 and Keynote Highlights – The Premier Developer site also has a summary of day 1 of Build and the Keynote
• (Cross-Post) Build 2015: Azure Storage Announcements! – Azure Storage Team summarise their announcements from the Build Conference

Visual Studio Code

• Introducing Visual Studio Code for Windows, Mac, and Linux – Scott Hanselman gives the low down on this new code editor available across multiple platforms, available for free, and supporting syntax highlighting for a wide array of languages, as well as intellisense for many too.
• Introducing Visual Studio Code – John Papa shares an introduction to Visual Studio Code, giving a good look at a number of its features over the following posts:
  • Getting Started with Visual Studio Code
  • Intellisense with Visual Studio Code
  • Refactoring with Visual Studio Code
  • Debugging with Visual Studio Code
  • Git and Preferences in Visual Studio Code
• First Hours with Visual Studio Code on Mac and Windows – Tugberk Ugurlu also shares his experiences of the first few hours of using Visual Studio Code

Software – Including Visual Studio

• Introducing Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Application Insights Public Preview and .NET Core Preview for Linux and Mac – S.Somasegar gives an overview of the Visual Studio and .NET announcements made at Build yesterday.
• Rounding out Visual F# 4.0 in VS 2015 RC – The Visual F# team share the details of their latest release of F#4.0 as a part of the Visual Studio 2015 RC release.
• Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server at Build 2015 – Brian Harry announces some of the key new features of Visual Studio Online and Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 5.
• Visual Studio 2015 RC Now Available! – Eric Battalio highlights the release of Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate as well as the Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Release Candidate, along with highlighting some of the C++ features in the new versions, and linking to a number of posts about those features, some of which are linked below too.
• New ASP.NET Features and Fixes in Visual Studio 2015 RC – Jeffrey T. Fritz highlights the ASP.NET and Web specific features included in the Visual Studio 2015 Release candidate.
• Blend for Visual Studio 2015 RC – Harikrishna Menon highlights the inclusion of a redesigned Blend for Visual Studio included with Visual Studio 2015’s Release Candidate
• .NET Announcements at Build 2015 – Rich Lander gives an overview of the .NET related announcements from the Build conference
• BUILD 2015 News: Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Team Foundation Server 2015 RC, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 – The Visual Studio Team share an overview of all their announcements and product changes made for the Build Event – further details on these can also be found in the posts linked below.
  • Load Test Enhancements in Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise edition – Charles Sterling
  • What’s new in CodeLens for Visual Studio 2015 RC? – Mathew Aniyan
  • Code maps now differentiate test projects, and bring code context into map elements – Mathew Aniyan
  • C++11/14/17 Features In VS 2015 RC – Stephan T. Lavavej
  • C++ EnC in Visual Studio 2015 – Andrew B Hall
  • Visual Studio Emulator for Android in VS2015 RC – John Kemnetz
  • Diagnosing Event Handler Leaks with the Memory Usage Tool in Visual Studio 2015 – Charles Willis
  • Continued Improvements for Breakpoint Configuration in Visual Studio 2015 – Kaycee Anderson
  • .NET EnC support for Lambdas and other improvements in Visual Studio 2015 – Andrew B Hall

Information

• Adding minimal OWIN Identity Authentication to an Existing ASP.NET MVC Application – Rick Strahl takes a detailed look at retrofitting OWIN Identity Authentication into a legacy ASP.NET application, walking through the setup and code in detail.
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Application Style and Layout – David Paquette continues his series looking at modernising legacy ASP.NET applications, exploring adding the bootstrap layout library amd modifying the application to use it.
• What’s Fixie and Why Should C# Programmers Care? – Jason Roberts shares a look at Fixie the .NET testing framework in this Visual Studio Magazine article
• ReSharper 9.1.1 RC and Matching ReSharper Ultimate Update for Visual Studio 2015 RC – The folks at JetBrains highlight their latest Release candidate release which adds support for the new Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate

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