The Morning Brew

//Build

• What’s New for C# and VB in Visual Studio – Rich Lander discusses the new language features which are included in the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 release
• Using the New Exception Helper in Visual Studio ’15’ Preview – Kaycee Anderson discusses the new and improved exception helper, available as a feature toggle in the preview release
• Break on Exceptions Thrown only from Specific Modules in Visual Studio “15” Preview – Kaycee Anderson also shares a look at another improvement to exception handling in the IDE with the ability to break on exceptions originating from specific modules.
• .NET at Build 2016 – Open, Cross-platform and FREE – Rich Lander highights the key announcements from Build regarding cross platform development from Xamarin, RedHat and the .NET Foundation
• Mobile App Development made easy with Visual Studio and Xamarin – John Montgomery discusses the announcement that Xamarin technology will be freely available, and the plans to bring Camarin and Visual Studio even closer
• Mono Relicensed MIT – Miguel de Icaza announces that the Mono project will be re-released under a MIT license, to be managed by the .NET Foundation. This includes the runtime, as well as Proprietary Mono Extensions

Software

• Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition is now free – The SQL Server team announce the news that the Developer Edition of SQL Server (which is an enterprise edition without the production use license) will now be free for everyone
• What’s new in Git for Windows 2.8? – Johannes Schindelin gives an overview of some of the improvements in the latest edition of Git for Windows.
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update brings New Experiences and Developer Opportunity – Terry Myerson discusses some of the new features that are coming in the next update of Windows 10 that developers can take advantage of.

Information

• Free Xamarin Technology Changes Everything – Carl Franklin shares his thoughts on the inclusion of Xamarin as part of the general .NET offering gives an compelling story for the platform
• Bash for Windows: Why it’s awesome and what it means for PowerShell – Joey Aiello discusses the significance of the Bash announcement with regard to the PowerShell project.
• Post //build – the 4 technologies .NET people should learn in 2016 – Elton Stoneman highlights 4 significant technologies that he believes will be important ones to master following the news from Build.
• The week in .NET – 3/29/2016 – Bertrand Le Roy shares this weeks ‘This Week in .NET’
• Getting Started With Angular 2 Step by Step: 6 – Consuming Real Data with Http – Jaime González García continues his series looking at the use of Angular2 to build real applications, exploring retrieval of data over HTTP.
• Angular2 secure file download without using an access token in URL or cookies – Damian Bowden takes a look at how you can perform secure file downloads using Angular2

Community

• .NET/FRINGE/ – An atypical conference for open-source .NET developers. – The .NET Fringe conference returns for its next incarnation between the 10th and 12th July 2016, and currently has an open call for submissions for presentations

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