The Morning Brew

Software

• jQuery 1.8.2 Released – The jQuery Team announce the release of jQuery 1.8.2, a bugfix and performance regression fix release. As usual the files are available from the jQuery site, and should be making their way to the various content delivery networks.
• IE 9.0.10 Available via Windows Update – The Internet Explorer Team have released a high importance security patch for Internet Explorer 9 to address recently reported security issues. Additionally there is an update for Internet Explorer 10 to address a Adobe Flash issue.

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• New TaskCreationOptions and TaskContinuationOptions in .NET 4.5 – Stephen Toub discusses soem new options introduced to help further control the creation and continuation of tasks in .NET 4.5, taking a look at the use of DenyChildAttach, HideScheduler, and LazyCancellation.
• await is not ALWAYS your friend – (Looks like the author has removed this post on MSDN, but it can be found here – thanks to @westleyl for letting me know) Julien Dollon discusses how, as with all things, you should use async/await in a responsible fashion to avoid harming your applications performance.
• Adding NuGet Support to F# Interactive in VS2012 – Daniel Mohl follows up the technique for getting NuGet support in Visual Studio 2010’s F# Interactive window with a look at achieving the same in Visual Studio 2012
• The F# 3.0 Freebase Type Provider Sample – Integrating Internet-Scale Data Sources into a Strongly Typed Language – Don Syme highlights a new F# 3.0 Sample Pack Sample which implements a Freebase Type provider in F#, and highlights an academic research paper which discusses the background on working with this entity graph model.
• An Introduction To F# Type Providers – F# tutorial – Keith Battocchi discusses the new Type Provider feature in F# 3.0, looking at what they are, and how they are implemented and used.
• ASP.NET 4.5 ScriptManager Improvements in WebForms – Pranav Rastogi discusses some of the key improvements to the Script Manager in .NET 4.5 WebForms, looking at the improved jQuery support, Remapping of Framework scripts, and script manager registration.
• .Net CLR Injection : Modify IL Codes on Run-time – Jerry Wang takes a look at manipulating .NET IL at runtime to provide injection capabilities
• IlPad – icemanind shares a neat looking utility for taking C# and compiling it to IL, providing a useful reference for dynamic compiling (and decompiling to IL), and also a way of learning more about the IL that underpins language constructs.

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• C# Yellow Book 2012 Now Available – Rob Miles announces the 2012 edition of his C# Yellow Book, a free pdf download now in its 5th year of being updated. This edition contains updates and corrections, along with moving the GUI section onto XAML rather than WinForms.
• #mvvmlight V4 update for Win8 RTM – Laurent Bugnion has updated his MVVM Light framework for the Windows 8 RTM release, including a few updates, and discusses upgrading your applications to the RTM release in this post.
• FsCheck 0.8.3 and FsCheck.Xunit 0.3 – Kurt Schelfthout announces the latest versions of FsCheck and , adding support for running tests through NCrunch, and use of Assembly binding redirects to ensure that thte correct versions of assemblies are used.

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• An "is" operator puzzle, part two – Eric Lippert returns with the answer and reasoning behind his latest teaser puzzle looking at the use of the ‘is’ operator in C#
• Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is. – Scott Hanselman gives a nice overview of the new, changed and rearranged features in Windows 8, sharing his own personal feelings on the Windows8 RTM release.
• Greenfield Development with ASP.NET MVC & S#arp Lite – Day 1 – Billy McCafferty kicks off his new series of posts looking at creating greenfields applications using the ASP.NET MVC stack with his S#arp architecture extensions. This posts is the first real one in the series taking a look at requirements, user stories and actors in the system.
• Building an End-to-End Windows Store App – Part 1 – S. Somasegar takes a look building Windows Store applications in this first part of a two part series exploring the building of a simple RSS Consuming application using the new tooling and OS.
• Build Single Page Apps – Part 8 – JavaScript Data Services – John Papa continues his series of posts looking at building single page web applications with a look at Data Access / Data Services features that you need and want to structure your Single Page Applications code in a good, SRP observing way.
• List of ASP.NET Web API and HttpClient Samples – Henrik F Nielsen highlights a selection of WebAPI and HTTPClient samples available online, covering all aspects of using the latest Web Framework from Microsoft.
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Providers – Ricardo Peres discusses the various provider models which permit extensibility of ASP.NET and Web Forms, and looking at new areas of extensibility introduced in ASP.NET 4.0, which many have forgotten about.

Community

• Event: Windows Azure User Group Meeting – Manchester inc Special Guest – Sarah Lamb highlights the Manchester Azure Usergroup event this Thursday (30th) which features a special guest speaker, Cory Fowler, an Azure Technical Evangelist from Microsoft’s Redmond offices, who will be taking a look at building PHP applications on Azure.
• Free One Day Windows Azure Developer Camp Edinburgh, Thursday 30th August – Planky also highlights a Windows Azure Event taking place on Thursday (30th), this time a DevCamp event taking place in Edinburgh

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Update: Fixed a typo suggesting that Scott Hanselman’s Videos were for .NET 3.5 – Thanks to Graham for letting me know via the comments

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 24 hours you will already be aware of some of what follows….

Visual Studio 2012, .NET 4.5 and Windows 8 RTM

• Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 now available! – Somasegar announces the RTM availability of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 available now to download for MSDN Subscribers
• Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released to the web! – Jason Zander also announces the release, as well as taking a look at the top 12 features of Visual Studio 2012
• Announcing the release of .NET Framework 4.5 RTM – Product and Source Code – Brandon Bray highlights the framework release specifically, and takes a look at what is new and improved in the various areas of the framework.
• Final versions of Windows 8, .NET Framework 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 now available for download – Aaron Stebner provides direct download links and some installation tips for the Visual Studio, .NET and Windows 8 releases
• Windows 8 RTM is available for developers – Ian LeGrow highlights the availability of Windows 8 RTM to developers via MSDN and TechNet, along with a 90 day evaluation version available to everyone to allow developers to continue testing and developing for Windows8
• Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 is RELEASED – Here’s 5 minute videos to get you up to speed quick – Scott Hanselman shares the news of the .NET 3.5 4.5 and Visual Studio release along with sharing thirteen 5 minute videos which look at key features for Web Development in Visual Studio 2012

Software

• ASP.NET Web API Released and a Preview of What’s Next – Henrik F Nielsen proudly announces the release of ASP.NET Web API as a part of the Visual Studio and .NET releases, and looks to what the future holds for WebAPI
• EF5 Released – The Entity Framework Team announce the official release of Entity Framework 5 both on NuGet and also in the box in Visual Studio 2012
• Web Essentials 2012 released – Mads Kristensen announces the release of Web Essentials 2012, a Visual Studio Extension for Visual Studio 2012 which further enhances the capabilities of the Visual Studio IDE foe all sorts of Web Development tasks.
• WCF Data Services 5.0.2-rc Prerelease – The WCF Data Services Team announce their next preview release of the WCF Data Services, available as a prerelease package on NuGet.
• Reactive Extensions v2.0 has arrived! – Bart J.F. De Smet announces the release of the Reactive Extensions 2.0 as a part of the Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 release. This version also supports .NET 4.0 developments as well as Silverlight 5 and Windows Phone 7.5 in addition to the expected .NET 4.5

Information

• A Troubleshooting Guide for Entity Framework Connections & Migrations – K. Scott Allen shares a useful guide to troubleshooting common issues with Entity Framework Connection and the Entity Framework Migrations functionality
• Implementing Then with Await – Stephen Toub takes a look at how you can implement ‘Then’ methods in your code when using the new Async / Await functionality in C# and VB.NET
• OData support in ASP.NET Web API – Alex D James discusses the support for OData query options in ASP.NET WebAPI highlighting the availability of a preview NuGet package to assist in making OData services using WebAPI
• Adding Web Optimization to a Web Pages Site – Rick Anderson takes a look at implementing Web Optimization on a Windows Azure Web Pages site, showing how to configure bundling in your site
• Keeping in touch with the Web optimization team – Howard Dierking talks about plans to get the Web Optimization functionality rolled into the Open Source ASP.NET Stack hosted on CodePlex
• OAuth/OpenID Support for WebForms, MVC and WebPages – Pranav Rastogi discusses one fo the new exciting features of ASP.NET 4.5, the ability to have consumers log into your site using OAuth from Twitter, Facebook and the like

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