The Morning Brew

Still struggling to keep up (or catch up) – there may have to be an ‘Afternoon Tea’ post this weekend to get back up to date.

//Build

• The Windows Runtime & Using WinRT from C# //build Demo – Harry Pierson discusses his involvement with the WinRT as a Program Manager on the Runtime Experience Team, highlighting some of the key features, pointing to //Build sessions about those features, and sharing some example code from his session on Using Windows Runtime from C# and Visual Basic.
• Learning about the Team Foundation Service Preview – Martin Woodward shares the key information about the Team Foundation Service hosted service running on the Windows Azure Platform, discussing the key features, where you can find more information, and how you can help give feedback.
• TFS Azure – Technical Access Preview Experience! – Tarun Arora discusses the TFS as a Service, sharing some key questions and answers, as well as giving a walk through the product by way of a series of screenshots with narrative.
• PowerShell v3 and JSON – Doug Finke highlights the release of PowerShell 3 as a part of the Windows Developer Preview, making note of two new commands which give PowerShell native JSON support
• Web API Preview 5 Is Now Available – Howard Dierking highlights the announcement of the 5th Preview release of the Web API at the //Build Conference. This new preview is a significant step forwards with a large number of new features along with some breaking changes. The release is also available via NuGet.
• New JavaScript editing features for Web development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview – The Web Development Tools blog highlights some of the new features for JavaScript in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, comparing the new implementation to what was available in Visual Studio 2010.
• WinRT demystified – Miguel de Icaza gives a nice discussion of the WinRT, looking at its origins, the problems it looks to fix, and discusses its use in building components
• Lots and lots of interesting //Build related posts being written still….here are a few:
  • Microsoft dev stack vNext from Build – Simone Chiaretta
  • OK, so I think HTML/JS for Metro apps is a good idea – Mark Rendle
  • BUILD: WinRT, Silverlight, WPF, XAML – Jeremy Alles
  • Build day 2: WinRT and managed languages – Bill Wagner
  • BUILD Day #2 in Review According to MVPs – MVP Award Program
  • SELA Blogs and Tweets @ BUILD – Sasha Goldshtein highlights //Build content from some of his colleagues.
• Download all the Build Videos with RSS – Michael Crump highlights the availability of RSS feeds including the links to the video recordings of //Build Sessions. Greg Duncan also has a useful tip for building a custom feed in his post Channel 9 Events / BUILD2011 RSS Feed Tip, Building your perfect, custom, filtered BUILD RSS feed –

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• WebMatrix and node.js: The easiest way to get started with node on Windows – Scott Hanselman highlights some great work by Tomasz Janczuk and Steve Sanderson which brings a use of WebMatrix as an IDE for Node.Js Development on the Windows Platform by way of some project templates and the IISNode for IIS Express project.
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The String Remove() and Replace() Methods – James Michael Hare continues his series of less well known about parts of the .NET Framework and C# language continuing exploring some of the methods of the String class, looking today at Remove and Replace.
• Back to Basics: Big O notation issues with older .NET code and improving for loops with LINQ deferred execution – Scott Hanselman is also continuing his Back to Basics series with a look at the Big O notation for analysing the performance characteristics of code, digging through an example of a method in the .NET Framework, and discussing its performance, along with comparing how a LINQ based version would behave.
• A Step-by-step guid to creating your first Hello World Metro style app using Live Connect – Shelly Guo shares a walkthrough of building a Windows 8 Metro application which makes use of the Live Connect SDK (another new release at //Build) developed in HTML and JavaScript.
• My Pluralsight C++ Fundamentals course is live! (and free for a little while) – Kate Gregory highlights the release of her C++ Fundamentals course with the folks at Pluralsight, which is available to access during //Build for free.
• Zombies! RUN! (Managing Page Transitions In Backbone Apps) – Derick Bailey continues his series of posts looking at the Backbone.js platform and discusses some of the common problem developer can run into with event binding.

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