The Morning Brew

I’m planning an Afternoon Tea post this afternoon / evening to attempt to record all the great articles and announcements I have open in the (must be aproaching 100+) browser tabs which are currently causing my laptop to go very slow.

Software

• Visual Studio 11 ALM Developer Preview: Virtual Machine with Hands-on-Labs + Demo Scripts now available – Esther Fan highlights the availability of a Virtual Machine Environment for the Visual Studio 11 ALM Preview release, including demos and hands on labs, and the correct versions of all the bits and pieces all preconfigured.

Information

• Improvements in the CLR Core in .NET Framework 4.5 – Sasha Goldshtein highlights some of the many improvements made in the preview release of the new version of the .NET Framework, discussing Garbage Collection, JIT, NGen and other optimisations.
• What’s New For Parallelism in .NET 4.5 – Stephen Toub discusses the enhancements made to the .NET Framework which improve the support for parallel programming, disucssing the Task Parallel Library, PLINQ, improved support for controlling your workload via partitioning, reductions, timeouts, the introduction of Async support, and the improved tooling in Visual Studio.
• New Tools and New Content – ASP.NET, Visual Studio 11 Web and .NET 4.5 Developer Preview (with commentary) – Scott Hanselman discusses the new releases from the ‘Angle Brackets Team’ announced at //Build/, including their part in Visual Studio 11, the NuGet 1.5 update for VS 11, ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 Preview, Web Pages 2 Preview, RIA for JS/HTML5, and the WCF 4.5 Developer preview. Lots of great stuff to play with.
• New CSS editor features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview – Web Development Tools @ Microsoft – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Van Kichline and Peter Spada of the VWD Dev Team share a look at the new CSS editor functionality available in the Visual Studio 11 product line, discussing the improvements, and showing how you can give feedback on the new features.
• Knockout.js – using MVVM in HTML & JavaScript applications – Dan Jones discusses the Knockout.js Javacript MVVM implementation from Steve Sanderson, highlighing some good resources for those interested in getting started with Knockout (which I’m sure I saw somewhere was included in the MVC4 Preview release).
• Running Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtual environment – Steven Sinofsky shares a post from Sue Bohn, David Hicks, Cornel Lupu discussing the use of the Windows 8 Developer Preview in different Virtualisation Technologies, highlighting those know to work OK and those which have issues.
• Functional Fun: What’s new in C# 5.0 and VB.Net? – Samuel Jack discusses some of the significant new features of the C#5 and VB.NET releases included in the .NET 4.5 / VS 11 Developer Preview announced in Anders Hejlberg’s session at //Build/ including Windows Runtime, The Roslyn Project and Asynchronous Methods.

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