The Morning Brew

Software

• The Road to Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5 Beta – Somasegar announces the date for the beta release of Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5, both with a go-live license. The date for release is Wednesday 29th February. Jason Zander also shares the announcement in his post ‘Sneak Preview of Visual Studio 11 and .NET Framework 4.5 Beta‘
• Introducing the New Developer Experience – The Visual Studio Blog features and article from Monty Hammontree, the Director of User Experience in the Developer Tools Division discussing the significant changes to the Visual Studio IDE being released as a part of the Visual Studio 11 Beta.
• Visual Studio 11 Beta – The Microsoft Visual Studio product website has also recieved an update for the beta release, with a range of content discussing the beta products to be released on Wednesday.
• Coming Soon: TFS Express – Brian Harry announces a new edition of Team Foundation Server coming in TFS 11. Team Foundation Server Express will provide the core developer features required, including integration with Visual Studio Express editions, and will be free for team sizes of up to 5 users

Information

• Visual Studio 11 Design Changes – What, Really? & Mmm, news about Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 beta! – Roland Weigelt and Julian M Bucknall discuss the VS 11 and .NET 4.5 Beta release, discussing the UI changes and licensing.
• Validating your models in ASP.NET Web API – Pablo M. Cibraro discusses how the common extensibility model between ASP.NET MVC and the ASP.NET Web API means you get features from one in the other, looking at model binding and validation in Web API.
• More about REST: File upload download service with ASP.NET Web API and Windows Phone background file transfer – Yi-Lun Luo looks at updating code from WCF Web API to the ASP.NET Web API Beta, and looks at the consumption of such a service from the Windows Phone 7 using the Background File Transfer services
• ASP.NET Web API and ELMAH Integration – Tugberk Ugurlu takes a look at integrating the ASP.NET Web API with EMLAH to handle errors, looking at how the integration has changed from the WCF Web API.
• Building Expression Evaluator with Expression Trees in C# – Part 1 – Giorgi Dalakishvili kicks off a series of posts looking at the creation of an Expression Evaluator using C# and Expression Trees, working through the process in a test first style.
• How do I use HTML5 in Visual Studio 2010? – Susan Ibach shares her experiences and tips for working with HTML 5 in Visual Studio 2010
• Cross-cutting concerns via Interception on Windows Phone – Ilya Builuk explores the application of Aspect Oriented Programming approaches to deal with cross cutting concerns in your Windows Phone applications in this Code Project article.

Comments Off on The Morning Brew #1051