The Morning Brew

Software

• Kinect for Windows: SDK and Runtime version 1.5 Released – Craig Eisler of the Kinect for Windows team announces the release of the Kinect for Windows SDK and Runtime version 1.5. This release includes a number of major improvements including Kinect Studio, a tool for working with and replaying Kinect data, Face Tracking support, human interface guidelines.
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• Introducing GitHub For Windows – GitHub, and Phil Haack announce the public release of GitHub for Windows, their easy way of getting up and running with Git (and GitHub) on the Windows Platform. The application is a Metro styled one, and provides a nice user experience, and the application is also bundled with an enhanced version of Git and the Posh-Git PowerShell extensions.

Information

• A Gentle Reintroduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Matthew Podwysocki discusses his recent work on the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript discussing the V1 SP! and the current Version 2 Beta releases, and highlights some of the recent improvements.
• ASP.NET Web API: Generating a Web API help page using ApiExplorer – Yao follows on from a previous post discussing the IApiExplorer interface in Web API, looking at how you can use this interface to build help pages for your API implementation, walking through the creation of a simple help page.
• Under the covers of the async modifier and await operator in .NET 4.5 and C# Metro style applications – Pete Brown shares his first .NET program written in IL, before going on to discuss how the new C# async and await keywords are implemented in IL
• Enhancing Windows 8 for multiple monitors – Steven Sinofsky shares a post from Mark Yalovsky discussing the improvements for Multi-Monitor support in Windows 8 – as someone who has been using Multi-Monitor setups for many years these improvements are all very very welcome.
• Windows 8: Top 10 Reasons why Metro development smokes Windows Desktop development – Jerry Nixon shares his 11 favorite reasons why he believes that Metro style application development on Windows 8 is better than developing for the classic Windows Desktop.
• Creating a fast and fluid app launch experience – Justin Cooperman discusses the work done to ensure that application startup on Windows 8 has the best experience possible, looking at the application lifecycle and application launch operation sequences.
• Document Databases : A look at them – Sacha Barber gives a nice overview of Document Databases in this CodeProject article, exploring Redis, MongoDB and RavenDB.

Community

• Windows 8 Camp in a Box – Mike Ormond highlights the availability of the materials from the Windows 8 Camp events which have been run here in the UK. The materials include the Hand on Labs, Presentations, samples giving those who didn’t attend (or those who did) a chance to gain knowledge.
• Event: Tech.Days: Visual Studio 11 Online Event, 28th June 2012, 1pm to 3pm – Sara Allison highlights an early afternoon online presentation on Visual Studio 11, looking at the Agile / Scrum features, Story boarding and IntelliTrace, improvements to the IDE, Coded UI Tests, and how non-VS developers can interact. The event is an online presentation between 1pm and 3pm on Thursday 28th June.

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