The Morning Brew

So much interesting stuff, a release plus a 4 day weekend has left my RSS somewhat backed up, so content from the last few days will trickle through over the rest of the week.

Software

• Announcing Microsoft Roslyn June 2012 CTP, Announcing Microsoft "Roslyn" June 2012 CTP & Announcing the Microsoft "Roslyn" June 2012 CTP – Eric Lippert, Jason Zander and Kevin Pilch-Bisson share the announcement of the latest Rosyln CTP release. This release brings support for the Visual Studio 2012 RC, improved API, and extended language support

Information

• MSDN Magazine: June 2012 – The June edition of MSDN Magazin was release online over the long weekend, with articles looking at the use of the Windows Azure Service Bus, .NET 4.5 changes, HTML5, Knockout.js, Windows Phone 7, and the usual collection of columns.
• Codeuml – design UML diagrams as fast as you can code – Omar Al Zabir shares a neat looking UML diagram drawing application which builds on the functionality provided by PlanetUML to allow you to draw UML diagrams specified in a simple ‘programming’ like language.
• A Foundation for the Web – Edward Charbeneau discusses the significance of CSS3 and meda queries to allow you to build responsive designs for your web pages and applications.
• Microsoft Press Free E-book: Introducing Windows Server 2012 – Neveen K Nassif highlights a free e-book offering from the folks at Microsoft Press, giving access to ‘Introducing Windows Server 2012’ in PDF, MOBI and EPUB format. A reduced cost print option is also available.
• It’s an eBook day I guess… "Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (First Preview)" – Greg Duncan highlights another free ebook offering – this time a preview of the first 4 chapters of ‘Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript’
• Web browsing in Windows 8 Release Preview with IE10 – Rob Mauceri discusses the web browser experience in the Windows 8 Release Preview, looking at the use of Internet Explorer 10 in its Metro application guise.

Visual Studio 2012 RC / .NET 4.5 RC

• Visual Studio 2012 Compatibility (aka Project Round-Tripping) – Zain Naboulsi gives the lowdown on the support for round tripping project files between versions of Visual Studio
• Visual Studio 2012 and WinDbg Integration – MarioHewardt – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Mario Hewardt highlights the integration of WinDBG into Visual Studio 2012 once you install the WDK
• What’s new with T4 in Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidates – Gareth Jones highlights the changes and improvements to the T4 template support in Visual Studio 2012 RC
• What’s New in the BCL in the .NET Framework 4.5 – The BCL team point to some resources which discuss the changes to base class library in the latest .NET Release.
• Visual Studio 2012 Solution Explorer Enhancements – Wriju discusses some of the changes and improvements to the Visual Studio Solution Explorer in the RC release.
• June 4th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio – Jason Zander shares a link roundup of posts about the Visual Studio 2012 RC release.
• An even easier way to put a cap on the CAPS – RemoveCAPS Visual Studio 2012 RC Extension – Greg Duncan highlights a Visual Studio 2012 extension which will take the all caps visuals away.

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