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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Monday and Tuesday are public holidays here in the UK, so inkeeping with Morning Brew tradition there will be no editions on those days, with The Morning Brew returning on Wednesday 6th June. Have a great Weekend!

Visual Studio & .NET 4.5

• Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Release Candidates available now! & Announcing the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 – Somasegar and Jason Zander announce the release candidate of Visual Studio 2012 (formerly VS11) and .NET 4.5. This new release brings together some additional visuals, changes and enhancements to the UI and further increases in functionality from the Beta releases, along with a ‘Go Live’ license allowing you to deploy applications written using the new stuff in production.
• Visual Studio/TFS 2012 Release Candidate Available Today – Brian Harry announces the TFS 2012 release candidate, discussing the new and improved functionality included since the beta release
• Visual Studio 2012 RC is released – The Big Web Rollup – Scott Hanselman gives a run down of the key features included in Visual Studio 2012 for Web Developers
• How To Prevent Visual Studio 2012 ALL CAPS Menus! – Richard Banks shares a registry change which will result in Visual Studio 2012 using the ‘correct’ case for the menu items, removing the all caps effect from the menu titles.
• What’s New for Parallelism in Visual Studio 2012 RC – Stephen Toub discusses the improvements made in the area of parallelism since the beta release, talking about the work done ‘under the covers’ to improve stability and performance with compiler changes, and improvements for ASP.NET and Data flow.
• What’s New in LightSwitch for Visual Studio 2012 RC? – John Stallo of the LightSwitch team discusses what is new in the release candidate edition of Visual Studio LightSwitch, which is now included ‘in the box’ with Visual Studio.

Windows 8

• Delivering the Windows 8 Release Preview – Steven Sinofsky announces the release of the Release Candidate of Windows 8, highlighting the new applications, features and improvements which have gone into this final pre-release edition of Windows 8
• Windows Release Preview: The Sixth IE10 Platform Preview – The Internet Explorer Team announce the inclusion of the 6th platform preview edition of Internet Explorer 10 as a part of the Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 release candidate release. This release includes improvements to help managing your privacy, touch support in Adobe Flash, improved web standards support with the removal of vendor prefixes from functionality which has reached Candidate Recommendation status.
• Microsoft IIS 8.0 Express Release Candidate is Released! – Robert McMurray highlights the release candidate for Internet Information Services (IIS) Express 8.0, building on the functionality available in the full IIS 8.0 available in the Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 release candidates.
• What’s changed for app developers since the Consumer Preview – Jake Sabulsky (with some help from Dave Bennett, Marc Wautier, Paul Chapman, Heather Brown, Keith Boyd, and Steve Wright) discusses the key changes to Windows 8 for application developers since the beta release,
• Windows 8 Release Preview is out! – Jennifer Marsman highlights the Windows 8 release candidate and points to a number of related resources (including an all important product key) whih focus on aspects of the Windows 8 release, application development and market place.

Software

• Simple.Web – Mark Rendle reveals his latest project ‘Simple.Web’ a light weight framework which is friendly to TDD and BDD testing, supports async non-blocking request handling, does REST properly and is open an extensibile. Mark discusses the design goals, and how the framework works, along with sharing the video of his session at SkillsMatter’s Progressive .NET tutorial where he first revealed Simple.Web.
• WiX v3.6 Release Candidate available. – Rob Mensching announces the release candidate of WiX 3.6, the latest incarnation of the Windows Installer XML tooling.

Information

• Past performance is no guarantee of future results – Eric Lippert discusses why compiling a C# program twice may result in different binary output from each build, discussing how the compilation process works to explain why.
• MSDN Magazine June Issue Preview – Michael Desmond gives a preview of the June edition of MSDN magazine which should be online sometime in the next 24 hours.

Community

• Registration is open for aspConf – Eric Hexter announces the opening of registration for aspConf, a free two day online virtual conference which will be focusing on Web Development on the .NET Stack whcih will take place on the 17th and 18th July. Registration of ‘attendees’ is open, as is the call for speakers.

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