The Morning Brew #1169
Posted by Chris Alcock on Thursday 16th August 2012 at 08:38 am | Tagged as: .NET, COM Interop, Development, Morning Brew
Update: Fixed a typo suggesting that Scott Hanselman’s Videos were for .NET 3.5 – Thanks to Graham for letting me know via the comments
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 24 hours you will already be aware of some of what follows….
Visual Studio 2012, .NET 4.5 and Windows 8 RTM
- Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 now available! – Somasegar announces the RTM availability of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 available now to download for MSDN Subscribers
- Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released to the web! – Jason Zander also announces the release, as well as taking a look at the top 12 features of Visual Studio 2012
- Announcing the release of .NET Framework 4.5 RTM – Product and Source Code – Brandon Bray highlights the framework release specifically, and takes a look at what is new and improved in the various areas of the framework.
- Final versions of Windows 8, .NET Framework 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 now available for download – Aaron Stebner provides direct download links and some installation tips for the Visual Studio, .NET and Windows 8 releases
- Windows 8 RTM is available for developers – Ian LeGrow highlights the availability of Windows 8 RTM to developers via MSDN and TechNet, along with a 90 day evaluation version available to everyone to allow developers to continue testing and developing for Windows8
- Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 is RELEASED – Here’s 5 minute videos to get you up to speed quick – Scott Hanselman shares the news of the .NET
3.54.5 and Visual Studio release along with sharing thirteen 5 minute videos which look at key features for Web Development in Visual Studio 2012
Software
- ASP.NET Web API Released and a Preview of What’s Next – Henrik F Nielsen proudly announces the release of ASP.NET Web API as a part of the Visual Studio and .NET releases, and looks to what the future holds for WebAPI
- EF5 Released – The Entity Framework Team announce the official release of Entity Framework 5 both on NuGet and also in the box in Visual Studio 2012
- Web Essentials 2012 released – Mads Kristensen announces the release of Web Essentials 2012, a Visual Studio Extension for Visual Studio 2012 which further enhances the capabilities of the Visual Studio IDE foe all sorts of Web Development tasks.
- WCF Data Services 5.0.2-rc Prerelease – The WCF Data Services Team announce their next preview release of the WCF Data Services, available as a prerelease package on NuGet.
- Reactive Extensions v2.0 has arrived! – Bart J.F. De Smet announces the release of the Reactive Extensions 2.0 as a part of the Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 release. This version also supports .NET 4.0 developments as well as Silverlight 5 and Windows Phone 7.5 in addition to the expected .NET 4.5
Information
- A Troubleshooting Guide for Entity Framework Connections & Migrations – K. Scott Allen shares a useful guide to troubleshooting common issues with Entity Framework Connection and the Entity Framework Migrations functionality
- Implementing Then with Await – Stephen Toub takes a look at how you can implement ‘Then’ methods in your code when using the new Async / Await functionality in C# and VB.NET
- OData support in ASP.NET Web API – Alex D James discusses the support for OData query options in ASP.NET WebAPI highlighting the availability of a preview NuGet package to assist in making OData services using WebAPI
- Adding Web Optimization to a Web Pages Site – Rick Anderson takes a look at implementing Web Optimization on a Windows Azure Web Pages site, showing how to configure bundling in your site
- Keeping in touch with the Web optimization team – Howard Dierking talks about plans to get the Web Optimization functionality rolled into the Open Source ASP.NET Stack hosted on CodePlex
- OAuth/OpenID Support for WebForms, MVC and WebPages – Pranav Rastogi discusses one fo the new exciting features of ASP.NET 4.5, the ability to have consumers log into your site using OAuth from Twitter, Facebook and the like
Either Scott Hanselman is seriously behind the curbe, or you’ve got a typo and .Net 3.5 should read 4.5 😉