The Morning Brew

Software

• .NET Framework Libraries – With the release of .NET 4.5 RTM this week, the Reference Source for 4.5 joins the others available to download via the Microsoft Shared Source Initiative

Information

• ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web Pages 2, and Visual Studio 2012 for web developers: Part 1 – Jon Galloway kicks off a series of posts looking at the .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 release from the point of view of a ASP.NET Developer, in this part discussing getting and installing the bits and sharing some great resources to learn more about various aspects of the release.
• ASP.NET Web API is released! What’s new in Web API RTM and how to use it! – Filip W. takes a look at what is new and has changed since the Release Candidate build in ASP.NET Web API RTM, looking at per-route message handlers, per controller configuration, improvements to content negotiation, process message handlers, streaming of responses and much more
• ASP.NET MVC, Web API & Web Pages – Nightly builds now set up for post-RTM builds – Brad Wilson discusses the change to the nightly builds now that RTM is out the door, and how the team are moving on to MVC ‘4.1’ and Web Pages ‘2.1’, which is what the nightly builds will now be,
• Custom schemas in VS2012 CSS editor – Mads Kristensen discusses how easily you can extend the Visual Studio 2012 CSS Editor using Visual Studio Extensibility VSX Packages walking through adding support for some older vendor prefixes.
• ASP.NET Web API Tracing (Preview) – Ron Cain takes a look at the trace diagnostics logging which is available in ASP.NET Web API as an extension preview package
• Levels Of Abstraction In An MVC View – K.Scott Allen discusses how keeping things simple and standard, and observing the Single Responsibility Principle makes understanding and modification of code easier, even up at the view level.
• Visual Studio 2012 and MSDN Licensing White Paper – This actual post is in Czech, however the document it links to is available in English, and now that VS2012 is available it is important to understand the licensing for it and MSDN.

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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 3.5 4.5 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

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Exciting day today with the RTM release of Visual Studio 2012, .NET 4.5 and Windows 8 making their way onto MSDN for Subscribers. I suspect the release will start to show up once the west coast of the US wakes up and gets to work pressing the button.

Information

• Out parameters and LINQ do not mix – Eric Lippert returns from his holidays with a discussion of the use of out parameters with LINQ and how you should always avoid side effects in LINQ queries
• Out of Order Execution and Memory Models – Sasha Goldshtein discusses how the order of execution of the code you write is not guaranteed with both compilers and processors being free to re-order the execution of instructions, and the complications that gives for multithreaded code.
• Performance Tips: Faster than StringBuilder? – Feng Yuan continues his series looking at the performance of string operations, discussing how string.Join gives better performance than a StringBuilder when merging full strings.
• Showing files with pending changes or files that are open in Visual Studio 2012 Solution Explorer – Charles Sterling shares a neat Visual Studio 2012 tip for finding files with pending changes or open files in the Solution Explorer
• Testing routes in ASP.NET Web API – Filip W discusses the testing of your route implementations in ASP.NET WebAPI based code, reminding us that in simple situations you probably don’t need to test this stuff, before moving on to look at how you can test when you are doing more complicated things.
• The ASP.NET Forms Authentication replacement Microsoft doesn't want you to see
  – The folks over at AppHarbor highlight a previously removed post where they shared their own implementation of ASP.NET Forms Authorization. Their implementation works a bit differently from the built in ASP.NET implementation, and is open sourced on GitHub
• Caching LINQ Results – Chris Eargle discusses three key concepts to understand when working with LINQ, the conepts of Delayed Execution, Materialization and Memoization, looking at how the correct choice of technique effects how your code works.

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