The Morning Brew

Very Visual Studio 2012 heavy today, with lots of coverage due to the launch event yesterday. Als, I’ve added a checkbox (on the right hand site of the site layout) which will allow the toggling of ‘open in new window’ for the links in the posts. This preference will be saved (via a cookie) so should hopefully help the people who commented preferring new windows for links.

Software

• Visual Studio 2012 Launch Website – The Visual Studio 2012 launch event happened yesterday, with a number of well received sessions looking a the new features of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5. These sessions will be available online ‘on demand’ later today.
• Visual Studio 2012 Launch Event – To go along with the event, the Visual Studio website has been updated to contain all the important information about editions, pricing etc.
• Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Launch – Somasegar discusses the contents of the Visual Studio 2012 launch event, and the announcement of Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop, filling a gap in the product lineup.
• Visual Studio Update this Fall – Brian Harry looks to the future with a discussion of when the first significant update to Visual Studio 2012 will be, and taking a look at what will likely be included
• Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop is Here – Jennifer Leaf and the Visual Studio Team discuss the newly announced addition to the Visual Studio Express product line with an edition aimed at Deskop Development, which brings with a a good feature set, making it a good choice for those without access to the full VS tool set.
• FREE: Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop – Scott Hanselman shares his feelings and relief regarding the release of Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop, plugging an important gap that appeared in the move from the language specific Express product line up to task specific.
• Tune in to the Visual Studio 2012 Launch – Jason Zander highlights some more exciting and significant features included in the Visual Studio product and highlighted in the launch events.
• Announcing F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web! – Don Syme highlights the news that F# tooling is now available for inclusion in the Visual Studio Express for Web edition, bringing F# development into the hands of a wider group of developers.
• Celebrating the Visual Studio 2012 launch with the release of a popular App – Brandon Bray highlights some of his favorite features included in Visual Studio 2012, and highlights the release of a ‘What’s new in the .NET 4.5’ application which demonstrates a number of key features while giving you information about .NET 4.5.
• Nancy 0.12 released! – Andreas Håkansson announces the release of Nancy 0.12, now officially available, and published as a NuGet package. The team (20 developers contributed to this release)have made significant efforts in this release, closing 64 work items, including the key feature of Content Negotiation.

Information

• Static analysis of "is" – Eric Lippert congratulates the ,NET and Visual Studio teams on the official launch, before diving back into static analysis and looking at the is operator in C#
• Windows Azure Mobile Services Preview Walkthrough – Part 3: Pushing Notifications to Windows 8 Users (C#) – Roger Jennings continues his series looking at the new Windows Azure Mobile Services, taking a look at how notifications are implemented in this step by step walk through.
• Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers – Pranav Rastogi answers some common questions about the OpenAuth / OpenID providers and existing applications with a step by step look at introducing them

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Lots (by my standards) of discussion in the comments yesterday about opening links in a new window – I’m not going to do that by default, but will add a site preference which will allow you to choose how links are opened to the site this evening…hope that helps

Software

• Open sourcing npm.net, a .NET library for the Node.js package manager (npm) – Claudio Caldato announces the open sourcing of npm.net the library developed for and using within WebMatrix to working with Node.js packages
• Flow – A Coroutine Kernel for .Net – Christian Schladetsch shares a library which builds on IEnumerable to provide cooperative multitasking by way of coroutines. In this article Christian talks through the use and implementation of this library
• WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.2.1 for Windows 8 – Senthil Kumar highlights the recent release of the WinRT Xaml Tookit for Windows 8, a CodePlex project which brings additional controls and extensions to the WinRT XAML.

Information

• Forking in async methods – Stephen Toub discusses the flow of code whenc alling methods asynchronously using async / await in C#5, discussing how depending on the work to be performed the framework will either run the method async or synchronously, and looks at some ways of controlling this behaviour
• The Complete Beginners Guide to Hello World using C# .Net and Mono on Raspberry Pi – Jason Roberts takes a steo by step look at writing and running C#/.NET code on the Raspberry Pi, walking through all the set up (from plugging the device together), to a working hello world example.
• On Professional Code – Ayende discusses what he means by the term ‘Professional Code’ giving a definition which is less about practices and principles and more about the suportability and understandability of code.
• jQuery Licensing Changes – The jQuery Team discuss some recent changes to the licenses applied to various part of the jQuery library (and supporting libraries, including the removal of the GPL, giving preference to the MIT License.

Community

• Visual Studio 2012 Launch Event 12th Sept – Lee Stott highlights today’s Visual Studio 2012 launch event which features Jason Zander preseting the keynote (streamed live), and Lee also highlights the UK Visual Studio 2012 Launch RoadShow, visiting 4 cities across the UK

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Software

• Fiddler Web Debugger – Letter from Eric to the Fiddler community – Eric Lawrence announces the exciting news that he is going to work with Telerik full time on the Fiddler Web Debugger, initial indications is that this is win-win for the community as the project gets dedicated time (and more resource) to deliver even more goodness, and the tool looks set to remain free. For the Telerik view of this acquisition take a look at Christopher Eyhorn’s piece ‘Here we grow again. Telerik acquires Fiddler. What’s next?’

Information

• 10 lessons for uncultured web developers – Troy Hunt discusses ten of the top ‘cultural’ things web developers often forget about, discussing choice of browser in other parts of the world, date formats, Names, currency, Operating Systems, mobile phones, timezones and a few others.
• ASP.NET Web Forms DynamicData FieldTemplates for DbGeography Spatial Types (plus Model Binders and Friendly URLs) – Scott Hanselman continues his look at editor templates for the DbGeography data type, taking a look at how it cam be applied in WebForms, and looks at the new support for Model Binding in Web Forms
• Automatic camel casing of properties with SignalR hubs – Stuart Leeks takes a look at how you can control the casing of methods and properties on SignalR hubs exposed into JavaScript, looking at the use of contract resolvers in JSON,NET
• Supporting complex types in Azure Mobile Services clients – implementing 1:n table relationships – Carlos' blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Carlos Figueira continues his exploration of the Windows Azure Mobile Services, exploring in this post how you can model 1:n table relationships in the data storage capabilities provided by the Mobile Services, looking at the implementation on the client and server
• Looking at Windows Azure Mobile Services with Fiddler – Shayne P Boyer takes a look at the communication between the client and server when working with the Windows Azure Mobile Services, using Fiddler to capture the traffic, in this CodeProject article.
• HTML5, JavaScript, Knockout, JQuery, Guide for Recovering Silverlight/WPF/C# Addicts. Part 1 – JavaScript and DOM. – Nick Polyak kicks off a series of posts taking a look at building applications using HTML, JavaScript, et al, exploring how its a viable alternative for someone familiar with WPF development. This first part takes a look a the role of JavaScript and the DOM
• The Boy Scout Rule – Garry Shutler discusses the ‘Boy Scout Rule’ applied to the code base, and discusses the practices of refactoring, examining how much you should refactor, why you should, and when you should
• From the MVPs: Visual Studio 2012 meets PowerPoint – Devon Musgrave takes a look at the role of PowerPoint in the software development process, taking a look at its use as a UI prototyping / storyboarding tool.

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