The Morning Brew

Software

• Add Packages, not References – a NuGet plugin for ReSharper – The Team over at JetBrains have released an useful plugin which will help with keeping your referenced assemblies and NuGet Packages in line, allowing ReSharper to add NuGet Package references from the quick fix instead of just referencing assemblies already in the solution
• xunitcontrib-resharper 0.7 – ReSharper 7.1 and stuff – Matt Ellis shares the latest version of his xunit.net test runner for ReSharper, updated to work against ReSharper 7.1

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• Building Windows Store Apps with .NET – Brandon Bray shares a post from Richard Lander, a PM on the CLR team discusses the new opportunities created by the Windows Store, giving an eventual market of 1 billion users, and all accessible by developing applications in .NET
• Fixing Visual Studio 2012 Intellisense for WinJS Files – Phil Japikse shares a useful reminder to help you get good intellisense in Visual Studio when working with WinJS application development, adding references to the core WinJS libraries
• Building a JavaScript Event Aggregator using TypeScript – Jeremy Likness takes a look at building a event aggregator, to provide decoupling of notifications, looking at the implementation in JavaScript using the TypeScript extensions
• Key Windows Phone Development Concepts – Tim Murphy gives an introduction to some of the key terms, concepts and types in Windows Phone Development
• Web Publish Updates with Windows Azure SDK 1.8 – John Wen discusses the improvements to Web Publishing included in the Windows Azure SDK 1.8
• Looking into Entity Framework Code First Migrations – Nikolaos Kantzelis takes us on a tour of the Entity Framework Code First Migrations functionality, exploring step by step its use in a real world like situation
• BUILD 2012: 50 Performance Tricks to make your HTML5 Applications and Sites faster – Jatinder Mann highlights a session from the //Build conference this year, which covers 50 performance enhancements and tricks you can use to improve your HTML 5 applications performance. Also a useful reminder that all the conference content from Build is now available on Channel9

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