The Morning Brew

Software

• An update is available for the .NET Framework 4.5 in Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Server 2012 – The Microsoft Support team have released an update package for the .NET Framework 4.5 on Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Server 2012 – the update is being shipped via Windows Update and the details of the issues addressed are included in this article.
• NuGet Addin for MonoDevelop – Matt Ward announces the release of a NuGet Add-in for SharpDevelop bringing the same UI features as available in the Visual Studio Edition
• Git-TF 2.0.1 Released – Brian Harry announces a new binary release of the Git-TF tools for interacting with GIT based TFS repositories which addresses some issues introduced with the recent work to restructure communication with TFS.
• Recent Updates to the Windows Azure SDK – .NET 4.5, Windows Server 2012 and more – Mohit Srivastava and Dennis Angeline discusses some of the recent changes and improvements in the latest edition of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET

Information

• Why Use The Bootstrap Grid? – K. Scott Allen discusses the role of a Grid System on the web and takes a look at the use of the BootStrap Grid and how it enables responsive layouts.
• MapReduce / Map Reduction Strategies Using C# – Jake Drew takes a look at implementing map reduce functionality in C# using the Task Parallel Library, and data structure which work successfully in multithreaded environments.
• Simple immutable objects – Andrew L Arnott takes a look at how you can construct immutable objects, following on from the announcement of immutable collection types from the BCL team.
• Web Dev .NET: Does Browser Sniffing Still Have a Place? – Elijah Manor discusses the sticky issue of browser user agent sniffing, discussing the good, bad and alternative techniques and where you may want to validly check a user agent

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