March CTP ("CTP4") of Visual Studio Update 2 now available – Charles Sterling announces the availability of the March CTP of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, including the new HTML Client for LightSwitch, improved diagnostics and debugging for Sharepoint 2013, along with a bunch of improvements for Team Foundation Server
CTP4 (March) of VS/TFS 2012 Update 2 is available – Brian Harry digs a little deeper into the new features included in the CTP4 of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 specifically focusing on the Team Foundation Server features.
Announcing a New Preview of the LightSwitch HTML Client – The Visual Studio LightSwitch team discuss in detail the new HTML Client included in the CTP4 Update for Visual Studio, allowing applications to be run on mobile devices just using the web browser, and also to be published to Sharepoint.
Announcing NCLDR (Alpha) – Guy Smith-Ferrier highlights the first Alpha release of NCLDR a port of CLDR to .NET. CLDR is the Common Locale Data Repository and contains rich information about cultural elements such as number, date, and other formatting, and contains a huge amount of culture more than the basic .NET System.Globalization framework does.
jQuery 2.0 Beta 2 Released – Dave Methvin announces the second beta release of jQuery 2.0. This version of jQuery depreciates a lot of old functionality (as did 1.9) and also drops support for IE6,7 and 8
Monads, part four – Eric Lippert continues his exploration of Monads, looking at building on the previous patterns to more general operations on monadic types, continuing building the definition and requirements for a Monadic type.
Test Better – Phil Haack discusses the art and science of testing, and the importance of actually testing the applications you work on by using the application, as while unit tests give a certain sense of safety and security that your code works, its not until you actually try using it that you know if it really does.
Free Xamarin Studio and Free Chapters 1-4 Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# – Wallace B. McClure discusses the recent releases from Xamarin, including the free starter Xamarin Studio which allows you to try out the functionality of their frameworks, along with the release of the first four chapters from ‘Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C#’ providing a useful guide to help you get started.
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Windows Azure: Your Journey to the cloud FREE Training 2 May 2013 – Lee Stott highlights a 1 day free training session form ‘Microsoft Cloud Experts’ looking at getting developer up and running on the Azure platform. The Session is hosted in London on 2nd May 2013 running from 9am to 16:30.
