The Morning Brew

Software

• TFS/Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 CTP 1 is available (think "Batch of Bug Fixes" release) & Microsoft released Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 CTP 1 within 10 days – Greg Duncan and Kunal Chowdhury highlight the first CTP release of the next Visual Studio 2012 Update. Update 3 currently focuses on a number of bugfixes and is available for Express, Full Visual Studio and TFS installations

Azure IaaS

• Windows Azure: General Availability of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – Scott Guthrie announces the General Availability release of Infrastructure as a Service on Windows Azure, with Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Networking, and a collection of Virtual Machine templates pre-configured with Microsoft Software now available to all. Virtual Machines also now offers even larger machines with increased memory and also updated pricing.
• The Power of "And" – Bill Hilf discusses the GA of IasS, highlighting the new pricing and the price commitment, as well as discussing how some customers are already leveraging the new features.
• The New Face of Total Domination: Windows Azure – IaaS @ General Availability – Magnus Mårtensson gives an MVP’s view on the general availability of IaaS on Azure, and looks at how Azure is a compelling story for your virtualisation needs.
• Announcing BizTalk Server 2013 in Windows Azure Infrastructure Services – BizTalk Server is among the Microsoft Software available as preconfigured Windows Azure Virtual Machine images
• Windows Azure Launches IaaS Cloud, Targets Amazon – Jason Verge discusses the industry perspective of the Azure IaaS, paying particular note to the pricing and how it compares against Amazon’s similar offerings

Information

• Commonly reported issues while leveraging Windows Azure Diagnostic configurations and Best Practices – Angshuman Nayak takes a look at the Azure diagnostic features for Web Workers, an shares some best practices for its use
• An advanced introduction to C# – Florian Rappl shares a nice C# tutorial for experienced programmers, a great reference to have to hand if you ever need to help a developer cross train from another similar language
• Hack Raspberry Pi – How To Build Apps In C#, WinForms and ASP.NET Using Mono In Pi – Anoop Madhusudanan takes a look at the Raspberry Pi platform, and explores how through the use of Mono you can develop C# desktop and web applications to run on the platform.
• ASP.NET MVC: Annotated for Input – Dino Esposito takes a look at how data annotations can really help speed up your development when you need to create utilitarian forms for your application
• Cancellation with Async F#, C# and the Reactive Extensions – Jérôme Laban takes a look at how cancellation of async / await method calls in C# is quite involved and at how the reactive extensions and F# provide a solution to this.

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