Software
- Visual Studio Unit Test Generator is feature complete – v1 Release Candidate lands! – Willy-P. Schaub announces the release candidate version 1 of the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator to Visual Studio 2012, brings back the functionality of this extension, and increasing the features included to support multiple framework targets, automated project creation and general assistance with unit testing in Visual Studio.
- Visual Studio 2013 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts – Brian Keller highlights the availability of the Visual Studio 2013 Preview ALM Virtual Machine, along with three hands on labs exercises, giving you a very easy way to experiment and learn about the Visual Studio ALM offering.
Information
- MSDN Magazine – The August 2013 edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online, with articles this month including REST for C++ developers, DirectX, Service Stack based web services, SSIS integration services testing and WPF plugin architectures along with all the usual columns.
- JavaScript Promises – Shawn Wildermuth shares a look at the JavaScript Promises Pattern looking at some simple examples which show the level of capability of these simple methods.
- An accessibility case study – Reading List. Part 1: Introduction, Part 2: Colours and Contrast , Part 3: Keyboard accessibility, Part 4: Programmatic accessibility & Part 5: Live Regions – Guy Barker shares a series of posts looking into the accessibility features of Windows 8.1 for developers looking at a sample application to illustrate the functionality available and how to make use of it.
Community
- Developer Conferences – Phil Trelford highlights the importance of getting out there and into the wider developer community, discussing the merits of developer conferences, and highlighting some of the best, both general developer and functional programming.