The Morning Brew #1466

A couple of release announcements a few folk might have been waiting for today!

Visual Studio 2013 available for download – Somasegar kicks off the announcement posts of the Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1 release to web.
Visual Studio 2013 released to web! – The Visual Studio Team announce the release
Announcing the Release of Visual Studio 2013 and Great Improvements to ASP.NET and Entity Framework – Scott Guthrie announce the release and takes a look at what is new in ASP.NET (SignalR, Browser Link, ASP.NET Scaffolding, Web API2, etc) and Entity Framework 6
Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – Xinyang Qiu makes he official announcement from the ASP.NET and Web Tools team.
Visual Studio 2013 RTM Available – Brian Harry highlights the release
Visual Studio 2013 Team Foundation Server version control and build – Andy Lewis focuses on the TFS aspect of the release with a look at version control and build.
Visual Studio 2013 Available Now! – Eric Battalio over on the Visual C++ Team Blog gives an overview of the new features for C++ developers.
Announcing Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013 RTM Availability – Charles Sterling announces the release from a Team Foundation Server point of view and also has a useful collection of related links.
.NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM =>; start coding – The .NET Team announce the release of .NET 4.5.1, looking at the substantial number of changes and improvements made

Windows 8.1 now available! – Brandon LeBlanc announces the general availability release of Windows 8.1, shipping via the Windows Store application on your Windows 8 machines.
Now ready for you: Windows 8.1 and the Windows Store – The Windows Apps Team also announce the release of Windows 8.1, along with opening the Windows Store to accepting Windows 8.1 applications
Windows 8.1 Has Been Released – Garry Pilkington gives a nice overview of a few of the more desirable Windows 8.1 features.

Web Essentials 2013 RTM – Mads Kristensen announces the RTM release of Web Essentials 2013 which works with the RTM release of Visual Studio 2013 and brings a number of very useful features for web development to the IDE.
TypeScript and the Road to 1.0 – Jonathan Turner gives an update on TypeScript, highlighting the inclusion of 0.9.1.1 as a part of Visual Studio 2013 and outlining the plans to the 1.0 release.

Math from scratch, part eight: integers – Eric Lippert continues with his series looking at the construction of basic mathematics support in C# using only the most basic of data structures. In this part Eric explores the implementation of an integer.
Top things web developers should know about the Visual Studio 2013 release – Jon Galloway – Jon Galloway shares an excellent collection of FAQs, links, videos, pointers and recommendations relating to web development on Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1
Essential reading for Visual Studio 2013, MVC 5 and Web API 2 – Similarly Troy Hunt discusses some of the key components included in Visual Studio 2013 from a web development point of view.
ASP.NET Web API 2 is out! Overview of features – StrathWeb – Filip W. dives into the new features included in ASP.NET WebAPI 2, released along with Visual Studio 2013, giving an overview of each feature along with links to further information.
Updated sample .NET Framework detection code that works with the .NET Framework 4.5 and 4.5.1 – Aaron Stebner responds to the .NET 4.5.1 release by updating his .NET Framework Detection code to understand the new version.
A Visual Studio Solution Cloner – Bill Hallahan shares a utility whcih will make a clean copy of a Visual Studio Solution (C++ / C#) allowing renames and also creating new GUIDs for all items.

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