The Morning Brew

Software

• Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 is Available – Brian Harry highlights the release of Team Explorer Everywhere 2013, the tooling which allows developers on other platforms (Eclipse / other non-Windows environments) to interoperate with developers on TFS
• dotTrace 5.5.2 Performance is available – JetBrains announce the release of dotTrace 5.5.2, a minor update which addresses a few reported issues.

Information

• Government Special Issue of MSDN Magazine – Michael Desmond announces the November 2013 edition of MSDN Magazine available online now, and this month the regular edition is supplemented with an additional Digital Government Issue
• Back To Basics: Hashtables Part 2 (And A Peek Inside Redis) – Karl Seguin continues his back to basics article exploring the implementation of Hashtables
• Setup Environment on Windows machine for Node.js Development – Dhananjay Kumar discusses getting your (Windows) machine up and running with a Node.js development setup
• PowerCfg – The hidden energy and battery tool for Windows you’re not using – Scott Hanselman discusses the under appreciated powercfg utility included in Windows which allows you to fine tune and report on the power use of your machine.
• Introducing batch support in Web API and Web API OData – Javier Calvarro Nelson takes a look at the new batching capabilities of ASP.NET Web API and OData 2.
• Tutorial series updated for Entity Framework 6 Code First with MVC 5 – Tom Dykstra highlights the updated tutorial series on the ASP.NET site which now covers ASP.NET MVC5 and Entity Framework 6
• Updating Your Windows 8 App to Windows 8.1: Handling Widths and Replacing Snapped Mode – Jason Roberts takes a look at one of the important new features of Windows 8.1 and looks at how you can update your Windows Store applications to take advantage of it.
• Building an Azure IaaS and on-premise hybrid environment Part 1: The plan and Azure Network Connection – Rik Hepworth shares the first part of a detailed series looking at building an Azure Infrastructure as a Service environment teamed with on-premise resource.
• EasyNetQ: Big Breaking Changes to Request-Response – Mike Hadlow shares an update on the API changes he is making to EasyNetQ, the .NET API for RabbitMQ.

Community

• Multithreading Design Patterns – London .NET User Group (London, England) – The London .NET Usergroup are meeting tomorrow evening (Tuesday 5th November) at SkillsMatter for a session from Gael Fraiteur on multithreaded design patterns.

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