The Morning Brew

Visual Studio Launch and Related

• Missed Today’s Visual Studio 2013 Launch (and there were some pretty cool things released)? The Channel 9 Visual Studio 2013 Launch event has all the videos and more (92+ to be exact!) – Greg Duncan highlights the on demand replays of all the sessions from the Visual Studio 2013 Launch event yesterday
• Visual Studio 2013 Launch: Announcing Visual Studio Online – Somasegar shares his view of the Visual Studio 2013 product launch, and announcements
• Launching Visual Studio 2013 – Brian Harry gives his take on the official launch of VS 2013 and the VS2012.4 Update
• Visual Studio 2013 Launched! – The Visual Studio Team highlight their favourite sessions from the launch event
• Announcing Application Insights Preview – Charles Sterling highlights the launch of Application Insights as a limited preview at yesterday’s Visual Studio 2013 launch, a service which provides information on the use, performance and monitoring of your applications.
• A look at the new Visual Studio Online "Monaco" code editor – Jon Galloway takes the newly launched ‘Monaco’ Visual Studio Online editor which is available via Azure Websites out for a spin, walking through its use from his initial experimentation.
• First look at Visual Studio Online ‘Monaco’ – Gunnar Peipman similarly walks through the getting started with ‘Monaco’
• PCL and .NET NuGet Libraries are now enabled for Xamarin – The .NET Framework team discuss the new collaboration partnership with Xamarin and the new license which is now applied to the various Framework NuGet packages (HttpClient, SignalR, Async, Immutable Collections, Compression, Entity Framework, etc) which allows them to be used on other platforms
• Productivity Power Tools 2013 extension – Another release as part of the Visual Studio 2013 Launch was the Productivity Power Tools 2013, bringing a variety of additional features to Visual Studio including HTML Copy improvements, Structure Visualizer, Power Commands, and Help improvements.
• Download Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 (RTM) – Web, Offline Installer – Kunal-Chowdhury takes a look at the Visual Studio 2012 Update 4, discussing where to get it from, and how to construct and offline installer for it.
• New and improved EULA! – WCF Data Services Team – The The OData Team announce their migration to the new End User License Agreement (EULA) which permits use on other platforms.

Software

• EF6.0.2 Nightly Builds Available – The Entity Framework team announce the availability of Nightly Builds of Entity Framework 6.0.2, allowing you to get hold of this patch release ahead of release, and also to allow you to feedback on the improvements it contains.
• Announcing Deedle – Data Frame and Time Series Package for Exploratory Data Programming with F# and C# – Don Syme highlights the release of Deedle, a library for F# and C# whcih provides to Data Frame and Time Series programming

Information

• Cross Platform .NET Just A Lot Got Better – A happy Phil Haack reflects on the news of the new EULA for .NET Framework (and related) NuGet packages allowing use across platforms.
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 21 – A Tale of Two Defects – James Bender continues his series looking at Test Driven Development and the associated processes, with a look in this part a how Test Driven Development can support working with correcting defects in code.
• Shimming and Wrapping OWIN Middleware (Katana Part 5) – K.Scott Allen continues his series looking at OWIN Middleware, with a look at creating middleware wrappers for every piece of registered middleware allowing debugging and diagnostics to be applied to each component.
• JavaScript is not C# – Mark Rendle discusses how the C# and JavaScript languages differ in their handling of Closures.

Community

• "F# in Finance" – London – Monday, 25 Nov 2013 – The London F# Finance programming community have an all day event in London (with one in New York to follow shortly) on November 25th in conjunction with Microsoft Developer Platform Evangelism (DPE) and Fountainhead Events

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