The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC: Windows Phone 8.1 Tools, Shared Projects and Universal Windows Apps – Somasegar shares the high level announcements from //Build2014, including significant developments for Windows App Development, the Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, TFS 2013 Update 2 RTW, .NET Native and TypeScript 1.0 RTM
• Announcing new web features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC – Xinyang Qiu shares the details of the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Release, focusing on the Web Development Features included,
• TFS 2013.2 (Update 2) Released – Brian Harry discusses the TFS 2013 Update 2 Release, giving an overview of the features included
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (April Release) – The Official Visual Studio Site has full details of both the Visual Studio Update 2 and TFS Update 2 releases
• Announcing .NET Native Preview – Subramanian Ramaswamy and Andrew Pardoe of the .NET Team discuss .NET Native, and release the preview of this technology which allows you to write C# code, but gain much more of the performance of native code.
• Available Now: Preview of Project "Orleans" – Cloud Services at Scale – Niklas Gustafsson shares another preview from the .NET Team, a project which started out as a MS Research project which provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications
• Announcing an updated version of Internet Explorer 11 – available on Windows 8.1, Windows 7, and Windows Phone 8.1 – The Internet Explorer team announce a new version of Internet Explorer to be deployed acorss Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, on both phone and desktop
• Caliburn.Micro 2.0 Beta 2 – Rob Eisenberg shares the release of Caliburn.Micro Beta 2 which supports both the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK and Common Xaml UI, both new announcements at Build.
• Announcing TypeScript 1.0 – The TypeScript team make their announcement of the 1.0 RTM Release

Information

• MSDN Magazine: April 2014 – The April Edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online
• F#13 : Pattern Matching – Sacha Barber continues his series looking at the F# language and features, exploring the interesting topic of pattern matching in this latest part.
• Windows/Phone 8. – Building for Both, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 – Mike Taulty takes a look at the newly announced Universal Windows Apps support, exploring step by step how this allows you to build applications for both phone and desktop
• Introducing status.modern.ie, F12 Refresh – CSS editor,F12 Refresh – The JavaScript Console &F12 Refresh – The JavaScript Debugger – Aaron Powell takes a look at the various announcements from the Internet Explorer Team, discussing their new feature status page, and the improvements made to the JavaScript Debugger, CSS Editor and JavaScript Console in the F12 Developer tools.
• BUILD 2014 day 1 Keynote recap – Laurent Duveau has a nice set of notes on the Build Keynote, providing links off to the various announcements.

Community

• Happy 10th Channel 9 – Channel 9 Turns 10 – best wishes to all the team who have been involved over the years

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