The .NET Foundation and .NET Platform Innovation – Somasegar shares some further significant announcements, including the creation of an independent foundation to support open source development on the .NET Platform, a number of new technology innovations, including the open sourcing of Roslyn and C# / VB, an update on the partnership with Xamarin and much more
Visual Studio Online Integration in the Azure portal – Brian Harry announces the integration of Visual Studio online into the Microsoft Azure portal along with a much enhanced protal, this brings the code editor capabilites of VS Online into the fore.
The Next Generation of .NET – The .NET Team outline their plans for the next generation of .NET and discuss their guiding themes of Core innovation and cross platform applications, highlighting and discussing the various parts of this plan that they are releasing now.
Taking a tour of Roslyn – The C# and VB teams share the significant announcements of a new preview release of Roslyn, along with their decision to open source all the work in this area, and have it maintained by MS Open Tech.
C# and VB are open sourced – Eric Lippert shares his views and congratulations on the open sourcing of Roslyn, and especially their choice of Apache 2 license.
RyuJIT CTP3: How to use SIMD – Kevin Frei discusses the latest CTP release of RyuJIT and highlights the SIMD features, showing how to get up and running with it.
Video Tutorial and Screenshots: Windows 8.1 Update 1 – Scott Hanselman gives a taste of the new Windows 8.1 Update 1 release outlining some of the key changes and features introduced – very useful, especially when the update reaches general availability in the next few weeks.
I’m throwing in the towel in FubuMVC – Jeremy D Miller makes the sad announcement that he is ceasing work on the FubuMVC project, sharing some history of the project, along with looking at where he feels it went wrong.
BUILD Day 2: Keynote Summary – Steve Fox shares a nice summary of the announcements in the Day 2 keynote at Build 2014
Sublime is Sublime 12 – Greg Young round out his series of posts looking at the use of Sublime as an IDE for .NET code
Orleans – Phil Trelford shares his views on the Orleans Project, announced at Build 2014, comparing it to other actor frameworks, and highlighting the good and bad parts of this new contender.
Continuous Javascript Testing with Karma – Eli Weinstock-Herman takes a look at continuous testing of JavaScript code using the Karma framework, walking through the setup, and discussing the experience.