The Morning Brew

Software

• Mobile-first, Cloud-first Development – Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 released, Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview and the future of .NET for Cloud and Server – Somasegar shares the high level overview of the various DevDiv announcements from yesterday, including the release of Update 3 for Visual Studio 2013, improved cross platform support, new APIs, and updated frameworks.
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is here! – Anthony Cangialosi and the Visual Studio Team go into further detail on the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Release
• Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RTM – Xinyang Qiu focuses on the Web Development related aspects of the Visual Studio 2013 UPdate 2 Release.
• The Next Generation of .NET – ASP.NET vNext & Introducing ASP.NET vNext – THe .NET Framework Team and Scott Hanselman discuss the future of ASP.NET, along with highligihting some of the other recent releases and announcements
• Azure: VM Security Extensions, ExpressRoute GA, Reserved IPs, Internal Load Balancing, Multi Site-to-Site VPNs, Storage Import/Export GA, New SMB File Service, API Management, Hybrid Connection Service, Redis Cache, Remote Apps and more… – Scott Guthrie shares a substantial post outlining the new features and support in the latest Window Azure platform update released yesterday morning.
• Announcing ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis Preview Release – Guang Yang announces a preview release of an ASP.NET Session State Provider which backs onto Redis, discussing the ideas behind it and also looking at how to go about using it.
• A new API for Visual Studio Online – Brian Harry shares the announcement of the new API for accessing Visual Studio online, and eventually TFS, which is based on REST, OAUTH, Json and Service Hooks.
• Huge News! Get Windows 8 and Windows Phone Controls for FREE for the Duration of TechEd 2014 – The folks over at Telerik are giving away free copies of their control library for building Windows Phone and Windows Store applications during TechEd

Information

• News from the .NET World – Miguel de Icaza highlights some of the announcements from yesterday, and provides a useful decoding of what some the the more buzzwordy bits of the announcement actually mean in practice.
• Misadventures in immutability – Mostafa Elhemali discusses immutability, and how he finds himself going through an immutable ‘phase’ with development, along with discussing some of the complications of implementing applications using this style.
• What are the fundamental rules of pointers? – Eric Lippert goes back to basics and shares the high level, non-compiler specific rules of Pointers in C (and C#)
• RyuJIT CTP4: Now with more SIMD types, and better OS support! – Kevin Frei gives an update on the RyuJIT project, and the SIMD types implementation, along with highlighting the updated packages if you want to try things out.
• Enabling the .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") in ASP.NET applications – Damian Edwards takes a look at the use of the Compiler as a Service (Roslyn) within ASP.NET Applications, along with highlighting the CodeDOM providers for Roslyn Preview Release.
• Is TDD dead? [Part II] – The Date for the second TDD Debate webcast has been set (Friday 16th), and in case you missed the first part (And dislike video) Martin Fowler shares an Audio version of first "Is TDD Dead" Hangout –

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Links only today as I went for a run this morning.

Software

• Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.2 – Official announcement of the .NET Framework 4.5.2 Release – somehow evaded my feed reader until this morning!
• FsCheck 0.9.3 and FsCheck.Xunit 0.4.1 released – Kurt Schelfthout
• Visual Studio Online "Monaco" April 2014 Update – Chris Dias & The Monaco Team

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• The .NET Native Tool-Chain – Xy Ziemba
• F#26 : Reactive Programming – Sacha Barber
• Is TDD dead? – Thoughtworks recording of the first part of the TDD Debate with Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and David Heinemeier Hansson.
• Entity Framework Pitfalls – Deleting Orphans – Ricardo Peres
• Missing EF Feature Workarounds: Encapsulated collections – Jimmy Bogard
• Introduction to Static Analysis (A Teaser for NDepend) – Erik Dietrich
• Introduction to Remote Debugging Azure Web Sites part 2 – Jaime Espinosa
• High Performance Math with ILNumerics for .NET – Jonathan Allen
• OpenID Connect and WS-Fed OWIN Components: Design Principles, Object Model and Pipeline & OWIN Protocol Middleware, Cookies and Reference Mode Sessions: We Need Your Feedback! – Vittorio Bertocci
• More Dynamic Web Pages with AngularJS – Rob Gravelle
• Creating Custom AngularJS Directives Part 2 – Isolate Scope – Dan Wahlin
• How to download a site using msdeploy.exe – Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

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• Missing EF Feature Workarounds: Cascade delete orphans – Jimmy Bogard takes a look at one of the gaps in Entity Framework, showing how its lack of cascade delete of orphans can be worked around.
• AngularJS Promises – The Definitive Guide – Dave Kerr shares a look at the use of promises in AngularJS, starting out with the basics before moving on to look at some more complicated cases of chaining and routing.
• The Larger Significance of the Royal TDD Rumble – Erik Dietrich highlights today’s webcast featuring Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and David Heinemeier Hansson discussing thier differing thoughts on Test Driven Development, sharing some background to the current topics of debate
• IIS SSL Certificate Renewal Pain – Rick Strahl discusses working with SSL Certificates in IIS, and the certificate renewal process, sharing his expereinces and best practices.
• Fixing System.Core 2.0.5 FileLoadException, Portable Libraries and Windows XP support – Scott Hanselman discusses the backporting of code to .NET 4 to allow support on Windows XP, and discusses some complications with Portable Class Libraries, along with looking at an alternative way of sharing code.
• Using Reactive Extensions (Rx) and Azure Service Bus for Centralizing Session Logging to Azure Table Storage at Scale – Martin Richard shares a look at combining the Azure Service Bus with Reactive Programming using the Reactive Extensions to work with logging events, and batch them up into Table Storage.
• Use Reactive Extensions to throttle TextChanged events and subscribe to search results – Loek van den Ouweland takes a look at the use of the Reactive Extensions too, this time working with events raised from a text box, using RX to control the flow of events and respond with search results.
• Business-Readable, Living Documentation with BDDfy – Jason Roberts takes a look at the use of BDDify to take the BDD style tests and produce documentation of the systems behaviour which is readable by non-technical staff.
• Ricky Leeks and learning about leaks in this .NET Memory Management article collection [Contact Info-ware] – Greg Duncan highlights a 6 part article series by Ricky Leeks (Michael B. McLaughlin, Chris Farrel, Nick Harrison et al.) hosted by the RedGate team, looking at common topics in Memory Management and Memory monitoring
• Speculations on Universal Windows Applications and beyond – Gunnar Peipman shares his thoughts on the future direction of Portable Class Libraries and Universal Windows Applications
• Redesigning the NuGet Websites – The NuGet Team share the news of their redesign, currently applied to the NuGet Blog, and share details of the goals and designs for the Gallery and documentation sites too.

Community

• Getting Started with the Cloud – Every Day Next Week! – Planky highlights a Microsoft Azure Introductory session which will be webcast every day next week between 12:30 and 13:30 (UK), covering the basics of cloud infrastructure and how to get a website up and running on Azure.

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