The Morning Brew

Software

• .NET Micro Framework now supports Visual Studio 2013 – The .NET Micro Framework team announce a new beta release of the SDK which adds in support for Visual Studio 2013
• JetBrains Makes its Products Free for Students – JetBrains makes a pricing adjustment which brings in free personal licenses for students and teachers for their IDE and .NET Tools

Information

• Supporting Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 – Jeff Handley and the NuGet Team share their plans to support SemVer 2.0.0, and highlight the significant features that this will add to the platform.
• Towards a better console – PSReadline for PowerShell command line editing – Scott Hanselman shares another post about making a better console with a look at PsGet package manager, and PsReadline package for improved command line editing with a bunch of great features including syntax highlighting, Bash-like and zsh like features and undo/redo,
• "Learning to Master Cross-Platform Mobile Development With Xamarin" Free (Name-Email-ware) eBook – Greg Duncan highlights a new e-book from Falafel which available for free, which consolidates Jesse Liberty’s blog posts on Xamarin and Xamarin Forms.
• ECMAScript 6 promises (1/2): foundations – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer shares the first of two parts on ECMAScript 6 promises, covering the foundations of asynchronous programming in JavaScript
• Unit testing AngularJS with Visual Studio, ReSharper and TeamCity – Mike Larah walks through getting set up with integrated tests as part of your TeamCity build process for your AngularJS Code, making use of Jasmine and PhantomJS
• Writing React components in TypeScript – Dan Roberts takes a look at using TypeScript with Facebook’s React Framework, to gain the benefits of strong typing when working with the framework
• NHibernate Pitfalls: One Shot Delete and Inverse Collections – Ricardo Peres takes a look at the way in which NHibernate performs clearing of child collections, and how it subtly differs from the documented behaviour.
• Be Sure With Azure .NET – Azure Table Storage (Part 1) – Max McCarty continues his series of posts on the Azure Platform which aims to give an overview of the features of the different areas of the platform. This post takes a look at the use of Table Storage, with this first part taking a look at working with NoSQL databases,a nd designing table storage.

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