The Morning Brew

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Software

• Announcing October 2014 Updates to .NET Framework vNext, ASP.NET vNext and .NET Native in Visual Studio "14" CTP4 – The .NET Framework team highlight their contributions to the Visual Studio "14" CTP 4 release, including updated .NET Framework vNext, .NET Native, and the RyuJIT JIT compiler
• Visual Studio "14" CTP 4 and TypeScript 1.1 CTP Released – John Montgomery also highlights the CTP 4 release of Visual Studio "14", giving a glance at some of the new features in this revision
• Announcing TypeScript 1.1 CTP – The TypeScript team announce their CTP release of TypeScript 1.1, available as a part of the VS "14" CTP4 release, but also available for Visual Studio 2013, npm package and source release.
• ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio "14" CTP 4 – Xinyang Qiu and the ASP.NET Team share whats new in ASP.NET vNext included in the Visual Studio "14" CTP4 release, including significant updates to the tooling support and project structure

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• New Breakpoint Configuration Experience in Visual Studio "14" – Andrew B Hall takes a look at the new Debugging Breakpoints configuration User Interface which makes the configuration of advanced breakpoints easier
• Quote of the week – outsmarting the compiler – Bob discusses why it is often best to write good clear expressive code and not worry about micro optimisations, leaving that to the Compiler to perform.
• Exciting Things About ASP.NET vNext Series: The Ultimate Guide & Debugging ASP.NET vNext Beta Builds with Visual Studio 14 CTP 3 & Exciting Things About ASP.NET vNext Series: MVC View Components – Tugberk Ugurlu kicks off a new series of posts on the ASP.NEt vNext framework, starting out with a substantial series of resources about vNext, a look at debugging with the beat releases of ASP.NET vNext, and a look at View Components.
• Route matching and overriding 404 in ASP.NET Web API – Filip W takes a look at overriding the frameworks 404 response in ASP.NET Web API allowing you to conditionally return other status codes.
• Hunting for Unoptimized Images with Telerik Fiddler – Eric Lawrence shows how Fiddler can help with the ‘war on bytes’ by identifying images which are not being transfered as efficiently as possible.
• Automating the tedious parts of open source on Azure – Scott Hanselman discusses the Azure Team’s automating of collection of Contribution License Agreements for their open source projects, in a nice neat way.
• Debugging Optimized Code in .NET – Miguel Nunez shares a tip about diabling the optimisations for a particular DLL allowing you to better debug code by allowing you to see all the variables in the method.
• 24 Resharper Tips – Lee P Richardson shares a nice list of 24 useful ReSharper keyboard shortcuts.
• Package Management for PowerShell Modules with PowerShellGet – The Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Kirk Munro shares a look at the PowerShellGet project which brings NuGet like package management to PowerShell.

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