The Morning Brew

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• 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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Update:The observant among you noticed that this edition should actually have been number 1709, so I’ve corrected the title, but the URL will remain the same

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• Confusing errors for a confusing feature, part three – Eric Lippert concludes this series of posts looking discussing the improvements being made to the language in Roslyn, not just by the addition of new features but the correcting of design issues with earlier features.
• HTTP 206 Partial Content In ASP.NET Web API – Video File Streaming – Robert Vandenberg Huang takes an interesting look at the serving of video content using ASP.NET WebAPI, and implementing ‘Partial Content’ to provide streaming of the video content.
• Can you trust your browser extensions? Exploring an ad-injecting chrome extension – Scott Hanselman discusses the dangers of accepting 3rd party extensions to things like your browser, and the significant permissions which they can end up running code with.
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Dealing with Dependencies – David Paquette continues his series looking at the modernisation of a legacy ASP.NET application, in this part looking at modernising the way in which the applications dependencies are handled.
• WinJS 3 – Windows, Phone and now Web too – Scott Kuhl highlights the release og WinJS 3.0 last month and takes a look at the new cross platform capabilities of the library, making it a feasible choice for applications across multiple platforms.
• The importance of useless Micro-optimization – Maxime Lemaitre discusses the concept of Micro-optimization and how it can both be a benefit or a hindrance to code.
• Favorite Visual Studio Extensions
  – Scott Dorman shares his list of favourite Visual Studio Extensions
• Custom Login Scopes, Single Sign-On, new ASP.NET Web API – updates to the Azure Mobile Services .NET backend – Carlos Figueira highlights a number of improvements to the Azure Mobile Services .NET Backend

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• MSDN Magazine: October 2014 – The October Edition of MSDN Magazine is now available on line, featuring articles on C#6, Unity, IoT on Azure, SQL Server, Universal App Development and the usual collection of columns
• Discontinuing Updates for Visual Studio 2010 – The NuGet Team discuss the support for Visual Studio 2010 which prevents them making use of .NET 4.5 features in NuGet and consider the dropping of support for Visual Studio 2010 in NuGet 3.
• We need your help! Glimpse vNext is coming… – Anthony van der Hoorn and the Glimpse Team appeal to the community for discussions of how users are making use of Glimpse to help shape their future roadmap.
• Thinking about delayed getters on properties in C#6.0 or after that – Miha Markic considers delayed property initialisation and looks at the features in this area which are coming in C#6
• C# 6 Cuts – Phil Trelford highlights the news of 2 features being cut from the C#6 implementation, along with looking at those features and postulating about how the C# Team o about language design
• New Features in C# 6.0 – Null-Conditional Operator – Bahrudin Hrnjica takes a look at another of the new C#6 Features which makes it easier to work with things which may be null.
• Productive Rage – A follow-up to "Implementing F#-inspired ‘with’ updates in C#" – Dan Roberts continues his series looking at the implementation of immutable types, following up on a previous post and a couple of suggestions from commenters.
• Git- Introduction and Basic Commands & Git- Integration With Visual Studio 2013 – Quick Thoughts – James Quick shares an introduction to the Git version control system, and takes a look at the way it interacts with the Visual Studio Integration.
• NServiceBus 5.0 behaviors in action: routing slips – Jimmy Bogard shares some thoughts on the implementation of stateless sagas using routing slips, and explores how NServiceBus 5 makes this easier.
• ASP.NET Web Api: Unwrapping HTTP Error Results and Model State Dictionaries Client-Side – John Atten takes a look at handling and obtaining errors in from ASP.NET Web API using the .NET Client

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