Big post today following yesterday’s significant announcements
Software
- Opening up Visual Studio and .NET to Every Developer, Any Application: .NET Server Core open source and cross platform, Visual Studio Community 2013 and preview of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 – Somasegar shares the major announcements from today regarding Visual Studio 2015, Community Edition and the open sourcing of the .NET Framework
- Announcing Open Source of .NET Core Framework, .NET Core Distribution for Linux/OSX, and Free Visual Studio Community Edition – Scott Guthrie weighs in on the announcement of the open sourcing of the .NET framework runtime and libraries, support for .NET Core on Linux and OSX, and community edition of Visual Studio 2013
- .NET Core is Open Source – Immo Landwerth discusses the announcement of the .NET Core becoming open source, the development in the open, rolling your own builds of the framework and much more
- Announcing .NET 2015 – .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community – Scott Hanselman shares his perspectives on the announcements both open sourcing and the Visual Studio announcements
- Microsoft Open Sources .NET and Mono – Miguel de Icaza shares the Mono and Xamarin perspective on the open sourcing of the .NET Framework core.
- Visual Studio 2015 Preview, Visual Studio Community 2013, Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, and More – John Montgomery of the Visual Studio team announces three different releases – the latest preview of Visual Studio vNext (now called 2015), Update 4 for VS 2013 and a new Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition which really opens up the availability of professional grade tools to all developers.
- Announcing .NET 2015 Preview: A New Era for .NET – The .NET Team share an overview of what is in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview release, good for a hich level outlook on everything included
- Announcing Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 Availability – Charles Sterling highlights the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) aspects of the Visual Studio Preview and Update 4 release
- Announcing ASP.NET features in Visual Studio 2015 Preview and VS2013 Update 4 – .NET Web Development and Tools Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Xinyang Qiu shares the ASP.NET Features included in both the Update 4 to Visual Studio 2013 and the new features in Visual Studio 2015 Preview.
- Introducing the Visual Studio 2015 Preview for C# and VB – Kasey Uhlenhuth highlights a series of upcoming posts focusing on the languages updates in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview
- Visual Studio 2015 Preview is Now Available – Eric Battalio shares the new features available for C++ developers in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview
- Visual Studio 2015 Preview – The Offical Download and release notes for the Visual Studio 2015 Preview Release
- Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 (2013.4) RTM – The Offical Download and release notes for the Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 Release
- Visual Studio Community 2013 – The Offical Download and release notes for the Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition Release
- Announcing TypeScript 1.3 – TypeScript – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Jonathan Turner annoucnes the release of TypeScript 1.3 in both the Visual Studio 2015 Preview release and as a VS2013 Extension and NPM packageand sources.
- Announcing a preview of F# 4.0 and the Visual F# Tools in VS 2015 – The F# Team announce the release of F#4 Preview as a part of the VS 2015 Preview
- NuGet 3.0 Preview – The NuGet Team also announce a preview release of their V3 as a part of the Visual Studio 2015 Preview Release, with preview releases planned for VS 2012 and 2013 soon.
Information
- Open Source .NET – why should you care? – Filip W discusses the significance of the Open Source announcements for the .NET Framework
- Q & A on Visual Studio Community 2013 and 2015 Preview – Dr. Doris Chen shares a Question and Answer document on te Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition and VS 2015 Preview releases answering many of the most common questions
- Microsoft gets wild on GitHub – Repo-repo of the Day: microsoft.github.io – Greg Duncan highlights the Microsoft GitHub site, where all the action ha occured yesterday regarding the Open Source releases.
- The Roadmap for WPF – The WPF Team share a look at their roadmap for the future of WPF, looking at the areas they are prioritizing and the improvements planned for the tooling, showing that WPF is very much alive and well.
- Constructor Functions and Controllers in AngularJS – K.Scott Allen discusses a point from ‘AngularJS: The Bad Parts’ which looks at controller constructor functions
- My essential Visual Studio extensions – Mark Rendle uses the opportunity created by the release of Visual Studio Community Edition which supports extensions to share some of his favourite extensions.
- ASP.NET 5: New configuration files and containers – Gunnar Peipman takes a look at the ASP.NET 5 new configuration capabailities including support for a variety of configuration file types.
- Optimizing memory footprint: Compression in .Net 4.5 – Sharad Cornejo Altuzar takes a look at the compression capabilities of the .NET Framework out of the box.