Software
- Blend for Visual Studio 2015 Preview – The Visual Studio Team highlight the release of the 2015 Preview of Blend for Visual Studio with a redesigned user interface for creating XAML based applications giving better consistency with Visual Studio along with a whole host of new features
- SQL Server database tooling November update – Jill McClenahan announces the November 2014 release of the SQL Server database tooling for Visual Studio, available for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013
- New build available to the Windows Insider Program – Gabe Aul announces the updated Windows 10 preview release, available to the Windows Insiders programme, and an update on the features so we can all see what is going on.
- Memory Usage Tool While Debugging in Visual Studio 2015 – Charles Willis takes a look at the new way of memory profiling in Visual Studio 2015 which allows you to profile use while debugging.
- TFS 2013 Update 4 Trend Charts – Jamie Dalton takes a look at one of the new features added in the Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 update for TFS users
Information
- Connect() Day 1, What a day to be a developer! – The MSDN Belux Blog has a nice summary of the First Day of the Connect Event with links to the various announcements.
- Make sure you Connect(); On Demand. There’s so much more than what was live streamed… – Greg Duncan highlights the recording of the non-streamed sessions from Connect, a great learning opportunity
- ASP.NET 5: How to debug with ASP.NET source? – Gunnar Peipman continues his series looking at ASP.NET 5 with look at using the ASP.NET Framework Source to aide your debugging
- Deployments on Windows / .NET in 2014 – David Whitney is surveying views on Deployment of software (specifically .NET on Windows) – help him out by spending a few minutes completing his survey.
- Success by a thousand cuts: Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 and SQL Azure – Troy Hunt highlights the constant improvements that are being made to the Microsoft Azure platform that don’t get the big billing of some announcements.
- Thoughts on Angular 2.0 – K. Scott Allen shares his thoughts on the plans for Angular 2.0
- The Angular Team on Angular 1.3 and the Road Ahead to Angular 2.0 – John Papa is Joined by a number of members of the Angular Team to discuss the 1.3 release and road to 2.0 on his ‘Adventures in Angular’ podcast
- The .NET Foundation is poised for future growth. – Gianugo Rabellino outlines the organisational changes to the .NET Foundation as they grow adopting more projects
Community
- Shropshire Dev Net | Thu 27 Nov – Mark Rendle – How I Manage Zudio In (Nearly) Every Azure Data Centre On The Planet – Shropshire Dev Net welcome Mark Rendle for a session on Azure hosting based on his experiences with creating and running Zudio on the evening of Thursday 27th November at their usual location in Telford.