The Morning Brew

Information

• Microsoft Open Sources .NET – The History Behind the Announcement – Kyle Hodgson looks back over the route to Open Source that Microsoft have been on for the last 7 years.
• Hooray for Open Source .NET! – Brendan Tompkins shares his thoughts on the open sourcing announcement and on .NET as a platform for the future.
• Katana, ASP.NET 5, and bridging the gap – Pranav Rastogi discusses the changes to Katana coming in the next major release which is a part of the ASP.NET 5 release, and the work needed to upgrade OWIN components for the next version
• How Passion Saved Windows – Rob Reynolds reflects on the improvements to the Windows Platform which have parked re-adoption, especially among developers, and the role that things like PowerShell, Chocolatey, Puppet and Chef have had in this.
• Nostalgia, horror, and a very old bug – Eric Lippert reflects on an old bug in Window in an area of code he is familiar with from his time at Microsoft, linking to an analysis of what is likely wrong with the code he did for the Coverity Security Blog.
• Watch out for superficial invariants – Udi Dahan discusses the concept of a superficial invariant when domain modelling, something which appears to be an invariant initially but actually turns out to be much more complex on a deeper look.
• Feedback-Centric Development – The One Hacker Way – Ralf Westphal reviews a talk from Erik Meijer, focusing on the core idea of feedback based development, and reviewing what is necessary for this to occur
• Processing IIS ETW events using Azure Stream Analytics – Tomas Restrepo continues his series looking at the Event Tracing for Windows support included in IIS8.5 with a look at processing the events being generated using Azure Stream Analytics
• Code Coverage with Async Await – Dwayne Need takes a look at code coverage in sections of code which make use of Async/Await

Comments Off on The Morning Brew #1738

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.

Comments Off on The Morning Brew #1737

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.

Comments Off on The Morning Brew #1736