The Morning Brew

Software

• Update to XML Notepad – Chris Lovett shares an update to the 2007 XML Notepad, bringing it up to .NET 4

Information

• EF7 – Priorities, Focus, and Initial Release – Rowan Miller shares the latest update from the Entity Framework team, discussing their priorities and progress with an initial release of Entity Framework 7.
• Toward a Visual F# 4.0 release – The Visual F# Team are also on the march for a V4 release of Visual F#, and in this post outline their roadmap schedule for the release.
• Some Thoughts on the new .Net – Jeremy D Miller shares his thoughts on the new style ASP.NET Runtime, and the new ways of working now that much of the framework is open sourced.
• Analyze This, Analyze That, Writing .NET Code Analyzers and Fixers – Greg Duncan highlights some of the run things that can be achieved using the Roslyn Compiler Platform, sharing posts from Dave Fancher and Bill Wagner
• Transactions are a figment of your imagination – Ayende responds to comments on his previous post to discuss how transactions actually occur in the real world, and looking at how our computer model for them isn’t a good fit.
• Creating multi-target NuGet Packages with vNext – Rick Strahl takes a look at creating multi targeted NuGet Packages, using the new features of vNext which allow for direct compilation packaging of code.
• Windows containers – package your apps and bootstrap your chef nodes with spoon.net! – Matt Wrock takes a look at the Spoon.net platform, and at how you can use this to start packaging applications into containers which run Windows.

Community

• Don’t miss out! Talk with Scott Guthrie tomorrow!! – Inbar G. highlights the LIDNUG Q&A session with Scott Guthrie – his 18th event of this nature. The event is a webcast taking place 11:30-12:30 PST today (3rd Dec)
• Software Development in the 21st century – Martin Fowler shares his sessions from the XCONF development event, covering Agile Software development, Microservices and Continuous Delivery

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