The Morning Brew

Software

• Windows 10 announcements on Jan 21, 2015 – Jennifer Marsman shares a nice summary of yesterday’s announcements regarding Windows 10, Office, Phones and Devices and much more
• Rollup: Microsoft HoloLens, Surface Hub, Windows 10, Xbox One game streaming and more – Scott Hanselman shares his thoughts on the announcements from yesterday, as well as clarifying the free upgrade to Windows 10.

Information

• Migrating from ASP.NET Web API to MVC 6 – exploring Web API Compatibility Shim – Filip W takes a look at the WebAPI Compatibility Shim, and how it can help you in migrating an ASP.NET WebAPI 2 project to MVC6, helping to account for the changes and re-structuring necessary.
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Password Hashing – Simon Timms continues this series of posts looking at bringing an ageing ASP.NET Application up to date with a look at introducing better techniques of storing passwords
• TypeScript Developer Survey – Ryan Cavanaugh and the TypeScript team are looking for your feedack via short survey. IF you are using TypeScript you opionions will help the team direct their efforts, so donate them a few minutes to complete the questionnaire.
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Dates take a lot of time – Ayende continues his series looking at some of the performance optimisations identified in the RavenDB code, this time looking at date formatting, and how similar techniques to those in his previous posts can be used here also.
• Quake Mode Console for Visual Studio – Open a Command Prompt with a hotkey – Scott Hanselman discusses a neat little Visual Studio Extension (inspired by functionality in GitHub, which was in turn inspired by Quake) which makes it really easy to get a command prompt in the current directory.
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Result Transformers – Ricardo Peres continues his series of posts looking at NHibernate with a look a the different result transformers which take the data from the database and can convert to different formats of output.
• Thank You For That Pull Request, However – Rob Conery discusses some things to consider before you embark on creating pull requests for an open source project

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