The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing the new Azure App Service – Scott Guthrie announces the launch of the Azure App Service, a new offering built upon Azure Websites and Azure Mobile Services which aims to bring together the mobile and web worlds whilst offering easy connectivity and integration with SASS services such as Office 365, Salesforce, Dynamics, OneDrive, DropBox and much more
• Announcing Azure App Service – Bill Staples also shares the news of the Azure App Service announcement
• Introducing the Azure API Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – Brady Gaster announces the release of the Azure API App Tools for Visual Studio 2013, providing support and tooling for the new features of Azure App Service from within Visual Studio
• Introducing Azure API Apps – Jeffrey T. Fritz discusses Azure API Apps, giving an overview of the concepts and links to more information
• Azure March 2015 Announcements & Announcing Azure App Service – Jennifer Marsman & Ahmed Waheed alsohighlight the key points from the announcement.
• New Azure Backup Pricing Model Live April 1st – Mike Heald highlights some amended costs for the Azure Backup Service.
• Updated DeleteFiles Utility now on Chocolatey – Rick Strahl shares a little but useful utility to recursively delete files from a directory structure, available now as a Chocolatey package, usefully highlighting a really good way of getting utilities like this (and much bigger things too) installed.

Information

• Windows 10 Universal App Platform & Caliburn.Micro – The Caliburn.Micro Team discuss the building of applications for Windows 10 using Caliburn.Micro.
• Retooling Build and Test Automation Tools – Jeremy D Miller talks about the refresh of the build and test tooling for the FubuMVC projects, moving to using tools like ixie, Paket, and gulp.js
• Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 Preview – Channel 9 present the Microsoft Virtual Academy Content looking at all aspects of building applications for Windows 10
• Everything You Didn’t Know About Shared and Static Members – Peter Vogel takes a look at the use of Shared and Static keywords n C# and VB.NET in this Visual Studio Magazine article.
• Unit / Integration testing in ASP.NET 5 and Visual Studio 2015 using XUnit.Net & LocalDB for Database Integration Testing in ASP.NET 5 project and XUnit.net – Radenko Zec takes a lookat using XUnit.net to test ASP.NET 5 based applications

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