The Morning Brew

I both love and hate the Build conference – on one hand lots of exciting new announcments, on the other it takes me an age to put together monster editons of The Morning Brew like today’s….

Build Conference – General

• Build 2015 Keynote Day 1 Summary – Jennifer Marsman gives an summary of the Keynote from Day 1 of the Build conference
• BUILD 2015: Day 1 and Keynote Highlights – The Premier Developer site also has a summary of day 1 of Build and the Keynote
• (Cross-Post) Build 2015: Azure Storage Announcements! – Azure Storage Team summarise their announcements from the Build Conference

Visual Studio Code

• Introducing Visual Studio Code for Windows, Mac, and Linux – Scott Hanselman gives the low down on this new code editor available across multiple platforms, available for free, and supporting syntax highlighting for a wide array of languages, as well as intellisense for many too.
• Introducing Visual Studio Code – John Papa shares an introduction to Visual Studio Code, giving a good look at a number of its features over the following posts:
  • Getting Started with Visual Studio Code
  • Intellisense with Visual Studio Code
  • Refactoring with Visual Studio Code
  • Debugging with Visual Studio Code
  • Git and Preferences in Visual Studio Code
• First Hours with Visual Studio Code on Mac and Windows – Tugberk Ugurlu also shares his experiences of the first few hours of using Visual Studio Code

Software – Including Visual Studio

• Introducing Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Application Insights Public Preview and .NET Core Preview for Linux and Mac – S.Somasegar gives an overview of the Visual Studio and .NET announcements made at Build yesterday.
• Rounding out Visual F# 4.0 in VS 2015 RC – The Visual F# team share the details of their latest release of F#4.0 as a part of the Visual Studio 2015 RC release.
• Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server at Build 2015 – Brian Harry announces some of the key new features of Visual Studio Online and Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 5.
• Visual Studio 2015 RC Now Available! – Eric Battalio highlights the release of Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate as well as the Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Release Candidate, along with highlighting some of the C++ features in the new versions, and linking to a number of posts about those features, some of which are linked below too.
• New ASP.NET Features and Fixes in Visual Studio 2015 RC – Jeffrey T. Fritz highlights the ASP.NET and Web specific features included in the Visual Studio 2015 Release candidate.
• Blend for Visual Studio 2015 RC – Harikrishna Menon highlights the inclusion of a redesigned Blend for Visual Studio included with Visual Studio 2015’s Release Candidate
• .NET Announcements at Build 2015 – Rich Lander gives an overview of the .NET related announcements from the Build conference
• BUILD 2015 News: Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Team Foundation Server 2015 RC, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 – The Visual Studio Team share an overview of all their announcements and product changes made for the Build Event – further details on these can also be found in the posts linked below.
  • Load Test Enhancements in Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise edition – Charles Sterling
  • What’s new in CodeLens for Visual Studio 2015 RC? – Mathew Aniyan
  • Code maps now differentiate test projects, and bring code context into map elements – Mathew Aniyan
  • C++11/14/17 Features In VS 2015 RC – Stephan T. Lavavej
  • C++ EnC in Visual Studio 2015 – Andrew B Hall
  • Visual Studio Emulator for Android in VS2015 RC – John Kemnetz
  • Diagnosing Event Handler Leaks with the Memory Usage Tool in Visual Studio 2015 – Charles Willis
  • Continued Improvements for Breakpoint Configuration in Visual Studio 2015 – Kaycee Anderson
  • .NET EnC support for Lambdas and other improvements in Visual Studio 2015 – Andrew B Hall

Information

• Adding minimal OWIN Identity Authentication to an Existing ASP.NET MVC Application – Rick Strahl takes a detailed look at retrofitting OWIN Identity Authentication into a legacy ASP.NET application, walking through the setup and code in detail.
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Application Style and Layout – David Paquette continues his series looking at modernising legacy ASP.NET applications, exploring adding the bootstrap layout library amd modifying the application to use it.
• What’s Fixie and Why Should C# Programmers Care? – Jason Roberts shares a look at Fixie the .NET testing framework in this Visual Studio Magazine article
• ReSharper 9.1.1 RC and Matching ReSharper Ultimate Update for Visual Studio 2015 RC – The folks at JetBrains highlight their latest Release candidate release which adds support for the new Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate

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Software

• Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview April 2015 is now available – Krishna C Vutukuri announces the release of the preview release of the Windows Management Framework 5.0, an update from the previous preview released in February
• What’s New in Fiddler 4.5.1 – Eric Lawrence announces the release of Fiddler 4.5.1, a bugfix and minor feature release, including improved retargeting, custom submenues, improved SNI support and support for Project Spartan. Eric also gives a useful overview of the difference between Fiddler 4.5 and Fiddler 2.5

Information

• Exciting Things About ASP.NET 5 Series: Build Only Dependencies – Tugberk Ugurlu takes a look at the concept and use of Build Only Dependencies in ASP.NET5 and the new cloud optimized runtime.
• Serialization Options With Azure DocumentDB – K.Scott Allen continues his series of posts looking at Azure DocumentDB with a look at how you can customise and control the serialisation of documents into the Azure DocumentDB
• DDD applied – Gabriel Schenker continues looking at Domain Driven Design, taking a more applied look exploring a problem space and how to apply the concepts of DDD to the problem
• C# Futures: Tuples and Anonymous Structs – Jonathan Allen takes a look at a couple of the proposed features which may be under consideration for inclusion in C#7
• Squirrel – replace ClickOnce the easy way – Gregor Suttie takes a look at using Squirrel, a replacement for Click Once, to easily deploy .NET applications.
• Performance tuning methodology of SQL Azure – Ran takes a look at some of the controls available to improve the performance of SQL Azure based solutions.

Community

• Build is almost here! – Steve Guggenheimer highlights the start of the //build conference for 2015
• BUILD 2015 online resource for those who can’t make the event! – jhealy shares the key links to getting access to the //build conference content as it happens, including live streaming of Conference Keynotes and sessions.

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Software

• Team Project Rename available on VS Online – Brian Harry highlights the release of the Team Project Rename feature in the Visual Studio Online platform, their number 1 requested feature, now available on all accounts.

Information

• Wizards and warriors, part one – Eric Lippert sets the scene (and a good one it is with Warriors and Wizards) for a discussion of modelling the real world in our type systems, and how things often need constraints which are not as easy to implement as we would like
• Solution to Little Puzzlers – Largest Square of ‘1’s in a Matrix – James Michael Hare shares his solution to his recent Little Puzzlers problem involving finding the largest square of elements all with value 1 within a matrix.
• The Little Wonders of C# 6 – A Presentation to the St. Louis .NET User Group – James Michael Hare also shares a presentation he gave last night at the St. Louis .NEt User group on the Little Wonders of C#6
• One API, Four Frameworks: The Great .NET ReST Showdown – Dylan Beattie discusses the rise of the frameworks, and the 4 different ReST frameworks he is going to be experimenting with, building the same API in each to learn about the features of the frameworks.
• DocumentDb Limits and Statistical Outliers – K. Scott Allen discusses the limit in document size on the Azure DocumentDB service, and looks at what that means in practical terms, as well as sharing some in statistical insight to help with making decisions based on data.
• Running Suave.io and F# with FAKE in Azure Web Apps with Git and the Deploy Button – Scott Hanselman takes a look at writing web applications using F# and the Suave.io framework, and getting things deployed to Azure easily
• Domain-Driven Design the Wrong Way – Jan Stenberg discusses some of the themes surrounding Domain Driven Development highlighted by Gabriel Schenker’s recent posts
• Sweet Aspects – Ralf Westphal takes a look at the Single Responsibility Principle, using sweets to illustrate the concept.
• Understanding ECMAScript 6: Class and Inheritance – David Catuhe shares a look at the ECMAScript 6 inheritance and class structures, focusing in on this feature which is being supported by the Project Spartan browser from Microsoft.

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