The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing the Visual Studio 2015 Product Lineup – Mitra Azizirad, of the Visual Studio Team announce the product line up for Visual Studio 2015, with the combining of the Premium and Ultimate SKUs
• Introducing Project Spartan: The New Browser Built for Windows 10 – Joe Belfiore shares further details of Project Spartan, the new web browser built for Windows 10, giving an overview of some of the features to expect, and also some of the guiding principles of its development.
• What’s New in Fiddler 4.5 – Eric Lawrence gives a detailed overview of the new features introduced in Fiddler 4.5 – a vast selection of improvements and new features and well worth checking out

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• Compiling C# Code Into Memory and Executing It with Roslyn – Tugberk Ugurlu takes a look at using Roslyn to compile C# code on the fly and execute it within your application
• Analyzing Control Flow with Roslyn – John Robbins thinks about the use of Roslyn and its capability for producing analyzers for you code, and sets about implementing a test to check that all your catch blocks throw to avoid exception swallowing.
• bridging the gap: functional csharp – Carsten König takes a look at how to implement the Caesar Cipher using Haskell F# and C# to illustrate the use of these functional languages compared to C#
• Asynchronous Processing with TypeScript and Generic Promises – Peter Vogel takes a look at the use of Promises in TypeScript, and how you get type safety and intellisense when working with them
• Prettifying a JSON String in .NET – Rick Strahl shares a useful tip to give you nicely formatted JSON data, ideal for use in logging or debug output where you need to be able to easily read the data.
• OWASP #5 Security Misconfiguration: Hardening your ASP.NET App – Max McCarty continues with discussion of the OWASP security top 10 with a look at security misconfiguration and how this can manifest itself in your ASP.NET applications.
• Rx Challenge #4 (solution) – Bnaya Eshet shares the solution to his most recent Reactive Extensions Challenge Problem
• Applying a "Web and Worker Roles" pattern to the Azure App Service – Tom Hollander takes a look at implementing the common Web and Worker Role architecture on the new Azure App Service
• WebJob Not Running Consistently? Make sure always-on is on – ‘The Schray’ shares a useful tip to help you get your WebJobs to work on the Azure platform

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