The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing TypeScript 1.5 Beta – Jonathan Turner announces the release of TypeScript 1.5’s first beta release, available for Visual Studio 2015 RC, 2013, and as source and npm distributions.
• Announcing the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio – Anthony Cangialosi announces the release of the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio, part of a new collaboration between Microsoft and GitHub to make working with GitHub, Visual Studio and Azure easier.
• GitHub Integration in Developer Assistant – Anuj Jain also highlights another GitHub related integration, this time in the Developer Assistant for Visual Studio, which contains the Bing Code Search, and now boasts an integration with GitHub bringing the number of code samples and repositories that can eb searched up to 21 million!
• GitHub Inside Your Visual Studio – Phil Haack shares the GitHub side of the story along with giving a walkthough of the setup and use of the GitHib Extension.
• Introducing the Windows 10 Apache Cordova platform – Polita Paulus announces the availability of the Apache Cordova support for Windows 10, allowing Cordova applications to target the Universal Windows Platform
• Updates for ASP.NET 4.6 – Web Forms/ MVC 5/ Web API 2 – Pranav Rastogi highlights the updates to the ASP.NET 5 Preview included in the Visual Studio 2015 RC release, covering Authentication, HTTP/2 support, Ajax Toolkit and much more
• Entity Framework and Visual Studio 2015 RC – Rowan Miller gives an update on the Entity Framework contributions to Visual Studio 2015 RC, discussing both the Entity Framework 6.1.3 and Entity Framework 7 Beta 4 releases.
• Microsoft Edge is the browser for Windows 10 – Kyle Pflug highlights the new official name of Project Spartan, highlighting the changes that this will involve, and some forthcoming events.

Build

• Build 2015 marks an important step in our journey with developers – and it’s just the beginning – Steve Guggenheimer gives and overview of the announcements he and the rest of the team made as part of Build conference Day two.
• Build 2015 and ManifoldJS – John Shew builds (a bad pun I know) on his announcement of ManifoldJS, a new open source framework for building cross platform applications from web sites
• Extensions for Visual Studio Online, REST APIs for TFS 2015 RC, and more from Build 2015 – Will Smythe highlights some of the other Visual Studio related announcements from the Build Conference.

Information

• Aurelia May Status and Releases – Rob Eisenberg shares the latest status update for the Aurelia project, along with a new release, including a migration to ECMAScript 2016 style metadata, enumeration and routing improvements as well as naming consistency.
• Wizards and warriors, part two – Eric Lippert continues his series looking at the use of inheritance and composition to model real world rules in a type safe way with another 5 attempts at modelling the seemingly simple situation.
• ChessTDD 33: Scenario Housekeeping – Eric Dietrich shares the next instalment of his video series looking at using Test Driven Development to build a chess game. This part focuses in on some refactoring, compacting of methods and other general housekeeping tasks,
• Visual Studio Code first impressions – Bertrand Le Roy shares his first impressions of the new Visual Studio Code cross platform IDE
• Using TypeScript in Visual Studio Code – Jonathan Turner shares a look at the TypeScript development story in Visual Studio Code
• .Net on Mac for the OS X n00b without Mono via Visual Studio Code – CodeProject – Lee P Richardson takes a look at using Visual Studio Code to build .NET applications on the Mac platform without using the Mono framework
• Extensibility is a wonderful thing [A set of Visual Studio Code tasks for common npm functionality in Node.js and io.js] – David Anson highlights the ability of Visual Studio Code to have Tasks to automate steps like building and testing, and looks at using this to automate npm’s scripts.

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