The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing FsLab: Data science package for Mono and .NET – Tomas Petricek announces the release of FsLab, a cross platform .NET and Mono based package for doing data science, with built in support for reading from data in a variety of formats, santising and aligning data and building visualisations
• SQL Server 2016 public preview coming this summer – The SQL Server Team announce plans for a SQL Server 2016 Public Preview release in the summer, and share some details of what we can expect from SQL 2016
• Office 2016 Public Preview now available – Jared Spataro announces the availability of the Office 2016 Preview release
• NativeScript 1.0.0 is Now Available – Valentin Stoychev and the team over at Telerik announce the 1.0.0 release of NativeScript after a 2 month preview. NativeScript allows you to develop true native applications for iOS and Andorid programming both in JavaScript (or TypeScript), XML and CSS.

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• Common mistakes in date/time formatting and parsing – Jon Skeet shares a catalog of the various common questions and problems people encounter when trying to parse date time values, derived from common questions he sees on StackOverflow.
• CQRS with MediatR and AutoMapper – Jimmy Bogard takes us through refactoring a traditional MVC like Controller and converting it into a CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) like architecture.
• ECMAScript 2015 Iterators Revisited – K. Scott Allen returns to Iterators in ECMAScript 2015, looking at the power of the Yeild Keyword
• Roslyn resources – Jim Wooley highlights a number of good resources for the Roslyn Compilers which now have a go live license, randing from the Visual Studio Preview releases, the Roslyn Source, through to blog posts on Roslyn
• Web Optimization – Development and Production in ASP.NET MVC6 – Dave Paquette takes a look at the chnges to bundling and minification in ASP.NET MVC 6
• 401 Response from ASP.NET Identity when linking to External Accounts – Rick Strahl shares a configuration mistake which caught him out when configuring Identity Providers to use an separate file for their keys to avoid publishing his secret keys to version control of a sample applicaiton
• 10 things about OneGet that are completely different than you think. – Garrett Serack shares the lowdon on the OneGet project, answering the most common questions people have about it

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