The Morning Brew

Software

• Introducing Alive – Josh Varty announces Alive, an exciting extension for Visual Studio which blurs the lines between design time and debug time in your C# code.
• May 2015 .NET Security Updates – The .NET team share the details of their patch contributions to the regular Patch Tuesday releases, including a patch for a critical vulnerability in the framework.
• Xamarin.Studio 5.9 Enhancements – Craig Dunn gives an overview of the latest batch of improvements to the Xamarin Studio IDE in version 5.9, including a new File > New Project dialog, debug visualizers, publishing workflow, C#6 support, and more

Information

• Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy for C Sharp Developers – Chapter 3: Useful function patterns – Default Arguments – barbarian meets coding – Jaime González García shares the next part in his series looking to instil the wonder he feels for the JavaScript Language. In this part we look at Default and Native default arguments for functions.
• Microsoft frameworks deprecation – Max Toro discusses the evolution of the .NET framework, and its migration to a componentized approach distributed via NuGet, and what this means for backward compatibility and feature depreciation
• ASP.NET 5 Typescript AngularJS application with a grunt production configuration – Damien Bod shares a look at constructing AngularJS applications using TypeScript and Grunt to automate the build of the application
• How’d You Build That Map? – Shawn Wildermuth shares some code from his Wilder World Tour site which makes it easy to draw Travel maps, with the source available on GitHub, and the library packaged up to be used via Bower too.
• Publishing your ASP.NET App to Linux in 5 minutes with Docker – rahulsahay shares a look at how you can publish ASP.NEt Applications to run on Linux under a Docker Image using the Visual Studio 2015 Docker Extension

Community

• Easing back into it – Good to hear that Rockford Lhotka is well on the road to recovery after some nasty sounding health issues

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