The Morning Brew

Update: Removed the spurious second link to Scott Hanselman’s post – thanks to Sandip for letting me know in the comments

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• BUILD 2015 ASP.NET 5 Training Videos – Introduction and Deep Dive – Scott Hanselman shares the highlights of the announcements from the Build conference, and also shares two 1 hour long video training sessions on ASP.NET 5 giving a solid introduction to ASP.NET 5 and DNX
• Introducing Microsoft Edge Dev – Kyle Pflug and Anton Molleda of the Microsoft Edge team announce their new blog presence and developer site which provides the latest information about the Edge browser’s development.
• Partial Updates for Your RESTful API with JsonPatch in the new ASP .NET 5 – Kevin Dockx highlights the JSONPatch support being added to ASP.NET, and included in the latest release (the Release Candidate of VS 2015)
• Writing a Brackets extension in TypeScript, in Brackets – Dan Roberts discusses and shares framework code for building extensions for the Brackets Editor in TypeScript, also sharing experiences of using Brackets for TypeScript development
• C# 6.0 support in ReSharper 9.1 – Matt Ellis shares a look at the support for C#6 features in ReSharper 9.1
• Understanding $q in Angular.js – Shaun Xu gives a nice explanation of the use of $q in Angular JS to deal with asynchronous operations
• Using Fiddler to monitor network traffic from the VS Emulator for Android – John Kemnetz shares the steps required to get Fiddler to intercept the network traffic of the Android Emulator for Visual Studio
• Great Programmers Write Debuggable Code – Henrik Warne discusses writing good debuggable code – well worth checking out the comments on this one for further discussion

Community

• Anyone want to help maintain VSTOContrib? – JakeGinnivan is looking for someone to take over the running of the VSTOContrib package, a library which makes building Office Addins more pleasurable and allows you to use good programming practices such as MVVM and DI/IoC
• DDD East Anglia – DDD East Anglia returns this year with the conference taking place on Saturday 26th September at the West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge. As usual there will be a call for speakers with submissions starting on 1st June.

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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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• Roslyn ships v1.0-rc2 with "Go-Live" license – Anthony D. Green of the Languages team announces the release of Roslyn 1.0 Release Candidate 2 which includes a Go-Live license allowing you to use it in real projects.
• Introducing Visual Studio’s Network tool – Ruben Rios shares a look at a new feature of Visual Studio 2015 RC which can be found in the Performance and Diagnostics hub.
• Gain understanding and insights into projects in Visual Studio Online with Power BI – Jeff Levinson gives a taste of the Visual Studio Online content pack for Power BI

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• Wizards and warriors, part three – Eric Lippert continues his tale of strong typing and object modelling, looking at where to site methods in this particular problem
• Little Puzzlers – Positive Integer to Roman Numerals – James Michael Hare share another of his ‘Little Puzzlers’ problems, this time a problem about representing numbers as Roman Numerals is the challenge.
• Restival Part 2: All Aboard The Routemaster – Dylan Beattie continues his series looking at comparing and contrasting multiple REST frameworks – taking a look at routing in this part.
• MSDN Magazine – May 2015 Issue – The May 2015 Edition of MSDN Magazine is available now, with a bumper crop of articles on aspects of Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10 and the various frameworks announced / released at Build, along with the usual columns.
• Build 2015 and Vorlon.js & Debugging web apps with Vorlon JS – John Shewchuk & Dave Voyles both highlight Vorlon.js, a new framework which is open source and provides a browser agnostic tool for remote debugging of JavaScript.
• Akka – A peak into the parallel cloud – Malisa Ncube gives an introduction to the Actor framework Akka.NET and its use in building applications which run in parallel in the cloud.
• From the MVPs: Application Design: Going Stateless on Azure – Microsoft Press – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Kim Spilker of Microsoft Press shares a guest post from Punit Gashani looking at building stateless applications and services on the Azure platform
• Start Your Transpilers – K.Scott Allen discusses the evolution of the ECMAScript specifications, and the features in the languages, and recommends that people consider working with Transpilers which take ECMAScript to browser compatible ECMAScript or compilers such as TypeScript to develop applications
• Setting up Windows 10 for IoT on your Raspberry Pi 2 – Scott Hanselman takes a look at installing Windows 10 for IoT, released as the first preview last week at Build, on a Raspbery Pi 2 device

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