The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio Code – July Update (0.5.0) – & Visual Studio Code ♥ ES6 – Sean McBreen and the Visual Studio Code team announce the release of thir July Update, taking the version number to 0.5.0, This release includes lots of good features with perhaps the largest being support for ECMAScript 2016 (formerly know as ECMAScript 6), along with improved references support, and running Babel inside the IDE.
• Team Explorer Everywhere 2015 RTM – Brian Harry announces the release of the Team Explorer Everywhere 2015 RTM including Project Rename features, and support for Build vNext, along with bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Welcoming the WorldWide Telescope to the Open Source .NET Universe – Martin Woodward of the .NET Foundation welcomes the Microsoft WorldWide Telescope under the wing of the .NET Foundation as the latest Open Source Project from Microsoft.

Information

• A Look At Akka.NET – Sacha Barber shares a good introduction to the Akka,NET Actor Framework for .NET in this Code Project Article. The article gives background to the Actor programming model, and looks at the use of the framework to provide a full solution.
• Transitioning from ASP.NET Web API 2 to ASP.NET MVC 6 – Filip W has an article featured in DotNetCurry Magazine, and available online here looking at the migration from the ASP.NET WebAPI2 world to the new ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 frameworks.
• Microsoft confirms its new Edge browser won’t support Silverlight – John Callaham highlights another nail in the Silverlight coffin with news that Microsoft Edge will not support Silverlight.
• The Art of Performance tuning and Optimization – Patryk Borowa shares some thoughts, inspired by Sun Tzu, on profiling and performance optimisation of .NET applications
• A complete list of Microsoft SDKs for developers – Jialiang shares a useful list of framework and SDK releases from Microsoft covering the .NET Framework, SDKs for Devices and SDKs for Services.

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