The Morning Brew #1898
Posted by Chris Alcock on Wednesday 8th July 2015 at 08:32 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event – The Visual Studio team share the plans for the Visual Studio 2015 RTM Release Event, taking place online on 20th July at 3:30pm UTC / 8:30am PDT
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- ASP.NET Community Standup – July 7, 2015 – The ASP.NET Team share the minutes and video recording of yesterdays Weekly ASP.NET Community Standup where the ASP.NET Team’s representatives (generally Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards and Jon Galloway + guests) engage with the community giving an update on progress, and answer community questions.
- Some Problem(s) With Implicit Code: "options.change && options.change()" – Derick Bailey discusses the importance of expressive code, and how keystroke saving code shortcuts can lead to code which is a lot less expressive of its intent
- Project Westminster in a nutshell – Kiril Seksenov gives an overview of Project Westminster, a new initiative from the Microsoft Edge Web Apps team which helps developers bring existing Hosted Web Apps to the Windows 10 platform, improving integrations with platform services.
- VS Refactoring Essentials (formerly) NR6Pack – Free analyzers and refactoring for Visual Studio 2015 – Scott Hanselman highlights the VSRefactoring Essentials, a free Visual Studio 2015 Extension which adds in a number of refactoring commands into the IDE , and is now making use of the Roslyn features for code analysis.
- I’m giving away MILLIONS of FREE Microsoft eBooks again! – Eric Ligman shares a huge list of free ebooks from Microsoft covering all sorts of topics ranging from technical to marketing and sales.
- How to check which .NET 4 version an assembly was built with – Premier Field Engineering Developer Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Jonathan Yong discusses how .NET 4.5.2 will be the only supported version of .NET 4 from January 2016, and looks at upgrading projects, along with sharing a script to identify which framework version an assembly was built against
- Little Puzzlers – The Majority Element – James Michael Hare shares another of his ‘Little Puzzlers’ with a problem about identifying the majority element within a sequence of elements.
- Chess TDD 42: Finishing up White Pawn Movement – Erik Dietrich shares the next instalment of his Test Driven Development Video series looking at building a Chess game. This part looks at the implementation of the black pawns by reversing the implementation of the white pawns.
- Refactoring with Loops and Collection Pipelines – Martin Fowler shares the 4th part of this article on refactoring from loops to collection pipeline methods, sharing another worked refactoring example, this time with more complex code.
- Progressive .NET Tutorials 2015 and Recording Videos of My ASP.NET 5 Talks – Tugberk Ugurlu shares the session recording of his two talks on ASP.NET 5 from the Progressive .NET Tutorials 2015 Conference at SkillsMatter
- New Book: C# Succinctly – Joe Mayo highlights his new eBook available from the folks at Syncfusion as a part of their ‘Succinctly’ series.
- Hey Azure, how’s my Web App doing?
– Elton Stoneman takes a look at obtaining metrics for Web Apps on the Azure Platform (formerly know as Azure Websites) using programatic means to display them in a custom dashboard.
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