The Morning Brew #1907

Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 RTM

• Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download – Somasegar announces the release of Visual Studio 2015 and the .NET Framework 4.6
• Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Released – Brian Harry announces the Visual Studio 2015 release as well as the release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 and Team Foundation Server Update 5 RC2
• Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Released – The Visual Studio Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – John Montgomery and the Visual Studio team give a rundown of the new features included in Visual Studio 2015 and the VS2013 Update
• Visual Studio 2015 RTM Now Available – Eric Battalio highlights articles about lots of the new C++ related functionality in Visual Studio 2015
• Released Today: Visual Studio 2015, ASP.NET 4.6, ASP.NET 5 & EF 7 Previews – Scott Guthrie shares a Web Development slant on yesterday’s release with a look at the ASP.NET tooling improvements, ASP.NET 4.6 Framework Improvements, and discusses ASP.NET 5 and Entity Framework.
• Visual Studio 2015 Released plus ASP.NET 5 Roadmap – Scott Hanselman discusses the ASP.NET 5 roadmap in the context of the Visual Studio 2015 release
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 – Rich Lander discusses the .NET Framework 4.6 release, giving an overview of the key new features in WPF, Networking, Theading, GC, ADO, F#, Crypto and much more
• Announcing TypeScript 1.5 – Jonathan Turner announces the release of TypeScript 1.5 available both as a part of the Visual Studio 2015 RTM and also as standalone via NPM and for use in VS2013.
• Announcing the RTM of Visual F# 4.0 – The Visual F# Team announce the release of F# 4.0 as a part of the VS2015 release and celebrate the community contributions which were included in this release
• Visual Studio 2015 and .NET Framework 4.6 released today–behind the scenes goodies, t-shirts, and lots of open development – Beth Massi highlights the recording of the Visual Studio 2015 Launch event
• Visual Studio Emulator for Android in VS2015 RTM – John Kemnetz highlights the inclusion of the new Android emulator in VS2015 and also available now as a standalone emulator making it easer to test your software on Android
• Code Maps improvements in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM: Code maps now have simpler menus, more intuitive icons, and independent group layout – Jean-Marc Prieur takes a look at the improvements to the Visual Studio CodeMaps functionality in VS 2015 Enterprise

Information

• The Open Sourcing of the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio – You’ve Been Haacked – Phill Haack highlights the opensourcing of the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio providing a useful MIT licensed codebase to use as a reference when creating VS Extensions, and also opening the extension up to community contributions.
• Solution to Little Puzzlers – Find the Majority Element – James Michael Hare shares his solution to his most recent ‘little puzzlers’ problem
• ASP.NET 5 and CSS bundling: Fixing image paths – Gunnar Peipman learns about the new CSS bundling functionality in ASP.NET 5 and how it handles referenced images.
• Cancelling Long Running Queries in ASP.NET MVC and Web API – Dave Paquette takes a look at how using Async to execute database queries allows better resource use on your web server, and also allows you to cancel long running queries
• How fast is Microsoft Edge? – Michael Li takes a look at the performance of the Microsoft Edge browser running a number of the SunSpider tests
• What you really need to know about regular expressions before using them – Rico Mariani discusses Regular Expressions and the different models of implementation that exist for them, and how understanding the way your library works is vital to getting good performance.