The Morning Brew

You’re not seeing double, and you’ve not travelled back in time – yesterday’s edition was incorrectly numbered as 1909 (now fixed), and 1909 is the correct number for today’s edition and gets us back on track.

Software

• NuGet 3.0 Released – Jeffrey T. Fritz

Information

• What are your favorite JavaScript ES6 features? – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code has surpassed 500,000 downloads – Brad Sams
• Identity Management Features in Visual Studio 2015 – Ji Eun Kwon & Anthony Cangialosi
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 2015 RTM – Robert Green
• C# Yellow Book Code Samples – Rob Miles
• There is no such thing as technical debt – Ralf Westphal
• Visual Studio 2015 "The request was aborted. Could not create SSL/TLS secure channe" when Signing In or NuGet? Check your IE Settings… – Greg Duncan
• Baby Step towards ASP.NET 5 Web Application and see What’s New – Sreekanth Mothukuru

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Update: As correctly pointed out by Jan in the comments this post should have been numbered 1908 rather than 1909. I’ve corrected the post title, but the URLs are going to remain

Information

• Roslyn and Mono – Miguel de Icaza
• ReSharper 9.1.2 for Visual Studio 2015 RTM – Jura Gorohovsky
• Visual Studio 2015 RTM: What’s New in the IDE – Ji Eun Kwon & Tarek Madkour
• MS15-058 SQL Server Security Bulletin Released – SQL Server Engineering Team
• .NET Strings are immutable … except that they’re not – Rick Brewster
• Version Control Guidance – Visuals to decorate your office wall or hide cracks in the wall resembling complex branches – Willy-P. Schaub
• Mapping Between Entities and View Models & Upgrading ASP.NET 5 Beta4 to Beta5 – Shawn Wildermuth
• A Subtle Benefit Of ES6 Arrow Functions With Backbone/Marionette – Derick Bailey
• Microservices presentation [London 2014] – Udi Dahan
• Not romantically binding [promise-ring wraps Node.js callbacks with native ES6 Promises] – David Anson

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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.

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