The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event – Its launch Day, and there is a programme of events starting 8:30 PDT
• Connect("On Demand") – Channel 9 – Channel 9 are broadcasting the Visual Studio Launch event live starting in around 7 hours (from now, as I type)

Information

• Tasks, IDisposables and async/await – Mark Rendle takes a look at some potential confusion with Tasks, Async / Await and IDisposable, illustrating with an example.
• Getting More LINQ-y – Jeremy Bytes looks at refactoring code to make more use of LINQ and the more functional style of programming it gives.
• A C# 6 gotcha: Initialization vs. Expression Bodied Members – Bill Wagner looks at some of the new C# features and how by mixing them up you can get some unexpected results.
• StructureMap in 2015/16 | The Shade Tree Developer – Jeremy D Miller shares an update on the StructureMap development and roadmap for Version 4.
• What is the difference between a Shared Project vs. Class Library? – Michael Crump takes a look at the difference between Class Libraries (as we are familiar with them) and the new Shared Project project type.
• Rx Challenge #7 Solution – Bnaya Eshet shares the solution to his Rx Challenge problem looking at implementing WhereAsync.
• TypeScript Design Patterns and Mine Sweeper – Wesley Bakker shares a useful library of Gang of Four patterns implemented in TypeScript
• The Rise of JavaScript Frameworks – Part 1: Today – Rick Strahl shares thoughts on the rise in popularity of Rich client side web applications and the frameworks which support them
• A Complete List of Windows Development Tools – Scott Ge shares another great lists, this time looking at some of the best useful development tools and extensions

Community

• DDD East Anglia Sessions – Developer Developer Developer East Anglia returns on the 24th September, and now is your chance to shape the agenda with the session vodting running until 9th August.

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• Simple.Data status update – Mark Rendle
• Event sourcing applied – the read model – Gabriel Schenker
• A/B Testing and Testing In Production with Azure Web Apps – Scott Hanselman
• Microsoft Edge and Web Components – Travis Leithead & Arron Eicholz
• Need compiler help? Bing in Visual Studio brings what you need in just one click – The Bing and Visual Studio teams
• Recycling Action Methods in ASP.NET MVC – Peter Vogel
• My encounter with Redis Cache: getting inside session management using Azure Redis Cache. – saurabhkirtani – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Saurabh Kirtani
• How exactly does Event Hubs Throttling Work? – Dan Rosanova
• Microsoft releases new license terms for Windows 10: Biggest surprise? No gotchas – Ed Bott

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Software

• New version of ASP.NET Merge Tool – Matt FJH announces a new version of the ASP.NET Merge Tool which makes use of an updated version of IL merge meaning that it deals better edge cases.
• Windows SDK for Facebook – The Windows Apps Team announce the release of a new Open Source native library which enables integration of Facebook functionality (authentication, graph, etc) into Universal Windows apps

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• ViewComponents in ASP.NET 5 and ASP.NET MVC 6 – Filip W takes a look at the new ViewComponent Feature in ASP.NET MVC 6 which helps to deal with the re-usable components needed on pages such as menus, shopping carts, breadcurmbs, etc.
• A Guided Tour of Windows 10 IoT Core -Telerik Developer Network – Michael Crump gives an overview of using Windows 10 on other devices (a Raspberry Pi 2 in this case) and looks at the setup of a device and creating your first applications for devices
• How to install Visual Studio to another directory when a pre-release is installed – With the RTM release of Visual Studio getting ever closer (next week) Heath Stewart looks at potential problems installing to another directory when you have the pre-release installed, sharing a solution to the problem.
• Two Factor Authentication with GitHub and Visual Studio 2013 – Colin Angus Mackay takes a look at setting up Git integration to GiHub in Visual Studio when you are using two factor authentication on GitHub.
• How many customers does Microsoft have? – Scott Ge shares an interesting overview of the size of the different aspects of Microsoft in terms of users of the software.
• 19 Must-Know Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts – Part 1 & 19 Must-Know Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts – Part 2 – Anton Angelov shares two lots of 19 useful keyboard short cuts for Visual Studio.

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