The Morning Brew

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• Announcing Windows Server 2016 Containers Preview – Scott Guthrie introduced Windows Server 2016’s support for Docker Containers in the latest technical preview release, along with support on Azure for these Windows Server Containers. Scott also introduces how this all fits in with Visual Studio’s Visual Studio Tools for Docker
• New Windows Server Preview Fuels Application Innovation with Containers, Software-Defined Datacenter Updates – The Server & Cloud blog also gives the background to the new Windows Server Preview and its support for containers.
• Containers Welcome – The MSDN Reference for Windows Containers, including getting started guides for the various hosting technologies
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10525 – Gabe Aul announces the latest Windows Insider build of Windows 10, with improved memory management and updated colour options.
• Welcome ReSharper 9.2, ReSharper C++ 1.1 and More Ultimate Updates – Daria Dovzhikova announces a fresh update of the ReSharper Ultimate tooling, with improvements to all the tools included in the package.

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• Creating Smaller, But Still Usable, Dumps of .NET Applications – Sasha Goldshtein announces MiniDumper, an open source library and command line tool which takes dumps files from .NET processes, offering full, heap only and minimal dumps
• Docker on Windows Server 2016 – Gabriel Schenker highlights the Docker side of the Windows Containers announcement with the arrival of the Docker engine for Windows.
• The Stack Overflow Tag Engine – Part 2 – Matt follows on from an older post with a look deeper into the StackOverflow tag engine, looking at how ignores and wildcards are implemented.
• Strongly-typed React (with Bridge.net) – Dan Roberts continues his explorations of programming React with Bridge.NET discussing the extending of coverage of his Bridge.NET bindings for React
• Open Source Style Guide – Aaron highlights a nice guide to running an open source project on GitHub
• Why should you care about Microsoft Edge?, Microsoft Edge – EdgeHTML interoperability, Microsoft Edge – no more legacy plug-ins and features, Microsoft Edge – keeping up to date with frameworks & libraries, Microsoft Edge – don’t do browser detection & Microsoft Edge – keeping up to date with CSS prefixes – Peter Drougge shares a 5 part series looking at the why, what and how of different aspects of the new browser from Microsoft

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• ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit – v15.1.3 – Maintenance update available – Mehul Harry
• Sharp Regrets: Top 10 Worst C# Features – Eric Lippert
• Streamlining FubuMVC Bootstrapping & the Design Patterns Used – Jeremy D Miller
• AssociateRecentWorkItems Extension available for Visual Studio 2015 – Jakob Ehn
• .NET Analyzer Package Round-up – Greg Duncan
• Binding to file inputs with Aurelia – Jeremy Danyow
• FAKE It Till You Make It – Chris Missal
• The NEWS is back for Visual Studio 2015 – Willy-P. Schaub
• Building AngularJS application with TypeScript and Visual Studio Code – Alex Kolesnichenko

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• SQL Server 2014 RTM Cumulative Update #9 is available! & SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update #2 is available! – Aaron Bertrand highlights the availability of the latest two cumulative updates for SQL Server 2014 RTm and SQL Server 2014 SP1
• SonicFileFinder 3.0 Released – Roland Weigelt highlights the latest version of Jens Schaller’s SonicFileFinder Visual Studio extension which now supports VS2015

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• Free Xamarin For Windows Phone Developers – James Quick highlights the offer of a free license for Xamarin for Windows Phone developers who have an existing phone application in the store.
• Containers: Docker, Windows and Trends – Mark Russinovich gives an overview of containers, and the overall Microsoft container vision
• Turning bugs into features – Ayende shares a neat little trick for tracking where you are up to when working with ReSharper’s Find Usage results.
• Nancy, Get, Post, Bind and javascript – Christiaan Baes takes a look at the use of Bind in Nancy with different types of request.
• "Getting" Functional Programming – Steve Gilham shares his steps of smaller ‘ah-ha’ moments in getting to grips with Functional Programming
• Converting ES6 Maps to and from JSON – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer shares a look at how you go about converting from JSON to ECMAScript 6 Maps, and back again
• Make WPA Simple – Symbol Loading Is Not Slow – Alois Kraus continues discussion of the Windows Performance Analyser and looks at how it goes about getting the symbols to aid your analysis, and shares tips to improve the speed of symbol loading.

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