The Morning Brew

Software

• August 2015 .NET Security Updates – The .NET Fundamentals Team
• Caliburn.Micro 3.0.0-beta1 – Caliburn.Micro Team
• ReSharper 9.2 Release Candidate 2 – Jura Gorohovsky / JetBrains

Information

• Upgrading ASP.NET 5 Projects between Beta Versions – Rick Strahl
• Introduction to Debugging – Andrew Hall
• Update on .NET Framework 4.6 and Azure – Brady Gaster
• Platform generalists versus framework specialists – Jimmy Bogard
• The ES6 conundrum – new article on SitePoint – Christian Heilmann
• NuGet 2 code base moves to GitHub – Yishai Galatzer
• Little Puzzlers – Lowest Common Ancestor – James Michael Hare
• Chess TDD 45: Onward with En Passant – Erik Dietrich
• Sharing files on Azure with deployments from Dropbox – Troy Hunt
• Scaling an Azure Event Hub: Throughput units – Benny Michielsen
• The ARM processor architecture: Somebody else’s introductions – Raymond Chen (highlighting articles by Marion Cole)

Community

• Developer’s Guide to Windows 10: Live on 12th &13th August – Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed

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• Team Foundation Server 2015 Final Release – Brian Harry announces the Final Release of Team Foundation Server 2015, a release which places special emphasis on DevOps features, along with new features across the board

Information

• The Evergreen Web – Scott Hanselman discusses the concept of the ‘Evergreen Web’ and how life on the edge can mean compromises and a bit of fixing up of the web properties we maintain.
• Parsing TypeScript definitions (functional-ly.. ish) – Dan Roberts takes a look at writing C# in a more functional way, introducing Optional<T>, and applying it to the parsing of TypeScript Definitions
• We’re struggling to get traction with SSL because it’s still a "premium service" – Troy Hunt discusses the adoption of HTTPS only on websites and looks at some of the barriers to adoption
• Processing IIS ETW events using Azure Stream Analytics – Dipanjan Banik highlights an interesting piece from last year by Thomas Restrepo looking at using Azure Stream Analytics to process Event Tracing for Windows events.
• Dev Talk Monday: The Future of Web Development and Learning Functional Programming – Jaime González García highlights a number of good conference talk recordings on the future of the web and on functional programming
• NuGet packages for TFS and Visual Studio Online .NET client object model – Buck Hodges highlights the availability of the Client Object Models for Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server which are now shipping as NuGet Packages
• Azure Storage Release – Append Blob, New Azure File Service Features and Client-Side Encryption GA – Michael Curd highlights the latest batch of features included in the most recent update to the Azure Storage services
• Public release of Windows 10 IoT Core – Lee Stott highlights the public release of Windows 10 Core for the Internet Of Things devices, allowing the Raspberry Pi 2 and the MinnowBoard Max to run Windows 10

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• Beta release of C#6 support in .NET Reflector – Ben Emmett announces the latest beta release of RedGate’s .NET Reflector tool which adds C#6 and VB14 support

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• Visual Studio 2015 FAQ – Radhika Tadinada shares the most Frequently Asked Questions on Visual Studio 2015, along with their official answers, gleaned from StackOverflow, forums and Connect.
• Disposing resources at the end of Web API request – Filip W takes a look at the built in WebAPI support for Disposing of IDisposable resources at the end of requests
• Language Safety Score, revisited – Mathias Brandewinder builds on some work from Steve Shogren looking at the relative safety of different programming languages.
• C#: Program Entirely With Static Methods – Mike Hadlow looks at how his coding style has evolved to a more functional style, and illustrates with examples looking at how he moved to using more statics, and how to handle dependencies.
• Windows 10 UWP – Migrating a Windows 8.1 App (Part 3 of N) – Mike Taulty continues his series of posts looking at taking an existing Windows 8.1 application and migrating it to being a UWP Windows 10 application

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