The Morning Brew

Hello again everyone – I’ve had a lovely month off, with a great holiday in the US taking in Yellowstone, Salt Lake City and Chicago along the way. As promised normal Morning Brew service resumes tomorrow morning, and today’s edition is a monster link dump of the things that caught my eye from the past month.

ASP.NET

• Announcing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta7 – Daniel Roth
• ASP.NET Community Standup – September 8, 2015 – Jeffrey T. Fritz
• ASP.NET Community Standup – September 15, 2015 – Jeffrey T. Fritz
• A Summer of ASP.NET: Catching up with .NET Web Developments – Jeffrey T. Fritz
• Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview – Henrik F Nielsen
• Setting IHostingEnvironment.IsDevelopment as True in an ASP.NET 5 Application – Tugberk Ugurlu
• ASP.NET 5 with SQLite and Entity Framework 7 – damienbod
• ASP.NET 5 Action Filters – damienbod
• ASP.NET 5 Identity and REST APIs – Shawn Wildermuth
• A Look at ASP.NET 5: Part 4 – MVC 6 – Shawn Wildermuth
• A Look at ASP.NET 5: Part 5 – The API – Shawn Wildermuth
• Writing Custom Commands for DNX with ASP.NET 5.0 – James Chambers
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Replacing the Mega Postback with Web Api – David Paquette
• Microservices with Minimum Overhead using ASP.NET Web API and Azure – Part 2 – Deployment – CodeProject
• RESTful Day #6: Request logging and Exception handling/logging in Web APIs using Action Filters, Exception Filters and NLog – Sachin Verma, Akhil Mittal

Azure

• Announcing the Biggest VM Sizes Available in the Cloud: New Azure GS-VM Series – Scott Guthrie
• Better Density and Lower Prices for Azure’s SQL Elastic Database Pools – Scott Guthrie
• Announcing General Availability of HDInsight on Linux + new Data Lake Services and Language – Scott Guthrie
• Announcing Node.js support for Azure Mobile Apps – Christopher Anderson
• Introducing Azure Storage Data Movement Library Preview – Zhiming Yuan
• Introducing Azure Service Bus Premium Messaging – Clemens Vasters
• Updates in Azure WebJobs SDK (1.1.0-alpha2) – Pranav Rastogi
• Elastic database client library now open sourced – Silvia Doomra
• Azure Mobile Apps September 2015 Update – Donna Malayeri
• Improve the performance of your Azure SQL Databases using Index Advisor – Vladimir Ivanovic
• September update: Azure Preview Portal improvements – Leon Welicki
• Azure Media Services adds Google Widevine packaging for delivering multi-DRM stream – Mingfei Yan
• All about Azure Service Bus -messaging services – Mahesh Kumar
• Introduction to Azure Search – Gunnar Peipman
• Azure Backup – Announcing general availability of backup for Azure IaaS VMs – Trinadh Kotturu
• Protecting Sensitive Data with Azure Key Vault – brimit
• Stateful Services: A New Paradigm – Mani Ramaswamy

TypeScript / JavaScript

• Announcing TypeScript 1.6 Beta: React/JSX, better error checking, and more – Jonathan Turner
• Announcing TypeScript 1.6 – Jonathan Turner
• WinTools 1.1, TypeScript 1.6 RTM, and Tools for Apache Cordova Updates – Kraig Brockschmidt
• What happened to Web Components? – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• Typed Arrays in ECMAScript 6 – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• The names of functions in ES6 – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• ECMAScript 6: holes in Arrays – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• Delegating yield in JavaScript – K. Scott Allen
• Building Applications with Aurelia – K. Scott Allen
• Promises in ES2015 Part 1 – K. Scott Allen
• Chaining Promises in JavaScript – K. Scott Allen
• The Basic Ingredients of JavaScript-Mancy: An Introduction to JavaScript and ES 6 For C# Developers – Jaime González García
• VS 2015 and Typescript module flag
  – Kevin Logan
• How Does An Edit Button "click" Event Become An Edit Command? – Derick Bailey
• How To Get The Difference Between Two Arrays, As A Distinct List, With JavaScript ES6 – Derick Bailey
• Future of JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) Block Scoping – Rami Sayar
• Typescript – Classes – Constructors – Anooj Nair

.NET

• Visual Studio Code – September Update (0.8.0) –
• Visual Studio Code – September Update (0.8.0) – Sean McBreen
• MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core! – Nikolai Tillmann
• Unity 5.2 and Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.1 – Jb Evain
• Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Online – Sergiy Baydachnyy
• NuGet Command line and Visual Studio 2015 Extension 3.2 RC released – Yishai Galatzer
• Announcing the NuGet 3.2 release – Jeffrey T. Fritz
• Accelerate your network share hosted Package Source – Andrew Arnott
• Meet the new NuGet status page – Maarten Balliauw
• Enabling source code debugging for your NuGet packages with GitLink – Oren Novotny
• Roslyn in MonoDevelop/XamarinStudio – Miguel de Icaza
• Hacking DNX to run C# scripts – Filip W
• Running a C# REPL in a DNX application with scriptcs – Filip W
• Using Roslyn and unit tests to enforce coding guidelines and more – Filip W
• Pitfalls of switching in and out of async – Rory Primrose
• Nullable comparisons are weird – Eric Lippert’
• Learn Roslyn Now: Part 13 Keeping track of syntax nodes with Syntax Annotations – Josh Varty
• Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler – Jim Springfield
• Windows Server Containers are coming whether you like it or not – Kyle Baley
• The insidious cost of allocations – Ayende
• Running .NET Core apps in a Docker container with a Linux image – Elton Stoneman
• Partial Application in C# – Mike Hadlow
• C# and F# approaches to illegal states – Vladimir Khorikov
• CodeRush for Roslyn, v1.0.5 – Mark Miller
• Converting .NET 4.6 Projects to the VS 2015 Project System – James Chambers
• VSCode Documentation moves to GitHub – Sean McBreen
• Tasks are (still) not threads and async is not parallel – BenWilli
• Rich Payload Data in EventSource V4.6. – Vance Morrison
• Concurrency Visualizer for Visual Studio 2015 is now available on the gallery – Dan Taylor
• TraceLogging – Background – Where are we going, and what’s with the handbasket? – Doug E. Cook
• Top 15 Underutilized Features of .NET – Anton Angelov
• Top 15 Underutilized Features of .NET Part 2 –
  Anton Angelov

General .NET / Security / Frameworks

• Strong Type Checking with Semantic Types – Marc Clifton
• Troy’s ultimate list of security links – Troy Hunt
• Update Ajax Control Toolkit to Patch Critical Security Vulnerability – Mehul Harry
• What’s new for .NET and UWP in Win10 Tools 1.1 – Rich Lander
• Introducing Notifications Visualizer for Windows 10 – andrewbares7
• Version 1.8 of PerfView is now on the Download Center – Vance Morrison
• Sagas, State Machines, and Abandoned Carts – Chris Patterson
• Microservices in C# Part 4: Scaling Out – Paul Mooney
• Microservices in C# Part 5: Autoscaling – Paul Mooney
• Akka.NET Dispatchers and User Interface Thread Access – Jason Roberts
• Using Predicates in Akka.NET Receive Actors – Jason Roberts
• Understanding Onion Architecture – chetanvihite
• Code Sample: Creating a Calculator app in Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform – Scott Ge
• Battle of the Free Code Editors – Brian Rinaldi

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