Software
- Visual Studio Code 0.9.2 (or, how many squares do you see?) – Johannes Rieken announces the release of Visual Studio Code 0.9.2, a bugfix release which corrects a defect which caused quadratic time to be taken performing operations
- ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit – v15.1.4 – Maintenance update available – Mehul Harry announces the latest maintenance update to the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit including a raft of bug fixes and a couple of new features / improvements
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- Diving Into ASP.NET 5 Beta 8? Don’t forget the web tools! – Julie Lerman highlights the importance of updating the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2015 when you attempt to work with new beta releases of ASP.NET 5 to avoid mismatches with templates.
- ASP.NET 5 Middleware Pipeline and Startup Class – David Hayden gives a brief look at dependency injection in Razor using the inject keyword, and also shares a short look at the ASP.NET 5 middleware and specifically the startup class for your application.
- 15 features I love in Visual Studio 2015 – part 1 editor features – Tess Ferrandez highlights a few less well known productivity enhancements in the Visual Studio editor
- Visual Studio Time Saver – Setting and creating themes – Susan Ibach shares a short video tutorial on customising your Visual Studio editor experience
- Choosing a Front End Framework: Angular vs. Ember vs. React – Zach Kuhn shares a look at three of the leading front end web frameworks, sharing his thoughts on which of the three win out
- How to Use Modernizr Responsibly – Jérémy Heleine shares a look at the Modernizr library, looking at how it should be used, and why you should care about how it is included.
- Recording available: Architecture Tower of Babel & Recording available – Highly Available & Scalable Solutions with RavenDB – Ayende shares two recordings of sessions he delivered, the first looking atadding in complexity to existing systems, and reasons for a drive for simplicity, and the second discussing how RavenDB scales under load