The Morning Brew

Software

• Breakpoint Generator Extension – Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Andrew B Hall shares a post from Jakob Ehn and Utkarsh Shigihalli on a useful code exploration (at runtime) extension which scans code and inserts breakpoints for you to aid your exploration of it
• Today at Connect()—introducing the Microsoft Graph – Rob Lefferts introduces the Microsoft Graph, a consolidated set of APIs for interacting with Office 365 announced at Connect();
• Announcing the VS GDB Debugger extension – Marc Goodner highlights the GDB Debugger Extension which brings remote debugging of linux targets to Visual Studio Community (and higher)
• Installing Glimpse v2 Beta1 – Anthony van der Hoorn discusses the Glimpse Beta release and looks at getting up and running with Glimpse

Information

• Monitor madness, part two – Eric Lippert continues from his previous post on Monitor locks, exploring more scenarios of use of the Monitor class
• Refactoring to an Adaptive Model – Martin Fowler shares the second part of his article on refactoring code to an adaptive model, continuing the sharing of a step by step refactoring
• Stupid JavaScript debugging tricks: Abusing the conditional breakpoint – Raymond Chen shares a useful tidbit about using conditional breakpoints to evaluate and perform logging (or any other action) to aid debugging.
• Finitely Iterating Infinite Data With ES6 Generators – Derick Bailey shares a look at the use of Generators in ECMAScript 2015 looking at using them to iterate over an infinite set of data.
• Is logging raw HTTP requests ok? – Cellfish discusses logging requests into a service as a debugging resource, sharing some thoughts on the additional complexity and risks which may be brought into play by doing this, and the considerations to make when doing it.
• Playing with the GitHub API in your ASP.NET MVC application – Ivan Lukianchuk takes a look at using the Octokit client library from C# to interact with GitHub
• aync/await, what you should know! – Amir Dashti shares an introduction to the concepts behind the async / await functionality in C#
• Protecting Microsoft Edge against binary injection – Crispin Cowan discusses recent improvements to the security of the Microsoft Edge browser regarding loading of additional DLL content
• Testing with Data – Kyle Baley discusses the use of test data in integration tests sharing some of his experiences

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A Bumper edition today with all the news from yesterday’s Connect(); // 2015 event

Connect()

• Announcing .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 RC – Rich Lander announces the release candidate of .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 RC with a number of improvements from previous releases to both the Core Runtime and BCL as well as the ASP.NET Tooling
• VS Code v0.10.1 (November – Beta 2015) – The Visual Studio Code team announce the release of VS Code 0.10.1, a further beta release adding in support for extensions as well as moving to an Open Source development model.
• Glimpse v2 Beta1 Released! – Nik Molnar announces the first beta release of Glimpse 2, adding in support for ASP.NET 5 and CoreCLR, bringing with it cross platform capabilities
• Node.js Tools 1.1 for Visual Studio Released – Sara Itani & Arunesh Chandra announce the release of the latest build of the Node tools for Visual Studio, adding in support for NodeJS 4.x, improved intellisense, debugging, performance and npm v3 support
• Announcing the Azure SDK 2.8 for .NET – Brady Gaster announces the release of the Azure SDK 2.8 for .NET including new support for Docker Containers
• Visual Studio Team Services – Visual Studio Online becomes Visual Studio Term Services
• Azure App Service Updates – November 2015 – Jeffrey Fritz shares the latest updates on the Azure App Service platform announced at Connect()
• Deep Diagnostics for Web Apps with Application Insights | Microsoft Azure Blog – Merav Davidson shares a look at some of the application analytics and diagnostics improvements in Application Insights announced at Connect()
• Announcing the Intune App SDK – Chuck Lantz & Sam Tulimat share details of the Intune SDK bringing security features to mobile applications across the different device platforms.
• Announcing Public Preview for Visual Studio Team Services Code Search – Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management – Biju Venugopal shares a look at the new public preview of Code Search in Visual Studio Team Services
• Announcing the new Release Management service in Visual Studio Team Services – Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Vijay M gives the details of the new Release Management Service in Visual Studio Team Services making it ever easier to deploy your software to multiple environments
• Announcing easy to use browser-based exploratory testing for Visual Studio Team Services, Announcing Public Preview of Visual Studio Marketplace & Getting Started with DevTest Labs for Azure – Charles Sterling announces a new testing tool ‘Microsoft Exploratory Testing’ for performing testing, and capturing bugs, the public preview of the Visual Studio Market Place, the new home of extensions and plugins for Visual Studio, and shares a look at the new DevTest Labs features for creating test environments and running test labs.
• Visual Studio Dev Essentials – Visual Studio Dev Essentials offers developers a whole set of tools and training to get up to speed on cross platform development on the Microsoft Stack, with a great selection of benefits
• News and Announcements at Connect(); //2015 – John Montgomery has a nice round up of the major announcements from Connect()
• ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core RC1 in context (Plus all the Connect 2015 News) – Scott Hanselman also has a good roundup including highlighting the videos of the sessions and all the great ASP.NET related content.
• Barbaric Tip of the Week: Check The Connect 2015 Keynote for Some Truly Awesome Stuff That is Coming – Jaime González García has also aggregated a lot of the announcement news into a blog post, well worth checking out.
• Announcing ASP.NET 5 Release Candidate 1 – Jeffrey T. Fritz shares the detailed announcement of the ASP.NET 5 Release Candidate 1
• Entity Framework 7 RC1 Available – Rowan Miller announces the release candidate of Entity Framework 7, reviewing what is included in this release and also highlighting the getting started documentation.
• News from Connect(); 2015 – Brian Harry shares the Connect() News from a Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services point of view

Information

• Upgrading ASP.NET 5 Beta 8 to RC1 – Shawn Wildermuth shares his notes on updating from the final Beta release of ASP.NET to the new release candidate release, which includes a golive license.
• Microsoft Announces Next Generation of Visual Studio Release Management – Jakob Ehn shares a look a the new features related to Release Management announced today at Connect();
• Enterprise-grade GitHub: How Azure scaled to 2,000+ employees on GitHub – Jeff Wilcox discusses how the Azure Team has increased its Open Source development presence over the past few years and shares some of their experiences working with GitHub in the open with an ever increasing number of staff.
• Building a Code Analyzer for the Roslyn Analyzer Project – Josh Varty looks at using Roslyn to build code quality testing into your build process, with a look at how to perform checks on the use of an API.
• Build Your Own Translation App with Help from Translator on GitHub – The Microsoft Translator Team highlight their services for building Translation into your applications in a variety of languages
• The Zen of Code Reviews: the Reviewer’s Tale – Michael Sorens continues his series which is a guide to reviewing code with a look at the Reviewer’s side of the story.

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Links Only edition today as I’m out on the road today at the Stacked 2015 event – IF you are there say hello.

Information

• Building a Code Analyzer for the Roslyn Analyzer Project – Josh Varty
• Using Elasticsearch with ASP.NET 5 dnxcore50 – damienbod
• Visual Studio Code – NEW FEATURE: Yo Code – Streamlined Customizations for VS Code – Ed Price
• Release Management vNext – Token Web.Config for Azure Web Apps – Kevin Mack & Brandon Rohrer
• ASP.NET 5 View Components – Ricardo Peres
• Code quality gateways – Oren Eini (Ayende)
• Glimpse Part 2 – Performance Profiler – Rakhi Shrivastava

Community

• Meetup in London: why is Windows not your platform of choice – Christian Heilmann

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