The Morning Brew

Software

• Cross-Platform 2D Graphics with SkiaSharp – Miguel de Icaza announces SkiaSharp, a new cross platform .NET Grapihcs library which uses the Skia graphics library from Google (used in Chrome, Firefox and Android)
• Announcing TypeScript 1.8 – Bowden Kelly announces the release of TypeScript 1.8 which brings with iy improvements to module augmentation allowing users to extend modules, import only a subset, String literal types which allow enum-like behaviour for strings used in configurations, improved unreachable code detection and implicit returns

Information

• Porting MSBuild to .NET Core – Daniel Plaisted discusses his work on porting MSBuild to the .NET Core runtime
• New Free eBook C# 6.0: What’s New Quick Start – Jason Roberts announces the availability of the first few chapters of his eBook which looks at the new and exciting features of C# 6. The ebook is available for free (or a user defined amount if you wish).
• VeST Redux – Test rigs and external APIs – Seb Lambla continues his series on his VeST (Vertical Slice Technologies) approach to building systems with a look at how creating a ‘test rig’ suite of tests against ‘in-memory’/mock service implementation whcih you then use against your real world implementation of that service.
• Visual Studio Team Services – NEW FEBRUARY RELEASE: Marketplace Extensions +17 New Improvements! – Ed Price hares look at the improvements included in the Visual Studio Team Services February update.
• Service Fabric SDK v1.5.175 and the adoption of Virtual Machine Scale Sets – The Azure Service Fabric Team announce an updated preview of the Service Fabric SDK which includes support for development on Windows 7, Improvements to the Reliable Actors framework for deletion of actors, querying actors and support for Cancelation Tokens in the Reliable Service and Reliable actors, along with a host of other improvements and bugfixes.
• Keeping POST and GET Separated – Dino Esposito takes a look at performing Command Query separation in ASP.NET MVC by keeping GET and POST methods separate.
• Better Hypermedia Through Obfuscation – Dylan Beattie suggests a slightly twisted idea to make people adopt the hypermedia aspects of an API rather than guessing parameters themselves.
• Speech Recognition and Identification with Windows 10/UWP and ‘Project Oxford’ – Mike Taulty flows on from previous posts about Project Oxford and takes a look at using the API to perform speech recognition and identification of people based on speech.

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