The Morning Brew

I’m delighted to announce that The Morning Brew has been awarded ‘The most interesting technical blog of the past year’ in the Simple-Talk Awards 2015/2016 – Thank you all for the nomination and votes. Be sure to check out the other excellent award winners and nominees.

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• New and Noteworthy Extensions for Visual Studio – March 2016 – Michael Dick shares some of the latest new and interesting Visual Studio Extensions which supplement the functionality of the IDE
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update: All the features and changes coming later this summer – Mauro Huculak gives a nice overview of the feature we can expect to see in the next update to Windows 10

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• Predefined Namespaces And Custom Base View Page in ASP.NET Core 1.0 MVC – Filip W takes a look at how to achieve the adding of pre-defined namespaces and custom base view page in ASP.NET Core 1.0 MVC where there is no Web.config file to add the settings to
• C# 7 Feature Proposal: New Access Modifier – Bill Wagner discusses the possibility for the introduction of a Private Protected access modifier in C#7, looking at the language design considerations to take into account
• Introducing the Microsoft Edge Platform Issue Tracker – Anton Molleda and Jacob Rossi announce the new Microsoft Edge Platform Issue Tracker, the best place to report issues you encounter with the Edge browser
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Server Configuration as Code with PowerShell DSC – Graham Smith (a fellow Simple-Talk award winner) takes a look at adding code to configure the servers that will run the applications you develop using PowerShell DSC
• Helper Code: VS15 can add conditions to exceptions! – Dror Helper takes a look at improvements in Visual Studio 15 Preview which allow you to better control break on exception behaviour in the IDE
• Angular 2 typescript configuration and debugging for Visual Studio 2015 – Sami Pylkkänen walks through the process of setting up a development project to work with Angular2 using TypeScript
• What I think is and is not better about .Net OSS these days – Jeremy D Miller shares his updated thoughts on the open source development movement in .NET
• Blue-Green Deployment in Docker Cloud – Gabriel Schenker continues his series on implementing a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipeline, with a look at running node.js applications in a Docker cloud
• Running and debugging CoreCLR ASP.NET web applications on Triton – Richard Kiene takes a look at running CoreCLR applications (ASP.NET MVC specifically) on Joyent’s Linux based Triton Containers, and also at how the experience extends to debugging of the application

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• Release v0.16.0 – scriptcs – Glen Block announces the release of the latest version of scriptcs, which includes an update to the latest Roslyn components bringing the language enhancements of C#6 to scriptcs, improvements to the REPL environment on Mono, and Visual Studio Debugging
• Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets GA – Guy Bowerman highlights the General Availability release of Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets which has been in preview since November, making it simpler to manage machines which are all the same in a scale set, and integrating with Azure AutoScale and load balancing

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• Free eBook: Visual Studio Code – Tipps & Tricks Vol. 1 (English/German) – Oliver Sheer highlights a free e-book from Kay Giza and Tobias Kahlert looking at some of their top Visual Studio Code tips and tricks – this post is in German, but the ebook is available in both English and German.
• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – April 5, 2016 – Jeffrey T. Fritz shares his notes from this weeks Community Standup event including notes on all the questions asked about the RC2 ASP.NET Release, .NET Core, and other build related topics.
• Moving to Cake (C# Make) – Laurent Kemp discusses the use of Cake a C# based Make like build tool
• Configuring ASP.NET and IIS Request Length for POST Data – Rick Strahl discusses the various places in which ASP.NET and IIS have configuration settings for controlling the request length limits for POSTed data
• PC Bot – Joe Mayo discusses the use of the newly announce Microsoft Bot Framework, announced at Build last week, taking a look at some of the code you need to write, as well as the developer experience of working with the framework.
• Bot Framework made better with Azure – Jeff Hollan also discusses the use of the Bot Framework, and discusses how combining it with Azure Services give a huge amount of capability very quickly
• Visual C++ for Linux and Raspberry Pi Development – Scott Hanselman highlights a Visual Studio Extension announced last week at build which allows you to use Visual Studio to developer C++ Code for Linux, and have it compiled, run and debugged on a remote Linux based machine (in a variety of architectures, including ARM).
• Cloud for .net – Windows Passwords, locks and keys – Seb Lambla is mid series (or serial as he terms them) looking at using the AWS Cloud for .NET hosting and development
• Setting up Ubuntu for .NET Development – Colin Angus Mackay walks through the process of getting up and running with .NET Development on Ubuntu

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• Announcing incremental release for Azure Stack Technical Preview 1 – The Microsoft Azure Team announce the release of an updated technical preview of Azure Stack which includes improved deployment and operational performance for VMs, improvements to the portal and updates to the Desired State Configuration and Docker.
• NuGet 3.4 Known Issues – Jeffrey T. Fritz highlights a known issue in the latest release of NuGet which can cause the NuGet extension to not search for packages, and the teams plans to address this and a couple of other issues with an update
• ReadableExpressions Debugger Visualizers now in the Visual Studio Gallery – Steve Wilkes announces the availability of his ReadableExpressions Visualizers on the Visual Studio Gallery, which provide the ability to view EXpression Trees in the debugger in a more readable format.

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• ASP.NET Community Standup – April 5th, 2016 – Post BUILD – The video for the latest ASP.NET Team community Standup which occurred live yesterday is available – this edition includes lots of answers to questions about the announcements at Build, and discussion of the status of the various parts of the ASP.NET and .NET frameworks
• The week in .NET – 4/5/2016 – Bertrand Le Roy shares this week’s edition of ‘This week in .NET’ with the usual mix of news and articles of interest to those working on .NET related technologies, as well as a look at AutoFac as the Package of the Week.
• TypeScript 2.0 Preview – David Iffland discusses the announcement of some of the new things which are coming in TypeScript in the coming months
• String format – Kingcean discusses the use of String.Format to produce composite format strings, looking at an implementation of the method from first principles.
• Microsoft Build 2016 Recap – Matt Netkow shares his highlights of the Build 2016 announcements.
• Visual Studio ’15’: Installing Just What You Need – Cathy Sullivan discusses the improved installer in Visual Studio ’15’ and discusses the bundles of features that make up the installers easier way of choosing what to install.
• Contest: Get Answering on Stack Overflow – Chris Hardy discusses changes to how Xamarin engage with developers to support them in their use of the Xamarin Frameworks, and announces a competition based on StackOverflow answers
• Automatically create and publish a NuGet package using VSTS – Mauricio Avilés Diaz walks through the process of configuring a build and publish of a NuGet Package to allow you to more easily share software components within your organisation, making use of the features of Team Services.
• Survey Report: Who is the .NET Developer of 2016? – Nora Georgieva shares the results of Telerik’s Developer Survey, discussing what it is to be ;’the .NET Developer of 2016′.
• Doesn’t pairing cost twice as much? – Eric Gunnerson discusses the use of Pair programming and some of the common reasons for (and arguments against) its use.

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