The Morning Brew

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• Build 2016 Wrap up – Jeffrey T. Fritz
• BUILD 2016 Thoughts: Home Sweet Windows – Tim Murphy
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 3 – Azure AD Authentication – Adrian Hall
• Detecting and Solving Memory Problems in .NET E-Book – Hadi Hariri
• Select Projections in Marten – Jeremy D Miller
• Idempotent Aggregates – Derek Comartin
• Faster, Leaner, Focused on Your Development Needs: The New Visual Studio Installer – Tim Sneath
• A Vision For Visual Studio ’15’: Take on Dependencies. Stay Productive – Michael C. Fanning & Joe Morris
• Closure-based State: C# – Ted Neward
• The what, why and how of Azure Automation Desired State Configuration (DSC) – Joe Levy
• Blockchain: the catalyst for a collaborative economy – Marley Gray
• Frigid River, in the magic boat – Eric Lippert

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• What’s New for C# and VB in Visual Studio – Rich Lander discusses the new language features which are included in the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 release
• Using the New Exception Helper in Visual Studio ’15’ Preview – Kaycee Anderson discusses the new and improved exception helper, available as a feature toggle in the preview release
• Break on Exceptions Thrown only from Specific Modules in Visual Studio “15” Preview – Kaycee Anderson also shares a look at another improvement to exception handling in the IDE with the ability to break on exceptions originating from specific modules.
• .NET at Build 2016 – Open, Cross-platform and FREE – Rich Lander highights the key announcements from Build regarding cross platform development from Xamarin, RedHat and the .NET Foundation
• Mobile App Development made easy with Visual Studio and Xamarin – John Montgomery discusses the announcement that Xamarin technology will be freely available, and the plans to bring Camarin and Visual Studio even closer
• Mono Relicensed MIT – Miguel de Icaza announces that the Mono project will be re-released under a MIT license, to be managed by the .NET Foundation. This includes the runtime, as well as Proprietary Mono Extensions

Software

• Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition is now free – The SQL Server team announce the news that the Developer Edition of SQL Server (which is an enterprise edition without the production use license) will now be free for everyone
• What’s new in Git for Windows 2.8? – Johannes Schindelin gives an overview of some of the improvements in the latest edition of Git for Windows.
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update brings New Experiences and Developer Opportunity – Terry Myerson discusses some of the new features that are coming in the next update of Windows 10 that developers can take advantage of.

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• Free Xamarin Technology Changes Everything – Carl Franklin shares his thoughts on the inclusion of Xamarin as part of the general .NET offering gives an compelling story for the platform
• Bash for Windows: Why it’s awesome and what it means for PowerShell – Joey Aiello discusses the significance of the Bash announcement with regard to the PowerShell project.
• Post //build – the 4 technologies .NET people should learn in 2016 – Elton Stoneman highlights 4 significant technologies that he believes will be important ones to master following the news from Build.
• The week in .NET – 3/29/2016 – Bertrand Le Roy shares this weeks ‘This Week in .NET’
• Getting Started With Angular 2 Step by Step: 6 – Consuming Real Data with Http – Jaime González García continues his series looking at the use of Angular2 to build real applications, exploring retrieval of data over HTTP.
• Angular2 secure file download without using an access token in URL or cookies – Damian Bowden takes a look at how you can perform secure file downloads using Angular2

Community

• .NET/FRINGE/ – An atypical conference for open-source .NET developers. – The .NET Fringe conference returns for its next incarnation between the 10th and 12th July 2016, and currently has an open call for submissions for presentations

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Visual Studio / .NET

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RTM – John Montgomery announces the RTM Release of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, which focuses on Performance and responsiveness as well as adding a few new features, and updates to supported versions
• Visual Studio "15" Preview Now Available – John Montgomery also announces the first preview release of Visual Studio 15, the next version of Visual Studio, with an improved installer and numerous new features
• Announcing the .NET Framework 4.6.2 Preview – Stacey Haffner announces the preview of the .NET Framework 4.6.2, which includes improvements for Click Once, conversion tools for Desktop Apps to UWP, along with new cryptography features
• Xamarin for Everyone – Nat Friedman announces the inclusion of Xamarin for free in all editions of Visual Studio as part of the Microsoft acquisition of Xamarin
• Updates for Debugging Installed App Packages in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 – Kaycee Anderson shares a look at one of the improvements in VS 2015 Update 2 for debugging App Packages when working with XBox, Hololens and IoT devices.

Azure

• Introducing Azure Functions – Nir Mashkowski announces new Azure Functionality which provides event driven cloud computing functionality triggered by events either from inside Azure or outside
• Announcing the Visual Studio Azure Tools and SDK 2.9 | Blog | Microsoft Azure – Brady Gaster announces the release of the Visual Studio Azure Tools and SDK 2.9, available for Visual Studio 2013, 2015 and also the ’15’ preview
• New features for Azure Alerts and Autoscale – Ashwin Kamath announces improvements to Azure AutoScale which allow you to receive notification via email and Webhooks for events occurring in AutoScale, and many more aspects of the Azure platform
• Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer preview: March update – Cristy Gonzalez shares the details of the new features included in the March update to the Azure Storage Explorer, including the much requested Table and Query support

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• Refactoring Essentials 4.0 Comes With Roslyn Code Converter – Christoph Wille – Christoph Wille highlights the release of Refactoring Essentials 4.0, a Visual Studio extension from the ICSharpCode team. This version updates it to support Roslyn 1.2 and includes over 250 refactoring, analyzers and fixes for both C# and VB.NET Code.
• Bash on Windows – What it Means for Chocolatey – Rob Reynolds discusses the Windows support for Bash and ELF binaries on Windows, and what this means for the Chocolatey project
• How To Mimic Azure Web Sites Deployment Slots In A Basic Plan – Chris Love takes a look at how you can gain the benefits of Azure Website Deployment Slots using a more basic Windows Azure account and the corresponding features
• Implementing SQL Elastic Pools for affordable SQL Azure databases – Kendall Miller discusses further aspects of the migration of Loupe to the cloud, discussing the use of SQL Elastic Pools to create a cost effective way of them getting the performance and capability that their software required.
• Visualization and comparison of sorting algorithms in C# – Mark Monnin discusses various sorting algorithms, showing how they operate in a visual way.

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