The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 RC – John Montgomery announces the Release Candidate release of the Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 with general stability and performance improvements, along with new features for Debugging and Diagnostic, improvements to subscription signin, and much more
• Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3 RC is available – Brian Harry highlights the TFS side to the Update 3 RC release, announcing new features such as SSH support in Git, an SDK for the Dashboard, and features to allow auto provisioning of enviroments as part of the CI / CD pipeline
• Visual Studio TACO Update 10 – Linda Zhong shares the details of the Update 10 to the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova, with improved plugin support, update to the default Cordova version, IDE extensions to work with Ionic, and a preview of TACO Simulate a browser simulation tool

Information

• Announcing a new .NET and ASP.NET Core Bug Bounty – Barry Dorrans announces a further 3 month bug bounty program for .NET Core and ASP.NET, and discusses the successes from the previous round
• The week in .NET – 06/07/2016 – Bertrand Le Roy shares this weeks edition, including highlighting the On.NET interview with Lucian Wischik, taking a look at Markdig, Expensya and HoloLens Development in Florida
• Barbaric Tip of The Week: How to Recover A Lost Commit With Git – Jaime González García shares a useful tip on working with Git looking at the use of reflog to recover commits which go missing
• 10 Minutes to User Authentication in ASP.NET – Stormpath User Identity API – Nate Barbettini announces the RTM release of StormPath an open source ASP.NET Authentication library backed by StormPath’s user management services.
• Azure SQL Database query performance improvements for newly created databases – Guy Haycock highlights changes to the default Compatibility Level for new databases, and how moving to 130 which enables the SQL Server 2016 Query Engine.
• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Persisting information – Ayende takes a trip back to basics on databases, looking at basic CSV and fixed lengh records
• Adding SQL localization data using an Angular 2 form and ASP.NET Core – Damian Bowden looks at managing Localization data in SQL databases using a front end in Angular and having the localizations take action without application restarts.
• Making your JavaScript Pure – Jack Franklin explores the concept of Pure Functions in JavaScript and looks at how this technique can make your code more relable and predictable.
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update Preview – Composition and Implicit Animations – Mike Taulty continues his series looking at some of the visual capabilities which are improved in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, exploring animations in this post.
• MyNatsClient optimised writes – It’s now flying – Daniel Wertheim discusses the performance of his NatsClient library, and how he optimised the write component of the library to increase performance
• Chess TDD 62: Finishing Chess TDD – Eric Dietrich brings his Chess TDD series of posts to a close
• Building an Atom Package in ES6 – Phil Haack takes a look at building an extension for the Atom editor in JavaScript and publishing the resulting package.

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