The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.3 – Jb Evain announces the release of the Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.3, which now supports working with the Xamarin Tools, improved Debugging including support for breakpoints in Visual Studio 15
• Announcing the release of the Azure Usage and Billing Portal – Chris Risner announces the launch of a new Azure Usage and Billing Portal which provides an initial suite of features to help you monitor the use of your Azure Subscriptions
• Azure SQL Data Warehouse supports SSMS, higher DWUs and additional T-SQL features – Kevin Ngo announces the General Availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, along with a host of new features including support for SQL Server Management Studio, higher compute offerings, improved performance, and much more

Information

• TypeScript 2.0 Beta Brings Option Types, Discriminated Unions, and More – Sergio De Simone relects on the release of the TypeScript 2.0 Beta, highlighting some of the key new features
• Crypto101 Introductory Course for Programmers – Greg Duncan highlights a free ebook tutorial course on Cryptography, with cross platform exercises and availabnle as a free PDF download.
• 7 Ways to Look at the Values of Variables While Debugging in Visual Studio – Kaycee Anderson shares a look at the 7 different ways in which the values of variables can be inspected while debugging in Visual Studio – you probably know most of them, but as always its useful to see them as a reminder
• Foundations of Random Number Generation in JavaScript – Tim Brock takes a look at the generation of random numbers in programming and other applications, discussing the difficulties in doing this, and looking at examples of different ways of obtaining random numbers
• How to De-Brilliant Your Code – Erik Dietrich discusses the need to ‘De-Brilliant’ the code in our codebases, to ensure that it is understandable by the whole team and not just the person who wrote it, and looks at an approach to catch and correct this
• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Backup, restore and the environment… – Ayende continues his series looking at the various aspects of building database systems, discussing the importance and relative difficulty of implementing backup and restore capabilities in this post
• Why is saving Performance Monitor (PerfMon) settings so difficult these days?! – Dan Roberts discusses changes to Performance Monitor over the years, and shares some tips to make it easier to save counter configurations
• Save time mocking – use your real Entity Framework DbContext in unit tests – Mateusz Roszczak takes a look at using the Effort Framework to implement tests against code which relies on Entity Framework DbContexts
• Self-care matters: Pay yourself first – Scott Hanselman shares some sage advice on looking after yourself

Community

• My Experience Starting a User Group – Derek Comartin shares his experiences setting up a .NET Developers user group in his area

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