The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio 2013 Preview Survey – The Visual Studio Team are looking for feedback on the preview release of Visual Studio 2013, and are running a survey to gather the information. If you’ve been using VS2013 at all in the weeks since its preview release please give them your feedback.
• Use XUnit to Run QUnit Tests – Tom DuPont shares an extension to xUnit.net to allow you to run QUnit JavaScript tests from within the test runner with minimal C# code required to present the test – neat stuff.

Information

• Why are generic constraints not inherited? – Eric Lippert discusses the inheritance of Generic types and constraints, looking at the invisible inheritance of the constraint part, before digging a bit deeper
• Visual Studio 2013 New Editor Features – The Visual Studio team share a look at some of the new and improved features of the Visual Studio Editor included in the Visual Studio 2013 preview release
• Visual Studio 2013: Using Box Selection and Zero-Length Box Selection – Zain Naboulsi revisits box selection in the Visual Studio IDE and takes a look at some of the useful tricks that this allows you to perform when editing chunks of (similar) text.
• Rendering ASP.NET MVC Razor Views outside of MVC revisited – Rick Strahl revisits the rendering of Razor ASP.NET MVC Views from outside of ASP.NEt MVC, looking at how you can actually create a controller context which makes it more straightforward to perform the rendering.
• Running .NET on Heroku & Running OWIN/Katana apps on Heroku – Michael Friis takes a look at getting .NET applications up and running on the Heroku platform using Mono to run applications, and then moves on to explore how you can host OWIN / Katana applications on the Heroku platform too.
• Chrome Workspaces: Edit Source From The Chrome Dev Tools – K. Scott Allen takes a look at a forthcoming feature of the Chrome Developer tools. Workspaces allows you to live edit code, and have it saved back to the file system, turning the browser into much more of an IDE.

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