News
Azurecon 2015
If you're interested in seeing whats next for Azure MS is hosting a free virtual even on September 29. There's more than 50 technical sessions planned and keynotes from Scott Guthrie and crew.
Welcome to the TSE blog - Tools for Software Engineers Blog
The Tools for Software Engineers Team in Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group has a new blog up. The first couple of posts about some unit testing challenges are great.
Code
Task and Await in C#, Part 2
The second part of this series concerns how to deal with exceptions when using async methods.
New video: Integrate with Office 365 APIs in your Visual Studio 2015 projects
Jeremy Thake shows us how we can integrate Office 365 services such as mail, calendar, contacts, files, users and groups into our apps using Office 365 APIs and Visual Studio 2105.
Decorators & metadata reflection in TypeScript: From Novice to Expert (Part IV)
How TypeScript is bringing things like reflection and dependency injection to JavaScript.
C# Proposal: Add Option Types for References
Mads Torgersen, C# language program manager at Microsoft, has recently outlined a proposal for the introduction of option types for references in C# 7.
In Other News...
Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It's All in One Place
So how big and complex is Google's code base? How about "roughly the equivalent of building the Windows operating system 40 times over".
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