Daily Reading - Thursday, June 27 2013

Visual Studio 2013 Preview
Cool new features:

Energy Consumption tool: estimate how much power their app will cause the device to consume
View method return values in the debugger
“Edit and Continue” for 64-bit
Code Information Indicators
Peek Definition

Introducing IE11
IE11 now supports WebGL, latest video tag, brand new F12 tool and optimize touch performance.

Autoscaling Windows Azure Application
In the past, we had to use WASABi to scale our applications manually, now Windows Azure released autoscale feature for:

Cloud Services
Virtual Machines
Web Sites

Currently, they support 2 metrics - CPU percentage - Storage queue depth

A few more Visual Studio 2013 Preview features

New dimension for Windows: Microsoft puts 3D printing support directly into OS