The Morning Brew

Software

• Azure AppFabric Service Bus Explorer (with code) – Greg Duncan highlights a tool from Paolo Salvatori for examining the contents of an instance of the Windows Azure Service Bus, allowing you to see the information stored in messages. Full Source is available for this useful applet.
• VS11DP Microsoft Parallel Visualization Pack – Greg also highlights a nice Visual Studio 11 add-in which brings visualisations to the new Parallel Watch Window giving easier ways to view the data once you get more contexts.

Information

• In managed code we trust, our recent battles with the .NET Garbage Collector – Sam Saffron follows up on the recent discussions from the team at Stack Overflow about issues they encountered with the .NET Garbage Collector delaying requests, discussing how they noticed and isolated the problem, and the way they improved the situation.
• Is That a WeakReference In Your Gen 2 or Are You Just Glad to See Me? – John Robbins discusses the identification of the cause of problems with high memory usage in .NET applications, looking at how he diagnosed high memory use by weak referenced objects.
• Introducing Managed Bootstrapper Applications – Heath Stewart discusses the new Managed Bootstrapper Application (MBA), a part of the WiX 3.6 release, which you may have seen in use if you have installed the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview. Heath discusses its capabilities and how it works under the hood in this first post on the subject.
• OpenWrap 2.0.1 – a better way to look at dependencies – Seb Lambla discusses the improved ‘List-Wraps’ command in OpenWrap 2.0.1 which helps make clearer the package dependencies of your projects as a part of his ongoing series of posts on the new features of this major version number release.
• Update NuGet Docs in the Browser with Github – Phil Haack discusses how the NuGet Team have moved their documentation repository to GitHub to take advantage of the in browser editing of MarkDown files to help reduce the difficulty of contributing to the documentation effort.
• Getting Started with JavaScript…again – Christopher Bennage urges you to embrace JavaScript again now that it has become ‘cool’ again, highlighting some good books, resources and principles to help you along the way.
• Lessons From A Review Of JavaScript Code – Addy Osmani discusses the value of Code Reviews for developing your skills, highlighting places that you can get your JavaScript reviewed by other developers, talking about the review process, and looking at some of the things to look for in reviews of JavaScript.
• Sharing session between ASP Classic and ASP.NET using ASP.NET Session state server – Li Chen takes a look at sharing sessions between ASP.NET and Classic ASP applications using the NSession project, discussing the installation and use of the library.
• Analyze your C# Source files using PowerShell and the Get-RoslynInfo Cmdlet – Doug Finke shares his efforts so far at bringing PowerShell and Roslyn together to allow you to analyse your source code from within PowerShell, illustrating it in use with the NuGet code base.
• Tip/Trick when working with the Application Bar in WinRT/Metro (C#) & Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Target – Derik Whittaker continues his series of posts looking at WinRT development for Window 8, discussing the use of the Application Bar, sharing some tips, and also looking at how you can consume data from other applications in your WinRT applications.

Community

• My impressions of #GiveCampUK – Gary Ewan Park shares his experiences of the first UK GiveCamp held little over a week ago in London – sounds like it was a splendid event, and I was very sorry to not be able to be there. Gary also highlights other posts from attendees. Work is already underway to plan next year’s GiveCamp, visit http://www.givecamp.org.uk/StayInformed to stay in the loop.

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