April 2012
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1089
Posted by Chris Alcock on 20 Apr 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- dotPeek 1.0 Beta Available – JetBrains announce the beta release of dotPeek 1.0, their free .NET decompiler product. This release is shipped with an installer, supports assembly lists, can open assemblies from folder and zip format archives (including NuGet Packages), and have finder control over the generated decompilation code.
- SQL Server 2012 Best Practices Analyzer – Jack Richins highlights the latest release of SQL Server 2012 Best Practices Analyzer, a tool which will monitor and observe your SQL Server instances and give recommendations on things to change to make your setup conform to best practices.
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- null is not false, part three – Eric Lippert continues his discussion of null as a Boolean value looking at operator overloading of & | && and || and some of the complexities of creating them and passing parameters with eager evaluation.
- Arrays and Memory, Part 2 – Karl Seguin continues on from a previous post looking at the use of memory in array structures, going back to basics and exploring how C deals with arrays and memory allocation, as well as direct access to raw memory
- ASP.NET Web API: How content negotiation works? – Gunnar Peipman gives a brief overview of content negotiation in the ASP.NET Web API, discussing the HTTP principles before discussing and illustrating the implementation in Web API.
- Great Free Course on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps With EF Code First, HTML5 and jQuery – Scott Guthrie highlights the 1 month free access offer giving access to the ‘Building ASP.NET MVC applications with Entity Framework Code First, HTML5 and jQuery’ course from Pluralsight, created and presented by Dan Wahlin.
- A Match Made in Http Heaven – ASP.NET Web Forms and WebAPI – Joshua Holt kicks off a series of posts looking at the use of the ASP.NET Web API which shipped with the ASP.NET MVC 4 beta, showing how it can be combined with the more established ASP.NET Web Forms in the same project to provide powerful solutions.
- "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" [An alternate implementation of HTTP gzip decompression for Windows Phone] – David Anson shares an alternative implementation of HTTP gzip decompression for use in Windows Phone applications, sharing his dependency free implementation which allows for compressed content to be passed over the network into your applications.
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The Morning Brew #1088
Posted by Chris Alcock on 19 Apr 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Need a SQL Server Database Schema Diff tool and would really like an open source one? Check out Open DBDiff – Greg Duncan highlights Open DBDiff a database comparison utility which allows you to easily compare schema of SQL Server 2005 and 2008 databases
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- MVC Style parameter binding for WebAPI – Mike Stall continues his series of posts looking at binding in WebAPI, looking in this post at the IActionValueBinder implementation ‘MvcActionValueBinder’ which provides MVC style parameter binding
- ASP.NET MVC Authentication – Global Authentication and Allow Anonymous – Jon Galloway kicks off a new blog post series looking at a variety of common questions, tips, and tricks regarding ASP.NET MVC. This first post in the series takes a look at Global Authentication, tracing the functionality back through the releases of ASP.NET MVC.
- Consolidating jQuery Ajax Calls – Dan Wahlin takes a look at how you can use JavaScript objects to help encapsulate your AJAX calls, making a data service object to handle all your data work rather than littering calls across scripts.
- Use the source, don’t read it – Inside 233 has an excellent little (hand written/drawn) guide to how you should best make use of the source access that open source gives you, discussing a number of useful approaches to ‘reading’ and comprehending source code.
- Who knows Enumerable.Range(…)? – Andreas Gieriet highlights the much underused Enumerable.Range method for generating sequences of numbers in a range – a nice readable alternative to the standard for syntax.
- MEF 2 Preview Beginners Guide – Dean Oliver gives a nice beginners overview to some of the new features which are planned to be included in the MEF (Mananged Extensibility Framework) 2 release.
- I was going to call this post ‘Windows Azure Best Practices’ but I’m not allowed to – Despite not being officially called ‘Best Practices’ Buck Woody shares a number of good tips for making the most of Windows Azure and ensuring that your applications and code work as well as possible.
- Custom errors and error detail policy in ASP.NET Web API – Jimmy Bogard shares some tips on how you can get full exception information out of the ASP.NET Web API using the IncludeErrorDetailPolicy.
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The Morning Brew #1087
Posted by Chris Alcock on 18 Apr 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- New cumulative updates for SQL Server 2008 R2 (RTM & SP1) are available! – Aaron Bertrand highlights the release of two new cumulative update packs for SQL Server 2008 R2 – one taking the RTM release up to date, and the other working on installations which have been patched with SP1.
- ASP.NET 4.5 Beta Free Hosting Account For Testing – Cytanium, a web hosting company announce their plans to give free .NET 4.5 hosting during the beta period allowing you to try out running applications in the wild using .NET 4.5
- PhoneGap 1.6 Released! – The PhoneGap team announce the release of PhoneGap 1.6, their latest release which includes a number of bug fixes and some new features to boot. This release also includes Cordova-JS on the majority of platforms, which provides a common JavaScript layer over the PhoneGap API on these platforms.
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- TestCoverage – Martin Fowler discusses the myths of code when it comes to testing, discussing and debunking them, along with looking at what code coverage should mean and be used for.
- Leaving Your Mark – Rob Conery picks up on a piece from Don Syme discussing the state of much of the JavaScript code out there in the wild, and follows up on some of the common reactions to such statements.
- IIS Cache Settings to Improve Site Performance – Brad Kingsley discusses how you can easily turn on cache headers for your web content using IIS to allow browsers to cache copies of the files locally to speed up browsing.
- JSON Light Sample Payloads – The WCF Data Services Team are looking for some feedback on their proposed JSON Light format, and have compiled a collection of samples to illustrate their proposal. If you have some interest in this area take a look and give them some comments.
- Reclaiming memory from Metro style apps – Steven Sinofsky shares a post from Bill Karagounis discussing some detail about memory management in Windows 8 Metro Style applications, how they go about controlling memory use and reclaiming memory.
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