The Morning Brew

Software

• Introducing NETCF 3.9 in Windows Embedded Compact 2013 – a faster, leaner and multi-core runtime! – Brandon Bray shares a post from Abhishek Mondal looking at the new features of the latest version of the .NET Compact Framework, which enables C# and VB.NET programmers to write code for a wider range of devices.
• Twitter.Bootstrap.MVC4; the template nuget package for ASP.Net MVC4 projects – Eric Hexter shares a NuGet Package which makes it trivially easy to get Twitter’s BootStrap CSS framework installed and working in ASP.NET MVC4 projects, including bundling of the required CSS and JavaScript, default views for index, details and edit, and helper methods for a variety of other features.

Information

• PLINQ and Int32.MaxValue – Stephen Toub discusses a limitation of the PLINQ (and some LINQ to Objects) methods when dealing with very large enumerables which have Int32.MaxValue elements, discussing how you can work around the limit if you need to by breaking enumerables down into smaller ones.
• Live Connect Single Sign-On from Windows Phone 8 for Mobile Services – Glenn Gailey discusses the release of an updated Live=SKD for Windows and Windows Phone, which now includes support for Windows Phone 8, sharing a new Windows Phone 8 tutorial titled ‘Authenticate with Live Connect single sign-on’ looking at how you can use this with Windows Azure Mobile Services.
• The Windows Store App Lifecycle – Rachel Appel takes a look at the lifecycle of a Windows 8 Store Application, discussing the various transitions in state the application makes during its use (and finishing use), and looks at how we can write code to work with these transitions.
• Using Portable Class Library in .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 – Mahesh Sabnis takes a look at how the Portable Class Libraries functionality can be used in Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 to create libraries which can be consumed in a the ever growing variety of .NET platforms
• Automated testing with FubuMVC, StoryTeller, and – Josh Arnold builds on the theory in his previous post with a practical example of performing automated testing FubuMVC code, illustrating some of the concepts already discussed.
• Hadoop on Azure : Introduction – Bruno Terkaly shares another neat introductory post, this time looking at running Hadoop on the Windows Azure platform, introducing all the key concepts.
• Build Bullet #1 – Use Version Aware Build – Scripts – Roy Osherove kicks off a new series of posts looking at what makes good / better builds, with the first part taking a look at Version awarness. Check out his blog for some more (there are three at the time of writing) which look at the use and abuse of XML in build tools, and starting out with a good build / deploy pipeline on new projects.

Community

• Windows Phone 8 JumpStart Training November 28-29, 2012 – Register Now – Lee Stott highlights 2 days of virtual/online training being delivered over the 28th and 29th November covering all things Windows Phone 8.
• PowerShell.org, powering PowerShell learning, sharing and community by the community for the community – Greg Duncan highlights an excellent PowerShell community website, covering all things PowerShell, including articles, news, Conferences and Events, books (including a number of their own free e-books).

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Software

• Announcing TypeScript 0.8.1 – Luke Hoban announces the release of the second preview release of TypeScript, building upon the suggestions and bug reports from the first preview, and adding source level debugging as a new feature
• Bring on the AWESOME!!! Caliburn.Micro v1.4 Released – Rob Eisenberg announces the release of Caliburn.Micro 1.4, which addresses reported bugs, improves the nuget experience, and adds full support for WinRT applications and Windows Phone 8 applications. Rob also highlights the contributions of community project members who added a lot to this release.
• IE 9.0.11 Available via Windows Update – The Internet Explorer team highlight the release of an important update to Internet Explorer 9 available via Windows Update. This update addresses three privately reported issues, and is deemed a critical update, so make sure you are protected by updating
• A C# .NET Client Proxy For The RabbitMQ Management API – Mike Hadlow continues adding C# wrappers and proxies for various aspects of RabbitMQ, with this latest release adding support for the Management API in C# wrapping the HTTP JSON API, all available via Nuget.

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• Visual Studio Little Wonders: Quick Launch / Quick Access – James Michael Hare continues his Little Wonders series with another post looking at the little wonders of Visual Studio, exploring the new Qucik launch in Visual Studio 2012 (and the equivalent Quick Access in VS2010)
• await, WhenAll, WaitAll, oh my!! – Pablo M. Cibraro takes a look at the new Async / Await functionality, looking at an example where the await keyword doesn’t do quite what people might expect, exploring some performance numbers to back up the conclusions.
• Debug With TypeScript 0.8.1 – John Papa takes a brief look at the new debugging experience for TypeScript, at the source level right inside Visual Studio.
• A high level look at the FubuMVC Ecosystem – Jeremy D Miller gives a tour of the various components which make up the FubuMVC ecosystem, taking a look at each of the key projects / packages and giving an overview of their purpose.
• ASP.NET WebForms Model Binding – Overview – Pranav Rastogi gives an overview of the new in ASP.NET 4.5 model binding functionality for ASP.NET Web Forms, discussing what model binding is, the history and origins of the functionality, and looking at the benefits model binding provides.
• Optimizing JavaScript Windows 8 application: Using the Visual Studio performance analysis tool (profiler) – David Catuhe gives a tour of the JavaScript performance profiling available for Windows 8 Applications in Visual Studio 2012, looking at using it to diagnose and fix performance issues.
• Abstractions, Patterns, and Interfaces – K. Scott Allen discusses the appropriate use of levels of Abstraction in our applications, and explores through an example the use of interfaces, and application of patterns,

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• jQuery 1.8.3 Released – The jQuery Team announce the release of jQuery 1.8.3, currently available from jquery, with updates expected to appear on the various CDN’s shortly. The release resolves a number of reported issues.
• Update on Windows Phone 8 support for Rx v2.0 – The Reactive Extensions team give an update on the support for Window Phone 8, explaining why they have removed the Windows Phone 8 binaries due to issues with the signing of the assemblies.

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• Improve perceived performance of ASP.NET MVC websites with asynchronous partial views – Michael Kennedy discusses a technique for improving the perceived speed of an ASP.NET MVC powered website, looking at using partial views and fetching them using ajax to improve the initial page load experience.
• Customize the SimpleMembership in ASP.NET MVC 4.0 – Thang Chung takes a look at the new SimpleMembersip provider in ASP.NET MVC 4.0, showing how you can extend and customise it to your own needs.
• ASP.NET Web API and dependencies in request scope – Fillip W takes a look at controlling the life cycle of objects which need to be request scoped (such as units of work) in WebAPI services, exploring the use of Inversion of Control container to achieve this.
• Windows 8 Store Apps – Debugging Background Tasks – Mike Taulty highlights a some neat support in the debugger for working with WinRT based applications background tasks, allowing you to easily trigger them in your debugging session, and also taking a look at controlling the application in the debugger.
• Sending In-Application Toast Notifications in WinRT for C# – Derik Whittaker takes a look at hooking into the In-Application Toast Notifications in WinRT based applications
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #15: The On-Screen Keyboard – Jeff Blankenburg and Clark Sell continue their series looking at Windows 8 development in both C#/XAML and HTML/JS, exploring the use of the onscreen keyboard
• Enable Automatic Code First Migrations On SQL Database in Azure Web Sites – Steve Michelotti takes a look at using the Entity Framework Code First Migrations for migrating databases for applications running on Azure Websites, walking through the process
• Sending e-mail from Windows Azure & A phone call from the cloud: Windows Azure, SignalR & Twilio – Maarten Balliauw explores two of the great additional services available on the Windows Azure platform, looking at sending email using SendGrid, and looking at working with telephony using Twilio

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