The Morning Brew

Software

• TFS 2012.2 Power Tools update available – Brian Harry announces the release of the update for the TFS Power Tools which adds support for the Visual Studio 2012.2 Update
• Visualizing TFS source history now with source – Greg Duncan highlights a rather pretty visualisation of your source code in TFS, with code for both the library and Extension now available

Information

• Some thoughts on a comment about VS 2012.3 – Brian Harry shares a fascenating insight into the process of releasing something like the VS 2012.3 Update in response to a comment on his CTP release post – well worth reading to better understand how Microsoft think about software release and updates.
• Putting the Dynamic back into TypeScript – Derik Whittaker takes a look at how you can recapture some of the Dynamic nature of JavaScript when using TypeScript to give you a mostly static typed environment.
• Ditching two-phased commits – Jimmy Bogard discusses the 2 phase commit pattern, and also discusses how with a bit of thought and consideration the requirement for 2 phase commit can often be removed
• NancyFX – Revisiting Content Negotiation & APIs (Part 2) – Phillip Haydon further explores the content negotiation features of NancyFX, looking at the use of Negotiate in controlling which content types are serviced.
• Using Fluent Validation with ASP.NET MVC – Part 1: The Basics – Jerrie Pelser takes a look at swapping the standard Data Annotations validation commonly used in ASP.NET MVC to provide model validation, and replacing it with the Fluent Validation library.
• Cutting-edge web development with jsRazor: tiny JavaScript that replaces ASP.NET (PHP, MVC, JSP, etc.) rendering! – rgubarenko takes a look at the possibilities of Client Side Rendering using jsRazor as an alternative to rendering on the server side in this CodeProject article.

Community

• Live blogging at OuterConf2013 – Paula Hunter shares links to the presentations from OuterConf 2013, the OuterCurve foundation’s conference for open source development

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