The Morning Brew

Software

• Orchard 1.7 Release and New Features – David Hayden announces the release of version 1.7 of the Orchard CMS which contains a substantial number of new and improved features including workflow and media processing

Information

• Bug guys: string extensions and const fields – Eric Lippert highlights the first edition of the ‘Ask the Bug Guys’ podcast, where he explore two questions why can’t you declare a const field of type parameter type?, and why does overload resolution sometimes choose an unexpected method when an extension method on strings is available?
• A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites – Scott Hanselman highlights the proliferation of a common JavaScript syntax highlighting (and more in some cases) editor springing up in products as diverse as SkyDrive, TFS and the Azure Portal.
• Cancellable awaiting on .NET events – BenWilli follows on from previous posts with a look at situations where you want to cancel await operations in event handlers, illustrating with examples.
• Enabling Failed Request Logging on a Windows Azure Web Site – Benjamin Perkins discusses the value that failed request tracing can bring to debugging production issues and explores how you can go about enabling this on the Windows Azure platform for WebSites.
• Free E-Book on Platform as a Service – Tatworth highlights a free (registration requried) e-book of the O’Reily ‘Programming for PAAS’ title, available from Saavis, a Century-Link Company
• Setting up a new development machine without pressing Next a single time, using Chocolately – Marcus Hammarberg looks at using Chocolatey to perform the installation of all the bits and pieces us developers require installing on a machine before we can effectively use it.

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