The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing the EventSource NuGet Package – Write to the Windows Event Log – Cosmin Radu announces the release of a new NuGet package from the .NET Framework Team which provides easy event tracing to the Windows Event Logs using strongly typed event classes.

Information

• Why does the CLR report a NullReferenceException even if the referenced access is not exactly the null pointer? – Raymond Chen continues with his series of .NET related posts with a look at some interesting behaviour involving null references and exceptions
• Need LINQ but Writing JavaScript? – Shawn Wildermuth takes a look at underscore.js and how it provides some LINQ like features in JavaScript making working with collections of items much easier.
• LINQ Style Append and Prepend Operators – Richard Carr takes a look at how adding simple Prepend and Append LINQ extension methods can really help improve the readaility of your code
• Reactive JavaScript – Alex Young highlights the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript, which bring the goodness of reactive programming to JavaScript allowing for data flow oriented programming.
• Message handlers scoped per route in ASP.NET Web API – Filip W takes a look at implementing message handlers in ASP.NET Web API which respond to specific routes to take their action allowing, for example, you to log calls to specific routes.
• Saving and Retrieving Browser (and other) Passwords – Scott Hanselman discusses the balance between security and convenience and highlight how easily saved passwords in many applications can be accessed
• Open Source Project Advice – Jim Cowart response to a call for help tweet with his thoughts and advice for Open Source Project owners

Community

• Aortic update – Rockford Lhotka shares news of his recent illness and a reminder that our health is very important – I like to take this opportunity to wish Rocky a speedy recovery

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