October 2013
Monthly Archive
Posted by Chris Alcock on 23 Oct 2013 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- DSLs: A Deep(ish) look – Sacha Barber takes a detailed look at the world of DSLs in his latest CodeProject article, exploring lots of the techniques used to construct DSLs, illustrating by way of examples.
- Put your controllers on a diet: defactoring – Jimmy Bogard continues his series looking at thinning down your controllers in MVC projects, starting out with a look at defactoring code, removing abstractions and getting to see all the code which is not framework code, as a pre-cursor to refactoring.
- Adding Core References Support in an ASP.NET Empty Project – Xueyuan Dai shares a look at the new Visual Studio 2013 Core References support for ASP.NET blank website projects which makes it ever easier to add the various Web Frameworks (WebForms, MVC, WebAPI, etc) to blank projects.
- Improving Struct Equality Performance in C# – Jason Roberts takes a look at Equality of Structs in C# looking at how providing custom Equals behaviour can be significantly faster than using the default implementation.
- Coffeescript vs. Javascript: Dog eat Dog – Brad Carleton joins the LostTechies blogging team and shares a comparison of JavaScript and CoffeeScript, looking at why you might want to consider CoffeeScript for your next project.
- patterns & practices: Data Access Guidance code drop for the "Data Access for Highly-Scalable Solutions: Using SQL, NoSQL, and Polyglot Persistence" eBook now available & "Introducing Windows 8.1 for IT Professionals: Technical Overview" free eBook from Ed Bott – Greg Duncan highlights two free ebook, one from the Patterns and Practices Team looking at all aspects of Data access, complete with sample code, and the other, a overview of Windows 8.1 eBook from Ed Bott.
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 22 Oct 2013 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- EF6 RTM Available – In all the flurry of .NET , Visual Studio and Windows 8.1 release this one got a little lost – Rowan Miller announces the release of Entity Framework 6 as a part of the RTM release of Visual Studio 2013.
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 21 Oct 2013 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- IE10 and IE11 and Windows 8.1 and __doPostBack – Scott Hanselman reminds us of the problems with browser user agent sniffing to determine functionality, and highlights the various fixes for the ASP.NET framework which address issues detecting Internet Explorer 10 and 11.
- SCREENCASTS: What’s New in Visual Studio 2013 – learn over lunch! – Scott Hanselman also shares a collection of short videos giving an introduction to some of the new and exciting features in Visual Studio 2013 for web developers.
- Upgrading Windows 8 boot to VHD to Windows 8.1 – Step by step guide – Liam Westley takes a look at the somewhat more involved than you might think process of upgrading to Windows 8.1 when you make use of Virtual Disk Installation (Boot to VHD), walking through the process of upgrading he managed to use.
- Hijacking ASP.NET Sessions – Ricardo Peres takes a look at how you can access session information from another session within an ASP.NET application
- Git network operations in Visual Studio 2013 – P. Kelley takes a look at some of the networking considerations behind the Git functionality included in Visual Studio 2013, looking at the transports supported and authentication.
- Attribute Routing in ASP.NET MVC 5 – Ken Egozi takes a detailed look at the Attribute Based Routing feature of ASP.NET MVC 5, one of the much requested features added in this release.
- The Promise of Polygot Programming on .Net – Phil Trelford discusses the role of the .NET CLR in enabling Polyglot programming in the .NET world discussing some of the languages, and how you can introduce different programming paradigms like Functional Programming on the same platform.
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- NxtGenUG – Event – Windows 8.1 – Developers – The Coventry NxtGen Usergroup restart activities on the evening of Thursday 14th November where Gil Cleeren will be visiting with a look at the new goodness for developers in Windows 8.1
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