The Morning Brew

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• Caliburn.Micro 2.0.0-alpha2 Is Here – Rob Eisenberg announces the release of the first alpha of Caliburn 2.0, available as three NuGet Packages and featuring a number of changes, features, and lots of hard work from Nigel Sampson and Thomas Ibel
• Beta Updates to ReSharper 8 and .NET Tools – JetBrains announce a combined refresh of the beta releases of ReSharper, dotCover and dotTrace, with the RTM just round the corner this is the ideal opportunity to try out the new features.

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• 30 Days of TDD – Day 24 – Strictly Mocking – James Bender continues this series of posts looking at Test Driven development from a variety of aspects, in this post exploring how the tooling can support Test Eventually Development.
• ASP.NET Core Identity – K. Scott Allen discusses the new ‘Membership Framework’ included in Visual Studio 2013 ASP.NET, available in the NuGet package Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Core. This post explores some of the key interfaces of the framework and looks briefly at the async nature of the framework.
• If you’re not cheating, you’re not… using these new Windows Runtime Network API cheat sheets – Greg Duncan highlights some useful cheat sheets for the WinRT APIs
• Opening Files from SkyDrive using .NET – Gaye Oncul Kok discusses the opening of files through SkyDrive and the new Windows 8.1 feature of ‘Smart Files’, looking at how you can work with them using the .NET API
• Minty: Writing The First Specs – Rob Connery continues his series looking at writing a blogging engine in Node.js from the ground up, with a look at writing specification tests and separating things from processes
• Just My Code for ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2013 – Patrick Nelson discusses the ‘Just MY Code’ option for debugging in Visual Studio 2013, highlighting the support now included for JavaScript making Web Developer’s lives easier

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• Viasfora v1.1 Published // Winterdom – Tomas Restrepo shares the latest version of Viasfora, a Visual Studio extension which provides a number of capabilities not present in the core IDE. This release addresses issues with Visual Studio 2013 and adds a new feature, Rainbow Parentheses which colour each matching set of parentheses a different colour making matching them up easier.
• Visual Studio Updates – Survey – Phil Lee, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team invites you to give feedback on the quarterly updates to Visual Studio in this short survey.

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• Checking out the Helios IIS Owin Web Server Host – Rick Strahl highlights the Helios project, an OWIN Web Server host which sits directly on top of the IIS Native interfaces. In this post Rick takes a look at using it and how it performs.
• Debugging OWIN app or framework – .NET Web Development and Tools Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Praburaj Thiagarajan takes a brief look at adding some error handling which reveals some debugging information using the Microsoft.Owin.Diagnostics package.
• Page Instrumentation in ASP.NET 4.5 – Imran Baloch explores the Page Instrumentation feature new in ASP.NET 4.5 which allows you to get some performance figures from various stages in your pages lifecycle.
• Why not use polling threads with ASP.NET web applications? – Gunnar Peipman takes a look at some of the considerations you need to make when considering using threads in an ASP.NET Application.
• Asynchronous action filters in ASP.NET Web API – FilipW takes a look at making actions filters asynchronous, exploring some concepts behind Async void and sharing an implementation of an action filter which is async.
• Node.js Development in Visual Studio – Life After Visual Node with Node Tools for Visual Studio
  – Bart Read takes a look at the new Node.JS features for Visual Studio that he was involved in the development of.
• Building a Node.js Web Site on Windows Azure using Node.js Tools for Visual Studio – Shiju Varghese also explores this new capability, walking through the process of getting a simple web application up and running.
• Starting with a Node.js webserver – Marco Franssen goes a little lower level taking a more detailed look at building your first web server application in Node.

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• Windows Azure: General Availability Release of BizTalk Services, Traffic Manager, Azure AD App Access + Xamarin support for Mobile Services & Announcing the General Availability of Biz Talk Services, Azure Active Directory and Traffic Manager, and Preview of Azure Active Directory Premium – Scott Guthrie and Steven Martin announce the latest raft of update to the Windows Azure Platform with the general availability of a number of services, along with a new preview of Azure Active Directory Premium.
• Introducing node.js Tools for Visual Studio & Node.js Tool for Visual Studio – Scott Hanselman and Shaun Xu highlight the new Visual Studio tooling for Node.JS making Node development in Visual Studio even easier, including package management with NPM, project structure support and debugging capabilities
• Umbraco – Umbraco 7 – Niels Hartvig and the Umbracco Team announce he release of Umbracco 7, the latest generation of this content management system, which has been 18 months in the making.
• Set process memory limit with Process Governor – Sebastian Solnica shares a useful looking utility which allows you to constrain memory of a process.

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• Frameworkless JS – What jQuery did right – Rob Ashton presses on with his series on minimising the impact of JavaScript library use, exploring what jQuery is useful for.
• How to massively improve SQLite Performance (using SqlWinRT) – Andy Wigley takes a look at a number of scenarios where SQLite performance can be optimised, sharing a sample project to illustrate the concepts.
• Visual Studio 2013 ‘Could not evaluate Expression’ Debugger Abnormality – Rick Strahl takes a look at a change in the debugger in Visual Studio 2013 which caused him problems debugging older WebForms applications, highlight a solution via enabling the Managed Compatibility Mode on the debugger.

Community

• Azure Bootcamp (UK): Building out Windows Azure Infrastructures and Services (Saturday, 14th December 2013, Central London) – Planky highlights an all day Windows Azure event running in London from the UK Windows Azure User Group. The event takes place on Saturday 14th December at The Hub Westminster. Registration is required.

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