The Morning Brew

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• .NET 4.5.1 Supports Microsoft Security Updates for .NET NuGet Libraries – Alok Shriram discusses the significant new update process for NuGet libraries shipped by the .NET Framework team, discussing how, why and when libraries will be ‘serviced’
• Announcing Visual F# Tools 3.1.1, with support for Desktop and Web express – The F# Team announce the release of Visual F# 3.1.1, a release which makes the F# tooling usable in both the desktop and web Express editions of Visual Studio, or as a command line toolset if you do not have Visual Studio

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• .NET 4.5.1 and Security Updates – Kathleen Dollard highlights the significance of the new update mechanism for the .NET Framework security updates, and shares her thoughts on its use.
• With great Azure VM comes great responsibility (which is why you really want an Azure Web Site) – Troy Hunt discusses in detail why you should resist the urge to host your Azure based websites on Virtual Machines over Azure Websites, looking at the increased complexity of VMs over the safer, and simpler Websites.
• Introducing Windows Azure WebJobs – Scott Hanselman – Scott Hanselman also prefers Azure Websites for hosting, and in this post discusses the new Azure WebJobs framework which allows you to run jobs inside your Azure Websites underlying VM instance, and allow for continuous running or invoked jobs to be deployed.
• Running Powershell Web Jobs on Azure websites – Nick J Trogh also takes a look at the use of the new WebJobs functionality on Azure.
• Windows Azure Website Staging Feature and GitHub Integration – Shaun Xu takes a look at the new Azure Website Staging feature which allows you to deploy your Website to Azure in a testing mode, check that everything is OK, and then switch that over to live. Shaun also explores the use of this feature combined with Git deployment.
• Threading in C#: 7 Things you should always remember about – Pawel Bejger shares 7 concepts you should know about and be aware of when building applications which operate on multiple threads.
• Strongly Typed Data Binding – Paul Cociuba shares a video tutorial on using the ASP.NET Web Forms 4.5 Strongly Typed Databinding functionality.
• Getting greater insights into Glimpse – Anthony van der Hoorn gives an update on progress with Glimpse, looking back at 2013 and forward to 2014 and the role of metrics in their decision making in the future.

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• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 – Part 1 – Overview and Enums – Jon Galloway highlights this weeks ASP.NET release, sharing links to the new features, and taking a look at the new support for Enums in MVC Views
• Upgrading Visual Studio 2013 Update to a newer Update may be slow – Heath Stewart details a situation in which the Visual Studio 2013 update can take longer than you might expect
• The right way to restore NuGet packages – David Ebbo discusses the right wayto do package restore in modern versions of NuGet
• NuGet Package Manager Console tip – Stuart Leeks shares a simple tip about the use of NuGet from the embedded PowerShell NuGet Package Manager Console.
• Return types, action parameters and data annotations now available in Web API 2.1 Help Page – Filip W discusses improvements made to the ASP.NET Web API Help Page functionality in WebAPI 2.1 (released this week), and its new support for documenting return types, action parameters and data annotations on your models and DTOs
• Parsing C# – Phil Trellford continues his looking at parsers with a look at parsing the C# language and discussing the Abstract Syntax Tree
• Better NPM Support in Windows Azure Mobile Services with package.json – Shiju Varghese discusses the new support for NPM Packages win Azure Mobile services using the packages.json file to specify the packages your code requires.
• Capturing SignalR 2.0 Performance Counters in Azure using Windows Azure Diagnostics (WAD) – Martin Richard looks at how you can configure the capture of performance counters from SignalR within the Windows Azure environment using Windows Azure Diagnostics.
• Managing Windows Azure VMs through PowerShell – Brian Farnhill takes a look at the PowerShell command line interface for managing Windows Azure Virtual Machine instances.
• Big Data Search: Setting up, Binary Search of Textual Data & The index format is horrible – Ayende discusses his Big Data Search interview question and shares a look at his solution to the problem.

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• The RavenDB Conference – April 7 – 11 – Ayende announces the RavenDB Conference, an event taking place between 7 – 11 April in Raleigh, NC, with 2 days of conference, and 3 days of workshops with the 2 day conference being priced at a a very reasonable $89 the limited spaces will go quickly for this one I expect.

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• Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 – Somasegar announces the release of Update 1 for Visual Studio 2013
• VS 2013.1 (Update 1) is available – Brian Harry also shares the news of the release and provides links to the release notes and various components of the update
• Announcing the Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1 – Daniel Roth announces the release of NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1, providing links to further details of all the new features included in this release.
• January 2014 Cumulative Update for SQL Server 2008 SP3 & SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update #8 is available! – Aaron Bertrand highlights the release of updates for SQL Server 2008 and 2012
• ReSharper 8.1.1 Goes EAP: More TypeScript Support + Fixes – The team at JetBrains announce the opening of the Early Access Programme for ReSharper 8.1.1, a maintenance release which brings improvements to unit testing, command line tools and TypeScript support.

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• Support for package.json in Azure Mobile Services – Hasan Khan highlights the new support for packages.json in Windows Azure Mobile Services, allowing packages to be automatically installed.
• Image workflow using Web Essentials 2013 – Mads Kristensen shares a video where he walks through all the ways of working with images, along with the other new features in the 1.7 release of Web Essentials 2013
• Measuring all the things with Azure Web Sites and friends – Troy Hunt discusses the wealth of information that Windows Azure exposes about your application in operation
• Diagnosing issues with reversible data transformations – Jon Skeet shares some tips for diagnosing problems of a common class regarding data transmission and encoding
• Implementing ASP.NET Identity – K. Scott Allen continues with his series looking at ASP.NET Identity and looks at the interfaces for implementing custom storage of user information.

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• Windows Azure week virtual training – Laurent Duveau highlights next week’s Windows Azure Week events where you can get free Azure training delivered virtually, covering all aspects of Azure.

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