Posted by Chris Alcock on 25 Apr 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 24 Apr 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Glimpse 1.8.5 released – The Glimpse Team announce the release of Glimpse 1.8.5, patch/bugfix release which introduces one new feature, support for attribute based routing, along with significant improvements to Entity Framework support,
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- Warnings vs errors – Eric Lippert shares the latest instalment of ‘Ask the Bug Guys’ discussing why the compiler gives warnings about invalid / impossible comparisons rather than throwing a hard error.
- F#20 : Creating Types / Adding Members – Sacha Barber reaches part 20 of his series looking at the F# language, and related programming practices and techniques , starting out with a look at some of the Object Oriented features of the F# language.
- Getting Started on the Roslyn Journey – Erik Dietrich takes a look at Roslyn, cutting through some of the hype and excitement, and looking at what it can be useful for you in practice, as well as walking through the steps to getting it up and running.
- Prototyping with C#? Thanks, Roslyn! – ‘BC3Tech’ takes a look at a product of Roslyn in the form of ScriptCS, a REPL environment for running C# code quickly and easily.
- Ignoring routes in ASP.NET Web API – StrathWeb – Fillip W takes a look at the improvement to Routing on all hosts in WebAPI 2.1 which allows you to ignore processing on certain rtoutes using the StopRoutingHandler, discussing its use.
- Why Katana should be on your radar – Rick Anderson briefly discusses the Katana OWIN host and why you should be aware of it, as well as providing some links to good resources on Katana.
- Azure Websites and wildcard domains – Michael Candido takes a look at how you can configure Azure Websites to respond on wildcard domains, allowing you to have any subdomain of a website function correctly.
- Authentication Protocols, Web UX and Web API – Vittorio Bertocci follows on from a recent post looking at the basics of token validation with a back to basics look at a number of different authentication protocols, provising useful background on each of these.
- you have ruined javascript – Rob Ashton takes a slightly light hearted (and quite sweary) look at where he feels JavaScript development has gone wrong in creating large frameworks. Thought provoking stuff, and worth reading the comments too.
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 23 Apr 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Sharing code across platforms – Immo Landwerth discusses the two options both dramatically improving following announcements at Build, to producing cross platform applications with shared code
- Migrating from NHibernate to Entity Framework – Jimmy Bogard discusses a recent migration from NHibernate to Entity Framework, discussing the history of the two projects, the equivalences and equivalents between the two, discussing his motivations for the move.
- C# Vectorization with Microsoft.Bcl.Simd – Sasha Goldshtein takes a detailed look at the new BCL support for CPU Vector instructions (SIMD), looking at how you can program against a vector abstraction and have the compiler / JITer translate those into CPU instructions for your processor.
- One Reason Why NCrunch Is Worth The Cost – Ian Nelson discusses why NCrunch has become a critical part of his tooling, allowing him to be more productive as a developer by cutting the feedback cycle significantly between code and test.
- "Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers" series with 19 posts so far… – Greg Duncan highlights an impressive series of posts from Robert Hedgate, Andreas Hammar, Alexander Persson , Johan Silfversparre, Johan Olsson, Andreas Ekberg, Lars-Håkan Jönsson and Peter Mataic looking at all aspects of the Windows Phone 8.1 platform development.
- Searching for Strings in SQL Server Databases – Phil Factor takes a look at a variety of different techniques for performing searches across SQL Server databases, apart from the use of Full Text Indexing.
- ASP.NET MVC and Identity 2.0: Understanding the Basics & ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Setting Up Account Validation and Two-Factor Authorization – John Atten takes a look at the new version of the ASP.NET Identity Framework exploring its use in basic scenarios and looking deeper at how you can utilise it for validation of accounts and supplement it with two factor authentication.
- Using Page Object Models in UI Test Automation – Jason Roberts discusses some concepts in UI Test Automation discussing the role of Page Object Models, Logical Functional Models and Test Scripts.
- No Backend – Nathan Gloyn discusses the concept of ‘No Backend’ in the world of Frontend Web Applications, discussing having front end applications standing along, communicating only with existing services.
- Webinar Recording: Deconstructing Clippy – Common Issues for an Uncommon Extension – Robert Demmer shares the recording of Matt Ellis’s Webinar which looked at the construction of this year’s best April Fools Joke, the Clippy Extension for ReSharper.
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