The Morning Brew

Software

• EF 6.1.1 Beta 1 Available – Rowan Miller announces the beta release of Entity Framework 6.1.1, a predominantly bugfix release of issues introduced in 6.1, along with a few community contributions
• ReSharper 8.2.1 RTM Is Available – JetBrains announce the release of ReSharper 8.2.1, a maintenance release of particular interest to Portable Class Library users on Windows Phone, Jasmine and AngualrJS users, and those encountering issues with ambiguous references.
• Now that’s classic, Visual Basic [Classic] Tools for Visual Studio – Greg Duncan highlights a neat looking extension for Visual Studio which brings back the ability to work with VB6 projects
• Unit Test Generator v1.3 and a chat about its origin and future – Willy-Peter Schaub announces the release of Unit Test Generator 1.3, and discusses some common questions people have about it, and its future

Information

• .NET Native Deep Dive: Dynamic Features in Static Code – Morgan Brown shares a look at the way in which .NET native supports dynamic features in your code whilst compiling the code statically
• F#29 : Interop & F#30 : Type Providers – Sacha Barber rounds out his orringially planned set of posts on the F# language with a look at interoperability with other .NET languages, and exploring the exciting world of Type Providers
• Question regarding GetHashCode() and Equality – Bill Wagner discusses a readers wuestion about equality, and the range of different ways of determining equality of two objects
• Teaching ASP.NET Web API to WADL – Stuart Leeks discusses working with Azure API Management, and looks at implementing a WADL endpoint for services to help improve the details of the service metadata being made available
• Edit and Continue survey results – The VB and C# Teams share the results from their recent Edit and Continue survey
• Creating ASP.NET MVC Negotiated Content Results – Rick Strahl discusses the implementation of Content Negotiation on an ASP.NET MVC Application
• Speeding up ASP.NET vNext package restore – Maarten Balliauw shares a tip for improving your package restores on the ASP.NET vNext platform – something which is ever important in vNext as it makes heavy use of NuGet

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Links only edition today as I’m on a deadline.

Software

• Durandal 2.1.0 Prerelease – Rob Eisenberg

Information

• When should I write a property? – Eric Lippert
• ASP.NET vNext Overview, Assembly Neutral Interfaces & Assembly Neutral Types Implementation – David Fowler
• Microsoft’s New Running Shoes – Phil Haack
• 3 Simple Techniques to Make APIs Easier to Use and Understand – John Sonmez
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Loading Foreign Key Properties – Ricardo Peres
• AngularJS – Introduction to Services – John Ptacek
• Code Navigation: ReSharper 8 vs. Visual Studio 2013 – Alexey Totin

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I had a splendid weekend away at DDD South West 5 – many thanks to the event organisers, speakers and attendees for making it another conference to remember.

Information

• The Future of .NET on the Server: ASP.NET vNext content and videos from TechEd 2014 – Scott Hanselman highlights and shares a great collection of resources about the ASP.NET vNext platform, plans and code from the TechEd event last week. If you work with ASP.NET you will want to check this out to get a taste of what the future holds.
• A 30 Minute Look At ASP.NET vNext – Jon Galloway also is sharing resources about ASP.NET vNext, along with a walk through of getting started with some of the samples.
• Highlights of Rowan Miller’s EF6/EF7 Talk at TechEd 2014 – Julie Lerman highlights another developer related TechEd talk, with Rowan Miller presenting a demo heavy session on Entity Framework 6.1. I watched this session yesterday on the train back from DDDSW and thoroughly enjoyed it, I’m sure you will too.
• Diagnosing Portable Class Libraries – Jon Skeet discusses portable class libraries, looking at implementing support for NodaTime as a portable class library, and discussing how they work under the hood, and looking at building them without Visual Studio
• The Multiple SQLite Problem – Eric Sink discusses the chalenges of developing a portable class library for SQLite, and the problem of possible database corruption from having multiple SQLite libraries due to the built in (and quite out of date) libraries that ship with the phone OS.
• Second "Is TDD Dead" Hangout video and audio available, third hangout scheduled – Martin Fowler shares the video and audio recordings of the second instalment of the ‘Is TDD Dead’ discussion he has been having via webcast with Kent Beck and David Heinemeir Hansson. The 3rd part will occur tomorrow (Tuesday 20th May).
• Apache Cordova integrated in Visual Studio for multi-device hybrid dev – Olivier Bloch discusses the newly announced Visual Studio Support for Apache Cordova development
• [Attribute] Routing in ASP.Net MVC 5 / WebAPI 2 – Shahriar_cse takes a look at the Attribute Routing feature of ASP.NET WebAPI 2 and MVC5
• The ugly evolution of running a background operation in the context of an ASP.NET app – Jeff Putz discusses the various techniques of running background jobs inside an ASP.NET Worker process, sharing his experiences of doing so in POP Forums
• Screencast on Getting started with Koa Js – Marcus Hammarberg shares a introductory screen case to working with Koa JS to provide an REST / CRUD API
• Software Development Horror Stories and Scar Tissue – Jeremy D Miller shares some of his developer war stories – something very therapeutic to do, and a great reason to get together with friendly fellow developers to share and discuss.

Community

• DDD East Anglia 2014 – The date has been set for DDD East Anglia as 13th September, and the call for speakers opened on Saturday, so if you are interested in speaking its time to get started on your session abstract.

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