The Morning Brew

Looking forward to this weekend attending DDD South West 5 – If you spot me there come and say hello.

Software

• CShell – A rather neat looking C# REPL (Read Evaluate Print Loop) for C# all wrapped up in a nice GUI with code syntax hints, making it easily to explore data in memory from the folks at Arnova Asset Management Ltd, with the code hosted on GitHub

Information

• TDD Chess Game Part 6: Starting with More Pieces – Erik Dietrich continues his series looking at the use of Test Driven Development practices in real world code, continuing with the Chess Game simulator, adding more pices to the game.
• F# 28 : Integrating With Task Parallel Library – Sacha Barber continues his F# series with a post following on from the previous post looking at Async Worlfkows which explores the integration with the Task Parallel Library
• Redis Cache (Preview) in Microsoft Azure – Shaun Xu shares a step by step look at the ust of the Redis based caching on the Windows Azure Platform, released as a preview a few days ago
• Write Object-Oriented JavaScript with TypeScript – Rachel Appel takes a look at how TypeScript enables you to write more Object Oriented JavaScript exploring how Encapsulation, Inheritance, Abstraction, and Polymorphism are implemented in TypeScript.
• A Few Thoughts on Better Unit Tests For AngularJS Controllers – K. Scott Allen discusses some of the issues and areas of uncomfortableness when testing AngularJS Controllers, and discusses how he has been attempting to mitigate them in recent projects.
• A Feature Based Approach to Organising Test Code in BDDfy and Other Testing Frameworks – Jason Roberts discuses the organisation of Test Code when working with BDDfy, exploring how to structure test code by feature.
• Troy Hunt: The "Cobra Effect" that is disabling paste on password fields – Tory Hunt shares another dose of other peoples security stupidity

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• Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview May 2014 is now available – John Lisco of the Windows PowerShell team shares the announcement of the release of the Windows Management Framework 5.0 May 2014 Preview, adding a new module called PowerShellGet to the functionality from the previous preview release.
• DebugDiag 2 Update 1 is now available – The DebugDiag Team announce the release of Update 1 of DebugDiag 2, a release which addresses a number of issues reported with DebugDiag 2.0 as well as introducing three new features

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• A 30 Minute Look At ASP.NET vNext – Jon Galloway shares a nice walkthrough of the key pieces of information (along with links to further detailed content) about the ASP.NET vNext plans and platform.
• F#27 : Asynchronous Workflows – Sasha Barber continues his look at the F# language and way of programming with a look at F#’s Asynchronous Workflows, as well as looking at how it is similar to the async/await in C#.
• Just Azure – Just Azure is a new Azure Community support site from the folks over at Cerebrata / RedGate, featuring top quality articles on a wide range of topics relating to Windows Azure.
• New Getting-Started Resources for Azure Cloud Services and ASP.NET – Rick Anderson highlights the latest getting started with Azure Cloud Services content on the official Azure site
• Azure Implementation Guidelines – The Color Of Azure (#007FFF) – Santiago Cánepa, Hugo Salcedo and Greg Hinkel share a detailed Azure Implementation Guide document, looking generally at the process, components and resources involved in most Azure deployments
• Unit Testing Roslyn-Based Extensions – Jason Bock takes a look at writing Unit Tests for extensions based on Roslyn, exploring ho he added test to a diagnostic extension he had created.
• Branching and Merging: Ten Pretty-Good Practices – Konrad Lukasik takes a look at some strategies and best practices for merging in branches of changes via Source Code Control.
• OdeToCode Videos – K.Scott Allen highlights 4 (now 5) video screencasts he is sharing about the features of the next version of JavaScript (ECMAScript 6)

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• Announcing TypeScript 1.0.1 – TypeScript – Ryan Cavanaugh announces the release of TypeScript 1.0.1 as part of the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 release
• May 2014 .NET Updates – The .NET Framework team announce the release of three security patch updates as part of the standard ‘patch Tuesday’ release cycle

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• ASP.NET vNext: the future of .NET on the Server – Xinyang Qiu discusses the plans for future releases of ASP.NET under the guise of ASP.NET vNext, highlighting relevant TechEdt Session recordings
• ASP.NET vNext – David Fowler, one of the Developers on the ASP.NET Team shares his thoughts on the work that is already under way on ASP.NET vNext.
• Improvements to ASP.NET Web Forms – Pranav Rastogi discusses the latest batch of improvements to ASP.NET Web Forms development in the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 release
• Help make Edit and Continue better! – Anthony D. Green is after your feedback about Edit and Continue support in Visual Studio to help them focus efforts on improving it
• Update to SIMD Support – Immo Landwerth makes the announcement of updated NuGet Packages for the RyuJIT and SIMD support, including the support for RyuJIT on non-Windows 8 machines via .NET 4.5.2
• Troy Hunt: How not to "hide" sensitive data in plain sight with view state – Troy Hunt discusses ViewState, and how some developers use it to store too much information leading to potential security risks.
• A better domain events pattern – Jimmy Bogard discusses the use of Domain Events to help create a fully encapsulated domain model, and looks at the risks of having static dispatching and the effects of that action being returned immediately resulting in higher coupling
• AngularJS – Part 16, Forms – Gabriel Schenker resumes his series looking at the AngularJS framework, continuing with a look at creating forms with validation

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