August 2014
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1674
Posted by Chris Alcock on 15 Aug 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Announcing general availability of Mobile Services .NET support – Yavor Georgiev annoucnes the General Availability of Azure Mobile Services .NET backend, providing capabilities for .NET Backend development for mobile applications using ASP.NET WebAPI
- .NET Mobile Services- Visual Studio Toolbox – Robert Green is joined by Merwan Hade to discuss what is new in the Visual Studio tooling for the Azure Mobile Services
- Announcing new F12 dev tools features in August update – Andy Sterland gives a more detailed look at the new features in the F12 Developer Tools in the August Internet Explorer Update
- Welcome to www.badapi.net, a REST API with badly-behaved endpoints – Elton Stoneman shares BadAPI.Net a public service which exposes misbehaving REST APIs, intended to allow you to test REST API Clients with slow, unreliable and erroring API calls.
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- C# 6.0 Features Part II : Primary Constructors – K. Scott Allen takes a look at the Primary Constructors feature of C#6
- Appreciating garbage – Cellfish discusses performance optimisation of both CPU and memory, and how sometimes the common solutions aren’t the best
- Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Client-side templates – Jimmy Bogard continues his series looking at HTML rendering in ASP.NET MVC, exploring how similar techniques can be leveraged for the client side.
- Sketcher : Three Of n – Sacha Barber continues his series looking at building a Twitter like application for images using the ASP.NET MVC / SignalR, AngularJS / BootStrap / Azure stack. This part takes a look at the drawing part of the applications, storage of the image in Azure, broadcast over SignalR and interaction with the canvas
- Customers not getting the widgets they paid for if they click too fast -or- In C#, the += operator is not merely not guaranteed to be atomic, it is guaranteed not to be atomic – Raymond Chen continues CLR week with a look at the behaviour of the += operator and some of the problems which can be encountered when dealing with atomicity.
- Easier Immutable Objects in C# 6 and VB 12 – Jonathan Allen highlights the ‘record’ functionality in the latest C#6 and VB12 draft specification which makes the creation of immutable objects easier
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The Morning Brew #1673
Posted by Chris Alcock on 14 Aug 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 RC – Shahrokh Mortazavi highlights the release candidate release of the Python Tools for Visual Studio 2,1. This release brings improvements to the intellisense , debugging capabilities for Django templates, support for debugger visualisers and much more
- August updates for Internet Explorer – Sharon Meramore and Charles Morris of the Internet Explorer Team highlight the improvements included in the August update to Internet Explorer 11, including improvements to the F12 Developer tools, improved WebGL Support, Web Driver support, and the instigation of new policy regarding blocking old ActiveX controls.
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- Sketcher : Two Of n – Sacha Baber continues his three part series with a look at the implementation of the applications infrastructure support, login and authentication, and a look at some of the real code for the application.
- Features of ES6 Part 3: Default Parameter Values – K.Scott Allen continues his series looking at the ECMAScript 6 standard, exploring one of the new features in this version – Default Parameter Values,
- ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Page Parser Filters – Ricardo Peres looks at the page parser ASP.NET extension point, allowing you to have code run at page compile time to make alterations to the page.
- Keep your eye on the code page: C# edition (the mysterious third code page) – Raymond Chen continues CLR week with another look at the role of Code Pages within .NET – this time looking at the use when developing console applications.
- Microservices and the First Law of Distributed
Objects – Martin Fowler discusses his previous ‘first law of distributed objects’ and how it relates to the recent developments in the areas of Micro Services. - WebActivator – Under the hood – Suhas Rao highlights the widely used NuGet Package ‘Web Activator’ taking a look at what it achieves, and how it works under the hood.
- Grunt + TypeScript + VSO Monaco = ⤠– Johannes Rieken takes a look a how you can use the Grunt support in the Visual Studio Online Monaco editor to have your Typescript compiled to JavaScript without having to do a manual compilation step.
- URL Length Limits – Eric Lawrence discusses the complexities of the seemingly simple question of the maximum URL length in Internet Explorer
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The Morning Brew #1672
Posted by Chris Alcock on 13 Aug 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- StructureMap 3.1 – Jeremy D Miller announces the 3.1 release of StructureMap, created with assistance from Matt Honeycutt, Marco Cordeiro, and Jimmy Bogard which addressing a number of reported issues in the 3.0 release.
- Introducing CocosSharp – Miguel de Icaza and the team at Xamarin announce the release of CocosSharp a cross platform library for building 2D games using C# and the .NET Framework
- Now Shipping: xUnit support for Windows 8 and Windows Phone App 8.1 – Oren Novotny highlights the updated XUnit.NET Test Runner and the support for Windows Store Applications and Windows Phone applications in the xUnit v2 beta 4 release.
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- ChessTDD 12: Blind Alleys – Erik Dietrich continues with his series of posts looking at creating a Chess game using Test Driven Development techniques. This post continues the rounding up of odds and ends before moving on to new functionality
- Sketcher 1 of 3 – Sacha Barber kicks off a new series of posts looking at building a full application using the AngularJS / ASP.NET MVC / WebAPI / SignalR / Azure Storage technology stack to implement a Twitter for images type application.
- Develop ASP.NET vNext applications on a Mac – .NET Web Development and Tools Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi shares a post from Program Manager Intern Sourabh Shirhatti sharing the work done on improving the development experience for ASP.NET vNext on the Mac.
- Keep your eye on the code page: C# edition (warning about DllImport) – Raymond Chen continues CLR week with a discussion of the role of CodePages in C# and COM interop.
- Dapper.NET Sample with MVC 4- Add,Edit,Update,Delete – Gihan Liyanage shares a sample MVC application which makes use of the Dapper MicroORM to perform the common CRUD data operations
- Use SignalR to Build Real-Time Connectivity into Your Software – Rachel Appel looks at one of the common use cases which SignalR provides an excellent solution for, and looks at implementing some functionality using it
- Something Like This – Ronnie Mukherjee takes a look at how the use of ‘this’ in JavaScript differs from how it behaves in object oriented languges like C# and Java.
- Port This! – Kim Johnson takes a look at the .NET Portability Analyzer, and runs it on code which has already been ported to other platforms to see how effective it is in identifying potential problems
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