The Morning Brew

Software

• Azure: SQL Databases, API Management, Media Services, Websites, Role Based Access Control and More – Scott Guthrie announces the latest batch of improvements to the Microsoft Azure platform, including General Availability of QSL Database Service Tiers, API Management Service and Azure Alerting, as well as a number of new previews as well as media services enhancements.
• Announcing the 0.6.0-beta preview of Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK – Pranav Rastogi announces the latest preview release of the Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK, including new features around table ingress and queue messaging
• badapi.net just got badder – Elton Stoneman announces the latest changes to his badapi.net service which aims to provide bad responses to API calls, and is now even easier to point your client code at.

Information

• Auto restore Nuget packages with TFS Build the right way – Tarun Arora takes a look at how to configure MSBuild to restore NuGet Packages on build
• Revisiting – how to make your EF queries testable – ’tilovell09′ takes a revised look at how to make Entity Framework queries better testable
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Introduction – Simon Timms looks back on the history of .NET and begins a series looking at bringing legacy ASP.NET applications up to date.
• Refactoring the ASP.NET MVC Application to the Onion Architecture – Dhananjay Kumar walks through a refactoring of a sample ASP.NET MVC application into the Onion Architecture style
• Deriving from a fluent class – Bertrand Le Roy talsk about the design inspiration beind FluentPath, and appeals to the community for advice on extending Fluent Interfaces like FluentPath
• Fear Driven Development – FDD – Scott Hanselman discusses some of the less widely appreciated development styles, including the two variations of Fear Driven Development
• I crashed the web servers of a $100M+ multi-national corporation … – Derick Bailey discusses how a mistake early in his career provided a very valuable learning experience.
• IIS Server and Site Comparison with Web Deploy – Eric Parvin highlights a number of useful techniques for comparing web server configurations at different levels

Community

• DDD East Anglia 2014 – Phil Trelford shares an overview of proceedings at DDD East Anglia – sounds like it was another great event – sorry to have missed out on it

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