The Morning Brew

Software

• New Microsoft Message Analyzer Released – Eric Lawrence highlights the release of a new version of the Microsoft Message Analyzer for capturing network traffic at a low (packet) level.
• Umbraco 7.1.5 released – The Umbraco team announce the release of Umbraco 7.1.5, a new bugifx release which also includes new recycle bin functionality.
• Expanding offers and VM delivery choices on modern.IE – Jason McConnell announces the latest improvements to the Modern.IE testing Virtual Machines, including new formats for machines (Vagrent), Parallels direct download support and also a discount for Kraken.io.

Information

• .NET Sample Code on GitHub – Immo Landwerth announces the availability of the .NET Frameworks team’s samples on GitHub, under a MIT License
• MVC Application using Owin to achieve Federated Authentication – Magnus Mårtensson takes a look at building an ASP.NET MVC web application making use of the OWIN Federated Authentication from the Microsoft Azure Access Control Service to offer the full range of authentication capabilities.
• Secure ASP.NET Web API 2 using Azure Active Directory, Owin Middleware, and ADAL – Taiseer Joudeh discusses how to secure your ASP.NET Web API 2 services using Azure Active Directory
• Prevent MVC Application from Cross Site Request Forgery Attacks – Shemeemsha RA shares a quick how-to on including the Cross Site Request Forgery protection in ASP.NET MVC.
• Before you take over supporting a web application – Eric Pavin shares a useful list for anyone taking over the support of a web application, detailing things you should check and monitor in order to be ready to support it.
• "My DocumentDB" – A Simple Web-based DocumentDB Management Tool – Shaun Xu shares a management tool for the new DocumentDB feature on the Microsoft Azure Platform which provides UI and management capabilities for the new service.
• Hubot – The Visual Studio Team share a nice guide to using HubBot in Visual Studio Online Team rooms to perform a number of administrative tasks from the Team Room environment.
• Does your SQL Smell? The free "119 SQL Code Smells" eBook might help you sniff it out (and fix it) & .NET Universe Poster, 2014 – Greg Duncan highlights two resources, one from the folks at SimpleTalk/RedGate on improving your SQL Skills, and the .NET Universe poster from Microsoft.

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