The Morning Brew

Software

• NCache 3.1 Open Sourced – Kay Ewbank highlights the open sourcing of the NCache project with their 3.1 release
• New handy Visual Studio extensions – part 2 – Mads Kristensen discusses a number of his recent Visual Studio Extensions, including an open website from Azure, Visual Studio Extension Updater, and Command Prompt here extensions.

Information

• .NET Core API Review 2015-01-14 – The .NET Core team share the video recording of their January API Review Meeting, an interesting watch and glimpse into the now open source process of developing .NET Core.
• Upgrading Visual Studio 2015 Preview to ASP.NET 5/MVC 6 RC – Stephen Walther takes a look at the process of updating Visual Studio 2015 Preview to use the latest ASP.NET 5 MVC6 Nightly Builds, providing a walk through of the process.
• Why I write unit tests and why you should too – Jaime González García shares what was a work email response about unit testing, and why he believes in it strongly as a practice for good software development.
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Etags and evil code, Part I – Ayende discusses the ETag, and looks at the performance of code to parse their value from a string.
• ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 1, Configuring Grunt, Uglify, and AngularJS, ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 2, Using the MVC 6 Web API, ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 3, Adding Client Routing, ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 4, Using Entity Framework 7 &ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 5, Form Validation – Stephen Walther has started a series looking at using Angular JS and ASP.NET 5 (MVC and WebAPI) and Entity Framework
• Markdown in Visual Studio Online – Allen Clark takes a look at the support for Markdown in Visual Studio Online

Community

• Hot Off the Press! Azure Technical Webinars Published – Mike Heald announces the release of the programme of Webinar and in person Windows Azure events for the next 6 months

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