March 2015
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1828
Posted by Chris Alcock on 26 Mar 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio – Sara Itani announces the release of the Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 bringing rich editor support, code completion, REPL, npm package management integration, test explorer and much more making Visual Studio a much better place to work with JavaScript codebases
- Syncfusion Essential Studio – Community Licence – ‘ihaynes’ highlights a new license from Syncfusion for their Essentials Studio. The community license gives free access to the whole product for small businesses and individual developers.
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- The ASP.NET Developer’s guide to Bootstrap – Jerrie Pelser gives a useful introduction to Bootstrap from the point of view of an ASP.NET Developer, highlighting what the framework does and further useful resources on different aspects of using Bootstrap for your web application’s UI.
- Andrei Dzimchuk | Understanding ASP.NET 5 middleware – Andrei Dzimchuk gives an overview of the key concepts of ASP.NET 5’s Middleware, illustrating with code samples
- Using #mvvmlight with Windows 10 universal applications – Laurent Bugnion shares a look at building Windows 10 applications using MVVMLight, walking through the process of creating an application
- Clean Tests: Isolation with Fakes – Jimmy Bogard continues his series on ‘Clean Tests’ taking a look at the edge cases where he considers it appropriate to use fakes to isolate dependencies, and looks at their use.
- Improve your SpecFlow scenarios with custom step argument transformations – Mike Larah sharse a useful trick to make more powerful conversions from the step arguments into your code to execute tests using argument transformations.
- Learn Roslyn Now: Part 9 Control Flow Analysis – Josh Varty shares part 9 of an interesting looking series on the use of Roslyn. This part explores control flow analysis to look at the entry and exit points of code and to explore the concept of code reachability.
- Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Adding Master Pages – Simon Timms continues his series looking at evolving an old legacy ASP.NET application into a more modern one, updating approaches, libraries and techniques. In this post Simon looks at retrofitting master pages.
- `Securing and securely calling Web API – Martin Kearn discusses the process of securing an ASP.NET WebAPI service, and making calls to the service passing security details, illustrating with an example.
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The Morning Brew #1827
Posted by Chris Alcock on 25 Mar 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Announcing the new Azure App Service – Scott Guthrie announces the launch of the Azure App Service, a new offering built upon Azure Websites and Azure Mobile Services which aims to bring together the mobile and web worlds whilst offering easy connectivity and integration with SASS services such as Office 365, Salesforce, Dynamics, OneDrive, DropBox and much more
- Announcing Azure App Service – Bill Staples also shares the news of the Azure App Service announcement
- Introducing the Azure API Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – Brady Gaster announces the release of the Azure API App Tools for Visual Studio 2013, providing support and tooling for the new features of Azure App Service from within Visual Studio
- Introducing Azure API Apps – Jeffrey T. Fritz discusses Azure API Apps, giving an overview of the concepts and links to more information
- Azure March 2015 Announcements & Announcing Azure App Service – Jennifer Marsman & Ahmed Waheed alsohighlight the key points from the announcement.
- New Azure Backup Pricing Model Live April 1st – Mike Heald highlights some amended costs for the Azure Backup Service.
- Updated DeleteFiles Utility now on Chocolatey – Rick Strahl shares a little but useful utility to recursively delete files from a directory structure, available now as a Chocolatey package, usefully highlighting a really good way of getting utilities like this (and much bigger things too) installed.
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- Windows 10 Universal App Platform & Caliburn.Micro – The Caliburn.Micro Team discuss the building of applications for Windows 10 using Caliburn.Micro.
- Retooling Build and Test Automation Tools – Jeremy D Miller talks about the refresh of the build and test tooling for the FubuMVC projects, moving to using tools like ixie, Paket, and gulp.js
- Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 Preview – Channel 9 present the Microsoft Virtual Academy Content looking at all aspects of building applications for Windows 10
- Everything You Didn’t Know About Shared and Static Members – Peter Vogel takes a look at the use of Shared and Static keywords n C# and VB.NET in this Visual Studio Magazine article.
- Unit / Integration testing in ASP.NET 5 and Visual Studio 2015 using XUnit.Net & LocalDB for Database Integration Testing in ASP.NET 5 project and XUnit.net – Radenko Zec takes a lookat using XUnit.net to test ASP.NET 5 based applications
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The Morning Brew #1826
Posted by Chris Alcock on 24 Mar 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10 Technical Preview & Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10 Preview – S.Somasegar & Unni Ravindranathan highlight the release of the first preview of the Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10, bringing the tooling to build applications from Windows Phone to Desktop and tablet store apps, and everything between (including XBox)
- Windows 10 developer tooling is now available to Windows Insiders! – Maarten Van De Bospoort also highlights the preview release, and discusses how you can get the tooling preview
- Windows 10 kits available for download – J M Rossy highlights the Hardware Developer Kits for Windows 10 as demoed at the recent WinHEC conference.
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- Little Puzzlers – Is Tree a Binary Search Tree? – James Michael Hare shares another ‘Little Puzzler’ problem with a look at Binary Trees, and the concept of an ordered binary search tree.
- The Ultimate List of Programming Books – John Sonmez shares his list of top programming book, covering both technical skills and soft skills….a good collection, all well worth reading.
- More Wintellect.Analyzers and Some Lessons Learned Writing Roslyn Analyzers – John Robbins discusses some of the things he has leanred spending several months writing analysers using Roslyn
- Creating a TypeScript Workflow with Gulp – Dan Wahlin takes a look at working with TypeScript when you are not using a mainstream editor which directly supports TypeScript, looking instead at using Gulp to power a TypeScript workflow
- Intro to .NET Unit & Integration Testing with SpecsFor – Matt Honeycutt shares a look at the use of his SpecsFor framework for testing at both Unit and Integration level, walking through both the use of the library and tooling as well as the concepts behind testing at these two different levels.
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