The Morning Brew

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• Graph Engine 1.0 Preview Released – Microsoft Research
• Wallaby.js for Visual Studio – Artem Govorov

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• Little Puzzlers – Validate a Sudoku Board – James Michael Hare
• Restival Part 2 Revisited: Attribute Routing in WebAPI – Dylan Beattie
• ChessTDD 35: Acceptance Tests for Knight Movement – Erik Dietrich
• Integration testing ASP.NET 5 and ASP.NET MVC 6 applications – Filip W
• DNVM, DNX, and DNU – Understanding the ASP.NET 5 Runtime Options – John Atten
• Git-deployable F# based Web Applications in the Azure Cloud with WebSharper – Scott Hanselman
• Accepting code from the community means accepting full responsibility for all time – Ayende
• The bunny theory of code – Nicholas C. Zakas
• FileSystemWatcher Follies – Chris Lewis
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Updating Complex Grids – David Paquette
• ASP.NET SignalR: Old-fashioned Polling, Just Done Better – Dino Esposito

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• SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 is now available – SQL Server Team – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – The SQL Server Team announce the release of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 which includes all the fixes up to and including Cumulative Update 5

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• When everything you know is wrong, part one – Eric Lippert kicks off a new series of posts gathering together all his writing and thinking on Finalizers / Destructors, starting out with the ‘normal’ finalization semantics of the CLR and exploring some of the myths that people believe about finalization.
• Diagnostic logging in DNX/ASP.NET 5 – Nicholas Blumhardt digs into the Microsoft.Framework.Logging package which is a dependency of a number of the more recognised framework parts
• C# Futures: Method Contracts – Jonathan Allen continues his series looking at the proposals for new C# Features, exploring proposal 119, which covers Method Contracts allowing you to add further conditions to the parameters and returns of a method.
• A re-introduction to JavaScript (JS tutorial) – A nice introduction to the JavaScript language from the Mozilla Developer Network (contributed to by a huge list of people)
• Ember.js – The Transition to Ember 2.0 in Detail – The Ember.js team discuss their transition plan for transitioning their main release to be Ember 2.0 and how users of older versions can migrate to Ember 2.0.
• Visual Studio Code Ultimate Starter Guide – Tobiah Marks has a nice introductory guide to the Visual Studio Code IDE, a cut down editor for lightweight coding across multiple platforms.
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Calculated Properties – Ricardo Peres shares another ‘Lesser Know’ feature of NHibernate, exploring the setup and use of Calculated Properties, calculated from the data in the database by the database.
• Running a High Volume Website on Azure Infrastructure Services – Niall Moran discusses how the Windows Azure Platform, and Infrastructure Services specifically, help you to run a highly available / high volume website.

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• Mastering The Arcane Art Of JavaScript-mancy for C# Developers – Chapter 4: More Useful Function Patterns – Multiple Arguments – Jaime González García continues his series of posts looking at the JavaScript Language with a look at some further function patterns, looking at passing multiple arguments
• Why RavenDB isn’t written in F#, or the cost of the esoteric choice – Ayende discusses why software like RavenDB continues to be written in imperative languages like C# rather than functional languages like F#, even taking into account possible code size reductions.
• Why my F# projects don’t use RavenDB, or the cost of the esoteric choice – swlaschin responds, taking a look at the issues from the other side of the argument – and applying it the same arguments to database technologies
• Where Did My ASP.NET Bundles Go in ASP.NET 5? | Fritz on the Web – Jeffrey Fritz discusses the changes in bundling in ASP.NET 5, and the configuration of it in some common scenarios
• ASP.NET 5 Part – 3 – ‘rahulsahay20’ continues this series of posts looking at ASP.NET 5, exploring the different framework / CLR versions and the support for their use
• Introducing ASP.NET 5: The New ASP.NET in Town!
  – Vincent Mave Durano gives a good overview of the new features of ASP.NET 5, covering the various important and exciting aspects of the new framework.
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Filters – Ricardo Peres shares another instalment of his ‘Lesser Known NHibernate Features’ taking a look at the use of Filters to provide automatic filtering of results
• Unit Testing OData Web API/Entity Framework Applications – Monu Bambroo discusses the importance of testing applications and walks through the testing of an OData Web API based application which uses Entity Framework.
• Setting up Code Coverage in Team City – Colin Angus Mackay discusses the importance of Unit Testing and Code Coverage, and walks through the setup of Code Coverage measuring as part of your Team City Build Process.

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