The Morning Brew

Today is a monster of an edition as I’m playing catchup with the posts from the past week following my taking a week off (to get married and have a honeymoon without publishing pressure), so make sure you are sitting comfortably, and you might need a (giant) pot of coffee (or tea) rather than the usual mug to make it through all the links today…

Software

• Update to Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate – John Montgomery
• Updates to Web Tools in Visual Studio 2017 RC – Andrew B Hall
• TFS 2017 Update 1 RC available – Brian Harry
• ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit – Support for VS2017 RC – Mehul Harry
• Productivity Power [Tools] Pack 2017 Now Available! – Greg Duncan
• Azure Tools for Visual Studio Code 1.2.0 – ARM Export, Batch, Telemetry – Brady Gaster
• DSC Resource Kit Release January 2017 – Katie Keim
• Manage App Service, SQL Database, and more – Azure Management Libraries for .NET – Asir Selvasingh
• Open sourcing the VS Test platform – Brian Harry
• Introducing Alba for integration testing against ASP.Net Core applications – Jeremy D Miller
• The Gamma dataviz package now available! – Tomas Petricek

Information

• Working with Multiple .NET Core SDKs – both project.json and msbuild/csproj – Scott Hanselman
• VS 2017 + new csproj = useful or useless? – Piotr Stapp
• Adding Files to Visual Studio Projects – Rick Strahl
• ASP.NET Core – Migrating to MSBuild – Aaron Marisi
• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – January 10, 2017 – Maria Naggaga
• ASP.NET Community Standup – January 24th, 2017 – What the heck was last week? – ASP.NET Team
• Building microservices with ASP.NET Core (without MVC) – Filip W
• Building simple plug-ins system for ASP.NET Core – Gunnar Peipman
• Fetch the current weather using ASP.NET Core Web API and OpenWeather – Jon Hilton
• ASP.NET Core Authentication with IdentityServer4 – Mike Rousos
• The Monsters Weekly – Episode 89 – URL Rewrite Middleware & The Monsters Weekly – Episode 90 – Formatting Dates – ASP.NET Monsters
• Debugging .NET Core on Unix over SSH – Andy Sterland
• Enable Failed Reuqest Tracing for an Azure App Service Web App – Benjamin Perkins
• Reloading strongly typed options in ASP.NET Core 1.1.0 – Andrew Lock
• Comparing ASP.NET Core IoC container service lifetimes with Autofac IoC container instance scopes – Cesar de la Torre
• From dependency injection to dependency rejection & Dependency injection is passing an argument – Mark Seemann
• How do .NET delegates work? – Matt Warren
• C# 7.0 Expression Bodied Members – Christian Nagel
• Be careful with Path.GetExtension() and Path.GetFileName() – Rudy Huyn
• Don’t let your thread sleep unless it really has to – Ffaik Hakan Bilgen
• Kevin Dockx / Ice Cream Port of TwoStepsAuthenticator to .NET Standard 1.6 Profile – Kevin Dockx
• Log files to know about to find failed ASP.NET requests – Matt Watson
• The week in .NET – Adafruit Class Library for Windows IoT Core, Floor Plan – Bertrand Le Roy
• Image Libraries for .NET Core – Jeff Martin
• MicroBus: In-Process Mediator – Derek Comartin
• Cross-Platform DevOps for .NET Core – Muhammad Rehan Saeed
• Working with Windows Containers and Docker: The Basics – Nicolas Prigent
• Creating an ASP.NET Core Docker application and deploying to Azure & Docker compose with ASP.NET Core, EF Core and the PostgreSQL image – Damian Bowden
• How to Check Database Availability from the Application Tier – Dimitri Furman
• EF Core CLI Commands with VS2017 RC3 – Julie Lerman
• Migrating a Disk-Based Table to a Memory-Optimized Table in SQL Server – Alex Grinberg
• Handling Graphs in SQL – Joe Celko
• Everything you need to know about HTTP security headers – Max Veytsman
• TypeScript 2.1: Improved Inference for Literal Types – Marius Schulz
• ES proposal: Shared memory and atomics & Making transpiled ES modules more spec-compliant – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• Calling Windows 10 APIs From a Desktop Application – Michael Crump
• Don’t use ReactiveUI – Eric Sink
• Enforce Referential Integrity Between Documents in Marten – Jason Roberts
• Using Azure Functions to add a Contact Form to a Static Site – Eli Weinstock-Herman
• Our journey on building the Go SDK for Azure – Kirthi Krishnamraju
• Refactoring Towards Resilience: A Primer – Jimmy Bogard
• SyntheticMonitoring – Flávia Falé & Serge Gebhardt
• How to view the last changes (commit) made to a file in a repo on GitHub – 029 – Sara Ford
• Use Octokit to create labels – Gary Ewan Park
• Semantic Versioning with Powershell, TeamCity and GitHub – Dylan Beattie
• Excessive explanation, part thirteen – Eric Lippert

Community

• Anybody want a gently used StructureMap? – Jeremy D Miller
• VIDEO: How to get started with technical public speaking! – Scott Hanselman

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Information

• MSDN Magazine – The October Edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online, with article topics ranging from Azure to personal development, with a healthy dose of .NET and ASP.NET in the middle
• Visual Studio Online – Day 5 – Kris Lankford continues Falafel Software’s October series exploring the Visual Studio 2015 ecosystem with a look at the Visual Studio Online offering
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Your web app doesn’t need 64-bit – Scott Hanselman discusses how switching back to 32 bit web applications can save you money on Zure by using less memory resources
• Receive WebHooks from Azure Alerts and Kudu (Azure Web App Deployment) – Henrik F Nielsen discusses the WebHooks implementation for Azure Alerts and the Kudu web application deployment framework
• Enumerability in ECMAScript 6 – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer discusses how Enumerability works in ECMAScript 6
• The State of JavaScript on Android in 2015 is… poor – Jeff Atwood discusses the state of play of JavaScript implementation in Android based platforms
• ESLint: The Next-Generation JavaScript Linter – Nicholas C. Zakas discusses the use of ESLint a Linting tool for ECMAScript

Community

• WPUGNW Tuesday 20th October 2015 – Windows 10 & the Universal Windows App Platform – The Windows Platform User Group in Manchester welcome Mike Taulty for a session on building applications in the Windows 10 Universal Windows Application platform

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Software

• Azure Redis Cache: Public preview of premium tier – Pranav Rastogi announce the public preview of the Azure Redis serivce
• Announcing Visual Studio Debug Engine Extensibility Samples – Patrick Nelson highlights a suite of new debugging extensibility samples, along with documentation of the Concord debugging engine used for both unmanaged and managed debugging in VS2015

Information

• Introducing ASP.NET WebHooks Receivers – WebHooks made easy – Scott Hanselman talks about the exciting developments still being made on the ASP.NET 4.6 platform, and explores the new ASP.NET WebHooks recently released as a preview release.
• Null-Conditional Operators – Day 2, nameof – Day 3 – VS 2015 Series & Auto Property Initializers – Day 4 – Visual Studio 2015 – The team at Falafel Software kick on with their month long series with articles from Josh Eastburn on Null Condiditional Operators, Tillman Dickson explores the nameof function and Steve Smith looks at Auto Proprerty Initializers
• Improving Message Throughput in Akka.NET with Routers – Jason Roberts continues his series of posts looking at the Akka.NET actor framework, exploring a little of the theory of Routers and Routing and illustrating with an example.
• The Roslyn Academy Community – The Roslyn Academy is an initiative from a group of MVPs which is dedicated to the writing of components on the .NET Roslyn Compiler Platform.
• Augmenting Types in Javascript – Abhi Jain takes a look at how JavaScript allows for types to be extended, meaning you can easily add new methods and members to objects at runtime.
• Support for Open Source technologies on Azure – Hanne Wulff continues a series looking at the Microsoft Open Source Strategy
• The Genius of Template Strings in ES6 – Chris Heilmann discusses the some of the recent improvements in string handling in JavaScript which are usable today

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