The Morning Brew

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• An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Extensibility – Simone Chiaretta kicks off a series of posts looking at how you can extend the ASP.NET MVC framework to achieve your aims, looking initially at the extension of the pipeline via routing extensions
• RFC: Web Platform Installer (WebPI) with an offline feed mode for bandwidth savings – Scott Hanselman takes a look at some early previews of the Offline Mode for the Web Platform Installer, based upon daily builds from the developers machines, and asks the community for feedback about this new aspect to the Web Platform Installer.
• Internals of Interface and its Implementation – Abhishek Sur continues with his Internals series with a post taking a look at the internals of Interface implementation in .NET focusing specifically on explicit interface implementations and explaining the theory and looking at how that is manifested at the IL level.
• NuGet push… to Windows Azure – Maarten Balliauw shares a prototype of an Azure NuGetRole which allows you to push NuGet packages to the cloud as a means of deployment – neat stuff, and a good demonstration of how NuGet can be consumed in code.
• Pluggable Model Conventions – Stuart Leeks is also taking a look at the extensibility of ASP.NET , showing how a custom ModelMetadataProvider can be created allowing you to use your own conventions in your models to have certain behaviours applied.
• What’s new with T4 in the Developer Preview of Visual Studio 11? – Gareth Jones takes a look at some of the new features for T4 Templating in Visual Studio 11 including better error processing at design time, improved inheritance and LINQ support out of the box.
• Native WinRT Inheritance – Ian Griffiths continues his exploration of WinRT at a low level using C++ taking a look at how WinRT and Inheritance actually work at the COM Level in order to allow you to derive from the WinRT Application class.
• Setting the Initial Rotation in a C# Metro Application, Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search Part 1 & Part 2 – Derik Whittaker discusses how you can control the orientation of your Windows 8 Metro Applications, and looks at how you can integrate your applications with the System wide search functionality
• Running unit tests in Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (WinRT), Dealing with types in WinRT, Detecting design mode in Windows 8/WinRT,Quick tip: Killing a Metro-style app in Windows 8 & Breaking change: Raising PropertyChanged with string.Empty in WinRT / Windows 8 – Laurent Bugnion has been taking a look at various aspects of Windows 8 / WinRT, sharing tips on creating tests for your WinRT applications, killing a misbehaving Metro Style Application, detecting the design mode for Windows 8 / WinRT applications and looking at the use of the TypeInfo class.

Community

• Web Performance Testing and Continuous Integration @Mozilla (October) – The London Web Performance Group welcome David Burns, a Test Lead Developer at Mozilla, for a session on testing the performance of your web applications using tools like Selenium and FireBug on the evening of Wednesday 19th October
• "The Happy Developer" – Is it a Myth? – Scottish Developers welcome Andy Gibson for a discussion session on Tuesday 1st November in Glasgow where Andy will discuss the pitfalls of being a developer in these difficult times, and look at some ways you can make your developer life better.
• In The Brain of Robert Pickering – Skills Matter welcome Rob Pickering for an ‘In the brain of…’ session on Tuesday 1st November where Rob will take a look at combinators and discuss their use in building Internal DSLs, discussing their use in industrial problems.

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