The Morning Brew

Information

• Visual Studio 11 Beta Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) – Jason Zander answers a number of the most frequently asked questions regarding the Visual Studio 11 Beta release
• Safer passwords with SqlCredential – Wenchang Liu of the ADO.NET Team discusses the new SqlCredential for securing authentication to SQL Server in .NET 4.5
• Thoughts after using ASP.Net Web API (beta) in anger for a week – Ayende discusses the ASP.NET Web API beta release, sharing his opinions after porting RavenFS to using Web API for its underlying HTTP implementation.
• Lightweight webhosted services with ASP.NET Web API – Carlos Figueira takes a look at hosting ASP.NET Web API in a light weight way, creating a LiteWebServer implementation, sharing the full code in the MSDN Code Gallery.
• Using Razor Template Engine in Web API Self Host Application – Hongye Sun explores combining the ASP.NET Web API with the Razor engine to provide templated responses which allow you to host the whole application in your own process as unlike MVC Web API does not require the full ASP.NET stack.
• 6 Ways To Avoid Mass Assignment in ASP.NET MVC – K. Scott Allen discusses the nature of Mass Assignment and over posting in frameworks like ASP.NET MVC, looking at a couple of approaches which offer protection from such vulnerabilities
• What ASP.Net MVC Developers Can Learn From GitHub’s Security Woes – Doug Rathbone discusses the nature of Mass Assignment issues, taking a detailed look at the types of attack in Rails and also in ASP.NET , again discussing a number of settings and approaches you can take to avoid such issues in your applications.
• Faking In Visual Studio 11 – Charles Cook explores the new Faking capabilities included in Visual Studio 11 / .NET 4.5 Beta which allow you to create fake versions of types used in code where it is difficult to introduce standard mock objects, allowing you to test more of your legacy code.
• Find the jQuery Bug #6: Traversing Trouble – Elijah Manor continues his series of posts looking at common jQuery bugs with a look at the misuse of the find method, showing how the filter method provides an alternative when the collection already contains the elements.
• JavaScript for the C# Guy: Function Overloads – Shawn Wildermuth takes a look at JavaScript from the point of view of a C# developer, taking a look at the JavaScript equivalent of overloading methods.
• jQuery Tip #6 – Creating a Custom jQuery Selector – Dan Wahlin continues his jQuery tips series with a look at creating your own custom jQuery selectors which extend the standard selector functionality of jQuery.

Community

• Free Online Event on KnockoutJS and MVVM – John Papa will be presenting to the LIDNUG Virtual User group on client side MVVM and KnockoutJS on Monday, March 19th 2012 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm ET

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