March 2012
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1064
Posted by Chris Alcock on 14 Mar 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Releasing the community edition of SymbolSource – Marcin Miko?ajczak announces the release ofSymbolSource.Basic, a self hostable version of the SymbolSource server which allows you to host your own private symbol and source server, in much the same way as Symbol Source does for public packages. The release is available as a NuGet package, allowing you to easily obtain and set up your own instance.
- Reactive Extensions v2.0 Beta available now! – Bart De Smet makes the official announcement of the beta release of the Reactive Extensions 2.0 in this very detailed post discussing all the changes and improvements.. This release targets .NET 4.5 beta, .NET 4.5 beta for Metro Apps, Silverlight 5 and Windows Phone 7.1 and is available as a SDK installer, and also as a NuGet package.
- Chutzpah – Chutzpah 1.4.0 Released – Matthew Manela announces the release of Chutzpah 1.4.0, a test runner for JavaScript Code, which also includes a Test Adapter implementation for Visual Studio 11 beta allowing you to run your tests from within the integrated IDE functionality.
- Updated Release of Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 Consumer Preview – Nick Harris announces the release of an update to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8, a collection of project templates, NuGet packages, samples and documentation to assist you in creating Windows 8 Metro style applications whcih utilise cloud functionality.
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- .NET 4.5 is an in-place replacement for .NET 4.0 – Rick Strahl discusses what the .NET 4.5 release means for .NET 4.0, and how it is an in-place replacement, looking at the versions of assemblies after installation, and also what this means for you developing against .NET 4.0 when 4.5 is installed.
- The NuGet Problem – Ayende discusses composite application frameworks and their NuGet packages, looking at how choosing the right granularity for the packages you put functionality in is a difficult decision. Good discussion in the comments of this one.
- Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance Part #2 – Larry Sullivan continues discussion of the performance improvements made in Visual Studio 11 Beta, discussing the work done and the implementation behind the quicker loading of solutions.
- What’s new for MSTest unit tests in Visual Studio 11 Beta – Abhishek Agrawal discusses the changes made to the MSTest testing framework in the Visual Studio 11 Beta release, discussing performance, compatibility, Express edition support, Async and Windows 8 Metro testing capabilities and 64bit support.
- 2/29/****: The case of the missing data point and the curious thing a Leap Year is & Time is hard – John V Petersen and Emil Gustafsson discuss the complexities of working with Date and Time, and especially the problems that leap years can cause.
- Authoring a new Visual studio unit test adapter – Bhuvaneshwari K looks at the implementation of a custom Test Adapter for Visual Studio 11 beta, discussing how you go about plugging in alternative test frameworks into the Visual Studio IDE testing features, and shares a sample implementation.
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The Morning Brew #1063
Posted by Chris Alcock on 13 Mar 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- 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.
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- 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
The Morning Brew #1062
Posted by Chris Alcock on 12 Mar 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Windows Azure toolkit for Windows 8 – Hosam Kamel highlights the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8, a collection of tools and guidance documentation to help you enable cloud features in your Windows 8 applications
- Announcing VSPAT – ‘˜Pattern Toolkit Builder’ – Jezz Santos announces the first public release of the VSPAT extension for Visual Studio 2010 which allows organisations to capture, communicate, and deploy best practice code and architecture within the organisation.
- JustCode Visual Studio 11 Beta Support – The team over at Telerik announce the availability of an internal build of JustCode which adds support for Visual Studio 11 Beta. This release is available to all currently licensed users via their account pages.
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- Why not automatically infer constraints? – Eric Lippert discusses an oft requested feature for inferring types when used in inheritance structures, discussing a scenario where such a feature would be useful, and discussing why the compiler doesn’t infer in this instance.
- Summary of Windows Azure Service Disruption on Feb 29th, 2012 – Bill Laing shares the official post mortem on the issues experienced with Windows Azure on 29th February in this detailed post. Even if you are not particularly interested in the details of the outage there is lots of good information on how Azure works which is well worth reading.
- Why So Many Azure Storage Transactions – Randy Patterson highlights a few gotchas he experienced when working with Azure for the first time, experiencing high number of storage transaction being used due to a variety of logging and debug functionality being enabled.
- How to access NuGet when NuGet.org is down (or you’re on a plane) – Scott Hanselman discusses how you can ‘keep calm and carry on’ in the face of a NuGet outage (like the one on Friday) by swapping to a feed made up of your local package cache that NuGet keeps in the background.
- It’s The Little Things about ASP.NET MVC 4 – Phil Haack discusses the ASP.NET MVC 4 and WebAPI beta releases highlighting some of the smaller features and improvements to the platform which you might overlook
- 9 Ways Your Brand New ASP.NET MVC Project Can Be Better – Michael Kennedy shares 9 thing you can do to ensure that your ASP.NET MVC projects are the best tey can be, including tidying up the solution, updating Nuget Packages, etc.
- Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group – April 2012 Meeting – The Aberdeen Developer .NET Usergroup welcomes Colin Mackay for a session on the Task Parallel Library on the evening of 26th April
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