May 2012
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1105
Posted by Chris Alcock on 15 May 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 CTP is available – Aaron Bertrand highlights the release of the CTP release of the SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2. Aaron outlines the version numbers of SQL Server which this service pack CTP applies to, so you can be sure that you are not undoing any hotfixes you’ve applied.
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- CQRS Journey – first pseudo-production release – Grigori Melnik highlights the release of the first pseudo release of the Contoso Conference Management System, a sample application to demonstrate CQRS style application development. The team behind the project are going to be making a number of these ‘pseudo releases’ to help them better understand and demonstrate the versioning of an application which uses CQRS practices.
- Simplify Syntax with Extension Methods – Anders Abel takes a look at how adding extension methods to classes and interfaces can help increase the readability of your code.
- Introducing Testing Domain – localtest.me – Scott Forsyth shares a useful domain which is set up with all subdomains resolving to 127.0.0.1 (localhost aka your machine) which can be used for testing applications in situations where you need a domain name.
- Additional Considerations When Using ASP.Net MVC Cross-site Request Forgery Prevention – Ed Hintz discusses two situations which require more careful consideration when you are making use of the Cross Site Scripting and Cross Site Request Forgery protection in ASP.NET MVC
- Implementing CORS support in WCF – Carlos Figueira takes a look at implementing a service which caters for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing when using WCF, a useful comparison to his earlier piece looking at the same in Web API
- CI Deployments To IIS VIA MS Web Deploy 2.0 – Scott Kirkland discusses integrating deployment into your continuous integration environment, looking at configuring Web Deploy 2.0 witihin your build process using MSBuild and Team City.
Community
- Event: Scott Guthrie speaking at UK Windows Azure conference 22nd June – Sara Allison reveals that Scott Guthrie will be visiting London and speaking at the UK Windows Azure conference on the 22nd June. At the time of writing there are still 50 free tickets available (available until 25th May, but going quick), and 250 paid for tickets (£25) which will be available after the free tickets go.
- Can’t make it to a Windows 8 Dev Camp? – Jim Blizzard highlights a series of web cast on the topics being covered in the Windows 8 Dev Camp events. The first of the series was yesterday (sorry, only saw the post this morning), bu the next event is Wednesday 8:30am PST, with a further 5 over the next few weeks.
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The Morning Brew #1104
Posted by Chris Alcock on 14 May 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- NUnitLite 0.7 Release – Charlie Poole announces a new release of NunitLite, a trimmed back version of the NUnit framework designed for use on resource restricted platforms. This 0.7 release responds to the news taht MonoTouch are using NUnitLite as their testing framework, and sees the framework getting some more polish and an increased feature set.
- Array Visualizer – VS 2010 Debugging array visualizer and WinForm/WPF control you can use too… – Greg Duncan highlights a rather neat looking Visual Studio Debugger Display Extension which gives you visualization of 2D, 3D and 4D arrays in the IDE.
- Azure SDK for node 0.5.4 is out! More secure and now with less angle brackets – Glenn Block highlights the release of the Windows Azure SDK for node 0.5.4. This release is both a feature release and a security release, and sees the version of node increased to node 0.6.17 to address a recent security vulnerability. This release also brings more YAML to the configuration of IISNode reducing the XML required to get your applications running.
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- ASP.NET Web API Updates – May 14 – Henrik F Nielsen gives his weekly round up of the goings on on the ASP.NET WebAPI codebase, with discussion of some content negotiation improvements, Improved error messages for Content Negotiation, and Per controller type configuration.
- Per-controller configuration in WebAPI – Mike Stall digs a bit deeper into the per controller configuration, looking at how this allows each controller to have a ‘shadow copy’ of the global configuration with bits overridden.
- My First Experience with ASP.NET Web API 101 – Sam Gentile shares his initial opinions of the ASP.NET Web API, comparing it to his previous experiences working with WCF
- ASP.NET Web API: Introducing IApiExplorer/ApiExplorer – Yao gives an introduction to the IApiExplorer interface and its default implementation, discussing how it is used to get at the structure of your Web APIs to produce service information, metadata, documentation of test clients.
- Using TPL to access Async WCF Endpoints in ASP.net MVC – Derik Whittaker takes a look at calling Asynchronous WCF services from ASP.NET MVC using Async Controllers
- Introducing Fog: A Library for Interacting with Azure from F# – Dan Mohl introduces his latest project which provides an easy way to interact with the Windows Azure SDK from within F#, giving easy access to blob and table storage, along with working with the Azure Message Bus.
- Pre-Processing Directives for Multi-Platform Support – Joe Mayo discusses the use of conditional compilation pre-processor directives when targeting multiple platforms, looking at Silverlight, Windows Phone and Windows 8
Community
- Event: Announcing the UK Windows Azure conference – Sara Allison highlights the first full day multi-track UK Windows Azure Conference supported by the London Windows Azure User Group and Microsoft. The event, on Friday 22nd June, will feature all things Azure, and the best bit, tickets are free until 25th May, after wich they can be had for £25.
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The Morning Brew #1103
Posted by Chris Alcock on 11 May 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- dotPeek 1.0 is Released – The Team over at JetBrains announce the release of dotPeek 1.0, their .net decompiler which will take .NET libraries and executables from .NET 1.0-.4.5 to the equivalent C# code, work with symbol and servers, and provides Resharper like navigation through the code. Well worth checking out if you haven’t already.
- ReSharper 7 EAP now available for all VS versions – Hadi Hariri also announces that the latest Early Access Preview of ReSharper 7 will now operate in all versions of Visual Studio (2005-VS11 Beta)
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- WebAPI Parameter binding under the hood – Mike Stall continues his discussions of the binding support in ASP.NET Web API, diving under the hood to look at how Parameter Binding works, and is configured
- Trending forum topics: Answering your questions – Windows 8 app developer blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Aaron Wroblewski picks up on some common Windows 8 Development Questions, discussing App Settings and Data, Consistent styling, multiple languages and culture support, and animation.
- Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Design Case Study Part 1 – The Telerik Windows Phone Team discuss some of the design considerations to take into account when moving from a Windows Phone application to creating a Windows 8 Metro application
- Diagnosing JavaScript Errors Faster with Error.stack – Rob Paveza of the Internet Explorer Team who is involved in the Chakra Runtime discusses some of the improved debugging and diagnostic functionality included for debugging JavaScript errors in IE10.
- My Favorite Features: Improved Tooling in Visual Studio 11 for JavaScript Developers – Jason Zander discusses the improvements being made to JavaScript support in the Visual Studio IDE in VS11, looking at Debugging, Intellisense, documentation, and associated features
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- UK Tech.Days Visual Studio 11 Beta & Team Foundation Server 11 Beta Videos – Giles Davies highlights the availability of some videos recorded at the UK Teach Days events which look at various features of Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server.
- Visual Studio 11 Event in Yorkshire, 31st May – Giles also highlights an event being held at Black Marble’s Yorkshire offices on 31st May which will take a look at the ALM features of Visual Studio 11 Beta. This is a morning session, and registration is required.
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