June 2012
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 13 Jun 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- What you need to know about developing for Windows on ARM (WOA) – Jason Zander gives the low down on all the key things you need to know about developing Windows 8 Applications to run on ARM based hardware, ranging from getting started with the code, through debugging, and performance profiling and testing.
- Deployment in Visual Studio 2012 RC Using Entity Framework Code First Migrations – ASP.NET and Web Tools Developer Content Team – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Tom Dykstra discusses the use of Entity Framework Code First Migrations as a part of the deployment process from within Visual Studio 2012 RC
- Using FluentMigrator with MSBuild – Miroslav Popovic is also looking at database upgrades, this time using FluentMigrator, exploring how you can integrate its use within your MSBuild scripts.
- Windows Azure Evolution – Web Sites (aka Antares) Part 1 – Shaun Xu kicks off a series looking at the new Web Sites feature of Windows Azure, giving an overview of the functionality, looking at how you can deploy an application as a Windows Azure Website, and exploring the configuration and pricing options.
- Windows Azure Websites: A PHP Perspective – Brian Swan also takes a look at the Windows Azure Websites functionality, exploring what this allows from a PHP standpoint
- Announcing Windows Azure SQL Reporting General Availability – The Microsoft BI Team share the news that Windows Azure SQL Reporting is now generally available allowing your reporting to be run as cloud based service.
- TechEd 2012: New Windows Azure Storage Features, Improved Manageability, and Lower Prices, Introducing Asynchronous Cross-Account Copy Blob, Introducing Table SAS (Shared Access Signature), Queue SAS and update to Blob SAS & New Blob Lease Features: Infinite Leases, Smaller Lease Times, and More – The Windows Azure Storage Team share a bunch of announcement posts of new features of the Windows Azure Storage Services, as well as highlighting the recent price cuts to their services.
- Redis Is The Most Important Tool In My Toolbelt – Karl Seguin discusses how Redis has become his new Swiss Army Knife of choice, discussing the range of problems that Redis can solve.
- Why I do not mind VS2012 ALL CAPS menu – Mehdi Khalili discusses why he doesn’t care about the all caps menus in Visual Studio 2012 RC as the new Quick Launch functionality means he doesn’t use menus anymore.
- Free, online Windows 8 UX Training – Jaime Rodriguez highlights some free virtual training from the Windows 8 User experience team taking place this Thursday (14th June).
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 12 Jun 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- ASP.NET Web API Exception Handling – Fredrik Normén discusses implementing exception handling in WebAPI applications, looking at the different ways you can handle Critical and Business exceptions in your application.
- Getting Started on Line-of-Business HTML5 App – Part 11 Serving up JSON Using ASP.NET Web API & Part 12 Show Data in Templates Using JsRender – Bruce Kyle continues his series looking at the building of Line of Business Applications using HTML5 with a look at using the ASP.NET WebAPI to produce JSON for consumption on the client side, and also explores the notion of client side rendering with the use of JsRender templating.
- Activating Windows 8 contracts in your app – Derek Gebhard discusses the use of contracts in Windows 8 Metro applications to allow different applications to interact with each other, exploring their use in XAML and JavaScript based applications.
- Technology Soup: Fun with Windows 8 Metro apps, WinRT, ESE, C++/CX, .NET and JavaScript – Mike Taulty takes a look at creating custom WinRT Components in C++, and looks at making use of them in Metro style applications from JavaScript and .NET, resulting in a blog post with the most technologies I’ve seen in a title in a long while!
- A World of Samples at your Fingertips – The Visual Studio Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Anthony Cangialosi & Steven Wilssens highlight where you can find code samples in amongst the Visual Studio 2012 RC an associated SDKs an libraries.
- Improving the Startup Time of Xaml Metro Style Apps with Multicore JIT – Jérôme Laban discusses the new multicore JIT which helps improve the start up performance of desktop applications such as XAML based Metro Style Applications
- Announcing the LightSwitch HTML Client! – Joe Binder of the LightSwitch Team reveals the upcoming support for HTML based clients for LightSwitch applications, providing a similar experience but in cross browser native HTML.
- How I stopped writing awesome code – Jonas Hovgaard discusses how he has simplified his development practices to become more productive, sparking interesting discussion in the comments about how much ‘best practice’ you actually need
- Getting started with Mercurial for a small team – Working in default, Reverting , Branching & Tagging and further reading – Kevin LaBranche continues his series looking at the use of the Mercurial Distributed Version Control System, exploring general working practices, branching, tagging and reverting as well as providing pointers to further information.
- A look at Windows 8 devices – Lee Stott shares a look at some of the new breed of Windows 8 tablets, PCs and laptops.
- TFSPreview is Public – Now check out the Team Foundation Service Preview without an invite code… – Greg Duncan highlights the next phase of the Team Foundation Service preview, with a widening of the preview group of users.
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 11 Jun 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- SignalR 0.5.1 Released – David Fowler announces the release of SignalR 0.5.1, an update to the core 0.5 which brings support for the Windows 8 Release Preview, along with the inclusion of web sockets support (for environments which support it – i.e. IIS8), improves the cross domain connection support and connection management.
- Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop – S.Somasegar announces the plans for a additional Express edition product to target the Windows Desktop development, a request from the community following the announcement of the VS Express line up last month.
- Announcing WebMatrix 2 RC – Vishal Joshi highlights the release of WebMatrix 2 Release Candidate, and discusses how it makes a good choice for building standards compliant sites to run on the Azure platform.
- Get dotCover 2.0 Beta – JetBrains announce the release of the beta of dotCover 2.0, available for you to try and give the team feedback
- Snippet Designer now supports Visual Studio 2012 RC – Matthew Manela announces a minor update to his Snippet Designer Visual Studio extension which allows it to run on under Visual Studio 2012. The release is available via the Visual Studio Gallery.
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