Posted by Chris Alcock on 10 Jun 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Afternoon Tea, ASP.NET, C#, COM Interop, Community, Database, Development, Links, Morning Brew, SysAdmin, Talks / Presentations
It’s been quite a while since the last ‘Afternoon Tea’ post, and there have been quite a lot of significant announcements in the past few weeks, coupled with my being busy at work which has resulted in me building up quite a backlog of links which I really wanted to include in a Morning Brew. This post is my attempt to ‘clear the decks’ and get caught up again, and also provides the perfect excuse to do a link roundup of DDD South West which I had the pleasure of presenting at at the end of last month.
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- Introducing jQuery++ – Justin B Meyer and the folsk over at Bitovi announce the release of jQuery++, a collection of DOM helpers which complement and extend jQuery
- Bundler.NET – Bundler.NET brings the CSS and JavaScript minification and combining features of .NET 4.5 to earlier versions of .NET. The installation is simple via a NuGet package and the API reflects the .NET 4.5 implementation.
- bddify is moved to GitHub and is renamed to TestStack.BDDfy – Mehdi Khalili gives an update on TestStack.BDDfy, the project formerly known as bddify, discussing the name change, and change to the projects hosting, along with looking at the structure of the NuGet packages which amke up TestStack.BDDfy.
- #mvvmlight V4 for Windows 8 RP is available – Laurent Bugnion announces the release of version 4 of his MVVMLight framework for Windows 8 Release Preview
- Get latest CSS 3 support in Visual Studio 2010 – Mads Kristensen discusses how you can get the latest version of the CSS3 support into your Visual Studio 2010 installation providing a link to the schema files required and giving instructions on getting it setup and installed in Visual Studio 2010
- Tree Surgeon – Alive and Kicking or Dead and Buried? – Bil Simser gives an update on an old tool that I used to make considerable use of in the past. Tree Surgeon was a tool to create a standardized format of Development Source Tree structure. In this post Bil discusses how the landscape of .NET development has changed in the 4 years since its last release with improvements in T4 Templating and NuGet, and questions if there is a future for the project.
- Introducing RabbitBus – Derek Greer introduces RabbitBus, a .NET client API implementation for working with RabbitMQ, aiming to provide constructs which are not provided in the standard RabbitMQ .NET client. The library is open source with code available on GitHub, and the installation is available in NuGet package format.
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- Performance consideration for Async/Await and MarshalByRefObject – Stephen Toub discusses in detail the story behind the performance improvements in the Release Candidate implementation of StreamReader.ReadLineAsync over that of the beta release.
- Using Nightly ASP.NET Web Stack NuGet Packages with VS 2012 RC & ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages RC NuGet Packages – Henrik F Nielsen discusses how you can use the latest nightly builds of the ASP.NET Web Stack, made available as NuGet packages, with the Visual Studio 2012 RC release, and also provides details of the offical packages for the RC release.
- AspectMap – Part 2 – An Exception Handling Helper – Chris Surfleet continues his discussions of his AspectMap AOP framework which builds upon StructureMap. In this post Chris takes a look at building a generic exception handler which can be applied to your code.
- 5 things you should know about developing Windows 8 Apps with HTML5] – Martin Beeby highlights 5 key concepts which you should explore when implementing your Windows 8 Metro Style applications in JavaScript and HTML5
- My Take on Unit Testing Private Methods – Peter Provost discusses the common questions which surround unit testing of private methods, and discusses how just because a class or method is public it isn’t automatically part of your official public API.
- Setup Improvements for Visual Studio – David Guyer of the Visual Studio Team discusses the significant improvements made to the setup experience and performance in the latest Visual Studio 2012 Release
- Getting Started on Line-of-Business HTML5 App – Part 6 Selecting HTML with JQuery, Part 7 Local Storage, Part 8 Building a Better Form, Part 9 Show-Hide Wizard Using jQuery & Part 10 Validate, Validate, Validate – Bruce Kyle continues his series looking at using HTML5 and JavaScript to construct a Line of Business application, looking at using jQuery to work with HTML, exploring the use of Local Storage, and examining how you can use HTML5 to create better user input forms and validate the input.
- Writing a WCF 4.5 WebSocket Service – Peter Vogel has been exploring the use of Web Sockets in WCF 4.5 in a series of articles for Visual Studio Magazine. In this latest part he discusses the opening and handling of WebSocket connections
- Extending your ASP.NET Web API responses with useful metadata &Control the execution order of your filters in ASP.NET Web API – Filip W continues his series looking at the use of WebAPI with a look adding additional metadata such as the number of results found and the number returned, and look at how you can add in the ability to control the order of filters being applied to requests.
- Analyzing some "˜Big" Data Using C#, Azure And Apache Hadoop – Analyzing Stack Overflow Data Dumps – Anoop Madhusudanan takes a look at some of the concepts of ‘Big Data’ analysis on the Azure platform making use of MapReduce via Apache Hadoop, digging into a set of data from StackOverflow in this CodeProject article.
- Make Web Development Easier with IIS Express – Tim Corey gives a nice introduction into working with the IIS Express Web Server for your development web server needs, looking a the different ways it can be used and configured.
- Anders Hejlsberg Is Right: You Cannot Maintain Large Programs In JavaScript – In a recent Channel 9 discussion Anders Hejlsberg suggested that maintaining large programs in JavaScript was very difficult. In this short post Derek Bailey shares his thoughts. Be sure to have a read of the comments on this one for some further discussion.
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 08 Jun 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Meet the New Windows Azure – Scott Guthrie reveals the new features for Windows Azure announced yesterday, taking Azure to the next level with a new and improved admin portal, support for durable Virtual Machines, Websites with git and TFS based deployment, improved caching services, and an updated SDK
- Visual Studio 2012 and the Windows Azure SDK for .NET – Somasegar announces the Windows Azure SDK for .NET, discussing the release at a high level, and highlighting that the June 2012 release works correctly with Visual Studio 2012 RC.
- Announcing the June 2012 Release of Windows Azure SDK for .NET – Now with Support for Visual Studio 2012 RC – Jason Zander delves a little deeper into the updated Azure SDK for .NET, sharing a look at some of the new and improved features.
- Now Available: New Services and Enhancements to Windows Azure – Bob Kelly also shares a good overview of the update and release over on the Windows Azure Team blog.
- Windows Azure – No Kidding – Scott Hanselman shares his opinions on the new improved Windows Azure, discussing some of the things he disliked about it previously, and looking at the good stuff in the new release.
- Windows Azure just got a lot friendlier to node.js developers – Glenn Block discusses the Windows Azure update and how it helps provide a better experience for Node.JS Developers running applications on Azure.
- Windows Azure Command-Line Tool for Mac and Linux – Doug Mahugh highlights the new command line tooling available for Windows Azure as of this release
- Announcing Continuous Deployment to Azure with Team Foundation Service – Brian Harry discusses the things he’s been working on in TFS to help support the TFS Windows Azure deployment story.
- 10x Price Reduction for Windows Azure Storage Transactions – The Windows Azure Storage Team highlight the improved pricing of Windows Azure Storage transactions which received a significant reduction yesterday.
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 07 Jun 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- MSDN and Pluralsight Partner to Give a Free Pluralsight Starter Subscription – John Papa highlights an excellent deal for MSDN Subscribers which gives access to a great collection of Development tutorials from the folks over at PluralSight
- Announcing New Windows Azure Services to Deliver "Hybrid Cloud" – Bill Laing gives a taste of some of the announcements which will be being made the the MEET Azure event this evening, discussing further services to help deliver a hybrid cloud offering.
- Modularized Startup Tasks – Chris Eargle discusses the use of WebActivator to help you to modularize the application startup code your web applications use, rather than having it all in Global.asax
- Moving the Stable Web Forward in IE10 Release Preview – Sylvain Galineau discusses the W3C specifications implemented in Internet Explorer 10 and their current status, and what that means for your applications.
- LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup – May 2012 – Beth Massi has gathered together all the best LightSwitch related content, with all the details of the RC release, and a variety of other resources – well worth checking out.
- Async in 4.5: Enabling Progress and Cancellation in Async APIs – Brandon Bray discusses the use of Aysnc in real world applications, looking at how you can go about obtaining progress montoriing information and performing cancellations.
- June PragPub Magazine – The Pragmatic Programmers announce the release of the June edition of their free PragPub magazine which explores concurrency, retrospective velocity, more Scala topics.
- ASP.NET for Mobile, One ASP.NET and Realtime ASP.NET with Signalr – Video of Scott Hanselman’s talks in Russia – Scott Hanselman shares the recordings of the sessions he delivered recently in Russia at the Microsoft DevCon 12 conference. The sessions cover ASP.NET for mobile devices, SignalR, One ASP.NET, and a general Q&A session.
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