The Morning Brew

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• ReSharper 7.0 is Released – JetBrains announce the official release of ReSharper 7.0, their latest version of this Developer Productivity extension for Visual Studio. The V7 release supports VS2005, 2008 2010 and adds support for Visual Studio 2012, along with capabilities for WinRT Metro application development, amongst an array of other new features.
• The Open XML SDK 2.5 CTP is now available for download – S. D. Oliver announces the availability of a Community Technology Preview of the Open XML SKD2.5 which supports the features of Office 2013 Preview

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• Free ASP.NET Training Videos from aspConf now available for download or streaming – Scott Hanselman highlights the abundance of excellent technical content from the aspConf virtual conference now available online to stream. Lots of really good sessions there, and the espcially nice thing is that it was a virtual conference, so you can be sure that the recorded content will be clear!
• Reader Question: Member Initializers vs. Constructors – Bill Wagner responds to a reader question on the use of member initializers, discussing his recommended bast practices in the area, as well as some of the justification for how the feature works.
• The Truth About .NET Objects And Sharing Them Between AppDomains – Alois Kraus discusses the size and structure of .NET objects, looking at how you can work with them, and exploring passing pointers to objects between application domains, interesting, if slightly scary stuff!
• Evolution of the Entity Framework: Lesson 5 – K. Scott Allen continues his series looking at the history and lessons from the development of the Entity Framework, discussing the use of angle brackets (XML)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Querying Unmapped Properties With LINQ – Ricardo Peres continues his series looking at NHibernate Pitfalls with a discussion of querying non-mapped properties of objects, looking at the three options available to make this work.

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• Announcing BUILD 2012 – Tim O’Brien announces the plans for this year’s BUILD conference to be held at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond between 30th October and 2nd November, with registration opening on 8th August.

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Hopefully no typos today!

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• Finding Bad Controllers – Phil Haack discusses locating bad MVC Controllers in ASP.NET MVC looking at the RouteDebugger as a debugging tool for this kind of issues
• Don’t write your own ORM – Jimmy Bogard continues his recent discussion of Object Relational Mapping with a plea to you all to leverage existing ORM Frameworks over spending the time and effort to write your own, be that your own ORM, or a more specific data access layer for your application.
• Essential Tools, Libs and Frameworks for Front-End Development. What are you Using? – Rey Bango is running a poll to gather the details of the libraries being used for front end web development these days – if you have 5 minutes spare go give him your feedback – results will be published some time later.
• Upgrading to Azure 1.7 SDK: Visual Studio build and publishing problems – Mike Volodarsky shares some of the problems he encountered in updating to the 1.7 version of the Windows Azure SDK and how he worked round them.
• NuGet Package Restore with a Local Repository and Offline Access – Mark Kemper takes a look at using the Nuget Package Restore functionality and explores configuring it in an environment where there is no internet connectivity

Community

• NxtGenUG – Event: Developer’s View of Windows 8 – The Cambridge NxtGenUG welcome friend of the Brew Robert "Boss" Hogg for a session looking at Windows 8 from a developers perspective next Tuesday (31st July)

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Update: Mistyped Troy Hunt’s firstname this morning…..not having a good week for these things! Sorry Troy.

Software

• Announcing Gallio and MbUnit 3.4 – Yann Trevin highlights the latest release of the Gallio and MbUnit Testing framework and runner, now supporting ReSharper 6.1 and also the latest versions of XUnit.net and NUnit, along with support for Async Tests in MbUnit4.

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• Stronger password hashing in .NET with Microsoft’s universal providers – ToryTroy Hunt continues discussion of password hashing with a look at how you can get stronger password hashing while still using the standard ASP.NET functionality by way of universal providers
• BSON (Binary JSON) and how your Web API can be even faster – Filip W takes a look at introducing BSON (Binary JSON) into your Web API implementations to support higher throughput due to smaller payloads that BSON gives, walking through implementing a BSON formatter and looking at it in use.
• An easy way to write an integration test with Web API – Ugo Lattanzi discusses how Web API can easily be integration tested, looking at how a base class for integration tests which wires up all the correct bits will make it even easier.
• DSLs : A Deep(ish) look – Sacha Barber takes a detailed look at a variety of different internal DSL techniques, working through a detailed example to illustrate them in this CodeProject article.
• The .NET Framework 4.5 includes new garbage collector enhancements for client and server apps – Brandon Bray shares a post from Abhishek Mondal and Maoni Stephens who work on the Garbage Collector in the CLR which discusses the improvements to garbage collection included in .NET 4.5 which aims to increase performance and reduce the stalls garbage collection can cause in your applications.
• FileLoadException: Could not load file for Version 2.0.5.0, Portable Class Library – Derik Whittaker highlights a gotcha to be aware of when working with the Portable Class Library caused by requiring a .NET update to enable portable class library code to run.
• How do I Test Internet Explorer 10 Touch Behavior Without a Touch Device? – Pat Altimore discusses the testing of touch based behavior in Internet Explorer 10 when you don’t have access to touch based hardware, and looks at the use of the Visual Studio Simulator included in VS2012 which allows you to simulate Windows 8 with Touch.
• Announcing the CloudyDeveloper.com Blog – The Web Development Tools Team at Microsoft highlight a new Blog from the Developer Experience folks which focuses on developing cloud based applications on Windows Azure using the full range of web technologies possible on Azure.
• Windows 8: The right way to Read & Write Files in WinRT – Jerry Nixon discusses the different ways of acceding and storing files in Windows 8 WinRT based applications
• Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics – Steven Sinofsky shares a post from Rob Copeland discussing the graphics functionality within Windows 8, and how the team have worked hard to improve the experience on the biggest range of graphics hardware ever supported in a Windows release, ranging from extreme low power tablet devices to the crazy high power graphics cards in today’s workstations and gaming machines, discussing different graphics techniques along the way.
• Get All Types in an Assembly – Phil Haack discusses the problem with enumerating the types in an assembly the easy way, discussing a solution which allows you to avoid problems when certain types cannot be loaded
• Throttling F# Events using the Reactive Extensions – Mathias Brandewinder discusses combining the F# language with the Reactive Extensions to throttle event raising within an application allowing you to slow down the events being processed.

Community

• Exterminate Common jQuery Bugs Video – Elijah Manor highlights the availability of the recording of his aspConf session on the eradication of common jQuery bugs on Channel 9, where gradually all the session videos from aspConf are becoming available.

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