The Morning Brew

Software

• July 2012 Update for Visual Studio 11 RC (aka Version 11.0.50626.1 QRELRC July 2012) Available for MSDN Subscribers (Looks like a pretty minor bug fix update…) – Greg Duncan highlights an update for Visual Studio 2012 RC which addresses some minor issues in the RC release. This update is currently only available to MSDN Subscribers, but I expect it will be generally available soon.

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• MSDN Magazine: July 2012 – The July edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online, with articles on building better Windows Phone applications, MVC 4, Hadoop on Azure, Cache handling or relational data, OData, and ‘the Internet of Things’ with a look at hooking a thermostat up to Windows Azure Service Bus.
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf – PragPub July 2012 – The Pragmatic Bookshelf have also release their July edition of PragPub magazine, this month containing a look at operational load, technical debt management, Threading, and a continuation of a series on Scala, along with a look at early reviews of the new Microsoft Surface devices.
• WP to W8: Application Framework & WP to W8: User Interface – Jared Bienz takes a look at migration from the Windows Phone of today to the Windows Phone 8 platform, looking at both user interface concerns, and also at the wider application framework for Windows 8 applications in these (sponsored) CodeProject articles.
• Using IIS Logs for Performance Testing with Visual Studio – Tarun Arora takes a look at combining your existing IIS We Logs with the Microsoft LogParser and creating your own load testing of your application based on previously captured traffic.
• Computer Hard Disk Performance – From the Ground Up – Robert Bogue takes a look at the various aspects which make up the performance of a ‘spinning rust’ disk subsystem, discussing IOps, Bus choice, caching, latency, types of access, and also discussing how SSD’s fit into the picture.
• What if we run out of stack space in C# or Python? – Li Chen discusses controlling stack space in your applications in both C# and Python, allowing you to have deeper recursion on threads you create.

Community

• DDD10 – September 1st 2012 – Session Voting has opened for the 10th DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Rading Conference, which is to be held on Saturday 1st September. This is your chance to shape the topics on show at the conference, so cast your votes wisely across a great range of proposed sessions, including one from me 🙂

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• "Time-Saving Features in Visual Studio 2012 and ASPNET 4.5" Free E-book – Carl Bergenhem highlights a free e-book from the team at Telerik which looks at the key new features of Visual Studio 11 / 2012 and .NET 4.5. The e-book, written by Carl and Joshua Holt includes details of features, tips and tricks for the new features in ASP.NET and Visual Studio including improved CSS and JavaScript support Web API, strongly typed data binding, and much more.
• Lifting ForEach, Breaking Change in Visual Studio 2012 – Kathleen Dollard highlights a significant breaking change in .NET 4.5 to do with closures / lambda expressions and variable inclusion from the outer scope. The change means that the common error of not copying the variable locally will no longer occur.
• Querying ASP.NET Web API with OData querying parameters – Lê Hoàng D?ng takes a look at the OData querying support in WebAPI which allows queries to be passed on the query string for methods which return IQueryable.
• Do we really need Web API instead of ASP.NET MVC? – Ugo Lattanzi discusses his feelings on the need for WebAPI over MVC,focusing in on the ‘killer’ feature, content negotiation as the main reason to use WebAPI.
• Jazz Up Your C# Code – CodeProject – Charles Wiebe and John Hansen give an introduction to the Jazz Framework, a compact modular framework for adding security to your applications. This CodeProject article gives a detailed overview of the use of the library, detailing what it is capable of and how it is implemented.
• Working with the Different IIS Express Modes and HTTPS – Robert McMurray discusses the design architecture for IIS Express, looking at the Personal Web Server Mode and Application Server Modes, along with discussing the use of SSL with IIS Express.

Community

• NxtGenUG – Event: Windows 8 – Martin Beeby will be joining the Coventry NxtGenUG for a session looking at the developer and designer aspects of Windows 8 on the evening of Monday 23rd July
• An introduction to CoffeeScript – Southville JS (Bristol, England) – Meetup – The Bristol based Southville JS group are meeting on Wednesday 11th July for an introductory look at the CoffeeScript language along with a lightning talk on HAXE and a tip on localtunnel.

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Software

• Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99 – Brandon LeBlanc announces the pricing for windows 8 upgrades to Windows 8 Pro, all for the very reasonable price of $39.99 (or $69.99 for the boxed DVD version)

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• Responsive design using Foundation with ASP.Net MVC – Edward Charbeneau takes a look at Zurb’s Foundation Framework, exploring how you can use it to give your ASP.NET MVC based applications the responsive design treatment quickly and easily.
• Full on rainbow spirograph using HTML5 and CoffeeScript – James Kolpack takes a look at creating visual effects using the HTML5 canvas element and combines it with an introductory look at the CoffeeScript language.
• Cancelling Tasks Started with Parallel.Invoke (Page 1 of 2) :: BlackWasp Software Development – Richard Carr takes a look at task cancellation for tasks created using Parallel.Invoke using CancellationTokens
• Agent mulder for resharper or how to see if a type is registered by your DI container – Christiaan Baes takes a look at the Agent Mulder ReSharper Extension which examines your code looking for Dependency Injection containers and marks up classes which can be resolved via DI
• Increase throughput of a node.js application with IIS output caching – Tomasz Janczuk discusses hosting Node.js applications inside IIS on Windows with IISNode, highlighting that in doing so you gain the ability to use a number of the core IIS modules which, like in the case of caching, can add significantly to the performance and features of your application.
• Easy Scaling in XAML (WPF) – Robert May moves us on to another form of scaling, looking at how you can scale down a WPF based UI quickly and easily to allow applications designed for one resolution to be run on another.
• Video: (part 5 – A Test DSL) Go Game Engine with TDD and Pair Programming – Roy Osherove has been sharing a series of videos which were recorded as part of him pairing with Raymond Lim looking at building a Go engine using TDD practices.

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