The Morning Brew

Software

• dotCover 2.1: Early Access Program is Open – JetBrains announce the opening of their Early Access program for the next release of dotCover. The Early Access Program gives you access to the early pre-release editions of dotCover allowing you to try out the new features and give feedback.
• Great Visual Studio integration – another of the many reasons to upgrade to SpecFlow 1.9 – Marcus Hammarberg highlights SpecFlow 1.9, and particularly the new and improved Visual Studio integration making it ever easier to work with SpecFlow
• A Tool to Remove Source Control Bindings from Visual Studio Solutions and Projects – Saveen Reddy highlights his latest project – VSUnbindSourceControl – a tool to help remove the source control bindings from your projects before you send them on (or move them to a different Version Control tool).
• Unity 3.0 Preview for .NET Framework 4.5 and WinRT – Grigori Melnik highlights the release of an updated build of Unity 3.0 ported to .NET 4.5, and now compatible with the 4.5 RTM release. The build is available as a Pre-Release NuGet package.

Information

• Tiny Happy Features #1 – T4 Template Debugging in Visual Studio 2012, #2 – ASP.NET Web API in Visual Studio 2012 & #3 – Publishing Improvements, chained Config Transforms and Deploying ASP.NET Apps from the Command Line – Scott Hanselman kicks off a new series of posts looking at some of the little improvements to the .NET Framework and Visual Studio in their 4.5 and 2012 releases. The first three of these are a look at the T4 Template debugging, ASP.NET Web API, and configuration transformation improvements.
• Performance Tips: System.Text.StringBuilder and String.Concat & Performance Tips: String.Split – Feng Yuan shares some performance tips for code working with strings, looking at when you should use StringBuilders, and exploring the performance of String.Split.
• To "as" or not to "as" – Kathleen Dollard discusses one of the great questions of C#, should you cast using the as operator or perform the case directly.
• Inline MSIL in C#/VB.NET and Generic Pointers – Roy Lawliet takes a look at how you can mix Intermediate Language with your C# and VB.NET Code to achieve things not usually possible in those languages in this CodeProject article.
• Avoiding Messy Situations With KnockoutJS and Javascript – Rob Connery discusses how a conversation with KnockoutJS creator Steve Sanderson changed his opinions about this client side MVVM framework.
• MVVM with HTML5/KnockoutJS/SVG – Henry Tan Setiawan takes a look at using KnockoutJS along with SVG and HTML5 to create a simple drawing application
• Build Single Page Apps – Part 5 – HTML 5 and ASP.NET Web Optimization – John Papa continues his series looking at the techniques and technologies behind building single page applications in HTML5

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