The Morning Brew #1172

Software

• Releasing Microsoft ASP.NET Universal Providers Core 1.2 – Pranav Rastogi announces the release of an update to the Universal Providers (membership) which shipped in the Visual Studio 2012 RTM release. As things like Universal Providers are all now shipped as NuGet Packages it is easy to get the update, simply update the package using the easy to follow instructions
• EFMVC App Migrated to Visual Studio 2012 RC and ASP.NET MVC 4 RC – Shiju Varghese announces the migration of his sample application which demonstrates Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC to Visual Studio and ASP.NET MVC 4. As always, sourcecode is available from the project’s CodePlex site.

Information

• Inside the DLR – Invoking methods – Simon Cooper continues his series exploring the way the Dynamic Language Runtime works under the hood, taking a look at the actual invoking of methods on dynamic objects, discussing callsite caching and how the whole process gives near static type performance.
• Bandwidth, Priority, and Service Contracts – Udi Dahan discusses the actual capabilities of those Gigabit network cards you generally find in servers, looking at what gigabit means in practice, and what happens to your applications when you start to run out of network capacity
• ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms Tutorial Series Published – 10 Tutorials – ASP.NET WebForms received some considerable improvements in .NET 4.5 and Erik Reitan highlights tutorial series which covers many of the new features
• How integrate Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft Account with your ASP.NET MVC application – Ugo Lattanzi takes a look at implementing authentication using the universal providers released as a part of ASP.NET 4.5 (and updated – see above)
• Web API [Queryable] current support and tentative roadmap – Alex D James gives an overview of what aspects of the OData Queryable features are supported currently in WebAPI, and discusses where the future development effort may go.
• Windows 8 apps for the PhoneGap developer–Motion and orientation – Pla.NET Southeast! – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Glen Gordon continues his series looking at Windows 8 Application Development from the point of view of someone familiar with PhoneGap development, taking a look at working eith the accelerometer access in this part.
• Testing Windows 8 apps using Visual Studio 2012 – Rui Sun, Andre Hamilton and a whole host of contributors discuss the testing of Windows 8 Applications, looking at manual testing, unit, integration testing and exploratory testing using Visual Studio 2012
• Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Refactor Your Code – Chris Eargle discusses why you really should refactor your code, looking at the 5 most compelling reasons to do so