The Morning Brew

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• Babel Obfuscator 5.6.0.0 Released – The Babel Obfuscator Team announce the release of Version 5.6 of their .NET obsfuscator product. This release brings support for the release candidate build of .NET 4.5 and Windows 8/2012 Release Candidates, along with performance improvements, and making compression and encryption of embedded assemblies optional.
• .NET Framework cleanup tool now supports .NET Framework 4.5 and Windows 8 – Aaron Stebner has released an updated version of his .NET Framework cleanup tool, adding support for .NET 4.5 and Windows 8. This tool provides a way to fully remove specific versions of the .NET Framework from a machine.

Information

• Easy database migrations with C# and FluentMigrator – Iain Hunter takes a look at automating the upgrade (and downgrade) of your databases using FluentMigrator and the C# language, looking at how it works in both theory and practice.
• What’s Next for ASP.NET Web Optimization – Howard Dierking starts off the discussion of what the next round of improvements to the ASP.NET Web Optimization features might include, and soliciting feedback on the plans.
• Documenting your ASP.Net Web API’s – John V Petersen takes a look at autodocumenting your ASP.NET Web API based API building on the prior work of Yao Huang Lin, looking at returning information about the API in a variety of forms.
• Restricting Access to Properties in NHibernate – Ricardo Peres discusses the use of internal interfaces to help provide a way of protecting access to values that are being persisted and limiting their access to just classes in the same assembly.
• HTTP/2.0 makes a great step forward in Vancouver, but this is just the beginning! – Adalberto Foresti shares a post from Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,
  Rob Trace, and Gabriel Montenegro discussing recent progress on HTTP/2.0 what will become the next version of the HTTP standard
• Version number update tool for Visual Studio 2012 – Gavin Smyth discusses the removal of macros from the Visual Studio IDE in 2012 and looks at replacing his version number updater macro with a C# version using Visual Studio Extensibility.

Community

• Event: Upcoming SQL Server Events – Sarah Lamb highlights a huge selection of UK SQL Server events from SQL Server FAQ over the next few months, with great events taking place right across the UK

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• xunitcontrib-resharper 0.6.1 – mostly bug fixes – Matt Ellis announces the 0.6.1 release of this extension to ReSharper which allows you to run your xunit tests from the test runner in the IDE. This release brings official ReSharper 7.0 support, as well as addressing a number of reported issues.
• Unity 2.1 – August 2012 update – Grigori Melnik highlights the August update to Unity (2.1.505.2) which addresses 4 issues, including thread safety, and improved debugging experiences.
• Attack Surface Analyzer 1.0 Released – The Security Development Lifecycle – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle team announce the release of Attack Surface Analyzer 1.0 a tool which is an improved version of the beta released last year which aims to help developers and IT Pros think about controlling the attack surface of Windows based software and systems.

Information

• MSDN Magazine – August – The August 2012 edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online, with articles looking at functional style programming in C++, PowerShell, HTML5, .NET development on ARM, and much more.
• Microsoft advises developers to stop using ‘Metro’ name in apps following possible trademark dispute – The Verge highlights some interesting news about the possibility of a trademark dispute over the term ‘Metro’, which could result in name we’ve become familiar being dropped.
• Help Us Test CDN for NuGet.org – The NuGet team are looking for people to help out in testing their Azure CDN based delivery of packages, looking to gain structured feedback from those willing to give it a try.
• How Nuget could improve – Paul Stack discusses some of the areas he feels could be improved in NuGet and the package management practices of those submitting packages.
• Greenfield Development with ASP.NET MVC & S#arp Lite – Introduction – Billy McCafferty kicks off a new series of posts looking at the development of a new application from idea to designed . The series will be broken down into 7 ‘days’ covering all the key areas of system design on this architecture.
• Anatomy of apps for Office – Apps for Office and SharePoint Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Rolando Jimenez shares a look at the structure of apps for Office, the technique for extending office applications into the cloud.
• Six years of WPF; what’s changed? – Paul Stovell discusses his experiences with WPF over the past 6 years, looking at how the platform and XAML language has been refined although not as much as other areas such as the web platforms from Microsoft

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• Final Build for VS 2012 – Availability and Launch Dates Ahead – & Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Complete! – Jason Zander and Somasegar announce the completion of the final builds of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5, and reveal the dates for the release to MSDN Subscribers and the online launch event on 12th September.
• Releasing Windows 8 – August 1, 2012, Windows 8 has reached the RTM milestone & Windows Server 2012 released to manufacturing! – Steven Sinofsky, Brandon LeBlanc and Jeffrey Snover highlight the RTM releases of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, along with the timeline for the next month as various sections of the customer base get access to Windows8/2012
• Announcing YUI 3.6.0 – The Yahoo! User Interface team announce the release of YUI 3.6.0. This release contains improvements to the code quslity in terms of increased unit test coverage, Improved Uploader, and graphics modules, along with some new examples.

Information

• Configuring Windows Azure Services for Windows Server – Roger Jennings gives a detailed runthrough of getting to work with the Windows Azure Services for Windows Server, bringing part of the cloud architecture to your on premise IT
• Windows Azure Authentication Library: a Deep Dive – Vittorio Bertocci announces the release and gives some further details of the first developer preview of the Windows Azure Authentication Library providing a bridge for client applications to authenticate against cloud based Windows Azure Active Directory.
• Git on the cloud with Windows Azure – Flavien Charlon rounds up his recent series of posts looking at setting up a Git server environment on Windows Azure virtual machines.
• Rich JavaScript Applications – the Seven Frameworks (Throne of JS, 2012) – Steve Sanderson shares notes from the Throne of JS conference’s look at 7 of the MVVM client side libraries comparing them head to head, proving to be a useful resource for those deciding between implementations.
• Hands-on Backbone.js and PragPub Magazine – The Pragmatic Bookshelf highlights their latest publication and the August edition of PragPub Magazine, featuring the final part of a series on Scala, an article looking at functional programming from the point of view of an imperative programmer, and much more.
• A First In – First Out JavaScript Queue – Joe Stagner takes a look at implementing a First In First Out queue (FIFO) in JavaScript, in preparation for hooking it up to a Web Worker in the next part of this series.
• Why TCP is evil and HTTP is king – Ayende discusses why using HTTP in preference to raw TCP gives significant gains in terms of understanding, and ability to debug due to nice HTTP debugging tools like Fiddler.

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