The Morning Brew

Software

• Roslyn September 2012 CTP is now available – Eric Lippert announces the third preview release of Roslyn, the .NET Compiler as a service for C# and VB.NET. This release brings support for most of the languages features, with the only notable omissions being dynamic and await
• Announcing: Great Improvements to Windows Azure Web Sites – Scott Guthrie announces the latest refresh to the Windows Azure Websites functionality, introducing a new shared hosting level in between the Free and Reserved instance options, along with support for custom domains, and an improved continuous deployment story for Git and TFS users.
• jQuery Mobile 1.2.0 Release Candidate 1 Released – The jQuery Mobile team announce the release of Release Candidate 1 of jQuery Mobile 1.2.0. This release addresses the reported bugs and issues in the beta releases, and stabilizes the code ready for the RTM release.
• EF Nightly Builds Available – Following their move to an open source development model, the Entity Framework Team announce the availability of nightly builds of Entity Framework available now from the CodePlex project page.

Information

• ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Caching Bug Fixed – Rick Anderson highlights the fix for issues with caching of mobile views in RC and RTM releases of ASP.NET MVC4 involving switching to an updated Razor or WebForms view engine implementation.
• NuGet Perf, The Final Part – Load Testing – Setup, The Tests, Results , Results ^ 2 & Source Code – Ayende rounds out his series looking at how switching to a RavenDB NoSQL backend could add performance to the backend of the NuGet Package Manager with a look at loac / performance testing the new implementation, discussing the methodology, tooling and tests
• Debug = True – Benjamin Perkins discusses the performance impact of debug=true, highlighting some articles on the subject, along with looking at detecting debug=true in memory dumps using WinDbg

Community

• DeveloperFusion Needs A New Editor – Dan Maharry announces that he will be stepping down as a DeveloperFusion Editor, and highlights the opportunity for someone new to get involved with the great DeveloperFusion community.

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Software

• TFS 2012 Power Tools are now available! – Brian Harry announces the release of the TFS 2012 Power Tools, an update of the tools to run against TFS Server 2012, adding extended functionality to TFS including Shell Extensions, work item templates, and utility tooling.
• New SSDT Power Tools! Now for both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012 – The SQL Server Data Tools Team Blog highlights the release of the SQL Server Data Tools, targeting both Visual Studio 2012 and 2010, giving a taste of the kind of features the team are looking to add to the core product in future releases

Information

• Windows Azure Mobile Services Preview Walkthrough – Part 4: Customizing the Windows Store App’s UI – Rodger Jennings continues his series of posts looking at the Windows Azure Mobile Services Preview looking at enhancing your applications Windows Store experience with tiles and splash screens.
• Node.js Adventure – Node.js on Windows – Shaun Xu kicks off a new series of posts taking a look at Node.JS, and particularly Node.js on Windows. This first post gives some background on Node, and looks at getting familiar with Node on Windows and in IIS.
• An ASP.NET Open Source How-To Decoder Ring – Henrik F Nielsen provides some links to resources covering the 4 key aspects of the ASP.NET Open Source Projects, looking at using the open source projects latest bits, obtaining the code, compiling and contributing to the projects.
• ASP.NET: Go Async or Sink – Dino Esposito takes a look into the asynchronous programming capabilities in ASP.NET MVC available in the latest releases and looks at how you can take advantage of them to create better functioning applications.
• The First Three Seconds: How Users Are Lost – Zac Gery discusses the importance of quick response in web sites and applications
• Domain Model over Database Schema. Using fluent nHibernate to generate the database – Peter van Ooijen takes a look at how in DDD the concept of the model is key, exploring how NHibernate allows you to work at the domain level and have the data side of things taken care of for you

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• NUnitLite 0.8 Released – Charlie Poole announces the release of NUnitLite 0.8, which includes new internals which allow for Asynchronous Tests. Charlie also discusses ‘Is NUnitLite the New NUnit? ‘ over on his own blog, discussing interest in NUnitLite from desktop developers as well as mobile which was intended to be one of its key areas of use.
• dotCover 2.1 is Released! – JetBrains announce the official release of dotCover 2.1 which includes Visual Studio 2012 and ReSharper 7.0.1 integration
• Updated .NET Framework setup verification tool that addresses application compatibility issues – Aaron Stebner announces an updated release of the .NET Framework Setup Verification Tool which addresses issues with the RTM Windows 8 release which caused the tool to silently exit.

Information

• Free Developer Tools: Choose the Right Visual Studio 2012 Express Edition – The Public Sector Developer Weblog takes a look at the Visual Studio Express 2012 product line up, discussing the purpose of each and reminding us that they can be installed side by side.
• How Not to Get a Free Windows Store Developer Account with Your MSDN Subscription Benefit – Roger Jennings takes a look at the rather convoluted process required for MSDN Subscribers to get free access to the Windows Store
• Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview Program Open to Developers – Dr. Z highlights a limited time offer to get involved in the Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview programme with registration for this open until 5PM PDT on Monday (17th)
• Wiring up TopShelf, Windsor and EasyNetQ – Mike Hadlow takes a look at creating services by combining the TopShelf service framework with Windsor for IOC and his EasyNetQ library for access to RabbitMQ.
• Building Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps – G. Andrew Duthie kicks off a series looking at building a data backend for Windows 8 Applications. In this first post he takes a look at the various framework options available for the implementation, looking at the advantages and disadvantages of each.
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Control Adapters – Ricardo Peres discusses a less well known ASP.NET Web Forms extensibility point – Control Adapters – which allow you to write code which interacts with the control allowing you to set properties and manipulate its output.
• From HttpRuntime.Cache to Windows Azure Caching (Preview) – Jeff Putz takes a look at moving from the standard HttpRuntime Cache implementation to the Windows Azure Caching Preview, looking at hooking it up as an ICacheProvider and wiring it into applications via dependency injection.

Community

• Skillsmatter "Progressive F# Tutorials 2012" session in London – Steffen Forkmann highlights this year’s Progressive F# Tutorials event organised by the folks at Skills Matter. This is a paid for event 2 day event with a great looking agenda, and Early Bird pricing of £99 until 16th September.

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