The Morning Brew

I’m planning on putting together a DDDNorth2 themed Afternoon Tea post this evening – if you have content relating to DDDNorth2 let me know the link and I’ll include it.

Software

• Juice UI – The JuiceUI Team have released version 1.1 of JuiceUI which includes jQuery 1.9 support, additional widget controls and new themes. The release is available from GitHub or via a NuGet Package
• Download: Service Bus – Microsoft Download Center – Download Details – The 1.0 release of Service Bus for Windows Server is now available from the Microsoft Downloads site, bringing Azure Service Bus functionality to your private servers, enabling the building of decoupled queue based applications on your own infrastructure.

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• An easy solution for improving app launch performance – Brandon Bray shares another post, this time from Dan Taylor, looking at the improvements to .NET Application Startup with .NET 4.5’s new MultiCore JIT, showing the improvements possible, and looking at how it works under the hood.
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Using ‘default’ to Get Default Values – James Michael Hare continues his C# and .NET Little Wonders with a look at how you can obtain a default value for any type when working with generic types
• Syntactic Sugar and the Async Pill – Dino Esposito dicusses the magic that happens behind the scenes when you take advantage of the new async/await functionality available in the .NET 4.5 languages, looking at the application of the functionality and how it works.
• How to convert your old sequential code in to async – Bahrudin Hrnjica takes a simple look at how you can make your sequential code into asynchronous code using Tasks.
• ASP.NET Web API file download service with resume support – Piotr Walat takes a look at streaming file data back to the consumer using WebAPI, exploring how you can go about adding additional functionality such as resume support to the processing.
• Setup and configure a MVC4 project for Cloud Service(web role) and SQL Azure – Magnus Karlsson takes a ‘warts and all’ look at getting an ASP.NET MVC 4 application up and running in an Azure Web Role with a SQL Azure backend, showing the process step by step and also highlighting any troubles / problems he encountered.
• Get In on the Action: Learn Windows 8 with Hands-on Labs – Jonathan Rozenblit highlights the great hands on labs for getting you up to speed with Windows 8 development using both C# and JavaScript.
• Aspect Oriented Programming: learn step by step and roll your own implementation! – CodeProject – Guirec Le Bars takes a look at implementing aspect oriented programming interception from a lightweight approach, discussing the concepts of AOP before diving into the code to implement.
• 6 important use of Partial/Mock testing – Shivprasad koirala and Marla Sukesh discuss partial testing, the testing process, Act Arrange Assert tests, and explore the uses of mocking frameworks in this CodeProject article

Community

• LIDNUG – a milestone reached – The Linked In .NET User Group reached a milestone recently, with both their 5th year and 50,000th member joining occurring in a short space of time. This is a great UG to be a member of as they regularly have excellent presentations available virtually, from well know industry speakers

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• Windows Azure Training Kit October 2012 Release – Dr. Z highlights the October 2012 release of the Windows Azure Training Kit which now includes an impressive 47 Hands on Labs, 24 demos and 38 Presentations, covering all aspects of the Windows Azure Platform.
• IE10 on Windows 7 available in November – Rob Mauceri of the Internet Explorer gives an update on Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7, which is now planned to be at a preview release in mid-November, and will feature the same standards compliant platform as IE10 on Windows 8
• CSLA 4 version 4.5 release candidate – Rockford Lhotka announces the first Release Candidate release of his CSLA 4 framework version 4.5, available via NuGet and as an installer, with the full release planned next week.
• ALM Rangers ship the new Branching and Merging Guide v2.1 – The ALM Rangers have completed and released version 2.1 of their Branching and Merging guide for Visual Studio ALM . TFS

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• .NET Framework 4.5 – Off to a great start – Brandon Bray shares a post from Varun Gupta discussing the uptake of the .NET Framework 4.5, sharing some of the statistics, successes and taking a look at a couple of the new features.
• Metro/Modern UI CSS/HTML Frameworks – The Code Inside Team takes a look at the range of HTML and CSS implementations of the Metro/ModernUI look and feel, discussing Metro-Bootstrap, BootMetro, Metro UI CSS, and MAdmin.
• How to Create Mobile-Ready WebForms Applications 101 – Carl Bergenhem takes a look at at creating Mobile ready applications using WebForms on ASP.NET discussing the various approaches and exploring some techiniques to help make your pages more mobile friendly.
• Windows Azure Mobile Services Preview Walkthrough – Part 6: Authentication with Third-Party Identity Providers – Roger Jennings continues his series of posts exploring the use of the Windows Azure Mobile Services, in this post taking a look at the new support for authentication through 3rd party providers such as Google and Twitter.
• Troy Hunt: She did WHAT in school?! The mechanics of a Facebook worm – Troy Hunt takes an interesting look at another area of Web Security, exploring the anatomy of a Facebook worm, looking at how it is able to replicate itself through the user base.
• Multi threaded design guidelines for libraries: Part I & Part II – Ayende kicks off a series of posts looking at best practices for multi-threading when creating libraries, initially looking at not doing it at all, and then moving on to looking at how you can write libraries which deal with shared state.

Community

• Event: Fresh round of Windows Azure Camps announced in the UK – Planky reveals some additional dates for the Windows Azure Camps for Developers and IT Pros. Three new Developer dates for sessions in London on 16th, 28th Novembers and 7th December, and an IT Pro event in 23rd November

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• Just another Software Engineer: Announcing T.REST – a testing framework for REST ressources – Kristian Erbou announces the release of his first Open Source project, T.REST, a testing framework for testing rest based services in a regression testing way. The project is hosted on CodePlex and licensed under a MIT license.
• NP .NET Profiler – slow performance, memory issues, and first chance exceptions in .NET process troubleshooting tool – Greg Duncan highlights an updated release of the NP .NET profiler from Microsoft, providing improved tooling for diagnosing memory and performance related issues in .NET based applications from the cloud to smart client,
• Pre-order your Surface today – David Musgrave highlights the opening of the pre-ordering for WinRT Surface tablets, along with the releasing of the specifications for the Surface Pro devices as well. Prices stack up pretty well against the iPad and the upper class of Andriod Tablet, and pre-order is available here in the UK too.

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• Windows Azure Mobile Services: New support for iOS apps, Facebook/Twitter/Google identity, Emails, SMS, Blobs, Service Bus and more – Scott Guthrie discusses the update to the Windows Azure Mobile Services released yesterday, including support for iOS based devices, Improved authentication using Facebook, Twitter and Google, Email and SMS sending, and support for the various storage services all through the Mobile Services API.
• Windows Azure Mobile Services – Now We Are Getting Somewhere – Glenn Gailey also reflects on the recent improvements in AzureMobile Services, with a look at the iOS Support and Identify Provider support, along with highlighting some further resources on both topics.
• Send text messages (SMS) from Web API using Azure Mobile Services – Filip W. is always happy when there is something new to point WebAPI at, and in this post takes a look at consuming the Windows Azure Mobile Services to send SMS messages from within his own applications
• Greenfield Development with ASP.NET MVC & S#arp Lite – Day 3 – Billy McCafferty continues his series looking at starting fresh with an application development project using his S#arp Lite framework with ASP.NET MVC. In this 3rd part he looks further at defining the Domain Model, discussing principle to apply to the domain model, and techniques to help discover and learn about what you need to build.
• Tell Visual Studio 2012 UI Designers What to Fix – Ken Cox highlights the Visual Studio 2012 Visual Theme survey, your chance to feedback about what you like and dislike about the Visual Studio 2012 User Interface experience.
• NuGet or Not for Telerik? – Chris Eargle discusses the benefits of using NuGet, and talks about the investigation that the folks at Telerik have done into whether they can use NuGet as a distribution mechanism for their products.
• Developing extension packages for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012 using C# with real-life samples (1/6) – Paul Eremeev kicks off what looks like being an interesting series looking at the way you can develop extensions for Visual Studio, covering a range of versions, dating back as far as 2005

Community

• NxtGenUG – Event – Windows 8 Discussion – The NxtGenUG in Coventry will be hosting a Windiows 8 discussion event on Monday 22nd October, as a precursor to the official release on 26th October. Expect discussion of Windows 8, tablets, Windows Phone 8 and related topics.

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