The Morning Brew

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• Dynamic contagion, part one – Eric Lippert discusses the modeling of infectious diseases, looking at how this model can apply to hostile user provided values in software security, before moving on to discuss how dynamic types in C# have similar properties.
• Architecture for a SignalR Synchronized Webpage Application – Eric Hexter continues discussion of his web application which uses SignalR to synchronize application state between web pages on multiple devices, discussing the underlying architecture of his solution in this post.
• IIS 8.0 Application Initialization module in a Windows Azure Web Role – Sandrino Di Mattia discusses the use of the IIS Application Initialization Module on the Windows Azure Platform, looking at the setup and configuration, and discussing why you might want to use this functionality.
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #3: The Splash Screen, Day #4: New Controls , Day #5: Settings Contract & Day #6: Search Contract – Jeff Blankenburg presses on with his daily series for November looking at Windows 8 Development, exploring Application Splash Screens, some of the new controls available for XAML applications, the use of contracts to integrate application behaviour, and digs into the search contract in more detail.
• Inside the New Single Page Apps Template – John Papa takes a look at the updated Single Page Application template included in the Preview Release of the Fall Update for ASP.NET released last week at Build.
• Design patterns in the test of time: Composite – Ayende continues his Design Patterns Series exploring the Composite Pattern, illustrating with an example, and sharing thoughts on the limited practical applications of the pattern.
• Featured Article – Small Basic: How to Create an Extension Using C# – Ed Price shares an extract from Liam McSherry prize winning article on extending Small Basic by exposing C# created class libraries into the Small Basic Language

Community

• Videos of talks from the 2012 BUILD Conference – Angle Brackets and Curly Braces – Scott Hanselman shares the videos of his sessions at BUILD 2012, and highlights the videos from other members of what he refers to as the ‘Angle Brackets’ Team (ASP.NET, Azure and Web Tools)

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Software

• Umbraco – Umbraco 4.10.0 Release Candidate – Sebastiaan Janssen announces the release of the Release Candidate of Umbraco 4.10.0 (AKA ‘The MVC Edition’). A quite comprehensive list of changes have made it into this release, including over 30 community contributions, and now the team are keen for others to give it a try.
• ASP.NET SignalR Alpha 1.0.0 is Now Available! – Tugberk Ugurlu highlights the availability of Pre-Release packages of SignalR 1.0.0, available now on NuGet and also as a part of the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update, released as a preview at Build.
• New PowerShell command line goodies for Windows Azure at #bldwin – Glenn Block highlights the release of a new suite of PowerShell extensions for managing the Windows Azure Platform from the PowerShell Command line, supporting the creation of Django/Python web roles, Azure Websites, GitHub Deployment, SQL Instances, and Azure Caching.

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• Back to Basics: When does a .NET Assembly Dependency get loaded – Rick Strahl goes back to basics with a look at the processes involved in the .NET Framework loading dependent assemblies
• Design patterns in the test of time: Bridge – Ayende continues his series of posts revisiting the original Gang of Four design patterns from a modern perspective, discussing the Bridge pattern in this post.
• Getting sharp with F# with the free "F# Succinctly" eBook [reg-ware] – Greg Duncan highlights the availability of an F# eBook from Robert Pickering provided by the folks at SyncFusion
• OData in WebAPI – Microsoft ASP.NET Web API OData 0.2.0-alpha release – Alex D James discusses progress made on adding OData features to the ASP.NET Web API, discussing the features included in the latest alpha release available via NuGet including Server driven paging, Inheritance, and the Model Builder API.
• NServiceBus and concurrency – Jimmy Bogard discusses the use of transaction isolation with NServiceBus, giving an overview of the transaction types available, and reviewing how you can choose isolation level.
• Windows Azure’s Flat Network Storage and 2012 Scalability Targets – Brad Calder and Aaron Ogus discuss the new flat network infrastructure being deployed to Windows Azure to provide higher bandwidth connectivity between components, discussing some of the performance and scalability targets they aimed for.
• Initial thoughts on some new-fangled things part 2 – Jeremy D Miller continues his series of ‘Initial thoughts on new-fangled things’ continuing discussion of his feelings on document databases and Event Sourcing as architectural strategies.

Community

• The Stack – Liverpool .Net User Group – November 2012 – The Stack Usergroup will be meeting on Monday 19th November here in Liverpool, where Tim Myers will be presenting a session on the hybrid computing model available with Windows Azure.
• Download All the Build Videos, while you sleep – Eric Hexter highlights the availability of all the videos from Build 2012 on Channel 9, and also shares a little PowerShell script to grab local copies of them all.

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• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #1: The Blank App – & Day #2: Orientation & Snap – Jeff Blankenburg kicks off another series of daily posts over November, exploring Windows 8 development using HTML5/JavaScript and XAML with C#. The first part introduces the blank project template, and part two explores the important concets of orientation and snap required by the Windows Store.
• MSDN Magazine – November 2012 – The MSDN Magazine edition for November 2012 is now available online. This month sees discussion of Security in JavaScript in both Web and Windows 8 application, Speech detection in Windows Phone 8 applications, discussion of Team Foundation Service, along with the usual columns.
• Getting Started with TypeScript – Classes, Static Types and Interfaces – Dan Wahlin takes a look at TypeScript, giving an overview of the TypeScript language which extends JavaScript, discussing its history, and looking at how TypeScript provides for Classes and Interfaces in TypeScript / JavaScript code.
• Building out Mobile Services support to Windows Phone 8 – Josh Twist discusses the support for Windows Phone 8 in the Azure Mobile services and takes a look at how ou can leverage them in your applications.
• Introducing the Windows Azure Store; we’ve loved it for years! – Jerry Nixon discusses the Windows Azure Store, and the new integration into the Windows Azure Management Portal.
• TransMediaApplication – Martin Fowler questions the conventional reasoning for building Mobile Applications, discussing instead that you should build applications which work well across a multitude of platforms.
• MvcPages: ASP.NET MVC without routes and controllers – Max Toro introduces his project MVC Pages, a library which makes it quick and easy to create ASP.NET MVC powered pages without the requirement for Controllers and routes – this feels a bit like a trip back to the old days of Classic ASP – but almost certainly has some useful applications for quick applications.

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