The Morning Brew #1345
Posted by Chris Alcock on Monday 29th April 2013 at 08:35 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
There is probably only one thing worse than an broken ADSL connection, and that is a down-more-than-up intermittent ADSL connection, something which has been plaguing me all weekend. As a result, today’s edition is a little shorter than planned.
Update: Fixed the link to John Papa’s DotNetConf post – thanks to David for letting me know via the comments
Software
- Windows Azure: Improvements to Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services and a new Ruby SDK – Scott Guthrie announces the latest batch of improvements to the Windows Azure Platform, including point to point virtual networks, PowerShell management of Virtual Machines, Remote Desktop enabling on Web/Worker Roles, and anew SDK for developers working in Ruby
- The Windows Azure SDK for Ruby – Larry Franks takes a look at the Azure SDK for Ruby, discussing obtaining the library and linking out to the various components of the documentation for working with Azure in Ruby.
- Visual Studio Tools for Git Update available – Brian Harry announces a new update to the Visual Studio Git Integration which builds on that shipped in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, offering improved performance, better support for larger repositories, support for non-conflicting local changes when pulling and merging, along with a bunch of other improvements.
- Umbraco – Security vulnerability found – immediate action recommended – The Niels Hartvigof the Umbraco Team reveal some details and a work around for a security hole found in many versions of Umbraco. If you make use of this CMS check out this post to see if you are affected.
Information
- ASP.NET Web API and greedy query string parameter binding – Filip W follows on from his previous post by answering a question about binding to route values but not query string components, looking at how Web API provides the flexibility to do this.
- Using Remote Powershell with Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Sandrino Di Mattia takes a look at using the Remote Powershell support just introduced for Windows Azure Virtual Machines, showing how to enable it and giving a taste of it in use.
- On Types – Ted Neward shares some thoughts on types, and their use in Object Oriented programming, discussing a number of modelling scenarios, and some recommendations about exposing primitives.
- Free Video: SPA Primer with Durandal, Knockout and Breeze – John Papa highlights the video of his session on Single Page Applications presented at DotNetConf last week. All the session videos are on line and are well worth checking out
- Support for Native Projects – The NuGet team highlight the new support for Native (C++) projects included in NuGet 2.5
Community
- Happy Anniversary Microsoft Open Technologies Inc – ‘TheRockyH’ highlights the 1 year anniversary of Microsoft Open Technologies Inc, who have worked on over 50 projects so far.
Hi, the link to John Papa’s site is going to the wrong place. Although the url superficially looks fine, the “/r” at the end results in it redirecting to a different post.