The Morning Brew

Software

• TFS 2012.2 Power Tools update available – Brian Harry announces the release of the update for the TFS Power Tools which adds support for the Visual Studio 2012.2 Update
• Visualizing TFS source history now with source – Greg Duncan highlights a rather pretty visualisation of your source code in TFS, with code for both the library and Extension now available

Information

• Some thoughts on a comment about VS 2012.3 – Brian Harry shares a fascenating insight into the process of releasing something like the VS 2012.3 Update in response to a comment on his CTP release post – well worth reading to better understand how Microsoft think about software release and updates.
• Putting the Dynamic back into TypeScript – Derik Whittaker takes a look at how you can recapture some of the Dynamic nature of JavaScript when using TypeScript to give you a mostly static typed environment.
• Ditching two-phased commits – Jimmy Bogard discusses the 2 phase commit pattern, and also discusses how with a bit of thought and consideration the requirement for 2 phase commit can often be removed
• NancyFX – Revisiting Content Negotiation & APIs (Part 2) – Phillip Haydon further explores the content negotiation features of NancyFX, looking at the use of Negotiate in controlling which content types are serviced.
• Using Fluent Validation with ASP.NET MVC – Part 1: The Basics – Jerrie Pelser takes a look at swapping the standard Data Annotations validation commonly used in ASP.NET MVC to provide model validation, and replacing it with the Fluent Validation library.
• Cutting-edge web development with jsRazor: tiny JavaScript that replaces ASP.NET (PHP, MVC, JSP, etc.) rendering! – rgubarenko takes a look at the possibilities of Client Side Rendering using jsRazor as an alternative to rendering on the server side in this CodeProject article.

Community

• Live blogging at OuterConf2013 – Paula Hunter shares links to the presentations from OuterConf 2013, the OuterCurve foundation’s conference for open source development

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Software

• Visual Studio 2012.3 (Update 3) “go-live” CTP is now available & Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 now available – Brian Harry and Charles Sterling highlight the availability of the release candidate / CTP of Visual Studio 2012 Update 3. This CTP release has a go-live license so enables supported use in a real world production environment, helping the team find issues before the RTM release.
• Glimpse 1.3.1 released – Anthony van der Hoorn announces the latest release from th Glimpse team with some major fixes to the Glimpse core as well as enhancements to ASP.NET and ADO features, with an ever growing team of contributors

Information

• scriptcs gets a REPL! – Glenn Block announces the release of a REPL (Read Evaluate Print Loop) for ScriptCS which gives an interactive ScriptCS experience affording easy experimentation and many other powerful scenarios.
• .NET Security Part 2 – Simon Cooper continues his series looking at Security in .NET with a look at creating appdomains with different trust levels giving sandboxes for code to play in without exposing the whole application to it.
• 10 Years (of the CSS Zen Garden) – Dave Shea announces a refresh of the CSS Zen Garden, now 10 years old, and opens up to submissions using the best of CSS3 and Responsive Design. The original Zen Garden was a great resource in in early days of selling people on the concept of CSS based layouts, and I hope the new Zen Garden reaches these heights.
• .NET Crash Dump and Live Process Inspection – Lee Culver shares a look at a new managed library from the .NET Runtime Team which allows you to automate debugging inspection and capture more information about your crashes. The library, Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime or ClrMD) provides a code interface to working with a processes state, and is certainly something I’ll be having a play with in the future.
• Handling IE 9 & 10’s and Chrome’s clear button with Knockout binding
  – Kevin Logan takes a look at an interesting problem when working with Knockout.js in modern browsers which have additional functionality in the input text box
• An Editor Pattern for Knckout.js Using TypeScript Inheritance – Steve Michelotti shares a look at an editor pattern for Knockout based code which provides for the accept / cancel of user changes

Community

• Free Visual Studio Lifecycle Tools Events – Mike Taulty highlights the latest series of events from the team at Microsoft UK, which will be taking a look at the Application Lifecycle Management features of Visual Studio / TFS in Cardiff, Nottingham, Reading, London and Glasgow during May and June

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Software

• Announcing availability of ISOs for Visual Studio Updates – The Visual Studio Team announce the availability of ISO image of the Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, making it easier to obtain an offline version of the update.
• Announcing PostSharp 3 RTM – Gael Fraiteur announces the RTM release of PostSharp 3, now available from the Visual Studio Gallery and NuGet, replacing the PostSharp 2.1 package
• Free ModernUI Charts for WPF, Windows Store Apps und Silverlight published – SharePoint Software Quality, .NET and ModernUI apps – Torsten Mandelkow announces the availability of a free charting library for WPF Windows Store and Silverlight applications which has the Modern UI look and feel

Information

• Producing permutations, part seven – Eric Lippert returns for another instalment of his series looking at the production of permutations, digging into the answer to the poser in the last post about random permutations of a deck of cards
• The future is now – OWIN and multi-hosting ASP.NET web applications – Filip W takes us to the bleeding edge exploring the capabilities of the nightly builds from the ASP.NET team of Katana and ASP.NET Web API, looking at the support for multi-hosting in self host scenarios
• One ASP.NET: Nancy.Templates for Visual Studio – Scott Hanselman shares a look at the NancyFX Visual Studio templates showing how they provide valuable starting points for Nancy development, and take advantage of the extensibility in Visual Studio, which is still sadly more complicated than folk would like it to be,
• The Benefits of a Reverse Proxy – Mike Hadlow takes a few moments to consider the architectural benefits of running web infrastructure behind a reverse proxy, allowing it to shield your infrastructure and provide valuable services on top of a multi-server setup.
• Resources for Learning CoffeeScript & 10 CoffeeScript Features You Might Not Know – Jaco Pretorius highlights some nice resources for getting up and running and deepening your understanding of the CoffeeScript language, as well as highlighting 10 useful and interesting aspects of the language.

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