The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio 2013, ALM, and DevOps & Visual Studio 2013, ALM, and DevOps – Somaseagar and Brian Harry announced Visual Studio 2013 at TechEd yesterday. This new relaese will be available as a preview at the //build conference, and will be shipping late this year. There is a significant focus on agile, TFS and DevOps in this new version
• dotCover 2.5 EAP is Open: Now with Hot Spots View` – JetBrains announce the openign of the Early Access Programme for dotCover 2.5, their code coverage tooling. This is a great opportunity to get hold of the newest features, and try them out, while being able to give feedback to the team.
• Windows Azure: Announcing New Dev/Test Offering, BizTalk Services, SSL Support with Web Sites, AD Improvements, Per Minute Billing & Windows Azure: Announcing Major Improvements for Dev/Test in the Cloud – Scott Guthrie serves up a double helping of new Windows Azure goodness, with a bunch of new features such as SSL on Websites, Active Directory improvements, along with account related things like per minute billing for running Virtual Servers and and improved free trial offer, and significantly a reduced rate to allow testing with MSDN licensed software in the cloud.

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• Why unhandled exceptions are useful – Simon Cooper discusses the up side of an unhandled exception in one of your applications, as an opportunity to improve your understanding of the problem, and address an assumption you have made in your code.
• (Un) Reliability in messaging: idempotency and de-duplication – Jimmy Bogard follows on from his discussions on ditching 2 phase commit with a look at some of the common strategies for dealing with unreliable messaging to ensure your application can cope in instances where what you send may not always get processed.
• Pushing ETW events through SignalR – Pablo M. Cibraro shares some code which works with the Event Tracing for Windows OS functionality, and allows you to hook messages and transmit them to a client using SignalR
• Loupe Agent for Entity Framework (Beta) – Also on the subject of logging, Kendall Miller discusses how the new logging hooks in Entity Framework have allowed them to create a nice integration for their Loupe product which can capture entity framework events.
• Using Web Platform Installer on a server without internet access – Benjamin Perkins takes a look at how you can still use the Web Platform Installer when your server does not have internet access.
• Supporting only JSON in ASP.NET Web API – the right way – Filip W. takes a look at two different techniques for creating JSON only services in ASP.NET Web API

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