The Morning Brew

Software

• HttpClient 2.2 is now RC – Immo Landwerth announces the Release Candidate Release of the HttpClient Portable Class Library. This release includes the automatic decompression feature, and assuming there are no problems with the release candidate it will shortly become an RTM release.
• Chutzpah – Chutzpah 2.4.2 – Matthew Manela announces the release of Chutzpah 2.4.2. This update includes a few bug fixes and also updates the dependency on TypeScript to 0.9.0.1, as well as introducing a feature to allow the injection of HTML templates into the generated test harness.
• InRelease Acquisition is complete & Team Foundation Service Update – July 9 – Brian Harry announces the completion of the Microsoft acquisition of InRelease, a release management product which runs against Team Foundation Server, and announce the availability of the first Microsoft iteration of the product. Brian also highlights the latest update to the hosted Team Foundation Server, including a number of new features for agaile project management.

Information

• Visual Studio 2013 Preview: Peek Definition aka Go To Definition (Peek) & Visual Studio 2013 Preview: CodeLens aka Code Information Indicators – Zain Naboulsi takes a look at two new Visual Studio 2013 features. The Peek Definition feature allows easier viewing of the definition of functions from call sites, and CodeLens combines data from the IDE with that in TFS for improved find references.
• Your test suite is trying to tell you something – John Graham-Cumming urges you to investigate that occasionally failing test in your test suite as it may uncover something interesting about your code base, and some of your assumptions
• Building Out a Clean, REST-ful WebApi Service with a Minimal WebApi Project – Trimming down the standard projects templates seems to be all the rage, and John Atten shares a clean ASP.NET Web API project, and in this article looks at using that clean start to implement a minimal REST API using WebAPI
• Monitoring performance of SignalR Applications – Suprotim Agarwal takes a look at monitoring SignalR applications, using the SignalR performance testing tools to generate load, and looking at the various Web Server and SignalR specific performance counters to monitor.

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