The Morning Brew

Software

• HttpClient 2.2 is now stable – Immo Landwerth announces the RTM release of HttpClient 2.2 with the automatic decompression support, sharing an example which illustrates the new functionality in use

Information

• License your code – Phil Haack continues discussions about applying licenses to your code and especially that of open source projects, recapping a little, and sharing some recent developments and information resources regarding choosing a license.
• How we do MVC – 4 years later – Jimmy Bogard returns to the land of web development after a few years doing SOA/Service bus work, and shares impressions on the way we now do MVC, discussing some of the things that have been adopted into the core from futures and contrib packages, and some of the features which have gone by the wayside.
• Your website has never been hacked! (except for all the times that it has) – Troy Hunt warns against complacency regarding security issues that you ‘don’t think have been exploited’
• No new C# and VB Language Features in VS 2013 – Mads Torgersen discusses why the 2013 release of Visual Studio does not bring with it new language features for VB and C#, and how this freeze helps them finalise the new compilers using Roslyn.
• Implementing simple change tracking using NHibernate – Gunnar Peipman takes a look at performing changes to entities when they are saved using NHibernate’s Interceptor plugin implementation to intercept saves on changed entities and perform work.
• Creating a typical Tab – Your code, your plugins, part 2 – Anthony van der Hoorn continues his series looking at building custom tab functionality to extend Glimpse, looking at the controlling of rendering of data on the tab in this part.
• AttributeUsage.Inherited flag – Mike Stall looks at the inheritance and multiple applicability of Attributes in C#, sharing a simple example and the results of the various combinations of attributes, settings and inheritance.

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Software

• YUI 3.11.0 Released – The Yahoo! User Interface team announce the release of YUI 3.11.0. This release includes some significant performance improvements along with some new pagination features, as well as changes to other UI components and the core library itsself

Information

• The reactive manifesto – Reactive programming is really taking off, with libraries addressing this development style appearing for all major languages. The Reactive Manifesto provides an excellent overview of why we need to consider reactive programming to address modern software development problems.
• An Introduction to Windows Azure BLOB Storage – Mike Wood takes a detailed look at BLOB storage on Windows Azure, looking at working with Blob storage from .NET, best practices for its use as well as looking at utilities which communicate with azure blob storage allowing you to manage blobs in a file like manner through explorer.
• Look ma, no frameworks – Rob Ashton discusses the reasoning behind his preference to avoid the multitude of frameworks when building JavaScript applications
• HTML UI Responsiveness tool in Visual Studio 2013 – Jonathan Carter discusses and explores the performance tools for HTML and JavaScript applications which come as part of Visual Studio 2013 to help you ensure that your HTML/JS application performs well and remains responsive.
• Tracing in ASP.NET MVC Razor Views – Tom Dykstra takes a look at using Trace to help debug Razor views without exposing errors to users
• JavaScript Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2013 Preview – The Visual Studio Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Jordan Matthiesen Jordan Matthiesen takes a look at the various improvements made to the JavaScript editor in Visual Studio 2013 Preview including identifier highlighting, the introduction of the navigation bar, and brace completion and navigation improvements.
• Upgrading from MVC3 to MVC4 and MVC4 Async – Eli Weinstock-Herman discusses the process of upgrading an application from ASP.NET MVC 3 to ASP.NET MVC4 and taking advantage of some of the Async features of ASP.NET MVC4

Community

• [Recording] NuGet for the Enterprise + Q&A – Britt King shares the recording of last weeks PostSharp webinar where Alex Papadimoulis joined Gael Fraiteur to discuss the use of NuGet as a deployment management and software distribution mechanism.

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Software

• Visual Studio 2013 Preview Survey – The Visual Studio Team are looking for feedback on the preview release of Visual Studio 2013, and are running a survey to gather the information. If you’ve been using VS2013 at all in the weeks since its preview release please give them your feedback.
• Use XUnit to Run QUnit Tests – Tom DuPont shares an extension to xUnit.net to allow you to run QUnit JavaScript tests from within the test runner with minimal C# code required to present the test – neat stuff.

Information

• Why are generic constraints not inherited? – Eric Lippert discusses the inheritance of Generic types and constraints, looking at the invisible inheritance of the constraint part, before digging a bit deeper
• Visual Studio 2013 New Editor Features – The Visual Studio team share a look at some of the new and improved features of the Visual Studio Editor included in the Visual Studio 2013 preview release
• Visual Studio 2013: Using Box Selection and Zero-Length Box Selection – Zain Naboulsi revisits box selection in the Visual Studio IDE and takes a look at some of the useful tricks that this allows you to perform when editing chunks of (similar) text.
• Rendering ASP.NET MVC Razor Views outside of MVC revisited – Rick Strahl revisits the rendering of Razor ASP.NET MVC Views from outside of ASP.NEt MVC, looking at how you can actually create a controller context which makes it more straightforward to perform the rendering.
• Running .NET on Heroku & Running OWIN/Katana apps on Heroku – Michael Friis takes a look at getting .NET applications up and running on the Heroku platform using Mono to run applications, and then moves on to explore how you can host OWIN / Katana applications on the Heroku platform too.
• Chrome Workspaces: Edit Source From The Chrome Dev Tools – K. Scott Allen takes a look at a forthcoming feature of the Chrome Developer tools. Workspaces allows you to live edit code, and have it saved back to the file system, turning the browser into much more of an IDE.

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