The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio Unit Test Generator is feature complete – v1 Release Candidate lands! – Willy-P. Schaub announces the release candidate version 1 of the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator to Visual Studio 2012, brings back the functionality of this extension, and increasing the features included to support multiple framework targets, automated project creation and general assistance with unit testing in Visual Studio.
• Visual Studio 2013 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts – Brian Keller highlights the availability of the Visual Studio 2013 Preview ALM Virtual Machine, along with three hands on labs exercises, giving you a very easy way to experiment and learn about the Visual Studio ALM offering.

Information

• MSDN Magazine – The August 2013 edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online, with articles this month including REST for C++ developers, DirectX, Service Stack based web services, SSIS integration services testing and WPF plugin architectures along with all the usual columns.
• JavaScript Promises – Shawn Wildermuth shares a look at the JavaScript Promises Pattern looking at some simple examples which show the level of capability of these simple methods.
• An accessibility case study – Reading List. Part 1: Introduction, Part 2: Colours and Contrast , Part 3: Keyboard accessibility, Part 4: Programmatic accessibility & Part 5: Live Regions – Guy Barker shares a series of posts looking into the accessibility features of Windows 8.1 for developers looking at a sample application to illustrate the functionality available and how to make use of it.

Community

• Developer Conferences – Phil Trelford highlights the importance of getting out there and into the wider developer community, discussing the merits of developer conferences, and highlighting some of the best, both general developer and functional programming.

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• Orchard 1.7 Release and New Features – David Hayden announces the release of version 1.7 of the Orchard CMS which contains a substantial number of new and improved features including workflow and media processing

Information

• Bug guys: string extensions and const fields – Eric Lippert highlights the first edition of the ‘Ask the Bug Guys’ podcast, where he explore two questions why can’t you declare a const field of type parameter type?, and why does overload resolution sometimes choose an unexpected method when an extension method on strings is available?
• A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites – Scott Hanselman highlights the proliferation of a common JavaScript syntax highlighting (and more in some cases) editor springing up in products as diverse as SkyDrive, TFS and the Azure Portal.
• Cancellable awaiting on .NET events – BenWilli follows on from previous posts with a look at situations where you want to cancel await operations in event handlers, illustrating with examples.
• Enabling Failed Request Logging on a Windows Azure Web Site – Benjamin Perkins discusses the value that failed request tracing can bring to debugging production issues and explores how you can go about enabling this on the Windows Azure platform for WebSites.
• Free E-Book on Platform as a Service – Tatworth highlights a free (registration requried) e-book of the O’Reily ‘Programming for PAAS’ title, available from Saavis, a Century-Link Company
• Setting up a new development machine without pressing Next a single time, using Chocolately – Marcus Hammarberg looks at using Chocolatey to perform the installation of all the bits and pieces us developers require installing on a machine before we can effectively use it.

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• Announcing the release of the Windows Azure SDK 2.1 for .NET – Scott Guthrie announces the release of the Windows Azure SDK 2.1 for .NET which brings Visual Studio 2013 Preview support, including server management via Server Explorer, along with tooling improvements for many of the Azure services
• The Improved Microsoft Developer Network – Brian Harry announces the launch of the new and improved MSDN website with a focus on their key aims of being simple, relevant and community driven

Information

• Owin middleware, ASP.NET Web API and client’s IP address – Fillip W takes a look at retrieving che client IP address in Web API through the OWIN interfaces
• Securing a Web API with Windows Server 2012 R2 ADFS and Katana – Vittorio Bertocci takes a look at implementing Active Directory authentication for your ASP.NET MVC web applications when running on Katana.
• WebGL Hello World in IE11 – Devhammer highlights the inclusion of WebGL in Internet Explorer 11 and takes a look at using it with some simple samples.
• IE11: Touch Browsing for Today’s Web and Beyond – Michael Patten of the Internet Explorer team discusses the improvements to various aspects of the Touch support in Internet Explorer 11
• ASP.NET Web API 2.0 and the new OData keywords – Suprotim Agarwal takes a look at the improved OData support included in ASP.NET Web API 2.0 walking through an example which demonstrates the new keywords
• Introduction to Qunit – Carlos Luis gives a short introduction to writing unit tests for JavaScript based code using QUnit in this CodeProject article.

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