The Morning Brew

Rather short edition today…for the first time ever my (manual) article marking and reviewing process went wrong, and I seem to have lost a number of the posts I was going to include today 🙁

Software

• Announcing Storage Client Library 2.1 RTM & CTP for Windows Phone – The Windows Azure Storage team announce the RTM release of the Storage Client Library 2.1 along with previews of the library for Windows Phone and Windows RT. In both cases the release includes a huge selection of new features, improvements and supported scenarios.

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• Tracing application via ETW in .NET 4.5 – Sergei B. Meleshchuk highlights the recent improvements to Event Tracing for Windows support in .NET 4.5 and takes a look at getting up and running with ETW to replace traditional Console.WriteLine type logging.
• TypeScript is to JavaScript as C++ is to C – Bill Wagner discusses the motivations for TypeScript as a language and enhancement over traditional JavaScript, drawing on a comparison to the relationship between C and C++ in terms of the improvements it gives.
• Intro to Unit Testing 7: Overcoming Inertia and Objections – Erik Dietrich continues his series looking at Unit Testing with a post discussing the why of unit testing, and also a look at a number of the common objections and adoption issues you may encounter when introducing unit testing as a practice.
• Storing the Android MiniPCs Site’s Log Files in Windows Azure Blobs – Roger Jennings takes a look at logging from Windows Azure Websites into Windows Azure Blob storage and obtaining the data back out and some of the tooling which makes it easier to access

Community

• September: Building Windows Store apps using Prism for the Windows Runtime – Dare Devs User Group – Dare Devs (in Daresbury – easy access from Liverpool/Warrington/Manchester) September event is taking place on the evening of Wednesday 18th September where David Britch will be giving a tour of Prism for the Windows Runtime and looking at building Windows Store applications using MVVM.

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• ReSharper 8.0.1 is Available & dotCover 2.5 Released: Hot Spots and ReSharper 8 Integration – JetBrains announce the release of ReSharper 8.0.1 and dotCover 2.5. The ReSharper release is a bugfix release including over 130 fixes across a range of areas of the product. The dotCover release is a significant one, and brings dotCover integration with ReSharper 8 and Hot Spot view which shows methods considered to be more risky in your code.

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• 5 Days of Simple.Web: OWIN middleware – Ian Battersby round out his 5 day series on Simple.Web with a look at OWIN Middleware which builds on the significant changes in the latest release of Simple.Web to provide a logical and powerful way to extend the request pipeline.
• TellDontAsk – Martin Fowler discusses the Tell Don’t Ask principle which aims to help keep data with the functions which operate that data, looking at its use and also discussing some of the side effects of following the principle.
• Using Forms Authentication in ASP.NET Web API – Bipin Joshi takes a look at using the ASP.NET Forms authentication from WebForms and ASP.NET MVC within an ASP.NET Web API application
• Stupid Question 237: Python in Visual Studio, really? – Iris Classon takes a look at the Python support in Visual Studio, and shares some really good resources for getting going with both the Python language and the Visual Studio Python environment.

Community

• You are cordially invited to hack me first (and get free stuff!) – Troy Hunt is running a PluralSight pass give away for people who can find the (deliberate) vulnerabilities in a site he created to accompany his PluralSight course
• My RavenDB’s Story Contest – Ayende is also running a give away for the first 50 stories about real world RavenDB usage – those who contribute will receive a RavenDB care package which includes a RavenDB t-shrit and laptop sticker.

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• RavenDB 2.5 is out, and a happy New Year – Ayende officially announces the v2.5 of RavenDB, another significant relaese with a bunch of new features included. There will also be a webinar about the 2.5 release on Monday, and this post includes a link to register.
• Toastr 2.0.0 rc 1 Now Available & HotTowel 1.1 with Durandal 2 Now Available – John Papa announces the release candidate of Toastr 2.0.0 his JavaScript UI notification library, along with an update to HotTowel, a framework for building Single Page Applications with ASP.NET, with Visual Studio template support.

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• 5 Days of Simple.Web: HATEOAS – Ian Battersby continues his 5 days of Simple.Web series with a look at Hypermedia as the engine of application state (HATEOAS) support in Simple.Web
• AutoMapper 3.0, Portable Class Libraries and PlatformNotSupportedException – Jimmy Bogard discusses the use of Portable Class libraries in AutoMapper 3.0, and discusses the use of a Platform Not Supported exception where there are areas of the library which won’t work on specific platforms but he doesn’t want to take the feature out of the library.
• Self-Hosting SignalR in a Windows Service – Rick Strahl takes a look at hosing SignalR inside your own executable, and explores the implementation within a Windows Service, providing a nice way to host SignalR outside of IIS using OWIN.
• Hadoop for .NET Developers: Understanding MapReduce – Bryan C Smith continues his series looking at Hadoop from the point of view of a .NET Developer with a look at the use of Map Reduce as the main data processing mechanism
• Reducing the pressure on the garbage collector by using the F12 developer bar of Internet Explorer 11 – David Catuhe takes an interesting look at taming the JavaScript Garbage collector’s behaviour in his WebGL based 3D engine by using the Internet Explorer 11 Developer tools to help identify issues.
• All about http chunked responses – Gilly Barr takes a look at one of the less used aspects of HTTP, chunked responses which allow non-buffered content to be sent to the browser.

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