Headless 1.0.103 Released – Rory Primrose announces the release of Headless, a HTTP acceptance testing framework which provides browserless (and therefore JavaScript-less) testing of web applications. The library provides a useful alternative to WATiN for .NET Developers.
First Prism for Windows 8.1 drop available on Codeplex – Blaine Wastell announces the first release of Prism for Windows 8.1, the Patterns and Practices framework for building line of business applications for Windows Store.
IE10 and IE11 and Windows 8.1 and __doPostBack – Scott Hanselman reminds us of the problems with browser user agent sniffing to determine functionality, and highlights the various fixes for the ASP.NET framework which address issues detecting Internet Explorer 10 and 11.
Upgrading Windows 8 boot to VHD to Windows 8.1 – Step by step guide – Liam Westley takes a look at the somewhat more involved than you might think process of upgrading to Windows 8.1 when you make use of Virtual Disk Installation (Boot to VHD), walking through the process of upgrading he managed to use.
Hijacking ASP.NET Sessions – Ricardo Peres takes a look at how you can access session information from another session within an ASP.NET application
Git network operations in Visual Studio 2013 – P. Kelley takes a look at some of the networking considerations behind the Git functionality included in Visual Studio 2013, looking at the transports supported and authentication.
Attribute Routing in ASP.NET MVC 5 – Ken Egozi takes a detailed look at the Attribute Based Routing feature of ASP.NET MVC 5, one of the much requested features added in this release.
The Promise of Polygot Programming on .Net – Phil Trelford discusses the role of the .NET CLR in enabling Polyglot programming in the .NET world discussing some of the languages, and how you can introduce different programming paradigms like Functional Programming on the same platform.
Community
NxtGenUG – Event – Windows 8.1 – Developers – The Coventry NxtGen Usergroup restart activities on the evening of Thursday 14th November where Gil Cleeren will be visiting with a look at the new goodness for developers in Windows 8.1