The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing xBehave.net 1.0 – Adam Ralph announces the first stable release of xBehave.net, the product of 18 months of development. xBehave.net provides natural language test support in the form of Gherkin on the .NET platform, backed by xUnit.net.

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• ASP.NET App Suspend – responsive shared .NET web hosting & Enable and monitor ASP.NET App Suspend on Windows Server 2012 R2 – Rich Lander discusses the concept behind ASP.NET App Suspend and looks at the implementation of this feature. App Suspend is a key new feature of .NET 4.5.1 which allows for better application performance and higher application density when hosting ASP.NET applications on IIS
• AngularJS vs Knockout – Validation (3 of 8) – Eli Weinstock-Herman continues his series comparing the client side web frameworks AngularJS and Knockout. In this third part the focus is on validation, looking at simple and more complex validation in both frameworks.
• Enjoy the Perks of Open Source Development – Nik Molnar highlights one of his side projects OSSPerks, a site which aims to be the definitive listing of freebies and perks offered by companies to developers of open source software to help with the production of the open source software.
• Filter Breakpoints – Brad Sullivan continues his series exploring the depth of functionality available with breakpoints in Visual Studio with a look at the purpose and use of Filter Breakpoints, ideal for debugging a particular thread’s execution when many threads hit the same method.
• ASP.NET Identity NuGet packages for the nightly builds are available on MyGet – Pranav Rastogi highlights the inclusion of ASP.NET Identity in the suite of NuGet packages published to MyGet from the ASP.NET Team’s nightly builds which include all the key parts of the framework, providing a great way to stay on the cutting edge of ASP.NET.
• My road to Visual Studio 2013 – Mads Kristensen discusses the parts of Visual Studio 2013 and 2012 that he has been working on for the past year discussing the origins of Browser Link, the new HTML editor, Visual Studio updates, Web Essentials and his latest side project ‘SideWaffle’ a means fo easily sharing Visual Studio item and project templates.
• NuGet 2.7 Package Restore with Team Foundation Service – Cameron Taggart takes a look at getting NuGet Package Restore operational on Team Foundation Service (the hosted offering)
• How to use XDT in NuGet – Examples and Facts – Dan Liu discusses the NuGet XML Document Transform (XDT) functionality, exploring some common uses of the feature to transform web.config at various package events.

Community

• Free 6 hour online course – Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications Jump Start – Jon Galloway highlights the availability of the recordings from his (and Christopher Harrison’s) recent ASP.NET MVC 4 certification course, providing a great learning resource for any one studying for MVC4 certification (or just looking to learn)

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Software

• VS 2012.4 and TFS 2012.4 RC 4 is available – Brian Harry highlights the release of the final Release Candidate for Visual Studio and TFS 2012 Update 4
• Knockout 3.0 Release Candidate available – Steve Sanderson announces the release candidate of Knockout 3.0, the final pre-release version of 3.0. This release includes all the stuff from the 3.0 beta releases including substantial binding enhancements.
• Open sourcing Web Essentials 2012 – Mads Kristensen announces the open sourcing of the Web Essentials Visual Studio Extension. This is good news for the community and also excellent for anyone wanting to learn about Visual Studio Extensibility by reading code.
• YUI 3.13.0 Released – Andrew Wooldridge announces the RTM release of YUI 3.13.0, following on from the beta process this release contains over 500 commits and updates to over 15 of the components in the framework.

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• Function Breakpoints – Brad Sullivan continues his series looking at the breakpoint and some of the more advanced features in Visual Studio. This post takes a look Function breakpoints, an easy way of ensuring the debugger breaks whenever a function (or an overload of a function) is called.
• AngularJS vs Knockout – Data Binding (2 of 8) – Eli-Weinstock-Herman continues his series looking at comparing AngularJS and Knockout. This post takes a look at how both frameworks handle databinding
• EmberJS :: Beyond the tutorials – Ryan Rauh discusses his recent experiences working with EmberJS, and shares some of the things he did and read to help make him a better developer on this platform.
• 10 ways to make your .NET projects play nice with others – Troy Hunt shares 10 tips to make your .NET projects more friendly to other devs, ranging from making sure all the bits needed to compile it are available to cleaning up your code repository by removing failed experiments and temporary files.
• Setting up a Continuous Integration and Deployment environment with Windows server 2012RC, TeamCity, GitHub, Azure websites, ASP MVC and MSTest for the absolute beginner – Iris Classon shares a substantial post looking at the step by step process of setting up a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment setup using GitHub, Azure and TeamCity
• A Simple HTML Minifier for ASP.NET – Dean Hume takes a look at the importance of minifying all the things, including your HTML, exploring some options for minification at publish time.
• Iterating quickly at a Hackathon with Azure Mobile Services and Dynamic Schema – Scott Hanselman discusses how the Windows Azure Mobile Services provided a technology which allowed his team at a recent hackathon to get up and running and iterating on a development project quickly.
• Evolutionary architecture boundaries – Jimmy Bogard discusses the evolution of architecture and the considerations of library choice for common tasks, as well as the boundaries at which you should consider changing technologies.

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• Math from scratch, part six: comparisons – Eric Lippert continues his series looking at implementing mathematics from scratch in C# using only the most basic of types. In this sixth part he explores the complicated landscape of implementing equality.
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 12 – Working with Stubs – James Bender continues his series looking at Test Driven Development, following on from his previous post on mocking this post explores the concept of stubs
• Tracing Entity Framework Code First Calls – Ricardo Peres takes a look at the new Entity Framework provider which enables tracing allowing you to inspect all the SQL which is being generated and run against the database
• Breakpoints in Visual Studio 2013 & Hit Count Breakpoints – Brad Sullivan takes a look at breakpoints in Visual Studio 2013 diving deep into the use of hit count breakpoints to conditionally break execution at the point you want to.
• Visual Studio Tips: Selection shortcuts for lazy coders – Susan Ibach shares some text selection shortcuts to make you more efficient in the Visual Studio editor
• Integrating Windows Azure Mobile Services and Service Bus Notification Hubs – Sasha Goldshtein takes a look at the newly ‘General Availability’ Windows Azure Service Bus Notification Hubs discussing how they can be used with Mobile services.
• Using Response.Redirect Effectively – Imran Baloch discusses some of the performance penalties of the incorrect and over use of Response.Redirect, and how it can cause performance problems in your applications.
• AngularJS vs Knockout – Introduction (1 of 8) – Eli Weinstock-Herman kicks off a series comparing two popular client side web frameworks with a view to better understanding their strengths for future projects.
• Durandal vs. Framework "X" – Rob Eisenberg discusses some of the common misconceptions about client side JavaScript frameworks and looks at how his Durandal framework stacks up in the face of common questions.

Community

• NxtGenUG – Event: Get ready for the ‘Real-Time’ – Friend of The Brew, Dave Sussman, will be taking a trip to the Birmingham NxtGenUG on Tuesday 19th November for a session on the use of SignalR for both Web and non-web applications.

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