The Morning Brew

Software

• XAML Spy is Now Free – Jonathan Allen highlights the news that XAML Spy is now available in a free edition providing means of inspecting the visual tree of XAML based applications.
• A Few Changes to the F#/C# MVC 4 Project Template – Daniel Mohl announces an updated set of F#/C# MVC 4 project templates

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• 30 Days of TDD – Day 20 – Refactoring Revisited Pt. 3 – James Bender continues discussion of Refactoring as part of his series on Test Driven Development, further exploring the interactions between the code to be extracted and the calling code.
• Writing OWIN Middleware – K Scott Allen picks up a series from a few months ago with a look at a slightly lower level of interaction with the OWIN runtime
• New Features in ASP.NET Web API 2 – Part I – Dan Wahlin kicks off a new series of posts looking at the new features of ASP.NET WebAPI 2, exploring attribute routing and IHttpActionResult in this part.
• Building world-ready applications in JavaScript using IE11 – Suresh Jayabalan, posting on the Internet Explorer Blog discusses the implementation of the ECMAScript Internationalization APIs in Internet Explorer 11 and looks at how you can utilise them in your applications.
• Understanding hardware still matters in the cloud – Kelly Sommers discusses how it is still important to have an understanding of hardware concepts even when your applications are running on virtualised hardware, looking at an instance with storage where it can make a significant difference.
• Using high-spec Azure SQL Server for short term intensive data processing – Troy Hunt is also on the trail of high performance using cloud based servers, discussing his plans to investigate the Adobe data breach, and how he is going to use a very expensive Azure Server for a short time to perform the analysis.

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