The Morning Brew

Software

• Viasfora v1.1 Published // Winterdom – Tomas Restrepo shares the latest version of Viasfora, a Visual Studio extension which provides a number of capabilities not present in the core IDE. This release addresses issues with Visual Studio 2013 and adds a new feature, Rainbow Parentheses which colour each matching set of parentheses a different colour making matching them up easier.
• Visual Studio Updates – Survey – Phil Lee, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team invites you to give feedback on the quarterly updates to Visual Studio in this short survey.

Information

• Checking out the Helios IIS Owin Web Server Host – Rick Strahl highlights the Helios project, an OWIN Web Server host which sits directly on top of the IIS Native interfaces. In this post Rick takes a look at using it and how it performs.
• Debugging OWIN app or framework – .NET Web Development and Tools Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Praburaj Thiagarajan takes a brief look at adding some error handling which reveals some debugging information using the Microsoft.Owin.Diagnostics package.
• Page Instrumentation in ASP.NET 4.5 – Imran Baloch explores the Page Instrumentation feature new in ASP.NET 4.5 which allows you to get some performance figures from various stages in your pages lifecycle.
• Why not use polling threads with ASP.NET web applications? – Gunnar Peipman takes a look at some of the considerations you need to make when considering using threads in an ASP.NET Application.
• Asynchronous action filters in ASP.NET Web API – FilipW takes a look at making actions filters asynchronous, exploring some concepts behind Async void and sharing an implementation of an action filter which is async.
• Node.js Development in Visual Studio – Life After Visual Node with Node Tools for Visual Studio
  – Bart Read takes a look at the new Node.JS features for Visual Studio that he was involved in the development of.
• Building a Node.js Web Site on Windows Azure using Node.js Tools for Visual Studio – Shiju Varghese also explores this new capability, walking through the process of getting a simple web application up and running.
• Starting with a Node.js webserver – Marco Franssen goes a little lower level taking a more detailed look at building your first web server application in Node.

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