Short edition today mostly due to the Thanksgiving caused shortage of posts ion my RSS reader this morning.
Software
- Announcing the F# 3.1 Compiler/Library Code Drop (from the Visual F# Tools Team at Microsoft) – The F# Team announce the availability of a code drop release of the F# 3.1 Compiler and libraries, along with tests
Information
- Accessing the Location header in a CORS-enabled AP – Aaron Powell shares a gotcha when working with CORS support in WebAPI, in that the number of headers returned by default is restricted somewhat, including the one he needed, location.
- Automatic camel casing of properties with SignalR hubs (SignalR v2) – Stuart Leeks takes a look at re-enabling the convention in SignalR 1.x which meant that casing of properties on the Hub was camel cased in JavaScript, meaning that the server side and client side have a different model (casing wise) to follow the conventions of each langauge.
- NHibernate.RunFaster() secret toggle – Ayende shares a useful hint to help improve the performance of NHibernate solutions, applying a default batching size for all requests.
- Mixing Command and Transaction Script Patterns – Gunnar Peipman takes a look at the mixing of design patterns combining the Transaction Script pattern with the Command Pattern, sharing a real world example.
- Repository Pattern and Unit of Work with Entity Framework in ASP.NET MVC – Amir Hamza Md. Kayes shares a look at working with Entity Framework in ASP.NET MVC using the Unit of Work pattern and Repository pattern in this CodeProject article.
Community
- NDC London – are you ready? – Sara Allison highlights the great speaker lineup from Microsoft at NDC London next week. A nice selection of sessions being delivered, and certainly some that will be well worth watching the recordings of (assuming they are made available as usual).