The Morning Brew

Another day with no write ups I’m afraid…got stuck in a traffic jam this morning.

Software

• Windows Azure: Import/Export Hard Drives, VM ACLs, Web Sockets, Remote Debugging, Continuous Delivery, New Relic, Billing Alerts and More – Scott Guthrie gives an update on the latest new features for Azure
• EF Tools Open Source – Rowan Miller gives an update on the move to an open source development model for Entity Framework

Information

• Math from scratch, part twelve: Euclid and Bézout – Eric Lippert
• Avoid Premature Standardization – Phil Haack
• Typeless Entity Object Support in WebApi – ‘LeoHu1’
• Remote Debugging a Window Azure Web Site with Visual Studio 2013 – Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi
• The Shift: how Orchard painlessly shifted to document storage, and how it’ll affect you – Bertrand Le Roy
• EasyNetQ: Polymorphic Publish and Subscribe – Mike Hadlow
• Call a Web API Without Knowing in Advance Its Resource URI or What Authority It Trusts – Vittorio Bertocci
• Updating Your Windows 8 App to Windows 8.1: Dealing With Coloured Fonts – Jason Roberts

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Software

• Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 is Available – Brian Harry highlights the release of Team Explorer Everywhere 2013, the tooling which allows developers on other platforms (Eclipse / other non-Windows environments) to interoperate with developers on TFS
• dotTrace 5.5.2 Performance is available – JetBrains announce the release of dotTrace 5.5.2, a minor update which addresses a few reported issues.

Information

• Government Special Issue of MSDN Magazine – Michael Desmond announces the November 2013 edition of MSDN Magazine available online now, and this month the regular edition is supplemented with an additional Digital Government Issue
• Back To Basics: Hashtables Part 2 (And A Peek Inside Redis) – Karl Seguin continues his back to basics article exploring the implementation of Hashtables
• Setup Environment on Windows machine for Node.js Development – Dhananjay Kumar discusses getting your (Windows) machine up and running with a Node.js development setup
• PowerCfg – The hidden energy and battery tool for Windows you’re not using – Scott Hanselman discusses the under appreciated powercfg utility included in Windows which allows you to fine tune and report on the power use of your machine.
• Introducing batch support in Web API and Web API OData – Javier Calvarro Nelson takes a look at the new batching capabilities of ASP.NET Web API and OData 2.
• Tutorial series updated for Entity Framework 6 Code First with MVC 5 – Tom Dykstra highlights the updated tutorial series on the ASP.NET site which now covers ASP.NET MVC5 and Entity Framework 6
• Updating Your Windows 8 App to Windows 8.1: Handling Widths and Replacing Snapped Mode – Jason Roberts takes a look at one of the important new features of Windows 8.1 and looks at how you can update your Windows Store applications to take advantage of it.
• Building an Azure IaaS and on-premise hybrid environment Part 1: The plan and Azure Network Connection – Rik Hepworth shares the first part of a detailed series looking at building an Azure Infrastructure as a Service environment teamed with on-premise resource.
• EasyNetQ: Big Breaking Changes to Request-Response – Mike Hadlow shares an update on the API changes he is making to EasyNetQ, the .NET API for RabbitMQ.

Community

• Multithreading Design Patterns – London .NET User Group (London, England) – The London .NET Usergroup are meeting tomorrow evening (Tuesday 5th November) at SkillsMatter for a session from Gael Fraiteur on multithreaded design patterns.

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Only short / non-existent descriptions today due to time pressures, sorry. All links are excellent though so make sure you read them all 🙂 Have a good weekend everyone.

Software

• Introducing ToTypeScriptD – Automatic TypeScript Definition files for C++/CX or .Net assemblies. – Jason Jarrett

Information

• Math from scratch, part eleven: integer division – Eric Lippert takes a look at integer division
• Building great open-source libraries – Tomas Petricek discusses (code) infratructure for open source projects
• Updates to Editor Enhancements in Visual Studio 2013 – Ala Shiban & Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha take a look at some of the improvements to the code editor between preview and RTM
• The "SPA Tax" – Jason Haley discusses the additional costs of going ‘Single Page Application’
• Tucking ViewModels Beneath Views in Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2013 – Karl Shifflett
• Building Performance Metrics into ASP.NET MVC Applications – David Berry takes a look at measuring performance and using custom performance counters
• Back To Basics: Hashtables – Karl Seguin
• EF6 Performance Issues – Rowan Miller discusses a performance problem in the latest release

Community

• Register for Visual Studio 2013 UK Launch – 3rd December @ NDC London
• Tech Days Online, 6-8 November 2013 –
• The Web Weekly Newsletter – New News Letter from Dan Wahlin

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