The Morning Brew

A short (and slightly late in the day) post Christmas edition today…but the good news is I now have internet connectivity at my new house, so things should be easier from now on in!

Software

• Durandal Next Gen Sneak Peek and Herding Code Podcast – Rob Eisenberg shares a taste of what is to come in Durandal’s next major revision, including lots of neat features and embracing a number of ECMAScript 6 features.

Information

• Managing Client-Side Objects Using TypeScript: It’s a Breeze – Peter Vogel discusses the use of TypeScript for Client Side JavaScript, looking at how to work with data retrieved from the server in this Visual Studio Magazine article.
• A Beginner’s Tutorial on ASP.NET WebApi Hosting(IIS Hosting and Self Hosting) – Rahul Rajat Singh takes a look at hosting ASP.NET WebAPI services in both IIS and in your own applications as self hosted
• A Custom Model Binder for Passing Complex Objects with Query Strings to Web API Methods – CodeProject – Shenwei Liu explores custom model binding in ASP.NET Web API, looking at binding complex objects from querystring data.
• Featured Articles: "Visual C#: Thread.Sleep vs. Task.Delay" and "Various Media Objects for Windows Phone and Their Roles" – Ed Price highlights two interesting articles, the first exploring two different ways of introducing delays into your application, and the second looking at the various media related classes on Windows Phone.
• How to run old but awesome games from the 90s on your new computer with DOSBox – Scott Hanselman takes a trip down memory lane, looking at getting old school PC games up and running on modern hardware (and operating systems) using DOSBox.

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