The Morning Brew

Software

• IE11 Virtual Machines Now Available on modern.IE – The Internet Explorer Team announce the release of two new machine images on Modern.IE, allowing you to test using Internet Explorer 11 on both Windows 8.1 and Windows 7
• Released listener for queues and subscriptions in the Service Bus Explorer – Paolo Salvatori announces the latest minor update to the Service Bus Explorer tool which allows you to create and start listeners on queues.

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• Put your controllers on a diet: POSTs and commands – Jimmy Bogard continues his series looking at MVC and reducing the complexity of controllers looking at the second major type of request that controllers must process, and looking at how POSTs relate to commands in a CQRS style of development.
• Introducing ASP.NET Web API Throttling handler – Stefan Prodan shares his throttling handler for ASP.NET Web API walking through the various throttling scenarios it supports.
• Code Contracts is the next coding practice you should learn and use – Patrick Smacchia discusses the benefits of Code Contracts, and why as developers we should be making more use of them to ensure our programs behaves as intended.
• Quick tip: How to set up and debug the Startup Task in a Windows Azure Cloud Service – Magnus Mårtensson shares a look at Azure Cloud Services Startup tasks, discussing what they are, how to use them and how to debug their behaviour.
• Create wonderful interactive games for the web: Using webgl and a physics engine (babylon.js & cannon.js) – Eternal Coding – HTML5 / Windows / Kinect / 3D development – David Catuhe takes a look at applying physics to models in a JavaScript based 3D world allowing you to create games and simulations which behave as the real world does.
• A Beginner’s Guide for Creating Single Page Applications using Backbone.js and Marionette.js – Rahul Rajat Singh takes a look at how you go about creating Single Page Applications powered by Backbone.js in this CodeProject article.
• Format your .Net exceptions to see the StackTrace. – Jason Jarrett shares a neat little web utility which will take a stacktrace and reformat it nicely.

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Software

• Open sourcing our developer libraries & The AD Developer Libraries Go Open Source – Alex Simons, Brandon Werner and Vittorio Bertocci announce the opn sourcing of developer libraries for Active Directory
• Automatically Generating Multi-Language & Convention Based Test Objects With NAuto – Sean McAlinden and Andrew Jutton announce NAuto, a useful tool to populate object graphs (typically model classes) with test data.

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• Exploring TypeScript: TODO MVC Sample – Bill Wagner continues his exploration of TypeScript, looking at the TODO MVC sample application and what it can teach about the language.
• The story behind _references.js – Mads Kristensen discusses the role and and purpose of _references.js, the file which provides intellisense for JavaScript in Visual Studio
• JavaScript Functions is a Statement or Expression? – Dhananjay kumar takes a look at the dual life of functions in JavaScript
• The Joy of GUIDs – Dylan Beattie discusses the evolution of his database identity use taking a look at the use of Guids in distributed and RESTful systems.
• AngularJS – Part 5, pushing data to the server – Gabriel Schenker takes a look at getting data back to the server from the client side, continuing his Angular JS Series.
• Getting Input From Alternative Sources in .NET Console Applications – Jason Roberts continues his series looking at working with the Console
• Elasticsearch and .Net – Christiaan Baes continues his series looking at the use of ElasticSearch, exploring the use of a .NET client to work with the service.

Community

• "What’s New in Visual Studio 2013," a four hour tour… – Greg Duncan highlights this short series of screencasts from Christopher Harrison and Susan Ibach looking at the new features of Visual Studio 2013
• How to Run a Successful Open Source Project – Mike Hadlow shares his thoughts on running successful Open Source projects based on is talk at a recent BarCamp event in Brighton

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Short on descriptions today as I’m surrounded by boxes, and have limited internet connection following moving house.

Software

• Ajax Control Toolkit December 2013 Release – Stephen Walther

Information

• Throwing the Big Switch on Roslyn – Matt Gertz gives an update on progress with Roslyn, and a significant milestone reached.
• How much bias is introduced by the remainder technique? – Eric Lippert follows up on an old post of his on the generation of random numbers
• Learning TypeScript: Hello World & Exploring TypeScript: JQuery Parallax Starfield – Bill Wagner
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Automating everything with the Windows Azure Management Libraries and .NET – Scott Hanselman
• Minty: Working The Evented Pattern – Rob Conery
• Elastic HQ – Christiaan Baes
• Building ASP.NET Web API RESTful Service – Part 8, & Part 9 & Part 10 – Taiseer Joudeh
• Update All Experience Explained – Deepak Aravindakshan explains the NuGet Update All feature
• Throttling Datafow and the Task Parallel Library – Tom DuPont
• Brute Force Parallelization – Craig Gidney
• IFileClient – Generalizing storage access in ASP.NET web applications – Gunnar Peipman
• Use Windows Azure Scheduler through .NET SDK – Shaun Xu

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