The Morning Brew

Software

• Plan for Prism for .NET 4.5.1 – Blaine Wastell discusses plans for a release of Prism for .NET 4.5.1 to be made in February, and provides links for early access to their work so they can gather feedback.
• Making C# run on the GPU – Evan Hauck shares a library which allows C# code to be run on GPU hardware, using a combination of IL processing through LLVM to translate it into a format which can be fun on the GPU.

Information

• New Startup Scripts Preview Feature in Azure Mobile Services – Hasan Khan discusses the new extensibility framework from the Azure Mobile Services Team which allows you to hook into framework events, allowing your applications to better respond to these events.
• Monitoring the Performance of Multi-Tiered Windows Azure Applications – Bruno Terkaly discusses a hands on labs session which teaches how to better monitor the performance of Windows Azure hosted applications when the are constructed from multiple tiers.
• Behind the notification service of “Have I been pwned?” – Troy Hunt shares another detailed discussion of the implementation of his notification service on "Have I been pwned?", discussing how he implemented the feature, his internal thinking on its use, the data model utilised, and costing implications.
• A tale of two puzzles – Jon Skeet discusses one of two puzzles set by Dustin Campbell as a part of his CodeMash talk, outlining some strange behaviour of C#.
• AngularJS – Part 9, Values and constants – Gabriel Schenker continues his series looking at AngularJS, and in this part discusses the storage of values and constants in ways that can be inserted into controllers using standard means.
• Intro to Unit Testing 9: Tips and Tricks – Erik Dietrich shares the penultimate post in this series giving some unit testing tricks and tips for developers of all levels of experience.
• Living a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can be painful – Scott Hanselman discusses the beauty and pain of working with a high dpi display, highlighting some of the places where applications don’t get their support for High DPI quite right.

Community

• Windows Azure Week Live – Rami Sarieddine highlights the Windows Azure Week Live events running throughout the week 27th Jan-31st Jan where you can see live (streamed) sessions from Scot Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, Scott Hunter, Marc Mercuri, Cheryl McGuire, and Miranda Luna.

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Software

• Introducing FubuCsProjFile for Project & Solution File Manipulation – Jeremy D Miller announces the latest utility to come out of the Fubu community, a library for working with and manipulating Visual Studio Solution and Project files
• Invitation code for trialing Application Insights – Charles Sterling shares the first multi-user activation code for the Application Insights preview, allowing more people in to try the service.
• Kickstarter Wrapup – Rob Eisenberg discusses the result of the Durandal KickStarter campaign, and what the failure to fund means for the future of the project.

Information

• Announcing E-book version of Scott Guthrie’s "Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure" – Tom Dykstra highlights the publishing of an e-Book based around Scott Guthrie’s presentation which looked at building real world cloud based applications on the Windows Azure Platform, complete with source code for the application built.
• Hosting TestController and TestAgents on Azure – Ajay Arora shares a detailed guide to setting up Test Controllers and Test Agents on the Windows Azure Platform
• Meet The AngularJS Injector – K Scott Allen discusses the Angular Injector service, one of the often unsung heros of the Angular Framework
• Interception using Decorator and Lazy-Loading with AngularJS – Jeremy Likness also takes a look at some of the features which make the Angular Injector service a fully featured dependency injection service.
• Maybe that shouldn’t be settable – Sharon Cichelli discusses making classes which the compiler ensures are only used the way you intend by protecting the data contained and controlling the access to that data.
• Debugging a Windows 8.1 Store App Crash Dump – The Ntdebugging Blog shares a detailed run through of debugging a Windows Store application crash dump, showing the early stages of investigation to help identify the cause of the crash.
• Five Tips to Get Your Organisation Releasing Software Frequently – Jonathan Hickford shares 5 tips to help you to get your organisation releasing software more frequently

Community

• Watch Angular’s ngConf Live Streamed – John Papa highlights the live streaming of the Angular ngConf event taking place on Thursday and Friday this week (16 & 17th) where you can get to hear from the great and good of the AngularJS Community.

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A slightly unexplainable late edition today – I put the brew together this morning, and posted it about 9:30 as usual, however it disappeared completely….so, better late than never…..

Information

• Complete Guide to Lazy Loading in C# – Punit Ganshani looks at how the Lazy class in .NET allows you to better control when objects get created and looks at how a number of common object creation scenarios are catered for.
• Announcing Software Quotes website – Mehdi Khalili has started a project to gather software development quotes together into one place, already with a nice selection in there.
• Architecture of a Remoting Framework – Paulo Zemek takes a look at the construction of a Remoting Framework, sharing his take on this, and discussing the architecture of such a solution
• Integration testing authenticated Katana applications – Aaron Powell takes a look at using the OWIN nature of WebAPI to allow easy testing of the Web API built services which rely on authentication.
• CQRS Event Sourcing pattern with NServiceBus, ASP.NET MVC and SignalR – Michael Trembovler explores and shares his experiences building a Command Query Responsibility Separation Event sourcing application using a fairly modern .NET stack in this Code Project article.
• Windows Azure Websites Development Stacks Support – Daria Grigoriu gives a summary of the supported development platforms for Windows Azure websites, along with discussion of the different ways of configuring, and extending the service.
• Using Angular.JS with ASP.NET AJAX libraries to call WCF REST services – Sujit explores combining the WCF REST services proxy with AngularJS code making consuming large numbers of WCF services easier from within your Angular based client side application.
• A Simple CRUD Demo with Koa.js – Shiju Varghese takes a look at building simple Create Read Update Delete functionality using Koa.js in Node.js to reduce callback depth.
• Functions that yield multiple times – Aaron Powell continues exploring the ECMAScript 6 Generators functionality with a look at lazy yielding of results from functions.

Community

• The most Comprehensive Blend for Visual Studio training you will ever receive – for Free; you’re welcome! – Jerry Nixon shares some detailed training materials for learning all about the Blend component of Visual Studio
• SOLID JavaScript In A Wobbly World (Wide Web) – Derick Bailey shares his recording of his CodeMash 2014 session on making JavaScript code conform to the SOLID principles

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