The Morning Brew

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• Announcing The New Roslyn powered .NET Framework Reference Source (Cesar de la Torre) & Announcing the new Roslyn-powered .NET Framework Reference Source (Scott Hanselman) – Cesar de la Torre and Scott Hanselman announce and discuss the new .NET Framework Reference source documentation tools which are one of the first new things to make use of the Roslyn Technology
• How to review a merge commit – Phil Haack discusses the art of reviewing merge commits, focusing of a git example, but with techniques which are equally useful no matter what version control technology you use.
• Symmetric Encryption Benchmarks with C# – K.Scott Allen takes a look at the performance of a couple of ways of encrypting the contents of a file, considering field by field and whole document encyption
• C# performance tips – John-Daniel shares a couple of C# performance tricks and tips that the team at Raygun have made use of.
• Introduction to PerfView & .Net contention scenario using PerfView – Riham Selim highlights the PerfView debugging tool, and kicks off a series of posts looking at its use with an exploration of a contention issue.
• Scaling Windows Phone, evolving Windows 8 – Joe Belfiore gives an update on the Windows Phone and Windows 8 projects, discussing how they are planning on evolving the two platforms and bringing them closer together.
• Asking questions is a skill – Bertrand Le Roy shares some tips on asking good questions…valuable skills in all walks of life.

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• Mobile Services .NET support + Source Control – Paul Batum walks through the basic steps to getting up and running with the new support for .NET code in Mobile services via the git Source Control publishing
• Take advantage of native integration with Notification Hubs – Elio Damaggio highlights the new support for push notifications to Windows Store and Phone applications available in the 1.1.4 version of the Azure SDK.
• Windows Azure Mobile Services with .NET Backend – Shiju Varghese also looks at the Mobile Services support for .NET walking through the steps to create a Mobile Services API using ASP.NET Web API
• Running the OWIN pipeline in the new .NET Azure Mobile Services – Filip W focuses on the OWIN aspects of the Mobile Services support for .NET code, looking at the power that it provides to allow you to plug in other frameworks.
• Monads in JavaScript – curiosity-driven.org has a nice article exploring the implementation of monads in JavaScript taking a look at Identity, Maybe, List and Continuation Monads.
• C# Code Writing Tips from Eric Lippert: Math is Hard; Let’s Go Shopping! – Eric Lippert has an article features on DevPro which looks at how even simple mathematics can include all kinds of interesting bugs, exploring a variety of common causes of defects relating to performing math operations.
• EF6 on Xamarin: Progress (or lack thereof) – Eric Sink discusses getting Entity Framework to run on the Xamarin platform, discussing his efforts to get the ‘Code First with existing database’ up and running with a SQLite backend.
• Baby Steps with Xamarin on Android – Part 1 – Mike Taulty takes a look at the Xamarin platform for developing Android applications and starts to walk through taking a .NET application for Windows Store and converting it to be an android application.

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Software

• Azure: ExpressRoute Dedicated Networking, Web Site Backup Restore, Mobile Services .NET support, Hadoop 2.2, and more – Scott Guthrie shares the latest batch of Windows Azure Updates, released yesterday, bringing new features for networking, Virtual machines, HDInsight Hadoop upgrades, Azure Websites backup and restore, along with support for Mobile Services development in .NET and integration of Notification Hubs and support for PhoneGap.
• Announcing Windows Azure ExpressRoute, new partnership with Level 3 and exciting updates to other Azure Services – Steven Martin also discusses some of the new Azure Features released yesterday, looking at ExpressRoute networking and Azure Active directory.
• Introducing ReSharper 8.2 EAP – The Team over at JetBrains announce the opening of the ReSharper 8.2 Early Access Programme

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• Visualizations of Continuous Delivery – Jez Humble shares some fantastic illustrated visualisations of Continuous Delivery practices from Nhan Ngo.
• Script Bundling in NancyFx & Asset Bundling in NancyFx – Part 2 – Mike Ward takes a look at Script and Asset Bundling in NancyFX, exploring creating his own implementation of this over the two parts.
• SquishIt and Nancy – Part Deux – Alex Ullrich is also looking at this area with a look at how support for SquishIt in NanxyFx has changed since he last explored it
• ASP.NET MVC 5 New Features – Ashish Shukla takes a look at some of the significant new features introduced in the ASP.NET MVC release, exploring routing, filters, Identity and scaffolding.
• ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management Part I & Part II – John Atten takes a look at working with ASP.NET MVC5 and ASP.NET Identity to implement group based permissions.
• A Look At NServiceBus Sagas – Sacha Barber explores NService Bus Sagas in some detail in this article which explores the basics and theory before diving into examples to illustrate.

Community

• Watch the Build Keynotes at Microsoft, London with UK Developers (2nd April) – Mike Taulty highlights an event where you can watch the Build Keynotes with other developers streamed live to Microsoft’s offices in London on 2nd April.

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