The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing preview of Microsoft.AspNet.Identity 2.0.0-beta1 – Pranav Rastogi announces the latest preview (beta1) release of the Microsoft.AspNet.Identity Framework. This release adds in support for two factor authentication, along with addressing reported bugs, and is available from NuGet as a preview package.
• EF 6.1.0 Beta 1 Available &Preview of Dynamic Data Provider and EntityDataSource Control for EF6 – Rowan Miller announces the availability of Beta 1 of Entity Framework 6.1, a new feature release which brings with it a number of new features, and also announces the release of a preview of ASP.NET DynamicData and EntityDataSource control whcih works with Entity Framework 6
• Oracle software on Microsoft Azure gets a general availability date – Sudhirh highlights the news aout general availability of Oracle software on the Windows Azure platform.

Information

• AngularJS–Part 12, Multi language support – Gabriel Schenker continues his series looking at all aspects of Angular JS development exploring the platforms multi-lingual support in this detailed 12th post in the series.
• String concatenation, string.Format and StringBuilder – Bill Wagner discusses best practices for working with strings and the role of the string builder, and performance of Concat.
• C# synchronization blocks containing await or how to lock a block with an await – Sanjeev Dwivedi takes a look at using locks with code which contains Async / Await operations, and highlights a solution to his problem from Stephen Toub.
• "The Cloud Never Goes Down", Azure SLAs and other availability trivia – Troy Hunt continues his series of posts on cloud technologies with a discussion of availability and the SLA offered on cloud hosting.
• Example of just-in-time design : Refactor to Open-Closed – Pawel Bejger discusses just in time development, minimising any over design, and looks at refactoring to the open-closed principle afterwards.

Community

• Meetings – Last Ever Meeting: Double Bill with Mark Rendle – Monday 3rd March 2014 sees a sad day for Bristol’s .NET Developer Network, with their final meeting ever featuring a double session from Mark Rendle with session on "AngularJS & TypeScript" and "History of Programming, Part 1".

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• Visual Studio Online Update – Feb 10 – Brian Harry announces the latest batch of updates to the Visual Studio Online Service
• Application Insights Visual Studio Add-in preview – Brian Harry also shares the news of a preview release of the Application Insights Visual Studio Add-in which makes getting started with Application Insights much easier
• February Updates to the Windows Azure Toolkit for Eclipse – SSL Support, plus new JDKs, Windows Azure configurations and more – Brian Benz annoucnes the latest batch of updates for Windows Azure Developers running on other platforms with the latest update to the Eclipse Windows Azure Toolkit.
• Underscore.js – The Underscore JS team shares the 1.6.0 update to UnderScore, the JavaScript library which brings LINQ like functionality to JavaScript.

Information

• Best Practices: Windows Azure Websites (WAWS) – Mark Brown discusses a number of Windows Azure Websites best practices, along with links to further information an training materials on these topics.
• Building A Simple File Server With OWIN and Katana – K. Scott Allen continues his discussion of OWIN and Katana with a look at serveing files from a desktop application over HTTP.
• HTTP/2 – Closing on the Final Design – Brian Raymor gives an update on the processes behind the HTTP/2 Standard on the MS OpenTech Blog.
• Choosing Vanilla JavaScript – Anthony Colangelo shares a short piece on the decision to use libraries like jQuery or to stick to plain vanilla JavaScript, linking to various other discussions of this topic.
• Stop writing For loops. Start using underscore – Joel Hooks discusses the use of UnderScore.js to help you to remove the for look from your common code in JavaScript.
• Entity Framework 6 vs NHibernate 4 – Darius Kucinskas takes a look at the heavy weight Object Relational Mapping contest that is Entity Framework 6 vs NHibernate 4
• Troy Hunt: Your API versioning is wrong, which is why I decided to do it 3 different wrong ways – Troy Hunt takes a look at building APIs and discusses some ‘wrong ways’ which may or may not prove to be wrong for you
• Getting Started with SignalR – and not a Chat room in sight! – Samuel Jack shares three short articles he has written for the Safari Books Online Blog taking a look at SignalR.

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• Multilingual App Toolkit v2.2 released – Multilingual App Toolkit's blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Cameron Lerum highlights the release of the Multilingual App Toolkit v2.2, a release which addresses feedback recieved for the previous version

Information

• Checklist: What NOT to do in ASP.NET – Scott Hanselman highlights a talk (recorded) and whitepaper which outline a number of things which used to be best practice in ASP.NET at some point in its now 10+ year history, and highlights some of the things you should do to replace these outdated techniques.
• Putting WebForms DataBinding front and centre | Glimpse Blog – Graham Mendick discusses the new Glimpse WebForms Databinding feature showing how you can use it to identify issues and causes of databinding issues.
• The Developer’s Reference Guide to Small Basic – The First 5 Chapter – Ed Price highlights the availability of the first 5 chapters of the Small Basic Developers Reference Guide, giving an introduction and overview of the language before diving into references of Program, TextWindow and GraphicsWindow objects.
• Deserialize to ExpandoObject with Json.NET – Tom DuPont takes a look at the JSON.NET support for deserialising JSON data into ExpandoObjects, and looking at a case where this is a very useful feature.
• Html.AntiForgeryToken – Balancing Security with Usability – Doug Rathbone takes a look at the AntiForgery Token in ASP.NET discussing both the pros and cons of its use in terms of security of your application, and some of the more negatives such as back button issues, percieved stability of the application, etc.
• How Do You Make Software? – Erik Dietrich discusses the differing approaches to writing software that different types of organisation take, depending on their organisational style, products and the role of the code within the organisation.
• 折伏 – as it relates to coding – Theo Schlossnagle shares an alternative take on the ‘interruptions are a bad thing for developers’ debate.

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