2014 March

March 2014

Monthly Archive

Posted by Chris Alcock on 10 Mar 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

Cross-browser JavaScript Testing with Karma and Visual Studio – Danny Tuppeny shares another Visual Studio Test Extender which this time takes static XML files generated from third party testing tools and brings them into the Visual Studio IDE’s Test Explorer

Per request tracing in ASP.NET Web API – Filip W takes a look at the tracing extensibility in Web API and explores how to create a trace writer which logs on a per request basis and returns that data with the response to the client.
Introduction to Web API Versioning – Ranjan.D takes a look at the support for API Versioning in ASP.NET Web API, looking at the extensions point to allow swapping out the HTTP Controller implementation depending on version.
Enhancements to Debugging Exceptions with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2013 – Nitin Choubey discusses some of the latest improvements to the debugging support in IntelliTrace introduced in the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 release (currently in CTP2 state)
UX/UI Guidelines for Windows Phone 8 – Dina Helmy shares 26 User Interface and User Experience guidelines for Windows Phone 8 Development
Migrate away from MSBuild-based NuGet package restore – Xavier Decoster highlights the change in approach to using NuGet Package Restore, and looks at how you migrate away from the old style.
F#7: Records – Sacha Barber continues his series looking at the F# language, exploring the concept and use of records.
Code generation pros and cons and T4 Template – Mehdi Khalili discusses code generation using T4 Templates sharing thoughts on both the positive and negatives of such an approach.

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Posted by Chris Alcock on 07 Mar 2014 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

March 2014 Update – Visual Studio Online "Monaco" – Jeff Fisher highlights the latest batch of improvements and new features made available on the Visual Studio Online product.
Android and Java developers: MS Open Tech has a SignalR SDK for you! – Olivier Bloch highlights the release of a SignalR SDK for Java and Android developers from Microsoft Open Technologies.

Living with unchecked exceptions, part two – Eric Lippert thanks the community for their feedback on his last post and continues discussion of uncheced exceptions and how C# provides for handing exceptions
Back To Basics: Regular Expressions and Formal Languages – Sasha Goldshtein goes back to basics and looks at the computer science concept of Formal Language and looks at the use of regular expressions
JSON Redux AKA RFC7159 – Tim Bray highlights an updated revision of the JSON specification
CircuitBreaker – Martin Fowler takes a look at the concept of a Circuit Breaker in software architectures, exploring their use in working with remote systems
F#6 : Tuples – Sacha Barber continues his series exploring the F# language and programming techniques with a short look at the use of the Tuple type
async and await -Simplified-Internals – Saurabh Saxena takes a look under the hood at how the framework and compiler implement async and await in this CodeProject article
Azure Storage Bindings Part 3 – Tables – Mike Stall continues his series looking at the different storage bindings provided in the Windows Azure Platform and SDK. This part explores the use of table storage.

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Posted by Chris Alcock on 06 Mar 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

Microsoft releases Windows 8.1 Update 1 to manufacturing – Mary Jo Foley highlights the latest news of Windows 8.1 Update 1, which is now well on the way to general availability.
dotCover 2.7 EAP is Open – The JetBrains Team have opened their early access program for dotCover 2.7 – this is a great way to try out the next version of the product and get involved by giving feedback on the new features.
Today’s Shiny… C# Pad, web based C# REPL environment – Greg Duncan highlights C#Pad, the latest interactive web based REPL environment for C# developers

How to debug small programs – Eric Lippert discusses the art of asking good questions for the like of StackOverflow, and also shares some sage advice on debugging your own problems
Need help getting started with cloud tools? This free e-book is a great resource – Jesse Stanchak highlights an interesting looking free e-book on ‘Bringing the UK Government into the cloud’
AngularJS in Visual Studio: Data Binding – Deborah Kurata follows on from a previous introductory post on working with AngularJS in Visual Studio with a look at basic databinding.
Javascript callbacks: can’t live with them can’t live without them… or can you? – Marcus Hammarberg takes a look at the use of callbacks in standard JavaScript, exploring a couple of small real world cases, and then moves to have a look at how promises provide a better structure for this.
Advanced Debugging Techniques in JavaScript – Part 3 – Keyhole Software continue their series on debugging JavaScript with a look at making use of advanced breakpoints such as conditional, event listener and observing changes to values.
Baby Steps on Android with Xamarin – Part 4 – Mike Taulty continues his series looking at building a application on Android using Xamarin, getting down to building the display pages for the application

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