The Morning Brew

Software

• Release Version 3.1.0 knockout/knockout – Steve Sanderson announces the 3.1 release of KnockoutJS, introducing a number of performance, stability and compatibility improvements.
• Upcoming .NET NuGet Releases – Richard Lander gives an update on the next pre-release NuGet set of releases from the Core .NET Framework team

Information

• Repositories On Top UnitOfWork Are Not a Good Idea – Rob Conery discusses what he considers two conflicting patterns which many developers attempt to bring together. Check out the comments for further discussions
• MSDN Magazine – The March editon of MSDN Magazine is now available online with articles focusing on Asynchronous programming, a nice guide to creating Single Page Applications in ASP.NET MVC5, and much much more.
• Flushing in ASP.NET MVC – Nik Molnar discusses web performance and takes a look at performing flushes in ASP.NET MVC applications to better ‘flush the buffer early’ and improve the perceived performance of your applications
• ASP.NET MVC 5 Lifecycle Document Published – Cephas Lin highlights a nice document on the ASP.NET MVC application lifecycle, illustrating the various points where extensibility is presented.
• How to use CORS with ASP.NET Web API 2.0 – Ugo Lattanzi takes a look at implementing CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) in ASP.NET Web Api applications allowing you to make use of WebAPI services from other hosts.
• F#5 : Operators – Sacha Barber continues his series looking at the F# language with an exploration of the use of some of the common operators.
• Windows Azure Websites online tools you should know about – Amit Apple shares a look at some of the tools available to help you monitor and manage your computing resources on the Windows Azure platform

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Software

• New Office REST APIs and Developer Tools for Visual Studio Update &Announcing Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update – Somasegar and Keith Yedlin announce the release of the March 2014 update of the Office Developer Toosl for Visual Studio 2013

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• Living with unchecked exceptions – Eric Lippert takes a look at unchecked exceptions, discussing what they are and asks some reader questions about how C# developers have adapted to them not being present in the language. Comments on this one will be well worth a read.
• Tutorial Series for Entity Framework 6 MVC 5 Published – Tom Dykstra announces the publication of the final 3 tutorials in the ASP.NET MVC5 / Entity Framework 6 Tutorial series, along with updates to the previous 9.
• Introduction to Windows Azure Active Directory – Bruno Terkaly takes a deep dive into the Windows Azure Active Directory in this hands on lab which explores its use to provide single sign on for ASP.NET applications.
• Facade Pattern – Gunnar Peipman takes a look at the Facade pattern and its use in providing access to a subsystem
• New CodeLens Indicator – Incoming Changes – Mathew Aniyan takes a look at an interesting new feature in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 which adds an indocator of incoming changes to the CodeLens allowing you to see if other developers are working on the same areas of code as you.
• F# 1 : Hello World , F#2 FSI Environment, F#3 : Formatting text & F#4 : Let / Use / Do Binding – Sacha Barber takes a look at the F# language in these 4 blog posts syndicated to CodeProject. The series starts out with the basic Hello World program, and progresses to look at the interactive environment, formatting text and assigning variables.
• NuGet Package of the Week: FluentAutomation for automated testing of Web Applications – Scott Hanselman takes a look at the FluentAutomation NuGet package, and how it enables automation of web applications to enable testing

Community

• AngleBrackets: April 13 – 16, 2014 – Elijah Manor highlights the 3rd AngleBrackets conference being held 12th-16th April in Orlando Florida. The event features a great lineup, and Elijah highlights a discount code which gets you a little more bang for your buck.

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• Visual Studio Online early adoption period extended! – The Visual Studio Team announce the extension of the early adopters period for Visual Studio Online, now extended to 7th May 2014.
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and Web Essentials – Mads Kristensen discusses the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 release and how it effects Web Essentials, along with highligjhting the latest update which works successfully with the new CTP.
• Announcing the release of Dynamic Data provider and EntityDataSource control for Entity Framework 6 – Pranav Rastogi announces the release of the RTM of ASP.NET Dynamic Data and EntityDataSource control for EntityFramework 6, and shares a short guide to getting started with the release.
• A Jasmine Test Adapter for Visual Studio – Danny Tuppeny shares his second Visual Studio Test Adapter Extension which brings Jasmine tests into the Visual Studio Test Runner.

Information

• New JSON editor features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 – Anh Phan shares a look at some of the new JSON editing capabilities of Visual Studio 2013 included in the Update 2 CTP release
• New CPU Usage tool in the Performance and Diagnostics hub in Visual Studio 2013 – Dan Taylor takes a look at the CPU usage tool included in the profiling tools after the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 release, looking at its use in diagnosing performance issues
• Should I be concerned about PDB files ? – CodeProject – Bibhu Dutta discusses the use and role of the Program Database (PDB) files generated by the build process.
• The Four Deadly Sins of LINQ Data Access: Part 2 – Too Many Columns – Adam Anderson discusses the use of projections to control the data being returned when using Linq with an entity data source like Entity Framework to reduce the load on the database
• Cross Platform .NET on the Client Side-Xamarin/Silverlight – Mike Taulty takes a look back over the role of Silverlight in Cross Platform development, inspired by his recent look at the Xamarin platform.

Community

• DDD South West – Call For Speakers – The DDD South West 5 Call for Speakers closes on Saturday 8th March – be sure to get your talk proposals in if you are interested in featuring at the event as a speaker.
• The SQL Server Conference – SQLBits 12 – 17 – 19 Jul 2014 – Telford – The SQLBits team announce the dates and venue for the next SQLBits Conference Event. The event will be taking place on 17th – 19th July 2014 at the The International Centre, Telford, UK

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