The Morning Brew

Software

• Code Metrics PowerTool for Visual Studio 2013 Available on Microsoft Download Center – Charles Willis highlights the availability of the Code Metrics PowerTool for Visual Studio 2013, providing a number of different metrics to give insight into your code
• Style Cop 4.7.49.0 now released – Tatworth highlights the latest release of StyleCop for Visual Studio 2008-2013, and ReSharper 5.1-8.2

Information

• Building 2Day for Windows 8: under the hood – Jeremy Alles shares a look at the techniques and approaches used to build 2Day, a powerful real world ToDo lists application with synchronisation features, on the Windows 8 platform.
• Bringing Responsive Images to Browsers – Mat Marquis shares an update on the plans for supporting Responsive Images in browsers in the form of the picture element
• Xamarin F# – Experience Report – Faisal shares some notes on a recent project using F# on the Android platform through Xamarin.
• 9 Reasons Your Project is Going to Fail – Steve Smith shares 9 common reasons why your latest development project might fail, giving food for thought
• Clippy for ReSharper – JetBrains win the April Fools day announcements in my mind, with an announcement of bringing Clippy back to life with ReSharper, and as Roland Weigelt highlights, they actually go one stage further and release the functionality as Clippy for ReSharper 1.0.0 a ReSharper Plugin.

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Software

• StructureMap 3.0 is Live – Jeremy D Miller announces the release of StructureMap 3.0, the first major release in quite some time, and a significant clean up and improvement of the code and development experience
• Rhino Mocks 4.0.0 Alpha Released – Mike Meisinger announces the first Alpha release of Rhino Mocks 4.0
• Announcing preview of WebJobs SDK – Pranav Rastogi announces the latest preview release of the Windows Azure WebJobs SDK to add background processing to web applications running as a part of Windows Azure Websites.
• OWIN security components in ASP.NET: OpenID Connect! – Vittorio Bertocci alos announcse a newly update preview release of the OWIN based secuirty components which provide claims based authentication support with Open ID.

Information

• Previewing the April issue of MSDN Magazine – Michael Desmond gives a taste of what is to come in the April Edition of MSDN Magazine which will be available online shortly.
• Updated ASP.NET Database Resource Provider – Rick Strahl provides a update to an old component which reads resource strings from databases providing a useful way of easily managing your applications translations.
• Preparing for Durandal NextGen – Rob Eisenberg shares a look at the Next Generation release of Durandal, which includes a considerable number of breaking changes with the overall aim of a better platform
• On that Microservices thing – Udi Dahan shares his thoughts on the recent discussions of Micro Services.
• .NET Runtime for Azure Mobile Services – First Impressions – Carlos Figueira compares and contrasts the .NET Runtime engine for Mobile Services with that of the original Node.js based runtime.

Community

• Build 2014 sessions announced! – Eduardo ‘Technical Evangelist’ Ortega highlights some of the coverage of the //Build conference which kicks off tomorrow, with sessions being live streamed to the web.

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