The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing Update to Productivity Power Tools 2013 – The Visual Studio Team announce the release of an updated version of the Productivity Power Tools 2013 which addresses a number of customer reported issues along with the introduction of a new feature, Syntactic line compression, which shrinks blank lines to give a view containing more code.
• Code Lens for Git in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Update 3 – Jean-Marc Prieur discusses the support for Git within the Visual Studio Code Lens functionality as of the CTP1 release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 3
• .NET Memory Analysis: Go to Source in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 – Andrew Chan, discusses another new feature which adds significantly ro the .NET Memory dump analysis features of Visual Studio added in the CTP 1 release of Update 3
• First NuGet package for SQLitePCL.raw – Eric Sink shares the first alpha release of SQLitePCL.raw libary as a NuGet Package, discussing a number of frequently asked questions and questions about support on different platforms.
• FsCheck 0.9.4 – Kurt Schelfthout announces a minor release update for FsCheck which enhances the hardening required for null generating string generators.

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• .NET Native Deep Dive: Making Your Library Great & .NET Native Deep Dive: Optimizing with Runtime Directives – Morgan Brown continues his series taking an insiders look at the .NET Native features, exploring how you can make your library better by not using certain patterns which place additional burdens on the .NET Native facilities, and rounding out the series with a look at optimising by the use of Runtime directives in the final part.
• AppFabric OutputCaching – Pablo Cibraro takes a look at integrating AppFabric Caching with ASP.NET WebAPI
• Beginner’s Tutorial on Globalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC – Rahul Rajat Singh shares an introduction to some of the things you need to consider and how to implement them when working on your ASP.NET MVC applications
• Building and running embedded Linux .NET applications from first principles – Alex J Lennon takes a step by step look at building an environment and running .NET applications on Linux.
• Leveraging C# Partial Classes and Methods in Windows Universal Apps – Jason Roberts takes a look at how partial classes and methods can be used to increase sharing of code between platforms but still be able to implement platform specific features.
• Find the index of the smallest element in a JavaScript array – Raymond Chen takes an interesting look at solving a simple problem in JavaScript discussing some of the unusual behaviours of the JavaScript runtime in certain browsers.
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient: Seamlessly integrating T-SQL and F# in the same code – Dmitry Sevastianov and Dmitry Morozov take a look at performing data access in F# with an alternative way of implementing LINQ like behaviours

Community

• TechEd Europe Registration is OPEN! – Eduardo Ortega highlights the dates and opening of registration for Tech Ed Europe, taking place in October in Spain. Early bird registration saves you 300 Euros, and runs until 7 July.

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Monday is (another) public holiday here in the UK, and as is tradition The Morning Brew shall take a break from publication that day, returning as usual on Tuesday 27th May.

Software

• The updates just keep a rolling…Visual Studio 2013.3 CTP 1 Released – Greg Duncan highlights the release of the first Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2013 Update 3
• Web Essentials on Visual Studio Web Express – Mads Kristensen highlights a useful feature of Visual Studio 2013 pdate 2 which allows for the We Essentials extension to be installed into the Express editions of the product

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• .NET Native Deep Dive: Help! I Didn’t Hit a MissingMetadataException! – Morgan Brown continues his series of posts looking at the Runtime Directives in .NET Native, looking at another edge set of cases for .NET Native where it does not throw exceptions where you might exptect it to.
• My experience with .NET Native Preview – Helge Mahrt shares his experiences of the .NET Native Preview, looking at the setup, use and performance of code compiled in this way
• Exploring Roslyn, part 2: Inside the End-User Preview – ‘SLaks’ follows on from a post a month and a half ago looking at Roslyn, discussing what the end user preview contains, some of the features and refactorings possible.
• Optimizing calls to Azure storage using Fiddler – Maarten Balliauw discusses expereinces scaling MyGet now that the ASP.NET vNext packages are hosted there, the sudden increase in traffic, and a useful tip for scaling your Azure Storage
• Tables with Integer Keys and the .NET Backend – Jason Cooke takes a look at the use of Integer keys in Azure Mobile Services, using AutoMapper to map from entities
• Universal apps are confusing because they’re not apps… – Matt Lacey disects Universal Apps, looking at what they really are, and how the similarity in name with terms from other mobile platforms causes some confusion
• Text Processing -1 : Fuzzy String Matching or Searching – Psycho_Coder explores some techniques in Text Processing with samples of some common implementations in python
• My Top 10 Sessions for Developers From TechEd 2014 – Michael Crump shares his top 10 picks for developers from he recorded sessions at TechEd 2014 – also serving as a useful reminder about the fantastic efforts to record all these sessions and make them available from Channel9

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Software

• NuGet Package of the Week: ImageProcessor – lightweight image manipulation in C# – Scott Hanselman shares a look at ImageProcessor a neat NuGet packaged library which providers ways of manipulating images for display on the web

Information

• Why does my enumerator not advance? – Eric Lippert discusses the how and why of some strange seeming behaviour when using an iterator in a lambda expression in this latest instalment of ‘Ask The Bug Guys’
• How about a new platform for your next API… a CMS?
  – Elton Stoneman discusses an unusual, yet seemingly very sensible approache to a REST API where the data does not changes much and requires a more traditional publishing workflow
• .NET Native Deep Dive: Help! I Hit a MissingMetadataException! – Morgan Brown continues discussion of the Dynamic features in static code produced by the .NET Native compiler with a look at the MissingMetadataExceptions which can occur in certain reflection cases.
• A Better Development Web Server for .Net with FubuMVC 2.0 – Jeremy D Miller discusses some improvements to the development time experience for working with FubuMVC, introducing a development server which reloads content automatically when source files change
• Why and how we migrated babylonjs.com to Microsoft Azure – David Rousset discusses in detail the move of the website for BabylonJs onto the Azure platform, discussing the various aspects of the move and the configuration of Azure services.
• Building with Node.js Tools for Visual Studio – Kowsheek shares a detailed look ath the process of building and publishing applications developed using the Node.js Tools for Visual Studio.

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