The Morning Brew

Software

• Fix for SQL Server 2012 SP2 Data Corruption Issue Now Available – Greg Low highlights an important update for anyone on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP2

Information

• NuGet Package of the Week: ASP.NET Web API Caching with CacheCow and CacheOutput – Continues his perpetual series looking at some of the great NuGet Packages available, exploring CacheCow a client and server caching library for ASP.NET
• Strong-typed Metadata, Code-first Metadata, Roadmap for RoslynDom, CodeFirst Strong-typed Metadata and ExpansionFirst Templates, RoslynDom and Friends – Just the Facts, Creating Strong-typed Metadata Classes & Public Annotations – Kathleen Dollard discusses metadata in programming, and looks at three projects she has been working on, RoslynDom, CodeFirst String Typed Metadata and ExpansionFirst Templates, taking a look at the problems each solves and outlining the roadmaps for the projects
• Fun with Custom C# Collection Initializers – Marius Schulz explores the use of custom collection initializers and looks at their implementation as well as the background to object and collection initialization.
• ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Customizing Users and Roles – John Atten continues his series looking at the use of ASP.NET Identity 2 with a look at extending the capabilities of ApplicationUser and ApplicationRole
• P, NP And Decision Problems (Really, It’s Not that Bad) – Erik Dietrich resumes an old series on practical maths, and expands its scope to include everything up to and including computer science, taking a look at some common classes of problems in computing
• Partial Application vs. Currying – Calvin Bottoms takes a look at partial application and currying in Haskell, looking at how such techniques are applied in functional programming
• Using `Environment.SpecialFolder` to Maximize Portability – _Noctis_ discusses how using the various Environment settings available via the Environment class will enable your applications to run in a wider range of situations,

Community

• .NET Conf June 2014 – Recorded sessions available for free! – Cesar de la Torre highlights the availability of the session recordings for the sessions from last week’s dotNetConf, where you can catch up with the latest and greatest technology from the people who are actually working on it

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