The Morning Brew

Maintenance work went well last night and things were only offline for a short while. Sorry if it caused anyone any inconvenience. Enjoy your weekend everyone

Software

• Announcing the 0.3.0-beta preview of Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK – Pranav Rastogi announces the release of the latest beta preview of the 0.3.0 Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK, now supporting triggers on the Azure Service Bus, improved bindings, support for cancellation tokens, shutdown notifications and much more

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• In Process Http Server for Integration Test Faking with Owin, Katana, and WebAPI – Jason Roberts discusses the use of OWIN to host web applications in process allowing end to end testing of the application as a ‘real’ website without incuring the performance drain of traveling over the network stack making your test faster.
• Profiling ASP.NET vNext using dotMemory and dotTrace – Maarten Balliauw takes a look at how JetBrains dotTrace and dotMemory allow you to profile ASP.NET vNext Applications
• Exceptions exist for a reason – use them! – John V Petersen discusses the best practices when using exceptions in your code, illustrating with a practical example.
• Nuget Dependencies and latest Versions – Rick Strahl discusses how he uses NuGet to distribute how WestWind libraries, and talks about the versioning and dependency management, along with some pitfalls.
• Compatible Encryption/Decryption for Windows Store Apps and Full .NET Framework – We all know that encryption is important in our applications in this day and age, and David Browne shares a useful library for equaliising the differences between Window Store Apps and Full .NET applications encryption APIs making it easy for you to encrypt on the app and server using the same code.
• JavaScript Function Terminology – Deborah Kurata goes back to basics on some of the terminology and capabilities in JavaScript for working with Functions.
• Why I hate the word "Pragmatic" and other rants – Jeremy D Miller shares thoughts on developer communication and how he would like to ban certain words and phrases from discussions
• Release Notes Are Hard – Timothy Klenke is also discussing communication, taking a look at what good release notes should contain, and how we can go about preparing them

Community

• Webinar Recording: Merging Refactored Code – ReSharper Meets SemanticMerge – JetBrains share the recording of this weeks Webinar where Matt Ellis and Pablo Santos look at a number of refactorings using ReSharper, and look at how SemanticMerge copes with merging the changes in a language aware way

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I’m going to be doing some maintenance on The Morning Brew site this evening (UK time) so there is a chance things may go off for a while tonight – consider yourselves warned 😉

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• Delegates and structural identity – Eric Lippert explores an interesting situation where two seemingly comparable delegates are not actually assignment compatible in the latest instalment of Ask The Bug Guys
• Contributing to the F# Language and Compiler – Tomas Petricek of the F# Open Engineering group discusses the process for community contributions to the core F# Language and Compiler, encouraging people to get involved.
• Measuring the impact of the .NET Garbage Collector – Matt Warren continues his series looking at the optimisations of the Roslyn compilers, with a slight detour to look at the work performed and impact on performance of the .NET Garbage Collector
• Download Visual Studio Express – Scott Hanselman follows up on his DownloadSqlServerExpress.com with another signpost posting which includes more direct links to the various versions of Visual Studio
• Getting started with Visual Studio Editor Margin Extensions – Shemeer NS takes a look at the process of extending the Visual Studio IDE, focusing in on the Editor Margin Extensions and their implementation.
• Visual Studio ALM Community Widgets (aka.ms/widgets) – Willy-Peter Schaub shares a list of the best and most useful community extensions for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server
• Adding Tabs with FiddlerScript – Eric Lawrence discusses the extensions points available in Fiddler allowing you to bolt in your own scripted or Managed Code UI/tooling.
• Using Fiddler and Advanced Rest Client to test Azure Storage and Azure Mobile Services – Bruno Terkaly discusses the use of Fiddler as a raw HTTP client to talk to Azure Storage and Mobile Services endpoints
• A dynamic RequireSsl Attribute for ASP.NET MVC – Rick Strahl discusses and shares an implementation of a dynamic (evaluate conditions / config at runtime) RequireSSL attribute for ASP.NET MVC,

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• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET vNext – Victor Hurdugaci discusses the support for Dependency Injection which is baked throughout the ASP.NET vNext Stack, and how the basic DI capability is provided, along with the ability to plug in custom and more advanced implementations.
• Understanding the Owin External Authentication Pipeline – Anders Abel discusses the mechanism for implementing Authentication within OWIN based applications, inserting it into the processing pipeline.
• Error logging and tracking done right with Raygun.io – Troy Hunt takes a look at how tools like Raygun.io take you to the next level of error logging and management
• Transform your Microsoft Azure Web Site – Zhao Wei takes a look at how you can use XDT Transformations to alter the configuration of your Microsoft Azure Website
• How to load views from database in MVC – Saad Khan takes a look at the extensibility of ASP.NET MVC in the use of a custom VirtualPathProvider implementation which allows views to be loaded from
• Code Reviews Should Be about Incremental Improvement – Erik Dietrich discusses the role of Persuasion in code reviews
• Push Notifications to PhoneGap Apps using Notification Hubs Integration – Glenn Gailey looks at the use of Azure Mobile Services Notification hubs to provide notifications into PhoneGap based applications
• C# Tips eBook 50% Complete – Jason Roberts highlights an update to his C# Tips LeanPub eBook, currently available for free (or what ever value you wish to place on it).
• Download SQL Server Express – Scott Hanselman demystifies the process to obtain SQL Server Express inspired by a post from Long Zheng illustrating the official torturous download process.

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