June 2014
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1628
Posted by Chris Alcock on 12 Jun 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Free DevExpress MVVM Framework released – WPF and Silverlight – The Team over at DevExpress announce the release of their free and open source MVVM Framework, something which underpins many of their components already, and the free version includes all the core bits , minus the component integrations.
- VS 2012, VS 2013 and .NET Framework Doc’s for offline installs (i.e. an ISO) – Greg Duncan highlights the availability standalone ISO images for the Visual Studio and .NET Framework Documentation making it easy to get documentation when not connected to the internet, or for environments without internet connections.
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- POCO controllers in ASP.NET vNext – Filip W takes a look at the implementation of Plain Old CLR Objects (POCOs) as Controllers in the ASP.NET vNext Release
- Offline support in the Azure Mobile Services iOS SDK – Carlos Figueira highights a new preview release of the Azure Mobile Services SDK for iOS whcih now includes offline support, and walks through its use in a sample application
- How To Simplify Asynchronous Programming with Await and Async — Visual Studio Magazine – Peter Vogel takes a look at how the use of async / await can simplify your asynchronous Entity Framework code and allow you to make a more responsive UI, illustrating with a sample WPF application
- 30 Days of Bootstrap with the MVC Framework – James Chambers is making June the month of a 30 days series looking at the use of ASP.NET MVC and Bootstrap, with 11 parts already available, exploring some of the MVC background and looking at building out the views. James also shares some links to further training materials on MVC in this post.
- Running .NET applications on a Raspberry Pi that communicates with Azure – Bruno Terkaly takes a look at how you can go about setting up a Raspberry Pi to run .NET applications through the Mono CLR implementation, and how that opens up easy access to all the Azure Services in a familiar language / framework on a different platform.
- Architecting large Single Page Applications with Knockout.js – Steve Sanderson shares a look at some of the up coming features in Knockout.js, and discusses building large scale Single Page Applications in this session from the NDC Oslo conference last week.
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The Morning Brew #1627
Posted by Chris Alcock on 11 Jun 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Visual Studio Online Update – June 10 – Brian Harry announces the latest update to Visual Studio online, including an exciting new feature bringing Pull Request support to Git Repositories
- Conduct a Git pull request on Visual Studio Online – Andy Lewis takes a more in-depth look at the new Pull Request feature in the latest update to Visual Studio online, walking step by step through the process
- dotPeek 1.2 EAP: Introducing Process Explorer – JetBrains have opened the Early Access Preview of dotPeek 1.2, which includes a new process explorer view which makes it ever easier to decompile any .NET program running on your machine
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- ASP.NET vNext Moving Parts: OWIN – Louis DeJardin digs deeper into the ASP.NET vNext preview and explores how it interacts with OWIN
- Host AngularJS (Html5Mode) in ASP.NET vNext – Shaun Xu takes a look at spinning up an Angular Application hosted in a ASP.NET vNext application
- Model Options and Pristine Forms In AngularJS – K.Scott Allen takes a look at the us of Angular Directives and Model Options to bring about some quite rich functionality in quite minimal amounts of code.
- Browserify: My New Choice For Modules In A Browser / Backbone App – Derick Bailey discusses his new found love for Browserify for managing modules in browser based JavaScript applications, focusing on his use of it with Backbone.
- URL Rewrite- Part 1(Prerequisites) – Chiranth Ramaswamy kicks off a series of posts on URL Rewrite, looking at the basics of URL Rewriting and Application Request Routing
- Roslyn code base – performance lessons (part 2) – Matt Warren continues exploring some of the performance characteristics of the Roslyn Code base, looking at some of the ways in which the compiler aims to get the most performance by minimising the work the Garbage Collector must do.
- Analyzing Load Test Results and everything you wanted to know about load test reports – Charles Sterling highlights a series of posts from Geoff Gray looking at load testing performance data.
- All About Load Test Results and the Results DB (Part 4 – What Are the Numbers Really Telling Me?) – Geoff Gray continues this series (previous three parts linked from the post above) with Part 4 looking at the interpretation of the numbers you obtain with load testing
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The Morning Brew #1626
Posted by Chris Alcock on 10 Jun 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- VS/TFS 2013.3 CTP 2 is now available – Brian Harry highlights the release of the second CTP of the Visual Studio 2013.3 Update, another community technology preview release for you to try out, but not use in production yet as the CTP does not include a go-live license.
- GitHub for Windows 2.0 – Phil Haack announces the release of GitHub for Windows 2.0, a new major release from the GitHub Team, and highlights a feature he worked on which provides support for Emoji in commit messages.
- Bugs Fixed in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 – Eric Battalio provides a list of the connect reported bugs relating to C++ which were addressed in the Visual Studio 2013.2 Update.
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- Creating and using brokered components step by step video – Iris Classon shares a look at the new Visual Studio / .NET Brokered Components support introduced at Build 2014 in the form of a short video step by step guide
- The ECMAScript 6 schedule changes – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer highlights a change to the specification process schedule for ECMAScript 6
- AngularJS Token Authentication using ASP.NET Web API 2, Owin, and Identity – Taiseer Joudeh shares the second part of a series looking at the use of AngularJS Token /Authentication with ASP.NET Web API 2, making use of the OWIN hosting and ASP.NET Identity Framework
- Why Swift? – Sasha Goldshtein takes a look at the new programming language from Apple, discussing the different design goals that the language aims to address
- Subclassing Objective-C classes in Swift and the perils of Initializers – Pete Barber gives a first taste of the Swift Programming Language with a look at working with SpriteKit the graphics and rendering infrastructure library.
- NDC 2014, Vikings, passwords and pineapples (and session videos) – &NDC 2014: SOLID CSS/JavaScript & Bower talks – Troy Hunt and Anthony van der Hoorn share their experiences presenting at the recent NDC Oslo conference, along with highlighting the availability of session videos online (in a quite remarkable timeframe) allowing you to catch up on some of what you missed if you weren’t there (or if you were are were in different sessions)
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