June 2014
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1622
Posted by Chris Alcock on 04 Jun 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Visual Studio "14" CTP – S.Somasegar kicks off the announcements of the availability of the first Community Technology Preview release of Visual Studio 14 which will likely culminate in a release in 2015. This release already contains all the ASP.NET vNext, Roslyn Compiler and new C++ 11 and 14 features.
- The first Visual Studio "14" CTP – Brian Harry highlights the Visual Studio vNext CTP release, and also explains why there is no corresponding TFS release
- Visual Studio "14" CTP now available – John Montgomery of the Visual Studio team highlights the CTP release, and shares links to further information about the various aspects of the release.
- Visual Studio "14" CTP Now Available & Visual Studio "14" CTP Now Available – The C# and VB.NET teams share in the announcement highlighting some of the new functionality made possible by Roslyn.
- Announcing web features in Visual Studio"14"Â CTP – Xinyang Qiu shares a taste of the new web development related features included in the Visual Studio 14 CTP release
- ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio "14" Â CTP – Pranav Rastogi shares a detailed look at the ASP.NET vNext features included in the CTP Release of Visual Studio 14, walking through in detail the use of ASP.NET vNext
- Visual Studio 14 CTP and Entity Framework – Rowan Miller shares a look at the places where Entity Framework appears in the Visual Studio 14 CTP release, along with warning about the areas which don’t yet work fully.
- Visual Studio "14"Â CTP – Eric Battalio shares the details of the substantial number of new features included in the Visual Studio 14 CTP for the C++ Developer
- DartVS – Dart Support for Visual Studio – Danny Tuppeny shares his latest Visual Studio Extension which brings the first phases of support for the Dart programming language to the Visual Studio IDE
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- ASP.NET vNext Blog Post Series – Soe Tun kicks off a series of small posts on some of the exciting areas of the ASP.NET vNext project – looking at the support for POCO MVC Controllers in this post.
- Don’t Trust the DOM – Craig Gidney discusses the importance on not relying on the state stored in the DOM as things can tinker with it and corrupt it which will ultimately cause problems
- NuGet Package Download Stats – The NuGet team discuss the current statistics for Packages, and how currently there are problems with the counts, along with discussing what the different counters mean, and when they will be trustworthy again.
- Accessing Visual Studio Online from YOUR Azure Account – Now we can with this new PaaS offering | John V. Petersen – John V Petersen takes a look at the new support for linking Visual Studio Online and Azure accounts, giving a powerful combination of development platform and infrastructure platform.
- ServiceStack 4 HTTP Utilities: Contract Testing – Kyle Hodgson takes a look at some of the testing support for HTTP based interactions included in ServiceStack.
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The Morning Brew #1621
Posted by Chris Alcock on 03 Jun 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Azure Active Directory Graph Client Library 1.0 – Windows Azure Active Directory Graph Team – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Pavan Kompelli, Vijay Srirangam and Edward Wu of the Windows Azure Active Directory Graph Team announce the release of the Azure Active Directory Graph Client Library a NuGet package which makes interaction with the API easier
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- Anti-pattern: parallel collections – Jon Skeet discusses an all too common anti-pattern of having multiple collections or arrays with data items relating to each other stored at the same index in different collections. In this post Jon shows refactoring of this, and discusses the performance implications of the refactoring.
- MSDN Magazine – The June Edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online, with articles looking at TypeScript, OWIN, Katana and TopShelf, ASP.NET MVC and much more
- Using Traffic Manager with Microsoft Azure Web Site – Benjamin Perkins takes a look at the use of Traffic Manager on Windows Azure, and how your can use it to manage the trafic for Disaster Recovery and Failover in conjunction with Windows Azure Websites.
- WebSocket libraries comparison – N.Podbielski takes a look at a number of different WebSockets implementations, weighing up the pros and cons of each option in this CodeProject article.
- First look at Xamarin.Forms – ‘vagifabilov’ shares first impressions of the new Xamarin Forms toolkit for building cross platform native looking applications user interfaces on mobile platforms.
- Convert a Windows Store App to the Web in Under 10 Minutes – Jeremy Likness takes a look at the process to port a Windows Store application created with WinJS and JavaScript into a standalone web application.
- How to configure a cluster with Node Js – Ugo Lattanzi takes a look at the purpose of and creation of a Node.js Cluster
- My Favourite Visual Studio Features #myVSUK – Michael James shares his top 5 favourite features of Visual Studio 2013 in support of the UK Visual Studio Team’s campaign/competition.
- Real-time with ASP.NET SignalR and Azure Mobile .NET Backend – Henrik F Nielsen announce the latest update for Azure Mobile Services .NET backend which now enables the use of SignalR to communicate between your application and the back end services.
- AngularJs ng-cloak Problems on large Pages – Rick Strahl discusses the use of ng-cloak to hide the loading of an Angular Application, and looks at the types of problems (and workarounds) needed for larger single page applications.
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The Morning Brew #1620
Posted by Chris Alcock on 02 Jun 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Git Blame: Git 2.0 – Junio C Hamano highlights the official release of Git 2.0
- AppVeyor – A good continuous integration system is a joy to behold – Scott Hanselman – Scott Hanselman talks Continuous Integration with a look at the AppVeyor CI system walking through the setup of a the software and a project ni the CI.
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- My top 5 Visual Studio Features – Giles Davies shares his top 5 Visual Studio 2013 features as a part of te UK Visual Studio Team’s giveaway.
- Embedding Node.js in your .NET F# App – Cameron Taggart takes a look at using Node.JS code from F’ using the quite magical Edge.js
- Roslyn basis – Matthieu Mezil shares a look at some of the fundamentals of understanding Roslyn, looking at Syntax Trees, SemanticModel and symbols
- Download .NET Framework Regular Expressions – Quick Reference – Microsoft Download Center has a new quick reference guide to Regular Expressions, available as a free download in either DOCX or PDF forms
- Building Multiple Filters with Lo-Dash and AngularJS – K. Scott Allen continues his look at AngularJS with a look at a couple of techniques for filtering data returned from an API.
- SignalR Auto Disconnect when Page Changed in AngularJS – Shaun Xu shares a look at how SignalR disconnection upon navigation does not work well with AngularJs and its use as a Single Page application, exploring other techniques for handling the disconnection phase.
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