The Morning Brew

Software

• ReSharper 9: first look at C# 6.0 support – The JetBrains team give a taste of their support for the new C#6 language features in ReSharper 9

Information

• Everything you need to know about HTTP Header syntax but were afraid to ask – Darrel Miller gives a detailed rundown of what is actually involved in HTTP headers, looking at the use and construction of headers, as well as the parsing of headers
• Profile and Time your ASP.NET MVC app all the way to Azure – Rick Anderson discusses performance of web applications, focusing on the techniques available to profile and time your ASP.NET MVC application across development and into production in Azure
• Dependency injection directly into actions in ASP.NET Web API – Filip W takes a look at performing dependency injection against actions in ASP.NET WebAPI rather than the more traditional dependency injection into controllers, allowing you more control and the ability to only inject exactly what is needed for your action rather than all the actions on the controller.
• Collect .NET applications traces with sysinternals tools – Sebastian Solnica takes a look at how some of the SysInternals Tools allow you to get trace information from your running applications in a non-invasive way suitable for use in production
• Easily Generate Microsoft Office Files From C# – K. Scott Allen discusses the use of the OpenXML framework and libraries to build Word (and other Office format documents), highlighting a useful tool which reverse engineers an existing document into the code to build that document.
• Did you know you could update/contribute to some (OpenXML for now) MSDN Doc’s via a GitHub repo? – Greg Duncan highlights the documentation library for OpenXML and how it is now more open than ever for user contributions
• Settings for your Visual Studio Extension – Phil Haack shares how he added custom options for his Visual Studio Extension to allow users to provide custom discouragement instead of encouragement in this fun extension, sharing the details of how he achieved it.
• [Cool Webook of the Day] "Eloquent JavaScript" – Greg Duncan highlights Marijn Haverbeke’s ‘Eloquent JavaScript’ a free book looking at JavaScript available online

Community

• DDD Melbourne, hackers and gentlemen’s parts – Troy Hunt discusses his experience presenting at DDD Melbourne in this slightly unusually titled post (once you read it the title will make more sense)

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A little pressed for time, so links only today

Software

• Visual Studio Tools for Unity 1.9 – Jb Evain
• "Killer Free [Free as in free from nag’s, calls, whines, free] SQL Tools" from ApexSQL. Includes ApexSQL [Auto] Complete, ApexSQL Refactor and ApexSQL Search – Greg Duncan

Information

• Expanding Open Source technologies on Windows – Adam Denning
• Angular Style Guide – John Papa
• Debugging AngularJS In The Console – K. Scott Allne
• How Accurate are HTML5 Score Keeping Sites? – Chris Love
• How to create a file with a . dot prefix in Windows Explorer – Scott Hanselman
• NuGet Package of the Week: MarkdownLog makes log files much prettier – Scott Hanselman
• The .NET 4.5 async/await Commands in Promise and Practice – Jon Smith
• Preventing XSS in ASP.NET – Bill Morefield
• Using FiddlerCore to capture HTTP Requests with .NET – Rick Strahl
• Azure – Why you gotta be so MEAN? (with apologies to Taylor Swift) – jhealy
• BackBone Tutorial – Part 6: Understanding Backbone.js Views – Rahul Rajat Singh

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Software

• Announcing the beta release of Web Pages 3.2.1 – Yishai G highlights the latest beta release of ASP.NET Web Pages available via the NuGet Gallery. This update includes substantial performance work performed in conjunction with the MSN team to improve the memory allocation during render or larger pages
• Brighter – Ian Cooper is looking for feedback on Brighter, a command processor library (which is in turn a part of his Paramore Distributed Applications Explorations in ,NET libraries
• Azure Mobile Services .NET Updates – Henrik Frystyk Nielsen announces te latest new features in Azure Mobile Services .NET, including CORS support using using ASP.NET Web API CORS, an extensible authentication model and Support for Azure Active Directory Authentication

Information

• Dotnet by Example: Angularjs + TypeScript – setting up a basic application with Visual Studio 2013 – Joost van Schaik walks through the process of getting a basic AngularJS and TypeScript application set up in your development environment.
• A step by step guide to developing Visual Studio item templates using SideWaffle – Richard Kerslake takes a look at SideWaffle, walking through its use in building Visual Studio Item Templates
• Code First Migration in Multiple DbContext – Sourav Kayal discusses the use of Entity Framework Code First Migrations when your application contains multiple data contexts, looking at how you need to modify commands to work with this situation
• GitHub Flow Like a Pro with these 13 Git Aliases – Phil Haack shares a series of Git Aliases which he has found help improve his productivity when working using the GitHub Flow
• MSDN magazine brings you a wealth of practical info about Azure Websites – Erez Benari highlights a number of articles included in MSDN Magazine covering various aspects of the Azure Websites platform.
• Collection Pipeline – Martin Fowler shares the last installment of his series looking at Collection Pipelines, where he explores laziness, parallelism, and immutability, before drawing together conclusions.
• Why Javascript Developers Should Get Excited About Object.observe() – Lauren Orsini discusses the Object.observe() functionality included in Chrome36
• Using AngularJS to Extend Your Code Quality – Jeremy Likness takes a look at the AngularJS extend functional and how it can improve your code quality and organisation
• CRUD Operation with ASP.NET MVC and Fluent Nhibernate – Jalpesh Vadgama gives an introduction to the use of NHibernate and the Fluent NHibernate library with an ASP.NET MVC application

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