The Morning Brew

A little short on time this morning, so its links only today I’m afraid

Software

• Project Siena Beta 3: Enabling business users to create custom apps to transform business processes – Somasegar
• SQL Server Data Tools July Update – Jill McClenahan
• Rolling out the Windows Developer Program for IoT – Steve Teixeira

Information

• A JavaScript survival guide – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• Caching: the Good, the Bad and the Hype – Dino Esposito
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Adopting Fubu conventions – Jimmy Bogard
• Improvements to the F# Web Templates – Daniel Mohl
• Message passing, performance – Ayende
• Catching Bad Data in Entity Framework – Jon Smith
• C# Specifications: Using Visual Studio 2013 to compile a DLL and EXE – Surf4Fun
• How I failed when I tried to implement C# Generics to enable serializing and saving a variety of C# object types to disk for Windows Store applications – Bruno Terkaly
• Learn AngularJS : Hour 1 – Dhananjay kumar

Community

• Avoiding C# defects talk Tuesday – Eric Lippert

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Software

• Welcome to ReactiveUI 6.0 & What’s new in ReactiveUI 6: ReactiveCommand<T> – Paul Betts announces the release of ReactiveUI 6.0, a significant milestone in the project, with over 8 months work going into this release which adds support for Windows Phone, Xamarin Forms, improved support for list based views, and a new Reactive Command implementation
• Viasfora 2.0 Released! – Tomas Restrepo announces the release of version 2.0 of his Visual Studio Extension Viasfora which brings numerous extensions to the text editor, extending the features of Rainbow Braces in this release
• Orchard 1.8.1 Released and Website Upgrades – David Hayden announces the release of Orchard 1.8.1 a bugfix release on top of the 1.8 platform addressing 36 reported bugs

Information

• Building a strongly typed route provider for ASP.NET Web API – Filip W takes a look at the new capabilities to extend andadd in custom logic to the routing engine in ASP.NET WebAPI 2.2 via attribute routing.
• RoslynDom: Structural Interrogation Walk-throughs – Kathleen Dollard discusses the use of RoslynDom to inspect the structure of code, discussing the design aims to have it represent code the way we as developers think about it, and not as a compiler would.
• Free eBook on Model View View Model design pattern – Surf4Fun highlights a useful guide to the MVVM pattern from Jerry Nixon
• Playing with WinJS as a cross-platform UI layer? – Mike Taulty takes a look at reusing WinJS code across 4 different platform use cases, exploring the Windows 8.1 Native App, C# Hybrid Application, Web Page and Android application
• Hooking Trello Into Visual Studio Online – Garry Pilkington shows how you can wire in the Trello ‘Kanban-style’ boards into the Visual Studio Online setup via Service Hooks
• The NuGet.org Architecture – Jeff Handley shares an interesting look at the NuGet system architecture for running NuGet.org, and how it has evolved over time
• Implement Observer Pattern in .NET (3 techniques) – Chinmoy Mohanty takes a look at making use of the Observer pattern and the way in which .NET framework versions have assisted in this over time.
• Get Application Performance Counters of your choice during load runs with Visual Studio Online – Manas Maheshwari walks through the use of Cloud Load Testing in Visual Studio Online and how you can monitor the performance counters from your load testing.
• BackBone Tutorial – Part 1: Introduction to Backbone.Js & BackBone Tutorial – Part 2: Understanding the basics of Backbone Models – Rahul Rajat Singh shares the first two parts of a series looking at the Backbone JavaScript Framework, with the first part providing an introduction to the framework, and the second focusing in on the role of the Model in Backbone.

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Software

• Release Candidate for Katana 3 and the ASP.NET Security Components – Vittorio Bertocci highlights the second Release Candidate release of the ASP. NET Security Components for Katana 3
• Updates to RoslynDom 1.0.9 Alpha – Kathleen Dollard shares the next alpha version of RoslynDom, featuring a substantial number of changes and improvements to the library since the last release
• A community created GuidGen, GuidGen 2.0 (a replacement for Guid tool you love to hate, hate to love) – Greg Duncan highlights GUIDGEN 2.0, available now from the Visual Studio Gallery, providing new integration with the IDE for all your GUID creation needs

Information

• Over 1 Million FREE Microsoft eBooks Given Away in 2 days! (and soon to be 2 MILLION!) – Eric Ligman is having a fantastic time giving away free e-Books with a remarkable uptake, and some good titles available in his latest collection of free Microsoft eBooks.
• Setting up billing alert for Azure (preview) – Iris Classon takes a look at the new preview feature of Azure which allows to to define rules for notification of the billing status of your services, and something well worth putting in place to help monitor your costs before services get cut off.
• JSON: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly – Tim Murphy takes a look a the pros and cons of the JSON data format for services, over that of SOAP and XML
• Unusual Ways of Boosting Up App Performance. Boxing and Collections – Alexey Totin takes a look at two things to watch out for in your code which can have a dramatic effect on your applications performance.
• Adding an Overload is a Breaking Change – Anders Abel explores how adding overloads to methods may result in a breaking change to your library
• Continuous JavaScript Testing – Simon Harriyott shares a neat tip to give you a more continuous testing experience when working with JavaScript tests
• IIS 8.0 Asp.net warm up Auto Start & Application Initialization – CodeProject – Santosh Poojari gives a run through of the configuration and use of the IIS8 Warmup Auto Start features
• Capturing Traffic via Virtual Router – Eric Lawrence discusses how you can use Fiddler to intercept traffic from mobile devices using the Virtual Router to assist in situations when you can’t configure proxy settings

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