The Morning Brew

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• Version 1.7.3 for ADO Released (Glimpse) – Anthony van der Hoorn highlights a bugfix release of Glimpse to fix an issue with Glimpse’s use with Entity Framework 6.1
• openFrameworks Developers Can Now Create Universal Apps for Windows – Eric Mitt highlights an open source release of a project generator which allows openFrameworks developers to build native Universal Apps for Windows Phone, tablets and PCs
• Upcoming VS Online Licensing Changes – Brian Harry discusses some licensing changes for Visual Studio Online based upon the feedback and research the team have performed.

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• Stop Cheating the Type System – Marius Schulz discusses the type system in strongly typed languages like C# and the benefits it brings with it, also looking at the things that you can do (but shouldn’t) which reduce these benefits
• Durandal — your new favourite client-side framework – Patryk Borowa takes a look at the Durandal JavaScript Framework for building complex single page applications
• NodeJs, Azure and IIS – Ugo Lattanzi explores some of the differences between hosting Node applications in their own process and hosting them in the Cloud under Azure and IISNode.
• The Repository Pattern in ASP.NET – Part 2 – Paul Cociuba rounds out his series on building applications on ASP.NET 4.5 with a final part concluding his look at the repository pattern
• Fun with .NET – Windows Phone, LEGO Mindstorms, and Azure – dotnetConf 2014 – Dan Fernandez squeezes in all manner of cool and fun technology into a single recorded virtual conference session
• Automatic NGEN PDB generation – Aditya Mandaleeka discusses the generation of PDB files as a part of the NGEN process for building native images
• On Programmers Productivity – Patrick Smacchia shares some interesting thoughts on developer productivity, motivation and practices.

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• Visual Studio "14" CTP 2 Available – John Montgomery annouces the release of the second CTP of Visual Studio ’14’, containing a vast array of new stuff, include a non-all-caps menu bar. As always the team are interested to hear your feedback on this latest preview.
• Visual Studio "14" CTP 2 Available – Brian Harry also highlights the CTP2 release of Visual Studio ’14’ along with a note explaining why there is no CTP release of TFS to go along with this preview
• ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio "14" CTP 2 – Xinyang Qiu discusses and highlights what is in the CTP2 release in terms of ASP.NET vNext
• Visual Studio "14" CTP 2 and Entity Framework – Rowan Miller also highlights the Visual Studio "14" CTP 2 Release, along with explaining what bits of Entity Framework are included in the box
• Visual Studio "14" CTP release notes – The official release notes for the CPT2 Release of Visual Studio "14"
• July 2014 Internet Explorer Updates – Wilson Guo of the Internet Explorer Team highlights the latest batch of updates to all supported versions of Internet Explorer.
• OData Client Code Generator 2.0.0 release – Yi Ding announces the release of the OData Client Code Generator Extension for Visual Studio available now from the Visual Studio Gallery, offering a wealth of new and improved functionality

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• Client Delayed Query – Junlin Zheng of the OData Team highlights the combination of OData Client 6.5.0 and OData Client Code Generator 2.0.0, looking at the generated functionality, and some of the differences from previous versions.
• ASP.NET vNext and Visual Studio 2014 CTP: The Bright Future – Pravinkumar Dabade takes a look at the ASP.NET vNext functionality available in the Visual Studio "14" CTP (note: looks like CTP1)
• The Repository Pattern in ASP.NET – Part 1 – Paul Cociuba continues his series of Video Tutorials with a look at the implementation of a Repository for use in an ASP.NET application.
• It’s Tuples All The Way Down! – Josh Eastburn takes a look at the Tuple type, discussing what it is useful for, as well as looking at when you should probably not use them,

Community

• .NET Rocks! – Web Security Breaches with Troy Hunt – Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell are joined by Troy Hunt for an edition of .NET Rocks looking at common Web Security flaws

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• Visual Studio Web Development Survey – Suresh Jayabalan launches the latest Visual Studio Survey looking at (web) developers experiences working with UI Frameworks – if you have experiences or opinions in this area give them 5 minutes of your time to help make Visual Studio better.
• Single Point Testing Using Fiddler AutoResponder – Eric Lawrence discusses how you can use Fiddler to help simulate slow and non-responsive servers when testing your applications
• Sorting and Pagination in ASP.NET 4.5 – Paul Cociuba shares part 10 of his video based series on the ASP.NET Data Driven Controls
• Various strategies to initialize Database in Entity Framework – Sourav Kayal takes a look at some of the hooks provided to initialise your database when working with and managing it using Entity Framework
• TFS Upgrade Improvements in TFS 2013.3 & TFS Adoption at Microsoft – July 2014 – Brian Harry discusses some recent improvements to the upgrade process for TFS in Update 3, and also shares an interesting look at the statistics and use of TFS within Microsoft
• Loading CSS Asynchronously – Dean Hume takes a look at loading CSS asynchronously using the LoadCSS library
• Using ODataUriParser for OData V4 – Karata Liu discusses the use of the ODataUriParser and the updates made in OData 4
• Exploring F# through modeling #3 – Per Ökvist continues this series exploring the F# language looking at how you go about using the language to model the well known game Rock-Paper-Scissors (I wonder if there will be an extension post to add in the ‘Lizard Spock’ components of the Big Bang version of the game 🙂 )
• Puzzle: Boxing Megaspheres – Craig Gidney discusses the concept of higher dimensional boxing of spheres, a good brain teaser to get your thinking going this morning.

Community

• Herding Code 193: Mark Rendle on Zudio, developing with Angular and Typescript, The History of Programming, and Simple.Data – Friend of the Brew Mark Rendle joins Jon Galloway for a discussion of Zudio, his Azure Storage tooling, and building applications using TypeScript and AngualrJS

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