The Morning Brew

Software

• Updates to RoslynDom 1.0.8 Alpha – Kathleen Dollard announce an updated and experimental release of RoslynDOM containing a number of new features

Information

• Know thy .NET object memory layout – Matt Warren shares some knowledge and experience gained porting HdrHistogram from Java to .NET, learning plenty about the layout of memory in .NET along the way.
• SYSK 390: String.Format vs. concatenation – ‘irenake’ takes a look at the relative performance of string concatenation and the use of String.Format.
• CodeLens Processing pipeline performance improvements – Mathew Aniyan discusses some of the performance improvements made to CodeLens in the Update 3 release
• On Staying Positive and Subconscious Prejudices, Using Server Side Timers and SignalR in ASP.NET MVC Applications & Consuming Server-Side SignalR Events in Universal Windows App Clients – Jason Roberts takes a look at the use of SignalR in browser and Universal Windows Applications
• Unobtrusive JavaScript Validation in ASP.NET – Paul Cociuba shares the 9th part in a series on ASP.NET, taking a look at the improvements in Validation controls in ASP.NET 4.5
• ASP.NET Anti-Forgery Tokens internals – Sebastian Solnica takes a look under the hood at how ASP.NET Anti-Forgery Tokens work in this CodeProject article

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Happy Independence Day to my US readers – enjoy your long weekend

Software

• ODataLib 6.5.0 Release – ‘LeoHu1’ announces the release of the latest version of the ODataLib, introducing a couple of bugfixes and a number of new features

Information

• Avoiding conditionals to improve code – ‘Cellfish’ discusses the idea of programming without (or with minimal) conditional expressions
• Catch up on all the videos from DotNetConf Spring 2014 – Scott Hanselman highlights the range of great recorded content from the dotNetConf event
• ASP.NET Session State using SQL Server In-Memory – Ken Kilty explores the in-memry features of SQL server 2014 to provide shared session backing for ASP.NET applications
• View Source in the CPU Usage tool – Dan J Taylor highlights another new and useful feature of the Performance and Diagnostic Hub in Update 2 of Visual Studio 2013
• Best Practices – Code Coverage Metrics – The NCover team kick off a 4 part video series looking at best practices for code coverage, starting with a look at code coverage metrics in this first part
• A design pattern for caching – two tier caching with strong consistency between servers | Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing – Paul Lou – Paul Lou takes a look at a pattern for working with non-scalable data sources with minimal data churn
• Cancelling Long Promise Chains – Karl Seguin continues looking at promises, exploring how you go about cancelling a chain or promises
• DOCTYPE Explored – Mohit Jain gives a useful reminder of the role of the DocType in HTML and how it affects rendering in this CodeProject Article

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Software

• Announcing the Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.2, Web API 2.2 and Web Pages 3.2 – Daniel Roth
• VS/TFS 2013.3 (Update 3) RC – Brian Harry
• Update 3 Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 – John Montgomery
• Microsoft acquires SyntaxTree, creator of UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio – Somasegar
• CodeLens for Git improvements in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Update 3 RC – Jean-Marc Prieur
• Application Insights tools for Visual Studio included in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC – Vlad Joanovic
• Fiddler for Linux Updated – Eric Lawrence

Information

• Maximize Compression with Zopfli – Eric Lawrence
• Domain-Driven Design with ASP.NET MVC – Steve Smith
• Loan calculator – Phil Trelford
• Threadsafe Incrementing in C# – Eli Weinstock-Herman
• Write 30% Less Test Code With AutoFixture – Jaime González García
• Build Your Own App Specific REPL For Your NodeJS App – Derick Bailey

Community

• DDD East Anglia Sessions – Voting has opened for DD East Anglia Sessions
• dotnetConf 2014 Wrapup – The dotnetConf team
• An Invite to the Palace! – Andrew Westgarth

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