The Morning Brew

Information

• Leveraging existing code across .NET platforms – The .NET Team highlight a new piece of tooling for Portable Code from their intern Charles Lowell. The .NET Portability Analyzer will give you details of how portable your code is, and what you can do to make it more portable.
• Channel 9 Interview – Fun with the Interns: Charles Lowell on the .NET Portability Analyzer – Beth Massi shares a Channel 9 video interview with Charles Lowell discussing the .NET Portability Analyzer
• RGRC is the new Red Green Refactor for Test First Development – Steve Smith discusses the Test Driven Development practice of Red Green Refactor, suggesting that with modern version control there should be an additional step to commit your changes at the end of the loop.
• Features Of ES6 Part 2 : const – K. Scott Allen continues his series looking at the features of ECMAScript 6 with a look at the const keyword
• React.js plays nicely with other tools and other thoughts – Jeremy D Miller discusses the React.js framework, and explores how it can play nice with other frameworks allowing you to use things like jQuery Plugins with your React Code.
• A Stroll Through Node: Introduction – Steven Edouard gives a nice introduction to Node.JS and working with Node in Visual Studio
• Puppet: Making Windows Awesome Since 2011 | Rob Reynolds – The Fervent Coder – Rob Reynolds highlights Puppet, a long standing project which makes Configuration Management on Windows easier.
• Access IIS Express Website From Remote Machine – Garry Pilkington takes a look at running applications in IIS Express and making them available over the network rather than just on the local machine.
• "Microsoft Azure [VM] 101" (Or How do I use all those MSDN Azure Credits? Or VS "14" CTP Azure VM in minutes… ) – Greg Duncan highlights a post from Northwest Cadence looking at the use of MSDN credits for Virtual Machines including learning about Visual Studio 2014 by using a VM.
• Implementing SignalR in Desktop Applications – Dieter Deysel takes a look at using SignalR in desktop applications, including a quick review of the background to SignalR

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Software

• Azure: Virtual Machine, Machine Learning, IoT Event Ingestion, Mobile, SQL, Redis, SDK Improvements – Scott Guthrie announces the latest enhancements and developments available on the Windows Azure Platform
• Json.NET 6.0 Release 4 – The Json.NET team announce the release of Json,NET 6.0 Release 4 including a number of new features, a couple of changes and a number of fixes to reported issues.

Information

• MultiDictionary becomes MultiValueDictionary – .NET Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Immo Landwerth shares a post from Ian Hays discussing the changes to the MultiDictionary in the Microsoft.Experimental.Collections library, including a name change
• MSDN Magazine – The August edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online, including articles looking at integration of Windows Store applications with OneDrive, games development with Unity, Azure Media Services, and the Azure Cache, along with many others
• NHibernate Succinctly – Ricardo Peres highlights the release of his eBook on NHibernate as a part of the Syncfusion Succinctly series
• ReactiveUI Design Guidelines – Phil Haack discusses the Reactive UI of the GitHub for Windows which uses the MVVM pattern and the Reactive Extensions to create a great UI experience, and highlights the release of their ReactiveUI Design Guidelines.
• Fun with ILDASM: Extension vs Static Methods – Erik Dietrich examines Extension Methods looking at how they are implemented, and exploring down to the IL level as an educational exercise
• Guids are evil nasty little creatures that make me cry – Ayende discusses his dislike of the GUID
• ASP.NET web application security review: Do’s & Don’ts – Santosh Poojari discusses a number of things to look for when reviewing ASP.NET Web Applications from a security perspective
• Motivating Example of WinDbg Scripting for .NET Developers – Sasha Goldshtein takes a look at the somewhat cryptic scripting capabilities of WinDBG

Community

• OpenRasta: Today and tomorrow – Sebastien Lambla highlights the resurgence of the OpenRasta community and highlights an event on the evening of Friday 22nd August looking at The Future of OpenRasta

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Software(Well….Visual Studio Release at least!)

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, Azure SDK 2.4, Windows Phone 8.1 Update and Apache Cordova Tools CTP 2 – S.Somasegar
• VS/TFS 2013.3 (Update 3) released – Brian Harry
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RTM Available – John Montgomery
• Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RTM – Xinyang Qiu
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 released – Michael Zlatkovsky
• VS2013 Update 3 and Entity Framework – Rowan Miller
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 now available – Charles Sterling
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 – Robert Green
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 (2013.3) RTM – August 4 – Visual Studio Team
• July 2014 Update – Visual Studio Online "Monaco" – Chris Dias

Information

• C# 6.0 Features Part I : Property Initializers – K.Scott Allen
• Global Interceptable Program and System Hooks in .NET – D. Infuehr
• JavaScript: using closure space to create real private members – Eternal Coding – David Catuhe
• You aren’t using Resource Monitor enough – Scott Hanselman
• Practice and Theory of Security Reviews — Part 3 – Eugene Bobukh
• Unity and C# : Performance Optimisation tips – Vidyasagar MSC
• JavaScript and V8 TurboFan – Ariya Hidayat
• Enumerating the ways of choosing teams in a group of players – Raymond Chen

Community

• <anglebrackets /> Fall 2014 Conference – Elijah Manor

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