The Morning Brew

Software

• New Microsoft Message Analyzer Released – Eric Lawrence highlights the release of a new version of the Microsoft Message Analyzer for capturing network traffic at a low (packet) level.
• Umbraco 7.1.5 released – The Umbraco team announce the release of Umbraco 7.1.5, a new bugifx release which also includes new recycle bin functionality.
• Expanding offers and VM delivery choices on modern.IE – Jason McConnell announces the latest improvements to the Modern.IE testing Virtual Machines, including new formats for machines (Vagrent), Parallels direct download support and also a discount for Kraken.io.

Information

• .NET Sample Code on GitHub – Immo Landwerth announces the availability of the .NET Frameworks team’s samples on GitHub, under a MIT License
• MVC Application using Owin to achieve Federated Authentication – Magnus Mårtensson takes a look at building an ASP.NET MVC web application making use of the OWIN Federated Authentication from the Microsoft Azure Access Control Service to offer the full range of authentication capabilities.
• Secure ASP.NET Web API 2 using Azure Active Directory, Owin Middleware, and ADAL – Taiseer Joudeh discusses how to secure your ASP.NET Web API 2 services using Azure Active Directory
• Prevent MVC Application from Cross Site Request Forgery Attacks – Shemeemsha RA shares a quick how-to on including the Cross Site Request Forgery protection in ASP.NET MVC.
• Before you take over supporting a web application – Eric Pavin shares a useful list for anyone taking over the support of a web application, detailing things you should check and monitor in order to be ready to support it.
• "My DocumentDB" – A Simple Web-based DocumentDB Management Tool – Shaun Xu shares a management tool for the new DocumentDB feature on the Microsoft Azure Platform which provides UI and management capabilities for the new service.
• Hubot – The Visual Studio Team share a nice guide to using HubBot in Visual Studio Online Team rooms to perform a number of administrative tasks from the Team Room environment.
• Does your SQL Smell? The free "119 SQL Code Smells" eBook might help you sniff it out (and fix it) & .NET Universe Poster, 2014 – Greg Duncan highlights two resources, one from the folks at SimpleTalk/RedGate on improving your SQL Skills, and the .NET Universe poster from Microsoft.

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• Internal or public? – Eric Lippert discusses access modifiers on members within internal classes, what they actually mean, and where there is debate over the access modifier to use.
• C# 6.0 Features Part 3: Declaration Expressions – K.Scott Allen continues his series looking at the new features of C#6, exploring declaration expressions which allow you to declare variables as parts of other expressions leading to a shorter syntax.
• AngularJS: The Bad Bits – Mircea Moise shares thoughts on introducing additional frameworks like AngularJS into existing web applications
• AngularJS: One Step at a Time – Michael Crump shares a step by step article on building a basic application using AngularJS
• HTTP vs HTTPS performance comparison – Dean Hume discusses the performance implications of using HTTPS to serve whole websites, and how Google are now treating HTTPS as a quality indicator in their ranking algorithm
• Is IQueryable poisoning your interfaces? – tilovell09 discusses the use of IQueryable as an interface you expose
• Workaround for when Visual Studio Update says it doesn’t apply – Heath Stewart discusses what you can do when Visual Studio refuses to apply its updates.
• 10 things I learned about rapidly scaling websites with Azure & Introducing paste searches and monitoring for’Have I been pwned?’ – Troy Hunt shares lessons learned regarding monitoring from scaling his security breach information checking site, and shares an update on another type of security disclosure.

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Software

• Azure: SQL Databases, API Management, Media Services, Websites, Role Based Access Control and More – Scott Guthrie announces the latest batch of improvements to the Microsoft Azure platform, including General Availability of QSL Database Service Tiers, API Management Service and Azure Alerting, as well as a number of new previews as well as media services enhancements.
• Announcing the 0.6.0-beta preview of Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK – Pranav Rastogi announces the latest preview release of the Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK, including new features around table ingress and queue messaging
• badapi.net just got badder – Elton Stoneman announces the latest changes to his badapi.net service which aims to provide bad responses to API calls, and is now even easier to point your client code at.

Information

• Auto restore Nuget packages with TFS Build the right way – Tarun Arora takes a look at how to configure MSBuild to restore NuGet Packages on build
• Revisiting – how to make your EF queries testable – ’tilovell09′ takes a revised look at how to make Entity Framework queries better testable
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Introduction – Simon Timms looks back on the history of .NET and begins a series looking at bringing legacy ASP.NET applications up to date.
• Refactoring the ASP.NET MVC Application to the Onion Architecture – Dhananjay Kumar walks through a refactoring of a sample ASP.NET MVC application into the Onion Architecture style
• Deriving from a fluent class – Bertrand Le Roy talsk about the design inspiration beind FluentPath, and appeals to the community for advice on extending Fluent Interfaces like FluentPath
• Fear Driven Development – FDD – Scott Hanselman discusses some of the less widely appreciated development styles, including the two variations of Fear Driven Development
• I crashed the web servers of a $100M+ multi-national corporation … – Derick Bailey discusses how a mistake early in his career provided a very valuable learning experience.
• IIS Server and Site Comparison with Web Deploy – Eric Parvin highlights a number of useful techniques for comparing web server configurations at different levels

Community

• DDD East Anglia 2014 – Phil Trelford shares an overview of proceedings at DDD East Anglia – sounds like it was another great event – sorry to have missed out on it

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