The Morning Brew

Software

• [Announcement] WCF Data Services 5.6.3 RTM Tools Installer Release – Liang Wang announces the release of the tools installer for the WCF Data Services 5.6.3 RTM release

Information

• Git vulnerability with .git\config – Brian Harry discusses a Git vulnerability which can result in serious security issues with repositories, and how Microsoft have addressed the security issues arising from it
• Final Root Cause Analysis and Improvement Areas: Nov 18 Azure Storage Service Interruption – Jason Zander gives the official details of what happened with the Windows Azure Storage Service which caused disruption of cloud services.
• Chess TDD 23: Yak-Shaving with SpecFlow – Erik Dietrich continues his series on Test Driven Development step by step to create a chess game, taking a look at the creation of acceptance tests using SpecFlow
• Versioning in WebAPI using Route Constraints
  – Elton Stoneman takes a look at versions services created using WebAPI, especially exploring the case where the controller remains the same between versions but the pipeline changes.
• Do you really want to properly implement TAP? – Cellfish discusses exception throwing in Task-based Asynchronous Pattern implementations
• Ambiguous Classes in C# – ‘bconlon’ shares a tip for handling the case when two assemblies provide the same type (in terms of name and namespace)
• Gossip much? Use cases and bad practices for gossip protocols – Ayende continues discussion of achieving eventual consistency using Gossip Protocols, discussing in this post the kind of message that is typically send in such a system
• Using Entity Framework with an Existing Database: User Interface – Jon Smith explores building an application using object relational mapping with entity framework where the database is pre-existing

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