December 2014
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1753
Posted by Chris Alcock on 08 Dec 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- C# 6 in action – Jon Skeet takes a real world look at C# 6 new language features as he adds them into the Noda Time source
- C# 6 Feature Preview: Expression Bodied Members – Bill Wagner is also exploring C#6 features with a look at Expression Bodied Members to create methods using expressions rather than statement blocks
- Integration and Microservices – Charles Young discusses Micro Services, and systems integration , with a look at how the two relate, and their role in the Platform as a Service world
- Microsoft Tooling for Angular and the Web – John Papa highlights the latest Adventures in Angular Podcast where he and the team discuss Visual Studio tooling for Angular with Mads Kristensen
- Flexibility vs Simplicity? Why Not Both? – Erik Dietrich discusses the perils of configuration to give flexibility and configurability which comes at the risk of decreased simplicity.
- Intro to Azure DocumentDB – Neil Mackenzie gives a nice overview of the Azure Document database
- Sample chapter: Getting to Know the Entity Framework – Kim Spilker shares a sample chapter from John Paul Mueller on Entity Framework
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- NDCVideos.com | Norwegian Developers Conference – The video recordings of sessions from the NDC London conference held last week are now available online, including this session from Phil Trelford where Phil explores the art and science of writing a compiler.
The Morning Brew #1752
Posted by Chris Alcock on 05 Dec 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Umbraco – Umbraco 7.2 released – The Umbraco Team announce the beta release of the Umbraco Content Management System 7.2
- ReSharper 9 is Released along with dotTrace 6, dotCover 3, dotMemory 4.2 and dotPeek 1.3 – The Team over at JetBrains have pushed the button and the latest versions of ReSharper, dotTrace, dotCover, dotMemory and dotPeek are now all officially released.
- Announcing Universal v14.1 | DevExpress – DevExpress announce the release of DevExpress Universal 14.2, their collection of UI controls, libraries and frameworks for Visual Studio and .NET.
- NHibernate & Entity Framework Profiler 3.0 – Ayende announce the availability of the latest versions of the NHibernate and Entity Framework Profilers including a new WPF based UI, improved version support and much more.
- Service Bus Explorer 2.5 now available! – Paolo Salvatori announces the release of Service Bus Explorer 2.5 a useful tool which allows monitor and view Service Bus instances.
- Multilingual App Toolkit v3.1 Update 1 released – Cameron Lerum announces the Update 1 release of the Multilingual App Toolkit 3.1 which addresses overlocalisation in Windows Forms, as well as adding in support for Visual Studio 2015 preview, along with an number of other new features and improvements
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- Introducing .NET Core – Immo Landwerth builds on the announcements at Connect() about .NET Core, discussing what it is, and looking at how it is going to be released, and also how it relates to the main .NET Framework
- Constrained C# – Part 2 – Paulo Zemek continues his series looking at possible improvements to the C# language by adding further constraints – in this post Paulo clarifies points from the first post and responds to comments.
- Hosting multiple WebAPI servers in a single process – Aaron Powell takes a look at spinning up multiple WebAPI servers in a single process to facilitate integration testing of such services.
- Faking 3rd party dependencies – Cellfish discusses how he handles 3rd party dependencies from a testing point of view.
- The JavaScript Overload and Micro Frameworks – Dino Esposito discusses the ever increasing dependency on JavaScript for our web based applications and how the number of these frameworks included in applications is on the increase
- .NET Handling of Large Size Config File Issues – Nilesh Morankar shares a simple but useful tip regarding the structure of .NET application configuration files.
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The Morning Brew #1751
Posted by Chris Alcock on 04 Dec 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 Preview – JB Evain shres a preview of the Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 features which aim to bring a rich programming and debugging experience for the Unity gaming platform. The tools operate in Visual Studio 2015 Preview and also in VS2013, including the new community edition
- Visual Studio Online Update – Dec 2nd – Brian Harry announce the Sprint 74 update to Visual Studio Online, including improvements to the way in which users identity can be picked for assignment of work
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- MSDN Magazine – The December 2014 Edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online with a look at roaming users between desktop and mobile applications, continuation of the series on Unity, bluetooth file sharing, push notifications, mobile analytics, Voice Recognition, MEAN stack applications, Domain Drive Development, Responsive images and much more
- Getting ready for the future with the Microsoft .NET Portability Analyzer – Scott Hanselman discusses the use of the .NET Portability Analyzer for making sure your code can be run on the ever increasing variety of platforms that support .NET
- Introducing the NuGet PowerShell Commands Survey – Jeff Fritz and the NuGet team are looking for feedback on the PowerShell experience for NuGet, if you have 5 minutes spare please give them feedback on the commands you use to interact with NuGet.
- How to Write Effective API Sample Code – Peter Gruenbaum shares some thoughts on creating good sample code for APIs you publish, suggesting you avoid some of the ‘best practice’ development practices for production code to allow the developer looking at your sample to more easily comprehend the API beneath.
- Git and GitHub Resources – Phil Haack shares a number of really useful resources for getting up to speed and beyond with git, git on Windows and GitHub.
- JavaScript Modules the ES6 Way – 24 ways – The 24 Ways Web Development Advent Calendar returns for another year with daily Web Development articles throughout December looking at all aspects of web development, including this piece from Jack Franklin on JavaScript Models in an ECMAScript 6 world.
- The real and complete story – Does Windows defragment your SSD? – Scott Hanselman discusses the maintenance of SSD disks in Windows, aiming to get a greater understanding of what Windows does on your behalf and if it is doing things which can harm your SSD.
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