The Morning Brew

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• Windows 10 announcements on Jan 21, 2015 – Jennifer Marsman shares a nice summary of yesterday’s announcements regarding Windows 10, Office, Phones and Devices and much more
• Rollup: Microsoft HoloLens, Surface Hub, Windows 10, Xbox One game streaming and more – Scott Hanselman shares his thoughts on the announcements from yesterday, as well as clarifying the free upgrade to Windows 10.

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• Migrating from ASP.NET Web API to MVC 6 – exploring Web API Compatibility Shim – Filip W takes a look at the WebAPI Compatibility Shim, and how it can help you in migrating an ASP.NET WebAPI 2 project to MVC6, helping to account for the changes and re-structuring necessary.
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Password Hashing – Simon Timms continues this series of posts looking at bringing an ageing ASP.NET Application up to date with a look at introducing better techniques of storing passwords
• TypeScript Developer Survey – Ryan Cavanaugh and the TypeScript team are looking for your feedack via short survey. IF you are using TypeScript you opionions will help the team direct their efforts, so donate them a few minutes to complete the questionnaire.
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Dates take a lot of time – Ayende continues his series looking at some of the performance optimisations identified in the RavenDB code, this time looking at date formatting, and how similar techniques to those in his previous posts can be used here also.
• Quake Mode Console for Visual Studio – Open a Command Prompt with a hotkey – Scott Hanselman discusses a neat little Visual Studio Extension (inspired by functionality in GitHub, which was in turn inspired by Quake) which makes it really easy to get a command prompt in the current directory.
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Result Transformers – Ricardo Peres continues his series of posts looking at NHibernate with a look a the different result transformers which take the data from the database and can convert to different formats of output.
• Thank You For That Pull Request, However – Rob Conery discusses some things to consider before you embark on creating pull requests for an open source project

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• Integrating MediatR with Web API – Jimmy Bogard continues discussion of MediatR and his design decision to take dependency only on the Common Service Locator for dependency resolution, looking at how to integrate MediatR with WebAPI using StructureMap
• Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 is now available and can be tested using an Azure VM! – Sascha Corti highlights the availability of Azure Virtual Machine images of Visual Studio 2015 CTP5, giving a very easy way to try out the latest preview release.
• Speed up WebAPI on Microsoft Azure – Ugo Lattanzi takes a look at hosting ASP.NET Web API outside of IIS on the Microsoft Azure Platform using OWIN self hosting and Azure Worker Roles.
• Paging in ASP.NET Web API: Introduction – Jerrie Pelser kicks off a series of posts looking at the different styles of achieving paging in Web APIs, exploring a number of strategies in this first post.
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Etags and evil code, part II – Ayende continues his performance discussion of code to deal with ETags, looking at going from a binary representation to a string representation
• The for of Loop in ES6 – K.Scott Allen continues exploration of iterators in ECMAScript 6 with a look at the support at a higher level with the new for of looping syntax
• I’ll Take a Crack at Defining Tech Debt – Erik Dietrich, prompted by comments on his Chess Test Driven Development series discusses the concepts of Technical Debt.

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• NCache 3.1 Open Sourced – Kay Ewbank highlights the open sourcing of the NCache project with their 3.1 release
• New handy Visual Studio extensions – part 2 – Mads Kristensen discusses a number of his recent Visual Studio Extensions, including an open website from Azure, Visual Studio Extension Updater, and Command Prompt here extensions.

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• .NET Core API Review 2015-01-14 – The .NET Core team share the video recording of their January API Review Meeting, an interesting watch and glimpse into the now open source process of developing .NET Core.
• Upgrading Visual Studio 2015 Preview to ASP.NET 5/MVC 6 RC – Stephen Walther takes a look at the process of updating Visual Studio 2015 Preview to use the latest ASP.NET 5 MVC6 Nightly Builds, providing a walk through of the process.
• Why I write unit tests and why you should too – Jaime González García shares what was a work email response about unit testing, and why he believes in it strongly as a practice for good software development.
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Etags and evil code, Part I – Ayende discusses the ETag, and looks at the performance of code to parse their value from a string.
• ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 1, Configuring Grunt, Uglify, and AngularJS, ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 2, Using the MVC 6 Web API, ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 3, Adding Client Routing, ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 4, Using Entity Framework 7 &ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 5, Form Validation – Stephen Walther has started a series looking at using Angular JS and ASP.NET 5 (MVC and WebAPI) and Entity Framework
• Markdown in Visual Studio Online – Allen Clark takes a look at the support for Markdown in Visual Studio Online

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• Hot Off the Press! Azure Technical Webinars Published – Mike Heald announces the release of the programme of Webinar and in person Windows Azure events for the next 6 months

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