The Morning Brew

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• Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available – John Montgomery announces the release of the 5th Community Technology Preview release of Visual Studio 2015, featuring improved Debugging and Diagnostics features, updates to ASP.NET and more
• Announcing TypeScript 1.4 – Jonathan Turner announces the release of TypeScript 1.4, a release which adds further ECMAScript 6 feature support, along with Type Aliases, and Const Enums
• Making It Better: Updates for ASP.NET 5 in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 – Jeffrey T. Fritz announces the Beta 2 release of ASP.NET 5 as a part of the Visual Studio 2015 CTP5 release, giving an overview of some of the key improvements.
• Diagnostic Tools debugger window in Visual Studio 2015 – Dan J Taylor shares a detailed look at the Diagnostics Debugger Windows in Visual Studio 2015 CTP5, and what information they can reveal to you.
• New UI Performance Analysis Tool for WPF Applications – Harikrishna Menon shares a look at the new WPF performance analysis tools in the Visual Studio 2015 CTP5 release, looking at the process of performing profiling activities within the IDE.

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• Can Restrictive Coding Standards Make Us More Productive? – Jason Gorman discusses some of the benefits of having strict and ridged code standards, and how it can make your code better and ensure you keep productivity by having well defined ways of solving problems.
• Revisiting Partial View Rendering in ASP.NET MVC – Dino Esposito discusses different ways of achieving partial page post back, and explores some ‘lighter touch’ ways of achieving this which don’t involve a full Single Page Application (SPA) framework
• Sharing Data in an Angular Controller or an Angular Service – John Papa looks at a couple of different scenarios for sharing data between controllers in Angular applications, caching the data and refreshing it should it change
• HTTPS In 2015 – Eric Lawrence highlights a recent conference talk on the current state of HTTPS, as well as discussing the privacy issues and some interesting behaviour which can impact on privacy.
• Code Analysis Survey – Eric Battalio shares another survey from the Visual C++ Team on the code analysis experiences, so if you have 10 minutes and some interest or knowledge of these features help them out in making things even better.
• JSON# – Tutorial #5: Deserialising Complex Objects – Paul Mooney continues his seriese looking at his JSON# library moving on t look at deserialisation of complex object types

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• Angular Cloud Data Connector – David Catuhe highlights the release of the Angular Cloud Data Connector, a library for Angular which brings a provider based approach to providing data to Angular from a variety of sources, including support for all CRUD operations, along with offline support

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• Combating the lava-layer anti-pattern with rolling refactoring – Jimmy Bogard follows on from Mike Hadlow’s pre-Christmas post on the lava-layer anti-pattern, discussing how different implementations of concepts in codebases is a problem for the code base and how we can get out of this kind of situation in long lived applications
• Long Lived Codebases: The Challenges | The Shade Tree Developer – Jeremy D Miller also shares thoughts on long lived codebases, kicking off a new series of lessons learned from his maintenance of the StructureMap codebase
• Using JSON Web Tokens with Katana and WebAPI – K.Scott Allen explores how to implement JSON Web Token support to ASP.NET WebAPI through OWIN Middleware
• Deployments in .NET 2014/2015 Report – David Whitney shares the results and analysis from his recent developer survey on .NET Deployment
• Azure Data Services: SQL in the Cloud (Part 2) – Adarsha Datta shares the second part of this tutorial series on Azure Data Services, exploring the options for SQL on the cloud platform.
• Taking the Web App Template Cross-Platform – John Shew highlights the Web Application Template for building Cross Platform mobile applications, for building applications for iOS,Android, Windows Phone and Windows Store.

Community

• Web API Design Jumpstart – Jeremy Likness highlights a free all day (PST) online course from Jeremy and Christopher Harrison looking at all aspects of Web API service design

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• Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio 2015 Preview is Released – The OneCode Team announce the release of a version of the Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio 2015 Preview, along with a new feature added

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• Running ASP.NET 5 applications in Linux Containers with Docker – Ahmet Alp Balkan shares a detailed look at deploying an ASP.NET application on Linux using the ASP.NET Docker container
• Announcing SQL Parameterization in DocumentDB – Ryan CrawCour discusses the new support for parameterised queries using SQL in Azure DocumentDB via the REST API and SDKs
• Part two of the story around Leap Seconds and Windows: #NotY2K – M3 Sweatt discusses this year’s leap second, highlighting some of the discussion of the impact of this and what it means in practice.
• Not All That Returns JSON is RESTful: Understanding HATEOAS – Rahul P Nath discusses what makes fully RESTful services, and looks at some of the factors people often forget
• C# Performance Mistakes – Andreas Grabner discusses a few common performance mistakes that are all too often made, and some next steps to help address these issues should you encounter them
• Exploring One-Time Bindings In AngularJS 1.3 – Ben Nadel takes a look at the use of One-Time Bindings
• Task and Await: Basic Cancellation – Jeremy Clark takes a look at the techniques for cancelling Asynchronous methods of various types, highlighting the places where the process is a little less obvious.
• My small contribution to ASP .NET 5
  – Kevin Logan discusses how he contributed to ASP.NET in a very simple way, and highlights the process of making contributions to the official repository

Community

• Registration for Build 2015 opens Jan. 22 – Steve Guggenheimer highlights the opening of registrations for the 2015 //Build conference

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