February 2015
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1800
Posted by Chris Alcock on 16 Feb 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Announcing Limited Preview for Visual Studio Online Code Search – Biju Venugopal announces the limited preview of Code Search on the Visual Studio Online Platform, featuring more than just full text searching, the Code Search Preview understands the structure of your code allowing you to better direct your searches
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- JavaScript Has Won: Run Flash with Mozilla Shumway and Develop Silverlight in JS with Fayde – Scott Hanselman highlights what may be the final nail in the Flash (and Silverlight) plugin’s coffin – the ability to run SWF and Silverlight applications using only JavaScript.
- Cross-Platform AutoMapper (again) – Jimmy Bogard talks further about cross platform support for AutoMapper, looking at getting it working with the new style refereces in CoreCLR and vNext projects
- Roslyn Code Gems – Performance Goals – K.Scott Allen highlights some of the wonderful things you can learn from reading the Roslyn Source Code
- Using JavaScript in WebForms apps? Have I the webinar for you – Julian Bucknall discusses the use of ‘Strict’ mode in JavaScript to help write better less error prone JavaScript, and highlights a Webinar event he is hosting on the subject too.
- Condition Coverage Explained in IL – The NCover team dive down to the IL level to discuss how code coverage works with contirional statements
- Tasks, Monads, and LINQ, New Task APIs in .NET 4.6 & Async/Await Limitation – ‘igolovkine’ shares a look at Task based programming, the use of Monads and Async / await in these three CodeProject articles
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The Morning Brew #1799
Posted by Chris Alcock on 13 Feb 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- EF6.1.3 Beta 1 Available – Rowan Miller announces the availability of Entity Framework 6.1.3 Beta 1, a bugfix release which is expected to RTM next month
- It’s out! The first build of Windows 10 Technical Preview for Phones – Ahmed Waheed highlights the release of the first technical preview of Windows 10 for Windows Phone, available for Windows Insiders
- Internet Explorer in the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones – Kyle Pflug discusses the Internet Explorer component of the Windows 10 Technical Preview for Windows Phone
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- Overriding filters in ASP.NET MVC 6 – Filip W takes a look at the changes in ASP.NET MVC 6 with regard to overriding filters, something which used to have built in (if limited) functionality to perform the task.
- Conditional Access Operator in C# 6.0 – K. Scott Allen resumes his series looking at the features of C#6, taking a look at the conditional access operator
- Long Lived Codebases: Architecture Gardening, Rewrites, and Automated Tests – Jeremy D Miller continues his series discussing experiences gained from maintaining StructureMap over the past decade, sharing thoughts on evolving the architecture, performing re-writes of a code base and the power and false sense of security of automated tests
- Aurelia – Day Two – Byteflux continues sharing experiences and thoughts on the use of Rob Eisenburg’s new Client side JavaScript Framework Aurelia
- Barbaric Basics: Web Workers – Jaime González García takes a look at the use of Web Workers in JavaScript to perform background tasks
- Introducing GitFlow for Visual Studio – Jakob Ehn shares an Extension for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 which helps improve tooling for working with Git using the GitFlow approach
- Dotnet by Example: Starting an OWIN ASP.NET server on Raspberry PI 2 automatically at boot up – Joost van Schaik takes a look at using a Raspberry Pi as a web server running ASP.NET via OWIN
- .NET Rocks! – Making a Thousand Podcasts with Carl and Richard – Congratulations to Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin on their 1000th podcast together under the .NET Rocks banner, (and for the 1100th show – an impressive milestone).
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The Morning Brew #1798
Posted by Chris Alcock on 12 Feb 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- TouchDevelop – TouchDevelop goes open-source – MichaÅ‚ Moskal announces the news that the Microsoft Research Project ‘TouchDevelop’ is now an open source project
- Microsoft Research makes Touch Develop open source – Susan Ibach also shares the news of the further opening up of this tool
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- Improve performance by optimizing queries for ASP.NET Identity and other Membership Providers – Pranav Rastogi shares two database indexing suggestions to help improve the performance of ASP.NET Identity and ASP.NET Universal Providers
- To Repository Or NOT – Sacha Barber takes a look at unit testing of code which makes use of Reporitories versus code that directly uses Entity Framework
- Some considerations on asynchronous execution – Paulo Zemek delves down below the different implementations behind asynchronous execution and looks at some of the common truths in async programming
- 9 New Visual Studio 2013 Extensions – Terrence Dorsey highlights 9 new or nearly new Visual Studio 2013 extensions which provide useful functionality within the IDE in this Visual Studio Magazine article.
- 11 Things About JavaScript Functions that .NET Developers Should Know: Part 1 – Dhananjay Kumar kicks off a series looking at similarities and differences between JavaScript Development and C# Development
- GitHub Language Correlation for Jan 1 2014 – Feb 1 2015 – Matt Sampson takes a look at some statistics for Programming Language use from GitHub
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