The Morning Brew

Update: I got distracted while titling today’s edition and mistakenly labled it as 1830 when it should have been 1831 – thanks to PaweÅ‚ NiedbaÅ‚a for letting me know via the comments

Software

• A Preview of WinJS 4.0 – The Windows Apps Team announce the preview release of WinJS 4.0 the latest version pof their JavaScript based UI library
• Updated Fiddler OAuth Inspector – Kirk Evans shares an update of his Fiddler Extension which provides capabilities for inspecting JSON Web Tokens which started out as a Sharepoint specific extension but has much more general use.

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• Entry Points for ASP.NET 5 Commands – K. Scott Allen takes a look at the Commands functionality of ASP.NET 5 which provide a useful way of running things like migrations, starting a web server and much more
• Prepare Yourself for ASP.NET 5 – Part 1 (Less and Sass) & Prepare Yourself for ASP.NET 5 – Part 2 (NuGet, Npm, Bower) – Bipin Joshi takes a look at ASP.NET 5 and some of the supporting technologies in the opening two posts of this series, first looking at SASS and LESS CSS processors before moving on to look at 3 package managers.
• Solution: Little Puzzlers – Is tree a Binary Search Tree? – James Michael Hare follows up on his latest ‘Little Puzzler’ problem with a post on the solution he came up to solve the problem.
• ES6 generators in depth – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer continues his series looking at ECMAScript 6 Iterators with a detailed look at generators
• Barbaric Basics: Web Workers – Jaime González García takes a look at Web Workers as a aprt of his Barbaric Basics series – covering the use of them to perform work in the background in the web browser.
• The Rise of TypeScript? – TJ VanToll shares thoughts on the rise to prominence of TypeScript, and the Angular Team’s choice to use TypeScript for their V2.
• SQL Server High Availability in the Azure Cloud Part 1: The Basics – The MVP Blog shares a post from David Bermingham on setting up SQL Server in a High Availability configuration on the Microsoft Azure platform.
• Most Prolific Bloggers on .Net – Phillip Trelford takes a look at answering the question of the who the most prolific bloggers on the .NET platform are using data from Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew / Dew Drop.

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• Download all your NuGet Package Licenses – Phil Haack discusses software licenses, and shares a useful bit of PowerShell to get the license details for all of your NuGet Dependencies
• ChessTDD 28: Preparing for Idiomatic SpecFlow – Erik Dietrich continues improving his use of SpecFlow with a look at representing the moves on the chess board as part of his tests
• Bitmap types, Binary Resources and Westwind.Globalization – Rick Strahl discusses image resources, how they are managed in standard RESX resources and the format used internally, questioning how he should implement images in his Westwind.Globalization library.
• TypeC – A Simple .NET Dependency Injection / IoC Container – ‘hanuk’ shares a simple .NET Dependency Injector / Inversion of Control Container, which allows you to register abstract types with their concrete implementation and then obtain instances of these concrete types from the container in your code.
• Horror: Migrating Angular-UI-Router to Angular New Router – Shaun Xu takes a look at what will be one of the first steps most people need to take in migrating Angular 1.x to Angular 2.x, implementing the new router to handle the application flow from URLs.
• Introduction to Basics of Angular 1.4 newRouter – Gaurav H also takes a look at the new Router implementation in Angualr 1.4, looking over its green field use
• ASP.NET 5 angularJS application using angular-ui-router – ‘damienbod’ is also looking at Angular Routing, looking at getting it all working alongside an ASP.NET 5 application
• Previewing Config Transforms – Colin Angus Mackay shares a useful tip for anyone working with a project which uses Config Transformations, allowing you to see previews of the transformed configuration files.

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Software

• Visual Studio Upcoming Features Timeline – Megan Yount
• Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit – Pranav Rastogi
• Welcome to the Azure Marketplace – Lee Stott
• Bandwidth Quota changes to the Free offer of Azure App Service – Apurva Joshi

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• C#/.NET Little Wonders: String Interpolation in C# 6 – James Michael Hare
• Simple.Data Asp.Net Identity Provider – Nathan Gloyn
• Rx Challenge #4 – Bnaya Eshet
• Using Configuration to Define Web API Routes – Dave Donaldson
• Cross Site Scripting attack in MVC – Abhi Jain
• Functional C#: Immutability, Functional C#: Primitive obsession, Functional C#: Non-nullable reference types & Functional C#: Handling failures, input errors – Vladimir Khorikov
• What fire and forget really means – Cellfish

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