The Morning Brew

Software

• Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio – Sara Itani announces the release of the Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 bringing rich editor support, code completion, REPL, npm package management integration, test explorer and much more making Visual Studio a much better place to work with JavaScript codebases
• Syncfusion Essential Studio – Community Licence – ‘ihaynes’ highlights a new license from Syncfusion for their Essentials Studio. The community license gives free access to the whole product for small businesses and individual developers.

Information

• The ASP.NET Developer’s guide to Bootstrap – Jerrie Pelser gives a useful introduction to Bootstrap from the point of view of an ASP.NET Developer, highlighting what the framework does and further useful resources on different aspects of using Bootstrap for your web application’s UI.
• Andrei Dzimchuk | Understanding ASP.NET 5 middleware – Andrei Dzimchuk gives an overview of the key concepts of ASP.NET 5’s Middleware, illustrating with code samples
• Using #mvvmlight with Windows 10 universal applications – Laurent Bugnion shares a look at building Windows 10 applications using MVVMLight, walking through the process of creating an application
• Clean Tests: Isolation with Fakes – Jimmy Bogard continues his series on ‘Clean Tests’ taking a look at the edge cases where he considers it appropriate to use fakes to isolate dependencies, and looks at their use.
• Improve your SpecFlow scenarios with custom step argument transformations – Mike Larah sharse a useful trick to make more powerful conversions from the step arguments into your code to execute tests using argument transformations.
• Learn Roslyn Now: Part 9 Control Flow Analysis – Josh Varty shares part 9 of an interesting looking series on the use of Roslyn. This part explores control flow analysis to look at the entry and exit points of code and to explore the concept of code reachability.
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Adding Master Pages – Simon Timms continues his series looking at evolving an old legacy ASP.NET application into a more modern one, updating approaches, libraries and techniques. In this post Simon looks at retrofitting master pages.
• `Securing and securely calling Web API – Martin Kearn discusses the process of securing an ASP.NET WebAPI service, and making calls to the service passing security details, illustrating with an example.

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