The Morning Brew

Software

• Release Notes for March 16, 2015 – xUnit.net – The XUnit.NET team announce the release of XUnit.net 2.0 which has been 2.5 years in the making, and adds in more platform support, a pure NuGet distribution and much more

Information

• A Look at ASP.NET 5: Part 3 – EF7 – Shawn Wildermuth continues his series looking at the new features of ASP.NET 5, taking a look at Entity Framework 7, the newly re-engineered data access strategy.
• What I Learned from Learning about SpecFlow – Erik Dietrich shares his learnings from getting up to speed with SpecFlow for acceptance testing
• Aurelia & Angular 2.0 Code Side by Side – Part 2 – Rob Eisenberg follows on from yesterday’s post looking at side by side code of Angular 2.0 and Aurelia, this time sharing another comparison looking at the equivalent of Angular 2.0 Forms
• ASP.NET MVC, Localization and Westwind.Globalization for Db Resources – Rick Strahl discusses in detail his Globalization libraries version 2 update, which provides database driven resources with web based editing for ASP.NET MVC applications.
• Building A Queue – Part 4 – Karl Seguin continues his series looking at building a queue implementation, looking at the implementation of channels in this post.
• Exploring .NET Core with ReSharper Ultimate – Matt Ellis discusses ReSharper’s .NET Core support in the latest Early access preview and looks at the .NET Core framework.
• Powerful Development &Test Environment in the Cloud – Magnus Mårtensson discusses the use of Azure as a great development and testing environment, sharing how to go about setting it all up.
• Getting admin by adding a new user to sudoers when you’re locked out of an Azure Linux VM – Scott Hanselman ‘hacks’ his own virtual machine (owned by his Azure account) using a few useful techniques to re-obtain access to the machine,

Community

• dotnetConf 2015 – Join us live March 18th and 19th & Live Stream Tomorrow’s dotNetConf – Dmitry Lyalin and the MVP Award Program Blog remind us all that today (Wednesday) is the start of the dotNetConf virtual event.

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Software

• Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.2 Beta Released – Steve Dower shares a look at the latest beta release of the Python Tools for Visual Studio
• New Features in Bing Developer Assistant March Release – Jialiang highlights the new features added in the March release of the Bing Developer Assistant, tooling which brings various help with coding from how to guides to sample code
• MAT v4.0 Technical Preview Update 2 with Xamarin support – Cameron Lerum announces the release of the Multilingual App Toolkit v4.0 Technical Preview Update 2, with continued support for the Xamarin platform, in addition to core .NET platforms

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• My new free eBook is out: OWIN Succinctly by Syncfusion & OWIN Succinctly: free ebook – Simone Chiaretta & Ugo Lattanzi announce the release of their free e-book on the OWIN (Open Web Server Interface for .NET) specification, available via SyncFusion (registration required)
• Xamarin & Caliburn.Micro – The Caliburn.Micro outline their roadmap for adding support for Xamarin to the framework.
• Aurelia & Angular 2.0 Code Side by Side – Rob Eisenberg shares a short comparision of code written against AngularJS 2.0 with the same functionality expressed in Aurelia.
• What is New in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 – Nikolaos Kantzelis shares his thoughts on the ASP.NET 5 and ASP.NET MVC 6
• Hosting HTTP Resources – Ricardo Peres takes a look at some of the pure .NET ways of hosting HTTP based services
• Taking full dumps for big IIS apps – Ayende discusses some of the benefits of hosting applications inside IIS, and discusses taking a memory dump of an IIS hosted application, and a trick which stops the application restarting when you do.
• Forcing $q .notify() To Execute With A No-Op In AngularJS – Ben Nadal discusses working with cached data in AngularJS and the use of deferred values
• AngularJS and $scope.$apply() best practices – Kamil Lelonek discusses interaction with the Anugular $scope from outside Angular, and how to use $apply calls to make things work
• Something Razor Should Learn From JSX – Nik Molnar shares some thoughts on view templating looking at how React works, and thinking about improvements in the View – View Model interaction in ASP.NET MVC Razor views.
• Visual Studio Time Saver – Faster HTML Coding – Susan Ibach shares a look at the Zen Coding extension which makes writing HTML quicker and easier in Visual Studio.

Community

• dotnetConf is back, this Wednesday – The .NET Team highlight dotnetConf, an online conference taking place over two days, startng tomorrow (Wednesday), with the first day having 10 sessions from the ,NET Product Teams, and the second day having 9 talks from community members

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Software

• Application Insights, Visual Studio Online and Azure Tools for Java Developers – Somasegar discusses some of the Azure Platform enhancements for Java Developers with the release of the Java SDK for application insights, support for Java in Visual Studio Online, and improved tooling in Eclipse.
• Search-as-a-Service: Azure Search is now Generally Available – Ahmed Waheed highlights the general availability release of Azure Search

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• A short note on build tasks – Dru Sellers discusses automated build and the various stages which make up the process, looking back at what this traditionally involved, and how the move to Microservices is changing the needs
• The destructuring algorithm in ECMAScript 6 – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer takes a look at the destructuring capabilities of ECMAScript 6
• Solution – Little Puzzlers: First Non-Repeating Character – James Michael Hare shares his solution to his recent first non-repeating character coding problem
• ChessTDD 27: Parameterized Acceptance Tests and Scenarios – Erik Dietrich continues his series looking at building a game of chess using Test Driven Development approaches, sharing the next instalment of the videos looking at acceptance testing with SpecFlow
• Incremental Find in Visual Studio with Crtl-I &…who knew?! – ‘bconlon’ shares a useful tip and keyboard short cut for searching for content in Visual Studio
• Using Two Factor Identity in ASP.net 5 – Simon Timms explores multi-factor authentication in ASP.NET applications, working step by step to illustrate.
• The Zen of Code Reviews: Pre-Review Comments – Michael Sorens shares some tips on making code reviews more useful and to help the review of your code understand the changes you made
• F# Units of Measure – A Worked Example – Steven Pemberton shares a nice walk through of the Units of Measure functionality of the F# language

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