March 2015
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1813
Posted by Chris Alcock on 05 Mar 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- ADAL v3 Preview – March Refresh – Vittorio Bertocci highlights the latest update to the Active Directory Authentication Library now with support for .NET Core and Xamarin Unified API
Information
- ?. in C#: When properties might be null – Bill Wagner looks at some of the use cases for the ?. operator in C#6 and how it can help to write concise code in a variety of scenarios
- Bundling and Minifying an AngularJS Application with ASP.NET MVC – Marius Schulz takes a look at some of the addition things to consider when minifying and bundling Angular JS applications
- No promises: asynchronous JavaScript with only generators – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer takes a look at the new style of asynchronous JavaScript code made possible using generators without promises in ECMAScript 6
- Fixing Memory Leaks in AngularJS and other JavaScript Applications – Dave Kerr takes a look at how to go about identifying memory leaks in JavaScript applications, looking at an AngularJS application to illustrate, before looking at what the solutions are to common memory leaks
- ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Control Builders – Ricardo Peres takes a look at the Web Forms Control Builder functionality which provide an extensibility point for ASP.NET Web Froms
- Unit Testing and Memory Profiling: Can They Be Combined? – Alexey Totin shares a look at the dotMemory Unit framework whcih provides a way of performing unit tests which verify the memory use of your application
- Why are Azure Virtual Networks important for developers? – Alexandre Brisebois discusses the importance of Azure Virtual Networks in crafting a good solution on the Azure platform, and how with the advent of devops it is more important for developers to pay attention to infrastructure related topics
- Using Grunt, Gulp and Bower in Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 – Ravi Kiran explores te use of Grunt, Gulp and Bower as part of the development process inside Visual Studio (2013&2015), giving an introduction to these tools and looking at how they integrate into the IDE.
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The Morning Brew #1812
Posted by Chris Alcock on 04 Mar 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Announcing Azure Preview Portal Improvements (February Update) – Leon Welicki announces the release of the latest batch of improvements to the new Preview Azure Portal, adding a number of new features and improvements to this experimental (and futuristic) web portal.
- Brackets 1.2 Released – Ryan Stewart announces the release of Brackets 1.2, with a number of improvements included in this release of the open source web IDE
Information
- MSDN Magazine – The March edition of MSDN Magazine is available online now, includeing all the usual columns and .NET framework related articles, including ‘ASP.NET 5 – A Deep Dive into the ASP.NET 5 Runtime‘ from Daniel Roth looking at all the key components in the ASP.NET 5 Runtime
- Tail calls in F# – Keith Battocchi takes a look at how Tail Calls work in F#, exploring down to the IL level.
- Aurelia – Status – March 2015 – Rob Eisenberg shares an update on the latest happenings on the Aurelia JavaScript application framework
- How to run ASP.NET 5 Beta 3 or GoLang on a Raspberry Pi 2 – Scott Hanselman takes a look at getting ASP.NET 5 ‘s latest beta running on the latest edition of the Raspbery Pi
- Library patterns: Why frameworks are evil – Tomas Petricek discusses the difference between libraries and frameworks and why he prefers libraries over frameworks
- Make Debugging Faster with Visual Studio – Andrew B Hall shares some tips and tricks to improve the performance of debugging in Visual Studio
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The Morning Brew #1811
Posted by Chris Alcock on 03 Mar 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Information
- Backward compatibility pain – Jon Skeet discusses the difficulties of backwards compatibility illustrating with three items from .NET 4.6 where there are breakages in backwards compatibility or bugs which are not being fixed to preserve backward compatibility
- Clean Tests: Isolating the Database – Jimmy Bogard continues his series on clean tests discussing the use of his Respawn tooling to help isolate the database to allow you to get clean tests of functionality which uses the database
- Fixie – A Convention-based .NET Testing Framework – Jason Roberts takes a brief look at the Fixie test framework, a recent addition to the testing landscape for .NET Developers.
- Securing Your Logins With ASP.Net MVC – Garry Pilkington kicks off a two part series looking at the different ways of securing ASP.NET applications, starting off with a look at login in MVC in this post.
- BeckDesignRules – Martin Fowler highlights four simple rules from Kent Beck which will improve your code. Beck developed these rules as a part of his work defining Extreme programming in the 1990s but they are still as relavent now as ever.
- A first look at the Windows 10 universal app platform – Kevin Gallo sets out the Windows 10 view on Universal Application Development for Desktop, mobile and devices in between
- MVP Monday – SQL Server High Availability in Windows Azure Iaas – David Bermingham discusses the running of SQL Server in High Availability setups on the Microsoft Azure platform, exploring the various aspects of the configuration of such a setup.
- Service Bus Explorer 2.6 now available! – Paolo Salvatori announces the release of Service Bus Explorer 2.6 updated to use Microsoft.ServiceBus.dll 2.5.3.0, intended for use with Service Bus instances hosted in the cloud.
Community
- DDDSW 6 Sponsorship – The fantastic DeveloperDeveloperDeverloper South West conference is under threat for this year due to a lack of sponsorship – if you know of or work for a company who would be willing to help out, please get in touch with the organisers
- #xpman March 12th – Lessons learnt scaling a mainstream restful API, with David Whitney – XP Manchester welcome David Whitney for a session on building and scaling a large and successful RESTful API on the evening of March 12th
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