The Morning Brew

Software

• April 2015 .NET Security Updates – The .NET Team highlight their contribution to this month’s Patch Tuesday addressing a security issue found to affect .NET 1.1 – 4.5.2 on affected versions of Windows.
• April 2015 security updates for Internet Explorer – Similarly the Internet Explorer team also have a patch in the Patch Tuesday collection this month, this one disables SSL3.0 on Internet Explorer 11

Information

• New E-Book: ASP.NET MVC Succinctly
  – Vincent Maverick S. Durano highlights the release of ‘ASP.NET MVC Succinctly’ by Nick Harrison, the latest (reg-ware) free ebook from Syncfusion
• New number and Math features in ES6 – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer highlights a number of new features in ECMAScript 6 which relate to Number types and the Math library, including improved comparison and precision validation, support for other number systems, and much more.
• Build Your First Hybrid Mobile App with Visual Studio 2013, AngularJS, Ionic, and Adobe PhoneGap – Paul Ballard walks through the creation of a cross platform hybrid phone application using much of the technology stack which will be used in Visual Studio 2015’s hybrid mobile application templates.
• DocumentDB Add and Read – Simple Approach – Wriju Ghosh takes a look at Document DB, walking through two of the most common use cases
• Handmade Claims-based Authentication for Old-fashioned ASP.NET Sites – Dino Esposito discusses integrating claims based authentication into older ASP.NET sites using a custom principal.
• NameOf (C# 6) – Robert MacLean takes a look at the nameof syntactic sugar which allows your code to get the names of members at compile time without resorting to reflection.
• Is it just me or Windows 10 is looking like Windows 1.0? – Fabio Pintos poses an interesting question – and something which does look to be quite accurate too – it’s amazing how things come back around isn’t it
• Extending Classes and Interfaces using TypeScript & The Role of Interfaces in TypeScript – Dan Wahlin discusses the use of TypeScript and how you can go about extending interfaces and classes with new methods, as well as looking at how interfaces work in TypeScript.

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