The Morning Brew

Software

• Node.js Tools 1.0 on GitHub and VMs Available – Kasey Uhlenhuth and the Visual Studio team highlight the 1.0 release of Node.JS tools for Visual Studio, their migration to , and the availability of Virtual Machine Images giving you an easy way to try out Node.JS and Visual Studio

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• ASP.NET MVC 6 formatters – XML and browser requests – Filip W follows up on a previous post on ASP.NET MVC Formatters in ASP.NET MVC6 with a look at some of the changes in handling XML, and some of the content negotiation that the framework will do to attempt to work out if your request is from the browser address bar.
• Making It Better: ASP.NET with Visual Basic 14 – Jeffrey T. Fritz discusses the ongoing role of BASIC in the Microsoft Platform, taking a look at some of the improvements for Visual Basic 14 which give benefit to ASP.NET Developers.
• Batching in an ASP.NET 5 AngularJS application using angular-http-batcher – damienbod takes a look at implementing batched requests from AngularJS application, and how they are supported on the current ASP.NET framework, but not currently on the new ASP.NET MVC.
• Suprastructure – how come "Microservices" are getting small? – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz shares his thoughts on the evolution of SOA into Microservices and the hosting options for providing infrastructure to them
• Visual Studio Tip #6: Turn on those line numbers (with Quick Launch) – BenWilli reminds us all of the QuickLaunch capability in Visual Studio, and also the line numbering feature of the IDE
• CQRS Workshop – Retrospective – Gabriel Schenker shares thoughts on his recent CQRS Workshop event, and also looks at the steps he uses to build successful implementations using a CQRS style.
• CQRS recap, or “How to resuscitate” – Kyle Baley also shares his experience of Gabriel Schenker’s Workshop discussing the sample solution they came up with for the workshop’s problem.
• ChessTDD 32: Squashing a Subtle Bug – Erik Dietrich shares the next instalment of his video series on building a Chess Game using Test Driven Development, looking at the resolving of the bug discovered at the end of the previous part.
• Types Of Code Coverage- Examples In C# – Anton Angelov discusses the different types of Code Coverage, discussing how they differ and what that can mean to you when your IDE says ‘100% code coverage’
• Bad UX and User Self-Blame – "I’m sorry, I’m not a computer person." – Scott Hanselman discusses the trait of the user to blame themselves if they cant manage to operate a computer system or program.
• Tons of statistics and metrics for Microsoft Azure websites (not only Asp.Net) – François Boucher highlights some of the tools and metrics available for Azure based applications to help you to get a better understanding of what your application is up to and how the platform is behaving.
• Microsoft Azure Essentials free eBook series – Ken Cenerelli highlights the Microsoft Azure Essentials eBook series, a collection of free eBooks, currently covering Azure Essentials, Azure Automation, and Azure Machine Learning.

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• DRY out your policies – Eric Lippert
• Object Oriented, Test Driven Design in C# and Java: A Practical Example Part #5 | – Paul Mooney
• To improve testing, snoop on the competition – Gojko Adzic
• TDD Gamification – Dave M Bush
• All you need to know about Redis & An easy way to use StackExchange.Redis – Ugo Lattanzi
• Integrated Javascript testing with Jasmine, Travis, and NPM – Carl Hembrough
• Windows 10 – The Fast Ring and BUILD 10061 – Scott Hanselman
• Analyzing ineffective memory usage with dotMemory – Alexey Totin

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I sorted out a post numbering snafu on the previous two posts this morning, and am resuming with the correct numbering today, making this 1846 – so don’t panic if you didn’t see 1845.

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• A Simple Nowin F# Example – Mike Hadlow follows on from his previous post on building web applications usin OWIN and F# with a look at using the Nowin open source implementation rather than the Microsoft OWIN libraries
• Time Travel in C# – Rob Miles discusses thebenefits of wrapping up environemental things which my may need to manipulate to test your code.
• Comparing date range handling in C# and F# – Tomas Petricek shares a look at re-writing a function from reasonably functional C# into F#, and highlights some of the language features he finds particularly appealing in F#
• Types of CQRS – Vladimir Khorikov discusses why he believes that the use of CQRS is not a binary choice, and that there are a spectrum of possible implementations.
• Languages features in C# 6 and VB 14 – Mads Torgersen shares a useful reference of what was implemented and when in the C#6 and VB.NET 14 implementations
• When Should You Return 404 instead of 403 HTTP Status Code? – Max McCarty discusses the inadvertent disclosure of information caused by returning certain response codes, discussing the use of 404 responses over more descriptive 403 Forbidden responses.
• Hardening IIS Security – AJ Kumar highlights a number of things you can do to better secure your IIS based web servers

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