The Morning Brew

Update: So, the numbering slipped, and this post was incorrectly labelled as 1844 when it should have been 1845 – I’ve corrected the number but the links will remain

Software

• Caliburn.Micro 3.0.0-alpha – The Caliburn Micro team announce the release of their alpha release of Caliburn Micro 3.0.0 which adds in support for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Androis and Xamarin.Forms, along with sharing information about Windows 10 support which will com in the future.
• Microsoft Azure now free for Student Developers – Rami Sarieddine highlights some great news for Student developers – free access to the Azure Platform as a part of the DreamSpark programme

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• Precedence: ordering or grouping? | Jon Skeet's coding blog – Jon Skeet asks the community for opinion in this ‘Request for comment’ post discussing operator precedence in C#5 to assist with the official ECMA standardisation of C#5
• Mobile app privacy insanity – we’re still failing massively at this – Troy Hunt discusses some of the serious issues he finds when looking at the security of Mobile Applications and their APIs which they use to communicate with servers
• ChessTDD 31: Look, We Caught a Bug! – Erik Dietrich continues his video series on using Test Driven Development to create a chess game implementation. In this part continuing testing of the solution using integration tests, and fixing a detected issue.
• A Dev and Test Adventure on #Azure – Alexandre Brisebois discusses the use of Windows Azure as a development and Test environment to create environments on demand.
• Standardization and the Open Web – Jory Burson discusses the process of creating open standards , and the process of standardization
• Windows Performance Toolkit for Windows 10 – Alois Kraus highlights the latest updates to the Performance Tools for Windows 10, available in the Visual Studio 2015 and Windows / Phone SDKs.
• TypeScript and ECMAScript 6 in ReSharper 9.1 – Anton Lobov shares a look at the support for ECMAScript 6 and TypeScript in ReSharper 9.1, including templates, block scoped declarations, binding and destructuring assignments, and support for TypeScript 1.4 and 1.5

Community

• The first ever Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference – Francois Boucher highlights the first MVP Virtual Conference, a two day virtual event with sessions covering all aspects (IT Pro, Dev, Consumer) with sessions in English, Spanish and Portuguese, being delivered by the US MVPs.

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Update: So, the numbering slipped, and this post was incorrectly labelled as 1843 when it should have been 1844 – I’ve corrected the number but the links will remain

Software

• Announcing Azure Service Fabric: Reducing Complexity in a Hyper-scale World – Mark Russinovich announces the launch of Azure Service Fabric, a new cloud services platform which enables the building of mission critical cloud applications, and is the underpining of services like Azure SQL, DocumentDB, Bing Cortana and Skype for Business.
• Azure Service Fabric Announced – David Hardin also discusses the announcement of Azure Service Fabric
• General Availability of CodeLens in Visual Studio Online – Mathew Aniyan highlights the inclusion of CodeLens in the Visual Studio Online service offering, giving insight into your code right from the IDE

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• Long division, part two – Eric Lippert picks up a theme from a post from several years ago, and looks at why the compiler gives an error when rounding a division of an integer by another number, discussing how the underlying problem is often missed by developers.
• Little Puzzlers – Largest Square of ‘1’s in a Matrix – James Michael Hare sets another of his little puzzlers, this time about identifying a efficient (performance wise) way of finding the largest square of 1’s inside a matrix
• Using Basic Authentication in ASP.NET WebAPI – Robert Muehsig takes a look at using Basic Authenticiation to protect a Web API based API, giving an overview of the theory and looking at its implementation with the Web API using Attributes
• Using RequireJS with Visual Studio – Jordan Matthiesen shows how you can make use o Require.js to modularise your JavaScript applications while still getting good support from the Visual Studio IDE.
• Parsing command line arguments with F# – Jef Claes takes a look at parsing of command line arguments in F# to allow him to port one of his first Node.js applications to F#
• Rx Challenge #6 Solution – Bnaya Eshet shares his solution for his 6th Reactive Challenge, making use of a WeakObserver to weaken the reference to the subscriber.
• Visual Studio 2013 continuously repairs producing many small log files – Heath Stewart highlights a work around for an annoying issue with Visual Studio generating many 10’s of Gigabytes of MSI log files in the Temp Directory – I’m experiencing this issue so hopefully this workaround will solve my problems.

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• Saga Implementation Patterns: Singleton – Jimmy Bogard takes a look at using the Singleton patttern to implement jobs which provide the work for Saga processes with NServiceBus
• What is REST API? – Shawn Wildermuth discusses the need to move to more RESTful APIs as we move our applications to the public internet, and how older RPC style APIs don’t work so well in this environment.
• Step by Step implementing Onion architecture in ASP.NET MVC Application – Dhananjay Kumar walks through in detail the implementation of an application which makes use of ASP.NET MVC and the Onion Architecture to structure the application, sharing the full source code for the sample on GitHub
• Client-Side Productivity with Browser Link – Aaron Marisi explores the Browser Link functionality provided in Visual Studio, and how it can help with your AngularJS development experience
• 11 things about JavaScript functions that .NET developers should know: Part 2 – Dhananjay Kumar continues a series with the second half of this look at some key things that .NET Developers should be aware of when working with JavaScript, focusing on 5 things mostly to do with Scope and Functions.
• UPDATED for 2015: How to install the nodejs Ghost blog software on Azure Web Apps (and the Deploy to Azure Button) – Scott Hanselman gives an update on the hosting and deployment of Node.js applications such as the Ghost Blogging Engine, including the ‘Deploy to Azure’ button.

Community

• F# Exchange 2015 – Phillip Trelford highlights the happenings at the F# Exchange 2015 event which took place this weekend, and the great news is you can see what went on as all the sessions were recorded and the session recordings are already available online

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