The Morning Brew

Software

• SQL 2016 Preview has been released! – Koen Verbeeck

Information

• How to manage Content in NuGet Packages? – Rick Strahl
• A Rider to the Law of Demeter – Erik Dietrich
• New Free eBook: LINQ Succinctly – Jason Roberts
• When designing your user interface, be mindful of the selection-readers – Raymond Chen
• Inject DateTime.Now to Aid Unit Tests – Mike Hadlow
• Azure Utilities You Should Have In Your Toolbox – Tim Murphy
• Drag and drop bootstrap tabs in ASP.NET 5 with Angular – damienbod
• Closures in JavaScript – Andrew Burgess
• Understanding Azure Premium Storage – A Developer Perspective – Gaurav Mantri
• Custom Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET MVC – Web Development Tutorial – Imran Abdul Ghani

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Software

• What’s New in SQL2016 CTP2 Release – The Master Data Services Blog highlights the new features in the SQL Server 2016 CTP2 release, focusing on the Master Data Services features, including on by default data compressions, SQL Server agent index and log maintenance jobs and improved security.

Information

• Publishing an ASP.NET 5 app to Docker on Linux with Visual Studio – Scott Hanselman takes a look at the use of the Visual Studio Docker extension which enables you to build Docker images for ASP.NET Web Applications which can be deployed to Azure.
• RyuJIT and .NET 4.6 – Bruce Forstall gives an update on the RyuJIT Project, including advice for anyone switching from the CTP releases to the .NET 4.6 release, and highlighting the open source code for RyuJIT
• Customizing the ASP.NET Identity Data Model with the Entity Framework Fluent API – Part 1 – Jonathan Brown takes a look at extending the entities used for ASP.NET Identity using fluent mappings for Entity Framework.
• Using CodeDOM to Automate Technical Screening Evaluation – Eli Weinstock-Herman takes a look at using the CodeDOM to dynamically compile, normalise and execute tests as part of an interview screening process.
• ASP.NET 5 How to Easily Add New Bower Dependencies – Matt Smith takes a look at the basics of the Bower package management system when used with ASP.NET Applications, discussing why bower can be a better choice for front end libraries than NuGet due to the number of libraries which are packaged in this way.
• Small Grunt.js examination – Sacha Barber takes a look at the use of Grunt as part of the ASP.NET vNext toolbelt, exploring some of the more common tasks it can perform.
• Setting up Github with Visual Studio Code on OSX – Michael Crump continues his look at the trimmed down Visual Studio Code IDE, exploring integration with GitHub
• Interactive ASP.NET Resource Linking and Editing with Westwind.Globalization – Rick Strahl discusses the workflow for globalising an application, and the importance of easy editing of resources, highlighting what he has set out to achieve in his latest revision of his WestWind.Globalization library.
• Visual Studio Time Saver – Presenting code in PowerPoint – Susan Ibach shares another Visual Studio tip, this time about including code in presentations, and highlights a Visual Studio extension which can make this even easier.

Community

• Ask me anything! – Eric Lippert is featuring in a ‘programmerchat’ reddit Ask Me Anything this Friday (29th), where you can ask him questions on anything, so if you have a question on the C# language, programming in general (or even smelting metal in a home foundry) now is your chance.

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• Event sourcing revisited – Gabriel Schenker continues his series revisiting various technology approaches with a discussion of Event Sourcing and how he applies this pattern to building Line of Business Applications
• A different copy-paste error – Eric Lippert discusses a recently identified error in the C# Specification, the meaning of the error and how it probably came about
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Load Testing – David Paquette continues his series looking at modernising an ASP.NET application, exploring an approach to load testing the application using the tooling in Visual Studio.
• Debugging Tips and Tricks – Andrew Hall highlights some recent talks on the debugging features of Visual Studio and shares a look at some of the features provided in the IDE
• Anonymous Functions, Assigned To References, Show Up Well In JavaScript Stack Traces – Ben Nadal takes a look at how the debugging tools in modern browsers identify anonymous functions in stack traces, and things you can do to make your anonymous functions less anonymous.
• ChessTDD 36: Acceptance Tests for Queen Movement – Erik Dietrich continues his step by step video series looking at his building of a Chess game using Test Driven Development, continuing with acceptance testing of the carious pieces and fixing bugs discovered along the way
• Using TypeScript with Visual Studio Code on OSX – Michael Crump looks at getting up and running with TypeScript and the Visual Studio Code cross platform IDE running on Mac OSX
• 10 Awesome Features of Visual Studio Code – Sam Basu is also exploring Visual Studio Code, and shares his top 10 things about this new simplified cross platform IDE.
• React and Flux with DuoCode – Dan Roberts takes a look at a new(ish) project called DuoCode which allows you to write C# and have it faithfully converted into JavaScript using the Roslyn parsers. In this post Dan explores writing code using DuoCode to work with React and the Flux architecture.
• ConfigR: Look Mom, No XML – Derek Comartin takes a look at the ConfigR project which allows you to configure your application using C# code

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