The Morning Brew

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• How to use Process Monitor and Process Explorer – Scott Hanselman
• Errant Architectures – Martin Fowler
• Creating less2css using Aurelia – Luke Page
• .NET JavaScript Engine Performance Results – Rush Frisby
• Which Uri Encoding method should i use in C#/.net? – Leon Bambrick
• Slides and code from NDC Oslo 2015 – Dylan Beattie
• An ASP.NET 5 Angular application with Elasticsearch, NEST and Watcher – damienbod
• Microsoft Azure Services Overview – Document version 1.0 – Srikantan
• .NET open source – Beth Massi

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• From ASM.JS to WebAssembly – Brendan Eich shares news about a common goal between browser manufacturers to create WebAssembly, a common format for ‘compiled’ to JavaScript applications, – a binary format for essentially a bytecode for JavaScript.
• End-to-End Hypermedia: Building the Client – Jimmy Bogard continues his series on Hypermedia, looking at the implementation of a Hypermedia client, discussing building generic vs specific clients
• ECMAScript 2015 Has Been Approved – Abel Avram shares an update on the ECMAScript 6 / ECMAScript 2015 standardisation process
• ChessTDD 38: Bishop Tests and Being Wrong about Being Wrong – Erik Dietrich continues his series of posts looking at the application of Test Driven Development to building a chess game – in this part looking at the testing of the Bishop.
• Visual Studio Toolbox: New XAML Tools in Visual Studio 2015 and Blend – Robert Green highlights the latest Visual Studio Toolbox videocast where Seth Juarez is joined by Unni Ravindranathan looking at the XAML tooling improvements in Visual Studio 2015.
• Strongly typed AppSettings Configuration in ASP.NET 5 – Rick Strahl takes a look at the new configuration system in ASP.NET 5 and how it offers improvements over the the previous ASP.NET 4 style configuration
• Timetravel in C# done right – Cellfish discusses anti-patterns in providing a consistent time source for testing
• Improving Test Code Readability and Assert Failure Messages with Shouldly – Jason Roberts shares a look at Shouldly, an assertion library which aims to provide a better expression of assertions in code

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• FeatureToggle Version 3 Released – Jason Roberts releases Version 3 of his FeatureToggle library. This release contains some breaking changes, as well as removing platform support for Windows Phone 8.0, along with adding support for Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Store 8.1 Apps, and Windows Univeral Apps 8.1

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• Historical Debugging, Profiling, New Diagnostic Tools in Visual Studio 2015 – Scott Hanselman takes a look at the new Diagnostics Toolbox features in Visual Studio 2015, and highlights a number of IDE features which are really useful and can even be used if you are working on older applications targeting earlier versions of the .NET Framework
• A couple of notes about .NET Framework 4.6 setup behaviors – Aaron Stebner discusses the .NET Framework 4.6 Update, its inplace update nature, and how to roll back to previous versions of the framework should you need to.
• React to the Future – Elijah shares slides from a recent presentation on the React Library and its use in creating responsive client side applications, as well as highlighting a recent podcast interview he did on the subject.
• Working on the Future of Compile-to-Web Applications – Mike Holman discusses the compile-to-web story including asm.js optimisations in Edge on Windows 10, and recent discussions with other browser manufacturers on future goals.
• Developing Custom Tag Helpers in ASP.NET 5 – Ovais Mehboob looks at the use of Custom Tag Helpers, and the development of one
• Win10 apps in .NET – getting started with win2d accelerated graphics – Lucian Wischik continues his series looking at Windows 10 Application Development in VB.NET looking at graphics development using the Win2d accelerated graphics library
• Storing Data Securely in Azure Blob Storage with Azure Encryption Extensions – Stefan Keir Gordon discusses implementing encryption of data stored in Azure Blob Storage with Azure Encryption Extensions, giving an overview and some sample code for their use.
• Safe(r) Custom User-Authentication – Tom Fischer takes a look at applying OWASP recommendations for handling password hashes to .NET applications
• Using HttpClient with ASP.net 5.0 – Martin Kearn shares his learnings on making GET calls using HTTPClient in an ASP.NET 5 application

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