The Morning Brew

Short Links Only edition today as I took a slightly longer cycle route into the office this morning

Software

• Announcing the ASP.NET WebHooks Visual Studio Extension Preview – Brady Gaster
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10565 – Gabe Aul

Information

• DNX Framework Choices and ASP.NET 5 – K.Scott Allen
• The Future of Web Development – React, Falcor, and ES6 – Ray Nicholus
• Refactoring Module Dependencies – Martin Fowler
• Microsoft, Pleeease Expose Your MSTest API – James Wiseman
• Making your web pages fast (part one) – Julian M Bucknall
• Securing The .Net Cookies – James Jardine

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Software

• NuGet 3.2.1-RC and NuGet 2.9-RC released – The Nuget Team announce the release of two new revisions of Nuget, addressing issues of interoperability on Linux and Mac as well as improving network utilisation and addressing a few other issues
• Azure PowerShell 1.0 Preview – David Justice announces the preview release of Azure PowerShell 1.0 with aims to improve resource management and separate resource management and service management functions
• ReSharper 10 EAP 4 – The JetBrains ReSharper team share the latest Early Access Preview release of ReSharper 10, with NUnit 3 support, Device specific XAML being two of the new features
• Microsoft Releases No Images Fix for Visual Studio 2015 – Rod Trent highlights the release of a fix for the ‘No Images’ issue win Visual Studio 2015 where icons and images in Visual Studio were not being displayed correctly.

Information

• Aurelia with ASP.NET 5 and Web API – Eric L. Anderson builds on posts from a number of community members to get started with Aurelia and create a frontend for a WebAPI Service
• RequiredInterface – Martin Fowler looks at interfaces between software components discussing the concept of a ‘Required Interface’
• Hide The Backing Variable Of Object Properties/Attributes Using ES6 Symbols – Derick Bailey takes a look at the use of the ECMAScript 6 feature ‘Symbols’ exploring its use to protect and hide backing variables in classes.
• Resharper tip #1: Push code into a method / Pull code out of a method – Eric Gunnerson takes a look at compound refactorings where you need to apply multiple refactoring steps in a specific order to achieve a larger refactoring goal

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Information

• Global route prefixes with attribute routing in ASP.NET Web API – Filip W. takes a look at using the extensibility of the WebAPI Attribute routing to add in a prefix to routes helping to further avoid repetition
• ASP.NET 5 multiple configurations without using environment variables – damienbod takes a look at using different configuration files in your ASP.NET 5 Applications while avoiding the need for environmental variables
• Claims Transformation and Authorization Policy in ASP.NET 5 (vNext)/MVC 6 – Imran Baloch explores some techniques for working with claims based authorization, using the transformation capabilities to supplement the information included in the claims.
• Inner-workings of TempData in ASP.NET MVC 5 – Volkan Paksoy takes a look at the implementation of TempData in ASP.NET MVC 5 looking at the source code for the framework to understand how that ‘magic’ bag of data works.
• Debugging startup crash of a universal app – David Obando shares some useful debugging tips for helping to diagnose issues with the startup of a Universal Windows Applications.
• IOT: Code of Ethics for Software Developers and Engineers – Surf4Fun discusses the importance of ethics for software developers in light of some of the recent news about software development in the automotive industry
• Security through obscurity – Hiding Asp.Net MVC response headers – Hamid Mosalla looks at using a HTTP Module to intercept all outbound requests and remove some of the HTTP headers which give insight into the technology stack being used in the web application.
• The many types of asserts and their meaning, and dealing with assert bugs – Rico Mariani discusses the use of Asserts in code, and looks at the different types of asserts, along with sharing some string opinions on the use and implementation of assertions.
• Microsoft’s developer tools head ‘Soma’ Somasegar to leave the company after 27 years – John Callaham highlights news that the head of Developer Division S.Somasegar will be leaving the company

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