The Morning Brew

Information

• Azure VM Scale Sets public preview – Mark Russinovich announces the launch of the public preview of Azure VM Scale Sets. Integrated with Azure Autoscale this allows you to deploy and manage a collection of virtual machines as a set
• Refactoring to an Adaptive Model – Martin Fowler looks at a more unusual form of refactoring which takes code and refactors it into rules which are then processed
• The Crowdsourcing of Software Quality – Scott Hanselman follows on from an old post (‘Everything’s broken and nobody’s upset’) discussing some of the big problems inherient in our industry today surrounding testing and quality control as well as the tendency towards continuous deployment
• Using Roslyn for Runtime Code Generation in Marten – Jeremy D Miller discusses runtime dynamic identification of coe, and shares a look at how he is making use of Roslyn in Marten.
• Shipping a New Mindset with SQLite in Windows 10 – Usman Anwer discusses the decision to include SQLite within Windows 10 to provide high quality, well tested data access and storage capabilities with very little engineering effort.
• Gulp and Visual Studio: Linting and Tests – Edward Ridge shares part 4 of a series on using Gulp with Visual Studio with a look at running tests and performing linting to verify your code quality.
• Null is Optional – mrcellux discusses the role of null in code, and looks at how you can avoid the use of null with Optional Types.
• Getting Quick Turnaround for Production Issues – Yash Soman takes a look at the various techniques for debugging production issues
• How to NLog (4.2) with VisualStudio 2015 – _Noctis_ shares an introduction to the use of the NLog library

Community

• My Talk on Profiling .NET Server Applications from Umbraco UK Festival 2015 – Tugberk Ugurlu shares a recoding of his recent session on performance profiling .NET Server based applications delivered at the Umbraco UK Festival.

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Links only today as I’m about to run out of power in the laptop battery

Software

• Introducing Cadru 2.0 – Scott Dorman

Information

• The Evolution of JavaScript – K.Scott Allen
• Our plans for Nancy 1.x and beyond – Andreas Håkansson (TheCodeJunkie)
• Barbaric Tip of The Week: Improve Your CSS Animation Workflow With FireFox Dev Tools Challenger – Jaime González García
• Architecting UI Automation Projects for Maintainability – Kevin Logan
• Optimizing Load Balancing in PLINQs with ReSharper Ultimate – Alexey Totin
• Using Async-Await With Mutable Structs – Yuval Itzchakov
• A Fresh Coat Of REST Paint On A SOAP Stack – Darrel Miller
• Generate TypeScript Client API for ASP.NET Web API – Zijian

Community

• ASP.NET + Spa – ASP.NET Fall Sessions – Steve Sanderson

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Software

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10586 – Gabe Aul
• ReSharper 10 critical issues and fix schedule – Jura Gorohovsky

Information

• Some of my favorite Visual Studio extensions – Dave Voyles
• Painless .NET Windows Service Creation with Topshelf – Jason Roberts
• Optimizing for Performance in Marten – Jeremy D Miller
• Web Security Resources – Steve Smith
• Recent Data Points Columns: Aurelia, Azure DocumentDB, Scriptcs, EF6, EF7, ASP.NET 5 – Julie Lerman
• Using User Name Instead Of Email In ASP.NET Identity – Hamid Mosalla

Community

• WPUGNW – The New Open Source Microsoft – 17th November 2015 – The Windows Platform User Group North West welcome Jeff Burtoft of Microsoft for an evening session on Microsoft’s new approach to Open Source as a warm up event for the Stacked Conference taking place the next day
• Scott Guthrie gets ready for Connect(); // 2015! – An amusing look at how Scott Guthrie gets ready for the Connect() confernce

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