The Morning Brew

Software

• WPF Designer News Q1/2016 – Jochen Kühner shares an update on the WPF Designer which is now a separate project available on NuGet, and also included in SharpDevelop

Information

• ASP.NET Community Standup – April 12th, 2016 – The Quickening – The ASP.NET Team held their regular ASP.NET Community Standup yesterday, with the regular round up of the goings on in the ASP.NEt Community and on the project development status
• Kestrel as a Static Server for Angular – Shayne Boyer takes a ook at using the Kestrel server from RC2 and the dotnet-cli to serve static resources for use in Angular client side applications
• The week in .NET – 4/126/20 – Bertrand Le Roy shares this week’s edition of ‘The Week in .NET’ featuring Math.NET Numerics as the Project of the week, Storyo as the Xamarin app of the week, and SideDrawer for UWP and Xamarin as the control of the week, along with a collection of .NET related articles from the community
• How to host your own NuGet Server and Package Feed – Scott Hanselman shares an up to date look at creating your own personal NuGet Server and packages feed allowing you to have your own internal packages made easily available to you and your team.
• The Monsters Weekly – Episode 21 – ‘Donuts, Donut Holes & Razor Output Caching with Tag Helpers’ & The Monsters Weekly – Episode 22 – ‘Realistic Prototype Data in ASP.NET Core with GenFu’ – The ASP.NET Monsters share their latest two episodes, exploring caching in Razor views and take a look at using GenFu to generate sample data making it easier to test prototypes with real looking data.
• Git Experience Futures (April 2016) – Jeremy Epling shares an update on the new features coming for Git support in Visual Studio 15 and the ALM products
• Dazed and confused: The state of the Core – Ayende turns his attention to the dotnet cli and discovers that the world has moved on, and is still in quite a state of flux while the various release candidates align.
• Open Any Folder with Visual Studio "15" Preview – Will Buik discusses improvements to Visual Studio in VS’15’ which will make working with projects which do not have a solution file much easier.
• Build 2016 Code Labs Code and More – Greg Duncan highlights the availability of setup instructions to allow you to do all the laps from Build 2016 at your leisure
• Tracking unhandled rejected Promises – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer discusses the handling of rejected promises in browsers and in Node.js environments

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Software

• What’s new in VS 2015 Update 2 for Universal Windows developers – Navit Saxena
• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.1: What’s new in recent EAP builds – Dmitry Matveev

Information

• On .NET 3/31/2016 – John Kemnetz – C# Extension for VS Code – Bertrand Le Roy
• Unimportant egocentric rant: don’t .ToUpper() your titles – Bertrand Le Roy (I second this totally…very annoying when a page’s <title> tag contains upper case – remember separation of content and presentation is good)
• IDEs For Developing Node.js In A Windows Environment – Tim Murphy
• Modern Tech Stack for ASP.NET Apps – Sam Basu
• Entity Framework Code First Migrations – Nick Branstein
• ASP.NET Core Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection – Ricardo Peres
• Near Real Time Proactive Diagnostics alerts on abnormal failure rates – Yossi Yossifon
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 5 – Custom Authentication & 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 6 – Personal Tables – Adrian Hall
• Organize by Feature – Derek Comartin
• How to create a simple in memory aggregator using Routemeister – Daniel Wertheim
• Silliness – Fiddler Blocks Malware – Eric Lawrance

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Once again, thank you all for the kind comments on Friday’s post – glad to be helping so many developers stay on top of the technology.

Software

• Announcing NuGet 3.4.2 – Harikrishna Menon announces the latest update to NuGet, Addressing performance issues reported in previous versions, as well as some other minor improvements

Information

• Previewing Salsa – the New JavaScript Language Service in Visual Studio "15" – Bowden Kelly discusses the new JavaScript Language Service included in Visual Studio ’15’ Preview which provides the syntax highlighting, completion, method signatures for JavaScript code
• Performance Culture – Joe Duffy shares a detailed article on the ‘Performance Culture’, looking at combining thinking on Performance and development culture, and how to truely get performance you need to have it instilled in your development team in a fundamental way.
• A quick followup to my opinions on .Net OSS – Jermey D Miller follows up on his previous piece on Open Source in .NET
• Exupérianism: Improving Things by Removing Things – Dylan Beattie discusses how sometimes the best and most important lull requests are actually the ones which are mostly (ore completely) removing code
• The New Configuration Model in ASP.NET Core – Julio Avellaneda discusses the changes to configuration moving from ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core
• ASP.Net -Ensure your Actions aren’t missing Authorization with Unit Tests – Eli Weinstock-Herman shares a unit testing technique to ensure that you have decorated methods with the correct Authorization attributes to keep your application secure
• Installing Fish Shell on Ubuntu on Windows 10 – Scott Hanselman builds on the Bash Shell announcements with a look at pulling in alternative shells
• Using the Bot Framework Chat Control
  – Joe Mayo continues his series of posts looking the new Bot Framework, exploring how to create automated chat services for websites.
• The Elegant Code I Wish I Can Write In C# 7 – Dmitry Zinchenko explores some more functional style code that he hopes will be enabled in C#7

Community

• DDD Scotland final agenda – Colin Angus Mackay shares the announcement of the Agenda for DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Scotland 2016, to be held on Saturday 14th May
• Launch of the F# Speakers Program – The F# Software Foundation announce the launch of their community Speaker programme to help spread the word, with over 40 speakers on the site already

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