The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing Scripty – Dave Glick
• New F-Series VM Sizes – Drew McDaniel
• New Azure Search tiers and Basic and Standard S2 general availability – Joseph Sirosh

Information

• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – June 2, 2016 – Jeffrey T. Fritz
• Global route prefix in ASP.NET Core MVC (revisited) – Filip W
• Running .NET Core on Docker – Jurgis Pasukonis
• Dotnet EF Migrations for ASP.NET Core – Ben Cull
• Entity Framework Code First – Where is my database – Morten Anderson
• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Searching information and file format – Ayende
• Azure Managed Cache compatibility issue – Pranav Rastogi
• Background activity with the Single Process Model – Windows Apps Team
• Flush or not to Flush that is the Question – Daniel Wertheim
• Anirugu: How to open same .cshtml file side by side in Visual studio 2015 – Anirugu
• Using Visual Studio Code and the PowerShell extension behind a proxy – Jamie Thomson

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• Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 RC – John Montgomery announces the Release Candidate release of the Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 with general stability and performance improvements, along with new features for Debugging and Diagnostic, improvements to subscription signin, and much more
• Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3 RC is available – Brian Harry highlights the TFS side to the Update 3 RC release, announcing new features such as SSH support in Git, an SDK for the Dashboard, and features to allow auto provisioning of enviroments as part of the CI / CD pipeline
• Visual Studio TACO Update 10 – Linda Zhong shares the details of the Update 10 to the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova, with improved plugin support, update to the default Cordova version, IDE extensions to work with Ionic, and a preview of TACO Simulate a browser simulation tool

Information

• Announcing a new .NET and ASP.NET Core Bug Bounty – Barry Dorrans announces a further 3 month bug bounty program for .NET Core and ASP.NET, and discusses the successes from the previous round
• The week in .NET – 06/07/2016 – Bertrand Le Roy shares this weeks edition, including highlighting the On.NET interview with Lucian Wischik, taking a look at Markdig, Expensya and HoloLens Development in Florida
• Barbaric Tip of The Week: How to Recover A Lost Commit With Git – Jaime González García shares a useful tip on working with Git looking at the use of reflog to recover commits which go missing
• 10 Minutes to User Authentication in ASP.NET – Stormpath User Identity API – Nate Barbettini announces the RTM release of StormPath an open source ASP.NET Authentication library backed by StormPath’s user management services.
• Azure SQL Database query performance improvements for newly created databases – Guy Haycock highlights changes to the default Compatibility Level for new databases, and how moving to 130 which enables the SQL Server 2016 Query Engine.
• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Persisting information – Ayende takes a trip back to basics on databases, looking at basic CSV and fixed lengh records
• Adding SQL localization data using an Angular 2 form and ASP.NET Core – Damian Bowden looks at managing Localization data in SQL databases using a front end in Angular and having the localizations take action without application restarts.
• Making your JavaScript Pure – Jack Franklin explores the concept of Pure Functions in JavaScript and looks at how this technique can make your code more relable and predictable.
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update Preview – Composition and Implicit Animations – Mike Taulty continues his series looking at some of the visual capabilities which are improved in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, exploring animations in this post.
• MyNatsClient optimised writes – It’s now flying – Daniel Wertheim discusses the performance of his NatsClient library, and how he optimised the write component of the library to increase performance
• Chess TDD 62: Finishing Chess TDD – Eric Dietrich brings his Chess TDD series of posts to a close
• Building an Atom Package in ES6 – Phil Haack takes a look at building an extension for the Atom editor in JavaScript and publishing the resulting package.

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• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.2 EAP: Build 2 – Dmitry Matveev highlights the updated Early Access Programme build of ReSharper Ultimate 2016.2 which adds support for .NET Core RC2
• ASP.NET MVC Boilerplate extension – Muhammad Rehan Saeed shares his latest version of ASP.NET MVC Boilerplate, a project template which brings a number of features on top of the standard ASP.NET MVC template, and is now updated for ASP.NET Core RC2

Information

• The .NET CLI Decoded – Sam Basu explores the use of the .NET Command Line Interface, looking at the purpose and use of each of the core commands, and the environment in which the operate.
• Simplify your controllers with the Command Pattern and MediatR – Jon Hilton explores the use of Jimmy Bogard’s Mediatr library for implementing the command pattern in your applications
• Converting ASP.NET 5 Beta 8 App to ASP.NET Core RC2 – Vincent Maverick Durano walks through the changes necessary to upgrade an existing ASP.NET 5 Beta 8 project to the latest RC2 release
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update Preview – Composition and the CompositionBackdropBrush – Mike Taulty continues his look at the improvements coming in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update with a look at some visual effects
• The JavaScript Execution Stack: The Key to Learning the Language – Erik Grueter explores the JavaScript execution environment and the execution stack, looking at how JavaScript code runs, and how some of the language features such as scoping work
• Learning redux with reducks – intro – Aaron Powell kicks off a series looking at Redux, exploring its basic architecture, data flows and components before moving on to look at its use in React.
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 30: Catching Up – Adrian Hall rounds out the series with a look at how the Mobile Apps landscape has changed since he started the series back in March
• 10 Reasons Why ASP.NET is Not Worth Using – Vincent Maverick Durano takes a tongue-in-cheek look at ASP.NET discussing ‘facts’ which might influence your adoption. Nice to see ‘The Morning Brew’ get a mention in there too 🙂

Community

• dotnetConf is back! Free live streaming developer event – June 7th-9th 2016 – Dmitry Lyalin highlights the forthcoming dotNetConf 2016 being held as a virtual conference over the 7th, 8th and 9th June with sessions on ASP.NET, Azure, Xamarin, Windows App Development, Unity and much more

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