The Morning Brew

A short edition today as my feed reader was quite empty this morning, mostly due to Thanks Giving celebrations yesterday in the US I suspect.

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• Hoisting in .NET Explained – Alexandr Nikitin takes a look at this compiler optimisation which takes code out of loops that doesn’t need to be inside the loop, as well as JIT optimisation and Common Subexpression Elimination optimisations
• MSDN Subscriber? Enjoy your free Pluralsight courses! – Kate Gregory highlights the inclusion of limited access to some PluralSight courses which is available for free as a part of the MSDN Subscriptions.
• ES.stage3: string padding – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer shares a look at another of the ECMAScript proposals, reviewing the call for string padding capabilities in the core language.
• Learn How to Build Web Apps With React JS and Flux with this Great Udemy Course – barbarian meets coding – Jaime González García discusses some of the background to React.js, and shares a link to a course by Stephen Grinder titled ‘How to Build Web Apps with ReactJS and Flux’, along with sharing a promo code which gives free access to the course.
• React (and Flux) with Bridge.net – Redux – Dan Roberts continues his explorations of React, Flux and the Bridge.NET C# to JavaScript ‘compiler’ with a detailed look at his ReactJS Bindings for C#
• UWP XAML: Simple Responsive Layout using Grid and AdaptiveTrigger – Mikael Koskinen shares a look at building responsive layouts in XAML based Universal Windows Applications

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Happy Thanksgiving to my US based readers.

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• The road to DNX – part 2 & The road to DNX – part 3 – Marc Gravell continues his series of posts looking at migrating to the .Net Corel, exploring the porting of an existing library to the framework, and looking running the .NET Framework under DNX
• RFC: Server-side Image and Graphics Processing with .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 – Scott Hanselman discusses image processing on the .NET Core and ASP.NET5, looking at some of the projects which have made a start in this area and calling on the community to help out with raising the importance of this work
• Running C# scripts and snippets in Visual Studio Code with scriptcs – Filip W. discusses Visual Studio Code and its new open source and extension supporting release, sharing details of the Language Services for C# and also a scriptcs runner extension allowing you to run snippets of C# inside the IDE
• The 5 Laws of Software Estimates – Steve Smith takes a look at the weird and wonderful world of estimates in software, sharing 5 laws to bear in mind when making estimates.
• Future of JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) Arrow and Spread Operator – Rami Sayar continues this series looking at the new features of ECMAScript 2015, exploring the use of the Arrow and Spread Operators
• Azure Sketchnote Collection: Part 2 – Tim Murphy shares a second collection of sketch notes which give a nice summary of various Microsoft Azure features
• Deep Dive: Windows App Studio NuGet packages for Windows 10 Apps – The Windows App Studio team discuss the use of NuGet to get hold of the Windows App Studio controls and data providers
• Re: Tyranny of NuGet – Paul Stovell responds to a post from Mitch Denny (linked in the article and well worth reading) about the use of NuGet repositories and packages for software installation

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Software

• Released: GhostDoc v5.0 – SubMain
• ReSharper Ultimate 10.0.2 EAP – Daria Dovzhikova

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• The road to DNX – part 1 – Marc Gravell
• Azure Preview Portal – November 2015 update – Leon Welicki
• .NET Core and ASP.NET Bug Bounty Update – Barry Dorrans
• Conditional breakpoints FTW – Iris Classon
• Fix slow nuget operation in Visual studio 2015 – Anirudha Gupta
• Handing off to another ASP.net MVC Controller Action without redirecting – Dan Roberts
• Automating Deployment on Azure Web Apps – Matias Quaranta
• Working with GitHub from Visual Studio 2015 – Andrei Marukovich

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