The Morning Brew

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• Azure PowerShell 1.0 – David Justice announces the release of Azure PowerShell, available for install from the Web Platform Installer and featuring a number of improvements and new features across the whole Azure stack.
• Latest Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015 – Nicole Bruck highlights the release of Update 1 for the Office Developer tools for Visual Studio 2015, as well as a preview of the next release of the tooling

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• ASP.NET 5 Node Services – Ricardo Peres shares a look at Node Services, a Microsoft project which was demonstrated at the MVP Summit by Steve Sanderson, which provides a bridge between ASP.NET 5 and Node.js
• Automating and Customizing the Visual Studio 2015 Install – Tim Sneath shares details of a the not particularly obvious setup options available for the Visual Studio 2015 Installer and looks at how you can automate aspects of the install
• Aurelia Beta Week – Day 5 – Aurelia Interface – With all the Connect noise last week I managed to miss the Aurelia beta release, and its corresponding week of posts – well worth checking out the series and also the beta release of Aurelia
• Playing with synchroninzation barriers – Raymond Chen discusses Synchronization Barriers, discussing how they work, what they are used for, and providing a real world analogy in both story form and also code implementation.
• Embedding Chrome in your C# App using CefSharp – H. Gupta takes a look at hosting the Chrome rendering engine inside a C# application using CefSharp, walking through a sample application
• What I Want From An ASP.NET 5 Development Environment – Khalid Abuhakmeh shares his thoughts on the ideal ASP.NET 5 development environment
• What Every JavaScript Developer Should Know About ECMAScript 2015 – K.Scott Allen announces the launch of his new book, ‘What Every JavaScript Developer Should Know about ECMAScript 2015’, available from Amazon, and for the first week available for free.
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software – Microsoft Press share their deal of the week, with a significant mark down on the ebook of CODE by Charles Petzold – This is probably one of my favourite technology related books I’ve read in the past couple of years, and is excellent ‘back to basics’ reading for any developer.

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• .NET CLR Explained – Paul Mooney shares a look down into the depths of the .NET CLR, exploring what it does and the services it provides
• HOWTO: Check JIT Inlining – Alexandr Nikitin looks at how you can use Event Tracing for Windows events emitted by the .NET Just In Time Compiler to understand how it is optimising your code
• Asynchronous Everything – Joe Duffy discusses taking Asynchronous code to the maximum, discussing his work on the Midori project, and the asynchronous programming model utilised there
• An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript for C# Developers – Jaime González García takes a detailed look at applying C# object oriented programming techniques in JavaScript, explaining the the equivalences of structures in each language
• ES.stage3: Object.entries() and Object.values() – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer gives the background to the ‘Object.values / Object.entries’ ECMAScript proposal from Jordan Harband
• Using ASP.NET WebHooks with IFTTT and Zapier to Monitor Twitter and Google Sheets – Henrik F Nielsen discusses the new JSON WebHook Receiver introduced in the latest update to ASP.NET WebHooks, and looks at using it with a number of different APIs which use JSON.
• ASP.NET 5 Webinar – Shawn Wildermuth shares the recording and sample code from his recent PluralSight ASP.NET 5 Webinar.
• FakeItEasy and EntityFramework
  – Kevin Logan shares a look at how FakItEasy makes it quicker to test Entity Framework code
• Analyzing and Visualizing Data with F# – O’Reilly are offering a free eBook from Tomas Petricek on Analyzing and Visualizing Data with F# (Registration required)
• The Burden of Features in Software – Jan Van Ryswyck discusses the idea that every feature added to software adds a burden, and the benefits of removing old unused features to free your selves from that burden

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• Breakpoint Generator Extension – Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Andrew B Hall shares a post from Jakob Ehn and Utkarsh Shigihalli on a useful code exploration (at runtime) extension which scans code and inserts breakpoints for you to aid your exploration of it
• Today at Connect()—introducing the Microsoft Graph – Rob Lefferts introduces the Microsoft Graph, a consolidated set of APIs for interacting with Office 365 announced at Connect();
• Announcing the VS GDB Debugger extension – Marc Goodner highlights the GDB Debugger Extension which brings remote debugging of linux targets to Visual Studio Community (and higher)
• Installing Glimpse v2 Beta1 – Anthony van der Hoorn discusses the Glimpse Beta release and looks at getting up and running with Glimpse

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• Monitor madness, part two – Eric Lippert continues from his previous post on Monitor locks, exploring more scenarios of use of the Monitor class
• Refactoring to an Adaptive Model – Martin Fowler shares the second part of his article on refactoring code to an adaptive model, continuing the sharing of a step by step refactoring
• Stupid JavaScript debugging tricks: Abusing the conditional breakpoint – Raymond Chen shares a useful tidbit about using conditional breakpoints to evaluate and perform logging (or any other action) to aid debugging.
• Finitely Iterating Infinite Data With ES6 Generators – Derick Bailey shares a look at the use of Generators in ECMAScript 2015 looking at using them to iterate over an infinite set of data.
• Is logging raw HTTP requests ok? – Cellfish discusses logging requests into a service as a debugging resource, sharing some thoughts on the additional complexity and risks which may be brought into play by doing this, and the considerations to make when doing it.
• Playing with the GitHub API in your ASP.NET MVC application – Ivan Lukianchuk takes a look at using the Octokit client library from C# to interact with GitHub
• aync/await, what you should know! – Amir Dashti shares an introduction to the concepts behind the async / await functionality in C#
• Protecting Microsoft Edge against binary injection – Crispin Cowan discusses recent improvements to the security of the Microsoft Edge browser regarding loading of additional DLL content
• Testing with Data – Kyle Baley discusses the use of test data in integration tests sharing some of his experiences

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