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The Morning Brew #1945

Posted by Chris Alcock on Tuesday 13th October 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

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NuGet 3.2.1-RC and NuGet 2.9-RC released – The Nuget Team announce the release of two new revisions of Nuget, addressing issues of interoperability on Linux and Mac as well as improving network utilisation and addressing a few other issues
Azure PowerShell 1.0 Preview – David Justice announces the preview release of Azure PowerShell 1.0 with aims to improve resource management and separate resource management and service management functions
ReSharper 10 EAP 4 – The JetBrains ReSharper team share the latest Early Access Preview release of ReSharper 10, with NUnit 3 support, Device specific XAML being two of the new features
Microsoft Releases No Images Fix for Visual Studio 2015 – Rod Trent highlights the release of a fix for the ‘No Images’ issue win Visual Studio 2015 where icons and images in Visual Studio were not being displayed correctly.

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Aurelia with ASP.NET 5 and Web API – Eric L. Anderson builds on posts from a number of community members to get started with Aurelia and create a frontend for a WebAPI Service
RequiredInterface – Martin Fowler looks at interfaces between software components discussing the concept of a ‘Required Interface’
Hide The Backing Variable Of Object Properties/Attributes Using ES6 Symbols – Derick Bailey takes a look at the use of the ECMAScript 6 feature ‘Symbols’ exploring its use to protect and hide backing variables in classes.
Resharper tip #1: Push code into a method / Pull code out of a method – Eric Gunnerson takes a look at compound refactorings where you need to apply multiple refactoring steps in a specific order to achieve a larger refactoring goal

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The Morning Brew #1944

Posted by Chris Alcock on Monday 12th October 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

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Global route prefixes with attribute routing in ASP.NET Web API – Filip W. takes a look at using the extensibility of the WebAPI Attribute routing to add in a prefix to routes helping to further avoid repetition
ASP.NET 5 multiple configurations without using environment variables – damienbod takes a look at using different configuration files in your ASP.NET 5 Applications while avoiding the need for environmental variables
Claims Transformation and Authorization Policy in ASP.NET 5 (vNext)/MVC 6 – Imran Baloch explores some techniques for working with claims based authorization, using the transformation capabilities to supplement the information included in the claims.
Inner-workings of TempData in ASP.NET MVC 5 – Volkan Paksoy takes a look at the implementation of TempData in ASP.NET MVC 5 looking at the source code for the framework to understand how that ‘magic’ bag of data works.
Debugging startup crash of a universal app – David Obando shares some useful debugging tips for helping to diagnose issues with the startup of a Universal Windows Applications.
IOT: Code of Ethics for Software Developers and Engineers – Surf4Fun discusses the importance of ethics for software developers in light of some of the recent news about software development in the automotive industry
Security through obscurity – Hiding Asp.Net MVC response headers – Hamid Mosalla looks at using a HTTP Module to intercept all outbound requests and remove some of the HTTP headers which give insight into the technology stack being used in the web application.
The many types of asserts and their meaning, and dealing with assert bugs – Rico Mariani discusses the use of Asserts in code, and looks at the different types of asserts, along with sharing some string opinions on the use and implementation of assertions.
Microsoft’s developer tools head ‘Soma’ Somasegar to leave the company after 27 years – John Callaham highlights news that the head of Developer Division S.Somasegar will be leaving the company