The Morning Brew

Software

• AnkhSVN 2.0 Final Released… - A free Visual Studio integration for Subversion, supporting Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

Information

• Identity framework for .Net - René Løhde talks about the recently released Identity Framework from Microsoft
• Security.Cryptography.dll & Security.Cryptography.Debug.dll from the CLR Security Team (with full source) - Greg Duncan highlights a CodePlex project from the CLR Security Team providing additional crypto algorithms.
• Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code - Matthew Podwysocki posts up a slide deck and some great links about functional programming.
• Back To Basics - Everyone Remember Where We Parked (that memory)! - Scott Hanselman talks about some problems he had with playing sounds in his BabySmash application caused by memory getting cleaned up before the sound had played
• Poll: What threading features do you use? - Roy Osherove wants to know what threading features you use to help with the development of TypeMock Racer.
• Dismiss the ModalPopupExtender with Esc or Enter key - Casey Roach offers a solution to one of my pet hates about web applications - the fact that ‘dialogs’ can’t be dismissed using the escape key.
• Separation of Concerns by example: Part 4 - Jimmy Bogard continues his series on Separation of Concerns - in this part he looks at fixing a defect in the a class, showing how the separation of concerns makes it easier and safer to perform this fix.
• Static Singletons for ASP.NET Controls - Rick Strahl examines the use of the Singleton Pattern for ASP.NET Controls.
• Future Focus: Searching and Navigating to Symbols - Charlie Calvert draws attention to a series of articles about future Visual Studio features, and reminds us that we can comment on these proposals.
• BOSS — The Next Step in our Open Search Ecosystem - Yahoo open up their search with BOSS (Build your Own Search Service), a published API for their search systems with a number of great sounding features
• Mastering F# Lists - Chris Smith takes a detailed look at lists in F#, examining the common methods with some graphical representations.

Community

• Alt.Net.UK Summer Conference - The Alt.Net UK Conference registration is open - get your place for 12-13th September.
• CodePlex Project Developers Wanted for Research Study - Help out a PhD Student researching usability in open source software - only requirement is that you are a developer with a codeplex project

Humour

• Goodbye, World - It is Friday after all - why not!