The Morning Brew

Software

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 First Look - At some point today Visual Studio 2010 will be released to the general public. I’m going to assume that the main site will contain a link to the download, and Charles Sterling in his post Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 Day One FAQ provides a short FAQ about the release
• Introducing Typemock Racer 1.0 - Find multithreaded deadlocks - Roy Osherove announces the release of TypeMock Racer 1.0, Typemock’s production ready equivalent of the Microsoft Research CHESS project

Information

• ASP.NET MVC - Poll Result, jQuery UI MVC Component Demo and More Feedback Required - Kazi Manzur Rashid shares the results from his recent poll about ASP.NET MVC and related technologies
• NHibernate - Mapping a single domain model to multiple physical data models - Ayende looks at some of the more interesting ways of achieving inheritance structures in NHibernate, looking dowan at the query level to see what is going in
• Friends Don’t Let Friends catch (Exception) - Lee Dumond talks about some of the best practices in handling exceptions.
• NHibernate Queries - Examples - Ayende provides a reference to the different ways of querying against NHibernate. If you want to try these out for yourself, check out his previous post where there is a link to the sample database and models
• Video: Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0 - Dan Wahlin shares a video from his ASP.NET MVC 1.0 talk delivered at the Best of Mix 09 Phoenix
• Silverlight Frankenstein - Rod Paddock looks at using Silverlight, Isolated storage and Javascript technologies to provide state saving in a rich web application

VS2010 and .NET 4

• ASP 4 - Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 - Scott Hanselman gives a quick tour round some of the new bits in ASP.NET 4, and in ‘ CLR and DLR and BCL, oh my! - Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1‘ Scott revews some of the CLR and BCL enhancements and talks about hos it makes COM Interop easier
• .Net Framework 4.0: Using System.Lazy<T> - Gunnar Peipman looks at the new Lazy Initialisation supporting collection in .NET 4
• Tasks documentation - Daniel Moth highlights the availability of the online MSDN documentation for the System.Threading.Tasks (and indirectly the rest of the .NET 4 Framework)
• WF 4.0: Building a Hello World Sequential Workflow - Guy Burstein has a series of posts looking at the Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 based on the beta VS2010 release
• Removing Slowness from Visual Studio 2010 (Dev10) - Gary Short shares a tip which may help you gain better performance for the new VS2010 Beta when running in a virtual machine.