The Morning Brew #598
Posted by Chris Alcock on Wednesday 12th May 2010 at 07:26 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- jQuery UI 1.9 Milestone 1 -Tooltip – The jQuery UI Team announce the first Milestone release of jQuery 1.9. This milestone release is an early opportunity to try out the new version of the library including new widgets. This release adds a new Tooltip widget. The team are looking for feedback on the changes and additions to the library, so if you have a view, let them know
- Announcing PostSharp 2.0 CTP 5 – Gael Fraiteur announces the 5th and final CTP release of PostSharp 2.0. This release is deemed to be feature complete, and at a good level of reliability, and includes support for .NET 4 and VS2010 RTM along with Silverlight, Compact Framework and Windows Phone 7
- Announcing the RTM of MvcExtensions (aka System.Web.Mvc.Extensibility) – Kazi Manzur Rashid announces the RTM release of the project formerly known as System.Web.Mvc.Extensibility. The project (and root namespace) has been renamed to avoid any confusion about it being part of the official MVC release, and this release also targets only ASP.NET MVC2. Full source code is available on GitHub
- Ignition, 3, 2, 1 … Microsoft Project 2010 Launch countdown has started – Christophe Fiessinge highlights the virtual launch events for Project, Sharepoint, Office and Visio 2010, and provides links to some of the downloads associated with the releases
Information
- ADO.NET Survey Results – Luiz Fernando Santos of the ADO.NET team shares the results of a recent community survey of impressions and opinions about new features and ideas for the ADO.NET products.
- Updated C# all-in-one file – Kirill Osenkov shares an updated edition of his C# all-in-one file which aims to include all possible C# syntax in one file (and there sure is a lot if it)
- Visual Studio 2010: How to understand your code using Dependency Graphs, Sequence Diagrams, and the Architecture Explorer – Jennifer Marsman looks at using the Visual Studio 2010 Architecture tools to explore a new code base showing how you can easily generate dependency graphs and sequence diagrams for your code.
- Windows Azure Guidance – The "Get","Delete" pattern for reading messages from queues – Eugenio Pace talks about how Windows Azure Queues operate, and why there is no dequeue, peek and enqueue operations available.
- Connections and SQL Azure – David Robinson looks at the additional issues involved in connecting to SQL Azure instances over the internet, and shares a sample of code which takes into account all these issues in obtaining a results set.
- Extra .Net 4 Parallel Extension goodness in the Parallel Extension Samples, with RTM updates and a few new Projects – Greg Duncan highlights an article from Dr Dobbs and Intel which look at the .NET4 Parallel Extensions, and raises awareness of the Parallel Extensions Extras included in the Parallel Extensions Samples library
- Customizing Your WPF/Silverlight UI using Value Converter and/or Partial Class Properties – Shichao Hu looks at the ability to customize the presentation in your User Interface using custom Value Converter implementations, and also looks at achieving the same using partial class properties.
- Understanding Tasks in .NET Framework 4.0 Task Parallel Library – Jeff Juday takes a look at the basics behind the Task Parallel Library in .NET 4 in this CodeGuru article
- Visual Studio debugger fails to catch unhandled exception for a Windows Form or WPF Application? – Andrew Hall of the Visual Studio Debugger Team talks about an interesting problem on x64 Windows which can result in you not seeing exceptions in Windows forms applications as the form loads, and sharing a work around to help if you are in this situation.
- Screencast – Getting Started With Machine.Specifications – Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo gives a walk through his ‘Develop with Passion’ fork of the Machine.Specifications testing framework, including the specific extensions of the framework included in his fork
- Strict Transport Security ASP.NET Module – Sacha Faust talks about the proposal for Strict Transport Security which involves forcing all HTTP traffic over HTTPS at the browser level, and shares details of an ASP.NET implementation of the standard provided as a HTTP Module
Community
- Austin Code Camp 2010 – Joshua Flanagan highlights this free Austin, TX User Group all day event occurring this weekend, offering 7 tracks of sessions covering a wide range of topics. Registration is still open, and is free, so if you are in the area be sure to check it out.
- Visual Studio Virtual Tour – 4 Days, 4 Hours, 4 Topics, for Free – Greg Duncan highlights 4 hours of free Visual Studio 2010 Readiness training delivered virtually over 4 days, looking at the new IDE, Architecture tools, development processes and testing.
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