The Morning Brew

Software

• LightSwitch Public Beta 1 Now Available! – The Visual Studio LightSwitch team announces the release of the first public beta of LightSwitch, the Rapid Line of Business application development tool.
• SQLCop update Version 1.1 – George Mastros highlights an update to the SQLCop project, an FxCop like tool for your SQL Server database, which will inspect and report on possible problems. This version includes a number of bugfixes to improve the experience (especially in use in partially connected environments)

Information

• LightSwitch Beta1 Now Available, Building Your First App – Jason Zander follows on from the LightSwitch public beta release with a walkthrough the process of building your first application using the new tooling in a step by step guide. Matt Thalman also explores LightSwitch in his post Authentication Features in Visual Studio LightSwitch taking a look at the different authentication possibilities in LightSwitch applications.
• A Developer’s Roadmap to Windows Phone 7 Launch Timing – The Windows Phone 7 team announce the plan for the run up to the Windows Phone 7 Launch, outlining some of the key dates and sharing links to some resources.
• PSSCor2: Object Inspection Commands, Part 1 – Sasha Goldshtein begins a series of posts looking at the PSSCor2 debugging extensions released by Microsoft a while back, and providing a number of useful additions to the core SOS debugger
• Database assisted denormalization – Ayende explores some possibiliies for denormalisation of data in a relational database using features of the SQL Server engine, looking at a variety of ways of solving the blog post and Number of posts problem examining the performance of the queries used. Interesting discussion breaking out in the comments.
• ASP.NET MVC with JQuery Validation and ValidationSummary – Imran Baloch looks at combining the Validation summary control with the jQuery Validation library to provide feedback clientside for the validations being performed on a page
• What is the difference in <:%: variable%> and <%= variable%> in ASP.NET MVC? – Jeffrey Palermo reminds of the introduction of the <%: blah %> syntax, explaining its difference from the traditional <%=blah%> syntax, and highlights a subtle difference between VS2008 and VS2010 ASP.NET MVC templates
• The ThreadPool is dead – Josh Twist looks at the improvements offered by the Task Parallel Library over the Threadpool in .NET 4, suggesting that TPL is the way to go for parallel code in .NET 4
• IObserver and IObservable – A New addition to BCL – Abhishek Sur looks at the IObserver and IObservable interfaces that are now a part of the .NET Base Class Library, looking at how they can be derived from the duality with IEnumerable / IEnumerator and illustrating their use with a simple example
• Lessons Learnt – Each Application Should Be Shipped With a Set of Diagnostics Tools – Marek Blotny discusses the importance of providing good logging and diagnostics tools for applications that you develop highlighting a number of key areas to consider
• Log Reporting Dashboard for ASP.NET MVC – ‘daffrey’ looks at combinging the output from ELMAH, Health Monitoring, Log4Net and NLog into a useful ASP.NET MVC based diagnostics / log reporting tool in this CodeProject article
• Heisenbug of the Day: IIS 7.0 Discarding POST Data From Firefox 3 when using Custom 404 Handlers – Dylan Beattie looks at an annoying issue with IIS7 handling 404 errors with FireFox 3 as the web browser posting small amounts of data, explaining how he investigated the problem and the tools used, along with sharing the workaround they ended up implementing
• Capturing Page Load Times – FiddlerScript to the Rescue – Robert Bogue looks at a use of the scripting capabilities included in the Fiddler HTTP diagnostic Proxy, showing how you can use it to capture the load time of all your pages in your application and log them to a file.

Community

• JAOO Aarhus 2010 Free Event – Oren "Ayende" Eini: "NoSQL Databases" and Nikhil Kothari – The Jaoo conference and .NET Usergroup will be hosting a free event in the early evening of October 5th in Aarhus, Denmark where Ayende will be presenting a session on NoSQL Databases, and Nikhil Kothari will be discussing Silverlight. If you are attending the JAOO conference this is a great free event for your evening.

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