The Morning Brew

PDC 2010

• Making Asynchronous Programming Easy - Somasegar introduces the CTP release of of framework and language enhancements for C# and VB.NET which bring an asynchronous programming model to these languages,
• Announcing the Async CTP for Visual Basic (and also Iterators!) - The Visual Basic Team take a look at Async in VB.NET showing code examples illustrating its use in VB.NET using a waiter in a restaurant as the example.
• Visual Studio Async CTP - Shiju Varghese shares links to the specifications for Async in VB.NET and C#, along with the documentation on MSDN and a white paper on Asynchrony in .NET
• HTML5, Using the whole PC: Sixth IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers - The Internet Explorer team announced the release of their 6th platform preview release of Internet Explorer 9 at PDC yesterday and in this post Dean Hachamovitch talks about the performance of this version and discusses what you need to do to get ready for the release candidate.
• TFS on Windows Azure at the PDC - Brian Harry talks about the work that has been done on TFS to allow it to run on the Azure Cloud Computing platform, and how they got to the point where they could demo it at PDC.
• PDC10: Mysteries of Windows Memory Management Revealed: Part One - Tim Sneath blogs about Windows Memory Management from details gleaned from the PDC session by Mark Russinovich, discussing virtual memory, Mapped Files, and paging

Software

• Microsoft Lync Released to Manufacturing - The Unified Communications Group Team announce the RTM release of Lync 2010, the new branding for Office Communications Server and Communicator. This new version brings a common communications platform with extensibility (check out the work on the SDK), along with major enhancements to voice communications.
• Rx for Windows Phone 7 - The Reactive Extensions Team announce the release of a downloadable version of the Reactive Extensions for Windows Phone 7. This version will be of interest to those who want to use the latest bits of Rx in their WP7 applications at the expense of having to ship the additional assemblies to override the built in Rx on the Phone. The Team also announce that Rx packages (are) available on NuPack
• A quick look at what’s new in Orchard 0.8 - Bertrand Le Roy talks about the latest features added to the latest version of the Orchard Project, released on Monday. v0.8 introduces the Razor view engine as the default view engine, introduces their concept of Widgets and a whole lot more.
• StyleCop Compliant Visual Studio 2010 Code Snippets & Templates - Doug Holland highlights the October 2010 release of the Visual Studio Snippets library which is a library of snippets and template which conform to StyleCop rules, meaning that the use of them will not trigger warnings in StyleCop (unlike the default VS ones)

Information

• Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold - Microsoft Press have released the full final edition of Charles Petzold’s Programming Windows Phone 7 book as an e-book. This 1000+ Page, 24 chapter book is available in PDF, with full sample code
• Asynchrony in C# 5, Part One - Eric Lippert kicks off a new series of posts looking at the implementation of Asynchrony in C#5, discussing the concepts ad highlighting the CTP release of the C#5 prototype.
• Visual Studio Async CTP: The C# Perspective &Visual Studio Async CTP: A Few More Things - Sasha Goldshtein also looks at the Async CTP in C#, talking about its implementation and its basis in Continuation Passing Style
• What’s Next in C#? Get Ready for Async! - Alexandra Rusina talks about the Async functionality released in the C#5 CTP, showing its use with an example which retrieves Facebook friends lists
• Asynchronous C# and F# (I.): Simultaneous introduction - Tomáš Pet?í?ek also talks about the C#5 CTP, discussing how the C# Aysnc functionality is heavily influenced by the work that has already been done in F# Async Workflows.
• Tutorial: Pic Viewer Revisited on the Async CTP - Jason Zander shares an example of the Async CTP in operation wit a look at fitting it into his Picture Viewer sample
• Visual Studio Async CTP for the rest of us.. - Michael Crump takes a ‘getting started’ look at the Async CTP release, walking through the installation, highlighting the included samples and looking at the assemblies you need to reference.
• The Present and Future of WPF - Pete Brown talks about the various users of WPF both inside and outside of Microsoft, discussing its use in their products and discussing the future direction for WPF
• Rx Design Guidelines - The Reactive Extensions Team have also released a guidelines document to help you make the best possible use of the Reactive Extensions for creating and consuming Observable streams
• Monotouch: your C# app on a real iPhone - Peter van Ooijen discusses the use of MonoTouch to build applications for the iPhone, and discusses the deployment to a real device, and the performance differences between testing the application on your PC vs the iPhone device
• CQRS - The Cult of Shiny Things - Jak Charlton discusses Command Query Responsibility Segregation, setting about separating some of the myths from the facts about the various aspects and claims made about this type of architecture.
• Just Where Is WebResource.axd? - Scott On Writing.NET - Scott Mitchell talks about the use of WebResource.axd, discussing how it works, and what it is used for along with highlighting further resources on the subject.
• Invalid Cast - Martin Rue looks at an alternative technique to constructors with lots of arguments for passing in dependencies, using Func type as a variables to provide a means of overriding functionality for testing purposes.

Community

• LinkedIn Live Webinar Presentation - Sneak Preview - Britt King highlights the upcoming Linked In .NET User Group virtual event to be held on Wednesday 3rd November 2010 at 9AM PST where Gael Fraiteur will talks about Aspect Oriented Programming and the PostSharp library.
• How good are you with Regexes? Try http://rise4fun.com/rex - Jonathan "Peli" de Halleux highlights a fun game for RegEx experts to attempt to guess a hidden regular expression using the output of Rex to see how close your guess is

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• RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta Released!! - Deepesh Mohnani highlights the release of the RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta, a release combined with the WCF RIA Services October release. This SP1 Beta brings the ability to share entities across multiple domain services, support for complex objects, better binding, localisation into 10 languages, and improved templating for client code generation
• MvcSiteMapProvider 2.2.0 released - Maarten Balliauw releases the latest version of his MvcSiteMapProvider onto CodePlex (soon to be available through NuPack too). This new version introduces Templated HtmlHelpers allowing you to customise the HTML rendered, improvements to the stability of the library, updates to HtmlHelpers to support MvcHtmlString, and some further extensibility points.
• Announcing Sync Framework 4.0 October 2010 CTP - The Sync Framework Team announce the latest CTP edition of Version 4 of the Sync Framework. This release brings OData to the protocol formats, a new diagnostics dashboard to monitor Sync operations, Client and Server components to aid in implementing the sync, along with a collection of samples showing how the library supports sync to multiple software platforms
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK October Release available for download - The Windows Azure AppFabric team release an updated October Release of the Azure AppFabric SDK which resolves problems users experienced with the install rolling back on 64bit Windows.
• Sueetie Version 2.0 Now Available! - Dave Burke announces a new major version of Sueetie. Sueetie Version 2 brings together a number of open source projects into a cohesive whole community solution, including CMS, Mobile sites, Calendars, Media libraries, forums, all building on best of breed .NET Open Source projects.

Information

• Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Five: CPS and Asynchrony - Eric Lippert continues his look at Continuation Passing Style, discussing how CPS can apply to real world problems, looking at fetching documents over a slow link and writing them to slow storage, and how CPS provides a way of making this process more efficient.
• Why I hate implementing Linq - Ayende discusses some of the complexity of developing the Linq providers which make it possible for developers to write the expressive Linq statements we all love.
• Turn your Razor helpers into reusable libraries - David Ebbo looks at wrapping up helpers using the Razor View Engine into libraries which you can share amongst your projects, using the Razor Single File Generator Visual Studio Extension, and a little T4
• Announcement: FREE Code Sample Request Service from Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework - The All-In-One Code Framework Team are on the look out for new code samples that developers would like to see included as fully formed samples the All-In-One Code Framework. This post outlines the process of making these requests.
• WP7 Development Tips Part 1 - Kevin Marshall shares a collection of performance related tips to help you make your Windows Phone 7 Application fly, sharing recommendations of things to consider when building your application
• ECMAScript 5 Part 1: Reusable Code - Amanda Silver, Program Manager for JavaScript in Internet Explorer kicks of a new series on ECMAScript 5, with this first part looking at the construction and cloning of objects.
• RavenDb, ASP.NET MVC and Windsor working together - Mike Hadlow continues his exploration of RavenDB with a look at using it with ASP.NET MVC and Castle Windsor in his latest project, TardisBank.Com, a pocket money back account application. Full source is available on GitHub
• Useful, free resources for SQL Server - Aaron Bertrand shares a great list of free resources for SQL Server, ranging from advisors, through documentation, Add-ins, Community Resources, Sample databases, scripts, performance tools, and books.
• Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 web application to server where ASP.NET MVC 3 is not installed - Gunnar Peipman discusses the process of deploying an ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta based web application to hosting which does not have MVC3 installed
• F# Parallel Extras (I.): Image pipeline using agents &F# Parallel Extras (II.): Agent-based blocking queue & F# Parallel Extras (III.): Financial dashboard with cancellation - Tomáš Pet?í?ek has been at writing the samples from the Patterns and Practices Parallel Programming in .NET book in F#, translating them from their C# originals, and in this series of posts looks at further re-writing of them in F# using a more functional style and using more of the power of the language.

Community

• Mobile Web Best Practices Webinar Follow-up - Woody Pewitt shares the recording and slides of his virtual presentation held yesterday looking at developing websites which target mobile devices

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• NBehave VS2010 Plugin: New Builds - Naeem Khedarun announces a new version of the NBehave Visual Studio 2010 IDE Plug-in, which brings syntax highlighting and Single Scenario running / debugging for your NBehave BDD Tests
• Windows Phone 7 ConfApp - Microsoft conferences with schedules and past PowerPoint decks/session videos, now with for PDC10 - Greg Duncan highlights the Conf Windows Phone 7 application which now contains session information for PDC2010, along with session information, slides and videos for PDV09, MIX10, and session information for REMIX10 Austrialia.
• Dynamically Create Test Data with NBuilder, JSON and .Net - ‘ActiveEngine Sensei’ walks through the use of their DataBuilder tool which allows you to easily construct good real-looking test data using NBuilder

Information

• Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Four: Turning yourself inside out - Eric Lippert continues his series on Continuation Passing Style discussing why this style of programming is not used more often, discussing the difficulties people have in understanding these concepts.
• Silverlight Developer Guidance Map - J.D. Meier highlights the Silverlight Developer Guidance Map from the Microsoft Patterns an Practices Team, providing a good pointer to the vast wealth of Silverlight HowTos, Code Samples, Videos and Training Resources.
• RavenDb: Playing with Inheritance and Polymorphism - Mike Hadlow has been exploring RavenDB, and in this post gives a simple example of working with an inheritance based model for the documents to be stored, and how RavenDB supports this.
• Synchronization primitives, MulticastAutoResetEvent - Ayende discusses some of the complexities of signalling background threads to do work in a system like RavenDB, discussing the use of AutoResetEvents and Monitor.PulseAll.
• 10 Tips you should know about "Watch Window" While debugging in Visual Studio - Abhijit Jana shares 10 tips for the use of the Watch Window in Visual Studio, ranging from copy/paste feature to getting Garbage Collection Generation information, and watching new objects created in the immediate window.
• Create your own Format Bar for the WPF RichTextBox - Brian Lagunas looks at creating a WPF Ribbon based user interface for the WPF Rich Text Box, showing the operation of both controls and how to wire them together.
• Building mobile web site with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Mobile - Gunnar Peipman investigates building an ASP.NET MVC web site using the jQuery Mobile library to construct a good Mobile User Experience and shows how Windows Mobile handles the UI.
• A Step-by-Step Guide to Building and Deploying your Windows Phone 7 Applications - Colin Melia runs through the complete process of building a simple Windows Phone 7 application, from installing the required tooling, right through to the submission to the Marketplace.
• WP7 Code: Managing Application State - Dragos Manolescu looks at adding save and restore of application state to the GeoFencing Windows Phone 7 Application, exploring a few features of the Reactive Extensions along the way.
• Dumping ASP.NET Session (x86 /x64) within Windbg - Naveen looks at investigating the ASP.NET Session data from WinDBG, sharing a script which dumps out the session objects.

Community

• Aberdeen Developers’ .NET User Group, 11th November - Mike Taulty and Mike Ormond will be speaking at the Aberdeen Developers’ .NET User Group on the evening of 11th November, with Mike Taulty covering Silverlight 4 features, and Mike Ormond looking at Developing for Windows Phone 7
• Mobile Web Best Practices Webinar - Woody Pewitt will be delivering a DevExpress Online presentation today (27th October) at 10am PDT looking at best practices for developing websites intended specifically for use on a mobile device.
• PDC10 Coming to you Live! Don’t miss it! - PDC 2010 kicks off tomorrow, and loads of the content and talks will be available live online allowing those unable to attend in person to share in the experience with HD 720p streams, live translations (into Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish)

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• Releasing StreamInsight V1.1 - The Microsoft StreamInsight Team announce the release of StreamInsight 1.1 which brings a number of new features including support for .NET sequences as event sources, support for side by side installation with previous versions making upgrading easier and a number of enhancements to performance and stability
• Azure Storage Explorer 4 Beta 1 Released - David Barrett highlights the release of Azure Storage Explorer, Version 4 Beta 1, a useful tool which allows you to view the contents of Azure Containers and Blobs, view queues and messages and view table storage tables
• Announcing YUI 2.8.2 - Important Security Update for All Users of YUI 2.4.0-2.8.1 - The Yahoo User Interface team announce an important security fix release which addresses security issues in the YUI 2 Flash component infrastructure in all versions since 2.4.0. If you are utilising YUI, check your version and upgrade if necessary

Information

• ASP.NET Developer Guidance Map - J.D. Meier discusses the ASP.NET Developer Guidance Map from the Patterns and Practices team which provides a useful means of locating good information about the range of features and technologies which make up the ASP.NET Space.
• Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Three: Musings about coroutines - Eric Lippert presses on with his latest series on Continuation Passing Style of programming, looking in this part at coroutines, talking about their style of cooperative multitasking, and looking at yield return as a similar concept in C#
• Equality vs Identity - Part I & Part II - Luis Abreu looks at the concept of identity and equality in C#, looking at the implementation of the Equals method for objects and value types, and exploring GetHashCode and its use in dictionaries.
• Inheritance Mapping: A Walkthrough Guide for Beginners - Pedro Ardila of the Entity Framework Team gives a beginners guide to the mapping of Inheritance hierarchies in EF, looking briefly at each of the strategies for performing the mapping.
• Returning Dynamic Types from an Ajax Web Service Using C# 4.0 - Scott Mitchell highlights his series of posts on returning server side data to client side code, and discusses the possible use of Dynamic return types in Ajax methods to avoid the need for a data transfer object.
• Execution Plans - Indexing to achieve optimal query plans - Ted Krueger shares a detailed article which looks at the use of SQL Server execution plans as a means of directing your indexing strategy to improve performance, looking at a number of scenarios where the need for specific indexes can be identified from the execution plan of a query.
• The Case of NUnit Hanging During Startup - Liran Chen shares another example of a real world application hang and how attaching WinDBG can quickly and easily establish what the problem is, giving you enough information to resolve the problem.
• Unit Testing - MsBuild Series - Mark Kemper continues his series on automating your build processes with MSBuild with a look at hooking up NUnit Unit Tests into you build process
• Introducing the New Authorize.NET SDK - Rob Conery discusses his guiding principle for a recent project to design an API for a payment provider, showing the API he ended up with and discussing the key decisions made to match these principles.

Community

• Get Your Special Edition WP7 User Group Kit! - A useful link for anyone running a Windows Phone 7 inspired User Group Event (for an official user group registered with www.usergroupsupportservices.com) here you can get USB drives loaded with software, t-shirts, phone protectors, etc to make your event go with a bang.

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• Visual Studio Tools for IronRuby - Christopher Bennage highlights the Visual Studio tooling included in the latest IronRuby release which includes template projects for common Ruby applications such as Ruby on Rails 3, Sinatra, Gems, and Silverlight.
• WPF Ribbon October Release - Pete Brown highlights an update to the WPF Ribbon wihich fixes a number of issues in the first release (including ClearType Support), along with adding support for its use in the Visual Studio Express editions.
• Windows Phone Developer Tools October 2010 Update - The latest update to the Windows Phone 7 Developer tools is out, bringing an updated Bing Maps control which boasts improved performance, Phone Capability Detection tool to establish the phone features your application uses, and the Windows Phone Connect Tool allowing you to connect to a Windows Phone 7 device without Zune software.
• Goodbye to an old friend… - ‘walbourn’ highlights the beginning of the end for Windows XP, discussing the end of your ability to purchase this version of Windows which passed on the 22nd October, discussing the significance of this version, and highlighting that support will continue to 2014.

Information

• ASP.NET MVC 3: Layouts with Razor - Scott Guthrie discusses the ASP.NET MVC 3 Layouts features of the Razor View Engine, providing Master Pages type support to your MVC Views created in Razor, showing the functionality in operation via a simple example.
• ASP.NET MVC3 JsonValueProviderFactory - ‘Yo Briefcase!’ posts on the ASP.NET MVC3 JsonValueProviderFactory, showing the problem in ASP.NET MVC2 which it solves, bringing easier access to values posted in JSON format.
• Windows 7 Phone Database - RapidRepository - Sean McAlinden introduces a new project which offers a simple Document Database implementation which runs on Windows Phone 7 and utilises Isolated Storage on the device to provide the data store.
• Part 1: Getting started with TouchToolkit - Shahedul Huq Khandkar begins a series looking at the TouchToolkit project, a toolkit for developing touch enabled applications on Windows 7 using Silverlight and WPF 4.0. In this part he looks at getting up and running with the library, subscribing to gestures, and obtaining raw touch data.
• How to capture audio from your microphone in WP7 - Derik Whittaker takes a look at capturing audio on the Windows Phone 7 devices, sharing a code sample to capture and replay audio.
• RavenDB - The Image Gallery Project (XV) - Improving Tag Search with AutoComplete - Rob Ashton continues his series on developing a real application using RavenDB with a look at adding AutoComplete functionality to the tag search in his Image Gallery showing both the RavenDB interaction via Linq and the MVC frontend.
• You saved 5 cents, and your code is not readable, congrats! &What is the cost of storage, again? - Ayende discusses the real cost of storage, and looks at the trade off of storing additional data in the database to make the code easier to read, looking at the costs of both storage and developer resource.
• Naming is Hard, Let’s Go Shopping &Community Naming - Phil Haack discusses the importance of a good name, answers a number of the common community questions about the NuPack projects renaming exercise, and gives an update on the voting.
• Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Two: Handwaving about control flow - Eric Lippert continues his series on Continuation Passing Style with a look at a more complicated control flow than the If Conditional exploring Throwing Exceptions.
• Presenting the OpenWrap logo & Building packages with OpenWrap - Sebastien Lambla unveils the new Logo for the OpenWrap package management project, and also blogs about the production of packages using OpenWrap and MSBuild, Nant, Rake and other build tools.
• 15 Things I’ve discovered about Silverlight. - Michael Crump shares a collection of 15 pieces of advice, suggestions and experiences about Silverlight Development.
• SQL Myths - 60 pages from Paul Randall - John Paul Cook highlights a great 60 page document from Paul Randall outlining and setting the record straight on 30 of the most commonly perpetuated SQL Server Myths.
• Crypto Primer: Understanding encryption, public/private key, signatures and certificates - ‘Planky’ gives a nice introduction to the key concepts behind common cryptography topics including discussion of Certificates, Public/Private Key encryption and signatures.
• Basic JavaScript Part 1 : Functions - Jan Van Ryswyck explores some of the crucial facts about Functions in JavaScript, looking at Inner Functions, Self-writing functions and Closures
• .NET MEAP Books at Half Price! - Joey deVilla highlights a one day half price offer from Manning Publications on their Manning Early Access Program titles.

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• We’re Renaming NuPack - Phil Haack highlights the decision to rename the NuPack project due to a naming clash with another software project. The project team have a number of suggestions, and you can vote on the name you think is best.
• Dolphin Deploy: Deploying ASP.net applications using IronRuby - Ben Hall discusses and shares Dolphin Deploy, a Prototype IronRuby based Domain Specific Language for handling the deployment of ASP.NET Applications. Full source is available, and Ben is looking for people to get involved in the project.
• New Components and Contributors for IronPython and IronRuby - Jason Zander announces some changes to the leadership and model for the IronPyton and Iron Ruby projects, with the aim of increasing the ability of the community to contribute to the projects.

Information

• Continuation Passing Style Revisited, Part One - Eric Lippert kicks off a new series looking at Continuation Passing Style programming, starting in this post with a recap and the background on CPS, looking at creating a CPS conditional operator in C#
• Creating a new project with OpenWrap - Sebastien Lambla continnues his series exploring his OpenWrap project, looking in this post at its use in a new development project, showing how easily you can use the package management to satisfy your library dependencies, and illustrating the integration with the IDE/ReSharper, and showing how you can then package up this project into an OpenWrap package.
• Creating a NuPack package using a Build File - MsBuild Series - Mark Kemper continues his series on MsBuild, looking at how you can create a NuPack package from your project as a part of your MsBuild process
• Hosting Your Own Local and Remote NuPack Feeds - Phil Haack gives blow by blow instructions for setting up your own NuPack package feeds, looking at local file system based feeds and published Url remote feeds.
• RavenDB - The Image Gallery Project (XIV) - Implementing a real-time tag search - Rob Ashton presses on with his realworld Image Gallery project using RavenDB, showing the implementation of the tag based search in this post
• NoSql No Problem - NoRM and MongoDB Tutorial - Querying - Tadeusz Wójcik takes a look at Querying in the MongoDB NoSql database and the NoRM .NET Driver, showing queries in the MongoDB Shell and how they are represented in .NET using NoRM.
• The F# Asynchronous Programming Model, PADL 2010 (pre-publication draft) - Don Syme shares a draft of his paper on asynchronous Programming in F#, looking feedback on the paper which discusses how F# supports reactive, concurrent and parallel programming.
• There’s only one ThreadExceptionHandler - Simon Cooper discusses a bug that has been present in the .NET Framework (caused by a typo) which means that there can be only one ThreadExceptionHandler, and talks about the effects of this.
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: ToDictionary() and ToList() - James Michael Hare makes his ‘C#/.NET Little Wonders’ series a more regular feature of his blog, exploring the LINQ extension methods ToDictionary() and ToList()
• Extending MVC Views with DynamicObject - Javier G. Lozano looks at the use of DynamicObject in the MVC Razor View Engine looking at how @View and @Service can be extended using Dynamic objects to resolve methods and properties at runtime.
• Showing Open Source maps on Windows Phone 7 with the Bing Maps Control - Joost van Schaik looks at how the Windows Phone 7 Bing Maps control can be used to display alternate mapping imagery, illustrating with a look at using OpenStreetMap imagary.

Community

• Agenda (With Videos) - NHibernate Day - The NHibernate Day Conference organisers have got the video footage and slides from most of the sessions at the the recent NHibernate Day Conference on-line now, so you can view all the sessions across both tracks on demand
• Sessions (With Videos) - SQL Bits 6 - The SQL Bits team have released the video footage from the SQL Bits 6 conference from May this year, providing a valuable resource of detailed SQL Server knowledge, and the opportunity to see the sessions you missed
• FREE workshop on using Bing Maps with SQL Server and SharePoint on November 2nd in Reading - Eric Nelson highlights a Free event to be held at Microsoft’s Reading campus which will be looking at the use of Bing Maps with SQL Server and Sharepoint, exploring the integration of these three technologies in a workshop format. The event is free, and registration is required.
• "Modern Windows 7 Applications" (UK Steve Ballmer Event Recording) - Mike Taulty highlights the video of his session on Modern Windows 7 Applications, exploring the WPF Ribbon, Application Restart/Recovery
  , Taskbar integration, Chromless Windows and a bunch of other great features, from the recent Steve Balmer UK event.

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• Knockout 1.1.0 + new project site launched - Steve Sanderson announces the release of Knockout 1.1.0, the latest version of his JavaScript / HTML declarative binding MVVM library which makes it easy to build complex web based user interfaces. This new release includes Internet Explorer 9 support, improvements to the API, complete documentation, and to go with all that a new website for the project.

Information

• Raven’s dynamic queries - Ayende discusses a new feature for the RavenDB document database which will mean that you won’t need to declare indexes before querying against them, meaning that the engine will create the required indexes based on your queries.
• Contributing to OpenWrap - Sebastien Lambla talks about how you can get involved in the OpenWrap project, walking through some important steps required to contribute code to the project, both procedural and version control related.
• Integrate Html5 Form in ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid looks at how you can render HTML5 controls to browsers which are capable of utilising them in ASP.NET MVC using the EditorFor function and custom templates for the editors.
• Bug Fixes and Changes in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta - Imran Baloch reviews the most significant changes and bugfixes included in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta release, providing a useful reference for anyone considering upgrading.
• LINQ: Implementing The SkipLastWhile Operator - Paulo Morgado continues his LINQ series looking at implementing operators which operate on the end of Enumberables with an implementation of the SkipLastWhile operator.
• How to track an object which is Out of Scope while Debugging - Abhijit Jana looks at the use of Object ID Generation in the Visual Studio Debugger showing how it allows you to keep watches on objects regardless of the current scope showing it in use with plenty of screenshots for illustration.
• NUnit and the Values Attribute - Jeff Vera takes a quick look at the NUnit Value attribute introduced in NUnit 2.5 which brings Pameterised test support, helping reduce complexity and repetition of test cases which vary only by a value.
• SQL Server: How to insert million numbers to table fast? - Gunnar Peipman looks at a number of approaches and optimisations to adding a large number of records (in this case numbers) to a database table, showing how thinkg procedurally will only get you so far with SQL, and that Set Based operations are often the most optimal solutions in the DB
• Zipping Build Outputs using a Build File - MsBuld Series - Mark Kemper continues his series on MSBuild exploring the use of the MSBuild.Community.Tasks to provide the ability to ZIP your build output as a part of the build pricess.
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #21: Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone - Jeff Blankenburg has been blogging a nice series on Windows Phone Development this month, and in his most recent post he explores the various additional User Interface Controls available to the Windows Phone Developer in the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7.

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• MooTools 1.3 Hits the Street - Ajaxian highlights the release of the latest version of the MooTools JavaScript library version 1.3, released earlier this month. This release includes a number of new features, including a new Selector Engine and Build Manager along with improvements to the library’s core.
• Caught up with Bugs in My Favourite IDE ( Visual Studio 2010 ) - Senthil Kumar discusses a number of Visual Studio 2010 issues he has encountered in normal use, highlighting patches to resolve issues where available.
• Windows 7 file-properties "Version" tab Shell Extension - David B. Trout shares a Windows Shell extension which brings a Version tab to the files properties tab in Windows 7 (something that was removed in Windows 7 which is a shame as its really useful). This is implemented in C++, and the download includes built versions for x86 and x64 Windows.

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• ASP.NET MVC 3: New @model keyword in Razor - Scott Guthrie kicks off a mini-series looking at the various improvements and new features in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta, with this first post looking at the Razor View Engine and the @model directive which allows you to reference strongly typed views.
• Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development - Wei-Meng Lee starts a series of posts looking at the Windows Phone 7 Development story, and in this first article looks at the development tools and creating a Hello World application.
• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 6c - Simple MDI with Screen Collections - Rob Eisenberg continues his series of posts looking at his Caliburn.Micro framework for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7, looking in this part at a which creates a MDI (Multi document interface) User interface.
• Refactoring Switches Advanced - John Sonmez takes another look at refactoring Switch Statements, discussing how breaking the problem down into a mapping between data and logic can make solving it in an elegant way easier.
• RavenDB - Image Gallery Project (XIII) - Understanding Indexes - Rob Ashton continues his series on building an image library application backed onto RavenDB. In this post Rob explores the concepts of indexing in the document database, showing how you can pre-define these indexes.
• A List of Resources to help jumpstart your ASP.NET WebMatirx Development. - Joe Stagner shares a collection of resources to learn about Web Development using the ASP.NET WebMatrix tooling. Many of the resources are also relevant for MVC developers as they cover the Razor View Engine.
• Mercurial Revision No to Version your AssemblyInfo - MsBuild Series - Mark Kemper looks at adding the Mercurial Revision number into your .NET applications Version Number using MSBuild and the MSBuild.Mercurial library.
• LINQ: Introducing The Skip Last Operators & LINQ: Implementing The SkipLast Operator - Paulo Morgado continues looking at implementing LINQ operators which operate on the end of IEnumberable collections, and shares his implementations of the SkipLast and SkipLastWhile operators.
• Testing sites with Browser Mode vs. Doc Mode - Marc Silbey of the Internet Explorer team discusses the various modes that Internet Explorer 9 can operated and what that means in terms of testing your web applications, and how the browser behaves.
• Get patterns & practices Books Cheap - Ade Miller highlights an offer from O’Reilly to celebrate the patterns & practices Symposium where you can get P&P ebooks at a significant discount. The post is dated a few days ago but at the time of writing the offer is still running.

Community

• Europe Virtual ALT.NET: Glenn Block on "WCF - Evolving for the Web" @ E-VAN 18 October 2010 - Jan Van Ryswyck shares the video of the European Virtual Alt.Net event from Monday where Glenn Block on REST and HTTP work being done by the WCF team. If you were unable to attend the virtual meeting, this is your chance to not miss out on a great talk.

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