November 2010
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #734
Posted by Chris Alcock on 22 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- OpenWithTest 0.4 Released – Matthew Manela announces the release of v0.4 of his Visual Studio 2010 extension which provides a way of opening both your test and implementation code files in the development environment
- FluentPath 1.0 – Bertrand Le Roy announces the 1.0 release of FluentPath, a fluent interface over the System.IO namespace, available over NuGet and also as a project on CodePlex.
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- Exploring Reactive Extensions – IObservable and IObserver – Alex Ullrich gives an introduction to the use of the IObservable and IObserver interfaces which make up the Reactive Extenions, with full source in VS2008 format for his sample.
- Pedant Corner: Clarifying IoC, DIP and DI – Mike Hadlow follows up from his previous post on Inversion of Control, Dependency Injection and the Dependency Inversion Principle looking at the meanings of these terms.
- Asynchrony in C# 5, Part Seven: Exceptions – Eric Lippert takes a trip into the weird and wonderful world of exception handling in the new Async CTP of C#5
- NuGet Package Transformations – Phil Haack discusses the two types of transformation (Config and Source) available for use in your NuGet packages which allows the package to make changes to files on installation, illustrating with an example from the ELMAH package
- Named Routes To The Rescue – Phil Haack discusses how giving all your ASP.NET routes names and using those names when generating URLs can make life much easier for you and how it allows you to work around some of the complications of routing with WebForms.
- Creating Twitpic client using ASP.NET and OData – Gunnar Peipman takes a look at consuming OData feeds with a look at the TwitPic OData feed and building a simple ASP.NET application to view the data.
- Reducing Code by Using jQuery Templates – Dan Wahlin takes a look at the recently released jQuery Templating functionality developed by the (ASP.NET?) team at Microsoft, showing it in use and discussing the use of the key template tags.
- Progress reporting in C# 5 async – Nicholas Butler looks at how you can return status of how the task is progressing out of routines running using the C#5 CTP Async functionality in this CodeProject article.
- Aimee.NET – Refactoring Lucene.NET: Setting up the Project – Matthew Dennis shares the progress on setting up the Aimee.NET library a refactoring of the Lucene.NET, discussing the background to the project, the structure of the project files and the tests.
Community
- Upcoming Web Camps – Scott Guthrie highlights the Web Camp series of one and two events occurring all around the world covering ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Web Matrix, OData, and much more.
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The Morning Brew #733
Posted by Chris Alcock on 19 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Lync Server 2010 Developer Training Kit Available Now! – With the launch of the Lync Communications Platform this week, the team also released the SDK for Lync 2010 which allows you to write software which interacts wit the various components of Lync
- F# source code structural colorizer available – Brian McNamara releases his F# Depth Colorizer plugin which brings highlighting of the nesting depth of F# code to the Visual Studio IDE
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- The first Commandment: Thou shalt not reference the IoC container! – Mike Hadlow talks about one of the key concepts in the use of Inversion of Control Containers in your code, the principle that you don’t reference the container in your own code. Interesting discussion in the comments of this one.
- Going through presentation hell – make sure you check your existing apps when you install ASP MVC 3! – John V. Petersen highlights a gotcha which can catch you out when you install ASP.NET MVC 3 and then work on an ASP.NET MVC 2 project.
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: DateTime is Packed with Goodies – James Michael Hare continues his ‘Little Wonders’ series with a look at some of the nice features of the DateTime class looking at the construction of date time instances, operations on date times, and formatting of date times.
- Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 6d – A "Billy Hollis" Hybrid Shell – Rob Eisenberg continues his tutorial series of posts on his Caliburn Micro framework for building WPF / Silverlight / WP7 applications. In this post Rob looks at creating a shell for applications based on a sample application from Billy Holllis.
- A curious guide to browsers and the web – The Google Chrome Team celebrate the 20th anniversary of the concept of the World Wide Web with an beautifully illustrated guide to the technologies involved.
- HTML5 – Netscape/IE 3 all over again? – Gojko Adzic discusses his concerns that the enhanced meaning of the term HTML5 and the APIs that are springing up from the different browser might result in a similar problem to that of the mid 90’d Netscape vs IE incompatibilities.
- Caching of, in, and around your Silverlight application (part 1) – Kevin Dockx kicks off a series looking at the various different cachings that can occur in the execution of your Silverlight application, either through the way the plugin works, or the way your application is written. This first post discusses the caching of the actual application XAP and Assemblies
- Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners – Mike Ormond highlights a new series of Windows Phone 7 resources from the Channel9 team which form a series on Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners.
Community
- F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group, next Wednesday, 24th Nov – Don Syme highlights the next F#unctional Londoners Functional Programming User group event to be held on the eveing of Wednesday 24th November. This event sees Phil Trelford presenting on TickSpec a BDD framework for C# and F#, and Tomas Petricek on concurrent applications using agents in F#.
- Free Webinar: Be a legacy code unit test ninja with Typemock Isolator – Roy Osherove highlights a free Webinar to be held on Tuesday 23rd November where he will be working through using TypeMock Isolator to write some tests for some horrible an seemingly un-testable code.
- FREE technical update event on Windows Azure, SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Phone 7 and more on the 25th Nov – Eric Nelson highlights the free technical event being run by the UK ISV Team taking place on the afternoon of the 25th November, where there will be technology drill-downs on Windows Phone 7, Azure and SQL Server 2008 R2.
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The Morning Brew #732
Posted by Chris Alcock on 18 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- HTML5, and Real World Site Performance: Seventh IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers – The Internet Explorer Team announce the availability of their 7th preview release of Internet Explorer 9. This release brings performance improvements to the JavaScript engine, and this post discusses the improvements in performance and the effect it has had on the benchmarks.
- Extended WPF Toolkit: New DateTimeUpDown control – Brian Lagunas highlights the new DateTimeUpDown control that makes up part of the Extended WPF Toolkit, an opensource community controls project building controls for use in WPF applications.
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- Windows Forms Developers: Tell me about your applications – Pete Brown is looking into easing the transition from WinForms to WPF and Silverlight for Developers and their applications, and to that end is looking for your input to help get a picture of the types of applications still being created and maintained in WinForms.
- Thumbnail Previews in the IDE Navigator – Zain Naboulsi shares a registry change which will bring the previews of files in the ctrl+tab navigation window back to Visual Studio 2010. This feature was disabled in the latest IDE version, but can be easily re-enabled.
- Three T4 Cheat sheets (General Overview, @Template Details and Examples) – Greg Duncan highlights 3 Cheat Sheets covering aspects of T4 Templates from Robery MacLean. The cheat sheets are provided in PDF format and cover the key concepts in T4 , the @template directive and a set of examples.
- XDT (web.config) Transforms in non-web projects – Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi looks at using the XDT Web.Config transformations in other project types via the MSBuild task for performing the transform illustrating with an example of using them in a WPF application.
- WCF How To – Configuration Based Activation – Ron Jacobs talks about the support in WCF and WF in .NET 4 for having service endpoints which do not require .svc files on the file system.
- ScriptHelper – For MVC and WebForms projects – ‘Glav’ shares a helper library which makes managing the various dependencies of JavaScript libraries and Plugins (for instance the jQuery Validation plugin) and provides a simple way of adding these dependencies to a page in one method call.
- No More Magic Strings! Presenting: @string.of – Arik Poznanski shares a useful helper method which helps you to eliminate ‘magic’ strings from your code when you are actually refering to something which has a well defined name in your code.
- Authorization With RoleManager For Claims Aware (WIF) ASP.NET Web Applications – Alik Levin walks through the creation of a basic ASP.NET application which uses the RoleManager for authentication providing Claims Aware Authentication using the Windows Identity Foundation
Community
- IE9 Chakra JavaScript Team Hosting a Q&A Session Tomorrow – Rey Bango highlights an open Q&A session via Twitter with the Internet Explorer JavaScript Team happening today (18th Nov) between 9-11am PST
- Linked .NET Users Group Hosting ScottGu this Friday (19/11) – Mike Taulty reminds us of the Linked In .NET User Group’s unplugged session with Scott Guthrie, where Scott answers questions from the audience on all things Developer at Microsoft.
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