The Morning Brew

Software

• ILSpy – Development of a free replacement for Reflector now that it is becoming paid software are underway, and the ILSpy project are well underway with releasing their latest binary, and already its looking like a good replacement in your free toolbox.
• ReSharper 6 Bundles Decompiler, Free Standalone Tool to Follow – JetBrains also enter the market with a replacement for Reflector, initially as a feature which will be included in ReSharper 6, with a standalone (and free) edition coming in the near future
• Introducing the February 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit – Jeff Wilcox highlights the February 2011 release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit, available on CodePlex now. This library contains a collection of controls for use in your applications including a new Tilt Effect and PerformanceProgressBar, along with performance improvements and more general improvements across the library.

Information

• Updating and Publishing a NuGet Package – Plus making NuGet packages smarter and avoiding source edits with WebActivator – Scott Hanselman takes another look at NuGet, exploring the process involved in updating an existing NuGet package, and explores the WebActivator functionality to run some of your code on application startup.
• Looking inside a double – Eric Lippert shares some code which uses the Rational class from the Microsoft Solver Foundation to split out the individual bits which represent a double precision floating point number
• Monads in C#-8. Video of my DDD9 Monad talk – Mike Hadlow continues his series on Monads in C# with a video interlude, sharing the video of his session on Monads in C# delivered at DeveloperDeveloperDevelop 9 in Reading last month.
• Asynchronous Web and Network Calls on the Client in WPF (and Silverlight and .NET in general) – Pete Brown takes a look at implementing Async calls between a WPF client application and an ASP.NET web application using the Silverlight-Enabled WCF Service, stepping through the work necessary to illustrate, and also exploring the use of the Reactive Extensions
• Longs for 64-bit Applications, and Other Interviewer Gems – Rob Conery discusses the probably impact of Scott Hanselman’s New Interview Questions for Senior Software Engineers list, and shares some tales of bad interviews and code-reviews he’s experienced
• What IE9 Changes Could Impact Your Site – Jon Box discusses some of the changes in Internet Explorer 9 which may break your sites, and highlights the Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility Cookbook, a guidance document from Microsoft which looks at some key areas of concern.
• A Guide to Deploying RIA Services Solutions – Brad Severtson discusses the deployment of WCF Rich Internet Applications Services projects offering guidance on this much requested area, sharing a part of the documentation of the forthcoming RIA Services SP1 documentation.
• Designing for the future – Dennis Vroegop discusses the evolution of the User Interfaces, taking a look at how things have changed in the Windows Space since Windows 95, iTunes, and other more general design principles.

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