September 2011
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 22 Sep 2011 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 21 Sep 2011 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Windows Phone Power Tools 1.1 – Oren Nachman announces the second release of the Windows Phone Power Tools, taking the version number to 1.1. This release includes an updated UI with a Metro look and feel, and addresses issues with uploads into isolated storage.
- Cmdlet Help Editor is now released on CodePlex – Wassim Fayed announces the release of the source code on CodePlex for the Cmdlet Help Editor, a tool which helps you build help content for your PowerShell Cmdlets in the format which PowerShell can read.
- Python Tools for VS – Mike Stall highlights the Python Tools for Visual Studio, a free download which adds support for CPython development to the Visual Studio 2010 IDE.
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- Touch Input for IE10 and Metro style Apps – Jacob Rossi discusses the introduction of touch input mechanisms for Internet Explorer 10 and the Metro Applications as a part of the Windows 8 Developer Preview, taking a look at the JavaScript code you can use to handle these touch events.
- Dependency Management in .Net: Get – Derek Greer follows on from his previous post on making use of NuGet without using Visual Studio, sharing a simple tool that can be used from any build process to easily fetch specific NuGet Packages.
- WPF 4.5 – Part 1 : Asynchronous data validation, Part 2 : Improved WeakEventManager & Part 3 : New methods of the Dispatcher – Jonathan Antoine takes a look a tthe new features of WPF 4.5 released last week as a part of the Developer Preview release of .NET 4.5 in this new series of posts taking a looka t the new INotifyDataErrorInfo interface, the generic WeakEventManager class, and the introduction of a number of new methods on the Dispatcher, including support for Async
- Reengineering the Windows boot experience – Steven Sinofsky returns to blogging after the //Build/ conference with a discussion of how the Windows 8 team have re-engineered the boot process for Windows 8, speeding up the process and improving the user experience.
- Git workflows with git-tfs – Jimmy Bogard highlights git-tfs, a bridge which allows you to work with TFS based repositories using Git locally, discussing reasons to use it, and taking a look at it in use.
- Multi-Platform Apps with HTML5 and IE9 – Susan Ibach shares an article from David Wesst looking at designing and developing applications using HTML5 and Internet Explorer 9 which target use on the web and also as a desktop application using OS integrations with the task bar, and discusses taking this to the next level with mobile devices.
- Building your first Windows Metro style app using C#, C++, or Visual Basic – The Windows DevCenter has a number of new tutorials helping you get to grips with development against all the new features of Windows 8 including this nice one on building your first Metro application using a variety of different languages.
- Regex engine updated to allow timeouts in .NET 4.5. – Ahmad Mageed takes a look at some fo the new functionality in the .NET Framework 4.5 with a look at some new features of the Regular Expression engine which allows you to add timeouts to your regular expressions.
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- Plug for our Windows Phone Online Conference – Mike Ormond highlights and reminds us about the free Online conference on Windows Phone Development being held on October 5th and focusing on Design from a User Perspective.
- What to expect at the up-coming Windows Azure Bootcamp? – Paul Lo discusses the Windows Azure boot camp events wihch are runing at a number of venues across the UK over the next few weeks, with the first in Manchester this week, discussing what you can expect at the event and highlighting the pre-work you should do before the event to get the most out of it.
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 20 Sep 2011 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
In case you missed it, and would like a taste of the Link Overload I suffered last week, I published an extra-ordinary (and rather late) ‘Afternoon Tea’post yesterday catching up on all the bits of //Build I had missed out so far, and also sharing a number of great (non-build related) links that got caught in the rush last week.a
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- Inheritance and Representation – Eric Lippert explores the deeper meanings of inheritance by way of a reader question on generics
- Dependency Management in .Net: Using NuGet without Visual Studio – Derek Greer discusses how NuGet answers a number of his previously discussed dependency management problems, discussing its use from the command line, and looking at combining it with the Rake build tool.
- Why Can’t We Be Friends? Art and Function in Windows Phone Apps – Paul Laberge discusses some of the User Interface considerations you should think about when designing your Windows Phone applications
- The New Team Explorer in TFS 11 – Brian Harry takes an in-depth look at what is new in the Visual Studio 11 Team Explorer exploring its use in a number of common usage scenarios, illustrating the new features of the tooling.
- Want to know more about Becoming Agile, F# or WCF? Head to the MSDN Library… – Sara Allison highlights the availability of 2 free online copies of published books on MSDN and a series of articles , covering Agile practices, F# and Windows Communication Foundation.
- Looking Back at BUILD – Roland Weigelt reflects back on the //Build conference, discussing all aspects of the conference and sharing the key points he took away.
- Windows 8 and the up and coming Hardware Revolution – Keith Elder shares his thoughts and experiences with the Windows 8 Developer Preview, discussing the key features of the OS, the factors which will make or break it, and discussing the hardware upon which its would ideally run.
- My List of Must-See Build 2011 Videos – Pete Brown shares his key collection of sessions from the //Build/ Conference as links to the (excellent quality) video recordings of the sessions, so you can get the best conference experience without being there
- Windows Azure and Cloud Session Content from the //BUILD/ Windows Conference 2011 – Roger Jennings has collected together a page with all the sessions which discussed Windows Azure topics for those of you with Azure as a focus or just keen to learn (a lot) more.
- XAMLFinance – A Cross-platform WPF, Silverlight & WP7 Application – Colin Eberhardt shares a long and detailed article discussing the building of an application across 3 platforms (WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone) making the most re-use of parts of the application over the multiple platform versions.
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- Belfast – 1 Oct 2011 – Register – Registrations for the Developer Developer Developer conference to be held on Saturday 1st October in Belfast are now open. The conference is free to attend, and features 3 tracks of interesting .NET developer related content.
- NNUG Online – September 2011 – The Norwegian .NET Usergroup have their September Live Meeting event on Wednesday 21st September, starting at 18:00 local time (17:00 UK). This month’s event features Einar Ingebrigtsen discussing Command Query Responsibility Segregation
- Black Marble Events- Re-Build – Dev – Black Marble are hosting an afternoon developer focused event on Wednesday 12th October where they will be re-capping all the key announcements and information released at the //Build/ Conference. There is also an IT pro session being hosted that morning.
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