The Morning Brew

Software

• Mono 3.0 is out – Miguel de Icaza announces the offical release of Mono 3.0, a significant release which brings features such as async in C#, .NET 4.5 async support, integration with the opensourced Microsoft projects (ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, Razor, etc), a new garbage collector and much more.
• Announcing TouchDevelop Web App Preview – Nikolai Tillmann announces the first preview of TouchDevelop Web App, a development environment which runs in the browser allowing development of Windows 8 and Windows Phone applications which you can then sell in the marketplace
• Uber Prof V2.0 is now in Public Beta – Ayende announces the public beta of the second edition of Uber Profiler, the framework aware profiler for NHibernate, Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL. As always with a beta the team are keen on your feedback.

Information

• Using async/await without .NET Framework 4.5 – Immo Landwerth announces an update to the Async Targeting Pack which brings the wonders of async/await Visual Studio 2012 projects targeting the .NET Framework V4, and Silverlight 5, Silverlight 4, Windows Phone 7.5 and portable class libraries targeting those versions, all available as a NuGet package
• A method group of one – Eric Lippert discusses the implementation of the C# dynamic functionality, discussing how expressions involving dynamic types are analysed, illustrating with some examples.
• Thread.Interrupt Is Evil – Alois Kraus discusses the evil’ness of Thread.Interrupt, discussing some problems encountered in a production application’s shutdown, and discussing the CLR’s behavior when it encounters Thread.Interrupt.
• Updated F# Language Specification for F# 3.0 Now Available – Don Syme and Wonseok Chae highlight an updated version of the F# language specification document which includes all the language features introduced in F#3.0
• Single page apps in depth (new free book) – Mikito Takada shares ‘Single Page Apps in Depth’ an online book looking at the development code and concepts behind this relatively new type of application.

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Software

• Updates: Coreinfo v3.1, Desktops v2.0, Livekd v5.3, PsPasswd v1.23, Testlimit v5.22, Whois v1.11 – The Sysinternals team share updates to 6 of their tools, a few of which are updates to support Windows 8. This includes Desktops 2.0 virtual desktop support for Windows 8, support for LiveKd kernel debugging on Windows 8.

Information

• New Web Optimization Pre-Release Package on NuGet – Howard Dierking highlights the latest development on the ASP.NET Web Optimisation library which adds support to fall back through content delivery networks to local paths, template strings, Virtual Path Providers. The latest version is available as a pre-release package on NuGet.
• What’s new in ASP.Net 4.5 and VS 2012 – part 1 & Part 2 – Nikolaos Kantzelis takes a screen shot rich look at the new features of Visual Studio specifically aimed at ASP.NET developers, exploring amongst others the improvements in the editor for both server and client side code and CSS.
• ASP.NET 4.5 & MVC 4: Revisiting IBundleTransform – Nandip Makwana takes a look at the changes between developer preview and release with regard to the Bundling and Minification support of the Web optimization frameworks.
• Newsflash! ASP.NET Web API does not Sit on Top of ASP.NET MVC! In Fact, It does not Sit on Top of Anything – Tugberk Ugurlu highlights the not insignificant fact that the ASP.NET Web API does not rely on the ASP.NET MVC stack, instead resting only on top of the .NET Framework, part of the fact that makes embedding WebAPI inside your own applications possible.
• From API key to user with ASP.NET Web API – Maarten Balliauw takes a look at the MVC like Filters that are present in ASP.NET WebAPI, looking how you can use the framework to create API-Key support for your Web API endpoints.
• Multi threaded design guidelines for libraries: Part III – Ayende continues discussion of the use of Multi-threading in library code, discussing the dangers of exceptions, and the lack of understanding of the calling applications requirements, discussing how you can at least allow the controlling code to decide how to do the threading.
• Web Performance: When millisecond resolution just isn’t enough – Jatinder Mann of the Internet Explorer Team discusses another W3C Proposed Recommendation, this time addressing the need for high resolution rime within Web client applications.
• The Sophisticated Procrastinator – Volume 1 – Miguel de Icaza shares a collection of links in the first of what I hope will be a regular series – lots of interesting things to read in there on all things .NET, open source, and wider.

Community

• Free Webcast – Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer – Clare Morgan highlights a free webcast event presented by Simon Morgan which will take a look at getting started with the .NET Gadgeteer. The event takes place on Thursday 8th November 9pm UK, 4pm New York, etc.

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DDD North 2 took place last weekend, and brought together a great bunch of speakers and attendees for a fantastic event up in Bradford. Many many thanks to all those who attended, the sponsors, and especially the organisers for making the day (and surrounding days) excellent fun.

A great number of people posted slides, reviews, photos and code online as a result of the event, and I’ve tried to collect together those that I’ve seen via RSS and Twitter. It’s almost certain that I’ve missed an number of posts out, so feel free to chuck links to anything I’ve missed in the comments (and I’ll approve them as they come in).

Speakers / Sessions

• Raspberry Pi at DDDNorth – Gary Short shares slides from his session looking at the Raspberry Pi
• NuGet-PackageNPublish/Documentation – Joel Hammond-Turner shares slides and a crib sheet for his talk on Using your NuGet for Fun and Profit
• The Side Project Startup reading list – Richard Garside shares a further reading list of books related to his session
• What is spatial sql? – Peter "Shawty" Shaw shares slides from his session
• DDDNorth2 Bradford, 13th October 2012 – Async Patterns presentation and source code – Liam Westley shares slides and code from his session on Async
• Resources – Guy Smith-Ferrier shares slides and source code for his session on ‘Riting Roslyn Refactorings’ on his talk resources page
• Selenium a UI testing paradigm – DDD North 2 & NathanGloyn/Selenium-UI-Testing – Nathan Gloyn shares slides and code from his session on testing using Selenium
• Web Sockets and SignalR My slides are proving difficult to make small enough to put online (too many big photos) but for the time being you can find the slides, notes and code from an earlier incarnation of my session here.
• DDD North 2 Resources – Niall Merrigan shares a collection resources relating to his session on Defensive Programming

Reviews of the day

• DDDNorth 2 Roundup – Steve Bate
• #DDDnorth 2 write up – October 2012 – Bradford – Terry Brown
• Dispatches from DDDNorth 2 – Sam Hogarth
• DDD North 2012 – Post event – Peter "Shawty’ Shaw
• My impressions of DDD North 2 – Gary Ewan Park
• Developer Developer Developer North – Tell Them User StoriesDaley Chetwynd
• Much chin stroking at ddd north – Johnno Nolan
• DDDNorth2 – quick review – Ismail Mayat
• DDD North 2012 – Phil Hale
• DDD North 2 – 13/10/2012 – Photos from the event from Craig Murphy
• DDD North 2 – Photos from the event from Colin Angus Mackay
• DDDNorth – Photos from the event from Hermit Dave

Future Events

• DunDDD – Dundee on Saturday 17th November – Registration and session submission open now
• DDD Brisbane – DDD is an international affair, with the next overseas event taking place in Brisbane on the 1st December. Session submission is open until 4th November

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