The Morning Brew

Another day, another traffic jam, and sadly another short edition today

Software

• SharpDevelop 5 C# Tech Preview – Christoph Wille announces the availability of a C# only Tech Preview of SharpDevelop 5. This is an early preview release giving a taste of what is coming, with lots of partially implemented features with restricted functionality
• MVVM Light V4.1.27.0 in Nuget – Laurent Bugnion announces a new release of MVVM Light which improves cross platform standardisation by removing the dependency on the CommonServiceLocator.

Information

• Static constructors, part three – Eric Lippert continues his series looking at how the static constructor works in C#, looking at how the static constructors get run by the CLR framwork.
• Fun with Object and Collection Initializers – Jon Skeet discusses the behaviour of Object and Collection Initializers, exploring two slightly strange bits of behaviour.
• Getting a MIME type from a file extension in ASP.NET 4.5 – .NET Web Development and Tools Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Jim Wang highlights a useful bit of .NET Framework functionality which will give you mime type information from the file extension of a file – saving all those conversion tables you often see in code which needs this behaviour when manuallt created.
• Synchronization, Thread Safety, and Performance & Synchronizing ConcurrentDictionary – ‘essence’ takes a look at the journey from non-thread safe through to a thread safe solution, sharing some useful tips and code-smells regarding thread safety. The second post, explores interesting behaviour of the concurrent dictionary.

Community

• NxtGenUG – Event: Delving into Windows Phone 8 – Matt Lacey joins the Southampton NxtGenUG for a session on Windows 8 Phone Development on Thursday 21st February
• Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start with Jon Galloway and Scott Hanselman – Full Day Live (and recorded) Event on Feb 19 – Jon Galloway shares more details of the full day virtual event that he is running with Scott Hanselman looking at the entire ASP.NET Stack – registration is required for this virual event which looks to be a great introduction to all the new bits from two great presenters.

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Software

• Gilma – GUI for the ILMerge Application Revised for .NET 4.0 – ‘tuscano’ shares an updated version of Glima, a GUI frontend for working with ILMerge, freshly updated to run with the .NET 4 ILMerge
• I will miss the"Douglas Crockford of browsers" – Christian Heilmann highlights the news that Opera will soon be using the WebKit and V8 rendering engine and JavaScript engine, abandoning their own implementations in favour of standardisation across all their platforms.

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• Mocking with Foq – Phil Trelford gives an introduction to Foq, a simple mocking framework for F# which can be consumed by other CLR languages to whcih can be included in your projects as a NuGet Package or just a single file include in your project.
• Getting to Know CSS3 Selectors, Part 1: Structural Pseudo-Classes – Emily Lewis kicks off a series of posts looking at the new CSS3 selectors which allow you to write simpler more efficient CSS for both browsers and applications.
• Pulse in HTML5 on Internet Explorer 10 – a modern app for the modern web! – Another article from the HTML5 Partners over at CodeProject takes a look at building responsive designs, focusing on Internet Explorer, but with techniques which apply across all modern browsers
• HTML input types – Continuing with a modern HTML theme, Scott Dorman takes a look at the behaviour of the HTML5 input box type support, and how it changes the input types available on virtual keyboards on IE10 / Window 8
• Functional Programming In A Nutshell – A slightly older article than I usual include here, from Luis Aguilar, which takes a nice introductory look at the concepts and practices in Functional Programming, illustrating the concepts with concrete examples.
• Simple golden rules for async / await – Nigel Sampson shares some simple best practices for working with async / await in your code base.

Community

• NxtGenUG – Event: Windows Phone 8 + Windows 8 – Andy Wigley joins the Birmingham NxtGenUG for a session on Tuesday 19th February whcih will take a look at building applications for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, looking at how the similarities between the platforms helps make efficient development possible.

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Short edition today as most of my Morning Brew creation time was spent sat in a traffic jam 🙁

Software

• Shipped … Test Release Management Guidance update and the ALM Readiness treasure map – Willy-Peter Schaub announces the release of the 1.1 update to the Test Release Managment Guidance, long with the ALM Readiness Treasure map, both release from the ALM Rangers
• February 2013 Internet Explorer updates – The Internet Explorer team announce the release fo the February patches for Internet Explorer, rated as critical for IE6-10 on desktops, and moderate for Windows Servers

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• You Want To Build Web Software with C#? – K. Scott Allen discusses the ever increasing options available for you to build Web Based applications on the .NET Stack, sharing some guidence in making the decision between the range of possibilities.
• Entity Frame Performance Gotcha – Derik Whittaker shares a performance gotcha he encountered while working with Entity Framework and lazy load, having a query return far more data then expected.
• Seeding and Debugging Entity Framework (EF) DBs – Rick_Anderson looks a the use of AddOrUpdate in Entity Framework to initially populate data, ideal for test and debugging databases.
• Setting up Git With Visual Studio Tutorial – Matteo Tontini shares a useful guide for getting up and nrunning with git based version control if like many you can’t run the 2012 integrated support currently in CTP

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