The Morning Brew

I had a good day yesterday, attending the UK ‘Heroes Happen {Here}’ launch event – although I’m now rather tired after a very long day.

Today’s Morning Brew is the last for the week – Friday and Monday are public holidays in the UK, and I plan to skip posts on public holidays. The Morning Brew will return on Tuesday with what I expect will be a bumper edition covering the content from the long weekend.

Software

• DotNetOpenId 0.1.2 Released – David Christiansen highlights the availability of a new version of this .NET implementation of Open ID – now with partial trust support
• Stand alone FXCop download – Brad Abrams highlights the availability of FxCop 1.35 as a standalone application

Information

• What does Windows Vista SP1 Mean for Developers? – Tim Sneath gives an overview of what SP1 will mean to us. Since there is a lot shared with Windows 2008 I suspect the same will apply there too
• Happy Visual Studio Birthday – I hadn’t realised that yesterday was Visual Studio’s Birthday – and since I was at the UK launch event yesterday and no-one mentioned it I don’t think its particularly well known
• My Personal Lambda Crusade – Rob Conery shows his obsession with Lambda expressions
• Anonymous delegates rock – Nigel Morse gives a nice simple example of how anonymous delegates can help improve your code
• Looking at DSLs in .NET – Matthew Podwysocki takes a look at Domain Specific Languages
• Adventures in F# – F# 101 Part 5 (Pattern Matching) – Matthew Podwysocki continues his series on F# with a look at basic pattern matching support
• SQL Server 2008: Interesting Full-Text Dynamic Management Function – Greg Low unearths a useful database function for parsing strings.
• Number of Types in the .NET Framework (2) – Patrick Smacchia does a detailed analysis of the .NET framework in NDepend

Community

• Academic Alliance: Student Zone – Microsoft, in conjunction with WebFusion, are offering eligible UK students free Windows 2008 based web hosting

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