The Morning Brew

Last Thursday (15th May) I presented at the Liverpool Users of .NET monthly meeting on F#, the Microsoft Research Language demonstrating that the CLR is a good basis for Functional Programming. My talk was mainly a language overview, with the intention to give the audience a grounding upon which they could get started with the language and functional programming in general.

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The code samples from the presentation, including one or two I skipped out can be found here:
F# Presentation – Demo Code

My thanks to the audience – you made giving the talk very easy, and enjoyable and especially to Hakim Cassimally for the nice write up of the talk over on his blog.

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My talk on F# last night at LUODN went pretty well – despite worrying that I wouldn’t have enough content it turned out that I had plenty, and even with skipping out some of the demos I still managed to talk for about 1 hour 45 minutes. I’ll post up the slides and code samples over the weekend for anyone interested.

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• Smart PropertyGrid.Net 3.0 – VisualHint announce the release of Smart PropertyGrid.NET 3.0, a feature rich property grid control. Prices start from $159 per license

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• Concurrency with MPI in .NET – Matthew Podwysocki continues his look at concurrency in .NET by looking at the specialised Message Passing Interface from Microsoft. There are some examples of its use in F# – which go a long way to answering some of the questions that came up in my talk yesterday about distributing the running of F# programs
• 50 New Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Screencasts – Mike Taulty and Mike Ormond have been busy chaps, recording 50 Silverlight screencasts, covering a range of topics from animation to datagrids.
• A Basic Hands on Introduction to Unity DI Container – Sidar Ok posts a nice concise introduction to the Microsoft Patterns and Practives DI container, Unity
• Implementing NHibernate Interceptors – Jan Van Ryswyck posts a reminder about NHibernate Interceptors, a useful means of modifying your object on certain NHibernate events .
• Adding Mouse Gesture Functionality to Your .NET Application Within Seconds – Daniel M. Camenzind shows how mouse gestures can be added to your winforms apps – I’ve always liked the idea of mouse gestures, however I’ve never actually used them in an application
• Client-only Framework Subset: finally! – Stefano DeMiliani highlights another new feature for SP1 – a reduced set of .NET for client applications.
• MVC Framework Scaffolding – Mike Hadlow automates the generation of his listing and edit screens in ASP.NET MVC by implementing a Ruby on Rails like Scaffolding controller class
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A little short on links today – maybe the sunny weather has been having an effect? Slightly nervous about my talk tonight, however I think the turn out will be low – who wants to sit inside when its nice out!

Software

• .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit – Joe announces the availability of an updated training ket which now includes SP1.
• MbUnit v3 alpha 3 – Gallio alpha 3 has been released, and this post from Andrew Stopford includes a link to the announcement, along with some examples of the new test types

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• DataContracts and object references – Aaron Skonnard continues looking at new functionality introduced in SP1 for WCF developers
• Permutations, Combinations and Variations using C# Generics – Adrian Akison tales a look at performing Combinatorics operations with C#
• Using ASP.NET Routing Independent of MVC – Mike Ormond look at using the new Routing functionality away from the ASP.NET MVC
• Using LINQ Expressions to Generate Dynamic Methods II – An interesting piece on using LINQ expressions as delegates to generate dynamic methods
• Lazy instantiation one-liner of instance fields with the coalesce operator – Using Coalesce operator and the fact that an assignment returns the assignment, this technique gives you lazy load functionality – nice
• XLinq’n in the new world – Speed comparison with Xml/XPath – Derik Whittaker continues his series on XLinq with a look at performance and how it compares to XML/XPATH

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