The Morning Brew

Software

• New (and Free) Beta Releases from Quest Software – Kevin Kline highlights some beta software being offered by Quest Software for freee, including Toad for SQL Server 4.0 beta
• User Interface controls for Windows.Forms – Free copies of Suite – Component Factory are giving away free copies of their UI Control Suite to Microsoft MVP’s and Bloggers. Bloggers will need 500 subscribers and must post yearly on the control library to qualify.

Information

• Adding Async Operations to Asynchronous Computation Expressions in F# – Matthew Podwysocki continues looking at Asynchronous Computation Expressions in F#, looking at adding async methods to web request and consuming web services asynchronously.
• 30 Seconds to a Fluent Interface – A nice concise definition of a fluent interface with a simple code example
• Need a simple grid for ASP.NET Ajax? – Bertrand Le Roy points to a nice Ajax grid view control from the DotNetSlackers’ Ajax Data Controls Library.
• Write your own NUnit constraint (in VB) – Part 1 – Andrew Stopford shows how you can write your own constriants for NUnit using Visual Basic
• JQuery VS2008 IntelliSense Update – James Hart has updated his intellisense header file for JQuery – if you are developing javascript with JQuery this is a real helper.
• SQL SERVER – 2005 – Difference Between INTERSECT and INNER JOIN – Pinal Dave explores the differences and similarities between the INTERSECT keyword and INNER JOIN.
• Writing GIS and Mapping Software for .NET. – An interesting article by Jon Person, and A. Philip Smith on geographic projections and displaying geographic data illustrated with some .NET code.
• Speedy C#, Part 1: Optimizing Long if-else or switch Branches – Robert Paveza starts a series on writing efficient optimised C# – in this first part he looks at large switch/case statements and some alternatives.

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