The Morning Brew

It looks like PDC is starting to wind down (just as I get my process for summarising/link blogging it sorted), and the big hit in terms of posts seems to be C# 4. Today marks a return of some PDC specific sections, and another large edition of the Brew.

Software

• The Web Deployment Tool Beta 2 is now available! – The IIS Team announce the release of the Web Deployment Tool Beta 2 with a number of new features for packaging your application.
• "Geneva" Beta available now – The Geneva team announce the availability of Geneva, a platform for simple user access based on claims based authentication. The release includes bits for developers, infrastructure guys and also cardspace integration.

Information

• .NET Framework 4 Poster – No major framework release would be complete without a good poster, and Brad Abrams shares a poster produced in conjunction with Addison Wesley for .NET 4, available in PDF and Silverlight deepzoom.
• NH Prof: Teaser – Ayende teases us all with a screen shot of the NHibernate Profiler he has been workin on. I’m really looking forward to seeing this tool for my self as it looks like it will be a lot easier to work with then the debug log and SQL profiler
• Zip Compressing ASP.NET Session without changing your code using a Session provider. – Albert Pascual follows on form Scott Hanselman’s post last week about zipping session information putting together an implementation using Session Provider to avoid having to change any implementation code
• ASP.NET MVC and NHaml – Sergio Pereira takes a look at NHaml for the views in ASP.NET MVC looking at some of the advantages and disadvantages of using it.
• Is Code Coverage Really All That Useful? – Kevin Pang talks about code coverage, and if it really is a useful metric. Good discussion seems to be going on in the comments too.
• MSDN Magazine November 2008 – The November edition of MSDN Magazine is now online which this month focuses on Security
• Comparing Hash Table Implementations Performances – Patrick Smacchia looks atht the performance of different hashtable implementations including a number of screenshots from his profiling tool showing the different performance aspects of each implementation.
• NHibernate: Identity columns that are not the primary key – Bil Simser looks at having identity columns in the database which are not the primary key of the table, and how you can work with this situation in NHIbernate.
• Advances in .NET Type system: Type Equivalence Demo – Misha Shneerson looks at some of the new interop functionality in CLR V4
• jBlogMvc : part 3 Themable View Engine, Archive and Filtering by year, month and day – Amr Elsehemy continues his series on building a blogging engine in ASP.NET MVC, in this part themeing is added, along with an update to beta 1 of ASP.NET MVC

PDC Session Bloggers

There are a number of bloggers who are live blogging sessions from PDC 2008, here are a few of the best I’ve come across

• Paul Gielens – Paul has been producing nice posts for the sessions he attends, complete with hand drawn diagrams and slides. I wonder if they are paper drawn or tablet PC drawn?
• Bill Evjen – Bill has notes for a number of sessions from PDC
• JohnPapa.net – John Papa has some notes form the keynotes from day 1 and 2.
• Joseph Guadagno – Joseph has been doing a nice job of live blogging the talks, even managing to get source code written in his posts.
• Ryan Rinaldi – Ryan has been blogging sessions from PDC as he attends them

Azure

• How to create and Publish your first Windows Azure application – Olav Tollefsen walks through the process of getting yourself up and running with Azure, from setting up the development environment to publishing your first application.
• Windows Azure Walkthrough: Simple Blob Storage Sample – Jim Nakashima steps through the process of storing information in Azure with plenty of screenshots and code samples included in the post

C# 4

• Dynamic in C# – Sam Ng looks at the new dynamic type functionality, including a look at what happens at compile time and runtime
• C# 4.0 – Named and Optional Parameters – Behind the Scenes – Matthew Podwysocki continues his look at C#4 new features with a look under the hood on Named and optional Parameters
• Generic Variance in C# 4.0 – Nate Kohari looks at the variance of generic types in C#4
• C# Future – Home – This MSDN Code site looks to be a great resource for anyone wanting to get up to speed with C#4 as it contains a vast array of code samples and documentation available to download.
• C# 4.0 Duck Typing and mocking extension methods – Melvyn Harbour looks at the dynamic type functionality in C#4 with a view to helping with testing and mocking of extension methods.
• LINQ Farm: Covariance and Contravariance in C# 4.0 – Charlie Calvert looks at the new Covariance and Contravariance Functionality of C# 4 using lambda expression delegates
• CodeThinked | C# 4.0 New Features Part 1 – dynamic keyword – Justin Etheredge starts a series of posts looking at the new features of the C#4 language, based on the recently released CTP. In this first part Justin looks at the new Dynamic Types functionality.
• C# 4.0 New Features Part 1.1 – dynamic keyword second look – Justin continues by looking at the performance of working with objects stored with the the dynamic keyword, showing that while performance isn’t as good as static typing its still better than other ways of achieving the same thing.
• C# 4.0 New Features Part 2 – default and named parameters – Justin Etheredge continues his look at the new C#4 features with a look at default and named parameters

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