The Morning Brew

**Update** If you are reading this then things have returned to normal – apologies if you see duplicate entries in your feed reader as I switch the feed back to using the real blog feed.

My web hosting went offline last night and has yet to return, so this is an interim measure, hopefully the hosting will be back up tomorrow, and things can return to normal. Thankfully I upgraded my WordPress installation last week and as a result have a full backup of my important sites and the databases, so if the worst comes to the worst I can restore from that.

Software

• Prism V2 – Drop 5 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) – Erwin van der Valk announces the release of the latest drop of Prism, the composite application guidance for WPF and Silverlight. As usual there are a number of new features, and Erwin gives a quick rundown of the new bits.
• URLRewrite for IIS 7.0 released – Steve Schofield announces the release of the IIS 7.0 URLRewrite module, available in both x86 and x64 versions.
• XSLT Debugging with .NET – Mark Wiggins announces the release of his XSLT Debugger for Visual Studio – not a lot of information, and I’ve not had the time to try it for myself yet, so proceed at your own risk

Information

• Visual Studio | Channel 9 – This week (10th to 14th November) is Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 week on Channel 9, with a whole host of videos and resources going to be published this week.
• What we should know about CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture? – Vitaly Zaiko talks about the differences between CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture in the .NET Framework.
• Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data with the Windows Workflow Foundation Rules Engine – Kirk Evans walks through the construction of a simple application using Dynamic Data with the Windows Workflow rules engine providing the business logic.
• The DBA Script Thumb – Rodney Landrum talks about the most crucial of his library of queries which he uses on a regular basis as a SQL Server DBA.
• CLR 4.0: Managed Languages – Scott Dorman has been hard at work writing a number of nice short articles on different aspects of the CLR 4.0. This particular one is about managed languages, but I urge you to check out the otherrecent posts on his blog
• JSLitmus: Testing JavaScript Performance – Ajaxian highlights JSLitmus a tool for testing the performance of javascript, allowing you to obtain graphs showing the performance of your own javascript tests.
• A collection of great Silverlight Charting resources! – Delay publishes a good collection of resources for getting the most out of the charting capabilities of the Silverlight Toolkit

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