The Morning Brew

Software

• Preview of Code Contract Tools Now Available – Melitta Andersen of the BCL team announces the release of a preview of the Code Contracts functionality which will be included in VS2010/.NET 4

Information

• Who Knew Domain Validation Was So Hard? – Justin Etheredge shares his thoughts on the current hot topic of Domain Validation
• JQuery Visual studio documentation – Amr ElGarhy highlights the availability of the updated Visual Studio documentation for jQuery 1.3.2
• Thoughts on the Code Contracts Preview for .NET 4.0 – K. Scott Allen explores the new Code Contracts preview release, showing how contracts are verified, and talks about some of the IL Rewriting features.
• Partial Classes, Default Constructors – watch Out! – Ron Jacobs talks about the use of generated partial classes, adn how when creating your own constructors for these types it is always a good idea to call the default constructor too in case some important generated code goes there
• Leveraging ILMerge to simplify deployment and your users experience – Daniel Cazzulino talks about using the ILMerge tool to combine assemblies to give a simpler deployment strategy, reducing the number of files to distribute
• With modern tools, Is a solution\project structure important? – Artur Trosin asks if the structure of projects / solutions is as important as it used to be, now that we have tools that make navigation between classes much easier. I have to admit that I only make ocasional use of the solution explorer these days, tending to use ReSharper’s goto type functionality
• JavaScript, time to grok closures – Sergio Pereira attempts to demystify closures in JavaScript, showing some real world like samples.
• Closures in C#: Variable Scoping and Value Types vs Reference Types – Derick Bailey follows on from Sergio with a look at the variable scoping of closures in C# with particular regard to Reference and value types
• Adding Parallel Extensions to F# – Matthew Podwysocki takes a look at an example of using the Parallel Extensions with F# code to help improve the performance of compute intensive code.
• Announcing Family.Show v3 – Our WPF Reference Application – Tim Sneath announces the release of FamilyShow V3, the 3rd significant release of the real world WPF sample application. The project is hosted on CodePlex (so code is available).

Community

• 1st XNA UK user group bar camp – registrations now open! – A 1 Day community event for XNA developers in the UK, being hosted at Aston Science Park on 21st March.

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