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
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
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.
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).