The Morning Brew

Software

• Internet Explorer 8 – The big announcment yesterday was the release of Internet Explorer 8. Available in 25 languages across 4 operating system versions and 2 processor architectures this brings the best performing version of IE ever
• Introducing Docu – Simple doc gen for .Net – James Gregory announces Docu, a new project which aims to provide a simple API documentation solution for .NET development. This is more like NDoc of old (simple to use) rather than the very complex SandCastle, and I think it will be a good tool to have in the toolbox.
• Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) 1.3 addresses all common SharePoint Developer requests – Paul Andrew announces the release of the Final CTP release of the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Sharepoint v1.3. This will be the final release of the tools with a whole new range of tools being included with Visual Studio 2010

Information

• Site Compatibility and IE8 – The Internet Explorer Team Blog has a post from a few days agao which now has a much higher importance, outlining the differences between native IE8 and the IE7 Compatibility mode.
• Eight Reasons to Fall in Love with Internet Explorer 8 – Tim Sneath highlights 8 of the highlight features of the new Internet Explorer 8 release
• Fun With Federation 1: ASP.NET, Geneva Framework & FedUtil.exe – ‘Vibro’ explores Federated Identity with the Geneva Framework and ASP.NET in this step by step tutorial
• ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 – Server Driven Paging – The ADO.NET Data Services Team share an example of the use of their latest CTP release to implement paging data on the server side
• ASP.NET Security Architecture Cheat Sheet For Very Busy Architects – Alik Levin shares a cheat sheet outlining a number of the security considerations for ASP.NET applications and componenets, along with a questionnaire to help identify common threats and vulnerabilities
• Representation and Identity – Eric Lippert digs down into casting and looks at the way that boxing and unboxing works, talking about how the runtime handles these operations
• How NOT to write a logger & How NOT to write network code – Ayende shares two more code snippets of bad code, with interesting discussion of the types of problem in the comments
• Choosing A Mocking Framework – Tim Barcz looks at the factors to consider when choosing a mocking framework
• Case Switching on CLR Types – Johan Danforth looks at various implementations which allow you to perform switch/case operations with types of object
• log4net C# Code Snippets – Daniel Macey shares some Visual Studio Snippets which contain common log4Net operations, proving to be a useful simple case for learning how to use log4Net as well as providing a potential development speed-up for the common operations
• Sample chapter from ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly – Following on from Yesterday’s ASP.NET MVC release, Maarten Balliauw has now released a sample chapter from his upcoming book on ASP.NET MVC. This marks the start of the race for a huge number of publishers and authors to get their books out there now the software is ready

MIX 09

• What is .NET RIA Services? – Brad Abrams talks about the RIA Services annoucement, and references the presentation .NET RIA Services MIX ’09 Talk – Slides + Code from Nikhil Kothari delivered at mix yesterday
• MIX09 Day 2 Keynote Pt 1: Dean Hachamovitch on Internet Explorer 8 – Tim Sneath continues his great coverage of the Mix09 Keynotes with part one on the IE8 announcement and MIX09 Day 2 Keynote Pt 2: Deborah Adler on Changing Behavior by Design, covering how design affects behaviour
• MIX09, SilverLight 3, Expression Blend 3, IE8, ASP.NET MVC 1.0 And Much More – SQLDenis provides a round up of the key software announcements and some of their significant features

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