The Morning Brew #345

Chris Alcock

17 years ago

Software

.NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview – Brad Abrams shares the announcement of a minor update to the .NET Rich Internet Application Services. This release provides a great many bugfixes over previous releases
Microsoft code-name "Geneva" Beta 2 Now Available – The Forefront Team announce the availability of the latest beta release of Geneva the Microsoft Identity and Access Management Platform.
Azure MVC V1 – CSharp – Community for ASP.Net MVC release their first ASP.NET MVC Template for running ASP.NET MVC on Windows Azure.

Information

Microsoft Tech-Ed Online – Its that time of year again, with the Tech-Ed conference kicking of yesterday. You can catch some of the sessions, and other interesting interviews, etc on this Tech-Ed online site.
Our Next Engineering Milestone – The Engineering Windows 7 Blog has an interesting post on the route to RTM for Windows 7. At the end of the article they hint on a ‘Holiday Season’ availability of computers running Windows 7 RTM
10 cool things about f# that aren’t functional-specific – Alex Pedenko talks about 10 things in F# which make it a great language but aren’t specifically Functional Programming things.
AutoMapper and IoC – Jimmy Bogard talks about the Inversion of Control friendly features of his AutoMapper project, and shows how they can be used with StructureMap
BigInt – Stephen Swensen provides an implementation of an unbounded integer type for use in C# which supports most common operations in this CodeProject article
Sneak Preview: Persistence Ignorance and POCO in Entity Framework 4.0 – Faisal Mohamood talsk about one of the new features of the Entity Framework 4, allowing you to obtain persistence ignorance in your entities by using Plain Old CLR objects (POCO).
Reserved and Contextual Keywords – Eric Lippert talks about the careful consideration that has to go into adding new keywords and reserved words in programming languages.
The Open Closed Principle – Zakir Hoosen talks about the Open Closed Principle (which states that an object should be open for extension but closed for modification) by way of examining an example.

Community

AltNetConf UK London August 2009 – Ian Cooper announces the plans for the next London UK Alt.NET Conference, to be held over the 3 days at the weekend of 1st August 2009. Registrations open today at 13:00(BST presumably), and based on previous experience spaces will go quickly.