The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing PostSharp 1.5 RC1 – The PostSharp team announce the release of Version 1.5 Release Candidate, building on the success of the recent CTP release this version includes bugfixes for issues reported there and the team consider this release to be meeting the quality standards of the real release.
• AutoMapper – Release: 0.3.1 Beta – Jimmy Bogard’s AutoMapper project gets another update bringing in some new features for TypeConverters, bi-directional and parent child relationships and enumerations.
• Announcing FsCheck 0.6: Dot is the new pipe – Kurt Schelfthout announces the latest release of FsCheck, an F# version of QuickCheck (from the Haskell world) which introduces a Fluent Interface for use in C# and VB.Net
• elmah 1.0 Released – elmah (or Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET) is an application wide error logger and handler for ASP.NET applications, which is very easy to install can be applied to any ASP.NET application and does not require any re-compilation of your projects. This Release is the milestone 1.0 release

Information

• Announcing the SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit – ‘rdoherty’ announces the release of the Developer Training Kit for SQL Server 2008, now available as a free download from MSDN. This kit comprises of presentations, demos and hands on labs and introduces new features of 2008 with a focus on creating a web app which uses these features.
• ADO.NET team blog : Sneak Preview: Model First in the Entity Framework 4.0 – Noam Ben-Ami, Program Manager for the Entity Framework provides a look another of the new features of the forthcoming V4 release.
• YUI Compressor for Visual Studio – The Lavablast Team share a useful tip for getting your JavaScript minified using the YUI Compressor from within Visual Studio.
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Announced, CTP Coming This Summer – SQLDenis highlights the announcement of an R2 release of SQL Server 2008 which will bring about enhancements for higher CPU counts, soem new features in Management Studio, Visual Studio integration, and a whole host more.
• PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know – John Robbins talks at length about the purpose and uses of PDB files, looking at what the store, how you can control them, and how the debugger uses them
• Axum – Introduction and Ping Pong Example – Matthew Podwysocki takes a simple example of message passing and implements it in Erlang and Microsoft’s newly released Axum
• Actors in F# – Niklas Gustafsson follows on from Mathew’s post and looks at using Actors in F# to implement a similar example.

Community

• Alt.Net UK Conference 2009 – Update – Registrations for the UK Alt.NET conference to be held at the beginning of August will open on Thursday 14th May at 13:00, this is later than previously advised

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