The Morning Brew

Software

• SilverLight 3 has RTW’ed (aka. It’s done, released, baked, RTM, gold, what are you waiting for go get it, etc, etc) – Greg Duncan highlights the release to web release of Silverlight 3. Officially the release is today, however from a number of accounts it would seem that the release process started yesterday
• ReSharper for Visual Studio 2010 (Preview) – JetBrains begin making preview releases of ReSharper for Visual Studio 2010, great news for those (like me) who have developed a ReSharper addiction
• SubSonic 3.0.0.2 Is Released – Rob Conery provides another bugfix release of his SubSonic ORM, taking the version number to 3.0.0.2. This relase also contains a few new features too.
• ScrewTurn Wiki Version 3.0 RC1 Is Out – ScrewTurn Software announce the first release candidate build of Version 3 of their free and open source Wiki Software

Information

• Free Ebook Developers Developers Developers Developers – Derek Hatchard highlights a free e-book of articles from Microsoft’s ‘{You Shape} It’ campaign. Covering topics such as working with brownfield code, C# features you should be using, creating installers, and much more its a worthy read
• A simple include for ASP.NET – Bertrand Le Roy follows on from his previous post on master pages with a simple extension method which can be used in place of masterpages if you don’t require designer support
• C# And Accepting Parameters. – ‘webdev_hb’ looks at two different ways of passing unknown numbers of parameters into your methods in this Code Project article
• Reuse: Is the Dream Dead? – Kirk Knoernschild looks at the reasons why we arn’t getting huge re-use out of our code despite that being one of the guiding principles in development for a considerable time
• Parallel.Invoke() vs. Explicit Task Management – Cristina Manu looks at the differences between Parallel.Invoke and using Parallel Tasks in the Parallel Extensions Framework, and looks at when you should use each
• Building a 3-Tier App with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services and Azure Table Storage – Modesty Zhang writes about the creation of 3 tier applications using Silverlight and Windows Azure table storage giving a good run through of the code required

Community

• ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Session Video Available Now – Mike Ormond shares the video he took of Scott Guthrie’s talk at Vista Squad on ASP.NET MVC

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• MEFUnit – Prototype of a MEF Unit Testing Framework – Ben Hall explores using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to identify extension points, and construct a Unit Testing Framework from this extensibility
• Are Master Pages too complex? – Bertrand Le Roy explores MasterPages, giving an introduction to their use, along with looking at a number of the places where they can be confusing
• Pushing the Limits of Windows: Processes and Threads – Mark Russinovich continues his series of posts on the boundaries of Windows, with a look at what happens when you create too many threads, and how that translates into limits on how many processes you can have
• Domain driven reports: adding custom code – Peter Van Ooijen continues his series of posts on building reports from your domain model, looking at some framework to allow you to run reports in both Winforms and WebForms applications
• Preventing Cross-Site Scripting attacks using Microsoft Anti-XSS Security Runtime Engine! – Syed Aslam Basha takes a look at how the Anti=XSS Security Runtime Engine HTTP Module allows you to defend your application from cross site scripting vulnerabilities
• Santa checked his list, do you? – Wayne Wilkerson explores casting larger data types into smaller data types, and some of the compiler features which will warn you about possible overflows
• WebForms And MVC In Harmony – Almost… – ‘webdev_hb’ looks at a couple of different technique for rendering tags and web forms controls in ASP.NET MVC
• Deployment and Updates of Desktop Applications: WiX, ClickOnce and Other Scenario – Rinat Abdullin looks at some of the options available for the quick and easy deployment of desktop applications which are simple enough to fit into the shorter development cycles promoted by agile methodologies

Community

• The Europe Virtual ALT.NET Blog – Jan Van Ryswyck highlights the new European Virtual Alt.Net events blog and twitter, which will be the official home of the European VAN announcements.
• LIDNUG: Advanced developer features in Visual Studio 2010 – ‘AngelaB’ highlights the Linked In .NET Usergroup event for July 26th where Daryush Laqab and Andrew Hall will talks about some of the more advanced features in Visual Studio 2010. This is a virtual (and free) event, and is also timed nicely for viewers in the UK

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There was lots of Buzz yesterday in the developer community about Google announcing their own Operating System, to be called ChromeOS, and also the fact that Google Apps are no longer beta

Software

• Microsoft .NET Services July 2009 CTP Release – The .NET Services Team announce the release of the July 2009 CTP release of the .NET services for windows Azure. The new SDK download is linked from the end of the post.
• SubSonic 3.0.0.1 Released – Hot on the heals of his V3.0 release, Rob Conery announces an updated release (3.0.0.1) containing a number of quick fixes and additions to the SubSonic ORM platform
• Windows 7 is less than a week away for TechNet/MSDN Subscribers & July 13th seems to be the &quotcrush MSDN/Technet" download date – Greg Duncan highlights two posts that suggest that next week is the first delivery date for Windows 7

Information

• LINQ is not LINQ To SQL – Justin Etheredge sets about removing the confusion that leads a large number of developers to think that LINQ is all about interactions with the database and that all it does is the stuff LINQ to SQL does. Well worth reading if you have any confusion over LINQ
• Day #8: Custom Fonts in Silverlight – Jeff Blankenburg is running a Post a Day series throughout July on Silverlight. Today’s piece is about fonts in Silverlight, with previous posts on interactions with WCF serivces, Drag and Drop, and a whole lot more – worth keeping an eye on this month
• Event Aggregation with jQuery – K. Scott Allen uses some JQuery JavaScript code to highlight some principles from Prism, and looks at applying the same principles in the JavaScript
• Sneak Peek at our book Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Simone Chiaretta provides the chapter level contents list of his ASP.NET MVC book, along with a download of the draft chapter 9 on Testing ASP.NET MVC Applications, along with the full collection of code Samples
• Refactoring challenge Part 1 – Examination – Jimmy Bogard starts dissecting the code his posted yesterday which he was aiming to refactor
• CodePlex Turns 3 years old; Breaks the 10,000 project mark – Congratulations to the CodePlex team on their 3rd birthday and breaking the 10000 project boundary. This post also contains some interesting statistical information about the use of CodePlex since its ‘birth’
• Thrive for Developers – Michael S. Scherotter highlights a new Microsoft Campaign aimed at improving the skills and enhance the careers of developers providing community features and online training opportunities, along with Job Postings and other technical content
• Faking COM to fool the C# compiler – Jon Skeet takes a look at some of the features of C#4 that make it easier to work with and produce COM Components.
• MVVM – Philosophy and Case Studies – Introduction – Rob Eisenberg introduces a new series of posts on Model- View-ViewModel, starting with a simple introduction to the concept

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