The Morning Brew #421

Software

• A Real WPF WebBrowser – Chris Cavanagh has been at work combining the Chromium and Awesomium projects with some WPF to create a fully functional WPF based web browser allowing you to have a web browser component in WPF applications which behaves well in the WPF layout system. Source is available on CodePlex, and there is a ClickOnce demo too.
• QuickGraph 3.3: Easy interop with Delegate Graphs – Jonathan "Peli" de Halleux announces a new release of his QuickGraph library of graph data structures and algorithms which includes a number of bugfixes and new graph structures based on delegates
• Popfly Parting Present – Ben Anderson shares one part of the now close Popfly system, the game engine which is written in Silverlight. Unfortunately due to the nature of Popfly being a hosted serivce this is the only code that could be released as everything else is coupled to the hosting environment, other systems or shares IP with other products

Information

• Using one platform to build another [HTML 5’s canvas tag implemented using Silverlight!] – ‘Delay’ talks about the implementation the HTML 5 Canvas element in Silverlight, allowing browsers without support for canvas (but with Silverlight support) to run HTML5 Canvas based code. Full source code and sample applications are provided
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Session Level Cache – Davy Brion presses on with his series on building your own DAL / ORM with a look at session level caching using the identity map pattern
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: The Session Level Cache – Ayende follow on from Davy’s post with a look at how the Session level cache in NHibernate compares to Davy’s Implementation
• Starter Project Templates (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) – ScottGu continues his series on .NET 4 / VS 2010 with a look a some of the new template projects available in Visual Studio for ASP.NET. These now offer the choice between empty solutions and solutions with some common functionality included
• Four Little Known, Helpful Methods, Properties, and Features for ASP.NET Developers – Scott Mitchell shares 4 lesser known ASP.NET framework features, the Application Offline functionality, Default Buttons, Context properties about local access and debug mode, and fully qualified URLs
• IL Stub Diagnostic Tool – Yongtai Zhu of the CLR Team talks about the IL Stub Diagnostic Tool and how it can help debug interop issues
• CodeProject: Embedding JavaScript into C# with Rhino and IKVM. Free source code and programming help – ‘GWBas1c’ combines IKVM and the Rhino projects to create the ability to run scripts in JavaScript which call .NET Code, and to run JavaScript code from your .NET applications in this Code Project Article with source released under The BSD license
• Plus (+) in .NET Class Names – Ibrahim Abdul Rahim talks about why you sometimes see a plus character in the typename for a .NET type, and how this is due to nested classes
• LINQ to NHibernate: A Vast Improvement – Russell Ball talks about his experience moving from the NHibernate criteria API to the newly RTM LINQ implementation.