The Morning Brew

In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last 18 hours, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 went to Beta 2 release yesterday, so today we have a special section devoted to the information about that release

Software

• Announcing Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta 2 – Soma Somasegar announces the latest evolution in .NET4 / Visual Studio 2010, the Beta 2 release. This release is currently available to MSDN Subscribers, and will become generally available to the general public on Wednesday. More details on this to be found in today’s special .NET 4 / Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 section below
• ReSharper Early Access Program – JetBrains have made their first publicly available nightly build of Resharper 5.0. This is pre-release software, and the first release at that, so its likely to be a little shakey, but will be interesting to see what they have planned. Currently this seems to be a VS2008 only release
• IIS Media Services 3.0 Released – BillS IIS Blog has the lowdown on the newly released IS Media Services . This free download plugs into Windows 2008 / 2008R2 and provides a means of delivering true HD video streams with real time monitoring. Also available is teh Smooth Streaming Player Developer Kit which supports the video streams in Silverlight
• Sync Framework 2.0 Available for Download – LarenC of the Sync Framework team highlights the release of Sync Framework 2.0. This release builds on the previous version, making it easier to achieve more complex scenarios and extends the number of built in data providers to support more data sources.
• SharePoint 2010 – Yesterday also saw the announcements of SharePoint 2010 at the Sharepoint Conference. This post details a number of the new features that will be included. My blog won’t be offering much coverage of Sharepoint as its not a technology I work with, however for those wanting more information Arpan Shah has gathered links to a few suitable resource sites in his Welcome to SharePoint 2010 post
• Silverlight (and WPF) Data Visualization classes unsealed [Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 release now available!] – ‘Delay’ highlights the release of the October 2009 Silverlight Toolkit, whos most significant feature is support for Visual Studio 2010, along with common drag-and-drop support for Silverlight within the browser following the WPF API
• Migrating ASP.NET MVC 1.0 applications to ASP.NET MVC 2 – Eilon Lipton shares a useful tool which converts Visual Studio projects from ASP.NET MVC 1 to the ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Preview 2

Information

• Mapping From IDataReader/IDataRecord with AutoMapper – Jan Van Ryswyck talks about the use of a patch he submitted for AutoMapper which allows mapping to and from data readers meaning you can easily remove a lot of boilerplate mapping code in those situations too.
• .NET Reflection: The untouchable? No, not at all. – Vikas Burman talks about how the ‘Reflection is slow’ argument that may developers have as their default view point can mean that you miss out on a lot of powerful functionality
• Dynamic lookup operator, aka duck typing in F# – Laurent Le Brun talks about duck typing in F# using the Dynamic Lookup Operator
• .NET Hang Case study: The danger of locking on strings – Tess Ferrandez shares more of her debugging wisdom with a look at an interesting problem you can encounter if you lock on strings in your application, offering some advice for the best way to do locking
• C# Frequently Asked Questions : Dynamic in C# 4.0: Creating Wrappers with DynamicObject – Alexandra Rusina looks at how you can create wrapper class functionality using DynamicObject in .NET 4
• My History of Visual Studio (Part 10, final) – Rico Mariani closes out his Visual Studio Series of posts with a look at the innovations in the Visual Studio 2010 release
• How to render the same template on the server and client with minimal redundancy – Tales from the Evil Empire – Bertrand Le Roy digs deeper into the templating support of the Microsoft Ajax Library, and shows how you can minimise the duplication between Server-side and client-side templates.
• What is this thing you call ‘thread safe’? – Eric Lippert looks into what is meant by Thread Safety, giving a basic introduction to the key concepts involved
• F# October 2009 CTP/Beta2 – F# + Rx Together At Last – Matthew Podwysocki talks about the new F# release which brings together F# and the reactive framework for the first time. This release is available as a part of the VS2010 Beta 2, and also as a standalone CTP release against VS2008

Community

• ScottGu Manchester Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Video – Mike Taulty shares the video footage from the Guathon event held in Manchester last month. This post contains the footage of Scott Guthrie’s talks on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4, and ScottGu Manchester Silverlight Video contains the video for Scott’s Silverlight talk

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2 Release

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Scott Hanselman gives a good general overview of what is new in the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 release covering the key enhancements to the product
• VS2010 Beta 2 Installed on a Previous Beta 1 System – Sam Gentile shares a few details on uninstalling the previous Beta 1 build of Visual Studio 2010
• WF4 Changes Between Beta 1 and Beta 2 – ‘mwinkle’ talks about the changes made to Workflow between the .NEt 4 Beta 1 and Beta 2 releases
• Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Videos Galore – Lisa Feigenbaum shares a barage of Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 resources including a good number of videos on the new features of the languages and IDE
• VS2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Announced! – Elisa Flasko gives the lowdown on what is new in Beta 2 for data access, covering Entity Framework and ADO.NET
• ‘First-time Experience’ with Arch Tools – ‘camerons’ shows off some of the new Architecture related features of Visual Studio 2010
• Visual Studio 2010 beta 2: a quick web tour – Pietro Brambat explores the Web development features of VS2010 looking at ASP.NET WebForms, Silverlight 3 and ASP.NET MVC 2
• F# in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is now available ( plus matching F# CTP Update for VS2008) – Don Syme talks about the inclusion of F# in the Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4 Beta 2 release.

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