The Morning Brew

Software

• General availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 – Daniel Walzenbach highlights the release to the general public of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 with this post which contains links to the downloads for all editions (Shell, Ultimate, Premium, Professional, Express[C#, VB, C++, Web Dev]) along with the standalone framework download, an other related downloads. My experiences downloading last night were pretty good, with all the bits I grabbed downloading at a good rate.
• All-In-One Code Framework : All-In-One Code Framework Release 2009-10-18: Brief introduction of new samples – ‘colbertz’ highlights the 18th October Release of the All-In-One Code Framework. This library of code gives samples of a vast array of Microsoft technologies in a form that should be easy for you to utilise in your applications
• IronPython and IronRuby CTPs for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 – Harry Pierson highlights the release of new CTP of IronRuby and IronPython which run against the .NET 4 Beta 2 release
• Microsoft Windows: Windows 7 – The other obvious news for the day is the official launch of Windows 7. My RSS reader was full of posts about this this morning however I’m not going to be giving it that much coverage, despite it being bigger than Harry Potter (Windows 7 breaks Amazon UK pre-order volume record, ousts Harry Potter)
• Unsure about upgrading to Windows 7? Tools to help – Brian Groth highlights some useful tools to help determine if your machine and peripherals are suitable for Windows 7

Information

• 77 Windows 7 Tips – Jas Dhaliwal gives you 77 things to try out with your newly installed Windows 7 gathered together from a number of sources
• Interesting findings in the diff between .NET Fx v4 Beta1 and Beta2 – Patrick Smacchia points his NDepend tool at the Beta 1 and Beta 2 releases of the .NET Framework 4 and discusses the details of the changes that it identifies between the two, and it would seem that there are a lot of changes since beta 1
• Searching and Navigating Code in VS 2010 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) – Scott Guthrie continues his VS2010 / .NET 4 series of posts with a look at some of the changes that have been made in Visual Studio 2010 to make moving about your code base easier. I actually saw Scott demonstrating these features at the Guathon event in Manchester last month, and they look like really good enhancements to the basic product
• What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 2 – Justin Van Patten of the BCL Team highlights the significant new features of the Base Class Library with the Beta 2 release, looking at features such as complex numbers, Observable collections, new System.Environment features and a whole lot more
• New Visual Studio 2010 Built-in C# Snippets Cheat Sheet – John Sheehan has produced a simple but effective ‘Cheat Sheet’ for the Visual Studio 2010 code snippets detailing what each of them is and how and where you can utilise them
• Indexed Properties in C# 4.0 – Kirill Osenkov shows off one of the less well known features of C#4, the ability to use indexed properties created in other technologies as indexed properties without having to call the awkward get_Value and set_value functions. This should vastly improve writing COM Interop code
• Visual Basic "HowDo I" Videos – The Visual Basic Team are producing two series of videos one focusing on the 2010 VB language features, and the other on using VB within the Visual Studio IDE
• Getting Started with Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace: Hello IntelliTrace! – Habib Heydarian highlights another of the exciting Visual Studio 2010 features, IntelliTrace which allows you to record the execution of a .NET application and later on replay it, and also looks at the Historical Debugging capabilities in his post The future of debugging is here! Visual Studio 2010 now supports stepping back in the debugger.
• Mozilla and Microsoft work together on WPF\ClickOnce plugins – Brad Abrams talks about the recent decision to have FireFox block the ClickOnce add on for security reasons, and talks about the interaction between Microsoft and Mozilla
• Duck Typing with Castle – Elton Stoneman highlights a useful library from David Meyer which allows you to achieve duck typing by way of clever use of the Castle Dynamic Proxy.
• Some Smaller Features in the Latest Release of F# – Don Syme talks about a number of the smaller new features of the F# release available as a part of VS2010/.NET 4 and as a standalone for VS2008/.NET 3.5.
• Extension Methods to Make Thread Safe WPF Programming Easier – Simon Knox shows how some simple Extension methods can take away a lot of the clutter required to correctly update a WPF UI when your application is multi-threaded. The same principle could also be used for WinForms apps.
• Force .NET application to run in 32bit process on 64bit OS – Gabriel Schenker highlights a few places where you have to change settings to get your web applications to run in 32bit mode when your OS is a 64bit OS.
• Visual Studio Myths – busted wide open – Eric Nelson and the rest of the UK Developer Evangelist team share a Silverlight application which aims to dispell a number of common myths about the different versions of Visual Studio and peoples reluctance to upgrade

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