The Morning Brew

Software

• Small Basic : Happy Birthday Small Basic – The Small Basic Team celebrate its first anniversary with a new release. 0.7 brings more international versions, along with a new feature called ‘Graduate’ which upscales a small basic project to a Visual Basic Project

Information

• VS 2010 Code Intellisense Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) – ScottGu’s Blog – In his tenth post in the series, Scott Guthrie takes a look at the improved Intellisense support in Visual Studio 2010, comparing it with that in VS2008
• Language Integrated Query Support in the F# Power Pack – Don Syme shows off the new LINQ support that is being introduced into F# via the F# PowerPack beta 1/2 release
• Overview of type inference in F# – Brian, inspired by recent discussions on Hanselminutes, looks at how type inference works using F# as an example, bringing in examples from elsewhere when needed
• Getting Started with IronPython – Charlie Calvert runs through the process of getting up and running with IronPython, right from obtaining and installing through to running your first simple Python program
• Using C# dynamic to call static members – David Ebbo explores the use of Dynamic to call static methods on types declared dynamically, giving a static method duck typing, and finds that this doesn’t immediately work in .NET 4
• Value objects: Immutability and Equality – Mark Needham explores the concept of the value object and immutability of such objects with a real world example along with some techniques to work around some of the difficult parts of the implementation
• .Net Framework 4.0: System.IO.File supports now IEnumerable<string> – Gunnar Peipman is exploring a number of the new features of .NET 4 with a series of posts on the new bits, including this look at the ability to enumerate files, and the support for Complex numbers
• Collection covariance with C# 4.0 – Mike HAdlow explores a real world case where the new Collection Covariance introduced in C#4 really helps
• How to Get Started with Multi-Core: Parallel Processing You Can Use – Bruce D. Kyle (with some help from Jeffrey Richter and Rob Bagby) explores some of the options available for parallel processing in .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010
• Naming Anonymous Types with Generate from Usage – Dustin Campbell shows how the refactoring tools in Visual Studio can help you to convert from an anonymous type to a named type in just a few easy steps
• I don’t do math, or how to get a 50Euro discount to NH Prof – Ayende highlights the launch of Rob Connery’s new venture TekPub a new high quality subscription screencast tutorial site, where this is a series on NHibernate which includes money off NHProf
• Iterating atomically – Jon Skeet looks at how to create a threadsafe atomic iterator which allows you to safely iterate over a collection from multiple threads avoiding any duplication of entries returned
• Thread-safe data structures .NET 4.0 (part 1) – Vitaly Dilmukhametov looks at some of the threadsafe collections which have implementations in .NET 4 and shows them in use
• Extension methods ain’t Trojan horses – A tale on a covariant city built in and protected by C# 4.0 – Bart De Smet tells the tail of the trojan war by way of Extension methods and Covariance, in yet another post which I’m going to have to read at least twice to understand, looks like good stuff
• DTOs, Business Entities and Persistency – Uri Lavi looks at Data Transfer Objects and how they can relate to Entities and the persistence of information

Community

• ScottGu Manchester ASP.NET MVC Video – Mike Taulty posts up the high qulaity video taken at the Manchester UK Guathon event where Scott Guthrie presented a number of topics including this monster session on ASP,NET MVC

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