The Morning Brew

Software

• Google releases Closure, the tools behind the JS geniuses – Ajaxian highlights the release of Closure the JavaScript library that powers the Google Application offerings, including an optimizer (‘Closure Compiler’), a JavaScript library, along with templating in both Java and JavaScript,

Information

• Hanselminutes on 9 – Debugging Crash Dumps with Tess Ferrandez and VS2010 – Scott Hanselman talks with Tess Ferrandez about ASP.NET Debugging, and Tess shows Scott how to debug a dump of an ASP.NET application using some of the new features in Visual Studio 2010.
• Retrieving Nested Properties from Lambda Expressions – Elton Stoneman looks at getting ProperyInfos for properties using Lambda expressions, and how it gets a little more tricky when you want to access properties off objects referred to by a property
• IronRuby and Cucumber – Installation (Part 1 of 3) – Greg Malcolm shares a 3 part series based on his recent Usergroup demo. This first part looks at getting IronRuby and Cucumber installed correctly, and the second part ‘A quick look at IronRuby‘ takes a tour around IronRuby, with Part 3 yet to be published looking at BDD with Cucumber and IronRuby
• November’s Toolbox Column Now Online – Scott Mitchell highlights the contents of his Toolbox column for MSDN Magazine’s November edition, which means that the rest of the magazine is online too – follow the link at the end of his post to get into the full column and the rest of the magazine
• Now Available: patterns & practices Application Architecture Book – J.D. Meier highlights the release of the Patterns and Practices groups Application Architecture book as a physical printed book. The whole content of this (and may other useful guides from P&P) is available online as PDF, links at the end of this article.
• Creating something from nothing, asynchronously [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET improved!] – ‘Delay’ adds some enhancements to the virtual file creation using drag and drop from a previously linked article, improving the UI by keeping it responsive while creating the files which were downloaded through the application
• WPF RichTextBox Subscript and Superscript Without Font Restrictions – Steven Robbins shares a work around for WPF applications using the RichTextBox wanting to include Superscript and subscript text regardless of the font being OpenType and having a suitable variant for super/subscript
• Writing WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 2: Dependecy Properties – Alan Mendelevich is on part 2 of a series looking at writing WPF and Silverlight compatible code in the currently stable version (WPF3.5 and Silverlight3). This part looks at working with dependency properties in ways that will work in both Silverlight and WPF
• It’s Okay To Write Unit Tests – Justin Etheredge responds to post about unit testing with a 7 step plan which should help you to unit test better and more effectively
• Enabling X-Domain access to your Data Services – The ADO.NET Data Services Team talk about how you can grant access to your ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) services to other domains using the ClientAccessPolicy file

Community

• Virtual ALT.NET Recordings – A reminder that all of the Virtual Alt.Net presentations are archived on the VirtualAlt.Net site, with recent additions of Billy McCafferty S#arp architecture talk and Ayende Rahien on Building NHProfiler. A great resource and a useful means of seeing talks from other timezones

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