The Morning Brew

Software

• Paint.NET v3.5 (Final) is now available! – Paint.Net the Paint / photo editing package written completely in .NET recieves its latest update with a while host of new features, and A new license for Paint.NET v3.5
• The RC of Windows Identity Foundation is here! – Vibro announces the release candidate build of Windows Identity Foundation the new name for Geneva, the SDK and programming model for federated identity and claims based authentication for .NET
• Windows Identity Framework (WIF) Announcements – Sam Gentile has a number of related news and announcements over at his blog
• Microsoft .NET Services SDK (Nov 2009 CTP) – The latest .NET Services CTP release has been made available on MSDN.

Information

• Neat VS10 Feature: Pinning A Debugger Watch – Phil Haack highlights another nice new feature of Visual Studio 2010’s debugging capabilities, the ability to pin a watch window to the editor, meaning it will be anchored to a point in the code, allowing you to see the value of a variable alongside the code.
• ASP.Net MVC Portable Area – Part 4 IoC framework support – Eric Hexter continues his series on the development of Portable Areas in ASP.NET MVC with a brief look at adding support to the portable areas for Inversion of Control
• HDI Video: Generate from Usage in Visual Studio 2010 with Karen Liu – Charlie Calvert highlights a video by Karen Liu looking at the new Generate from Usage feature of VS2010, giving a non-video summary of the content of the video
• Equality and Comparison Constraints in F# – Don Syme talks about the two new constraint added to F# in the 1.9.7 release for dealing with equality and comparisons, giving a nice summary of the background to the problem, and an introduction to the new features.
• Sproc Executing Slow? It Might be This – Rob Reynolds talks about a configuration setting which can make massive differences to the speed of execution of your stored procedures in SQL Server, and vast differences between the different ways of running procs. This one is well worth knowing about, I’ve been bitten by this one on more than one occasion
• IronRuby and Cucumber – Cucumber Tutorial (Part 3 of 3) – Greg Malcolm wraps up his series on IronRuby and Cucumber for BDD testing with a look at Cucumber, illustrated with a healthy number of examples.
• The Number of Classes Is Not A Good Measure Of Complexity – Eric Lee talks about the danger of using the number of classes as a metric for complexity, arguing that having more classes makes things less complex if done correctly
• Request/Response Service Layer Series – Davy Brion beigns a new series of posts on the Request /Response service layer, with his first post Requests And Responses looking at the basics of the Request Response service layer
• Integrating Google Javascript Compiler in Visual Studio – Kim talks about some work on integrating the Google Closure Javascript compiler into the Visual Studio IDE via the REST API. This looks very promising work, and I look forward to seeing a release of the code / Add-in
• Jumping the trampoline in C# – Stack-friendly recursion – Bart De Smet digs into recursion looking at how it can be made easier on your stack trace in another of his epic posts – this one is another I’m going to have to take a while to read over.
• DWORD – Duct Tape Programmers – Roy Osherove starts a new video cast blog series called DWORD, and in this edition takes an amusing look at the Duct Tape Programmer debate

Community

• Architect Cafe November 2009 Series | Online Webcasts – Architect Cafe highlights 2 webcasts for architects coming up in the next few weeks, the first looking at Silverlight 3, and the second looking at cloud computing and Azure. These are US events around noon PST, so should be watchable from western Europe at not too later hour
• Expect the Unexpected – Microsoft are running a competition to win a trip to the Galapagos Islands, or a Smart Car, along with a number of other smaller prizes, all for sharing your story about something you achieved with the .NET Framework

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