The Morning Brew

PDC ramps up today, so in preparation for a deluge of PDC related posts I’ve broken out the special Section today with a couple of warm up posts

PDC

• Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Micro Framework – Peter Galli over at Port 25 has the first major news out of PDC09, that the .NET Micro Framework has hit its version 4 release, and the big news that it will be being open sourced under an Apache License
• Not at PDC? You can still take part – Party Underground @ PDC, See the keynotes and more… – Greg Duncan highlights a number of means which you can use to get involved in PDC this year even if you are not one of the fortunate ones who is attending the actual event.

Software

• Uploaded Asp Classic Compiler Build 0.5.5.34834 – Li Chen announces the latest release of the Classic ASP compiler which builds Classic ASP written in VBScript into .NET assemblies. This release includes some of the ground work for better mapping from the generated code back to the original classic ASP which will form the basis of debugger support
• Converting .dbp files to .dbproj files – Patrick Sirr shares a simple tool that will convert .dbp database projects to the new .dbproj file format used in Visual Studio 2010. Full source and executable version available
• Text Sharp – Visual Studio 2010 text clarity tuner – This neat little Visual Studio 2010 addin allows you to control the text rendering of the text in the new WPF Editor, hopefully providing an improvement for those who have found the text to be too fuzzy in the new editor
• p&p’s Web Client Guidance drop is out! – Julian Dominguez highlights the latest drop of the Patterns and Practices Web Client Guidance which includes guidance and infrastructure for developing ASP.NET Web Forms, Ajax applications, along with MVC and jQuery
• T4MVC 2.5.00 update: multiple output files and minified javascript support – David Ebbo announces version 2.5 of his T4 Template library for ASP.NET MVC. This release contains a number of new features suggested and assisted by the community including the ability to generate multiple files, along with JavaScript minification

Information

• Just how spiky is your traffic? – Jon Skeet talks about a Google metric ‘Queries per second’ which has moved outside the bounds of search, and discusses the differences between even workloads and spikey traffic workloads
• Back to Basics: Usage of Static – Patrick Smacchia takes a look at the use the static keyword in this back to basics article which covers the use of static classes and static fields, giving some general rules and explaining those rules origins
• Storm – the world’s best IDE framework for .net. – Theodor Storm Kristensen looks at the use of Storm to create IDE applications including code completion, dockable UI components and plugins in this Code Project Article
• Differences Between the Security Rule Sets – ‘shawnfa’ continues his look at the different security rule sets in the .NET CLR providing a useful comparison table for the three types of ruleset, the V2 CLR, V4 CLR and Silverlight CLR
• What every developer should know about character encoding – ‘Windward Wrocks’ takes a look at the trick world of character encoding and the use of Unicode in text documents sharing some useful tips for creating text files. Be sure to check out the piece linked from this one from earlier this month discussing time-zones too.
• Creating something from nothing – and knowing it [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET refined!] – Delay continues this series looking at creating files on the file system introducing some copy paste support for the virtual files
• Enabling Recomposition in MEF (Preview 8 ) – Derik Whittaker looks at the Managed Extensibility Framework’s support for discovering plugins at runtime (called Recomposition) using a simple single line change
• Request/Response Service Layer: Testing Asynchronous Client-Side Usage – Davy Brion closes out his series on the Request Response Service Layer with a look at testing the client side asynchronous layer, and wrapping up with a Conclusion
• Making ASP.NET MVC Actions be Transactional By Default – Scott Kirkland generalises his previous work on making transactional actions using NHibernate and the transactional attribute with a look at making all actions transactional by default by means of a SuperController implementation
• Closing over the loop variable, part two – Eric Lippert follows up on the comments from his previous post about a closure situation in which the compiler doesn’t do what many people would assume it would do, discussing the possibility of introducing a compiler warning to warn users about this situation
• I recant my IoC! IoC containers in dynamic languages are silly. – Ryan Svihla takes a fresh look at Python and concludes that the nature of dynamic languages makes technology like Inversion of Control containers mostly unnecessary

Community

• Alt.NET Bristol Beers #3 – Guy Smith-Ferrier announces the 3rd Alt.Net Bristol Beers event to be held on Tuesday 8th December 2009 at The Portcullis in Bristol

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