The Morning Brew

This morning saw the first signs of Winter arriving with our first real frost, and thankfully this morning also sees the arrival of a central heating engineer to replace my boiler – looking forward to some warmth this evening.

Software

• jQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 – John Sheehan shares 131 jQuery code snippets along with an installer to install them into Visual Studio 2010 adding some useful speedups when working with jQuery. Checkout the site for the full list of snippets.
• Release: Validation Plugin 1.6 – Jörn Zaefferer announces the release of an update for the jQuery Validation Plugin adding 5 more localisations taking the total to 26, along with numerous bug fixes and enhancements
• VsVim Update Released (Version 0.5.2) – Jared Parsons releases the latest update to his Visual Studio Vim emulation which adds improved key mapping support which helps avoid conflicts between Visual Studio and the VIM commands.
• Uploaded ASP Classic Compiler Version 0.5.6.34834 to http://aspclassiccompiler.codeplex.com – Li Chen releases a bugfix release of this Classic ASP compiler which takes VBScript powered Classic ASP and turns it into .NET code running on the CLR. This release fixes a few bugs, and the post has a few details of some of the difficulties being encountered adding debugging support

Information

• 2009 Advent Calendar December 1st – Its the start of December, and that can mean only one thing, Advent Calendar time, and ‘cellfish’ has started out strongly with a .NET themed calendar, with Day 1 looking at a locking pattern
• 24 ways: Working With RGBA Colour – This year sees the 24 Ways Web Development Advent calendar from Drew McLellan enter its 5th year. Be sure to check this one out daily over the build up to Christmas for lots of excellent front end web development tricks, tips and techniques
• Building the Hello MEF dashboard in Silverlight 4 – Part I – Glenn Block follows on from his previous post on MEF in Silverlight with the start of a series looking at using MEF to build the dashboard application he used in the demo at PDC
• Plug into MEF in 10 minutes or less – Greg Duncan highlights a video from Jeremy Likness which looks at building a plugin using the Managed Extensibility Framework in just 10 minutes, along with highlighting a few other MEF related posts
• What’s the difference between covariance and assignment compatibility? – Eric Lippert discusses the true meaning of Covariance and dispels a few myths doing the rounds in the build up to the functionality being released in .NET 4
• What’s The First Thing To Learn About ASP.NET MVC? – K Scott Allen talks about one of the most important concepts which is new to many web forms programmers migrating to ASP.NET MVC, the form element
• Creating a Pinball Game in Silverlight: Using the Physics Helper Library + Farseer Physics – Andy Beaulieu takes the Coding4Fun readers through the building of a simple Silverlight pinball game using expression Blend 3 and physics helper libraries
• How to host ASP.NET application at Amazon EC2 – With so much focus on Azure it can be easy to forget about the other cloud offerings, and Max Petrov highlights an useful article from Pavel Klimov looking at using the Amazon EC2 system to host ASP.NET
• Windows Identity Foundation Simplifies User Access – Bruce D. Kyle discusses the WIF release and looks at some simple code highlighting the claims based authentication methods available.
• CSS Resets – K. Scott Allen highlights a web developer technique known as the CSS reset which resets all browsers to a common known good configuration ensuring that your CSS rules are applied as you would expect

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