The Morning Brew

Only 10 more editions until I reach the 500 edition milestone – I really need to get started planning something special.

Software

• MVC Turbine v2.0 RTM – Javier G. Lozano announces the release of Version 2 of MVC Turbine, a project which brings IOC into the heart of ASP.NET MVC providing realdy made means to have controllers, binders, view engines, etc automatically wired together using the powers of IOC
• T4CSS: A T4 Template for .Less CSS With Compression – Phil Haack embraces the .less CSS processor which adds the ability to have variables, operators, etc in your CSS which gets processed out at delivery time. Phil contributes some support for generating static CSS files using T4 and .less, along with optionally compressing using the YUI Compressor.
• Surface SDK Now Broadly Available – Bruce D. Kyle highlights the availability of the workstation edition of the Microsoft Surface SDK, which allows you to develop and test Surface applications without needing the actual surface hardware
• MEF Refresh of Preview 8 for Silverlight – Glenn Block highlights the release of a minor update to the Managed Extensibility Framework for Silverlight preview 8 release, made last month which fixes a serious bug

Information

• Lambda Abuse: The MvcContrib Hash – Jeremy Skinner follows up on the recent discussions on the use of lambda expressions in ASP.NET MVC Contrib for building dictionary like structures, explaining the technique used, and answering some of the criticisms of that method
• How Dot Net 4 Side by Side will impact API writers – Jason Short of VistaDB discusses the impact side by side installations of .NET 4 and earlier versions will have for people developing Add-ins, libraries and APIs, dicussing the confusing area of which version of the framework gets loaded in which circumstances
• MEF and Prism, to be or not to be – Glenn Block looks at the future for the Managed Extensibility Framework and the Patterns and Practices Prism project, answering one the Frequently Asked Questions he always receives
• Have you checked out the new RichTextArea control? – ‘Nitya’ highlights the inclusion of a Rich Text Editor control in the Silverlight 4 Beta release, giving a brief introduction to working with it in both XAML and Code
• 2009 Advent Calendar December 2nd – ‘cellfish’ continues with the Advent series of posts with a look at a better method of locking than yesterdays, looking at oving the lock to a separate object, and adding some mocking support by making it an interface implementation
• Analyze .NET Fusion log with PowerShell in timely manner – Freist Li shares a useful tip for using PowerShell to parse out the important information about binding problems from the Fusion Log file
• TPL (That is, Task Parallel Library) Article of the Day: – Parent-Child Task Relationships in the .Net Framework 4 – Greg Duncan highlights a document from Microsoft which looks at the Parent-Child task relationships included in .NET 4, providing guidance on working with such tasks, along with looking at task completion, waiting and cancellation.
• Query performance, scalar UDFs, and predicate pushdown – Dimitri Furman shares some useful tips on improving the performance of a query which utilises a scalar User Defined Function in the where clause, where the function operates on a column of data.

Community

• Write Extensions for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor – Kate Gregory shares another Talk on Code Project, providing demos, speaker notes, the presentation files and the code samples to illustrate alongside the presentation, along with videos of the demos. This really is everything you need to deliver her talk on extensibility of the Visual Studio 2010 Editor

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