The Morning Brew

Software

• VS 2010 RC now available for download to the general public (no MSDN Subscription required) – Greg Duncan provides a comprehensive list of download URLs for the various parts of the Visual Studio 2010 RC release to the general public..
• IronRuby 1.0 Release Candidate 2 – Charlie Calvert shares the IronRuby Teams announcement of their 1.0 RC2 release, including download links for both .NET 3.5 and the .NET 4 RC.
• Announcing the F# February 2010 Release – Don Syme talks about the February 2010 release of F#, where you can get it, and the significance of this release in that it moves them onto version 2.0 of F#. DOn also announces a parallel release of the F# Power Pack which is available from CodePlex, and provides a set of further tools which the F# team have created.
• Iron Python 2.6.1 RC Now Available – Charlie Calvert also highlights the release of Iron Python 2.6.1 RC, which again has releases for both the .NET 2 CLR and the .NET 4 CLR.

Information

• Bundler Part 2 – ASP.NET Integration – Justin Etheredge follows on from his post on combining, compressing and minifying JavaScript with a look at integrating the process more tightly with ASP.NET
• Impact The Planning For EF/Astoria vNext – Jonathan Carter talks about the importance of your feedback to help the Entity Framework and WCF Data Services teams plan their future features roadmap
• Visual Studio 2010 clean application level web.config – Deepak Verma highlights one of the nice features in ASP.NET 4, the clean empty web.config file, which in .NET 4 is practically empty as compared to .NET 3.5 where there were a large number of sections that ‘had’ to be there.
• UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 6 – Synchronization – Willy-Peter Schaub talks about about synchronisation functionality provided by the underlying operating system, and follows on with a look at Deadlocks in the next part of his notes from his studies at UNISA
• F# and the Dynamic Lookup Operator ala C# – Matthew Podwysocki takes a look at implemeing dynamic operators for using the C# dynamic binders and looks at their use in dealing with MondoDB and COM Interop.
• ASP.NET 4.0, Part 0: Installing VS2010 – Dan Maharry beings a series which will be taking a look at the ASP.NET 4 Release Candidate. This first part takes a blow by blow overview of the install process for VS2010
• Optimisations in LINQ to Objects – Jon Skeet talks about optimisations to some of the standard LINQ to Objects functions , which can allow for vast improvements in execution time if applied correctly.

Community

• LIDNUG Online Chat with Me on Thursday Feb 11th – Scott Guthrie issues a reminder for his virtual Q&A session to be held later today (10AM PST/6PM GMT) where Scott will be taking questions on anything and everything.
• VBUG Manchester – re-launch event with Martin Bell & Chris Testa-O’Neill – VBUG Manchester (UK) resumes its events on the 3rd March, with Chris Testa-O’Neil talking on Reporting Services, and Martin Bell on Table Valued Parameters in SQL Server 2008. The event kicks off at 18:30, and is free.
• F# London Meetup Group – Don Syme highlights a new F# Usergroup in London started by Carolyn Miller, and the groups first event is scheduled for 21st April 2010
• Next European VAN on 01 March 2010 – Jan Van Ryswyck announces the next Europe Virtual ALT.NET Usergroup event when Mike Amundsen will be talking on HTTP Web Caching Techniques, looking at how you can improve the performance of your sites, and reduce your bandwidth costs.
• The "Ignite Your Coding" Podcast Series – Joey deVilla announces his new PodCast/WebCast series which will be recorded weekly in March and April, which will feature a number of very well known names in the Software Development and .NET spaces.

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