The Morning Brew

So today is launch day for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 – is everyone suitably excited? I’m going to be at the UK Launch Event in London, so if you are too, and spot me, come and say hello.

Updated: Another HTML Glitch swallowed Mark Needham’s link below, and mangled the DDD Down under one, now fixed, thanks for the comment ‘RSS Subscriber’ highlighting it.

Software

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Available: Silverlight 4 will release to Web this week – The official word from Microsoft on the availability of this weeks launch technologies, VS2010 and .NET 4 available now, Silverlight 4 later this week.
• Announcing availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 – Somasegar shares the news of the official release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework version 4, highlighting the launch events, and the streaming version of the keynote.
• Download details: F# April 2010 CTP – F# gets its April Community Technology Preview update, along with a version number of 2.0.0. The release includes both the F# compiler and the Visual Studio 2008 integration
• Introducing jLight – Talking to the DOM using Silverlight and jQuery. – Timmy Kokke announces his latest project, to provide easy means of interacting with the browser from Silverlight using jQuery on the browser side. This project provides helper methods for interactions in JavaScript using the jQuery library, with very jQuery like syntax.

Information

• JavaScript Intellisense Improvements with VS 2010 – Scott Guthrie hits post number 20 on his series of posts looking at the improvements for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4. This article focuses on the improvements made to VS for the JavaScript Developer, focusing on Intellisense functionality.
• What is a Domain Event? – Greg Young look to clear any confusion aboutthe term ‘Domain Event’, defining what he considers the term to mean in a form suitable for his book and training course material. Some interesting suff in the comments of this one too.
• Why diversity and choice are good things – Rob Ashton discusses his motivations for creating AutoPoco, discussing other projects in the area, and outlining where he sees AutoPoco as being different / adding new value.
• What key [binding] does what again? The "Visual Studio 2010 Keybinding Cards" for C++, C#, F# and VB – Greg Duncan highlights some great looking keyboard quick reference cards from Microsoft for the functionality exposed for C#, C++, F# and VB developers in Visual Studio 2010.
• Moving to Visual Studio 2010 free e-book – Guy Barrette highlights the availability of a free Draft Preview of a Microsoft Press book on migrating to the new Visual Studio 2010 release from Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008
• TDD in the Real World, Part 1 & Part 2 – Jeremy Jameson shares his thoughts on Test Driven Development (TDD), looking at high level concepts in Part 1, and moving on to show an example walking through the process in Part 2.
• ECMA 2010 Common Language Infrastructure Public Draft – Miguel de Icaza highlights the release of the Working Drafts of the ECMA 335 specification for the Common Language Infrastructure Standard
• Where we are with acceptance testing and our BDD journey today – Ian Cooper talks about the writing, structuring, and organisation of tests, sharing thoughts which span across the technologies used for such tests, looking at the difference between unit tests and stories, and discussing what should be tested.
• Do you have an Action Plan to Tackle your Technical Debt? – Derik Whittaker talks about the concept of Technical Debt, and looks at how you should keep track of you technical debt , and plan to pay back some of this debt.
• Documentation with Sandcastle – a notebook – Jon Skeet:looks at generating API documentation from assembly metadata and XML comments using the Sandcastle documentation generator project
• That No SQL Thing – Document Databases – Ayende talks about the key concepts of document databases, and looks at building queries against these datastores.
• Coding: Maybe vs Null Object patterns – Mark Needham discusses the Maybe pattern, comparing it to the Null Object pattern, showing an implementation of Maybe in use

Community

• DDD Down Under – Barry Dorrans highlights the début of the Developer Developer Developer conference in Austrailia. The event, to be held in Melbourne, follows the same conventions as teh UK events, and currently speaker submissions are open, with registrations opening later today.
• Making the Most of the Reactive Extensions for .NET – The Virtual Alt.NET group have Scott Weinstein presenting on the Reactive Extensions for .NET on 21st April. This event is geared up for US based developers, as the event starts at 8pm GMT-5, which makes it early hours of the morning for UK based devs.

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