The Morning Brew #588

Software

• Axum for Visual Studio 2010 RTM is here! – The Axum team announce that the 0.3 release of Axum is now available, and supports Visual Studio 2010 RTM. Axum is an incubation project of the DevLabs team at Microsoft which aims to bring a message passing style of programming to .NET
• The Open Data Protocol .NET Framework Client Library – Source Code Available for Download – Shayne Burgess of the WCF Data Services Team announces the availability of the source code for the OData Protocol .NET Client Library for .NET 3.5 SP1 and Silverlight 3, licensed under an Apache 2.0 license and available from Codeplex.
• TFS 2010 Power Tools have released – Brian Harry highlights the availability of the TFS Power Tools for the 2010 RTM Release, and outlines the changes in the product since the 2008 release (as a number of Power Tool features are now core product features)
• Visual Studio 2010 Report Viewer Available – The Innovation Showcase Blog highlights the availability of the Report Viewer Control for Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4 applications allowing your .NET apps to show reports from Reporting Services versions up to SQL2008R2 level.
• NCover 3.4: .NET 4 Support And More – The NCover Team announce the release of NCover 3.4, their latest versions now supporting .NET 4.0, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Core, along with the latest MSTest and NUnit Releases

Information

• Using the Concurrency Visualizer to Understand and Optimize UI Responsiveness – ‘majac’ takes a look at how the Visual Studio 2010 Concurrency Visualiser allows you to easily see and identify UI responsiveness problems caused by blocking on the UI Thread
• Visual Studio Profiler Team Blog : VS2010: Silverlight 4 profiling – Maxim Goldin blogs on the Profiler Team Blog about the process for profiling Silverlight 4 applications using the Visual Studio 2010 Profiler, showing the required command line commands to start a profiling session of you Silverlight application hosted in IE.
• Box Selection and Multi-Line Editing with VS 2010 – Scott Guthrie continues his series looking at the enhancements ing VS2010 / .NET 4 with a look at some IDE changes allowing for box selection and multi-line editing within the Visual Studio IDE, showing the best of it in a short video.
• Back to the basics: constants vs read-only fields – Luis Abreu revisits a core concept in C#, the difference between ReadOnly and Constant fields
• C# Extension Methods – To Extend or Not To Extend… – James Michael Hare discusses the power and responsibility at comes with using Extension Methods, looking at some ‘cute’ but not necessarly correct uses of Extension methods, along with exploring some more responsible uses.
• Currying vs Partial Function Application – Mike Hadlow looks at the definitions of Currying and Partial Application, illustrating the concepts with some simple F#
• Every Program There Is, Part One – Eric Lippert moves on from Binary Trees to look at applying the same techniques to Programs, allowing vast arrays of test cases for compilers to be generated using similar principles
• Calculating Fibonacci numbers with .Net 4.0’s BigInteger – Christiaan takes a look at calculating large Fibonacci Numbers using the new .NET 4 BigInteger class from VB to produce the results
• Dynamically Read, Compile, and Run Source Code From a Text File – James Atkinson looks at dynamic compilation of VB and C# code from text files at runtime to allow you to allow users extend your application with their own custom code.
• Brad Wilson: Writing an FxCop Task for MSBuild – Brad Wilson talks about the building of an MSBuild task for running FXCop 2010 as a part of your build process, ans shares the source to the Task.
• Say Goodbye to NAnt and MSBuild for .NET Builds With IronRuby – Justin Etheredge takes a look at removing the XML from his build process by using IronRuby with Rake, and Albacore to provide a code based build process
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Controllers – Jimmy Bogard look at the support for Inversion of Control Containers in ASP.NET MVC, discussing the additional work you have to undertake, beyond the framework support, to take the most advantage of IoC in your ASP.NET MVC projects
• VS launcher for F# web apps – Mauricio Scheffer looks at the configuration required to allow you to Develop and Debug F# Web Projects in Visual Studio 2010.

Community

• Microsoft UK Tech Days – The UK TechDays site has been updated to include video and resource content from the 5 days with both the Developer and IT Pro content now available to view online, allowing you to catch up if you missed out.