The Morning Brew

Software

• HTML5 and Same Markup: Second IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers – Dean Hachamovitch of the Internet Explorer Team announces the second preview release of Internet Explorer 9, bringing further performance and standards support improvements, with HTML5 and CSS3 support, and GPU hardware acceleration to give snappy web application performance.
• AutoMapper 1.1 released – Jimmy Bogard announces the release of AutoMapper 1.1. This release adds support for use in Silverlight 3.0, along with some new functionality, improvements and bugfixes
• YUI 3.1.1 and YUI 2.8.1 Released – The Yahoo! User Interface Team announce two minor releases of YUI, one on the 2.8 version and the other on the 3.1, principally fixing a possible Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the History functionality, and additionally adding some minor updates to other components in both releases.
• Enterprise Library 5.0/Unity 2.0 – second batch of deliverables – Grigori Melnik announces the release of the second part of the Enterprise Library 5.0 / Unity 2.0 release, releasing documentation for the whole library, along with Unity 2.0 for both standard CLR applications and Silverlight.
• NavigateToTest VS extension – Lesnikowski release a simple Visual Studio 2010 extension which takes a convention based approach to navigate between implementation and test code. If this fits your work pattern, it may be a useful addition to your IDE.

Information

• MSDN Magazine: May 2010 Issue – The May edition of MSDN Magazine is now available on the MSDN Website. Features this month focus on Silverlight, Silverlight Media, Enterprise development with WCF RIA Services and designing workflows with WCF and WF4, along with the usual columns addressing a range of other topics
• Do Androids Dream of Modal :Sheep? – Rob Conery gives some back story on his new choice of tooling for .NET Development, involving the VIM text editor, Ruby based testing tools, building using Rake, and a desire to share the setup of these tools in a way that enables others to do the same. Throw in some tales of brotherhood competition and you’ve got a very interesting tale.
• ASP.NET MVC Tabular Display Template – Phil Haack builds on some work by Daniel Manes, walking through the building of a Tabular Display template for ASP.NET MVC. Sample code is available.
• ASP.NET MVC’s Html Helpers Render the Wrong Value! – Simon Ince talks about a by design behaviour of the ASP.NET MVC HTML Helpers which may catch you out when rendering fields for models after a HTTP Post.
• T4 Template error – Assembly Directive cannot locate referenced assembly in Visual Studio 2010 project – Lance Hunt talks about the problems he encountered with T4 Template not being able to find template referenced assemblies as a part of upgrading from VS2008 to VS2010, looking at a variety of solutions to the problem.
• Using Unity Application Block – from basics to generics – ‘nmarun’ rounds out a series on the Unity Application block, releasing this index post and the final two parts looking at using Arrays and Generics with Unity.
• .NET Memory Leak: XslCompiledTransform and ‘leaked’ dynamic assemblies – Tess Ferrandez talks about tracking down memory leaks caused by dynamic generation of assemblies (such as when using an XML serializer) which cannot be unloaded until the application domain exits, which can cause significant leaks of memory depending on your usage.
• Windows Phone Developer Training Kit, now April and VS2010 RTM Fresh… – Greg Duncan hlights the release of an updated Windows Phone Developer Training Kit, updated for the latest Windows Phone SDK release.
• Quantitative evaluation of office coffee machines – The folks over at DotNetSolutions apply evaluation techniques usually used for software or architecture decisions to the very important question of which coffee machine to purchase for the office. I couldn’t resist linking to this software meets Coffee article.

Community

• NxtGenUG Manchester – Refactoring! – The NxtGenUG Manchester celebrate their 1st birthday on MAy 19th with a rescheduled talk from Gary Short on Refactoring using free tools.

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