jQuery UI 1.9 Milestone 1 -Tooltip – The jQuery UI Team announce the first Milestone release of jQuery 1.9. This milestone release is an early opportunity to try out the new version of the library including new widgets. This release adds a new Tooltip widget. The team are looking for feedback on the changes and additions to the library, so if you have a view, let them know
Announcing PostSharp 2.0 CTP 5 – Gael Fraiteur announces the 5th and final CTP release of PostSharp 2.0. This release is deemed to be feature complete, and at a good level of reliability, and includes support for .NET 4 and VS2010 RTM along with Silverlight, Compact Framework and Windows Phone 7
Announcing the RTM of MvcExtensions (aka System.Web.Mvc.Extensibility) – Kazi Manzur Rashid announces the RTM release of the project formerly known as System.Web.Mvc.Extensibility. The project (and root namespace) has been renamed to avoid any confusion about it being part of the official MVC release, and this release also targets only ASP.NET MVC2. Full source code is available on GitHub
ADO.NET Survey Results – Luiz Fernando Santos of the ADO.NET team shares the results of a recent community survey of impressions and opinions about new features and ideas for the ADO.NET products.
Updated C# all-in-one file – Kirill Osenkov shares an updated edition of his C# all-in-one file which aims to include all possible C# syntax in one file (and there sure is a lot if it)
Connections and SQL Azure – David Robinson looks at the additional issues involved in connecting to SQL Azure instances over the internet, and shares a sample of code which takes into account all these issues in obtaining a results set.
Screencast – Getting Started With Machine.Specifications – Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo gives a walk through his ‘Develop with Passion’ fork of the Machine.Specifications testing framework, including the specific extensions of the framework included in his fork
Strict Transport Security ASP.NET Module – Sacha Faust talks about the proposal for Strict Transport Security which involves forcing all HTTP traffic over HTTPS at the browser level, and shares details of an ASP.NET implementation of the standard provided as a HTTP Module
Community
Austin Code Camp 2010 – Joshua Flanagan highlights this free Austin, TX User Group all day event occurring this weekend, offering 7 tracks of sessions covering a wide range of topics. Registration is still open, and is free, so if you are in the area be sure to check it out.