The Morning Brew

Big weekend round up edition today, although I suspect the rest of the week may be a little quieter due to the MSDN and TechNet blog platform upgrade meaning comments and posting on blogs hsoted there will be offline all week – more information here

Software

• ReSharper PowerToys gone OSS – Hadi Hariri highlights the release of the ReSharper PowerToys under an open source license hosted on CodePlex, and talks a little about the remaining work in the project.
• mvcturbine – Release: Release 2.1 for MVC2 – Javier Lozano releases the RTM of MVC Turbine 2.1 for ASP.NET MVC 2 (with a previous release targetting MVC1). 2.1 adds a few new features to interact with the IServiceLocator, along with upgrades to the templates to add support for VS2010 and MVC2
• RequireJS 0.11 Released; Ready for jQuery – Ajaxian highlights the work by James Burke on RequireJS, a script loader for JavaScript which in this latest release has a number of the features required to be a jQuery script loader.
• You wouldn’t drink 9 year old milk would you? – Jim Duffy highlights the latest Microsoft marketing campaign to encourage users to upgrade their browser to later versions of Internet Explorer from the now 9 year old Internet Explorer 6.
• Rex integrates Pex – Jonathan "Peli" de Halleux highlights the announcement by Nikolai Tillmann that he has integrated the Rex regular expression exploration tool into Pex to allow Pex to understand regular expressions which will be included in the next Pex release.

Information

• Three Hidden Extensibility Gems in ASP.NET 4 – Phil Haack looks at three of the new ASP.NET 4 extension points which allow you to have code executed before the application starts up, register build providers at runtime in code and add reference assemblies via code.
• The Aspnet Compiler Build Task in Visual Studio 2010 ASP.Net MVC 2 Projects – Joe Cartano digs into the ASP.NET MVC 2 project file to uncover a post build task that allows you to have your ASP.NET MVC views compiled at build time
• F# and the Standard ASP.NET MVC 2 Web Application Template – Daniel Mohl shares an F# based implementation of the standard ASP.NET MVC web project template which also includes implementations for validation, authentication and Membership along with a number of jQuery plug ins.
• Three New Managed Package Framework features for Visual Studio 2010 – Paul Harrington of the Visual Studio Platform Team talks about the of the new features which have been added to the Managed Package Framework to make it easier for managed code developers to package up extensions to the IDE written in managed code.
• Visual Studio 2010: How to extend the architecture tools – Jennifer Marsman continues her series looking at the architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010, and in this part explores the extensibility which allows you to create your own extensions for the architecture tools, also highlighting the offical Feature Pack and Power tools for the Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modelling tools.
• Make the Visual Studio 2010 IDE colors look like Visual Studio 2008 – Scott Hanselman looks at customizing the Visual Studio 2010 IDE colour scheme to make it look like VS2008 highlighting the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor by Matthew Johnson and showing a number of the stock themes.
• OpenWrap – A Package Management System for .NET – Rob Pickering talks about Seb Lambla’s OpenWrap project, which has recently been publicly unveiled at the Progressive.Net event in London.
• That No SQL Thing: Column (Family) Databases – Ayende continues his look at the NoSql databases offerings exploring in his post the ‘column family database’ , well know from Google’s BigTable implementation. Ayende explores the differences between CFDB and the standard relation model, and looks at some of the strengths and limitations of their use.
• RavenDB – The HiLo what how and why – Rob Ashton continues his series of posts exploring RavenDB with a look at the use of the HiLo identity algoithm to provide a solution to the problem of requiring trips to the database to obtain an identity for an object/record.
• NHibernate Tutorial #5 – Working with Many to Many relationships – Bob Palmer releases the 5th instalment of his NHibernate Tutorial. This part looks at the Many-to-Many relationship, IdBag and Lazy loading, along with a look at the HiLo algorithm in use in NHibernate.
• Not So Hidden Gems of NHibernate – Formula Discriminators – Tuna Toksoz highlights a solution to a common Object Relational Mapping problem where two entities share a table in the database and you need to discriminate between those types using NHibernate
• Exception handling in batch operations with the AggregateException – Jef Claes looks at the new AggregateException, introduced in .NET 4 as a part of the Parallel Framework, which allows an exception to be thrown which contains multiple other exceptions from a batch process.
• Evolving Architectures – Part I What’s Software Architecture – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz shares a short series translated from Hebrew looking at Evolving Software architectures, with part 1 looking at the definition of software architecture, Part II – looking at emergent design andPart III looking at some do’s and don’ts on starting out
• Chasing the shiny – HTML5, CSS3, transitions – oh my! – Chris Heilmann highlights a nice demo of HTML 5 combined with CSS3 and transitions created by Paul Irish and Divya Manian to show the support for various features in the different browsers

Community

• Worldwide Web Camps – Scott Guthrie highlights the Microsoft sponsored Web Camp events taking place across the globe over the next month. The events are free to attend, and there are still spaces available at some of the events where you will be able to learn about the latest ASP.NET 4, MVC2 and Visual Studio 2010 features for Web Development
• My Talks in London: The F# User Group & At Progressive.NET – Rob Pickering gave two talks last week at Skills Matter for the London F# Usergroup and Progressive.NET events both on F#, with the Progressive.NET talk being 4 hours. Videos of both talks are available .
• Skillsmatter Progressive .NET Tutorials May 12-14th 2010 – Mike Hadlow also spoke at the Progressive.NET event in London on his specialist subject of Castle Windsor, and once again, his talk is available as video.
• Linked .Net Users Group – Presentations – Scott Guthrie Talks Shop V – The recording from last week’s Linked In .Net Usergroup event which was the 5th ‘Scott Guthrie talks shop’ event where Scott Guthrie takes questions from the audience on all things Microsoft .NET

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