The Morning Brew

Software

• Patch for Cut/Copy ‘Insufficient Memory’ issue with VS 2010 – Scott Guthrie highlights the availability of a patch for an ‘Insufficient Memory’ problem a number of users have encountered when using the copy/paste functionality in Visual Studio 2010
• CSLA 4 beta 3 release – Rockford Lhotka announces the Final Beta Release of his CSLA 4 framework, which now includes improved ASP.NET MVC 2 support, server exception altering along with a number of other bugfixes and improvements. Rockford also announces the CSLA 3.8.4 beta release an update to his framework which targets .NET 3.5 and Silverlight 3
• Hosting a Git server under IIS7 on Windows – Jeremy Skinner shares a native .NET implementation of a git-http backend powered by ASP.NET MVC 2 and .NET 4, allowing easy hosting of Git Repositories on Windows using IIS. Currently available as a source code only release, this looks like a great little project.
• Just released: Subtext 2.5.1 release notes – Simone Chiaretta announces an updated release of Subtext 2.5, the .NET powered blogging engine. This release fixes a number of high priority bugs found in 2.5 and is therefore a recommended update.
• PowerShell running in Dotnet 4 – Karl Prosser shares a version of the PowerShell console running against .NET 4 . This allows Powershell to interact with code compiled against the .NET 4 CLR in the same process.
• Got your hands on VS2010 Ultimate? Want to know what all the excitement is about its new Architecture features? (i.e. why this is NOT you father’s ‘Architecture Edition’) Dig just about everything from the VS ALM Rangers? Well… – Greg Duncan highlights the release of the Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Guide from the Visual Studio ALM Rangers, released onto CodePlex. The Guide contains lots of great advice, hands on labs, and common usage scenarios.

Information

• Optimizing Regular Expression Performance, Part I: Working with the Regex Class and Regex Objects – Ron Petrusha takes an in-depth look at regular expression performance, comparing a number of different ways of working with Regular expressions, showing the implementation and then details of the performance.
• Announcing www.pexforfun.com – Nikolai Tillmann announces a new website from the Pex Team. PexForFun.com allows you to provide a sample piece of code in C#, VB or F#, and the website will use a simplified version of Pex to provide input /output values which illustrate interesting test cases.
• Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0: And Much, Much More… – Jennifer Marsman rounds out a week of parallel related posts with a list of some of the other improvements for Parallelism in .NET 4, along with providing a list of resources for further information.
• The Task Parallel Library Series – Data Parallelism – Steve Strong kicks off his parallelism series with a post discussing the Data Parallelism approach where you distribute work across multiple cores based on pieces of data in a data set.
• WCF Concurrency (Single, Multiple and Reentrant) and Throttling – Shivprasad koirala explores the concurrency possible in WCF services, exploring three types, and looks at how you can apply throttling to the service in this Code Project article.
• Single Assignment & readonly Fields in C# – ‘sankarsan’ takes a look at the use of the C# ReadOnly keyword and how it relates to immutability, along with looking at a case where you can end up with different values being read from a read only variable.
• HTTP duplex messaging improvements in Silverlight 4 – Yavor Georgiev, a Program Manager o the WCF Team talks about some of the improvements made in Silverlight 4 to support Duplex communication over HTTP, allowing both Client and server to send requests to each other.
• Web Application Extensibility with FubuMVC (Part 2) – Jeremy D. Miller continues his tour round the extensibility points of the FubuMVC framework with a look at the extension points for Content (Content injection, Content Extensions)
• Troubleshooting Network Emulation – ‘nkamkolkar’ takes a look at the Netwrok Emulation features included in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate edition, which allows you to control the behaviour of a network link for the purposes of load testing
• RIA Services and Authentication – Nikhil Kothari continues his series of posts looking at the Book Club Sample Application, exploring the support for Authentication provided by the RIA Services
• RIATasks: A Simple Silverlight CRUD Example (using View Model and Rx Extensions) – Michael Washington walks through the steps of creating a Create Read Update Delete (CRUD) application in Silverlight, using a backend of web services via the Reactive Extensions.
• Enter a Parallel Universe Using IKVM.NET – Jan Van Ryswyck discusses the IKVM.NET Project, which brings Java Code to the .NET runtime

Community

• Recording and samples from my Reactive F# talk – Tomáš Pet?í?ek highlights the availability of the video from his Reactive Programming in F# delivered at the F#unctional London Usergroup a week ago.

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