The Morning Brew

Congratulations to all the New and Renewed MVPs

Software

• dotTrace 4 Performance Beta 3 – JetBrains announces their 3rd beta release of dotTrace 4. There are no new features in this beta over the previous beta, however the performance and stability has been improved. If you try the beta, and find a problem, be sure to report the issue to help them build a better product.

Information

• Installing, Configuring and Using Windows Server AppFabric and the "Velocity" Memory Cache in 10 minutes – Scott Hanselman runs through in a step by step manner the process of installing the ‘Velocity’ memory cache and Windows Server AppFabric, along with getting it up and running in your ASP.NET Site.
• Two Years With NHibernate – Lessons Learned – Alex Ullrich shares a few best practices for working with NHibernate he has picked up during his two years working with it, discussing the importance of the Domain, Integration Tests, and appropriate use
• Installing ASP.NET 4 in IIS 6 – Al Pascual talks about one possible issue you will encounter if attempting to run ASP.NET 4 on IIS6 due to IIS6 not supporting multiple versions of the Framework
• The Task Parallel Library Series – Parallel.For & Parallel.ForEach – Steve Strong continues his series on Parallelism in .NET 4 with a look at the Parallel.For and Parallel.ForEach methods showing how they provide a very simple way of obtaining some degree of parallelism.
• C# Fundamentals – What is the Difference Between Const and Readonly? – James Michael Hare digs into the differences in meaning between Const and Readonly C# keywords in this back to basics article
• IE9 Includes Hardware Accelerated Canvas – Paul Cutsinger and Jatinder Mann share links to a number of great demos which are vastly improved by the hardware acceleration support in the new Internet Explorer 9 Canvas support, giving a glimpse at what the web may turn into.
• Walkthrough: Extending VS 2010 to Support Additional Programming Languages – Weston Hutchins highlights a series of walkthrough videos being produced for www.devx.com, sponsored by the Visual Studio team, the first of which looked at extensibility via extensions, and the latest takes a look at adding support for your own languages to the editor.
• Config-free IHttpModule Registration – Nikhil Kothari shares a great ASP.NET 4 technique which allows you to remove the need for your custom HttpModules to be registered in configuration (web.config) by using the newPreApplicationStartMethodAttribute to have the registration handled in the code of the HttpModule
• How’d they build that? Using Snoop and WPF Inspector to peek inside WPF Apps – Pete Brown looks at using the tools Snoop and WPF Inspector to dig into the construction of existing WPF applications, walking through the use of the tools in a step by step, screen shot rich guide.
• Using ViewModel information in an ASP.NET MVC 2 Editor or Display template – Jon Galloway looks at the ASP.NET MVC 2 Editor and Display templating, exploring a number of scenarios where you need to pass additional information to the template, exploring the solution using Templated Helpers.
• Should we use boundary values in our combinatorial tests? – Bj Rollison discusses the use of Boundary Value test cases in testing functionality, testing ranges of values, illustrating with an example of a print dialog from Paint.

Community

• May The Silverlight 4s Be With You with Richard Costall &How To Manage Your Manager with Mark Rendle – The DotNetDevNet Usergroup are hosting Richard Costall speaking about Silverlight 4 this coming Monday (5th July) at 6:30pm at their usual University of the West Of England venue near Bristol. On September 14th DotNetDevNet have Mark Rendle talking on the subject of making the most of your manager
• Would you like to write for the UK MSDN Flash? – Mike Ormond, Editor of the UK MSDN Flash news letter (amongst other things) is on the look out for feature articles for inclusion in the news letter. Articles will need to be loosely Microsoft Development related, and should be around 500 words. If you are interested in contribution get in touch with Mike.

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