The Morning Brew

Software

• MultiTouch Behavior: Update for Windows Phone 7 tools beta – Laurent Bugnion announces an update to his MultiTouch Behaviour to bring it in-line with the Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta release, along with a second tutorial video
• FREE Visual Basic Upgrade Companion tool for VB6 to .NET – Eric Nelson highlights a free Visual Basic Upgrade Companion tool from Artinsoft, which will help you convert your VB6 projects to .NET. The Free edition is limited to conversion of code up to 10000 Lines of code.

Information

• A simple example of the Open/Closed Principle – Joel Abrahamsson explores the Open Closed Principle, looking at what it is, showing an example implementation which conforms to the principle, and looks at where the open closed principle can and should be utilised.
• jQuery JavaScript Templates Tutorial: Nesting Templates – Rey Bango continues his series looking at templating in jQuery with a look at using nested templates to provide multi-level templating.
• Adding ASP.NET Membership to your OWN Database – Joe Stagner looks at the process of setting up and using a single application database for both your applications needs and the ASP.NET Membership functionality, working through the install and configuration.
• Eager Fetch, Order By and a strange behavior with ICriteria – Giorgetti Alessandro discusses some strange behaviour he has encountered when working with NHibernate Eager fetch on collections which are ordered when using ICriteria queries
• Unity as IoC container for Caliburn.Micro – Sondre Bjellås looks at the Caliburn.Micro project and explores combining it with the Uniity Inversion of Control Container, including sharing the code of a sample integration.
• Server installation options for ASP.NET MVC 2 – Jon Galloway explores the various different ways of installing the ASP.NET MVC 2 framework, covering the Web Platform Installer, direct Bin deployment, standard installer and command line options for scripting.
• Back to the basics: instance constructors – Luis Abreu continues his series of Back to Basics posts with a look at non-default constructors and variable initialisation at construction time.
• C#: Building a Loosely Coupled Translator – James Michael Hare continues his Fundamentals series with a look at a common software development pattern, the conversion of types / values via a translator class, and looks at a dictionary based example.
• Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 – Part 2 – UPDATE and PODCAST on Building a WEI 7.9 and RFC for building a GOM (God’s Own Machine) – Scott Hanselman gives an update on his quest to build a machine scoring 7.9 on the Windows 7 Windows Experience Index, discussing the methodology for the experiment and various components purchased.
• GenesisEngine: The Task Parallel Library Is Great But Threading Can Still Bite You – Eric Lee talks about his use of the Task Parallel Library within his GenesisEngine project which generates a virtual world and is quite computational intensive.

Community

• Let’s meet for Dinner in London! – Glenn Block will be attending a Geek Dinner in London as a part of his visit to the UK. The event, to be held tomorrow evening (Thursday 15th July) is organised by Seb Lambla, and will doubtless involve good food, and great conversation.

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