The Morning Brew

Software

• Final Release of Visual Studio Lab Management announced! – Amit Chatterjee highlights the planned release of Visual Studio Lab Management, with the release to the general public scheduled for the end of August. MSDN Subscribers will be able to get the release now via their subscription
• HTML5, Modernized: Fourth IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers – Dean Hachamovitch of the Internet Explorer Team announces the release of the 4th Internet Explorer 9 Preview release. This release brings native integration of the JavaScript engine bringing tighter integration of the DOM and JavaScript, further improved performance and standards compliance, along with some guidance on making your sites IE9 compatible as well as some new demos of the browsers functioanlity.
• Pivoting your Code, a Silverlight Pivot of your Visual Studio Solution – VS Solution PivotViewer – Greg Duncan highlights a neat use of the Silverlight Piviot functionality from Max Paulousky, providing a visualisation of the code in your Visual Studio Solutions, allowing you to sort and present based on a number of different criteria.

Information

• MSDN Magazine: August 2010 Issue – The August Edition of the MSDN Magazine is now available online, with articles on Federated Identity for ASP.NET Applications using WIF, the Microsoft Sync Framework, OData and Atom Pub, Azure, Data performance with Tier interaction profiling, and plenty more.
• NHibernate is lazy, just live with it – Ayende discusses the importance of the NHibernate Lazy load support, and how turning such functionality off will cause you huge problems for any object graph more than 1 level deep
• JSON Query Languages: 5 special purpose editors – Leon Bambrick shares a set of demo query editors for various JavaScript JSON Query Languages (SQLike, JsLinq, JSinq, JLinq, JimmyLinq, along with a Positive and Negative analysis of each of the libraries.
• Some nice code editor features provided by the VS 2010 Power Tool Extensions – Scott Guthrie takes a look at some of smaller IDE enhancements provided for the Code Editor by the Visual Studio 2010 Power Tool Extensions.
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Implementing The Overview UserControl – Davy Brion continues his series on his preference for MVP in Silverlight and WPF over the more common MVVM. This part looks at the creation of the first user control of the sample application, walking through the creation with plenty of discussion on the design decisions.
• Using MSpec – a few weeks in – Joel Abrahamsson shares his experiences with adopting MSpec (Machine Specifications) as a testing framework for a web based project
• Experimenting with PRISM 4, Silverlight, MEF – Mike Taulty takes a detailed look at the integration of PRISM with the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and how they can be used together in Silverlight applications.
• Aspect Oriented Programming made easy with Event-Based Components – Part I – Ralf Westphal continues his series of posts on Event Based Components with a look at how EBC can be combined with Aspect Oriented Programming

Community

• Call for speakers for UK Windows Azure Platform online conference on 20th of September – Eric Nelson, inspired by the success of mvcConf, is organising a UK Windows Azure Platform Online Conference, planned to run from 10am to 5pm on 20th September, spread across 2 ‘rooms’. At this point, Eric is looking for UK based speakers who wish to do a 55 minute session at the Virtual Conference.
• VBUG London: Behavior Driven Development (BDD) – VBUG London meet on Tuesday 17th August in London for a session on Behaviour Driven Development delivered by Ian Cooper. This session looks at what the adoption ofBDD will do for your software development process.

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