The Morning Brew

Software

• LightSwitch Beta 1 Available to MSDN Subscribers! – The Visual Studio LightSwitch team announce the release of LightSwitch Beta 1 for MSDN Subscribers, Everyone else will have to wait until the public beta on 23rd August
• Sync Framework 2.1 Available for Download – The latest release of the Sync Framework brings with it all the good stuff from the v2.0 release, supplementing this with support for synchronisation to SQL Azure, along with support for the SQL 2008 (and SQL Azure) table valued parameter, and much more

Information

• The First Hour With Lightswitch -BETA- – Michael Washington gives a run through of what he managed to achieve in LightSwitch in the first hour from running the installer to creating a simple application.
• Debugging Tips with Visual Studio 2010 – Scott Guthrie continues his series of posts looking at the new features introduced in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 with this post looking at the debugging experience, recapping a few old features along with some of the new
• Drop 1 of the "Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide" from Microsoft Patterns & Practices. – Greg Duncan highlights the release of the Patterns and Practices Team offering guidance and suggestions for structuring you Windows Phone 7 development, looking at both client development and Cloud based backends in Azure.
• Learn Windows Phone 7 with the "Jump Start" Course – Joey deVilla highlights the release of 10 hours of video of training for Windows Phone 7 Development from Andy Wigley and Rob Miles. These videos look at the development of applications for the phone in both Silverlight and XNA, looking at the whole process from ‘File> New Project’ to marketing on the Market Place.
• Fade Into You [Code to easily animate orientation changes for Windows Phone applications now supports fade, too!] – David Anson shares another transition for moving from one orientation to another in a Windows Phone 7 application, where the transition is made by fading from one view to another. Full code is provided.
• Reactive Extensions for .NET ( "stuff happens" ) – Mike Taulty explores the Reactive Extensions for .NET, highlighting a number of great resources for getting up to speed on Rx, along with exploring some code examples of some of the features of Rx
• Clay: malleable C# dynamic objects – part 2 – Bertrand Le Roy looks at the use of the Clay dynamic object library and how it answers his requirements outlined in the first part of this series on dynamic objects for View Models in Orchard.
• Updated summary of our recent ebook giveaways – Microsoft Press shares a list of their recent free ebook releases (mostly previews of sections of books) covering a range of topics from Visual Studio 2010, through Windows Phone 7, to Virtualisation.
• Once Again: Comments In Code Aren’t Necessarily Bad – Davy Brion continues the debate on comments in code, following on from a number of recent posts on the subject. Looks like some discussion is breaking out in the comments to this one.

Community

• Don Syme is in town! – F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group (London, England) – The F#unctioanl Londoners User Group is being visited by Don Syme who will be talking on (you guessed it) F# on the Thursday 9th September 2010 at SkillsMatter
• The New Brighton ALT.NET Wiki – Mike Hadlow announces the creation of the Brighton ALT.NET Wiki, the home for information about the Group and its regular meetings.
• Early Bird is Open for the Patterns and Practices Symposium – John Papa highlights the opening of the Early Bird registrations for the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Symposium to be held in Redmond on the 18-22 October 2010. With a number of great looking sessions planned across a variety of technologies this $699 early bird offer looks like an excelent deal.
• WPUG.NET: Second Meeting – register now! – The Windows Phone User Group will be holding their second meeting on Wednesday 25th August at the Theodore Bullfrog, in London. This event will feature Matt Lacey and Mike Ormond, discussing a variety of Windows Phone Development topics.

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