The Morning Brew

Software

• IE9 Beta launch: are you excited? – Today (Wednesday) sees the launch of Internet Explorer 9 Beta, a significant improvement over previous versions in terms of performance and web standards. The Launch is being streamed live, and details can be found in the Internet Explorer team’s blog post IE9 Beta Webcast: Tune in
• dotCover 1.0 and dotTrace 4 Performance are Released! – JetBrains announce the official release of dotCover 1.0 and dotTrace 4 their code coverage and profiling tools for .NET which integrate into Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010. Licences for both memory and performance profiling together are £577, with dotCover having introductory rates starting at £38 and there are time limited trial versions available. Anyone who purchased after December 2008 is also entitled
• Download details: Microsoft Lync 2010 SDK Release Candidate (RC) – Microsoft released the Release Candidate of the Microsoft Lync 2010 SDK. Lync is the new name for Office Communications Server and this SDK allows you to write code to interact with this server product

Information

• Making history explicit – Gabriel Schenker looks at introducing creating a history of entities as a domain concept using a Versioned Entity base class to provide the core of the functionality, illustrating with an example based on Cages in a Zoo.
• What is Functional Programming? Part 3, Recursion – Christopher Bennage continues his Functional Programming exploration series with a look at Recursion, looking at how Functional Programming can help make Recursion easier and less scary.
• Color Indicator for Code Changes – Track Changes in Visual Studio 2010 – Abhijit Jana highlights one of the less know IDE features, the subtle colour indicator which shows when code has been changed, and looks at the introduction of a third colour state to indicate undo’d code in Visual Studio 2010.
• Why CodeRush Templates? – Rory Becker talks about the use of templates / code generation to create code to improve developer efficiency, looking at a variety of methods for templating, ranging from the Clipboard to tools such as CodeRush.
• A Few Thoughts On IoC, An Idea For A different Type Of Container, And A Lot Of Questions – Derick Bailey muses on the use of Inversion of Control containers, some of the things that it forces us as developers to do and thinks about some possible improvements to the IOC way of working
• Getting the Property Name From a Property Expression – Mike Hadlow takes a look at getting the name and path to a property from an expression, showing how it can be achieved in a more functional style making use of Linq and yield.
• Using timer based Unit of Work and Command classes to measure repositories performance – Gunnar Peipman’s ASP.NET blog – Gunnar Peipman looks at measuring the time operations composed of multiple objects and steps take to complete, looking at the use of Command and Unit of Work patterns
• Have you seen your new look UK MSDN homepage? – ‘Rachfcollier’ highlights the newly refreshed MSDN UK Homepage, newly updated to bring it in-line with the look, feel and organisation of the main US site.
• pexforfun.com: IntelliSense, High Score List, Publishing, Dynamic Ranking, Live Feed – Nikolai Tillmann highlights an update to the PexForFun.com website which introduces a number of new features to the site. The site now has code completion in the browser, a high score list, publishing of coding duels, ranking and a live feed
• Query expression syntax: continuations – Jon Skeet looks at the Linq Query Expression continuation feature, something which is less well known amongst developers, and provides a nice way of making your code simpler and more concise
• Returning paged results from repositories using PagedResult<T> – Gunnar Peipman looks at using a PagedResult class which allows you to easily return particular pages of results from large data sets returned from repositories looking at applying it to NHibernate and Entity Framework
• Automate your DotNet configuration files – Florian Drevet looks at a technique for making it easy for developers to have custom configuration per developer / machine using NANT to make changes to the configuration as needed

Community

• VBUG Newcastle:Getting Started with jQuery – VBUG Newcastle host George Adamson on the 25th October 2010, where he will be giving an introductory talk on jQuery

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