The Morning Brew #687

Software

• Putting sites at the center of the browsing experience, using the whole PC: IE9 Beta Available for Download – Dean Hachamovitch of the Internet Explorer 9 team announces the release of the public beta, giving a tour of the features and improvements you can find, The launch of this beta yesterday generated lots of blog posts, here are just a few of the many good ones:
  • Internet Explorer 9 Beta has Arrived! The Features that Matter to Me as a Developer – Rey Bango
  • Finally we have a Download Manager in IE!! – Rahul Johri
  • IE9, Site Specific Browsers, and adding your own Jump List Items to Pinned Tabs – Scott Hanselman
  • IE9 Beta Minor Changes List – Eric Lawrence
  • Internet Explorer 9 Beta – what’s new for developers? – Rachfcollier
  • Internet Explorer 9 Beta Features and Benchmarks – Michael Crump

Information

• Rx on the server, part 5 of n: Observable ASP.NET – Jeffrey van Gogh continues his series of posts looking at the use of the Reactive Extensions for .NET on the Server side. This part takes a look at using IObservable in your ASP.NET Applications
• MushMud.com – High Level Architecture – David W Martines takes the covers off MushMud.com, a music sharing community, and shares how the website is structured and architected using ASP.NET MVC and Domain Driven Development style of development
• Cool eBook of the Day – ‘Threading in C#’ – Greg Duncan highlights a comprehensive eBook from Joseph Albahari available in PDF and HTML format covering all the key aspects of developing multithreaded code in C#
• PSSCor2: Miscellaneous Commands – Sasha Goldshtein continunes exploring the PSSCor2 debugging extension, looking in this post at the !SaveModule, !SaveAllModules, !DumpAllExceptions, and !DumpRuntimeTypes commands
• ASP.NET MVC 3 CTP1 View Improvements – Ashic Mahtab shares a (his first) screencast looking at the changes and improvements in ASP.NET MVC3 CTP1 for working with your views, focusing on the new Razor ViewEngine
• .NET String Formatting Cheat Sheet – Dylan Beattie shares a Cheat Sheet for the multitude of String Formatting options available in .NET, based on a guide to string formatting from Steve Tibbett.
• Making DSLs in F# at DevTalk.net – Dmitri Nesteruk takes a look at building a Domain Specific Language using the F# language, building a sample based on project management.
• Reversing assignment statements with Find and Replace in VS 2010 – Darren Fieldhouse shares a useful tip which demonstrates the power of the Visual Studio Search and Replace, showing how you can easily reverse assignment statements.

Community

• Windows Phone 7 – Manchester – 7th October 2010 – DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper present a free all-day event on the Windows 7 Phone platform hosted in Manchester on the 7th October. Registrations are now open, and are filling up fast.
• Visual Studio 2010 Events & Live Meetings – Microsoft UK Developer Tools Team – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – ‘RichE’ highlights a number of Visual Studio related events, some in person (and in the UK) on Application Lifecycle management and the Ultimate SKU and a few Virtual Events looking at Testing, Team Explorer, and the Ultimate SKU.
• DevTeach videos online – free – Kate Gregory highlights the availability of the Videos from the DevTeach Conference earlier this year for free, Kate’s two sessions (on the Windows API Code Pack and Lighting up an XP Application) are joined by an impressive collection of sessions includes many well know speakers.