The Morning Brew #688

Software

• Announcing Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools – Somasegar announces the official release of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools allowing the creation of Silverlight and XNA based applications for this new Phone Operating System. Other posts on this subject:
  • Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Released – Scott Guthrie gives you a peek at the RTM tools, highlighting a number of related resources and blog posts
  • Announcing the Windows Phone 7 Release, WP7 Silverlight Toolkit and XNA 4.0! – Pete Brown highlights the release and shares the breaking changes made since the beta release from the release notes
  • Final Windows Phone Tools Released Plus Extra controls – Martin Beeby gives a preview of the various controls that make up the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools
• Pining for Windows Phone 7 controls? We got ya covered! [Announcing the first release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit!] – David Anson announces the release of a new Silverlight Toolkit CodePlex project, the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit, which adds a number of great looking controls to the arsenal of controls for development on the phone devices.
  • Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 – Tim Heuer also highlights the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 release
• XNA Game Studio 4.0 Available for Download! – The XNA Game Studio Team highlight the release of XNA Game Studio 4.0, released in tandam with the Windows Phone SDK this new version allows development of PC, XBOX and Windows Phone 7 games
• Final versions of Windows Phone Developer Tools and XNA Game Studio 4.0 now available for download – Aaron Stebner provides download links (including direct download links) to various forms of the Windows Phone 7 tools and XNA Game Studio
• Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework 1.4.6 Released – Michael S. Scherotter announces the release of the latest cut of the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework. Version 1.4.6 adds support for use on Windows Phone 7
• WebShell, new web applications framework – Hisham Elbreky announces the first release of WebShell, a web applications framework which takes a restful approach to MVP, and aims to support multiple web platforms

Information

• Building a Bing Web and Image Search App for Windows Phone 7 Using Blend and Silverlight – John Papa highlights the latest episode of Silverlight.TV where Kirupa Chinnathambi walks through the process of building a Bing Search and Images application for Windows Phone 7
• From start to finish with the final version of Visual Studio Tools for Windows Phone 7 – Michael Crump shares screenshots and his initial experiences of the RTM version of the Visual Studio support for Windows 7, running through the installation and creation of a simple application
• Dependency Injection into Controller Actions in ASP.NET MVC – Marcus Bratton talks about the use of Dependency injection in the Siege framework, looking at how dependencies are injected into MVC controller Actions, and talks about the conditional dependency injection in his post Contextual Awareness – Making your container behave intelligently
• Is is as or is as is? – Eric Lippert discusses the ‘is’ and ‘as’ operators in C#, showing both in use, and explaining how they relate.
• C#/.NET – Two Things That Only Initializers Can Easily Do… – James Michael Hare looks at Initializer support in C# for populating collections and properties of objects , looking at some specific uses of this for initalizing static members.
• Geekly ever after: Code Access Security Cheat Sheet – Bruno Marques offers a cheat sheet for Code Access Security in .NET 3.5 focusing on Declarative and Imperative permission handling.
• What is object oriented programming really all about? – Robert Pickering takes a look at what is meant by Object Oriented programming, sharing the three most important concepts, and looks at how these relate to Functional Programming
• Real World Monitoring and Tuning ASP.NET Caching – Steve Smith takes a look at monitoring the cache usage of your ASP.NET websites, looking at the relevant performance counters and how they relate to each other, and discusses some possible resolutions to caching problems,
• Download Internet Explorer 9 Product Beta Guide – Rob Margel highlights the Internet Explorer 9 Product Beta Guide, an 80+ page document discussing all the new features of the IE9 beta

Community

• NxtGenUG WP7 Launch – The NxtGenUG in Coventry will be holding a Windows Phone 7 themed evening on Monday 25th October 2010 with talks on XNA and Windows 7 Phone development
• VBUG London: Introducing Windows Phone 7 – VBUG London are holding a Windows Phone 7 event on the evening of Tuesday 12th October where Matt Lacey will be giving an introduction to development on the Windows Phone 7

Coffee (and servers)

• How I Make Coffee and Servers – Brent Ozar discusses how he makes his coffee, giving a tour of his tools of choice, and discusses how his choice of tool on any given day is similar to his choice for server hardware between physical and virtual.