The Morning Brew

Software

• Windows Phone + VB developers = Great Mobile Apps – Somasegar announces the release of the CTP of Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools which brings much requested support for creating phone applications using the VB.NET Language. A lot of people are interested in this release judging from the number of posts echoing this announcement I’ve seen. Here are a few which give some more information:
  • Announcing Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools – The Visual Basic Team give an overview of the release, along with a simple walkthrough of creating an app in VB.NET
  • Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools Tutorial – Jason Zander also shares a preview of the support, along with a warning that the VB.NET support will be fully added in a future release of the Windows Phone
  • Regarding the Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools – The XNA Game Studio Team highlight the VB support release, and remind us all that this release is for Silverlight only, there are no plans for XNA support in VB.NET
• CR_Documentor 2.5.0.0 Released – Travis Illig announces a new release of CR_Documentor, a DXCore plugin which gives a preview of the documentation that would be generated from your XML documentation comments

Information

• Ambiguous Optional Parentheses, Part Two – Eric Lippert continues his exploration of some of the complexities that object and collection initializers introduced looking at why some possible uses of the syntactic sugar would cause problems with existing code
• Using MemBus for messaging between application components – Gunnar Peipman takes a look at the MemBus messaging framework whcih provides a means of sending messages between different parts of the the same AppDomain sharing a sample application which shows how it can be usd to message between MDI application windows
• Update on SQL Server Modeling CTP (Repository/Modeling Services, "Quadrant" and "M") – Don Box gives an update on the future plans for the ‘Oslo’ project and the components which have not already shipped as a part of other products.
• Using NHibernate To Persist And Query Ruby Objects – Davy Brion explores working with NHibernate using Ruby classes , looking at both the persistence and querying of such classes, sharing the required code to get it working.
• Your Software Can Learn A Lot From ATMs – Justin Etheredge discusses the humble ATM/Cash Machine and how the process it uses to deliver money to us should be mirrored in your software development practices
• MVC .NET URL Generation Done Right! – Matt Hopkins looks at some techniques for generating typed ASP.NET MVC Urls in client side code, sharing a helper library which provides the best version of this functionality
• Crisis for ASP.Net – how serious is the Padding Oracle attack? – Tim Anderson discusses the severity of the recent Padding Oracle attack against ASP.NET, serving as a useful reminder to anyone who has not yet checked their applications.
• ASP.NET padding oracle: how it relates to getting the web.config, forging authentication cookies and reading other sensitive data. – Freddy Rios takes a look at how the recently announced vulnerability can result in some of the serious side effects such as authentication cookie compromises, access to Web.Config, etc.

Community

• Modern .NET Day – Reading – 23rd October 2010 – A Mini DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day will be hosted at Microsoft’s Reading offices on Saturday 23rd October with a pre-arraigned agenda featuring Kathleen Dollard, Chris Hardy, Sebastian Lambla and Julia Lerman giving sessions. Registrations open on 1st October
• Steve Ballmer at UK Tech Day – Want to Come Along? – Ben Nunney has a competition for students to win some of the last remaining tickets to the UK TechDays event featuring a keynote from Steve Balmer and plenty of tech in the form of Windows Azure, Windows 7, Windows Phone 7 and IE9
• 5th October UK agile testing meeting – acceptance testing in the land of the startup – Gojko Adzic highlights the next UK Agile Testing User Group event, to be held on the 5th October at Skills Matter in London where Joseph Wilk will be presenting on the use of Agile Testing techniques in a startup environment

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