The Morning Brew

Software

• MooTools 1.3 Hits the Street – Ajaxian highlights the release of the latest version of the MooTools JavaScript library version 1.3, released earlier this month. This release includes a number of new features, including a new Selector Engine and Build Manager along with improvements to the library’s core.
• Caught up with Bugs in My Favourite IDE ( Visual Studio 2010 ) – Senthil Kumar discusses a number of Visual Studio 2010 issues he has encountered in normal use, highlighting patches to resolve issues where available.
• Windows 7 file-properties "Version" tab Shell Extension – David B. Trout shares a Windows Shell extension which brings a Version tab to the files properties tab in Windows 7 (something that was removed in Windows 7 which is a shame as its really useful). This is implemented in C++, and the download includes built versions for x86 and x64 Windows.

Information

• ASP.NET MVC 3: New @model keyword in Razor – Scott Guthrie kicks off a mini-series looking at the various improvements and new features in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta, with this first post looking at the Razor View Engine and the @model directive which allows you to reference strongly typed views.
• Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development – Wei-Meng Lee starts a series of posts looking at the Windows Phone 7 Development story, and in this first article looks at the development tools and creating a Hello World application.
• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 6c – Simple MDI with Screen Collections – Rob Eisenberg continues his series of posts looking at his Caliburn.Micro framework for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7, looking in this part at a which creates a MDI (Multi document interface) User interface.
• Refactoring Switches Advanced – John Sonmez takes another look at refactoring Switch Statements, discussing how breaking the problem down into a mapping between data and logic can make solving it in an elegant way easier.
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (XIII) – Understanding Indexes – Rob Ashton continues his series on building an image library application backed onto RavenDB. In this post Rob explores the concepts of indexing in the document database, showing how you can pre-define these indexes.
• A List of Resources to help jumpstart your ASP.NET WebMatirx Development. – Joe Stagner shares a collection of resources to learn about Web Development using the ASP.NET WebMatrix tooling. Many of the resources are also relevant for MVC developers as they cover the Razor View Engine.
• Mercurial Revision No to Version your AssemblyInfo – MsBuild Series – Mark Kemper looks at adding the Mercurial Revision number into your .NET applications Version Number using MSBuild and the MSBuild.Mercurial library.
• LINQ: Introducing The Skip Last Operators & LINQ: Implementing The SkipLast Operator – Paulo Morgado continues looking at implementing LINQ operators which operate on the end of IEnumberable collections, and shares his implementations of the SkipLast and SkipLastWhile operators.
• Testing sites with Browser Mode vs. Doc Mode – Marc Silbey of the Internet Explorer team discusses the various modes that Internet Explorer 9 can operated and what that means in terms of testing your web applications, and how the browser behaves.
• Get patterns & practices Books Cheap – Ade Miller highlights an offer from O’Reilly to celebrate the patterns & practices Symposium where you can get P&P ebooks at a significant discount. The post is dated a few days ago but at the time of writing the offer is still running.

Community

• Europe Virtual ALT.NET: Glenn Block on "WCF – Evolving for the Web" @ E-VAN 18 October 2010 – Jan Van Ryswyck shares the video of the European Virtual Alt.Net event from Monday where Glenn Block on REST and HTTP work being done by the WCF team. If you were unable to attend the virtual meeting, this is your chance to not miss out on a great talk.

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