The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio Tools for IronRuby – Christopher Bennage highlights the Visual Studio tooling included in the latest IronRuby release which includes template projects for common Ruby applications such as Ruby on Rails 3, Sinatra, Gems, and Silverlight.
• WPF Ribbon October Release – Pete Brown highlights an update to the WPF Ribbon wihich fixes a number of issues in the first release (including ClearType Support), along with adding support for its use in the Visual Studio Express editions.
• Windows Phone Developer Tools October 2010 Update – The latest update to the Windows Phone 7 Developer tools is out, bringing an updated Bing Maps control which boasts improved performance, Phone Capability Detection tool to establish the phone features your application uses, and the Windows Phone Connect Tool allowing you to connect to a Windows Phone 7 device without Zune software.
• Goodbye to an old friend… – ‘walbourn’ highlights the beginning of the end for Windows XP, discussing the end of your ability to purchase this version of Windows which passed on the 22nd October, discussing the significance of this version, and highlighting that support will continue to 2014.

Information

• ASP.NET MVC 3: Layouts with Razor – Scott Guthrie discusses the ASP.NET MVC 3 Layouts features of the Razor View Engine, providing Master Pages type support to your MVC Views created in Razor, showing the functionality in operation via a simple example.
• ASP.NET MVC3 JsonValueProviderFactory – ‘Yo Briefcase!’ posts on the ASP.NET MVC3 JsonValueProviderFactory, showing the problem in ASP.NET MVC2 which it solves, bringing easier access to values posted in JSON format.
• Windows 7 Phone Database – RapidRepository – Sean McAlinden introduces a new project which offers a simple Document Database implementation which runs on Windows Phone 7 and utilises Isolated Storage on the device to provide the data store.
• Part 1: Getting started with TouchToolkit – Shahedul Huq Khandkar begins a series looking at the TouchToolkit project, a toolkit for developing touch enabled applications on Windows 7 using Silverlight and WPF 4.0. In this part he looks at getting up and running with the library, subscribing to gestures, and obtaining raw touch data.
• How to capture audio from your microphone in WP7 – Derik Whittaker takes a look at capturing audio on the Windows Phone 7 devices, sharing a code sample to capture and replay audio.
• RavenDB – The Image Gallery Project (XV) – Improving Tag Search with AutoComplete – Rob Ashton continues his series on developing a real application using RavenDB with a look at adding AutoComplete functionality to the tag search in his Image Gallery showing both the RavenDB interaction via Linq and the MVC frontend.
• You saved 5 cents, and your code is not readable, congrats! &What is the cost of storage, again? – Ayende discusses the real cost of storage, and looks at the trade off of storing additional data in the database to make the code easier to read, looking at the costs of both storage and developer resource.
• Naming is Hard, Let’s Go Shopping &Community Naming – Phil Haack discusses the importance of a good name, answers a number of the common community questions about the NuPack projects renaming exercise, and gives an update on the voting.
• Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Two: Handwaving about control flow – Eric Lippert continues his series on Continuation Passing Style with a look at a more complicated control flow than the If Conditional exploring Throwing Exceptions.
• Presenting the OpenWrap logo & Building packages with OpenWrap – Sebastien Lambla unveils the new Logo for the OpenWrap package management project, and also blogs about the production of packages using OpenWrap and MSBuild, Nant, Rake and other build tools.
• 15 Things I’ve discovered about Silverlight. – Michael Crump shares a collection of 15 pieces of advice, suggestions and experiences about Silverlight Development.
• SQL Myths – 60 pages from Paul Randall – John Paul Cook highlights a great 60 page document from Paul Randall outlining and setting the record straight on 30 of the most commonly perpetuated SQL Server Myths.
• Crypto Primer: Understanding encryption, public/private key, signatures and certificates – ‘Planky’ gives a nice introduction to the key concepts behind common cryptography topics including discussion of Certificates, Public/Private Key encryption and signatures.
• Basic JavaScript Part 1 : Functions – Jan Van Ryswyck explores some of the crucial facts about Functions in JavaScript, looking at Inner Functions, Self-writing functions and Closures
• .NET MEAP Books at Half Price! – Joey deVilla highlights a one day half price offer from Manning Publications on their Manning Early Access Program titles.

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