The Morning Brew

Software

• RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta Released!! – Deepesh Mohnani highlights the release of the RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta, a release combined with the WCF RIA Services October release. This SP1 Beta brings the ability to share entities across multiple domain services, support for complex objects, better binding, localisation into 10 languages, and improved templating for client code generation
• MvcSiteMapProvider 2.2.0 released – Maarten Balliauw releases the latest version of his MvcSiteMapProvider onto CodePlex (soon to be available through NuPack too). This new version introduces Templated HtmlHelpers allowing you to customise the HTML rendered, improvements to the stability of the library, updates to HtmlHelpers to support MvcHtmlString, and some further extensibility points.
• Announcing Sync Framework 4.0 October 2010 CTP – The Sync Framework Team announce the latest CTP edition of Version 4 of the Sync Framework. This release brings OData to the protocol formats, a new diagnostics dashboard to monitor Sync operations, Client and Server components to aid in implementing the sync, along with a collection of samples showing how the library supports sync to multiple software platforms
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK October Release available for download – The Windows Azure AppFabric team release an updated October Release of the Azure AppFabric SDK which resolves problems users experienced with the install rolling back on 64bit Windows.
• Sueetie Version 2.0 Now Available! – Dave Burke announces a new major version of Sueetie. Sueetie Version 2 brings together a number of open source projects into a cohesive whole community solution, including CMS, Mobile sites, Calendars, Media libraries, forums, all building on best of breed .NET Open Source projects.

Information

• Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Five: CPS and Asynchrony – Eric Lippert continues his look at Continuation Passing Style, discussing how CPS can apply to real world problems, looking at fetching documents over a slow link and writing them to slow storage, and how CPS provides a way of making this process more efficient.
• Why I hate implementing Linq – Ayende discusses some of the complexity of developing the Linq providers which make it possible for developers to write the expressive Linq statements we all love.
• Turn your Razor helpers into reusable libraries – David Ebbo looks at wrapping up helpers using the Razor View Engine into libraries which you can share amongst your projects, using the Razor Single File Generator Visual Studio Extension, and a little T4
• Announcement: FREE Code Sample Request Service from Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework – The All-In-One Code Framework Team are on the look out for new code samples that developers would like to see included as fully formed samples the All-In-One Code Framework. This post outlines the process of making these requests.
• WP7 Development Tips Part 1 – Kevin Marshall shares a collection of performance related tips to help you make your Windows Phone 7 Application fly, sharing recommendations of things to consider when building your application
• ECMAScript 5 Part 1: Reusable Code – Amanda Silver, Program Manager for JavaScript in Internet Explorer kicks of a new series on ECMAScript 5, with this first part looking at the construction and cloning of objects.
• RavenDb, ASP.NET MVC and Windsor working together – Mike Hadlow continues his exploration of RavenDB with a look at using it with ASP.NET MVC and Castle Windsor in his latest project, TardisBank.Com, a pocket money back account application. Full source is available on GitHub
• Useful, free resources for SQL Server – Aaron Bertrand shares a great list of free resources for SQL Server, ranging from advisors, through documentation, Add-ins, Community Resources, Sample databases, scripts, performance tools, and books.
• Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 web application to server where ASP.NET MVC 3 is not installed – Gunnar Peipman discusses the process of deploying an ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta based web application to hosting which does not have MVC3 installed
• F# Parallel Extras (I.): Image pipeline using agents &F# Parallel Extras (II.): Agent-based blocking queue & F# Parallel Extras (III.): Financial dashboard with cancellation – Tomáš Pet?í?ek has been at writing the samples from the Patterns and Practices Parallel Programming in .NET book in F#, translating them from their C# originals, and in this series of posts looks at further re-writing of them in F# using a more functional style and using more of the power of the language.

Community

• Mobile Web Best Practices Webinar Follow-up – Woody Pewitt shares the recording and slides of his virtual presentation held yesterday looking at developing websites which target mobile devices

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