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Software

• Windows 7 Phone Database Rapid Repository – Beta Release – Sean McAlinden announces the beta release of his Windows Phone 7 Database Rapid Repository library, offering simple CRUD operations, caching and eager loading. Along with the release Sean has released 3 tutorials on getting set up, CRUD operations and Eager Loading.
• wcf.codeplex.com is now live – The WCF Team have been busy building a variety of projects which bring better support for HTTP based services, and better support for JavaScript/jQuery based clients. These projects have all been collected together and are being hosted on CodePlex.
• Expect Beta 5 – ‘gleborgne’ announces the 5th beta release of Expect, a natural language testing framework which supports BDD style testing. This release brings improved IDE support for users in Visual Studio 2010
• And The Winner Is, NuGet – Phil Haak announces the winner name of the NuPack renaming contest, with the winner being NuGet, winning by a considerable margin.

Information

• Asynchronous Programming in C# 5.0 part two: Whence await? – Eric Lippert continues discussing the new Async support coming in C#5, and in this post discusses some of the confusion that can eb caused by misunderstandings of the meanings of the async and await keywords, and looks at the involvement of the Task Parallel Library Task class.
• Initial thoughts on C# 5’s async support – Jon Skeet digs into the Aysnc C#5 functionality with a brief introduction post, before moving on to discuss the confusing naming of certain keywords in his post ‘C# 5 async and choosing terminology: why I’m against "yield"‘ and explores control flow , and looks at some of the different ways of resolving the key methods in his post ‘experimenting with member resolution (GetAwaiter, BeginAwait, EndAwait)‘
• PDC10 Async Round-up – Greg Duncan has a great round-up of the key posts about the C#5 Async features, some I’ve already linked to, but plenty I’ve not so check it out.
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #31: Charting Data – Jeff Blankenburg rounds off his month long daily Windows Phone 7 Development post series with a look at the Charting support in the Silverlight Toolkit. This has been a great series of posts and I encourage you to check out the whole series if you have any interest in WP7 development.
• PDC10: Mysteries of Windows Memory Management Revealed: Part Two – Tim Sneath posts his notes from the second PDC session from Mark Russinovich on Memory Management in Windows exploring and discussing Physical Memory, the Working Set, Physical Memory Page Lists and some useful tools for simulating memory use
• Queuing Systems – Ayende discusses the two types of queuing system, local and remote, talking about why it is important to know the difference when working with queuing systems as the way they behave is quite different
• Windows Azure pricing pleasures: compute for 5 cents/hour – ‘Planky’ discusses the reduced pricing options for Windows Azure Compute nodes announced at PDC, bringing the cost per hour down to 5 cents.
• PDC 2010: Optimizing Performance for Silverlight Windows Phone 7 Applications – Arik Poznanski highlights a PDC session on performance tuning for Silverlight based Windows Phone applications delivered by Oren Nachman last week at PDC, where he discusses many of the common performance gotchas of developing for the mobile devices.
• Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted – Mary Jo Foley reports on the future of Silverlight in Microsoft’s cross platform strategy. This subject and report has kicked off a number of responses from the developer community:
  • Silverlight and HTML5 and Your Future – Robby Ingebretsen
  • My position on the #Silverlight debate – Laurent Bugnion
  • PDC 2010: Top 5 Reasons Why Microsoft Completely Screwed up their web strategy with HTML 5 – Bart Czernicki
  • Thoughts on Silverlight – John-Daniel Trask
• Windows Phone Code Samples Collection – J.D. Meier announces a collection of samples for Windows Phone, with samples for ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WCF and Windows Azure also available (and linked from this post)

Community

• In The Brain of Udi Dahan, CQRS, Race Conditions, and Sagas – Oh My! – Tonight (1st November) sees Udi Dahan speaking at Skills Matter’s ‘In the Brain of’ event. Udi will be discussing Command Query Responsibility Segregation, and the use of the Saga pattern.
• London HTML5 User Group : Everything You Always Wanted to Know about HTML5 Offline Web Applications – Skills Matter are also hosting the London HTML5 Usergroup event tomorrow (Tuesday 2nd November), where Peter Lubbers will be talking about the Offline caching features of HTML5
• Looking for long term friendship – Jonathan Allen is looking to set up a SQL Server User Group in the South West of England (Bristol / Devon / Cornwall area) and is looking for people who would be interested in attending

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