The Morning Brew #720
Posted by Chris Alcock on Tuesday 2nd November 2010 at 08:38 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Lucene.Net needs your help (or it will die) – Simone Chiaretta highlights the problems being faced by the Lucene.NET project, how it might be discontinued if the community behind it does not grow and urges people to get involved in this significant and widely used project.
- How to use Lucene.Net in Windows Azure – The Windows Azure Technical Forum Support Team share detailed instructions on how you can get Lucene.NET in Windows Azure applications, showing code and processes for working with Lucene.Net and the Azure Library for Lucene.Net
- WCF Web APIs, HTTP your way – Glenn Block talks about the WCF Web APIs and first class support for HTTP being introduced on the wcf.codeplex.com site, talking in detail about why and what they are focusing on in terms of support for media types and formats, Json, Querying support, HTTP messages and testability.
- Asynchrony in C# 5, Part Three: Composition – Eric Lippert looks at hos the async features in C#5 make it much easier to compose async code together than trying to do the same with code written in the continuation passing style.
- C# 5 Async Exception Handling – Ian Griffiths looks at how the traditional error handling in C# (try/catch/finally, using, etc) fits in with the Async features planned for C#5, finding that despite all the additional work being done it they still behave much as expected.
- Asynchronous C# and F# (II.): How do they differ? – Tomáลก Pet?í?ek continues exploring the Aysnc support in F# and C#5, with this post looking at some of the differences between the two, looking at the built in support for cancellation of F# async workflows (looking at implementing the same in C#) and exploring the differences in control flow between the two.
- PDC and Silverlight – The Post PDC Silverlight debate continues, with this offical post from Bob Muglia on the Silverlight Team Blog, and Somasegar’s Silverlight: Lighting up the client, both looking to set the record straight. Once more there are many many other posts on the subject both from MS insiders and others – here is a selection of them:
- Committed to Silverlight – John Papa
- Silverlight *versus* HTML5? Really? – Mike Taulty
- Silverlight is Dead, the Moon is Made of Cheese, and HTML 5 is Ready for Prime Time – Dan Wahlin
- Silverlight is dead. Long live Silverlight! – Tim Heuer
- Silverlight and the PDC – Rockford Lhotka
- Is Silverlight Over? (The Good The Ok and The Bad) – Shai Raiten
- The new Microsoft Partner Network is here! – Eric Ligman highlights the launch of the new Microsoft Partner Network which launced yesterday (1st Nov), discussing the new competencies, ways to interact with the network and how the program can benefit you.
- OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers part 5: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) – Troy Hunt looks at the various types of Cross Site Request Forgery attack which your sites may be vulnerable to, showing how the attacks work, and what you can do to protect against them.
- XHTML in IE9 – Tony Ross of the Internet Explorer Team discusses Internet Explorer 9’s native support for XHTML
- PDC10: Inside Internet Explorer Performance – Tim Sneath continues sharing nice summaries of PDC sessions with notes from Jason Webber’s session and PDC10: Unlocking the JavaScript Opportunity with IE9, a session from Gaurav Seth.
- How To Control Who Can Write Extensions For Your MEF Application – Daniel Plaisted shares a technique which allows you to restrict the assemblies which will be loaded by MEF to look for extensions for your application allowing you to control who can write extensions, limiting them by the signing of their assemblies.
- Issues with ‘Programming Windows Phone 7’ ebook – Microsoft Press acknowledge that some people have been having problems with the display of the full free Windows Phone 7 book, and that they will be releasing an updated edition shortly.
- Only for this week the #NHibernate3 e-book… – Fabio Maulo highlights a special offer from Packt Publishing where you can get the e-book of the NHibernate 3 CookBook for $9.99/£6.99
Community
- Forecasting a cloudy evening in London on 11th November – ‘Planky’ highlights the first ‘Cloud Evening’ a new quarterly event from a new Cloud focused UserGroup. The event, to be held on Thursday 11 November 2010 at SkillsMatter in Clerkenwall, London, will features Ross Scott on his experiences working for a startup using Windows Azure, and Mark Rendle who will cover the various cloud related announcements from PDC, with a break for beer and pizza between the two.
- Video: Internationalizing Silverlight at SLUGUK – Guy Smith-Ferrier shares the video from his session on Internationalizing Silverlight, delivered at SLUGUK and recorded by Ian Smith
- FREE Technical Update Event for UK Independent Software Vendors, 25th Nov in Reading – Eric Nelson, and his colleagues in the ISV Team at Microsoft UK are hosting a full day event for ISVs to get up to speed on the latest technology from Microsoft, with content for business decision makers and techies alike, covering Azure, Sharepoint, SqlServer, Windows Phone 7, etc.
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