The Morning Brew

Software

• Mo controls, mo controls, mo controls… [Announcing the second release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit!] – David Anson announces the release of the November 2010 release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 Toolkit. This release drastically increases the available controls with new list controls, transitions, autocomplete, improved documentation and a bunch of bug fixes
• Simple.Data 0.2.0 available – Mark Rendle announces his first stable release of Simple.Data. Simple.Data is intended as an alternative to the Microsoft.Data.dll assembly which caused significant discussion when it was released. Mark’s Simple.Data aims to provide a more testable API, but with the simplicity of the Microsoft offering.

Information

• PDC 10 Session Video List – Greg Duncan provides his usual list of PDC sessions along with easy access links to download the recordings of the sessions in a variety of formats – this has to be the simplest way of getting at this content.
• Subterranean IL: Introduction – Simon Cooper kicks off a new series of posts looking at some of the low level Intermediate Language commands, starting out with a look at the Execution Stack and the datatypes that can be used there, following on with a look at calling methods for Reference and value types in Calling methods
• Using Ready-made Virtual PCs to try out the Visual Studio Async CTP – Samuel Jack share a very good suggestion for a safe way to try out the C#5 Async CTP, download one of the pre-prepared Visual Studio 2010 Virtual machines, and install the CTP on there. Samuel also highlights one of the samples for Async which shows some of the power of this new functionality in his post C# 5.0 and the sample that made me go "wow!"
• Using the Visual Studio Async CTP with RIA Services – Kyle McClellan talks about the application of the Async Functionality to RIA Services scenarios, both on the server and in the Silverlight Client.
• A Common Scenario of Multi-instances in Windows Azure – The Windows Azure Technical Forum Support Team look at a common architectural pattern for working with multiple instances, illustrating it with a Lucene.NET based example of collecting documents for indexing, indexing with multiple indexers and storing the results.
• Tracking Sales Statistics with the Silverlight Analytics Framework for Windows Phone – René Schulte looks at how you can use the SIlverlight Analytics Framework to hook into Google Analytics to allow events in your Silverlight applications to be recorded in Google Analytics allowing you to track things like sales through your application.
• PDC10: Kung Fu Silverlight – Architectural Patterns and Practices with MVVM and RIA Services – Tim Sneath continues his series of posts of his notes from various PDC sessions with his notes from John Papa’s session and Patrick Dengler’s session on Introducing HTML5 Vector Graphics
• Getting Started with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate – Load and Performance Testing – ‘nkamkolkar’ shares a step by step getting started guide to working with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate’s Load and Performance Testing functionality
• Using Tuples – BlackWasp Software Development give a nice overview of the Tuple classes introduced in .NET 4, discussing the types of tuple and their use.

Community

• Skills Matter : London .NET User Group : C# 5 – Skills Matter hosts Mads Torgersen tomorrow evening (Thursday 4th November) talking about the new functionality for C#5 announced at PDC last week.
• Caliburn.Micro Contest – Rob Eisenberg launches a competition with prizes (MSDN Subscriptions and Re-Sharper licences) looking for nice sample applications for his Caliburn.Micro library. Entries must be licensed under the MIT license, and entries will close on 1st December 2010.
• The Full Stack – videocast series with Jesse Liberty and Jon Galloway – Jon Galloway highlights his new video podcast series which features Jessie Liberty and Jon building a full, real application using the whole technology stack from server side technologies to the Windows Phone (and every thing between)

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