The Morning Brew

Software

• PDC 2010 Session Downloader in Silverlight – Mike Taulty shares a Silverlight application which consumes the PDC2010 OData feed providing a easy way of getting the Session content (videos and Slides), along with illustrating the use of Silverlight by presenting the sourcecode for the application for you to examine.
• Silverlight Elements 2.0 is here! – Mindscape announce the release of their Silverlight Elements 2.0 control library, a commercially licensed collection of Silverlight controls, and three of these controls (Coverflow, Book and Expander) are completely free as a part of their Free edition

Information

• Asynchrony in C# 5 Part Five: Too many tasks – Eric Lippert continues his exploration of the C# 5 Async CTP release with a look at the dangers of task based asynchrony looking at examples of where you can simply end up with too many tasks
• Streaming Live or On-Demand Video from IIS7 to iOS Devices (iPhone/iPad) and Silverlight Clients – Scott Hanselman discusses some of the excellent features of IIS 7 available as extensions to the product and explores streaming video for Silverlight Clients and iOS devices (iPhone / iPad)
• Rubik’s Cube for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 using Balder – Coding4Fun shares and article from Einar Ingerigtsen on the construction of a Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight implementation of the Rubik Cube
• Customize the Silverlight Installation Experience in about 15 Minutes – Michael Crump looks at how you can make your use of Silverlight look more professional for users who have yet to install the Silverlight plugin, showing how you can customise the display of the ‘You need to Install Silverlight’ screen to fit in with your application.
• Back to Basics: Cohesion and Coupling Part 1 – John Sonmez continues his Back to Basics series with a discussion of the key concepts of coupling and cohesion in software, illustrating with an example from the world of Computer Hardware.
• An ASP.NET HttpModule to set the current culture to the user’s locale – Mike Hadlow builds an idea from Dylan Beattie and some sample code from Rick Strahl to build an ASP.NET HTTP Module which detects and sets the locale for the .NET Globalisation features.
• Primer: federated identity in a nutshell – Planky shares a nice introduction to the key concepts behind Federated Identity, showing the type of problem it solves, comparing the Federated solution to the more traditional identity techniques.
• A Complete Impersonation Demo in C#.NET – Wayne Ye gives an introduction to using the .NET Framework’s Identity Impersonation facilities to change the user that your code is running as
• Decoding standard output and standard error when redirecting to a GUI application – Dennis Dietrich discusses retrieving the standard input, output and error streams from console applications, and dealing with the encoding that these streams use.
• Logical and Physical Architecture – Udi Dahan discusses the difference between Logical and Physical Architecture, and looks at a common misunderstanding that leads people to hosting different parts of the architecture separately when they actual belong together.

Community

• Europe Virtual ALT.NET: Discussion on the State of (ALT).NET on 23 November 2010 – Jan Van Ryswyck announces the next Virtual Alt.Net Usergroup virtual event to be held on the evening of 23rd November starting at 8pm , discussing the state of the Alt.Net community, looking for feedback on the events organised by the group and looking at the future of the group and the Alt.Net movement.
• How to decrease risk when designing integrated systems – Sarah Taraporewalla highlights her talk at the London .NET Usergroup to be held on the evening of Thursday 18th November 2010 where she will be discussing how you can intelligently design systems which have to integrate with other systems to avoid some of the common pitfalls of such development.
• Video: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4 – Seth Juarez catches up with Julie Lerman at DevConnections discussing her session at this conference, POCO support in Entity Framework, EF4 features and improvements, and much more
• LIDNUG: Scott Guthrie Talks Shop VII – The Linked In .NET Usergroup welcome Scott Guthrie back for another ‘Talks Shop’ session where Scott answers your questions on development and the .NET stack. This virtual event is running on Friday 19th November 2010 at 10AM PST

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