The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate – Scott Guthrie and Phil Haack announce the release of the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate, available as a direct download or via the Web Platform Installer. This release brigns the much awaited Intellisense for the Razor View Engine, partial page output caching improved JavaScript and Validation support, along with tooling improvements. This release also comes with the latest CTP of NuGet.
• NuGet CTP 2 Released! – Phil Haack gives the lowdown on the CTP2 release of NuGet. This new version introduces some changes to the package format specification, and the introduction of OData as the format for the package feed.
• WebMatrix Beta 3: Now available! – The Microsoft Web Platform Team announce the release of the 3rd Beta release of WebMatrix. This release builds on the key principles that underpin the product to improve the production of simple web applications.
• November 2010 F# 2.0 Free Tools Update – The F# Team have updated the F#2.0 Free Tools. These tools bring tooling support for F# to Visual Studio 208 and Visual Studio 2010 Shell. This update brings some improvements for users working with Mono or the Windows Phone 7
• SQL Server v.Next (Denali) : Setup walk-through – Aaron Bertrand discusses the setup of the first public CTP of SQL Server Denali the next major version of SQL Server which was released yesterday at the PASS conference.
• First look at SQL Server Management Studio Denali – SQLDenis takes a look at the Management Studio interface of the CTP release of SQL Server Denali.
• SSMS Tools Pack 1.9.3 is out! – Mladen Prajdi? announces an updated version of his SQL Server Management Studio Tools. This extension brings a number of useful features to the Management Studio environment, and this release brings improved history features to the query editor, along with fixing reported bugs.

Information

• Granular Request Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3 – Marcin talks about the changes to the request validation API in ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate which provides granular validation support via attributes
• Windows Phone 7 Development Tip: Use Concurrent Programming Techniques – Bart Czernicki discusses concurrency in Windows Phone 7 applications and how using threads to perform work will keep your UI responsive, illustrating with a sample from his book.
• Windows 7 Phone Database Rapid Repository – Queries and Views Proposal – Sean McAlinden dicsusses the querying and views implementation for his Windows Phone 7 Rapid Repository project, looking for feedback on the proposed implementation
• Test Driven Design and levels of testing – Alexander Beletsky discusses Test Driven Development and the various types of testing that you may need to perform, giving samples of each type of test and implementation classes
• Back to Basics: Cohesion and Coupling Part 2 – John Sonmez continues his back to basics series with a second part on Cohesion and Coupling looking at the relationship between the two, breaking problems down into smaller pieces and using Dependency Injection to bring them together.
• How To Write Testable Code in .Net – Chris Farrell gives a run through of the common techniques used to make your code more testable, including dependency injection, discussions of coupling and the use of stubs.
• F# – An Introduction To Currying – Sergio Tapia provides a simple and effective introduction to currying support in the F# language, illustrating with a few short samples.
• Client Templating with jQuery – Brij takes a look at the templating support in jQuery , currently provided by a plugin for jQuery, and shows it in use in a variety of situations.

Community

• Alt.Net.UK – Next Event – 19th/20th November 2010 – Next round of tickets available 10th November – 12.30pm – Ben Hall announces the release of the next round of tickets for the Alt.NET UK Conference. Tickets will be made available today (10th November) at 12:30pm (GMT I assume)
• Announcing the Internet Explorer 9 Webcast Series with Imaginet – John Bristowe highlights a series of webcast events covering the various aspects of the Internet Explorer 9 release. The events are being held around noon in Canada and are being streamed live on the 30th November, 2nd, 14th, 16th December,

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