The Morning Brew

Software

• What happened to Lucene.Net? It got forked – Simone Chiaretta shares an update on the Lucene Project which faced an uncertain future a few weeks ago, highlighting the direction being taken by the main project and also two new projects forked from the original Lucene.Net
• New Mono Log Profiler – Miguel de Icaza announces a new profiler now included in the Mono Project, and also discusses the Mono Project’s plans for F# now that ‘F# Goes Open Source‘
• Visual Studio 2010 vsdoc for jQuery 1.4.3 Now Available – ‘appendTo’ announce the release of their VSDoc documentation file for JQuery 1.4.3 which brings intellisense for the latest jQuery to your Visual Studio IDE.

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• A few quick ASP.NET MVC 3 Installation Notes – Scott Guthrie shares some installation related notes about the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate, outlining some if the issues you may encounter if you install ASP.NET MVC 3 RC along side the C# / VB Async CTP, Razor Intellisense and tooling like ReSharper, and avoiding problems with NuGet by removing old packages.
• Asynchrony in C# 5 Part Six: Whither async? – Eric Lippert continues his series on the C# / VB.NET Async CTP with a look at some of the design decisions that the team made when designing these language extensions sharing a interesting insight to the decisions and the process.
• Writing a Compiler in C#: Parsing, Part 3 – Sasha Goldshtein continues his series building a compiler for a custom language in C#, looking in this part at the parsing of subroutine calls.
• The Only Console Application Template You Will Ever Need – Alois Kraus shares a nice template for command line applications and handling parsing of command line parameters, available for both Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 via the code gallery.
• Creating Zip files with System.IO.Packaging namespace – Mikael Svenson takes a look at using the not widely known System.IO.Packaging namespace functionality to create Zip Files
• StyleCop Compliant Visual Studio 2010 Code Snippets November Release – Doug Holland announces the release of an updated collection of Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 which conform to the StyleCop guidelines. This latest update adds a number of new snippets fo the collection, and Doug is always looking for feedback on the project.
• Using the Library Package Manager with Add-on Libraries in Visual Studio – ‘Timlee’ walks through the various options for working with packages using NuGet in Visual Studio, exploring the package manager and the package manager console.
• 5 minute Observable.FromAsyncPattern sample for Windows Phone 7 – Den Delimarsky explores the use of the Reactive Extension on the Windows Phone 7 Platform to create observable collections from Async method calls, and discusses some of the limitations.
• ReSharper C# Live Template for Dependency Property and Property Change Routed Event Boilerplate Code – Bart Read shares a ReSharper Live template to make implementing the large standard chunk of code to handle dependency properties and the property change routed event implementation.
• Multithreaded Apps Made Easy Using Aspects – Part 2 – Gael Fraiteur posts the second (and final) part of his article on using Aspect Oriented Programming techniques to make building Multi-Threaded applications easier

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