The Morning Brew

Software

• jQuery 1.4.4 Released – The jQuery Team announce the release of jQuery 1.4.4. This release addresses a number of community reported issues, along with a new method ‘fadeToggle’. The team are now turning their attention to planning jQuery 1.5
• Prism 4.0 For Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, WPF & Silverlight 4 – Karl Shifflett announces the release of Prism 4.0 , available for Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, WPF, Silverlight 4 & Windows Phone 7. The major feature is the support for Windows Phone 7, and this is joined by documentation in the form of sample applications, Quick Start Guides, and Hands on labs.
• Introducing Power Assert .NET – Rob Fonseca-Ensor highlights his latest Open Source Project. Power Assert .NET is a port of the Groovy PowerAssert which gives a complete output of an expression tree when assertation fails.
• MVVM Technical Description – Karl Shifflett shares an excerpt from his In the Box – MVVM Training, available through the Visual Studio Gallery. In the Box is a multi media training delivered through the Visual Studio IDE

Information

• WS-I Completes Interoperability Standards for Web Services – Bruce Kyle highlights the completion of over a decades work by the Web Services Interoperability Organization with the ratification of the final 3 web service profiles. Burce also provides some links to futher information on these standards.
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Server-Side Comments with Razor – Scott Guthrie highlights one of the new ASP.NET MVC 3 features, support for server side comments in the Razor View Engine.
• MVC 3 RC Enhancements – ‘nmarun’ looks at a number of the improvements in the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate, including improved control of session in controllers, Output caching, request validation and NuGet.
• ASP.NET MVC 3 RC Bug and Quick Solution – Imran Baloch talks about the improved Granualr Request Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC and highlights a bug (and a workaround) with HTML being passed with ValidateInput set to false.
• AOP in C#? Over Anders Hejlsberg’s Dead Body! – Gael Fraiteur responds to Anders Hejlsberg’s answers to whether C# will gain Aspect Oriented Programming capabilities in later versions with a good myth busting set of points and responses – very interesting reading (as are the comments)
• Basic to Basics: What is Dependency Inversion? Is it IoC? Part 1 – John Sonmez continues his Back to Basics series with an introductory look at Dependency Inversion and how it relates to IoC.
• Migrating a Silverlight Application to Windows Phone 7 – Dan Wahlin discusses porting Silverlgiht Applications to the Windows Phone device, porting his Album Viewer sample application to the Phone, discussing the key points of the process.
• Basic JavaScript Part 2 : Objects – Jan Van Ryswyck continues his JavaScript series with a look at objects, methods, constructors, and encapsulation in JavaScript
• Combinatorial Testing: Testing Highly Probable Combinations – Bj Rollison discusses choosing combinations of values for testing in Combinatorial Testing, talking about how its most worth testing the highly probably combinations first
• Getting started with F# using an online book – Don Syme highlights a great F# learning tool in e-book form – The F# Survival Guide, by John Puopolo with Sandy Squires.

Community

• Silverlight Firestarter 2nd December 2010 – Scott Guthrie heads up a fantastic lineup of Silverlight talks as a pars of the Silverlight Firestarter event, an in person and streamed live event on Thursday 2nd December, starting 9am PST

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