The Morning Brew

Software

• Update: Process Explorer v14 – The Sysinternals team announce a new major update to the Process Explorer tool. This new version introduces disk and network monitoring, further memory and CPU statistics and much more.
• Sync Framework 4.0 October 2010 CTP Refreshed on 11/16 – Sreedhar Pelluru of the Sync Framework Team highlights the release of a CTP refresh whcih brings two new features to the framework, a wizard UI for working with SyncSvcUtil and a sample application for the iPhone showing how to build offline applications on that platform.
• SharpVectors – SVG# Reloaded: An Introduction – Paul Selormey discusses his SharpVectorGraphics (AKA SVG#) library which is a project on CodePlex which aims to provide libraries for working with SVG on Windows and WPF.

Information

• Updates to the Microsoft CDN – Scott Hunter gives an update on the status of the Microsoft CDN which now hosts jQuery 1.4.3 and 1.4.4 along with the VSDocs for Visual Studio Intellisense, along with announcing a new (non Microsoft.com) additional domain for accessing the CDN.
• Essential JavaScript And jQuery Design Patterns – A Free New Book – Addy Osmani has released a Free e-book on JavaScript and jQuery Design Patterns, available to read online or to download (in a download which includes design pattern quick reference sheets from Jason MacDonald and a copy of the Dzone Reference Card for Design Patterns.
• jQuery Selectors (Basic and Basic Filters) – Bipin Joshi takes a look at the wealth of features provided in jQuery to allow you to select elements in the HTML page, looking at the use of the 8 major groups of selectors.
• Supercomputing 2010 – Somasegar shares some of the news from Microsoft from the SuperComputing 2010 conference, that Azure can now be used to supplement the computing power of your on-site HPC Server instances.
• Top 7 Coding Standards & Guideline Documents For C#/.NET Developers – Anoop Madhusudanan highlights 7 freely available Coding Standards documents and resources from sources outside and inside Microsoft.
• Basic to Basics: What is Dependency Inversion? Is it IoC? Part 2 – John Sonmez continues his Back to Basics look at Dependency Inversion discussing how the principles can be applied to your code, and talks about Inversion of Control as a specific technique for helping to implement Dependency Inversion.
• How to make sharing code between .NET and Silverlight (a little) less painful – Krzysztof Kozmic finds a very good use for the conditional attribue support in the BCL to provide a means for sharing code between .NET and Silverlight when the Serializable attribute needs to be used.
• Using ASP.net Output Caching with WCF Data Services – Peter Qian takes a look at the use of ASP.NET output caching when working with WCF Data Services, showing how cache dependencies and cache variation may be used.
• A one-stop-dev-shop for WP7 Dev, the "Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices" wiki – Greg Duncan highlights the Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices Wiki, a nice collection of the general consensus for best practices on the Windows Phone covering all aspects of development for the WP7 device.

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