Software
- Lync Server 2010 Developer Training Kit Available Now! – With the launch of the Lync Communications Platform this week, the team also released the SDK for Lync 2010 which allows you to write software which interacts wit the various components of Lync
- F# source code structural colorizer available – Brian McNamara releases his F# Depth Colorizer plugin which brings highlighting of the nesting depth of F# code to the Visual Studio IDE
Information
- The first Commandment: Thou shalt not reference the IoC container! – Mike Hadlow talks about one of the key concepts in the use of Inversion of Control Containers in your code, the principle that you don’t reference the container in your own code. Interesting discussion in the comments of this one.
- Going through presentation hell – make sure you check your existing apps when you install ASP MVC 3! – John V. Petersen highlights a gotcha which can catch you out when you install ASP.NET MVC 3 and then work on an ASP.NET MVC 2 project.
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: DateTime is Packed with Goodies – James Michael Hare continues his ‘Little Wonders’ series with a look at some of the nice features of the DateTime class looking at the construction of date time instances, operations on date times, and formatting of date times.
- Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 6d – A "Billy Hollis" Hybrid Shell – Rob Eisenberg continues his tutorial series of posts on his Caliburn Micro framework for building WPF / Silverlight / WP7 applications. In this post Rob looks at creating a shell for applications based on a sample application from Billy Holllis.
- A curious guide to browsers and the web – The Google Chrome Team celebrate the 20th anniversary of the concept of the World Wide Web with an beautifully illustrated guide to the technologies involved.
- HTML5 – Netscape/IE 3 all over again? – Gojko Adzic discusses his concerns that the enhanced meaning of the term HTML5 and the APIs that are springing up from the different browser might result in a similar problem to that of the mid 90’d Netscape vs IE incompatibilities.
- Caching of, in, and around your Silverlight application (part 1) – Kevin Dockx kicks off a series looking at the various different cachings that can occur in the execution of your Silverlight application, either through the way the plugin works, or the way your application is written. This first post discusses the caching of the actual application XAP and Assemblies
- Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners – Mike Ormond highlights a new series of Windows Phone 7 resources from the Channel9 team which form a series on Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners.
Community
- F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group, next Wednesday, 24th Nov – Don Syme highlights the next F#unctional Londoners Functional Programming User group event to be held on the eveing of Wednesday 24th November. This event sees Phil Trelford presenting on TickSpec a BDD framework for C# and F#, and Tomas Petricek on concurrent applications using agents in F#.
- Free Webinar: Be a legacy code unit test ninja with Typemock Isolator – Roy Osherove highlights a free Webinar to be held on Tuesday 23rd November where he will be working through using TypeMock Isolator to write some tests for some horrible an seemingly un-testable code.
- FREE technical update event on Windows Azure, SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Phone 7 and more on the 25th Nov – Eric Nelson highlights the free technical event being run by the UK ISV Team taking place on the afternoon of the 25th November, where there will be technology drill-downs on Windows Phone 7, Azure and SQL Server 2008 R2.