Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta – The Internet Explorer 9 Team announces updates to the Internet Explorer 9 Beta which addresses stability of the beta in general. This update will be distributed via the standard Windows Update process.
David Reveman lands GPU acceleration for Moonlight – Miguel de Icaza highlights the completion of the work to add GPU acceleration to the Moonlight, the Mono port of Silverlight. David Reveman has been busy working on bringing hardware acceleration to 3D transforms, surface rendering and pixel shaders, and his changes are now available in the main source tree and daily builds.
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Asynchrony in C# 5, Part Eight: More Exceptions – Eric Lippert continues his series looking at the C#5 Async CTP, continuing his exploration of how exceptions work, discussing 4 types of exception, exogenous, vexing, boneheaded and fatal exceptions.
Back to Basics: Understanding IoC – John Sonmez continues his back to basics look at Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection / Inversion, and in this part focuses in the Inversion Of Control side with a look at Interface Inversion.
Multi-lingual web applications using ASP.Net 4 – K. G. Sreeju Nair discusses the creation of webpages which are localised into English and Arabic, showing the various ASP.NET features that make this easier including local and global resources, and automatic right to left support.
Working with GIF images in Windows Phone – Jaime Rodriguez discusses the decoding of GIF images on the Windows Phone 7 platform where there is no native support for this format, discussing the use of two of the most popular libraries comparing the results.
Tic-tac-toe – Phillip Trelford highlights the Visual Studio 2010 Support for creating Silverlight applications in F#, and shares a simple sample application with a suite of BDD tests in TickSpec, giving a taste of what you can learn at the F#unctional Londoners event tomorrow.