November 2010
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #725
Posted by Chris Alcock on 09 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- PDC 2010 Session Downloader in Silverlight – Mike Taulty shares a Silverlight application which consumes the PDC2010 OData feed providing a easy way of getting the Session content (videos and Slides), along with illustrating the use of Silverlight by presenting the sourcecode for the application for you to examine.
- Silverlight Elements 2.0 is here! – Mindscape announce the release of their Silverlight Elements 2.0 control library, a commercially licensed collection of Silverlight controls, and three of these controls (Coverflow, Book and Expander) are completely free as a part of their Free edition
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- Asynchrony in C# 5 Part Five: Too many tasks – Eric Lippert continues his exploration of the C# 5 Async CTP release with a look at the dangers of task based asynchrony looking at examples of where you can simply end up with too many tasks
- Streaming Live or On-Demand Video from IIS7 to iOS Devices (iPhone/iPad) and Silverlight Clients – Scott Hanselman discusses some of the excellent features of IIS 7 available as extensions to the product and explores streaming video for Silverlight Clients and iOS devices (iPhone / iPad)
- Rubik’s Cube for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 using Balder – Coding4Fun shares and article from Einar Ingerigtsen on the construction of a Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight implementation of the Rubik Cube
- Customize the Silverlight Installation Experience in about 15 Minutes – Michael Crump looks at how you can make your use of Silverlight look more professional for users who have yet to install the Silverlight plugin, showing how you can customise the display of the ‘You need to Install Silverlight’ screen to fit in with your application.
- Back to Basics: Cohesion and Coupling Part 1 – John Sonmez continues his Back to Basics series with a discussion of the key concepts of coupling and cohesion in software, illustrating with an example from the world of Computer Hardware.
- An ASP.NET HttpModule to set the current culture to the user’s locale – Mike Hadlow builds an idea from Dylan Beattie and some sample code from Rick Strahl to build an ASP.NET HTTP Module which detects and sets the locale for the .NET Globalisation features.
- Primer: federated identity in a nutshell – Planky shares a nice introduction to the key concepts behind Federated Identity, showing the type of problem it solves, comparing the Federated solution to the more traditional identity techniques.
- A Complete Impersonation Demo in C#.NET – Wayne Ye gives an introduction to using the .NET Framework’s Identity Impersonation facilities to change the user that your code is running as
- Decoding standard output and standard error when redirecting to a GUI application – Dennis Dietrich discusses retrieving the standard input, output and error streams from console applications, and dealing with the encoding that these streams use.
- Logical and Physical Architecture – Udi Dahan discusses the difference between Logical and Physical Architecture, and looks at a common misunderstanding that leads people to hosting different parts of the architecture separately when they actual belong together.
Community
- Europe Virtual ALT.NET: Discussion on the State of (ALT).NET on 23 November 2010 – Jan Van Ryswyck announces the next Virtual Alt.Net Usergroup virtual event to be held on the evening of 23rd November starting at 8pm , discussing the state of the Alt.Net community, looking for feedback on the events organised by the group and looking at the future of the group and the Alt.Net movement.
- How to decrease risk when designing integrated systems – Sarah Taraporewalla highlights her talk at the London .NET Usergroup to be held on the evening of Thursday 18th November 2010 where she will be discussing how you can intelligently design systems which have to integrate with other systems to avoid some of the common pitfalls of such development.
- Video: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4 – Seth Juarez catches up with Julie Lerman at DevConnections discussing her session at this conference, POCO support in Entity Framework, EF4 features and improvements, and much more
- LIDNUG: Scott Guthrie Talks Shop VII – The Linked In .NET Usergroup welcome Scott Guthrie back for another ‘Talks Shop’ session where Scott answers your questions on development and the .NET stack. This virtual event is running on Friday 19th November 2010 at 10AM PST
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The Morning Brew #724
Posted by Chris Alcock on 08 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Code Sample Update from Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework (2010-11-05) – The All-In-One Code Framework team announce their latest release of code samples. The November 5th update brings samples for Bing Maps in ASP.NET applications, Consumption of external web services, ASP.NET Session sharing between multiple subdomains, App Domains, detecting Registry changes, Cancelling edits on Silverlight Data Forms, and much more
- Windows 7 Phone Database Rapid Repository v1 Released – Sean McAlinden announces the version 1 release of his Windows Phone 7 Database Rapid Repository project. This project brings a simple to use repository for storing entities implementing the common CRUD operations.
- 7 Coding4Fun Windows Phone 7 applications released! – The Coding4Fun Team have been busy creating Windows Phone 7 application samples. This post outlines the applications which will all have source code available and articles written to explain their development.
- Elegant Code » Extended WPF Toolkit – Release 1.2.0 – Brian Lagunas highlights the latest update to the Extended WPF Toolkit. This release adds 3 new controls to the library, a Button Spinner, NumericalUpDown and a RichTextBoxFormatBar providing access to common Rich Text formatting functions.
Information
- PDC10: Building a Blog with Microsoft "Unnamed Package of Web Love" – Scott Hanselman backs up his PDC session on building a blog engine using the latest open source bits and pieces for ASP.NET in this comprehensive walkthrough exploring NuGet, ASP.NET MVC, Scaffolding and much more.
- Writing Windows Shell Extension with .NET Framework 4 (C#, VB.NET) – Part 3: Thumbnail Handler – The All-In-One Code Framework blog continues exploring the construction of Windows Shell Extensions using the new features of .NET 4 which make this possible. This part looks at the implementation of a thumbnail viewer for images.
- Creating Tray Applications in .NET: A Practical Guide – Michael Sorens takes a detailed look at building applications which live in the Windows SystemTray exploring a number of techniques to help your tray based application be a success.
- Enterprise Integration Anti-Patterns #1 – The Shared Database – Ian Nelson discusses the dangers of allowing integration of one application with another through its database, explaining in no uncertain terms the limits that this places on your applications development.
- Overview of type inference in F# – Brian of the F# team discusses in detail the type inference support of F#, which can be expanded on to see how type inference works in the .NET Framework more generally
- How to modify NHibernate mappings at Runtime – Giorgetti Alessandro discusses how you can use some of NHibernate’s powerful configuration framework to customise your NHibernate mappings at runtime
- Include LINQ Extension – Ricardo Peres shares an implementation of the Include LINQ method which works for both NHibernate, Entitiy Framework, and Linq to SQL, providing the common interface to the same functionality in all ORM implementations
Community
- Alt.Net.UK – Next Event – 19th/20th November 2010 – Ben Hall highlights the next UK Alt.NET event, to be held at Thoughtworks’ London office on Saturday 20th November 2010, with the evening planning session on the Friday evening. Limited numbers of tickets are available now.
- NxtGenUG – A Mono-Phonic Start to 2011 – The Birmingham branch of the NxtGen User Group welcome Chris Hardy and his session on MonoTouch and MonoDroid on the evening of Tuesday 18th January 2010
- NxtGenUG – XDD – Exception Driven Develop – On Wednesday 17th November , the Manchester NxtGen Usergroup welcome Phil Winstanley and his session on Exception Driven Development, discussing how monitoring exceptions can help direct your development and allow you to fix issues sooner than if you wait for a user to report them.
- WPUG: Demos and lessons learned – Windows Phone 7 – The Windows Phone User Group are hosting a demo evening on the evening of Tuesday 30th November where the Windows Phone Developer Community will be able to demonstrate some of the applications that they have been working on, and share the lessons they learned in building the applications.
- Building Awesome Apps for Windows 7 Simulcast with Kate Gregory – Wendesday November 24th sees Kate Gregory presenting on ‘Building Awesome Apps for Windows 7’ and the event will be simultaneously broadcast online so we can all enjoy this session which will explore the Windows API Code Pack, and building touch based Windows 7 applications. The event kicks off at 6:30PM EST (so its a late one for us in the UK)
- Microsoft Platform Ready booth at TechEd Europe – and a FREE book – If you are attending TechEd Europe 2010, drop by and see Eric Nelson at the Microsoft Platform Ready booth and if you are one of the first 50 UK ISVs to sign up) you can be the recipient of a printed copy of the community authored ‘The Windows Azure Platform: Articles from the Trenches’
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The Morning Brew #723
Posted by Chris Alcock on 05 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Announcing the F# Compiler + Library Source Code Drop – Don Syme highlights the source code release of the F# 2.0 Compiler and core library which are available as a part of the F# PowerPack. The Code is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
- BizSpark Graduation Offer for Startups – Somasegar announces the details of the Graduation stage of the BizSpark programme with news of them waiving the $100 exit fee, along with discounts on future software updates under Software Assurance and MSDN Subscription. Additionally, software acquired under the BizSpark programme can continue to be used once the programme has been exited
- JavaScript Can’t Do Math – SilverlightCalculator A New Silverlight OSS Project – Rod Paddock releases a Silvelight Calculator application which provides methods for simple mathematical operators (add, subtract, divide, and multiply) which can be called from JavaScript and give consistent results (Helping avoid some of the problems inherent in JavaScript maths.)
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- Asynchrony in C# 5.0 part Four: It’s not magic – Eric Lippert continues his exploration series on the Async C#5 CTP, exploring Asynchrony without multi-threading, and discussing and comparing it to multi-threading when there is only one actual processor.
- Using the Task Parallel Library with ASP.NET MVC for scalable web applications – Mike Hadlow explores the use of the Task Parallel Library within ASP.NET MVC to create async controllers which help avoid certain threadpool exhaustion conditions at the expense of making your code more complex.
- Writing a Compiler in C#: Parsing, Part 2 – Sasha Goldshtein continues his series on building a simple compiler, looking at techniques for parsing expressions, examining mathematical expressions and the order of precedence.
- C#/.NET Fundamentals: Returning an Immutable Collection – James Michael Hare compares and contrasts the various ways of returning collections in a readonly form to help prevent consumers of your class from modifying the contents of the collection, looking at the techniques and comparing their performance.
- The Big View Engine Comparison – Razor vs. Spark vs. NHaml vs. Web Forms View Engine – Shay Friedman shares a short simple comparison of the 4 main view engines available for ASP.NET MVC, showing each performing some of the common patterns used in views such as loops, conditionals, writing out values of variables, and displaying forms.
- A Sordid Little Tale Of Unexpected Security Exceptions – Phil Haack highlights a how some of the complexities of making applications work in medium trust can work in certain deployment situations and not in others, with a look at getting assembly path and how when GAC’d this results in security exceptions in Medium Trust.
- Deep Dive on Closure Pitfalls – Peter Ritchie looks at one of the most common pitfalls (And sources of confusion) when working with closure statements (in this case in C#, although similar things exist in other languages), explaining why this happens and how you can easily solve it by copying values to local scoped variables.
- How to create a quick installer to deploy your apps using Null Soft Scriptable Installer System (NSIS) – It is Small, Free and flexible – Anoop Madhusudanan explores the NullSoft Scriptable Installer as an alternative for building installers for your applications
- Software Development Methodologies – Andrew Phillips discusses Ad-hoc, Waterfall, Prototyping, 4GL, Iterative, and Totalitarian approaches to software development, introducing each with a summary and discussing some fo the problems that each methodology can have.
Community
- Building Software: Ayende’s way – Ayende returns to SkillsMatter on the evening of Thursday 18th November to do an open session discussing how he goes about creating software, looking at architectural decisions and the process of releasing software.
- Friday fun – win a #windowsphone7 on the UK MSDN blog – Rachel Collier is running another 1 day caption contest which gives you the opportunity to win a Windows Phone 7 Device. Entries must be in by 10pm GMT Today (5th November).
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